The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1896, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from | 1 VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 174. SILVER 15 NOT THE MAIN ISSUE Chairman Hanna Outlines the Future Policy of Republicans. Legislation of the Administra- tion Will Win Friendship of Workingmen. In Addition to This the Work of E:ucation Will Be Continued Dur- ing the Next Four Years. CLEVELAND, Ogro, Nov. 20.—Chair- man Hanna of the Republican National Committee had a conference here to-day with F. W. Peck of Chicago, in which Mr. Hanna outlined the future policy of the Republican orgatization and the McKin- ley siination. Mr. Hanna also discussed ‘In a confidential manner the last cam- paign. . This interview, according to Mr. Peck, is as follows: *“The Repubiican party,” said Mr. Hanna to Mr. Peck, “will not have such a close call again as it had in the last cam- paign. The work of education is to be continued strongly from the present until the next Presidential election. This will be done because the other side will work during the next four years, and if we do not counteract their efforts they will win next time. The policy of the administra- tion will be in exploitation of the ideas that will further advance the strength of the Republican party. “The one great power for Bryan was the workingman. Bryan posed as their friend "and succeeded in getting them practically in line, but the fight at the polls was not so much betweeu gold and silver as it was the fight of the workingmen against the man they thought was the exponent of trusts and moncpolies. They were led to believe that McKinley was the candidate of the trusts, and, not to mince matters, was my candidate, and that I was the head center of the Republican party. The Popocrats very adroitly made me the whole thing and called me the oppressor of the laboring man. O: course I can stand that sort of thing, ‘but with Mec- Kinley 1t is another thing. The labor leaders here, who are iriendly to me, tell me that if we are to be successful again ‘we must counieract this impression, and that is what we propose todo. We cannot do anything with the fa mers. They have left us, but-we can , et the labor vote, and we shail begin now to direct it that way from Bryan and his party.” “How will Mr. McKinley do this?” “Why, he knows too weli that something more than the mere assertion that the Re- publican party is the friend of the work- ingman is necessary, and National legis- lation will be so handled that it will be the best educator of the people.’” Mr. Hanna said further to Mr. Peck: " “The fight of silver against gold was practically abandoned by the Democrats two weeks before the campaign closed. It will never again be the main issue—that is, silver as an issue will never cut any more figure than greenbacks. The one idea must be to instill into the minds of the men of the cities that Republicanism is ascood and better than Popocracy. Only Jet McKinley be inaugurated President of the United States and this wiil be done. I have no aoubt but that the result will be all we hope. Tlere must be an arrange- ment that will strike the people at the right time. McKinley will assume a aignified attitude of antagonism to all trusts and monopolies. His inaugural will breathe the spirit of abhorrence for the centralization of such power as is to- day possessed by the trusts, and then we will expect the understanding of the peo- ple to do the rest. . “Four years hence will come the next Presidential election with the election of a Congress. Then we shall have a tariff measaore introduced. This measure will be closely identified with McKiniey. On that measure we shall make the Presiden- tial campaign of 1900. On the tariff agita- tion we shall rely to win the battle, *The National Democrats will be with us in 1900. Bourke Cochran said to me . when I was in New York that there was no use of their fighting us; that they could not fight us suceessfully on the -tariff and that there was no other point on which they and we differed; the only thing left for them to fight for was the name.” Mr. Peck brought with him an invita- tion from the Union League Club of Chi- - cago to attend a banquet to be given in his bonor two weeks hence. Mr. Hanna de- clined the invitation and in giving his reason stated that he had declined a simi- lar invitation from New York brought by “General Horace Porter. The reason given by Mr. Hanna for declining both invita- tions lies in his desire to remain in the background now thbat McKinley is " elected. “Many persons,” said Mr. Hanna, “principally the Popocrats, have given expression to the statement that I dictate to McKinley, and that I, rather than he, am the real President. Such an idea might seem substantial did I accept such invitations as you and my friends in New York propose.”’ Turning to the last campaign Mr. Hanna said: ““Here in this town the Popocrats suc- ceeded in gaining the labor vote. The re- sult was that we lost 5000 votes. The re- - sult in Ohio, however, was the largest majority ever given to & Presidential can- didate, for, while the plurality was smaller, being about 51,000, the majority and the plurality were about the same. This was due to the fact that party lines were very closely drawn and the Prohibition and Populist parties were practically wiped out,” .+, Mr. Peck inquired about the statement <hat hud been published to the effect that had 30,000 votes been distributed in sev- eral close Btates it would bave elected Mr. Bryan. “That is true,” said Mr. Hanna. *“Harry * Payne was the first to give u:terance to it, but although it is true the fact is eqnally true that the Republican yote in the coun- (] try at large was kept up to its normal condition; that is, the Republican per- centage of gains more than offset the Democratic gains.” Relative to matters concerning the Cabi- net Mr. Hanna said: “The most difficult problem McKinley has is the formation of his Cabinet. He is a man who, above all things, dislikes to injure the feelings of any one. There are s0 many men eligible and who are friends of McKinley that he fears to appoint one man for fear others will feel agcrieved. That is the quality thatin him attracts all men and shows the big heart that lies within him.” Early this evening Mr. Peck went to Canton 1o see President-elect McKinley. MILES ViSI oK INLEY. President- Elect and Commanding-Gen- eral (onfer as to the War Portjolto, CANTON, Onro, Nov. 20.—The general commanding the armies of the United States and a conspicuous member of Con- gress were among Major McKinley’s callers to-day. General Miles arrived abont balf-past 4 o’clock, accompanied by Frank Wiberg of Cincinnati, one of the most widely known men of that city in business and commercial circles. General Miles went at once to Mr. McKinley's house and was most cordially greeted by the President-elect. When General Miles and Mr. Wiberg entered the study they found General Grosvenor there, he having arrived earlier in the afternoon. General Miles and Mr. Wiberg Lad a talk in pr- vate with Major McKinley before his de- parture. The visit of General Miles was of a social nature. The general is not a candidate for the post of Secretary of War and has no ambition outside of his mili- tary career. Itis not unlikely Major Mc- Kinley discussed with him some of the men who are taiked of in connection with the place now beld by Lamont. General Grosvenor had a long talk with Major McKioley on the state of the Nation. He dwelt upon the action of Congress next winter, and had a good deal to say about the Dingley bill, the passage of which he opposes for the reason that he thinks it would not be a satisfactory settlement of the tariff question. FOR THE IN UGURATION, National League of Republican Clubs to Homor Major McKinley. CHICAGO, Irn, Nov. 20.—A large at- tendance and aovundant entnusiasm marked the meeting of the National League ot Republican Clubs’ Executive Committee at the Auditorium Hotel head- quarters to-day, The members present were: President D. D. Woodmansee; Sec- retary M. J. Downling, Minnesota; Sena- tor Isaac M. Hamilton, 8. W. Raymond, ex-President W. W. Tracy and Albert Campbell, Iilinois; F. L. Edinborough, Michigan; F. R. Conway, Iowa; Luke T. Walker, Tennessee; John H. Baron, Wyoming; E. J. Milier, Obio; James A. Blancuard, New York City; Thomas F. Barrett, West Virginia; D. H. Stine, Ken- tucky; A. M. Higzins, Inuiiana; G. K. Glenn, Tennessee; H. H. Blunt, New Orleans; A. G. Negley, Alabama; L. K. Torvett, Chicago. The main subject before the committee was the Presidential inauguration cere. monies next March and the part which the league shall take in them. The lougue, as a body, has never participated in in- augurations, but this time it is intended to make a great demonstration of the league’s numerical strength. President Woodmansee, being from Ohio, is anxious thut the league shall make a fine showing. A committee of five, of which the presi- dent wil be chairman, was ordered to cor- respond with Chairman Hanna and the inaugural committee at Washington to ascertain what position the league will have in the ceremonial and the parade especially. The committee will go to the capical soon and make arrangements for the league with the local committee. President Woodmansee appointed as his staff officers for the inauguration the members of the executive committee, one from eack Stat:. It is proposed to pro- vide a league escort, comvosed of mem- bers from the different States, for Major McKinley from Canton to Washington. Uniformed clubs of the league in Tennes- see, Ohio, New Jersey, Kentucky, New York, Rhode Island and Maryland have already applied to the Secretary for a place in the inaugural parade. It is ex- pected that 50.000 members of the league and clubs’ affiliated with it can be assem- bled for the inaugural parade. The league will have headquarters in Washington during inaugural week. For the first time in six years the ex- ecutive committee has met to find the league out of debt, and there was mutual congratulation thereat. It was the sense of the meeting that the work of sending out party literatare should be continued auring the next four yearsasfar as money in the treasury. would 2o to pay for the expense, instead of waiting until a Presi- dential campaign was at hand. The ex- ecutive committee intends, however, to keep clear of the financial shoals here- after. It was decided to keep the headquarters here. Washington, Cincinnati and New York were propoted. Plans are already being laid for the next annual convention at Detroit in July. President Woodman- see has the assurance of Major McKinley that he will be present unless something unforeseen occurs. gt DEPEW 10 HARRISON, Nipe Language of the New Yorker in Re- furing a Portfolio Four Years .igo. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—A Sun special from Washington says: The fol- lowing is a copy of the letter sent by Chauncey M. Depew'to President Benja- min Harrison, declining the office of Sec- retary of State at the time Foster was ap- pointed to succeed Blaine: NEW YoRK, June 21, 1892, My Dear Mr. President: Since our interview on Saturday I have given the most earnest thought and sought the bestinformation on which to base a judgment upon the question of Secretary of State. The office is one of the most attractive in the Government, and was rendered doubly so by the cordiality of your tender of it. Bo prominent and confidential a relation with yourselt and your administra- tion would be in every way most agreeable to me. Ithrow aside, in considering the subject, alarge and remunerative trust which I must resign, and view the appointment as it may affect the present campaign. First,and above all otherthings, I am anx- fous for your success in the coming election. That, in my judgment, is of the greatest mo- ment for the best interests of the country and for the future of the Republican party, Our canvass is extraordinarily iree from defensive or expianatory matiers and presents unusu- ally aggressive sirength. One prominently jdentified with railway management coming iuto the Cabinet at this late hour and in the heat of the campaign might lead to an effort to raise new issues in the few States where such / ) PRICE FIVE CENTS. Senator Jones of Nevada Says He Will Act With the Republicans questions are as yet unsettled. If the ques- tion did in any way create a diversion or em- barrassment it would destroy all the pleasure and pride which would otherwise attach to this great office. Ican do much more effective work in the ranks, as I have been accustomed to, than tn office. Thanking you with all my heart for your generous confidence and valued friendship, I am fuily convinced that it is my duty at this juncture to decline your very kind invitation to become Secretary of Stite. Faithiully yours, CHAUNCEY M DEPEW. To His Excellency Benjamin Harrison, Pres- ident of the United States. WILL REM .1 National Drmocrats, Says Preserra iheir Organization INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Nov. 20.—The Hon. W. D. Bynum will go to New York to-morrow and visit s-veral cities in the East to confer with various leaders of the National Central' Democratic Committee. It is possible that after his retnrn a meet- ing of tbe National comimictee of which h¢ is chairmen will be cailed in Chicago. It is intended to keep the organization of the Nationai Democratic party intact. The leaders of the National Democratic party have noted with care the evident intention of Altgeld, Bryan and other leaders of the late cumpaign to hold the party in line for silver and all the other pianks of the Chicago platform and this gives them an additional incentive for hoiding their organization intact. They believe that when the next primaries are heid they cau call their own primaries and bring into them fully half of what was a year aco the Democratic party and that in many localities they wili be able to capture the party. In speaking of the future Mr. Bynum said: *Tbe National Democratic party will last as long as there is any danger to the country from agitation along the lines of the Chicago platform.” PR el NOI WANT OFFICE. Depew Explains Ridiculous Stories About W. K. Vanderbilt. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—Chaun- cey M. Depew to-day said to a representa- tive of the United Associated Presses: *The grotesque story that William K. Vanderbilt had contributed $200,000 to the Republican campaign fund has already been contradicted by the treasurer of ihe National Commitiee. The gossip-mongers are not content, however, to have so toothsome a morsel taken from their months. Accordingly they have now re- vived the story in a new form. ‘“ ‘Bomething or other,’ they say, ‘Mr. Vanderbilt did or said has led to such an appreciation that he is to be rewarded with a high foreign mission.” The story having been brought to Mr. Vanderblit's attention he at once said that he had not the remotest idea anything of the sort was to be done, but if it were offered to him ne would refuse to accept-it; that there was absolutely no office in the gift of the Gov- ernment that he would accept under any circumstances.” —— TO PASS THE DINGLEY BILL. INTACT. Bynum, to DOUES Boston Mool Manufucturers Anxious to Have the Measure Become a Law. BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 20.—The Boston Commercizl Bulletin has secured the sig- nature, without regard to party, of every wool manufacturer but four in Boston toa petition for the Dingley bill. Of the four houses that did not sign oniy one believes the bill should not pass. The petition is as follows: “We are of the opinion that unless the Dingley biil as a matter of temvporary re- lief is passed by Congress the American market will be flooded with foreign wool and woolens and business improvement retarded by the excessive supply. We re- spectfully call the attention of tne Senate to this fact.”” Then followed the signatures of filty-five firms in active business in Boston. i Gorman on the Tariff Outlook. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 20.—Senator Gorman, in sn interview accorded a re- porter of the United Associuied Presses to-day on the tariff outlook, said: “The chances are againstany kind of legislation beyond the appropriation bills at the short session. The trouble in the present in- stance is that the Republicans do not know exactly what they want. The only thing that the Democrats can do is .to quietly wait and see what the Regllblicans vropo-e.”” Senator Gorman said he bas had no conference with Senator Sherman on the question of tariff legislation, The New Champague Vintage. A truly remarkaple viutage for quality as well as for natural dryness, witbout bein heavy, now being shi; to this G s Extra Dry. “HIKE" REPORTS ABOUT VICTORIES Spanish Generals Defeat the Insurgents Only on Pap'r. They Claim to Have Won a Battle From the Bands Led by Sergnofandu Gomez Shrouls His Movements in Mystery and He May Hive a Sur- prise for His Oppressors. HAVANA, Cusa, Nov. 20.—It is offi- cially announced that on Wednesday last the column commanded by General Lopez Amor and the forces under Colonel Ar- minan met two insurg:nt bands led by Serano Sanchez, The insurgents occupied guod positions, which commanded the passage to the river Zazas. After an engagement which lasted two hours the troops fought their way across the river, dispossessed the rebels ana en- camped in the position that had been held by tbem. The insurgents carried their wounded with them in their retreat. It is stated that the rebels buried sixty of their number killed in the fight. Cuban sympathizers deny the truth of the Government revort and say itisin- credible that the insurgent troops should stop to bury their dead. The Spanish losses are said to have been one lieutenant kiiled and two lieutenants and twenty privates wounded. Several otuer reports of unimportant engagements in which the Spaniards were uniformly victorious have been issued by the Government. Operations in the province of Pinar dei Rio are partly at a standstill. There has been no serious engagements with the rebels. No information is vouchsafed re- garding the resignation of General Wey- ler, and the impression grows here that the authorities know nothing of it. He is unofficially located at San Cristobal, but’ nothing definite is known as to his where- abouts. General Luque reports that the rebel leaders, Sanchez and Molez, have been killed and Carillo wounded. MADRID, Spain, Nov. 20.—Advices re- ceived heie from Cuba are to the effect that General Solo, ex-President of Costa Rica and one of the leaders of the insur- gents, has been killed in a fight in the Province of Havana. Another serious engagement is reported to bave occurred between the Spanish col- umn commanded by Colonel Segura and a band of insurgents. No details are given. The Imparcial prints a letter of sympa- thy from the Russian, German and Krench Embassadors, which accompanied a dona- tion to the fund started by the Imparcial for the purchase of medical comforts for the troops in Cuba and the Philippine Islands. LONDON, Exa., Nov. 20.—The Stand- ard’s Madrid correspondent telegraphs that an unpleasant sensation has been cre- ated by the Cuban telegrams announcing that General Weyler meditates abandoning his campaign in Pinur del Rio and return- ing to Havana. The Government has re- ceived no official confirmation of the re- port. . The Correspondencia, a semi-official paper, states that Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo declares that there was noth- ing remarkable in General Weyler's re- turning if public business or the conduct of the compaign requirea his presence in Havana. —— LOYAL FLORIDA VETERANS. * S8T. AUGUSTINE, Fra., Nov, 20.—Chat- field Posi, G. A. R., heid its regular meeting last night and passed the follow- ing resolution: Resolved, That Chatfield Post No. 11, G. A. R., Department of Florida, hereby tenders its ser- vices 1o the Governmentof the United States, A through the Secretary of War, in case of war with Spain or any other country. BISHOP KEANE'S LOSS FELT. Cardinal G.bbons Says Nice Things About the Work of the Rector of the Catholic University. 5 BALTIMORE. Mp, Nov. 20.—At the meeting of the board of dirpetors of the Cutholic University at Washincton last month Cardinal Gibbons, president of the board, was requested to prepare a letter expressive of the sentiments of the mem- bers for the late rector, Bishop Keane. This letter his Eminence immediately prepared. It spoke of the keen regret feit by the directors at the departure of Bishop Keane, of his lonz labor in behalf of the university, of hbis disinterestedness and of the general sorrow over the relinquish- ment of bisduties. The Cardinal eaid in conclasion: - : “Your noble soul has grown from your noble underiaking. You hiave proven the efficiency of the university to train young men to generous self-forgetfulness for the welfare of others in your sub.ime resigna- tion to the will of the Holy Father. You are the masterpiece of your own training. ‘When in future we soall have occasion to point to an example for the imitation of young men who will reap the fruit of your labors we shall fez] an honest pride in set- ting before them the first rector of the university, the generous, high-minded, much-beloved Bishop Keane.” The reply of Bishop Keane has just been received. The letter is dated from San Jose, Cal., and is as follows: Your Eminence: I most gratefuliy return thanks to your Eminence and the board of di- 1ectors of the university ior the exceedingly kind sentiments conveyed to me by your Emi- nence’s letter of October 31. Iam very far from flattering myself that I deserve a tithe of the praise prompted by the goodness and the sympathy of your own generous hearts. Whiie I did my best for the interests of the great work to which obedience has conse- crated my energles, yet I was always conscious that my best was far from teing up to the re- quirements of the case: hence I have not for a moment questioned the wisdom of the Holy Father in desiring a change of administra- tion. May the blessings of Providence and the loyal co-operation of our Catholic people prosper the university in all of its future. Gratefully and affectionately, your Emi- nence’s servant in Christ, JOHN KEANE. i Y TAPPING TELEGRAPH WIRES. Operations of a Concern That Steals Re- ports to Sell Bucketshops Restrained by a Court Order. CHICAGO, IrL., Nov. 20 —The Western Union Telegraph Company secured & re- straining order this afternoon from Federal Judge Grosscup against the Inde- pendent Telegraph Company, which, it is alleged in an accompanying bill, has been tapping the wires of the Western Union and other telegrabh companies., The manager of the Independent Telegraph Company is Oscar M. BStone, arrested a year ago on the same charge. The concern has its headquarters at room 112, 260 Clark street, and selis market reports to a large number of local bucketshops. Associated with Stone, the bill asserts, are James W. Turner, Joseph Moffatt, George B. Spang- ler, H. G. McGill, J. L. Stone and George H. Stone. The bill says Oscar M. Stone, with Moffatt and Turner, are the active managers of the Independent Telegraph Company. They are charged with selling news and information which has been stolen from the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies by tapping 'their wires. Judge Grosscup 1ssued the restraining order, and the case was for Monday. - “WE ARE ONE IN DEATH.” Pathetic Note Left by a Middle-Aged Couple Who Eloped and Committed Suicide. VALLEY CITY, N. D, Nov. 20.—A man and woman of middle , well dressed and of refined bearing, arriv:d here last night and registered at the hotel as Thomas Owens and wife, New Rockford. They at once went to their room and were not seen again alive. This morning when the couple did not appear, the room was pried open; thev were found lying across the bed, both dead. They were clad in their traveling clothes and ciasped in each other's arms. A partly empty boitle of prussic acid on the table pointed to their suicide with that poison. A note was also left by the suicides stating: “Though se ted in life we are one in deain, Make no inquiries as to'us.” Money was inclosed for burial expenses. The woman was Mrs. A. C. Swain of New Rockford, N. D., and her companion in ~in and death was Frank Addison of Bon- ferd. They eloped Wednesday irom New Rockford, and the news had been sup- pressed on account of the high esteem in which the family was held, being wealthy and prominent. Mrs. Swain was 40 years of age and the mother of feur children, one aged 18, a daughter. Addison was 40 years of age. The Swain family sent word io have the remains of the woman sent to New Rockiord for interment. —e HELPLESS ON THE OCEAN. Thrilling Story of the Loss of a Bark and the Terrible Sufferings of the Survivors. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 20. — A thrilling story is told by Peter Manner ot Bath, Maine, one of the survivors of the wreck of the petroleum bark Charles R. Flint, which while petrolenm laden from New York to Japan caught fire. Manner arrived here from Liverpool yesterday on board the American line steamship In- diana. For cighteen days the crew existed in small boats, roasied by the sun of the tropics, and when they finally reached Pernambuco they were more dead than alive. The ship caught fire, it is thought, through spontaneous combustion, and after being abandonea on Apri! 21 in lati- tude 5 deg. south, longitude 31 deg. west, she drifted ashore tweive miles from Cerea, Brazil, where a small portion of her cargo was saved. The voyage was uneventful until April 21, just at daybreak, when the cry of fire was given by the morning watch. In an instant the flames burst open the hatches and all hands were piped on deck and sent into the boats half clad, none too soon, as hardiy bad the boats touched the water when dense volumes of smoke shot from below and the vessel was enveloped in flames. The position of the crew wasa perilous one and in a few minutes they were adrift with neither food nor water. For days and nights Manner and the rest of the crew driftcd about helplessly, suf- fering the pangs of hunger and thirst and with little hope of ever being savea. Manner’s memory is not of the best, and he could not recall the names of any of his comrades. They were all strangers to him when he shipped at New York. All were saved, however, ar.d some :hipped in other vessels from Pernambuco. He was sent to Liverpool by the American Consul and from there was given passage to Philadelphia by the Indiana. et Do INGERSOLL SERIOUSLY ILL. Paroxysmal Attacks of Pain Wrench the Form» f the Celebrated Ag- nostic. CHICAGO, ILn, Nov. 20.—Paroxysmal attacks of pain wrencbed the form oi Robert G. Ingersoll while he tossed on a sick bed in the Great Northern Hotel to- night. Noone was permitted to see him but physiciany 'ufid'g:h’m hter, Maude, who bas accompanied him on bis leciure tour, and his secretary, C. P. Farreil. The condition of Colonel Ingersoll is serious. He has canceled all the remain- ing dates of his lecture tour in which he was engaged when he was stricken. His malady is pronounced to be sciatica. Reports irom Elgin and Freeport, in the latter of which cities the lecturer canceled engagements, gave & more serious view of the colonel’s iliness. At Elgin the state- ment was made that the orator had been stricken with an aitack resembling paral- ysis. He reached this city this evening at 5 o’clock and was driven to the Great North- ern Hotel. Chief Clerk Whippie made special arrangements to provide comfort for the guest until he should feel able to continue his journey to New York. Mr. Farrell said that Colonel Ingersoll was able to proceed to New York, leaving to-morrow over the Lake Snore and Mich- izan Southern at 10 o’clock unless a worse attack should take place during the night. ‘“‘His attack is serious and the pain he is suffering is apparently so great that it seems almost impossible for him to bear up under it, but we believe that he will soon recover. He suffered much from the same malady,’”” said Mr. Farrell, “when he was a boy, but this is the first attack he has felt since that time. The pains are confined to the left leg, ex- tending from the hip to the foot.” —_——-— BRYAN SHOOTS A DEER. The Nebraskan Finds Some Sport on Missouri’s Game Preserves. GAME PRESERVES, Mo.. Nov. 20.— William J. Bryan, Senator Jones, Gov- ernor Stone and others of the party who are enjoying a short sojourn at this place went hunting yesterday, but the late Pres- idential candidate was not as successful as the other hunters. The shooting of a deer yesterday was the event of the trip. Itis the rule of the park company to kill a cer- tain number of deer each fall and tne al- lowed number had been killed a few weeks ago, but in honor of Mr. Bryan the rule was suspended and the chief guest of the party wasinvited to have ashot at one of the fleet-footed animals. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the party found a doe. The deer was not badly {frightened and stood its ground until Mr. Bryan sent a bullet into its left side. The party will leave on Saturday as Mr. Bryan has to be in Denver next Tuesday. R et Pettigrew Charges Fraud. CHICAGO, Irn. Nov. 20.—A special from Sioux Falls, 8. says: Senator R. F. Pettigrew last night gave to the papers a sizned statement regarding the situation in South Dakota. He charges the Republicans with fraud and bribery, and denies that any colonization was done by the silver men, but says it was done by the Republicans and railroads, and is now charged against the silver men for the purpose of covering their own acts. He ugu if there is any attempt to change the official returns so as to give a majority for McKinley or the Republican candidates he will assist in prosecuting every man connected with such attempts. S G Bourbon Tricks in »ew Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, LA.. Nov. 20.—The Grand Jury has undertaken the task of in- vestigating the late election, it having been charged that gross frauds were com- mitt d in New Orleans in the throwing out of a number of Republican ard Na- tional Democratic votes. The investiga- tiop is made on the complaint of the National Democrats, and is being prose- cuted by the Citizens’ League, the politi- cal organization which carried New Or- leans at the State election in April, and which has pledged itself to honest elec- tions and to investigate and punish all fraud. il 1 CLEVELAND PLEADS FOR WORDEN'S LIFE Appeals to Governor Budd on Behalf of the Striker. Moved by Friendship for the Condemned Man's Aged Mother. The State’s Executive Will Grant a R prieve—Huntington Favors Clemency. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.—Presi- dent Cleveland has addressed a personal ietter to Governor Budd of California ap- pealing for executive clemency in the case of Salter D, Worden, convicted of wreck- ing a train in Yolo County and causing loss of life during the. raiiroad strike of 1894. Since the conviction of Worden the President has interested himself in the young man’s behalf, he baving, in 1895, invited the aid of Senator White to obtain a reprieve for the prisoner. The crime committed was not against the Federa! Government, and it was said at the White House to a CALL correspond- ent to-night that President Cleveland’s request was not made in his capacity as chief magistrate of the Nation, but as a citizen, and it was further explained by Private Secretary Thurber that the Presi- dent knew and had formed a warm friend- ship for the mother of Worden when she was a music teacher in New York State, some time before Mr. Cleveland’s eiection to the gubernatorial chair of that com- monwealth, —_— BELIEVES WUORDEN INSANE, President Cleveland Speaks as a Private Citizen. SACKAMENTO, CaL., Nov. 20.—Salter D. Worden, who is now under sentence of death, the day of execution being fixed for December 18, fdr the wrecking of a railroad train during the big railroad strike of 1894, will be reprieved by G.v» ernor Budd uutil the 1st of May next, in order to allow the executive an obpor- tunity to thoroughly examine into all the circumstances of Worden’s alleged crime and conviction, and also to afford him a chance to obtain expert medical opinions on Worden’s sanity. ‘Worden's cause is pleaded by -the chiet executive of the Nation, Senator White baving placed in Governor’s Buda’s hands a copy of the following letter from Presi- dent Cleveland: $ EXECUTIVE MANsION, WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 8, 1895. My Dear Senator : When I saw you a few days ago I spoke of thé case of young Worden, sens tenced to be hauged in California for train. wrecking, causing death. You said you wounld communicate wilh the Governor on the sub- ject and suggest a commutation, if consistent with executive duty. Ihave just foundon my table a letter {rom the distressed mother, which 1 inclose with another accompanying it when it reached Mrs. Clevelaud. I remember this poor mother as a happy wife many years ago, and as the past is tenderly recailed to me by her letter, my sympathy s very much aroused. I see one of the letters mentions the date fixed for the execution as the 12th, but inas- much as the wr:ter seems to be uncertain and this is Friday, the day of the week usually se- lected. I am afraid this may be the day. 1f there is any justification for merciful interfer- ence, it might be exercised for the sake of an aged and broken-hearted mother. Yours, very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. Hon. Stephen M. White, U. 8. Senate. Worden’s mother, alluded to in this communication, was an old neighbor and friend of the President’s parents, who had befriended her 1n her girlhood days, and the letter referred to wasa touching appeal she had addrefged to the President on behalf of her erring' boy in the name of his (Mr. Cleveland’s) sainted mother. Mr. Cleveland is acting in this case not as President of the United States, butasa private citizen. He says he was an inti- mate friend of Worden’s family, all of whom were most excellent people. When he wos a young man and Salter D. Wor- den’s mother was a young woman, who made her living as a music eacher, heand she were very dear friends. President Cleveland does not suggast a commutation, however, on the strength of a feeling of friendship for his mother alone, but declares he has carefully in- quired into the past history of the con- demned and 15 convinzed that he doesnot possess a normal mind. Nor does the President ask the Governor of the State of California to issue the commutation, but simply says he hopes he may see his way clear to commaute the sentence to life im- prisonment. * Another letter which has been received is-from Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is as follows: 23 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 1896. Hon. James H. Budd, Governor of the State of California, Executive Mansion, Sacramento, Cal.— Sir: This morning Frank Z. Wilcox, of Syra- cuse, in this State, called on me in behalt of his brother-in-law, Saiter D. Worden, the man convicted of train-wrecking near Sacramento, and murder, upon whom the sentence of death is to be carried out on the 18th prox. He asks me to write to you and join in the petition for commutation of Worden’s sentence to impris- onment for life, on the ground of the aileged insanity and moral irresponsibility of the con- demned man. Mr. Wilcox orings letters to me and petitions fromn the promivent citizens of Syracuse, many of whom are well known to me as being among the best citizens of that city, in support of his appeal. 1 feel very sorry for the family of the con- victed men and especially so for those who must for all of their lives suffer the unavoid- able stigma of his crime and his fate, wnether the latter be a disgraceful death or an almost equally disgraceful life sentence, and if the p-titions and allegations state the actual fact with respect to the mental irresponsibility of the criminal, of course Governor Budd will need no further ground upon which to.base his clemency In this unfortunate case. I know nothing myself as to Worden’s insanity, but, as I wrote to a friend in California on this subject some time ago,I have no personal feeling in the matter. Assuming the man to have been in the possession of his right mind ana res ponsible for his actions at the time the deed was commitied by him, the only question in my miud is the safety of society, with ‘whom, iir {act, the real question lies. Thelegal taking of one man’s life because