The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1896. EUROPE AND THe TURKISH CRISIS Salisbury and the Czar Under the Same Roof at Balmoral. OF VITAL IMPORTANCE. People of All Nations Eagerly Await the Result of the Conference, FRANCE IS ACUTELY ANXIOUS Bismarck’s Alleged Letter Favoring Free Silver Is Ridiculed in England. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exa., Sept. 2.—Last week the sound which rose above all others here was the :rinding of the Tory brakes on the wheels of the popular Armenian agitation. This is heard no longer, but in its place the echoes ot Liverpool’s cheers for Mr. Gladstone reverberate everywhere. The spasm of party fright which pos- sessed the Conservative leaders a few days ago has passed away, and its disap- pearance leaves Lord Rosebery in a cu- rious plight. He had counted on its per- manency, and under its shelter he had talked loudly about the impossibility of England acting alone, and the certsinty that an attempt to do so would provoke a general war. Mr. Gladstone brushed this aside with such lofty contempt and drew such an al- luring picture of what England really could do alone that the Tories found themselves reaaing his speech that night with the feeling that it expressed what they had thought all along. By the next morning they were as ready as the Liber- als to ask what craven it was who said that England could make no move with- out pringing hostile Europe down upon her in war. Tne Inquiry revealed Lord Rosebery standing well in front of everybody else and he became on the instant une quantite negligeable in Great Britain's foreign politics, as be has been for a year in its domestic affairs. Since Mr. Gladstone spoke the agitation has automatically adapted itse!f to his key. It is now more restrained in tone and less hysterical It has a new gravity, a calm solemnity of movement, but once more it is carrying along both parties and is at present an affair of Englishmen rather than of poli- ticians. Once more, too, there is a reviving no- tion that Russia and France may be brought round to act with England and Italy. Of course, the circumstance that the Czar is at Balmoral and that Lord Salisbury is there also under the same roof gives a natural impetus to thisidea. How malleable Nicholas may prove in the hands ot those who now have hold of him is, however, not the most important question. Itis of more vital interest to know to what extent Nicholas is truiy master of the forces over which he nomi- nally presides, and as to that we can only guess. Englishmen are buoying them- selves up with the hope not only that he can be convinced but that he can throw Russia and France into the scales with his convictions. This hope 1s so attrac- tive that for the moment even the most skeptical are tempted to share it. The French are plainly in a state of doubt as to whether this change of front is not what is really going to happen. Their leading journals are all visibly drawing back toward neutral ground and poising themselves in readiness to jump in the new direction of the Czar, it the Czar gives the word. Thisis much more significant than wss their pronounced anti-Armenian attitude of a month ago. Henri Rochefort, in 'Intransigeant,openly makes a charge, the truth of which was more than suspected here, that the Paris press has been subsidized by wholesale by the Turkish embassy, and has been re- ceiving from it articles for publication to which were pinned checks on the Ottoman Bank. I have the authority of an official of the Anglo-Armenian committee for the state- ment that many apparently responsible offers have been made to them by people who claimed to have the power to range the Paris press on the Armenian side, Some of these offers they examined in de- tail, and they founa that the estimates of cost varied from $15,000 to $20,000 a week. ‘With this as a basis for inference they as- sume that the Sultan has probably been paying about $15,000. As it is certain that no money has been forthcoming on the Armenian side the gradual change in the .tone of the Parisian papers becomes, as has been said, doubly significant. It can only be dictated by the fear of embarrassing the Czar’s freedom of action, and this in turn points to the existence in “Paris of a notion that Russia’s policy is no longer fixed irrevocably on Prince Lobanoff’s lines. People here get peculiar comfort from the reports, which now seem to be all one way, that the Czar was peculiarly col: in demeanor at Breslau and Gortiiz. Eng- lishmen have entered into an abiding compact of hatred agaiust the German Emperor. They desire their own aggran- dizement not half so much as they desire his humiliation and ruin, and the fact that his official press leads ail others in cursing England and upholding the Sultan gives fierce stress to their longing for some combination, no matter at what cost to themselves, which shall bring him to grief. They are almost in the mood to thrust Constantinople into Russia’s lap if that would do the trick. Paris will begin in earnest on Monday the task of decorating for what they re- gard as the principal event in the history of the republic, and both there and at Versailles and Cherbourg the work will be on a scale that is unprecedented. Frenchmen conduct their party and per- sonal differences so much out of doors that perbaps we get an exaggerated no- tion of the bad blood which this visit of the Czar is stirring up. The most furious jealousies seem to be raging in all direc- tions. The failure 10 call the Chamber of Deputies together in extra session for the great event is ascribed by some to fear that it would throw the Meline Ministry out beadlong. and by others to President Faure's unwillingness to share his honors with the presidents of the Senate Cham- ber, who are constitutionally his ceremo- nial equals. There is also a general and very familiar discussion as to the Ell'l which M. Faure's wife and daughter ought to play in the festiviues. The prev- alent view is against their participation, but a considerable minority of those who debate the matter ascribe this feeling to maan envy of the women folks of Minis- s and Deputies, who are furious over ir own exclusion. /Under ordinary circumstances all Ea- fope would be humming now with eager peculation about Egypt. The English are not only in tosx-easion of Dongola, thougy caretully keeping the Egyptian flag flying over their army, but they have proved by practical test that oniy the merest rotten busk of Mandism remains in Equaiorial Africa. f the Dervishes could meke a stand anywhere it would be at Dongola, but their earlier pretenses of resistance were quite fatuous, and at the final pinch they Tun like rabbits without a show of fight. This contrast with their extraordinary de- votion and ferocity of a dozen years ago is as remarkable in its way as is the evolu- tion in the same period of the native Egyptian troops from a cowardly rabble to splendid soldiery. 11 considerations of expense were not of first importance, there would seem to be nothing to prevent the Sirdar from going to Khartoum, Omdurman or wherever else ne pleases on the road to Ugandu. This grave expansion of what is to all in- tents British territory would in ordinary times create a lively international hub- bub, but the crisis at the gate of the Dar- danelles is too exciting to allow even this to make a diversion. One or two of the Paris papers cry out that the moment is opportune for forcing England’s hand on the whole subject of the Nile, but not even in Chauvinist quar- ters is there any sympathetic response. It is understood that bigger things even than Egypt are at stake. The news of the Khedive's strange secret visit to Paris, too, would a year ago have caused the deepest curiosity and apprehension in England. Now itis only mentioned as a personal item, without a hins that 1t may possibly be important, Iiis impossible to believe that he could have left Egypt, landed at Marseilles and stayed a week in Paris Without the knowlelige of the English For- eign Office, still less does one suppose the French authorities ignorant of his pres- ence. No information, however, as to whom he has seen or what the objects of tis journey may be is obtainable. British poets have clearly fallen upon evil days. It has become an open secret that Al- fred Austin is practically under an injunc- tion to preserve silence. Sir Kdwin Arnold recently burst forth in a long, exuberant ode on the Queen’s reign having exceeded in length all others in English history, and he sold it unconditionally to the man who manages a publication called the Salon. This person, however, has other strings to bis bow, and he used the poem asa center-piece for a big page coilection of advertisements for cigars, carpets, sewing- machines, etc,, which he published on Thursday in every London daily. Sir Edwin denounces this publicly as a lite- rary outrage, which perhaps it is, but the cynical metropolitan press is inclined Lo view the coniunction as remarkably ap- propriate. The Queen herself for some curious reason ha- seemed a1l along rather to resent the popular impulse 10 celebrate this anniversary of her ascent to the throne as a unique event, but despite ali the cold water which the court could throw the date was seized on everywhere, not only here but in the far-off colonies, as an occasion for demonstrations of Joyal mterest and devotion of such impressive volume in the aggregate that her Majesty was forced to make a kind of grudgirg ac- knowledgment of trer thanks. A quaint reason was given me by & relative of one of her court ladies a while ago for this royal shirking of the celebra- tion. It was to the effect that the Queen, at heart a vehement Jacobite, holds the elder pretender to have been truly King of England as James III, and she feels that as he survived his father sixty- four years his reign was longer than hers has been. 1 give thisas it was given to me, with nolcomment, save that numerous other fads about the Stuarts, which the Queen undoubtedly cherishes, are not a } whit less singular. Both here and in Germsny the report that Bismarck’s views on bimetallism are treated as of importance by any section of the American %&-ople is received in a mirthful spirit. Bismarck’s hopeless ig- norance on all financial questions made him the butt oi two generations of his parliamentary associates whenever he essayed to talk on them. His speeches on thes - subjects used to be filed with maddened retorts to men who criticized him. While it was true, he would say, that as a nobleman he had not been trained in the small tricks of trade and money-counting, yet he had the Em- peror behind him, and that was more im- portant than any so-called economy principle. His stupid high tariffs, his commercial wars with his neighbors, his grotesquely unequal systems of domestic taxation, have done more toward making the Social Democrats the largest single party in Ge:- many than all other causes combined. He knows no more to-day about the silver question than Secretary Carlisle does about the family arrangements regulating the Saxe-Altenburg succession, and no one in Europe, not even among his most heated partisans, would dream of regard- ing him as an authority on thator any other fiscal question under the sun, It is reported as on authority that at the November consistory Archbishop Walsh of Dublin and the Dominican, Father Gas- quet, will be made Cardinals. The latter prelate is one of the best of the English Catholic writers. He has a charming per- sonality as well, though his achievements seem hardly in the line of the red hat. As for Dr. Walsh, I prictea six years ago in these dispaiches extracts from Monsignor Persico’s private reports from Ireland to the Vatican, which came to me by way of Cardinal Manning’s housenold, and in which Monsignor Persico repeatedly declared that Dr. Walsh was lacking in spiritual qualities and that he paid too much attention to politics and too little to the souls of himseif and his flock. This was about the only opinion of Monsignor Persico which Rome really had as its own, and it will be very i1nteresting to see if it has been altered. "It must be ad- mitted, though, that latterly, in fact ever since he committed the fatal blunder of assisting Dillon gnd O’Brien to seize and wreck the Freeman’s Journal, Dr. Walsh has been as silent as a mouse in Irish politics. As 1 predicted last week the pretense that there was any chauce of extraditing Carney and Haines has been open'y aban- doned and the show of trying to get Tynan has lapsed into empty humbug. The two former may get harthly handled in Bel- gium if Holland hands them over, but so far as England and Scotland Yard are concerned their sensational arrest, like Tynan’s, was a mere piece of reclame. All that is substantial is the fact that Ivory will go into. penal servitude. So far as can be seen Ivory’s scoundrelly associates got his money, sent him to the post of danger, and then either they orsome of their confederate vermin in America sold him to Eagland. August was an evil enough month in all conscience, but its successor has been even worse. For some eight weeks the sun has scarcely been seen for an hour ata time and rain has fallen practically every day. In eighty years there has not been such a water-soaked September. _This week was marked by a succession of violent gaies and tempests, culminating yesterday in a hurricane, which, strangeiy enough, strewed ail four sides of Englana impartially with wreckage. Usually if the east coast suffers the west coast goes un- scathed, but to-day tales of havoc come from every point of the compass. Belfast is as bad as Folkestone, and Bristol as bad as Yarmouth. All late crops with hops at their head are described as ruined every- where. X “Cymbeline’’ at the Lyceum deserves every pretty thing that can be said of it. To make it into what is called ‘‘a good play,” is beyend human endeavor, but everything else that can charm on the stage is bere, including some effects not foreseen. It is not inferior in magnificence and beauty of mountine to Kiag Arthur,” while the transition from Burne Jones to Tadema gives individuality of its own as a Eicm:e. lien Terry’s Imogen is all that could be imagined—arch, beautiinl,winning and splendidly intelligent. She confessed herself amazed after the performance at her temerity in essaying such a juvenile part; but we in front saw nothing but oo perennial youth, The great feast of the piece, though, is really Irvinz's »Im:lurnori which, though necessarily of slight ani fragile texture, is the most delicate and highly informed work of art in this gal- lery, ana it has wholly disarmed and made captive even those critics who like least what he has done before. J. M. Barrie and Dr. Robertson Nicoll, editor of the Bookman, sailed to-day on their long-projectéd visit to America. HaroLp FREDERIC. MINISTEE KANSOME EXPLAINS. Unintentionally Misrepresented as to His Opinion of Mexico. CITY OF MEXICO, Mex., Sept. 26.— United States Minister Ransome says he has been unintentionally misrepresented in alleged interviews, in which he was made to eay he had advised Americans not to come here or to invest capital. He says that he has always pointed out to 1n- quirers that before settling or buying prop- erty it was wise to investigate for them- selves and make sure that all conditions were as favorable as had been represented to them, as many misleading ac- counts of this country had been pub- lished abroad. In a word, ne had urged caution, and especially had advised against the immigration of unskilled American laborers, as the country had an abundant supply. But as he had always said that he could not advise any worthy citizen of the United Btates to leave that country, one of good law and good constitution, to go into a foreign country. He says Mexico has a good government affording protec- tion, and its stability was becoming more apparent daily. SR A BISMARCK’S LETTER GENUINE. 4dmits That He Favors Free Coinage of Silver. FRIEDRICHSRUHE, GerMANY, Sept. 26.—A representative of the United As- sociated Presses to-day called on Prince Bismarck to learn from his own lips the truth as to the autnority of the text of his recent letter on the subject of bimetailism addressed to Governor Culberson of Texas. The Prince was unable to see the correspondent personally, but returned an answer through his son-in-law, Count von Rantzau, that the text of his letter, as published in the Hamburger Nachrichten, was authentic. CLARA BARTON'S REPORT. Stories of Massacres and Dis- tress in Asia Minor Are Not Exaggerated. Nothing but Universal Charity Can Prevent Appalling Starvation Next Winter. NEWPORT, R. L, Bept. 26.—Miss Clara Barton, who is visiting friends here, said to members of the G. A. R. posts, whoi called upon her in a body, that the reports of the trouble and distress in Asia Minor are not exaggerated, and in her opinion nothing less than the united charities of the world could prevent shocking starva- tion there next winter. Miss Barton stated that she had received no application from Cuban clubs for Red | Cross assistance for the Cuban army, as ‘reported, but it is possible that if such a request has been made it has been sent to | Washington, where her mail is heid. She has ordered that it be forwarded to Meri- den, Conn., where she will go next week, ana where she expects to complete her re- ports upon the Armenian difficulties. The matter of sending assistance to Cubea she did not care to discuss until she shouid receive official know ledge upon which she could speak. Another Red Cross worker, though, in speaking of the cruelties in Cuba, says it is not apparent wherein the Red Cross could work there. The society acts for tumanity and sym. pathizes with no nation or portion of such For the Red Cross to act under the re- cent attitude of the United States toward Cuba would necessitate its first receiving concessions from Spain, and from certain happenings in the past it does not appear probable that Spain would iisten to any arguments concerning the humane treat- ment of the Cubans or their wounded. | If a feasible plan can be devised wherein | the American Red Cross can be of assist- | ance to the sufferers of either side, the so- ciety undoubtediy will be only too glad to send it. Volunteers have already offered them- selves, but the reported request has un- doubtedly been made without a full and correct understanding of the situation. Because certain valuable work was done in Turkey it does not necessarily follow that similar work can be done in Cuba, VeTe Or even worse. PG TERRIBLE CLOUDBURST. A Large Portion of San Marcos, Tex., Is Washed Away and Several Persons, Are Missing. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 26.—A tre- mendous cloudburst struck the city of San Marcos, about sixty miles north of there, at 10 o'clock this morning and washed away a large portion of the‘town. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas and In- ternational and Great Northern Railway tracks were washed away for three-quar- ters of a mile and the joint depot badly wrecked. The damage to these two roads will reach $20,000. The cloudburst struck the lower portion of the city and swept everything before it, all the bridges over the San Marcos River, which runs through the town, being washed away, and a large number of resi- dences are in ruins. Several people are missing and it is thought at least five have been drowned, but such was the force of tle deluge that none of the bodies have vet been recovered. No definite information is obtainable. Al telegraph wires are down and no irains have been runnin: since 9 o’clock this morning. The only information that has reached the outside world is the above, which was sent by messenger to Kyle, Tex., and thence by telephone to this city. IR e i CANADA WANITS RECIPROCITY. Move to Establish a Treaty With the United States. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 26.—A special to the Bun from Ottawa, Ont., says: The Minister of Trade and Commerce, Sir Richard Cartwright, started for Boston Thursday night to have a conference with the British Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, as to the opening of nego- tiations for a reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States. The ques- tion of a joint British and Canadian sub- sidy for a Pacific cable and a fast Atlantic steamship service is also to be discussed. The new administration at Ottawa has chan, materially the policy of Sir Charles Tupper. The Pacific cable project is not indorsed by the Laurier Govern- ment, while tna.nmrmsed twenty-knot At- lantic steamship line will be made an eighteen-knot service. Havoo Caused by a Waterspout. § DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 26.—A bulletin re. ceived thisevening from San Marcos, Tex., says a waterspout struck that section this. afternoon, causing widespread destruction to property and it is feared much loss of life. At the town of San Marcos, on the river of the same name, fifteen dwelling- houses and two bridges were swept away. There is general prostration of wires in the country surrounding San Marcos. though the cruelties there may be as se- | NOT FRIENDS OF TURKEY'S RULER German Diplomats Are Busy Denying Rumors About the Sultan. HARMONY IS CLAIMED * If There Is a Recurrence of the Troubles Common Action May Be Taken. DID NOT SHELTER ARMENIANS While the Massacres Were in Progress William’s Embassy Failed to Afford Asylum. BERLIN, GerMANY, Sept. 26.—The au- thorities of the Foreign Office are greatly indignant at finding that reports have ob- tained credence thatit is Germany and not Russia that is befriending t..e Sultan. Acting under the influence of this feeling the Foreign Office has issued a statement declaring that complete harmony in regard to Turkey exists aL the presenttime among the powers. Ii a recurrence of the troubles in Con- stantinople should make the question acute, however, it is possible that the great powers will abandon their attitude of disinterestedness and proceed to take common action to restore order, and com* munications sounding the powers upon this questing sre already passing between the various European Governments. Nev- theless, the German Government is not satistied with the attitude the Government has assumed and especially deplores the fact that, the German embassay at Con- stantinople showed no sympathy with the Armenians during the late massa- cres there. While the disturbances were going on in the streets of Constantinople the other embassies gave asylum to hundreds of Armenians, but Germany, says the St. Petersburg Novo Vremya, in order to keep in the good graces of the Sultan, kept the doors closed until the massacre was over, even while Turks massacred fugitives be- fore the very doors of the embassy. Despite repeated denials on the part of the Russian authorities and the Russian press, the Frankfort Zeitung maintains its assertion that the Russian Black Sea fleet has been cruising since last Monday with- in six hours’ travel of the Bosphorus. The Bundesrath, which is summoned to reassemble at the beginning of October, will be called upon to consider many im- portant measures at its coming session, such as the compulsory organization of workingmen’s guilds, modifying the State system of old age and sickness insurance, ete. The great question of reform procedure in militry trials remains in a critical con- dition. The Bundesrath just before its adjournment merely conceded the ques- tion of oral debates before military courts, but rejected the proposal to compel the publicity of all proceedings before such tribunals, The Emperor retains the same ight to confirm or suspend sentences. The Reichstag will meet on November 10, and heated debates over the leadinz ques- tions which that body will be asked to consider are certain to take place. The Vorwaerts, the leading organ of the German Socialists, has published a series of reports showing the position and prog- ress of the Soctalist movement in Ger- many as a prelude to the coming con- gress of the Bocialist party, which is to be opened at Sieblichen, near Gotha, on Oc- tover 11. Though these reports show that the direct subscriptions to the party funas have diminished, there is, never- theless, a surplus of 40,000 marks in the party’s treasury, and in spite of the pri- vate subsidies which are required to maintain some of the provincial news- papers, the party possesses forty-one daily and twenty-three tri-weekly papers. The consensus of opinion among disinterested outsiders is that the Socialists’ vote will be lar gely increased at the next election ALL GOING TO CANTON. Oontinued from First Page. bridges you make, the more coal you want. Is not that so? (Cries of “That's right.””] But you don’t want and won’t want coal unless some- body wan s your steel and your iron and your locomotives and your bridges. And we want the least of all these things when we are the least . prosperous,and we are the least prosperous when we are under & free-trade policy and when the business confidence of the country is destroyed. [Cries of “That’s true.”] Now, my fellow-citizens, we not only want good work and good wages, but we want good money. [Loud cheering.) The miner who is here this morning cannot fell a ton of coal that he has mined under weight, and he don’t propose to receive a dol- lar in payment—or dollars in payment—for that ton of coal of undervalue. Do you get my idea? [Criesof “You bet we do.’] And 50 when the workingman, no matter in what occupation he may be employed, works his full day’s work, he wants (o receive in return 100-cent dollars that are not depreciated and never to be depreciated. [Tremendous cheer- ing.] Major McKinley’s fourth speech of the day was addressed to delegations from McKees Rock and Esplenborough, to a large club of Baltimore and Ohio Railway men from Newark, Ohio; toa Republican club from Coraopelis, Pa., and to Carnegie- Duguesne steel-workers. In acknowledg- ing the addresses of the various speakers Major McKinley said in part: 1 cannot but be impressed that there is pre- sented to the American people this year a crisis of unusual importance that would bring to my home delegation after delegstion from near and distant States to testify their devo- tion to the cause which for the moment I rep- resent. [Applause.] What we want is peace, protection, patriotism and prosperity. [Tre- mendous cheering.] You know people used to say that Ohio was always in a state of perpet- ual campaigning—Canton is in that state just now [boisterous laughter and applause]—and that the fall campaign was no sooner off than the spring campaign was .on, and so it went the whole year round. Well we are doing better now, for Ohio has done away with one of her elections. The old State election in Ohio, which used to point the way for the country to follow, has permanently abandoned that task to Oregonm, Vermont and Maine. [Prolonged cheering.] They have held up the cause of the country well this year. Oregon voted in June, and it gave the head of the Republican ticket more than 13,000 plurality—s gain, as contrasted with the corresponding election of 1892, of 11,268, and an increase in the Republican vote of mearly 9000. [Applause.] Yet there are some people who pretend to think that the gallant Republicans of that splendid State are 80ing to let it declare for those twin delusions —free trade and free silver—next November. [Cries of “No, no.”] 1do not believe it, but on the contrary I believe that Oregon will con- tinue in the place where she naturally belongs and deserves to belong, in the Republican column. [Applause.] Vermont voted on September 1. Her Re- publican vote for Governor in 1892 was 88,318; in 1896, 53,505, a gain of 14,567, while the Republican plurality this year was the greatest in the history of the State, being 89,053, as against a little more than 19,000 four years ago. Matne—the glorious commonwealth of Ham- lin, Blaine and Reed—Maine held her election on the 14th of September, and gave the Re- publican candidate for Governor 88,749 votes, as against 67,000 given the Republican candidate for that office in 1892—an increase of 15,000 in the Republican vote, while the Republican plurality this year was nearly four times as great as then—48,500 in 1896 aund 12.500 in 1892, & Republican gain in that State of 85,930, votes. The combined vote of the three States shows Republican pluralities 0f 107,357, or 67,000 larger than they gave at corresponding elections in 1892, an increase in the Republican vote of 38,080, while the Democratic vote decreased 88,498, indicating just what is happening all over the country— that the thousands of ‘honest money” Demo- crats in that party, law-preserving, patriotic Democrats, will not follow the Chicago con- vention. The crowd in the front part of the yard was 50 dense at this time that the John Dalzell Club of Wilmerding, Pa., com- posed of employes of the Westinghouse Airbrake Company, could not find stand- ing-room. They were marched on the lawn in the rear of the house, and when Major McKinley finished bis speech to the delegation in the frunt yard he passed swiftly through the house and spoke from a side porch near the kitchen. Major Mc- Kinley said: I am glad to find you interested this year in politics. 1am giad to note tnat you, with the Test of the people of the country, are ma polities this year a business, because you discovered during the iast four years that poli- tics is business, and 1 you want good business you must have good politics. [Great ap- piause.] 1 observe in this audience many young men. There mever was such a cause 10 fight for since the days of the waras that which appeals to the young men and the old men of the country to-day—a cause which in- vokes patriotism, National honor, public faith, 1aw and order—all of which we value in & government of free people such as weare. [Appizuse.] . Major McKinley had hardly seated him- self in the house before a delegation from Piqua and other towns in Miami County, Ohio, arrived. The spokesman for the del- ecation was 1. M. Kyle of Tioy. Major McKinley responded briefly as follows: Irecall as I stand before you to-day that it was in the city of Piqua thatan industry was established in 1891 for the manufacture of tin. Irecollect :0 have been in that factory and dipped one of the first pieces of tin that was made there. You remember that at thau time they said we could not make tin plate [laughter], but we do make it now, s every- bods adriits. There 1s nothing the people in this conntry propose to do that they cannot do, and one of the things they propose to do this year is to resiore the policy of a protective tarif and countinue the doctrine of sound money. [Great applause.] Following the Piqua delegation came a fine body oi men from Buffiio—the Real Estate McKinley and Hobart Association. The pres:dent of the association, Henry 8. Hill, made one of the most carefully con- sidered speeches of the day. Major Mec- Kinley's response was spirited. He said: There is nothing more vital to a government like ours than the sanctity of the law. [Great apolause] It must be over all, above all and ovserved by all. [Great cheering and cries of “Good, good.”] Acquiescence in public law which'the people themselves have made and ordained is the highest obligatior of citizen- ship and the ohief source of safety to the Re- public. [Applause.] The courts which inter- pretand execute the law must be preserved on that exalted plane of purity and incorrupti- bility which have so signally characterized the American judiciary. (Great cheering and cries of *Good.” These courts must be upheld for the safety and defense of the citizen. [Applause.] When the laws and those whose constitutional duty itis to execute :hem are assailed the Govern- ment itself is assailed. If there are those who would break down law and_disturb the peace and good order of society, those who value the safeguards as essential to our liberty must sacrediy guard and defend them by their bal- lots. [Great applause.] This they will do with the same earnest patriotism that they have always displayed in every great emer- gency in the life of the Nation. The eighth speecn was to a delegation of the employes of Joseph Horne & Co.. Pittsburg. Major McKinley said in part: Nobody feels business depression and pros- tration quicker than the merchants, aud no- Dbody feels prosperity and good times quicker, You, gentlemen, old and young, who stand about me here to-day, know the difference be- tween the condition 'you have now and have had for two or three vears and the condition you had prior to 1893, [Cries of “Yes, we do.”’] Is it proposed now that we shall not only have onr?resentcondiuon. which is bad enough, continued, but that we shall have it ag- gravated by the determination of certain people to put us on a sliver basis and depre- ciate and degrade the eurrency of the country? [Cries of “No, no!”] My fellow-citizens, we Deither want unrestrained nor unrestricted competition from Europe, nor do we propose to have the money of Mexico or China to answer our purposes in this civilized country. fire_lllllnpllnle and cries of “Hurrah for Me- niy 1) It was after 5 o’clock when Major Mec- Kinley made his last speech of the day. The delegation which he addressed came from-Cleveland and numbered about 2000. The excursion to Canton was projected by Mrs. 'W. J. Sheppard and other ladies of Cleveland, and it was compnsed of many classes of voters. Mayor McKisson was the first speaker. The following speakers were also heard: Otto Snyder. who spoke for the first voters; W. Schwartz for the Hungarians, Joseph Caribelli for the Italians, Charles Richter for the Bohe- mians. J. P. Green for the colored voters, E. H. Boehm for the German-Americans, and Harry Mason for the voters of Ameri- can descent. A lively rain fell during part of the speech-making, but the people remained and cheered with additional power. Major McKinley said: It is a remarkable spectacle when the repre- sentatives of all races and nationalities accom- panied by the Mayor of their city come to testify their devotion to the country and their loyaity to its honor. [Great cheering.] Every citizen of the Unitea States has an equal inter- estin the conduct of the Government and of its administrative policy. I have nosympathy with those who seek to create inequalities and promote antagonisms which are in conflict with the spirit of our institutions. Thereis no inequality under our constitution and laws, and those who seek to make distinctions are not the true friends of either the people or of the country, [Applause.] In voting every man is a free man, and every ballot should ex- press the best opinion of the voter. He should consult both his intelligence and conscience before he deposits his ballot. It is a trust, therefore, of supreme im- portance which is conferred upon the Ameri- can citizen, and carries with it grave duties which affect not only the country, but every home and fireside in the land. Our Govern- ment, more distinctly than any other, rests upon the consent of the governed and is con- trollea in its policies by the will of the ma- jority. The country is just now in a condition of prostration. The intelligent and well-di- rected use of suffrage can alone lift it uo. Ithank you for this call and assurances of support; I thank you, ladies of the city of Cleveland, for having organized in the name of patriotism and for the love of American in- stitutions_this splendid assemblage. [Ap- pluu&]ulwa will never go wrong 8o long as we are in charge of the women. [Laughter.] An St iy GROSVENOR’S EMTIMATE, MoKinley Will Carry Kansas and Ne- braska but Not Missourd. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 26.—General Gros- venor arrived from his Ohio home to spend Bunday with Chicago friends and proceeds to Iowa next week for a speech-making trip. He announcea his intention of issu- ing two more estimatas of the States which McKinley and Bryan would carry and the doubtful ones, with figures. One will be compiled the middle of next month and the other just before election day. ““We have a hard fight on our hands in Nebraska,” said the general, “but I would sooner bet on Nebraska than on Kansas. I think we will carry both these States by small majorities. I don’t seeany hope for us in Missouri. 1 would not putitin the doubtful column. Nothing can be ex- pected from a State where the party is split iuto fighting factions.” Mrs. J. Ellen Foster will leave for Utah, Wyoming and Colorado in a few days to address meetings of women, who are enti- tled to vote for Presidential electors in those States. COMMITIEES ARE NAMED., Members of the National League Will Contest the Campaign. CINCINNATI, Omuro, Sept. 26.—Hon. D. D. Woodmansee, president of the National Republican League, has announced the following committees for the Western and Central States, to iake effect at once: Campaign committee—I. M. Hamilton, Illinois; E. J. Miller, Ohio; r. borough, Michigan; L. T. Walker, Ten- nessee; Grant S. Hagar, North Dakota; H. H. Biunt, Louisiana. Advisory committee—L. J. Crawford, Kentucky; A. M. Higgins, Indiana; L. K. Torbet, Illinois; W. E. Bundy, Ohio; John Goodnoe, Minnesota. Finance committee—B. G. Dawes, Ne- braska; F. W. Bicknell, Iowa. The committees for the Eastern States will be named in New York City Octo- ber 13. WRECKED M.iKINEES SAVED, Who Captain and Mate of the Bark Perfec- tion drrive in London. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 26.—A special to the Times from Halifax says: Captain Loomer and Mate Petrie of the Nova Scotia bark Perfection, which was burned at sea, arrived from London yes- terday. The vessel, which was loaded with lumber from Quebec for Rio Janeiro, was fourteen days out when fire was dis- coverea forward. The hatcoes were opened and water poured into the hold, but the flames were beyond control. The hatches were bat- tened down again, but the fire spread all over the vessel ana the crew took to the boats. Asmall boat with the mate and two others was capsized and the occu- pants rescued with difficulty. The crew was four days in the boats before being picked up. The fire is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary among the crew. ——— ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, Presence of Texas kangers Checks the Eevolutionists. EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 26.—The United States troops did not take the field again yesterday in search of the Mexican revo- lutionists, as 1t was reported they would do. It is believea here that nothing fur- ther will be heard about revolutionists on this border, as the action of General Bliss, commander of tue Department of Texas, in ordering out the troops at Fort Bliss will show the Mexican robbers that Uncle Sam does not intend to permit them tc find an asylum on United States soil. The Texas Rangers and Marshal Ware and his deputies have not relaxed their vigilance, and when the Ffederal Court convenes here next month there will prob- ably be a large number of Mexicans on trial for violating the neutrality laws. —_———— POLISB CATHOLIC CONGRESS. Great Results Accomplished in the Way of Unification. BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept.26.—The final | session of the Polish Roman Catholic Con- gress was held vesterday. A solemn high mass was sung at 8:30 o’clock by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Wargenyzk. The sermon was preached by Rev.. Father Gramlerwicz, He spoke of the great work accomplished by the congress in unifying 2,500,000 Poles and laving the foundation for future work along the same lines. He advised his hearers to cultivate. a love for American citizenship and at the same time maintain within them a warm sentiment for the land of their birth. Chicago was selected as the place for holding the next conven- tion in 1898. NEW TO-DAY. 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