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R^--v - . ' 4 &?%*--. ;; ;- -. - . . ." .; 3 ^ ^-+JtYOL LIV, WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1900. NO. 22. m DISPENSARY SALES. * Result of the Legislative Committee's Labors. THE VOLUME OF BUSINESS. J$ ~ ' It Seems to bs Steadily Increasing. The Financial Affairs of the Big Moral Institution. The following is the official report of ihe legislative examining committee as ~ to the condition and operations of the State dispensary for the quarter ending August 31st, filed with the governor r Tuesday: ^ To His Exoelleuoy, Miles B. MoSweeney, Governor, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir: The undersigned joint com zoittee appointed by the general assembly to examine the books and financial transactions of the State dispensary beg to submit herewith our report for the quarter ending August 31, 1900 The stock on hand was taken on August 31st and September 1st by W. H. Sharpe, representing the committee, and J. C. Moody, representing the state board of directors. All stock and supplies were actually exhibited, counted and valued. The system of bookkeeping is excellent and the bookkeepers very particular. painstaking and correct. We found the dispansary director ooming up to the full measure of his duty, having worked the institution up to a high business standard. The board of directors are very harmonious by doing their work in a fine business way. We append hereunto statements of assets and liabilities, cash statement, - raeoipts and disbursements, all of which * is respectfully submitted. J. T. Hay, Senator. W. H. Sharpe, Member of House of Representatives. AS85TS AND LIABILITIES. The first of these statements is as follows: ASSETS. Cash in 8tate treasury Aug. 31, 1900 $142,503 53 Teams and wagons (invt'y) . 64 00 Supplies, (inventory) 31,994.10 Machinery, and of5 ce fixtures (inventory) 2,765.64 Contraband, (inventory)... 585 83 Real estate 36,635 08 Suspendedaccounts 5,987.63 Merchandise in hands of dispensers 210,144.47 iSlerchacdise, (inventory I Aug. 31st) 190,986.49 B > Personal accounts due State r ^ for empty barrels, alhoool - ^>eer'etc 5,132 42 Total assets $626,829 19 LIABILITIES. School fund $520,556 86 Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whiskies, wines, beer, alcohol, etc 106,272 33 Total liabilities $626,829.19 The statements of the profit and loss aeeount is as follows: PEOFIT8. Gross profits on merchandise sold during quarter..$879.272 53 Contraband seizures 750 66 State's one-half share of profits on beer sold by the G-ermania Brewing Co., ehmnff Quarter 2 862 40 | Total $ 90,925 62 LOSSES. 8uppiies?Bottles, o o r k s, labels, wire, tin foil, lead seals, boxes, rails, sealing rwax, etc., for quarter... 28,989 45 Insurance premiums 666 30 Breakage and leakage 84 94 Labor (pay rolls) 3,754.20 Expense Account?Salaries, expenses of ip^^tors per diem and ; j of members of state Lu&rd of directors and legislative examining committee, offee supplies, lights, telegrams, postage, stock feed, ice, printing, reve - i l.T sue scamps, telephone rent, etc 6.21812 Constabulary 10,278 58 Freight and express charges 15,425.20 Revenue lioense 125.00 Worthless beer at Lancaster dispensary destroyed by county board of control , June 1, 1900 8.10 Worthless porter, beer, and wine at Winnsboro dispensary, condemned by ounty board of control.. 17.23 Lobs by robbepr at Gr. McC. Honour's dispensary, Charleston, S. C 3 57 i Loss by robbery at Kershaw dispensary Feb. 24, 1900, per report of Inspector S Boykin 76.57 Total expense $ 65,647.26 .Net profit on sales for the ^ quarter, passed to the credit of the school fund. $ 25,278 36 Py T* Total $ 90 924 62 The cash statement for the quarter ending August 31st, is as follows: RECEIPTS. Balance in State treasury May 21,1900 $115 871.61 June receipts $116,489 54 July receipts 125,753 55 Aug 134,530.60?$376,772 55 Grand total $409,645.16 DISBURSEMENTS. June disbursements $114,319.12 -Tnlv disburse ments 116,072.54 ?Aug. disbursements 119,749.97-$350,141.63 Balance in State treasury Augsut 31, 1300 142,503.53 Grand total.... $492,645.16 WHAT WE MAY EXPECT. The South to be Deprived of their RightsThe late election has given the Republican party complete control of the Fedeial government in both the executive and legislative departments. The Southern States did not contribute to the Republican victory and therefore need not expect any favora. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that Ca determined effort will be made to punish this section by reducing its political power. Vice Ohairman Payneof the National committee, knows what he i3 talking about when he threatens the South with a reduction of rejresen cation in the House and in the Electoral college. We quote his words given out in a late review: "I hope the election will open up a new era in the South. At the present the South is neither Democratic nor Republican. It is a government of fraud. Ii, is simply anarchy. I do not believe that Congress should longer permit the disfranchisement of any of its citizens by a Southern State without reducing the representation of the State in Congress proportionately. "I know that the Democratic Senators might talk such a bill to death at the coming short session, especially if we try to pass an army bill at the same time. Bat if we caa't pass the bill ?? ?:-i? ? -? .?:i. ? *:i *1,^ '-nMT* ne-S-fc WlHier, we uau nail uum iuc bmi Congress meets, when our majority in the Senate will bs so large that filibustering by a few Democratic Senators will be impossible. It must be confessed that the prospect is not cheering for the citizens of this latitude. It will be news to them that simple anarchy prevails in thi3 section. In &lr. Payne's vocabulary anarchy simply means opposition to the Republican party. If he desires to build up the Republican party in the Southern States he should know that Ms proposed method is not the way to accomplish it, for it would only revive sectional animosity and confirm the Southern States in opposition to the Republican party which has been the authorof all the measures that have proved so injurious to the welfare of the Suuth. However, there is some comfort in the thought that all Republicans are not so hostile to the South as Mr. Payne. It is to -be hoped that many of them will refuse to unite with him in placing the ban of inferority on those Southern States which have been driven by the instinct of self preserva xr? i. J lion iu esutuusii ?u cuuunuvuiti ^u<uiu cation for suffrage just as Massachu-. sr.tts has done, though not driven to it by the same imperative necessity.? Lynchburg News. As Bryan SaidThe military spirit is growing %inoe the election and a big increase in the standing army is about as certain as anything can be in politics. We are in for it and the attendant expense will astonish the people who supported, with their votes, the McKinley admintration, thereby giving license fr.- the Republican party to go ahead with their program. Unless we are very much mistaken the army influence wi?.l be as strong in this country in less time than four years as it is today in France. The-drift is to military despotism and the only check we see to it is in a combination between the Democrats in the United States Senate and those .Republicans who denounced the administration program during the last session of Congress.?Chattanooga News." The Trusts Are at It. A few days ago it was the meac trust that tightened its squeeze upon the people, and now it is the salt trust that is demanding more tribute. This latter trust with characteristic greed, has more than double the price of the commodity which it controls. Tomorrow and the nezt day we shall probably hear of other trusts that have raised prices on the necessaries of life. The monopolies evidently think that the success of McKinley has given them license to rob without restraint. They are fast fnrnishinir the Democrats with a win I ning "paramount issue" and with an abundance of campaign material.? Savannah Morning News. Bis Sale of Lumber. The state of Minnesota is selling today an immense tract of lumber, embracing no less than 75,000,000 feet of standing pine, tamarack, spruce and cedar. The sale is at the state capitol, and there is a large crowd of persons interested in the sales in attendance. The timber ranges in value from ?1.50 to $5 a thousand, and much of it is of excellent quality. The greater portion of the timber stands on school lands, thongh a considerable amount is in isolated tracts. According to the conservative estimate of values made by the 3tate auditor, the sale should bring in between $200,000 and $250,000, Ciararettes Bid It Emmanuel Easkins, of Fairburn Gra , 16 years old, is dead from the effects of blood poisioning. The young man had been blowing an ordinary French harp until his under lip had become sore and inflamed. Being addicted to the habit o? cigarette smoking, he continued to smoke while the lip was in this condition, and it was the opinion of the attending paysicians that the nicotine or other poison from the cigarette came in contact with the sere lip and thus produced the fatal result. The sufferings of the youth were terrible and his head and face were swollen beyond recognition. Some One is Wrong. "The Filipinos are not warlike or 1 ferooious people," says General McArthur, in his annual. there one more traitor in the camp we should like to know. Teddy Rc c^r alt has just ir: u :j I gOS eiecieu to me y iue x reaiucuuj' uy running around and telling everybody what bloody savages the Filipinos are, and now the commander-in-chief in the Philippines says that they ate nothing of the kind. We do not often call on the editors of the Springfield Union to come to the rescue, but it seems to us that here is a discrepancy which requires their attention. Somebody is lying about the Filipinos. Who is it? , ?Hartfort Times. NOT SO EASILY DONE" The Reorganization of the Democratic Party. A SENSIBLE VIEW. The Party Neither Moribund Nor Crippled. Bryan a Great Leader in the Face of Defeat. The Democratic party has been beaten, badly beaten on the electoral vote and in a lesser degree on the popular vote. Nevertheless it remains true, as in 1896, that a change of votes in oertain States equal to but 1 per cent, of the Democratic total would have sufficed to give it a majority of the electoral vote. We are indebted to the ultra-Bepublican New York Sun for this calculation: The Sun says: If 75,000 citizens who voted for Mo Kinley iu oertain States of the union had voted instead for Bryan, McKinley would have been defeated and Bryan elected. _ The table below montions IZ states with the electoral votes belonging to them and their several pluralities tor McKinley and Roosevelt, as unofficially ascertained or as estimated Thursday. Changes in the figures by later returns will not greatly affect the general proposition: El<?c- Republican tcral Vote Plurality. Delaware ....3 5,000 Indiana 15 27.400 Kansas 10 25,000 Maryland 8 14.360 Nebraska 8 5 000 North Dakota 3 8,000 Oregon *.4 14 000 South Dakota 4 10 000 Utah 3 4,000 Washington 4 5,0U0 West Virginia. 6 15,000 Wyoming 3 3.000 71* 135.760 Thus leaving a irargin of 14,000 for possible increase in the aggregate Re pulican plurality in these States, it is evident that the change of 75,000 votes would have reversed the result in all 12 of them. That is to say, if 75,000 citizens who voted for McKinley had voted for Bryan, 71 electoral votes now in the McKinley column would have gonft in the Bryan column, thus: i McKinley's electoral vete ars it is... 292 ' Electoral vote of these 12 States... 71 < McKinley's electoral vote as it would have been 221 i Necessary to a choice 224 On the other hand: Bryan's electoral vote as it is 155 Electoral vote of these 12 States... 71 ; Brayan's electoral vote as it would have been 226 Necessary to a choice 224 The change of 75,000 votes, therefore, properly distributed in the 12 States in the list, would have given to Bryan two more than the necessary number of electoral vote*; his electoral majority over McKinley would have been 5. Ifc would seem that a party which oan poll 7,000,000 votes and come as near to victory aa this is neither moribund nor crippled, and is under no obligation to accept the dictation of the small minority of its former members who cast their votes against it and defeated it. The Sun itself recognizes the strength of the Democratic demonstration and voices a warning similar to that given by The State on the morning of the election. It says: In the first place, the power of the political revolution started in 1896 by Bryan and continued with little, if any appreciable diminution in the campaign of 1900, mu3t not be minimized. At both elections he was defeated -by a majority of the electoral votes of great proportions, yet at both he received of popular votes a much larger volume than had ever been cast for a Democratic candidate for president: and the ? t* * 1 A greater percentage 01 mem given to Mr. McKinley on both occasions was only about 5 per cent The political force represented by Bryanism is therefore too tremendous to be overlooked in any consideration of the political future, more especially of the future of the Democratic party. Estimating tiiat the whole number of votes polled at this election was 15 millions, something like seven millions of them were cast for Bryan. In the State of New York, out of an aggregate for both McKinley and Bryan of about one millii n and a half votes, the plurality over Bryan was less than 10 per cent, and his plurality over McKinley in this city was more than 27,000, A candidate who receives support so numerous, i? spite of a jreat revolt against him xn his own party, cannot be removed from political consideration simply because of his defeat, but must rather be regarded seriously as the representative of a popular feeling of ominous strength and pervasiveness. * * * * It is not improbable, it seems rather ' to be probable, that if the elements in the Democratio party which represent its conservatism and its national spirit should regain the control of its organisation, the burning political sentiment of which Bryanism has been the expression would be driven off in violent revolt to act by itself as an independent political movement. In "truth, the genesis of Bryan as a political force was the consequence of the demonstration of the strength of such a political movement in the campaign of 1892, when Mr. Cleveland was elected for the second time. In that canvass the Populists polled more than one million votes, exhibiting a stength which alarmed botn or tne great parties. Brjan's scheme was to prevent this political division by fusing Populism with Democracy, and he succeeded in it-so far that in the canvass of 1896 Populism disappeared practically as an independent movement. His vote increased over tiat for Mr. Cleveland in 1892 by almost exactly the amount of the Populist vote in 1892, and he kept it in the late election. Nor is it now destroyed by his defeat. Any conservative domination of the Democratic party in the next presidential campaign would be sure to revive it in 1904 and it might again fiad in Bryan its leader, for his campaign ju?t concluded was in spirit wholly Populistio. The political revolution which began in 1896 and continued with increasing momentum in the canvass just closed seemed, therefore, to indicate a readjustment of political relations which intelligent men of both the Repulican and Democratic parties will be compelled to recognize as necessarily permanent, if the dangerous political movement represented by Bryan is to be kept in restraint and is not to continue in undiminished aggressiveness. The questions of policy which have arisen in this campaign will assert themselves the more in their paramountcy as time passes and they will render necessary the maintenance of the new political alignment which came in with 1896. The forces behind Br^an in his two campaigns represent a sentiment of discontent powerful at this time in every country of civilization which inevitably will crystallize in a political party whatever its normal designation may be, that will be as intolerable to conservative Democratic feeling and conviction as was Bryanism in 1896 and 1900. In short, The Sun sees that defeat?f Bryan encourages a more extreme polioy by the opposition and it regards it as necessary to the continued success of the Republican party that it shall absorb permanently the Cleveland element formerly of the Democratic party. It sees that an attempt to give the Democratic organization the aims of the Republican organization would if successful drive the mass of Democrats into a new and more radical party.? The State. ONLY ONE CONTEST. Bechett Files His Protest Against Col Elliott. The Columbia State says election returns from nearly all of the counties have been received, and all th*t is to be done is for them to be tabulated by the State board of control. So far there has been only one noiice of contest filed with the secretary of State. This ia in the oase of the congressional election in the First distriot, Congressman Elliott was opposed in that distriot by W. W. Beoket, colored, who received comparatively few votes in any county in the distriot. Nevertheless, he makes, a general protest against the counting of the vote for Col. Elliott on the following grounds: ''That the said ballots which were cast and returned for William Elliot at said election, were not legal ballots under the laws of the State of South Car- j olina. "Beoause said ballots were not of proper color and did not show for what | office the said William Elliott was in- j tended to be ohcsen." This protest was filed with the election canvassers of Charleston. After reading it the board declared that they found "the ballots cast for William Elliott, for representative in congress from the First district of South Carolina, were 'two and one-half inches wide by five inches long, clear and even cut, without ornament, designation, mutilation, symbol or mark of any kind whatever, except the name of William Elliott, representative in Congress, First district,' for which office he was a candidate, and that the ballot was properly printed and according to the laws governing elections in this State." m. 1 -r ,1 J ?J J r\-1 IT? Doara, cnereiore, aeciareu ^ui. Elliott duly entitled to receive the votes oast for.Mm. Becket proposes to make a similar contest before the State canvassing board, and presumably this is but the first step towards taking the contest up to the national house of representatives. Beginning to Squeal. Forty-five cotton mill owners in the South, fearing that the recent war will seriously change the trade conditions between this country and China, have prepared a petition which they are sending to Secretary of State Hay, in Washington. They fear that Russia will obtain possession of Manohuria and will impose such heavy duties on American goods as to render a withdrawal of American interests from that country necessary. This petition to Secretary Hay reads: "The under LuauuiauiLucjia uuuuvu gvuuo in the southern states, desire to express their approval of the action of the United States government in the protection of American interests in China, known as the "open door" policy, and trust this position may be maintained, more especially in regard to Manchuria, to which seotion of the Chinese empire "a large proportion of the cotton drills and shirticgj manufactured in the southern states is exported. As may be well known, this trade has increased in recent years to such an extent that the prohibition or interference in China by any European government would tend to seriously injure, not only the cotton manufacturing industries, but other important produots of the United States which are being shipped to China. For the 1 i-1 protaotion ana perpetuity 01 sueac commercial relations, we earnestly pray that the administration will take such action as may be proper under existing conditions. It is not only the manufacturer of cotton goods who would be seriously affected, but the southern planter and cotton grower and the thousands of employes and laboring classes who are engaged in the cotton mills, and who depend on tha success of these manufacturing industries for a livelihood," This petition is signed by 18 mill owners in North Carolina, 21 in South Carolina, four in Alabama, one in Georgia and one in Maryland. Oar Southern mills are beginning to Eqaeal for the open door, which we thought was already wide open. How to Succeed. An example of the chances in the United States for the bright and energetic young man who stays in one -rslAna io 'fnrn?o>ifl^ MlfiCGRS Of piai/O MD 1U1U1UUVM t*J ?MW ? ? Charles M. Hayes. At the age of nineteea he was a clerk in a railroad office at St. Louis, his salarj b .ing $'40 a month. That was 22 years ago. Mr.' Hayes has become president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which is the largest system but one in the world. He will have a salary of $55,000 a year, and will be the highest salaried railroad man in the world. S . , A GOOD .SHOWING " Made by the South in the Census Figures. i TEXAS LEADS THIS SECTION The South Contains the Purest American Stock in the Country. [Some Very Interesting Facts. In a general survey of the United States as revealed by the figures of the twelfth census, the south has oocasion for self-congratuiation. At first glance the reason for this may not be apparent, but according to an analysis made by the manufacturers' Record it is nevertheless a faot. The population of the United States increased between 1890 and 1900 by 20.96 per cent., or 13,225,464. The population of the south increased 3,950,422, or 20 15 per cent. This percentage was somewhat below that of the tvhole country, but yet in advance of what may be regarded as other typical groups of states. The iocreasa in New Eagland, 891,107, was but 18.95 per cent., in the nine middle fe-.ates stretohing from the Atlantio to ine Mississippi it was 5,280,957, or 20 04 per cent., and in three states drtrnoo fcho Misniflairmi. MiPfirmri. Tnwa and Minnesota, it was 1 217,435, or 20 65 per cent. Commenting on this the Manufacturers' Record says: "These figures show that the increase in population which made the total percentage of increase in the country slightly more than the percentage of increase in the south, took place in that part o* the country which continues less than 12 per cent, of the population, in spite of the halting of Kansas and Nebraska and the actual decline in population in Nevada. The enormous inorease of more than 330,000 in Oklahoma, of more than 200,000 in Indian Territory and of more than 60,000 in Arizona are clues to the story of the increase in what may be oalled the newer portions of the country. Com- i ing to the special figures in the south, . it is noticeable that Texas leads the older portions of the country in the ! percentage of the increase; that its : actual increase of 813.305 is but 77,802 < lesi than the actual increase in the 1 whole of New England, where Maine, : New Hampshire and Vermont stood i still, and where Massachusetts' increase was 63 per cent, er the total increase ] in that section, and that Texas, Florida, i West Virginia and Louisiana led in < the percentage of increase in the south- i ern states, theugh Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi stood out well among i the states, making large actual in- ? crease among the southern states were not unlike those such as New Jersey, : 30 per cent.; Ohio, 13 per cent.; Penn- i sylvaria, 19 per cent.; Delaware, 9 per i cent.; Indiana, 14 per cent.; Iowa, 17 i per cent.; and Minnesota, 34per cent.; i in other portions of the country. < "In considering the increase in the ! south in comparison with those else- 1 where, however, one or two facts must < be borne in mind. Oatside of Texas, 1 Louisiana, Florida and perhaps West i Virginia and Maryland the south's population has been little influenced by 1 the immigration of foreigners. The i south today, and notably those por- < tions of the south showing the smaller percentages of increase contain the 1 purest American stock in the country. . It contains, also, the bulk of the negro 1 population, which, increasing less rapidly than the whites, tends to reduce the total percentage of increase. ' There are many indications, however, that that popultion is inclined to drift i beyond the limits of the South, botb I in a northerly direction and also toward the southwest, its place being gradually taken by Americans who have tried the middle west and who now seek ho nes in Virginia, Georgia. Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas 1 and other southern states. These new oitizens of the south are largely of 1 the agricultural class. They are bringing new ideas and new methods with them, and from them may be expeoted to spring additions to the native-born southerners who have set to work to develop southern indnstries. The sloughing off of the undesirable porA" ? ? nAnnla^nn on/1 fKo UU11S UI lilO OUUIU D J^U^UIOUIUU CIUU vuv addition of thrifty Amerians from other portions of the country may be expected to continue indefinitely and to increase much more rapidly in the future, now that the southward trend*of population is so pronounced throughout the north and the northwest." One of the great southern interests to be reckoned with in this future is iron. It has become the habit to look to the Birminghnm distriot before passing judgment upon the outlook for the market. The view given there during the past week is eminently satisfactory. The Birmingham correspondent of the Manufacturers' Record says that the advancc of 50 cents a ton on November 7th was promptly accepted without interruption of the buying, that it was not confined to the small order trade, but that interests of every degree were active in the move. By Friday the interests that had led the selling were in a very comfortable condition as to stocks. Their surplus was absorbed and sales of comfortable amounts had been booked for the first half of the coming year. A second advance of 25 cents a ton did not deter buyers. He adds that the feeling is one of confi* .i .--x ? ?a aence.m me maiaieiiauuw ui ^inucs auu that the market will remain conservative. There has been during the week a good demand for steel produots and the steel mill hss accepted all the orders that suited its convenience. An evidence that an increase in its business is expected it the fact that the 5th furnace is now being heated in preparation for going into commission. What Thy Should Do. Charles A. Towne, chairman of the Silver Republican National commite has been in conference at Minneapolis, Luxor. J WibU UbUCl UICUXUUO vvuuiuviiug the party's future. It is understood that i it was decided to issue an address ex- i pressing the belief that the time has : come for giving up the parly organiia- ' tion and merging its members into the i Democray. All Silver and Lincoln Republicans will be nrged to become Demo- : crats in good standing. 1 TALKING THROTJGEJHIS HAT, A Charleston Fossil Tickles the Republicans. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post says among Southern gentlemen in "Washington is Hon. A. B. Kaufman of South Carolina. Mr. Kaufman is well known throughout the South and takes much interest in all matters tending to the development of the South and especially of his home city of Charleston. He is in Washington at present to attend a meeting of the Red Cross Society, of which he is an m/?nri'hpr AlfcVinnffh Mr. Kaufman, in politics, differs from the large majority of the people of Charleston, having advocated the reelection of President McKinley, it is safe to say that there is no man in Charleston who has more friends or who is more highly regarded than himself. Mr. Kaufman in speaking on different topics while in Washington stated, that although he was gratified at the reelction of President McKinley, he deplored the fact that the solid north and West was arrayed against the solid Sout^ Nevertheless, he says that there is a large element in the South, as he judges from the vote in South Carolina who were not in favor of Col. Bryan, but who could not be brought to the point of voting for President McKinley. This element, he says, refrained from going to the polls. In substantia-tion of this he points to the fact that the registered vote in South Carolina is about 100.000 and less than one half, or about 40,000 persona yoted at the recent election. The vote at the primary election in Charleston, he says, was 4 500, while at the'national election it was only 2,000. In Columbia the registered white vote was 3,000, while only 300 votes 'were cast. jHe thinks that the great portion of this vote which failed to .. express itself was largely favorable to Presideat McKinley." . % SCIENCE VERSUS MAMMON. A Eevolt Among the Professors of Stanford University. Dr. Edward Ross, head professor in the department of economics and sociology at Stanford University, has resigned. The resignation caused quite a sensation in university circles, where Dr. Ross was extremely popular. Id his formal letter of resignation he inintimated that,he was being forced out of the a Diversity by Mrs. Stanford, who had taken-exception to statements made by him in his public address on aoniftlnirifta] And flflnnmift nnefltinns. He farther said that Mrs. Stanford was prompted by certain powerful persons and .commercial interests in San FranDisco 4 Several of the faculty have taken sides with Dr. Ross. Dr. Jordan, president of the university, said today: "In regard to the resignation of Dr. Eoss it is right that I should make a further statement. There is not the slightest evidence that he is a 'martyr to freedom of speeoh.' Nor is there any reason to believe that his withdrawal has been due to any pressure [)f capital or any other sinister influence. [ know that Mrs. Stanford's decision was reaohed only after long and earnest sonsideration, and that its motive was the welfare of the university and that alone." Supplementing his former utterances upon the subject of Prof. Rosa's dismissal, Dr. Howard addressed his slass in history today upon the matter. Phe entire hour of the class was given up to the discussion of "free speech." Dr. Howard ^arraigned the inflaences that brought about the dismissal of the nrnfessor. r ? * Prof. Howard conoluded his speech with this sensational utterance: "I do not bow down to Saint Market street I do not doS my hat to the Six Companies; neither am I afraid of the Standard Oil Company. Unfortunate Insane. The regents of the state hospital for insane at their recent meeting had Borne facts presented to them which are startling in some respects. The daily average "attendance" has been steadily growing. Dr. Babcock in giving the statistics says: "Last year the average was barely over one thousand a day, but this year's average will run over one thousand- and forty. The records show that the great increase has been since 1870. This is accounted for first by the large increase in the negro popu'ation of the hospital for the in1 j ! 0>T/\ iL 1 3 sane, ana umu jloiu me coucugb naa to pay the expenses of patients sent to the hospital, whereas now the state bears the expenses directly and the county authorities feel rery much freer to unload patientn on the state, and they send patients here who- onght to be' kept at home or in the poor housee, if no other place can be provided. The problem of housing all of these patients is becoming quite serious and the state will have to take hold of the situation soon and provide quarters, instead of building here to meet present needs." Dr. Babcock, with the co-operation of the board has make every cent of the annuel appropriation go its farthest. Bat the report of the regents, which is being prepared to be submitted to the legislature will show that' much more must be done for the unfortunate class of citizens who have to be treated at the hospital. Attacked by a BurglarA negro burglar forced his way to the apartments or Mrs. urnn w. roller, wife of- the millionaire steel man and banker, in her home, 130 Lake Shore drive, Chicago, shortly after 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, and when discovered in the act of applying a sponge, saturated with chlorform, to the nostrils of his victim, struck her a fierce blow on the head with a slung shot. The shock of the blow rendered Mrs. Potter unconscious, and the doctors who were called fear that she may not recover. Just before 'ueing str*ck Mrs. Potter roused the household with a shrill cry for help. Mrs. Potter's daughters, Miss Mar<r*rof and Mi AH Bessie. heard their mother's screams for help and -rushed to her bed chamber. When they Baw the robber they fled into the street and oalled for help. The robber fled as soon as the young women began creaming in the street. After he had gone the daughters returned to the house, called a physician for their mother, and then notified the police of what had happened. WHAT BRYAN WILL,DOThe Question by th.? Gentleman HimselfIn the answer which he has j ast sent to the publishers of the Denver Post declining their offer to an editorial position at $10,000 a year it is believed that Wiliam Jennings Bryan has indicated his intention to continue making speeches and to be in line for the presidential nomination four years hence. That appears to be the only interpretation to be put on his telegram to the editor of the Pcs% which read: "H. H. Tammen, F. G-. Bonfils, Denver Post, Denver, Col.: Thanks for you offer, but I cannot accept. I shall remain here, and in the future, as in the past, defend with tongue and pen the principles which I believe to be right and the policies I believe to be wise." If this does not mean that-Mr. Bryan means to pursue exactly the same course he pursued during the past four years with the same object in view, what does it mean? ^ Bryan is not disturbed or concerned as to his ability to make a livelihood for himself and his family. His depth as a political and economic thinker and the ability of his pen assurer him that his personal finances eannot suffer.' Bryan has made a snug fortune from his writings and lectures in the past few yea'-s. Some of this he has kept for himself, but a great portion of the money has been donated to causes in which he has taken an interest. Today Mr. Bryan could retire to prive life and live in comfort on the income of what he has massed. The profits from the book he published after campaign of 1896 were suffijient to en able him to invest a sum in bonds whioh will bring to him an annual income of $2,000. Bryan is a man of simple tastes, and this sum wouldjae sufficient to educate his children and sustain his family in comfort. A year ago last week Bryan made a speech in Lincoln in the course of whioh he said: "Som6 of my Republican friends," he continued, "have been feigning wonderment as to what will become of me when this craze of isms, as they ^erm the issues, has died out. In order to relieve them of any undue worry I want to serve notice that I shall continue in politics in active opposition to any party or doctrine which violates American ideals and the true principles of human liberty until the hd ia closed upon my cof&n." Mr. Bryan has already answered the question: What is Bryan going to do?? Atlanta Journal. Smalls Issues Circular. The negro ex congressman Robt Smalls is the author of circular letter whioh he is sending to prominent negroes throughout the country advocating concerted action in their part in opposition to what he calls an attempt fn diofrnTirtlnflA hia rana in the Palmetto State. The negro ex-leader wants the congressional representation from South Carolina reduced in accordance with the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution which reads "That when . the male inhabitants of any State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the U. S., are denied the right of suffrage except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twentyone years of age in such State." If Smalls would take into consideration the number of his race who have forfeited all claim to citizenship by the commission of crimes and felonies it would be impossible to enumerate doubtless he would understand the wisdom of South Carolina's registration laws. The negroes here heartily detest Smalls, but are afraid of him. Many of them are jealous because he is such a pet of the present administration and he certainly does seem to be able to get about any apppointment he desires under a Republican administration. A Blow at the South Congressman Leoniaas F. Livingston of Georgia in an interview in the Atlanta Daily News says: "Before leaving Washington, I learned unofficially from Republican headquarters that it was the purpose of the Republican leaders in the house and senate to cut down the representalion, as provided for under the 14th constitutional amendment as they construe it in the house, of those States whioh have made the disfranchisements by Statute or State constitutional amendment. "While this is not offical, I am thoroughly satisfied that the matter is under serious consideration, and there is great danger to those Southern States in the attempt to do so, whether successful or not. If successful it cuts our power in the house of representatives about one*third, as I can approximate it now." In reply to a telgram sent to General G-rovesera, the Republican leader he wires the A tlanta News from Atlanta, Uhio, as follows: "1 do not care to express an opinion at this time. So serious a matter deserves great consideration." A Good Health Party"A G-ood Health Party," the very latest, is suggested by a Western woman who has the courage of his hygienic convictions. It would begin operations she says, by so stationing the polling places that every voter would have to walk five miles to deposit his ballot? or hers, for this would be a woman's suffrage party, the ballot being granted to every woman who could show a waist measurement of from 28 to 35 inches! Every candidate would be required to prove that he toek a cold plunge bath every morning, and the candidate for president would have to be the health iest man in the United States?4'a man who had never used tobacco or tasted alcohol; who never drank tea or coffee of water at meals; >who had 32 sound natural teeth; who always went to bed at 10 o'clock; who had studied foods and always ato for nourishment and never for fun; who abhorred pepper, vinegar and mustard and believed that ice cream should be eaten ho;." Mysterious BisapperanceMrs. Hancock, wife of Capt. Hancock, U. S. A. about to sail on the transport Kilpattrick for the Philippines, has dissappeared. She was shopping with her sister yesterday in a Sixth avenne and excused herself for a few minutes and ha.i not been seen since. Her sister says Mrs. Hancock has been ill for some time. MASK THROWN OFF. The Republican Party and the Trusts. TO BE GIVEN FREE REIM. - \ t. ' v? 2 One of the Organs Comet Out and Boldly Declares the Republican Position as ^to Trusts. The most unblushing repudiation of campaign promises and confession of Dartv hvDocrisy is made b7 the New York San, the metropolitan organ of the Republican party, in the following It has been made evident bj the eleotion that the people of this oountry, besides being determined to maintain their financial honor in good times and m bad, are very tired of the howis of cranks against corporate enterprise and of visionary crying of oommnnistie Utopias. Such was not the ease four years ago. Despite the sense of relief that was experienced over the defeat of Bryan at that time, thoughtful men reaiizad perfectly well that practically the same eontest would have to be waged four years later, and that not until it could be demonstrated to politicians that the Bryan theories did not appeal to the hearts of the people eould Bryan's hold be loosed upon the great political party that he had seised. Republicans knew this aa well as Democrats, and ever sinee the last election the leaders of the Republican party have made all sorts of efforts to placate and allay what they feared was the Bryanism latent in the country by various anti-trust laws and other leg" islative measures whioh would have the appearance of meeting half way . that .hostility to corporate and bodneit enterprise which it was feared Mr. Bryan had evoked. Now this is changed. There is little fear that there will be more anti-trust laws at the com-? ing session of Congress or at the one * next after it, and it is probable, so far as our own Legislature is oonoerned, that not only will no such laws be passed or even introduced, but that some hasty measures of the sort that hava found their way to the statute books will be amended, if not repealed. The net result of it all is a general confidence in the health and solidity of business conditions in this country such as has not been known in many, many years. It is of a deeper and stronger nature than the wildlraoyanee of the opening days of 1898: it is the settled and serene conviction that, far a time in the future beyond which merchants can not forsee there is to be an end to demagogic attack upon busi- -ness." The Charleston Post, which supported McKinley in the late election, says: "Here is an open acknowledgment that the anti-trnst legislation promoted bj the Republicans was mere sham, enact- ed for campaign purposes, not for remeding an evil, and also a declaration that the promises of the Republican platform regarding the restriction of the trusts will not be kept. The mbstance of the statement is not at all a matter of surprise to those who under* stand, the Republican party's charaater, but the confession is in a way a piece of honestythat we scarcely had expected. Hard Winter Coming. . "All the signs in the woods," explained an experienced woodsman to a Star reporter,. "point to a very severe ' winter, though it may be a short one. The squirrels have already begun laying away their winter store of nuts, though in the immediate country around Washington the nuts have not begnn to fall to any- great extent The crops of acorns, hickory and chestnuts is unusually large this fall, some trees that have come under my observation betting at least double the auantitv they did last year. This is a very reliable sign of a severe winter. Another sign is the erop of persimmons, which is also very heavy. The fey; frosts that we have had have not done muoh to ripen the persimmon, and many of them are yet green, My observation convinces me that these signs are entitled to some dependence, though, ofcourse, they are not recognised as infallible by the authorities on the subject. I think I have satisfied my own mind on the bearing the persimmon has on the weather that is to follow, and that this is incontrovertable: If the persimmon ripens an i falls early the winter will be brief, but if it holds on to the tree late intoHhe fall the winter is very liable to be late in its wind-up ana severe wniie it prevails, ?ne animals are preparing for a cold winter, and there are some reasons for believing that they know what they are about." War to The Death. The time has come, fn the opinion of those in charge of the War Department, to pursue a policy of absolute and relentless subjugation in the Philippine Islands. If the natives refuse to submit to the process of government as mapped .? out by the Taft commission they will be hunted down and will be killed, until there is no longer any show of forcible resistance to the American government. lhe prooees will not be pleasant, but it is considered necessary. President MeKinley is determined to end the War at the earliest possible moment, so that it It l>? n a c own fA kill nff fift A* 7/1 TM* 14 lb L>C UGUC03O1/ W AMI vu vv va ?w |rv* v cent of the entire population it wili be done. The process may seem harsh, bat it is a common preliminary to oolonizition movements in the tropics* < Will Swing. A dispatch from Georgetown to The State says: "The case of John Browsfield, charge with the killing of James 0. Scurry, which gained notoriety from the nf having nrAflinitatad tha M? cent -riot, was brought up in court Thursday morning and concluded at 8 o'clock Friday evening, with a radio: from the jury of guilty, without recommendation. The deceased was acting in the capacity of constable, and the State made out a clear ease of malieioo resistance both with state 8 evidence and that of the defense, so that no other verdict was possible." - >/: y^.ti .wm s> . --2