The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 4, 1896, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from | the Library,o... Call VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 126. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 189%6—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NAJOR MKINLEY HAS MANY CALLERS Fifteen Thousand Visitors Go to Canton in One Short Day. From Mills, Furnaces, Farms, Colleges, Workshops, Mines and Counting-Rooms. ALL EAGER FOR PROTECTION. From Dawn Until Dark the Repub- lican Standard.-Bearer Receives Visitors. CANTON, Omro, Oct. 3.—Fifteen thou gand men came from the mills, furnaces, farms, colleges, workshops, mines and counting-rooms of New York, Pennsyl- vanis, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana, marched up the Market-strect hill in Canton to-day to see and hear Major McKinley, and they marched down again with the flush of en- thusiasm in their faces and the promise of victory in their ringing cheers. Major McKinley surpassed himself to- day. He was engaced in the work of meeting delegations from breakfast time till aiter the sun set and the lamps had been lightea before the iast delegation marched away. He spoke to a greater number oi large bodies of voters, repre- senting a vast variety of interests and in- dustries, than he had before ad.iressed in a single day. He made fourteen formal speeches and several intormal ones and $alked to thirty delegations. The day was superb, the air bracing and the sunshine genial. Two delegationsarrived before 6 o’clock. One came from Harrisburg, Pa.,and num- bered more 300; the other from Sunday Creek Valley, in Athens County, Ohio, part of the great Hocking Vailey mining region. The delegation of miners num- bered 600. In addressing the two delega- tions Major McKinley -suid in part: ng as you do from =a city of great milisand other manufactories huving n value of more than $12,000,000 when your estabiishments are all of the great- scturing States in the country, I 7 be toid of the deep and protound ou have in the rightful settle- ment of the issues presented in this campaign. Both of the leading issues are of sufficient im- portance 1o your industrial life and prosperity to command your unremitting labor and effort. Government expenditures must not exceed “overnment receipts. The creation of & pub- : deby in time of peace isoniy justified in ‘, istaining the ereditof the Government and the public honor, bat it should not be con- tinued & moment longer thab the Congress whose duty it is to raiss the revenue shall make provision to supply it. [Applause.] No one has suffered more nnder these conditions the tarmers of the United States. [Ap- ] They have lost much by a diminished ret, and have suffered in the foreign t by the'repeai of the reciprocity pro- ons of the tariff law of 1890. gn merket opened by reciprocity 1g the administration of President Harri- t be reopened and the home market st be reopened, improved and preserved for mer.can iarmer, while the American shop shall be opened to the American [Great applapse.] No patrioticeit- object to regaining and then hoid- ou rank of the greatest manufac- and farmiog Nation of the lause.] cessity of the restoration of & wise American tariff policy is & 1 second to nothing in import- servation of law and order, \ave. [Great cheering]. Of ic tranquillity and the pres- our currency and our eat applause.] Major McKinley made his second speech to the Wheelmen’s McKinley and Hobart Republican Club of Buffalo, which arrived on a special train at 10:15. There were 150 members in the party. Major McKinley excused himseif from making a formal speech, for the reason at he was scheduled to address all of the wheelmen in a body later in the day. Following the Buffalo wheelmen came a delegation of 450 employes of the Standard Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg, F. J. Torrance, spokesman for this delega- tion, said most of the men in it were Democrats who proposed to cast their first Republican vote this year. Six men bore on a gilded platiorm a beautiful porcelain bathtub decorated with and mounted in gold, which was presented by the Stand- ard Company to Major McKinley. Major McKinley's speech was impromptu and uncommonly rited. While the or was speaking a delega- tion from Barborton, Ohic, 300 strong marched up to the house and marched into the yard. Assoon as Major McKin- ley fini-hed his remarks 0. C. Barbor, the great matchmaker, introduced the delega- tion of hisemploves and Major McKinley addressed them very briefly. Five hundred workingmen f.. » the Alleghany shops of the Pennsvlvania lines pressed closelv behind the Barborton dele- gation, and Major McKinley scarcely had time to sit down before the railroad men massed 1hemselves in front of the porch. W. R. Kirker was the spokesman., The major made a briei to this delegation and seven minutes after concluding his re- marks was bowing to a new audience. There were upward of 500 men in it, and they came from the works of Mclntosh, Hemphill & Co. and the Star Tin Plate Company of Pittsburg. The men brought with them the largest sheet of tin vlate in the world. Major McKinley ex- plained to them the benefits of the pro- tective tariff, and his remarks were punct- uated throughout by enthusiastic applause and cheering. The seventh speech of the day was a short one to a delegation of 100 employes of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad. At 12:30 o’clock a delegation 2000 strong * m Washington County, Pa., arrived. was composed of farmers, ironworkers 8ad tin-plate makers. said in part: ance excep which we justice and a ervation of our National honor ust Major McKinley The wisdom of the statesmanship of Hamil- ton and Blaine was unheeded in 1892. They have not only deprived our agricuituralists of tion of foreign wool, livestock and farm prod- ucts, not only taken from the farmers the benefits of reciprocity and mew outlets for their surplus products, but they now seriously propose 1o pay them for the lessened quantity they can sell at lessened prices in the home market in dollars of depreciated value and cheat you in quality under their financial policy, as iree trade has cheated you in quan- tity. [Great applause.] General Grant, in his annual message to Congress in 1870, said: “If it means a failure to provide necessary means to defray all the expenses of the Government and therefore re- pudiation of the public debt and pensions, then I am still more opposed to such kind of revenue reform.” [Great cheering.] So must all agree that if free silver is to add, as it will undoubtedly add, to agricultural, manufactur- ing and commercial distress, now so severe 1n all parts of the country, then we are more than ever opposed to it and 1o accepting the other delusion of false finance. [Applause and cries of ““We won’t do 1t."] At 1 o'clock Market street was filled with delegations as far as the eye could reach, They were massed all the way down the hall under the great white arch and stretched out for a mile to the fur- thest railway station. The ninth speech was made to 600 railroad men from Fort ‘Wayne, Ind., together with a delegation irom Cleveland comprising employes of the American Wire Company, of the Harbon-Walker Fire-brick Company, of the Oil-well Supply Company of Pitts- bury, of the Pitisburg Nail Works, of the Cleveland Hardware Company and the Kiiby Company. Major McKinley said: I almost despair of being able to make my- self heard to this great assemblage of my countrymen. You come from different States, but with a single purpose, and that to satisfy vour devotion to the priuciples of the great Republican party. [Applause.] Partiesdo not meke issues; 1ssues make parties. Men who think alike act together. This vast crowd thinks alike, and they propose to act together on the 3d day of November. [Tremendous ap- plause.] We have not only tne best manufac- torie and the best railroads and the most of them, but we have the best money in the world. [Continuous yello -] We have more gold in the United States than any other Governments except France and Germany; we have more silver than any other Government except India and China. Every dollar we have, gold or silver, is worth 100 cents wherever trade goes and in eyery mart and market place of the world. Now what we want to do is 10 get back what we lost in 1892, [Great applanse.] Are you all agreed as to that? [Cries of “We are” and *“You bet.”’] Nobody seems to be satigfied with what was done in 1892. Those who helped to do itand thuse who are against it are alike dissatisfied What we want is to return to the normal prosperity of the United States. The next delegation numbered 1000 and came from Venango Cotinty, Pa. A delega tion of 100 students from Wooston (Ohio) College marched up at the same time. The candidate addressed the two delega- tions in a few felicitous words and then received 700 members of the Union Veterans’ Patriotic League of Pittsburg and Alleghany County. The old goldiers brought with them a score of battle- scarred and tattered flags. Major Mc- Kinley address d ihe veterans in patriotic words. The Stamina Republican League of Cincinnati, a fine body of young men, were the next callers. Turning from the Cincinnati andience, which was massed in the streets before him. Major McKinley received from a committee representing the mechanics and silversmiths of the Mauser Manufac- turing Company of New York a bandsome silver vase. The speech of presentation was made by George Dessauer. Major McKinley responded with a few pleasant remarks. A iong’line of wheel- men, radiant in costumes of gray and with brilliant pennants, came swiftly by a few moments later. There were wheel- men’in large numbers from Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati and other points. Masjor McKinley ad- dressed the wheelmen as follows: You are very welcome to my home. Politi- cal clubs on wheels are novel in political con- tests and are truly American. Their presence marks s new era in campaign work, and I congratulate you upon the inauguration of NO PUZZLE PICTURE ABOUT 'fHIS. his mighty force in American politics. The bicycle is 8 development of the nineteenth century, and in no age in the history of the world would its benefits and utliity have been so quickly and generally acknowiedged. In the category of inventions I doubt if any vehicle or means of locomolion was ever so favorably received. Its use is long since out of the realm of romance and song and belongs toone of the greatestand most wonderful in- ventions of the time—to the rank of steam- boat, railroad, telegraph -and telephoue. [Great cheering.] The Americans are eminently a practical people, and were quick to see both the cons venience and utility of this beautiful machine, so simple and perfect in every part, and so well designed as & whole that prejudice conld not avail agatnst it, nor pride, nor pradish- ness, nor fear prevent fts widest use by men, women and chiidren everywhere. [Applatise and ringing of bells.] The cyelist, 1 believe, has beaten the best time ever made by ‘s horse, and I'as almost surpassed in speed the fastest engines in the world. [Continued cheering and ringing of bells.] The speed of wheelmen would be extremely useful for a political party if mere distance were the test of its running qualities [Great laughter and cheers.] The size of a political perty, however, is in the strength of its cause. [Applaure and cries of “Hear, hear.”] Its runningqualitiesrestupon its principles and how far those principles shall command the confidence and the con- science and the intelligence of the American people. Major McKinley’s day of speech making closed at nightfull with an address to nearly 2000 Bohemian-Americaus from Cleveland. EVIDENCES OF A TRAGEDY Husband and Children Believed to Have Been Slain by a Guilty. Couple. Blood Stains Found at the Heme of a Missing Family in Arkansas. has been telegraphed here sbaat what appears to be the bloodiest tragedy ever oceurring in Arkansas. The scene of the supposed crime is at Duvals Bluff, Ark, Living there for some years past was a prominent farmer named Bud Chaffin. He was married and had five children. | Bome months agoa man named John King applied to him for work. Chaffin liked the looks of King and promptly bired him. It was not long, however, before'it was noticed by the neighbors that King and Mrs. Chaffin appeared to be more friendly than a due respect to the proprieties wounld admit. King seemed to be in her { company all the time. It is believed that the husband sus- pected this and ordered King to leave the farm. Since September 21 Chaffin, his £T. LOUIS, Mo., fi 1.—Bariliog news’, wife, the five children and King have been missing. The neighbors thouzht nothing was wrong at first, but when the days rolled by and no news was heard of the absent people it was decided to make an investigation. A searching party was organized and a thorough search of the premises was made. To the horror of the neighbors blood was found spattered over the floors and walls of the building. No boies, however, were found. It is npow_ believed that King and Mrs. Chaffin killed Chaffin and the children and then R g “TERRIBLE EVENTS" THREATENFD Armenian Revolutionists Issue a Warning Which a Leader Declares Amounts to Nothing. CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEey, Oct. 3.— On Thursday, October 1, the foreign diplomats received from the Armenian revolutionists a third threat of an Ar- menian demonstration. In the comumni- cation conveying the threat the revolu- tionists declared that ‘“terrible events’” would soon take place. Tie leader of the Armenian revolutionary committee, in reply to questions about the threat, says it must have emanated from some of the weaker revolutionary societies, which are totally nnable to carry out its menace. The Huntchakist party, he says, had nothing to dv with it, and 1s not prepared e S DEVASTATED, . DISTRILSS FL ORIDA INIEX Towns entirely or nearly destroyed) SCALE > Swarmps "\.“,.fl\ Railroads X oF MILES PATHWAY OF THE DESTRUCTIVE FLORIDA STORM. The storm swept across the State in a northeasterly direction from Cedar Keys on the Gulf coast to Fernandina on the Atlantic side, with a breadth of over forty miles. Over twenty-five towns have beca completely destroyed or nearly so, and nearly every oneln the whole area visited has sustained greater or less damage. The pine forests and the turpentine interests, which are very numerous in this section of the State, have been almost entirely destroyed. Wien if is remembered that there is not an elevation of 100 feet in the whole State of Florida some idea can be formed of the advantage the wind had‘and the tremendous velocity it could acquire in such a country. It is not an unusual thing for the coasts along the Gulf to be inundated by the wind piling up the waters against them, as was the case in Galveston in 1870, when the whole island was under water, and on the Indianola coast in the early '80's, when the waters went inland over sixty miles along a strip 200 miles long, Cedar Keys is situated on one of the low islands that skirt the whole Gulf coast just below the mouth of the Suwanee River. the protection they had against the importa- | the wave, which gained great velocity coming from the deeper to the shallow water, swept thro: No part of the island 'is over eight feet above the level of the water, and ugh the town and along the adjacent coasts with a terrible force, to take any action beyond the private re- moval of certain persons by assassination. Otherwise, he says, the Hontchakists will await events. The Porte is negotiating with the Arme- nian revolutionary committee,with a view of obtaining the cessation of outrages on the part of the revolutionists, promis- ing, in return, to sanction the electlon of anew Armenian patriarch, to grant gen- eral amnesty to Armenian political offend- ers and effect reformers in ali the Asiatic provinces. Nobody believes in the good faith of the Porte in making these prom- 1868, From what is generally accepted as a reliable source of information, it is re- ported here that an entente has been had between Russia and England in regard to Turkey. PARIS, Fraxce, Oct. 3.—The women of France are preparing a monster petition to be presented to the Czarina on the occa- sion of her visit to Paris next week, ask- ing her to exert her influence with ner husband to the end of obtaining the as- sent of the powers to Russia’s deliverance of Armenia from the Turkish rule. —_— WILLIAM MORRIS IS DEAD. Was One of England’s Greatest Poets and Could Have Secured the Laure- ateship. LONDON, Exa., Oct. 3.—William Mor- ris, the celebrated English poet, died this morning. He was 72 years old. The peaceful death of William Morris to-day is one of the greatest blows suffered by English poetry since Tennyson passed away. It was well known that Morris might have had the laureateship had it pleased him to modify certain polical opinions not in favor in court circles, but those who knew him bestare well aware that he looked on this post as that of aglorified Goverament lackey, which by some chance had been filled by two great men. Morris woula have none of it any price. He was a great, strong, gener- ous creature, skilled in many arts and crafts, impulsive and ever working. Itis difficult to believe that this fine ruddy man, more like a seaman than an artist and poet and who looked the picture of health, is no longer living. It is all the more difficult because his new tale, “The Well at the World’s End,” was published by Longman only yesterday. — , EXPLOSION OF A MAGAZINE. Five White Men and Scores of Kaffirs Killed in a Fearful Disaster at Buluwayo. BULUWAYO, SoutE AFRICA, Oct. 3.—A rowder magazine exploded here to-day with disastrous resulis. Five white men were kilied, as were also scoies of Katfirs, who were camping near the magazine. Most of the latter were killed by falling rocks that had formed the walls of the powder-house A large number of persons were injured, many of them having their arms or legs torn from their bodies. A large proportion of the injured are natives who will die. The hospital was not large enough to contain all the in- jured and the jail and marke:-hall were therefore converted into temporary hos- pitals. The explosion shook all the houses in the town and shattersd nearly every win- dow in the,place. The magazine contained large supplies of ammunit.on that had been stored in view of the troubles with the Matables. —_—— Rev. C. O. Brown at Dubugue. DUBUQUE, Iowa, Oct. 3.—Rev. C. O. Brown, the San Francisco Congregational preacher, is in the city, but refused to be interviewed on the Dubuque district con- ference action on the Bay conference affair. His friends say that there may be developments in a few davs and intimate that a charge has been offered him in this conference. He goes to Chicago to-day. ———— Grover Preparing His Message. BUZZARD'S BAY, Mass., Oct. 3.—While the President and his family have not set he exact day for their return to Washing- ton. it is very probable that they will leave Gray Gables some time next week. The weather here is getting rather cool for com- fort at the President’s summer home, and besides Mr. Cleveland is anxious to get at work on his message to Congress, GATHERING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CLUBS Opening of the Convention of the Association at St. Louis. Vice-President Stevenson and Ex- Governor Black Speak for Silver and Bryan. IDLE TALK OF A NEW DAWN Bourbons Who Fear the Eection of McKiney and a Repeal of the Wilson Tariff Law. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 3.—Beautiful autumn weather greeted the delegates and visitors to the second quadrennial convention of the National Association of Democratic Clubs wuich assembied in the Auditorium building this morning. The spacious structure was profusely decorated with flags, banners and bunting, inter- spersed with pictures of men celebratéd in the history of the Democracy. A notable exception in the gallery of vor- traits was the bust of President Cleve- land’s well-known lithograph. Early this morning the members of the executive committee who are in attend- ance at the convention met and formally ratified the programme of the proceedings as prepared by Secretary McKean. At 11:15 o’clock not more than 1000 people were inside the building, and the orders were given to throw op-n the galleries to any who might desire to enter. At 11:25 o’clock Vice-President Steven- son entered the hall leaning on the arm of ex-Governor Black of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stevenson limpea perceptibly and showed the effect of the injuries at the collapse of the platform at Burlington, Towa, At11:45 o’cluck Secretary McKean called the convention to order and the Jefferson Glee Club, accompanied by the band, played the National anthem ‘‘Amer- ica.”” Mr. Black was greeted with a round of applause, In calling the convention to order, Black said that the cause they were supporting was that of no séction and no class, but of the w.ole people. Only one class, he declared, was not represented at the con- vention, and that was the few who repre- sented the syndicates, trusts and other combinations. SR “Mr, Bryan,” said the speaker, ‘“stands for the republic, for the continued rule of the people, for independence of our countey, for the right of man to live and labor for himself and for his children. We therefore all proposs to stand shoulder to shoulder with all men who will stand with us, and never was a welcome more heartfelt than tiat which we extend to our silver brethren and our Populist brethren, who bave magnanimously imperiled many things most dear to them that they might come with us to save our common country and rescue ! umanity itself from the fate which our powerful opponents have pre- pared for it. With the election of Mr. Bryan and a people’s Uongress we cun look forward to the dawn of & new country under brighter auspices and approaching another golden age of peace, plenty and prosperity like that which followed the election of Jefferson.” At the conclusion of his speech Vice- President Stevenson was introduced. He spoke in part as follows: 1fully appreciate the honor of having been NEW TO-DAY. 1 A BABIES WITH SK from llch]n5 and burn skin and scalp tortures. None but parents re: ize how these little ones suffer. To know th a warm bath with CUTICURA S0AP, and a single application of CUTICURA (ofntment), the at in cure, will in the majority of cases afford instant relief, permit rest and sieep, and point 10 & speedy mrel‘md not to use them without a moment’s delay is to fail in our duty. S0c. ¥ bava . rtured Babies,” mailcd free. WHY Be bothered with inferior goods when you can get a first-class article if only you will call for it. 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