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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-17
so NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
The People Pledging Their subserip-
tions to the Popular Newspaper.

The State Journals subscription lists
keep rapidly lengthening out. The
newspaper that tells all the news I'M
pleasant as well as pleasant. portrays
every side of political activity and en-
deavors to be fair and impartial in
every branch of its newspaper work, is
the paper that the people want. This
is the list today:
NEW ONES IN THE CITY.
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Winnie Smith, 1168 Buchanan street.
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BRYAN'S NEW YORK SPEECH
It Was Written in Nebraska and Not
Patterned After Any Other.

Irvington. n. Y, Aug. 17.-Mr Bryan
gave out the following statement rela-
tive to the preparation of his speech
of acceptance OF the Democratic nOn1i-
nation for president delivered Wednes-
day night: THE speech was written
in Nebraska. From the beginning 1 ex-
pected to read it, but was almost per
suaded to abandon the idea after I left
home. Some insisted that reading would
be disappointment to those present.
I appreciated the force of the sugges-
ton, but finally concluded that it would
be better to disappoint those who list
ened than to risk an unfair or partial
report by the opposition press In
writing the speech I did not purpOsely
follow the plan of any former speech
but made no attempt to avoid argu-
ments or illustrations previously en-
ployed. In discussing the money Ques-
ton my sole aim was to crowd as much
material as possible into the speech
without making it too long, and there
fore tried to make it brief in statement.
It was rewritten two or three times as
new points or new arguments presented
themselves. One copy was brought
with me and one sent by express to
provide against loss. Two paragra PMS
which occurred to me on the train were
added after reached New York. Only
two persons saw the speech after my
arrival and they suggested no change -
Mr.. Bryan further said that in future
editions of the Chicago speech the quo
tation marks would be omitted from
the sentence containing the metaphor
cross of gold.'' 1t was a mistake, he
said to use quotation marks, as the
words were not quoted from any one
else
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Now we have the real reason why
Chief Justice Martin was turned down
1t wasn't because he was for free sill
yer, nor was it because the railroads
opposed him, nor again was it because
his mortgage decision was reversed in
the United States supreme court. The
Wichita Eagle has discovered it. He
wears no necktie. The Eagle says:
"A well known friend of the admin
istration-General J. w. F. Hughes
told the Eagle correspondent that Dav-
id Martin ought to have been defeated.
He did not exactly object to the chief
justice on the ground of his financial
views, but he objected to him for rea-
sons equally logical. His objection to
Justice Martin was that he never wore
a necktie. The fact is that Justice
Martin was never known to wear
necktie. He wears a clean shirt and
scent brass collar button, but the poor
old man never wears a necktie. How
can any chief justice decide a case who
does not wear a necktie? The people
of Kansas who never did believe in a
chief justice talking through his hat
think that he should wear a necktie to
talk through when he is passing on a
great judicial question that is of inter
est to the public.
General Hughes. with a great deal
of indignation, told the Eagle man that
when Mrs. Chan Brown.a most delight
full and amiable lady, gave a reception
in honor of Judge Martin, the chief
justice attended it without wearing
necktie. There is no evidence that
Mrs. Chan Brown, wife of the clerk of
the supreme court, shared in the Objec-
tons of Major General Hughes, the
court martialed commander of the
army of Kansas, a nice fellow and a
brave man, because the Eagle cores
pondent learned that in the goodness
of a true woman's heart she wept over
the crucifix of the chief justice when
he was defeated for the nomination.
The necktie business is purely a ques-
ton between the sweet heart of Mrs.
BrOwn-the heart that knows more
than the head of the man-and the
ethical code of the militia of the state
of Kansas. The defeat of Judge Mar
tars of the state never to cultivate the
habit of not wearing a necktie.
After the defeat of Judge Martin the
man who, by appointment, placed him
at the head of the supreme bench of
the state was nominated by acciama-
ton More than that, Frank Dawes,
! who appeared in the convention hall
without coat. vest or suspenders, was
nominated by reclamation for attorney
general. In justice to General Hughes
| be it said that the Eagle correspondent
didn't know whether the gallant gem
! eral knew whether Frank Dawes wore
! suspenderS or not
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MORE FUNERALS WANTED.
Attendants Upon a Funeral Follow a
Man With Murderous Intent.

Cincinnati, o., Aug. 17.-Ffank S
Rothacker of Cleveland. O., brother of
DR.. ROthacker. who was buried here
last Tuesday and who came here to at
tend his brothers funeral, was report
ed dying at the Cincinnati hospital at
S o'clock this morning from a knife
wound in the abdomen. He was found
in the street after midnight at the head
of the Mount Auburn inclined plane
and taken to the hospital.
Before becoming unconscious, he said
that he had had a quarrel with Attor-
ney Charles Lundy and that Lundy had
stabbed him. Early this morning
Lundy was arrested at his home not
far from where RothaclIer was found.
In front of the house was Charles Roth
acker of New York, a brother of the
injured man. He was abusing Lundy
and was also arrested.
Lundy said he acted in self-defenSe:
that the two ROthackers had abused
him on the street car until he left his
seat and went to the platform. He
got off at his street and they followed
and attacked him and knocked him
down. Then he used his knife in self
defense. He said Rothacker had had a
grudge against him ever since he de-
Tended him in a divorce suit, which
was compromised.
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MCPHERSON POPULIsTs.
Nominate a Ticket and Endorse Bryan
and SewalL

Mcpherson, Aug. 17.-At the Populist
county convention held here Saturday
the following ticket was nominated:
For state representative, c. A. Hamlin,
editor of the Mcpherson County Opin-
ion; county attorney, George w. AlIi-
son; district clerk w J. Poole; probate
judge. J. W. Walker; county superin-
teudent, S. L. LoWrey.
Eight delegates to the Populist sena-
torial convention to be held at Halstead
next Wednesday were selected as fol-
lows: M L. Drake, N. w. Bridgens,
Lott Robb, William Johnson, J. G.
Goering, J. Etter, Adam Barley and
H. Halstrom.
The convention gave a hearty en-
dorsement to the state and national
platforms, and pledged itself to support
Bryan and SeWan.
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ARE ALL FOR M'KINLEY.
Organization of the Auburmdale
Mckinley Club
Meeting Held Outdoors in the
Cool of the Evening.
Speech of W. F. schooh-Po litical
News and Miscellaneous Items
of Various Kinds.

The Auburndale Mckinley club COM
pleted it's organization Saturday even
ing by the election of the following Of
1cers: President, J. F. Todd; vice
president, W. A. Myers; treasurer, J.
K. TruebIood; secretary, P. d. Turner.
The meeting was held out doors but a
committee was appointed to provide a
place for meeting hereafter. 1t was de-
cided to meet every two weeks.
The meeting was addressed by w. F.
SchOch. who has taken front rank as
a campaign speaker Mr.. Schoch said:
'One of the pleasant and gratifying
features of this campaign is the fact
that men of all political beliefs and
party affiliations are attending political
meetings. That all seem to be willing
to lay aside their political feelings and
prejudices, if they have any, and to
hear the important issues of this cam
paign fairly and candid1y discussed
SO long as this desire exists and this
practice continues on the part of Amer
lean citizens this country is safe and
Will be properly governed.
He then began with the recommended
lions of President Lincoln to congress
in 1S62-his recommendation of the ma
tiOnal banking act, and the early return
to specie payments. He paid his re
spects to the socalled Lincoln Repub-
Hcans of the present day and touched
the JefferSOnian Democrats by quoting
j emerson 5 views on silver. Mr.SchOch
gave a history of our financial legisla-
ton leading up to resumption in 1879
followed the history of the silver dollar
and closed with a short discussion of
the tariff.
Speaking of the present era of bad
times he said: This condition of af-
fairs is deplOrable. But I want to ask
my Democratic or PopuIist brother
what was the cause of hard times in
1859. and 1860. Corn then sold for 10
cents per bushel and cattle and hogs
hardly paid the expense of getting them
to market. We had so you tell us, the
free coinage of both gold and silver 16
to L; we had free trade. We then had
everything a Democrat could wish for.
Our bonds had been sold in 1860 to pay
the running expenses of the govern
ment; they were sold for a like purpose
in 1896. We had a panic in 1857; we had
one in 1898. We had an imitation period
| following the Crimean war of 1854 or
rather the extensive market it prOduc-
ed for our products abroad-which re-
acted in the panic of 1857. We had a
boom in this country from 1880 to 1890,
which reacted in the panic of 1898 A
panic that was fastened by the cleo
ton of Cleveland and a change in the
| policy of the government.
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LONGS FIRST GUN.
The Seventh District Congressman
Opens His Campaign.


Garden City, Aug. Leicester I.Long
opeued his campaign here saturday by
an extended financial speech before
large audience in the opera house Mr..
Long said in part:
The question now IS, Can this ma
ton, alone. open its mints to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to l, and if it does, what will
be the result?' It is well to observe
that while silver was worth s1.S0 an
ounce in 1873. it is only worth s. cents
an ounce now It is also well to re-
member that in the event of our open
ing our minis to the free coinage of sill
YER one of two things will happen:
Either, first, silver will rise to S1.29
an ounce, and if it does gold will remain
in circulation with silver and no injury
will come to any one, but a great bene-
fit will result to the owner of the silver
bullion, by the raising of the price of
silver 10 that figure.
or second, if silver does not rise to
S129 an ounce, our gold will go out of
circulation, and we will not have bimet-
allism, but we will drop to a silver
basis with silver as the sole measure of
values.
can this country alone by the
opening of it's minis, raise the market
price of silver from 68 cents to S1.29 an
ounce and maintain it at that figure
If I believed it could, I would be in IA
vor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver.
worth 81 29 an ounce in the markets?
The price of silver, like wheat or corn,
depends upon the supply, the demand
and the cost of production. In 1873 the
worlds production of silver was S.
GOO 600 ounces. Since that time there
has been a steady increase in the
amount produced until in 1S94t he world
produced 167, 600 900 ounces. which was
100 600. 600 ounces more than was pro-
duced in 1873. Under ordinary cOndi-
tions with such a vast increase in the
supply, unless there has been a cores
bonding increase in the demand. the
price of this commodity must unques-
tionably fall
Has there been an increase or de-
crease in the demand since 1873? There
has been some increase in the demand
for silver in the arts.
What is the relative condition as to
the use of silver as money? In 1873 the
leading nations of the world had free
coinage of silver except England. In
that year. Germany made gold the sole
standard of value and called in all sill
yer coins previously issued. She threw
a large stock of silver on the market,
including the indemnity which she re-
cefved from France, for the purpose of
obtaining gold In 1872, Norway.
Sweden and Denmark entered into a
monetary treaty, demOnetizing silver
which was ratified by Sweden and Den
/ mark in 1878, and by Norway in 1875
/ BY this treaty they adopted the single
| gold standard and made silver a sub
sidiary metal to be coined on govern
ment account, for change purposes. In
! 1875 Holland adopted the gold standard.
In 1875 Russia suspended the coinage Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-17
THOUSANDS AT EupoRA.
Harris, Taylor and Green Talk at the
Silver Rally.

Eudora, Aug. 17.-AH the country for
miles around in this county and from
Johnson and LeaVenWOrth counties
$500 people gathered in this quiet lit
tie town Saturday to attend the silver
rally.
Col L. F. Green was the first speak
er and proved interesting.
Col. w, A. Harris spoke for one hour
and a half In the beginning Col Har-
ris said:
I picked up a paper yesterday in
which appeared an interview with SEN
ator John M. ThurstOn of Nebraska.
In this interview Senator ThurStOn is
quoted as saying that the free silver
craze was a delusion. I had Just come
from addressing a magnificent audi
ence in southern Kansas of 5000 people
about the delusion, then the western
people are fast approaching a state
of imbeciity.
But who is this Senator John NJ.
Thurston2 Prior to his elevation to the
United States senate he was the legal
ion Pacific railway. For appearance s
sake he resigned his position when ar
irving in Washington. but the very first
official act of his was the Introduction
of a bill which really meant the repu-
diatiOn of interest on the gigantic debts
of that corporation to the government.
The debt amounts to $14S, 000. 600, yet
Senator ThurstOn says the advocates
of free silver coinage are reputation
lists. Repudiationi I should think sill
yer Republicans would repudiate this
man who comes to open the campaign
for their party in the state of Kansas
and talks reputation
State Senator Edwin Taylor of Wy
andOtte followed Col. Harris for some
time devoting himself to state politics
All the expenses incident to the rally
wealthy farmer of this community.
and an enthusiastic SilVerite
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JUDGE CALDWELL'S ORDER
He Directs Colorado Midland to Re
sumo Relations With the Midland
Terminal

Denver Aug. 17.-Judge Caldwell of
the United States circuit court has
made an order upon application of the
Midland Terminal Railroad company,
whose line is the connecting link be
tween the Colorado Midland railroad
and Cripple Creek directing Receiver
Ristine of the Colorado Midland to re-
sumo traffic relations with the Terminal
at once or the basis that obtained be
fore the rupture occurred
With the assistance of a railway ex-
merit Judge Caldwell proposes to inVes-
tigate the matter in dispute, and as the
Terminal is willing to accept arbitra-
ton it is probable that traffic over this
line will not be again Interrupted.
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SHOT WIFE AND CHILD.
A Chicago Man in a Fit of Jealousy
Murders His Wife.

Chicago, Ill, Aug. lin a fit of
jealousy, Chas- Nelson shot and almost
Instantly killed his wife this morning
in their home, 95S North Washtenaw
avenue.
After sending two bullets into the
woman's left breast, the murderer
turned upon their three years old
daughter and fired a shot at her head.
The bullet struck the child on the right
side of the temple, but glanced off,
inf1icting but slight wound.
The little girl was stunned however,
and fell to the floor while Nelson sup
posing she, too, was dead, ran from
the house. He was arrested a few
minutes later.
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To Colorado, Montana, Hot Springs
Puget Sound and Pacific Coast
Via Burlington Route.

Take the shortest and most desirable
line to the far west; complete trains
from the Missouri River. Daily train
leaves Kansas City at 10:40 a. m. ar
rives Billings, Montana, 1850 miles dis
tant. 6:45 next evening; free chair cars
Kansas City to Billings; sleepers kan
gas City to Lincoln; through sIeepers
Lincoln to Billings. Connects with fast
train beyond TO Montana and Puget
Sound. Ten to twenty-five hours short
er than other lines from Kansas City.
Through sleepers and chair cars Mis-
souri, River to Denver; Rio Grande
scenic line beyond for Colorado, Utah
and California
Ask Agent for tickets over the estab-
lished through lines of the Burlington
Route. L. w WAkELEY,
Gen. Pass. Agent
st. Louis, Mo.
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SIZE SMOKEs IN CAR.
Miss Della Stacy an Actress, Smokes
a Cigarette in a Street Car.

New York.Aug. 17.-NIiss Della Stacy,
an actress, and Herbert J. Meyer and
Sam Freedman. both well known in
theatrical circles, We're seated in a box
on a roof garden Thursday evening
when the conversation turned on wo-
mems privileges.
Miss Stacy's views on the subject as
expressed. We're very radical She con
tended that women were unjust1y de-
prived of many pleasures. She was
ready. she said, to head a movement of
any kind calculated to free her sex
from the bondage of custom.
She wound uD by declaring herself
willing to smoke a cigarette in any
public place.
1t may be remarked that she had up
to yesterday smoked only four cigar
cites in the course of her life.
We'll said Mr. Meyer, I will bet
you So you don't dare smoke cigar
cite in one of the open cars on the
Broadway line"
1t was shortly after 5 o'clock yester-
day when Miss Stacy hailed a south
bound open car at Broadway and
Forty-flrst Street The car was full
but in one seat the passengers crowd
ed together to allow her 10 sit down.
Clinging to the rear platform was the
party Of friends who had boarded the
car to see that all was fair.
After paying her fare Miss Stacy
drew a dainty case from her pocket and
extracted a cigarette A pOrtly elderly
woman beside her gave a gasp of sur
prise The men sitting on her right
hudged each other.
I Turning 10 a youth standing beside
fher she smiled and said: win you
please give me 9. match2"
The young man handed her two. The
second one proved effective and Miss
Stacy, leaning back on the seat, pulled
away as il she enjoyed it. The portly
lady, with a whitening glance, signaled
the car to stop, saying as she left,
We'll I never
By this time every passenger in the
car was aware of what was going on.
One old man was loud in his denuncia-
ton and insisted that the conductor
should stop her.
She isn't breaking any rules of the
company and L have no right to put
her off, said he.
I would like to see my sister doing
that" said a dude, I would break her
neck
At Eighteenth street. the cigarette
having burned down to a stub, she
tossed it away and left the car, fol-
lowed by a murmur of voices that sa-
VOred of a mild cheer
When the parties to the wager ap-
preached they found her almost on the
verge of tears.
Wasn't it a terrible thing to do? I
never felt so mortified in my life.
viii never make such a foolish wager
again. At any rate have started a
fashion, and perhaps some others will
take it up But never talk to me again
about the privileges of woman. They
are we'll enough in theory, but the
practice is something different" said
she.
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sTATR sUPT. o. w. c. z. Q.
For the Evangelistic Work of the So
ciety Writes the Journal

ciety Writes the journal
Rev. Alice NJ. Henderson, state sup
erintendent of evangeIistic work of the
w c. T. u, who resides at MankatO,
writes the State Journal:
we hear on every hand kind words
spoken of the brave stand you have
taken and hope your subscription list
may continue to grow even more rapid
ly than at present"
Mrs. Henderson, who is a believer in
free silver, says in her letter:
Believe me in saying the great COM
mOners of England are nearly all with
US in our struggle for emancipation
from this monster. The silver advo-
Gates in British countries are constant
ly increasing and are looking forward
with hopefulness to our victory, believ-
ing that their own triumph will there
by be assured.
The same spirit of liberty burns in
the breasts of large portion of Brit
ish subjects today that burned in the
breasts of their forefathers when they
compelled King John to sign the Mag
ma Charta, and these same iberty-lov-
ing Britons will unite with US in Amer
lea in compelling the money kings of
both countries to sign our new charter
of liberty.
The money power of England has
for many years robbed and crushed the
common people under it's iron heel.
1T has, to a very large extent con-
trolIed military affairs, and for this
reason thousands of England's bravest
soldiers have died in poor houses, and
the bravest and highest officers, many
of them when retired, receive less pay
than many of our humblest soldiers
of the civil war.
THAT the money power has its eye
upon American pensions is certain, for
at the late monetary conference in
Brussels Rothschild said: The pen
sions are altogether too large; they
must be revised and cut down. This
should be an interesting item for the
consideration of the gold standard gen
erals of America, who a few days ago
issued their call to the Union veterans
to organize Union veteran patriotic
leagues, to help crush the cause of sill
yer.
IF the pensioners of America wish to
end their days in aims houses let them
organize for the help of the gold
standard and their object will surely be
attained"
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SILVER IN JOHNSON.
M. S. Peters Befriends the White
Metal at Olathe

Olathe, Aug. 1.-THE Bryan free sill
yer club of this city held an open meet
ing at the court house square Satur-
day evening mfwypOIImeAanyf-i w
day afternoon. There were from 500 to
700 people present, with q good share
of farmers.
Maj. Pickering. president of the
club, opened the meeting with a
short but ringing speech and presented
sas City Kan, Democratic candidate
for congress of the Second district who
dweIt upon the silver question. He
was many times interrupted by cheers
and applause