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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1892. C21 THE BLAINE MOVE. Republican Kally. Soietbim Untoi Maspradiiig in Guttering Amor. m THE AMI-HARRISON" COHORTS. A Feeling Which Leads to a Search for the True Inward Motive. A HKNACETO PEACE IN THE PARTY. Not a Blaine, bat an Anti-Harrison Fight A Lulcewarraness, and Bound by Instructions. Chicago, May 31. Unfortunately for it, the Blaine movement is not regarded as being exactly what it pretends to be. There is a suspicion that back of it, masquerading in the glittering armor of the "plumed knight," is something un- knightly base. It is doubtful whether the men who are now turning their faces toward Minneapolis, keeping step to Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, are sin cere in their declaration that Mr. Blaine will be nominated : that if nominated he would accept, or if he accepted lie would A moderately well filled house listened to a very able address at the Court Jionse last Saturday evening, by Hon. C . V. Fulton of Astoria. Mr. Fulton reviewed the history of the two great parties in their relation to the tariff question and pointed out, by an interesting eeries of facts and figures, that the United btates had always prospered under a high pro tective tariff. He contended that the United States had a right to take ad vantage of her situation with relation to other.countries as well as to her own natural resources. All parties asked for the exclusion of the Chineee. Why ex clude them from the country and yet permit-tliem to dump into it the pro duct of their cheap labor at home? He scored the democratic party for propos ing to put wool on the free list and yet tax the - manufactured product. The price of wool had not fallen in the United States as it has in other wool producing countries. In March 1892, j the same class of wool that brought 19 cents in, Philadelphia sold at 10M cents in Liverpool. He explained the reci procity clause of the McKinley law and showed how it had increased our ex ports. Our trade with Cuba has nearly doubled. In January 1891, Cuba bought from us 2,700 sacks of flour and 38,000 from Spain. Under reciprocity in Jan uary 1892, we shipped them 64,000 sacks and Spain none. Competition has re duced the price of our home products. There is not a protected article in exist ence that is not cheaper than it was when we used to buy it abroad. Thirty- eight million dollars are already invested OPENED" IN SYRACUSE. The Anti-Snap Democrats of New Tort State in Session. . THEVANDERBILTS FOR CLEVELAND. They Pear a Western Man, and Want to Have Both Tickets Sound. THEY COULD THEN REST EASY. Another Letter Coming. .AASHiSGTOx, June 1. Major Dan Ransdall marshal of the District of Col umbia, one of the closest personal friends of the president, and probably the most constant visitor at the White House, in Washington or out of it, says : "Mr. Blaine will write another . letter. He will again decline to allow his name to go before the Minneapolis convention." As the major spoke so confidently and serionsly about Mr. Blaine's intentions, the reporter remarked that he must have some reason for making the state ment. "I have" -Jie said, '!and I am certain of it. You" may quote me as saying it, and you can put.it down as certain that the president will be ' re nominated on the first ballot." The Silver Bill. Western Men Suspected of Being: Loaded With Isms Inimical to Rail war Interests. be able physically to stand the labor and in the tin industry and if protection is harrassments of a presidential contest. This feeling leads to a search for other motives than the Blaine motive in the fight against President Harrison. It is perfectly clear that the Blaine crv has continued, in a short time tin will be cheaper than it ever was. The foreigner has no interest in the stars and stripes. Why should he be admitted into the best market in the world without pay leen raised merely to muster a following J ing for the privilege? If the protective that can be directed against Harrison, policy is worth anything, it is worth The magic name of the magnetic states- supporting and it was his hearer's duty, to put men on guard devoted to it, as an economic policy. LAMPRETS AND SEAL.. Sportiveness of the Latter in Feeding Upon the former. It is remarked by fishermen that they have never before noticed so many eels. The rocks of the narrow channels at the Dalles throngh which the water rushes swiftly are lined with lampreys, which in their efforts to ascend the rapids fasten themselves to the rocks as high above the water as they can reach by their succor-like mouths, and by a vigorous blow on the surface of the stream with their tails propel themselves along "step by step." There are also manv seal disporting in the river, on the lookout for the fat salmon. These seals appear to derive a great deal of amusement from catching the lampreys. They will wiggle along up on a ledge of rocks till they find the president know this, and they realize a PIace wl,ere scores of lhe la,nPre.V8 are that it is a menacing dancer. Growintr clustered, and then flop offinto the water up out oi the Blaine movement is there- and eieze a mothfnl f them antl swim fore a possibility that -bv threatening Sailv down the stream with their beads Harrison with an undignified defeat the elevat.ed above the water and their prey Blaine demonstration may drive him wriiuiugauuequinuingaooui, meir jaws. x lie seais seem 10 minx mis great iun, and call to one another and sport about in apparent delight. Lieutenant Taylor, in charge of the work on the Cascade locks, says that there are many seals in that vicinity. They haunt a big eddy opposite the locks, and amuse themselves by swimming up to the head of it and then dodge out into the swift current and are swept down, their sleek heads bobbing around in the torrent. They appear to enjoy this sport as much as boys do slidingdown hill. In the wheels at the cascades, in addition to the blue backs, many chinook salmon and num bers of salmon trout are taken. man can be relied on to bring forth both numbers and enthusiasm. It is not in probable that the opponents of Mr. Har rison have in view the possibility of forcing the president out of the fight. They may push Blaine up to the point where a roll-call is the next thing in or- der. They may menace the peace of the party and the good order of the conven tion, and all for the purpose of nomina ting, not Mr. Blaine, but some one who will subserve their individual ends and ambitions. It is necessary to keep in mind that this is an anti-Harrison fight, not a Blaine fight. Xhe inen and the delegates who favor the president's renomination are not violently enthusiastic for him. Some of the three hundred delegates who are in structed for him are bound only by their instructions. It is so with some of the Illinois delegates. They are a degree worse than lukewarm. The backers of from the field upon the promise that Mr. Blaine, too, will withdraw. That this desperate hope finds lodgement in the bosoms of the Clark son crowd is apparent. Beyond that point it would be difficult to cast a horoscope. Yet the overwean ing ambition of Alger is no small factor m this general uproar. Old Fort Sutter Gold. Sackamento, May 31. The sealed metal receptacle found on the site of old Fort Sutter last week by the contractor who is building a memorial hall there for the native sons of the golden west, who now own the site, contained over $20,000 worth of gold dust. This find may make a difference in the plans of "the-hall to.be erected. Other deposits .of like character are supposed to be bur ied in the vicinity. It has always been believed that there are considerable sums iu dust hidden around the old fort by miners who came down from the : mountains in early days and who died -or were killed before recovering it. Jfotably in this supposed to be the caee during the cholera plague of the early fifties, when scores died suddenly in and around this historical spot. Lincoln Republican Club." The Epworth League. Omaha, May 31. Yesterday a through discussion of the work of the Epworth league was had, and every department of this growing society was. carefully in vestigated and a number of improve ments were made in the management ot this young but vigorous -organization. While the church believes it the best policy to have all the young people go into this one society, yet it will not an tagonize any society whose object is the same but whose name is different from . hat of the Epworth league. Dr. J. F. Berry, the present editor of the Ep worth Herald, received 404 out ot 430 rotes, and was re-elected. ..... . A Fatal Fire. Boston, May 27. A fire broke out at about 2 o'clock . this morning in the . upper part of the Hotel Royal, a cheap lodging house. The fire was quickly , subdued by the department, but not be fore one man was suffocated, and several overcome by smoke or burned. Some 260 lodgers were . in . this portion of the building. Three were removed to the hospital nearlv asphvxlated. Dam ages $2o,000. . Mosiek, Or., May 27, 1892. An organization of republicans was effected at this place last evening hav ing the above title and comprising a membership of some thirty persons. Thomas Harlan was chosen permanent chairman; Milton Harlan, secretary; Robt. Densmore, treasurer' and S. D. Fisher, Frank Weidner, John Wilberg, Chas. A. Cramer, M. Deitzenmiller, John Singleton, W. E. Husky, Rees Prather and Nathan Sturges, executive committee. The various localities of the district were well represented at the convention and the session was enthu siastic and harmonious. Remarks were made relative to the rapidly-increasing population of this section and the neces sity for organized effort to promote thorough republican principles and fit ting recognition by the balance of the county and state. At the meeting it was decided to hold a public demonstra tion in the grove adjoining the town.prop erly supplied with benches, stand and decorations, on Saturday next at 1 p. m., when the gathering will be addressed by such well known speakers as Hon. C. W. Fulton, of Astoria, Hon. M. P. Isen berg, of Hood River; Hon. W. H. Wil son, Hon. B. S. Huntington and Judge C. N. Thornbury, of The Dalles. After the routine of business Was disposed of the meeting adjourned to meet at call of the chairman. H.'Arlan. A Quieting Keport. New York, Tune 1. A dispatch to the secretary of the National republican committee from, M. H. De Young, stating in positive terms that the California del egation is favorable to Blaine; had a quieting effect in the camp of the anti Harrison people. . v Syracuse, N. Y., June 1. The anti snap democracy of this state met in ses sion here yesterday, in opposition to Tammany, and Hills' midwinter con vention. The meeting was called to or der by ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles C. Fairchild. chairman of the state committee. Fairchild made a brief speech, in which he spoke of the strength of the movement atrainst Hill ' and its growth since the convention was called, and said they had only to go on in a spirit of justice, and calmly, to ac complish what he believed would do more for the democratic party in the state of New York than all other politi cal movements in the last generation. Wise ones are of opinion that the con vention is backed by the Vanderbilt in terests and the railway interests gener ally, which look with disfavor on Tam many's antagonism of Mr. Cleveland. This belief is founded on the fact that prominent railway officials are sup porting the ex-president in a very ag gressive manner. While the conclusion is logical, is can hardly be said to have been fully demonstrated as yet. It is safe to assume in support of this view that the Vanderbiltsr and other railway owners, have not lost sight ot tneir in terests which may be affected by the re sult in November. They would like to see a sale man on each ot the party tickets. They could then rest easy. The western man is what men like the Yandcrbilts fear the most. . To them the j western man is an .embodiment of western ideas. He is suspected of being loaded with isms. Drawing millions from the west, the Yanderbilts look with apprehension on any attempt to nomi nate a candidate for president from the west. It follows, therefore, that Tam many's opposition to Cleveland, inviting as it does the selection of a western man, incurs the disaproval of the Vanderbilts. This, taken in connection with the ag gressiveness of the Vanderbilt agents, tends to confirm a belief that they are anxious to see Mr. Cleveland nominated. The anti-snap platform presented to the convention denounces tlie republican party and the billion dollar congress ; contrasts Clevelands' administration favorably ; declares that New York shall not be a blank space on the democratic map ; then denounces the McKinley act at length in its effect on commercial de velopements. The silver plank is as follows: We approve of the use of both gold and silver as money, but de mand that all . dollars whether ' gold or silver, shall be equal in value to each other, in fact as well as by declaration of law. We are opposed to the free coinage of silver by the United States alone at the existing ratio of 16 to 1 because we do not believe that free coinage at that ratio will produce an eqality of real Value between the gold and the silver dollar. The platform then takes up the demo cratic factional fight in "New York, and without mentioning names, denounces the methods employed in calling the midwinter convention by Hill's friends. Washixgto.v, " June : ' 1. Yesterday afternoon the bill to . provide for the iree coining oi saver was taken up in the senate. There were then about a dozen senators on each side of the cham ber. Sherman, had been in his seat for the preceding half hour waiting for the bill. Teller and Stewart were also pres ent in frequent consultation. Sherman prefaced the speech on the silver bill by saying that he did not regard it as a par tisan measure, or a political measure, on which the parties would likely divide. It was largely a local measure. There was no -question to be compared with it in importance, or in its effects on the business interests of the countrv. PUTT IS SARCASTIC. How Can a Man lie a (M Citizen, Witflont Offering PRAYERS FOR HARRISON'S ELECTION Thinks it Morally Impossible for any one to Oppose, him. ONLY FOR KEVEMGKFT7L MOTIVES. A-Kescuer Drowned.. Bakkbsfield, Cal., Juiiel. The body of Charles E. Jewett, who was drowned yesterday in attempting to rescue the two Grenville boys in the Kern river, was found last night lodged in the roots of a tree on an island about two miles below the month of the canyon." His head was mashed into a jelly. His body was terribly bruised and a leg and arm broken. The body is now lying in the morgue awaiting the arrival of the rela tives. Over 100 people are out search ing along the river for the remains of the two boys, but thus lar not a trace of them has been found. The river still continues very high. The South Carolina Style. Newbury, May 31. Dr. Sampson Pope, Clerk of the senate, a big alliance man and a supporter of Gov. ' Tillman broke a walking stick over the head of Col. Elliseon Keitt, an alliance man, who leads the fight for the third party in thisatate. ' Yesterday Keitt bad accused Pope of shirking during the war. Pope was arrested. He pleaded guilty aud was let off with a small fine. More Than Willing to Subscribe to Kil- tfkusiastie Praise of the Admln i ifltration Qther News.. A Way to Kill Negroes St. Locif, May 27. Hnry Shelton is pretty well known among the young men of Olive street who take rides with drivers out for a spin through the park. Y'esterday Shelton got on the seat of a furniture van with the driver, a friend of his, named Jack. Jack drove for a warehouse on Olive street, whose owner calls it the "Pantechnicon.", "How do you pronounce the name of that ware house of yours?" asked Shelton. "The Pantechnicon," said Jack. Shelton made an effort to repeat the word, gasped and fell sideways off the seat. Jack caught him bv the coat with one hand, stopped the horse and let Shelton down to the street. Then, jumping down af ter him, be found that Shelton was dead. A bloodvessel in his heart had been rup tured. The doctors say it was caused by the effort to pronounce the, word. Shelton was colored and ignorant, and it is believed the combination of physi cal and mental labor involved in the pronunciation was the cause of the rupture. Railroad Smashup. Indianapolis, May 31. A Lake Erie passenger train went through a bridge near Fisher station this morning. No body was killed, although the passen gers were badly shaken up, and the rolling stock considerably damaged. Cholera and Famine. Caiigctta, May 31. The cholera at Serinagur, vale of Cashmere, has caused 1,600 deaths in thejpast wek. The panic among tho natives was augmented by fire, which destroyed 2,000 houses and rendered 8,000 people homeless. The crops are almost a failure, and food is at famine prices. The Europeans have all fled. The deaths since May 7th have been 2,4oO. ' Telegraphic Flashes. Brazil has sold 1,000,000 5 per cent treasury bonds to the Rothschilds at 97. Count Leo Tolstoi, the well-known writer and philanthropist, is seriously ill In St- Petersburg. The MeMinnville postoffice, and sev eral adjacent buildings' were destroyed bv fire" Tuesday morning. Losses $12,000.. The new Aspinwall steamship Colum bia, five days and twenty-three hours from Colon, running at three-quarters speed, making the fastest passage' on record, got into quarantineon her maid' en trip.. ' . The Western Union' telegraph com' pany has arranged to send bulletin from the national conventions, in con nection with the associated press, to all parts of the country,, and give them to the public free of charge. Eight European governments have ac cepted tb . invitation to participate in the monetary conference. There is no longer any doubt of. such meeting. . The president will probably, transmit the correspondence to congress in a few days. Iowa's contributions- for the starving Russians, has reached its destination. As provisions, etc., were loaded on cars, the cargo made 310 carloads. These were run as express trains, and as soon as- loaded, started; for the distressed provinces. Yolney V. Ash ford and Robert Will- eox, well Known agitators, were arrested in Honolulu, together with eighteen others, May 21st, after a meeting of the liberal party. They are charged with conspiring to overthrow the present government and to establish a republic. A Paris dispatch says the Italian court party desires war and is trying to push the country in that direction. King Humbert will soon be compelled to do something to escape a revolution and financial disaster and will do . his utmost to induce Germany to open war. The annual report of the directors of the Suez Canal company shows during the past year that traffic through the canal has increased 1,807,268 tons.V A net dividend of 36 francs and 50 centimes was declared. The directors announce an intention to make a further reduction of 50 centimes in the tolls, beginning January 1st, 1893. 1 New York, June , 2. Ex-Senator Thomas C. Piatt whose opposition to President Harrison's nomination is no secret, when seen today regarding the interview with the president in which Mr.. Harrison was reported as saying that he did not believe "individual dig appointment" would control the action of the convention at Minneapolis, said The remarks about 'individual disap pointment' indicate how thoroughly the president misapprehends the. nature of the opposition to. his candidacy, and how wise is the American system of frequent changes in the personnel of the govern ment. "It is astonishing how quickly and how easily is the process by which a man comes to look upon the . office he holds as his private property. He be comes accustomed to the homage which follows in its train, and regards it as little less than impious to suggest that he had better make way for another. The president cannot understand how a man can be a good citizen without offer ing a prayer night and day for the re election of Benjamin Harrison. He does not conceive it to be morally possi ble for any one to oppose him, except from bad, selfish and revengeful motives, Now I am what cor mugwump friends delight to stigmatize as an un practical politician. I look at things as they really are. The president says in this interview that he has acted con scientiously in the discharge of his pub lic duties. It is far from me to question that. I am more than willing to sub scribe to really enthusiastic praise of his administration. It certainly has done great things,, but the , president should not assume that he is the only man who, since 1889, has contributed to its achiev ments. He is only one of many states men who conjointly have labored to thei- country's hbnor and advantage. Blaine gave us the last attractive and popular feature to our policy the magnificent scheme of reciprocity, which" bas saved to the people $80,000,000 of taxation here, and on their exports half as much more in the foreign countries where they are sent. He has extended our foreign trade not less than $75,000,000, and promises soon to do vastly more than that. Now, if I remember rightly, when Blaine sent to the president his pan-American report, proposing reciprocity, Mr. Harri son forwarded it to congress with some thing like a sneer. In short, be threw cold water on reciprocity. . Later, when Blaine's public letters demonstrated that the people were with him and his great policy, and when con gress put it into- law : and Brazil gave Blaine a treaty, the president went starring through the south, saying very much about the glories of reciprocity and very little about the statesman who contrived iti: Reciprocity is the brightest jewel in the erown of this- administra tion ; but whose jewel is it? This admin istration settled the Samoan difficulty with Germany ; that was a particularly ugly and delicate affair and undoubtedly great credit is due to the republican government' which adjusted it so promply, so neatly and so advantag eously. I dare say the president should come in for his share of the credit, but it was not he who drew the instructions under which our commissioners acted, and it was certainly they who did the business. They were able men. K as son is a most experienced diplomat, . Phelps is a man of great tact and descretion, and Bates, Mr. Bayard's friend from Delaware,' bad been to Samoa and ..knew all about the situation. It was a victory for the . Harrison ad ministration, but we must not wholly forget Blaine, Kansas, Phelps and Batts. The Chilian affair was also a victory, and the president was . highly con spicuova at the finish, but even there he- must divide honors with the secretary oi the navy, who built and armed cruisers between nightfall and morning for two weeks before the Chilians were down on their knees in abject apology, and with Commander Evans, whose martial de meanor gave the Chilean admiral a ter rible cramp. We must not leave out Tracy and Evans. ''This administration has vindicated the honor of the Ameri-' can hog. Now for the first time in twenty years American meat products are admitted in every European market on. the same terms with the meat products of other lands, and in some markets on terms even more favorable. I have had some difficulty in figuring out just who bas done this. Certainlv it was done primarily by the agents 'of the state de partment : by MiniPter Reid in France, Phelphs in Germany, by Minister Grant in Australia, and by other ministers. If I remember correctly, Mr. Reid began this work with a hostile Parisianrees, a hostile French public, a hostile cham ber f deputies and, at thefirt, a hostile government to contend with. He gave such a character to the American hog as to enable it to force ite wav not only into the irench market, but into every other. No my excellent friend, Secre tary Rusk' has said that he is very much obliged to Mr. Blaine and the state department for the able , assistance they have rendered to him in securing the admission of American meat pro ducts abroud. This seems to me that it was Rusk who did it. "In a recent speech, the president himself said that this result had been accomplished, in such complacent terms as to make me fear . that Rusk bad counted without his host; but wbetherit Lwas done by the president or by Rusk, the republican party and the country will not be likely to forget that Blaine was in the state department, that Reid was at Paris, that Phelps was at Berlin, ana that their relation to, the victory. was not altogether mechanical. "It might be said perhaps that thfl credit of the achievements wrought by republican statesmen belongs especially to the president on the ground that he' gave those great men to the party ; but did he? Certainly it was not Harrison who made Blaine, nor did he make Reid, nor William McKinley, nor John Sherman, nor Allison, nor Aldrich, nor Frye, nor Hale. I guess mavbe he did make Noble and Miller, and I shall not object to his having all the credit which attaches to their careers ; but the point I wish to bring out is that ours is a gov eminent of parties, and not a govern ment of men. The president's error lies in assuming that he has done it all. "He asks the country to Eee in him the inspirator and creator of nil that has-brought process and happiness1 to the people since he began to reside in the White House ; he attributes to uim self all the glorious achievements of the last congress, quite ignoring the superb genius whose strong arm and clear head turned havoc into order and made the feeble- majority of three or four the most prolific and successful body of law- inakera'that ever sat in congress. The McKinley bill, the customs act, the shipping bill, the pension law, the navy construction laws, the' fortification law, the army reform acts, the wonderful leg lslation which the republican majority of that congress formulated, and which Thomas B. Reed's resolute will enabled them to enact, Mr. Harrison attributes to himself, and savs: "See what i have done." The Sacramento Klrer. bACRAME.vrw, June i. lhe river IS surprisingeverybody by not falling more rapidly. The-water at this point shows a decline of only three inches in '24 flours, the figures being 26 feet 8 inches'. The water is ranning- more swiftly than before the break in the Yolo levee, but even now it is not moving rapidly enough to do much-in the way of scouring the river bed.. The amount of water flor ing through the break should ordinarily lower the river rapidly, but tho enor mous overflow from the upper reaches of the stream keeps op the supply. 'A tel ephone message has been received from Oak Hall stating that everything is all right down there. Reports from Free- port and Gourtland state that the levee is all right at those places. ' - Tmliana Cloudburst. ' Indiax.wocis, May 31. ThiB city anfi central Indiana have had few such rain as fell last night and early this morning-; in fact it was a cloudburst. Street, were filled with water and flowed over the curbs into yards. The Rogues' Run, which runs through the city, became raging torrent and many people had: to flee for their lives. The electric-oar plowed their way through the street like steamboats. The White river-and Fall creek are on the rampage. . Several of tho- northern suburbs are reported under water. . ' Cowboys Fusilade. Tombstone, June 1. Thomas. Welch a well-known cattleman of thisa. county, was shot and killed yesterday by Wakf Benge, a cowboy, with whom Jie had quarreled. Both were on horses. Welsl shot twice at Benge, mining him. Then Benge fired, knocking Welch off hi- horse with a bullet wound in the left! lung, from the effects of which he died today. Benge gave himself np and wart eleased on $1,000 bail. Going: to Their Death. uiiBYKKXK, June l. lhe ttockinei and citizens in their. confidence den that another expedition against rustler! is going to' Johnson county. They d ay, however, that unless things chang they will reopen the war as soon as they are freed. A good many men are goinJ into the 1'owder Kiver country armed The Actors Fund. New York, May 27. The fair com mittee of the Actors' Fund met yester day for the first time since the cloeind of the fair. A resolution was adopted calling upon the treasurer to turn ovc to the treasurer of the Actors' Fund th sum of $175,000, which it is expecte. represents the entire profits of the fair