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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
MIR. CLEVELAND LOOKED THE
CASE UP
(From the Washington Star. J

(FrOm the Washington Starr
Il had an interesting and unexpected
experience with President Cleveland dur
ing his last term, . said naval officer of
high rank, (which taught me a lesson 1
ought to have known before, and Illus
trates how he sometimes went behind the
record when he wished to inform himself
as to the accuracy of official documents.
81 was at the time chief of divi sion
In the navy department. A woman used
to annoy me greatly by soliciting my aid
to secure her place as cnarW0man In
the war, state and navy building. She
would come to nay office every Gay until
er presence became exceedingly dis
tasteful to me. One day she produced a
petition for a pension of $50 a month for
disabilities alleged to have been incurred
in an explosion In the old arsenal build
ing in the reservation on the Potomac
during the war, ana Whe re she had been
employed in some capacity. The petition
was headed by the name Of an officer
superior in rank to myself and bore hall
a dozen names Of other persons of COM
paratiVe prominence In the capital. 10
get rid of her, I affixed my signature.
Her private pension bin was finally
taken up and passed by Congress. 1t
was vetoed by Mr.. Cleveland. Before the
veto message was sent up to the capitol
was visited by polite young man, who
said that he represented the President
lie desired to know whether L was per-
sOnally acquainted with the applicant.
said that 1 was not. He asked If 1 knew
anything of her antecedents, the nature
of her wounds. her past and present
moral character, all OF which had
vOuched for to the President by my sig
nature to her petition. I was forced tC
confess, to my great chagrin, as 1 was
personally acquainted with the Presi-
dent, that L knew nothing about her be
yOnd what / had seen Of her in my Office
My polite inqu1siUOr then informed me
that private Inc ulries made at the in
stance of the President had proved the
falsity of her petition in all respects save
that she had been employed by the gov
eminent at the time of the explosion
Nothing in the papers showed that she
had been in the building at the time of
the explosion and she was otherwise IN.
worthy OF governmental assistance.
In his veto message Mr.. Cleveland
made those In the war state and navy
building feel uncomfortable by his sar-
castle remarks about officers and gentle.
men who testified to the character anC
Worth1ness of those of whom they knew
nothing, and scored Congress for passing
bill with the proof Of injuries absent
from the record
In Washington the petition signing
habit, formerly much In vogue, has
fallen into dIsfayor, and officials are
very cautious upon whose petitions they
place their signatures. +"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31

ruption. The opposition to this
candidate was headed by Richard
Croker and supported chiefly by
Tammany Hall and It's allies. These
facts were fully known to the Demo
cratic voters of New York when they as
sembled at the primaries to decide wheth-
er the candidate should be COler or some
one to be named later by Croker. Their
decision therefore reflected the deliberate
Judgement of the Democratic voters of
New York. What 1t was everybody
knows. COler was beaten and a majority
OF delegates were elected ready to do the
bidding, no matter what 1t may be, of the
big boss of New York city. The d emo
cratic party of New York has deliberately
declared, after full discussion, that as
between an honest and fearless man like
Coler for governor and puppet OF
Croker s, they prefer the latter. Thus
early in the campaign has the party In
the most populous and powerful state of
the union given the lie to all of Mr..
Bryan's beautiful talk about the DemOc-
racy standing for morality and virtue
and the rights of the people, and demon
strated that it is ready to hold up the
hands of the most disreputable political
boss in the country, and turn the state
government over to the tender mercies of
the most corrupt political gang that
flourishes in any American common
wealth. 1t is fortunate for the people Of
this nation that 1t has got the object les
son of the true 1nwardness of the Democ-
cracy thus early in the Campaign.
There has been so much gush about the
free and Independent Democracy George
Fred Williams INDUCED in some of it),
so much talk about the Democrats stand
ing for the rights of the people against
monopolists ana bosses, that some people
were really becoming seized with the no.
ton that perhaps after all the leopard
had changed It's spots in short, that the
Democratic party had been purified and
had become the bulwark of morality
and of liberty. This exhibition IL
New York viii remove all delusion OF
that kind.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31

Russia has taken the initiative among
the European powers and frankly declared
that she is opposed to the PARTITION Of
withdrawal of the allied troops from
Pekin, zand has informed the other
powers, including the United States, of
this attitude, by a circular note. This
accords with the policy which Secretary
Hay laid down IN bis note to the powers
some time ago, and of course we could
not consistently do otherwise than ex-
press concurrence. 1t is a curious fact
that Russia, which has been the most
distrusted of all the powers, and which
has been the most frequently suspected
of sinister designs on Chinese territory
should be the first one to mark out a
definite policy, and policy too, which
accords very closely with that OF the
United States. The agreement OF Russia
and the United States upon a certain
line of action can but have great inhu-
ence upon the other powers. There is
plenty of room for suspicion that Ger
many has been meditating a declaration
of war upon China. The murder of her
ambassador furnished her with a pretext,
and the speeches of the Kaiser and the
extensive military preparations she has
been making indicated that she had de-
termined to take advantage of it.
But the attitude of Russia and the
United States, which it would seem
must be concurred in by Japan at least
if by no other power, will tend certainly
to a reconsideration of her decision If she
had arrived at one. The decision of
our government TO approve the
Russian plan Will receive very
general, but not unanimous approx
al, for there is disposition in some quar-
ters to complain that the administration
has not been aggressive enough in China,
that it has not sent enough troops there,
and has shown a too strong inclination
to get our soldiers out of the country No
longer ago than yesterday the Providence
Journal was complaining of what it stig
matized as a Micaw bsr-like, waiting for
something to turn up, policy Of the Pres
idsnt, and urging the merchants of the
nation ito make him understand that
any lack of determination now may deal
blow to our trade from which it may
never recover. It was supposed that
the lingo sentiment had besn pretty
thoroughly satiated for the present, but 1t
is evident that some of it is still hungry
and thirsty.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
THE sAME OLD pEMocRACY.

The Democrats probably never had any
chance to carry the electoral vote of New
Y FORK after the Kansas City convention
hung the milestone Of free silver about
the neck of the party. A state of ire
mendous financial interests like the En-
pire state would never swallow free sill
yer and what that implies. But the
Democrats did have a chance to put for
ward candidate for governor that
would have appealed to the decent ele-
lnents OF the community, and would
have tended to support the claim that
the Democracy are making this year,
that they are the party of reform We
may not regard the Hon. David B. Hill
as a statesman. We may assume, if we
please, that his attitude with reference to
the selection of a candidate for governor
was dictated by selfish motives. We may
assume that there was no real sincerity
in his apparent devotion 80 reform. Nev .
ertheless the fact remains that he did es-
pouse the cause of candidate for COVER
nor of New York who was admitted to
be honest and fearless, and had so borne
himself under the most trying circum-
stances as to make it clear that IL elected
governor his administration would be
free from the saint of jobbery and cor
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
ORGANISM.
70 the Editor Of the Press.

40 CitS LQttOT " tftO 4 JCoot
Mr.. George f. Williams Of Massachu-
setts who has been Republican, gold
Democrat, and is now the able represen-
tative of Organism, made an effective
speech at he City hall Wednesday evening
in which he disclosed Organism in a
manner so frank and undisguised that
even the Eastern Argus did not dare to
publish it, and in the trief account of
the speech merely described it with few
quotations, from such parts of it as were
comparatively harmless, emitting entirely
the flights of oratory OF which Mr.. VIII
lams is somewhat an expert when adj
dressing a Democratic audience. He I'M
covered and unmarked the hideous feat
u res of Organism so far as it relates to
what would be the policy of Bryan and
his party in case they should elect Bryan
and Congress to match in Porto Rico
and the Philippines.
If anyone has had any doubt as to the
drastically unpatriotic doctrine OF Bryan
ism he frankly removed that doubt, and
we can clearly see the precise policy of
Bryan and his supporters
of Porto Rico and OF the Philippines are
now citizens of the United States, with
the right to the ballot, with the right
to representation in the Congress of the
United States, with the right to have
federal courts established in their terri
tories, with the right to organize as fed
eral territories and eventually to be ad-
mitted as states of the American Union.
Such is the contention of Organism
Mr.. Williams made this fact SO conspicu-
Gus that there can be no possible doubt of
the policy of Organism as it relates to
our foreign possessions.
lie makes no distinction between the
territory of the United States and our
conquered foreign possessions. lie illus
trated his position by dwelling at length
on the course OF our Revolu tionary fathers
in throwing overheard the tea in Boston
harbOr. He made eloquent appeals to his
audience to uphold the principles of our
Declaration of Independence and apply
them to people of Porto Rico and the
Philippines,as their rights, notwithstand-
ing the Tagals are shooting our soldiers
and defying our flag in the Philippines.
He pressed with pOW and elOQuence
this point to such fatal extremity that
an audience of Philippine rebels would
have cheered him vociferously, as, in
deed, his Democratic audience did in City
hall. Such is Organism. There is no
longer any doubt about 1t. "The con-
sbitution follows the flag says Organism,
no matter where, nor under what circum-
stances it be unfurled,
None but parvenue statesmen entertain
such views, and the election of President
Mckinley and a Congress to match,
which VIII certainly be the result of the
November election, will relegate Bryan
ism to those pages of our political history
which Will narrate the successive failures
OF Democratic political leaders TO lead the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
CLEVELAND PERPLEXED.

New York. August Box President
Grover Cleveland has written the follow
ing letter ID a representative of the Her
aid, asking HIM for an expression of
opinion on the political situation:
''Buzzard's Bay, August 90.
My dear Mr. HepW
Your letter Is received. / am quite
sure you wrongly estimate the value of
any expression L might make concern
Ing the political situation. Besides
am by no means free from the perpIexity
which now affIIcts thousands of those
who love the principles of true Democra-
cy, In these cIrcum stances 1 am not in
cllned to advise others as to their present
polt1caI duty. A crisis has arisen when
each man conscience and informed
patriotic sense should be his guide. In
asmuch, therefore, as neither the certain.
ty OF my ability to rightly advise nor any
call OF obligation prompts me to discuss
political conditions, think ought to
be permitted, IN my retirement. to avoid
the irritation and abuse which MY inter-
ference at this time would inevitably in
vite.
Very truly yours,
''GroYer Cleveland" 1
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
II. t. -. -. =.
TABORDAX


SEs GO LAKE
Grand Celebration under the ansp'e"
OF the Portland Lougshorcmens
Bsn0volent Society.
The following events win be competed for:
Double scull working boats. One mile A"'
return. First prize SO. second s.. o.
Tub race. First prize S3 second p DD
trance fee zoe
200 yards dash First prize SO or ring Of pm
Second 81 or ring or pin. Entrance Zee zogn, ,s
Tug of war. open to members only IN
81. seven men TO constitute teams. no cnh'A''
fee. n
Putting &c III. shot. First prize s., second s.
Entrance fee 25c. so
Three legged race. First prize S. secon0 v
Entrance Zee 25c. Tn
Sack race. First prize So, second s. hT
trance fee zoe. ..s
Three quick jumps. First prize - se'0"'
81. Entrance fee 2 C. .~.u.
Gentlemen's jig dance. Prize SILK nmp''""
No second prize. 80
One standing jump First So, second q cox
Base bail. Fort Probes vs.. EmefalaS SIX 2s
DR.. Pond, formerly of the Baltmofes WIN i'""
for the Fort PEBBLES. o~..rn
Bids for privileges 70 be sent 70 jonn e'e. .~
% ork St, bids to be no later than 1ota n' IA
Train M, $50 p. m, regular Union slae 1'.an
q. IN. foot of Stare ST.. l.05 p. m eafo D y ~
station. Returning from oeDagos loe1wT X
regular train at 5.35 y. m. Portland BAnu ",
Chandler leader. furnishes music, win ''''"
for step dancing. ~.
Tickets. adults Doc. Children under o S0e
aug29d4t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

The Moody Memorial Home at Winona
Lake, Ind, dedicated on Saturday last,
was erected as a tribute OF love and atfec-
tion by the Rev. J. Wilbur Champan, d.
D., OF New York city. The funds Tor the
work are DR.. Chapman share OF the sale
OF his biography of ID. i. Moody. Line
building will be used in summer months
as resting place for ministers; In th9
winter time it viii be used as school
for boys.
The Shah purchased about $50, 900 worth
of various articles at the Paris EXPOSE
ton. He wanted to buy some animals at
the Jardin d 'Acclimatation, but was told
that the Committee of Management
would be glad to present him with any
he rancied. He pointed to a young ele-
plant that he had, to his own great
amusement been feeding with cakes.
The ducks on the pond charmed him.
| But he did not think there was water
enough at Teheran for similar flock
Stonewan Jackson is said to have been
the one Puritan soldier of the civil war
| in the South. He had his cOmrade in
the West In the person of Senator Cock
rell. While jackson was a Sunday school
| superintendent in Lexington, Va,
COckrell performed the same function in
Warr9nsburg, Mo. Before and after ca CHI
liant Virginian. and during the fray
fought as valiantly. He entered tn
army private In 1861. He came out 9
major-geneTal after Appomattox.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, now brigadier
in the regular army, VIII be placed on
the retired list Monday next, at noon
after six months service under his pres
emit commission. He is now commanding
the Department. of the Lakes, with head
quarters at Chicago, where he has beer
stationed since early last spring. Thi
department. was formerly commanded b.
once by Gen. Brooke, all major general
of the regular army. Orders detach1nt
Gen. Wheeler and announcing his reti re
ment to the army will be issued t hi
week. His successor has not been select
/ od
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE pECREPIr DEWEY ARCH.

THE DECREPIT DEWEY ARCH.
The unsightIy condition of the Dewey
arch and of the adjoining encumbrances
in Madison square has at last become
matter of public complaint. 1t is aston
ishing that the people in the neighbOr
hood have tolerated them so long. They
are distractions to traffic and travel. In
their present sOiled and dilapidated state
they are an offence to good taste. Com
posed of material that yields quickly to
wind, rain and frost, and that catches
and retains all the dust and deflement
blown or thrown upon them, they have
become ver1table eyesOre and disgrace
to the city. Some Of the lower slabs
have been knocked off, revealing the hOl-
Iowness within, which has been made a
convenience for the disposal Of rubbish.
Others are falling to pieces the slabs OF
the pediments hanging loose and being
liable to strike the wheels of vehicles. or
tear the clothes of incautiOus passengers.
Words cannot describe the disreputable
appearance of the groups Of figures. All
are discOlOred In fantast c ways Some
look as though bags of corn meal had
been emptied I'm their heads. All are
bloJchy and disreputable. The tout en-
semble is not only an offence to public
taste, bu5 is rapidly becoming a public
danger, for it is liable to be blown down
in q gale of wind, after some further
weakening by the elements. The only
reason advanced for leaving the Sc archi-
tectural ghosts standing is that they srve
to remind the public that the Dewey arch
fund is still incomplete. 1t is supposed
that people are likely to be touched by
the sight and induced to contribute the
amount still lacking If they have this OBJ
ject Of charity always before their eyes.
The spectacle does not seem, howe yer,
to have had the desired effect. Y ork
Evening Post.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.
AUGUST 81.

AUGUST 81.
Curtis Guild at York.
Amos i. Alien at York,
Chas. H. Litchman at Biddeford.
Andrew j. Colburn at Otisheld.
Robert T. Whitehouse at OtisfieId.
Edward Payson Brown at Biddeford.
Edward w. Wheeler at Biddeford.
SEPTEMBER 1.
Curtis Guild at Kennebunk.
Chas. II. Litchman at Kennebunk.
Andrew j. Colburn at Casco
Richard Webb at CascO.
SEPTEMBER 8.
Curtis Guild at No. Berwick
Amos Il. Allen at No. Berwick.
John Barrett at Harrison.
Richard Webb at Harrison.
Cushman K Davis at SacO.
Walter g. Emerson, Saco.
@. W. Atkinson at Springvale.
SEPTEMBER T.
John Barrett at Raymond.
Robert Il. Whitehouse at Raymond.
G W. Atkinson at Lebanon Centre.
Amos Il. Allen at Lebanon Centre.
SEPTEMBER 5.
John Barrett at So. Portland.
Robert Il. Wh1tehOuse at So. Portland.
ID, e. MOultOn at So. Portland.
q. w. Atkinson at w. Buxton.
Amos u. Allen at W. Buxton.
SEPTEMBER 6.
Edward Payson Brown at Baldwin.
Edward G. SWEET at Baldwin.
John Barrett at Limerick.
q. w. Atkinson at Limerick.
Amos l.. Allen at Limerick.
SEPTEMBER z.
Edward Payson Brown at New
HOucester.
Charles p Mattocks at New Gloucester
Curtis Guild at Bridgton.
Walter G. Emerson at Bridgton.
John Barrett at South Berwick.
Chas &c. Smith at BIddeford
Richard Webb at Biddeford.
Horace II. Burbank at South Berwick
SEPTEMBER s.
John Barrett at Berwick.
u. w. Atkinson at Berwick.
Edward Payson Brown at Brunswick.
Charles P. Mattocks at Brunswick.
Curtis Guild Jr. at Underwood Spring,
afternoon,
Henry Cabot Lodge at Underwood
Spring, afternoon.
Edward Payson Brown at Underwood
spring, afternoon
Amos l.. Allen at Underwood Spring,
afternoon.
Edward o. SWEET at Underwood Spring,
Henry Cabot Lodge at Portland.
Curtis Guild at Portland, evening.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
Halls Ca5arrh Cure.
F.. j. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo. o.
*, we, Jne Undersigned. have known r. J.
Oheney lot tne iasg 10 wears, and believe him
perfectly hoHofaDIa in all business transactions
made by the firm
WEST q IRUAx. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
o. WALDING. KIM AN ~ MARVIN Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo. q.
HAN Catarfh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
races OF the system Testimonials sent fire. g.
FIlee ioc per bottle Sold bv all druggists.
hairs Family P1l2s are the BEST
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31

The question whether the constitutio n
extends by It's own force to our new pos
sessions Is a question of construction,
pure and simple, and the only authority
competent to decide it is the Supreme
Court. In the recent legislation for Porto
Rico the majority of the Republican MEM
bers Of the House and Senate took the
negative, holding that Congress had the
power to govern this island and the
Philippines also. as it saw fit, without
regard to the limitations of the constitu-
tion. Several prominent Republicans
dissented from this doctrine, and most
of the Democrats Whether they are
right or the majority are right can only
be known when a case that involves the
question comes before the Supreme Court
and is decided. If the decision be that
the constitution follows the flag without
any legislation on the part Of Congress
then all the tariff legislation in regard
to Porto Rico would be unconstitutional
and void, and no tariff could be imposed
against any of It's products any more than
against the products of the State of
Maine. The same would hold true of the
Philippines. Absolute free trade between
the present United States and those is
lands would be established beyond the
power of change except through an
amendment to the constitution. 1t
would also follow that the people Of
those islands could come to this countr5,
with no power on our part to prevent
it In any legal way. 1t is easy to see that
decision affirming the doctrine that the
constitution extended to our new posses
sions by its own force would lead to a
great many disagreeable complications.
From the standpoint of our own interests
it is undou btsdly true that If we are to
have colonies it is better that we should
be able to legislate for them as we see
fit, unrestricted by the constitution.
From the standpoint of the interests Of
the colonies that may not be the case,
however.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31

Bryan refuses to answer questions as to
What his policy would be i'll reference
70 paying the bonds that are payable in
Doin if he should be Observation-Disclosures
he would pay them in silver or In gold
1t is q very discreet refusal on his part.
Ii he should say silver he would drive
)tf all the gold Democrats, and if he
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-08-31

The story that ex-senator German Is
going to attach himself to the national
Bryan headquarters, is denied. German
Is not Identifying himself with free sill
jer. He wants to be Senator from Mary
and and free silver is not popular down
here.