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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17
TEN PAGES.
The NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOrFIGY-Prices of American securities tell yes
ioIday on the London Stock Exchange. - lie
Stadt Theatre in Vienna was burned. - He'll
Won Boetticher has been appointed Bisnarcks sue
cessor - President of the Prussian Cabinet -
Tie British steamer nhrlan was wrecked on the
coast of Ireland. -- The IoGebiaH asserts that Nj.
Richards Muckle viii succeed Mr.. Sargent.
CoxGEFss.-Tbe Senate was not in session yes
terlav. -- ln the House the Consular and Dip
tomato the Army and the District OF Columbia
apur.ur ia'iou balls were considered III COMMITTEE
OF tic Whole.
DovEsrIc.-The Republican members of the Bos-
ton Common Council have petitioucd the Legsia-
ture TO give the Mayor either absolute appointing
mower or require confirmation from the Alder
men onlv. -= Horn and Gribbcu were hanged
AT Ashland. Ohio, yesterday. A mob OF
10000 drunken people were kept at bay by troops.
:- The Methodist Episcopal General Conference
elected the officers OF the book concerns. -
There wa, much excitement among dealers IN the
OH region "A young man il Richie County,
Va shot himself in the presence OF his sweetheart.
-. The Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville.
CuY AND SUBUEBAN.-Thc Newark Savings In
etituion suspended yesterday on account OF MS re-
]ations with Fisk & Hatch. The only failure III
New-York was that Of III. c. Hardy n Sons. -
Ferdinand Ward. while under examination, de-
Clared that lie had never nau SIlsie CVh'i'O' "P"
which 10 base his transactions. - Mrs. Langtry
testified in the suit brought against her
by John A. Stevens and a verdict in her favor was
rendered. =- sailor on bark of Whitestone
was killed with an axe by the second mate. 60
Police Commissioners denounced the Roosevelt
Committees report. - Prizes were gwen
10 art students at the National Academy OIL
Design -= The New-iOrk baseball nine won It's
twelfth consecutive victory by defeating the Cleve-
land nine. =-- Charles OConor was buried from
the Cathedral. = DR.. Newman declared himself
satisfied with Judge Sedgwicks decision -
Gold value of the legal-tender silver dollar 4l2l2
grainsl. S407 cents. -= Stocks iuctuated ir-
regularly and widely, but with a general inclina-
ton toward higher figures, and closed strong.
The WEATHER-TRIsUSE local observations in
dictate clear or fair weather with slight changes in
temperature. Temperature yesterday: highest
go; lowest, 52'; average, Ssh
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two in reply Is it so very comica to suggest that
well-brought-up rudder never directs the course
of the ship in any other direction than that which
it seems best to the controllers Of the ship TO
take Next month at Chicago the Republican
ship will be manned by $50 picked navigators
They will consult together in order to determine
which of the many courses that have been
pointed out it is best to take if the ship Is to
reach the haven of success next November Is
it so very comical to suggest that if IL or more
of them concur in recommending certain
course it will be unbecoming in the rudder not
to steer that course Is it so very comical to
suggest that the rudder is not the entire snip :
Is it so very cOmical to suggest that the rudder
was made for the ship and not the ship for the
r1I11er
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17
4 SUAUEFCL VERDICT.

The acquittal OF Wheeler for the murder Of
Matthews is one of those disgraceful verdicts
which have come TO be Characteristic OF the
South. The killing OF Matthews was shown to
have been premedtated, deliberate, and for
political effect. 1t was a cOwardly, treachcrous
slaughter by man who had pretended to be
the friend of his victim. There was 10 opening
for the plea of self defence, for there had been
no Quarrel between the men, The evidence
showed that Matthews was condemned 10 death
by political cabal, and that the whole deed
was on par with those Irish assassinations
which have provoked the indignation and dis
gust of the civilized world. Matthews was
doomed to death in cold blood for the purpose
of terrifying the cOlored voters and keeping
them from the polls, and unhappily such crimes
have been only too common in many of the
Southern States, while the immunity extended
to their perpetrators has diflused the response
blity for them over the communities which
have given practical Endorsement to them by
verdicts of not guilty.
There arc no doubt Southern men who disap-
prove of the spirit that finds expression in such
ontrages, but they cannot be regarded as rep
resenting the dominant esntment of their sec
ton. inasmuch as their counsel is never fol-
lowed by the latter. The people of the North
are compelled to conclude that the ruling ele-
ments at the South are in sympathy with the
desperate and lawless methods so frequently
employed to prevent the colored vote from
having its due weight i'll the elections The
North is, in the light of such events as this,
forced to believe that in the coming Presiden-
tal campaign the Southern Democrats will have
recourse to the old evil practices by which in
the past they have undertaken to secure a
Solid South for their ticket. There is no
desire at the North to perpetuate this appre
hension but when it is seen that political
crimes pass unpunished as of old, and that the
community sentiment holds harmless the say
ers of those who are branded as polite cal
friends or allies of the cOloled voters, it is inn
possible to escape the conviction that no
change for the better has yet occurred in South
ern public opinion.
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TIE RESPONSIBILITY.

| What are the causes? 1t may not be pleas
| ant. but il certainly will be useful, to recount
! them.
First. and nearest of ALL there is the agitation
| for reduction of tariff. Ever since Dem
ocratic Congress was elected this has been
hurtful. From that hour industry has been
| stricken with paralysis. Shrewd business men
! knew only too well what Democratic majority
wanted to do; nobody could tell what Dem
| ocratic majority would do.
| Next, and particularly potent in the manu-
featuring regions, there has been the fear oil
Democratic success i'll the Presidential election
This has been greatly aided by the so-caled
Republican journals which have threatened to
defeat. if nominated, the candidate clearly
preferred bv the great majority Of Republicans.
These threats have produced the imprcsSicn
that the Republican ticket must be defeated
because innocent people rated the Inalcontent'
at their own estimate OF their power, ana as
Sumed that the Republican party could not
elect the candidate whose nomination 1t was
already bent upon securing.
Third, We have the Silver bill. TIE TRIB-
rNE has pointed ont many times already how
this measure has expanded circulation without
reason: how it has caused wild and wanton
speculation in products and in stocks; how it
has stimulated the building Of too many rail-
roads and how il has made real money scarce,
while driving it abroad, and putting an i'm
mcnse flood OF false and fictitious money into
circulation.
Fourth. the managers of many railroads III
fighting for their private interests have made
all railroad business 50 faruncertain or unprOiit-
able that the holders of securities have been
eager 20 sell. or have refused 20 invest. The
net result Of this prolonged abstention of the
public from the stock market has been the
decline Of many properties far below their real
value.
Finally, there has been some dishonesty and
some recklessneSs. But if any one will CON
slider. in the light of the transactions for the
past week. how few Of the active stocks have
declined because of any well founded diStrust
of the management, he will see that this has
been a case of "great cry and little wool.
The securities have not changed in real value,
but the possible buyers have diminished i'll
number and in means.
The Democrats at Washington hope that this
disaster will be charged to the discredit of the
Republican party. Yet the Democrats are In
power, at least as to originating financial legiS-
lation. If they have done nothing, it has been
because they wanted to do nothing. They
made the Silver bill what it is-a perpetual
menace to everybody, and benefit to nobody.
They created and sustained the tariff agitation.
1t was their business to correct all errols, and
they have done nothing. Is it really supposed
that the voters are ignorant of these things
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17

PERSONAL.

Colonel Jerome Bonaparte OF Baltimore will soon be-
joined in Paris by his wife, Who Is DOW in Washington
Ldcntenan Governor BIsek Of Pennsylvania n busy
arrau riLg for publication OF the life Of his fsmous
father and he he likes literature better than politics
Caasis b. Clay lives quietly his Kentucky farm
taking little notice OF current poities I'm not alone
he says; have sheep, cattle, dogs birds. flowers
and books; and an writing bOok-iny memoirs
Professor George L. Bailey, OF wyoming who has been
visiting in this city for month has just received word OF
his reappointment Geologfst Of that Territory-an
honor mertcd by bs work in the development OF ia
natural resources.
Senator Edrnunds was particularly cordial toward the
members Of the American Medical Association whom
he met at Washington because say the srsceless
sips he owns the bigses; tombstone quarry in Yer
mont" Another campaign sl1nIer.
Now they deny the story that Colonel William r. Nor
rsOn-knOwn 10 fame in connection with Horizontal Re-
ductonhad In hand clean shirt and in the other
the original draft OF his Tfn bill when he came down
the ladder from his room IN the Dlranx blilsGds hoet
Tie shirt was ar0wn down to him atcrwaFd along WITH
ether brfca-brac that had adorned his boudoir.
The Rev Dr. Fowler the youngest OF the four bshops
chosen this week by the Methodist General Conference
He was born in Burrcrd Canada IN 1887 At years
OF age he remOvcd-or removed-to Illinois He was
graduated at Gencsee College and sfterward studied law,
out joined the Rock River Conference in 1861. Ho
distinguished himself by hs energy in raising funds to re-
presioent OF the Norhwesern University editor
christian Adcoca and missionary secretary, and bears
the reputation Of being OF the most eloquent pulpit
orators in the entire Methodist ministry.
"The late Judge Black" saysa writer in The PhRodei
pha Press was Shakespelrean critic and authority.
and nothing grated his more harshy than mis-
quotation Dnng last Constitutional Convention, OF
which he was a member, the county delegates could
scarcely speech without dragging in poct-
cal excerpt which they usually butchered. and the
Judge. who knew whether he wss IN OF cut OF
ORDER would interrupt them with his corrections, or
would 20 the clerks desk and that the lines were
1T Ia,rt had aAn
Der of mshsps OF this Kind and the Judge had secured
leave OF alb to go nome. Just before leaving he
walked over to Mr. George W. Biddles seat and said:
Bddlc, going away and IL, IN my absence, yoa al
low Injustice TO be done to tie memory OF william
Shakespeare will hold you personally responsible"
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tberc Is consequently nothing for panic to

there is consequently nothing for panic to
take hold upOn.
This disturbance, however, will have the
effect of improving the health of Wall Street.
II will shake all the nonsense out OF operators
nut An end TO wildcat speculation, and for
time at least cause good properties to be rated
at their real value. The country will lose
nothing if its dstrlst of Wall Street methods
renders it even more cautious than 1t has
shown itself of late. There will be abundant
sympathy for the firms that have failed
through no fault of their own, but none at all
for those who owe their downfall to reckless
speculation and tampcring with fidaciaiy posi-
firms
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Tile MINNEanrAnAR EA1LuRE.

r. p Arms of minnesota, real ests deaer.-I undei-
stand that the direct OF the failure OF the North
western Manufacturing and Car Company was the
failure OF senator sabn to negotiate loan Of Sl250O0
for which he NewYor City last week. II waslto
have been negotiated with the Marine National Bank.
When that went mp ne made the effort elsewhere But
public confidence was shaken, and the mere state
ment that no hadeXpected to make the loan
from the Marine Bank made other banks
suspicious. Sabin and johnson, who stockholders
OF such wealth and standing that they undoubt
eddy could have carried the company their shoulders
II they had t Am inclined to think they preferred
10 lett so into liquidation rather than accept tho ndi
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prices naturally advance. There were no moro
large failures Yesterday. and no trouble was ex
perenced by any of the banks. The Newark
Savings Institution failed, but the effect even ID
that city was comparatively small as the lnstitu-
ton once before closed its doors. Inc savings
banks in this city were all prepared to meet any
senseless run that might be made upon then''
but fortunately the depositors, with rev eA-
ceptions, realized the folly OF such course'
The outlook in business and financial circles Is
steadily improving, and all cause for further
alarm seems to have passed.
The Legislature which closed its work at
Albany yesterday proved to be more OF q ue-
Lucrative body than any of its predecessors lor
many wears. II passed 500 bills, while the
Democratic Legislature of 1883 passed ooo.
Many important reforms have been carried out
this year. but with the exception OF the ClVli
Service bill, there is scarcely anything credit
able TO show for the session of 1888 and the
Civil Service BILL in order to be made effective
had to be amended this year. If the Governor
acts wisely on the measures now before INN
nearly all of the city employees, including cleo
ton inspectors and poll clerks, hereafter ap-
pointed, will have to undergo Clvh Service
examinations 1t is unfortunate that the Adlr-
ondaek bill and the one to abolish imprlscn-
ment for debt met with such unfair treatment
Mr.. Kelly's Brooklyn Reform bills were oe-
fcatcd owing to the persistent opposition Oh
such spoils-seeking Democrats as MI. Earl
He also vanly endeavored yesterday practically
TO defeat the provisions of the excellent bill
passed to stop the publication of obscene news
papers. When such Democrats as Earl, Coiiey'
Oliver, Van Colt and the others who work with
them are no longer sent to Albany TO misrepre-
sent the people, honest legislation will be made
easier. FoI tunately, their work has been I'M
profitable this year. owing to the care with
which it has been watched by the Speaker and
other Republican members.
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TILKS ABOUT TOXIN
DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT IN CALIFCRNIA.

DENDCRAIIt skNIIMLNI N LALIFL MIN
Er-Uriied states ssEaJT HGger, OC CdiV0nG Next
to Tildcn the Democrats OF California prefer thurman
The preference for Tilen is made much stronger than
otherwise because of sympathy FOR his wrongs Call
fogHia Will 20 Democratic NO. Judge Field Is not call
foruias choice. lie Is The contrary the most unlop-
lar in the state He il backed only 10y the Central
Pacific Railroad people and by the railroad organ III san
Francisco The Ata, which recently purchased by
the railroad company. There Is a very large anti
monopoly sentiment in California about equally divided
between the parties and OF Field stands no
chance OF carry ing that state But then be stands not
the least chance OF being nominated. even Of getting
the Democratic delegation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17
ONLY FURRY, AFTER ALL.

The best proof that could be given that bust
ness generally is not i'll an unhealthy condition
lies in the fact that the disturbances in Wall
Street elected no echoes elsewhere. The country
looked on calmly, perhaps with some astODlsh-
ment but there was no cOntagion outside of
New-York The plain truth is that when man
has been living very temperatey for cOnsid-
cradle time there is little danger of the ditfu-
sion of local inflammation in his system; and
this is the case with the country. Business has
for three years and more been steadily settling
down to bedrock conditions. The water has
been squeezed out of great many enterprises
during that period, and many men whose ac-
cumulatons consisted largely Ill fictitious val
ues have found themselves poorer for the
change. But while business has had no
"booms," and the tendency has been discourag-
ing whatever has been done has been done on
solid basis.
Senator Sherman is quite right when he says
that the country is not in anything like the
condition in which it was in 1873, when the
financial crash of that Year camen Then
everything was expanded. Now everything is
contracted. Cool examination will show that
most of the recent failures were rendered inev-
liable by the miscalculatOns of the parties
themselves. They chung to the belief that fancy
prices would soon return, and so loaded them
selves with securities which, when panic prices
supervened, turned TO dry leaves in their hands,
like the fairy money Of the nursery tales. But
these failures have not affected the country
generally, because it had already adapted itself
to the situation, had abandoned speculation,
and stood solidly upon real values and trans
actions in entities.
The recent limited cOnyulsion, therefore,
must be interpreted, not as the beginning OF Il
widespread disturbance. but as the termination
of an err of unsafe speculation. A general panic
at time like the present would be impossible.
There is 10 stringency i'll the money market,
notwithstanding the temporary difficulty OF
negotiating loans on the Street. Capital is
really cheap and plentiful, prices are low,
nearly all business rests upon actual values, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17
SPEAKING or RUDDERS.

Harpers Weekly indicates that the Indepcn-
dent voters in the Republican party constitute
the rudder of the Republican ship, and then it
wants to know is it so very comical to suggest
that the rudder directs the course of the ship T.
No, it is not 50 very comical to make such sug-
gestion. IT is not comical at all. 1t is very
sensible. The remark indicates that the maker
thereof correctly apprehends the function of a
rudder.
And now will The Weekly permit question o
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stock, and TO THEM il

stock, and TO them il will still seem strange
that Mr. George should find IL compatible with hts
special doctrine to express disapprOval OF rob-
berry any form.
The conflict between the statements of the Cap
tain of the City of Rome and those of the people OF
the bark concerning the signals of the latter Is so
hopeless that nothing short of an official nye5tiga-
ton is likely to settle the question. 1t 49, however,
evident that there is misstatement on one side,
since one says that the passed the bark AT
distance of several miles, while the other declares
that she passed within hail that is, within lew
hundred yards
The Buffalo Courier is bold enough to talk OUT IN
meeting. It tells its brother Democratic organ. me
Nelr- lorL Star that the suggestion (which Inc Star
lately madel that Mr. Tiden be renominated this
year on the fraud" cry is absurd In order to
make its rebuke Us severe possible The Courier
asserts that it was in favor of again placing llden
and Hendricks in the field in $50. and then adds:
Against such course The Star ard the faction OF
which il is the organ worked vigorously and with
success Mr. Hendricks. the partaker in the wrong
done to Mr. Tillen and his natural successor III
case of that gentlcman'S retirement from politics,
chose TO disassociate himself from his nominal
chief set MP once more as his rival and thwart the
National movement for 4 denomination OF the old
ticket" Tie Star has the floor and Mr.. Hendricks
cannot do less than come ont in a hurn g-back-thc-
charge card In the meantime the choir will please
SIM.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17
AGLANcE AT THE PRESIDENTIAL FIELD

Joseph Villas. Of Wisconsin. have not yet made apo
Iical horoscope. Blaine may be strong enough to win
the Republican nomination, but that remains to be
the strongest with the people. But the poli
teans against him. They can't control him and are
afraid Of him. think they will combine against him 20
his defeat Ohio has good Presidential timber for
ths Democras-Payne, Pendeton aud Thurman. The lat
ter would make magnificent President think how
ever Ihat Ilden will be their nominee He has only to
say he IL the nomination, and IL will
probably be given him whether he wants It on not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17
SOME RESULTS OF THE MARINE b.

SOME RESULTS OF The MAXINE BANK CRASH.
Atbeft jonas OF jamestown, " T., mdHN1ct0er.-The
smashup in Wall Street IL having already very wide
and farreaching effect Men take advantage OF 1t to de-
lay and refuse payment of Just debts friend OF mine
who ia Ia line OF business which gives him large
Der OF NewYOrk customers and whose settlement day
the 10th each month tells that about half his
toners have this month him word that they de
postors the Marine Bank and can't get their cash TO
pay him. One or two proposed to iquidle at discount
OF IS o5O per tsayng was all he money they could
raise and unless ne accepted they mako assga
ment. Did he accept Not much. He went through
1873 and he IS not 10 be caught now by such chan as
fItaf
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.y0bn ". BoOklrqitc5 HHH'tfactuTerI looked up to-
day the figures of the total decline since .lssl in the
stock listed the regular market 10 reaches
the enormous sum Of Sl,5OO,OOO,OOO No wonder such
decline has begun to bring about big failures. very
much doubt either If will helu out with good
crops aud poor crops abroad she did after 1873
II all very we'll the raise big crops but
he has get it away il is Improbable What he
wants sell it, Ii lie turn his surplus into avail
able cash then pays him TO raise grain He can't do
under the present Government policy and that is
Whore Tho lrnIhle ins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-17
FERDINAND WARDS sPECULATJoNs.

W. @. Aitdrecs. President Steam Heat COmpany-rt
looks to this Ward had been quietly specu
latlng on hi own account in way that
has yet able discover now where else he has
dug hole the ground and piled the missing money in
It. gle hint from any direction that the
Grants speculated. Their estate purchases
solid although they declined In value They could not
have speculated without ts being known II looks
as though they entirely ignorant AMI this man
Ward lust drew them IN.
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NOT NECESSARY To RENEW FEATTY.

Senator BraBiaa Of West IrOy-I am in town on bust
ness and ahall by the g o'clock train sent my
card up the President with the turned down
II was q mere matter OF courtesy and form. lie knows
where to indlue every time. There few of rs who
don't have 10 renew their fealty every thirty days.