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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-12

metallist in the United States viii feel as
free to acknowledge his error as he was
candid in supporting his principles in the
past campaign But II, on the contrary,
we are furnished only with broken pledg-
es and the old mazeshift of issuing bonds
the vain attempt at keeping up our
credit by running farther into debt is
again restored, we promise to renew the
struggle until bimetaIlism shall become
an accomplished fact in the United
States.
We feel justly proud of our candidate
and the course pursued by him in the re-
cent campaign. He made q manly defense
of the cause we are engaged in and he is
as brave in defeat as he was fearless in
action. He had only one ambition to
serve and that was the interest of the
tOillng masses of his countrymen. and,
while he was overcome by superior for
ces, he is not sulking in his tent. but is
ready to join with American people in
most in the mind Of every lover Of his
country.
AS national chairman of the bimetallic
party. 1 call upon all of its forces through
out the United States, regardless of past
party affiliations, to accept the result
with dignity and forbearance and to join
in uphOlding the hands of Major McKin-
ley as president of the United States ana
to support him in all of his efforts to in
the citizens Of this republic, but in no
manner to abate their earnestness in the
cause of free coinage, SO that when it
shall be again necessary to assert the
principle we may be in better condition
from the standpoint of organization, than
was possible in the recent struggle.
1t is an old adage that Truth crushed
to earth. viii rise again and. believing
a we do that the cause of bimetallism
is the only refuge for the struggling peO-
pie, we shall stand entrenched behind
iety the first opportunity which necessity
may demand to establish it as an Ameri-
can policy Very sincerely
National Chairman of Bimetallic Party.
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lie Blanc Starves Himself in Order
That His Devoted Wife May
Have Food.

New York. Dec. 12.-Theophile lie Blanc,
a French-Canadian architect SO years Old,
taken to Belleview hospital last night
suffering from mild form of insanity,
probably due to his failure to eat suffi-
cient food
lie Blanc and his wife lived in q cheap
tenement. where they have struggled Tor
several months against poverty he
rooms are neat ana clean, and would in-
dicate that the occupants are refined peo-
pie. Much of their furniture. however
has gone to ward off starvation
For several days lie Blanc. who is de-
voted to his wife has refused to eat. say
ing that wife must be taken care Of.
no matter what becomes of me.
The unfortunate man has dWindled TO
mere shadow. Ambulance Surgeon Lee
diagnosed his case as one of inanltion.
due to destitutiOn. lie Blanc was placed
in the insane pavilion.
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FREE THINKER SUICIDES.
S. r. Putnam and Mary I. Collins
Found Dead ia the Latter's Room.

Boston. Dec. 12.-Mary L. Collins and
Samuel F. Putnam of Chicago were
found dead today upon the floor of the
room occupied by the woman. The gas
was turned on. The woman was TWEEN
ty Years uf age and the man about So
The bodies were both completely
clQthed-A whisky flask was also found
in the room. The indications are that
the couple committed suicide last night.
Chica $50. Dec. 12=Samuel p Putnam
of Chicago who was found dead i'm
Boston today was well known as one
of the prominent officers of the Amer
lean Society of Free Thinkers and no
ted as q fiery advocate of agnosticism-
he was a warm friend of Col Robert
c. Ingerson. Miss Collins in whose
room AIr Putnam was found lectured
at Central Music hail. about three
weeks ago on Free Thought and THE
New Woman. After her meeting with
Mr.. Putnam, q joint lecture tour of the
east was arranged
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Chairmen of the Principal Ones
Announced Today
By Lieutenant Governor "A. VI.
Harvey.
LEWELLING is MADE
Chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee.
Harris Chairman Of Committee
on Railroads.


Lieutenant Governor al. NJ Harvey
r- .--..stsl .t-- s71-.---t,,-- s..7,. +rY-s that
- -es-e. 80. p lt,s5,,,an ~
ne VIII app1lHt llelit a. e-is-
senate committees as follows
Committee on ways and means. Sena-
for r. - T.e,vaIline- of wichita
r-,-..,.s+t..y III, si77sciar4r Senator w
i1- Crossen OF mann county
Committee on railroads, senator W
A Harris of T.aavenworth county
r-or,r,f++ea IN, foes and salaries. SEN
~ --. IL 49,. .,,,-,,,+4-
h-ot f. ~F- IA-iA'@A 81 -7s-s1
committee ON agriculture anu At-se1-
riOu. Senator L. p. King OF CONVEY
county.
77bie ss,.l-- e.,,ro,,7,oar,ant of the
-,.1s-,.. ~ +,.[r .,l,..+ f,.,r,,,,.+s,,+ com
cilaiffllen Of lhe most lHlpo ealil COM
mittees is due to the fact that there Is
much preliminary work to be done by
the chair1nen and il is necessary to
have some tirna 1,afore the session of
tns i5slslal1re n Wnlcn 70 90 az lt- -7-,
--a-s AAlals 1p Ai4s 49, r. -r.l )
ths appointments as nave oullllleL,
sald A-ieutenallI Governor IlstIFey W
LAY tia 0 --7 t'1ss- u ~ -
OF cnalrInstnsillp ps early 50 lnstl tlle
senators may nay an oPpolI ulllly ..-.L- -
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=-sAels q -7l Z -
men oA lAs comm ltees 4 nay s Iuee-1 ~. ~
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o- -l-S l..,l =
Al sometimes happens "il5u tnele y
a Solllllcl Hel"eeil lile pLeslI-ll5 ol-lt-Si
o1 tle senate ana lhat p9e4 lLlat ltle
esl-s s... s. lahes Lne peweI ol Ahillllls lne
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soe Sl --ol- y no. ngS d az ilhls no ne
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car tot tne ulaJ9ilty OF l-7 senate anu
go, -.IS+l,l,I y.
So ~ = 1 CO. el- II --o a.
r5.r ~ 6 --ts7-l- ~
1'sAole tle Iast session oL tne leglsla-
- tuls 8 usiessLllol oL F9pullsl senator's
~ t--ss s5lls5liS S1oN Ne5llot AAoul-
+i5 i,-- - 49, .i me- ulll li-s-- II Mss
sro,,75 ~ lI5 p ii, - g'ii.l-ii .lS5s
sh1u1a "a aloWea to stand as they
+,5---+.7 Al4S ---. lliL9l llleu nlll N m al-
,,-,+.-S,. ~ Ili-all5S any ~ mem lhe
power or appointment or committees
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COMMENT ON IT.
Cincinnati Enquirer Says Quay Has
Outdone All Other Agitators.

Cincinnati, Dec. 12.-The Enquirer
says, speaking of Senator Quay's re-
markable utterance about millionaires
in the senate.
views expressed by Senator Matthew
Stanley Quay on the connection be
tween business and politics. sets aside
q gem. They are in the shape of an
interviw drawn out by the National
Business Mems league" to secure the
election Of John Wanamaker to succeed
J. Donald Cameron in the senate. Mr..
Quay is so thoroughly recognized, and
necessary as a Republican leader, that
ne may say more than the ordinary
politician usually has the courage to
utter. He was the conductor of the
victorious campaign OF General Har-
risOn, and was called in to do the
thinking for the canvass which result
ed in the election of Major Mckinley.
The similarity of his present express
sion to the speeches of William J. Bry-
an on his tour through the country last
summer and fall is striking. Indeed q.
it is hardly too much to say that he
out-Bryans Bryan. Mr.. Quay says
that the basic theory of the entire
scheme of the National Business Men S
league is that organized wealth shall
dictate high office, and so take posses
sion of the government; and he de-
clares that it will be disaStrOusly over
thrown. When did the Democratic
nominee say ANYTHING stronger than
other men" says Mr. Quay, based up
on wealth or other foundation, can
erect a governing class in this cOun-
try"
stand from under This is even worse
than Bryan's broad definition of a bust
ness man, which included every person
who worked for a living. The distin-
guished Pennsylvanian gets worse and
worse as he goes along He dares to
say that in the United States senate
we have millionaires and business men
enough to srve all legitimate pur-
poses" and that senators are needed
who have no specialties-" Had Mr.
Bryan said anything 50 audacious he
would have not only been denounced
as an aanarchist and repudiationist,
but q red-handed dynamiter Further
saith this man Quay: The people most
deserving of representation and most
in need of legislative protection are
the farmers. the small storekeepers, the
artisans and the laborers, and I stand
by them and against this sO-called
league" This is 'dremul" When did
Mr.. Quay imbibe these vieWs2 Or did
he always entertain them, without
finding it polite TO divulge them in the
past2 of course, every body knows that
Mr.. Quay has always been refOrmer.
His political life has been one long,
sweet song. He has been late, how
ever. in taking I'D the cause Of the
people against the sO-called business
mems leagues. Better late than never,
though Ut is so nice to have a man
take up the fight where Bryan left off,
and even outdo Bryan.
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LOCAL MENTION.

All members of the various commit
tees on Inauguration viii meet at the
Keith building next Monday evening at
7:30.
b W. Woodward of Lawrence, owner
of the finest private art gallery in the
west, lectured at Unity club last even
ing about his old schOolmate, Bayard
Taylor.
The arrest Of VIII Lynch and of Edna
Smith by the police Thursday night in
which Lynch charged the Smith girl
with robbing him of S25, was not made
at the house of Mrs. Emma Kelly. but
al a place on Kansas avenue north of
Third street
George Lacy, an employe Of Wolf
Bros. & Cole, has asked the district
court to divorce him from Rebecca La
cy They were married in 1889 but
never lived together. Mrs. Lacy is now
a domestic The husband charges
abandonment and his wife files an an
swer charging him with abandonment.
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LEEDY'S RECEPTION.
Mass Meeting of Citizens Called to
Make Arrangements for It

A mass meeting has been called for next
Wednesday evening at the rooms of the
Topeka Commercial club to arrange for
the reception to the incoming state adj
ministration. The inaugural ball has
been abandoned at the request of the
state officers who desire that the cere-
mony shall be as unostentatious as pos
sible.
The meeting is called by A. A. GODDARD,
chairman Of the committee appointed by
the Commercial club to arrange for the
reception. Mr.. GODDARD and his commit
tee have received the most flattering as
surances from the citizens of Topeka ir-
respective of party that they will help
to make the affair a success.
The committee of the Commercial club
has met with the committee appointed by
the allied silver forces and both COM
mittees agreed that the best way of con-
Quoting the reception would be to call a
mass meeting of citizens Of Topeka ir-
respective of party.
There is no friction this year as there
was four years ago when the POpulists
found fault because some Republicans
wanted to help make the inaugural cere-
monies a success. They said that they
won the victory and the Republicans had
no business to try to steal their thun-
der
There IS an absence of such feeling now
and the people of All parties are anxious
be received with as much cordiality by
the citizens of Topeka as any admins
tration that has ever been inaugurated.
The plan is to have the reception in the
senate chamber. Marshalrs band win
probably be employed and it VIII be sta
toned ia Representative hall to prevent
any crowding- The passage way between
the two halls viii be open and the people
will go to Representative hau first and
from there to the senate chamber where
they win meet the state officers ana
members of the legislature.
Following is the call for the mass meet
ing issued by Chairman GODDARD of the
Topeka Commercial club
In pursuance of a resolution adopted
by the committee appointed BY the Com
mercial club, I hereby call meeting Of
the citizens of Topeka at the rooms Of
the club. 625 Kansas avenue, Wednesday,
December 16 at 7.30 p. M, for the pur-
pose of making arrangements for the
rendering a reception to the incoming
state officers and members of the legis-
lature. a. a. GODDARD.
Chairman.
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LILLIAN RUSSELL WED.
She Became Hrs. Walter Jones in
Chicago, Recently.

Cincinnati, O., Dec. I'm conversa-
tion with friends last evening DR.. Jones,
father of Walter Jones, the comedian
and impersonator, stated that he was
open to congratulations as a father-in-
law.
The one whom the fortunate young
actor has made his wife is none other
than Lillian Russell The fact of the
enga cement of this couple-even the ru-
NOR of their maria ag@has been so oft
en- in print that this will create less sur
prise than would otherwise have been
the case.
DR.. Jones stated positively that the
couple were married in Chicago during
Miss Russe1l's recent. engagement there.
Admitting the difference in their ages,
which is considerable, DR.. Jones e.1-
pressed much satisfaction in the match,
and his belief is that they viii be very
happy together.
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.FLEHARTY NAMKD.
a Minister of the Christian Church is
Made Executive Clerk.

Gov Leedy has named Rev. II p 771a-
marty OF Eskridge as his executive clerk
ia l9f tne second time the newly elect
el governor mas surprised almost every
one Tor il has been predicted ever since
--- e. Little was appointed Driyata ss9
4eteiEs that Secretary Upton of 4hz
opullsl state central committee would
pe made executive clerk as a salz-e f7-
tne failure of the governor t-. e,7,,,,.i-,-
him secretary AA7i-'e
But Gov Leedy. it appears. is NOT in
& slie 5lAga tllg business. He makes up
MS mind whom he wants to appoint and
then appoints him The politicians ~
not know what TO make of the e-0t-ar-,77--
lie surprises them all just about the
tllne lhey have their minds made ln
that ne IS going to do a certain thing
they find that he has done something
Rev Mr.. Fleharty is a LAWYER as t,-sll
as a minister At present he is pastor
Sl me christian church at Eskridge He
p d lalA pleasant looking man and he
MD1ll pc taken for a minister before ha
49, Ao4 a lawyer. He is q young man
eliI mas the reputation of being one of
80 80 illsist eloquent POpulists in the sta IL
~, --7-l - 1--s- MT Flaharty lived in Paw
- a ear or two ago, he was
maze deputy county attorney and 10
became involved in some f,-,7,I,Il, 49,
resulted III dlsbarment rrqpaadine-s f.--
-ls Drought against him. The case ID
now penulng in the supreme l.-,---+
II investigated the ebs,. -
- - - - ssti4 Gov Leedv to a
journal reporter. land beea~7e -
Elneed that there was nothing In +hsn,
found that he had o. K. td sor,s t3ifs ~
which were afterwards disallr7,-s7 ---is s
that was made the basis e-- ~
enarges. wrote several letters -
Fawnee county and found that +ber9
was more politics than anything else IL
Nhe charges. Secretary of State ~
wards also wrote me letter in yvfi~f,
ne said that there was nothing i'm fna
charges After that I decided to an
point Air- Fleharty, and he viii be my
executive clerk
But it was said that YOU had decided
e appoint Mr. Tipton?" interposed tba
reporter ei-e
on. yes; Z know that" replied the
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FIGHT AT THE NEW BRIDGE
Foreman vipond Has Trouble With
Another Workman.

Another fight occurred this morning
a. the new bridge site in which Fore
man VIM w Vipond and Jas. Ferguson
were the principals
The men quarreled over a piece of
work which VipOnd ordered Ferguson
to do. The latter refused and the men
came to blows. FergusOn's eyes were
blackened and he was pretty badly used
up. He swore to a complaint before
Justice Furry charging Vipond with as
sault and battery, and Constable Mat
thews arrested the bridge foreman
shortly before noon.
Vipond is the man who a short time
ago fought with one of his employees
and was hurled into the water inside
the Golfer dam.
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POLICEMAN FRUSTRATED
With a Sciatic Attack That Doctors
Consider Serious.

Last evening just as Omcer McElroy
of the police force was ready to 50 ON
duty for the night he was seized with
an attack of lumbago which rendered
him helpless.
He had just arisen from his chair at
the station when the attack struck him
and he sank back into his chair help
less He was laid on a table and after
wards sent to his home al sos Clay
street in a hack.
city Physician Mitchell was sent to
see him this morning and says his case
is serious though not necessarily dan
gerous. He has had the attacks be-
fore
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MORE MEN FOR CUBA.
Company Formed at Columbia, O., to
Go to Cuba

Columbus, O., Dec. 12.-Ten men who
enlisted here TO fight for the Cubans
are ordered to start for New Orleans
December 81
Denver. Dec 12.-An order was is
sued yesterday for all the national
guard to report to Leadville for duty
It is said to be due to the fact that
over 200 of them are alleged to have
Joined a company now being raised in
Denver for service in Cuba. A re-
cruiting Office has been open here for
the past three days and about 500
names have been enrolled
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BOTH HIGH AND Low. .
Grandneice of Famous Gen. Pulaski
Has to Sell Papers and Suicides.

New York Dec. 12.-Josephine S.
Jerocka, a grand niece of General Pu-
laski. who fought in the war of the
American revolution and was killed at
Savannah, Ca. committed suicide by
poison at her home in Brooklyn today.
Nine. JerOcka was a claimant for 81
600 600 which it is said her famous grand
uncle had advanced to the United
States government to aid in prosecut-
ing the war of independence. She had,
according to her story, been robbed of
the papers which established her claim
and was obliged to take a government
c1erkship in Washington, from which
she was dismissed by Cleveland in his
first term. Since this she has had a
terrible struggle with poverty and was
finally reduced to selling papers For
some time she has been entirely de-
pendent upon charity Nine. Jerocka
wrote to the washington Star in a
hopeless strain that she intended to
commit suicide.
It was in ace brdance with this threat
that she killed herself today.
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GOALS OF FIRE.
Furnishes Homes for the
Children of People Who Abuse
Kansas.

Kansas City, Dec. 12.-Thirteen small
boys and a girl from the Children's Aid
society of New York were at the union
depot this morning They were on
their way to Olathe. Kan, where the
society expects to secure them homes.
b. w. Tice and Frederick King. agents
of the society, had charge of them. Mr..
King said that in the course of the last
few years the Ctudren's Aid society
had found homes for $1,000 homeless
children
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CHEATED THE GOYERNM'T.
Armor Plate ofInferior Quality Fur
nished for Battleshipa

Washington, Dec 12.-The special
board appointed by Secretary Herbert
to investigate the charges that plate OF
Inferior quality had been furnished for
the battleships now building at Newport
News. will resume its inquiry a that
place next Monday.
As far as it has gone the inquiry indi-
Gates that the amount of defective plate
supplied is much larger than was at
first supposed, and that the consequen-
ces may be very serious in the way of
delaying the work Of constructing the
battleships in which the department
is much interested.
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BUYS A MAN.
New York ssJOurnal'' Purchases
Peter HettOf
As a Slave For One Hundred
Dollars.
He SOLD HIMSELF
Because He Could Not Find
Work and Was Starving.
Hen Are Cheaper In New York
City
Than Black Slaves In the South
Before the War.
HE SOLD HIMSELF
Men Are Cheaper In New York
City

New York, Dec. 12-The Morning
Journal has purchased the man. who, a
few days ago. offered to sell himself for
500 because he was utterly unable to
find work and commissioned him TO
find others IN the great city who were
more wretched than he.
The paper will publish the results Of
the mans research.
The mans name is peter Hettlof, and
following is the letter he wrote:
New York, Dec 8, 1896.
For S1O0 L am willing to sell myself to
anyone who wishes a slave. / am ready
to do what the buyer viii ask of me,
toll as his slave or kill myself insured
in his favor Do not believe that / am
insane. for I am not / am only tired
of walking the streets. entering hotels
and cafes TO lind work OF any KIND
am 2S years old, speaking and writing
French and German and understand
ing double-entry bookkeeping.
I served in Uncle Sans army and
have a good discharge. Since then i
have been in New York city. 1 have
tried everything to secure employment,
but without avail-not even as a dish
washer or street cleaner
Therefore, i kindly request you to
publish these few lines in your paper
and authorize you TO give my name
and address to any person who has got
the cash or is willing to help a suffer
ing brother.
Please do not mention my name In
your highly esteemed paper Yours
most respectfully,
PETER HETTLOF, a
414 West Forty-eighth street.
The following is the Journals am
nOuncement:
----
A SLAVE IN NEW YORK;
THE NEW YORK JOURNALPUR-
CHASES A HUMAN BEING
FOR ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS
HUNGER AND UTTER INABILI-
TY TO OBTAIN WORK DRIVE
A MAN TO SELL HIM
SELF OUTRIGHT.
HIS TASK:-TO FIND OTHERS
MORE WRETCHED THAN
HIMSELF AND TO RE
LIEWE THEIR SUF-
FERING.
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WILKERSON WINS.
Verdict Given to Him in the Etzel
Damage Case.

$3.50 p. m.-The jury in the district
court has returned a verdict against
the Russians in their damage case
against ex-Chief of Police Wfkerson.
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CHICAGO. Dec 12.-Teresa Dean Tallman.
a wei known newspaper writer. today
secured a divorce before Judge Horton
Her husband. DR. TallInan. the house
physician at the Great Northern hotel.
disappeared some weeks ago and rumOrs
were current that he was accompanied by
a divorced woman from Danyille, III.
who has been a guest at the Great North
ern- The decree was secured by Mrs
Talman in tWenty-One minutes after the
filing of the bill
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friends who helped through his nomina-
ti0n and election.
The movement in the interest of
higher politics is against the system of
appropriation of the party and supreme
dictation, and is in no sense a personal
battle
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9ut cannot keep people from specu-
E aftfrr and am not to blame when they
{ You know I have the last chance
Z at
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New York. Dec. 12-Thomas Byrnes.
formerly superintendent of police of this
city confirmed the report today that he
had resigned from the United States
Casualty companys burglary insurance
bureau Mr.. Eyrnes would not say what
are his plans for the future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-12

The Fifth ward silver club will meet
tonight TO reorganize at 1006 Kansas
aEanna-
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INSANE FROM HUNGER.

It was in acc brdance with this threat
at she killed herself today.