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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-10
An Earaged woman's Act.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. S.-Mrs. c..
Mckenzie made an unsuccessful at
tempt to horsewhip Judge Logan, of
the superior court, on the street at
Santa Cruiz today. The woman
jumped outfrom the side OF q building
and struck at the judge with a whip.
He caught the woman by the wrist as
the lash was descending, and it did not
strike him. The woman was arrested,
but as no charge was preferred against
her she was released. The assault
grew out of the divorce of Mrs. Eliza
beth Stewart against DR.. J. A. Stewart,
in which Mrs. Mckenzie was named
as correspondent. Judge Logan was a
witness in the case for Mrs. Stewart,
and Mrs. Mckenzie alleges that de-
cision was given against her through
Judge LoCan's influence.
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IS BRYAN CRAZY?

The Mckinley press has been devot,
ing considerable time and space to
questioning the sanity of Mr.. Bryan,
hoping thereby to break down man
whose arguments they have been un-
able to meet. To refute their sallies
upon his mental condition one has but
to consider the campaign he is con-
Quoting and the strain, both mental and
physical, he has undergone without
showing any signs whatever of break
ing down. In his campaign SO far,
the English practice of heckling-Jhat
is, catechising the speaker and trying
to stump him with questions-has been
tried by Mr.. Bryan's audiences, but he
has been found with ready answer on
every occasion.
Under this fire of questions Mr..
Bryan has shown himself exceptionally
apt and convincing in his replies. But
this readiness of retort is only one of
the proofs of the activity of his mind
that marks him as most extraordin-
ary man. When his age and ex-
perience are considered aud the
fact that he has been going almost
continually since the Chicago conven-
tion, making from two to dozen
speeches day, one is astonished at
his ability, versatility, resources and
endurance, and instead of considering
him insane, rather wonders at tho
power and predominence of his sanity.
People who sit at home and read his
telling utterances do not half realize
the tremendous strain of mind and
body which is required to stand up un-
der such an ordeal. When the curtain
falls on the great political drama on
the evening of the Sd of next month,
Mr.. Bryan will have closed one Of the
greatest and most remarkable cam
paigns ever known, and he will have
gained the reputation of being one of
the sanest men in the nation.
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was sent to this country with this fund
as the agent of the foreign bond hold
ers and capitalists to effect the same
object, which was successful"
This, The Dalles Chronicle says never
appeared in the Bankers Gazette. If
it did not, the S. F. Chronicle of
August ), 1893, is guilty of making flag
rant missquotation, SO the question of
authority again arises. Did the S. F.
Chronicle of that date wilifully lie, or
has The Dalles Chronicle made miss
representation? To satisfy the readers
we would invite their attention to the
fact that The Dalles Chronicle fails to
quote any authority for its statements
that Mr.. Seyd was not in American in
1873, while. we put in evidence Mr..
Hooper and the Bankers Gazette.
Which is the best authority?
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-10-10
TAO ENGINES COLLIDE
A Fatal Railway Accident
Near Roseburg.
CREM ATEn ALIVE
A Mother and Her Four Children
Burned at Her Home in
Benton County,
Bryan Has Begun His Campaign in In
tiiana-A Smoth Swindier Is Caught
InSan Francisco After Having
Victimized Many.

RosEBuRG, Or, Oct. GA fatal col
lision occurred this morning. between
6 and o'clock, between two light loco
motives on the Southern Pacific rail-
way, half mile south Of Green's sta
tion, resulting in the death of two men,
and the injury of five others.
The following is the list Of dead ard
Injured:
John McGonigle, of Portland, fire.
man on the south-bound engine, in
stantly killed.
y. n. Toy, OF Salem, brakeman on
the same engine, instantly killed.
James Porter, engineer or the north
bound engine, severely bruised and
one ankle broken.
George Happersett, fireman on the
northbound engine, both legs broken
and feet crushed. rendering amputa-
tion necessary of one leg below the
knee, and the foot of the other leg.
Ben Lohr, head and face cut.
Fred Wall, conductor of Porter's
engine, bruised and cut about the face
and head.
Engineer McCalley, badly bruised.
1t appears that Conductor Wall, of
the southbound overland. left his
tickets aud papers at the station here,
discovered his loss, side-tracked the
train at billiards, and started flag
back with the light engine Meantime,
the papers were discovered by the sta
tion agent here, and the train dis
patcher ordered out light engine to
overtake the overland at Myrtle Creek.
keeping lookout for No. l6 and the
section men. The morning was dense
ly foggy. The southbound engine did
see the north bound, which rounded
curve, colliding with the above result.
Engineer Porter had reversed his
engine before being thrown from the
cab, and his engine broke from the
tank and ran south about q miles,
where it was found exhausted. The
tanks of both engines were badly de-
molished.
A farmer came in on horseback and
notified the agent of the accident.
Superintendent Fields. who arrived
this morning from Portland, went i'm
mediately to the scene of the wreck,
with physicians, and brought back the
injured men, returning with the cor
oner, who brought the bodies of Nc
Gonig,e and Toy to the undertakers,
where an inquest will be held this after
noon
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CALLED THEIR BLUFF.

The bluff which L. 3. Cox and c. E.
S. Wood undertook to run on Secre-
tary of State Kincaid. to prevent him
from certifying to the nomination OF
the Bryan electors in this state, was
promptly called by Mr.. Kincaid, des-
pite the opinion rendered by the at
torney.general, and the voters of
Oregon will have an opportunity to
express their. choice for president.
The attempt of Messrs. Cox and
Wood to prevent the printing of the
names of the Bryan electors on the
official ballots in Oregon was about as
high handed u piece of chcianery as
has ever been attempted in the state,
and Mr.. Klncaid's action is just re-
buke to their cheap pettifoggery. In
their so-called Injunction proceedings
they sought to deprive many of the
voters of Oregon of their right
of suffrage, and free expression of
choice for the president of the
United States, but their bluff failed TO
win.
When the supporters of Mckinley
land Messrs. Cox and Wood are noth-
ing less than Mckinley followers, al
though they pose as national demo-
Gratis. but will not vote for Palmer,
notwithstanding Mr.. Cox is one of the
Palmer electors) are compelled to re-
sort to such technicalities as these gen.
tlemen have to carry the state for their
champions it begins to look as if all
on their side of the ques-
tion had failed and they were willing
to resort to any means, no matter how
low, in order to capture the vote OF |
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BRYAN A BURLINGTON.
The People OF That City Lionize the POI
ulnr Candidate

The People OF That City Lionize the Pop
ulnr Candidate.
BURLINGTON, Ia, Oct. S.-Bryan ar
rived at Burlington at $50 this MORN
ing in private car, the name of which,
the "Idler," is in striking contrast
with his campaign record. A local
reception committee of 200, headed by
S. K. Tracey, waited in the depot from
$50 to $3.50, when Bryan arose. He
was taken for breakfast to the resi-
dence of John J. Seerley, colleague
of Bryan in congress.
A meeting was intended to have been
held at the courthouse, but on account
OF the crowd Bryan excused himself by
making short speech.
At 10 O'Clock the procession started
to Crapo Park, where the Coliseum Is
located.
The parade was an imposing one.
Behind the carriage, in which the
nominee was seated, followed an escort
of women on horseback, q cavalcade of
horsemen, and II b,snds, including the
Iowa state band, sandwiched in be
tween various silver marching clubs.
At II o'clock the first speech of the
day was made in the gigantic Coliseum,
erected for the semi-centennial of
Iowa's admission to the Union of
states. The crowd filling the building
was enthusiastic to great degree.
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ANOTHER FALSE POSITION

"These silver-ring people plead
poverty. They have reduced miners
wages from $3.50 per day to s., and in
most cases to $3.50 per day, while de-
claring dividends by scores of millions
Yet they ask the workingmen of the
country to help them with votes to
double their dividends and take the
difference out of the wages of ell the
people who work.
"For this is precisely what their pres
ent free-coinage demand amounts to.
These multi-milIionaire monopolists
have already forced the government to
pay them S464 600, 900 for silver bullion
now worth in the market only S3l8,-
900, ,000-in other words, to pay chem q
bonus of Sl46, 100000 on q business al
ready enormously profitable. Every
dollar of this exaction has been taken
out of the earnings Of the people, for
every dollar of it has been paid out of
the proceeds of taxation"
The above was printed in the Ore
gonian and credited to the New York
World, but it is hardly probable that
such an expression ever was uttered by
the World, for that paper ordinarily
confines itself to facts, and is not given
to such fallacious statements.
Not one dollar has ever been exacted
from the people to pay for silver bullion
either under the Bland Allison or the
Sherman law. Under the former a
certain amount of silver was taken to
the mints and coined each month, the
coined money being given in exchange
for the bullion. Under the Sherman
law certificates were issued against
the bullion and were given in exchange
for it as it was presented at the rate of
4.500.0 900 ounces per month. Under
the provisions of that law the govern
ment became the purchaser of silver
bullion it is true, but it never paid for
a single ounce out of the proceeds Of
taxation For every silver certificate
issued it took in and has today cor
amount of silver either coin
or bullion. The above statement how
ever, is sample of the misrepresenta-
tions the gold press resorts to, which
when Investigated prove false on their
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ASHORE FOR ARGUMENT.

The Salem Statesman, whose editor
lives near the state insane asylum in
the capital city, propounds the ques-
tion: SIS Bryan insane?" and then
goes on in an attempt to prove that he
is in these words:
&c. Wilfre1 Pierce, of Philadelphia,
who is an expert upon the subjects, be-
lieves he is. He writes q public letter.
dated September %, in which he de-
clares: 1t is the opinion of several
eminent specialists in the treatment of
brain disorders that Candidate Bryan
is mentally diseased. One of the
greatest medical experts in Philadel-
phia attended the Bryan meeting at
the Academy of Music this evening for
the express purpose Of studying Bryan
when speaking to an audience. After
the close of the meeting, he gave it as
his opinion that Bryan is suffering
from the same mental disorder which
afflicted George X. Fox, the famous
Humpty Dumpty, and the lamented
John McCulloch. MIR.
Bryan's condition mentally and
physically, is so pitiable that his
managers are thinking of cancelling
his engage ments. Wherever he goes
the people who hear him 60 away con-
vinced that he is an unfit person for
any public Office. An examination of
Mr.. Bryan by any of the eminent brain
specialists of New York would. if made
public. send him into private life.'
What do the people think of this at
tempt? Does it not show that the op-
position are poverty stricken in ar
gument and have to resort to ridicule,
abuse and misrepresentation of man
whom they have failed to pull down in
the estimation of the people in any
other way? However, it is natural for
newspaper of the Statesman's 8 calibre,
The editor thereof being more or less
inder the influence of an environ.
nent affected by the proximity of an
Institution for the insane, to use this |
lind of an argument in that kind of !
,aper in cause that should not be of |
hat kind.
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Minors for Leadvilie.

LEADvILLE, Oct. 8.-James r. Am
burn, president of the miners union,
no has been missing since the riots,
has been succeeded as president by
P. ter r. Turnbull, formerly vice-pres-
ident. There is No change in the
policy of the union, but the mine op-
orators are not now disposed to listen
to any suggestions of compromise.
They intend to resume work in all the
mines. 1t is reported that over 100
miners are now on their way hither
from Missouri to take the places Of
strikers
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a lER LIVELY FIRING
Horsethieves Captured by
Wallowa County Officers.
BRYAN LIONIZED
The People Of Burlington Give Him
One of the Grandest
0vations Yet.
Senator Butler Says the Results In Flor
Ida and Georgia are Favorable to
Bryan Mckinley Still Re-
ceiving at Canton.
BRYAN LIONIZED

LA GRANDE, Oct. 8.-Particulars OF
battle between horsethieves and der
uty sheriffs in .Wallowa county. were
received by telephone from Enterprise
today.
A few days ago two men, George
and Henry Smith, passed through the
Imnaha with band of horses, sup.
posed to have been stolen, and ca,uped
on Corrall creek. y day or so after
ward a warrant was issued for their ar
rest. 1t was feared they would resist,
and five men were sent out to bring
them in. The camp was easily located
and Henry Smith was found in it and
captured by strategy. Two of the Off
GERS started out to find the other
brother, and one was left to watch the
camp. George Smith returned to the
camp and got tho drop" on the off,
Ger, and held him up. He suspected
tina; something was wrong, and pro-
ceeded to march the officer up the trail,
After proceeding short distauce, he
met the two officers who were looking
for him. The officers opened fire,
which was returned by Smith, but
none of the shots took effect. The
officers then took refuge behind trees,
and Smith fired four shots at them,
three of which hit the trees.
The shooting cooled the ardor of the
officers somewhat, and they turned
their efforts toward keeping the trees
between themselves and the horsethief.
While the borsethief was trying to get
another shot at the men behinde the
trees, the officer that had been left
withethe horsesscame up and shot the
horsethief in the head with shotgun.
He mad heard the firing and came up
just in time to relieve his brother
officers from an UNPLEASANT nositiou,
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THE MONEY QUESTION FIRST.

There are thousands of republican
voters who honestly believe the free
and unrestricted coinage of silver
would be beneficial to the government
and conducive to prosperity, yet they
are strong advocates of a protective
policy, hence will support the regular
nominees of the st. Louis convention,
believing protection the paramount
issue. In this they are misguided.
There is an impossible barrier to tar
iff legislation until the money question
is settled favorably to silver. While
politicians are endeavoring to con-
vince free silver republican voters that
the tariff issue can be made of impor-
tance in this campaign, they know it
Is impossible, and the people are be-
ginning to recognize this fact.
1t is beyond question that the senate
will absolutely prevent any such tariff
legislation as will be satisfactory to
Mr.. Mckinley. This the politicians
know full well, and they know more.
They know that unless they give
free coinage of silver to the silver re-
publican senators, who pledged them
selves to the cause of silver in the
last session, that no tariff revision on
lines can be had during the
next four years. All the changes that
can be made in the senate within four
years to come will not give a majority
by which they can pass such tariff
law as they claim to be battling for,
hat does not carry with it a provision
or the free coinage of silver.
The money question must be settled
before any other can be acted upon,
md since the silver men have a
majority in the senate it must be set /
led their way before any other re-
nedial legislation can occur. What
oily it would be then to elect presi-
ent, who by his party declarations, is
ound to oppose any measure that viii
9 possible to pass through the senate !
,oking toward the relief of the treas.
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rs THIS TRAITORUS9

In his speech delivered in The
Dalles, Senator Mitchell took special
exception to the following plank in
the Chicago platform:
"We.denounce the arbitrary inter-
ference by federal authorities in local
affairs as a violation of the constitu-
tion of the United States and o crime
against free institutions, and we espec-
tally object to government by injunc-
tion as new and highly dangerous
form of oppression by which federal
judges, in contempt of the laws of the
states and rights of citizens, become at
once legislators. judges snd execution
ers, and we approve the bill passed by
the last session of the United States
senate and now pending in the house
of representatives, relative to con-
tempts in federal courts and providing
trials by jury in certain cases OF con-
tempt"
This plank, Mr.. Mitchell held to be
traitorous and dangerous to the free
institutions of the country, because it
savored of the old democratic doctrine
of state rights. However he did not
refer to the clause in the constitution
which provides that no person shall be
convicted of crime except he be tried
by jury, nor did be refer to the cir
cumstance which called for this plank
in the platform. Had he shown that
certain members Of. the American
Railway Union had been imprisoned
for contempt of court by the federal
courts without trial by jury, which
any fair minded man would acknowl-
edge was violation of the federal con-
stitution, he could have discovered
little foundation for holding the plank
to be treasonous or anything, short OF
q fair declaration that the rights of the
poor as well as the rich must be recog-
nized by the courts.
If this declaration of the Chicago
platform is treasonous, we want to
be called traitor 10 our country. Ifa
party or an individual becomes traitor
for demanding that no one shall be
imprisoned withouJ fair trial before
q jury of his peers, then it is more
acceptable to be termed traitor than
q patriot. If it Is traitorous to con-
denim the acts of the federal courts in
the authority of states in
local affairs and demand that viola
lions of state laws shall be adjudicated |
in state courts, then it will be an honor
to every true American citizen to be i
called traitor.
The safeguard to American liberty !
is the right of trial by jury, and when .
ever or wherever it is refused either by
state of federal courts, the rights and
privileges of American independence .
are threatened. This the federal counts i
did In the case referred to, which was
the cause that called for the declara-
tion in the Chicago platform to which |
Mr.. Mitchell objects and dubs as in
cendiary. In our opinion it is one of
the most patriotic declarations of the
platform, and if all other plsnks were
out, it bit to-be sufficient ,
alone to win the support of liberty |
loving people.
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4 QUESTION OF AUTHORITY

The Dalles Chronicle puts itself on
record as being pretty high authority
in matters of history, and gives ,the
lie to Mr.. Hooper, who was chairman
of the committee on weights and meas.
ures of the house in 1873, and says:
Ernest Seyd was not in this county
at any time after 1870; he was never
before the committee"
The Congressional Record, April 9,
p. 2O34, records Mr.. Hooper as saying:
ernest Seyd, of London, distin-
guished writer and bullionist, who is
now here and has given great atten-
tion to the subject of mints and coin.
age, after examining the first draft Of
this bill, made various sensible sug-
gestions, which the committee adopted
and embodied in this bill"
Now, we submit the question, was
Mr.. Hooper more competent to judge
whether Mr.. Seyd was in the United
States in 1873, or the editor of the
Chronicle, who evidently was not in
the national capitol at that time? Mr..
Hooper, as chairman of the house
on weights and measures,
had charge of the bill which demon
etized silver in 1873, hence is probably
better authority on the whereabouts of
Mr.. Seyd at that time than tho editor
Of the Chronicle, who per chance was
at that date a student in some Juvenile
school. Mr.. Hooper said Seyd was here
and appeared before the house COM
mittee.
The Chronicle says this is an "old
Iie," well II it Is, Mr.. Hooper was an
awful liar and we submit to the reader,
Who is to be credited for veracity, Mr..
Hooper or the editor of the Chronicl?
In substantiation of Mr.. Hooper's po-
ition, the Bankers Gazette came in
md said: SIN 1872 silver was being
in France, Germany, Eng
and and Holland. a capital of s100, 900
vas raised and Ernest Seyd of London
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the Oregonian to believe and know
that the silver money OF the country
were not backed up by or redeenable
in gold. the standard money of the
country.
If the government can neither add
to or take away from the value OF q
metal by its stamp, all the silver cir
culation Of the United States should
go at its actual bullion value, and the
paper money at the cost of the paper
on which it is printed. The fact that
the coinage of silver is limited cuts
little or no figure in creating an ex-
changeable or purchasing power in
the silver coins.
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The Oregonian n gioats over the n

The Oregonian gioats over the mis-
fortune which overlook East Portland
Sunday morning in the fire that
occurred on the East side, in section
where fires have always proven dis
astrous, and cites the fact that Sunday
mornings fire is an evidence that
Bryan should not be elected president.
In its news columns the Oregonian
says the loss was $40, 500. while editori-
ally it put the loss at $4,000, but adds
it might have been 5000. 700, and ought
to have said that amount of loss would
have pleased the Oregonian greatly
since it has been endeavoring to en-
courage fire bugs to apply the torch to
the city.
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Rio1ham.s ucavy Maiorlty.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct, RE
turns of yesterdays election are still
incomplete. Eighteen counties heard
from give Bloxham, democrat, 10000
majority over Gunhy, republican. The
indications are that Bloxham will have
a plurality of of 25, 900 votes. The con-
stitutional amendment abolishing the
October elections was ratified. 1t is
difficult 20 base an estimate as to how
the next legislature will stand for SEN
ator, except that Senator Calls follow
ers will be greatly in the minority.
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BUTLER IS SATISFIED.
Says Democratic Majority VIII BE Greater
in November.

says Democratic Majority VIII BE Greater
in November.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-Replying to
an inquiry from the Atlantic Journal
for his opinion upon the result of the
Georgia election, Senator Butler sent
the following telegram:
"The outlook for Bryan and free
silver is much better than it was ten
days ago. The reaction against the
schemes and methods of the republi-
can party has already set in, and will
grow in,force until the day of election.
This proves the inpotency Of Doodle
in the campaign when the people are
aroused on great vital issue. Present
indications show that 235 electoral
votes are reasonably certain for Bryan
with at least chance for 10 more.