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FOK STATE OKFICER8.I
"CHaRLKS A.CULBERSON.
Lieutenant Governor
GEORGE T. JESTER.
Attorney General
M. M. CRANE.
Land Commissioner
A. J. BAKER.
Comptroller
11. W.FIXLEY.
Treasurer
W. B. WORTH AM.
Public Instruction
J. M. CARLISLE.
Chief Justice Supreme Court
Jt. R. OA INKS.
Aehcciate Justices Supreme Court
T.J. BROWN
L. O. DKNMAN.
Judges Court Criminal Appeala""
j.M.nuiti
W. L. DAVIDSON -iZZCA
JOHN N. HENDERSON.;
Court of civil a pphhIb -
H. C. FISHER Chief Justice.
for Congress
JOSEPH D. HA YERS.
FOR COUNTY OFFICERS.
Representatives
A. H. GRAHAM
R H. WARD.
District Attorney.
A. ri. BL'RLKSON.
Clerk of Inatrict Couri
JAME4 P. HART.
County Judge
D. A. McKAt.L.
County !ltrfc
JOHN W. HOKNaBY.
County Attorney
GEORUK CALHOUN.
Couo'y Collpctor
V. B. 1 rllU-UlKR.
Coum'.v A-'n-'or
H. M. MKI'Z.
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MJOR HUlClirsON'ri ADVO-
CACY OK THK FORCK LAW.
Mr. Suyer.-f fpvu'.ff a moBt dauiag-
lnjf Ihct it)j..ii.ni Mjor Hutchison at
Kyi me oilier mxlii. lu ajointdia-
CusIimi ht'twei o Oiese gentlemen
Major Snyers rp'id n letter from Wm.
E. Mny:i!inl a-nl Ciptain Orgain.two
iii-i.ly i''ii'h citizens of Bastrop
in wine) ilti-y diclure thut Majsr
Hukiiicoi! in his Hpiecli in Raetrop
cui:ty mm ilio I'l'.h of August 1894
deii-uiifii-d tin D-.niucratlc partr for
repealing the rVfrHl election law
which iieni id also continued by
Judge (UrwioJ. l"ie law was in-
tended to oper"' ione in the t?outb-
ern HtaM'H und wmud have mhjacted
the .'South to a kind ot vassalage to
the ledi-ral givtriuumt as adminis-
tert dlivtiiH lU'i uuiicmi prty. We
mil-'' fy it i-i witti grtat surprise
4ttia' w- lirnr en reliably of
M:i) ir Ml'Wi-ihi favoring any
s.i-h !:( I'lif rrspeoiable prt
of til- R-iiitiliC'i'i party in t lie
S iuiii i piMift d tin l-w did all 1 lie
Dem i t i! j at in: iiu uit to lli inde-
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oppressive features.
Democrats such men
late Sam Randall
threw themselves in the breech and
aided the northern Democrats to de
f...f la I lit it Ih not too Iat
tn hold candidates lor cougres
.oa..naiiiifiirihfi mivdfaev cf euch
law. It ia etrauge that .Major nuiuui
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sou had the temerity to run for con
gress in the south with such a record
Hemuithave known it would nav
hxnn iiha.1 fatftll v against him. As tar
as his rjolitical asperatioua are con
cerned his advocacy of the force law
ia enough to condemn bim and sent
ence him exclusevely to private life
in which according to these gentle
man r.f Rastrnn. he nlaVB a mucn
more honorable part lhau he does
politics.
in
fatnr avr made the same
fhnriro against Major Hutchison
at Han Marcos but it was iu bis clos
lug speech and Major Hutchison had
no opportunity to rier.y it. n
pressed us so much that we gave
MBlnr Hutchison the benefit of the
doubt aud said nothing about it real'y
bonlnjrthat he might iu some way
exnlain it. but as the charge baa been
repeated and he stands silent under
it we muat conclude that he can make
no denial or explanation.
We say we are sorry for it. Major
Havers could have beaten Major
Hutchison without making that gen
tleman obnoxious to the people with
whom he lives aud we regret that a
man for whose private character we
have so much respect should so de
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one of the most radically op
pressivolawa that a Republican ma-
loritv in congress have auerupieu
to niu in harrass. annoy and Humili
ate tl e Houthern citizen voter He
one of the last men that we supposed
would have manifested euch a ppirit
towards the ueoole among whom he
was born and reared and through
whom he has prospered.
We repeat it grieves us to hear it
fur tmiii.if!l differences have never
influenced our estimate of men iu so-
cial life but such a spirit as the ad vo
cacy of the federal election laws man
ifests a willingness to resort to any
expedient of annoyance aud humilia
tiou to advantage the Republican can
didate iu such a contest to be sett.ed
hi? fiiriil bavoueta. or the same
thing armed lederal marshals.
We know well who those
marshals would have beeu
under a Republican administration.
The most desperate negroes of the
country would have formed the body
of the marahais controlled and urged
on by some "roughs" from the North.
We can't forgive Major Hutchison
either privately or politically for ad
vocatiDtf such a sepervision of elec
tions in the South as the enactment
of the force bill would have entailed
upon us. Imagine that at each poll
ing box in the South a bully from the
North with his select coterie of the
very worst negross ne coiuu uuu
armed to the teeth. What kind of
fraedom would a Houthern Democrat
have had at such an election box?
The fact is the South would not have
submitted to it and the very first elec
tion under it would have plunged the
South in dilliculties for they would
have resorted to arms and blood would
have flowed like water and then
think of the consequences. Are you
American freemen respectable citi-
zens going to vote for a man that ad-
vocates that state ol affairs? If we
had heard this of Major Hutchison
before he announced aa a candidate
for congreaB we would have thought
he had lost his mind for it thoroughly
belies any act of Major Hutchi.ton'a
life. God forbid that freemeu should
vote lor euch a man to represent them
iu congreaa.
Evethart Will Fight Atbott
dpt'clttl to The mntcBmnu.
Houston. Sept. 7. Jack Everhart
who recently defeated Stanton Abbott
is iu tliis city today. He received a
challenge from Abbott for another
fight before iuy reputable club for the
baine purse they fought for before the
stipulation being that either Dully or
Eciihardt referee tlio light. Everhart
wired that he would uecept the chal-
lenge the referee cuttiug no figure
provided he is allowed $200 for train-
ing expenses.
THE PLAIN f ROOF
Of
Awardi to Br. Price'i Cream Baking
Powder at the Fain
Aueiuioua New York competitor
who triea to sell interior goods by
labeling them "absolutely pure"
aeeks to belittle the award of highest
honors to Dr. Price's Cream Baking
r'owder at the World's Columbian
exposition by denying th!t such hon-
ors were conferred.
The award to Dr. Price's U proved
by the olllcial record.
Clilef of Awards I). S. Browning
writer: "The records ot thia depart-
ment (ligriculture) shows that the ex-
ecutive committee on awards officially
announced some time ago that an
award had been granted the Price
Raking Powder i' uupany 0:1 its ex-
hibit ol bilking powder."
The Hon. John Boyd ThaU'tur.
chaii'iii'tu ol the expeuuvo committee
011 awcifts also writes ur.der date ol
K. I. 11 iMil:
"I herewith enclose you an ofllci
enpy of your award which in due
tlint will be iiiM'ribed in the diploma
and forwarded."
Why did t lie New York competitor
not exhibit? Va it because his
I owder contained ammonia?
The award to Dr. Price's at Chicago
was for strength purity aud general
excellence.
Ou similar grounds it received the
higheat award and gold medal at the
California Midwinter fair.
atthttN WEEKLY STATESMAN
DEMOCRATS 0? GEORGIA
ENlERi AIMED BY SPEAKER
CRISP AND SECRETARY SMITH
Speaker Crisp Reviews the Work of ths
Fifty-third Congress on the Tariff
Law While Secretary Smith
Deals in National
Finances.
Atlanta Sept. 7.-A mass meeting
of Democrats was held here this even-
eniug. The principal features were
the speeches of flpeukor Crisp review-
in" the work of congress aud of Sec
.trv Hnke Smith agaiost the free
coinage of silver. Speaker Crisp de-
clared his personal preference for the
free coinage of silver. Much enthusi
asm woa displayed.
r.peike.- Cri-p spoke as follows:
"When the Fitty-third congress met
in August of last yearn was couiromeu
.iriw7iffiiiiitiHS which i-eeuied edinost
insurmountable. Trade was paralyzed
manufacturing had almost ceased
labor was idle our baaking instittn
-in ia wpr fjiiinir and confidence life
aud soul ot commerce was utterly de
stroked. As tar as this deplorable
condition wtis attributed to legislation
rhe Republican perty was responsioie.
For more than $u years iu j pari.y iwu
made our liudncial aud economical
lav.-s. Until the meeting of the Fifty-
third congress The Democracy was
uiithmit. raiwtr. The conditions which
confronted us while not. wholly -was
very largely due to evil legislation iu
173 the free coinage of silver had been
discontinued and gold became the
standard of value. In 1873 partial
isMnaire was resumed lu lo'JU tins
ln.w was reoealed and soou thereafter
frtiiini?e of silver practically ceased."
These acts 01 tue 11epuu11ud.11 pany
resulted in so lessening the volume of
monev of final redemption as ro ae
nrpnsfi the ririce of all commodities
for the increase ot tue Duraens 01 an
debtors and impair the conndence ot
the people in the power ot rne govern-
ment aud of bankiog institutions to
redeem their outstanding obligations.
A law and a practice which allows a
citizen to pay his obligations to the
government in silver and at the same
time permits him to demand of the
izoveromfjnt cold in redemption of its
obligations is manifestly unreasona-
ble and unjust and in the nature of
the case must impair the confidence
and tend to produce panic.
"For 30 vears the Kepuuncans nad
beeu buildinar uo tariff walls around
the country aud in 1890 passed a pro
tective tariff law. A protective tariff
restricts trade end commerce it limits
the market in which we must buy and
depresses the markets in which we
must sell. It is a tax .upon a foreign
product which the consumer here
muf t pay. By taxing his foreign com-
petitor you enable the domestic manu-
facturer to increase the price of his
wares to the extent of the tax and
his. too. the consumer hero must pay.
Then you buy foreign goods and pay
the duty it goes into the treasury and
Is called a "tax;" when you buy the
domestic produce and pay the in-
creased price it goes into the pocket of
the American manufacturer ana is
called "protection." The location
of the manufactory determines
the name but the rate of the
utv determines the price. Under
such a tariff you must buy in a market
where competition is destroyed and
where scarcity is created by law. You
must tell at prices fixed in a market
where free trade and thb lawot supply
and demand prevails. Trade and
commerce is the exchange of coiuuio
dities. A protective tariff prevents U3
from exchanging our surplus of corn
cotton wheat aud other farm products
for the surplus of manufactured goods
abroad. We freely export our pro-
ducts but that for which we exchange
it is so heavily taxed as to make the
exchange unprofitable. Commerce
censes when gain is gotm; one cannot
buv unless he sells nor can he sell un-
less he can buy. Commerce and agri-
culture go hand iu hand; when one
ceases the other languishes. The laws
which destroy the one make the other
unprofitable. Taxed crude materials
injure and depress manufacturing.
It wan 8 the markets of the world
but under the protective tariff has not
been able to enter them. A protec-
tive tariff fosters and builds up trusts
aud monopolies it creates no wealth
it only praveuts its natural aud just
distribution.
"Thirty years of such a ayytem did
much to produce the condition exist-
ing when the Fifty-third congress met.
What has the Democratic cougress so
far done for the people? The first
matter considered was the liuancial
qnesiiou. What should or could be
uoue on the silver question? We had
pledged ourselves agoiust the make-
shift Sherman law aud iu favor of both
gold and silver as the Ftandard money
of the counfry. By an agree-
ment arrived at beeweeu Democrats
we determined to take the t-ense
of the house on the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at several
ratios. After lull debate a separate
vote was bad ou each and ou the re-
peal of the purchasing clause oi the
Shermau act. The result you know.
While not professing to understand
the queition fully iu all Its bearings
I have always been iu favor of the
free coinage of silver. I am now in
favor of it. I believe the fears of our
Irieuds who oppose it are largely im-
aginary and 1 believe tbeeoactmeut
ot audi a law would nfl'otd great - re-
liei to the people of ihe dnuitry. So
feeling I need not eay thar. to me
personally the vote on the tree coin-
age of silver wis a great disappoint-
ment. This question is Dot eetted.
"With our great struggle for tarili
reform you are famihat. Thirty
years of cla.-a legislation built up in
thia country laii;e trusts large mo
nbpolies aud combinations ot opital.
All there interests were arrayed
agninst us ami in the bitter contest
through which we passed were ear-
nestly aidtid iiy compact Repub-
lican minority. "All thut wealth and
energy ami nil that intelligence and
capacity could do was daily and
hourly done to detest the ciu?e of the
people. Under these conditions our
progress was slow. The house framed
and pised a tariiT bill; this weul to
the senate; after a long aud tedious
struggle the senate passed this bill
with amendments. Finally theques
tion was presented in such fashion
) that we must either accept the senate
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13. 1894.
bill or have no bill thus permitting
the odioua McKiuley law to reniaiu
upon the statutes. Wheu we were
convinced such waa the tru situation
we did Dot hesitate a moment we ac
cepted the senate ameudmeui aud so
the bill became a law.
"This law is not all we hoped for.
It contains provisions we aeplore
provisions which the bouse by a sep-
arate bill immediately repealed and
yet taken as a whole it goes further
in the direction of relief to a tax rid-
den people tban any bill that has
been considered iu any congiess since
the war. Its reduction ot ratea is
greater than those proposed in either
the Morrison or Mills bill. While we
have not done all we hoped to do we
have done more for their relief than
was ever done by any paity in the
same lengtn ot time in any country
under the sun. These are bold words.
yet I hold myaell at all times ready to
ueiena tnem.
"Coming into power at a time of
panic when business was at a Btand
still when labor was unemployed
when our treasury was empty with
courage ana ndelity we entered upon
a struggle with the enemies of the
people; we emerged from that strug-
gle victorious in the end.
" We have repealed the McKiuley
law.
" We have made living cheaper.
" We have made all money taxable.
" We have taxed surplus incomes.
"We have restored tieedomof elec-
tions. " We have reduced public expendi-
tures and we have declared undying
hostility to all trusts and monopolies
organized for the oppression oi the
people. On these foundations 'we
ouiia our nouae'; on these issues we
go before the people. For them we
have 'fought the good fight'; to them
we have kept the faith anu of them
we have no fear."
HOKE SMITH'S SPEECH.
Upou the conclusion f Speaker
Crip's speech Secretay Hoke Smith
was introduced
In opening his remarks the secre-
tary reviewed the liuancial troubles
of the past 18 months and congratula-
ted the South as well as Georgia upou
the show made. The attention ot the
commercial world had been attracted
and he predicted for the section a pe-
riod of development and marked pros-
perity such as it bad never before ex-
perienced. The Cotton 8ta es Inter-
national exposition would have proved
ot great assistance in this work but
the attention of capital once secured
its con id ence must also be won and
it was therefore of the utmost im-
portance to the future welfare of the
slate that in the coming election the
people of Georgia should show the
world that the wild theories of Popu
lists have no foothold amongst them.
Calling attention to the recent ex-
perience in the great states of Kansas
and Colorado under Populist rule the
secretary asked "Who would wish
to see Georgia follow tbe lealership
of a Lewelling or a Wail?" Bad aa
was the record of the Third party iu
the West the crazy theories of their
leaders in congress were enough to
stagger comprehension and shock
thoughtful men. They sought dis-
bursements amounting in the aggre-
gate to over $35000000000. The peo-
pie of Georgia could not afford to
endorse such a party. The state
would be disorganized locally and
disciedited before fhe world if it ap
peared to have ever listened to their
empracticable theories. Few ot their
beliefs were worthy of discussion but
there was one which seemed to have
appeared attractive although when
carelul investigation was made it
must be classified with their other
theories as almost equally wild and
impracticable.
He referred to the free and unlim-
iled coinage of silver at the ratio 0II6
to 1 by the United States alone and
declared it to be a plaa utterly in v
rianco with eouud money priociplds
and fraught with Incalculable evils.
He did not wiah hia position misun-
derstood. He was a thorough hi-
metallist strong in his laitb aud no
oue could be more unalterably op-
posed to the adoptiou of a single gold
standard. Such a course would brins
about a contraction of the currency
calcelated to cripple industries and to
lessen the demand tor supplies.
The iijury inflicted by a single
standard currency had been recently
demonstrated abroad aud the evil ef-
fects had been felt here upon products
of this country raised for foreign con-
sumption. He believed these evil ef-
fects would be lesaened by preserving
ihepreseut per capita of currency
here but where the three fourths ot
our great cotton product goes abroad
three-fourths of the injury could not
be reached except by the success ot
bimetallism in the places of coueump-
tioD. Currency in the United Stares
had not been contra; ed but ou the
contrary the per capita today was
S24.19 as against an average of $14 85
from 1S50 to 1800.
The secretary thou described the
eight different kiudB ol money now
uaed lu tnia couutry aud maintained
that the instant any ODeof these weul
to a premium it would become com-
modity for private sale aud contrac-
tion wouid follow but by preserving
them on an equality and by an in
crease equal to the growth of hain'SH
and population contraction would be
prevented.
This could be accomplished first
bv exchausiug the bullion in a silver
dollar ao as to require a hundred cents
worth of silver in every aouar; sec
ond by international agreement
which.it secured would prevent the
necessity ot changing tbe ratio; or
third by caliiog iu all money ot email
friiominattons say!;U ami less not
ousisiing of silver and giving silvei
the right of way. Fie urged the re
peal ol tbe 10 per cent tax on etle
h'ltiftsnsa remedy within tbeconno:
01 tbe United States ot gr .-.t valua.
A Iter sketching Hi" history of silver
lenionetization ny Germany in 1871
and -ubeequentlv i.y .Norway
n. Denmark. Holland. i-tasji and
the other nationscomprislrgthe Latin
union Secreiary Smith psid:
"In the meantime the uniceu ?i'Xt(
had ehansrea from th coinage of niMy
8 .03101)0 in silver in b) years up to
1873 to the coiuage 01 iiy.i-jo.noo
taudard silver dollac ana to me p ar-
chass of silver upon whicn treasu-y
uotes were issued making a total
coinage value of f570000000 of silver
used in this country during tbe last
"0 years. From an average 01 nuu.uuu
a year the unitea oiaies uau uunugeu
to the use of nearly $30000000 a year.
The annual product of silver in the
meantime had changed from SSO.000-
000 at coiaage ratio in 1873 to S-00-000000
at coinage ratio in 1S9:2 and
depreciated in value about 50 per cent.
From these facts several conclusions
are Irresistible: First the people ot
the United States have the usa of 70
timea as much silver money of full
legal tender as they had betere 1873;
second the depreciation in the value
of silver is due tocauses other than its
treatment in the United States. It is
therefore evident that silver at a ratio
of 16 to 1 if unlimited coinage is at-
tempted in this country muse either
flood our mints with enormous quan-
tities of silver which would at once
depreciate the value of our money or
ic will be coined only in reasonable
quantities and then could not sub
siautially affect the mercantile valu
of tte bullion throughout the wotld
In either event we would be to;ced to
the exclusive use of a dollar worth
ouly little more than half the present
dollar. It would cause the settle-
ment of contracts as the rate of
50 cents on the dollar. It would re-
quire the reorginization of all prices
to be adapted 10 the new depreciated
currency. It would compel a cbaugo
of all legislation fixing salaries it
would necessitate the entire readjust-
ment of the private and government
business of the United States to meet
conditions caused by a degraded dol-
lar. The confusion incident to such
changes could scarcely be described.
Comme'cial disorder business wreck
aud ruin must at once be precipitated.
No panic lrom which our country ever
suffered h.s been comparable to the
one which haa been inflicted upon the
industrial interest by such actiou.
The fear that the government of the
United States would not be able to
maintain Us various moneys on a
parity but that we were on the point
ot being forced to the silver standard
with results similar to those just de-
scribed materially contributed to the
panic of last year.
For the condition of the treasury
which led la part to this fear the
Republicun administration was re-
sponsible. The whoie of Mr. Har-
rison's administration with the ex
ception of the first year (which re-
ceived its impetus from the excellent
financial conditions existing at tbe
close of Mi. Cleveland's term) waa
one of tailing revenues of increased
expenditures and a heavy expertation
of gold. The receipts during tbe
Cleveland administration were $62-
000000 less thau during the Harrison
administration while the total expen
ditures were over $281000000 less;
$22 000000 gold were imported into
this country in excess of tbe amount
exported during Cleveland's term
while Mr. Harrison retired from office
witn a Let gold ba'ance against us
of nearly $158000000. These fig-
urea are sVjrtliug. The net export-
of gold during thu last three. moarhs
of Mr. Harrison's adiaiu:stra-ion
amouted to $30000000 while the next
oxports of gold during the fiscal year
ending June 30 1894 amounted to
$1580000. During the Republican
administration expenditures increas-
ed at the rate of $00000000 a year
while the revenue decreased more
$18000000 annually. Mr. Cleveland
retired leaving a fiurpiua in the
trasury of $230348000. Four years of
Republican miarule reduced the sur-
plus to $624-50000 with chargea fixed
for the ensuing year amounting in
round numbers to $95000000 in excess
ol the revenues.
The condition of the treasury
know to the financial world occasion-
ed alarm lest the government could
not longer maintain at par the enor-
mous burden of $12000000 of silver
intrinsically worth about 65 cents on
tbe dollar and $150000000 of Sherman
notes predicated on silver ol the same
character.
This was not the only cauae of the
depression. Financial panics may be
expected about every twenty years
judging by past history of this couu-
try and one was due early in the
nineties. The Baring failure in Lon-
don also is largely responsible for
rhe demoralization ol business but
tbe feais were intensified by the fact
that tue government is already carry-
ing an immense volume of currency
intrinsically worth less tban its par
value could not stand the additional
annual purchase of $60000000 provided
or by ths Sherman act and main-
tHi'u i's silver at par. It wm appar-
ent that uulessthese purchases should
cease the day would come when gold
and silver do'lara could no looger be
maintained at a parity and would
reach their commercial value rather
than their legal value driving gold at
ouca out of circulation and bringing
this coun-ry to a single silver etaud-
ard with toe same evil consequences
that would follow the free and unlim
Ped coinage of silver at the ratio of
15 to 1 by the Uoited States alone.
Tue repeal ot tne purchasing clause of
the Sherman bill stopped the panic
and where money could not be had at
any price in the summer of 1893 it can
now he reaaily obtained at
low raie3 of interest. And
yet with ihe terrible experi-
ence of last year fresh in our minds it
is proposed to open the miueB with-
out a limit to the flow of silver that
would certainly produce monometal-
lism. The fear of silver monometal-
lism materially contributed to last
year's panic. What would happen
with free aud unlimited coinage of
siver which would absolutely pro-
duce euch a reaull?
Mr. Smith closed his speech with
an appeal to the voters ot the state to
remain true to the Democratic princi-
ples of sound money inaugurated by
Jefferson supported by Jackson t.d
preserved by CI. veland.
GERM ANT.
PRINCESS KISMARCK RELAPSES.
Berlin Sept. 7. A dispatch from
Varsein this morning Kays that
Princess Bismarck bad a plight re-
lapse. Her condition however. s Lu!
serious.
AUSTRIA.
(1EOKOE 00111) HONORED.
Vienna Sept. 7. Commodore Kd
Morgun aud Mr. George J. Gould
have been elected members of the
Royal Yacht Squadron of Arstria
Hungary. Mr. Gould was proposed
for membership by Arch Duke
Stephan aud the nomination was sec-
onded by Prince Ba thyani-Stratt-mann.
THE DEBS CONTEMPT CASE Of
THE COURT ADMITS EVERYTHNlG
OFFERED IN EVIDENCE.
Railroad Employes Testify to Various
Acts Which Intimidated Them From
Discharging Their Duties Con-
tested Evidence.
Chicago Sept. 7. The examination
of railroad strikers waa begun today
In the trial of the American Railway
union officials. Switchman Krieger
of the Chicago Milwaukee and St
Paul testified that Conductor Mc-
Auliffe head of the Milwaukee Amer-
icau Railway union had come to him
with a request from Debs that all the
Milwaukee railway men Btrike.
"McAuliffe said that Debs was sure
we would win" the witness said "and
urged us to go out. I replied that if
we could be assured that our places
would be secure if the strike should
be lost that tbe men would strike. Not
many of them went out however."
A fireman on the St. Paul road tes-
tilieel that he had left his place be-
cause oi intimidation and an engineer
on the same line said he was told that
if he did not leave his engine he would
never get out of Chicago alive.
William I Henry of Kankakee a
switchman in the employ of the Illi-
nois Indiana and Iowa rail wpy was
tne next witness ana one of the most
important offered by the government
oecanse ne nad personally received
telegram ordering him to call out the
men. Mr. Irwin objected to the tes;
timony because it concerned a road
not included in the injunction but
the court decided to admit the evi.
deuce as possibly throwing light on
the intentions of the correspondents.
Replying to Mr.1 Waller the witness
produced several telegrams he received
at Kankakee signed E. V. Debs. All
of these he read. The first was re-
ceived by the witness on July 1 and
read: "Adopt measures to get Big
Four out. Promise protection to all
whether members or not. Appoint a
committee and wire name of chairman.
At that time witness was a member
of the American Railway Union. Wit-
ness showed the telegram when he re
ceived it to several switchmen but
took no further action. During the
trial today Judge Woods expressed
the opinion that street lines can be
considered as engaced iu interstate
commerce because persons en route to
railway stations to take trains for dis-
tant points ride in them. He also de
clares the' business of the Union stock
jards to be interstate commerce.
Ac tue afternoon session several
witnesses testified to acts ol violence
committed at various point9 during
the btrike Their evidences was ob.
jveced to by the defense on the ground
mail it wae wnony ioreign to the issue
because it did not show that any ot
the actual defendants in the case
Debs Howard. Keliher. Rogers or
any other directors of the American
Railway Union were in any way con-
nected with such disturbances.
Mr. Walker asaistant United States
attorney replied that he vmild nh
how the connection came later and) .
the evidence wbb promptly admitted
uy me uoun ujiun mac assurance xne 177
defense alao objecteu to all testi-
mony that deit with tbe acts
of the strikers before July
2 the day on which (he injunction of
Justices Woods and GrosscuD. the
basis of the contempts were posted.
In overruling this objection the court
said that auch evidence was admitted
to show that the situation on the days
succeeding the posting of the injunc-
tion was better than before or in
other words that no attention was
paid to the orders of the court.
Just betore the afternoon session
adjourned Mr. Erwln arose and burst
into a heated denunciation of the-
methods pursued by the government's
attorneys. He said: ' The govern-
ment has no more right to lay before
your honor this strained condition of
public duty thau it has to vex the
public by this proceedings."
Judge Woods Beomed surprised at
Mr. Erwin's sudden break theh lean-
ing forward In hia chair calmly said:
"The court of course gives counsel
credit for candor in all three of his
objections aud has not announced to
the contrary iu one way or another
and so far as the burden thrown on
the court is concerned the court will
necessarily have to bear it. But it is
expressly averred in this information
that these scenes of violence did go on
and that your people were responsi-
ble for them. No-y I don't pretend to
know or say or guess how the gov-
ernment can carry its proof in that res-
pect but I don't see because one wit-
ness haa testified to a thing that I
have not the right to allow another
to testify to the same thing. Of
course so far as the public Is concern-
ed it is desirable that no mistake
should be made and I intend it will
be the responsible duty of the court to
put the matter in shape that the pub-
lic will understand how we have pro-
ceeded."
Aojournea.
State of Ohio City of Toledo
Lucas County. ) B8'
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the fiJin of
F. J. Cheney & Co.. iioiug business in
the city of Toledo county and state
aforesaid and tbat said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL-
LARS for each and every case of ca
tnrrh that cannot be cured bv the use
of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Fraxk J. CHKJJKr.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in u:y presence this 6:h day of De-
ciiitier A. D. 1SS6.
Seal A. W. Glrasojt
Notary Public.
M.-ili's f!aarrli Cure is takeu inter-
ri:U!y and vc dirscTly on the blood
and mucoid yurfaces of the system.
Send for te.-r inionial free.
F. J. CuKsi-T & Co. Toledo O.
.iT-Sold by druggists 73c
CENTSAL AMERICA.
AMERICAN REFUGEES.
Colon Sept. 7.-The United State- i&l
warship Columbia has been ordejtd '
to convey the American refugeerat
Port Llruon back to Bluefields Kios- "
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