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The times., 1897-07-16
The Autocrat's Opportunity.

Once more, and in slightly amended
sense. tie eyes of the country are fastened
upon the Hon. Thomas b. Reed Of Maine as
he adyancesto make final arbitrament upon
the question of how far the Sugar Trust
shall be permitted to loot the American
peoplel
About the power and ability of this
peisonagc there is not a scintnla of doubt
He has conquered and suppressed the pop
ular branch Of the national legislature He
has subjugated and bent, cringing To Lis
lmperious viii, the Republican MA jorty Of
the House. and much of the Democratic
minority For all purposes desirable or
convenient TO himself, he holds 10th in the
hollow OF his hand His mastery is un-
quesi iona'le. unquestioned ana absolute
His conquests in the past have been con-
fined to the sphere ia which ne reiens alone
and supreme Now he stands in the pres
ence OF condition and Of an emergency
which affords him an opportunity to win a
rew record as an overshadowing national
force
The circumstances Of the case are clearly y
defined and well understood. For reasons
of his own, he caused to be placed in the
tauff 5iil a sugar schedule so manffesUly
constructed under the auspices and for the
benefit OF a great monopoly that the
country was inoensed at its character.
But the Senate, in its Republican wisdom,
with the aid Of certain Democratic support
open or secret, took that schedule aud
transformed it into something frankly and
flbgranty Infamous or two certain al
tentative evils, the wise man always VII
choose the lesser.
In this instance the lesser of the two
evils, one OF which appears inevitable, IS
the House sugar schedule. the work OF
MI Reed He has it within his power
TO choose that for The country in preference
to the inramy of the Senate proposition
and 10 enforce his choice against all in
fluenoe and authority existing in this
Government and its Congress outside oi
himself.
Having won and welded power never
before possessed by an elected representa-
tive OF TINS people, the chance now Offers
for him to exercise it for once in the in
terest of the people VIII he stand for
the lesser evil or be cajoled, bribed or
bulIied into accepting the greater one:
Here is a grand and golden opportunity
for the Hon. Thomas B. Reed Of Maine.
What viii he do with it?
The times., 1897-07-16
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES.

Mr.. Nat Whitman is a we'll known
louisiana politician, who is temporarily
making Washington his home.
After three years hard work. he
said, at the Metropolitan yesterday,
and the expenditure of between Slo,-
900 900 and S16,00.00O, New Orleans
has completed the great undertaking of
changing it's street railroad motive power
from the old-fashoned mule to electricity.
The last line to make this change, the
Canal and Claiborne, has inaugurated an
ether important change at the same time
by practically applying the civil service
rules OF the United States TO its en-
pio yes The old system of fines aud
suspensions for accidents and 50 forth Is
abolished, and in its stead employees are
Promoted according To the record they
make, all vacancies being filled by pro-
motion from the lower ranks. The plan
is warmly welcomed by the men them
selves, aud the public is interested, as
it Will tend to prevent the accidents that
have SO often occurred of late due to the
frequent changes of Inotormen and the
breaking In Of raw men. The Claiborne
line claims to be the first street railroad
I'm the country 10 have adopted this civil
service system
The times., 1897-07-16
The Nehulntlon Of a Planet

The NehulatioD of a Planet.
The devoted and very small band Of
Greeks most OF them without gifts
of Kentucky. on Wednesday stood and
shouted together in Louis vile as bold
and defiant as the other Grecians did in
the pass OF ThermopyIas- II may be
objected that the comparison is not good;
that they do not resemble Greeks, or at
best only modern Greeks, but, as there
IS nothing American they can be Ikened
to, it win have TO go.
The presence at the meeting of the
Hon W C. T. Brec6inridge, who recefv ed
q well merited ovation, shed halo OF
piety and virtue over the ass eniblage;
while the advent of the Hon. John 6.
Carlisle. of New York, rescued il from
the brevity columns OF the press ana
insured it general notice with scare had
lines.
To people who knew Mr Carlisle in his
better estate. when he was the proud
leader OF a great. enthusiastic and al
nliring wing OF honest, biInetallie Democ-
racy; and before that nightmare of
political Syengan. Grover Cleveland. hyp-
Noticed him and compelled him to sing
Bolt" his appearance on tais and other
recent occasions as a Inournful. pessi-
nistic Prophet Jeremiah Is painful in
The times., 1897-07-16
NEWS Or THE WHITE HOUSE.
The President May Be Prevented
From Going to Chicago.

1t Is now thought at the White House
that tile President may be prevented from
attending the unveiling OF the Logan statue
at Chicago, July %. 1t is feared that
Congress will not adjourn III time to peg-
nit the trip, and 1t is known that he
does not Want To so away at such d
critical time with Congress IN session.
There was great falling off yesterday
in the number of persons who sought he
White House in the almost vain hope that
they could See the President and persuade
him TO appoint them to some po-
litical office Even the number of sena-
tors and ConGIessme nthatcalled was greatly
reduced and none of the Cabinet members
put In an appearance.
This comparative quiet was the result OBJ
tanned by sending Wednesday to the Senate
batch of nominations, which with the
exception Of few that were unavoidably
held back yesterday, and VIII be sent to
tue Senate very soon, will beall the nonina-
tions that viii be sent In during the present
session of Congress-
Thus determination on the part of the
President has created a bitter feeling in
the bosoms OF many disappointed ones who
have been here since March 4, pushing and
urging their claims for recognition. For
each consular appointment there has been
an average OF thirty-five applications, and
the thirty-four VINO failed to obtain each
appointment will return TO their bones
''sadder and wiser men, with depleted
pockethooks and q great quantity OF
wormwood and gall flowing through their
veins Scores of these men have spent in
this city, while urging their claims, all the
money they had and could borrow besides
having contributed money and work to
secure the election of MI Mckinley, and it
goes without sa ying that none or the dis
appointed men viii return to their homes
filled with IS much enthusiasm for Nc
Kinley and prosperity as they feltthe day
Mr. Mckinley was inaugurated.
Senator PIatt made his customary call
ON the President to consult over the much
talked-about patronage, and particularly
the determination OF the President
to substitute Walter b. Atterbury Tor
Jacobs for the Brooklyn postoffice. At
terbury is an original Mckinley man and
is also at present inclined TO follow SEN
ator Piatt; therefore, it is possible that
his nam may be sent in.
Senator Allen and Senator Cullorn had a
brief talk with the President concerning
the tanff, and ex-Lieut Gov. Lyon, OF
Ohio, had / conference concerning Ohio
politics in the interest of Senator Hanna
Congressman Evans introduced Col Louis
Wolfley, or A Hzona, to the President Col.
Wolfley wants position as internal rev.
enue collector Senator Fairbanks was
also one of the few who saw the President.
The times., 1897-07-16
THE REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
They Vote Down Resolution In
COmmeDdation of Reed.

Detroit, July 15.-The National League
of Republican Clubs viii meet in annual
convention ia Omaha in 1898, and Secre
tary bowling at that time VIII still he hold
iLg down his $4,000 Job, most Of which,
by the way. is still due him for his iabors
for the present year. He was reelected
today.
Frank j. Higgins, of New Jersey. was
elected treasurer.
Omaha was then selected as the next
meeting place hy vote of ,o95 to 244 FOR
Baltimore and 138 for Chicago After
Marcus Pollasky had made q motion TO
al .ourn. a Missouri delegate pished for
ward on the speakers platform AMI asked
permission tc read a telegram. which he
wanted TO have tie convention send 10
Speaker Reed at Washington. twas;
1.-The National League of Republican
Clubs, in convention assembled, cOngratJ-
againsi the Sugar Trust. Keep it up
The Missouri man moved that it be
ordered sent to the Speaker BY that
time many delegates had left the hail,
and those remaining We're crow dcd around
the platform President Crawford q put the
question by viva voce vote, and was
not able to decide whether it had car
ried. The question was put d second
time, ard the nays We're more emphatic
The telegram. VIII not be sent" said
the president.
The convention then, at = O'Clock, ad-
journed
The times., 1897-07-16
More Cleveland Aftermath.

Among many evidences OF the sound
business organization which pervades a
part of the Senate chamber, 1t is very
Instructive to remark the zeal and energy
with which every effort to ventilate or TO
stop the consumn!ation of the Cleveland
Pacific Railway deal is being met by
Senator'S who ought TO be above the suS-
pcion Of corrupt Interest in the operation
But when Senator finds it necessary to
make the point of mo qIorum' in order TO
take another Senator off his feet, and
thus shut him up. and prevent what he
would say from reaching the country
through the Congre ssional Record and the
press, it is quite time for members OF the
body who have any care for national
interests or for the appearance of some
thing like honesty in the conduct of govern
mental business to get together ana do
something short and sharp
The only too evident Intention to smother
any attempt to reopen this strange and
UialVdOfols specimen OF CleNelaHu Syhd'Ca-
ton puts the country on notice that iu
all probability it covers a greater and
darker criminal purpose than had been
supposed. Senator Morgan, Senator Harris
and others who have some regard for
administrative probity. not to say proprety,
should hammer away and show the pubic
the fuE extent, scope and personnel of
the conspiracy, no matter who may happen
to he hurt in the process.
The times., 1897-07-16
Spain's Hopeless Case.

The United states Government shouldnot
Ignore the warning contained in stephen
Bonsal's recent book on Cuba, He tells
US how influential men among the Spanish
residents OF the island for months have
been urging weyler to sanction general
massacre of Cuban men, women and chill
dren in the towns and cities. believing that
thereby supplies and financial assist auce
would be cut off from the patriots IN the
long grass" At times il has been thought
that he would accede to the wishes Of
the Ioyalists, and there is little doubt that
the eve of his final departure with his troops
from the country will be marked by some
horror OF the St Bartholomew order
MI B0nsal eXhorts this country to re-
member that when at last the flag oi
Spain sullenIy is fuIled, there will be
crying need for strong hand TO protect
the defenseless in the places about to be
evacuated.
This intelligent eyewitness OF tie real
reason why Spain is without hope of re-
gaining control of the last but one of its
colonies ia this hemisphere, or to retain
1t If it were completely reconGuered
lie states that supposing matters could
be settled and fresh start made without
borrowing additional money, the in
terest upon the Spanish debt on
Cuba account already amounts to
S3n, 900 .oGo annually. The military
party In Spain would insist upon sn
army of occupation of l 90 600 men, and
that would cost ST 900 900; while civil
and judicial administration, and Cuba's
quota OF the naval budget, would ggIegate
$4,000, 900 more SO there would be
q Cuban budget OF S1I5,00g, 900 to meet
every year.
AS against this. the island in its best
days of peace and dear sugar" never
produced more than $50, ,0oo,o in rev
enue, and nobody with knowledge of
present conditions believes that it can
produce more than ST. coo, 900 annually
for at least five years after he end Of
| this war So Spain would have to pro-
vide for annual deficit OF S10O ,O00 900
out of an empty and bankrupt treasury.
If Mr.. Bonsal's views are correct, and
We are inclined TO regard them as quite
within tie truth it ought to be sufficiently
apparent that evacuation cannot much
longer be delayed. Weyler is as cum
ming as he is cruel. AS the time ap-
pToaches when he must leave tie scene of
his discontinue and lis crimes, it would
oe like him to plan and perpetrate some
wholesale horror that would make his
name forever live In history as the most
frightful monster that ever appeared In
the disguise OF manhood.
The calIousness and indifference of the
Hanna Administration to Weyler's habit
ual atrocities perhaps may make ii deaf
as well TO this impending danger. But if
The times., 1897-07-16
Upholstery Department.

100 yards of White Figured Curtain Nus
Ia. heuuCeI tIOm 10, 20 ana sue to
IL lie yard
= SHk-coveTed Down Pillows Reduced
fiOm 5000 TO S2-5O each, l fICM GO 90
70 S3.UU, l fiOm : S4.OU To 500. l IIom
81. 80 TO S1.OO.
a Adjustable Wire Window Screens
Reduced IfOm zoe 20 l sc eaCn.
OAK AeuICine Cabinets Reduced from
$500 u Sl.I5 each
Oak iian hacks. Reduced from $3.50
TO 81 80.
oak and Imitation Cherry TahOuIettes.
Reduced IIOm S1.15 10 S1.25 each
OAK, bIICu ana Mahogsa y-fnish Rock
eTS- Reduced from - .5u 10 $500 each.
l Zine QUaTJcTed-Oak Han Seat Re
duCed from $1,000 10 Si6.GO.
3 Awnings, blue, Ied and brown stripes,
complete and ready 10 hang. Reduced
from So 90 TO S1-25 each.
OAK Umhreiia Stands- Reduced from
81. 90 to : sc each
Imitation Cherry Tables double shelves
Reduced from Sl-25 10 csc each.
Fourth floor.
The times., 1897-07-16
Friday is
Remnant Day.

Special Bargain Day for those
who can fit their needs to the
odds and ends and short lengths
and broken sizes and the several
classes of goods designated
remnants" Wherever we find
merchandise waits or strays of
any kind in the store they are
separated from the regular stock,
sent to the remnant counters and
marked at prices that will assure
their immediate clearance. By
this means we are enabled TO
offer at all times the cleanest,
freshest stocks to be found any
where.
A goodly gathering of rem
nants for today, and they are so
arr anged that you can easily in
spect them.
The times., 1897-07-16

OF one, crying in the wilderness OF the
rank outside, and lamenting that his vote
dces not control against the whole army
of the Lord. He views with shuddering
horror the turpitude OF a great and all
but unanimous convention of the people.
which had honest, earnest and high pa
triotic convictions and principles-all OF
them once dear to him-because it would
not sacrifice and abandon them to suit
the purposes or interests Of a bakers
dozen or hired converts to the gospel
or the money changers
All this, perhaps. is natural enough to
one in the situation of Mr.. Carlisle; but
it may be thought that he could have
spared the slur upon the Democratic party,
Waldorfs were walled off from it. He
SAID. "A political party can be no better
than its worst elements" Perhaps this
was a 'lapsus linguae" for which the
heat OF Kentucky after-dinner ,iebate is
responsible. Probably he did not mean
ths' implication conveyed in his aphorism,
which is, that the worst clements" Of
the Democratic party having boited, It
now is purified and ready FOR effective
and reputable business That is the truth,
whatever Mr. Carlisle may have meant
to say.
With every fresb temperance OF this
oncelighted lamp OF Democracy, IL be-
comes more and more sadly apparent that
70: him there is no place in the political
oons;eliatiOr, III which once he shonc as
a star or tho first magnitude He has
bolted his or.!t. His old, refuIgent mass
has exploded, disintegrated, and is roam
ing newspaper space fragmentarily as
nebulac
Thus, what remains of him ought to
follow the law of highest attraction, and
fall into the dead, cold moon OF the Re
publican party, where alone he belongs.
Otherwise his particles must continue to
flip-flap around the glnwing orb OF De-
mccracy, like the ephemera around the
arc lamp in front OF an inn. But there
is no In for him. He is hopeless, Demo
cratic Quit
The times., 1897-07-16

Inasmuch as Weyler is making personal
arrangements looking toward an early
retreat from Cuba, the arrest OF
eighty of the most prominent finaneiers
and merchants of Havana and the state
ment to them that they will be relea on
payment of 500 900, does not excite
much surprise in well informed American
circles. 1t would seem, from this and
many peculiar actions of the Spaish Hy-
ena, that the end of the war in Cuba can
not long be delayed Spain is not able to
carry it on. Probably nothing could pre-
but the armed intervention Of some first
class power
The times., 1897-07-16
FINDS THE sANsABA MINE.
1t Yielded Many Million Dollars
to the SpaDiards.

san An tonic, Tex, July 15.-A- A.
Brack, a photographer of this city, has
returned from Menard county, where he
made successful search for the famous
SanSaba silver mine, which was worked
a century ago by Spaniards. who took
out S32 ,OoU.0 worth of silver ore IN
twenty years. All of the miners were
massacred by Indians and the mine Re
came lost. Many parties searched for
it, but without success Until l SEQ, when
two uucles of Rack found the mine and
explored its shaft.
One Of these brothers was killed by the
Indians ON the return trip, and other was
taken sick when he reached home and
died On his deathbed he made a written
record Of the exact location of the mine.
This paper was misplaced and found onI Y
three weeks ago.
Brack had no difficulty in rediscovering
the mine. after following the written di-
rections left by his uncle.
The times., 1897-07-16
TORTURED HIM FOR MONEY.
Robbers Burn in Horrible Manner
Tollgate Keeper.

Hannibal, Mo, July "a bout O'Clock
last night jacob Castator, toll gatekeeper
at the Salt River Bridge on the Hannibal
and New London road, about eight miles
from here, was called from his house to
take down the toll chain As he stepped
cut he was confronted by three men with
guns, who bound and led him back into the
house. W here he and his wife We're tied to
a bedpost.
The men demanded the tolIgate cum
peby's money. The old man refused to
disclose tue hiding place of the money,
and the robbers applied lighted candles
to his feet. legs and thighs, burning him
horribly After suffering great agony lie
turned over SO. The robbers ranSaC ked
the premises and then departed Mrs
Caststor released herself, and gave the
alarm.
aouay Morgan Maddox and William
Raneer were arrested in this city. Mrs.
Caslator identified them as well as a coin
found in AladdoX's pocket Mr Castator
was unable 10 come on account of his burns,
but it is thought he will be able to identify
the robbers also. The third man, who is
known to the officers has esca ped
The times., 1897-07-16
Paparna Canal scandal Investigation.

London, July 15.--M. Plichon and M.
Rouanet. delegates from the French com
mittee that is investigating the Panama
Canal scandal, went to Bourncmouth to-
,iay. where they had an interview with
DR. Cornelius Herz, who was deeply Inn
plicated i'll the scandal, and whose eX-
tradition to Frauce was refused some
time ago by the English govern ncnt-
Dr. Herr declared that he would make
extraordinary revelations regarding tie
tloings of the Panemaists, nut only in
the prescnce of majority Of The com
mittee representing ali the French po-
utical parties.
The times., 1897-07-16

We fully expect that the discovery Of
the fabulously rich placer deposits of
Klondike, on the Upper Yukon, in Alaska.
will be hailed by Senator Hanna, Secretary
Gage, and the Waldorf dinner party as
indubitable evidences of the advent Of
Mckinley prosperity, Their ardor viii be
damped, of course, because, although it is
q case Of gold by the barrel, ton, or what
ever one likes, the harvest so far is being
reaped by a lot of poor adventures and
miners That party OF them have just
reached San Francisco with S500,Goo in
dust and nuggets viii be too good thing
not TO credit TO the election Of Major Nc
Kinley and the prospect of early pas
sage for the tariff bill Incidentally, the
next thing our prosperity" magnates
VIII do will be to evolve some scheme by
which they can beat the miners out Of
that river bottom, and absorb the property.
including Its yellow contents.
The times., 1897-07-16

There seems to be good reason for be-
lieving that yellow fever is epidemic all
along the Pacific coast of Mexico and
San Francisco from Panama report the
rapid spread of the pestilence, and declare
that few, If any. precautions have been
taken to prevent its reaching the United
States. The Government health authori-
ties should investigate this matter thor
oughiy, and be prepared to act promptly
and vigorously.
The times., 1897-07-16

A Joint proposal for a bimetallic confer
ence having been presented to the british
government on behalf of the United States
and France, Great Britain has it under
consideration and may suggest meeting
in Washington, with instructions to dele
gates to consider some concessions as. to
silver in India. This country naturally
would suggest itself to England as the best
pla ce for a conference. Lord Salisbury can
count on the most powerful gold m"no-
metallic pressure being brought 10 bear ON
all the delegates.
The times., 1897-07-16

Senator White should not make faces at
Senator Stewart because of the latter's
preference for Santa Monica over San
Pedro as a proper harbor to be made ar
national expens.. on the Pacific coast.
Senator Stewart might make other faces
and ask the blanched uotentate from Cali
fornia about an alleged trade of vote
against Senator Morgan's delinquency res
olution for certain Spanish vote for San
Pedro harhor!
The times., 1897-07-16

The Georgia peach belt, as 1t is now
called, said Mr.. james L. Cox, of Atlanta,
at I'll National asst evening, ''is a strip Of
territory that begins about forty miles
below Atlanta. at Griffin, and extends
width from 20 TO 80 miles. his belt fol-
lows in the main along the line or the
Central Railroad of Georgia from Griffin
to Macon, and from Macon to AInerjc US
along the Georgia Southern and Florida
Railroad from Macon TO Triton. There are,
of course extensive orchards outside these
limits, but the heavy blocks of peach
trees extend, roughly stated, along these
lines. 1t is estimated that there are about
2 300 900 peach trees in be a1ing III this
Georgia belt, and between 10000 and
200, ,ooG more trees planted and growing.
Along the line OF the Central Railroad
alone there are soc, 900 peach trees, and
along the Georgia Southern some 800, 900
trees. Although several millions of dol-
lars are invested in the Georgia fruit belt,
the industry is yet in it's earliest stages,
but already IL has wrou ght wonderful
changes in the State. 1t has raised the
value Of old and worn-out cotton fields
from s. to S25 per acre. 1t has brought
an immense amount OF outside capital into
the State, for some OF the largest AMI most
successful growers are Northern men. 1t
has stimulated enterprises of yarious kinds,
such as canneres, cider mills, ice plants
AMI crate and basket factories. II gives
employment TO thousands OF men, women
and children, and, finally, the business
of fruit culture has opened a field for
frt+ ind zf,ia Il n+ HFfI
grow greater as the years roll by