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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
A CLEVELAND SECRET.

nice little piece of news got around
yesterday. When Mr.. Whitney consulted
with Mr.. Cleveland about the plan for
the reception of Ii in the Whitney house
Mr.. Cleveland requested particularly that
no newspaper men be admitted to the
house until after his interview with Lii
This request was observed to the letter
And LII is to blame. You see Mr. Cleve-
land had heard about Lis interrogation
mark, and it would have made remarka-
bly, good reading if the Chinese states
man had gone to work on him and asked
him how rich he was and how he had
made his fortune and what his salary
was Mr.. Cleveland decided to take no
risks, and so the reporters were exclud-
ed. New York Press
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
TIE oUTpoURING FOR BRYAN.

The bewildcring enthusiasm OF Mr..
organs reception in Western New York.
pennsylvania and Ohio staggers the con
fdencc of the saviors of society, who had
counted on the partisan prejudiccs of an
Industrious Republican population to do
the work of the trusts and the bond syn
dicates. y hundred thousand people
gathered in Hanna's own town to greet
the Democratic candidate, including L.
900 to ], 200 from the home of McKinley,
and forms spectacle calculated to induce
thought.
Or course, most of the Eastern papers
ignore this phenomenon as far as they
can. To read them nobody would mag
inc that Mr. Bryan was making one of
the most sensational tours in the history
of American politics. There is an occa.
sional exception, however The Herald,
for instance, has always made n point
Of printing the news in political cam
paigns, whether it agreed with its poll
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
BRYAN DEFEATS THEIR OBJECT.


breckenridge at the indianapolis conven-
ton was one Of the notable features of
the Cleveland sidcshow recently held at
the capital Of Indiana. He not only fig
ured prominently in the proceedings of
the convention, but was the leading
speaker of the gathering He was loudly
called upon for speech and the press
report says he delivered one of great
power and eloquence. Everybody admits
his ability as an orator, and everybody
knows how he recently figured before the
American people. a cause must be des-
perate indeed that would select him rs it's
exponent andeewould have but little show
before the American people, but his own
frank admissions demonstrated that the
faction he represented had no hope of sue
cess, as a few selections from his address
will show. Among other things he said:
'There has not been the ghost of n chance
to elect Democratic President since 1894,
because of free silver. Therefore when
they charge us with trying to elect Nc
kinley, charge back that they have done
that job for us more skillfully What we
do intend to do is to prevent the election
of the Chicago ticket under the pretense
that it is Democratic ticket. / voted
for Horace Greeley, but did not vote for
him as a Democrat standing on n Demo
cratic platform. We will nominate our
ticket and then we will go home We
in nln 4; i.
perhaps will vote for our ticket We will
be defeated; but we will save the honor of
America, the good name OF our people
and the Democratic party from ruin ''ssN
Only think Of it! Mr.. Breckenridge will
help to save the good name of our people
and the Democratic party from ruin. He
certainly has done very little work in that
direction for the past five or six years
But, leaving his past out of the question,
what does this frank admission on his
part mean, except that the Inuianapolis
convention was designed as an attach
ment to the Republican party to aid in
the election of Mckinley? Not only did
he admit this, but when he did so he was
loudly applauded by his listeners. Sad,
however, as was this sight of Democratic
degcneracy, so far as the gold wing of the
party is concerned, it is sadder still to re-
fleet upon the aid and comfort which the
movement has received from an alleged
Democratic administration. Mr.. Cleve.
land, who has received so many honors
and benefits from his party, was the first
to turn from it because it did not endorse
the views which he advocated, and now
that the campaign is in full blast, the
melancholy spectacle is presented of his
administration doing everything it can to
defeat the ticket nominated by the ma
tional party, even to the extent of putting
other candidates III the field with the
avowcd object of defeating those nomina-
ted by large majority of convention
legally assembled and acting in all res
poets within the rules which have guided
the actions of such assemblages on all
previous OcCaSiO MS
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

Ii Hung Chang has become famou for
asking questions, butshe met. his match
when he Questioned.ther..N New York Jour
nal woman who sought to interview him
in New York ii few~sdays~~s ince. & One of
his many queries was, GLOW old are
youY' to which the lady replied Glow
old would you think | wasf" When the
great interrogation said, 'about twenty, g"
the lady'sAretort..was, ,''you.guess well, -
which shows that the American woman
can sometimes. .outgeneral even "a great
Chinese commander.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
TRADE CONDITIONS.
business is Frightening Up All Over the
Country

Country.
New York, Sept. 4.-Bradstreet,s r..
morrow will say: There is somewhat
better feeling among wholesale merchants
as to prospects for autumn trade in sea-
sonable goods. This extends to some in
dustrial lines, notably iron and steel.
Chicago sales of iron this week are larger
than for all of August, and Pittsburg
sales are larger and prices better on the
outlook for harmony among steel makers
Inc most notable increase of sales of sea-
sonaDle goods has been at Chicago. mostly
among dry goods and hardware iobbers.
St. Louis also reports moderate gain in
demand, as does st. Paul, where n State
falr has attracted visitors. Baltimore's
wholesale trade is checked by restricted
bank credits, but is still larger than one
year ago. AT the South relatively the
most active demand is at Charleston,
Augusta, Birmingham, Nashville and
New Orleans
The more encouraging feature as to the
movement in prices lie in advance of quo
tations for wheat on the stronger statis-
teal position and free export movement,
higher prices for iron and steel at Pitts
burg and Chicago, with gain in demand
and n further appreciation in quotations
Tor cotton on renewed reports of damage
to the crop. Petroleum and leather are
also higher.
On the other hand there has been no
other increase in industrial production,
the output as Il whole being smaller than
previously during the year. Fur
Their damage to the Texas cotton crop is
reported, and the outlook for business
IN that State is less attractive.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
CONDENSED TESTIMONY

Chas. b. Hood, Broker and Manufac-
turer's Agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifes
that DR.. Kings New Discovery has no
equal as Cough remedy. ]. D. Brown,
Prop. st. James Hotel, Fit. WORTH Ind
testifies that he was cured of a Cough of
two years standing, caused by La Grippe,
by DR.. Kings New Discovery b. F..
Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass, says that
he has used and recommended it and never
knew 1T to fail and would rather have it
than any doctor, because it always cures.
Mrs. Hemming, 222 f. 25th street. Chi
cago, always keeps it at hand and has no
fear of Group, because it instantly re-
lievcs. Free trial bottles at Massic's
Pharmacy.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

lively, before the 10th of this month,
either by letter or committee, as each may
chose. The plan of campaign was dis
cussed, and it was decided that Mr. Wat
son should go to Texas and then to the
West on stamping tour. Speaking of
the indianapolis nominations, Senator
Butler said the Palmer-Buckner ticket
"was meant to catch suckers who would
otherwise vote for Mr.. Bryan He be-
lieved the men in the indianapolis con-
vention would vote for Mckinley, and
said if the press and speakers would un-
mask the scheme it would draw very
little support from Bryan. Senator But
Ter seems TO have sized up the situation
very accurately.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

tics or not. In 1888, when it was sup
porting the Democratic ticket, it struck
CONSERVATION into the party by publish
ing series of dispatches that foreshad-
owed Cleveland's defeat. Yesterday its
report from Ohio showed that. Bryan was
gaining Republican votes in the Repub-
lican stronghold. "It.is apparent" con-
tinued the dispatch, "that fair:.spropor-
ton of the population is in. sympathy
with Bryan and the ideas..hessrepresents "
1t is indeed, and the Herald, with, the
candor that is. SO disconcerting ITO ,,the
politicians, will be publishing somerrstill
more startling s.before:the Campaign
is over.-New York Journal s%NasA
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
SALEM NEWS

Mrs. Bernard Pitzer is at the Duyal
House.
Miss Virginia Arnold, of Kings Noun
tain, n. c., is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
h. G. Stearnes
Misses Eloise and Mary Brown left
Salem yesterday for visit to relatives in
Columbia, Tenn.
NJ. II. II. Lee, of Abbott, Craig
county, has returned home after n visit
to friends in Salem
Derry Walters and Tot Phlegar, of
Christiansburg, are in Salem, the guests
of Col. d. c. Shanks
Oscar Slenker and family, of Snowville.
Pulaski county, are the guests of B. r.
Ammen, on Elm street.
q. j. Coleman and S. D. Ferguson
prominent citizens of Roanoke, were in
Salem short while yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham Crumpecker
and John Smith, all of Blacksburg, were
in Salem for short while yesterday.
Robt. Sayers arrived in Salem yester
day morning from Mountain Lake and
later IN the day left for Pineville, Ky.
Clarence b. Strouse left Salem yester
day for Zion's Hill, Botetourt county.
where he expects to hold an evanpelistic
meeting.
meeting of the supervisors will he
held tomorrow, the object of the meet
ing being to settle with the commissioner
of the revenue.
Judge Samuel w. Williams, of Wythe-
vile, Democratic nominee for Congress-
for the Ninth Virginia district, paid u
visit to Salem yesterday.
Mrs. Capt. Sayers moved yesterday
into the house owned by b. G.. Aforpan
on Broad street. Mrs Sawyers will keen
house, and Mrs. Morgan will board with
her. E5
giant cucumber was on exhibition
Yesterday Mt the market of Jacob Parrish.
me cucumber was brought to town by
John Brickey, of Bradshaw. in this
county, and is one of the three that he
has raised which together measure II feet
in length. :.
The Old Order of Dunkards will hold
their annual meeting at Green Ridge
Church, three miles east of Salem, begin
ming to-day at II O'Clock. At night the
sacrament will be administered, and will
be followed by the usual ceremony of
feet washing.
y valuable COW belonging to +. r.
Carter, while crossing the track near the
electric light plant on--Thursday, was
struck by the noon passenger train and
Killed instantly. The COW was buried by
the Norfolk and Western employees. but
on Thursday night was exhumed by some
enterprlslng business parties, and no
doubt handsome profit will be realized
from the sale of the hide and beef
-
A handsome second. hand Knabe piano
mt bargain at J. e. Rogers, 1O4 JeTer
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

When Mr.. Hoke Smith went into the
Presidents cabinet certain newspapers,
notably the New York Sun, attempted
to make fun of him and ridicule the ap-
pointment. But Mr.. Smith has proven
himself in every way equal to the posi-
tion and they are saying of him in Wash
ington that i'll going away the department
loses the best head it has ever had. All
the work of the department is brought
down to date, and Mr.. Smiths successor
will find everything in ship-shape. This
is gratifying, not only to Mr. Smiths
friends, but to the people of the South
He is man of whom we are all proud
Richmond State
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
AN OLD DOCTORS FAvoR1TE.

DR.. l.. NJ. Gillian, who practced medi.
cine over forty years, originated, used and
claimed that Botanic Blood Balm Oh. b.
b, which has now been in use about fifty
years, was the best Tonic and Blood Puri-
fer ever given to the world. 1t never
fails to cure the most malignant ulcers.
sores, rheumatism, catarrh and all skin
and blood diseases. Beware of substi-
tutes. Use this standard remedy. Price
per large bottle, $l00.
For sale by druggists
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

Prof. Andree, thessDanish Arctic cxplo-
rer, is said to have already procured a
manager and perfected arrangements for
a lccturing tour through =. the United
States, after his return from successful
balloon trip to the North Pole AS the
latest reports, however, are to the effect
that, owing to the lateness of the season,
he has hung up his air ship. until next
spring, it may.be.his intention.to deliver
his lectures here in sections, beginning
the first one soon, and continuing them
every winter after each trial to reach the
Pole until his undertaking shall have
been accomplished PLUCK. persistence
and thrift.is an.excelcnt Combination of
qualities for success in this life IA, *
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
Remember that the Radford

Remember that the Radford Steam
Laundry will give you better work than
any Chinaman in town, and when you
patronize them the money goes to feed
and clothe the twenty white women and
men employed by them, who in turn
spend it in Roanoke. Why patronize a
Chinaman under such circumstances
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

The result....in sVermont seems to have
given the Republicans and gold Dem J.
Gratis great encouragement; but they ap..
pear to have forgotten that, with the ex-
ccption of little '".bolder dash about
Cleveland's administration, Venezuela
and Cuba, there was no difference at all
between the platform of the Democrats
of that State and the one adonted by the
Republican national convention at St.
Louis. Both demanded the maintenance
of gold standard of value, and rs the
Democrats raised no issue at all in Yer
mont, and as the Republicans were I'M
usually active and aggressive, the
former, of course, were beaten. Vermont
was conceded to the Republicans, just as
Alabama was to. the Democrats, and vet
the former seem to have forgotten the
heavy majority given the latter in that
State few weeks ago. Ilonors so far
are even, and that is all
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE.

The Knoxville Tribune rises to remark
that the best English is spoken in the
South-better than that spoken by the
'broad-tongued Englishman" There
richness TO say that any people speak
| better English than an Englishman is to
say that they speak it differently, and SO
far rs any speech differs from the speech
of Engllshmen it is not English. What
our tangled-up contemporary means, or
may, might, must, would, could or
should mean, if he had meanor to mean
| with, is that the speech of the Southern
people is better than the English Ian
guage. Put it that way and it gous-in
the South.-New York Journal
Why may not an American speak bet
ter English than the English? Are there
not in New York hundreds of young men
(or perhaps young persons would suit
them better, rs Il term less virile) who
are more English than the English in
their dress? But if Americans, because
ter English than the English themselves
it follows that Americans writer's, be-
cause they are not English writer's, can
not know rs we'll rs the writer's of Eng
land, where the best English is spoken
Then we must take the opinion of an en-
inent English writer, expressed through
the columns of one of the leading London
papers, as n settlement of the question
such a settlement, at least, as no Amer
lean can question. Here it is:
am an Englishman, and for a number
of years have visited or lived in Victoria,
Now Spntl, Walac
tern Australia and New Zealand, and
have been particularly struck with the
purity of the English accent in those
colonies. / never remember meeting
with lisp of any sort, neither have l
noticed any special popularity of speech,
unless it be Il very marked absence of
affectation of any kind. In London, on
the contrary, l have noticed decided
"haccent" among the lower orders, and
among the better classes n very decided
clipping of the final ''g'' in their "talk-
In" while in fashionable circles the man.
ners of speech seem to aim at eccentric
ity rather than ut educated English;
with varying gradations from loud and
almost slangy to drawing and languid.
So it appears from this high English
authority that the higher classes in Eng
land are accepting the Southern people
as teachers of the language, for they have
commenced clipping the "g's," as the
Southern people have been doing for
many years. Whether they will study
the "r'' under Southern teachers, and
abolish it and say "befo'," or wrap it
around their tongues and throw it out
i'll curves and convolutions, and say ''be-
fower," does not yet appear, but it is
evident that an American can be more
English than the English in speech as
easily as in dress, and can certainly speak
as good English as the Australians.
Florida Times Union.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

Major John Byrne, president of the
democratic Honest Money League of
New York, who has just returned from n
trip through the Empire State, says:
both Central, Western and Northern
New York are rotten on silver and un-
less something is done we will lose the
State. Bryan had wildly enthusiastic
meetings, and has left an ugly trail be-
hind him. To-day an election would give
this State to Bryan with 100000 major
ity." This is very encouraging to the
friends of silver, and as the national
Democratic committee has decided to
make strong effort to carry the State
for Bryan, his friends will no doubt 90
into the fight in New York with renewed
Vigor md increased confidence. 1t is
gradually dawning upon the opposition
to the free silver candidate for Presiden.
that they have taken too much for
granted in their estimates of success in
the Middle and Middle Western States.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
FOR SALE

a good family riding and driving horse,
young and gentle, not afraid of cars and
other things. For sale cheap. Apply
at f. w. BROWNS hardware store, No.
8 South Jefferson street.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

18S-Auguste Comte, CONGRATULATIONS
metaphysician and philoso- MAN
Cher, fDrndor of the postivist school, died.
leG5-FTre destroyed $1,000 houses. besides
mosques and other public buildings, ut
ConstNntinople
E6S-Georgo L. Perkins, veteran business
mon of Norwich. Conn. died there; born
1885
SS92-Daniel Dougherty, famous orator. law.
yer and Democrat, died in Philadelphia;
born 1925.
1694-General George Stoneman, ex-governor
Of California and Mt one time chief of the
cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac.
died ut Buffalo; born 1922.
ezS-PGter Styers a locomotive engineer, who
had been on the rail 40 years, died at Beth.
ietlem, Pa. born 1923.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

Mr.. Bryan seems to draw as we'll in
Michigan as..in New York and Ohio. =. In
fact~~he. appears-tosabe playing a.winning
game entirely.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

Don't forget everything in the Book
and Stationery line is to be found at j. E.
Rogers, 104 Jefferson street
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05
This Date In History Sept. 5.

l648-Catherine Parr (Scy-
mour), sixth wife and wild
ow Of Henry VIII, died.
1&S-Louis XIV of France wns
born mt St. Gormain; king
az years; died Ills.
H50-Robert Ferguson, Scot
tish poet, born ut Edin-
burgh.
lSH-Dr. William McGilliway,
distinguished Scotch nat
urnliat died Mt A l,erflnnn
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

senator Butler, of North Carolina,
and Hon. Thomas T. Watson, the Popu
list nominee for VicePresident, had a
conference at Atlanta on the Bird instant,
when 1t was decided that both Mr. BRYAN
and Mr.. Watson would be notified of
their nomination by the Populists for
President and Vice-President, respec-
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-05

A handsome second hand Knabe piano
at bargain at j. 4. Rogers, 104 JeCer-
son street.
The evening times., 1896-09-29
Hurt by n Falling Building

Lesburg, Fla. Sept. GA distressing
accident occurred here yesterday morning,
in which three men were seriously hurt K.
A Stewart and son, G. c. Stewart and X
Keeling, Were tearing down an old ware
house un Lake Harris, near the Florida
Southern Railway dock. They were ON the
inside of the building which spread, allow
ing the roof to fall on them. DR.. j. T
Green was summoned and found all suffer
ing with severe wounds about the head a nd
body 6. C. Stewart is possibly fatally in.
lured as he has two ribs broken near the
spine and spinal column dsloCated.
The evening times., 1896-09-29
LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS MEET.
Zeur Wing Assemblies at Baton Rouge
and PASSES Resolutions.

Baton Rouge, La, Sept go The converi-
tion. called by authority of the Zcur wing
OF the Republican party, met in this city
at . O'Clock yesterday, Tor the purpose of
nominating Congressional candidate.
Delegates from parishes OF East Baton
Rouge, West Baton Rouge, East Feliciana,
West Feliciana, Livingston, st. Helena and
Avoyelles were in attendance. Leonard
Smith. OF st. Helena, chairman; ]. IL. Du-
cote. of Avoyeles, secretary.
Resolutions indOrsing Herwig and VIM
berley FOR Jealous efforts in behalf Of har.
mony We're made. Col Alexander Smith.
of East Baton Rouge. was unanimously re-
nominated for Congress. A committee of
five was appointed, with full power To har-
monize differences between Zeur and Dema-
rois Committees were appointed by the
Demarois wing TO hold a convention here
Thursday
The evening times., 1896-09-29
New Centennial Commissioners

Albany, n. Y, Sept. 29.-Gov. Morton
has named as additional commissioners to
represent the State of New York at the
Tennessee Centennial Celebration, to be
held in Nashville in l S9T, Messrs. Thomas
C. Platt, Thomas W. Evans and Horace
E. Garth. all of New York city. These ap-
pointments We're requested by Commissioner
General y. W. Wills of the Tennessee Cen
tennial. These commissioners serve at
their own expense.
The evening times., 1896-09-29

UNITED STATES MARsHAL'S SALE
BY virtue OF II writof fieri facias issued
cut or the clerks office OF the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia and to
me directed, / will sell at public sale for
cash. in front OF the Courthouse door city
OF Washington, District OF Column ia on
THURSDAY, October 8, A. u. 1896. at
ll:l5 O'Clock a. m, all the right title,
claim and interest Of Henry NJ. Fry in and
10 the following described property, tn wit:
Part OF lot numbered IL in square mum.
bered .405, beginning for the same atthe
northeast corner of said lot. and running
thence south on the line OF Eighth street
10 feet and 8 inches, thence west % feet
and 4 inches, thence north / 3 feet and 8
Inches, and thence east TO the place Of
beginning, situate in the city OF Washing
ton, District or Columbia. Seized ami levied
upon as the property OF said Henry NJ Fry,
and sold to satisfy execution No 26543 in
favor OF Thomas W Smith.
ALBERT A. WILSON, L. s. Marshal. I
DUNCANSON BROS, Auctinneers 7
seS. IL, l5. Is, % .26 ,29 :oc36