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AN ORDINARY WOMAN. HANNAH WAS SIMPLY AN OLD FASH IONED CHRISTIAN MOTHER. Yet Dr. Tainiage Say Her Industry, Her Inteigence and Her Christian Devotion Refaned Her For Heaven. WASHNGTON, July 19 -This radical discourse will no doubt have its prac tical result in many homesteads 1hroughout Christendom. The was I Samuel ii, 19, "Moreover 1iis mother made hi-i a little coat and brought it to him "omn year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacritice." The stories of Deborah and Abigail are very apt to discourage a woman's soul. She says within herself, "It is impossible that I ever acbieve any such grandeur of character, and I don't mean to try," as though a child should refuse to play the eight notes because he cannot execute a "William Tell." This Hannah of the text dif fers from the persons I just named. She was an ordinary woman, with or dinary intellectual capacity, placed in ordinary circumstances, and yet by extraordinary piety standing out be fore all the ages to come the model Christian mother. Hannah was the wife of Elkanah, who was a person very much lilre herself-unromantic and plain, never having fought a bat tle or been the subject of a marvelous escape. Neither of them would have been called a genius. Just what you and I might be, that was Elkanah and Hannah. The brightest time in all the history of that family was the birth of Samuel. Although no star ran along the heavens pointing down to his birthplace, I think the angels of God stooped at the coming of so won derful a- prophet. As Samuel had been given in answer to prayer. El kanah and all his family, save Han nah, started up to Shiloh to offer sac rifices of thanksgiving. The craale where the child slept was altar enough for Hanna4's grateful heart, but when the boy was old enough she took him to Shiloh and took three bullocks and an ephah of flour and a bottle of wine and made offering of sacrifce unto the Lord, and there, according to a 8vious vow, she left him, for there was to stay all the days of his life and minister in the sanctuary. Years rolled on, and every year Hannah made with her own hand a garment for Samuel and took it over to him. The lad would have got along well without that garment, for I suppose he was well clad by the minitry of the temple, but Hannah could not be contented unless she was all the time doing something for her darling boy. "Moreover his mother made hima little coat and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice." Han-nsh stands before you, then, to day, in the first place, as an industri ous mother. There was no need that she work. Elkanah, her husband, was far from poor. He belonged to a distinguished family, for the Bible tells us that he was the son of Jero ham, the son of Elihu, the sun of To hu, the son of Zuph. "Who were they?" you say. I do not know, but they were distinguished people, no doubt, or their names would not have beenmentioned. Hannah might have seated herself in her family, and, with folded arms and disheveled hair read novels, from year to year, if there had been any to read. But when I see her mairing that garment and taking it over to Samuel, I know she is indus trious from principle as well as from pleasure. God would not have a mother become a drudge or a slave; he would have her emp16y all the helps possible in this day in the rearing of her children. -But Hannah ought never tobe ashamed to befound mak ig a coat for Samuel. Most mothers need nocounselin this direction. The wrinkles on their brow, the pallor on their cheek, the thimble mark on their finger, attest that they are faithful in their maternal duties. The bloom and the brightness and the vivacity of girlhood have given place to the grander dignity and usefulness and industry of motherhood. But there is a heathenish idea getting abroad in some of the families of Americans. There are mothers who banish them selves from the home circle. For three-fourths of their maternal duties they prove themselves incompetent. They are ignorant of what their chil dren wear, and what their children eat, and what their children read. They intrust to irresponsible persons these young immortals and allow them to be under innluences which may 'rpl their bodies, or taint their pitor spoil their manners, or de stroy thi souls. From the awkward cut of Samuel's coat you know his mother Hannah did not make it. Out from under flaming chande liers, and off from imported carpets, and down the granite stairs there is coming a great crowd of children in this day untrained, saucy, incompe tent for all the practical duties of life, ready to be caught in the first whirl of crime and sensuality. Indolent and unfaithful mothers will make in dolent and unfaithful children. You annot expect neatness and order in any house where the daughters see nothing but slatternliness and upside downativeness in their parents. Let Hannah be idle, and most certainly Sameiwill grow up idle. Who are the industrious men in all our occu pain. and professions? Who are thymanaging the merchandise of the wolbuilding the wall, tinning the roofs, weaving the carpets, making the laws, governina the nations, mak ingtheearthto quae and heave and roar and rattle with the tread of gigan gec enterprises? Who are they? For the most part they descended from in dustrious mothers, who in the old homestead used to spin their own yarn and weave their own carpets and plait their own doormats and flag their own chairs and do their own work. The stalwart men and the influential women of this day, 99 out of 100 of them, came from such an illustrious ancestry of hard knuckles and home spun. And who are these people in society-light as froth, blown ever whither of temptation and fashion the peddlers of Iilthy stories, the danc ing jacks of political parties, the scum of society, the tavern lounging, store infesting, the men of low wink and filthy chuckle and brass breastpin and rotten associationts? For the most patthey came from mothers idle and d -gutig, the scandal mongers of society, going from house to house at tending to everybody's business but their own, believing in witches and ghosts, and horsesliees to keep the devil out of the churn, and by a god less life setting their children on the very verge of hell. The mothers of Samuel Johnson, and of Alfred the Great, and of Isaac Newton,and of St. Augustine, and of Richard Cecil, and of President Edwards, for the most part were industrious, hardworking mothers. Now, while I congratulate all Christian mothers uponx the wealth and the modern science which may afford them all kinds of help, let me say that every mootber ought to be observant of her children's walk, her children's behaviour, her children's food, her children's books, her chil dren's companionships. However much help Hannah may have, I think~ sh ough eery year at least make one em.1nt f r 6i. The Lord have aur l on tl- tua1 who is so un fortunats a-; t' h.ve a l-axy mother. Again, lannah stands before you today as an intelligent mother. Fror the way in which she talked in this chapter and fron the way she min aged this boy you know she was intel ligent. There are no persmni in a community who need to be s) wise and well informed as mothers. Oh, this work of culturing children for this world and the next! This child is timid, and it must be roused up and pushed out into activities. This child is forward, and he must be held back and tamed down into modesty and Doliteness. IRe ards for one, panish men-; for another. Thit which will make George will ruin Jhn. The rod is necessary la one case, while a frawn )[ displea-zre is mor thanl enough in aiother. Whipping and a dark closet d> not exhaust all the rauuds of d mestic discipline. There have been children who have grown up and goae to Iory without ever having had their ears boxed. Oh, how much care and intelligence are nee ssary in the rearing of children. Bat in this day, when there are so many books on this subject, n parent is excusable in being ignorant of the best mode of bringing up a child. If parents knew more of dietetics, there would not be so many dyspeptic stomachs and weak nerves and inact ive livers among children. If parents knew more o physiology, there would not be so many curved spines and cramned chests and inflamed throats and diseased lungs as there are among children. If parents knew more of art, and were in sympathy with all that is beautiful, there would not be so many children c aming out in the world with boorish proclivities. If parents knew more of Christ and pran ticed more of his religion,there would not be so many little feet already starting. on the wrong road, and all around us voices of riot and blasphe my would not come up with sucn ec stasy of infernal triumph. The eag lets in the eyrie have no advantage over the eaglet; of 1,000 years ago; the kids have no superior way of climbing up the rocks than the old goats taught them hundreds of years ago; the whelps know no more now than did the whelps of ages ago-they are taught no more by the lions of the desert, out it is a shame that in this day, when there are so many oppor tunities of improving overselves in the best manner of culturing children, that so often there is no more ad vancement in this respect than there has been among the kids and the eag lets and the whelps. Again, Hannah stands before you today as a Christian mother. From her prayers, and from the way she consecrated her boy to Goi, I know she was good. A mother may have the finest cultuee, the most brilliant, surroundings, but she is not fit for her duties unless she be a Christian moth er. There may be well read libraries in the house, and exquisite music in the parlor, and the canvas of the best artist adorning the walls, and the wardrobe be crowded with tasteful apparel, and the children be wonder fal for their attainments and make the house ring with laughter and inno cent mirth, but there is something woefully lacking in that house if it be not also the resident of a Christian mother. I bless God that there are not many prayerless mothers. The weight of responsibility is so great that they feel the need of a divne hand to help, and a divine voice to comfort, and a divine heart to sympa thize. Thousands of mothers have been led into the kingdom of God by the hands of their little children. There are hundreds of mothers today who would not have been Christians had it not been for the prattle of their little ones. Standing some day in the nursery, they bethought themselves: "This child God has given me to raise for eternity. What is my influence upon it? Not being a Christian my self, how can I ever expect him to be come a Christian. Lord, help me! Oh, are there anxious mothers who know nothing of the infinite help of religion? Then I commend to you Hannah, the pious mother of Samuel. Do not think it is absolutely impossi ble that your children come up inii quitous. Out of just such fair brows and bright eyes and soft hands and innocent hearts crime gets its victims -extirpating purity from the heart, and rubbing out the smoothness from the brow, and quenching the luster of the eye, and shriveling up and poisoning and putrefying and scath ing and scalding and blasting and burning with shame and woe. Every child is a bundle of tremen dous possibilities, and whether that child shall come forth in life, its heart attuned to the eternal harmo nies, and after a lire of usefulness on earth go to a life of joy in heaven, or whetLer across it shall jar eternal dis cords, and after a life of wrongdoing on earth it shall go to a home of im penetrable darkness and an abyss of immeasurable plunge, is being decided by nursery song and Sabbath lesson and evening prayer and walk and ride and look and frown and smile. Oh, how many children in glory, crowding all the battlements and lift ing a millhon voiced hosana brought to God through Christian parentage. One hundred and twenty clergymen were together, and they were telling their experience and their ancestry, and of the 120 clergymen, how many of them do you suppose assigned as the means of their conver sion the influence of a Christian mother? One hundred out of the hundred and twenty. PhiliD Dodd ridge was brought to God by the Scrnture lesson on the Dutchtile of the 'chimney fireplace. The mother thinks she is only rocking a child, but at the same time she may be rock ing the destiny of empires, rocking the rate of nations, rocking the glo ries of heaven. The same 2;naternal power that may lift a child up may press a child down. A daughter came to a worldly mother and said she was anxious about her sins and she had been praying all night. The mother said: "Oh, stop praying. I don't be lieve in praying. Get over all those religious notions and I'll give you a dress that will cost $500, and you may wear it next week to that party." The daughter took the dress, and she mov ed in the gay circle, the gayest of all the gay that night, and sure enough, all religious impressions were gone and she stopped praying. A few months after she came to die, and in her closing moments said, "Mother, I wish you would bring me that dress cost $500." The mother thought it was a very strange request, but she brought it to please the dying child. "Now," said the daughter, "mother, hang that dress on the foot of my bed." And the dress was hung there on the foot of the bed. Then the dy ing girl got up on one elbow and look ed at her mother and then pointed to the dress and said, "Mother, that dress is the price of my soullI" Oh, what a momentous thing it is to be a mother. Again and lastly, Hannah stands before you today the rewarded moth er. For all the coats she made for Samuel, for all the prayers she ot~er ed for him, for the discipline she ex erted over him, she got abundant com pesation in the piety and the useful ness and the popularity of her son Samuel, and that is true in all ages. Ever-y mother gets full pay for all the pnyer a nA tars in bharlf of her children. That man useful in cOrm mercial life, that man prominent in the profession, that master mechanic, why every sten he takes in life has an echo of gladness in the old heart that long ago taught him to be a Christiaa and heroic and earnest. The story of w'hat you have done or what you have wr:tten, of the influence you have ex erted, has gone back to the old home stead, for there is some one always ready to carry good tidings, and that story makes the needle in the old mother's tremulous hand fly quicker and the dail in the father's hand come down upon the barn floor with a more vigorius thump. Parants love to hear good news from their children. D> you send them good news always? Look out for thE young min who speaks of his father as the "governor" the "squire" or the "old chap." Look out for the young wonan who calls her mother her "maternal ancestor" or the "old woman." 'The eye that mocketh at his father and refuseth to obey his mother the ravens of the val ley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it." God grant that all these parents may have the great satisfactioa of seeing their children grow up Christians. Bat, oh, the pang of that mother who, after a life of street gadding and gossip retailing hanging on her children the frippa ries and follies of this warld, sees those children tossed out on the sea of life lice foam on the wave or nonen tities in a world where only brawny and stalwart character can stand the shock. Bat blessed *U- the mother who loots upon her children as sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Oh, the satisfaction of Hannah in seeing Samuel serving at the altar, of Mother Eunice in seeing her Timothy learned in the Scriptures. That is the mother's recompense--to see children coming up useful in the world, reclaiming the lost, healing the sick, pitying the ig norant, earnest and useful in every sphere. That throws a new light bick on the old family Bible whenever she reads it, and that will be ointment to soothe the aching limbs of decrepitude light up the closing hours of fife's day with the glories of an autumnal sua set! There she sits, the old Christian mother, ripe for heaven. Her eyesight is almost gone, but the splendors of the celestial city kindle up her vision. The gray light of heaven's morn has struck through the gray locks which are folded back over the wrinkled temples. She stoops very much now under the burden of care she used to carry for her children. She sits at home today too old to find her way to the house of God, but while she sits there all the past comes back, and the children that 40 years ago trooped around her armchair with their little griefs and joys and sorrows, those children are all gone now-some caught up into a better realm, where they shall never die, and others out in the broad world attesting the excel lency of a Christian mother's discip line. Her last days are full of peace, and calmer and sweeter will her spirit become until the gates of life shall lift and let the worn out pilgrim into eter nal springtide and youth, where the limbs never ache, and the eyes never grow dim, and the staff of the exhaus ted and decrepit pilgrim shall become the palm of the immortal athlete. SQUELCHERS SQUELCHED. JU.)GE EARLE ANSWERS CERTAIN QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED HIM. Editor Konlock, of the Darlington News, and Colonel Dargau, Et-Editor of the sumtr Freeman, Completely Demolish ed to the Amasemerat of the Crowd. OA'rs Cnoss ROADs, S. O, July 2i3. --The largest meeting of the campaign was held for Darlington County at this place today. The speaking of the different candidates was about as us ual, until Judge Earle's turn came. It seems that Editor Kollock, of the Dar lington News, a Conservative paper, and Col Dargan one of the worst Till man haters in the State, had conspired to trap Judge Earle by asking him cer tain questions. As to how they suc ceed will be seen from the following: At this point, Mr. Kollock, editor of the Darlington News, handed up a series of questions, which had been propounded to Judge Earle in his paper the Darlington News. Judge Earle: "What are these?" Mr. Kollock: "Some questions we would like you to answer." Judge Earle: "Who inspired themi" Mr. Kollock: I am resposnsible for them they appeared as an editorial in my paper." Judge Earle: "Who gave you the information?" Mr. Kollock: "The gentleman is ov er here," pointing in tne direction of a buggy on which Col. J. J. Dargan was standing. Judge Earle (with indescribable scorn) "Oh 1 I thought so." Judge Earle stated, however, that he would answer any question, and pro ceeded to read and answer them seri atim, as follows: "Why did you, Joseph H. Earle, withdraw from the Democratic legisla tive ticket in Sumter, in 1876, at the darkest hour of the Hampton cam paigni" That recalls a matter of which I am proud. In those dark days when man stood together. I helped to free Sumter from Radical rule. A convention was held in Sumter, and Mr. Epperson came out as an inde pendent candidate. I addressed a let ter to the people and asked tnem to take my name off the ticket and put Mr. Epperson's on for the sake of har mony. After that I worked for Hampton as hard as any man in the State" "Did you believe then as now in what you call the rule of the majority?' "Yes, I have always believed in the rule of the majority." "Did you not, in the gallery of the House of Representatives, when the Sumter Earle delegation was turned out of the convention, advocate, in a speech to those around you, a bolt and a ticket in opposition to Tillman?" "[ say when the Sumter delegation was turned out of the convention I saw it was wrong. I said, however, it will come back on you. I was provoked and said many things. The Tillman movement had a large majority, and Sumter should have had her delega tion seated. When asked to run as an independent the next day I refused. I did not support the Haskell move ment." Mr. Dargan, still standing on the buggy, kept trying to ask Judge Earle certain questions, but the latter ex claimed: "I ha'.e no questions to answer, ex cept these. I know you." Mr. Dargan: I know you, too, Judge. arle: "Any man who attempts to s3tir up the negroes of the State against the white people, I'll have nothing to do with." (Cheers, loud and long.) Mr. Dargan wasi standing on a bug gy and tried to say something, but Jdge Eark- paid no attention to him and. went on with his speech, referring to his endorsement of Tiilman after his nomination as G~over-nor. '-Why did you consent to run against Richardson in 1868 as Till man's man, after- you had denounced Tilman in Sumter for false charges againsst the administr-ation of which "I am gIad tn queztion has been asked. That period is a part of ray his tory, of which 1 am proud. Richard son had canvassed the State. Two weeks before the convention he siid to me he had a letter, and from the reading of the contents, he said to me: "You are the man I have to fear." "I told him to dismiss the idea. I would not run. I was Attorney Gen eral and had no reason to expect to run for Governor. I wanted an en dorsement as Attorney General, but doclined to go to Columbia to work for it. That night I received a tele gram from Mr. Wannamaker, of Or angeburg, leader of the farmers move ment. asking me to become a candi date for Governor. I replied that un der the circumstances I could not ac cept. I saw Dr. Bates in Columbia next day, and he congratulated me, sayiug: "We are going to run you for Governor." I told him the circum stances and again said I could not ac cept. Mr. James and Mr. Thomas came as committee next day from the farmers and urged me to run, and I told theni my personal honor and duty would compel me to decline, as I had proaiised Governor Richardson not to run. I didn't know the farmers wanted mue for Governor, and an hon orable man could not run, having promised Richardson not to run. If I opposed him it would look like I was false. Nothwithstanding I had t ienty votes over Richardson and was a:nbi tious, I felt that I would not be true to myself if I accepted the nomination. In spite of what L said, I found that my name would be proposed. I said to Philip Gilliard if my name is pre seated I could not run. Notwith standing this, my name was presented, and I sent to my brother, Dr. Earle, to say I could not accept. Who would say a man should accept office at the sacrifice of his personal honor? He asked Mr. Kollock that question, and the latter replied that no i n would. "Who brought you out in 1890 af ter "21" conference had brought out Bratton as a candidate against Till man'?" "Who was the twenty-one cnfer ence? Twenty-one men who arrogat ed to themselves to elect a man Gov ernor. They had a perfect right to meet. I came out afterwards because I was not subject to the order of the t wentv-one conference." "Will you be kind enough to tell the people how General Bratton was treated in your own county, Sumter, when he was running with you mak ing common cause against Tillman and your committee was in charge of all arrangements for the campaign meeting?" "I hope and believe he was treated kindly. I had the greatest respect for him. If the committee did not treat him with, I know nothing about it." Mr. Kollock: "Didn't you ride up in a carriage driven by four horses?" Judge Earle: "I was not responsi ble for that, if my friends ot a car riage for me. I have been out with Tillman not only when he rode, but his carriage was pulled by his admir ers whil2 I had to walk." (Laughter.) "Are you willing to say now, as you often said in 1890 on the stump, that the k:hell manifesto, which Tillman himself wrote, begins and ends with a lie and is a lie from beginning to end'? If you have changed your mind about this manifesto will you kindly tell the people upon what ground and what newly discovered facts have brought such a wonderful change of view in so short a time?" "Yes, so far as corruption in office is concerned. He did not charge the officers personally with dishonesty." Mr. Kollock: "Has he retracted that?" Judge Earle: "He has said on the stump again and again that he charg ed no personal corruption." I discussed charges against State officers and I said they were lies. Tillman has frequently said of my administration that it was honest and honorable. But some times we find men so bound up by prejudice and envy that they can not be kept down. IHe hop ed that as we came nearer together we could be more like brothers. Mr. Kollock: "We are not making any b'g fight on you Judge, but are just having a little fun." "Judge Earle: "I know why it is. It is not because you love Tillman more, but Earle less. (Cheers and cries "That's right.") Mr. Dargan kept on trying to inter rupt Judge Earle but the latter paid no attention to him. At last Mr. Dargan said he only wanted abount teu min utes. Judge Earle: "I have n ,thing to do with you and nothing to do with this meeting." (Cheers.) Mr. Kollock published some more questions on the same order in this morning's News and handed them along with the other. Judge Earle, overlooked them an Mr. Kollock called' his attention to the fact but added that he thought it hardly necessary for him to answer them. Judge Earle ex pressed a willingness to answer them but the crowd yelled that they had enough and didn't want to hear any more. , Mr. Dargan on his buggy wanted ten minutes time, but the crowd wouldn't hear to it and beguan to yell for Earle. Mr. Kollock and Col. Dargan made an amusing if not piti ful spectacle of themselves and were so badly demolished that they let the Judge alone.-Register. THE STATEALLIANCE. [CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE .J ing business. It was decided that the next meeting of the State Alliance be held in Columbia on the fourth Wed nesday in July, 1897. Columbia was chosen on account of being in the cen tral portion of the State and because it is more economical for the members to gather here than anywhere else in the State. Luddeu & Bates are Your M en. If you want to buy a fine piano di rect from factory, and without paying middlemen's protits, write the well known Southern Music House of Lud den & Bates, Savannah, Ga., about it. They are your men. They manufac ture the new Ludden & Bates piano. They own an interest in the great Mathushek Piano, sold by thenm for twenty-five years past. They control almost the entire output of the facto ry and have just opened large whole sale warerooms in New Yorir City. They sell from factory direct to pur chasers and save purchasers all inter mediate pr-ofits. They are your men. Read their latest advertisement in tnis issue and write them either at Savan nah, Ga..- or New York City. Doed't Deny it. CLEVELAtND, U., July 23.-lu an in tereview today Mr-. Md. A. Hanna says he will pay no attention to the charg es made that he is using money at the Populist conventiion to prevent the indorsement of Bryan. "The people who say these things are beneath my notice," <:ay Mr-. H anna. I.ight in Nei w ugland. PRVIDENCE, R. I., July 22. The Rhode Island Democratic State comn mitteee met here today and by a vote of 15 to 3 endorsed the nomination of Bryan and Sewall and the Democratic pl2tform adopted at C'hi-Arm BIC NEWS PROM NEW YORk SILV~R SENTIMENT SWEEPING THE INTERIOR OF THAT STATE. Democratic County Chairmen Report that the Free C.'inago lssue Is Helplug the Party Rather Than Hurting It-Interest in-- Reading. The World telegraphed to the chair man of each Democratic county com mitic in the State yesterday the fol lowing questions: Do Democrats in your county ap prove the Chicago platform and can didates? Is there any sentiment in favor of a sound money Democratic candidate? If the election were held today what, in your judgment. would be the per ientaze of loss to the Democratic vote on the sound money issue? The questions have been answered as follows: It would be exceediugly strange if a large proportion of the Democrats of the county did not approve of the plat form and candidates of the party to which they have been loyal so long. In my opinion fully one-half of the Democrats of this county believe that the party in convention assembled can make no mistake, and therefore the platform adopted at Chicago must be right. That which should cause the great est surprise is the fact that fully one fourth of the Democrats of this and other counties are already in open re volt against the ticket and platform adopted at Chicago, ana this before an intelligent discussion of the issues has fairly commenced. The position of the party in this county is is about as follows: Fifty per cent. would vote the ticket unless further enlightened; 25 per cent. are in doubt, and 2.5 per cent. are in open r."volL. J. W. Hinklev, Chairman Democratic State Commit tee, Chairman Duchess County Com mittee. The Democrats of Rockland county favor the nomination of Bryan and Sewall. There is no sentiment in fa vor of a third ticket, nor in ravor of bolting the regular nominations. If the election were held tomorrow the percentage of loss or gain to the Democratic vote on account of the fi naricial issue could not be estimated, as we lose some votes, while the gains seem to be about the same. Frank P. Demarest. Chairman Rockland County Commit tee. The Democrats of Monroe county are divided in sentiment on the ques tion of approving the Chicago plat form --in what portion it is difficnlt to say at present. However, no senti ment has developed in favor of a third candidate. It is -altogether probable that the Democrats who bolt the tick - et will vote for McKinley. There is a strong sentiment among the farmers, both Republicans and Democrats, in favor of free silver. If the election were held today the loss to the ticket of sound money men would be more than made up by the Repub lican friends of silver George P. Clocum. Chairman Monroe County Committee. To your first question, yes. The Democrats of New York stand on the sound money platform adopted at Saratoga. I do not know what would be ihe percentage of loss on the the sound money issue if the election were held tomorrow. James D. Bell, Chairman Kings County Committee. Prior to the Chicago convention there was a strong sentiment in favor of a gold standard and a little of it re mains, but at present most of the Dem ocrats in Steuben county will support the nominations. There is no agitation for another ticket. It is impossible to determine what the percentage of loss will be to the Democratic vote. It will be more than compensated by the gain from Republicans. James R. Kingsley. Chairman Steuben County Committee. Fulton and. Hamilton county Dem ocrats are always loyal and support the ticket. These counties refused in 1892 to .participate in the anti-snap convention. We are against any third ticket no w and will ratify the nominees of the regular Democratic national conven tion when our assembly district con vention convenes. There are a few bolters here, led by men who have not supported a Demo cratic ticket in four years. Those who desert the Democratic party now have never at heart been with it. John B. Judson, Chairman Fulton and Hamilton Coun ties Committee, Sullivan county Democrats gener ally disanprove both the Chicago plat form and the nominees, but await ac tion of the State organization and will abide by its decision. If election were held today we would lose at least 10 per cent. of vote, not on the money is sue wholly but througri general dis gust with anarchy and asses. Thornton A. Niven, Chairman Sullivan County Committee Democrats in Yates county heartily endorse the Chicago platform and tick et. The ticket is the strongest that could have been made. If the elec tion were tomorrow the Democracy would gain 500 votes in the county. There is no sentiment here for a sound money ticket, so-called; ; to 1 is sound enough for us. Charles A. Eaton, Chairman Yates County Committee. The leading Democrats in Herkimer county are for bimetalism, with the concurrent action of other nations. The rank and file of the party, espe cially the farmers, are for free silver. The loss that the Democratic party would sustain by sound money Demo crats voting against Bryan would be more than offset by free sil ver Repub licans voting for him. The Chicago platform is not wholly approved, but Democrats have confi dence in the unsullied character and fine abilities of Bryan and believe that the best interests of the party will be promoted by voting for him and con gressmen of broad gauge minds, as results must come from the lawmaking body of the nation. Frank P. Addy, Chairmnan Herk-imeri County Commit tee. The Democrats iu Senaca county are very enthusiastic and are pleased with both platform and candidate. There is no sentiment for' a second candidate. There is no defection in eight towns and only a very little in the other- two, Waterloo and Senaca Falls, but it is growing less every day. A large num ber~ of Reputblicans who are laborers and farmers are openly for the double standar-d and will support Bryan and Sewall. 0. 14. Becker. Chairman F-enaea County Con iention. With a few e:.eptions, the Diemo cratie- par-t of Ctmenang'o cotunty ao pr-oves the free silver plank in the Chicago platform and nominees of the convention will r-eceive their nearly The :entimnent of Lhe county s ongly opposed to the nomination oi any 1hird ticket. If the election were held tomorrow, in mvjudgment, there wonild be but a few Democrats in the county who would not support Bryan and Sewall. At a meeting of the Chenango coun t y Democratic committee, held yester day, a resolution was unanimously adopted endorsing the candidacy of Bryan and Sewall and pledging to them the hearty support of the organ ization. The county is honeycombed with free silver voters and in my opin ion, there will be a much larger num ber of Republicans who will support our ticket than Democrats who will decline to vote for us. William H. Sullivan. Democrats are not satisfied with the Chicago platform, but of the two evils will choose the lesser. They are not in favor of another ticket. Nine tenths of Schoharie ccunty Democrats will support Bryan and Sewall. T. It. Brown, Chairman Scholiarie County Commit tee. The Democrats here are almost to a man in favor of the Chicago nominee. While they do not favor all of the platform they think it preferable to McKinleyism. We will gain three Republicais for Bryan where we lose one Democrat. H. Eugene English, Chairnvr Orleans County Committee. Democrats in Otsego county are divided in opinions on the silver ques tion. The nominees are not personal ly objectionable. Very few favor a third ticket, but prefer that the State convention put an electoral ticket in the field on the Saratoga platform. If the election was held now the Republi can majority in Otsego county would probably be somewhat reduced. L. M. Sbaw. While many Democrats do not ap prove of the platform in its entirety, the greal majority heartily indorse the nominees. The desire for a sound money ticket is very slight. The defection from Democratic ranks on the sound money issue will be more than made up by the gain among Republican farmers, tradesmen and working people. H. V. Burke, Chairman Montgomery County Com mittee. There is considerable Democratic dissatisfaction in Tompkins county, but the demand for a third ticket and the percentage of those who will bolt is comparatively small and will grow smaller. The ticket is very strong among farmers and laboring men, and in my opinion the number of Republicans from this source who will vote for Bryan will outnumber the dissatisfied Democrats, so that if an election was held today there would be an increase instead of a falling off in the Demo cratic vote. D. F. Van Vlett, Chairman Tompkins County Commit. tee. The Democrats of Delaware county generally approve of the Chicago plat form and the nominees. A few, how - ever, will not support the ticket. There is no sentiment in favor of the sound money candidate here, so far as I have learned. If the election were held todafgt1Te percentage of loss to the D)eocratic vote on the sound money issue would not exceed 10 per cent., and would be more than made up by voters of silver Republicans. . od-,h Chairman Delaware County Commit tee. A vast majority of the D~emocrats in Niagara county are for the Chicago nominees. There is no sentiment for a third ticket. Democrats are waiting to hear from Senator Hill. His judgment will have great weight: His indorsement would make this county Democratic. We will lose some gold Democrats, but the loss will more than be equal ized by the accession of silver Republi cans. Charles M. South worth, Chairman Niagara County Commit tee. Democrats generally in this county are satisfied with the Chicago platform and nominees. A number of Demo crats in the large towns say they will not support the ticket, but these are more than offset by Republicans who openly declare for Bryan. In my judgment if the election were held today the larger percentage of loss woukd be found on the Republi can side. Many Democrats predict a Democratic gain of 25 to 50 per cent. The free silver sentiment is very strong among the farmers of this county without regard to party. B. G. Foss, Chairman Livingston County Com mittee. Most of the Democrats of Franklin county approve the Chicago platform in the main and will support the can didates. I find no sentiment in favor of another candidate. Some Demo crats object to portions of the platform, but most of these say they will sup port the money plank and wish it stopped at that plank. If an election were held today, in my judgment, the Democratic party would not lose on the money ismue, but would increase its vote. I judge that the friends of free coin age of silver have lately been rapidly increasing in this county. There is great interest in the question. Every body is studying it, and the more they read the more they talk in favor of bimetallism. Charles A. Burke, Chairman Franklin County Commit tee. Few Democrats in Saratoga county approve of the Chicago platform. Many will support Bryan and Sewall, however. There is very little senti. ment in favor of a sound money Demo cratic candidate. The g old meu tal McKinley. If the election was held today, Dem ocrats would not lose, in my judg ment, to exceed 30 per cent, of their votes on the money issue. John F. Burke. Chairman Saratoga County Commit tee. %The mass of the D~emocratie voters in Madison county cordially indor->: the Chicago rlatform and nominee&. Ther-e is practically no sentiment here in favor of a gold candidate. 1r the election was held tomorrow ther-e would be a Democratic gain, there be ing many mnore silver Rtepublicans than gold Democrats in this county. A Bryan and Sewall silver ela b has been organi 'ed, composed of Diemo crats' and Republicans, with over- 200 members;. I'. J. lkennedey, The lDemocrats of W yoming c-onuty, with but few r- eptions, will stand by the will rf the majority, expressed at Chicago. TI4 re is no t.entimnent iu favor of a sour~d noney candidate, and 11 the election was held~ today, the- per centage woug-! be largel; ini favor of the~ Chicago no .inee. IlTe Ioss on a sound moner ticket would be small, of "f-e.% silver. - George Wright, Chairman Wyoming County Commit tee. To your first question: "Ephatical ly yes." To your seond question: "Emphatically no." To your third question: "There would be no loss in our vote. At least three Republicans would vote our ticket for every Demo crat who would vote against it." Henery Chatterson, Chairman Wayne County Committee. --New York Workd. A Young Lady Attempts Suicide. COLwMBiL, S. C.. 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