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Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-05-12

One Fare for the Round Trip to
Philadelphia via Royal Read.
ing Route.
For the occasion of the unwilling of
the Washington Monument at Philadel-
phia, May 18th, special rate of one fare
for the round trip will be made via Royal
Reading Route. For further informa-
ton apply to nearest ticket agent or ad-
dress Edison ]. Weeks, General Passenger
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Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-05-12
A SHIP BURNED.

County News continued on Fourth page
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
The Last Days for Registration.

The registration of voters on the first two
days, last Friday and Saturday, showed n
large falling off from the total Of the cor
responding days last year. This decrease
was in the Assembly districts generally,
and it indicated, therefore, that the citi-
zens of the Greater New York had not yet
been walked up to n consciousness of the
vast Importance of the coming election.
Since the present week began, however,
1t has become apparent that throughout
the business community and the ranks of
the opponents OF Organism and social rev.
olution generally a better understanding
of the gravity of the crisis has begun to
prevail. Republicans, more especially, have
discovered that nothing stands in the way
Of their electing Gen. TRACY the first Mayor
of the Greater New York except criminal de-
fault on their own part. The victory is
within their grasp, and they have only to
go forward to seize 1t.
Republicans also owe more than a duty
of loyalty to their own party. For the de-
fence of society against the threatening
assault of its enemies, happily divided into
hostile camps, they must qualify them
selves, every one of them, to vote for the
Republican ticket. 1t Is by far the best
ticket nominated. Simply on its intrinsic
merits alone 1t deserves the votes of all
honest citizens, Republicans or otherwise.
1t is the only ticket which squarely opposes
Organism and its corollary, Georgeism. and
the only honest ticket uncontaminated by
unprincipled deals and bargains.
The desperate devices adopted by SETH
Lows agents to divide the Republican vote,
solely with a view to the defeat and de,
struction of the Republican party, as is
now demonstrated 30 plainly to every intel
ligence, make it the more necessary for
every Republican voter to be registered.
The last days of registration for the cleo
ton to occur on the I'd of November are
to-day, Friday, and tomorrow, Saturday,
Whoever is not registered at the closing OF
the registration books tomorrow night will
lose his vote and be guilty of negligence OF
Indifference, which in this serious crisis
amounts to a crime against society.
The Republicans alone can save the
Greater New York from the disaster and
disgrace of its capture by the Bryanitt
hordes. They can elect Gen. TRACY beyond
the possibility of a doubt II they all vote
for him. Let every man Of them, then, gel
his name on the registry rolls. No excuses
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15

about to exhibit themselves as a pack Of
frivolous lightweights and hunters Of but.
t%erfiies, credulous of Islander, impressionablc
by charlatanry, fanatical in their impulse
to destroy, delighting in punishment and
grudging Of just rewards, weak, vacillat-
ing, and uncertain In their political senti.
ments' 1t would be against all reason.
Unless New York wishes to increase
rather than to diminish the injurious repu.
tation for instability which Mugwumpery's
wrctched worship of false heroes and the
passions of Organism have begun to give
to her and the United States. the highest
vote for my candidate for Mayor will be
cast for that sterling exponent of good gov.
eminent and that representative of New
York's fairest political and industrial
hopes, BENJAMIN T. Tracy, the avowed
champion of the st. Louis platform.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
The Highest Form of Political Cour-

1t is easier to hold on to a political mis-
take than to let 20. Men who have the
manliness to stand up in public, before it is
too late, and say. 81 was wrong; my judg.
nent has been misled; now l see clearly
what is right, and I'm going to do It." are
heroes in their way.
Every remaining day Of this brief canvass
In the Greater New York is going to wit
ness hundreds and thousands of instances
of such political heroism.
Hundreds and thousands Of Republicans,
who were deceived earlier in the campaign
as to the true significance of the Low move
ment, are going to prove their courage and
sincerity by ~squaring their c~onsciences and
strengthening out their partisanship before
election day.
Only to-day and tomorrow remain for
registration, but eighteen days remain for
the rehabilitation of honest Republicans
who have not clearly perceived until now:
1. What sort of a man SETH Low really
is and,
2. What tremendous interests he is self.
ishly, recklessly, and u~nscrupulously i'm
perilling.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
REPUBLICANS CAN ELECr TRACr.
Past Election Returns showing THAT ir Thcy
Hold Together They Will Triumph.
Hom lie Commercial Advertiser.

from We Commercial advertiser.
That the only cnc't W Lows in dependent candi.
dacy. IN n spirit rs hostile to the He publican party a.
to Tammany Itself. Is to strengthen Tsmmany and
perhaps to elect Van WICK or George. IL a matter OF
mathematical demonstration. With the division Of
the Democratic vote. whirh. It Is now seen, was inev.
liable as The result Of "Ncuts of last wear, nothing could
prevent It's defeat but a ike dIy!s.o on OF the Rcpubll.
can vote. This Is perfectly clear from n study OF the
election returns from the territory now comprised in
New York, which should he given in round numbers
TO overcome the difficulty OF scgregatlnG the exact
vote in the new territory,
For President, in 1855. tho Republicans cast about
100. 900 votes out OF $4,000; In l-y2. about ls2, 1000
out of $4,000; in 1890. about 2ss.ooo out OF
b15, 900. For Governor, In iSU2, the Republicans
cast about 10i, 1000 votes out Of AON. Ooo; in 1904,
70 900 out of 4SO. 900; in lsUO. 2iG.OOO out OF 497,.
900. Observe. that in the territory whose population
now is to vote for Mayor. with tho Democratic vote
nearly equally divided, the united Republicans would
have carried the election by nearly 1000 plurality.
in the least favorable OF these years. and by 40, 900
plurality In the most favorable. excluding entirely
the exceptional vote for Mckinley In 1896.
Now the Democratic vote Is so nearly divided that
the best authorities hesitate whether Van Wyck or
George viii be ahead. with a united Republican
vote there would bc absolutely certain defeat of both
George and Tammany by a pluraIity OF from 10000
to 100, 900 votes.
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The Sort of Organ 1t Is Now.

A Methodist minister writes to the NctU
ity of his heart, expressing surprise and
regret that "the great power of our great
Republican organ" is not turned toward
Gen. TRACY, but is used against him in the
effort to defeat his election. as not mu-
nicipal reform as safe with TRACY and the
great party behind him." asks this sensible
minister, "as it would be with Low and
the organization behind himr
How does "our great Republican organ"
replyi Here is the point of it's
III the power Of the Tribune could elect Gen.
TRACY. or any other good and competent Republican
Mt this critical Juncture. 1t would certainly be used
to the uttermost to that end. Tho trouble is that the
Republican vote is not enough. We must have also a
certain amount OF independent anti-Tammany sup
port. Everybody knows Gen. TRACY cannot get this.
We are for anybody on whom it and the Republican
vote can be united. At present SETH Low Is the only
such man in sight"
The falsehood and false pretence Of the
Tribune'S answer must open the eyes of the
supplemented minister, so that he will see
why 'ou great Republican organ" is play
ing its treacherous part in a campaign so
momentous in it's Importance to the Re-
publican party and to all society.
We quote elsewhere from the Commercial
Advertiser of this city a demonstration
that the election of Gen. TRACY can only
be prevented by n division of the Republic
can vote. With the opposition divided be-
tween the George, Van Wyck, Low, and
Gleason camps, success will come inevita-
bly, to the Republicans if they are united
..:.o "A n. an- .l..k rx ~, re
they will. The only chance of his defeat
lies in possible detection and desertion from
their ranks to SETH Low. Moreover, the
mere fact of demonstrated Republican
unity for Gen. TRACY would assure to him
the outside conservative vote as the sole
candidate with whom GEORGE and Bryan.
ism can be beaten.
Why, then, is the Tribune doing its
utmost to encourage such fatal dcsertion
by Republicans Why is it supporting
Low in his desperate attempt to divide
the Republican vote and beat the Repub.
lican party! Why is it bolstering up his
ticket, though it contains State candidates,
candidates for the Assembly, nominated
especially and avowedly for the purpose OF
preventing a Republican majority in the
Assembly!
1t is. good minister, simply because
the Tribune is engaged in a spitcful
effort to beat the Republican party
and prevent it's obtaining its rightfuI
control of the Greater New York at ar
election where its success Is inevitable
if such conspirators as the Tribune do moi
succeed in e~nticing foolish and simple Re
publicans to desert it.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: From
the last annual report of the largest beet
sugar mandatory in tCulmscc, Prussia, Ger
many we learn that l46,3iO long tons OF
beets were converted into sugar for the season
OF ls86-97. The average cost per gross ton of
bcets was $I.2O. The cost of conversion was
$l.4O per ton. The capital of the company own
ing the factory is 1900 900 marks, about 1926
III, 354 marks. A dividend OF II per cent,
amounting. to 100000 marks, was paid, leaving
1884 marks to be carried 10 surplus account.
With an average yield OF l2i" tons OF bccts
per acre; the factory CONSUMED the prGduIt OF
average OF $52 80 per acre for beets delivered
at the works. Tho average return to the grower
for wheat or corn west OF Ohio does not exceed
refine in this country than in Germany, there
fore he can well afford TO pay n higher price for
beets than the German rciincr. For many years
to come sugar bects will yield "a better return to
the producer than cotton, corn. or wheat.
Two million acres of hrcts at $50 per acre
return to the farmer &loo.OoO.OOO while two
million acres of wheat or corn return only
10000. 900 at the most.
How long shall we continue to export tho
product OF 10. OO0,000 acres or corn and wheat
TO pay for the sugar prodllctsot 2,Ooo,Ooo acres
OF sugar beets grown IN Europe Inc men VINO
have become consumers OF American wheat and
corn as well as of the product OF American
manufactures.
upon our gold reserve. The single gold stand
ard has come to stay, and not only SO, but this
single gold standard will soon become the stand,
ard of the whole commercial world. Our gold
reserve should be IN iintained at high-water
mark while this change is being effected.
We can and Should produce at least all the
sugar we consume, ana mus prevent the export
OF gold to pay for sugar purchases;
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
As Reflected in Montana.

1t is an interesting circumstance, and not
unimportant, that the columns of the free
silver newspapers in Montana and other
Bryanite States are almost as full of the
New York municipal election as are those
of our contemporaries hereabouts. The in
tcrest which the Western Bryanites take in
the election of the next Mayor of this city,
the capital of 1.-The enemy's country" is
direct, practical, and in many instances
passionate in it's demonstrations.
One of the first of the Montana journals
to grasp partially the significance of the
situation was the anaconda Standard,
which declared for VAN WICK on the
ground that Tammany Hall was the faith
full and untiinching representative of Bry-
anism in the East. The circumstance that
the Tammany platform evaded any direct
reference to the cause of silver did not
weaken the enthusiasm of the Standard.
1t was regarded as an expedient of local
strategics rather than as evidence of dimin-
ishing zeal for the cause of free silver. But
the Butte city Miner, upon the appearance
of HENRY GEORGE as a candidate. denounced
Tammany as recreant to free silver, and
warmly espoused the cause of Mr.. GEORGE
u" Il nnue champion VI 'ne ohieaBo pi"'-
iorm' Inc hee"a i'depe"dent' aho'her
powerful organ OF ORGANIZED democracy,
n,he"'Se declared Ior "EohdE as against
lam'mahys 'AS WICK. ...
Inc ieao.hg bryanite poiiticiahs OF the
o'a'e arc also ulVided on the question. IN
interviews anu letters marked oy intense
ieeiihg 'hey nave ranged themselves, some
WIN ,he hndcona" Seamoar" ana some
WIN 'ne n"te MINER ana the Heteno IN
uePe""e"'' Inc non ROBERT d. SMITH
.ne Governor oi Montana "ro'e ieI'er 10
'ne -ht"eT' IN "hich he attacked the poiicy
Oh lafhhiahy IN MS spirited language:
ut was simply an act OF cowardice which will
surely result In the overwhelming defeat of the Tam
many w. n'.ea ins ias" OF A..emp'nS 10 Ignore An rs %
ridiculous in a bosy ike the New York civ Dsmo'
cratic Convention. and 1t cannot be done. To ignore
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
The news of the defeat and death of the

The news of the defeat and death of the
renowned Abyssinian soldier. Rns MAKoSNEN.
in battle with the Somalis. is a strange sequel to
the stirring events that have preceded It in east
Africa. Ras MAKoSNES was a foremost figure
in the great engagement at Adowa that over
threw Italian power in Abyssinia and changed
Italy's whole policy on the Red Sea. In that
region military mistakes arc apt to prove costly,
and it is a favorite practice. apparently. to lure
on an invader until an overwhelming force. un.
expectedly enveloping him. can turn battle into
massa re. But Ras MAKoNNEN was supposed
to be n past master in tactics to which, never
theless, If Mr.. STASFoRD's story is correct. he
has fallen a victim. The dignity, the courtesy,
the bravery, the intelligence OF Ras MAKoNNEN
have been made known OF late by Prince HENRI
D'ORLEANs and other travellers. Somaliland.
where he was campaigning. adjoins Abyssinia,
along the Indian Ocean. and the coast was sew
eral years ago put under an Italian protec-
torate, between the eighth degree Of north lati-
tude and the mouth of the YOU'D.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
George, Van Wyck. and Tracy.

Conservative citizens who, frightened at
the strength of HENRY GEORGE. think
that their best defence lies in voting for
the Tammany candidate, VAN WICK, as
preferable to GEORGE, and, because of the
Low diversion, more likely to succeed than
TRACY, have a poor understanding of the
facts of politics.
GEORGE cannot we'll hope to take much
more than half of the Democratic vote,
while the Republican vote will be cast al
most solidly for TRACY. In New York city,
moreover, with Organism the issue, as it is,
the Republicans outnumber the Democrats.
VAN WICK, however, Is a better refuge
for conservatism than GEORGE In the
imagination only. Proof that Tammany's
present silence on the Chicago platform
is worthless is just a year old. In 1896
the New York Democratic State Conven-
ton met twice. Speaking in June, prior to
the pronouncement of the higher authority
of the National Democratic Convention
which met in July, Tammany Hall, in com.
mon with the Democrats Of the Empire
State, declared this honorable belief:
ANY attempt on the part OF the United States alone
to enter upon the experiment of free.silver coinage
will prove disastrous to our fnances. Until interna-
tional cooperation for bimetalism can be secured, we
favor the regular maintenance OF the present gold
standard as essential to the preserv alton of our ma.
tional credit, the redemption OF our public pledges
and the keeping inviolate of our country's honor"
Contrast this with the later declaration
in September when the question was on
the acceptance Of the free silver, %free-riot
programme prepared for the ~incendiary
campaign of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
convention assembled. unrescrvedly Endorses the
platform adopted by the Democratic party at the Ma
tional Convention held In Chicago on July Z, cordially
approves the nominations there made. pledges to
WILLIAM j. BRYAN and ARTHUR SEwALL Its hearty and
active support, and declares as its deliberate judg.
ment that never in the history OF the Democratic
party has a platform been written which embodied
more completely the interests of the whole people"
or what value is pretended sympathy for
the first code of principles on the part of
people who have demonstrated their loyalty
to the second, as have the Tammany organi.
cation and Judge VAN WICK himself
Tammany is pursuing with dark lantern and
knife bidder the ends of Organism, just as
GEoRGE is fighting for them in daylight
with a drawn sword. To vote for Tam
many Is to join the Bryan conspirators.
The candidate for anxious citizens to
turn to for the defence of what GEORGE
and VAN WICK are aiming to overthrow
or destroy is BENJAMIN F. TRACY; and,
il the actual friends of conservatism mite
in voting for him, he will be elected as Ger
tainly as the sun will rise OF election day,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
utterances arc among the most energetic
that have vet appeared in Montana:

OF be,Icv. I voice the sentiments Of at least eighty
moi cont of the rank and file OF not only the Demo-
Gratis OF Montana, but the Democrats OF the entire
West, when I say the Tammany ticket deserves de-
feat, and that the Henry Gfonot ticket is tho only
genuine Democratic ticket In the Held. and deserves
the support OF all true Democrats az well as true
American citizens who favor the beat interests OF the
whole peopIe. ANY gathering OF Democrats or other
noliticnl organization that Ia ashamed or afraid TO
indorse the national platform Is not entitled TO the
party name or support. l am a Democrat, as tho
la.t Nntiona, Convention dennes 1t. and 1 would
rather be def ,ated in an honorable contest than gain
a cowardiy or dishonest victory
This is enough to illustrate the intent
and scope of the discussion that Is raging
in Montana over the election of a Mayor of
the Greater New York. There is no differ.
ence of opinion, it will be observed, as to
the political advantage to be gained by the
success of a candidate here who represents
free silver and the other essentials of the
Chicago platform. The division is rs to
which representative Of Organism repre-.
sents 1t more thoroughly, that the victory
which is prayed for among the silver hills
may count most for the national party of
reputation and disorder.
The same thing is true all over the West.
Bryanism Is alert and expectant, waiting
for news from the Greater New York which
shall give new vitality to the general
movement and almost compensate for the
defeat of last November. But If the Bry-
antics at a distance understood accurately
the situation here, they would know that
their very best friend and most valuable CO.
adjutor in the present contest is neither
VAN WICK nor GEORGE, but SETH Low,
the President of Columbia College.
On him rest their hopes of victory.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
Be Thankful and Vote for Tracy.

Look at the Low movement to-day and
imagine what the situation would be If the
Republicans had made themselves a part of
the Citizens Union.
The st. Louis platform would be in the
dirt, tramplcd upon not only by the leaden
feet of Mr.. Low, but by the National Dem
ocratic Palmer and Bucknerites, the Henry
George Bryanites, and the Purroy silverites,
all allied with Low in the tumble of polit-
zeal deals termed non-partisanship.
Is any other showing needed to make the
Eve boroughs of Manhattan, Kings, Queens.
Richmond. and the Bronx resolve to declare
unanimously for the election Of Gen. TRACY,
as one year ago they declared for the cleo
tion of WILLIAM McKINLEY2
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
H,pnoti.m n. n Ground for Divorce.


From Tie kdnSdS EItV Times.
Mary Alice Wagner says her husband, George
A. Wagner. exercises n hypnotic power over her,
and that. while she is under the sway of his will,
he maltrcats and fortunes her. In her petition
for divorce. filed yesterday in the Circuit Court,
she says that his favorito method of operation
has been to coax and cRiole her. until finally,
knowing full well that he would abuse her, she
would approach him. She says that upon one of
these occasions he amused himself by rubbing
her arms until they were raw and by biting and
distiSuring her face. He then told her to wait
until he got the coal oil can and "A match and no
would. make a bonfire. of her. but, she says.
when he left the room the spell was broken, she
was able to throw OIL his influence and ran away.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15
a Young Woman MoonshIner's Plea.
From the Louisville Erentng Post.

From tho Louisville EreninG Post.
Bcss Thackcr. n young woman chargcdsyith
retailing liquor without a license, won the sym.
pathy OF Judge Barr this morning by tho recital
OF her woes. and was told to return to her home.
She does not look to be over twenty years OF age
and is of a rather comcly appearance
When her case was called She said she had no
lawyer and would have to do her own pleading.
Judge Barr called her 10 the bar and asked how
she came to he accused of the charge. She said:
II am guilty. Tor | sold four gallons of whis-
key, but | had 10 do it. My husband left me
and my two little children, and had no other
starving when | went to selling tho LIQUOR. I
have been in Jail fifty days. and think 1 have
had enough punishment and would like to 60
home to my children"
AS she spoke tears ran down her. checks, and
not only the Court but all who saw and heard
her were touched, and were glad when the
Judge told her she was dismissed and to return
home. But she had no way 10 get home. for she
had no money. She did not have 10 wait long.
however, for n purse was soon made up and
given to her.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-15

For the last two months the press has been
full of stories OF Kansas wheat and Kansas
corn, but 1t seems TO have occurred to nobody
TO sing the praises of the pumpkin-which this
year is a full crop-and OF the pumpkin pie.
When properly made the pumpkin pie is the
embodiment. so 10 speak, of peace on earth and
good will to men. No man ever plotted treason
or formulated dark and damnablc designs whiio
pumpkin pie. Other pics may induce dyspepsia
and the horrors of nightmare, but the genuine
pumpkin pie may be eaten at the dread hour OF
Midnight without a tremor of fear.
Within the next two months millions OF people
will pass by the golden pumpkin with indiffer-
ence and contempt because they have no proper
conception Of its luscious possibilities.
II the genuine, thick. creamy, sweet scented
would Danish pessimism and cause anarchy to
take to the woods.
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Court Mixed on the Calendar.
From the Kansas CITY Journal.

FTUW INC kNNsnS CIV JOUrnuT,
One of the remarkable ducls at short range
was between Bob Mcclellan ana Jack Wright,
Wright walked into Tom Drums saloon and
opened fire without u word. Mcclellan re-
sponded in kind. and when the fight, WAS over
had n lingcr Shot Off. Strange to say, McClel-
Ian, who was first under fire at n distance of ten
feet, was unhurt. Early in 1874 this same Me-
Clellnn was up before Justice Holden for bru.
tally beating Ncttic Baldwin. When Hedden
fined him 800 he sprang to his feet and shouted:
You bee hunter. you. That's more'n it used to
cost to kill n MANI Later he WAS released from
lost track of the days and tried him on Sunday.