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The morning times., 1896-05-18
Car VIII Pardon Many.

London. May 1.-THE Telegraph will to-
morrow say that the czar on the occasion
OF his coronation will abolish every form OF
corporal punishment in the empire. IL is
expected that ne will pardon thousands of
the COnYicts in Siberia.
The morning times., 1896-05-18
STATESMEN IN THE PULPIT.
Members of Congress Much in Evi
dence In the Churches

dence In the Churches.
Members of Congress were in evidence
yesterday in church work to an unusual ex-
tent. Representative j j. Willis, of Della
ware, occupied the pulpit OF Foundry NJ. F..
Church in the morning, in the absence OF
the pastor, who is attending general con-
ference.
Last night Representative E. A. Morse,
of Massachusetts, was the principal speaker
from the Gospel Union wagon, which is the
center of evangelistic services in the busi-
ness part of the city.
The morning times., 1896-05-18
MORTON GlDETy' RETURN
10 ig
They Wifi Be- Received With a
Military and Civic Ovation.
FEATURES aOF RECEPTION

Train Beuring the Prize Winners Will
Arrive at $40 at Sixth Street Sta
tioR-Col. Moore VIII Command
Military Escort Ba nquet and Other
Social Functions at N. q. ArmOry.
The morning times., 1896-05-18
AT sTUDER'S NURSERIES,,

In Auacostia, at the store, 936 street
northwest, and in all the city markets, YOU
can buy from the grandest assortment OF
plants south OF Philadelphia Blooming
Shrubs, Evergreen Roses, Clematis, Honey
suckles, Japanese, and other hardy vines
japanese and other bulbs. All sorts of
bedding aud decorative plants, hanging
baskets, window boxes. Cut flowers i'm
great prOfuSiOn.
NOVELTY.
AriStolachia GrandiriUra, a rapid climber,
bearing hundreds OF lovely blossoms, repre-
sentiug geese, and developing into large,
beautiful blossoms.
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BRYAN's HOG STORY.

In his Labor day speech at Chicago Mr..
Bryan retold his hog story. He said in
riding along he had noticed some hogs
roofing in a field and it reminded him
that when he was a boy they used to put
rings in the noses of hogs so that while
they getting fat they would not de-
stroy more property than they were
ORTIZ Then he said:
One of the important duties of govern
.nent is the putting Of rings in the noses of
hogs. And when / say that | simply mean
this: That while society is interested in
having every citizen secure enough of this
worlds goods, not simply 70 supply his own
leave him something for his declining days
But while society is interested in this So
ciety is also interested in having laws that
will prevent him destroying more than he
is worth while he is securing his own in
dependence.
The story and the application We're ap-
plauded, and Mr. Bryan bowed his thanks.
What does it mean? Who are the hogs
and how does Mr.. Bryan propose to treat
them? The hogs are the men who are OPP
posed to free silver, and who, from his
POINT OF view, are making too much money
The slver-m;ne owners, who want their
n llions doubled by government stamp, are
successful manufacturers, who have built
up great productive establishments and who
are large employers of labor, owners of coal
mines, iron mines, copper mines, stone
quarries and other things which cannot be
ceined into fifty-cent dollars, are hogs. who
must be prevented from getting too rich.
The merchant who by enterprise and
brains has built up large business, the
capitalist who by thrift ana good manage
ment has become able to build houses or
engage i'll large enterprises and give en-
ployment to many persons, the men who
manage the great lines of transportation
and pay good wages in good money to an
army of employes--in short, all successful
business men who are worth a few thou
cend dollars more than Mr. Bryan, and who
are not in favor of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, are hogs. He says one
of the first duties of government is to put
rings in the noses of hogs. That means,
it is the .iuvy of gov rnp,ent by class legis-
lation and discriminating laws. to prevent
talented, shrewd able, enterprsing men
from getting rich According to Mr. Bryan
these men destroy ms re while they ar get
ting rich than they accumulate. He did
not explain how they could do this, but
they should have rings put in their noses.
And this man is actually d candidate for
President of the Ul'ted States.
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suGAR-CoATED ANARCHY.

Mr.. Eugene V. Dcbs. president of the
American Railway Union. has issued an
address to railway employees in which, after
censurng railroad officials for their ac-
tivity in organizing sound money clubs. he
says: 1T lis not free silver that unloosed
and enraged this railroad moloch, but it is
the attack in the Democratic platform on
government by Injunction
The first point is frivolous. Railroad Off
Gals have the same right to be active in
politics that other citizens have, and if
they believe that the free coinage of silver
would inffict a great blow TO the business
interests of the country as we'll as ON the
honor and credit of the government, it is
not only their right but their duty to OPP
pose it by every legitimate method known
to politics. There is TO method more legiti-
mate than the formation of sound money
clubs and the formation of these clubs
among railroad men. irrespective of former
party affiliations. is one of the most en-
eouraging signs of the times. No kind of
business would suffer more from free silver
than the railroad business, and self-in-
terest, If no higher motive, would justify
railroad managers in doing all in their
power 10 ersert policy which would drive
most OF the roads into bankruptcy. No
fault Il found with silver mine owners who
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to defeat the party of menace. and prevent
the disastrous change. His workmen are
also quick to see the impending trouble.
They unite with the employer in the tight
Why? Because his ruin financially means
much more to them in every way than 1t
does to him.-Logansport Journal
James A. Mount the Republican candi-
date for Governor, is making the most
thorough canvass of the State that has been
made by a gubernatorial candidate for
many years. His talks are always heard
by great crowds. and they are plain, COM
mon sense talks without claim of oratory.
and that is what the people are looking for
this year.-Richmond Telegram.
The Popoerat managers are calling for
subscriptions to the campaign fund. They
say this is the peoples fight. and will
have to make it for themselves The peo-
pie are asked to contribute 10o-cent dollars
TO cause that promises to clip the money
OF the future 30 cents, and holds out no rea-
sonable prospect of better times in the way
OF business.-Brookville American.
The talk of 1.-The wiping out of party
lines" in the campaign. far as the Re
publican party is effected, is nonsense. The
Times has taken the pains to find the SEN
t1ment among Republicans in every corner
OF Delaware county. and is satisfied that
the party has not entered a campaign more
thoroughly united since the Greeley cam
pa1gn in 1872. What it has found true, how
ever, IS that there is general generalization
among other partieS.-Muncie Times.
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A FALLACY of THEORISTS.

The contention which the silverites put
forth with the most persistence is that the
fall of prices is due to the larger use of
gold for money during the past thirty
years. Some quite eminent men, who re-
gard themselves as economists and author
tiles hold that the scarcity of gold has
reacted on prices. For the most part they
do not trouble themselves about facts. AS
compared with other periods there is no
scarcity of gold at the present time; on the
contrary, there never was SO much gold in
the world. and never did the mines turn
it out abundantly as during the past
three years. Instead of scarcity. greater
abundance of gold than the world ever
knew is a scientific certainty for the fu-
ture.
The one fact which overthrows the as
sumption that scarcity of gold has af-
fected prices is that while the prices of
some staples have fallen. those of others
have risen or remained stationary. If there
had been a shrinkage on account of the
gold measure of values. it would have been
general and in the same ratio for all ar
ticles of merchandise AS the shrinkage
has not been general and uniform who
is fairly investigating the subject must
look for other sources than the assumed
scarcity of gold. He will not look far.
The revolution in production by machinery
and cheap transportation must be taken
into consideration most important fac
tors in the solution of the problem. Grow
ing out of the revolution in the methods
of production and transportation is an in
crease of production, causing a competi-
ton which has affected prices. Strange as
it may seem. those who adhere to the as
sumption that the scarcity of gold is re-
sponsible for the fall in some prices ignore
the natural law of supply and demand.
The wonderful increase of a number of
staples cannot be forgotten in the consid-
Grafton of this subject. Wheat is one of
them. The average crop of wheat of the
world for the decade 1S7t-s0 was 1.194 900 900
bushels: for the years 1Ssl-s7 it was 212o.-
600 900; for the year 1885 2.2T0. 100000; for
1891 it was 2.369. $1,000 bushels, for 1888 il
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DEMoRALrzED AND SHATTERED.

The so-called Democratic party of Indi-
ana could scarcely be in a worse plight
than it is just now. When the able and in
fuential who constitute the sound
money organization went out the hope of
victory in Indiana vanished. Still. If those
who remained could have stood firm and
acted tremendously they would have pre-
sented the spectacle of a disciplined army
resisting disaster. But the resignation of
Mr.. Holt, with the explanations which he
has given for his action. disclose the fact
that the Bryan Democracy is practically
disorganized body of men with a democrat
lied set of leaders. The men who have
come to the control of the party by the re-
tirement of Mr.. Holt had not sufficient con-
fidence in themselves to select one of their
number 10 attempt to direct the campaign.
Their efficiency ends with finding fault and
plotting to defeat Mar. Holt. They could not
furnish money yet they demanded that he
expend it. When these woud-be leaders
demanded that Mr. Holt do something they
promptly opposed him when he made
move. He was called to Chicago that Gil
Shanklin might order him to dismiss half
the men whom he had invited to serve as
his advisers. He named a highly respecta-
bic and efficient Democrat for the election
board, but Governor Matthews objected to
him, as Mr.. Holt says. because Democrats
of the Mike Cain order objected to Mr..
Mccullough
And Mr.. Holt and his associates are
out. The battle is on and the Bryan party
is without leaders. The Matthews malcon-
tents, with Shankin. have practically
cashiered Mr.. Holt and fds subordinates
and sent them to the rear. Even if the
rank and file were in fighting condition,
this fight among the leaders would be de-
moralizing. But the rank and file of the
Democratic party is not in fighting condi-
tion In nearly every county In the State
local leaders are quarreling, and many are
protesting against the heresies of Organism
and the offensive bossism of Matthewssm
Tried and effective leaders have been dis
missed and officious little men are wearing
the insignia of leadership who are not fit
for precinct file closers. Besides, a large
part of the rank and file cannot be led to
battle under the Bryan gonfalon If the
decentralization of the past three weeks
continues to spread, fifty or sixty thousand
Democrats in Indiana will be counted cleo
ton day for the ticket of Palmer and
Buckner. The resignation of Mr.. Holt. fol-
lowing the successful anti-Bryan conven-
ton, is blow under which the Matthew's
controlled Democracy will stagger until
election day. 1t matters not who may ac-
cept the leadership-he cannot call to his
assistance any Democrat who does not bear
thews
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INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

The workingman first wants a chance to
earn dollar, and then he wants that dol
lar good.-Gibson County Leader.
The trouble is, under free trade, we have
been sending too much money out of the
country and getting too little back.-Bluf-
ton Chronicle
If this country is big enough to 'get
along with 50-cent dollar it is big enough
to get along twice as well with a real dol
lar.-Muncie News.
Let it not be forgotten that there would
be no silver question if the crime of 80 had
not been committed. The elevation to
power of a tree-trade party produced the
conditions for free-silver party.-Rich-
mond Palladium.
The changes from Democracy to Repub-
licanism this year are on the average much
more creditabe than these. from Repuh
former converts are more intelligent and
influential citizens than the latter.-Rich-
mond Item
When candidate purposely misquotes
great man like Lincoln. Bryan did he
loses the respect of many patriotic men
who love their country as Lincoln loved
it. and who would be as ready to sacrifice
life for the Union as Lincoln Massey
mour Republican.
Bryan in the Presidents chair would be
all the political machinery that the silver
ties would need to consummate their pres
ent plan-to bring the country to a silver
basis. A reckless executive in these times
ernment.-Goshen Times.
All the silver that could be coined in the
next ten years and be melted into dollars
would not put an additional penny into the
American farmers pocket. 1t would lessen
the consumption Of farm crops, because the
wage-spreading masses would be forced to
live more economically Winchester Her
aid.
Mckinley stands for opening the mills
and factories of the Nation and for pro-
tecting the masses who work in them as
against European labor. Bryan says open
the minis to the mine owners. but does
not say how the laboring man will get the
money made into coin free of charge by the
overnment.-F1vansville Journal
The efforts of the silverites to create the
idea that independent American working
men are being coerced and bulldozed by
their employers into Joining sound
clubs. can have only one effect. to hasten
the hating ones into the honest-doilar or
CARNATIONS. If the success of party.
a change OF the money system means bank
ruptcy to employer, and he is long
headed enough TO see ii. he will do his besk
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A Scholarly Orator.
Boston Herald.

They liked DIR. William Everetts oratory
very much at Indianapolis. They did this
IN Congress also when he first essayed to
speak IN that body. The Doctor unites the
culture of the scholar and the inlpulsive-
ness of the man of genuine feeling in his
public addresses. He does not write them
out and commit them to memory. did
his distinguished father but relies largely
upon the inspiration of the moment. II is
sure TO come to him if the occasion is suf-
hciently important. His humor too, is
unique and has much of the impulsive
quality. There is what may be termed u
in his oraforv and r. is oftan illi1r,ined hv
his culture. 1t would be difficult TO point
TO any public speaker on whom his adj
man. and are largely affected by his tenn
permanent. which gives them an electric
quality at times that stirs all kinds of au-
diences. AS a scholar in politics he is sui
generiS.
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Pittsburg chronicIe-Telegraph.

Pittsburg ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Mr. Bryan's declaration that free coin
age would put the Intrinsic bullion value
of the silver dollar at par with gold
is not relshed by the Western advocates
of free coinage. who support it as u means
of putting up prices and cutting down OBJ
legations. The Detroit Tribune says;
1T is the contention of rational defend
ers of free coinage that ii would not raise
silver to a parity at the existing ratio
and upon that fact they base chiefly their
claim that free coinage Will bring relief.
We insist that free coinage is a good thing
because under it the dollar as at present
expressed by 232 grains of gold metal Will
disappear at once and never return TO op-
press us.
If. as MIR. Bryan contends. free coinage
would raise the value of silver bullion
from 81 cents an ounce 10 I.29 an ounce.
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active in forming free-silver clubs. or
with labor leaders who are trying to lead
tie different organizations into the free
silver camp; why. then. should railroad
men be censured for using their influence
in favor of maintaining the present gold
standard and sound currency?
Mr.. Debs's opposition to government by
injunction is natural. Through his own
rashness and folly in defying the law he
incurred a penalty, and it is natural he
should feel ugly towards the machinery of
the law through which it was inflicted
By this time, however, he ought to know
that writ of injunction is regular a
legal process as any other and govern
ment by injunction as constitutional as
government by judgment, government by
mandamus. government by execution, or
by any other means. The basis of his
protest is against government of any kind.
Government is simply the enforcement of
law, and that is what those who defy law
do not want There is not a process, a
writ, an order. Judgment, a ruling or an
entry of any court that is not open to the
same objections from the Debs point of
view. as government by injunction. He
borrows the phrase from the resolution in
the Chicago platform which was drafted
by Governor Altgeld as a protest against
the right of the general government to
take any steps for the protection of its
mails and other property without asking
permission of the State authorities where
the violence is threatened. 1t is cunning
ly devised phrase to cover opposition to
effect of which would be to paralyZe the
government 1t is sugar-coated anarchy.
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Mr.. Bryan is constantly appealing to
Americans TO be Independent as they
We're In 177s of Great Britain. and have a
financial system Of their own. And yet this
same Bryan came into public life and to
public attention by advocating the free
trade policy of Great Britain for the United
States. No man. within his limited capac :
tarif than has Mr.. Bryan. II he sssld
haze had his way the duties on BRITISH
Foods would have been made much lower
Ihan they are. At least he 10 declared In
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Abusing watson.
ST. Louis Dispatch Cpeml

st. Louis Dispatch (Dem.)
Tom Watson has thrown off the mask.
lie has declared himself the Judas of this
campaign. In his Labor day speech at
ton TO continue candidate for Vice
President. he disclosed as clearly as though
he had made open declaration of the fact,
that he is working for the defeat of the
silver ticket i'm this campaign. No one
who reads Watson's attack upon Sewall
his eXatation Of himself and his assertion
,npt 1T Watson is defeated Bryan shall be
defeated, can DOUBT wnat his purpose Is.
Watson has raised the black flag. He
speaks for party and represents no
principle. If he is not on the pay roll OF
the Consolidated Hanna Trust, he Is not
getting his due. For no man is working
harder for that trust than Tom Watson, of
Georgia
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And shall Tom Watson die?
And shall Tom Watson die?
Here's half million Populists
Will know the reason why
New York Tribune
Tomtit Watson,

A little Tomtit a ticket was stuck
Singing willow, tit-willow. Tom Watson;
With Buneompe Bill Bryan, and that was hard
luck.
Singing willow. tit-willow. Tom Watson;
For the Torntit Populst out and out
And Populist music he wanted to spout
But Popocrat Bryan was somewhat in doubt
Singing willow. tit-Willow. Tom Watson!
Fer Sewall. the Seagull, also his mate
Singing willow, tit-wiliow, poor SewaIi
The regular Vice Popocret candidate.
Singing willow. tit-willow, poor Sewall
And though &. hero his name was unsung
On his barrel the hopes of the Popocrats hung.
For they do the rest If he d just tap bung-
Singing willow, tit-willow, poor SewaH,
Then up like bantam spake little Tomtit,
Singing willow, tit-wil low poor BRYAN
''Fsf YOU an mes married. that Sewan must
gitt'
Singing willow. tit willow. poor Bryan;
He's nothing at all but a derned piutocrat,
An, / give We fair warnin' he got ter scat,
Fer you bet I m goin' know where i m al. \
Singing willow. tit-willow, poor Bryan
New York sun.
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The Late Gail Hamilton.

Harriet PRESCOTT Spofford.
No admired woman OF society ever
lived in Washington. She dressed her
part well. too. in simplest garb in the
streets or in the galleries of Congress. but
she respondent at home in her white
silks. her gown of silver brocade, her pale
peach satin or whatever the occasion de-
manded. In summer she swung in her
hammock at home in Hamilton, and wan
known any other life. Although not beau
tiful. she was yet attractive, of about the
medium height. ana WIN good hsure
Her skin was very fair and blooming. her
mouth sweet. her teeth fine, her flores
head white her nose well cut her bright
brown hair curling naturally. She had
great beauty of expression, and her smile
was enchanting. Doubtful her csnver-
sation was her letters were equally So and
her presence in and out the house filled 1t
with the ''inexhaustible laughter of the
gods
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Every straw vote in workshops indicates
that those to whom Mr.. Bryan addresses
the most of his speeches are not Influenced
by him. 81 have convinced the last Bryan
man in the shop writes the head of an
industry on the South Side. In Oconto,
Wis. vote was taken by the employees
OF a business manufacturing company. a
few days ago. Of $50 employees. 2si voted
and 214 of them voted for Mckinley
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The resignation of Chairman Holt. and
his statement of the reasons therefor dis
close Democratic closet full of skeletons
His revelation as to the lack of organiza-
ton, campaigns funds. literature, speakers
and enthusiasm confirms Republican sus-
picion as to the emptiness of the free-silver
campaign. It is composed mainly of noise
and fury, signifying nothing. Their battle
array is but single line, their cannon
are wooden guns. and their ammunition is
wind.
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In statement made to the Sentinel, ex-
Chairman Holt said that when he was
called to Chicago by the chairman of the
national committee and Mr.. Shankln. the
latter wanted him to take from his execu-
tive committee or 'seventeeri James F. Muir
dock, W. H. O'Brien, Crawford Fairbanks.
Henry Stockfeth, Henry B. Smith, Judge
Study and John E. Lamb. This Mr.. Holt re-
fused to do. It would be interesting to
know if Governor Matthews had anything
to do with this impairment demand.
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the standard of value would remain as 1t
is and prices would not be affected That
is not what the mass of the supporters
of free coinage are after and they are
calling Mr.. Bryan down. And I'm this re-
spect they have the strong end of the ar
gument. The value of the dollar would be
cut down to 30 cents and prices would rise
accordingly Ii would require a greater
number of dollars TO express given value.
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The Vote He Will Get.

Really said the old Democrat
thoughtfully, Il wish we had nominated a
younger man than Palmer"
For why?' asked his friend and fellow
believer.
Because the whole lot of fellows who
have just passed forty will vote for Bryan
on the ground that we young chaps ought
to stand by one another"