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BANKING.
foreign and domestic exchange
bought and sold. Cable and
telegraphic transfers made.
Credits furnished. Accounts
solicited.
weekes, McCARTHY & GO.,
Galveston, Tex.
Grand Opora House.
Tuesday Night Only, Nov. 24.
A PLAY OF HEART INTEREST !
The Brilliant Comedy-Drama Success.
H. Grattan Douuolly's Masterpiece ia 4 Acts,
The American Girl!
R. E. * BOB J GRAHAM,
As the Great American Hustler.
Prince Roy \ derful Children. 1 Little Lady.
Be sure and bring the children to see
PRINCE ROY AND LITTLE LADY.
SEATS NOW ON SALE.
COMING: Barlow Bros.' Minstrels, Thursday,
Thanksgiving Matiueo and Night, November :6.
TELEPHONE
I of the SOUTHWEST
D TELEPHONE C(
irincipal cities and tnw
TEXAS.
Over the lines of the SOU! HVVESTEKN TELE-
GRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANY to
many of the principal cities and towns of
Toll itationB at the Central office, hotels and
other convenient places.
T. L. POWELL, L ocal Manager.
COTTON.
Houston Is undoubtedly the best
cotton market In the South to-day.
The number of buyers there is
constantly Increasing. The phys-
ical facilities for handling Cotton
are unsurpassed anywhere In the
world. .
We offer you our services
backed by a continuous experi-
ence of a quarter of a century
in this buslnesa
We will send stencil and quota-
tions on application frea of
charge.
, Cleveland&Co,
HOUSTON.
THE WEATHER.
Washington Forecast.
Washington. Nov. 19.—Forecast till mid-
night, November 20:
For eastern Texas: Threatening weather,
with showers near the coast; lower tem-
perature in southern portion; northerly
winds.
For western Texas: Threatening weather;
cooler in southern portion; north winds, be-
coming- easterly.
For Georgia: Generally fair, followed by
increasing cloudiness; probably showers In
the interior: colder in the interior; south
winds, becoming northerly.
For Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana:
Threatening weather, with occasional
s hoVers; colder; southeast winds.
For Tennessee and Kentucky: Continued
threatening weather, with occasional show-
ers; cooler north winds, becoming easterly.
For Oklahoma and Indian territory:
Partly cloudy weather; warmer; north
winds, becoming southerly.
For North and South Dakota: Generally
fair; warmer; south winds becoming vari-
able or easterly.
For Nebraska and Kansas: Generally
fair; warmer winds, becoming southerly.
For Montana: Threatening weather;
warmer, variable winds, becoming south
easterly.
For Wyoming and Colorado: Increasing
cloudiness: probably showers or light
aiiows; warmer, soutn winds.
Temperature Hecora.
Yesterday's temperature record at Gal-
veston as shown by the thermograph on
the roof of the cotton exchange was as fol-
lows:
• a. m
9 a. m
11 a. m
...07
...67
.. .OS
1 p. m..
3 p. m..
5 p. m..
...70
...70
...09
Comparative Record.
Galveston weather record for Nov. 19,
1896, with corresponding date of the last
three years:
Time— | Bar.|Ther.jWind|Raln|Weather
8 a. m 130.170 i 07 ISE 81 .00 ICkfyT
8 p. in ISO.202| 08 j E 9| .00 |Cldy.
Maximum temperature...
Minimum temperature
Average temperature
Precipitation
J1S90| 189511894|1893
"I 06 j 61 j 49
..I Bit I lili I 55
.. .00 1.00 i T
w (Satoe^tmt
55TH YEAR—NO. 241.
GALVESTON. TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 1898.
ESTABLISHED 1912.
IT WILL SOON BE
HANKSG1V1NG
0H)K»*O»C*0»0»CK*0*O+C+CfCtO«f0K«)»0«»O»C«»C«*OK)
| Aftermath; A Dige0t ^DayAffairs j
BY W. C. MOORE.
And that reminds us that It la about
time for you to order your
BLANK BOOKS
FOR THE COMING YEAR.
Let us hear from you.
CLARKE & COURTS,
GALVESTON.
We Make the Best Blank Books on Earth.
REMEMBER a
First, last and all the time, that human in-
genuity is circumscribed, only capable of
accomplishing results up to a certain point.
With that attained and the limit reached,
the power is exhausted and any further
promise of favorable results is a deceit and
misleading. Promises are cheap, and made
with a view to honest fulfillment or to de-
ceive, agreeable to the moral rectitude and
general reliability of.those making them. If
you know us in a practical business way,
then, you are not hesitating. Intelligent dis-
cernment and s£lf-lnterest will do the rest.
If you have not tried us, the time has come
when you should.
We are just in receipt of the following
seasonable goods, of the best brands ana
pack, fresh and in brisk demand:
California Evaporated Peaches, Pears and
Apricots, Prunes in 26-lb. boxes, Currants
in bulk and 1-lb. packages, thoroughly
cleaned, Dates in 10-lb. boxes, London Lay-
er Raisins, Two Crown Loose Muscatel Rai-
sins, Three Crown Loose Muscatel Raisins,
Seedless Muscatel Raisins. New crop of
the following nuts: Almonds, Pecans, Fil-
berts. English Walnuts, Brazil Nuts. A
full assortment of Fireworks. Holland Her-
ring. W. H. and Milkers. Also Russian Sar-
dines.
Should our salesmen fail to see you in
time, don't hesitate to send In your open or-
ders. We will treat you right. Everything
the grocery line can be had of us at cor-
rect prices. Remember us before arranging
for next year's business.
P. J. WILLIS & BRO.,
Tho Oldest Wholesale Grocers and Cotton Fac
tors, GALVESTON. Texai.
slight depression over the lower Mississippi
valley.
Hfph temperatures continue along the
gulf coast, but cool weather prevails over
the interior of the country.
The weather is cloudy exoept over the
extreme northwest and the east gulf states,
where it is clear.
Weather Forecast.
For Galveston and vicinity: Friday
threatening, with probably showers; colder;
fresh to brisk northerly winds.
For Texas east of the 100th meridian:
Friday threatening, with showers near the
coast; lower temperature in south portion.
Weather Bulletin.
Galveston, Tex., Nov. 19.—The following
weather bureau stations report current
temperature to-night at 8 o'clock, 75th
meridian time:
DISTRICTS
AND
STATIONS.
a 3
Temperature.
Q
Op,
35
s
ft
9
«< :
'l Is.
S 5 a 3
Is
o
c _
"3
V
0_
CS
"1 P
CO X
3.-
U
: I
Atlantic ,
Coast-
Charlotte ....
....|
Jacksonville .
30.20
"66
"'o
"66
74
6
" ".04
Gulf
States-
Atlanta
30.24
66
0
58
72
8
.00
Montgomery
30.22
72
2
00
80 Lt.
.00
Vicksburg ...
30.18
74
0
62
82
Lt.
.00
New Orleans.
30.20
68
0
66
78, Lt.
.00
Palestine ....
30.28
50
18
48
62
6
.00
Galveston ...
30.20
68
0
00
72
8
.00
C'rp's Christ!- 30.10
72
2
70
74
12
.00
Ohio Valley
and
Tennessee—
Memphis —
30.34
46
24
42
70
18
.00
Nashville —
30.321 501 16! -18
54:Lt.| T
Upper Missis-
sippi V'lley—
St. Paul
30.74
12
2
10 12 Lt.
.00
Davenport ...
30.64
30
0
114
32
6
.00
St. Louis
30.44
40
4
36
40
12
.01
Missouri
Valley-
Kansas City.
30.50
30
2! 26
30
8
.00
Omaha
30.50
22
4
18
20
8
.00
Rocky Moun-
tain slope-
North Platte.
30.52
20
4
18
24
6
.00
Dodge City..
30.48
20
8
18
20
Lt.
.00
Amarillo
SO.34
36
2
30
42
10
.00
Oklahoma ...
30.44
32
10
30
34
6
.00
Abilene
30.42
40
30
34
42
6
.00
El Paso
30.00
66
5
50
72
10| .00
Temperature anil Precipitation.
Temperature and precipitation at Galves-
ton for Nov. 19, 1890, and since January
1, 1896, as compared with general averages:
Normal temperature. 62.
Excess for the .day, 7.
Accumulated excess since Jan. 1, 86.
Normal precipitation for the day, .15.
Deficiency for the day. .15.
Deficiency since Jan. 1, SJ2.86.
Weather Synopsis.
Galveston, Tex., Nov. 19.-The following
synopsis of the weather is furnished by the
officials of the United States weather bu-
reau at this place:
An extensive area of high barometer,
with Its crest over the northwest, domi-
nates the weather conditions throughout
the country to-night.
The lowest barometer is over the extreme
western portion of Texas and there is a
Called on 31 rs. Davis.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 19.—Colonel Fred D
Grant of New York, son of General Grant,
who is here in attendance on the conven
tlon of the society of the Army of tho
Tennessee, called on Mrs. Jefferson Davis
and Miss Winnie Davis at their hotel. He
was accompanied by General Guy V. Henry
of Jefferson barracks. He met the ladies
in the main parlor of the Planters' hotel
where they were entertaining a number of
soldiers of the confederacy, and held an in
formal Interview with them which lasted
about fifteen minutes. The widow of the
confederate president expressed herself as
greatly pleased to meet Colonel Grant and
General Henry. The latter received his
warrant of commission at West Point from
Jefferson Davis.
Pleaded Guilty.
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 19.—Rev. J. C. Hull
the preacher on trial charged with attempt
ing to poison his' wife, this afternoon
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to state
prison for six years. He went on the stand
during the morning in his own behalf ant
his case went to pieces, so that when court
convened this afternoon, on advice of his
attorneys, he pleaded guilty.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ifcgss®a
Absolutely pure
Ramon, the shiftless peon, stood
In the cool shade of his palmetto shack
And ground his teeth, as anybody would
Whose pretty wife had harvested a stack
Of costly duds; hose, pantalettes and such
As peon women wear not overmuch.
Carramba! by the Spanish gods," he cried;
"Some fellow's blood shall stain my dag-
ger's hilt;
I never earned a peso, for my pride
Forbids the same; for work I wasn't
built.
And how my woman goes to rout and revel
In fancy togs, just simply beats the devil."
But Juana squared herself and to Ramon
She read a paper published in St. Louis,
Which plainly said the Mexican peon
Was rich and prosperous, and showed to us
The cause thereof. Safe in her husband's
trust,
Fair Juana sleeps the slumber of the Just.
* * *
Sound money optimists must not lay the
flattering unction to their souls that there
Is no resurrection for the lost cause. From
the ashes of this silver phoenix a bird will
arise four years hence whose spread of
wing will render insignificant its progenitor
whom we lately burned. The assertions of
the vanquished silver leaders that the fight
has just commenced are wholly correct.
To not repair the breaches in the wall
made by the silver artillery might be a
fatal neglect. One thing is certain; the
dissatisfied element is growing larger every
year. This class can not be reachcd by ar-
gument, for the simple reason that they re-
fuse to read it. A campaign of education
is useless. I have never met a convert
made by such methods. Coinage literature
must of necessity be largely statistical. The
masses do not read statistics. The leaders
of the new movement have got their
tougues well into the ears of the unem-
ployed, who .imagine they have a grievance
to adjust. Honest or dishonest as you
please, these leaders are brainy and shrewd
men who have reached the top of the lad-
der by legitimate methods. Do you Texans
expect our silver triumvirate, Culberson,
Hogg and Reagan, to recant? As well
might you expect the devil to take holy
orders and kiss the papal toe. These men
will work tooth and nail to prevent the
burning of the second phoenix. Every
state has men just as shrewd and keen,
who have enlisted for life in this war of tiie
white and yellow roses. The campaign of
1900 will decide the fate of our republic.
* * *
Speaking for myself alone, I do not think
that President Cleveland did the correct
thing in asking us to thank the deity for
sound money victory. If the Almighty
was fighting in the gold ranks, Chairman
Jones should have been informed as to the
enlistment. It was hard enough for Bryan
and his followers of wildcat money to buck
against tho opinion of experts and the
conservatism of the man with the dinner
pall who had stowed away a few dollars
for a rainy day. If the sound money cause
was really assisted by divine influence, as
the inference Is in the thanksgiving proc-
lamation, the jig was up long before the
3d of November. Speaking for myself alone
I do not believe that Cod ever interferes in
mun<$ane affairs. In this matter intelligent
men differ with me. When Anson, the
noted Chicago baseball manager, took his
team to San Francisco, he happened to
mention in a crowd that he never went into
a game without first asking for divine aid.
Right there a row occurred. The manager
of the home club declared that if God was
going to play with the Ohicagos, his team
shouldn't touch a bat handle. It was hard
enough, he said, to play against a hooting
audience and a lop-sided umpire, and If In
addition his boys had to bat against the
Almighty, there was no use entering the
game. Anson was compelled to declare the
divine combination off, and lost the game.
This, on the Pacific coast, was considered
conclusive proof of the efficacy of prayer.
If the Deity is a sound money advocate, as
Mr. Cleveland would have us believe, then
the Inscription, "In God we trust," is not
without its merits. It would be an inter-
esting experiment to see if the same in-
scription on the Mexican silver dollar would
raise It to par with gold. All of which is
written in no scoffing tone, for I am of
the opinion that God never Interferes in
earthly affairs of any character.
• • •
For hewers of words and drawers of
idiom the late campaign has been a big
bonanza. I know of scarcely a writer who
does not boast, while in his cups, of some
tremendous feat of word-screwing. We
have had "popocrat," and "Hannacrat,"
and God knows what. Old Subscriber and
Veritas rushed into print with newly mint-
ed terms of fantastic design, still hot from
their brainy forges. Myself alone of all
the wrangling horde have blushed unseen.
Shall I show you my trophy? Shall I dis-
cover to you this baby Moses whom I
found among the bulrushes of Buffalo
bayou, and into whom I breathed the
breath of life? Hist! Bend close toward
me that 1 may whisper into your ear the
sacred word so low and soft that the hoot-
ing rabble may not hear. The term? Ha!
It is; "slumpocrat." Hands off! It Is
mine, all mine. Did I not find it in the
rushes? Did I not breathe into it the
breath of life? It is mine to do with as I
wish, and I will take the foundling back
to its father's house in Houston and the
Great Reversible will fall on its neck and
weep and will cry out, "Here is my lost
son returned to my bosom; come, let us
kill the fatted political goose, which no
longer lays golden eggs, for to-morrow we
may recant."* And what of me? Alas. I
must needs trudge hungrily home with only
an imprecation for a bonus and the frozen
eye for lagniappe.
• • •
Across McKlnley's fence thy hide is hung,
Thou royal tiger of an erstwhile time;
That roared for blood with ever hungry
tongue
When sturdy Tammany was In its prime.
such result. No human contrivance has
ever been able to pen up ignited fulminate
of oxygen.
• * *
Thou friar, whose petitions oft have rose
Sweet as the fragrant incense thou hast
burned,
I'll pay thee well to guarantee repose,
Peace, stillness, calm and rest—what, hast
thou learned
My wish so soon? Then let the mass be
sung
That begs of God repose for Bryan's
tongue.
This Is the time of year when the country
editor begins his annual beg for turkey. In
rural districts subscriptions are often
whacked up in turnips, potatoes and coun-
try produce in general. In those localities
editors do not wear diamonds and eat ter-
rapin as they do in Cities. The editor of a
country paper may he in the corral yoking
up a pair of bulls to ,a breaking plow when
the candidate comes,with the sack. When
a country editor is jproperly hit with the
sack he can be knocked end over end a
distance of forty feet without injury. For
this contusionless blow he is expected to
for
create a national sentiment in favor of the
elevation of our public service to the high-
est plane, the plane of honesty and right-
eousness.
mold public opinion
to the election. As
three months prior
raker of other peo-
see
pie's chestnuts out Of the political fire the
country editor is a streaming success. How
he heaps perdition ion the loathsome op-
ponent. How he lajdles out hogwash for
the man with the stfek. After the tumbler
then Thanksgiving, j The tone of defiance
is gone. The hoars* shout of the warrior
has changed into the piteous wail of the
literary almonee begging for turkey. Each
edition contains the invocation until the
weary subscribers compel the editor to say
"amen" by heaving a gobbler through the
office window.
Society Notes.
The beautiful and accomplished Mrs.
Whackjlnks will Christmas somewhere in
Textts. Among the souvenirs she brought
from across the water is a beautiful mull
handkerchief which was bio wed on at her
special request by all the crowned noses of
Europe.
The Donaldson family will ambush in
Washington this winter with the Intention
of pulling the McKinley leg tor a consulate
early In the spring. The Donaldson house
is slightly divided against itself. The old
lady wants to go to Europe, while the old
man, who has a great eye for beauty as
exhibited in the female form divine, wants
to go as consul to Honolulu and see the
hula hula danced by Kanaka girls. The
Donaldsons pulled out a week ago. leaving
their home in charge of that strapping
Irishwoman, Bridget O'Tooie. who has an
arm on heT like a horse's neck. Donaldson
says the house is safe in her charge, as she
Is a perfect fury and would clean out bur-
glars as a terrier would rats.
The handsome and accomplished Miss
Biddy O'Tooie gave a supper to a select
company in the basement of the Donaldson
mansion last Friday evening. The dainty
little lady gave an exhibition of her skill
by breaking thirty-six dishes in thirty-six
seconds, at which the eighteen policemen
present stopped elating boiled chicken iong
enough to rip the welkin with a tempest of
applause. Our popular townsman Major
Jackson O'Tooie w&s present at his daugh-
ter's reception. The cops say that the Don-
aldson wine cellar Vs the best stocked of
any they ever cracked.
strokes McKinley
the tiger
CRASH IX A COMPRESS.
Fourteen Injured ami* Others Ile-
lleved to Be in the Debris.
Memphis, Tenn.. Nov. 19.—A special to
the Commercial Appeal from Macon. Ga..
say»: Thirty people. 3000 bales of cotton
and hundreds of tons of heavy timber all
went down in one loud crash at 7.30 to-
night at the Central railroad compress in
this city. Fourteen injured people, all em-
ployes of the compress, have been re-
moved from the wreckage, but it is
thought others are beneath the cotton and
lumber, and if so they are dead or will be
before they can be extricated.
The injured are: Joe Price, hip crushed;
Holmes Little, right leg smashed; Ark
Dickens, hip mashed; Robert Choice, shoul-
der crushed; Freeman Jamison, face cut;
John Williams, face cut; Lake Williams,
head badly bruised; H. D. Thomas, shoul-
der badly bruised; Washburn, face burned;
Will Garrett, cut over left eye; Jim Brown,
leg mashed: B. A. Carver, shoulder
crushed; Wm. Brown, leg mashed.
Superintendent A. A. Gordon was in the
middle of the platform superintending the
work in the cotton, and went down in the
middle, and bv a miraculous escape re-
ceived only slight wounds.
Several employes are missing and it is
feared they were beneath the wreck. The
platform was 20 feet high. Over 500 feet
gave way without warning, the supports
being rotten.
It is believed that two teams and their
drivers were caught beneath the platform,
as it extended over Poplar street, a public
thoroughfare, and the teams are said to
have been seen going under the platform
just as It fell.
So great was the noise that It was heard
a distance of a mile, and many people in
the neighborhood were badly frightened.
All of the Injured were taken to their
homes ard hospitals and given attention
by surgeons, who pronounced the injuries
of some as perhaps fatal.
The wrecked platform covers several
acres of ground. It will cost several thou-
sand dollars to replace the platform.
The hunt for the dead bodies supposed to
be burled beneath the wreck will not begin
until to-morrow, as derricks for raising the
cotton and timbers can not be procured be-
fore then.
A SOCIETY EVENT.
Nuptials of Gea. F. II. NVinston and
>liss Sullie Hews at New Orleans.
New Orleans, La., Nov. 19.—(Special.)—
General Frederick H. Winston of Chicago
was married to Miss Sallle Reeves Hews,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edson L. Hews
of this city, to-day at 1 o'clock, the cere-
mony taking place in Trinity church before
one of the largest assemblages of invited
guests ever gathered for a Crescent city
weddirg. The bridal party left this after-
roon for New York, where, on November
28. they sail on the steamer Columbia for
Gibraltar, thence to North Africa, return-
ing to Chicago about March 1. General
Winston's wealth is placed at $5,000,000.
A Detailed Report.
New Orleans. La., Nov. 19.—(Special.)—
The features of the social season, in fact,
of several seasons in the Crescent city,
were clustered about a wedding that took
place in Trinity church to-day at 1 o'clock,
when General Frederick II. Winston of
Chicago, lawyer, politician, man of affairs,
and ex-minister to Persia, was married to
Miss Sallie Hews, a reigning society belle
of this city for the past five years. She
was the queen of Momus during Mardi
Gras two years ago and has been twice
chosen as one of the six most handsome
women in this city. General Winston met
Miss Hews last Mardi Gras festival, and it
was a case of love at first sight, the en-
gagement following a few months ago.
The big Chlcagoan Is one of the Lincoln
park commissioners, he has great wealth,
fame and reputation; Miss Hews has the
beauty of three generations, the social po-
sition that the most select society can give.
He has reached the age of 63 years, while
she has scarcely turned 25 years. The ro-
mance in the case reads like a novel, and
the marriage solemnized to-day has cre-
ated more interest than any taking place
in this city for many years.
General Winston and his Chicago friends
arrived here in a special train over the Il-
linois Central railroad Tuesday night.
Trinity church wuf crowded with invited
guests, numbering some 800. long before 1
o'clock. The bridal party consisted of the
bride and groom. Miss Elza Winter of
Jackson, Miss., as bridesmaid, and Mr.
Harry Walker of Chicago as best man ; Mr.
Mortimer Wisdom. Mr. Beverly Myles. Mr.
Garland Wolfe. Mr. Walker Goodrich, Mr.
T. J. Bartlett and Mr. Robert Eskridge,
ushers, and Mr. Edson L. Hews, father of
the bride.
The ushers entered the church first, fol-
lowed by the maid of fionor; then came
the bride, leaning cn the arm of her father.
When the ushers reached the chancel Uni-
formed a circle and as the bride and her
father came forward thev were met by
General Winston and his best man.
The bride, a very beautiful woman by
nature, wore a white satin duchesse. plain
skirt with long train. The corsage was
entirely draped with a point lace veil,
which formc-u the puff sleeves. The veil,
which is a rare one. was the property of
the bride's great grandmother and has
been in the family for two generations.
Miss Hews wore a deep crush girdle.
I'ightly trimmed with orange blossoms ami
lilies of the valley. A small crown of or-
ange blossoms held the veil together at
the top. while through the interstices of
the veil imbedded in the bride's hair glit-
tered a gorgeous sunburst of diamonds, the
gift of the groom.
The beautiful ceremony of' the Episcopal
church was performed by Rev. Beverly
Warren, during which soft strains of "Lo-
hengrin." by Organist J. W. Eckert, add-
ed to the impreesiveneas.
The selection of Miss Elza Winter as the
maid of honor for Miss Hews was the re-
sult of a friendship that has existed be-
tween the two families for over two gen-
erations. The mothers and grandmothers
of these two young ladies wer/ girls to-
gether, schoolmates and fast friends. They
shared each other's joys, each other's love,
and finally each other's little romances.
The bringing of the two great granddaugh-
ters together on this occasion in the ca-
pacity of bride and bridesmaid was looked
upon as one of the quite befitting features
of the day.
The gown of Miss Hews was trimmed
with a piece of lace that was an heirloom
of the Hews family, and the lovely bride
was offered $500 for a mere scrap of the
rare trimming, which was quickly declined.
General and Mrs. Winston left to-night
over the Louisville and Nashville railroad
for New York, where the wedding trip wi'.l
be continued for a period of three months
in North Africa.
P0P0CRATIC CLAIMS.
SENATOR COCK HELL'S V I K\V-CON-
DITIONS OF THE LAST CAM-
PAIGN REVIEWED.
OUTLOOK FOR THEM IN 1900.
Will Lose Populist Aid—Past, Present
and Future Position of the
"Gold 11 ui& Generals."
Skinned by the happy
dealt,
No mourners wept to
flayed;
We bid thy spirit tell us how It felt
To get between the ribs the golden blatfe.
The silence, awful, deathly, stifling, that
O'er Wolfert's Roost in noiseless horror
hung
Has been eclipsed. The man who stewed
thy fat
Serves on thy tawny hide thy potted
tongue.
• • •
The irrepressible boy orator has already
started his vacuum pump on the campaign
of 1900. He evidently does not know that
the race Is over and that the judges have
gone home. Holy smoke! Will he never
come under the wire? Does he intend
keeping the track hot four years more?
Press dispatches state that the celebrated
Nebraskan has already wiggled out from
under the avalanche and to the horror of
the helpless public has had himself billed
for sliver lecturer. These, the dispatches
state, are the opening guns of the next
campaign. "Guns" is a good word to use,
as the term is suggestive of noise and kick-
ing, which was really all there was to the
crusade which this new Peter the Hermit
led to rescue the holy sepulcher from the
hands of the Wall street infidel. If the
lovers of sublime peace and magnificent
quiet will tamp the guns full of sand so
that the breeching of them be blown out.
a grateful public will shout "Amen!" The
fouling piece with which the orator is
gunning for plutocratic ducks must either
discharge its load or blow out the breech.
The nature of the explosive used compels
Congress of Religions.
Indianapolis. Ind.. Nov. 19.—The pro-
gramme at the congress of religions this
afternoon was for the most part taken up
with a discussion of "Sociological Problems
of the Church." This was led by the Rev.
A. J. Canfleld of Chicago, who was followed
by Edwin D. Mead of Boston, the Rev. W.
C. Gordon of Michigan City, the Rev. R. A.
White of Chicago and the Rev. Caroline J.
Bartlett of Kalamazoo. Mich. Miss Bart-
lett's special branch of the subject was
"The institutional Clinch in Towns and
Small Cities," a subject upon which she is
considered a high authority.
The committee on resolutions reported the
following, offered at the last annual con-
gress and laid over until the present meet-
ing:
Resolved: 1. That the name of this cor-
poration shall be the Liberal Congress of
Religion.
2. That the purpose of this congress be tho
promotion of liberalism and catholicity in
religion.
The second resolution passed without dis-
cussion. but the first one was long and
carefully considered before it was passed,
many favoring the omission of the word
liberal.
The invitation from the governor of Ten-
nessee to hold the next meeting at Nash-
ville was &ocept< d.
Officers for the next year were named as
follows: President. Hiram Thomas; vice
presidents. F. G. Hirsch. M. J. Savage. R.
Heber Newton. T. J. Momerie of London,
England; general secretary. Jenkin Lloyd
Jones; treasurer. Leo Fox; directors, H. R.
Whit more. F. E. Dewhurst, Caroline J.
Bartlett, H. H. Croker. Phillips Moxoin. E.
L. Rex ford. Edward l>. Mead, David Starr
Jordan. Joseph Stolz. E. P. Powell. L.
Duncan, John FavUle. W. L. Sheldon. A.
W. Gould. A. N. Alcott, R. A. White. W. E.
Gannett. Mrs. Grtes. Paul Cams and Mrs.
Henry Solomon.
The congress closed its third annual
meeting to-night with a discussion of the
general subject of "the church of the free."
Before final adjournment the congress
adoptee! the following:
Resolved, that the secretary, through the
Associated Press, request the clergymen
throughout the 1 tilted States to speak upon
Thanksgiving day on the evil of bribery
and corruption in public offices, and thus
A Populist Scheme.
Topeka. Kan., Nov. 19.—It is said the
populist leaders propose to pass a state
law making Mexican dollars legal tender
for all debts.
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.
Dank In Sioux City.
Sioux City. Ia.. Nov. 19.—The First na-
tional bank closed its doors. The failure
is due to heavy withdrawals. The bank
is one of the oldest institutions in the city
and was considered one of the soundest.
The amount of liabilities is not yet known.
The failure Is not believed to be a bad one.
The failure caused a run on the Sioux
City bank, but It took advantage of the
sixty-day law.
The firm of J. H. Pugh assigned as a re-
sult of the bank's failure.
E. H. Hubbard, attorney for the bank,
made a statement to-nig^t:
"There is nothing to say further than,
the bank is closed on account of steady\
withdrawals and the inability to get neces-
sary money. Whether It will reopen again
1 can not say. No definite statement can
be made until the bank examiner conies.
The comptroller of the currency has been
notified, and until the examiner comes we
shall have nothing fhofe to say.''
The bank had nearly $300,000 in deposits;
loans and discounts. $446,000; capital. $1«>0.000.
The failure of the Fitfet national bank
caused a run on the Sioux City savings
bank. T. J. Stone being president of both
institutions. The officers teiok advantage
of the sixty-day law. bwt late in the day
F. B. Ross was appointed receiver for the-
protection of the stockholders and credit-
ors. No further trouble is looked for by
the hauliers of 9ioux City.
J. K. Prugh & Co., china and queens-
ware. made an assignment ad the result of
the failure of the First national bank.
Liabilities, $23,000; assets. $41,000.
Deed of Trust.
Cameron; Milam Co., Tex., Nov. 19. J. D.
Morton & Co., grocery merchants, filed a
deed of trust last night, naming T. E.
Cramer trustee, with the following pre-
ferred creditors:
Class A: Mrs. $usan Faulkner, $500: Hen-
derson. Stedman & Freeman. $100; C. F.
Batike tea and coffee company. $00; First
national bank ol Cameron. $104.75; M. M
Ross, $10.
Class 1?: Temple grocery company. $200
V]. T. Walker, $175; Missouri glas.> com-
pany, $lls.75; Jas. 11. Hops soap company,
$44.10; Merriweather & Co.. $22.13; Mensing
Pro. & Co.. $102; HJlsas paper company,
$36.60; Taylor manufacturing companv. $30.
Class C: H. Baldwin, $106.20; H. Milling
Co., $276.78: HollWeg & Reese. $113.86: Fort
Worth packing company, $92; A. 1). Rey-
nolds. $35.13: J. p. Brennan & Co.. $205.80.
Total, $2373.26.
The creditors In class A are to be paid
as named; those ip B pro rata, and C pro
rata after others are paid. The assets are
about $1500.
Probst Construction Company.
Chicago, 111., Nov. t?.—The Probst con-
struction company made alftassignment to-
day. This company is Qnjfof the largest
contracting concerns in the country, and
its headquarters are in Sew York. No
statement was filed.
Assignment.
South McAlester, I. T., Nov. 19.—Haynes
& Garner of Kiowa, 1. T., dealers in gen-
eral merchandise, made an assignment to
Theodore F. Haynes yesterday. Liabilities
about $10,000.
COTTON.
We are prepared to advance libe ally
on Cotton consigned to us for prompt
sale or to be held. Daily quotations and
stencil furnished free on application.
Correspondence solicited.
CARSON, SEWALL & CO.,
_ „ fcOJ.OMH«V%V
-•flnvci ssiuSuoojo u«|Mjqn~
Washington, Nov. 19.—(Special.)—In a late
interview Senator Cockrell said that the
democratic party was now the party of bi-
metallism, and then he went on to say a
great many things, something on the line
of the declarations of Bryan, that the fight
must be kept up. It is refreshing to hear
irom the senator at this late day. It was
thought that much would be heard from
him throughout the country during the
campaign, but really this is the first utter-
ance that I have seen from him since the
fight became warm. He may have been
speaking in Missouri, and yet none of us
heard from him. His associate from that
state, Vest, was going to do wo*nders
throughout the land for the democratic can-
didate provided he was nominated on a sil-
ver platform, but when the time came he
did not go out of his state. Perhaps that
was the way it was with Cockrell. And as
long as neither of them went out of their
own neighborhoods to talk and Instruct the
people, it does not become them, at this
time, to tell the people what they should do
in the future, but should leave that to the
.nen who bared their breasts to the battle.
But the suggestions of Senator Cockrell
furnish grounds for a few remarks from
the papers. From what he says, the demo-
cratic party will go in the next campaign
with the same platform and the same war
cry with which it went into this campaign.
And his utterances are the fame as those of
Bryan and others. In view of these dec-
larations, it would be well to cast the eye
back a few steps and see what the demo-
cratic party was while it was making the
campaign. Its platform was a hotchpotch
of democracy, populism, anarchy and abuse.
Tho gentlemen who fought the fight for sil-
ver in the democratic ranks—that is, Jones,
Harris i.nd others of office holding inclina-
tions—threw a net in the convention to
catch all political fish that swim. The silver
plank did not amount to much with them,
other than that there was a great element
in the country that wanted free coinage of
that metal. Neither did any other political
idea. They were out after votes, and they
threw their net to catch. And by their
adoitness in throwing it they caught the
populists, the Altgeld people and all the po-
litical riff-raff in the country. After the
nomination of Bryan they invited every-
body who had a grievance, whatever it
might be, to come to bed with them. They
made fusions with the populists throughout
the country. They got so close to the popu-
lists in all things that it was with difficulty
that a "regular" democrat could be
known from a populist. They even tried to
get the populist party to indorse their
ticket, and succeeeled to a great extent.
They would have succeeded wholly if it had
not been for the ambitions of some of the
populists, who wanted office themselves,
and who saw by the course suggested by
the democratic leaders that they would
have to get off the track. The populists
stood to the fusion as made in nearly all
the states. They were neither to be bought
or to be turned from the trade in any way.
And no one will say that they did not roll
up tens of the thousands of votes for Bryan.
In fact, It would appear that they polled
about a third of the votes that Bryan got.
This may be an exaggerated statement, but
it is not meant as such. For in the south
and west they polled a very large vote for
the democratic nominee. Now. if the lines
are to be kept up and the fight is to be made
in 1900 as it was made in 1S96, then the popu-
lists must be counted on to stand to the
fusion made this year. Unless they do this,
then the "regulars" are going to fall short
wofully in their votes in the presidential
year to come. But the discouraging thing
to the "regulars" is that the populist lead-
ers do not seem to think that their bargain
goes any further than this year and the late
election. Butler, who assumes to speak for
the populists, is out in a pronunciamento to
his people, in which he says that they are
the people who will win in 1900, and that at
that time the democrats must come to them.
In other words, he has left the poor old
"regulars" sucking their thumbs and con-
fused. He will draw the populists up in
line in the coming presidential tight, and
they will be commanded by populist lead-
ers. If any democrat wants, to join the
army he will come In under populistic disci-
pline and under populistic rules. The popu-
lists will have a platform of their own. and
if the "regulars" want to join with them
they must take the populists' nominees just
as the populists took the democratic nomi-
nee at the last election. That is what But-
ler says, and that is what all the populist
leaders say. Now, just what ground Cock-
rell and other "regulars" have for saying
that the battle in 1900 will be fought on the
lines of the battle of 1890, and supposedly
by the same cohorts, is difficult to see.
These leading "regulars" do not conceal the
fact that they do not expect any of the gold
bug democrats to come back to them. They
will lose the populist vote, according to
Butler et al. They do not want or expect
any addition to their strength by the con-
version of gold democrats. Then, in heav-
en's name, how do they expect to win, when
they have just been beaten by a million
votes with the populists voting with them?
Here and there there are people who think
that the leaders of the "regulars" have
gone daft, or that they are still disposed to
try to fool the country, a thing that has be-
come a second nature with a great many of
them.
* * *
The populists' leaders and the leaders of
the* "regulars" are busy every day stat-
ing to the country what their followers in-
tend to do. They are as full of plans as
a child, and they color everything with the
rosiest hue. But very little is heard from
the gold bug leaders. 1 am beginning to
seriously doubt if the aforesaid gold bugs
on the democratic side have any leaders.
If such t**4st, they are very silent. We
can lujiar n6w and then of some leaeler on
the republican side giving the democratic
gold bugs credit for the victory which the
republicans lately won. And now and then
we hefft of the suggestion that the gold
bugs be rewarded by the Incoming admin-
istration for the action of that element.
But never a word from any man who pre-
tends to be a leader among them. It was
said dur lUft HIP eampuT£ii ena\ -nrr-c»»e gold
bug democrats were generals, and that they
had no privates behind them. This was
intended as a sneer, and so it went through
the country. The popocrats had leaders
and they had privates. The intimation was
that the "re»gular" leaders could tell their
men behind them what to do and they
would do it. The multitude following these
leaders would follow as dumb beasts. But
the gold democrats had no following. Ev-
ery man of them was a general. It was
the greatest compliment ever paid to any
element in politics. For it carri« d with it
the admission from the enemy that every
gold bug was a man who did his own think-
ing. That every one of them was pur-
suing a course that he thought was best
fcr himself and his neighbor and for the
country. He die! not pretend to lead. Ho
did not propose to dictate. He was out in
the road traveling his own way and he
recognized no boss and was not disposed
to be a boss himself. And now. when the
popocratic leaders and the populists are
talking, the gold bug is silent, for there
are no leaders among them to talk as
leaders. They are attending to their busi-
ness. which they went forth to protect on
election day, and they are satistienl with
their work. The republicans who talk of
rewarding them do not know the motive
that actuated them in their course. The
defeat of the vagaries of the Chicago plat-
form is all the reward they want. They
care nothing for oftice. As far as I can
learn from them, this is the truth. They
did not vote for McKinley with the hope
that they would be allowed to approach tho
pie counter. 1 have talked to some of the
"generals," as they were sarcastically
called during the campaign. They nay that
their victory would be spoiled il any of
their men should aspire to office.
As a rule they are of the class v. ho be-
lieve that as long as a man attends to his
business in the minor offices of the govern-
ment, offices which have nothing to do with
policies, he should be allowed to remain in
office. But they do not encourage or be-
lieve in the appointment of gold bugs be-
cause they contributed to the election of
McKinley. They did not vote for him be-
cause of his political views or because of
the views expressed in the St. Louis plat-
form. They voted for him to prevent the
triumph of the Chicago platform, and they
do not consider that the republican party,
as a party, is under ;.ny obligations to
them lor it.
* * *
This is a pre tty high stand, and I do not
think that every man in the ranks of the
gold bugs, or to speak so that the "regu-
lars" will understand and appreciate, I do
not think every man on the gold bug staff
will be so high in his attitude but that
some of them would take office under Mc-
Kinley if it were offered to them. But I
am aware that what I have said about the
desires of the mass of the "generals" is
true; that is, that they do not want any of
their number to accept office uneler the re-
publican administration. Another reason
for their desires in this matter is this: They
voted for McKinley for the reason that I
have given. They do not agree with the
republican party on the tariff and on many
other things. They want to remain in the
position that thev can fight that party
when they feel so inclined, and they do not
want to be too thick with it. They feel
that if the republican party should follow
its inclinations to pass a high tariff bill,
or should put in practice its views on the
rights of the states, then they will go out,
as they went out in the last election, and
to the man cast their votes against that
party. If they liave not been recognized—
if none of their men occupy high places,
the more easily they can get together as a
mass and do the work as they did it a few*
days ago. Their ambition is to be known
and recognized as the conservative and
safe element of the country. They want
politicians to know- them as "generals," not
as "followers," have ieleas which they do
not yield to party ism and that they can
be relied on to vote against dangerous or
batl political ideas, whether they come from
one side or the other.
They hope that the time the next
presidential campaign arrives, the silver
craze will have died out and the elemocratic
party will have returned to its senses.
They do not desire to lead even then. They
are willing to turn the offices over to those
who want them, asking nothing but a
guarantee that the government shall be ad-
ministered in a business and sensible Way,
and that no wild ideas in finance or in tne
tariff shall obtain. They are democrats
with democratic beliefs. If at that timo
the popocrat is in control of the democratic
party, they will do again what they have
just done. They will go to the polls and
elect the other man as they did this time-
not through any political love for him, but
because he was considered the lesser evil.
Pursued.
Nov. 19.—J. N. Clark,
Pursuer
Williamson. W. Ya..
the detective who recently arrested it he no-
torious "Cap" Hatfield, is now himself
fleeing from the vengeance1 of the Mounts
and their friends. Clark and M. S. Bevins
undertook the arrest at Delorme of Ander-
son Mounts, who some time ago killed his
cousin in Kentucky and for whom a re-
ward was offered. They found Mount in
the custody of his father, charged with the
infraction of som< West Virginia law. He
refused to be arrested, and the usual bat-
tle followed. Clark and Bevins killed
Mounts and mortally wounded his father.
Realizing that they had made a mistake in
trying to arrest a man already in custody,
the detectives tied. Friends tit' the Mounts
at once offered a reward for the detectives
and a posse started in pursuit. The pur-
suers managed to shoot Clark in the shoul-
der, but have not yet captured him.
Kate Field's
San Francisco,
mains of Kat
pected
Remain; Not Sent.
Cal., Nov. 19.—'The re-
Field were not sent.
amer
not
the steamer Alameda, which
arrived from Honolulu this morning.
FiRE RECORD,
Hotel at Lufkin.
Lufkin. Tex.. Nov. IS.—The Mansion )v
at this place, run by Mrs. Dollie A
was destroyed by fire this
ms
morning, rho
hotel was the property of Mantooth a.- Ai>-
ney. Insurance. $25o>\ which was net more
tjian one-half the value of property de-
stroyed. It Is supposed the tire caught from
a lamp in the hall up-stairs.
Oklahoma Prairie Fires.
Guthrie, Ok.. Nov. 19. -Prairie fires have
done extensive damage in northeastern Lin -
coln* and Payne counties the past two days,
destroying many thousands of acres of
fine oasturage. causing loss of hay. corn,
and buildings to many farmers and fatally
burning two persons.
Dwelling; ut Tyler.
Tyler. Tex., Nov. 19. The residence, to-
gether with contents, of A. Sanoliski was
burned this morning. Insured in the Home
of New York, National of Hartford and
German-American of New York for $3500.
Hay and Horse Hurued.
Fort Worth, Tex.. Nov. 19.—Fire slightly
damaged the residence of John Ward.
Some hay and a horse valued at $80, the
property of J. H. Cook, were burned.
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