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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-23

Tie principal changes desired by Juneau
citizens in the bills now before congress
relate 10 the establishment CT Federal
courts. The committee drawing MP the
amendments are opposed 20 the crea ton
OF court at 81. Michael, Oh the ground
that there is rot enough business at the
mouth OF the Yukon 20 warrant the loca-
ton % a Judge. They are heartily in favor
o. the creation of a court at Circle city.
10 look after the business OF the interior
They Will also recommend that courts bs
esta bi.she6 at juneau and Sitka.
II WAS reported several weeks ago that
john L. Smith. United States commits
sioner at Skagway. has resigned and that
his Sucge sSOT had been appointed Sew
eral SKA gway business men on the Faral-
Ion yesterday stated that Smiths official
affairs had been thoroughly investigated
ny the Washington authorities after
numerous complaints mad been made
They ciaiTn that Smith was removed as A
result of the investigation. They say that
Commissioner Smith ran things with a
high hard IL SkeGway. ard comn.at in .
TO heade I2gters were warm and nGnaer =
GUS
Collector Iyey has announced his inter-
ton Of relieving several OF his employs
fri Alaska Of their government lob g. 8
Harruan deputy collector a. Juneau. re-
signed last week. ard James a C'Counell
WAS appointed In mis- place Henry T.
Mimic % SsisnT. Or. has hAen appointed
ny Collector Ivey As Inspector - Juneau.
The Successors to the deps3ties to he re-
moved had rot been chosen up 10 the
tine the Farsio1 fsfg juneau United
States Marshal Sisorp has decided 20 make
important changes In the personnel OF his
deputies az Skasxzy and Dv~a. 1, was
sxf~c~-4 fnat he would announce the
changes IN 4 few days. Marshal Shosip
il - said, IS rot satisfied with the way his
deputies have been conducting ire bust
ness % the uaarsi1ars Office al skagwAy
ard .pyea- #
Ev&rfsslng Is reported Qess. g. Sag
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
SOMERSAULTs WHILE YOU WAIT

The Republican organ, which once
professed such solicitude for the cause
of silver, seems to have gone over to
the Hanna crowd completely and
burned it's bridges behind it.
Time was when it held that the cleo
ton of any but straight-out silver
man to the house or to the senate
would be to give "a black eye to bimet-
allism."
There was a time when it wanted
none but Bryan men sent to the state
legislature. 1t has changed.
Yesterday the organ said: What
vantage for silver will be the election
of any candidate on any ticket in
Utah this year? What is the congress
man elected in Utah, this year, to do
for silver?"
Could Arthur Brown have said it bet
ter? Could surrender be more COM
plete? On the 9th of last April the or
gan endorsed and approved the follow
ing in the address of silver Repub-
licans" to the voters of Utah:
We. point to the fact that the ma
tional Republican party of the United
States has abandoned the cause of BIZ
metallism, and that local adherence to
the national Republican organization
is affiliating with gold monometallism
and oppression of the people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
AFRAID OF BIMETALLISM.

During the campaign Of two years
ago, when a believer in McKinley's
policies had TO be strong in the faith
indeed to openly espouse McKinleyism
in Utah, Alma Eldredge was with Ar
thur Brown. Dennis Eichnor. John
Henry Smith and the other unwaver-
ing members of the Hanna organiza-
ton.
1t was a year when. according to the
Salt Lake Tribune. goldbugs were in
timidaung employees, appealing to
prejudice, misrepresenting fact, and
using their business relations with
others for The purpose of injuring the
cause of silver.
In that year the Hon. Alma Ell
dredge, a merchant at Coalville, in
Summit county, gave an order to a
travelling salesman for a Chicago bust
ness house.
But Mr.. EIdredge agreed to take that
bill of goods conditionally. He wrote
upon the contract as follows:
IF Mckinley is elected, ship these
goods TO me; if Bryan is elected, 1
don't want them"
Probably Mr. Eldredge thought that
bimetallism would ruin his business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
BOTH SIDES OF JUAB.

The story that follows George Nye
and Fred McGurrin home from Juab
county is interesting, and it illustrates
the position Of the Republican party in
this campaign.
Juab county, unfortunately for Re-
publican stump speakers, is divided
into two sections: it has a Tintic side
and NeDhi side: a mining class and
a farming class; and the same speech
will not answer for both
On the Tintic side Republicans favor
the free and independent coinage of
silver; on the other side they favor all
of McKinley's policies, including sound
money" Dingieyism and currency
reform
On the Tintic side the miners and
business men do not acknowledge the
return of prosperity; on the Nephi side
the Republican sheepmen claim that
"reviving prosperity has followed the
Dingley tariff" just as their state plat
form says it has.
The two orators mentioned made
speeches at Eureka the other evening.
They favored the immediate restoration
of silver as a money metal. and held
that prosperity could never come with
out bimetallism.
There were Neohi men in the aud
fence who heard with alarm those
heresies OF 1896, and they entered sol
emn protests against such speeches be-
ing delivered in Nephi. So Messrs. Nye
and McCurrin came home, after can
ceiling their NeDhi engagement.
Chairman Walton should send one of
his speakers there who does not believe
in any immediate change in the finan-
cial policy; who holds that the bonded
Indebtedness in this country should be
paid before silver is restored; who con-
tends that even then the matter should
be approached with caution.
In short, Republican speakers should
be sent to Tintic who stand upon one
plank of the state platform; and those
who stand upon another plank may be
sent to the county seat. Or. Mr.. FL
dredge himself might straddle suffl-
GENTLY to suit both sides.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
MONEY POWER DEFEATED.

The money power and the trusts are
not defeated in their schemes so often
as could be wished. but at times the=
are.
When the war loan twas decided upon
it was announced that the bonds would
only be issued to bona fide subscribers,
and they were made of low denomina-
lions that the loan might be popular
in the true sense Of the word.
The bonds offered the best and safest
investment possible, and very naturally
banks and syndicates were anxious to
secure as many as possible. But the
conditions Of subscription made it i'm
possible for them TO place their names
down for what they wanted. This re-
cessitated the concoction of a scheme
that would circumvent the law. Being
needed. it was very soon concocted.
Subscriptions poured into the treasury
in the names Of individuals in, any
number, applications being duly veri-
fed in accordance with the require
ments os the treasury The treasury
officials became suspicious, and, upon
investigation, discovered that many.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
APPEALING TO THE PEOPLE

When Mr.. Roberts was nominated in
a regularly constituted convention of
duly elected Democratic delegates. the
Republican organ, the Salt Lake Trib-
une, said:
1T was Asia and not the United
States that was running that conven-
ton"
We understand that Judge Baskin
and his friends Indignantly deny that
assertion. Probably the organ meant
that a majority Of the delegates had
been trained to Asiatic methods
At any rate it does not consider Mr..
Roberts fit to go to congress" because,
it says, from childhood he has been
trained to Asiatic methods"
And because of that alleged training
the Republican organ is making frantic
appeals to a people similarly trained
to save their honor" by voting Mr.
Roberts down.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
BROWN AND THE ORGAN.

In 1896 the miners and farmers and
Utah regarded Hon. Arthur Brown as a
goldbug.
Mr. Brown has not changed his views
on the financial question since 1896. If
he was goldbug then, he is a goldbug
now If he is a silver man now, he was
a silver man then.
In his speeches this year, advocating
the election Of Alma Eldredge to con-
gress, Mr.. Brown is giving utterance,
according to the Tribune. to this SEN
timent:
Bimetallisn must be approached con-
serVatiVeiy, hence the tariff laws
should continue in operation until this
country becomes rich enough to pay off
its great private indebtedness, and then
we can more easily attain bimetallisIn.
The Republican organ says that the
province OF the tariff begins when the
finances are properly adjusted" That
is the reverse of the ex-senator's pol
icy.
Mr. Brown believes that the country
ought to go right ahead under the pres
ent gold standard until It gets ricn
enough TO pay its debts, at which
time bimetallism might be considered.
The organ says: With great harv SITS,
no eoidemics, no failure of crops, no
floods, no droughts, no extraordinary
calamities, the nation at large has
steadily grown poorer. To fix it all.
nothing is necessary except to restore
the currency to the 1872 basis
Yet Alma says we are all united on
silver in Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
SHIFTING ASSESSMENT LOADS

Yesterday the Tribune gave the pub
lie a rest on its very silly and pointless
series Of twins cartoons and had one
entitled. zone Instance of Reduction
of Taxation" The legend under the
cartoon was this: Assessment load of
s11911O has been shifted from the Salt
Lake City Railroad company to the
back Of the general taxpayer. to the
delight Of Chairman Armstrong; com
pany."
This cartoon Is as pointless as those
on the twins. That reduction Eve do
not know whether the figures are cor
rect) was not shifted to the back Of the
general taxpayer" The assessed val
uation Of property in Salt Lake City
in 1925 is $50, 424. 779. In 1897 it was $34,-
479.724 This makes the assessed val
uation for 1898 S4,O54,945 less than it
was in 1897. Instead Of an assessment
load being shifted from the street car
company's back TO that Of the general
taxpayer" the general taxpayer" has
had his assessment load lightened by
the sum Of s4,054.945.
And while on the subject it is just
as well to let the general taxpayer
know that the assessment valuation of
the property Of the Salt Lake Tribune
Publishing company was reduced some
thousands II dollars. To whose back
was that shifted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23

salt" an Ay sal. "Yassir. ben down.
Ha sal:
''Yu har Broder Eldredge?"
En- Av sal. ''Yassir. Ay har he-."
Ha sal tn me: Well. vat yu tank of
Broder Eldredge?'
Ay sal: "Broder Elderge ha ben Derty
quite man. Ha vas CUTE man tn maik run
for offiisis."
Broder Walton ha smile.
..Broder Eldredge ha ben perty CUTE
man run for ofisisis. Ell? Eft vas CUTE
Yu laik hem. Ole. yu vote for her?''
Az sal: '.Nossir. Not for congresses.
Broder Eldredge ha ben CUTE man for sum
offisisis. bot ha vas not trot in hes class
dis tain. Ha vas runnin for 30 prize ven
ha OF to be in tree minute rails Yassir.
Broder Eldredge ha mite maik GOOD
justice, but ha not cute for congresses.
Well. sir. Broder Walton. ha tall me ha
got sum oder fallars tn see rite avail an
ask me would Ay kindly go out oder val.
so hem can lat oder fallars in He not
ben plesed Az tank Nossir. Bot ay
not cair Ay vas tell truth all tain.
Yassir
Ay mete Broder Hottie yasda. tn. Ha
sal tn me: "Ole. how du?" Ay sal: How
du. Broder Kottle.'
Broder Hottie ha tall me. 'Ole. do me
faver?" an Ay sal. "Yassir Az du VA
faver any tain Ay ben du yu favers all
me laif an Ay no stop dis har tain life
Vat is ct yu vant?'
Ha sal tn me: "Ole, in pollyticks Ay
vas ded bird in pit. Ay vas gone up
spout. Vut tain Ay hav big pull with
vatervorks. bot now Ay lose hem. an
peples forgit me. Yu Civ me yum big
roast in Harald an Ay maik ct all rite
With yu.'
An Ay sal: Ion rite. Broder Hottie, Ay
maik hem all rite"
Now. Mastar Harald. Ay want roast
Broder Hottie. Ay want roast hem so peo-
pie no vat he es. Ay sal roast Broder
Hottie. Bigoshamiteyhal, Ay want burn
hem mp. Yassir.
Ay tank ct vashal to ben ded bird in
pit or ded bird eny ole plais. Mebbe so ct
Wy Broder Hottie want roast. Peples al
ways roast ded birds klaus ct ben wicked
roast hem alive. Yassir- Mebbee so
Broder Hottie ha ben goin be roast for
dinner, bimeby. Yassir.
OLE PETERSON.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23

EXTRACT of a speech delivered by Hon.
o. w. Powers at Logan. Utah. Oct. 10.
1885,
An analysis of the election returns show
that under an honest ballot and q fair
count, Bryan would be president today.
instead of being banished while the cam
paign is on. to the swamps of Florida. As
shown by the Democratic campaign book.
Bryan received $4,000 more votes than did
Cleveland in 1892, and yet Mr.. Mckinley is
credited with receiving COZ, S54 votes more
than Bryan, and 1928, 673 more votes than
Harrison. The increase of the vote in
1892 over 1888 was 67S, 4SS, or 40 per cent.
The increase of the vote of 1896 over 1892
was 1854 O3O. or IS $40 per cent. 1t is es-
timated by statisticians that in fair
election and a full vote, the returns ought
not to show more votes than one IN five
of the population. The returns from the
state of Ohio show that there was one Tor
S9i inhabitants and in spots the returns
show one for every 21A of the population.
The total vote of the state aggregated
more votes than the entire male popula-
ton over q years of age, including the
sick. disabled. those absent, lunatics and
felons. Governor Altgeld states that in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
A CHANGE OF FRONT.


Two years ago the organ warned
the Republicans who stand for sill
ver'' 10 be alert and vigiiant" against
McKinleyites.
1t said: Attempts Will be made 10
hide the anti-silver fight under the
cover of the fight for county offices"
It cautioned silver Republicans thai
it would be hard to determine which
delegates would hold by silver and
which viii give it second place
AT that time it took the very con-
sistent position that candidates for
the legislature should not be doubtful
on silver, or. if doubtful, should be
dropped"
On the 18th of July. 1896, it published
the following headlines and matter:
ALL FOR MKINLEY.
State Executive Committee for the Gold
Candidate.
A meeting of the executive committee Of
the Republican state committee was held
yesterday afternoon to consider the policy
to be pursued during the campaign.
Chairman Dooly, Wesley X. Walton, r. S.
Campbell. \. s. Geddes and Mrs. Emme-
line 3. Wells We're in attendance. All
agreed that the regular party organiza-
ton. Of which the committee is part
must be held in line with tho national
party in support Of the St. Louis ticket
Six weeks ago tie organ made up
its mind that all Republicans We're
silver men" whether they supported
1.-The gold candidate" or not. Since
then it has held that silver is not an
issue in Utah. 1t no longer fears the
election of McKinleyites to the legis-
lature It sounds no warning to sill
yer Republicans to beware OF
straight Republicans
Its conversion was sudden, but it
seems to have been complete.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
WILL BE REBUILT.

Not many days ago the Sewer stake
tabernacle, in course of construction
at Richfeld, was burned down, entail
ing a loss of many thousands of dollars.
The loss falls heavily upon the people
of Sewer, especially at a time when
business is stagnant, rather than brisk.
and when the future gives no special
premise Of any particularly better
times.
But while the loss falls heavily upon
them, they are not discouraged. They
have quietly decided to rebuild their
tabernacle, and will proceed with its
construction as though nothing had
happened.
The people of Sewer county are de-
scended from a race that never knew
what encouragement meant; that
never was halted by any obstacle
placed in it's path. And their descend
ants show the same characteristics.
Happy the commonwealth that has
such people! Success to them in their
undertaking.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
ROBERTS ELECTION CONCEDED

A Democratic victory in Titan is
practically conceded in the following
excerpt from a Tribune editorial:
The sbulking News is trying al
ready, to anticipate it and to plead that
it will be a mere party decision That
would be the reasoning of an idiot if il
were sincere, but it is not
This indicates that the organ has
given up; that it feels that the YER
dict is going 10 be unfavorable to its
man, Eldreage; that it is looking for
place to fall; that it has already begun
to tell nov it happened''- a post
election pastime usually.
But the feeling it shows towards the
News is regrettabIe. For several years
they have seemed TO get along so well
together, politically and otherwise.
They have defended the same mani
festos. interpreted them in the same
way, palliated the same conditions, and
approved the same political methods.
The change is sudden and shocking.
It would be better for brethren to
IweH together in unity"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
is UTAH A SILVER STATE?

Two or three months ago the gold
bugs were declaring that silver is
dead" Republican orators and editors
were saying that it could not be made
an issue in this campaign.
They say that Alma Eldredge, stand
ing upon a platform that ''applauds
and endorses McKinley's policies, is
telling yet that silver is not an issue.
C. 0. Whittemore, who is stumping
the state for Mr.. Eldredge, says that
silver is not an issue in this cam
paign. because everybody in Utah is
agreed upon that proposition"
AS Mr.. Whittemore is an appointee
of the Hanna administration, a believer
in the st. Louis platform, a supporter
and a beneficiary of Mckinley, the hu-
NOR of his reference to silver and his
attempt to define the status of the
people of Utah on free coinage, is APP
parent.
As well might Mark Hanna himself
have made that statement.
Arthur Brown, speaking from the
same platform at Ogden with Mr.. Whit
temOre, said that blmelalllSm must De
approached conservatively" that AN
immediate change in financial policy is
not desired: that the bonded indebted
ness Of this country should be paid in
gold before free coinage is begun.
Mr.. Brown is also stumping the state
for Mr.. Eldredge. If those are the views
of ali the people. or half the people, or
even one-fourth of the people of Utah
then Utah is not a silver state"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
REPUBLICANS REJOICING.

Eastern newspapers are felicitating
the administration on the manner in
which Republicans, all over the United
States, are getting together again.
There has not been d Republican
state convention held this year, from
Maine to Oregon, but endorsed all the
policies advocated by President Mckin-
ley.
AS the policies of the president in
clude the maintenance of the existing
gold standard" the Gage currency re-
FORM" the retirement of paper money
and the death of silver coinage, the tri-
umph of the regulars over the recall
citrants seems to have been complete.
In some localities, as administration
organs have pointed out the platforms
are not so clear-cut or outspoken for
Republican policies as they are in other
localities. The reason is plain. The ret
icence is thoroughly understood.
A New York Mckinley organ, the
Press. referring to the endorsement IN
general terms. of McKinley's policies
by Republicans of the west, says:
"Of course. this falls far short of the
bold stand taken by the Iowa and Con-
necticut Republicans in demanding leg
islation by congress to establish the
sold standard beyond possibility Of
danger, but it marks quite as. much pro-
gress in the right direction"
Eastern Republicans are delighted to
welcome western Republicans back into
the party of McKinley's policies.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23

brightest. best and most reliable sent
from the other side. Special missions
to various European countries in times
of great crises made his name familiar
to all newspaper readers.
His first venture in literature was in
1887 when he published "Seth's
Brothers Wife" Since then he has pro-
duced a number of novels, but his best
known work, the one that gave him his
widest fame as a novelist, is The
Domination of Theron Ware" which ap-
peared in 1896. 1t was the great novel
of the year.
While Mr.. Frederic died of heart dis
ease Che broke down completely some
weeks ago. the fact that he had no
medical attendance at the time OF MS
death, but was attended by Christian
Scientist, cannot fail to cause much ad-
verse comment and most likely give
rise to acrimonious discussions over the
merits and dement's of Christian Sci
ence when substituted for medical
treatment in sickness. The statement
of his former physicians-that with
proper treatment Mr.. Frederic would
have recovered-wiH almost surely pre-
cipitate a disagreeable controversy.
Possibly Mr.. Frederic would have re-
covered had he been given proper med
ical treatment and possibly he would
not. His death closes a most promising
career, for he was still young man.
(He was forty-two last August) His
death creates a void in the ranks Of
both journalism and literature.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
THE MAN AND THE AFFAIR.

That 3. H. Roberts would shine in
congress as an orator, that he would
be known as a student. as an intelli-
gent man, as a hard worker. that he
would impress his colleagues with his
ability, his eloCuence, his industry, his
seriousness, his incorruDtibility, none
will deny.
When the full elements of an orator
were given him." admits his chief op-
ponent, "it was for reason"
But people are wondering what sort
of ability Alma Eldredge possesses that
qualities him for the work OF a con-
gresham.
Mr.. Eldredge's. dearest friend'wiIl not
contend that ne is an orator. or a
scholar, or a writer, or a statesman of
any kind whatever.
His organ. the one that makes his
pledges for him in advance the Salt
Lake Tribune, says that he is a man
of affairs" What's that?
We recall several affairs of which he
was "a man" The only one connec,ed
with legislative matters, the only one
of recent historical Importance that
is to be recalled, was his famous bolt
on the oath of January, 1894, when he
ran away from his post of duty to
which he had been elected by the Re
publicans Of Summit county, and mad
TO be hunted uD by the sergeant-aJ-
arms, who was armed with a warrant
for his arrest and return.
If sprinting ability is a qualification
for legislative work, Eldredge certainly
demonstrated it on the date given.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23

very many. of the subscriptions Were
not genuine. but were the result of
scheme whereby II was intended to Sc
cure p larger number of bonds than
the treasury intended should go to
any one subscriber. These fictitious
subscriptions were thrown out This
was 2 triumph for the treasury over
the money power.
Some New York capitalists subscribed
for large lot of bonds, larger than the
treasury accented. and they sought
through the courts TO compel the sec
rotary of the treasury to receive their
subscriptions, which he had declined to
do. The case was carried TO the SUI
preme court of the District of Column
bia, and Judge Cox denied the prayer
of the compliments, and sustained the
secretary of the treasury in his refusal
to accept their bids. Here was another
triumph for the government and people
over the money power. These -riumphs
are always gratifying. though they may
be astonishing