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OfMtaaHea aed tributes of respects will be
swarged for.
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BRYAN SPEAKS
IN WASHINGTON.
Takes Oooaslon to Say Some?
thing About Civil
Service.
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Waskisgtoa. Ool 23 ?William J.
Bryaa epsat bo hour tod a asarter at
aa* eatioaal septtal today. Hie traio
arrived ?vor Iks Ckeeapeeks aad Ohio
Ire? Wool Virgiaie at 7.46 o'eloek tkis
. ao ?oor lato. About 1,000
war? vaittBf for hin ?I ike
[r Brya? was takes to tbe reitdeooe
?I efodgo 8prs?gsr, opposite ike eapt
tel, wkara ke breakfasted A fan
saraatas kefora 9 o'oloek Mr BryM was
drtvsa I? Ike Baltimore a od Oh o de
pat, ?kor? ke aiade a brief speech from
?ia aetoaaokils. Ho spoke oo imperial
ieas aad eivil sarviae Abooi 5,000
de were matted aroood the depot.
Ir Bryao said :
"Oasaaiooally I bear it suggested
tkst peraoos engaged io tke oifil ser?
vice) r/ko are opposed to imperialism
?fill fota Ike Hspskltees tiokst for fear
of loosiag their positiooe witk tke gov*
?ramsol. Certainly there are ool
assay who wo?ld prefer government
eei ploy meat ooder ao empire to whar
?v?r risk might atleod their employ
aisBt ??der ? repoblio. I an oot
as ?eh ?I ao admirer of that oitil
ssretss wkieh ie eoipeoded whoa a
preetdeat io ioaogorated aior.il be oao
ill tka a?les< witk kia frioads aod is
sstsadsd by tke prseidsM wkeo he is
aftjowl to retire, io orrfer tkat be may
proteet kts frieodt ia ernes I believe
tkat a eystsm of aivd service might be
devised wbereta appoiotmeots woold bo
aiade apoa meru aod wkereio the
appointees woold bold for a fixed term
aad aot be dapeodeot apoo tbe will of
?? appoiatiog officer Tbe industrial
despotism oot ioaogorated by tbe
RepabltesB party is olosiog the door of
epportootty agaiost yooog meo aod
drtviog many to seek government
aaeploymeat who oodar better eoodi
tioea woold be employed io prodooiog
aadastriss "
Mr Bryao closed with the itatemeot
tkat it was oot bit kigkeet ambition to
be preetdeat, "hot to make ibis govern
ate et ao good tkat to be a privata oitiieo
it tkis repobiie will be a greater kooor
tkao to ke a klag ia any other aattoo:'
Before roaekiog Waibiogtoo the
traia oa wkieh Mr Bryao earns io made
a krisf atop st Aleisodria, Va Tke
statsmeat kad beeo made io advaooe
that Mr Brya? woold make a brief
epeeek ia tkat towo aod a Isrgo number
ef people eoogrsgatad at tbe railroad
yards to greet him They reoeivod him
with voctfcroae ebears, bot oo time wae
gitso for a speeeb. Mr Bryso oaly
kad time to ray thai he telt oomplimeol
ad to kaee so msoy people oome oot to
greet kiai ao sarly io tka moroiog. H
fait, ka raid, ture of Virginia's support,
sod from wkat ks bad seen of other
Stets* reeeotly ke felt jostifled io a.seri
i?g that Virginia woold hate pleoty of
Boajpaoy oo election day
Tke ooly other atop to Virgioia after
daylim-hi was at Maoasaai That poiot
was retched at a very early boor The
stop wae ooly for a momeot aod Mr
Bryao did oot appear. Nevertheless
there was a erowd at tke statioo.
Penglon Hunters.
Wssbiogioo. Oot. 23 ?Many in
qoirie? have been made recently at
the pen?ioo office ?o to tbe status of
claiea? filed for pensions by soldier*
of the Spanien-American war Com
mieeioner Evans said today that the
bureao scarcely had time to respond
to sll the inquiries, bnt tr ?t the etaims
were being adjudicated aa rapidly as
possible. TTe sdded that some of Ibc
claims bad been delayed .>y the difli
ooltj io obtaining the necessary offi
Cisl records at the war department
"There have been filed 31,000
claims on sccount of tbe Spanish
American war op to Monday morn
ing, Oot 22," enid the commissioner.
"Calla have been rnsde for evidencr
io 33,424 of Ihese claims Medical
examinations have been ordered by
Ibis bureau in 28,324 claims The
difference between the uurober of
claims filed and the number of medi?
cal ?laminationa ordered, practically
represents the nombet of widows'
?ad dependents' claims
Poor thousand two hundred and
IwirtT ????? of these olsims have
b**s) aatiwdiowiwd alrsady "
>t and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou l
TER. S. C WEDNES
responsibility to plaoo his responsibili?
ty against that of one who ban no
responsibility reposed upon him by a
party, and I want your party leaders
to answer the questions that I am go?
ing to ask/'
Mr Bryan then quoted from the pres?
ident's message of Deoember 5, 1898,
reeommeodtog the ioorease of tbe army
to 100,000 meo, and asked if tbe
Republican party, through anyone
authorised to speak, will deolars that
Republican suoosss this fall meaos a
standing army of 100,000 meo in this
ooootry.
Hit second question was : "If the
Declaration of Independence is true
that governments derive their just
power from the oonsent of tbe govern?
ed, I want to ask bow yoo can bay tbe
right to govern people or seoure title
to tbem by force ?"
The third question was: "Is the
Filipino going to be a oitiien or
?objsot ?"
And tbe fourth : "Can you purchase
trade with human blood ?''
Tbe fifth question related to tbe
establishment of a proteotorate to tbe
Philippine islands, oonoerniog which
Mr Bryan said :
"Republicans lay that we eannot
proteot tbe Filipinos without a great
deal of trouble. We bate protected
tbe republics of Central and South
Amerioa for 75 years, and we have
bad oo authority to those South Amer?
ican countries. We have never gov?
erned tbem but we have proteeted
them from outside ioterfereoee. It has
never cost anything, bat it has been
valuable to tbem
"The Republican doctrine it tne doe
trine behind whieh tbe monarchies of
tbe old world have bidden wbeo they
have waoted to plunder from the peo?
ple instead of protecting tham. Ours
it a different proteotorate.'1
Concluded hit presentation of these
inquiries, Mr Rryan taid ;
"When ihe Republicans get through
aoawering those five questions I will
have tome more for them The
trouble it that tbe Ropublioao party it
oot attempting to meet the issue of this
eompaigo. He then took np various other
questions involved io tbe campaign
aod preeented bit usual arguments oo
state subjects after oaoolodtog bit
meetiog at the tent, Mr Bryan wat
driven to the Grand opera boose,
where he made hit laat tpeeoh of the
night to a congregation composed
largely of ladies, some of whom bad
held their teats there for three or four
hours
TELLER STEALS 8EVEN
HUNDRED THOUSAND.
New York, Oot 23 ?C. L. Alvord.
oote teller of tbe Firtt National baok,
it a defaulter to the amount of $700,
00fj, Alvord has oot yet beeo appro
bended He bad been an employe of
the baok for over tweoty years.
The Firtt Natiooal is one of the
largest backing institutions io tbe otty
aod itt president it George F. Baker,
who it alto pretident of the Attor Na?
tiooal baok aod a financial adviser of
the Attor family. Tbe baok it located
at No 2 Wall ttreet and bat a capital
of $500,000 aod a surplus of (5,000,
000
Population of Cities.
Washington, Oot 25.?Tbe census
bureau in a bulletin issued today
summarizes tbe returns of population
of oitiee having 25,000 inhabitants or
more in 1000, the individual census
of each of these oitiee having been
officially announced heretofore.
There are 159 of tbeee and the
bulletin abowe that tbe peroeitagc
of increase io their population t oni
1890 to 1900 was 32 5, against 49 5
for tbe same oitiee in the previous
decade. Tbe absolute ioorease in tbe
population of these cities from 1890
to 1900, wee 4,839,136 or 82,426 less
than tbe absolute increase from 1880
to 1890, wbeo it wae 4,921,562. Tbe
159 cities combined have a popula?
tion in 1900 of 19,694.625, againet
14,855,489 in 1890, and 9,933,927 in
1880. Of these 159 oitiee divided
into four classes, 19 had' 200,000 and
over 19, bad 100.000 and under 200,
000, 40 had 50,000 and under 100,.
000, and 81 had 25,000 and under
50,000 In 1880 there were but 20
cities which contained more than 100,
000 inhabitants, but io lc?0 this
number had increased to 28, and in
1900 to 38.. In 1900 there are 78
cities of 50,000 inhabitants or more
as compared with 58 in 1890 and 35
in 1880.
- mam ?i -
A Gold Nugget Worth $154,
000.
Now York, Ott 26? The bigfest
IVfget of L'"ld ever received a' the
tatty ottos of Wall -tn,et, tcoordiog to
Superintendent Meto?, arrival today
finm a mining company in llrltlth
Columbia It wa* oon*igned to the
New York aaenis of th. Bank of Mon
treal The nugget contained a frac?
tion over 753 pounds of the solid
ysliow metal aod is valued at JIM -
000. It oaoae io a solid eooe aod stood
Iwo feet high.
OHO"
kims't at, bo thy Country's, thy God's.
IDAY. OCTOBER 31,
Alvord, theGmat Embezzler
A. Friend Thinks he is Daad
But Nothing is Known of
Him
New York, Oot 24.?Cornelius L.
Alvord, the defsuHiog note teller of the
First National Bsok, has oot beeo
arrested, and it is said do oews has
beeo received of him. Mrs Alvord left
her home io Mount Verooo aod oame
to this oity this moroiog. It is said
she does oot intend to return to Mount
Verooo.
Many personal frienes of Alvord in
Monnt Verooo believe he has committed
Buioide. J. H Murphy, ooe of the
backer's saost intimate frieods, said
today be firmly believed that Alvord
bad takeo hit owo life.
"He is juu the tort of a mao who
would do tiooh a thing," said Mr
Murphy. "While he is perbtpt pleg
ooatio and apparently taket mattere as
they come, he is in reality a sensitive
man.
"I wish, its bis personal friend, to
deny the story correct that there was
soother woman in whom he was inter?
ested He was deeply attaohed to bis
wife aod family aod did oot assooiate
with a fast set."
The following supplementary state?
ment was given oot by the First
National Back this afterooon.
"Alvord's false entries appear to
have commerced aboat five years ago.
Ooe of his daties was to oolleot drafts
aod ootes oot payable tbroogh the clear*
ing bouse, a ooosiderable part of these
usually being: paid io cash. He appro?
priated a portion of this cash from time
to time, as opportunity offered, before
aoy of it was turned over to the money
olerk
"The disorepaooy was ooooealed by
adding to the item of 'exchanges for
elearicg houses1 oo the note teller's
balaooe book an amouot equal to tbe
sum of abPtraotioos. Until bis reoeot
disappearance, Alvord bad oot beeo
absent from the back during ooe busi?
ness day this year. He did oot take
bis usual vaoatioo last summer, request,
iog that iostead he might take a month
next winter for a trip to California."
The iotereotiog feature of the supple*
meotary eta.ement is tbe positive
assertion, that Alvord bad oot beeo
absent from tbe baok ooe bustooss day
this year. Mr Hine repeated this
statement after an examination of the
time books, h wbioh every day's leave
of abseooe by aoy employe of the
baok is enter ;d. This ooctradiots the
numerous reports that Alvord was a
regular attendact aod heavy bettor at
tbe Saratoga races this last season.
The paragraph in the same state
meet explaioiog how Alvord operated,
was shown to several experienood bauk
officials. Th 3 only poiot made olear to
them was thai. Alvord'* opportunity in
bis haodliog of the bank's cash as col?
lector were unusual, aod also that it
has beeo admitted that be always
earried cash balaooes. An important
offioial of ooo of tbe leading backs
said :
"Io most banks the oote teller is
obliged to adjust bis balaooes after tbe
olose of every day's business, aod his
aoooonts should be eheoked off by bia
olerks aod "proved" by tbe other tellers.
Had this system obtaioed at tbe First
Natiooal I do oot see bow Alvord oould
have worked his game longer thao for
a few months at tbe utmost."
Io spite of Vioe Presideot Hioes'
denial, it is regarded as extremely
probable that Alvord took a large sum
of money shortly before be left
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE
New York, Oot 25 ?The steamer
Wacoamaw, the first of a fleet of six
steamers, tu be put in operation by tbe
Atlantic Coast Steamship Compaoy for
tbe lumber trade oo tbe Atlaotio coast,
betweeo Gaorgetowo, S C , and North?
ern ports as far as Boston, has arrived
here from Toledo, Ohio.
Tbe Atlaotio Coast Steamship Com?
paoy is a oew organization, with a
capital of $1,000,000, wbioh will eo
gage io oarryiog lumber from George*
town to Northern seaboard markets
Macon, Ga., Oct 24.?It was
learned here today that two negroes,
James Giier and James Calloway,
were lynched by white farmers near
Liberty Hill, in Lake county. While
out hunting they shot recklessly into
a farmer's house, frightening a young
while woman
Macon, Ga , Oct. 24 ?A story
roaches here of an extraordinary
lynching near Wellston, in Houston
county LaRt week a negro was
lynched at that place for assault on a
white woman Sunday another
negro assaulted a girl of his own
race. The man was captured and
D eg toes of the vicinity aRked the
white citizens to let them have him
This was complied with and the
negro was lynched in the woods
Charlotte, N O , Oct. 24 ?A negro
woman named Carry C aid well, who
lived in the northern part of Mecklen?
burg, county, N C , this morning
killed her three children and com?
mitted suicide.
!and;;Truth's." the
1900. \ Nev
United States Powder
Magazine Exploded.
No Lives Were Lost at Indian
Head.
Washington, Ojt 25?At 8 o'clock
this morning Admiral O'Neill, chief of
the ordnance bureau oavy department,
reoeived a telephonic message from the
proving grounds at Iodiao Head report
iog that about 10 o'clock laet night a
fire aod several explosions occurred io
ooe of the filling bouses aod magazines.
No other damage was done aod oo ooe
injured. Lieut Strauss, oommaodant
at Indian Head, oame up on a naval tog
and at onoe went to the navy depart?
ment, where he made a leogtby verbal
report to Admiral O'Neill. The latter
theo gave out tbe foilowiog details pre*
seated by Lieut Strauss :
Tbe ezplosioo occurred io a email
magazine of the proving ground, aod
this io turn set fire to ao adjacent
boildiog, where ammooitioo was stored,
both tbe magazine aud other building
beiog destroyed. Tbe magazine was
opeoed at 10 o'clock yesterday morn?
ing to take oot a quaotity of powder.
At that time its temperature was taken
at 64 degrees, which is quite low, the
temperature in ship magasines being as
high as 90 degrees. It was then dosed
for the day. At 4 80 p. m. a watoh
man made his usoal rouods of inspection
and fouod everything about tbe maga?
zine io proper oider. At 8 30 p. m
tbe t waobmao again made his round
aod turoed in a report showing every?
thing in proper order. At 10 15 p
m. the explosion occurred, without
warning aod without the slightest olew
as to what ocoassiooed it. There was
io the magazine at tbe time of the
explosion 8,000 poonds of black
powder, 30.000 pounds of smokeless
powder and ? lot of brown powder,
probably about 7,000 pounds. After
the first explosion tbe fire fouod its way
to the ammooitioo, und thia caused
uoeessive explosions, astiog until after
midnight. Most of he powder was
destroyed, but some of the smokeless
powder lies scattered abrot io heaps,
oot having been igoitetV Many of the
shells aod smaller piojeotiles also are
yiog about or exploded, although show
ing the effects of beat.
Death of tbe Oldest of Flor?
ence's Citizens
John H. Husbands, the oldest oitiisn
of Fiorenoe, aod one of the best koowo,
died this moroiog at 3 o'clock at his
residence oo Evans street. He was io
the seventy-sixth year of his age and
up to a few months ago bad been ao
aotive man, bu?y with bis work from
suo to 6on aod from week to week
He oame to Florence in 1858, wbeo tbe
Northeastern road was first finished,
aod opeoed a wheel wright aod under?
taking ahop aod a store io a building
oow destroyed, whioh stood oo the
eoroer of Evaos street aod the railroad.
?Florence Times, Oot 25.
His Right Arm Badly Broken.
Florence, October 25.?Clifton
Whitton, a popular young dry goods
clerk, while out riding this afternoon
was thrown from the buggy and his
right arm broken in two places, the
bones protruding through the flesh
He was picked up by Mr. R J. Mul
drow and brought to town.
Boer Successes.
Capo Town, Oct 26.?The Boere
have captured Jaoobsdal, southwest of
Kimberley, after a stubboro resistaoce
opoo the part of the garrison, whioh
consisted of a detachment of Cape Towo
Highlanders The latter suffered severe?
ly, losing 34 out of 52 men.
Hans Botba hai out off a traio with
a reconnoiteriog party of the Highland
brigade, between Heidelberg and Grey
liogstadt, in tbe Transvaal oolony,
tearing up the rails in front and bebind
the train. In tbe fight whioh followed
two captains aod eight men were
wounded and all were captured.
? ? ????^saaw
"Stung by the eooial ostracism from
wbioh they have suffered ever siooe
Thomas Nelson Page, at Old Home
D*y, in Concord, N H. , lashed the
eooiety of Newport aud New York with
terrible vituperation, the Pages, it is
averted, have deotded to close their
house and flee to Europe as a refuge,"
says the Washington correspondent of the
New York Journal All of Mr Page'd
friends io Washington indignantly deny
that the closing of tbe bouse and
departure of the family have anything
to do with hiti recent attack on society,
?8 it is known m Newport.." This
in aaid to be what modo "socie'y" mad !
"I make so bold as to assert that not
only are there not fifty mtllion peope in
'this country who sit with envious, if
not adoring gat3, ?astcned upon that
spectacle of divorced and doubly
divorced men aod women and their
sycophants and parasites, but that, out
side of their owo oirole, tbero are not
fifty thousand peoplo in all Amerioa
who do oot reprobate aod deride their
arrogance."
TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jene ?2f
v Series?Vol. XX. Xo. 14
COTTON SEED MILL
INDUSTRY'S GROWTH
So Rapid That the Mills Have
to Get Together.
Oo Monday night there was a con?
ference of representatives from about
80 per cent of tbe cotton oil mills in
South Carolioa. It was held io this
city, aod tbe rapid development of the
industry io this State made it neces?
sary.
Tbe first mill io this State was start?
ed to this city by Gee B. P. Alezaoder
soon after tbe war. It was erode and
experimental. Tbe first real cotton
seed oil mill was established io 1881
aod was located io Charleston. Today
there are 67 mills io 8ooth Carolins,
aod they are using 220,000 tons of cot?
ton seed annually.
Cottoo seed oil mills have to have
oottoo seed. They have to buy the
seed where they oao get it at overy sta
tioo io tbe State. All along each mill
has bad to look oot after its own buy?
ing, aod all over tbe State tbe compa?
nies have established warehouses aod
scales. At some stations, as the com?
ber of mills increased, these plants had
to increase, aod many of the mills are
ooable to get room to pnt io 6ueb
pUnts, thus forcing Colombia for in?
stance to boy from Fort Mill, near
Charlotte, where she has a plaot, aod
Charlotte to boy from stations near
Colombia where she has plaots. This
has gooe to sooh ao eiteot ibat the
mills decided to ooafer aod combioe
their interests oo a business basis, all
getting the use of established soales
aod ware booses aod boyicg their cot
I too seed oo a ooiform basis, Colombia
I gettiog tbe seed nearest her and Char
I lotte gettiog that nearest her. Soeh
ao agreemeot was reached aod the com?
plications have thus beeo dooc away
with.?Tbe State.
SATS HIS WIFE IS CRAZY.
Washington, Got 23.?Lunacy pro?
ceedings were instituted by tbe district
commissioners today against Katbarioe
S Maekey, wife of former Judge
Thomas J. Maokey of South Carolioa.
who was discharged from tbe govern?
ment hospital for tbe insane about 10
days ogo oo habeas corpus petitioned
for by ber husband.
Tbe petition filed io tbe supreme
oaurt of the district today is signed aod
sworn to by Mr Mackey, aod tho nbjeet
of the proceediogs is to have Mrs
Maokey rcoommitted to tbe asylum.
Judge Maokey alleges io his petition
that his wife is a luoitio of bomfoidal
aod otherwise daogerooo tendencies ;
that she has been such a lunatio
since the 10:h of October, 1900 ; that
the cause of her luoaey is unknown to
bim, bot if the representations made
to bim are true, she is unfit to be at
large.
A bearing of the petition will b3 hsld
next Friday.
Washington, Ost 26 ?Thomas J,
Maokey, ex circuit ooort jodge of Sooth
Carolioa, who seversl days ago madci
applieatioo to have his wife recom?
mitted to the government hospital
for tke iosaoe. todsy withdrew the peti?
tion He aooouooed that be would
oever bring tbe case before the court
again Mrs Mackey reoeotly was re?
leased from tbe asylom co r writ of
habeas corpus iostitoted by ber bus
bind.
Father of Centennials
The centennial of tbe birth of George
liioorofr, tho great historian, was ap?
propriately celebrated at Woroester,
Mass, this mootb The origoator of
this centennial celebration was Mo
Donald Furmao. who was also the
father of .he Colombia oeotenoial lo
ao editorial tbe Woreester Gazette
says:
"The first suggestion that tho cen?
tenary of George Bancroft be fittingly
observed was made by MeDooald For
mao of Privateer, Somter County, South
Carolioa. Mr Furmao w-ote to the
Gatdtto calling attention to tbe faot that
the ocoteoary was approaching nod
suggesting that it be observed The
daughters of the American revolution
took up the idea, aod that in turn
stimulated the antiquarian socioti^s to
aotioo. It was to Mr Farmiu that the
movement owes its beginning M?The
State
- ?**? ?? ?
Bt!too, Oot 23 ?Yesterday while co
his way home Mr Arthur MoGse, a
farmer living a few miles below this
place, disappeared and has oot beeo
peen or heard from f?ooe. It is believ?
ed that he was waylaid and murdered,
robbery being the primo motive, as bo
bad ?250 with him when left town.
Wilmington, Del, Oct 23?Tho
first colored man ever naturalized iu
this State is Wm Anu^don, aged 32
veirs, a natia-* of Liberia, who has
been granted his final papers by Judge
Bradford io the Federal court here.
Anderson's grandfather was a former
presideot of Liberia, but the new oiti
zeo has resided io Wilmington siooe he
was five years of age.
April, I860.
?*Be Jus
SUM
Important Declarations i
by Mr Wm J. Bryan.
He Delivered Nineteen Ad?
dresses Yesterday.
Wilmington, Del. Oct 24 ?Mr
Bryao mode two speeches of some
leogth io Ibis city tonight after hav?
ing made 17 other addresses daring
tbe day. Beginniog it St Michaels,
on tbe eaetern shore of Maryland, he
spoke in succession at Easton, Pres?
ton, Hurlock, Vienna, Salisbury.
Berlin, all of which are io Maryland,
aod st Frankford, Georgetown, Mil*
ford, Harrington, Dover, Clayton,
Middletowo, Kirkwood and New
Castle, io Delaware. Tbe audiences
of the day ware as a role fair sized
aod a majority of tham were n or
oogbly appreoiative At a few of
tbe stopping plsoes in Delaware
there wsa apparent lack of enthusi
asm
Tbe first of Mr Bryan's night
meetings in this oity wss held io a
big tent, end while tbe meeting bo?
gen muoh earlier. Mr Bryan did oot
sppear until 9 o'clock He bad a
loag aod busy day and found it
necesssry to take an unusually pro?
longed rest tfter bis arrival in this
oity The tent waa orowded to euf
focation After expressing bis grati?
fication at being present, Bryan took
oognizsnoe of a series of questions
propounded to bim by John P. Nieldo
of this oity
The questions were as follows :
1. Will be, if eleoted president, as
commander in-chief, immediately
withdraw tbe army from tbe Philip
pinee ?
2. How does he cootemplste that
a sttble form of government can be
given to the Philippines ?
3 How sooo after a stable form of
government is established does he
propoee that eoogress shsll deolare
tbe iodependeuoe of these islands ?
4 How soon after a stable form of
government is established and inde?
pendence is declared does be pro?
pose tbst tbe American proteotorate
over tbe Philippioe islands shall con?
tinue ?
5 Will be pay the obligations of
this government io silver or gold, if
eleoted ?
Mr Bryan took op the qoeetiooe
aod replied to them ss follows :
As a reply to tbe first question be
quoted from bis speech of accept?
ance, saying : "I stated tbst if eleot?
ed preeideut I would immedistely
convene congress in eztraordinary
session and would ssk congress to
declare tbe notion's policy in tbe
Philippine islsnds, ss we sre now
establishing a stable form of govern?
ment in Cobs ; to declaro our purpose
to give independence to the Filipinos
ss we bsve promised to give inde
pendece to tbe Cabsns ; to deolare
onr purpose to give proteottoo to tbe
Filipinoe as we bsve promised to
give protection to tbe Cubans and
have for 75 years given proteotioo to
the repoblios of Central aod South
America.'1
Oo the secood question, he said :
? No one bss attempted to fiz the
number oi boors or dsys or weeke or
months necessary, bot I will ssy
this, that I believe tbst we could
establish a stable government in tbe
Philippines in less time tbsn tbe
Republican party baa estsblisbed one
, in Cubs, and 1 think I osn promise
you tbst our officiate would not
embezzle ao Republican officials
embezzled Cobsn money "
j To tbe third question, he answered
that in his speech of acceptance it
waa proposed to give tbem indepeud
?ace as soon as their stable govern
ment is estsblisbed. The phase
"aod aa sooo'' means "immedistely"
iu our langusge ; I don't know what
it means iu Republican," and answer*
ing tbe fourth question he ssid:
"If the questioner bad read my
?peech be would hsvs seen tbst there
wss no limit on the proteotorate, sod
we believe tbst this nstion can assert
the doctrine that when this nstion
holds a republic to stand upon its
feet the ground whereon it stands is
holy ground, snd tbst no king shsll
ever set bis foot on it "
On tbe fifth question, relstive to
paying the obligations of this govern?
ment in gold or silver if elected presi*
dent, be ssid :
"1 want tho Republicans who
want that question answered to first
find out whst the lew requires, and
then I want them to know that if
elected president 1 will enforco that
law just aa 1 will enforce the law
against trusts, and put striped clothes
on big thievea as well as little
tliiev? H Hut if yon ?sk me to con
Htrue a Republican law I will reply
that 't shall not construe a law until
it becomes my duty to enforce it
Having replied to the questions.
Mr Bryan thou propounded some of
his own. He said :
HIS INTERROGATIONS.
' Now I waot to aak five questions,
sod ss I ssk these questions I waot
some responsible mao to answer tbem
It to hardly (sir foi a mao who hot