The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1896, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI;, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1896. the method of uncounling cars, and that Engineer Edward F. Ingals was a man of iron nerve, who having met train robbers before was perfectly conversant with their methods of transactine business. From the mirute the boyish fizure ap- veared over the back of the tender and in shrill tones demanded *‘All hands up” Ingals was prepared to protect the lives of the passengers and save the treasure en- trusted to his care. In a second he, by a brief order to his fireman, persuaded him to obey the rob- ber’s orders without guestion, and when told to run slowly ahead he turned again to the throttle and obeyed {mplicitly. This action on his part allayed the sus- picions of the youthful highwaymen, and by so doing Ingals shortly afterward was enabled to iake his pistol from the box at his feet and fire the shots that stopped for all time the career of at least one of the desperadoes. Ingals is an old-timer 1n the employ of the Southern Pacific Company and has been in hold-ups before. The fireman was Pat Burns. Engineer Ingals saia to-night: “After passing Swingle station a man climbed over the tender and, looking over the coal-board, commanded, ‘Throw up your hands.” 1 could see from his attitude and his tone that he meant business, and I also got the impression that he was an old hand at the business. “He was a tall and slender young fellow. He did not wear a mask, but had a hand- kerchief tied across the lower part of his face. It had slipped down exposing his mouth and a sandy mousta che. “1 had my hands up. Burns wasslow in doing so, aud I shouted to him to throw up his hands. He did so. I con- ciuded that I had better obey the order, thinking I might have a chance to do something later. “He told me to slow down, and I com- plied. He then told me to run slowly to the long trestle, which is known on the road as bridge 82 A, and to stop the train four car lengths from the east end of the bridge. *‘As I stopped the train another masked man climbed up the bank and asked tte train-robber in the cab if everything was all right. The young fellow said: ‘“ ‘Yes, all fixed.” “The man on the engine then ordered me to pull the train up two car lengths further. He tola Burns, the fireman, to get off the engine. He told bim to go back with the masked man, who had climbed up the bank, and uncouple the express-car from the rest of the train. Burns and the masked robber started back aiong the train. “The conductor and brakeman came out ou to the piatform of one of the cars 1o see why the train stopped. The masked robber shot at them twice with his revol- ver, and with a string of oaths ordered them back into the train. “At the sound of the shooting,’ Tngals continued, coming.to a more graphic period in the story, *‘the robber with me in the engine stepped to the side between the cab and tender and looked back. He turned his back to me, “That was my opportanity and I lost not a second in taking advantage of it. I reached down into my locker, got my re- volver and shot him in the back. I shot again and he pitched forward from the engine to the earth and rolled down the bank, “‘As he fell his revolver went off. Then I pulled the throttle wide open. I had business in Sacramento right away, and 1 got there. The fireman was back on the train. I fired all the way in myself, and kept poking coal into her all the way. We gotin thirteen minutes late.”” B. A. Johnson, a brakeman on the train, was left on the platform at Swingle Sta- tion, owing to the fact that the train pulled outso suddenly. He saysthe train was gone betore he could catch even the rear platform. “While I stood there looking after the train,” said Jobnson, “a tramp came up to me and told me that there was a man killed down by the bank and asked me if the train, which was just coming into sight behind the oyerland, would not stop and take the dead man, who was the rob- ber shot by Ingals, into Sacramento, “I told him I did not know. The tramp also told me that he and a companion had been camping there, and that a short time before the overland arrived there three men came up to them and ordered them to help uncouple the train, threatening to kill them if they did not do so. *‘He said the other tramp broke and ran into the darkness, but he stayed there, not desiring to lose his blankets. I goton to the Oregon express and came into Sacra- men:o, which is the end of the division.” Pat Burns, who was firing for Ingalson the overiand, is a strong, sturdy young feliow, whose face displays in every fea- ture an undaunted courage. In telling his story, the voung man was extremely reluctant to speak of the part he took in assisting Engineer Ingals in defeating the aims of the bandits. “When I heard a voice shout, ‘Hold up your hands, everybody,’” he said, “and looked up, I saw the slim lad standing on the tender with his gun pointed at Ingals, and I thouzht it was a grand josa, ana could not for a moment realize that the lad wasin earnest, for I knew that there was a large camp of bridgemen and labor- ers near by,who were engaged in repairing the trestles, and I thought at once that it was one of these playing a joke on me. “But when I heard Ingals say, ‘Get your bands up there, quick,” I knew it was all off, so I just stuck my hands up and waited for developments. “When the train slowed down to a stop the other man came climbing up the bank with his mask on and wanted to know if everything was all right. “Then the masked man ordered me to come down to the ground, and as I did so be met me and said, ‘Come back here and cat this train 1n two, back of the express- car.’ “As we went back the conductor and brakeman got off way down at the rear end of the train, and I heard a pistol shot or two. The man who was with me said: ‘I wonder what was that’ and I said: ‘Oh, I guess some of your gangis firing to scare the people,” for although I had never been in & hold-up before, I had read that that was part of the play. “Then we got up on to the platform of the first passenger-car, next to the bag- gage and express car, where we found an- other man standing. He had evidently been trying to cut the train apart and did not know how to doit as onelever was thrown back., *I took hold of it and triedit, and then stepped over to the other platform to pull the wedge and throw back the other lever. Before I could do this the trair started out pretty lively, and as 1 could see was rapidly gaining speed. “The robber who wes on the platform when we got on, said: ‘I wonder what's the matter; why don’t he make the engi- neer stop?’ and then turning to me he said: ‘Here,let that thing alone and set up these band brakes.’ “*As I did o the man who accompanied . me said: ‘Ob, everything is all right, He is making the engineer pull up a little further. Don't cut the train till she stops.’ “‘Here, you, stand in front of that door, If there's any shooting coming you can block their game. They won't shoot at vou.’ “So I stepped in front of the door. As 1 did so some one camé toward the door, and the masked man drew his pistol and took two shots at him over my shoulder. “By this time the train was running at full speed, and realizin g that in some way Ingals had control, I opened the door and threw myself backward into the coach and as soon as I did so both men sprang off the platform. “When they jumped we were at least two miles from where the hold-up was first, and the train was going ata mile a minute. “Ican’t for the life of me see how any one could jump from a train going at the speed ours was without getting killed. Both of the men I was with were Ameri- cans, and I believe the young fellow who was killed was also an American. “The masked man who went back with me from the engine to cut the train in two was a short, thick-set man, about five feet two inches in height and seemed to be very active and powerful. The feliow on the platform I could not see very well, owing to the darkness. “There is one thing sure: none of the men were railroaders, for I could tell that by their actions. May be Ingals didn’t rush that train into Sacramento! “He told me aiterward thai as soon as he shot the fellow that we left on the en- gine and he had tumbled down the bank he realized that he had urgent busi- ness in Sacramento, so he just ‘pulled her wide open,’ grabbed my shovel and went to throwing coal. “You see, Ingals never loses his head, and he knew that the only show he had to keep the other robbers from coming over the top of the train, taking him in the rear and shooting him full of Loles was to keep the train jumping so lively that no one could get over the express cars, and you bet he did it Conductor 0. M. Morr; who was in charge of the train, said: *‘Assoon as we began to slow up I realized that something was the matier and I started out of the back door of the last coachto see what Was up. “The train came to a stop, and I dropped down on the platiorm, closely followed by Brakeman Johnson. As soon as we hit the platform some one took two shots at us and yelled, ‘Get in there, you —,’ and we stood not upon the order of our going, but obeyed orders. “I have been in hold-ups before and I knew what was up as soon as I saw the flash of the pistol. On returning to the coach I started through the train in order to quiet my passengers. “‘Some of them were greatly excited, but all the f{rain hands knew that the stopping of the train meant an at- tempt at robbery. “None of us said anything about it to the passengers, and as I spoke 1n an ordi- nary tone of voice, telling them that everything was all right, their transient excitement soon subsided. “‘As rapidly as 1 cou!d I made my way toward the front of the train with the intention of assisting my head man in making astand against the robbers, in case they tried to enter the coaches, and rob the passengers, but I had not got balf the lengta of the train when it started up again and was soon running at full speed; and I want to say right here that I have as gritty a crew as runs on this road.® Knowing this, I also know that the train-robbers would be sure to get ascrap if they tried to come inside, and thatis why I wanted to get to the front end so as to back the boys up.” As soon as the trainarrived in the depot at Bacramento Conductor Morris ran rap- idly up the stairs leading to the office of Superintendent Wright and gave notice of the attempted hold-up, but before any action could be taken Superintendent Wright, who was a passenger on the same train, appeared and in an incredibly short time had organized a posse of officers. They boarded an outgoing train and went forward to the scene of the attempted robbery in the hopes of finding some traces of the robbers, who had sprung from the rapidly moving train, as it was believed by the authorities that it was utterly impossible for them to have jumped from a train running at full speed with- out sustaining injuries which would necessarily cripple them to such an extent that their capture could be effected, even if they were not instantly killed. Eventually a brief messdge was received by messenger that the party had found the body of the man who was shot by the engineer, and as soon as possible an en- gine and car with a reinforcement of of- ficers was started for the scene of the hold-up. Engineer Ingals lives on Henry street, Berkeley, and hasa wife and one child. He formerly ran on the Berkeley local and was known as a cool, coura-eous man. COLORED CADEIS SCAKED OFF, Two Lads Appointed to Annapolis Fail to Appear for Exan ination. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept.5.—A dis- patch from Annapolis announces that al- though examination of candidates who have been appointed cadets to the Naval Academy is now in progress, neitber Jack- son nor Wheeler, the two colored lads whose appointment by their respective Congressmen has caused such stir in naval circles, has reporied for examination. An intimation that these boys never were appointed is absurd, inasmuch as the father of one of them, Emely C. Wheeler, the Chicago boy, wrote some time ago to the Rev. Dr. Bishop, a prominent colored clergyman of Annapolis, asking for cer- tain information regarding the physical requirements demanded by the academy authorities of candidates, "It is believed at the Navy Department tbat the two boys have been frightened off by the bitter tone of cadets and naval officers generally, indicating their resentmentand their undying hostility to associating with colored men on terms of equality at the asademy. R Ty Distribution of Seeds. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5.—In a statement the Department of Agricul- ture, regarding the appropriation at its command for the purchase and distribu- tion of valuable seeds, the assertion is given that ‘It is safe to say that each Senator, Representative and Territorial delegate in Congress,” during the present fisca. xnr, “will have at his djsposal— after deducting the one-third aflotted by law to the Becretary of Agriculture—about 30,000 packages of seeds, or about twice as many as last year.” —_— To Change the Crews. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5.—The Navy Department has made arrangements to relieve the “short service” men on the South Atlantic station. The Castine will visit the various ships on the station d take from them the men who have' but a short time to serve, replacing them with *‘long service” men from hercrew. She will bring the men to Norfolk, take on a new crew and return to the South Atlantic. —_—— Steamer Sunk in Collision. LONDON, Exe.. Sept. 5.—The British steamer Ravenshugh, from Alexandria for Hull, came 1into coliision off Fini terre yesterday with the steamer Fusiyan, from Antwerp for Deghorn, sinking the latter almost immediately. No lives were lost. BRYAN SPEAKS AT MILWAUKEE Talks Against a Rainstorm Until the Clouds Roll By. HAS NO NEW ARGUMENT But Manages to Hold a Large Audienc: More Than an Hour. REFERS TO THE NEW TICKET. Says the Indianapolis Convention Was Held in th: Interest of McKin'ey. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 5,—William J. Bryan reachea the Northwestern station here at 11:10 this morning, and was met by ex-Governor Peck and Willis C. Silver- thorn, Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin. Owing to good police arragements the crowd gathered at the etation was prevented from rushing on the platform as at other places visited by the candidate, and Mr. Bryan, leaning on the arm of ex-Governor Peck, had a clear space to his carriage. Chairman James ‘W. Murphy, United States Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the other members of the Milwaukee escort committee, who had met Mr, Bryan at Kenisha, fell in behind and entered the carriages reserved for them. The crowd at the station numbered several thousand, and Mr. Bryan was cheered in his progress along the plat- form. The route by which he was taken to the Plankinton Hotel was lined with people and there was occasional applause, which grew to an almost continuous cheer as the Plankintonr was approached. The street ‘in front of the Plankinton was packed with people, and when Mr. Bryan appeared on the balcony they manifested their feelings in loud yells. Mr. Brvan mude a few remarks and was frequently interrupted by cries of approval. After- wards he held a brief reception in the parlors of the hotel. A rain storm had a bad effect on the meetling addressed by Mr. Bryan at National Park this afternoon. A tem- porary stand had been erected in the center of the half-mile racetrack. within the vark, and at 2:40 o’clock when Mr. Bryan arrived at the ground, two and a balf miles from Milwaukee, about 5000 people were gathered about it. Many people had left when the rain began to fall and those who remained hoisted umbrellas and decided to stick it out. The rain became a steady downpour just as the meeting was called to order and the intended preliminary exercises were cut short. Infact, there was nothing of a prefatory character done beyond the pre- sentation of Mr. Bryan by Judge Silver- thorn, the Democratic nominee for Gov- ernor. He simply presented the young Nevraskan as the next President of the United States, and the crowd cheered as tue latter arose to address it. Mouate{cn a chair, with a local commiiteeman hold- ing an umbrella over his head, Mr. Bryan 2ddressed the gathering. He spoke more rapidly than usual and said at the outset that he would not make a long address on account of the condition of the weather, but when the clonds broke and the sun came out, Mr, Bryan was encouraged to £o on and spoke more than an hour. He said: Ladies and gentlemen: Thavespoken under various conditions, but I dou’t believe I ever spoke in the rain before to people who were held by mere idle curiosity. [Laughter.] I am not going to talk long, because it wouid be cruel to you to have to stand out here in this rain, bui I am going to talk just enough t0 keep my engagement and hopé the weather will be better to-uight. We are engaged in a campaign in which you are interested, because if the money question is of such great im- oriance thaiy the financiers feel justified in aying sside all party lives to look at what they consider their interest, then I believe the masses of the people are interested enough to lay aside party lines and look atter their in- terest. [Applause.] The Republican platform declares the Amer- ican people must stand by and undergo a gold standard until the civilized nations take pity on us and release us from our sufferings. There are people who are wfraid this Nation is not big enoueh torun itsel. But the people who lack confidence in American institutions are not lhclpenple who produce the wealth of America. If the gold standurd is agood thing, why did the Republican party pledge itself to get rid of i1? 1s there anything too good for the American peoFle? 1f the gold standard is good, the Republican party ought to pledge {tse1f to keep it regardless of what the other nations say or think. If the gold standard is not good envugh to keep, itis bad enough to get rid of, and we ought to ao it without wait- ing for anvbody else’s help. No man can say the gold standard is & good thing and stand on the Republican platform. If he says the gold standard is a bad thing then he must pat him- self in the attitude of making this Nation de- pendent on foreign nations or else come into our fold and dec.are for the unlimited coinage of gold and silyer at the present ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid of any other nation. JGreat.applause.] We know not only what we want, but how we are going to get it. Wehave motonly & policy which we can proclaim, but one we can defend. We are opposed to the gold stand- ard because it is bad, because it has ruined the commerce of this country and has been de- structive of the interests of this country, We think any standard which gives a rising dollar and falling prices; that makes the money owner F"" &nd the producer small, or, as the Republican candidate for President expressed it _at Toledo some five yeors ago, “-A policy which makes money the master and all else the servant”; we believe that policy bad and l{' npp]oucd to stickiug to it any longer. [Ap- plause. We believe bimetallism will restore the par- ity between money and property. You hear people talk about the parity between two kinds of metal. The differcnce between the advo- cates of the gold siandard and the advocates of bimetallism is llrs!ly this, that the advo- cate of the gold standara is all the time talk- ing about the difficulty of maintaining the parity between two kinds of dellars, while the bimetallist is caliing attention to the fact that under the present system we are not maintain. ing the pnilsahazweun & dollar and the prop- erty which a doliar will buy. [Cries of *‘go0d.”"] The gold-standard advocate is more con- cerned about a.difference of 1 per cent be- tween two dollars than the difference of 100 per cent in the price in a dollar now and twenty years ago. People tell you the Ameri- can dollar is 5o much better than the Mexican dollar, because it will buy two of them. You tell him when an American dollar will buy two Mexican doilars it will buy two bushels of wheuat, but the time will come when a Mexi- can dollar will buy three bushels of wheat. You 135 you want a dollar good, How good? So go that you can’t get hoid of 1t? {Laughter. They mr‘ us the laboring man is interested in the gold standard, because he wants a dollar *o buy as much &s possible. The labor- g man is more interested in having the op- portunity to earn a doliar. We have hard times and falling prices, which are hard on the laboring man. Laboring men know that when legislation makes it more profitab! man to lock his money up in a vault and gather in the rise in its value he will do that instead of employing labor in the develop- ment of the resources of the country. There is only one way to open the avenue to business and thus give employment to labor, and that is to restore enough standard money in th country to justify a man iu spending h money in enierprisc instead of locking itup. They talk about a fifty-cent dollar. I never hear a man say tnat without thinking of the men who said he had been so long without a doliar of any kind that it would bz a godsend to him to see any kind of & dollar. Mr. Bryan went on to say that people are afraid that under the iree coinage of silver we will have a flood- of monay, and he advised all who feared that flood to vote the Republican ticket. His party, he said, opposes the gold standard because they believe the demand for gold has been pushing its value up and the value of other things down. They believe tuie eap between gold and suver has been produced by hostile legislation and that friendly lecislation will give usa gold dollar and a silver dollar of equal value. Answering the question: “If a siiver and a gold dol- iar were worth the same under bimeial- lism, how will it be easier toget a dollar?” Mr. Bryan said: What we complain of most is that the money-owning and money-changing classes bave made dollars dearer by making them scarcer, and they did it because they were in- terested in having money go up, and you who have property have a right to protect your- selves against the conspirecy 10 desiroy a part of the value of your property. [Applau-e.] A voice—A man here wants to know a little about the old soldier. want to say the crisis we are now ap- proaching appeals to the old soldier asmuch as it did in 1861, If men in this country were willing to march upon_the field to sustain a Government by the people and for the people, Iwant to know why they cannot give one day in the year, and that election day, to stand by & Governmeat by and for the people. [Ap- Pisuse and three cheers] Iam not afraid that &ny man who risked his life in his Nation’s beha!f is going to_be influenced by the argu- ments that are addressed to soldiers now by the finnnciers who, during the wer, looked out for themselves and ieft the soldier to look out for himself. [Avplause.] Iam not afraid the men who were willing at that time to en- dure the dangers of war because they believed that the black men shou d be free are going to join the ranks of the gold standard to enslave 0,000,000 of people, black and white. [Ap- plause.] At this point the rain had nearly ceased. A voice—The sun is coming out. cheering.] Now one or two suggestions and I shall close. [Cries 0f “Go on.”] 1 want you to remember the value of a dollar depends upon the num- ber of dollars. When you legislate in regard to the number of dollars you affect their value, This principle of monetary science is under- stood by cur opponents. They have under- stood it because they have invoked legislation to destroy part of tlie country’s moiiey to emn- hence the rest of the country’s money. When they tell you that you dor’t understand finance you tell them the men who talks about money and ignores the law of supply aad de- mand—which simply means that if we have too little money money becomes dear—the man who talks that way is as ignorant of money as a child is if he throws a stone into the air and then does not understand that by the attraction of gravity it must come to the ground, because the action of the law of gravity is mnot more inexorable than the law of supply and de- mand, and we base our argument on it. They tell you we iguore the law of supply and de- mand in regard to silver. We do not. If we tncrease the demand we increase the price, and when we open the mints to silver we in- crease the demand for silver, and that increase of demand increases the price of si ‘hen India closed her mints in 1893 ver fell. When the United States stopped buying silver in 1893 it fell. Why? Because you had legis- lated demand out of existence. We believe the demand furnished by 70,000,000 of peopie is sufficient .to use all the silver toat can come to our mints. If thatis true no person will sell his siiver for less than a dollar and twenty-nine cents. But they tell us that Mexico has friled to do so. Some people will not be expected to vote for us. Of course, we cannot have them all, and I am willing that the Republicans shall have the vote of every man who thinks the United States is not larger than Mexico. [Laughter and applause.] If Mexico was enabled with other nations now using silver to furnish & use tor all the silver that would go to the Mexican mints she would maintain the parity. We believe we are able to do it, taking into consideration the demand now existing. We can never tell until we try, and our opponents will never know. because they will never try. We are the only Nation who offer any piace by which you can determine it, because we offer to.try the free coinage of 'silver, and we give you the reasons for believing it will be succe: Remember this, the gold standard La: taken a step in the light. The gold s has never fought a Laitje in the open field and it is not fighting this year. Wheu the Democratic convention met the gold standard edvocates brought in a minor- [Great ity report. They did not declare for a goid s'andard, but declared they were afraid the iree coinage of silver by this country alone would prevent international bimetallism, toward which ail the effurts of the coun- try should be directed. But the ma- jority ruled at Chicago. Then what? hen their leading men at Chicago or- ganized another conventicn, and wimt did they do? Did they adopt a platiorm they tried to get adopted at Chicago. Oh, nol When they got down to Indianapolis they threw off the mask and deciared in iavor of the gold standard. What does that mean? It means the attempt at Chicago to commit the Democracy to in ernationsl bimetallism wasa fraud and a deception ‘Prlcticed upon the party [reat applause], and the fact that those men who tried to get that sort of a platform at Chicago and faile went down to Indianapolis and then adopted a goid-<tandard platform is 8 confession that when they acted at Chicago their pur was 10 di ve the American people, [Great applause. We are willing to fight the Republican party or anybody who opposes our position and will come out and so state, but when a party, as at Indianapolis, puts up one man for the purpose of electing another we deciare they are no more honest in their desire for international bimetallism than they are in their political methods. [Great applzuse.] Th= convention at Indianavolis was heid in the interest of Re- publican success, and if they had the courage that onght to follow conviction they would in- dorse McKinley, for whom they expect o vote. e e ON GOVERNMENT BOND ISSUES. Bryan Delivers a Sensational Harangue at Scilitz Park. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Bept. 5—Mr. Bryan’s speech as Schlitz Park to-night was the most sensational he has delivered during thecampalen. 1t wasde- voted almost entirely to the Government bond 1ssues and teemed with implication of the administration and the members of the bond syndicaie. He did not mention any names, but it was evident whom he meant in his denunciatory speech. Mr. Bryan this evening addressed an au- dience at Schlitz Park. In spite of the coolness of the night 6000 or 7000 veople had gathered and listened to his speeches both inside and outside the theater build- ingin the park. Mr. Bryan was warmly greeted, his utterances on the bond ques- tion especially being cheered to the echo. When be first appeared it seemed as though gquiet wouid not be restorea. As soon zs order wassecured Mr. Bryan began his remarks. He said in part: As g00n as the last campaign closed the moneyed interests of this country made a com- bined sttack upon what is known as the Sher- man law. They demanded the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law, and they based their attack upon the platform of the Democratic party in 1892..but instead of taking that platiorm as a whole they picked out a part of a ~entence and insisted upon en- foresng a part of the platiorm while ignoring the rest of the platiorm. [Applause.] The Democratic platform denounced the Sherman law as a makeshift. What is & makeshift? Why, it is a temporary expedient. It is & thinz used until some beiter thing can be se- curek. And the very plank in the platform that declared in favor of the repeal of the make- suift aud asserted they would hold to thée use of gold and silver as the standard mone{ of the country; and not only that, but that platform added, ““the coinage of boih gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage.” There were certain qualifying words which followed, but those qualifying words did not destroy ‘the declaration of the Democrauic party for the coluage of gold and silver upon equal terms, And yet the money interests i this country combined to attack the Snerman law and secure 1ts repeal and leave nothing in its place to furnish the money which the people need. They said that gold was going abroad and if they repealed the Sherman law gold would stop- going abroad. After a strug- gle which has seldom_been equaled they suc- ceeded in Tepealing the Sherman law without conditions. And then what? Did gold stop geing abroad? No,goid went abroad faster than before. And then what? Then they be- BaD to issue bonds to get enough golad to fur- nish those who wa 1t1o send it abroad, or ‘wanted itto put it away in their vaults, or wanted to mske an excuse for the issue of more bonds. [Applause.] The: issued $50,000,- 000 of bonds and then $50,000,000 more of bonds. And then the sdministration eutered gl-la'whlt is known as the Rothschild con- Let me dwell just one moment upon that contract. 1 cll “your attention to the fact that while that contract was made by a Demo- cratic administration it was_supported by all the leading members of the Republican party. Applause.] And more than that, the Repul ican party in convention assembled did not denounce or criticize that Rothschild con- tract. Why? Because the men who wrote the Republican platiorm have always justified the President’s conduct. Now I want to say to you, in my humble judgment, that contract Was the most infamous contract that was ever entered into by this Nation. [Applause.] That contractat an enormous price employed cer- tain financiers in New YorE and London to do What? To look after ilie treasury and protect it. I want you to remember, my iriends, that if this Nation is dependent on the goodwil! of oae banking firm in New York and oue bank- ing firm in London, the very momentyou confess it you put it in the power:f those two ficms to charge whatever they please for good- '1'“ tojwud this Government. [Great ap- plause, Iassert that 70,000,000 of people in majesty and strength have a government which can not only live without t‘he aid of these syndi- cates, but can live in spite of anything thev may do. [Great applause.] I am not sur- prised that members of t syndicate are Op- Posed to the Demoeratic party. [Applause.] I am not surprised at all because the Cratic party believes that this Governmentcan getalong without them. And more taan that, the Democratic party believes that if the; imagine they can injure this Government an dare to try it, the Democratic party believes that they ought to be treated like other con- spirator—(Great applause which drowned' the Test of the sentence.] To say that anything less than a majority has a right to run this Ccountry is to abandon the theory upon which our Government is founded. Now we may differ as to what kind of finan- cial legislation is best, but there is one rule upon which we must agree. If we believe that our peopie are capable of seli-government and tbat our institutions deserve to be continued and perpetuated, there is_one question upon which we must_agree, and that is that the American people, acting through their consti, tution and laws, are the only power to deter- mine what is good 1or the American people and what the American people should have in the way of legislation. call your attention to the Rothschild contract. Do you know why that contract was entered inio? There Was @ reason given, and the only reasounable one. Idon’t mean reasonable to those who believe in bimetallism, but reasonable enough to those who believe in a gold standard to presentit. Why, they said when the Government sold bonds at home the people went 1o the treasury and drew out a large part of the gold to pay for the bonds, and _thercfore that they would try selling them abroad tosee if tney could not get rid of the necessity of furnishing the gold tnat they were buying. Now think what can be done under the present law. I believe if our people understood what is possible, aye more, what is an sctual fact, under the present financial system, and its present administra- tion, ihey would rise in unanimous revolt against that policy. Let me show you what has been done. Suppose the Government de- cides to issue $50,000,000 of bonds 1o buy gold. Suppose you want to buy bonds. You go to the Secretary of the Treasury and he says he has some bonds to sell, and ‘you haund him in $1000 in greenbacks or treasury notes. He says he cannot accept these for the bonds. You say why not? Are not these greenbacks and treasury notes good? Yes, for most things; but these bonds are sold to get goid, therefore we must demand gold for the bonds, You say, “All right, Mr. Secretary, if you will not give me bonds for these freasury notes I will 5epusu them and demand their reaemp- tion in gold.” The Secretary says, “Yes, all right; that is what weare here for” [laughter], and he hands out $1000 in goid, and you say to him, “Do I understand that you have some bonas for sale for which you want gold ?" He says, “Yi “‘Well,” you say, *Mr. Seere- tary, here is the gold; now give me the bonds.” [Applause.] Do you believe that is vossible 7 It is possible under the present law. Do you believe any one would do it? Yes; they have done it, When they issued the first “fifty millions of bonds the amount of gold drawn out during the time between the publication of the notice and the issue of the bonds was something like $108,000,000. In other words, to the extent of the money withdrawn for the purpose of buying the bonds, to the extent of that, the Government simpiy loaded itself aown with interest, and had not a single doilar more of gold, which it was trying to purchase. [Ap?!nuse.] When they issued the next fifty millions another Jarge amount of §°ld was withdrawn to pay for the bonds, and then they made this Roths- child contract. They simply enlarged the circie a little, and belore the time was up dur- ing which this syndicate had agreed to pro- tect the treasury, before that time was up, the bonds, which had been sent to Europe at $1 0434 to bring eold from Europe, had been sold back into the New York market for more than $1 20, and that gold was taken back to Europe ageln [Applause. e At Demooratic Headquarters. CHICAGO, IrL., Sept. 5.—Senator Petti- grew was the only caller of note at Demo- cratic National headquarters to-day, but the staff was basy geiting the organiza- tion plans perfected. Congressman Rich- ardSon of Tennessee, who is to have sole charge of the press bureau, will artive early next week. IN THE TREASURY VAULTS Li Hung Chang Is Shown Uncle Sam’s Gold, Silver and Paper Money. Before Leaving the Capital He Pays a Tribute to the American People. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5.—Becre- tary Carlisle and 7Treasurer Morgan es- corted Li Hung Chang and party through the vaults, showing Li $150,000,000 in gold and silver, which did not seem to impress him, but when the bond-issue division was reached he manifested great interest and plied his guides with questions. When a $50,000 bond was shown him he nudged ex-Secretary Foster and asked him if he had any lixe that. Down in the redempticn division the Viceroy destroyed $70,000 in old green- backs with evident delight. Then Secre- tary Carlisle entered the carriage with him and the party was driven to the Burean of Printing and Engraving, where all the operations of money and stamp- making were viewed with the greatest curiosity. 1i Hung Chang’s parting tribute to the American people was given to the United Presses this evening for dissemination, He said: “The three foremost men in history have been Napoleon, the Chinese Emperor Yao and Washington. Napoleon created au empire which was speedily destroyed; Yao created an empire and then proceed- ed himself to rule over it; Washington built up a great Nation and then stepped aside, leaving others to govern.” The Viceroy bas been more deeply im- pressed with the life and character of ‘Washington than he had hitherto been credited with, and to-day he caused ex- tracts of the first President’s farewell ad- dress to be translated to him. $ A furious rainstorm prevented further sight-seeing after the visit to the treasury. A handsome wreath which bad been ordered for the Viceroy to take to Mount Vernon and place on Wasbington’s tomb, was sent to the Chinese lezation, with in- structions for the Minister to perform the act of homage as the Emperor’s repre- sentative. A present of $§150 was sent down to be dividea among the hotel ser- vants and the proprietor and manager of the hotel were deco: with silver medals, similar in :‘flpw-nnce to the old trade dollar, but hardly so well executed. About 5:30 carriages were taken for the depot by the entire party, General Ruger, as usual, escorting Li Hung Chang, accompanied by four troops of the Sixth Cavalry. At o’clock the journey to Niagara Falls began. Niagara Falis will be reached at 11:20 to-morrow morning, where the band and such companies as can be spared from Fort Porter will act as escort. The American Park will be traversed and views had of the falls from the Ameri- can side during the aiternoon, and Mon- day morning at 10 o'clock the river will be crossed, and soon after the party will be on iis way for Vancouver and home. s e o Due to the Edict of Weyler. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 5.—H. Dumers & Co. ishippers and commission merchants and importers of West India fruits, made an assignment to-day without preferences. Their failure is attributed to the war in Cuba and the edict of Genéral Weyler pre- venting the shipment of bananas, Their last statement to Bradstreet’s, in Novem- ber, 1895, showed assets $660,000 and lia- bilities $250,000. 2 CZAR NICHOLAS' DREAD FEELING Increased by the Sudden Deprivation of Minis- terial Advice. ILL OMENS ARE REVIVED Meanwhile There Is an Assem- blage of Diplomats Around Prince Hohenlohe. RUSSIA’S ATTITUDE TO CHANGE Renewal of the Clamor for the Pre. vention by the Powers of Bar- barities in Turkey. BERLIN, GerMANY, Sept. 5.—The dip- lomats who are assembled at Breslau around Prince Hohenlohe, the German Imperial Chancellor, include Prince Rudo- lin, the German £mbassador at St. Peters- burg; Count von Osten-Sacken, the Rus- sian Embassador at Beriin; Baron Mar- schall von Bieberstein, German Minister of Foreign Affairs; Count von Pourtales of the German Foreizn Office and Geheim- rath Gunther of the German Imperial Chancellerie. It had been generally understand that an important conference was to be held upou the occasion of the meeting of the two Emperors at Breslau between Prince Hohenlohe and Prince Lobanoff-Ros- tovsky, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, but the sudden death of the latter whiie on his way from Vienra to join the Czar at Kieff has thrown all of the plans which had been mapped out for the meet- ing into a state of uncertainty, and 1t is now believed that most of them, if not all of them, will be’ dropped, for the present at least. The representative of the United Asso- ciated Presses, who went to Breslau to re- port the incidents of the visit of the Czar and Czarina, obtained to-day an expres- sion of opinion from Prince Radolin that the meeting of the Czar and the Kaiser would be devoid of all political impor- tance, and further that the Czar will not appoint a successor to Prince Lobanoff as Minister of Foreign Affairs until his Maj- esty returns to St. Petersburg. If *how- ever, Prince Radolin really holds such views as these they are vastly different from those entertained by well-informed officials in his own circle. It is positively known that the Czar before leaving Kieff for Breslau telegraphed to Count von Schouvaloff, Governor of Warsaw, in- structing him to come to Breslau and act as his Majesty’s adviser in place of Prince Lobanoff. Count von Schouvaloff was almost immediately thereafter stricken with paralysis, and this circumstance fol- lowing so closely after the death of Prince Lobanoff has struck the Czar with a feel- ing of dread. It is said that he associates his being de- prived of ministerial advice at this time with theill omen of the disaster on the Hodynski Plain upon the occasion of his coronation at Moscow. Though little is now known of his plans, the fact has leaked out that the Czar has instructed Count von Osten-Sacken to communicate with Prince Hohenlohe upon the sub- ject of concerted armed action on tne part of the powers to prevent Turkish massacres. But whether or not the Czar has decided to reverse the_ policy of in- action pursued by Prince Lobanoff, the Kaiser and Prince Hohenlohe have clearly altered the attitude of Germany toward the Porte. i 2 The North German Gazette, in an article in yesterday’s issue-commenting upon the situation in Constantinople, says: For the first time it is now declared to be a neces- sity that the powers shall put a stop lo outrages by tne Turks, or, as official language has phrased it, *‘civilized Europe must adopt an attitude toinduce the Porte to prevent further disorders.” 'he National Zeilun% goes further than this, saying: The Sultan must warned that a_recurrence of massacres will endanger his throne and his dynasty. The Hamburger Correspondenz, a semi- official journal, says: Whatever the powers mean todoought to be done quickly. There js a shameful stain upon the Sultan’s gov- ernment that can never be cleansed away. A wild beast let loose by the authorities is plunderinz and crnelly slaaghtering men, women and children. ~ The officials of the Sultan’s palace are mainly responsible. This significant change in the tone of the semi-official press is understood to be due to the Baron Marschall yon Bieber- stein, who has had an inkling of the allied tendencies of the Czar’s sentiments as well » those of the Kaiser. However, it is Dot conceivable that after the prolonged and incessant diplomatic communications the Czar and the Kaiser could meet with- out entering into discussion of the fore- wmost topic of European politics. The troops which took part in to-day’s military parade in honor of the Czar near Breslau were commanded by Prince Ber- nard of Saxe-Meinengen, brother-in- law of the Emperor and commander of the Sixth Corps of the German army. One of the features of the fetes in Bresiau will be the presence of four grandchildren of Queen Victoria of England, the Czarina, Princess Charlotte of Saxe - Meinenge the Emperor and Prince Henry of Pru sia. The town is overcrowded with visit- ors, and the prices asked for the occu - cy of apartments have been increased to five times their normal rate. ) % Sedan day passed almost unnoticed this year in contrast with the general celeora- tion of the day last year. This is not to be wondered at, however, as last years celebration marked the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the birth of the empire, for the observance of which elaborate prepara- tions were made. Empress Frederick will go at the end of the month to visit the King and Queen of Denmark at Copenhagen. Her Majesty will be accompanied by Prince and Prin- ce:s Frederick Charles of Hesse, the latter Empress Frederick’s youngest daughter. The Emperor and Emuress will attend Grand Results—blood purified, suffering relieved, strength restored, system built up, nerves strengthened by n‘kin; Hood's Sarsaparilla EM best—In fact the One True Blood Furifier. Hood’s Pills 3o sl to ke the marriage of Victor Emanuel, Prince of Naples, eldest son and heir apparent of the King of Ilaly, to the Princess Helene of Montenegro, which, it is understood, will take place at an early date. The conversion of the Bavarian fours into three and a half per cent bonds is proceeding with general public accept- ance. Holders of four per cents who do not lodge protests before September 15 will be regarded as acquiescing in the con- version. The success of the present move- ment foreshadows the conversion of the German Imyperial loans. ON EASTERN DIAMONDS. Standing of the Clubs and Scores of the Games Played in the National League Yesterday. CrLuss. Won. | Lost. | Fer. [z ot Baitimore. T E Cineinnati. | 1 3 Cleveland 70 ; Boston 66 Chlcago. 65 Pittsburg . 81 | Philadelphia. 56 ‘ B New York 55 | Brooklyn. 53 | Washingt 6 | St, Louis.. 35 | i Louisviile | 29 | | BROOKLY' N. Y., Sept. 5.—Before the first inning of to-day’s game had been finished it began to rain heavily and although the Brookiyns wanted the game stopped, Umpire Sheridan compelled the teams to keep on play- ing until the first hali of the seventh inning. Attendance 1500. Score: Brooklyns, 3, 9,1; Cincinnatis, 5, 6, 1. Batteries—Payne and Burrell; Dwyer and Peit Umpire—: ridan BOSTON, Mass., Sept. An immense and enthuslastic crowd sew two games with Cleve- land this afternoon. game through superiority in the box. Clevelands’ runs were made by a wild throw of Long into the bleachers. In the second game Cleveland hit Sullivan hard in the first inning. Boston found Young in the first and seventn innings only. The batting of Burkett and Tenney and the fielding of Collins were the featu: Attendance 8429. Score: Bos- tons 5, 14, 2; Clevelauds 2, 5, 2. Batteries— Klobedanz and Bergen, Cuppy snd Zimmer. mpire—Hurst. Second game: Bostons 5, 8, 03 Clevelands 7, 11, 4. Bateries—Young #nd an ana Ganzel. Umpire—Hursk GTON, D. C. pt. 5.—Washington- St. Louis game postponed; wet grounds. BALTIMORE, MDv,Schi Baltimore-Louis- ville game postpoucd; rain. 3 NE\'EI \'URK.I‘N. Xos SGDL15-—NEW York- Pittsburg g« me postponed; rain. PlllL:D%-}LPlfl:\, [P.\., Sept. 5.— Philadel- phias, 10, 13, 0; Chicagos, 5, 13, 8. Batteries —Tayior and Boyle; Briggs and Donahue. Umpires—Henderson and Campbell. Second game postponed on account of wet grounds. ey i OFER EJST COURSES. at Winners of Ruces st. Sheepshead Bay. £T. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 5.—PFive furlongs, Our Bishop won, Milford second, Sitver Set third. Time, 1:04. : Bix- furlongs, Neutral won, Lady Britannic second, Susie B. third. Time, 1:1634. One and a haif miles, Whisper won, Billy McKenzie second, Charlie McDonald third. Time, 2:4217 Seven furlongs, Trilby won, Kamsin second, Johnny McHale third. "Time, 1:29. One and a sixteenth miles, Harry McCouch won, Ace second, Pepper third. Time, 1:49}4. SHEEPSHEAD BAY, N. Y., Sept. 5.—Five furlongs, Scarfpin won, Don 'Blas second, Hi Daddy thirg. No time given. Mile and a half, Keenan won, Merietta sec- ond, Damien third. Time. 2 Nursery stakes, Futurity course, Ogden won, Typhoon II second, Voter third. Time, 1:10. Five furlongs, Religion won, Waltzer second, Titmouse third. Time, 1:03 Mile and a half, Connoisseur won, Lake Shore second, Buck Massie third. Time, 2:87 4-5. Mile, Harry Reed won, Sir Francis second, Chugnut third. Time, 1-5. —_— Trensury Gold Eeserve, WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5.—The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- Lowuis and ness to-dnf stood at $104,082.152. The withdrawals of gold at New York were $32,100. NEW TO-DAY. MAKE NEW MAN OF YOU. 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