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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-09

through the agency of government by
injunction at the close of the nineteenth
century.
Governor John w. Leedy, talking to
the Journal correspondent on a Santa
Fe train near Garnett Thursday, said ::
In England the people passed a law
giving the right OF trial by jury, but
the judges were against it and the peO-
pie had to hang 119 judges before the
law was permitted to go into effect.
I observe that English fashions are
coming into vogue in this country"
This is but an echo of the sentiment
which prevails in southeastern Kansas.
Republicans, Populists. Democrats,
Socialists and all, denOunce Judge Will
liams and his decision in the Reese
case, prOnOuncing it unreasonable and
unjust.
Webb AIcNau says: eff this man
Reese is guilty, then every newspaper
.u Kansas ought to be sentenced for
contempt of Judge Williams court.
Reese simply expressed an opinion: the
newspapers do this every day. PrOSecu-
ton of newspaper men under this in
junction would be just as reasOna BILE as
the prosecution in the Reese case
Il do not know what 1 am in Jail
for" said Mr. Reese to the State Jour
nal correspondent. I went down to
Yale and made a speech The Judge
says in his opinion that 1 did not use
violent language. 1 simply explained
to the nOn-uniOn men the purposes of
the union which I represent. 1 did it
publicly but in a quiet manner 1 did
not make an effort to excite the men;
no threats were used; no agitation was
INDUCED in This has been proven vet
l am convicted Of violating an injunc-
ton. 1t is very strange to me. If I
had preached uniOniSm to the men and
told them they would suffer violence if
they did not join 1 would have violated
the Injunction. I did not do this [
lean citizen to make a speech and it
was a temperate one; the result. Iegi-
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WANAMAKER VIEWS
On Department Stores Given
to the Industrial Com
mission.

Washington, Dec. 9.-JOhn Wanama-
ker today testified before the industrial
commission on the subject of depart
ment stores. He claimed these stores
were beneficial to society, having a sub
stantial economic and moral basis for
their existence.
1T is he continued. ga natural pro-
duct evolved from conditions that exist
as q result of fixed trade laws. Cheaper
capital. better transportation, more
rapid communication make the modern
retail store possible. natural and use
full, therefore inevitable. Economy in
the expenditure Of money, time and ei-
fort measure department store success.
Just in proportion as these ends are
reached is it popular, powerful and
prosperous"
FIe contended that the effect of the
creation of these stores had been to re-
duce retail prices. In support of this
statement,he asserted that upon Amer
percentage of profits has been reduced
one-half during the last 20 years. This
was also true upon woolen silk and cot
ton fabrics. The total percent Of reduc-
tiOn in prices to the consumer could not
be stated owing to the varying stand
ards Of qualities and taste and inn
prOven1ents in manufacture, but Mr.
Wanamaker believed the consumer
saves the entire reduction in the retail
ers' profit.
In some articles definite comparisons
of prices We're made. It could also be
stated, he said that the profits Of the
great retail stores vary from to per
cent on the dollar of business done.
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ale AS the purpose vas. landed me

innate as the purpose was, landed me
in Jail"
The strike among the miners last
spring was ordered by John Mitchell of
indianapolis, president of the United
Mine Workers of America. Reese as a
member of the executive board, was
sent to Kansas to look after the inter
ests of the union. He spent a week
among the miners and returned home,
coming back again. Reese lives at AL
bia, Iowa, where his wife and eight
months old baby now are. They have
not been in Kansas but will come next
week, if the effort to procure his re-
lease through habeas corpus proceed
ings fails in St. Louis
Some of the mine operators signed
the schedule demanded by the miners.
Four companies. now known as the
Big Four declined One of these was
the Western Coal and Mining company,
a Gould corporation, connected with the
Missouri Pacific railroad system June
% upon the application of the Central
Coal and Coke company Judge W. c.
Hook issued an injunction against the
miners restraining them from in any
manner interfering with the business
or employees of the company.
July IS while Judge Hook was away
on his vacation. Judge John L. Will
liams, of Arkansas, held court at Fort
Scott and upon the application of ].
H. Richards. attorney for the Missouri
Pacific issued another injunction
against the miners restraining them
from interfering with the business of
the Western Coal and Mining company,
the Gould corporation.
About this time Reese came back to
Kansas. With a crowd of his friends
he held q meeting in the public road al
Yale where he addressed the miners. AS
a result 60 of the imported negroes
went out and Joined the union. Others
quit work and Joined the union ranks
later. The business of the Gould COM
pany was being impaired by the loss of
these men and a coal famine on the
railroad was threa tened Reese was ar
rested for contempt of court.
The case against Reese was first
dOCketed as a civil proceeding" says O.
7. BOaz of Pittsburg, one of Reese's at
torneys. 1T was later made a criminal
case. It was postponed from time to
time Reese under the civil proceeding
procured afIidavits OF so men to prove
that he had not transgressed upon the
came, without previous notice. Reese
was told when he went into court that
the case has been postponed. Inquiring
as to the procedure Judge Williams is
quoted as saying to Reese:
The trial viii be by oral testimony
A trial by affidavit can not take place
except by the consent of both par
ties
Reese claims that it could have pro
ceeded by affidavit and cites laws to
show that only his consent was neces-
Sary to permit the trial to proceed in
this manner. but the corporation law
Yer. who had represented to Reese. so
Reese says that the trial would be I1p-
on affidavits, in the presence of the
testimony.
This created a new phase to the case
Continued on Second Page)
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the federaI eourt imprLgon aII b them for

the federal court imprisOn all of them for
violating an order of injunction.
The miners are very much excited at
the treatment which has been accorded
Reese and there is talk of a geenral
WalkOut in every mine in that district.
Should this take place a general strike
among all classes of labor might fol-
low and spread over the United States.
The miners feel that they have been
unjustly dealt with and they are con-
sidering plans by which their griev-
ances may be brought to the attention
of the world, by which they believe
public sentiment will sustain their con-
tentiOn that the federal court has gone
a great distance beyond the limits Of
justice to punish one of their num-
ber.
The release of Reese has been de-
manded and Rossington. Smith &
Eisted and David Overmyer have been
employed to fight the case in the higher
courts, and have won the preliminary
round by having an application for d
writ of habeas corpus allowed.
Imprisoned for exercising the guar
anteed right of free speech under the
constitution of the United States-the
liberty of expressing an opinion-such
is the fate of John P. Reese, member
of the national executive board of the
United Mine Workers of America now
in jail at Fort Scott.
Reese is in jail in compliance with an
order of the federal judge. John L.
Williams. To what length federal
courts will not soon go, is, by this case,
There are classes of people who claim
usurpation and injustice in the fed
eraI court and the Reese case has added
new converts to those ranks.
This case rs but a chapter in the his
tory of the warfare between organized
labor on the one hand; organized and
united capital on the other. In the
southeastern part of Kansas this war
fare never ends. The strife is constant
and bitter. Zone strike has been par
TALLY settled but now come rumOTs of
another general walk out. The lines
between these factions of the industrial
world are always tightly drawn there.
Labor clamOrs for redress and relief;
capital pays no heed to the OutcTy but
with remorseless energy continues the
manipulation and creation of elements
which disturb the social status and
cause uprisings and strikes, disastrous
alike to all parties at interest.
Kansas people discuss with interest
and prejudice, too. the strikes and
labor troubles of the east: the lOckOuts
and riots which are of weekly record
and in the weakness of human nature.
like missionaries. want to go away from
home 10 do good 1t seems unwOrth nv
of belief but it is a fact that in the
great liberty-lOving state of Kansas
there is a field for the arbitrator These
troubles continue undated and the
conviction sof John P. Reese in the fed
eraI court: his Imprisonment coupled
with the indignities which have by this
tribunal been heaped upon labor, viii
will not aid in solving the trouble which
is pending down there now. The Reese
case will be perpetuated to future gen
eratiOns by the miners and their or
ganizatiOns and among laboring people
as a glaring injustice perpetrated
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LABOR'S VICTORY.
Supreme Court Declares Eight
hour Law Constitutional
and Valid.

Organized labor achieved an import
ant victory in the supreme court to-
day, which by a unanimous OpiniOn,de
clared the eight hour law constitutional
and valid
The court holds that the law lis a di-
recUion of the state to its agents and is
constitutional and valid"
The opinion was written by Justice
W. r. Smith.
The case came to the supreme court
from Junction City where Zeigler and
Dalton. contractors, were working their
men ten hours day on the new court
house.
Labor Commissioner Johnson order
ed violations of the eight hour law to
cease The contractors failed to do 50
ana J. 7. Dalton, one OF the firm was
arrested.
Dalton applied for release upon a ha-
beas corpus proceeding in the supreme
court. The court declined the writ held
the law TO be constitutional and valid.
and remanded the prisoner who viii
now pay his fine and cease violation of
the law
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TAYLOR WINS.
Certificates Issued to Repub-
Iicans in Kentucky.

Frankfort, KY, Dec. 9.-The state
board of election last night gave out
their official findings that w. S. Taylor
for governor, and the rest of the Re
publican ticket have been elected on
the face of the returns. Commissioners
Ellis and Pryor signed the majority
report, in which they held that, as a
board of canvassers, they have no right
to go behind the returns of the county
boards; that their duties are purely
ministerial as canVaSSerS, and that the
face of the returns as received by them
from the counties show the election of
the Republican state ticket According
ly the report says certificates of cleo
tiOn were ordered issued to each can
didate thereon. Commissioner Poyntz
presents a minority report which he
closes by saying:
I am unwilling to certify fraud and
to turn Kentucky over to the control
of the bayonet Gatling gun and fraud
ulent tissue ballots
Extensive preparations are being
made to inaugurate Taylor next Tues
day.
CERTIFICATE ISSUED.
Frankfort, Ky, Dec. 9-At 9:45 a. m.
this morning the election certificate OF
VIM. S. Taylor was signed by the cleo
tiOn commissioners and he was declared
to be gOVernOr-elect of Kentucky. The
official figures of the vote filed with
Secretary of State Finley are:
Taylor, 1913, IA; Goebel, 191, 331 Tay-
lOr's plurality, 1888.
The operation which ended for the
time being at least the bitterly fought
gubernatOrial contest was conducted in
the simplest manner. The majority
opinion Of Commissioners Pryor and
Ellis and the minority opinion of Com
missioner POyntz which were published
this morning were not read, as was the
original intention. The three commits
siOners walked first to the Office of the
clerk of the state supreme cOurt,Where
they filed two opinions. They then
passed into the office of the secretary
of state.
Clerk Chenault of the board of COM
missioners read the figures showing
that the Republican candidates for Of
flee on the state ticket had received the
largest number of votes and then GER
tiffcates of election were signed at
once, that of Mr.. Taylor being first on
the list.
There were only IA people in the room
at the time, and of this number only
two were there as spectators. There
was no crowd around the building and
no interest was manifested in the work
save by those engaged in it, and those
who stood looking on. The three com
missiOnerS We're all apparently in good
humOr, although Commissioners Ellis
and Pryor, who had done the most work
in preparing their long and elaborate
opinion looked worn and tired. The
certificates as soon as signed were
filed with the secretary of state and
commissions will be issued to the elect
ed men at once by Governor Bradley.
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RAFTER'S PAY CUT OFF
As the Result of Transport
Tartar Investigation.

suits of the investigation made in the
case of the troop ship Tartar is the
stoppage of the pay of Major John A
Rafter. surgeon Twentieth Kansas vol
unteers. This action was taken at the
request of Gen. Shafter and was sec
onded by Secretary Root.
Gen. Shafter. who has direction of the
inquiry, suggested that the paX in
Surgeon Rafter's case be suspended un-
til certain accounts for the provisioning
of sick soldiers on board the transport
are settled. In a protest, which Major
Rafter has filed with the war depart
ment, he represents that he is not re-
sponsible for the conditions which pre-
vailed on the Tartar.
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TAPP is FOR ROBERTS.
Wichita Politician Thinks the Polyg-
amist Should Have Been Seated.

Wichita, Dec. 9-James w. Tapp,
who made such hard race for mayor
of Wichita and is one of the most
prominent men so far mentioned for
the fusion nomination for congressman
of the Seventh district said yesterday
that he wa sin sympathy with POlyga-
mist Roberts, the congressman from
Utah who had just been refused his
seat in congress
I tell you said Mr. Tapp. ''con-
gress is wrong on this Roberts ques-
ton. The people viii condemn it and if
election could be held next week the
Republican party would suffer for its
treatment of Roberts"
You do not mean to indorse pOlyg-
amy, Mr. Tapp?' asked a reporter.
That's Roberts religion Who Will
not admire him for refusing to forsake
his wives and little babes after he had
married the women according to the
rights of his church2 Roberts claimed
in his speech yesterday that he had not
been living in pOlygamOus relations
with his wives since the enactment of
the EdTnunds act, and I believe him. L
tell you there's lots worse men in con
gress than Roberts and you will see
that public sentiment will uphold him"
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MAINE SURVIVOR DEAD.
Chief Engineer of the Ill Fated
BattIeship.

New York. Dec. 9.-Commander
Charles I Howell, chief engineer of the
United States battleship Maine. when
that vessel was blown up in Havana
harbor, is dead at his home in this city.
He died from an apOplectic stroke. He
was so years old and was born in Gosh
en-. n Y. He was graduated from the
United States naval academy, June,
1863 fourth in his class. His appoint
ment as an assistant engineer dates
from August, 1870. and in 1876 he was
raised to the grade of passed assistant.
He was promoted to the rank of chief
engineer in 1898.
He served on the Maine from 1895 till
the loss of the battleship- He was then
transferred to the Newark and later
was assigned to shore duty at the
Brooklyn navy yard He was made a
commander in September, 1899.
He was sitting at a table by the side
of Lieutenant Fred w Jenkins al the
time of the blowing up of the Maine.
That was the last he saw of the unfor
tunate officer who perished in the
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MEET AGUINALOO.
YOungs' Troops Encounter the
Filipino Leaders, Guard.
Fight Lasted Four Hours With
Heavy Loss to Enemy.

Washington, Dec. 9.-The war depart
ment has received the following from
Gen. Otis:
Manila, Dec 9.-Dispatch from Young
at Vigan yesterday says escaped Span
fsh prisoners report four hours engage
ment 3rd instant, between his troops
and Aguinaldo's guard near Cervantes,
fifty miles southeast Vigan with heavy
loss to enemy who is being pursued.
Our loss one killed. six wounded, inhab-
itants of own accord join troops re-
pairing trail and carrying subsistence.
Have pushed column to San Jose south
Bangued Howse's column on rear trail;
Bachelors battalion, Twenty fourth,
out of reach north of Bayonbong, evi-
IDENTIFY descending river. Natives report
fighting occurred twenty miles north
Navy reaches Aparri tomorrow; column
of MacArthur's troops Twenty fifth in
fantry reported Iba, west coast Zam-
bales; Grants column near Subig bay;
Lawton in Bulucan province today with
sufficient troops to overcome opposition
and scatter enemy
1t is probable that the troops which
engaged Aguinaldo's guard are Hare's
command as he was reported to be close
in the insurgent leaders rear.
Gen. Otis also cables as follows re-
garding the revolt in NegrOs:
Information received that Negros
revolt of minor Importance; Byrnes in
rapid pursuit of disaffected party:
Hughes in mountains; Panay en- route
C7aDfz
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GOEBEL GIVES 1T UP.
His Manager Says He VIII Drop
the Fight.

Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. "a. W.
Young, chairman of the state DemOcra-
tic committee of Kentucky who was
GoebeTs chief lieutenant in the guber-
material campaign, is here. He stated
that he had come for a rest from the
arduous duties of the past two months.
He admitted that the Republican can
didate for governor would get the Ger
titicate of election, and that GOebel
would not make a night. The decision
of the board will end the matter for
the present. Mr. Young said that Mr..
Goebel would come here for a rest
later but could not get away at the
present time
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Mora nrnlea For Africa

Kansas City. No. Dec. 9.-A local
closing of a contract for the delivery OF
/ 000 pack mules to agents OF the Brit
ish government for shipment for Cape
Town Twelve hundred more sold by
the same firm have already been ship
ped to South Afriea from New Orleana-
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Weekly Bank Statement.

New York, Dec 9.-The weekly bank
statement shows the following changes: /:
Surplus reserve decrease 81 ,677, ,175;
loans. decrease S32 695. 500, specie de-
crease 81, ,345. 400: legal tenders. decrease
81 329. 900; deposits. decrease $50. .992. 500:
circulation. decrease S69, 500. The banks
now hold Sc. .S59, ,525 in excess of the re-
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Welling Mansion Rurned.

Washington, Dec. 9.-Early today fire
totally destroyed the yelling mansion
at Fourteenth street and yelling Place
occupied by DR.. L H French. The
loss on the residence is S60, 600 and on the
contents about $50, COO In mis- efforts to
save the female servants, DR.. French
was somewhat burned.
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JAIL FOR AN IDEA.
That Is the Fate of John z.
Reese of Iowa.
Miners Are Greatly Excited and
Strike Is Threatened.
RELEASE DEMANDED.
Men Resent the Imprisonment
of Reese.
He Has Apparently Become
Resigned to His Situation.
WHAT is 1T ALL FOR?
Does Not Know Why He Has
Been Imprisoned.
Allowed Bail Pending Hearing
In Court of Appeals.
WHAT is 1T ALL FOR?
Does Not Know Why He Has
Been Imprisoned.
Allowed Bail Pending Hearing
In Court of Appeals.
[staff Correspondence.l |

Fort Scott, Dec 9.-The miners of
southeastern Kansas are considering a
plan to make speeches, such as John
Reese made for the purpose Of having
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Fonnder q Roual nead

New York. Dec. 9.-Joseph Coughlan.
the founder and president of the Royal
baking powder, died in this city yes
terday from acute kidney trouble.
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Argentine Crops.

Buenos Ayres. Dec. 9.-The wheat pros
poets in the Argentina republic are ex-
cenent: There will probably be an ex-
portable surplus of 1000 900 tons. The lin
seed crop viii reach 100000 tons and the
total wool clip is about 225. 900 tons which
e-1aranteeS an eXporta BILE sl1rrl1ls
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Chicago, Dec. 9.-For Kansas Rain
and colder tonight; Sunday probably
fair: winds shifting to northwest.
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