The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 142. g PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOOMING CANNON BEGIN THE DAY Union Generals Draw a Big Crowd at the Canton Tabernacle. Then the Streams of Visitors Continue to Arrive at the McKinley Home, TELLING WORDS OF PATRIOTISM Always, Says the Next President, Has the Republican Party Fought Against Repudiation. NTON, Ono, Oct. 19.—The booming non at 7 o’clock this morning an- d the opening of the meeting at the Tabernacle of the Union generals, un- der the leadership of General R. A. Aiger. In spite of the early hour for which the meeting was called the hall was filled with an entbusiastic andience. The mem- Lers of the party were presented by R. A. assidy of this city. Short speeches were made by Generals Howard, Alger, Mar- den, Stewart and Sickels, and Corporal Tanner. ‘As each speaker concluded his remarks be was presented with a basket of ice flowers by the members of the Woman's Relief Corps of Canton. After the meeting the visitors were es- corted to the depot by a large number of citizens. Major McKinley drove down to the depot from his residence to see the generals off. A egation of business men from Zwickley, Pa., arrived hereat 11:30 o’clock and called on Major McKinley at his resi- The speaker for the McKinley and nd-money Club of Zwickiey e Wallace. He reviewed with hic felicity the effects of the Wilson law upon the industrial and com- 1 world, and said that the growing belief in the election of Major McKinley beginning to restore confidence, nley made a short speech in which was received with applause cheering. Major McKinley much and said in part: Iam glad to have the assurances of your men thatin this crisis of our ‘history tanding for National Bonor and for rvation of our free institutions. > T} § as always occupied a pfjt From the time of its orgeniza- down i0 the presentmoment it has been the lender of ail thet:is best in government. 1t was born in the interest of libertyand the rights of humanity. It hes wever struck a blow that has not been for freedom ana our glorious flag. And in every great emergency that pasty, not so old as some other parties in this country, has led for the right, for justice, for good morals and for public honesty. It never had a higher post of honor than it has to-da; Glorious as the past has been it never a flag which involved more to the in- i our country apd its good name 2 which it carries to-day, and I am giad to know that from one end of this coun- try to the other the intelligence and judgment and conscience of the American people are not sppealed to in vain. Some people seem to bave notion that the Republican party | b new departure; that it occupiesa different position to-day from that which it ever occupied in the past. Thatis a mistake. tand where we have always stood, not y upon the money question, but on the iff question; and 1 want to eall your atten- tion to what may have escaped you. When the war closed the great problem before the American people after the rcconstruction of the Union was what should be done with the great debt that had been occasionea by the war and hould be done by way of main- taining a sound currency ip the United States. In 1868 reat soldier of the war, who had led the might mics that were ever en- gaged In susts cause, General Grant, was nominated for President, Let me read you two planks of the pigtiorm upon which he stood. and you can see then whether the Republican party has changed-its position: “We denounce all forms of repudiztion as & Netional crime, and the National honor re- quires payment of public debts in the utmost good feith to all cred athome and abroad, not only aceording to the letter but the spirit of the law under which it was contracted.” That was when we had that enormous war debt of over $2,000,000,000, and the country seemed to be staggering under it, but the Re- publican party stood up as it always has and insisted that every dollar of that debt must be paid in the best currency of the world, and under that policy we have paid off inore than two-thirds of that great National debt and paid every dollar of it with honor and in the Dest currency. Another party of political pilgrims, also accompanied by alarge number of ladies, journeyed up the hill to Major McKinley’s Market-street home about 2 ». . They came from Mogadore, Ohio, and brought the candidate assurances of loyalty and earnestness in support of the tizket from the Republicans of that section. The visitors were introduced to Major McKin- ley by State Representative F. Myers. In responding Major McKinley spoke in a neighborly way to his former constita- ents, and bade them remember that the Nation’s superb record of progress in the 1ast thirty years was made under a policy, first of a protective tariff, and second under a sound monetary system. He urged his visitors to vote for good money and protection to home industries, The mail and telegraph are still bring- ing requests from leaders of delegations asking Mr. McKinley if he can receive them. e MARION TO FOLLOW BEYAN. Speeches fo Countcract Any Influence the Nebraskan May Have. CHiCAGO, ILL., Oct. 19.—Ex-Congress- man William E. Marion, who has been making speeches for McKinley in Illinois and who met W. J. Bryan in joint debate two weeks before the Chkicago convention, was engaged to-day by the Illinois Re- publican committee to follow Mr. Bryan and make speeches in the vicinity of the halls where Mr. Bryan bolds forth. This kind of campaigning on the eve of the election promises to make a lively week in Chicago and may lead to & physical clash between the political forces. Commit- teeman Kerens of Missouri came to Ke- publican headquarters to-day and said the situation had improved for McKinley. of the State in which it was shown that a total “of 15,000 gold Democrats will vote against Bryan. Mr. Kerenssaid there was much confusion regarding fusion of the Democrats and Populists. There were other visitors from Missouri looking for speakers to wind up the cam- paign. By direction of the National Com- mittee Chief Hahn will send numer- ous orators of the best ability into Mis- souri this week and next the efforts of the committee will be turned toward Missouri, as a State which promises much for Mc- Kinley. J. B. Hughes of Hamilton, Ohio, who was Consul to Birmingham during Cleve- land’s first term, returned to-day from the Pacific Coast States.. He said California and Oregon were sure to go Republican. General John B. Henderson will make a flying trip through Missouri with a large party as the guest of National Committee~ man Kerens. A e “ UNSUUND AND DANGEROUS.” Why Assistant BSecretargfd McAdoo De- nounces the Chicago Platform. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 19.—In a ietter to W. J. Curtis, a member of the National Democratic Committee of New Jersey, Assistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo says that he is opposed to the platform and unable to support the ticket nomi- nated at Chicago, because he ‘'is thor- oughly convinced that the doctrines therein set forth are unsound and dan- gerous and would work incalculable in- jury to the whole people of the republic, being, from a political and economical point of view, extremely radical, if not revolutionary, fierce with the heat of re- newed sectionalism and savage with the bitterness of class distinctions hitherto unknown to this country. “Iyield to no one,” he says, “ii my be- liefin the majority and independence of this great country; its imperial place among the power of the nations; its duty to assert its rights and maintain its honor in all lands and on all seas; but I cannot be convinred that the best way to make it omnipotent against the world, if not as proposed against nature itself, is to weaken its prestige and clip its authority at home, discredit its institutions and impair its business integrity. In such a contest as this party associations, personal friend- ships and interests and even family ties cannot be allowed to interpose between us and our primary duty to stand by the re- public, the best help of humanity, to keep unimpaired, sacrea and honored its insti- tutions and its flag.” e MORE THAN A QUORUM IHERF. Speaker Reed Talks to a Big Crowd at the Chicago Auditorium. CHICAGO, frL., Oct. 19.—Hon. T. B. Reed to-day addressed an audience that filled the Auditorium from bottom to top. Outside the theater was a great crowd clamoring for admission. After a medley of patriotic airs played on the immense orgun and several selections by a glee club Mr. Reed arrived and was greeted by.loud applause and cheers several times repeated, one enthusiast shouting, “Do you think there’s a quorum present?” which was greeted with géneral laugater. - Mr. Reed was introduced by George R. Peck and made a characteristic speech, which was frequently interrupted by en- thusiastic appiause, while his sallies of wit received equally hearty laughter. This evening Mr. Reed addressed an audience of 8000 people in a big tent at Fifty-first and Morgan streets. He was quite hoarse, and spoke only for about three minutes. Eeeg - Wil Get the Returns. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 19.—Arrange- ments have been completed at Republican headquarters for receiving returns from all over the country election night. There will be a large corps of clerks and tele- graph operators at work receiving and tabulating the returns. A long-distance telephone witl connect the Chicago head- quarters with those in this city and also with the residence of Major McKinley in Canton. ,The returns will be given Major McKinley by telephone from New York Chicago. PLEMPL GRS Union Generals Speak. CLEVELAND, Onio, Oct. 19.—The tonr- ing generals arrived here to-night, their appearance ending a big political demon- stration held during the afternoon. The principal meeting of the night was held at the Central Armory. All the speakers made short addresses, but the crowd was rather disappointing. General Sickels was the principal speaker at the second meeting, held in a downtown hall. FOLLONED B1AWMSSHCRE Turks Renew Their Atrocities After the Disorders Oc- cur in Van, English Protest Against These Slaugh- ters and New J:rseyites Denounce the Policy of Inacticn. LONDON, Exc., Oct. 19.—The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch saying that advices received there show that disorders occurred in Vanon Septem- ber 23, followed by a terrible massacre in October. No details are given. A dispatch from Rome to the Daily News says that the Pope, in response to an appeal from Mgr. Azarian, Catholic patriarch of Armenia, has sent a large sum of money for the relief of the dis- tressed Armenians. A meeting called for the purpose of pro- testing against the Turkish atrocities was beld in St. James Hall, London, this evening, under the chairmanship of the Right Bev. Edward Stuart Talbot, D.D., Bishop of Rochester. The hall was crowded to its fullest ca- pacity. A letter from' Mr, Giadstone was read, in which the ex-Prime Minister de- clared that it would be a wild paradox to say that the enforcement of the British treaty rights to stop the systematic mas- macres in Turkey would provoke hostili- ties from the powers. He added that it would be abandoning duty and prudence to advertise beforehand for the ears of the great assassin that British action was limited to what the most backward of the powers deemed sufficient. If the funda- mental distrust of Great Britain and the belief that she is pursuing a selfish policy in the eastern Mediterranean caused some powers 10 be backward, that was a matter which deserved to be bravely considered. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Oct. 19.—A masse Polls bad been taken in the northern parts | meeting held in the Tabernacle Church, $3 | o 3 =2 I e S S8 5l YRV {3 o ® | 5o 0'_“-1, 0 3 O v. 3% ///‘;",'/i’ T .-/’//,// i 0 ! CONGRESSMAN BOUTELLE of Maine, Who Will Address the Big Meeting To-Night in Woodward’s Pavilion, on Valencia Street. this city, resuiting in the torwarding of a telegram to President Cleveland, urging ‘him to insist upon the placing of a guard- ship at Constantinople and an indemnity of $100,000 for ontrages committed on American citizens in Turkey. There were nearly 2000 people at the meeting. The meeting denonnced the administration and Minister Terreil for their allezed lack of backbone in handling the Armenian question, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.—Ad- miral Selfridge cabled the Navy Depart- ment to-day that the Marblehead left Smyrna to-day for Gibraltar on her way home. The message contained no refer- ence to the other ships of his' command. The San Francisco and Bancroft are still with the flagship Minneapolis, and it is thought that had their misgion ‘been any- thing but peaceful he would not have de- tached the Marbiehead at this time. o i e DUG OUT BY HIS DOG. Henry Miller's Life Saved by the Intelli- gence and Perseverance of a Sagacious Canine. 4 CHICAGO, ILL., October 19.—Henry Miller of this city came very near losing his life near Greggs, Ill., yesterday, and it was only owing o the sagacity of his dog that he escaved a fearful death. Miller went out early yesterday in search of nuts, taking his dog with him. When he alighted from the train he proceeded to a walnut grove two miles south of Greggs. 3 5 After filling his sack he espied a wood- chuck on' a neighboring sidehill, ~'He shot at it and ran it into its hole. Leav- ing his dog on guard, he went to the house of Jacob Meyer, a mile distant, and borrowed a shovel with which to dig the animal from its burrow. = Miller soon dug a deep pit in the side of the hill, when suddenly a portion of the overhang- ing bank gave way and buried him under half aton of gravel. Fortunately his face was not covered and he was able to breathe, but he was so weighted down it was impossible to move a muscle. He shouted for aid until he was hoarse, and was about to give up in despair when he thought of his dog. Call- ing the faithful beast he bade him dig. The dog seemed to comprenhend, and scratched gravel so zealously that at the end of half an hour Miller was able to move one arm, and soon succeeded in es- caping from his perilous position. He was so thoroughly frightened he took the first train back to the City. Before leav- ing he refused an offer of $50 for the dog. P T T i Schooleraft Wants the Bonds, CHICAGO, ILn, Oct. 19.—A claim- ant for the $60,000 bonds’ recently discov- ered in a: abandoned trunk appeared this morning giving the name of John Law- rence Schoolcraft. He told the Chief of Police that the bonds were stolen from him in 1893, and that he haa read of their recovery in the newspapers. He gave the number of the bonds.. The case was post- voned and another interview was arranged for to-morrow. oy Disciples of Christ. SPRINGFIELD, IrL., Oct. 19.—To-day's session of the international convention of the Disciples of Christ was devoted to an address from the president, J. H. Hardin, and a discussion of home missions by A. B. Leonard of New York, missionary secretary of the Methodist < Episcopal church, and W. F. Cowden. —— The Gold Reserve. ' WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.—The gold reserve at the close of business to. Y had declined to $121,781,261. The day’s withdrawals at New York were $285,500, |Sketched ffi w;wb!' a “Call” artist.] WHO SUCCEEDS BISHOP KEANE? Interest Centered on the Catholic University of America. Three Names of Prelates to Be Submitted to Pope Leo at Rome, ONE OF THESE TO BE SELECTED With the Meeting of the Directors of the Institution There Will Be an Assemblage of Archbishops. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.—The Catholic University of America ‘will be the center of interest to American Roman Catholics next - Wednesday when the board of trustees will meet to select the names of three clergymen from which the Pope of Rome will choose a successor to Bishop Keane. % Ever since the sensational announce- ment of Bishop Keane’s resignation the interest has been intense, and laymen and churchmen alike have been speculating upon what the final result of the contro- versy will be. Progress toward this result will be made at the meeting Wednesday, but even the mnst sanguine do not believe that the action of the trustees will be in the nature of a final settlement of the dif- ferences now so valpably in evidence amgong .high members of the American hierarchy over the policy indicated in the late rector’s removal. ‘The meeting will convene at 10:30 Wednesday morning in the Senate cham- ber of McMahon Hall. The first business, it is expected, will be the selection of can- didates for the vacant rectorship. Several names have beed mentioned as probabpili- ties. Among them are those of Bishop L. Spalding of Peoria, Horstmann of Cleve- land, Rev. Peter C. Yorke of San Fran- cisco, Archbishop Chapelle, Very Rev. Augustin F. Hewitt of New York City, Rev. Dr. Bram of New York City and Rev. Dr. Pace, dean of the school of philosopby at the umversity. K The name of Rev. Fether Conaly, head of the Catholic Summer School of Philoso- phy at Plattsbure, N. Y., is also promi- nently mentioned for the place, and the belief prevails in well-informed circles that his will be one of the names submitted to the Pope. Father Conaly is attached to the Springfield (Mass.) diocese. The friends of Dr. Garrigan, vice-rector of the university, are expecting that his name ‘will be inciuded in those sent to the Pope. | They say he has given seven years of hard work to the university, leaving one. of the | best parishes in New England to take the | vice-rectorship. - Itisurged:that he should be considered before priests from outside, who have no special knowledge of the uni- versity, are brought here. . o Dr. Edward P. Allen, head of the Mount St, Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, Md., is mentioned, as he is the head of the only large college condueted by the senior branch of the Catholic clergy. The heads of the large colleges controlled by the orders, including Fordham, Georgetown and Notre Dame, are considered ineligible, as the university is distinctly a secular institution. It is said that none of the Bishops men- $ioned would be likely to take the place if appointed, because if the Pope's pro- nounced wishes in favor of the relation of the rectorship is followed a Bishop who took it would find himself in a few years out of office and with no diocese. Bishop Spalding, who is in Europe, will not attend the meeting. On Thursday there will be a meeting of the thirteen Archbishops in the United States at the Catholic university, they having changed their place of meeting from New Orleans to this city. The Archbishops have noth- ing to do with the affairs of the institu- tion in an official capacity as a body, but their presence here, it is thought, may bave a bearing upon the deliberations of the trustees by reason of the strong per- sonal influences they exert. Yailure of a ¥armer’s Bank. TOLEDO, Ox1o, Oct. 19.—A special from Marion, Ohio, to the Bee says that the Marion Deposit Bank closed its doors this morning on account of inability to meet its obligations. It was established in 1840 by depositors, who were chiefly farmers. WEODED TOTHE MARQUISE Miss Gwendoline Caldwell Be- comes the Bride of Des Monstriers-Merinville. Once She Was Engaged to Prince ‘Murat, but His Demands for " Money Were Too High. PARIS, FrANCE, Oct. 19.—The marriage of Miss Gwendoline Caldwell to the Mar- quise des Monstriers-Merinville took place this afternoon in the Church of St, Phil- ippe du Roule, in this city. The cere- mony was performed by the Right Rev. John L. Spalding, Roman Catholic Bishop of Peoria, Ill., assisted by Rev. Father Cook. The witnesses of the marriage on behalf of the groom were his uncles, Counts Urbay and Marc des Monstriers- Merinville, and on behalf of the bride Bishoo Spaldinz, who is the guardian and administrator of the estate of Miss Cald- well, and Mr. John or. A number of distinguished guests were present. Miss Caldwell will be remembered as the founder of the divinity college of the Catholic University at Washington and having been at one time engaged to marry Prince Murat, the engagement being broken off because of the Prince’s ex- orbitant demands in respect tc a marriage settlement. aiigans Killed by a Falling Roof. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 19.— The roof of a new building of ,the Univer- sity of Virginia fell to-day burying five workmen. Two were killea and three very badly hurt. The building was being erected to replace the building destroyed ‘by fire nearly a year ago. It was one story high and had a concrete roof. It wasin- tended for a lecture-room. A fafal mis- calculation was made as to the weight of the roof and the strength of the supports. ‘When the accident the five me‘n.. were buried under a mass of con- cre BOUTELLE OF MAINE I HERE Will Address the Massesin Woodward's Pavilion To-Night. FOUGHT ON A GUNBOAT FOR THE UNION. Then Helped to Establish Plants for Battle-Ships in the United States. SHIPYARDS NO LONGER DEPEND ON ENGLAND. All the Materials for the Floating Engines of War Are Now Manufactured in This Country. Hon. C. A. Boutelle, the distingnished member of Congress from Maine, will ad- dress the people this evening in Wood- ward’s Garden Pavilion on Valencia street. Congressman Boutelle has made a bril- liant record during his seven terms in Congress, and his constituency has just re-elected him for the eighth time. He has taken a leading part in the National councils and has been the most prominent in the upbmliding of the American navy. Congressman Boutelie arrived in this City yesterday morning from Los Angeles and took rooms at the Palace Hotel. He is accompanied by his daughter, Miss Grace. H. Boutelle, an accomplished and charming young woman. Mrs. H. G. Toring of this City is an aunt of the Con- gressman, and Miss Anpa Boutelle is his sister: Willlam Boutelle of the Oakland street railway system is a brother, and he and Mrs. Loring and Miss Anna Boutelle spent the afternoon with him yesterday. An immense crowd is expected in the pavilion to-night to hear him. Heisal- most as well known and popular here as he is at home, and is noted as a graceful and vigorous speaker and a sound logician. Republicans, Democrats and Populists who have not been out much to political meetings will be amply repaid should they attend this one, for Mr. Boutelle will be received by the masses of the people, and the meeting promises to be one of the greatest and the most im- portant held this year. This will be the oaly occasion on which the people of San Francisco will have an opportunity of hearing him speak, because he will leave for Sacramento to-morrow on his way East. One of the most remarkable facts con- nected with his political career is that, al- though nominated for Congress nine times, he has never had a vote cast against him either in caucus or convention. “This whole story,” said the Congress- man to a CALL reporter yesterday, ‘in the matter of the reportea success ot Bryan’s campaign is made up by the newspapers. When Mr. Bryan came down to Maine after the election he spoke in the city in which Mr. Sewall resides, and in a county that had given phenomenal Republican majorities—treble and quadruple the num- ber of votes that had been -cast before— and considerable people went to see and hear him, most of them from curiosity. The Associated Press has engaged Mr. Bryan’s private secretary to report all the Bryan meefings.'find those reports have been so one-sided that Editor Rosewater of the Omaha Bee recently made a strong protest against it. “Mr, Sewall said that the Bryan meet- ing was the largest ever held in Maine, but the factis thatit was not one-third the size of meetings held in years gone by, when Mr. Blaine and other distinguished men spoke.”” Since Mr. Boutelle first became a mem- ber of Congress his printipal work was on the Naval Committee, the matters han- dled by that committee being familiar to him because his early life was passed in the merchant marine service. About the beginning of the war he returned from a foreign voyage for the purpose of joining the United States navy, in which branch of the War Department he served as a volunteer officer during the whole of the Civil War. In 1864 he was promoted for gallant conduct in an engagement in North Carolina Sounds with the rebel ironclad Albemarle. At that time he was the navigating officer of the Sassachu, & light-draught sidewheel wooden gunboat, and finding that her shots failed to do any damage to the Albemarle, he ran the Sassachu into her at full speed in the attempt to sink her. The Sassachu came very near sinking her, but did not quite succeed. She disabled the rebel craft, however, by tearing the muzzle off one of her guns, but a shot from the Albemarle went through her boilers, exploding them and killing and wounding several men. . His last service was with the Gulf squad- ron, when he took part in the capture of Mobile, in command of a small vessel called the Nyanza, which went up the Tombigbee River and received the surren- der of the rebel fleet, At the close of the war he resigned from the service and went norti, where he com- manded passenger vessels on the Atlantic coast, and shortly afterward he went into the shipping and commission businessin New York City. In 1870, at the recom- mendation of his friend James G. Blaine that he should go into journalism, he went to Bangor, Me., and assumed the editor- ship of the ‘Bangor Daily and Weekly Courier, which was at that time a leading Republican paper. . In 1874, on the death of the proprietor, he purchased the paper with Mr. Brewer, and has conducted the paper ever since. When he was elected to Congress in 1882 henaturally became a member of the Naval Committee, and during his mem- bership on' that committee the entire work of buildinig up the new navy of the United. States, was accomplished. This feat has been regarded as the most mar- velous illustration of the boungless re- sources and capacities of this country. When he first entered Congress there had been one appropriation madie for the first new steel ships, known as the Roach ships—the Chicago, Boston, Atlantic and Dolphin—and the contracts had just been awarded. That was in the Forty-seventh Congress. In the Forty-ninth Congress he was one of the Naval Committee, when the building of the second batch of vessels was® authorized, which = included tbe Charleston and the Baltimore. At that time this country was depend- ent for all the heavy steel forgings for the guns and the armor for the uncompleted monitors, for the hollow steel shafting and for the engines, upon foreign forges, as also for a considerable portion of the steel plating. There were no great steel forges 1n this country. In 1886, after Mr. Cleveland had become President, Mr. Whitney, his Secretary of the Navy, had undertaken to go forward with the building of new war vessels, and the first bill framed in the winter of 1885-86 provided for the construction of some plans that had been purchased in England by Mr. Whitney. Those for the Charles- ton were the plans of the Japanese cruiser Naniwa Kan, and the plans for the ship that became the Baltimore and her sister ship the Philadelphia were from designs made by the former constructor for the British navy. On this subject Congressman Boutelle said: “The bills contained a provision for the purchase of engines to be manufac- tured in England, on the ground that none of these high-power marine engines had ever been built in this country, and that it would be practically impossible to produce them here in time. I very stren- uously opposed that provision, and was assisted in my opposition by other loyal members of the commitiee, and finally Becretary Whitney recommended that that provision bedropped out, he stating thet while the machinists of this country bad had no practice in that line for many years, he was inclined to trust to their skill to produce whatever we needed. The outcome was that the engines built by the contractors here at home produced better results than had been called for by the English specifications. *‘While that legislation was in progress Imoved to amend the provision which re quired the Secretary of the Navy to con- struct these vessels of materials of domes- tic manufacture, including the armor and other steel forgings, if they could be ob- "tained in the U nited States within a rea- sonable time and at a reasonable price. I moved to strike out the conditions and make it obligatory upon the Secretary of the Navy to precure all these materials of domestic manufacture, basing my de- mana upon the ground that it was abso- lutely essential that we should be able to produce in this country all the important material entering into the construction of our ships of war. “It'was urged that we had not tha plants