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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17
Encene Wara,s first yarses

Eugene Wares first verses have fire.
quently been turned to campaign pur-
poses and the following was part of one
which was set to music IN 1879.
We have made the state of Kansas,
And today she stands complete
First in freedom, frs in wheat,
And her future years viii meet
Ripened hopes and richer stanZas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17
In 1855 Lucy Larcom also stirred the

1AO OA tAS Luz
| In 1855 Lucy Iarcom also stirred The
country with song of the same nature:
1eoman strong, hither throng!
Natures honect men:
we Will make the wilderness
Bud and bloom again.
BRING the sickle, speed the pillow.
Turn The ready soil,
Freedom is the noblest pay
For the true mans toll
no. brothersi come brothers,
Hasten all with me;
Ven sing upon the Kansas plains
a song ofliberty.
This period was prolific of songs lauda
tory of free Kansas and savage against the
slavery men. One OF the curious songs oil
this period is called the ''Ruffian Rally, y
and one verse runs thus:
Alabama Carolina,
Our dear sister Arkansas
Send your ruffians, help US Irvine
Rope to throttle Freedoms jaw!
For, if we don't stop her clamor.
She'll dissolve the Union. damn heri
In 1856, one Charles Weyman, received
the prize for the best Republican campaign
song. One stanza of 1t runs:
Far in the west rolls the thunder,
The tumult OF battle is raging,
Where bleeding Kansas is waging
Warfare with Slavery.
Struggling with foes who surround her,
Lo. she implOres you to stay her,
VIII you to Slavery betray her?
HUrrah
Swear that you'll never betray her
Kansas shall yet be free.
When the rebellion broke out Kansas
was of course ready with several songs.
Barring John Browns Body" this was
probably the most popular among the
Kansas volunteers:
The Kansas volunteers are boys devoid OF
fears
'Tis needless to recount their deeds
of daring;
In 80 and IS they gave the rebels fits,
And drove them from this happy land of Ca
naan.
The time of retrbution is a-coming
For with shot and shell. well give the rebels
hell
Or Wen drive them from the happy
land OF Canaan.
In 1873 Horace Greedy picked up a song
or rather satire on Click aud was so
fascinated with it that he published i5 with
divers comments and as a result it went
all over the country. 1t has always been
thought that John j. Ingalls, wrote it.
The first stanza is:
The moon is shining on the grange.
The winds are hushed. the leaves are still,
The patient stars look softly down
Upon my cot at shannon Hill.
Then come, my horny handed love,
And wander through the dell with me,
And gaze upon the Durham bull
And listen TO his pedigree.
Click had joined the grange, and was
playing the faImer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17
Refund the Money
In Every Case.

A good line of all wool Cassi-
mere Suits, formerly sold at
$1,000 and $500,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17

Senator QUAY is .tiII making that. etc.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17

From a poetic and literary standpoint
the Prohibition song is very weak, espec-
tally when compared with the efforts OF
the preceding years Ia fact Kansas cam
paign poetry has been ret.ograding and is
now at low tide. The Populists who en-
ploy songs great deal in campaigns are
partially responsible for this. Take a
stanza of their song Good Bye Old Party,
Good Bye" for instance:
And now have found a now plan.
From oppression we a-e bound 10 be free,
And the ticket Wei elect in November
WIN be made I'D of hayseeds like me.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17

OF course when the Prohibitionists took
Kansas campaign song was necessary.
Here is part of the only one which has
lived. 1t appeared in 1885.
How the years have changed our Kansas;
Kansas. glorious central s.ar
OF the Union, whose pure radiance
Sheds its light both near and far.
Brave, grand Kansas spurned the demon
OF the Still from off her plains;
Happy Kansas Live forever,
Free from Alcoholic chains.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
BOWEN-MERRILL.
MISS BREWSTER Welded.
She Renowned Her Religion and Mar
ried a Catholic Polish Count.

NEW YORK, March 2S-The marriage Of
Miss Annie Seabury Brewster and Count
Henri de Frankenstein took place at St
Patrick's Cathedral to-day. Archbishop Cor
rfean officiated. assisted by Rev. James
CorDelly and Rev. Henry T. T. Newey. The
nuptial mass was celebrated by Rev. T.
DAILY The altar was profusely decorated
with lilies.
The marriage is a notable one. not only
from the fact that IL brings a foreign title
to another American girl, but II ends a
woOing most enthusiastic on the part of
the Bridegroom Miss Brewster IS the
daughter of william Cullen Brewster. pres
ident Of the Plaza Bank, and a millionaire.
The brides uncle, who died a few years
ago, left her $,000.OOO, which has since
been greatly increased by good investment.
Miss Brewster is pretty. petite and a de-
cided blonde. Count Henri de Frankenstein
comes from a wealthy old Polish family,
which has long been a power with the
Vatican. He is about twenty-eight years
old. His complexion, eyes and hair are
dark, and the lower part of his face is
covered with closely cut beard He looks
foreign and talks English with an inter-
esting accent. The most on his life has
Deen spent at Rome, where the family has
palace. He met Miss Brewster while she
was travelling on the continent two years
ago. From accounts IT was case of love
az nrSt sight on the part OF the Count.
Some weeks ago the Count came to Amer
lea TO press his suit. He came armed with
letters OF introduction from some cardinals
at Rome TO Archbishop Corrigan and Car
d1nal Gibbons. Mr.. Brewster was at first
averse TO the marriage. He would have
preferred an American son-in-law, but final
~ he waived his objections. The one hitch
after that in the matrimonial affair was
that Miss Brewster was Protestant while
the Count was a Catholic, but Miss Brews-
ter settled matters by entering the Roman
Catholic Church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29

Democrats OF the committee had taken par
tisan positions regarding the authorship or
the Ftndley letter, and their conclusions
were not read. When Mr.. Hay was finally
dismissed the whole field of expert evidence
had been threshed over TO WEAKNESS.
Dir. Hay was followed by Colonel Breck-
ridges stenographer and clerk, q young
blonde-mustached man named WOrthinSton,
who until recently had been employed in the
Office of Breckenridge & Shelby In Lexing-
ton Being requested to tell what he knew
OF the questioned letter he explained that
last September Mr.. Shelby had received a
request from Colonel Breckenridge. then in
Washington, TO make search for letters
from Miss Pollard to him. The search had
extended over three or four days, and finally
this letter was found top of old un-
used desk where a lot OF correspondence:
part of 1t belonging to the firm, part Colonel
Breckinridge's private correspondence, was
stored away in pasteboard files alphabetical
~ arranged. This was the only letter from
Miss Pollard found.
On cross-examination the clerk said that
the office of Breckinridge & Shelby had been
moved in September, 1890.
80 that" Mr.. Wilson said, "of all the
letters found i'm that office this is the only
one in Miss Pollard's handwritng?'
The clerk assented. and Mr.. Wilson asked
II that package had seemed to consist or
private correspondence, to which the wit
ness replied that they had seemed TO be
mostly business letters. Between the leaves
of that pasteboard file, he explained. had
been only letters from persons whose names
began with Z. His recollection was that
'1SSf' was stamped upon the package. This
ended the testimony concerning the dis
puted letter, for the present at least.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
Testimony of Character Defamers
Kaufman md Brandt.

The deposition of Hiram Kaufman, a
Lexington butcher. was taken up after the
cross-examination of Roselle had been con-
Guided. Mr.. Kaufman had known Miss
Pollard when she lived in Lexington in 1888.
Kaufman said that he was living between
two questionable resorts. There were some
words not customarily heard in the best Of
society in this statement, but with the con-
sent Of Judge Bradley the lawyer substi-
tuted a mild term. Once he had visited one
of the houses with Jim Rhodes. Jim mad
said: II want you TO see my girl" kauf-
man then went into details that no re-
spectacle newspaper would care to publish.
The intent of his testimony was to blacken
Miss Pollard's testimony and show that she
was the mistress of Rhodes. He also swore
that Madeline was in the habit of becom-
ing intoxicated.
The deposition of John A. Brandt, school
janitor of Lexington, followed. Brandt said
he had first met Miss Pollard in 1883 at a
house kept by Lena Singleton, who was re-
puted TO be the mistress of James Rhodes.
The plaintiff had seemed then about seven
teen years old. Brandt had often taken
Miss Pollard riding. according to his story:
somewhere in the street, as he was a mar
ried man. He described Miss Pollard as "a
said she was then going to school Brandts
testimony was somewhat contradictory as 10
when he first met Miss Pollard DE-; saying once
that he had met her first in 1881 and again
in 1888. Brandt proved himself to be man
of the same character as Kaufman, and his
testimony was as vile.
The deposition of Letcher Lusby. chief of
police of Lexington for six years past, re-
vealed that he had known Lena Singleton.
Mr.. Wilson objected to question as to
Lena Singleton's reputation for chastity, but
Judge Bradley remarked that considering
what the witness said of her house, her
character might be inferred. Questions as
to whether Mr.. Rhodes had sent money by
express through an office in which Lusby
had been employed were objected to, but
admitted, and it appeared that Rhodes had
sent money TO a young lady at Wesleyan
College When witness joked him about her,
he had explained that she was his niece.
The deposition Of w: I. Jones, an alder,
man of Lexington. showed that he had
been acquainted with the family Of of, Prof ;
1884, had known Miss Pollard and under
stood that she was, frequently visited by
Roselle. She had told him that Rhodes was
raying her tuition; that she had, promised
to marry him, but did not intend to carry
out her contract, as he was an ignorant old
| farmer. With this the court adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
WILSON AND BRECKINRIDGE.
A Coming Struggle that Is ROusing
the Liveliest Interest.

Washington, Special In Chicago Record.
Judge Bradley Colonel Breckenridge and
Judge Wilson three of the conspicuous fig
ures in the scandal trial, all belong to the
same church. Calderon Carlisle is Cath
olic The exciting event in the Breckin-
ridge trial, the climax of interest, will
come when Judge Wilson undertakes the
cross-examination of the defendant All
who have watched his career must recog
nize Colonel Breckenridge as a very re-
marlxable man. His ability a debater
is equaled by only two members Of the
House of Representatives-Mr. Reed and
Mr.. Cochran. His seff-control and audacity
have been demonstrated by the braZen
manner In which he has faced the shame
full disclosures of his private habits, and
his skill in the examination of witnesses
and the exchange of repartee has been ex-
hibited again and again both in Washing
ton and Kentucky. He has been recognized
as the leader of the bar in his State, and
has passed in Washington as one of the
ablest men in public life.
Judge jeremiah NJ. wilson came to Con-
gresS from Connersvlle, Ind, twenty-five
years ago, and remained here In the prac-
tice OF law at the expiration of his con-
gressional career. He is the foremost man
of the Washington bar, and has been con-
nected with all the famous cases that have
been tried in the criminal courts of this
city during the last decade. He won his
first prominence as the chairman of the
House committee that investigated the
Credit Mobilier and Pacific Mail scandals,
and has increased his reputation by his con-
duct of several celebrated cases since His
force and shrewdness in cross-examinations
are proverbial. Everybody admits that he
can turn witness inside out as success
fully and completely as any lawyer in the
United States. He has plenty of nerve and
courage. and his tongue is sharp and keen,
although his manner is always polite and
even deferential to witness
But he has never undertaken the cross
examination of man like Breckenridge,
and in fact such a witness very seldom
appears in court. There has been so much
talk about the intention of Colonel Brock
inridge to protect himself from insult
during the progress of this trial and the
apprehension is so general that the scandal
is going to end in tragedy, that the en-
counter of the two men is awaited with
suppressed excitement. But Mr.. Wilson is
not one to be deferred from the perform
ance of his duty by the threats of his OPP
ponent, or the fear of the public as 10 his
personal safety, and there is no doubt that
he may be expected to show Colonel Breck-
inridge even less mercy than he otherwise
would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
THE ARMOR PLATE FRAUDS.
Inside History of Remarkable Pro-
ceeding Not Yet Told.
mocrat and Chronicle.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The report Of Secretary Herbert on the
armor-plate frauds agrees in the main with
what had already been published. There
are several points, however, which are left
unexplained.
The motive behind the frauds is not dis
closed. How and to what extent could en-
ployeS or the Carnegie works profit by
toiSting defective plates on the government. ="
When certain employees offered to give
they receive share of the money receov-
cred why did Secretary Herbert cooperate
with them in what was suggestive Of a
Matchmaking scheme, instead Of promptly
and frankly notifying Carnegie, Phipps &
Co. of the charges preferred against them {?
The latter would have been an honorable
proceeding. ii would have protected the
interests of the government, it would have
opened the way to the adjustment of dam
ages and would have put an end to the
irregularities. But the investigation was
conducted secretly. the damages were fixed
by department officials and the result was
sprung on the Carnegie people before they
knew what had been going on They pro-
tested against the penalties, but were forced
10 comply with the terms named by the
$4,000, of which $500 went to the in
formers. The latter, il will be seen, profited
handsomely by the affair. 1t is a mystery
why Secretary Herbert should have treated
with them 81 all, when more open-handed
and buSinesS-like course would have ac-
complished every desired result.
There remains another interesting ques-
ton. How severely did the administration
put the screws on Mr.. Carnegie? Was
the letter faVoring the Wilson bill part of
pulsion ELECTED that extraordinary docu-
ment? IL is evident that the inside history of
the armOr-plate frauds has not been told
in its entirety and integrity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
MAY REPEAL BY RIDER.
Democrats Will Try to Abolish the
Sugnr BOunties at Once.

WASHINGTON, March ga plan for
abolishing sugar bounties without waiting
for their repeal by the tariff bill has been
Informally discussed among those members
of the House who are radically opposed
to bounties in general and to the sugar
bounty In particular. 1t has been suggest
ed to members of the ways and means COM
mittee that bounty repeal amendment be
attached as a rider to the Legislative and
judicial appropriation BILL The committee
has taken no action on the suggestion nor
is it likely to for the present, as it would
indicate fear that the tariff bill might fail
Representative Warner, of New York
who secured the passage Of the amend
ment TO the Wilson bill placing raw and
refined sugars on the free list, says: I'VE
will get rid of the sugar bounties one way
or another. If they are contained in the
tariff bill as il comes back from the SEN
ate, then will reach them by a special
bill or a repeal rider viii be attached to
some other bill. if that gives promise Of
ACCOMPLISHING the end quickest AS VET
sentiment against bounties is so strong
that the plan will readily be formulated
as soon as opportunity offers. Nothing is
likely to be done, however, until the Sen
ate passes on the sugar schedule
Mr.. Warner and the other anti-bounty men
intended 10 attack the appropriation from
which the bountieS are paid, If Ii could be
reached. But on inquiry. to-day, 1t was
found that the sugar bounty Is q perma-
nent appropriation, and does not appear
in any of the annual appropriation bills
ing To strike out the bounty appropriation
The only way Of reaching II * by a repeal
of the existing law. Should the effort be
made to attach a bounty repeal rider to
the legislative appropriation bill, il would
undoubtedly be opposed on the ground Of
not being germane, as the legislative bill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
WHAT "AMERICANIsN', IS.
A Hell Expressed Definition with APP
pIfcatfons OF the American Spirit.

Theodore Roosevelt, in the Forum.
There is one quality which we must bring
70 the solution OF every problem; that is an
intense and fervid Americanism
II Is OF very great cor sequence that we
should nave a full and ripe literary devel-
oPment in the United States, but it is not
OF the least consequence whether New York,
or Boston, or Chicago, or San Francisco be-
comes the literary center of the United
The American who becomes Europeanized,
VINO loses his power OF doing good work on
this side or the water, and VINO loses his love
Tor his native land, is not a traitor; but he
is q silly and undesirable citizen. He is as
emphatcally a noxious element in body
polite as is the man who comes here from
abroad and remains foreigner Nothing
VIII more quickly or more surely disqualify
a man from doing good work in the world
than the requirement OF that flaccd habit
OF mind which its possessors style cos
mopolitanism. Even If the weaklings who
seek 10 be other than Americans were right
In deeming other nations to be better than
their own, the fact yet remains that to be
a first-claSs American Is f1fty-fold better
than TO be second-class imitation of a
Frenchman or Englishman.
1t is In those professions where our people
have Striven hardest 10 mold themselves i'm
conventional European forms that thew have
succeeded least; ard this holds true to the
present day, the failure being, OF course
most conspicuous where the man takes up
his abode In Europe; where he becomes a
second-rate European.
He is the most foolish Of parents who
sends his children 10 be educated abroad,
not knowing. what every clear-sighted man
from Washington and Jay down has known,
that the American who is to make his way
in America should be brought up among
his fellow Americans. 1t is among the peO-
pie who like 10 consider themselves and.
indeed. TO large extent are, the leaders
OF the so-calleCs social world, especially in
some OF the Northeastern cities, that this
colonial habit of thought. this thoroughly
provincial spirit of admiration for things
foreign. and inability TO stand on ones own
feet. becomes most evident and most des-
picable.
We do not wish Communications and
Irish-Americans who figure as such in our
social and political life; we want only
Americans, and. provided they are such,
we do not care whether they are OF native
or of Irish or OF German ancestry We
have no room in any healthy American
community for a German-American vote or
an Irish-AmeTican vote. and IL is contemptl-
Bile demagogy 10 put planks into any party
platform with the purpose OF catching such
a vote
1t remains true that in spite OF all our
faults and shortcomings, no other land Of
fers such glorious possibilities to the man
able to take advantage of them, does
ours: IL remains true that no one of our
people can do any work really worth doing
unless he does IL primarily as an American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
Rankin ROseIle, Miss POllard's Ex-Fi-
ance, Tells of His Relations with the
Plaintiff at Cincinnati.
AN EXPERT CROSS-EXAMINED
Colonel" Hay Intercepted by
Ex-Judge Jere NJ. Wilson.
Breckinridge's Private Secretary on the
Stand-More Dispositions Read
Miss Pollard i'm Court.

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-The surprise
OF the Notwithstanding trial to-day
was the unexpected appearance of one OF
Miss Pollard's old lovers, Rankin Roselle,
a Kentucky schoolmaster His deposition
had been read in the case, but to make his
testimony doubly sure, the ex-fiance was
introduced In person, and no sooner had he
taken the stand than Madeline Pollard
glided in for the first time this week, from
the Office of her attorneys across the street
where she waits to be sent for when her
presence is needed Probably she will be in
court tomorrow to face her silver-haired
accuser; for the attorneys declare that
there will be positively no longer postpone
ment of the testimony of the principal in
the case and that Colonel Breckenridge will
take the stand without fail in the course of
the day.
Most of the testimony to-day was in the
form of dispositions and much of it was of
a character which can only be published in
expurgated form. Three depositions re-
garding which Judge Bradley had expressed
his regrets that they could not be excluded
moral principles, were recited and the
justification for the scathing comments on
them was self-evident. Some of the Ian
Suage employed by Hiram Kaufman, a
Lexington butcher, ana John Brandt, a
janitor from the same place. would hardly
be tolerated in a well-regulated barroom.
These gentlemen admitted in a matter of
fact way their tendencies toward habitual
drunkenness and marital infidelity and the
court admitted their statements unexpur-
gated, as he remarked in conversation, that
the jury might judge of the character of
the witnesses
Colonel Breckinridge's private secretary
was one witness of the day, and another
was Colonel Hay, the best-known man in
Washington and. incidentally, an expert
on penmanshp, who was subjected TO furth-
er cross-examination upon the principles
employed in detecting forgeries, under the
suggestion of another expert who sat at
attorney Wilson's elbow. From the addi-
ton of this new expert into the case il
looks as though a hard fight had been pre-
clpitated over the authenticity of that
bIack-bordered letter which was made pub
lie yesterday. The case of the defense is
drawing to a close with the appearance Of
Colonel Breckenridge. whose testimony is
expected to occupy at least three days, as
long a time as Madeline Pollard was on
the stand Then there will bS rebuttal for
an indefinite length. as Miss Pollard will
take the stand again and witnesses have
been summoned from Kentucky.