Evening star., 1900-08-07
0dell Expected, to Decide as to His
Candidacy Soon.
PROBABLE CHOICE OF DEMOCRATS
Arrangements Being Made for An
other Sound Money Parade.
EFFECT OF CHINESE WAR

special correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August 6, 1900.
1t is expected that Ben Oden will give
his final decision upon the gubernatorial
question this week. He is said to be close
to final decision, and when 1t comes it
may not be Of the kind that is generally an
ticipated Mr.. Odell has some well-mature
plans of his own, and he is by no means in
clined to abandon them. One of his closest
friends says that if he had come to de-
cision on the minute he would undoubtedly
stick by his determination not to be can
didate. If Mr.. Odell does not run 1t can
be said that the likely man will be found
farther away from here than Albany. He
will not come from this end of the state.
In the democratic camp friends of Hill
are at work trying TO belittle Edward M.
Shepard's chances for the democratic nomi
nation for governor. Senator Mackey's ad
vocates are endeavoring just hard to
XIII off Controller Coler who has come to
be known as Hills candidate. Mackey's
friends are using Hills Endorsement of Coler
to seek support for Mackey and the Tam
many leaders. Hill's friends on the other
hand. say Mackey Is not big enough to
be governor, and as for Shepard-welI, they
threaten the fur will fly If he is nominated.
Shepard not only was one of the promoters
or the antf-snappers' convention against
David B. Hilrs interests in 1892, but in 1894,
when Hill was nominated for governor. Mr..
Shepard and a respectable following of in
dependent democrats bolted against Hill for
governor: governor shepard's influence was Ssh shown
especially In Kings county, where Hill ran
5000 votes behind Levi p. Morton.
The Sound Money Parade.
The officers of the Business Mems Repub-
lican and Sound Money Association, who
have charge of the sound money parade
which is to be a feature of the political
campaign this fall, expect that not less than
100000 men will be in line. In 1896 the
number of sound money" men who parad-
ed was estimated at from 121 900 to 12j 600.
On that occasion the procession took five
and one-half hours to pass given point
The parade was confined to the thirty-five
subsidiary organizations of the Business
Mems Republican and Sound Money AsSo-
citation in the borough of Manhattan. This
year Edward A. Drake. secretary of the
association has invited the sound money"
organizations of the other boroughs in the
Greater New York to march in the Man
haitian parade, and has received assurances
that they Will accept. So far only prelimi-
nary steps have been taken toward arrang-
ing for the parade. Application has been
made to the police department for a permit
for combined parade of the various clubs
OF the association during daylight of No
vember q, the Saturday before election. An
answer has been received saying that the
application has been filed and will receive
attention in due time. AS the associations
application Is the first to be filed Secretary
Drake has no doubt that the permit will
be granted. When the permit to parade
has been received committee will be ap-
pointed and active work commenced at
once. The committee will be made up of
representatives of the various money clubs
In Greater New York.
German to Aid Jones'
Chairman Jones and Senator Arthur p.
German of Maryland will probably share
offices in the st. James building during the
campaign. II has been practically decided
to have the eastern branch of national
headquarters in that building. This means
that Senator German will take a leading
part in the management of the national
campaign in the east, If not the leading
part. 1t was Mr.. German who successfully
managed the democratic campaign for
Cleveland and Hendricks in 1884 the first
IN tWenty-four years to result in the cleo
ton of the democratic candidates Chair
man Jones will, of course, be in and out
of the New York branch of the national
headquarters, but 1t understood that the
management of the campaign will be en-
trely In the hands of Senator German.
Senator German has gone to Magnolia
and thence proceeds to Saratoga where he
Will remain for a considerable time He ex-
poets to begin active campaign work in
Maryland early in September and to keep at
1t continually until election.
Effect of War in China.
A general war in China will come home
to the Chinese people Of this city in many
ways, especially If 1t spreads into the prov
ince of Canton The fathers and mothers
whom the Chinese respect to a greater de-
gree than do the sons of other nations,
will be In danger. Thousands Of dollars
won by careful attention to business in Chi
natown and sent home for investment may
be lost. But worse than all this is the
chance that the armies of the powers NAV
desecrate the burying grounds of the Chi
nese dead. Ihey can bear the financial
loss, and fathers and mothers can proba-
ply take care OF themselves, but who will
look out for the sacred graves If a half
dozen armies trail blood and fire across the
empire. will the armies tear up the
graves of our relatives?' is a uuestion
that is often asked in Chinatown these days
they would probably do something of the
kind If they wished to humiliate a nation,
They consider the burial place of their dead
more sacred than the holy temples, and
their uprooting would cause the Chinese
more heart pangs than ANYTHING else Thai
the powers could do. All Of the well 10 do
Chinese who have died in this city since the
Chinese came here in numbers are now
resting in dignihed graves near the last
resting places of their ancestors. Their
bodies We're carefully sealed in air-tight
by rail, transferred to a Pacific liner and
hnally landed on the sacred soil of China
Care of the Dead
A Chinese often receives much more at
tention after death than was his lot dur
ing life. He knows that this will be the
case If he saves enough money, and If
makes life worth living. When a Chinese
dies in this city there Is much bustIe in
Chinatown; the more important his sta
tion in life the more excitement there is
Then follows the well-known Chinese
funeral ceremony. and the tnterment of
the body in Evergreens cemetery in Brook
lyn. Once each year, usually in Nav the
bodies are carefully taken up for shipment
TO emma. Inc Shipment is made ba
direction of the Six Companies, which con-
Germ also has charge of the portion of the
cemetery given over to the Chinese The
collins are usually accompanied by some
Chinese who Is going home. He sees that
the bodies are turned over to relatives
who look after the ceremonies which fol-
low. The relatives usually remove the
body and place 1t in the loglike coffin.
which Chinese usuages demand. Some of
these are elaborately carved. As there are
practically no gEaveyards in China. the
relatives secure some dry spot on a side
hill and dig a big grave in the shape of a
horseshoe. Care Is taken to select place
which is out of the reach Of white ants
If the Chinese is of good family, he NAV
find a resting place in the family tomb
80 thn hnrc