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The advocate., 1891-05-20
Still the Favorite.

If you are contemplating a trip for
business or pleasure it will be we'll TO re-
member that the Burlington route is still
the favorite. Her old established line to
Chicago hardly needs more than mere
mention for the mere reason that every
man, woman and child in the country is
80 familiar with the fact that over this
line runs the famous solid vestibule
"Eli' with It's splendid Pullman sleepers,
chair cars and dining cars.
Your attention is now called to our
double daily service between Kansas
City, Atchison, st. Joseph and ST. Louis.
Heretofore we had but one daily train
from the Missouri river to st. Louis, that
being night train, placing passengers In
st. Louis in the morning in time for
breakfast and all eastern connections but
on the account of the increasing demand
another train has been put on and now
leaves Kansas City, Atchison and st.
Joseph in the morning, placing the pas
senger In st. Louis in the early evening
of the same day.
Omaha and Council Bluffs are put In
rapid communication with the lower
Missouri river points by two superb daily
trains, one leaving Kansas City late In the
morning and the other in the evening,
making the run from Kansas City in
about eight hours. The morning train
carries through buffet sleeping car to
st. Paul and Minneapolis, placing the
passenger in the twin cities twenty hours
after leaving Kansas City.
For further information call on or ad-
dress Fl. G. Orr, G.. s. w. P. A., 900 Main
St, Kansas City, Mo-, or A. G. Dawes, G.
p. 4 T. A., st. Joseph, Mo.
The advocate., 1891-05-20
Money for Invalids.

Being advised to go south and engage
in light business, / bought plating ma
chine from H. F. Delno & Co., Columbus,
Ohio, for $5. get all the tableware and
jewelry l can plate, and sell some platers.
Make from $4 to $40 per day. Work Is
nicely done. My health improved and l
am elated. No experience needed. Any
one can do as much by writing for circu-
lars. AN INVALID.
The advocate., 1891-05-20
Read the Following Testimonial.

We, the undersigned, have examined the In
offered as premiums by THE ADvo
CATE to its subscribers, In the office OF tina
paper, and find them fully up to the STANDARD
claimed for them.
MRS. M E. LEASE.
g. w. HALLENBACK,
Representative l11th district.
A. J. COREY,
Representative 25th district.
j. b. FRENCH,
Secretary Kansas State f. ,. & |. U.
JACOB CAMPBELL,
DOOrkeeper Kansas House OF RepreSe natives.
G. G. MCCONNELL,
Secretary Shawnee county F. A. & /. U.
FRANK MCGRATH,
President Kansas State F. A. & /. U.
D. NJ. HOWARD,
Representative 10th district.
s. G. WHEELER,
Senator 32d district.
PPOF. L. G. BARIBINI,
Principal Topeka Conservatory Of Music.
FRED. L. BAILEY.
VIM. w. STANLEY,
Representative 10Th district.
The advocate., 1891-05-20

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These powders are so cents per pack
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P. P.S.-Steketee's Hog Cholera Cure Is
the same thing as used for pin-worms in
horses.
The advocate., 1891-05-20

an increase and return to work for last
years rate. What other concessions can
we maker"
"The operators are fighting for bigger
profits" continued the master workman
with q gesture Of emphasis. "While they
are trying to beat down their workmen
in the price of producing the coke, they
are fighting the railroads and transporta-
ton companies for lower freight rates,
and struggling with furnacemen and iron
manufacturers for higher prices for their
coke output. In this scale Of wages
which they have presented, and demand
that we accept they are manifestly unfair.
and unjust. The greatest reduction that
they propose Is upon the poorest paid Ia
Dor. Trapper boys, the little chaps who
tend the doors IN the mines, under last
years scale, received "a cents day; the
operators scale demands that they now
go to work for 65 cents day. That is
the coke operators idea of equalizing
wages"
"Where does the money for the sup
port Of the strikers come from?"
9From all over the country. I do not
know how much Is coming in. We have
committee to receive 1t and committee
to distribute it. Labor organizations of
every kind in every state are helping
u.s."
"If the employees are defeated in this
strike will 1t wipe the union out Of ex-
iBtence?"
"We are not anticipating defeat. We
have as fair prospects now as we have
ever had during the strike. But even If
defeat should come in the end, 1t wouldn't
destroy the union. 1t might cripple 1t
for time, but we would catch the Oper-
ators where the hair Is short and when
the guns isn't loaded in the future, and
we wouldn't deal fair with them either,
for they have never been fair with US
only when we forced them. Our demands
In 1887 were fair and we won that strike,
and the operators have never ceased to
attempt to get even with US since then.
This is their latest and greatest attempt.
You can say this, and it's all I have to
say on the subject, now or In the future"
said Mr.. Wise, rising to terminate the in
terview, shat there will be no modifca-
ton of our demands; there will be no
weakening on our part no matter what
comes"
The advocate., 1891-05-20

Persons against whom mortgage fore
closure has been instituted should write
to w. r. Rightmire, Topeka Kan, Il
they wish to save their homes.
The advocate., 1891-05-20
Mako Money.

A good, live man wanted In every coun-
ty to handle specially. Big money in It.
Write for particulars.
Fl. o. PALEN & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
The advocate., 1891-05-20


les and plants where efforts are being
made to operate them? What defense
can be made for such conduct" was
asked
AIN the first place, before attempt to
answer that question, I want to say that
nearly all incidents of this kind have
been exaggerated by operators, mana
gers and deputies. 1t is their interest to
do this. A harmless parade Of the men
with cheers and shouts has been charac-
terized as q dlsorganized rabble. Where
miners on strike 60 out on such expe-
ditions as you describe, It is mere frolic.
1t is more devilment than anything else.
The boys feel good, some Of them, per-
haps, have had drink or two, and 1t is
their method for expressing disapprobs-
tion for men who desert the union and
go back to work. Nothing Is intended
beyond the expression of vigorous disap-
proval. They say that they fire pistols
In the air to intimidate non-union men.
Suppose they do. Is that as bad as a
deputy or Plnkerton going to the house
Of union miner, laundering on the door
with the but of his revolver and threat
ening the man, If he does not go to work,
with all sorts Of vengenceS This is done,
but you never hear Of 1t. Men ON strike
are threatened and intimidated every
day in this region by the agents or depu-
ties Of the operators. The Hungarians
are condemned as being lawless and
wild. Who taught them? The deputies
who, when the HungarianS joined the
first strike in these regions, went into
their homes and, to intimldate them and
force them to 60 to work, fred their re-
volvers through the ceiling and floor.
Yet II miners parade by torchlight, and
cheer and sing, or yell at tnon-union men,
they are rioters. Let me tell you, sir,
that attempts have been made to incite
these Hungarians to lawlessness. Only
the other day Sheriff Mccormick gave
some Of the strikers at Trotter $40 with
which to buy bug-juice, and, as we all
believe, with the hope that they would
get wild under Its influence and commit
some overt act"
"Why should there be desire to have
overt acts committed?"
because it hurts our side Of the strike.
Every outbreak hurts us, and the opera
tors and their agents and sympathizerS
know this, and that is why we suppose
they encourage 1t in such crisis"
at is claimed by the operators, Mr..
Wise, that your demands in this strike
are unjust; that you presented scale Of
prices representing 10 per cent. advance
in the face of falling market, and that
you demanded that increase or nothing"
disagreement upon which we worked
last year expired on February TO-" re-
piled Mr.. Wise. "On January 8 we pre-
sented our new scale, which averaged an
increase Of about 9 per cent Not until
March 25 did the operators present
their scale with 10 per cent. reduction
from last years agreement. At the be-
ginning of the strike we offered to con-
tinue at work at the old rates till March
25, the price Of this year to be decided
upon In the interval. They would not
permit this and closed down the work
The advocate., 1891-05-20
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.

Strike are threatened and Intimidated In
Coke RegiOn-The Pinkert0nS and Deputies
IncIte Hungarians to Riot In Order to Alien
ate Public Opinion.
The following interesting statement
concerning the actual condition Of affairs
In the coke region appeared In q recent
{ issue of the Philadelphia Press.
Peter Wise, the labor leader in the
great coke strike, Is a Pennsylvania
Dutchmsn. He comes Of good stock, and
was born thirty-seven years ago at Corn
wall, Lebanon county. He began max
ing living for himself when he was
twelve years Of age. For the past eleven
years his home has been In the coke
country except for q brief period when
he was "black-listed," during which he
roamed over fourteen states, working as
opportunity offered and as the inclination
Of coal operators permitted. In personal
appearance Mr.. Wise Is Of medium
height and build. He has dark hair, q
small dark mustache, and pair Of keen
eyes that look straight into yours as he
talks. And he Is q good talker. He
does not speak hurriedly or at random,
but In slow, well modulated voice that
grows louder as his utterance grows
more rapid. There Is just preceptible
German accent In some Of his words. A
dark, ready-made suit, blue flannel shirt,
and derby hat tilted slightly on the
right side Of his head complete his per-
Sonal description.
The miners headquarters are In
second-story front room in building on
the main street Of Scottdsle. The desk
Of the leader stands In q corner Of the
apartment, which is about 20x24 feet In
size. Crowds of miners and coke-work-
ers lined the curbstone outside, filed up
and down the steep narrow staircase and
crowed into the master workman's Office
~ don't know that have anything to
say" said Mr.. Wise, coming out of the
crowd Of men that surrounded him by the
desk. ~ don't think that / ought to say
anything, we've been so misrepresented
In the newspapers. But come over to the
hall, / can't talk here, and we'll take
few minutes to discuss this strike"
Down and across the street the master
workman led the way to another hallway,
carpeted this time, and upstairs into q
long, narrow apartment, with raised
platform and rough table at each end,
and the body Of the hall filed with
wooden chairs. Motionlng his visitor to
seat, Mr.. Wise dropped into chair be-
hind the table and said:
1We have never had fair, unbiased
presentation Of our case In the newspa-
pers. We have been misrepresented
and misquoted until 1t seems almost use-
less to waste time trying to get fair
hearing. Let me know what you want
and I'll try to answer you."
"Is the red flag to be lifted by any Of
the striking workmen~ was the first
question asked, largely because it is one
Of the greatest general interest.
"No, SIR" was the prompt and emphatic
reply. "There are some hundreds Of So
cialists In the coke country, and there
are present two socialist delegates from
the east. These visitors are not here for
the purpose Of melting the locals ecialists
The advocate., 1891-05-20

Buckinghsm's Dye is the best prepara-
tion made to color the beard a brown or
black.
The advocate., 1891-02-04


books was not his course rather adverse
10 you and TO the Erie Railway company,
or nt any rate 10 you Rad Mr. Fisk, In the
Senator
A. Up to a certain time be was con-
nected With the Vanderbilt people.
O. Was Il just about November, 1868,
that you began your nrst payments for
legal services TO Mr. TWeedH
A. don't remember. / think II was
in tho summer OF 1868 he went Into the
direction.
Q. Did you ever know him after you
began payment to him for legal services
10 be adverse 10 your interests or 10 Mr..
Flsk's2
A. No, cir. (p. 567)
Jay Gould swoars VIM. II. Vanderbilt
called upon him for Legislative lobby lot
ters.
@. ! think asked you q question last
night whether there had been any Ar
ranRement between your company and
the Central with regard TO Liquidation in
1872; was there any communication,
either written or verbal, received from
the Central company, or from VIM. II.
Vanderbilt with regard to Legislation In
that Year,
A. received letter from Mr.. Wander
bllt after ceased TO be president Of the
railroad.
@. William II. VanderblltH
A. Yes.
Q. What was the purport OF itY
A. lie wished me TO give him some
letters to some friends OF mine.
Q. For what puTposeH
A. With regard to some Legislative
matters.
@. Did you do sol
A. Yes.
Q. To whom did you give him lettersP
A. My impression is that / wrote him
lettors to all the Senators on our road.
0. On the line Of the Erie rOadH
A. think so.
@. DO you recolleCt the names OF
anyS
A. Madden, Narrower, Wood. p.
57O)
William H. Vanderbilt, as president OF
the New York Central & Hudson River
railroad, according TO Alexander s. Di-
ven's testimony, pays $4,000 for the
Legislatures defeat Of the pTO-rate
freight and milk bills Of 1879.
Alexander S. Dlven being duly sworn
testlfea as follows:
O. General Diven, you have been for
some time director Of the Erie Railway
cOmpany2
A. Yes, sir. (p. 963)
@. Did you hear II talked that GER
tain individuals had been paid certain
sums Of money In connection with legls-
latlon to procure or prevent the passage
Of billsp
A. After came into the board, In
March, 1872, / think, the frat day Of my
coming to New York from home, / was
solicited by Mr., Vanderbilt TO 90 to Al
bany, he assigning as q reason that in the
attempt to defeat the classification bill
Mr. Gould had, for the purpose Of max
ing the Central interest join with him In
defeating that, been supporting the pro-
rata bill, and he said that the pro-rOta
bill had been pushed and he thought,
The advocate., 1891-02-04

W. MoMpoAu vi VVbA AAbAb"Ht
A. Yes, sir.
@. Did you understand what bills
we're at Issue In the House Of Assembly
upon which money was paidY
A. What they claimed was that 1t was
TO defeat the pro-rata bills and the bill
regulating rates on milk. II was a gem
eral milk bill, / believe.
O. DO you know the amount that was
paid 10 defeat that blllY
A. No, sir; I simply inquired II some
Of this money had not been used for posi-
tive Legislation which the Central road
was getting for themselves about their
Avenue road or something.
O. What WIS the reply to thatH
A. It was mo" that 1t was all used in
defense Of those damaging bills.
Q. Do you know to how many parties
money was paid in either HouseH
A. No. lie stated the number Of Sem
ators, five / think.
@ You have been a Senator yourself?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What is the character Of Abraham
Van VeChten- business characterP
A. He has always been considered as
a shrewd lobbyman.
Q. William butcher gave you the
names Of FIVE Senators2
A. Five, / think. 1t was either five
or six.
0. Aud those five or six received each
$1,000.
A. Yes, sir. guess II must have
been six, because II seems to me the sum
was 100000 paid to the Senate.
Q. Do you recollect the names Of
members Of Assembly who we're spoken
of
A. There we're no names Of members
Of Assembly mentioned there. They
we're mentioned In the aggregate. Opp.
97O-274.)
Q. Will you state what names you
recollect, positively, as coming from Mr..
butcher TO your
A. The name l recolleCt 10 that OF
Senator Narrower, who is a nelghbor Of
mine, man Of good character and good
reputation-whose reputation I would
not lmpeach upon the statement made TO
me, Opp. 586.537)
@. Have you examined the list pre-
sented to the committee by Mr.. O'Doher-
ty, containing the names and alleged
names Of SenatorsH
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you recognize any Of those
names, without now stating what ones,
as having been given to you by Mr.
DutcherI
A. Yes, sir. Think there is one there
/ remember now.
Q. AS having been given to you by
Mr.. DutcherS
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Are you entirely poaitIveS
A. have no doubt about It,
Q. Now will you state what the namt
isP
Ina. / will do that with the same quail
acatlop as / did before, and that is Gen
eral Wood.
@. James WOod9
A. Yes, sir. Up. $685.
@. You were present when the Teso
luton was passed by the Erie board
were you not, 70 pay $4,000 for legisla
The advocate., 1891-02-04

any ono In the interest OF the Erie road,
and told him he had better conduct the
opposition 70 that bill himself, as they
had been conducting the opposition TO H.
And he said he thought II unfair and
great injustice 70 tho Central road 10
compel them 10 bear the whole expense
Of opposing that bill.
/ told him that II was perhaps unfair
but / thought he had better continue III
that no could carry on the opposition
better than new parties coming in, and
that tho roads Interested had better join
him in paying the expenses, and | would
be In favor Of the Erie paying her share
Of tho expenses,
After the Legislature had adjourned
VIM. Vanderbilt reminded me Of that
conversation, and said there had been
expenses, stating about the amount, and
asked us TO contribute our share Of H.
suggested to him that / thought the
Harlem and other roads we're interested
and ought 10 pay their part. / thought
tho opposition TO some milk bill was one
hostile act OF the Legislature that the
roads felt II their duty 10 oppose; and
think said that the Harlem and New
Haven and Midland and other roads
ought to pay part Of II, and / suggested
10 him half the amount he had asked ua
20 pay.
He said the others would not pay any
and / think / promised TO bring il before
our board, and / think / did bring II be-
fore them.
Mr.. Vanderbilt said he had paid none
OF the money himself, and he did not
know how II had been expended. His
agents there had made the expenditures
and he had paid the money 10 them, and
he would send them TO me II requested
II TO make statement Of the Items Of
expenditure.
The parties representing themselves az
agents OF his did call upon me and did
make a statement Of the Items Of expen-
dlture.
@. VIII you state who they were?
A. Mr.. butcher and Mr.. Van VeChten.
Q. What DutcherP
A. The agent in the service OF the
New York Central road and has been tor
many years--llves in Westchester.
@. The other Is AbTam Van VechtenS
A. Yes, sir.
O. Those were the two parties who
came TO you as agents Of Mr.. Vanderbilt
A. Yes, sir.
O. Did either Of these gentlemen tell
you they had paid money themselvesf
A. No, sir; Mr.. butcher said he had
not paid il.
Q. Did he know who had paid it Oh
whom II had been paid TOT
A. think he told me he had paid Il
to Van Vechten and Barber.
@. Did he state the amountr
A. Yes, cir; he stated the amount they
claimed.
@. What was the amount?
A. think IL was about $76,OOO; there
was some $4,000 in all--835,OOO l thinl
would be the Erle's part OF IL.
Q. Who did Mr.. butcher say he pait
the money TOT
A. Messrs. Barber and Van Vechten
@. The money he had paid out HI
paid to Van VeChten and BarberH
The advocate., 1891-02-04

copy reBOiuuOnS page l0L
EXHIBIT NO. B.
Secretaro's Office, Erie railway company
corner Eighth Avenue and West Twen-
ty.thlrd street, New York July 80,
1872.
At a meeting Of the directors of this COM
pany, held July Sch, 1872, the following
resolutions were adopted;
Resolved, That the treasurer be author
lied 10 pay thirty thousand dollars, as this
company's proportion Of the legal expenses
Of the New York Central railroad company
AZ Albany last winter, TO prevent legislation
affecting preiudicially the interests Of this
company.
[ATTRsr. II. w Otis, Secretary.
Chauncey M. Depew, being duly sworn,
testlfes as follows:
Q. Were you In Albany during the
session Of the Legislature In 1872
A. Yes, sir.
Q. How long9
A. Well suppose for four or five
months; not continuously, but at differ
ent times during that period.
Q. How long did you remain in the
city after the session ended2
A. For several weeks preparing ROr,
and waiting to make arguments before
the Governor, and as business called me
during the summer.
@. Have you any connection with the
Central railroad?
A. am one OF the counsel OF the
Central railroad, and the attorney OF the
Harlem. (p. 629)
o. Are you counsel for the Central
railroad In suitsP
A. My business Is this: / am attor-
ney for the Harlem railroad on all mat
ters that an attorney should legltimately
attend to. Forthe Central i am counsel;
have charge Of all their real estate In
the city Of New York, and all matters az
fecting IL; have charge Of all their rela-
tlons with the authorities Of the city OF
New York, where It is necessary to ap-
pear and make arguments, and also make
arguments for the company before com
mlttees of the Legislature In relation TO
matters affecting them, and before the
Internal revenue officers, and matters
generally affecting them, and / generally
draw bills, amendments TO bills, contracts
and leases, etc. (p 633)
@. Did you ever hear Mr. butcher
say anything with regard to the employ
ment of Mr.. Barber2
A. think / did. (p. $685.
Q. He has testified he has received
about $4,000 from the Central railroad
company
A. Yes, sir.
@. Have you any knowledge what
they gave him the $4,000 fort
A. l do not know whether II was on
the pro-rata freight bill or on all kinds
OF information.
Q. How do you understand he in
liuences their sCtionG
A. / have rarely seen him whom he
was not talking with members OF the
Legislature up and down the hall, as he
says himself.
Q. You have rarely seen him whenhe
was not talking with members Of the
: Legislature.
A. He is always talking. l saw you
looking at him the other night for two
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-16
A STAR GoNEDOWN.

The sudden death OF Col. Dom Piatt
a few days ago removes from the stage
of American journalism one of the most
erratic, unique and brilliant geniuses
that ever irradiated it. No matter
what the theme, the performances of
his pen always giittered with wit,
sparkled with logic and oftentimes
burned with sarcasm. He was schol-
arly, erudite and facile master OF the
English language. Though he has left
the imprint OF his work on the pages of
scores of magazines and newspapers,
he will be best remembered by those of
his co-workers who live after him as
the editor of the once famous Washing
ton Capitol, and latterly OF Belford's
Magazine. His latest contribution to
literature was a series of articles
written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
in which the Republican party, its
prominent opponents, and misleading
theories were searchingly dissected
and laid bare by the surgery OF his
caustic style.
Dom Piatt had been a newspaper
writer all his life, and one of the most
magnetic. 1t has been written of him
by not unfriendly hand that his most
conspicuous defect-or merit-as a
newspaper man was his inability to
work long in harness. He was never
at his best unless as free lance punct-
uring shams of all kinds. As Wash
ington correspondent he struck out in
line both novel and taking, substi-
tuting fearless, independent criticism
for colorless reporting or partisan mis-
representation. His sarcasm was al
ways keen, often singing, some
times vitriolic, and he displayed
an extraordinary fertility in
inventing and applying epithets