The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-10-14
REPUBLICANS FESTIVE
UNDER POPULAR DISAPPROvAl
OF THE TARIFF LAW.
Desperate Efforts to Explain Awav the
Mckinley Abomination-Death OF jus
tice Miller Charges Against Census
Onicials- Capital News.

Mckinley vAbomination-De OF jus
tice MiiIer-Charges Against Censu
OniciaIs- Capital News.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-lSpecial. !
The Republicans are feeling the pincl
which the public are giving them because
of the Mckinley abomination called a TART
bill. They are almost ready to squeal
They have approached that stage which i
covered by the French proyerb: "Qui Sex
cuse s'accuse.- Their committee to-da,
issued document under the it'll
Of THE New Tariff" which is
commngling of excuse, bluff ant
mendacity. 1t excused itself for tn
Mckinley abominatiOn by saving that tn
result of the last general election demanded
it. Ii bluffs (he Republican party is grea
in that expedient). by saying that tn
| Mckinley abominatiOn will 'scatter pleDt.
o'er a smiling land,r and it lies from begin
ming 10 end. The burden OF this po'itica
| planet lust put forth is that the Democratic
party is misrepresenting the Mchinle,
abOminatiOn--th no such measure
the Democratic press pOrtrays to 1T
! readers has any existence what
ever This is very blui-like, indeed, whei
all that the Democrats have had to sa,
about the Mckinley abomination Is Z
| quote from it and TO show by the rise II
prices what its effect is as so far admins
tered. In point. right here, take another
statement contained i'm its latest Republi
can illumination. Ii is this: "Ihe cost 0
the necessary supplies to the American con
sumer is in no case raised" This, In face
of the fact that il the man who wrote y
should 20 to any store III tOwl
TO buy suit of clothes, an,
underwear, pair Of Shoes, or numerous
other supplies unnecessary to the Ameri
can consumer" he would have TO pay mor'
for them than he did before the Mckinley bill
became law, is very good-very, very
good, indeed. could till this column Will
similar quotations from the pamphlet now
before me. Sufficient has been said. how
ever, to show the contortions that tne he
publicans are indulging IN order to ayoiC
| falling into the large and commodiOus hole
which the others have dug for them.
GENERAL DELKNAP DEAD.
General William W. Belknap, ex-Secre
tary of War, was found dead in bed thl'
morning in his room in the Evans BuIidlng
on New York avenue. The room IN Whlci
he was found joined his office rooms, ant
/
| his wife's absence from the city. lie wa'
last seen alive Saturday night about mid
night. when he was on his way u his rooms
apparently in excellent health. Mrs. Bel
knap, who is in New York city, has beef
notified of her husbands sudden demise.
General William Worth Belknap was
born in Newburg, \. y, In September
! 1922. He graduated at Princeton College
| i'm 1913 and served throughout the war, be
gi.ning his services as major OF an Iowa
regiment, and at the close was breve
maior-general. I'm October, l>G9, he was
appointed Secretary Of War. This Office h'
retained during General Grants second al
ministratiOn. until March, 1876, when, II
consequence Of charges Of official admins
tration, he resigned. lie was impeachcd
and tried before the Senate for receiving
bribes for the appointment of post-trader'
and was acquitted on the technical ground
of want of jurisdiction.
The cOrOner's inquest showed that Tho
| General suffered from fatty degeneration -
the heart and that the immediate cause o
his death was Inflammation OF the heart.
"DAYs or THE EMPIRE" REVIVED.
The death Of General william W. Belk
nan. who was Secretary Of " ar under Ires
ident Grant, reyiycs in memory one OF th'
greatest social causes celebres that The
annals Of Washington contain. Gen
eral Belknap was from Iowa, an'
served gallantly on the Federal sld'
during the late war under branr. III
married beautiful Kentucky woman-i
woman who was beautiful even among th'
many specimens Of brilliant and glOwinl
womanh0Od i'm her native state. When she
cametO Washington she was fascinated by
the position in society into which, as the wifi
of the Secretary Of War, she became intro
duced. For brief period she was the ac
knowledged leader Of that society which
was more snowy, luxurious, and extra
VACANT than ii Il now. she wa
the toast OF men and the cnyl
of women. Her costumes, her bewilch
ing beauty, her brightness OF intellect
and magnificent entertainments wer'
themes upon which Jenkins never tired 0
using his pen and eXhausting webster 10
adiectiyes. The smallness and delicate
symmetry Of her foot were told Of in Ia
most gorgeous phrases that jenkins cOul'
command. The man who made her shoe
even exhibited one Of them in the window
of his shop and there was always crow
around the window. TO carry 1t of 80 wei
as all this requires much money. Mr. Bel
khan engaged in thar now historical trans
action, the disposal of post-tradership
which were thCn very lucrative positions
for money received. \ Democratic M
yestigating committee Of the House. al III
head of which was Hester Clymer, Of Penn
sylyania, unearthed these transactions
Then came the fall inevitable in all sue
cases. General Belknap did not imltal
Adam of Old and say that IL was th
woman. He took it all upon his shoulders
lie would have been impeached by Ia
Democratic House, but President Grant a
lowed him TO resign-a course %
his part which was a!most unlFersa
-. ly condemned throughout the lan1
After her meteOric and cyanescent e.
rser in Washington. Mrs. Belknap wen
to Europe. She returned To this cOuntr
some time last year. She spent the summt
lust past at COney Island, where her beauty
though il is now mature, and her rlsqu
bathing costumes were frequently sung b
the correspondents of New York paper'
E General Belknap Yemalnel Eere and took u
the practice OF law. lie did not succeed ;
all in the regular professional line, bt
. did a little better when be became what
known by the euphuists as 'Parliamen
5 ary solicitor" He died poor man, how
: ever. He was very fond OF talking OF II
) Grant regime when money was plentiil
[ among those who were 'in it," | have III
uueflLlI ucdIu Nllll say III u 4t-fttiuiiy itii
iniscent way after such talk, "Ah, bI
E those were the days Of the empire"
CHARGES AGAINST CENSUS OFFICIALS.
The officials in the census office are yei
much perturbed just now. Specific c1arg'
I are being made against the manner
J which the census has been taken. The SUI
iect matter Of these allegations has bee
(: written about in general way. and h;
; been discussed by democratic politician
and members of the House for the pa
e two or three months. The assertion
| that the census just tasen has been nolit
caliy cooked have been numerous. Whe
/. Mr. Harrison appointed at The hea oi ii
=. Census Bureau X. L. Porter, all Englishna
and henchman Of the Republican part
5 who, when he was chairman OF the tar
D commission Of 1885, manipulated it for Il
: benefit of the party exclusively, ii was sa
e by those who knew the appointee that b
n selection for the census Oilce discOunt'
a beforehand whatever value the work dOl
: under him might have. ltwould be a wol
l. OF supererogation TO put down that the ge
b eral dissatisfaction about the census h
/ warranted the prediction referred TO. tn
X its inaccuraty was of purpose has II
i quently been claimed. Now, IL is direct
!. charged that force OF clerks under Fort