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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 11. 1895.
NUMBER 20.
VOL. V.
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN
Silver Will Be the Leading
Question.
SO vSAYS EX-SENATOR MARTIN
Senator Cullom Thinks This Country
Cannot Give Both Metal an
Equal Chance.
San Fbakcibco, May 7. Ex-United
States Senator John Martin, of Topeka,
who has been for many years an interest
. ing figure in Kansas politics, arrived in
this city yesterday. Senator Martin has
come out here in the interests of the
Hudson Reservoir & Canal Company, of
Arizona, of which he is president, and of
the Central Arizona railway. The sena
tor, who is a democrat, speaks in no un
certain way on the silver question. He
said :
"There cannot be the slightest doubt
of silver being the leading question in
the next campaign. Can yon imagine
any other question of importance? The
tariff is out of the way. If the republi
cans get control of the next administra
tion there mav be a little revision of the
tariff, but nothing essential. They can't
fight a campaign on the foreign policy
That is a question that could not become
of importance except in time of war.
Having these questions out of the way,
and having no local issues that can di
vide the parties, there is no question
left except the silver question.
"Ttie republican party will do as it al
ways has done, adopt a platform that
can be read both ways, and nominate a
man to fit it. In the democratic conven
tion they are going to have a row. The
party is now practically in regard to the
silver question, just in the position it
was in 1850 in regard to Blavery. Two
thirds of the members of the convention
or more will be composed of silver men,
and it will adopt a platform in favor of
tue free coinage of that metal at a ratio
of IS to 1 and will nominate a man in
sympathy with that platform, but not
Mr. Cleveland. He has been honest and
' fair and consistent with all his preaching.
He never was a silver man.
"In case the democrats and republi
cans both adopt platforms and make
nominations in favor of gold, there will
be some sort of independent movement
something like this Sibley movement
for silver and silver only. I believe the
populists will indorse it and lay aside for
. the time their other causes.
"If the democratic party does not
adopt a platform in favor of the free
oinage of silver, it will not carry a single
state in the Union. Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, told me lately that on any
ther sort of platform the democrats
would be swamped by the populists.
even in that state. Senator Harris told
me the same thing of Tennessee, and
Cooper of Georgia and Dame) of Vir
ginia."
Men of All Parties Join It In Kansas
City.
Kansas Cits, May 7. At a meeting
held at the Coates house the first steps
were taken for organizing a free silver
league in this city. The organization is
to be educational in its nature, and to
have for its exclusive purpose the res tor
ation of silver to its old place on a basis
f 16 to 1. It will be strictly non parti
san. At the meeting were professional
men, capitalists, wholesalers, manufac
turers and retailers, men widely differ
mg politically on other questions. A
committee to prepare a plan of organiza
tion was appointed. A suggestion that
the organization become a member of
the Bimetallic League was referred to
the committee for consideration.
In the Syndicate's Hand.
Washington, May 7. The discovery
that gold is being purchased in the city
of smelters by the gold syndicate in New
York created quite an excitement in
public circles at Washington. Officers
of the treasury department are dispose-l
to be reticent concerning the gold syn
dicate of New York purchasing gold bul
lion of western smelters at rates higher
than those paid at the mints. They ad
mit that the receipts at the mints had
sensibly diminished ever since the con
tract for the purchase for gold bonds
was awarded to the Belmont-Morgan
syndicate, bat it is evident that for
- some time past the treasury has been
compelled to pursue a policy which will
assist the syndicate in delivering gold in
accordance with the terms of the recent
bond sale contract.
- Another feature of the affair lies in
the fact that the production of gold in
the United States has increased to such
an extent as to make it an object for
this foreign syndicate to corner or con-
trol the eold market, and inasmuch
the Belmont-Morgan syndicate obtained
not onlv the privilege of purchasing
these bonds, at a very low figure, but
monopoly of all bonds issued between
now and next October at tne same rate,
it is clear that from the high price they
nht.in on the sale of the cold bonds
abroad they can afford to pay a pre
mium for gold bullion over and above
the, rates fixed at the mints. In this
way the syndicate obtains practically
monopoly ot the gold product of the
United States, and particularly the
product in Colorado, where the increase
in gold production has been so large in
the last year or two. The treasury
seems to be entirely in the hands ot the
syndicate. It mu9t have gold to main
tain its reserve even if it practically
cripples the purchasing operations
the mints.
Murder Mot Suicide.
Ashland, Wis., May 7. Martin
Tbrnsh was found fatally wounded in his
house early on the morning of April 29,
and np to within an hoar of the funeral
it was supposed to be a case of suicide,
Then it was discovered that the man
suspected of the murder was a member
ot the furv of inquest. The jury was
thereupon dismissed, and the suspected
man. Casper Emmett, together with
Thrush's widow, was arrested.
The Tbyishes came here from Mich
igan about eight. years ago. Two years
previously, while working in the lumber
district, Thrush had married one ' Kit-
tie" Sweet. She is now the widow of
Thrush. According to the story told by
the widow to neighbors who came
after the discovery of Thrush's nncon
scious body in the attic, the couple spent
the evening out. Shortly after mid
night she heard her husband get out of
bed and go to the attic. A moment
later she heard a Bhot and a fall
Thrush died 48 hours later, without re
gaining consciousness. Arrangement
for the funeral on Wednesday were com
plete when the doctors decided that i
they were to testify at the inquest they
would want more exact information than
they had secured, and the coroner order
ed the funeral postponed until a post
mortem could be held. When the jury
reassembled, the doctors reported that
what had externally appeared to be
bullet-hole was in reality a wound made
by a blunt instrument, and that the
skull had been fractured.
Meanwhile it had been discovered
that Emmett, one of the jurors, boarded
with Thrush, and during the recess Em
mett had been observed talking earnest'
ly with . Mrs. Thrash, and some of the
words which were caught confirmed the
suspicions already aroused and the ar
rests followed. -
Silver Convention for lowa
Des Moines, la., May 7. Advocates
of the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver have been workipg for three or four
months past arranging for the holding
of a state silver convention, nave agreed
on June 5 for tne meeting. .norts are
being made to have addresses by a num
ber of leading speakers for free, silver,
including Judge Caldwell, of the federal
court, Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
ex-Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska,
and Mr. Sibley, of Pennsylvania.
Extending: Fortifications.
Colon, May 7. Steamship lines have
been notified on behalf of the Nicaraguan
government that the port of Corinto is
now open.
The Nicaraguan authorities at Blue-
fields are hastening extensions of fortifi
cations. It is believed this action is due
to the fact that the deposed Chief Oar
ence, now a British pensioner of Ja
maica, has asked Great Britain to restore
him to authority.
All Quiet at Pocahontas.
irocAnoNTAs, va., May 7. mere is
no mining today. The soldiers are hav
ing a quiet reception and mingling freely
with the people. They say they came
here under a misapprehension. The
miners' conventions will assemble today.
All men charged with violations of the
peace have been discharged. All coal
operations are suspended.
Governor lurney's Inauguration.
Nashvillb, May 7. Tomorrow at
noon, Governor Turney will be inaugu
rated. The ceremonies will be held in
hall of representatives, which has been
festooned and decorated with plants and
flowers for the occasion. A large at
tendance is expected from neighboring
towns.
Ex-Pension Agent Pond.
Wkstfikld, Wis., May 8. Ex-United
States Pension Agent Lee Pond died
suddenly of heart disease at l'oclock to
day. The deceased was prominent in
Grand Army circles and served in the
state senate.
The Well-Kwnon Jiauteriologist.
New York, May 8. John M. Bryon'
the well-known bacteriologist, died to
day ot consumption.
STEWART'S LETTER
He Writes President Cleve
land a Letter.
ON THE SUBJECT OF FINANCE
The Osual Arguments Advanced by Sil
ver Advocates Again Pushed to
the Front In This Missive.
Washington, Senator Stewart of Ne
vada today sent a letter to the president,
of which the following is an extract:
"Your letter to Governor Stone of Mis
sippi is admirable. It wholly exoner
ates you from all suspicion of shirking
from your plain, constitutional duty of
personal participation in the political
controversies which agitate the people.
"The originality of your discovery
that the South favors silver monometal-
sin when it only contends for the coin
age of silver upon terms and conditions
applicable to the coinage of gold can
never be questioned. You will undoubt
edly explain in your next letter why the
free coinage of gold and a refusal to coin
silver is bimetalism; and the onrestrict'
ed coinage of both gold and silver is sil'
ver monometalism.
Your wonder why the South does
not appreciate the advantages of selling
its exports for gold prices is in harmony
with the profound thought and great
wisdom of your Chicago letter, therein,
referring to the farmer, you said : 'Let
us remind him that he must bay as well
as sell; tnat nis dreams ot plenty are
shadowed by the certaintv that if the
price of the things he has to sell ia nom
inally enhanced, the cost of things he
must duv will not remain stationary.'
"From your unselfish point of view
there ia no answer to this argument.
The discovery you have made that the
sales and purchases of the farmers and
planters in a cheap gold market exactly
balance each other, and that what is
lost by the low price of sales is gained
by the low price of purchases, solves the
question and shows your full compre
hension of all the principles of economic
science. The tact tnat less than juu.uwj
pounds of cotton or 33,000 bushels of
wheat would pay the $50,000 annual
salary President Grant received, while
it now requires 1,000,000 pounds of cot
ton, or 83,000 bushels of wheat to pay
your salary, which is the same number
of dollars as that of your predecessor,
shows the superiority of the 'sound
money' you have established and main
tained.
"Your 'wonder' at the imbecility of
the farmers and planters in failing to
appreciate the benefits of a cheap mar
ket, for what they sell is most reasona
ble and natural from your unselfish,
comprehensive view 'of the subject.
You take into consideration that a cheap
market where they sell creates a cheap
market for what they buy, and you real
lze, if they do not, tne advantages they
have in selling more than they buy, and
thereby relieving themselves of more
cheap products than they are compelled
to buy. .
They are at liberty to sell enough
more then they buy to obtain money to
pay interest and taxes, which to them
may seem a hardship, bat which, on ac
count ot vour superior wisdom and pa
triotism, you knew to be a blessing
which their dull comprehension 'fails to
appreciate.
"The luxury of buying in a cheap gold
market with money remaining after dis-
barging these nominal obligations is
not sufficiently prized by the discontent
ed planters and farmers. The slight
discrepancy between the amount lost in
sales by low prices and gains by pur
chases in a cheap market ought never to
be considered and is properly excluded
from the wise and benevolent councils of
Wall and Lombard streets, and also
from . the learned deliberations of the
white house, where your annnal salary
of $50,000 is promptly paid.
"Your declaration that the gold stand
ard established by the republican party
1873 is the traditional doctrine of
sound money of the democratic party,
onght to inspire every democratic heart
with unbounded enthusiasm. Yon are
right. There is not room enongh on a
gold-standard platform to accommodate
the two old parties in an active campaign
before the people, although the leaders
of both bavs jointly occupied that plat
form for the purpose of legislation and
administration for more than 20 years.
You have achieved the proud dis
tinction of being the first great Ameri
can statesman who proclaimed to his
fellow countrymen the glory arid bene
fits of the single gold standard. ; You
haye the right to eject the republican
party from the platform of sound money,
which you have rescued from the igno
ble obscurity of clandestine use by timid
and unworthy republican leaders, who
secretly monopolized the benefactions of
the gold combination until you appeared
as the Moses of scattered democracy,
''The hereditary rights of the descend
ants of Shylock are safe in your hands,
Your decree of low price and less wages
for .those who produce,, and more gain
and less sacrifice for those who absorb,
will be executed by the power yon com
mand, while the trimmers and dodgers
of the republican fold are confounded
and paralyzed by your boldness and
dash."
Has Changed Its Tactics.
Chicago, May 8. A special from In
dianapolis says : The populists of In.
diana, acting under instructions from
Chairman Taubeneck, of the national
committee, are now manenvering for a
union with the free-silver men in both
the old parties.
"We think we see the breaking up of
the old parties," said he. "The contest
next year will be between the gold men
on one side and the silver men on the
other. The contest will be one in which
the south and west will be arraved
against the- East. The battle ground
will be Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and
Minnesota. If the South and West
stand together for free silver they will
win."
"Do the populists stand ready to unite
with the democratic silver party?"
"We certainly do. If the party should
win it would be a victory for the popu
lists. It ia immaterial under which
name we win. The free coinage of silver
is the central doctrine of the populists,
and we are ready to make any sort of a
union if we can accomplish our object."
The populist state committee has
ceased the work of organizing, populist
clubs throughout the state. The leaders
have suggested that free-coinage clubs
be organized, and that members of both
the old parties be invited to become
members of the clubs. The newspaper
printed here as the organ of the party
has undertaken to circulate silver litera
ture among the farmers of the state.
Revolt In Ecuador.
New York, May 8. Private advices
received in New York from Ecuador
state that General Elroy Alfaro, a leader
in tne revolution ot i7o, and also a
leader in the present tronble in Ecua
dor, has returned there from Nicaragua
where he had been in exile.
xne revolutionists nave taken posses
sion of the owns of Ibarra, Esmeralda,
Guaranda and Latacunga. In the bat
tie which resulted in the capture of
Guaranda six were killed on both sides
The telegraph wires between Quito,
the capital of Ecuador, and Guayaquil
have been cut bv the revolutionists and
all communication stopped.
The revolutionists are disappointed
with y ice-fresident caltzer, who is
going to take the presidency vacated by
the resignation of Cordero. Saltzar is
very unpopular, and the resignation of
Cordero will have no effect on the revo
lutionists.
Payment of The Atld'tional Indemnity
G uaranteed.
Shanghai, May 8. It is stated here
that ratification of the treaty of peace
between China and Japan were exchang
ed today at Che-Foo. It is reported that
Sir Robert Hart, inspector-general of
Chinese customs, has guaranteed the
payment of the additional indemnity
demanded by Japan as the result of re
linquishing her claim to the Liau-Tong
peninsula in compliance with the de
mands of Russia France and Germany,
Sir Robert Hart, however, makes his
guarantee conditional on the financing
of the total indemnity being left in his
hands.
Position of Texas Democrats.
Dallas, Tex., May 7. Chairman
Dudley baa called a meeting of the exe
cutive committee of the democratic par
ty of Texas at Dalles, for the 27th inst.,
for defining the position of the party on
silver. He says the issae must now be
met, and the party united for action
next yaar, with its common enemy.
Trotters of a Suicide Sold.
Philadelphia, May 8. The trotting
horses belonging to the estate of the late
George S.cattergood, who committed sui
cide recently, were sold today. El Rob
inson, a bay stallion, 6 years old, sired
by O. Haulette, with a trial record of
2 :14, was bought by George Rowe for
$0000.
Silver Club Formed.
Chicago, May 7. Believers in bimet
alism ant, here last night to form a club
to counteract the work of the Honest
Money League. A committee was ap
pointed to draft a constitution for the
club which will meet again Thursday
night to effect permanent organization.
Ex-Governor of Massachusetts.
Manchester, N. H.,May8. Ex Gov
ernor James H. Weston died today.
WILL FIGHT OPENLY
Advocates of Sound Money
Organizing in Illinois.
BATTLE TO BE BEGUN AT ONCE
Senator George, of Mississippi, Talks of
the Rapid Spread or Free-Silver
Sentimen.
Chicago, May 9. The executive com
mittee of the Honest Money League has
decided to come out and fight the silver
men in the open. Work of organizing
the wards of Chicag) against free silver
will be begun at once. This, members
say means the firatstep in the first bat
tie for the national delegation which
will be elected in 1898. .The work will
begin in Cook county, but the agent of
the league will press it till it ramifies
the state. -
In taking this step, the governing
committee has determined to leave
to the people the matter of the
adoption of a financial pledge of national
delegates. Members say the committee
found it best to ignore the state conven
tion, but since the delegates have been
chosen, thev are for delegates whose
opinions on monev will have some
weight.
The committee of state organization of
the league has issued an address to
democrats of the state. It says that the
aggressive measures taken by the silver
men make it imperative that immediate
action should be taken to let the people
of the state know what would be the re
salt of the abrogation of sound currency.
The address says that the time for tem
porizing and compromising has passed,
and that the decisive fight mast at once
be made against the silver men. It ends
in urging the organization of an auxiliary
to the honest money league in every
conntv of the state. It is signed by A.
Goodrich, John Mayo Palmer, William
C. Assay, W. E. Thorn and F. S. Bogle.
The members of the democratic central
committee say they are not disturbed by
the action of the league.
A Disclosure, Mot a Growth.
Cabbollton, Miss., May 9. In an in
terview on the money question Senator
George said : "The present exhibition
ot a sentiment in favor of free coinage is
rather a disclosure than a. growth. The
people have never been satisfied with
the act demonetizing silver in 1873.
That act was a Bnap judgement taken
against hem by a parliamentary trick."
The senator then quoted the national
democratic platform favoring gold and
silver money of the constitution, and
said:
"The langnage was plain and un
equivocal. Nor was it understood to
mean, as afterwards claimed by the gold
monometalists, that we should only
have free coinage except by intcrnation-
al agreement. That such agreement is
now made a condition of free coinage of
silver is a discrimination against silver.
The republican national conventions of
1873 and 1892 declared in equally em
phatic terms for the free coinage of
silver, as did the populist convention of
1S92. It will thus be seen that in every
way possible the American people have
from 1877 to the present time declared
for remonetization.
"What has happened in the last few
months is not a rapid spread of free
coinage Bentiment, but a general and em
phatic expression of disgust at the delay
in giving voice and legal force to the
wishes and sentiments of the mass of the
people, and of resentment at attempts
to stifle the voice and to fasten on the
people gold monometalism.
'I think republican leaders will not
declare for gold monomatilism, or what
the same thing, against the coinage of
silver unless by international agreement.
I think it is doubtful whether thev wili
make any declaration either way in un
equivocal terms.
I believe the national democratic
convention will be forced by the pre
dominant sentiment of the party to de
clare squarely and unequivocally for in
dependent free coincge by the United
States without the .co-operation ot other
nations."-
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
It
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AtYourDoor.v
A. true improvement always receives
a welcome in the average American
home, the most home-like home in the
world. The coal stove, the gas, the
water, the sewing machine and the
clothes wringer have found an entrance
everywhere. Another candidate now
appears. It is
the new vegetable shortening and sub
stitute for lard. - Thousands have found
this as great a blessing as its predeces
sors. It is now at yonr door. Will you
accept its proffer of better cooking in
your kitchen, better food on your table,
better health in your household?
Oottolena Is sold In 8 and t
pound palls, by all grocers.
Get the gonuine. Made by
The N. K. Falrbank
Company,
ST. LOTJIS sumI
Chicago, Hew lark, Hosts
Were Betrayed by Friends.
Gcthrie, O. T., Ma- 9. Newcomb,
alias "Bitter Creek," and Pierce, alias
"Dynamite Dick, "leaders of the desper
ate Dalton-Dooling gangof outlaws, who
were killed last week, were betrayed by
friends. They wera'entrapped into the
lattei's home and cowardly murdered
while they slept under their host's roof.
The killing.V-cording to the story of a
neighbor, was done by the Dunns, who
had been promised large rewards by the
deputies, who claimed later to have
made the capture of the outlaws. The
latter's friends have sworn vengeance,
and the Dunns are arming to protect
themselves. . ,
The Dunns were in Ingalls on the.
afternoon of the killing, and went hoine
with a large amount of whisky and beer.
It had been arranged to have Sallie Kites,
a sweetheart of "Dynamite Dick,'! and
the two outlaws meet at the Dunn house
that night for a big time. By midnight
the two outlaws were badly under the
nfluence of liquor, and shortly after
wards went to sleep, heavily armed as
usual, and - without removing their
clothes. v hue in this condition, it is
asserted, the Dunns perforated them
with Winchester bullets and buckshot.
An examination of the bodies showed
that all bullets and buckshot had gone
into the bodies in such a way as to leave
no other conclusion than that the men
were lying down when shot. One of the
Dunn brothers waa brought here a few
days after the capture and lodged in the
federal jail but in two days was turned
loose.
The Dun-ns are lying very low. Their
house is an arsenal and they give evi
dence ot expecting a raid on them every
night, as Newcomb and ,. Pierce had
many friends in that country.
' A Peculiar Case.
Chicago, May 9. Officer Pat Furlong,
of Woodland station, will -today file a
peculiar suit for damages against Inspec
tor Hunt, of the same precinct. For
over 30 years Furlong owned as fine a
set of red whiskers as ever came down
Archer road. Last Monday evening In
spector Hunt met him on his beat and
jokingly remarked :
"Pat, you'll have to cut those whibk
ers if you want to stay on the police
force."
Next morning Furlong appeared at
roll-call clean shaven. Chief Badenoch's
list of officers to be decapitated was read
at all stations last night. Among others
was that of Furlong. The "old copper'
at first though it a joke, bat when he
found it was a reality, be .immediately
sought ou,t an attorney and consulted
him about a suit. He says he will not
name the damages, but leave it to the
jury to decide how' much his whiskers
were worth.
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