The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


CONGRESSMAN RICHARDSON. of Ten
nessee, chief assistant of Senate
Jones, denounced as without founda
ton the story that Senator Jones has
said that both Sewall and Watson
would be taken down and Judge Clark
of North Carolina, put up as the vice
president ial candidate.
THE British foreign Office has given
out semi-oficial notice stating that
public feeling in Great Britain has
been SO outraged by the shocking
events in Constantinople that the gov
eminent would never be supported in
siding with the porte, and if the powers
cannot see their way to adopt means
to cooperate to end the carnage in the
Bri 5ish dominions, the only course
opened to Great Britain was to stand
aside and hope for more satisfactory
state of affairs.
A DISPATCH on the 18th from Wash
ington said that the national meeting
Of the campaign clubs organized under
the auspicies of the silver party was
originally called for September % al
Chicago, but it will be postponed until
October and will be held at St Louis,
at which time the democratic clubs
will hold their convention at the latter
place Negotiations are in progress
looking to joint meeting.
THE press bureau at the national
democratic headquarters at Chicago
pu blished on the 18th an estimate o,
what they thought would be Mr..
Bryan's majorities in November. II
gives Bryan SO out of As states, with
1924 electoral votes.
WILLIAM F. SHEEHAN, of New York.
has resigned as a member of the demo
cratic national committee.
If Spain was to have a serious re
verse in Cuba the Carlists claim thai
the downfall of the present regency
would follow Immediately, and tina,
Charles VII would be triumphantly
placed upon the Spanish throne with
little or no trouble.
MAJ.-GEN. CARLOS RoLoFF, Cuban
secretary of war, was arrested recently
on a warrant sworn out by the Span.
ish consul, and spent the night in Lud.
low street Jail in New York. The
charge was on information and be
lief" that the general had set on foot
preparations for military expedition
to Cuba. Roloff was released from
custody as soon as his friends learned
of his arrest.
Mr.. SEwALL, candidate for vice pres
ident, at Bath, Me-, on the 18th said:
''There is absolutely nothing in this
talk about my withdrawal. The thing
is absurd. AS for the statement that
Senator German or any of the demo
cratic managers desire me to retire, OF
that the party leaders are bringing in
fuence to bear on me for that purpose.
1t is pure falsehood. On the contrary
all the pressure on me has been the
other way
The formal opening of the campaign
was inaugurated at Canton, O.. on the
18th. Seventy-five train loads came in
to the city. Maj. Mckinley rode in a
carriage with some of the speakers
during the first parade. Before the pa
rade dozens of delegations, headed by
their bands, marched to Maj. McKin
ley's residence and short speeches were
made.
The sultan of Turkey has issued 8
long reply to the collective note of the
powers. He declares that the mas
sacres were provoked by Armenian
revolution;sts and denies that the riot
ers were directed by government
agents, and also asserts that the AR
menians assumed Mussulman costume,
in order to perpetrate their crimes.
GEN. GRosvENoR, on the night of the
Goth at Athens, O., gave out a table o,
estimates of the probab BILE result of the
presidential election. He claimed 27i
electoral votes for Mckinley, or 81
more than sufficient to elect.
JOHN BOYD TEACHER, the democratic
nominee for governor of New York
issued a statement on the Goth declar
ing that he was against free silver,
but would vote for Bryan and Sewall
for regularity, and fight the campaign
on state issues only, thus creating one
of the most curious situations ever
known in politics in that state.
A CABLEGRAM has been sent by dele
gates to the international agricultural
congress at Budapest, Hungary, to
William ]. Bryan, wishing him success
in his campaign and indorsing his fight
for free silver.
In reply to letter from Gov. Culber-
son, of Texas, on the financial problem
agitating the United States, Prince
Bismarck, of Germany, stated that if
the people of the United States should
find it compatible with their interests
to take independent action in the di.
rection of bimetallism,s such action
would exert q most salutary influence
upon the contamination OF an interna-
tional agreement
A FAR-RAMIFYING conspiracy was
said to exist in the United States to
overthrow the dynasty of China and
establish a republic. Chinese graduates
of American colleges are at the head
of the movement. They propose to
educate the Mongolians by sending
the Bible and other books to them to
arouse them to the necessity of a new
order of things.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE United States commissioner of
pensions made his annual report on
the 21st. The mum Der of pensioners on