The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 18, 1900, Image 3
NEW A. C L AGENT.
Hr. D. M. Bianding Appointed to
Succeed Mr. C G. Howland.
Mr. C. G- Rowland, for a number of years
the agent of the Atlaotic Coast Line, resign d
a short time ago, bot bas remained io charge
of tbe office until bia successor should be ep- j
pointed. Mr. D. M. Bianding has been ap- j
pointed agent and an official from beadquar
tera was here yesterday checking OD accounts
to turo over tbe office to Mr. Bianding. Mr
Bianding bas occupied tbe responsible posi?
tion of cashier in the freight office for ten or j
twelve years and by reason of b:s long expe?
rience and familiarity with railroad affairs,
and witb this office particularly, is especially
well qualified for the po3it-on of agent. His j
promotion will mee: with the heartiest ap
prora] of the business men of this city, and j
bis macy friend? are gratified that bis wortb
bas received this we!l merited and substan?
tial r?cognition.
Mr. Thomas V. Walsh has been promoted
to tbe cashiersbip acd bis experience of sis or
eight years as clerk in the freight depot i9 a
guarantee of bis fitness for the position which
be will now occupy.
Mr. Rowland, the retiriog agent, is too
well known and bis efficient management of
the business of the A. C L. ia this city is
too generally recognized to require comment
at tois time. He has made one of tbe most
acceptable agents in tne service of the A. C.
L. and as a business man bis wortb and abil?
ities are so highly esteemed that be ba3 beso
calied to a responsible position io the Sumter j
Telephone Manufacturing Co., tte biggest
enterprise of Sumter, and he will remain in ?
ibis city and be more intimately associated
with business affairs than ever.
Persia, Persian People and Their
Homes.
Rev. H. H. Shimmon, a native of Persia,
lectured in tbe Presbyterian Church Monday
night. His lecture was about Persia, Per?
sian people and their bornes, and was illus?
trated by the use of tbe stereoptican.
The lecturer appeared in Persian costume, ?
and s*og in four diff.-rent languages.
This voung man left home and loved ones
and cerne to this country that he might learn
more of the wonderful tea?: "sings cf Christ,
and is preparing to return to bi3 own people
to preach onto them tbe troths of Christianity.
Association of County Teachers.
A very attractive program has been ar?
ranged for the next meeting of the association
at 12 o'clock on Saturday, 21st of present
mooth. A large attendance is expected.
EASTER ELECTIONS.
At the congregational meeting of the
Church of tbe Holy Comforter, Sumter, ibe
following officers and deputies to the annual
cooncii were elected :
Wardens-Mark Reynolds, Dr. J. F. W
DeLorme.
Vestrymen-R. Doz:er, J S. Moore, Dr. J.
C. Spann, R. I. Manning, R. L. Cooper, P.
P. Gaillard, Geo. D. Shore.
Deputies to the HOtb Diocesan Council
that meets in Aiken oe May 9tb Dr
DeLorme, R I. Manning, J. S. Moor?, R. L.
Cooper.
Alternates-Geo. D. Shore, B. G. Gibson,
Mark Reynolds.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Miss Melly Bryan of Clarendon
County Takes Five Grains cf
Morphine.
A short time ago, Melly Bryan, a young
white woman, attempted to commit suicide
in Manning by taking two ounces cf lauda?
num and was thwarted only by prompt med?
ical attention and careful watching. After
she recovered from the effects of tbe drug she
expressed regret for the attempt to take her
life, and it was thought that she wonld not
again try to destroy herself. Thi3 was a
mistake, however, for she came to tbis city
last Wednesday, and after writing a letter to
ber father went to the Jervey House and.
securing a room, took five grains of mor?
phine. It was ao overdose, however, and
instead of causing immediate death produced
nausea and defeated her purpose. When she
was found to be ill a doctor was called and
sbe received tbe attention required to coun?
teract tb? effects of the drue. Since theo
she has been watched constantly, and today
is said to bs out of danger There is a sad
story back of ber repeated attempts to com- j
mit suicide, and it is now feared tbat she will
eventually succeed in taking ber own life.
Bishopvilie Elects Council.
Bisbopville, April ll -The manual election
for town council was heid yesterday. There
were two tickets in the 6eld and considerable
efforts were made to elect ac entire new coun?
cil, bot it failed, and the old council, witb
Mr. W. E.Crosswell as intendant, and Mr
G.O. Rogers as an additional warden, was
reelected by a safe majority. This is fortu?
nate for the best interest of tbe town, as this
administration is the most successful the town
bis ever had.
MAYOR'S COURT.
Mayor Stuckey presided Friday morning at
bis first 9e98!on of tbe M?>or's court. There
were three prisoners in tbe dock and none of
them escaped pu n ish meo t
The following were the cases :
Benjamin McKnight, boarding a railroad
traia in violation of the ordinance. Guilty :
$1. '
Anna Scott, disorderly conduct, cursing
on Bee street Guilty ; $5 or 10 days.
John Henderson, throwing brick und strik?
ing Tom Brown. Guilty ; $2 or 4 days.
The Best in the World.
We believe Chamberlain's Cough Remecy
is tbe best in the world. A few weeks ago
we suffered with a sevsre cold acd a trouble?
some cough, and having read their advertise?
ments in our own and other papers we pur?
chased a bottle to see if it wcuid affect us. It
cured us before the bottle VHS more than half
used, it is the best medicine out for colds
and coughs.-The Herald, Ander?onville, Ind.
For sale by A J China.
Sons of Veterans.
Camp James D. Blandi??, Sons of Confed?
erate Veterans, will bold a meeting in tbe
Court House nest Wednesday afternoon,
April 18th, at 6 o'clock. Tbe purpose of ?be
meeting will be to elect delegates to tbe
Aonual Meeting of tbe Sons of Veterans, to
be beld io Louisville ; to elect officers of tbe
camp, to serve for the eosoiog year, and to
transact ?nj other business that may come j
before the meeting.
Jobo M. Knight, Adjotont.
PRIVATEER PERSONALS.
Privateer Towosbip, S C., Anril 16, 1900.
Yesterday WHS aa ideal Easter Sunday.
The air was warm and peasant, tbe frky w 8
cloudless and the beauty of the day was
added to by the pretty appearance of the trets
clothed in the bright green livery of spring
time. In the mornicg the wood thrush-the
sweet singing branch bird gave utterance to
its silvery flute lise notes, which signify that
frosts are OTtr.
At his last appointment at Beib?l Church
-a week ago yesterday tbe Rey J. I. Ayres
j preached a fkte sermon on cburcb discipline.
Mr. Matt Jamesy, who is an authority on
j such ?sufcjecti, estimate.? that the oat crop is
j one third destroyed in this section To show
{ the backwardness of the season as compared
with 1565, Mr Ramsey mentioned the fact
I that on April 13 of that ye*r, corn averaged
about 10 inches high and this year i: wouid
i not average 4 inches.
We return tbaoks for aa invitaron to at?
tend the picnic recently given by the Provi?
dence school of this towLsbip.
The following is a list of the young people
of our community who are attending school
abroad. Cadet Willie Cain, Clemson College:
Cadet LeRoy Wells, Orar.geburg College;
Misses Kate Bradford and May Annie Jack?
son, Sumter Graded School; Miss Fannie
Nettles, Wedgefield School.
Mrs. Willie Cain and Mr Dwight Cain
have returned from a visit to Edgefieid. Mas?
ter Scott Cain remains ihsre.
Mrs. M. A. Hugbsoo, of Sumter, is visit?
ing in this community.
Mrs. Whitfield Weils is visiting at Wedge?
field.
Misses Winnie and Talulah Rivers are vis?
iting down in Berkeley County.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Chaplin, of Darling?
ton County, have been on a recent visit to
the commaaiiv.
Mr. John Baker, Sr., of the Jordan com?
munity, is visiting in tbis community.
Mr. Marvin Ingram has a position at the
asylum ia Columbia.
Mr. Dave Alsbrook is lamplighter at the
Privateer station. Speaking of this station,
we will remark that the depot there is a sorry
little affair-it is hardly a di.cent apalogy for
a depot. The railroad authorities sbouid do
better than this.
Mrs. Clark Brown, formerly of this com
? munity, but recently of Colum?ia, was
j buried at Bethel Church last week. She was
, a Miss Geddings
Fannie Williams, an old colored woman of
the township, aged 31 year3, died on Friday.
McD F.
Miss Barringer Re-elected
Elliott, April 13-The Elliott High School
closed today. Miss Sara Barringer, who dis?
charged ber duties so creditably, bas been
ucaaimousiy reelected as teacher o? :h ?3 ic
siltation.
& Frighftal Blander
Will often cause a horrible Burn, Scald, Cut
or Bruise. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in
the world will kill tbe pain ana promptly ?ea!
it. Cures Old Sores, Fever Sores, Ulcers,
Boils, Felons. Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Best
Pile Cure on earth. Only 25 cfs, a boz. Cure
guaranteed. Sold by J. F. W. DeLorme, Drug
gist. _ ' _ 1-5
Catholics Oat of Politics.
Paris, April 17-The Rome corres?
pondent of Tbe Temps iu a dtspatob
that bas almost official significance,
says: ''The papal decisioo prohibiting
the Assamptiooists from ccotinaiog the
editorial management of La Croix, was
arrived at after a solemn conclave of
bishops and cardinals.
"Hereafter DO religious congrega
tiou wil! be permitted to take any part
in politics. This decisioo is binding
up?>o Caiholios all over thc worid, in?
cluding the Americas Paulists/'
M. Comely, commenting in the Fi
garo upon the decision, says : "This
decision is exceedingly wise and is in?
spired by the best interests of the
church, for few are broad-minded
enough to differentiate the priest from
^e religion, and if respect for the one
is lost many care no more for the
other ?
Washington, April 16 -Complying
with a resolution of ioquiry, the presi
dent sent to the senate today an item
ized statement of the expenses of tbe
Philippine commission. The statement
includes the following items : Com
peosation cf $10,000 each to Com?
missioners Schurman, Worcester aod
Denby, $30.000 ; per diem allowance
to commissioners after their returo to
the United States, $5,285 ; secretary
to commission ^compensation, $8,500 ;
per diem, $3 660), $12.220 ; trans
portatioo, $13,687 ; household expeo
j ses io Manila. $9,252 ; clerical
cervices, $81 701 ; miscellaneous, $14,
998 Total. $117,185.
The president also trat-smits with his
endorsement, a recommendation from
Secretary Hay that provision be made
for the payaient to the naval and mili
tary members of thc commission (Admi?
ral Dewey and Gen Chis) for their
services at the same rate as that paid to
the other members He says they have
received nothing for their services in
excess of their regular salaries
MORGAN" REELECTED.
Birmingham, Ala, Aprii 14 -Re?
ports from all sections of the State
indicate a pronounced victory for
Senator Morgan as result of the Dem?
ocratic primaries heh] today.
A summaiy of the Morgan column
shows 42 counties to his credit, with
a total vote of 83 in the legislature,
which insures his return to the Uni
ted States een^te
The result in this, Jefferson, the
leading county of the State, and the
home of the governor, shows a major?
ity of 3 to 1 for Morgan Johnston's
home beat went against bim by a
vote of '?94; to 104 Johnston head?
quarters were closed at ll o'clock
tonight and nothing was given out
for publication
Mrs Caroline Stanoard Tiltoc, widow
of Frederick W. Tiltoo, of New
Orleans, bas given $50,000 to tbe
Tolano University, of Louisiana, for
tbe parp?se of erecting a library build?
ing, to be knovo as the F. W. Tiltoo
M em or? si Librarj.
Duke D'Arcos Insulted.
Invited Spain's Minister to
Dewey day. Duke D'Arcos'
Reply.
Chicago, April 16 -Mayor Harri?
son today received from the Duke
D'Arco8,the Spaoish minister at Wash
ington, the following reply to an
invitation to attend the Dewey cele
oration in Chicago :
Washington, April 14, 1900.
Sir: I return to you, here enclos
ed, and invitation from the city of
Chicago, for the celebration of the
second aooiversity of the battle of
Manila, which I take for granted,
has been 6ent to me by mistake,
as it is the first discourtesy I have
met with since I am ia the United
States.
lt is impossible for me to be
lieve that you have advisedly asked
me, the representative of Spain, to
go to your city, and rejoice with
you OD the destruction of so many
brave sailors-my compatriots That
would have been simply an insult ;
and, as I do not deserve it, and it
cannot have been your intention, I
am perfectly sure, as I say, that all
this is the result of an error
I have the honor to remain, sir,
very respectfully yours. Arcos
In repiy Mayor Harrison has
written the minister, explaining that
the invitation was sent through the
carelessness or ignorance of a clerk,
and extending sincere apologies for
tbe unintentional discourtesy.
Desperado Shot to Death
Hopkio8ville, Ky, April 16.-A
?czen enraged white men shot Morgan
Boone, colored, to death on an excur?
sion train Dear Siaughtersville last
night. Boone's body was theo thrown
from the rapidly moviog train.
Boone and bis companions io the
secood class car had been drinking
heavily. As tbe train approached
Slaughtersviile Boone started tack
tbroagb tbe coaches, brandishing a
revolver and threatening instant death
to any one attempting to intercept bim
A panic ensued among the women mi
children.
One of the male excursionists wa*
aboot to rise from his seat when be wa*
felled with a coupltog pin which Booree
oarried.
As the wounded man's cry rang
'brough the train a dozen white men
rushed after the oegro, who took refuge
io the smoker. He was given no qaar
ter- and fe 11 mortally wounded at tbe
first volley His body was dragged to
tbe platform and throwo cff into the
brash beside thc track.
OPENING OF PARIS EX?
POSITION.
Paris, Aprii 14 -Tho Exposition
of 1900 is opened, but it will be at
ieast a month before anything but
buidings is to be 6een. The day's
ceremonies were a peculiar mixture
of sumptuous splendor in the Sailes
Des Fetes and widespread confusion
elsewhere ?
Nothing could have exceeded the
picturesque stage setting in the
beautiful building in which tne
inaugurated ceremonies were held,
the gorgeous uniforms of the dipio
mats and soldiers, the splendid
orchestra and chorus, and the magni
ficeot effect produced by the grand
staircase, up which Presideot Loubet
proceeded to view the Exposition,
lined with some two hundred picked
men of the Republican Guards, with
jack boots, white breeches, gleaming
cuirasses and horse hair plumes
streaming from shinning helmets.
At the top of this stairway was a
room the Salles Des Fetes and this
was hung with priceless gobelins
from the Louvre. Into this splendid
apartment Prosident Loubet entered,
and from there waiked dowD the
avenue to his boat. This part of the
day's arrangements was perfect, but
thereat was chaos The weather today
was luckily ail that could be de j
sired. Fourteen thousand guests
had been invited to the function
and they had, because of the
fine weather, only the dust to en- !
dure Had the day been wet the
unrolled paths of the Exposition
grounds would have been turned J
into a mass of mud
Ooe of tbe young men who will be
among the riebest of the rich woo of
the first decade of the twentieth century
is Harry Payne Whitney. He is at
present the heir of three great fortunes
His father. William C. Whitney, is
worth probabiy not lesa than $75,000,
000 ; his uoole, Col Oliver Payne, has
nearly as much, and it will go to bim
His wife, who was Gertrude Vander?
bilt, will receive something like $15.
000,000 fr-.-m her father ; so, taking
it all in all. Harry Hayne Whitney
is liable to be one of the richest men in
the Uoited S-atcs a quarter of a cen
fury hence. He is a tresb faced young
tuan, is a ?over of all athletic sports
and is cot averse to the club and social
pleasures, wbioh he can so well afford
Chattanooga, Tenn, April 15.-A
through freight train on the Southern
Railway struck a mule and was wrecked
wbile ronoiog at full speed, near
Huntsville, Ala The engineer, Percy
Armstrong, and the firemen, Sandy
Gib?me, were killed, and five of tbe
train's erew wtre leriootlv injured.
m
Prospects For Democracy
Continue to Improve.
PEEPAROJG FOE CONFLICT.
RepublicansArrogant and Puffed
Up by Success.
SOUGHT BY MASS! HANNA'S BOODLE
Think That tho LO::K Sn?'erinjr Peo?
ple Will Stand Anything-The Cam?
el's Duck Near to Breaking-Defec?
tion of Webster Davis-Rhode Is?
land Democrats - At Bunker Hill
Monument-The Idaho Outrages.
[Special Washington Letter.]
Democratic prospects have improved
50 per cent in ?30 days and are still im?
proving. Two months ago it did not
seem to an impartial observer that we
had one chance in 20 of winning this
fall, but if the election wore held next
week there eau be little doubt that we
would achieve a great and sweeping
victory, electing a president, house
and senate. Since writing my last let?
ter 1 have been in and through ten
j states of the Union, not one of which
gave Bryan its electoral vote in IS'JG.
I find that everywhere the Democrats
are full of hope, are girding np their
loins, perfecting their organization and
burnishing their arms for the great
conflict of 1900. Of course they will
not carry all of the ten states to which
I allude, but they will carry some of
them, and in the rest the Republicans
will know that they have been in a
fight
On the other hand, the Republicans
are everywhere snapping and snarling
at each other. The old saying "Whom
the gods would destroy they first make
mad*' is peculiarly applicable to Re?
publicans in the present exigency of
their fate. Puffed up by success bought
with Mark Hanna's boodle, they had
become so arrogant that they conclud?
ed that the long suffering American
people would bear all things, but the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, thc Porto Rican
tariff bill and the evident entente cor?
diale existing between the administra?
tion and Great Britain were the straws
which broke the earners back.
Webster Davis and the Boer?.
The action of lion. Webster Davis,
who has been touring South Africa
and investigating for himself, in re?
signing the assistant secretaryship of
state to go to lecturing for the Boer
cause will make Republicans have a
creepy sensation in the region of the
spinal marrow, for Davis is a Missouri
orator of approved capacity. For more
than three years last past he has been
put forward and boomed by the Repub?
lican press as the orator laureate of the
administration. That that same press
will endeavor to belittle him now and
discount his oratorical prowess I have
no doubt, but they will learn to their
sorrow that it is too late. With bis
emotional nature and his tongue of
fire I predict that Davis will set the
country wild on the lecture platform
on behalf of the Boers. Perhaps he
may force the administration to show
some sympathy for those brave and j
heroic people who against such fearful |
odds are fighting for their altars and 1
I
their fires, fdr their Lares and Penates. ;
! for their wives, their children, their j
homes, their native land. If he does. |
Webster Davis will deserve well at the
hands of the American people.
I spoke before the Mohawk club in
Detroit and found the Democrats en?
thusiastic to a degree to warm the
cockles of one's heart. The general de?
moralization of Republicans over the |
Porto Rican tariff bill, the Ilay-Paunce- j
fote treaty and other things, together
with exposures of corruption now be?
ing made of local Republican matters
in Michigan, give the Michigan Demo?
crats hopes of carrying the state. The
city and town April elections show
large Democratic gains and indicate
which way the cat will jump in No?
vember.
While I was lecturing before the fac?
ulty ?nd students of Michigan univer?
sity at Ann Harbor I received a tele?
gram from Senator James Iv. Jones of
Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic
national committee, urging me, really
ordering me, to go to Rhode Island and
make some speeches, which I did.
Rhode Island Democrats.
I found the Little Rhody Democrats
fighting an up hill battle with astound?
ing fortitude and courage. They did j
not win. The odds wera too great,
but they waged a battle which shows
that they will ultimately redeem that
little midget of a state from the malign
reign of the Republicans. lu my judg- |
ment one can see Republicanism in its
worst estate in Rhode Island. They j
have the unfairest apportionment for j
legislative purposes to be found on the
American continent. It is so arranged !
that the city of Providence, which con- j
tains nearly half the population of the j
state, has only one state senator out <>f
37 and only ll' members of the lower
house out of 72. The Democrats have j
always a fighting chance of carrying j
Providence, but not n itch of carrying !
the outlying rotten boroughs. Ex-Gov- j
ernor Davis told me that under the
outrageous apportionment it was so
fixed that about 3G,000 people out of 1
400.000 elected a majority of both
houses of the state legislature, so that
over :?OO.(J(X) of the people of Rhode
Island are practically disfranchised for 1
legislative purpose ami consequently 1
for the election of senators of the
United States. The method of pro?
cedure as to the latter seems to be that
some very rich man boodles the small
boroughs, which enables him to buy a
seat among the conscript fathers at <
Washington. Yet all these things are
done by the party which prates a great
deal about a pure hanoi and a f;
:*ount and whose heart is always ble<
?iii; for the wrongs of the poor neg
flown south. Why don't these hyj
.rites and comiptionists give the po
white juan of Rhodie Island a chan
for his political life?
Governor Davis also told mc th
about 40 Republican multimillionair
absolutely control the politics of t
state, another evidence of the mu
vaunted purity <>i' tile Elepubliean pi
ty. Some day, somehow, thai old an
rjuatcd constitution and apportionmc
will bc busted, and men will ha
their rights.
Still another sign of the love of li
erty possessed and exhibited by Rho.
Island Republicans is the fact th
they still maintain and uphold a pro
erty qualification on the right cf si;
frage, the only state lu the Union,
believe, which retains that relic
barbarism.
I here quote a most peculiar cai
paign document issued by the Rho<
Island Democrats:
AX APPEAL TO REGISTRY VOTERS IN CITES
Rhode Island is peculiar in having a class
half voters. About 30,000 voters, constituting
every city a majority cf the electorate, are c
prived of the American right of voting for ci
council.
Against this wrong Democrats have at eil tirr
protested. In both eem-ite and house at the i
cent session of the general assembly they pi
sentcd and voted for an amendment to the sta
constitution conferring the rieht, but were c
posed and defeated Ly the solid Republican rn
jori ty.
No rer.son exists for this disfranchisement. C
der the limited suffrage both Providence ai
Pawtucket have higher rates of taxation and ?
larger debts than are averaged by cities of t
same size in other states.
Registry voters of cities, arc you going to co
tinuc year after year in political serfdom? I
yo.; intend to imitate the southern negroes wi
supported the Confederate armies which we
fighting to keep them in slavery? The Repu
Hean machine which controls this state is whol
responsible for your disfranchisement.
It needs no prophet to predict that should y<
by your votes render every city Democratic ye
would obtain equal rights within three years.
Registry voters in cities, whatever your n
tional polities, why not in all state election
commencing now. cast your ballots for eve:
Democratic candidate? This is the sure ar
speedy way to a full and just suffrage.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COS?MITTEK.
For Political Pnrposes Only.
Another queer manifestation of Rhod
Island politics is that it is open!
charired and generally believed tba
Senator Wetmore is a citizen of Rhod
Island only for political purposes an
is really a citizen of New York, th
paradise of multimillionaires. Still, b
reason of his big checks for campaig
purposes, he is likely to be returned t
the senate of the United States.
But even in Rhode Island all Repul
Heans cannot be induced to swalkn
the nauseous dose now being prepare
for them at Washington. Both Rhod
Island senators and both Rhode Islan
representatives voted for the Torto R;
can tariff, but Governor Dyer of Rhod
Island, the outgoing Republican, thu
slaps them and the administration i:
the face:
I believe it is the duty of every Republican t
stand up and with no uncertain sound condem
any course of procedure by congress which brin?
into question the honor of the American natio
toward tho?e new peoples who have come undc
its protection. In the very beginning of the wa
with Spain, when it was uncertain what the r<
suit would be so far as added territory was cor
corned, the United Slates went to Porto Rico; i
made no excuse that the island had been mis^oi
crned by Spanish rule; it made no.apologies; i
said the island of Porto Rico is the gateway t
the Ant ilks. To treat these people now as i
they were aliens, as if they had no rights at all
to have gone over and taken possession ot* th. i
i.-:and, tu set up our own government and the:
to impose duties upon them just as we vvoul
upon the people of Haiti or Santo Domingo, i
one of the mo^: outrageous transactions that couh
be thought of.
It is most encouraging that so many of th
mm who meld public opinion have taken th'
stand they have. It is not a que.-tion of const:
tutional rieht; it is a question of simple justice
Nations have moral obligations restire upon then
cs weil as individual?. Cod forbid that any peo
pies should have to say that they preferred Span
i.-h rule and that they trusted more in Spanis!
honor than they did in the hunor of the Unit?
States. The Republican party has always bec:
loyal to the principles it has enunciated. I be
Heye there is today sufficient manhood in th<
party to stand up and not only protest against
but to refuse support to any men or any measure:
not absolutely committed to the principles of na?
tional justice and national huiiur. What a spec?
tacle it will be to European nations that this
people, having been conquered by us and brought
into our field, should be treated as strangers and
taxed without reason for brineine their products
into our ports. We might just as well tax the
people of Block island for thc fish and farm
products they send to the mainland as to tax
these people cf P^rto Rico for wnat they bring to
us. This question is one in which every Repub?
lican should be interested. I believe that before
the time comes for the meeting of the national
convention in Philadelphia this question will be
settled and settled with justice and honor, not
only to ourselves, but to the people who by every
moral right should be a part of our nation.
Carrying Coals to Newcastle.
One thing I hamed in Rhode Inland
gave me pleasure, and that is that the
new statehouse is built out of Georgia
marble! This is carrying coals to New?
castle. For generations federal pub?
lic buildings iu the south and ceutral
west have been constructed of New
England marble. New. England granite
and New England stone, though such
material was abundant in most of the
states where tho buildings were erect?
ed. Rut the tide has turned at last,
and Rhode Island leads the way for
using southern and western marble
and stone.
From Rhode Island I made a flying
trip to Boston. I visited Bunker Hill
monument, the Old South church, the
old statehouse. Boston Common, War?
ren bridge. Faneuil hall and the place
where the immortal tea episode occur?
red. I saw the statues of Colonel
Prescott, elil Sam Adams, Daniel
Webster and ether great worthies. It
does a patriot good to be amid such
scenes and to think of the men who
made them famous. Close to Bunker
Hill monument, in a little park in which
there is a splendid monument to the
?lassacliusetts soldiers who died in the
civil war. there are bronze tablets or
plates bearing the names of the Ameri?
cans killed at Bunker Hill, and, strange
to say. the names of the privates come
first upen that enduring scroll of fame.
After theirs come the names of the
officers, beginning with the immortal
one ?'f Major General Warren.
Near the great monument itself, nt
the laying of whose cornerstone and at
whose dedication Daniel Webster de?
livered two of his most celebrated ora?
tions, is a monument to the memory of
Colonel Prescott, topped with his statue
One of them sat down" on its base.
Another said: "Get up. Aren't you
afraid of that oid iron man at the top?"
"Xo," replied the sitting one; "he's
dead." But nevertheless the memory
of what he and his brave companions
did on that spot on a certain 17th of
June in the long ago will never be for?
gotten while the earth spins around on
its axis or slides down the ecliptic. I
picked up a little piece of stone at the
foot of tiie monument and a broken
twig on the Common to take to my lit?
tle boy. who was born on St. Jackson's
day, as keepsakes to remind him how
American blood once reddened those
spots of ear;h dear to the American
heart.
After "doing the Hub" in a hop and
skip sort of way I went down to the
Southern Union depot, ate a dish of
genuine Boston baked beans and med?
itated upon thc virtues of the sacred
codfish.
As I looked our upon the lean, rocky,
unproductive fields of Massachusetts.
Rhode Island and Connecticut and
upon the clean, wei! built, busy, pros?
perous, wealthy and almost innumera?
ble cities and towns I wondered how
the early settlers ever managed to
wring a subsistence cut of such soil. I
confess it gave me a higher opinion
than I have hitherto entertained of the
virtues, industry, courage and fortitude
of the pilgrims and their descendants.
Their present wealth and prosperity
can be easily accounted for. The rest
of the country has been laid under
tribute for their benefit for more than
a century by federal tariff legislation,
but how the deuce they made shift to
eke out a living, to propagate and mul?
tiply and even to accumulate some?
what of wealth by agriculture, is a
mystery to one accustomed to the un?
speakable fertility of the Mississippi
valley.
I honestly believe that one county in
my district produces year by year more
food for man and beast than the entire
state of Rhode Island could be made to
produce by any sort of farming and
any quantity or quality of fertilizer. It
contains an area little larger than the
average county west of the Mississippi
and that small area "mostly water," as
one humorously inclined Rhode Island?
er told me. TI:ey manufacture every?
thing in Xe-v England, but even for
that business they are inconveniently
located, being compelled to bring in
nearly all their raw materials, includ?
ing fuel, from the south or west. Why
don't the southerners and westerners
do their own manufacturing? I could
not help trying to imagine what a pop?
ulous and wealthy region the Missis?
sippi valley will be when to the won?
drous richness of the soil is added the
incalculable wealth which manufactur?
ing institutions will bring. On the
whole, after a hasty personal ocular in?
spection, my solemn conviction is that
the present New England is the most
amazing monument ever erected to hu?
man energy, intelligence, industry and
ambition.
First and last, 1 have now been in 20
states of the Union, in two territories
and the District of Columbia. The
more 1 see of our country the more I
thank and praise Almighty God for
giving us such a home, and the mere
heartily I sing.
My country, 'tis cf theo,
Sweot land c; liberty.
Of thee I sir.?.
The strangest and most pleasant bit
of political information I picked up on
this trip is the fact that the Rhode Is?
land Democrats are as fond of William
J. Bryan as we are out west.
Outrages Irs l?stho.
The investigation which the military
affairs committee of the house is mak?
ing into the outrages committed under
martial law in Idaho is bound to help
the Democrats a great deal in the im?
pending election. Great credit is due
to the Democrats on that committee
for holding on with bulldog tenacity
until they get at the truth. John J.
Lentz of Ohio and William Sulzer of
New York are taking the leading part
in prodding the Republicans. Both are
good lawyers, and 'they can't be bull?
dozed, browbeaten, terrorized er chok?
ed off till they ascertain the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
out of the outrageous, un-American
and brutal capers cut out there by cer?
tain persons dressed in .a little brief
authority. When fully told, the tale
of the Idaho "bull pen" will rival in
ghastly horrors the story of the black
hole of Calcutta, which Macaulay has
made immortal.
Things were done in Idaho under
Republican misrule in the dosing days
of the nineteenth century which rival
in damnableness any of the acts per?
formed in the dark ages. Little by lit?
tle, inch by inch, the Democrats of the
committee on military affairs are drag?
ging the truth to the light of day.
When it is published, it will malchi the
American people from ocean to ocean
gasp in astonishment and iii! them
with honest indiguation and tvrath
against the men who have either caus?
ed or connived at such atrocities. The
popular account against the Republic?
an party is already a long 'one. but it
grows day by day, and there will be an
accurate and stern settlement^of it on
the first Tuesday after the first Mon?
day in next November. Perhaps it
will bc a final sen lenient with the Re?
publican party, fer. having-abandoned
every principle for which it originally
stood, ir has no raison d'etre-no rea?
son for being.
Progress.
An Egyptian paper announces that
"first class, up to date, modern dining'
cars" are to be run this season between
Cairo and Luxor and that "an Ameri?
can dentist has started in business at;
Assouan, which is on the edge of the!
Sudan." A "palace hotel" at Khartum'
for the special accommodation of tour-'
tets will also be completed and opened1