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I-1UDAY, JULY V IKlEblJlOOlit Chairman of Ucmocrat ic Convention. Delivered II is Address Booming Biari. ; i. fit Lost Sight or the Silver Question " and Fainted Republicans In Larid Colors. KANSAS CITY. Mo., July 4. Hon. J. D. Richardson, of Tennessee, iicrnia nent chairman of the National Demo cratic Convention, upon being inducted Into ofih-e "today, addressed the Con-JL veutlon as follows; ! j I am deeply senslbe to the great honor you have bestowed upon me in ailing roe to preside over ".this great Democratic convention. We have been clothed. with the authority to formally name tbel-andidate who, at the next election, are to be chosen President and Vice-President of the United States; and to lay down a plakorm of principles upon which the. battle I to lie fought and the: victory won. ; With your itertulssiou I will address myself ; to some of the issues of the Impending campaign. . - - i The last great national contest foe supremacy was fought ! mainly , Uioii one Issue that Is to say one issue. .was paramount In the struggle. That isi sue was familiarly called, "Sixteen to OneV It Involved the question of thi free coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of sixteen warts of silver tojone part of gold, with which all of us are laminar. . - - I The momentous issue this year Is again sixteen to one, but the sixteen parts to the one part of. this campaign. which I will brieiiy discuss, are wholly -different from those of 181K". I will nrst refer to tbe sixteen parts ami tll..l tit., iillu ttllft 'lliku etvtuAII iarts are: . "First. We Jiave the Issue fraught with ludiescritiiible Importance to our4 people, native-born, and those who have for patriotic reasons cast their fortunes with us mainly that of tlie republic against the empire. .' On this . -mrt alone of the sixteen, If therewere no other we, confidently expect to win a sweeping victory in November. The Republican warty stands for I empire. TIm-- Hemocratic party stands! for the Republic,, for the Declaration of In deiiendence, and the -Constitution of our country. ; -.!- -.n. ,- ! ,;) Se"ond. The paternal and foster ing care given, by those with whom we contend. to the- combinations of eorioratioua and companies into pow erlui organizations familiarly known ns trusts. ; e'udor three, years of Re publican role- while they controlled the lresldeuey, the Senate' and tthe HoiiH' of Representatives, that is all of. lite lawmaking iwer of the iov-m nieut, trusts have been , propagated and fostered by IjOgisb.it.on until: they not only dominate , all markets, both the buying and selling, but defy the very iwwer of the Government itself. The .1 art-leal efforts put forth by the Republican party, in an alleged at tempt to r 'strain them in the dying hours of the late ses ion of Congress, only excited ridicule , and contempt. aud served to emphasize their Inability and disinclination to grapple the mon sters and regulate their conduct and actions. No matter ' what their ex cuses may lie, the fact Is their policies have created them, and, though clothed with all jwwor, they refuse to enact legislation to control, tliem. f -. -Third.-Calicd to power March 14. . 1SU7, under a pledge to reform the currency, they seized the first ontor tunity ,to fasten. nion the land the highest protective tariff law ever put upon the statute books of any coun try. - This .law was enacted hot to raise revenue., but to give protection to favored manufacturers. It failed. to raise, sufficient revenue for the Uov ernnient, but answered the purjose of enriching the - favored . few while If robbed the many, and at the same time, brought forth trusts to plague us ns nnnierpns as the lice and locusts ot Egypt. ' Their high protective tariff Is the mother of trusts. j f . "Fourth. This Administration came Into power with a solemn declaration In favor of bl-metallsm and j-dedge to promote it. It lias failed to keep that pledge. It has erected In its stead the-sluple standard of gold, and has eudeavoreil to destroy all hope of bl-mctallsm. In doing this,, it has built up a powerful National - Kink trust, and has given us a currency luised u,hu the debts and liabilities of the covernment.- We staml for bl-met- allsm and not for.; a. mono-metallic standard of either one or the other metnl. . : ' ' - ; t " "Fifth. The dominant iarty hasire ceutly niade . tw fraudulent : declara tion that it favored the ilonroe loc trlne, ami yet tlielr rrvsldent and Hec retarv of ttate have done-ati in their power to nullify and abrogate that famous and much revered Democratic dtK-trlne, In the irsme of , its Demo cratic author,- James Monroe, I de pounce their vauuted advocacy f this iruiy American umnue ss laise l?.viHKrlticaL We stand for this doc trine in its essence and form, and lc tuand its rigid enforcement. ) "Sixth. In order to obtain place, ami power they, pledged themslves, in the Interest of' an expanding commerce, to construct a vatcrway to connect the two great oceans. They have re pudiated this commerce. ' They luive negotiated the IIay-Iauncefote treaty which, while it virtually abrogates the Monroe Doctrine, rentiers it Imposible to build an American xanal. Under the terms and provisions of this treaty, which Is English and not American, the. canal can never be constructed. We stand for an American canal. owned, constructed, operated and for-ti;'.-d by America. "Seventh. They declared In their platform .liat4l.ir iirty -was reiifc-4 iilJe fur the merit system, tuai u was tlifir cnnitcre and that th civll ser- vh-e law should le prote-ttd ami its oiM-ration exteudtnl. Tlieir trotection of this law has !en such as the wolf gives the Limb. ; They did. not dare oiM'nly rciH-al the Li w or to modify it by an act or congress. iui iney uac Insiduonsly, by an onler from - the President, extortetl . from him to aja them to obtain ami hold poIitIal power, greatly impaired the, ettlciency of the law. By the iTesideut s onler many inousaua lucrative ouices reg ularly covered by the civii service law were token from under the protection. and these places turned overAto his partisan followers in a vain effort to satisfy; their political greeL ; ;! 'W "Kishth. They declared In their platform In favor of the admission of the territories of Arizona. New Mexi co, ami Oklahoma as states of the Un ion, yet after nearly four years of full power, they are stil territories. .Under tbe wicked rule or taw, as now appuea bv Hm ltenublican party to some of our territories, they may at an early date find erected between themselves and the balance of the Union a tariff wall which will serve to pauperize t heiar while It enriches others. fNlntli When Congress last assem bled the President, in his Orst utter ance addressed to the Itepresentatives trsh from the people, solemnly urgea iusn : them that it was . their "plain doty to give free trade to Porto Kieo. His party leaders, quick to oiey ms injunction, made1 ready to comply with his reeommendiitions, But in a night, almost In the twinkling of an ejethe mighty magnates of the trusts swept down niMia Washington ana -...inter posed their, strong" arm ami 'plain doty -vanished like mist before the rising sun. The President wheeled in to line, the IlepublW-an party reversed Its policy, nnd set up a tariff wall be tween the island of Porto lilco and the remaiuilr of the United States. I.t Is not at hi surprising that in, the recent (tnmetrlmt lemrthv 'deehi rations of principles, enunciated by the party. In Cfihveutlon, assembled," While .they en la rse uih almost . Dvery ' political piestioiu they could. not find ..the space to point rlth pride, ft6;tlM achieve tm.fiis'nf their iiartv In" its dealings' witU ti.at unliappy islnnd.The' Dem ocratic party . stands for teqiuil .taxa tion! emial rights. a.nI opportunities to all who '-come under the folds of the, flac. - ' I "Tenth. They wholly failed by their Legislation or by the ciieaier memou of Phitl'orm declaration, to tell the i-ouiitry what their policy is in respect to the Philippine Islands. For two years by their Hiulvoeating policy, and mi ; polier at nil. they have continued In that archliM'lago a war J expensive in human blootl, as ! well as in moneys In roinptent to deal with this question, 4ud too cowardly tC avow their real Yurpose of imiH'Halism and militarism in dfsiling wltii these ami Kuuireu ttlonial Questions, they should be re-. tirel fit) m power, and the control sliould be given to a party,' honest, bold and "patriotic ' enouglu to; apily American theories and precepts to ex isting3 conditions and' thereby solve them in .harmony with the underlying principles of the Declaration of Inde pendence and the Constitution, of our country, . . ( i "Eleventh. Another part of the is sue of the campaign this year is the saiidaloiis iealiiigs of a .high cliiinet officer with private' banks of the coun try. Tliese scandals are notorious, ami are based .upon the, eafuest and reieatel written demands of the of ticers of some of these banks that they should be favored by, this Adminlstni- t ion because of money contributetl by them , with ', which to buy,, the Ivesl- dency'of Corresismdeuce ?snb mi t ted to Congress shows that, in one case at least, an appeal from an In stitution In New York City to the Sec retary of . the Treasury for financial assistance because, as it was claimed, the Officers of that bank had contrib uted, liberally to the election of the preM-nt Chief Executive, was not made In vain, ami the nsKea-ror as sistance in this case from the tlovern nten.t. was freely, if not corruptly. given. - ("Twelfth. The scandals which sur rounded the War Iepartment in TihhI- ing cmbalmecl Inn-f to tut soldiers, in its pun-hase of old yachts, tugs, oc-ean liners, ocean tramps, iwirges, scows. t'.. for usa.as army transports con stitute an important cliaplcr. .; f- j ."Thirteenth. So also the, scandals in connection with the pttstoffice mat ters in Cuba, and the scandals In con neet Ion with the expenditure of. ttye funds of the Paris Exposition. ; Time will not merit an. amplification of all these scandals, . . , t ;!v I ""Fourteenth. They loudly proclaim that theirs Is the party of liberty, and in tbclr vainglory boast of their very name, Repntrtiean -platform, yet - they are caught coquetting ami forming se cret entangling alliances of the most detestable character with the old mother Monarchy. They staml supine ly by and refuse even an expression of sympathy with the Boer Kepnbllcs m their heroic and unequal struggle for existence as afca lust the gross oppres sions, ami .brutal efforts at enslave ment of the same old tyrant who went down In defeat when he sought to pre vent the establishment of our. own iiberty-loving Republic, They thus permit a brave people. In love with their free Republican Institutions, to perish from the earth, lest by one word of sympathy and comfort they might offend the delicate sensibilities of their new-found ally CJreat Britain, i j"FIfteentb. An important chapter Is the ' oft-repeated promise, made to 1e broken, that when the war ceased the oppressive, burdensome ad vexations war taxes on many articles of prime necessity should le reiealed : i or re duced. - Though the war closed two years ago, and notwithstanding there is a large and growing surplus In the Treasury, not one dollar of reduction in these taxes has been made. It is known .that delegation after delegation of citizens, suffering from these bur dens, crowded the committee rooms at Washington, and litendly Iwgged for some relief. It Is true that those of us who constitute the minority of Con gress joined In that apjeal nnd de clareil our readiness ,tq support any and all measures that might in some degree remove these burdens of taxa tion. But a deaf ear was turned by the Heimblicans to all such efforts for teiief, and none came, -it . 13 well known also that no relief will be given by the party in power, and it is vain for over-burdened people to look to them while present policies are attempted to Ih enforced. The only -hope for relief lies in hurling from power the Repub lican party, and the restoration of the puilr- which U.i.ivtsiu fcUUl-l- -aitn economical overunient. .- '.'' ';i ixtk-f'HTLVuu4 la'Aiy-Tlie cost ut Republh-Jinlsm aud its twin monster Iunieriall8UJ. This is neither the time nor the occasion toMliseuss in -detail the, Increasetl appropriation niSsdevn-. cessary ly t the' Repoblk-au, pollcyvof !iuierialism. Briefly, however., i win mention that the average of appropri ations, . per j-ear, for all purposes wf Government, for the two years Imme diately preceding -the, Spanish-Aruer!-can. war was about $47.".tiiMMH'tt. The average ex pend It ures per, annum for each of the three years since that war, including the II seal year upon wnn we have Just 'enterel.s shows nil . in- 1m nearly flNSMMXK And In like al Increase for the three years will e nearly; $5 ( And- in II kH proportion it will go on. This -shows the iUfference In cost of the Empire ns against the Republic, These figures refer: alone to the. nioneyteost or the Cha nge, a nd do nor - i ul-1 uue tne , ex pense of ;the ldooi! of Jt American foys, the price of wmcn is, tar neyonu computation- ; In the Republican Con gress lust closetl. not one dollar conld le had for much-neeled puldlc bujhi- ings throughout the country at home, but many millions were.pronipIy voted to prosecute n ' war in the " far-away Philippine islantia.; .Not, a, ooiiar.ior ntHvsary Jmprovements of our rivers and harl6rs at Jiorne but millions to lie stolen and squandered in Cuba and our new Insular possessions. Noth ing for an Isthmian canal, and many other enterprises , and , objects, -but more than two hundred millions were freely given for the Army and Navy, for Imperialism and Military, for gold and glory. j.-; , . ..' V,-;.: ' . -. "I said at the outset' the" issue this year was again sixteen tO' one. The foregoing- are briefly the sixteen parts of tlve issue. What is the one part? "We have seen that platform pledges are made and broken, i That good in tentions of men ore many times set' at naught., That plain duty; clearly set forth and .understood, is disregarded. That some men are weak and vacillat Ing and ' ma y , c hange -1 heir ' solemn otfinions in a' day. v- It is v aniarent. therefore, to all that hr-this supreme exigency of the Rpubllc a demand goes forth, not for a. faint-hearted de claratlonof platform idatitudeS, ' but for n-man. i Yes; a man who stands like a mighty i rock In ' the desert; a man who, knowing the right, will dare to do the rijcht;a man who. "rather than follow n; multitude to do evil, will stand like Pompcy's pillar conspicu ous by himself, and single In integrity, Such a man as the one part, this con ventlon will tender . to the nation as their candidate for rresldent.- A man who is unsurpassed as citizen, tin- wiualled as an ofator, couragiHns as a soldier, Conspicuous in every element that constitutes! the typical , and the true American, William J- Bryan, of Nebraska." WERE HURLED !.:: I .. ... -i." : INTO ETERNITY Sixty People Killed in a Tacoma . - Street Car Accident. : AWflL SPECTACLE Of CA&NAGE The Car Jumped the Tract and Fell ! Into ft flnlch 120 Feet Deep, ' . Killine Its Passengrerg. TACOMA, Wash., July 4. Nearly too jseople, passengers on a car lound for this city, were plunge! down the gulch a"t Twenty-sixth and C streets, shortly: after 8 o'clock this morning. Those who were standing on the plat form dropped ; off only to be crushed and wounded by thic heavy lnxly of the coach, while others Inside were killed and maimed before they knew what had linppened. The. car jumped , the track and j was ' smashed to, kindling wood in the bottom of the chasm over ltM feet below. The dead will mtm- ler' nea rly : t hrev score, for there a re nmnyj Injuml w ho will never recover and who nro expected to ; die at any moment, and there are -at least sixty of the passengers of the car now In the various hospitals and - under the -t re of their own physicians. , . It was a si)cctacle of carmige, such as is scarcely ever observed in war. for the car, wheels and trucks and heavy timbers make , more horrible wounds than bullet and shell, and the agonizing cries of the wounded and dying,; as they lay on the side of the gulch and on the bottom, or Were held down under, the heavy timbers . that once formed iwirt of the wrecked car, could be heard for blocks away. ' The caT which carried its human freight Into tlife deep ravine left Edison about 8 o'clock in 'charge" of F. L. Ikx-hn, motorman, and J. D. Calhoun, conductor. The car, which is one of the big, box-like affairs, was crowded to the: doors' and every inclj of space on the platforms was : taken. ' Men hung on the. railings and were ghtd to b able t get a ride to the tlty. j.Tle car ran moderately along until It had reached the apex of the hil! Just be yond J a coma avenue. - From this point the stories differ. One is, that the motorman, after starting: down the hill, turned on his enrreut instead of shutting it off, and wuen.the car had gained such momentum as to threaten to get away from him, he turned off the current, but it was then too late, for the car was going at -lightning sieed and there was nothing to bring it to a standstill, for the incline Is steep.". The passengers on the front platform, who saw the sharp curve on the bridge as It leaves Ieiin street, en deavored to Jorap. Several of them succeeded ami reached the ground in safety, but others were not as fortu nate, but were not as badly injured as they might have been had they re mained in the car to the bottom of the chasm. . w - -J l - W JU mm m sj'?-; :vV DZMOrJSThATIOfJ Wild Enthasiasrn I.t the Kansas V' City CchYentnja, AND KILL ARE THE IDOLS Platform Makers Con Id Not Agree and a Recess Was Forced ailyer ; - li :;tli iJudangered : . KANSAS CITYMoi..' July 4. Artiid acres pf tumultuous Enthusiasm benti ting such air event and shell a day, the PemOcrntk? "Convention liegan its ses-. eioas totlay. After sitting until a late hour tonight; the expected eiitnaX of the day the nomination df W. J. iiry au as the-Democratic candidate Tor President hai failed of realization and all ,pf .the larger, bnsln8s of the con vention awaits $ he ."pniplet Ion of the platform. As a spe-tacular event, however, the convention, ha f ulfiiletl the hopes of the most fervid party man, for the vast assemblage of dele gates and spectators has , twice been swept witU whirlwind demonstrations, first for the leader,; who is about to be placed in nomination, and then for that other; champion; of Democracy; jDitvM Bennett ; U HL; : I Btjt In actual j actjomi plishment the. day's -work N a confine! to the organization, with speeches :o tlie' temporary-; chairman Oovej-norj Thomas,, of Colorado, and - of the :isr manent chairman, Hon; James D. liich ardson, the appointment oft he-various committees, and the detailed proikisl tions for more serious work yet in store. 4 " -. .... - ;-S'".i. - -. ;. f j--; j It was an inspiring scene that Chair man Jones looked out upon when, at noon, after lieatlng a tatoo With his gavel, he stilled the -tumult and de clared the convention open. -if About him were fully 23.000 people, t; .. j , , The first dramatic episode of the day occurred after Campau, of Michigan, luid securel the adoption of the i-eso hit ton for-the reading of th Detlara tion of Independence.; As- the reading was about to begin. two attendants pushed up to the platform a petlestal and bust, both draped in the Stars aud Stripes. As ttho orator-yalsod bbt voice for the first words of the lm mor tal instrument, the .draperies were thrown back," disclosing the- splendid hemp of - Bryan-. The- tffeet -was 'elec trical upon the vast assemblage, i The outburst of patrlotlstn-now'ttini- In n; new direction, 'and 'during a monientarv pause in the liroi-eedjuprs. the hauie'of Hill was sounded. It was iuie.kly caught up, first among.the del egates and ihen from gallery to gal lery among speetatorr until the whole multitnde had joined! ln; as noisfc- de mand for tho former Senator from New York -" ' :J.;. -lV ';- 'I'or fully ten minutes the enthusias tic demonstration proceeded. ; it wa; noticeable that the immediate follow- ing of Croker. and the Tammany1, lead er" himself, held their seats and main tallied a stolid composure throu-ghottt the remarkable tribute to their associ ate. ' - . -' U The routine busmess was; quickly disposed of. . With the committees ai lointed there was nothing to do but await a recess whlcu the convention took at 20 until 4 o'clock, a As the delegates niel out", of the halt,!, tliey presstnl around Senator II ill who, for a lialf hour, was the, centre of "an eu- tliuslastk iersonal greeting from indi vidual delegates. At 4 o'clock the com mittees were not, ready to report and another adjournment was taken until 820 Ip. to. ;.!. .. ;! a , It remained for the night session to bring the most remarkable demonstra tion of the entire day. ; At the. close of the speech of Permanent Chaurman Richardson, he paid a glowing, .tribute to; , W. J. Rryan, .. and iandeuioniuia broke, loose. iMid thit liiKfririe scene ct P,rj-an"s nomination fat - Chicago was repeated, -even exceeded, . In a fienzleil deiuonHtration lasting a half hour. ' Outside of the formal , proceedings of tlie day, Interest was centered In tbe action of the platform' committee. As the evening advanced It became known that a determined 'struggle was in pro gress involving not only the question of Incorporating the specific 16 to 1 declaration in the i&rty declaration, but to some extent involving 'the de sires of the prospective nominee' as to the terms of the platform. The. out come is awaited with absorbng inter est ns the chief development of tomor row. .;.; . ! : : ?..-(-; ' . , - f At a. late hour the convention ad journed to 10:30 n, nu tomorrow: THE OLD RATIO. . Kansas City. Mo4 July 5. Tlie Dem ocratic resolutions committee decided for an "i explicit declaration for free silver coinage at 1U toil. I The vote atootl 20 to i!2, and was taken t 320 o'clock.;-; "v-iv.; -v l; j- :i;"'- -V FOR SECOND' PLACE. : , Kansas City, ; Mo- July 4i-rVefy lit tle more was tangible k in l ithe ; Vice Xresidenllal situation tonight, though Stevenson s candirtacy apparently met wjih; favor and tfiere seemed to be; a Iiossibillty of this being th solution of tjie qpestton.Tbe'frienls-of- Steven- ffon a id ; tha t , tliey ; wonhl have ben lierfectly .willing a short time ago to have supported Khlveley,-.of Indiana, but after a positive statement that he would not lie a candidate and -Will not le presented by - Indiana.- they now felt that they should stand by Steven son. ;-; v. v .-.. ..- :,m ; v -, -. V-'--' ; r- Tbft demonstration made over Hill In the convention today,- was taken by some one to mean that the convention would be stampeded for him, but Hill does not think so, and it is -possible tUat if he makes a speech on the plat form be will , make it , plain that he eonld not be a candidate on a-Bryan platform. He says emphatically that he will not be nominated, i ; i Two -old - booms remain-1 much the same condition as they i were yestert day, lUtf h Towne and- Sidaer -ein t!i nco, although the convention ftoei hit set-in hrt liiiMi to favor 4lieiii. :The Towne men claim that they have the spjKrt of Bryan. Tonight the Vice Presidency Is in doubt, with a leaning toward Steven son. CONTESTS SETTLED. Democrats Seat Nearly All Claimants ! " with Half Votes. UKansas City, Mo,, July 4. The com mittee on crilentials made quick work of the coutests; the puly hearing given was to the District of Columbia, and the Committee decided. to admit both delegations with a half ; vole each. When the Indian Territory cast, was reached. Chairman tiray -alled out: i "Sheriff, bring in fh Indian Ter ritory contesting delegations, search them aud take away their knives and trfstols, ami then 'give them gloves." After a very, brief hearing each tieie- gatlon was seated with a half vote. The greatest Interest, centered in the Mont aim case, aud as jEtoon as it '.was called a inotimi was made, to ratify the-action. o -the National Committee and seat the Clark delegation. The substitute to giV each side a hearins was defeanl by a vote of -33 to. 13, and the Clark delegation was sated without division. . ; The Oklahoma c-ontestanfs were giv en a half vote esTch. although there Avas a protest from lioth factions. CANNOT REACH PEKIN. ALLIES AT TIEN TSIN RARELY - HOLD THEIR OWN. China Is DHIdel. and the South Half i - Will Dminie-aa IudeiKn ; f dent State. - LOtNDON,' Jnly 5v The. commanders of theiallies in Tien Tin infonn the corrrtpoUdentji luaf ;-lt t would ik sui hbv ro-attempt to reach . Pekih wlih the troops nowya1lable, In ,the"fa-e of the tOlossalorce of Imperial trooi and Itoxers occupying the country nf tweeojrien ijxtand . Pkin, n ,.iar from takinc the offensive the 12.Kio International troops at Tien Tsln, and 8K) others at Taku and Intermediate Iioints, can merely keep op communica tions, fighting incessantly wiui over wlM'lmiifg numts-rs using far more numerous artillery than the allies. CHINA IS DIVIDED. .( Washington. July 4. Wu, the Chin ese minister here, is in constant com munication by cable' with the viceroys of" the Oreat Southern.; provinces of China. (There also is .correspondence in progress between the various Chin ese Ministers jn Europe, and the Min ister at-Washington. These facts, tak en In connection with, the apparently genuinejeoncern expressed by the Chin ese Ministers for the safety of the for eign Mteisters at lekin, and the stren uous urging of IJ Hung Chang, that eutrality ? observed by the iowers toward the southern Chinese provinces are regarded, in diplomatic circels here as iwlntlng to 'the' development-of' a coniUInation, onAJargQ . sc;a le, of r the great viceroys - and Ministers against Ptince Tuan ind hi Jioxef adherents in iPekin. - s The impressing is srowinj? that. ; no matter whatMiaiv pens at Pckin. the division of China is already an accomplished fact, though not upon the lines contemplat ed heretofore' by the Europeans. It is felt that all that part of China sontli of the Yellow river perhaps, and cer tainly alt that part south of the Yanrf Tse Kiang. has parted forever from north China. ;JU - is now maintained here, in diplma tic circles, that these) vast and populous provinces of the south are either-to lie formetl into an other Chinese", empire under ' a new dynasty, or are to eontlmie' their ex istence asr Iwcieiiendent nationalities, the present viceroys becoming petty kings and 'princes of absolute power within their own districts. This sys tem of native, states is viewed ; with some tavor for it is believeil that the civilized powers can hold them in line more easily than if they were com bined in to one great nation. THO YEARS' COLLECTION. . Beceipts of the Sheriff's Office During F. WJ Durbln's Term. Sheriff P. W. Durbiu has prepared a statement of; , tbe tax moneys collect ed by him during the past two years the total collet-ted on account of taxs was $S2.0.V.i4. Following is- the statement showing from that sources the money was received: j . .. Collations tax roll !!)..$ fM14S. H Paid to Treasurer.,.. . . KH,oo 7S P.alance on hand. - - . . .-f 1.547 40 Collections tax rod iKWn.$2ir.ia-; 0-1 Paid to Treasurer. .... . 21."i,07J 41 Pslance on band. .V. . .', Collected on 1SD7 , roll.', , . Paid to .Treasurer. Pal. on hand. 1; . . . . . Colli-cted on 18JX5 roll.. Paid to Treasurer....... 2d K .$ 70.22O (k Jtr? m fi.J17 28 (U.-.i m - Pal. on hand.... ..;..$ CollcteI on 181K5 roll.... ,$ raid to Treasurer. .....- PaL on hand. $ Collectel on 1H!)4 roll. ., .f I'aid to Treasurer . . . . , , . Hal on hand . ... . . . . T. .$ Collect Ion on 1 roll.,..? Paid, to treasnrer.... .... itr. at 440 so 242 nu ins m 4." Kt 1.1 71 (50 22 40 7S RaL on hand... ..', i..f i , 25 44 Total collections.... . , i .".$nS2,l!55 14 Paid to Treasurer.... aso.414 71 - -: 'r : - ;';'. RaI. W hand.,: i 2,220 43 " BOERS AS FIC.HTERS.' I have been: waiting for Sohie pro fessional soldier, w1s has teen-a stn- of the military operations v in Stinth Africa, to come forward a ml re fute the false and exaggerated state ments which nave: been so generally made, day by day, by individuals and the press, ami correct the utterly erro neous impression nnder which the ma jority of the public labor respecting them. But when sncli a man as ften- ator Hoar asserts that the resistance adn prowess of the Boers is the "fin and prowess of the Boers is the "fin la e" H quote from memory), it would seem thai. the time has come, even for a civilian, to claim a hearing for plain facts. Senator Hoar's statement is the more startling, since be had before his eyes the marvelous defense of Mafe klng, which is. Indeed, heroic. Men may well differ in opinion upon the - , t -:. 1 - 5 j , -.. ntviiU and t-iiu'4iC.iJs aiUAt.l. ' can war. Tliiit Is a mutter whii-h ike all similar oui-s. can. only be set-. tlwl by time. Rut the military .events and their conditions are facts plain to all men who will take the trouble t learn them. The general opiuiou Is the exact opjMisite of what tiiese facts tell. - - It is a fact. for. example, that tiie Poer army when war was declared was from twice to four times In mim- U-r that of the KritiKh forces In South A friers . The lowest estimate of if u 40,(rfHt, the highest tiO,ooo;. the., truth is lHiliaj)S midway, uw, the ' RritisU had In Natal, niter a re-enforcement froin-IiKlin. not over .tni proia hi v less. In Klmbrley there w-re. l'u round numbers .", 0 mlxeil troops; lu Mafeking, l,.iKi of the same. It is clear tlwref ore, that Jheii 'the loer forces were from two 1o three to on. as-ouiparetl with the ltritislu , More over, the Iloer army was far smiorUir in iirtillery, lioth in : numls-r ol guns -and their quality. Their ami v. too"' had the advautage of at least two years' pre) mi rat ion for "the sudden spruag - w U icU -was - f or t U wit Ur iua w It was at home, was on grouiuf known and surveyed, and-had all lis supplies close at band. The l'.rltish were (.u) niiUs by wa from their source -f sii, ply of men nnd materials, Willi lUkt ta 4iiO miles of ditricult laud transport in tervening Is'sidesl Can there be aiy IMssile question where the "or wlielinlug" suiK'rlorlty of force lay here? . . . 1 Under these conditions tin? Iksi-s at tacketl, alout simultaneously, the three positions before named, and in each ens' ; drove the" Itritisli imo a state of siege. t Yet, with all their sa periority,' siKciaHy in artillery, uo serious impression was evr made. There are those who ft f linn aul be lieve the grat and long-prepared arm ament of the Roers, followd by their stuUlen-hisli. was not for, the. pHrise of.ilel'uudiug thwir lialuliUes. Imii fot tltat of driving the R'ritlsh i out of .South 'Vt'rlca'.and establishing Dutch" rule. 1 do not raise the question, hut only submit -that If ever there, was a fair show -1 or 'success, here' .was 'one, ' nndjtjutt.fhey sjit&id have takeii Iidy siulth. IvlinlMM-rey and Mafckiug ' be-. ' rore assistance could arrive, thereby controlling all, the railroad and open-' ing the way to their alleged projec t. ' Wln-n the first ImiMirtaiit Riitisii r etlTotxenienfs flfd arrive'; Ihd It he an ii ies under Puller and 'Methueu ad- van-el to the Tugela. ami Orange riv-4 ers,"the -I?oers,"-taking alvautae .of the extraordinary natural features of their count rv. I:il thrown ncr. n. path of each advauciug force iutrcm-h-ments practically impregiialile, ' - Sev-' eral assaults .against thes, made by the -British, were repulsel with gn-at, but not, as is generally supposed,., ex cept loualloss. Is there 'anything won derful in that? Putting asi the fact' that this was the first time that an in visible enemy armed with j modern weapons had been attacked afer tra ditional methoils, ..wherein can the.Jto ers claim precedence ' over i he Turks .at,. Plevna. or he Americans at Hunk er Hill j.w lyre, by, the way, tbe llrit- ish loss Is'fore those paltryJreast tolkft "was'Tar "greater in " protNirtioii than in these aKstmlts' In Sonth Afri ca?) .".History. Is lull of similar rnd dents.., ; , ..J. ,r ,v Much senrfmefit is wnftted'sh the er roneous theory that, in all these-cases, the Boers. were, fighting ''d"-'4csjicr:ite. battle against-greatly . superior odds. The fact is,, just the revers is trpe, Before ;,tlie arrival of liuler- Army we' have shown that the , Boer liad much the larger ntunbvrs. - Even .alter tlie arrival of this army aJtUmjOrauBe lilver and the Tugela. .evefytluug go-s to show? thitf CKhlj4'"s' antiy at, tlie fornier, opiiosed to Methueu, was tlie larger of" the--two. aud 'that Jouln-rt's on the hitter was quite equal in num bers to that of Buller.'! mean ou Uu fighting line. Howevej'that may if we adopt the inilU.try axiom that one man behind intrencliments is equal t from two to three nssaultlug, tln-re can 'be no question whatever' where the superiority In numerical force lay. I?.. 1...' .Iff ,1.'.. . ..... I lioiMTis uuu uis -army, jnere nan Invn a few picturesue blunders, skir mishes, ambushes and captures, but nothing to effect results. Now for the first time the British, indeed, had that overwhelming . suiieriority- of nuinlers which lind lieen before iucorretlv al- legeL , And what has followed? I can see no signs of 1 heriiionvhie. Tlie Creeks were klllel. to a mail. wIm-civ they wtnofl ; the Boers had incited away With lianlly a shot; if we except tlw attack on '.Wepeneri where, 'thnn to ono, tliey attacketl tlie l,5o( Colonlali under Brabant In a wak issition aud failed again. -' f r. Now, -where ties the-great military fame of the, Boers? Where the deeds which haye platni them on pinnacles beside the canonized -heroes of histo ry? Let us have Instances, a bill of pjirticuhtm.j; We; lmV inule no .light study of the facts for six months, and lean find nothing. We can find no iiiJ' stances of success except. In tlie raw of the defense! of 'the great', iswit Ions We have mentioned. Can , any one point out .where they have taken- a single British, 4sitlou, regularly. dT feuded, or prevailed on equal terms over any British' force In the field? Have they gained a single iolnt of any -ouseiiuen-e at which they aimed? If so, where is it? Is It not rather tlie truth that, c-onsldering the conditions and their opportunities,-the cj'.inp.'iign of .the Boers np to the a nival of ltb erts maj' prove to 1h one of the nnwt consummate failures in the history of the war? iKiublless the Boers are brave men and tough, sturdy fighters but that is all that has been -shown. One may feel vni paths o? -..tiiem, wUlietvt ti toi-tlngfartsi J What the. rtiblic rffiui'f ha v6 are facts, (not, wtbjcM i tej Hoi at 16ns. Ix-tter In Boston "Tra nscrlpl. . Chazi Mukhter Pacha. Ottoman high comoiissloiier In Egytjlms made a re lort to the Porte, calling attention t serious evils in the International al minlstration, of the Ottoman empire, and urging various reforms, including lilH'rty of the press, apiKiluUiieiit to otliceS by merit, the creation of a coun-, ell of . notables with control of I the finances, independent trlbuiials'and the atsdition of the palace veto mi the de cisions on the council of mininers. 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