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Tlie lyexington Dispatch.
YOL. XXIY. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1894. X(> 25
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COXEY IN WASHINGTON.
HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TOSPS.4KAS
HE WISHEDi
One of His Itlght Hand Mm Gjt His 1
Head Clubbed by the Police?Stirring: j
!
?Scenes at the Capitol?The Police are |
Firm..
Washington, May 2.?Yesterday |
was a perfect day with a brightly shin-;
ing sud, which citizen Coxey took as a
propitious omen, was the portion of
the army of the commonweal for its
demonstration In favor of the Coxey !
rrtariR hill. Shortly before 10
^VAi & VMVkv
o'clock Marshal Browne formed tne
men in a hollow square, and standing
in the centre called for three cheers for
peace. The cheers were given and the
commonweaiers waved their little cotton
flags of peace, with which they had
been armed.
"Xow," cried Browne, "we'll march
around the grounds and try it over
again," and the band started up a slow i
step to which eight communes walked
in a circle to a point about 100 yards
from the former camp. Here Browne
formed them in a long line and put the
men through a little drill with their j
peace staves. Then he harangued them ,
counselling peace. Their banners of
peace, he said, would be more forcible
than all the guns and cannons in the
world.
The men cheered and Browne waved
his hat. "Carry peace," cried Browne, ]
"Shoulder peace," and with their little '
flags pointed upward at an angle be- 1
hind the head the commonweaiers i
started off to show congress what it t
should do. The bugle sounded, the <
band olayed and the Scotch bagpiper
brought forth a dolef ui souna iruui mo ?
instrament. Just then the leader of <
the commonweal arrived in his pony 1
phaeton. With him was Mrs. Coxey. 1
and in her arms she carried little "Le- <
gal Tender Coxey," her babe of a tew
weeks. Citizen Coxey held the reiDS.
At 1015 Marshal Browne called out
"attention" again, and with "shoulder
peace" and "forward march," the com- f
menweal army started for Washington, i
led by Browne and Coxey and a pla- t
|pon of mounted police. 1
Metropolitan police surround the (
capitol and patrol its corridors. Blue <
coats can be seen everywhere, and visl
tors are requested by ihem to "move
on" and not to block the passages and t
doorways. The main body of the guar- i
dlaDS of the peace were stationed at j i
the east front, where General Coxey
was expected to attempt to speak. Bj (
11 o'clock, an hour before the common- r
_? Qf the* nanitol. 1
weal army was uuc ?? ?,?,
thousands of curious men, women ana r
children, had gathered around the t
building to gain places of vantage to
witness the much tailed of aDd long t
expected appeal to CoDgress by Coxey I
and his followers. i
The route of the procession was down r
Fourteenth street road to Mount Pleas- i
ant, thence along Fourteenth street
proper to Pennsylvania avenue to the [
peace monument and around the capl s
tol grounds. Fourteenth street road t
was very dusty and the marches were i
plentifully besprinkled as they march- t
ed along. r
The commonweal moved at a funeral s
pace and it was three quarters of an 1
hour in reaching Mount Pleasant, a su- 1
burb of the city. At the head of the i
dusty soldiers of peace were three i
mounted policemen. Then came Mrs. t
"* T"?- ? Domiliot nraror of
Annie -U. JL>igga, a J. vy UU9V V*I ? . .
Kansas, in an open barouche, with her t
husband and her two daughters. And
then appeared Miss Mamie Coxey,typi- 1
fying "peace" mounted on a white pal- 5
frey. she is a blonde girl of 10. She t
wore a suit of cream colored cloth re- <
lieved by a big red bow at the throat, J
and wore a little blue liberty cap. She 1
seemed perfectly at home on the pal- <
frey, but appeared somewhat em bar-11
rassed and created a good deal o? ex- 1
citement. j <
She nodded smilingly at the people j <
who saluted her. Two old soldiers, one 1 '
a Confederate and the other a Federal, >
both members of the commonweal, i'
formed her guard of honor, marching '
on foot. Carl Browne followed on a '
large white stallion. Then, seven foot- '
sore musicians, Coxey, Mrs. Coxey and 1
*"' * * "r P/IYflV P.3.TTIP TlP^t 1
ilLLlt <A1 1CUUV1 \s\s-a.^j ~
in a pheaton. Jesse Coxey followed on! <
a spirited horse, and the rank and file |:
followed him, When the army reached
the peace monument it found a crowd IJ
of 5,000 awaiting it. The procession 1
then wended its way toward the east.
front of the capitol. ' i
The sensation was soon over; the im- j J
inense crowd on the eastern front of I
the capitol saw Coxey, bareheaded, pro- >
ceeded to the steps of the east portico I <
and mount to the first platform about j'
five steps. Here were stationed Captain j
Kelly and other officers of the police j
force. They met the general before he 11
had time to turn his face to the gath- j1
ered multitude and he was politely in-'
formed that he could make no speech !
at that place.
" "I wish to pnfpr a i
V^oxey saiu ui iuj ,. ^ . _
protest?' I
"No, sir," hrmly said the captain,
"you can take no action here of any i
kind. Ihe police were courteous but!
very firm, and Coxey theD, bareheaded !
as be was, said:
."Well, then, I wish to re&d the pro- j
^^H^cannot be read here," said the j
Coxey showed no inclination to yield |
and he was unceremoniously hustled
down the steps and out to the middle i
of the broad plaza in front of the capi
tol. He made no physical resistance,:
but protested all the while,and a crowd ;
gathered arouoa him and obstructed!
the way somewhat; but It was not a 1
bustle of resistance, but seemed more I
like curiosity. The police did not use :
their clubs, no one was struck and the ,
immense crowd was handled in the
kindest yet in the firmest and most ef
fective manner. All who came expect- ,
Ing some serious trouble, and they
were not a few, w* re disappointed.
Coxey was not formally put uuder!
arrest. He was simply put off ol the j
capitol steps; far away off to prevent!
his reascending. The middle of the pa-1
rade was jammed ana jostled about by i
the crowd* some being thrown about in :
every direction. The clanging of bells I
on the cable cars, and the yelling and j
surging of the mob made the scene j
hideous. Mounted police dashed lntc*;
the crowd, endeavoring to crowd them j
back from the sidewalk and restore order,
but for some time to no avail. It;
became necessary to use their club3 as j
a menace. Some'of the Coxeyites were
jostled and crowded until they reached ;
the wall of the grounds and it looked ;
as though they were about to head for j
the capitol. A rush was made by the 1 f
mass of people upon the scene and j'
many ran pell mell to the plaza tramp- i;
ling down the shrubbery and vines. ,}
About the east side of the capitol ,
pandemonium reigned, and the mount- i
ed police made a charge to clear the! J
way. Then occurred a scene scarcely j.
ever seen about the big building. Men, i j
women and children rushed for the side- '
walks, falling over and tramping on ! I
one another in their attempt to reach ! J
a place of safety. Finally the way was ! j
cleared and out in the street could be !
seen the Coxeyites presenting a deplorable
and comical sight in their rags J
and tatters, after their contact with i j
the yealding and surging populace. I
Browne's personality was over. He j,
rode h?3 mettlesome charger in forbidden
paths and jumped him over the J
stone coping to the eastern part of the
port. A mounted odicer started after j
him and as he resisted arrest, he re
ceived a clubbing. Ilis head was cut
but it is not thought that he was badly
hurt; The incident started rumors af /
loat as to general fighting but no such i
thing occured. The plaza in front of '
the main portion of the capitol build- *
teg is in appearance at this time just
as is usual on a beautiful day when ?
congress is in session. t
The episode is certainly closed for the
lay, and the affair of Coxey lasted not j
over 10 muDites. He was taken by i
the police to the edge of the crowd
without any difficulty and entered his
carriage.
Captain Kelly said: :
"Where you do go now, Mr. Coxey ?"
"To our new grounds in southeast J
Wa8hinington," the industrial leader t
laid. He then gave the army order? to
narch. The police authorities again ^
ihowed their courtesy in furnishing ?
cim a suitable escort, aQd the weary ^
iisappointed "wealers" again started ,
>n a hot tramp for a resting place.
TO BE INVESTIGATED. jj
After sumo uuimpor<aut business ia ?
he House today, Mr. Johnson of Ohio,
isiDg to a matter of privilege, he said,
offered the following resolutions: f
Whereas, it is well known that the g
Capitol grou&ds were, on May 1, over'tiLi
by a large assemblage of people, ^
nclading a considerably number of the jj
eguiar and special police of the dis- J
incr, and
Whereas, It is publicly stated that J
he safety of the members of this ?
-louse has been endangered, thereby J"
naking it necessary for the House to *,
ely un the clubs of policemen lor their ?
)rorection. ^
Resolved, That this committee on ,
>ublic buildings and grounds be in- o
itructed to inquire iato the question as ?
;o whether unnecessary force was used
whether unoffending citizens were cru- ?
illy beaten and whether the dignity of v
his House has been violated; that the r
laid committee have the power to send ?
'or persons and papers, and report the L_
tacts in connection with this subject,
vith their recommendation as to J
ivhether any legislation is necessary in *
;he premises. ?
Outhwaite suggested that the resolu- ^
Jon presented no question of privilege.
In support of his contention that it t
was a matter of priyilege. Johnson *
said that in sight of the members of
;he House; within the shadow of the
Capitol, citizens were cruelly and un
lecessariiv beaten, and he asked that
t be investigated, believing the pro- *
seeding directly and vitally affected t
:he dignity of the House It was dls- J
graceful that such a thing should oc- ?
:ur. In presenting the resolution, ^
Johnson said,he was not moved by any
sympathy with the purposes or aims of ]
:he Coxey army. He acted because: I
tne clubbing took place under the pretense
that it was to defend the mem- *
hers of the House. No one here, he t
said, was scared, but at the doors of
the House, where the jurisdiction of
Congress is supreme, citizens were .
jlubbed, and he thought it ought to be J
I T?APif i '
iu v cau^aicu. i
The Speaker asked how that presented ;
i question ot privilege. Those people j
were violating the law.
Johnson responded that he believed!
it to be a question of the very highest j
privilege.
The Speaker suggested that the mat- j
ter should be investigated in the police j
court or other tribunal established for |
the purpose, but that the resolution did j
not present a question of privilege. |
The matter was referred to the House j
Committee on Tublic Buildings and i
tlrounds for investigation. j
Poisoned. j
Columbia, S. C., May 1.?A special j
to The Register from Butler, S.iC., says: i
Seven negroes, an entire family, were
poisoned near Rxhardsouville, Edgefield
county. Tuesday. They were taken
violently ill immediately after breakfast,
which was followed by almost incessant
vomltting. The dogs and cats that ate
of the vomit died almost instantly. The
doctors eav there is no hope of saving
adv of the persons poisoued. No clue
as to the guilty parties has been made.
The posioned family was visited yesterdiyby
several negroes of the neighbor I
hood. I
ExplaaloD.
Baltimore. Md., May 5.?A special j
to The Sua from Raleigh, N. C., says: j
T'trr/-. ir... ?o H/-."1o?o ot I^nVvort inn and rind. ;
wiu'3 lumber mtils, at. vViliiaoiston, ex- j
ploded today. There were fifteen per 4
sons in the building, and all were id- *
jured. Isaac Bright was dead when 1
taken out, and lour others are dying 1
Several of those lrjured were women
who bad taken breakfast to their hus- ,
bands, who were emptoyed thrre. One 1
boiler wa3 blown thirty yards from its \
bed, i i
A BASE SL4JNDEK i
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ON THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF j'
SOUTH CAROLINA. . j3
! (
The Kind ot Stoil that {s Published by j <
(
Snino ot Ibe Northern Papers About t
the People of the South?Nothing iiot J
Lies.
1
New York, May 5.?When the av-ij
srage Northerner "reads in the papers
;hat Governor Tillman's political i
strength in South Carolina comes: *
nainly from the farming population, I y
?L " Vs a Iro aF V\ A '
<vuu are x uc < uiuno ui tuc < *
Populist party iu that State as beiDg j J
iomposed of such honest, slo/V, hardworking,
saving, church-going, sidehill::
'armers as makes up the strength of ;
;he Republican party in the central,
Northern and Western part of this
State. This i3 a mi3take. The Pal-!:
netto State countryman bears about j
;he same resemblance to the farmer of | n
:his region as a highwayman does to a!,
peddler. The horny handed son of toil IJ
is portrayed in the Sunday school i
^ooks of a generation back doesn't; t
;xist in South Carolina. The man who
ills his place there is called a cracker. [
Ifter you have heard a South Caroli-11
lian say that word "cracker" with the |
peculiar intonation invariably given to j
t, you will realize that it is b\ no j ?
neans synonymous with honest far-i
ner. ;
A gentleman who has lived in South i
Carolina for fifteen years,during which j
;ime he has kept eyes and ears very i
vide open, told a Sun reporter, a few
lays ago, some things about the crackxs,
the origin, ways, and the signifi:aDce
of tne situation iu reference to
hem.
"It ought to be generally known, and k
! don't think it is," said h6, "that the | 6
^ODulist party in South Carolina does i
lot include, as it does, I am told, in |
om6 States, the good country farming I
dement. The fact is we haveD't enough I _
if the good farming element to make a; h
howing on. We have a class of people j e,
?ho own what were once farm?, but! -t
hey don't deserve the Dame of farm
rs. They're the crackers. There is p
ometbmg more than ignorance and '
incleanliness, and lax morality in the r
eal cracker. There's deep-seated dev- c>
lishness, a natural love for liquor, and
, g eat aptitude for murder and otner
rimes. The cracker hasn't evolved j
hese thiDgs out of his own inner con- 0
ciousness; he's come by them honestiy
-if a cracker ever does come by anyhing
honestly by heredity. He has a p
ne lot of ancestors back of him. tl
"These ancestors are of two kinds. a]
fou can take your pickjthere's mighty p
ittle choice betweea 'em. If you go
ack some cenruries iu your history
ou will had that at one time the Carib-1
ean 6ea was so infested with pirares ! g.
hat some of tl e countries having an j J
itereat in the New World decided to j.
: ? . TKat. nl?iQri?jW t hi rr> I
le&U lLieLLl uuu L no* ucaui u wu^ui %
at of the sea and drove them Norrb. ^
'he pirate3 landed and pushed up '
hrougn the country, finally settlmg r(
own to lives of something rather y
wrse than usefumess. There Is tne
erm of the cracker, or at least, one of
he germs. Now for the other part.
Vhen the English settled in South |
Carolina they were, in the language of | j
oday, too strong to work. But the 2*
rork had to be done, so they imported it
laves from Eogland?convicts for va- d
ious crimes, who were to serve out t.
heir terms as slaves on the plantations,
iome died in the process; others served ^
>ut, became free, and having nothing *
o do, settled. There's your other germ.
Jnite the two, and you have the crack- .
t in his first stage.
"How and where he lived for some b
fenerations thereafter isn't clear?or d
vhy, for that matter. But, he did live, "
irobably by hunting and doing odd jobs
md he became known as 'poor white
rash.' Even the niggers looked down ?
in the poor whites and up to the time _
if the war he was the most despised in- *
lividual in the country, and the most t
vorthless. The blocd of the pirate and t
,he criminal was still there, unmixed ;
vith any better strain, for none but ?
joor white would marry with poor
vhite. But it was weakened and
;binned by laziness and laaction and z
Irink and lack of opportunity. Then ,
:ame the war, and a change for the ^
?oor white. No longer having slaves to \
vork their farms and plantations for *
;hem, the Bourbons, as the good fami- ?
ies were called, drifted away from their *
jountry places to the towns. They j ::
:ould not soil their hands with spade or j ~
Dlough, and as their only other resort j \
;hey went into business. Mark the re j t,
;ult. The farms fell into the hands of j
;he poor whites, being lirst divided up ; ^
nto small portions. i z
"There you have your uoor white be- i i
joining a land owner. You might sup- ! ?
3056 that he would develop honesty and : i
shrift and ambition to improve his op- ^
3ortunities to become a decent citizen, j j.
[le doesn't. The pirate and criminal:
strain is in him, emasculated by gene- j
rations of contempt and degradation, t
3ut stiil there, and now it begins to
show itself. Your cracker makes his j t
wife and children work the farm while | z
le hunts or ilshes at such times as he j a
sn'c too lazy. When he gets money he!
?oes for moonshine whiskey and gets j t
t. Why, the North Carolina moon- j t
shiners run their blockade wagons for : -j
:he crackers. That's where they sell! t
;heir moonshine, and they run the gov- j r
irnment blockade and Tillman's block-1 t
ide to do it. And wben the cracker j r
full of whiskpv he isn't 'Door white ! r
;rash' any more. lie goes right bach ?
;wo or three centuries and becomes e
;bat mixture of pirate and EugJish ^
jonvict, and a murderous, treacherous, j
foul brute he is. E^ery cracker car- j ^
ies his gun and a knife back of him. I c
Ele uses the gua first but the koife is
lis favorite. That's the pirate in him. j
rackknife slashers, we call 'em. I've
ie?n two of them alter a knife light,! t
md?well, it was worth going miles ; 1
aot. to see. f
"If necessary the cracker wll stand c
id and fight face to fane. Moat of 'em s
ire d-ad shots, for they have lots of 11
practice hunting. But their favorite a
?ame is to lie in amoush and shoot a
man down as he passes. When a man 11
[3 iounu on some moeiy ruau wim a
bullet through him and his pockets
stripped we call It a 'cracker killing.'
They're killers all of them, those fellows,
but they'd rather do their killing
from a safe cover. As long as its only
cracker that kills cracker nobody cares
md nothing is done about it. When a
;racker kills a decent man he does it in
mch a way that he leaves no tracks,
fle'll wait for years for his chance. So
:here isn't much chance for the law to
:ome in there, either. In two of the
Northern South Carolina counties,
Lancaster and Chesterfield, they averige
about thirty murders a year togethir,
and you can bet a cracker is the
nurderer every time. Yet there hasn't
)een a hanging in either county for fifeen
years. It's either cracker kill
:racker, aod nobody cares, or it's a
:racker killing, with a respectable victim
and nc clue to the killer.
"There was a case a couple of years
igo up in Lancaster County. A promi
lent man cf some means up there ran
icross two drunken crackers who had
tome in town on a bat one evening.
Dhey were in front of the postoffice.
)ne of them slapped him on the shoul
ler and said witn a maudlin laugn:
" 'How are y' J udge ? Are y' reckonln'
o God us some licker?'
"The Judge, who was a very dignifi:d
maD, drew himself up, shook (
he cracker's hand from his shoulder,
md started on, when the other cracker
tepred in front of him with an ugly
ook.
"'You can't shaKe us off so easy,' ;
aid he. 'We're as good as you now,
,n; you can't call it high on us. You
in't any too good yourself.'
"'You're a drunken ruffian,' exlaimed
the Judge, pushing the man
side. 'Pass on or I'll have you locked ,
ip."'Not
by a damn sight,'shouted the
racker. 'I'll fix you,' and drawing a
nife he lunged at the Judge, but miss- <
d him. ]
"Instantly he was covered by a dozen ,
evolvers in the hands of a crowd .
?ho were at the postoffice and who had
een the whole thing. They would
ave tarred and feathered those crackrs
but for Jhe J udge begging them off. |
'en months later the Judge had oc- .
asion to drive to a neighboring town. '
[is buggy and horse came back with- r,
ut him. We found him dead in the '
Dad at the edge of the woods. A
ttarge of buckshot had struck him in J
le back of the head. We couldn't
nd those two crackers to lynch them. *
hat was a cracker killing, and it's ,
ulv one of many.
"Those are the men that make up f
le strength of the Tillmanite party. J
hey're the Populist. Tillman makes :
iem constables and gives them guns, !
d they're just longing for murder. J
hey are the liquor spies that coaie to ;
iarch our homes and to shoot us down
we ob^c. Can you wonderthat the !
eople ot Darlington fired on these off J
?riog of criminal convicts and pirates, :
lese scum of the conn*ry, these worthss,
treacherous, murderous crackers? *
.s long a3 Tillman uses them as dogs
) set on the peoole in south Carolina
) long he will find the people ready to ,
)sort to arpied resistance."?New
rork Sun. ;
Sweeping the Senate.
Washington, May 1.?For the third !
me in a short space of five weeks the
enate met today only to hear the anouncement
of another gap made in
s ranks by death. A fortnight ago toay
funeral ceremonies were held in
le Senate chamber over the remains
t Senator Vance of North Carolina,
'hree weeks before the like sad cere- ,
losiai had taken place over the re- '
lains of Senator Colquitt of Georgia. ,
ind today the announcement was ;
lade ot the death of Senator Stockridge
of Michigan, who died yester- !
AfKnn f rrrr\ OhnQ .
av iu xiic uiucl un v uouoors
had died in Washington. The ;
meeting of the Senate today had been !
iostponed from 11 a. m. to noon, so as
o give Senators an opportunity of
iayiDg their last tribute of respect to
he memory of Mrs. Morgan, wife of
he Alabama Senator, whose funeral
ook place this morning; and in the
Chaplain's opening prayer they were
emmded of the death of their associ,te
from Michigan, whose desk and
hair, in the outer row of Republican
eats, were covered with black cloth.
Ln unusually large number of Senators
?ere present at the opening prayer.
[Che formal reading of yesterday's jourLai
was dispensed with and then Senaor
McMillan, the colleague of the deeaserl
Senator, made the announce
oent of Stockbridge's death. The
isual resolutions were then offered by
dcMillan and were agreed to. They
xpressed the great sorrow of the Senate
at the announcement of Mr. Stocked
ge's death and provide for a comQtttee
of seven Senators to attend the
uneral at Kalamazoo, Mich. Senators
McMillan, Erye, Washburn, Cullom,
rones of Arkansas, Gibson aDd Blanhard
were appointed cuch committee
,nd then, at 12.10, the Senate adjoumd
until tomorrow at 11 a. m.
Two Lives Lost.
New York, May 2.?At 2 o'clock
his afternoon a large quantity of benme
stored in the cellar of the dyeing
ind cleaning establishment of C. Jolly
b Son, 61 and 63 East Twelfth street,
' - J - -1 V ??? J ? n r? f Vi/-> (X Tffl nf 1
xpioueu. J.mmeuiai.eijr WO UIO-OWIJ
milding was enveloped in flames.
Twenty persons in all are employed by
he firm-of Jolly & Son, of these, four
Den and one woman were working in
he cellar when the explosion took
ilace. Two of them, a man andawonan
were burned to death. The other
hree men were terribly burned. Those
imnloved in the upper floors, mostly
;irls, escaped to the adjoining building
n safety. The man and woman who
vere killed have been identified as Le pold
Cheron and Mrs. A. Fluermann.
A Terrible Accident.
Braiiili, iioumania, April 30?A
erribie accident occurred here today.
The white pier was crowded with peo>le
in holiday attire, bound for Galatz,
>r ihe Danube, and waiting for the
teamer which was to convpy them to
hat place, when the pier gave way
ind threw aboat 120 people into the
eaters. Many excursionists it is be- i
ieved were drowned.
met OIL* en 10
Internationa) ActloD Necessary lor K&ha
bllitatlon of the White Metal.
London, May 2.?The international
bimetallist conference was formally
opened in the Mansion House today.
The opening address was delivered by
ex-Lord Mayor Sir David Evans. A
large number of delegates were pres
ent, including some of the best known
of the British and foreign financiers.
Among them were Sir William Houldsworth.M.
P.; W. L. Litterdale, ex-governor
of the Bank of England; Sir Da
via uaroour, exsecretary loine inaia
council; Henry Chaplin, M. P.; Samuel
Montague, M. P.; Brooks Adams of
Boston, Mass.; M. Vanderberg, president
of the Bank of the Netherlands,
Amsterdam; G. M. Boissevaini of Amsterdam,;
Alphonse Allard of Brnssels;
George De i^avelleye of Brussells; Henri
Cernushi of Paris, president of the
French Bimetallic League; David Murray,
president of the chamber of commerce
of Adelaide, South Australia,
and president of the South Australian
Bimetallic League; Hugh M, Matheson
Alderman and Sheriff Dimsdale, a London
banker, Thomas Salt, late president
of the Bankers' Institute; Sir
Malcomb Fraser, agent general In London
for Western Australia, and A. J.
Balfour, exChief Secretary for Ireland.
Letters were read from Archbishop
Walsh of Dublin, the president ot the
Bank of France and others, regretting
their inabllisy to be present.
A paper was read by Prof. Shield
Nicholson, on the fall in the general
level prices in relation to the appreciation
of gold and the divergeuce in the
relative value of gold and silver, and a
general discussion of the subject followed.
The conference was presided
iver by Lord Mayor Tyler.
Cablegrams were read from Senators
Sherman, Voorhees, Aldrich, Murphy,
Brice, Piatt, Davis, Carey and Cullom,
wishing success to the conference and
;o the cause of bimetallism in England.
A. J. Balfour, in course of the discission,
said he did not believe that
jovernment regulation of coinage, if
t were done in the direction of making
t more stable and a fairer measure of
ralue, could be justifiably opposed.
Che nations of the world were now, he
laid, standing face to face with a great
langer, which could only be averted
)y the rehabilitation of silver to it pro>er
commercial function. In order to
io this international action was absoutely
necessary.
Balfour said there were three quesions
with which bimetalllsts had to
;ope. They were these: Was a double
tandard possible ? Was it j ust ? Was
t expedient? Scientists and econonists
answer these questions with an
iverwhelmtng "yes." He would not
ay whether the closing of the Indian
ninta was a wise sten. but he did not
loubt that it was the most striking atempt
that a civilized government, had
tver made to solve a monetary difficul:y
that was directly due to monometitlism.
Balfour said he saw sigDs of a change
n English opinion. The leading comnercial
men had abandoned their form?r
hostility to bimetallism and come to
;he conclusion that the only way to
neet the grave danger was to restore
silver to its former place as a circulating
medium.
Mr. Balfour also said it was a mere
iream to suppose that each State was
jble to regulate it own currency independently.
It was absurd to talk of
taking an isolated view of the British
currency when the action of the United
States, which had not been taken in
concert with or from any friendly feeling
towards Great Britain, had forced
upon India and England the adoption
of the astounding system which now
prevailed in India. England's present
isolation was selfish and stupid. He
speke personally and for no party, he
n?i/^
OCfelU
Leonard H. Courtney, M. P., read a
paper on "The practicability of main
taining a ratio between gold and silver
under an international bimetallic agreement,"
and a discussion of the paper
followed. Letters in support of bimetallism
were received from Gen. Francis
A. Walker, Archbishop Walsh and Prof
E.B.Andrews of Brown University.
A letter was read from Mr. H. W. Cannon,
president of the Chase National
Bank of New York, in which the writer
said that the solution of the problem
of bimetallism rests with Great Britain
Dr. Arendt, the eminent German financier,
expressed views similar to those
contained in Cannon's letter.
A Peeullar Accident.
Giffood, S. C., May 3..?The mail
carrier Taylor from here to Seminole,
met with a peculiar accident to his buggy
Satur day. While slowly driving alonsr
the public road he met Mr. femith riding
Mr. Cane's tine stallion and as he reined
out to one side 01 the road the stallion
became unmanageable and as the mail
buggy got by the side of the stallion he
began kicking the buggy with all the rapidity
his strength could muster until his
legs were pinned in the spokes of the
wheel. The mail carrier narrowly escaped
being killed, and he managed to
get bis horse detached from the buggy
when the stallion made a terrible (ft'ort
to relieve his legs, and in doing so
smashed up three of the wheels of the
buggy.?Register.
Mad Miners,
Iron Modntain, Minn., May 2.?All
work baa been stopped in the eastern
portion of the Mesaba Range and mob
rule prevails in this city. The sheriff,
utterly unable to cope with the lawless
and reckless miners, has called on Governor
Nelson tor troops. An armed
gang of 300 foreign workers who struck
yesterday at Oliver, Ohio, Iron King
and Franklin mines, reached here today
and marched through the streets of
iron Mountain, terrorizing me citizens.
They forced the miners in the Mountain
Iron and Rathbone tntnes to stop
work and join them, and also stopped
work in White & McDevitt's sawmill.
The rioters declare that work in all industries
must cease. Fifty deputy
Bherlffs have been sworn in. A conflict
is feared and the town is in an uproar.
KlUllJNtf KAJ5BLE.
CLEVELAND TERRORIZED BY A FOREIGN-TONGUED
MOB.
i
| Factories Bombarded and Gutted?Police
| Do Gocd Service?A Regiment Under
Arm(-To Resist the Mob With Dynamite.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 2.?After
the riotous demonstrations of May day
the police department awoke to the necessity
of prompt action, and it was determined.
to disperse any gathering that
threatened tmnhio Thia
U1U uwutuuc UU
the part of the police seemed to anger
the men, and they were in a very ugly
mood this morning. There was a gathering
in the public square, as there has
been daily for the past two weeks, and
then a start was made out Ontario
street; presumably to interfere with
a squad of forty street cleaners. Thirty-five
officers were sent after the men
in patrol wagons, and they charged the
mob and scattered it. Several heads
were broken in the melee.
A crowd of several thousand men
then invaded the manufacturing district
in the "Fiats." The workmen
were driven from the Standard Paint
Works, and then an attack with rocks
and clubs was made on the Variety
Iron Works. The building was badly
used up, but the employees escaped.
Then the Upson Nut and Bolt Works
were attacked. A loaded train of coal
cars was uu tue iracx near Dy. The
crowd mounted upon the coal and
bombarded the Upson Works. For a
time it looked as If these buildings
would be demolished. At this point
the crowd began to become frenzied,
and the noise made struck terror
through the entire flits. Most of the
crowd carried clubs, and as a body the
men had an ugly appearance. On
Scranton avenue, near the Cleveland,
Canton Southern tracks, the crowd
gutted a scrap-iron warehouse, some
of them becoming possessors of dangerous
weapons thereby.
The police, who had charged the mob
on Ontario street, went to the Upson
Nut Works, and no sooner had they
taken possession of the works than an
angry mob numbering thousands surrounded
it and howled for revenge. All
the police of the eighth preceinct were
called out when it was learned that
the rioters had penned thirty-five police
in the Upson works. Learning
that a reinforcement of officers were
coming, the crowd turned its attention
to Fauihaber's furniture factory, on
Scranton avenue, and broke all the
windows. They were about to loot the
place when the extra police arrived
and chased them down the street The
police headed by Capt. English and
Capt. Burns, chased the crowd down to
Abbey street bridge, and the crowd
took possession of the bridge and began
throwing stones and bricks at the
pol ice. The police,with drawn revolvers
backed up by the patrol wagons,
charged, whereupon the mob fled in all
directions. The DoJice pursued, and
took in charge all they could get hold
of.
There are fewEoglish speaking people
in the mob. It was a rabble composed
almost entirely of foreigners.
There were fully four thousand of
| them when the crowd was at its greatest
strength. It dwindled rapidly,
uuwcvri, wuau me ponce goc to wora.
Mayor Blee issued a proclamation during
the afternoon calling upon all citizens
to refrain from assembling together
for purposes of riot and disorder,
and stating that all the powers
vested in the city govemmeut will be
used to enforce the law and maintain
order. The mayor also held a consultation
with the officers of the Fifth
Regiment, and as a result six companies
of that regiment, together with
the Cleveland Grays and the City
Guards, were ordered to assemble in
their armories, subject to calls for service
by the mayor.
During the afternoon another mob
visited the works of the United Salt
Company and drove the men from
their work. The rioters then proceeded
to the Cleveland Rolling Mills, where
they had a conflict with the police.
There was about ten minutes of fierce
clubbing, and then the crowd gave way
and scattered in every direction. Seven
of the rioters, all with broken heads,
wcic ancsucu.
The Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling
railway contractors, at work in Brook*
lyn Village, haye place., charges of
dynamite ia the hills surrounding their
works and connected them with electric
batteries. Dynamite bombs have
also been prepared for the defence of
their workmen.
Fearing trouble during the evening,
a squad of 150 police was stationed in
the public square to prevent any gathering
there. The people of the city are
filled with fear tonight that the mob
will resort to the torch or dynamite
and attempt to destroy factories and
private residences.
A Republican Landslide.
Indianapolis, Ind,, May 1.?May
elections were held through Indiana today.
The ODly cities Dot voting were
Indianapolis, Fvansville and Logansport.
Terre Haute elects the whole
Republican ticket by majorities ranging
from 900 to 1.900, Tbe Republican gain
on the mayoralty is 880 Union City
give the Usual Republican majority. At
Valparaiso, where the Democrats bad a
majority 01 iuu two years ago, me ?tepablicaQ
majorities range from 75 to 300.
A.t Kokomo the Republicans win by
largely increased minorities. Brazil,
usually close, goes Republican. Lawrenceburg,
usually Democratic, elects
fli A Aritma D AtMikli/inr* *? ? J tUn* A
wc tunic xbc^iuL'iik/au utact, nuu buico
out ot dye councilmeu. LaPorts and
Michisan City, usually Democratic, both
g) Republican by increased majorities,
as doe3 Kendallville, Bloomington,
Franktortaud Osborne. Green Castile,
Elmwood and Irtviu, the gas belt cities,
show iocreased Republican majorities.
New Albany, usually 1 000 Democratic,
elects every Republican but one councilman.
LaFayette goes Republican with
a gain ot 500,