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New-York tribune., 1896-02-04
LONG BRANCH LIQUOR MEN UNHAPPY.
THEIR LICENSES HAVE BEEN REVOKED AND
THEY CANNOT SELL TO ST PAUL
EXCURSIONISTS.

Long Branch. Feb. (Specia).-The most m.sess
able men to be found in New-Jersey to-day are the
hotel and saloonkeepers IN this city. whose
licenses recently revoked by the Monmouth
County Court. They number score or or moro
and had they been permitted 10 sell they would
have reaped harvest in the short time the steam.
ship ST. Paul has been stranded Judze Conover 10
quoted as saying that II any OF the men whose
licenses were revoked dare apply for d new license
before the May term OF court he Will that they
never again have liquor license OF any kind. None
OF the who without a license VIII
apply before the May term. and II is doubtful II
more than fourth or them Will secure renewals.
New-York tribune., 1896-02-04
EXCISE COMMISSIONERS CENsURED.

THE ELIZABETH GRAND JURY ARRAIGNS THEN
FOR FAILURE TO REVOKE LICENSES-sIX
PRESENTMENTS AND SEVENTEEN IN
DICTMENTS AGAINST SALOONKEEPERS
Elizabeth. Feb. (SpeciaD.-The Union County
Grand Jury. after n months session. adjourned 70.
day and handed In forty indictments and two pre-
sentiments. one OF the latter Is aimed ~ the ED
else Board for not exercising Its authority TO r.
woke the licenses OF ssloonkeepers who keep open
on Sunday. President Keron OF the Board. VA
excepted from the censure visited on his coleasc&
as he had tried 10 act according TO law.
The other presentment was against SIX eAoo~
keepers who had been caught once selling on sum
day. According TO Judge Van Syckers ruling oee
offence not sufficient 10 justify tndlctmsnt
No less than seventeen dealers were indicted Iot
habitual violation OF the law agains. sunday se!ns'
and they will be arraisned tomorrow.
No Indictment or prescntment was found aganW
any OF the city officials except members OF inc
Excise Board
New-York tribune., 1896-02-04
MAN AND WOMAN ACCUSED OF MURDER

Atlantic city. Feb. 3.-Harry Garden pa'".e,,
about thirty-fve years old. is in the e'y '"'
charged with the murder OF William Colshs '''"
zle johnson Is also in custody as an accessory y"
the crime.
The two men met this morning In the rear ~
Miss Johnsons home In North Texas-a'e ~
Ill feeling of long standing existed petwee" -"
men and quarrel was begun. . .rs a
Collins was under the influence OF iI'ior "' Car
was not long before the men came TO piows. ~.
riden, II Is alleged struck his Antagonist Oh ne
head with a hammer or axe handle, trae'u''"s '''-
skull . A..
Collins died this evening and Carriden sno ~. -
woman were arrested. Garden CONTENDS tess -
struck Collins In sslf.defence.
New-York tribune., 1896-02-04
NO DEVIATION FROM THE CONTRACT.

THE NEWARK BOARD OF TRADE TAKES UP Ihs
WATER PROBLEM
The Newark Board OF Trade last night unsnr
mously adopted resolution saying that after
lapse OF seven years Newark has been forced ~
accept the statement that the terms OF the conrses
with the East Jersey Water Company have ho'
been complied with by the company; that the Guy
has in good faith performed its part OF the bargain
without being allowed to satisfy itself whether !"
receiving what II contracted for; that there y
grave doubt In the minds of many men AZ " VI
accuracy OF the figures quoted and upon question.
at issue In reference to the contract: that thf
pany, that Newark loses nothing" by the failure
OF the conduit is coacurred In by the Board anu %
the original contract protects the interests
city: IL was therefore recommended 10 the pos shs
OF Works not to deviate from any part o' '"'
original contract.
New-York tribune., 1896-02-04

Senator "Bill" Daily. of Hudson County. was III
his seat tonight. He is recovering from severe
attack of rheumatism and nervous prostra'ioh.
Some enemy Of his started the rumor tnat ne hao
.out with the idea of alternating the exceedingly
denocratic voters Of Hudson County.
New-York tribune., 1896-02-04

Senator Voorhees, has bill that Will cause
much commotion in the breasts OF the poor Sher-
ifs Of the State whose compensation varies from
81 900 to $4,000 year This measure proposes 10
cut off the 81 fee paid to them for each Grand
Juror summoned to attend court.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
George Fred Williams as a s,Iverlte.

George FAed Williams, the lacrimosa
statesman of Dedham, created consterna-
tion among thu democrats of the Bay
state last week ny announcing that he
wouldi work in sympathy with the sill
yer ,men, at ChicagoA Mr.. Williams was
elected to the conventiGn as a gold dele
gate on gold platform. As against Han
naism, which, he declares, represents TIE
organized band of bloodsuckers of the
country; Hobartism, synonymous with or
ganzed capital and illegal combinations
against labor, Mr.. Williams says he is
willing to take his chances with free silver
coinage. The tariff, he declared, will cut
only a small figure in the approaching
campaign.
Regarding the declaration attributed to
him in an interview by New York paper
that more than one-half the Democrats
of Massachusetts favor free silver, Mr..
Williams reiterated his statement.
"The time has come" said Mr.. Will
Jams, "for a great popular uprising, and 1
propose to be in it. In taking this step of
supporting a silver Democrat, l realize
that l am doomed politically in Massachu-
setts, and that l shall never be forgiven by
men who claim to be Democrats. l re-
alize, also, that these men can punish me
socially and financially, but l invite the
persecution with conscientious feeling
that am doing right by voicing the senti-
ments of an outraged public"
Mr.. Williams does not look so much like
a martyr as his talk pictures him. He
looks more like renegade who crawled
into the band wagon after the parade had
started. George Fred has been taken too
seriously by the Democracy of Massachu-
setts, but they should not grieve. Water
and some things find their level, and
George Fred is one of them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
Anarchism and Pa.ernallsm Combined

From the Boston Transcript
From being more than conservative the
Democratic party has become more than
radical. The platform breathes hatred of
order, of honest money, of thrift and pros
perity. 1t rebukes by indirection Presi-
dent Cleveland for enforcing Federal laws
by keeping open the great lines of railroad
communication in the strike riots of 1894; /;
it advocates an income tax in time of peace
not only for revenue, but because it will
hit the wealthy; it gives a left-handed
blow at civil service reform, and hints at
the packing of the supreme court. In
reading the platform as outlined, we can
not fall back upon the comforting thought
that platforms were invented by parties to
conceal their purposes, for there is no con-
cealment here, and, considering the make
up of the convention, it was impossible
there should be. The conservative leaders
of the party, the men with whom the old
traditions are strong, have been "turned
down" by the action of the majority, who
are socialistic. .slverites first and Democrats
afterwards. Senator Hills fate is warn
ing and prefigures the Democratic cam
paign. That party will go before the coun-
try, inviting whosoever wants money for
nothing, whosoever believes in the spoils
system, whosoever believes that state rights
include the right to set fire TO trains be-
cause they are the property of corporations,
whosoever believes that the gold reserve
should be destroyed to come into the ranks
of the army with the double-faced banner
of paternalism and anarchy combined.
The choice that every man must make in
this campaign is whom he will serve
sound money or free silver, progress or pa
alie nrlar Io til
patriotism points the way clearly. Men
cannot vote to indorse the Democratic
platform without indorsing all its contains
The individual Democrat who believes in
honest money, the safety of property, and
civil service reform, cannot accept the re-
suit at Chicago without stultifying him
self. The appeal made by the platform of
the Republican party is to him as a good
citizen not to fall down before the strange
gods the Chicago convention is running
after.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
Jefferson and Cleveland.
From the New York Sun. !

Inasmuch as Mr.. Russell VIM. E. has
committed the blunder of coupling the
names of Jefferson and Cleveland, we will
enlighten him as to the historical grounds
for affirming that the former would never
have committed certain acts of which the
latter has been guilty. The President, who
rebuked and strove TO undo what he deem
ed the iniquitous act done by Jonn Adams
in rewarding political partisaEs By eleventh.
hour appointments of United States dis
trict judges, would never have offered
the post of minister to Rome to Mr.. j. j.
Van Allen in payment of large money
contribution to campaign fund. The
President, who selected for emphatic ap-
plause the clause of the constitution which
prohibits the imposition of direct tax by
Congress upon the states, except proper
tionaly to their population, would never
have recommended an income tax, as Mr..
Cleveland did by his message of December,
1898. The President, who, notwithstand-
ing some misgivings touching his right so
to do, purchased the Louisiana territory,
and thereby vastly aggrandized his country,
would never have recalled the treaty
whereby the Hawaiian Islands were to be
annexed to the United States. Lastly,
Thomas Jefferson, who, early in his sec
onu term peremptorlly forbade the men
ton of his name for a third term of the
presidency, would not have suffered, as
Grover Cleveland has suffered his official
subordinates to intrigue and agitate for
months in his favor, or refused, as Grover
Cleveland has refused, to utter a word on
the subject until an overwhelming major
ity of his party had pronounced against
him.
"There is inspiration" cries the belated
Mr.. Russell, sin the leadership of Jeffer-
son and Cleveland" Inspiration to whom,
and for what? Detested by the Democrats
and despised by the Republicans, Cleve-
land could not lead a corporars guard. The
only kind of inspiration which he ever had
it in his power to give was the negative
kind that might have been conveyed four
months ago by the announcement that he
had unloaded his huge bulk from the
creaking car of the Democracy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
The Business Circles.

Midsummer dullness rules nearly all de-
partments of general trade. One conspic.
uous exception is the boot and shoe mar
Ket, where the recent activity is pretty well
sustained, With the result of firm prices
for hides and leather. There have been
advances in anthracite coal and petroleum,
but these are to be attributed &c artful
manipulation rather than to any genuine
mercantile demand
Wheat, cotton, oats, iron and steel and
sugar are all lower. The cotton manu-
facturers have adopted the most pro-
promising method of relief in moving for
general curtailment of production.
More than 100000 spindles are now in
cluded in the agreement Bradstreet' s
statement of business failures for the first
six months of 1896 is disappointing ex-
hibit, for it shows the largest six months
total-76O2-since the records have been
compiled. There have been about thous-
and more failures this year than in the
corresponding period of 1894 and 1895.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

1t is very probable that Prof. Roentgen's s
benefcent discovery, when little further
developed, may end the long controversy
over the subject of vivisection. The latest
step in this process of photographing the
invisible is to render the stomach and
viscera open to observation by simply let
ting the subject swallow a harmless fluid
containing a solution impervious to the
y rays. The bones, the lungs, the heart
and other organs have already been photo
graphed with sufficient accuracy to permit
their pathological condition to be dag
nosed, and there seems to be very little
left for vivisection to reveal that cannot
be shown to much better advantage by the
Roentgen process. If this view is correct,
one of the most repulsive features of surg
ical science, the vivisection of living ami
mails, will soon be abandoned as an out
worn barbarism.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
Cheapness of Life in South Ca.

Rev. DR.. G. S. Gardner of Greenv.
e., preached sermon recently which.
tracted great attention. He said that
Greenville county 33 murders had beer
committed within three and one-half years.
or one murder a month, and this in a pop
ulation of $4,000. In the whole state of
Massachusetts the average number of muir
ders is nine year. The Charestown News
and Courier, the leading paper of South
Carolina, says that "Greenville is not
worse than the other counties, or not
much worse" Rev. Mr. Gardner, called
particularly for a reform of the Jury sys-
tenn which tends to exclude intelligent men
from the jury; and he was severe on the
lawyers, who, to enhance their professional
regulations, are ready to go to any length
to save murderer. The Springfield Re-
publican, commenting on the sermon,
says: "This is all excellent so far as it
goes, and it is encouraging to know that
the people are awakening to the situation
and disposed to expose and reform it. But
the main trouble springs from the attitude
OF whites toward the negro and the toler-
ance of the old feudal practice of each
mans taking the administration of Justice
into his own hands. AS long as the negro
population is looked upon as essentially in
ferior-and more nearly allied by nature
to the brute creation, human life will be
held cheap in that section-cheap as re-
spects the negro and consequently, by
force of example and familiarity with vio-
lent death, cheap as respects life amongst
all classes. There is to be found the root
of the eyil,n
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

VIM. P. St. John resigned last week as
president of the Mercantile National bank
of New York city. His retirement was
directly due to his advocacy of free silver.
He was the only bark president in New
York city in favor of free silver, and has
been the leading exponent of that doctrine
in the East. Mr.. st. John is a wealthy
man, and the loss of the Mercantile bank
presidency will impose no pecuniary hard
ship on him. he was born in Mobile, Ala,
in lS49, received his education in that city,
Germany, England, and Massachusetts.
In 1867 he came to New York and he has
since been in seven kinds of business. He
was for four years prior to his connection
with the Mercantile bank in charge of cred
its, sales and prices for Havemeyer Il El-
der, the sugar refiners, whose transactions
footed up to S5O,OO0,OO0 year. Mr.. ST..
John has been in Chicago this week to
urge the adoption of a free silver plank
in the Democratic platform.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

strikes blow at civil service reform, gives
quasi endorsement of riot and rapine in
the resolution proposed by Altgeld con-
demning the interference of the federal
government in state affairs. The silver
demagogues, the socialists and the anarch-
lists are heard in its utterances. The Dem
ocrats who are followers of the principles
of jefferson cannot cons tently follow
this rabble convention. They cannot en-
dorse policy which they have declared
would bring ruin and chaos to this coun-
tfy. Their duty lies in supporting the Re-
publican ticket, or in boiling the conven-
tion and supporting candidate who rep
resents real Democratic principles.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

natural result of labor-saving machinery,
raising, and closer competition.
Mr.. Kirwan is badly in error when he
says that our national debt, private and
corporate debts, city, town and village
debts have not declined. The public debt
was steadily reduced under Republican
rule. In 1880 it stood at S1,922, ,51I3G4,
while ten years later it was 1891, 800, 104.
The per capita debt of the United States
in 1880 was 1888, and in 1890 S1S.13.
The local debt of the United States has re-
mained nearly stationery, but the increase
in population has brought down the per
capita standing of state and local debts in
the United States from S22.4O in 1880 to
S1S.13 in 1890. The per capita debt of
all of the great nations of the world is
largely in excess of the United States.
Free coinage of silver will not remedy
the evils of which Mr.. Kirwan complains,
some of which are more fancied than real.
Frances experience makes it evident that
the United States alone could not maintain
free coinage. Free coinage at the present
time would mean the destruction of public
credit and the partial reputation of debt.
The laboring men on fixed wages would be
The greatest sufferers. Wages would not
keep. pace with prices during imitation. 1t
is true that Germany, Austria, France,
Holland and Belgium are now looking
with favor upon International bimetallism.
1t would seem, therefore, that the need of
the hour is international conference with
in view. Free silver in the
United States now would defeat this very
purpose, and would hamper the cause OF
bimetallism for wears.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
Mr. Kirwan,. Communication.

The Phoenix has cheerfully given space
to the letter by G. B. Kirwan in another
column in regard to the free coinage of sill
yer. Mr.. Kirwan, like nearly all free sill
verites who argue the question, speaks of
the decentralization Of silver in 1873. This
Is true only in technical sense. Silver
currency never existed in this country af-
ter lS06, when our mint stopped coming
the dollar piece which was afterward really
demonetized by the law of 1884 which
raised our ratio from 10 1-2 TO 1898 to /.
This law drove into the jewelers. melting
pot the few million dollars of silver dollars
coined between 1884 and 1878. This left
only the light weight and deprecated coins
of other nations remaining as our curren-
cy, which were demonetized in 1857, so
that it is not a real statement of fact to
say that the act of 1873 accomplished the
decentralization of silver.
Mr.. Kirwan speaks as if the act of 1878
was passed through some chicanery, when
in fact the act was recommended by the
secretary of the treasury through three
successive messages, the bill was printed
many times, was considered through five
sessions of Congress, and the debates on it
filed l40 pages of the Congressional rec
ord.
The reduction of the prices of products
of which Mr.. Kirwan complains does not
apply to specific articles, but to the whole
field of trade and commerce. 1t is but the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
Real American Feeling Toward Eng
land,

lhhus
But it is certainly true that the great
body of the more intelligent Americans
harbor no prejudices or jealousies in re-
spect to England, as has been clearly shown
in the expressions of opinion which recent
events have called out. They desire no
controversy with her. Proud of their own
country, believing in its destiny, resolute
to defend it when it needs defence in any
quarter, for the greatness of England they
have cordial admiration; and in her for
ward march they know that they and the
world are profted. They see that wherever
her flag goes it stands for law and order
and good government, and that under it
the rights of all men are safer than under
the rule of any other country. They per-
ceive that if we are to have relations or
friends anywhere, they must be found
among the people of our own race; that
the two countries are natural and necessa-
ry allies, whom God has Joined together,
kindred who even if they quarrel would be
kindred still; that if business and indus
try are to prosper in either, they must
prosper in both; and that if Christianity,
liberty, and the principles of free govern
ment are ever to overspread the earth,
they must be carried by the English Ian
guage, which has thus far been their vehi-
Gle. In the minds of such men there is
no room for the paltriness of Anglomania
on the one hand, or of Anglophobia on the
other-for servile imitation or groundless
Jealousy. Minister Phelps in the july
atlantic.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

A striking story is told by Darwin in the
life of his grandfather, DR.. Darwin OF
Shrewsbury. One day a patient entered
the consulting room of London physician
and detailed the symptoms of his illness.
1t was an obscure and difficult case of a
kind that was only imperfectly understood,
and the London doctor confessed himself
fairly puzzled. He could only state that
the patient was in a perilous state. "There
is but one man in England who under
stands the disease" said the London doc
tor, "and you should go and consult him
1t is DR.. Darwin of Shrewsbury" "Alas y. .
was the answer, 81 am that DR.. Darwin" I"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
There are MANY persons perhans livinr

There are many persons perhaps living
within the limits of Aroostook county,
Maine, who have faint idea of its size.
1t is truly county of magnificent distances
and immense forests. 1t is nearly as large
as the state of Massachusetts, and larger
than some of the kingdoms of the Old
World. Its forests are the largest in New
England, and there are places that have
never been visited except by the Indian or
hunter. OF the five largest counties in the
United States, Aroostook is second, one
county in California being a little larger.
Only about one-tfth of the county is under
cultivation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

The elements of dishonor and disorder
are in control of the Chicago convention.
The unseating of accredited delegates from
Michigan, thereby turning the unit vote oi
the state from gold to silver was brazen
fraud. The platform is the worst ever
adopted in a national political conven.
ton. 1t declares for unsound curren.
cy, calls for a discriminating income tax
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10
Stabbed In the Back.
From the New York World

The un-Democratic, dangerous and de-
structive free-silver plank in the platform
proposed at Chicago so neutralizes and
nullifies all the rest that the other resolu-
tions might as well have been omitted.
By declaring for a debasement of our
currency and the semi-repudiation of pub
lie and private debts the convention will
make this the only real issue of the cam
paign. Nothing else will be seriously con.
sidered. 1t will dominate the canvass. 1t
will decide the election.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

The survey of the volcano Popocatepetl,
Mexico, for the purposeIof determining the
best location for an aerial cable railway to
the summit, has just been completed. This
new railway will be great attraction to
tourists who will now be able to make the
ascent to the summit, $4,000 feet above the
sea, and also descend to the crater, where
the process of extracting sulphur is being
carried out.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

1t is blunder that would be inconceiv-
able if it had not actually been made. 1t
pushes Democracy out and brings Popu-
lism to the front. 1t will render sup
port of the ticket impossible by hundreds
of thousands of Democrats. The Demo-
cratic party of the nation has deserved
better things of the Southern men than the
Brutus-like blow they have dealt it at Chi
capO