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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-22

VIII, no doubt. be taken UP anew on
the huStingS and serve TO make the
coming political campaign the hottest
ever know III this site. BY the law
Beckham can only act as governor IN
til Il successor ~ OGebel is elected
til 4 successor to GOebel iS elected.
following the occurrence of the va
cancy- Consequently the two parties
will nominate candidates for governor
to he voted on at the coming election.
and the two will probably be Becllham
and TIylo".
Went wild at the State Capital.
Frankfort. May 22.-The announce
ment OF the supreme courts decision
at Washington in the governorShip
contest was received here with the
widest demonstration on the part of
the Democrats. At t p. III. the Tay-
lor soldiers who had been in charge Of
the state capitol building and grounds
since Jan. 5O-the day Governor Goe-
bel was sSinated-eYacuated and
turned the state grounds, the Gatling
guns and military equipments over to
Assistant Adjutant General Murray
Oem.J. who took charge while the
Democrats of the city We're already
jollifying over the decision. The Tay-
lor soldiers. before leaving gave cheers
for Governor Taylor. Ex-Governor
Bradley. Charles Finley. Caleb Powers
end others.
In Memory of William GoebeI.
The fire bells We're ringing. cannOnS
bOUmed and the city was put in hOli-
day attire in honor Of Governor Beck
ham. \ touching incident of the day
occurred in the afternoon when 1000
people marched To the cemetery. each
wearing u flower which was east upon
the grave of the late William GOebel.
making the little mound which marks
his resting place Il vast bank of flow
erS. There We're no ceremonies at the
grave except Il prayer by Rev. I. F.
TaIliafeiro. OF the Methodist church.
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MARQUETTE CLUB Dimes.
Immense Republican Gathering and
Banquet in Chicago.

Chicago, Oct. 24.-The Marquette club
held a Prosperity Harvest Home les
tivap' al the Coliseum tonight. Twenty
five hundred people sat at the banquet
tables on the main floor, besides a num-
Der of SPECTATORS in the gallery. The i'm
mense hall was decorated with grain,
fruits pumkins and other farm produce,
giving an appearance of an old fash
ioned county fair. Two columns II feet
high, stood behind the speakers plat
form Wreathed with corn and oats. The
supper consisted of turkey, pork and
beans, doughnuts, cider and other rural
viands. Speeches were delivered by
Senator Hanna, J. K. Cubbison of KAN
sas, AMI Henry D. Estabrook of Chicago.
Senator Hanna was very late in reach
ing the Colisum, having addressed
meeting at Aurora early in the evening.
He was given a tremendous ovation, the
entire assemblage rising and cheering
him for several minutes. He said in part:
'Prosperity in this country is a normal
condition and it is only interfered with
when. clouds arise on the horizon which
frighten capital and drive it from the
channels of trade into hiding places and
capital withdrawn from it's usefulness
brings idleness and poverty with it. No
business man will risk his capital in any
venture if these clouds arise and that
will be the condition just as soon as
there is any change in the present ad-
ministraton. Mr.. Bryan had descended
to the lowest plane of dema gogery when
he attempts to set employee against en-
ployer, labor against capital. It is
significant fact to me, it means sure de-
feat, because nothing but desperation or
demagosery will drive man, who as
pires to the highest office in the country,
to such arguments. He is sowing the
seed of nanarchism and socialism. He
is driving apart the great forces Of
capital and labor which united are pro-
ductive of our development. In doing
that he is doing violence to the good
sense of the people. This Moses of Bry-
anism proposes to offer the promises
based on theory"
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WILL KEEP THE TRANSPORTS,
Better Than Contract Transportation
for the Government.

Washington, Oct. 25.-After a full dis
cussion of the subject with Quarter
master General Ludington and Colonel
Bard of his office, Secretary Root has
rejected the proposition to have the mil
itary transport business between this
country and Cuba and Porto Rico con :.
Quoted by merchant line of steamers
on those routes instead of by regular
army transports, as at present. It was
found that the expense is practically the
same under both systems, and that
otherwise there would be no special ad-
vantage in transferring the work to pri-
Vate steamship companies. One result
of the decision to continue the govern
ment transport service is the establish
ment of a regular semi-monthly service
on each of the two routes.
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ALMOST LAUGHABLE,
If Bryan's Army Bugaboo Were Not
sar's So Slanderous.

Utica, N. Y, Oct. 27-Gov. Roosevelt
has spoken to- immense crowds all along
the line today. He is suffering very little
from hoarseness. At Utica he spoke in
part as follows:
Mr.. Bryan has been about, denouncing
our little regular army, our gallant little
army, and as a leader of that kind always
draws followers, Mr. Bryan has had. ad-
.herents who have gone about this state
repeating slanderous falsehoods, which
they. know to be slanderous falsehoods
when they made them, that our army in
the Philippines was an army of murder
ers and ravishers; that it had been doing
foul wrong there. Mr.. Bryan has said
that the purpose of creating the present
army was to put it in force near our
great cities to overawe the working men.
I should laugh at that statement if my
blood did not burn with Indignation that
any man should make it, and yet be a
candidate for the presidency. That army
was voted for not only by republicans,
but by democrats. Half the democrats
in the house voted for it; the Kansas
City convention had not yet made the
dishonor of the flag one of the cardinal
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Mansfield. O., Oct. 25.-From the little
Episcopal church. where as youth he
worshipped, John Sherman, the states
man, was buried to-day. Up the narrow
aisle, which through long years he tread
as a vestryman, the remains of the for
mer United States senator and cabinet
member were carried to the chancel,
where in a casket of black, surmounted
and hedged about with a sea of floral
tributes, they rested from shortly be-
fore II O'Clock until nearly 3, when they
were removed with simple tender cere-
mony to their last resting place in the
Sherman family vault in the cemetery
here.
Every business house was draped in
mourning.
Every church was open, and the
streets were thronged with sorrowing
friends, including delegations from
Washington, Cleveland and nearby cit
les and towns. The funeral procession
wended it way to the union station,
where it was formed with President Nc
Kinley in the place of honor, to the
Grace Episcopal church. The train bear
ing the distinguished dead and those
who escorted the body from the national
capital arrived at 1915 a. m. Awaiting
were Mayor Brown and a citizens COM
mittee Of five, a squad of police and
company M Eighth infantry, 0. N. G.,
which did service in the Spanish war
Close by the car which contained the
catafalque, and which was heavily
draped, were forty-two members of Cen
eral Sherman's brigade, all old inen,
gray and bent. AS President Mckinley,
leaning on the arm of Mayor Brown,
stepped from his private car, the Olym-
pia, every man in the crowd at the depot
raised his hat, as did the president, and
stood bareheaded until the casket con-
tanning the body of former Senator Sher-
man was removed to the hearse Then,
without dirge or other sound of mourn
ing, the funeral cortege slowly proceeded
to the church. The body was borne be-
tween two files of the members of Sher-
mans brigade and double files of COM
pany M. Preceding the hearse We're the
carriages bearing the party from Wash
ington. In the first We're President Nc
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principles of their policy, and will guar
antee that not one single man of them
dreamed of such a purpose when he cast
his VOTE The thing is monstrous and alb
surd on it's face. AS a matter of fact,
the army is not in this country at the
present time. For the last three years
the army has been a horror to the Span
iards, the Aguinaldoan followers, the Chi
nese Boxers, and in this country only the
sympathizers with those three GLASSES
have had cause to feel uneasy about it"
1.-THE other day Mr.. Bryan was asked
how he reconciled his demand for self
government for Malay bandits with the
denial of his party, the denial Of those
who intend to give him electoral votes,
fellow citizens of duskier skin in North
Carolina, and he answered that all men
of color were not allowed to vote in
Porto Rico. Now, I say that that an
swer is utterly insincere, using the word
dishonest in it's largest sense, it was not
an honest answer. Mr.. Bryan either
knows, or ought to know, the qualifica-
tions of suffrage in Porto Rico. There
is not in Porto Rico the slightest restric-
ton on account of color. Every man is
treated on his worth as man. In North
Carolina the black man is disfranchised
as such by qualifications that apply to
him and not to the white man.
light along the route today in asserting
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Great Fire in Government Powder Works al
Indian Head Proving Grounds---
No One Hurt.
POWDER BURNED like WOOD
ELABORATE FACTORY NOT INJURED FIRE WAS IN LOOSELY
BUILT ST0REH0U SES-HARD TO GET
NEWS.

Washington, Oct. 25.-Admiral O'Neill.
chief of the ordnance department, re-
ceived telegraphic message from the
proving ground at Indian Head that
about 10 O'Clock last night fire and sew
eral explosions occurred in one of the
filling houses and magazies. The cause
of the explosion is unknown at present,
but an investigation is in progress. No
other damage was done and no one was
injured. This message was received
from Lieutenant Fullinwider, who is Sec
ond in command at Indian Head. At the
time he sent it, Lieutenant Strauss,
commandant at the proving ground, was
on his way to Washington on the dis
patch boat Santa Barbara, to make his
report ON the occurrence directly to
headquarters here. AS soon as it be-
came known officially that no one had
been injured, great relief was expressed.
The building where the first explosion
occurred is technically known as car
trdges," being a place where all brass
shells which are used in the small call
iber rapid-firing guns are filled with
powder. 1t is distant about half a mile
from the wharf where the boats land
and from the point where the armor
plate tests occur. Within 100 feet on one
side and about 900 feet on the other are
two other buildings, one designated on
the official map magazine" and the
other marked dark" These buildings
| are used for powder storage, and it is
not yet positively known whether they
have all been destroyed or not. If they
have, the loss as far as buildings are
concerned is slight They were con,
| structed lightly with view to avoiding
confinement of the powder contents In
| case of fire. Within the three buildings
were stored about fifteen tons of brown
powder and ten tons of smokeless pow-
der. The latter, when not closely cons
fined under pressure, is not explosive,
but creates a vast flame, and Admiral
ONeill says it was the blazing from the
| burning smokeless powder which gave
rise to the belief that a great accident
had occurred. Near the powder houses
| stand the residences of half dozen em-
| ployes at the proving ground, and their
families. That no one was injured Is
accounted for by the prudence which
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located the magazines in ravines afford:
ing the protection of the encompassins
hills in the vicinity. The big powder
Factory, representing a large expenditure
or government money, was never in dam
ger from the fire and explosion. 1t is be-
tween two and three miles distant II,
straight line from the scene of the
disaster, with hills lying between.
1t is always difficult to fix the respon-
sibility in such cases. The admiral
thought that some workmen in the vi
cinity yesterday may have been careless
and left a burning cigarette or match
which started fire that smouldered un-
I'll nlghtfall when it came in contact
with the powder. On the other hand
there is always a possibility, which ma
val officers do not like to recognize, of
some chemical change having taken
place in the powder which resulted in
spontaneous combustion. The loss in
money represented by the powder is COM
paratively small, for if all the powder
contained in the building was lost the
cost would not be above $23, 900. AS soon
as the explosion became known there
was a rush of reporters and others to-
ward the proving ground. This is a
point very difficult of access being
about 80 miles down the river from
Washington and off the line of direct
| communication. News gatherers were
excluded from the proving grounds
property by a rigid rule of the navy de-
partment. Admiral O'Neill refuses to
ST spend the rule in this instance, on the
ground that the Safety of the visitors,
as well as thee government property and
the interests of the government work.
required their exclusion from the
| grounds. He volunteered, however. to
ascertain all the facts in the case that
could be of interest to the public and
freely give them out which promise he
redeemed.
The last accident of the kind at Indian
Head occurred about six months ago
when Lieut.. Strauss. the commandant
was injured Fire was discovered in the
shell house and the officer ventured into
the house and endeavored to prevent
an explosion. Some of the shells, how
ever, exploded and he was slightly hurt.
The loss on that occasion was trtling.
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FRAUDS IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS
OUTSIDERS FORGE CHECKS ON REPUBLICAN, NATIONAL COM
MITTEE-sECURE LARGE SUMS OF MONEY!

Cook $1,10O in cash, and few days ago
the prisoner appeared again With $1,70y
in checks. The bank officials began to in
vestigate and found that the checks has
been forged. Other similar transactions
have been reported from the interior,
which leads to the suppostion that the
total receipts by the forgeries will not
fall far short of 100000. Treasurer Cor.
Eelius N. Bliss of the national commit
tee says that Cook had no connection
with that body He said Cook was once
associated with a Sub-treasury official
and once had undertaken to organize
political literary bureau, and in that way
had secured letters from the members
of the committee. On the strength Of
these letters the man had obtained
funds. The sum of $500 had been traced
to him, Mr.. Bliss said. He believes that
the real sum obtained by Cook is greater.
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AFTER THE OPEN DOOR.
Hay Will Press the Powers for It's
Maintenance.

New Tork, Oct. 25.-In his response to
the British and German governments
regarding the Anglo German agreement,
says the Herald's Washington corre-
spondent, Secretary Hay is likely to
make another effort to induce all the
powers to join in an agreement for the
maintenance of the integrity of China
and the preservation of the "open door,"
It is believed at Washington that France
and Russia will not decline to join in
such an agreement, and in view of the
Anglo German reiteration of the prin-
ciple Of the integrity of China and the
open door the London and Berlin govern
ments could hardly avoid asserting to
such a proposal. Italy and Austria,
which have assented to the Anglo-Ger-
man agreement, would of course follow
the lead of the German emperor.
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DO NOT WANT TO COME IN
DANISH WEST INDIES FEEL THAT THEY WERE SLGHTED ONCE
AND WILL NOT EAv OR UNITED STATES.

the Inhabitants and they voted by an
overwhelming majority In favor Of trans
fer 10 the United States.
The treaty was pigeon-holed by Secre-
tary Sumner. The people of the islands
felt that Slight had been put upon them
and the evident result has been a change
Of sentiment. Negotiations with the Dan.
fsh government are likely to be carried
on actively the coming winter, and pos
sibly a treaty for the annexation of the
islands will be submitted to the senate.
The government. however. is not disposed
to pay s.. .0eO, 900. the price asked by Dem
mark =
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New York, Oct. 25.-Operating under
THE cloak of agents of the republican
campaign committee, rogues have sue
ceedcd in obtaining probably 100000 on
forged checks in this city and through
the state. Their method of operation is
shown in the case of II. M. Cook who
is under arrest on the charge of passing
bogus checks bearing the name of M. l..
N,uhieman, treasurer of the repub lean
natl onal campaign committee. Cook, it
is alleged, induced William j. Wright to
deposit checks purporting ITO represent
$1,1OO to his account in the Mount Nor
1ls bank. These all bore Mr.. Muhle-
mans name. Cook alleged that they
were contributions to the republican
fund.- and the committee, not desiring to
let the amount of the subscriptions be
generally known. had arranged the
checks in different banks. Wright gave
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GlLDED WARRIORS AT Home
LONDON ExQUsTEs ATTACK oBERTs AND ALL HIS FIGHTING
MEN FROM A SAFE DISTANCE.

New York, Oct. 24.-The revival of guer-
Tribune's London correspondent, has
lighted up English sentiment, especial
ly i'm smart society, which is divided in
to military cliQues and Factions. Lord
RoIberts' leniency is condemned by Inn
patient partisans as a source of weakness
In South Africa and the opinion is ex-
pressed that q general as cold-plooded as
Kitchener is needed to suppress the law
lessness now in progress. THESE critics
make no secret of their discomfort with
Lord Roberts methods of peacemakins.
There Is strong Butler clique in Lon
don which is circulating reports that he
was offered by Lord Roberts the success
sion to command and that he will be re-
warded DOR his services by advancement
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to the peerage. These partisans are most
bttter in their references to Lord Rob-
erts. Gen Methuen also has warm friends
who assert that he has not received fair
treatment and there is a Ga tacre group
which rasents his removal from conn
mand. There is also remnant of the
"Wolseley gang" which clings to the old
illusion that England had only one gen.
eral since the death of Wellington.
These evidences of ingratitude for the
immense services rendered by Lord Rob-
ertis are confined without doubt to mill
tary factions and s1nal social SETS The
true national feeling will be known when
Lord Roberts returns and it will be fore
shadowed by the reception Of the London
volunteers on Saturday. which promises
to be revel Of good humor and patriot
&c rejoicing.
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THE BRITISH STORY.
"Blue Book" Of the Whole Chinese
Difficulty.

Washington, Oct. 25.-Copies have been
received here of the British blue book"
on the opening of the troubles in China.
They cover a period from the beginning
of the uprisings up to the time of Baron
Won Ketteler's murder. The dispatches
from the British minister at Pekin to
Lord Salisbury show that naval
demonstration was recommended as far
back as March 10, the American, French
and other ministers joining in the
identical recommendation. 1t was not
favorably received, however, and the
position of the United States is shown
by statement by the British am
bassador at Paris to M. Delcasse to the
effect that the United States was not
likely to join in the demonstration.
Later in May another naval demonstra.
ton was proposed, but was not carried
out. The British ambassador recitas
with great minuteness the details of his
call on the Tsung Ii Yamen when he was
accompanied by Mr.. Conger, Baron Won
Ketteler and the other ministers, giving
the earnest presentations made by Mr..
Conger at that time on the gravity Of the
situation and the need for strong meas
ures. At one point in the negotiat tiOns
British consul in China advised the
foreign Office that Lii Hung Chang and
the southern viceroys were ready to re-
fuse further recommendation of the au-
thorities in Pekin. 1t appears from the
correspondence that Russia gave her
adherence to Japan, sending a large
emergency force into China and that the
obstacle interposed came from Ger
many. The exchanges between the
powers take very wide range, covering
lnextenso the points which have been
| brought out from time to time as the
trouble proceeded
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ministration, says a Washington special
to the Herald, decline to discuss the re-
ported dissa uisfaction among the inhabi-
tauts of the Danish West Indies, over
the proposed sale of the islands to the
United States, taking the ground that no
official infermatio has been received on
the subject. 1t is understood. however.
that the Associated Press reflects the true
sentiments of the inhabitants of the
islands. Secretary Stewards treaty ne
sntiated during JOhnson's administra tion
asked for an expression Of opinion by
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Aged Statesman Laid Away in State
Services From the Chapel Where
4 He Attended for Years.
WAS AN IMPOSING CERMONY
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE DE-
CEASED-THE CITY IN MOURNING -ATT ENDED BY
THE PRESIDENT.

Kinley, Secretary Of War Root, Con-
gresham Kerr, of this city, and Secre-
tary to the President Cortelyou. The
president did not enter the church when
the remains We're first laid in state, but
proceeded to the residence of Congress-
man Kerr, where with the other men,
bers of the Washington party and men,
bers of the Sherman family he partook
Of luncheon, remaining there until the
formal services at the church, which be-
gan at 2:30.
Between lines of spectators, among
whom We're many who had known the
diseased the greater part of his life, the
casket was carried into the church be-
tween eight policemen and escorted by
the honorary pail bearers, General Nell
son A. Miles, p. T. Sherman, Alfred W.
Hoyt, VIM. McComb, Charles w. Sher-
man, Collegiate Hoyt, John Sherman Her.
it and Frank B. Wibourg. The plate on
the casket bore this inscriptions:
JOHN SHERMAN, :, n:
May 10, 1928. w
October %, 19O0.''
The altar was decorated in white at
the request of the family and the officiat-
ing rector Rev. A. B. Putnam's robes of
office which We're white also. The rector
chanted a brief ritualistic rite, pro-
cesson, headed by Governor Nash of
Ohio, filed by to look upon the face of
the deceased During the succeeding
hours the crwods came and went with
noiseless tread, occasionally bringing ad-
ditions to the profusion of floral offer
ings Among the latter was large
wreath of white roses from the white
house, the gift of the Mckinley family.
There was a tall shaft of roses from the
city of Mansfield, a law book wrou So ~f
white roses and carnations from - sss.
cal bar association, a wreath frola the
Loyal Legion, another from survivors of
Sherman's brigade and many others.
There was no formal sermon, the Off
ciating clergyman adherng closely to
the Episcopal ritual. At the conclusion
of the services the funeral train pro-
! ceeded to the cemetery mile distant. At
the sepulchre the ceremonies We're of the
simplest character and at it's conclusion
the casket was sealed. Senator Hanna
arriving from Chicago about noon to at
| tend the funeral
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age, residing in this city, committed sui
eide last night. Crazed by financial dif-
ficulties, he spent the evening up town,
went home and wrote letters to his rela-
tives and friends, and then discharged
load of No. shot into his side just
below the heart. lie fingered until this
afternoon, when he died from the effects
of the wound.
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NEW CoREAN RAILWAY.

Yokohama. Oct 25.-1t is reported from
Seoul that the construction Of the Seoul
VIII .ailway is about to begin. French
ensinsers have secured the contract.