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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-01
BIMETALLIC COMMITTEE.
Ii Will Concede Nothing to the Gold.
standard Delegates

~
CHICAGO, June 3o.-The conference of
bimetallic committee was called to order
at the Sherman House a few minutes nas,
II o'clock to-day by Senator Harris. of ZEN
nessee, who is chairman of the organiza-
ton. There was present a quorum of mem,
bers of the committee and a large number
of distinguished silver Democrats. includ-
ing Senators Harris and Bate. of Tennes-
see; Jones, of Arkansas; Turpie, of Indiana:
Daniel. of Virginia. and Cockrell, of Mis-
souri,; ex-senator Martin, OF Kansas; Gov
ernor Stone. Of Missouri: Congressman Nc
Millin and Richardson, of Tennessee; ex-
Congressman Bryan. of Nebraska, ands
Snodgrass, of Tennessee, besides others.
The first meeting was devoted largely 10
introductions and the exchange of views
as to the outlook for the approaching con-.
vention. The opinion was generally ex-
pressed that there would be no question as
TO the absolute control of the convention
by the silver forces, to which it was gem
orally added determination to see that
nothing happened to in any way weaken
the control.
There was more less individual dis
cussion Of Mr.. Whitney's attitude among
the delegates. and 1t was noted shat there
was Iio expression on the part of anyone
favorable TO yielding anything to the gold
standard element The opinion of the gath
ering on this score was we'll summed up irs
a characteristic remark by Senator Harris.
II am the Senator said. lone of many
thousands of Democrats and of many
hundreds of delegates. / can't, of course.
speak for all. but can speak for myself.
want no compromise. We should either
have a declaration for the free coinage of
silver on terms of equality with gold at
the ratio OF is to l. so plain that no human
being can misunderstood IL, or we should
have an equally plain pronouncement for
the gold standard, and I think / know
which IL will be-"
The formal proceedings consisted I'm the
appointment of committee 20 confer with
the Executive committee Of the national
Democratic committee, consisting of Sem.
ator j. X. Jones. OF Arkansas: Governor
W. ]. Stone. OF Missouri Senator David
Turpie. of Indiana: Governor j. II. Altgeid
Of Illinois. and Senator j. w. Daniel OF
Virginia The terms of the resolution un-
der which this committee was appointed
authorize the committee TO confer with
the executive committee OF the national
coyumittee In reference to all Qiestionss af-
fectInE and relating TO the temporarytor,
HnuI1okIon and proceedings Of the uatt{k
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PROPHET HINRICHsEN.
He Predicts Free-SiIver Ticket and
16-tO-l Platform.

CHICAGO. June 30.-If the prognostica-
tions of w. III. Hinrichsen, delegate-at-
large and chairman of the Illinois State
central committee, are correct. the gold
standard delegates to the convention will
be given no quarter. 1.-The silver men are
going 10 run the convention" said Mr.. Hin
richsen. "They will control both the tenn
porary and permanent organizations and
will nominate a free-silver ticket from top
TO bottom and adopt free-silver, 16-to-1
platform. The wishes of the gold men will
not be considered. The States they repre-
sent will not vote the ticket, and SO they
will be ignored. Last year, when the Demo
Gratis of Illinois held a convention and de-
clared for free silver. i wrote TO Mr.. Whit
ney and number of other gold standard
Democrats asking for a conference between
the gold and silver men Of the party The
replies were short and curt. They could not
think OF consulting with so insignificant a
crowd as the free-silver wing represented.
Things have changed now. We have two
thirds of the delegates. We will not confer
with the gold men because We have moth
ing TO confer about. The great Democratic
party wants a free-silyer platform, and we
will give il to them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-01
MRS. TAYLOR SCREAMED,


PROVIDENCE. X. L.. June 3O.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Taylor was shot and seriously
wounded by an unknown burglar. just after
noon to-day Mrs. Taylor states that she
was asleep in her chamber when she was
awakened by 1.-THE sound OF a man rummag-
ing in her buteau. She asked him what he
wanted. He pointed a revolver at her and
answered: Keep quiet or III shoot. In
spite Of the Threat Mrs. Taylor screamed
for help and the man fired. the bullet en-
tering Mrs (Taylor's face just below the
right nostrit The burglar fed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-01

ALBANY. N. Y. June So.-A dslegation
called on Governor Morton to-day and
urged executive clemency in behalf OF John
Y. McKane. the. former Gravesen nd
boss A personal letter from Mc-
Kane. TO the Governor was pre-
sented b. The delegation 1t urged that Me-
Kane he'd fully atoned for his crime ana
that Outraged Justice had been satfshed-
IL was ted that the unfortunate mans .
health was IN very bad condition and that
IL he Vtass compelled to serve his full sen.
Wrock. l|and would be = burden t. his fam
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-01
FIGs- OPENED IN EARNEST ny
" AMER MILLER AND FRIENDS.
Address Issued by BrookfcId. MIL
holland and Others 10 Repubii-
can Voters OF New York.
PROTEST AGAINST THE BOSS
WHO HAS "ARRoGArED. To HIM
SELF ALL POWERS IN THE STATE,

And Who Has Adopted s.Frsudufent
and Oppressive Methods" 20 Main
tain Supremacy Of His Machine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-01
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
At Least 5000 Expected to Take Part
i'm the Campaign.

WASHINGTON. June 30.-Lawrence
Gardner. secretary OF the Democratic con-
gressional campaign committee. and also
of the national association of Democratic
clubs, left for Chicago to-day. where he
will establish headquarters OF the latter
organization in the Auditorium. Ex-Gov.
ernor Chauncey F. Black, president Of the
association OF clubs, is iii and will not be
present. Postmaster-general Wilson, chair
man OF the executive committee. will be
detained here by his official duties, and his
place will be taken<as chairman pro tenn.
by Representative Benten McMillin, OF
Tennessee. The headquarters will be fully
supplied with literature pertaining TO the
been sent TO all the delegates-elect TO the
convention inyiting them to headquarters
for conference.
The national association now has men,
bership of 1-5oo clubs embracing every
State and territory. numbering about 500,-
COO members Many others are being
formed and IL is expected that in this
campaign. which the officers OF the asso-
citation say will be peculiarly a campaign
of the people, there will be at least 800
clubs In the field, there were nearly
5000 in the last contest.
on Monday. July 6. a conference will be
held in Chicago between the executive
committee and the chairman OF the State
associations. which are twenty In number.
At this conference plans win be ARRANGED
for a convention of the clubs TO be held
in ST. Louis Sept. 30. the citizens of St.
Louis having assumed all The expenses at
tendant upon the convention. and il is con-
fidently expected by the association that
1t will be one OF the largest popular gath
erings ever held IL this country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-01
The indianapolis Warehouse Co.


Burden House Robbers Sentenced.
NEW YORK. June 3d. William Turner
end William Robert Dunlop. who con-
fessed TO having robbed their Employer,
5ewelry, have been sentenced 10 nine
years each in prison The maximum PEN
atty IL ten years. One year was ktken on
a account OF the confession they pado.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21
In recent address before the Ii,

In recent address before the Lib
eral Club, of Buffalo, Hon. Carroll d,
Wright, United States Labor Commits
sioner, made some interesting state
ments regarding the wealth and prog
ress of the South. The strip of terri
tory stretching from Pennsylvania to
Alabama, Mr.. Wright said, contained
forty times the coal accessible to
economic produstion and distribution
that was contained in Great Britain
before pick was struck. He esti-
mated that the production of cotton
in the South is double what it was be.
fore the war; in twenty years the
manufacture of pig iron has increased
1000 per cent, the railroad mileage is
$50 per cent. greater now than in 1880.
and the passenger traffic 500 per cent.
greater, and the freight tons moved
400 per cent. larger. He says that
since 1880 the Southern railroads have
more than doubled their earnings, the
banking capital has increased in like
proportion, and the money spent in
the support of schools has also been
doubled.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21
PAST MASTER IN MASONRY.

George Washington was at one time
the Grand Master OF Alexandria
Lodge No. %. F. and A. NJ, which is
now known by his name as Washing
ton Lodge; and his chamber clock is
still preserved in its rooms. with his
hands forever pointing to twenty min.
utes past 10, which was the time at
which, on December IA, 1899, Wash.
ington died at Mount Vernon.
Other interesting relics OF Washing
ton as Mason are the apron and sash
which he wore when he laid the south.
east cornerstone OF the Federal Capt..
tol in 1893. These insignia, which
are kept sealed behind glass to escape
the relic hunters. were embroidered
by the hands OF the Marquise de Ia.
fayette, :the "Fairly Fair" the wife OF
the magnanimous French officer who
took such interest in the American
cause. 1t may be sddoi that "iairly
fair" in this connection didn't mean
exactly what it would nov, but was in
tended to be doubly emphatic.
Here. in the lodge rooms in Alexan-
dria, are also exhibited by the Masons
of to-day other Washington relics,
most interesting OF which perhaps are
the field compasses he usea in survey
ing. But far greater store oil relics
was destroyed utterly in the FIRE
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21

According to William E. Curtis,
New York City is alarmed at the pos
sibility that Chicago may capture
most of the trade with the South if
the proposed Chicago and Southern
States exposition is held next fall. A
counter demonstration is therefore
being planned in Gotham. This will
take the form of monster parade of
the blue and the gray. Negotiations
to secure cheap excursion rates over
all railroads for the masses and passes
for merchants, producers, shippers,
bankers and leading Grand Army of
the Republic men in the South and
West are being made. Bythese means
it is expected that big crowd can be
secured and the Chicago project nulli-
fed or at least prevented from accom-
plishing all its promoters auticape,
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the seven

Total, seven States. sis, ,2ls,4is 500 637 ,s62
How New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut and Illinois are being pun
ished for going Republican since 1892 !
The lumber and mining men of Michi.
gan are feeling the lash, and Ohio is
being whipped up for its back sliding.
This is part of the campaign of edu.
cation" Dun's Review says:
THE excess of manufacturing fail
ures is found within very narrow
district. More than the entire in
crease appears in New York, S,O0O.-
600; Illinois, $4,000, 900; Rhode ISL
aud, S2,300,000; Connecticut, $780,
600; New Jersey, $60o,000; Ohio.
S1,l00, 900, and Michigan, 81, 400, 900.
A few other States show small in.
crease, but the rest decrease. In
these seven States the increase is TO
less than S1S, $40, 5S6, or 62. 6 per cent.
over last year.
Pooh, Pooh, the Disaster? Not yet.
Dun's Review says:
''The progress toward better things,
which seemed assured during part OF
the year, has not been sustained.
"Rarely has there been 4 situation
so complicated, aud the near future is
difficult to forecast.
1t is getting worse. There was an
increase of 81, TS5, 900 in the liabilities
of manufacturing failures during the
last half of 1895 over and above the
amount of liabilities in the last half of
1894. Judging by the records of
failures published from day to day
there are still more OF the strong con
Germs going under. Dun's Review
stated the reason very clearly:
"Men actually believed that tho
country, with part of its working
force unemployed, and with wages
conside rably below those paid before
the panic. was going 10 consume more
largely than it ever had in the most
prosperous years. The consequence
was a marked increased in the number
OF manufacturing failures as soon as
the excess OF production began to ap.
pear.
And what about all that talk of
"higher wages" returning prosper
ity." ''greatcr activity in the fac
toi les. ""increased demand for goods. :"
.good times" that every Democratic
paper in the country was falsely re-
porting during 1895? Ananias and
Sapphire must hang their heads with
shame end blush from very modesty
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21

ton was in his day the richest Amer
lean. 1t would be difficult to prove
this, and doubtless the statement is an
exaggeration, such as the common
country tale that Washington could
"stand and jump twenty-five feet" II
is needless to say that no such record
OF his prowess in this line has come
down to us.
1t used also to be said that Washing
ton had once thrown a dollar across
the Potomac. Mr.. Evarts's witty com.
ment that ga dollar would 60 further
in those days, you know" is we'll rs.
membered.
Washington was not, however, the
man to throw away dollar. He was
precise, careful and methodical. In
youth he was, and expected to remain,
comparatively poor as he was younger
son, and the family followed the Eng
lish cutoms of primogeniture-so far,
at least, as concerned the family estate,
Mount Vernon, which was left to Lau.
renee Washington. Lawrence died in
1852, and his infant daughter shortly
afterward, leaving the estate to George.
His marriage with the wealthy
widow of John Parke Gusts brought
him more wealth, and his investments
IN Western lands were also shrewd and
profitable.
But, though an exact and capable
business man, Washington was no mig.
gard. He entertained lavishly. 1t
was by his advice that the largest room
in the White House was designed for
state dining-room. Washington
never occupied the house, and his sue
cessors have found the room much too
large, even for state dinners. The
dining-room in Mount Vernon, de-
signed by Washington, Is also much
the largest in the house.
1t is generally known that Washing
ton received no pay for his services in
the Revolution. Congress voted him
$500 month, but he never accepted
it, charging only his actual expenses.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21
HIS LOVE AFFAIRS.

1t was fated that Washington, like
Napoleon, was to be the victim of
more than one disappointment in love.
Every one knows how attentive he
was to: Mary Phillipse, OF the good, old
Westchester family whose house is
now the City Hall OF Yonkers, during
a stay in New York, but there was
Virginian love affair considerably ear
her.
His first love was the charming Sal.
ly Cary, one Of that aristocratic Vir.
ginia family of Carys, OF which Mrs.
Burton Harrison Constance Cary) is
in our day member. To her he
wrote love poems, anonymous, printed
in the Virginia Gazette, and other
love poems, not anonymous. sent to
her in manuscript. These rhymes de.
scribed his poor, restless heart,
pierc'd by Cupid's DART" and made
use of the other rhymes OF "dove,"
"love," and "above." not unfamiliar
In every age. With her, too, he
danced at the festivals d st. Tamma-
nv, the titular saint OF The Colonies.
But Miss Gary would not listen to
the suit of the long-legged frontiers.
man, and married instead his dearest
friend and woods companion, George
William Fairfax, and went ta live ut
Belvoir, the Fairfax seat. When pref.
ty Sally Fairfax died in England.
years aftsrward, her viyginian heirs
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21
DISASTER /? Pooh! /! POOH /!
BUSINESS MEN ARE CONFIDENT
THEIR INTERESTS ARE SAFE.

Their Faith Pinned to Prospect of
Republican Administration
Which Will Correct the Evils
Wrought by the Gorman-Wilson
Blundcr-A "Good Times'' Myth.
. Immediately after the election OF
President Cleveland, on November IL,
1892, the above headlines appeared in
. Democratic paper, the New York
Sun. But was it so?
We know only too we'll how business
men Jared during 1893 and 1894. For
1895, Dun's Review, January A, gave
the aggregate liabilities of trade
failures at S173, 1876, $50 against $172,-
992, $50 in 1894, and the average per
failure at $13, ,12I against So, ass in
1894. This does not look as if the
time had yet arrived to pooh pooh the
disaster of Democratic Administra-
tion, especially as the failures grew
greater toward the end of the year,
Dun's Review saying that they showed
"a heavy increase, sixty-six per cent.
in liabilities of manufacturing failures
for the past quarter" The totals for
the year were:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21

scarcely less wild trappers or squatters
upon his Lordship's domain. Wash
iugton had been selected by the old
nobleman because of his belief in the
youths ability to cope with these ele-
nents, and the young surveyor left
his home on the banks of the Potomac
early in 174S, just after the compile.
ton OF his sixteenth year, his only
companion being George William
Fairfax, nephew of old Lord Tt omas.
Whether these boys erected the build
ing or found it already in place his
tory does not state, but well.aathenti.
Gated tradition says that they built it
themselves. That they used it for an
Office, kept their instruments there
and slept in the upper room. there is
ample proof. Here, during all the
summer of 174S, when not actively
engaged in the field, they were busy
with their Office work or in defining
bounds for the settlers.
The old hut has, in the memory Of
the present generation, done duty as
"milk house" for farmers. OF the
dense copse of trees which Howe says
shaded the spring, only q tall and
sturdy elm remains. On hill not
far away is .'Soldier's Rest" another
log cabin-itself of historic interest
also, for in it lived Daniel Morgan,
the rough teamster who afterward be-
came Washington's right hand in the
War for Independ ence Morgan, the
hero of Quebec and Saratoga, and the
man who destroyed Tarleton at the
Cowpens and checked the tide OF
British victories. Morgan was con-
spicuous figure in all the rough and.
tumble fights that gave the little town
OF Berryville the name of Battletown,
by which it was known for 100 years,
and after these encounters he would
go and sit on the rocks down by the
old Washington cabin while his wife
would bathe his bruised and cut head
in the cooling waters of the spring,
and bind up his bloody wounds.
1t seems almost a pity that this old
cabin should be allowed to crumble
away in tho Virginia pasture field
where it has stood for .145 years. This
great elm tree looks as il it was good
for thousand years yet, while the
rock aud the spring will be thero for
evermore, but sun and wind and rain
have made sad ravaee, in the hut that
sheltered the youthful Washington.
The present owner OF tho cabin is G.
G. Gaines, OF Berryville. New York
Tribune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21
AN UNWILLING PRESIDENT.

Human nature seems sometimes per-
versely to prefer in public Office the
unwilling to the willing servant.
As regards the Presidency, the reply
of his contemporaries to many an able
man from Webster down has been /:
ooh, he wants it too much!'
1t is probable that Washington was,
of all our Presidents, the most unwill.
ing to take the Office. 'tHeaven
knows" he wrote to Benjamin Har.
rison, "thst no event can be less de.
sired by me" than the nomination.
To Benjamin Lincoln: 81 most
heartily wish the choice to which you
allude may not fall on me-" He con-
ceived himself however, Constrained
to accept" by his "iesire to reconcile
contending parties SO far as in me
lies"
To Samuel Hanson he wrote: "The
first wish of my soul is to spend the
evening OF my days as private citi-
zen on my farm" And this was true.
He could gain no greater fame by ap.
pearing in civil life. he loved the
open.air life of country gentleman,
and he had plain, strong man IS
wholesome contempt for the lawyer.
like quibbles and squabbles of legisla-
lures, of which he had already had
enough sad experience.
''Integrity and tirmness," he wrote
to Henry Knox, "are all lean promise. :"
He kept his promise and more. For,
besides integrity and firmness, he
brought to the task common sense.
A President needs nothing more
than these. -
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21
LAST SCENE OF ALL.

Mr.. George Ticknor, who wrote
FThe History OF Spanish Literature"
and "Life of Prescott" remembered
distin silly the death of Washington.
He says in his diary:
"There never was more striking
or spontaneous tribute paid to man
than was paid in Boston when the
news came Of Washington's death"
1t was on December IA, 1899, q lit
tie before noon. and Mr.. Ticknor says:
II often heard persons say at the time
that one could know how far the news
had spread, by the closing of the
shops. Each man. when he heard that
Washington was dead. shut his store,
as matter of course, without consul.
tation, and in two hours all business
was stopped.
''My father came home and could
not speak. he was so overcome. My
mother was alarmed to see him in such
state, till he recovered enough to
tell her the sad news. For some time
every one. even the children, wore
Grape on the arm. No boy could go
into the street without it. wore it,
though only eight years old"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-21

In 1894 there were in the United
States II, 731 mercantile failures. The
number increased last year to 1908,
20 per cent. more than the number
for the previous year. The per cent.
of failures during 1895 was 1923 as
compared with 1.21 for 1894 and l. so
for 1898. The percentage of assets
was fifty five in 1895, as against fifty
three per cent. in 1894 and sixty-ive
in 1893. Bradstreet's, commenting
on these figures, says that the Gin
crease in business failures in 1896 con-
trasted with 1894 amounts to only
292, for which gains the Western,
Northwestern and Middle States are
responsible, they having been respec-
lively 333, seventy-seven and sixty.
-four. While the increase in the total
number of business failures in the
Western States was apparently large
about eleven per cent. the in
crease in total liabilities of failing
traders did not amount to more than
seven per cent, from which it may be
perceived that commercial and indus
trial embarrassments in that region
were largely among smaller concerns.
tt will be seen from the figures given
above, observes the Atlanta journal,
that the number of failures liz the
South last year was much less than the
plumber for 1894. The increase in the
number for the whole country was
292, but the increase in the Northern
and Western States was 472. There
fore, the South shows decrease OF
rS2 in the number of mercantile fail.
ures last year. This speaks remarka-
ably we'll for our part OF the country
and is another proof that the South
endured the panic better and came out
from it with less injury than any other
section.