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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
VOL. VI. NO. 1.992
TROOPS DISBAND.
The Correspondence Between
Tillman and Troops Spicy.
THE NEWBERRY RIFLES.
The Gorernor Will Keep Sol
diers at Darlington Until
Danger is Passed.
Columbia, S. C., April 3.—While
quiet has been restored at Darlington
and the troops occupied their quarters
Without molestation, Columbia has had
another day of unrest.
The governor had been further arous
ed and Incensed at the action of the
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GOVHENOR TILLMSRC.
Newberry Rifles in disbanding and re
fusing further So carry oat his orders.
He let fall a bombshell at dress parade
of the troops ®t the peniten
tiary when he characterized the action
of the Newberry Rifles as mutinous and
that of their captain as insulting and
dismissed them from the service of the
state as unworthy to wear the uniform.
There were about 300 soldiers in line,
and when tthev were brought to parade
rest Judge Advocate General John Gary
Evans stepped to the front and read the
following oorrespondence:
Columbia. S. C.. April 2.
To His Excellency, B. rR. Tillman, Govern
or of South Caroline:
Dear Sih —I have the honor to inform
you that we, the Newberry Ribes, have
peformed the duties assigned us—that of
guarding the state house and telegraph
offices. The latter duty being exceedingly
distasteful to the entire command, and as
the company responded to your order to
appear hereunder the beli if th it th y were
needed tor cue purpose of protecting life
and property, and not for the purpose of
exercising a scrutiny over the private af
fairs of the citizens ■of South Carolina, a
duty nat'Only distasteful, but in the judg
ment of the company unnecessary and cal
culated to irritate ithe people all the more
under the present state of affairs; the
members of the company not caring to be
subjected to such orders in the future,
beg leave herewith to tender their resigna
tion and to say that their arms, etc., axe
at your command.
S. J. McCaughbin,
Captain Newberry Rifles.
G. F. WEARN. Orderly Sergeant..
Headquarters;Executive Mansion,
Columbia, S. C., April 2, 1894.
Captain S. J. McCaughlin, Commanding
Newberry Rifles:
SIR —Your communication of this date
has just, been received. Under the laws of
South Carolina .the governor is clothed
with discretion and power to call out the
militia whenever, in the judgment of the
governor, it may.be necessary, and when
so called into the service of the state the
militia shall be wubject to the same rules
and articles of war as troops of the United
States. The action of your company and
your daring te ‘send it to me under
these rules is onutiny and an insult
to the commander-in-chief, who was
given his commiesion by the people.
The duty of the soldier, when called
into service, is blind in obedience to orders
from his superior, and is not to question
them in any degree. You have failed to
learn the first lesson, and I will make of
you and your company an example. Your
resignation is not accepted, but you are
dismissed from .the service of the state as
unworthy to wear its uniform. The arms
and other state property in your posses
sion will be delivered to Colonel John
Gary Watts, assistant adjutant and in
spector general, and you can depart to
your homes. You do not deserve it, but I
will pay your hotel bill, and trust that I
may never be lathered with any more
such bandbox and.holiday soldiers.
B. R. Tillman,
Governor and Gommander-in-Chief.
The wildest applause came from the
governor’s supporters at the reading of
this correspondence and the hurrahing
for Tillman could be heard aft ir they
flad been marched back into the peni
tentiary grounds.
Governor Tillman said to a reporter
that he intended to keep the troops in
JDarlington until the inquest is helfi, in
order that no exparte statements might
be given. The constables and the town
people were incensed against each other,
he stated. The people were on fire.
The constables were, too, and he did
not intend to bring them together with
out the protection of the military. He
would keep the military there forever,
if necessary, in order to give the con
stables a fair showing at the inquest.
He preferred, too, to keep the military
under arms until the raiding of the dis
pensaries at Florence and at Timmons
ville is investigated.
ANOTHER ADDRESS.
Governor TUlaum Will Take Charge of
All the Town Governments Next.
Columbia, 8. C., April 3.—Governor
Tillman has just finished addressing the
troops and volunteer countrymen in
front of the statehouse. He declared
the law should be obeyed and he in
tended to issue a proclamation assuming
control of the municipal police in every
town in the state.
He would compel them to enforce the
dispensary law, and if they did not
obey he would call the legislature to
gether and have a measure enacted
which would enable him to remove
thgjp ipd put in men who wpuld obey.
The governor was, repeatedly, loudly
cheerod by the troops. There were cries
of: “We’ll stand by you, governor.
We are at your back.’’
A cousin of Norment, who was killed
at Darlington, was in the crowd, and
cried out: “Why don’t you obey the
law yourself, governor?”
The man was frenzied with excite
ment.
The Tillmaaites crowded around him
and yelled: “Shoot him !”
“Hush,” shouted out the governor.
“Don’t do that I”
The moment was one of extreme dan
ger, but Chief Radcliff, of the Columbia
police, sprang from his horse and car
ried the man away. Governor Tillman
thanked the troops and dismissed them
to their homes. The military guards at
the telegraph offices have been with
drawn.
Investigation at Florence.
.Florence, S. C., April 3.—The town
®f Florence is perfectly quiet. General
•Farley is conducting the investigation in
the county courthouse regarding the
taking of-the guns from the Florence
Rifles’armory by citizens on the even
ing of the shooting in Darlington. The
citizens held a meeting and appointed
three of their members io be examined
by the adjutant and inspector general
■and to give all facts regarding the tak
ing of the guns.
These gentlemen are E. P. Pauley,
lawyer; W. A. Wijcox, lawyer, and E.
F. Douglass, All of these gentlemen ob
tained the guns from the armory and
took part in pursuit of the constables.
Their testimony is to the effect that they
had heard that a number of citizens of
Darlington had been murdered, and that
that town needed assistance. Some of
them deny that’the armory was broken
open. The investigation will last the
greater part <of the day. The spirit dis
played by General Farley and staff is
conservative and'conciliatory.
> O'NEIL SEATED.
L A. Bare Quorum Laid Mr. Burrowi’ Mo
tion on the Table.
I Washington, April 3.—The flight
1 over the O’Neil-Joy contested election
' case was immediately resumed, the
J pending question being a motion to lay
■ on the table Mr. Burrotgs’ motion to re
! Amsider 'the' vote by which Joy was de
clared not entitled to his seat.
Mr. Patterson, who had charge of the
■ case, expressed a determination to keep
the house in session until the case was
‘ acted upon.
He saw at the outset that 138 Demo
i crate. 14 more than a quorum, were in
■ the city, and unless a quorum developed
i absentees would be arrested and-brought
to the bar of the house.
The Republicans refused to answer to
■ their'names, but the Democrats rallied
a bare quorum—l 67, to 12- —and, amid
, some applause, the speaker announced
- that the deadlock had been broken and
- the motion to lay on the table carried.
The Behring sea bill has just passed
J the senate. Senator Morgan said that
■at this hour perhaps a similar measure
; was being passed in the British par
-3 liament.
The president has sent to the senate
the following nominations:
John B. Brawley, of Pennsylvania, to
be assistant register of the treasury:
George A. Howard, of Tennessee, to bo
auditor of the treasury for the postoffice
5 'department. •
By a vote of 155 to 28, (Democrats
* and Populists only voting) the house had
[ declared John J. O’Neill (Democrat) en
s titled to a seat from the Eleventh dis-
> trict of Missouri, heretofore 'Occupied
i by Charles F. Joy, and he 'has been
s sworn in.
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More Gold lu Mexico.
<Chihuahua, April 3.—Another great
s gold discovery has just been made in the
far western part of this state, and hun
l dredsof persons are flocking to the new
’ camp. The new find is situated about
1 50 miles south of the famous .Batopilas
district and in the same range of
mountains. An expedition of several
5 hundred prospectors is being fitted out
s here to go to the new district.
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iHiot the County Commissioner.
Rockport, Tex., April 3.—R. R.
> Walsh, county commissioner of this
[ county, was shot at Fulton, two miles
■ from (Rockport, by R. J. Weir and diet
two hours later. The shooting occnrre
over the occupancy of a house that had.
been rented to Weir the day before by
> Mr. Andrews, the local agent for rfhe
owners. Weir is at large.
Terms Fixed by Carpenters.
Indianapolis, April 3.—Seven 'hnn
. dred carpenters participated in a meet
t ing here and decided that the terms un
i der which they would accept employ
; ment the coming building season would
. be at 30 cents an hour and eight hours a
, day.
His Harse Fell and Killed Him.
Hopkinsville, Ky., April 3.—Ronald
’ Smith was returning home on horseback
' when the animal stumbled and threw
him upon a pile of rocks with such vio
lence that his skull was crushed and an
arm broken. His injuries were fatal.
Fell from a Hone Car and Killed.
Paris, Tenn., April 3.—Dale Rogers,
of this city, a brakeman on the Louis
, ville and Nashville road, fell from a
horse car, near Bell's Depot, and wan
. instantly killed. He was 21 years of
’ age. -r-
Mr*. Faulkner’s Sadden Death.
[ Winchester, Va., April 3.—Mrs.
Mary W. Faulkner, widow of the late
, Hon. C. J. Faulker. and mother of Sen
I ator Charles J. Faulkner,, of West Vir
ginia, has just died very suddenly o.
( congestion of the lungs.
The Sale Po*tponed.
Atlanta, April B.—The sale of the
; Marietta and North Georgia railroad
has been postponed nntil May 8, at thu
request of the Central Trost company.
ROME. GA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, ISUA
ROLLING MILL MEN
Will Get Their Money After So
Long a Time.
SO SAYS THE AUDITOR.
Mr. King Cleered of Fraud But
His Salary Was Most
Excessive.
The employes of the JRome Rolling
Mill will get their pay after all, if the
finding of the auditor in the Cotton Tie
company case is sustained
The auditor Mr James F Hillyer, has
completed his arduous work of
sifting and digesting the immense mass
of testimony and has filed a report cover
ing many typewritten pages He goes
very thoroughly into all the questions
raised and reaches the above is one of
immediate interest to alarge number of
people When the Cotton Tie company
went into the hands of a receiver, owed
its employes several thousand dollars
The amount of principal and interest to
date is about $4,000
The plaintiffs in the case, who were
creditors of the Cotton Tie company at
tacked Mr Jack King its president on
three principal grounds They alleged
fraud, claimed that -txcesive salary wes
paid the president, and charged that
the company was illegally incorporated,
and its members were individually lia
ble. If all the charges had been sustain
ed the suit would have been disastrous
to Mr. King,for the liabilities ware forty
or fifty thousand dollars. As it is, he
is exoerated of the charges and the com
pany is found to have been legally incor
porated. His individual claims to the
amount of of $19,000, as a creditor of
the company, were also admitted to Le
stablished by the evidence. In the mat
ter of excessive salary, however, the de
cision goes against Mr. King. The au
diton’s report places the excess.at about
$,5000. Out of this come first :the costs
of litigation, which is from SI,OOO to
$1,500. The next claim to be allowed is
that of the laborers, and there will be
just about enough left to pay them, if
the auditor is sustained by Judge Henry.
The lawyers in the case are Harper
Hamilton, Wright Meyerhardt and
Wright and George Harris for the labor
ers. Hoskinson & Harris, I. E. Shu
mate for the creditors, and J. Branham,
Fouche & Fobche for Mr. King.
PUBLIC OPINION.
Patrick Walsh Fills the Bill According to
the People’s Idea*
Atlanta, April 3. —The appointment
of Editor Walsh, of Augusta, to fill the
unexpired term of Senator Colquitt, de
ceased, seems to have struck a popular
chord in the hearts of the people.
It would be hard to say just where
the deepest enthusiasm prevails; Au
gusta, of course, is most demonstrative.
She should be; but all over Georgia
there is a feeling of profound gratitude
to Governor Northen for this re«ogni
tion of the long and faithful services of
a man who has stood “in the forefront
of the battle” in every contest where
Democratic principles were assailed,
and the interests of his people were in
jeopardy.
An Alabama Opinion.
Montgomery, Ala., April 3.—The
Advertiser says: His many friends
throughout the country will heartily
congratulate Honorable Patrick Walsh
on the distinguished honor conferred on
him by Governor Northen. In no sense
of the word was he a candidate for the
place made vacant iu the United States
senate by the death of Senator Colquitt.
On £he contrary, he was actively urging
the appointment of a distinguished fel
low townsman. He is gifted with a
fine intellect, great energy, and the
faculty of making and holding friends.
He will make a creditable senator, and
we hope will soon find out that he is on
the wrong track in opposing Mr. Cleve
land’s administration.
A GOOD SERVICE.
I .Atlanta Takes Action to Secure a Continu
ance of the Fast Mail. *
.Atlanta, April 3.—The chamber of
.commerce and the commercial club
joined efforts at the meeting held in the
hall of the chamber of commerce to se
cure a continuance of the appropriation
by congress that gives the people of the
Piedmont region of the south the pres
ent fast mail schedule between Boston
and New Orleans.
Now that the appropriation is about
to expire, and there being some danger
that it will not be renewed by congress,
the chamber of commerce and the co u
mercial club jointly undertook to have a
called meeting for the purpose of peti
tioning congress to renew the appropri
ation so that this section could continue
to enjoy such mail facilities as are given
north and east.
The meeting was enthusiastic and res
olutions were adopted urging congress
to grant the appropriation, as a matter
of justice to the south as well as for the
good of the business interests of the
:ouutry.
Big Fire In Rochester.
Rochester, N. Y„ April 3.—Fire
broke out in the wholesale clothing
house of Rothschild. Baum, Stern & Co.,
on north Sr. Paul street, and the build
ing was gutted, and the io .3 is about
$165,000,
IN BLACK AND WHITE
While Mrs. Lowell Made Some
Damaging Statements.
“SIfeTER LOUISE’S” LETTER
She Said the Defendant Gave
Her Some Manuscript
To Copy.
Washington, Anril 3. —The mystery
' of theialleged letter beginning - my dear
1 sister pervaded everything about
the circuit courtroom when the trial of
1 the Pollard-Brekinrilge case began.
When court adjourned, Judge Wilson,
1 Miss Pollard’s attorney, was trying to
■ make Colonel Breckinridge say that in
1 1886 he had taken it to be copied by a
1 typewriter in the capitol, the letter be
• ginning “my dear sister Louise.” Colo
nel Breckinridge denied ail kaowluugi
, of such a letter, and he also s.i.d lie hau
no “dear sister Louise.”
Judge Wilson further asked him if he
5 had not taken to this same typ.jwr.ter a
> bundle of envelopes io be auuressed to
Miss Pollard, 76 North Upper street,
Lexington,Ky., and Breckinn,,ge denied
5 this also. The period when the alleged
■ letter is supposed to have been written
t was covered in the s.an m.mt of Breck
I inridge that he had no relations and no
correspondence with Miss Pollard in
3 1886.-
t Additional interest was given to the
( nainA-.“Louise” in the alleged letter be
causl'Miss Pollard claims that Lome
Wil.(on was her assumed name when in
' Cmqinnati in 1885. Judge Wilson had
s saidfthat the name of the typewriter
r who, copied the Sister Louise letter,
which, however, he was unable to pro
-5 duct?,. was Mrs. Louise Lowell, and
' whejh court convened Mrs. Lowell, who
: is now a clerk in the treasury, waspres
s ent with a friend.
They sat next to Miss Pollard and Miss
Ellis. Mr. Butterworth asked Judge
5 Bradley to decide whether the evidence
-about the “Sister Louise” letter was
. competent.
Mr. Wilson, in answer, said he pro
posed to put the witness, Louise Lowell,
t on the stand, on the ground that the
s plaintaiff was not in possession of
knowledge she now had at the time of
3 her testimony in chief. It was not the
3 purpose of the plaintiff, he said, to play
3 any trick or to take thi defense by sur
f prise, and the defendant would be given
ample opportunity to make any explan
-7 atien he chose coiyjerning the letter.
r Mr. Carlisle said he did not learn the
1 name of the witness, and did not see her
. until Sunday morning.
Mr. Butterworth said he was not crit
icising counsel, but thought the alleged
> contents of an alleged letter should not
be placed in evidence until it was known
what the plaintiff expected to prove
by it.
Judge Bradley, in rendering his de-
> cision, referred to the question as a
“novel situation,” and said he had
t found authority for the interjection of
proof concerning the existence of a docu
ment that might be lost or destroyed.
' He therefore decided that the proof
r tending to prove that such a letter as
that beginning “my dear sister Louise”
might be introduced. Judge Wilson
3 called Mrs. Lowell to the stand. She
• said <she had known Colonel Breckin
. ridge since February, 1886, when she
i had a small office in the house side of
j the capitol, where she did stenography
- and typewriting. *
f She had done work for Mr. Breckin
t ridge and was acquainted with his hand
-3 writing. The defendant had brought to
. her at the time indicated a letter to be
i copied. The manuscript was in the de
fendant’s handwriting. The witness
said she returned to Colonel Breckin
ridge the manuscript and copy of the
3 letter in question. She also did other
work for the defendant, such as ad
-3 dressing envelopes.
’ “Ah,” said Judge Wilson. “What
i did you put on those envelopes?”
i Mr. Shelby objected, but the question
3 was allowed.
3 “Miss Pollard, 36 North Upper street,
s Lexington, Ky.,” was the answer in di
rect contradiction of the testimony given
; by the defendant.
Miss Pollard smiled, and there was a
1 buzz of interest throughout the room.
3 Mr. Breckinridge busied himself in
. writing.
A Two Days’ Fire,
London, April 3.—The immense
warehourse in the London docks, in
which is stored large quantities of wool,
coffae, spices and quicksilver, caught
. fire at 415 a. m. and is still burning.
■Owing to the character of the contents
. and the difficulties experienced by fire
c men in getting at the flames. It is ex
’ pected that two days will elapse before
3 the fire is wholly extinguished. .
Tlio Nation’s Fiuauces.
‘ Washington.. April 3.—The debt
’ statement jnst issued shows a net in
i crease m the public debt—less the cash
in the treasury during March—of $13,-
t 754,572. The interest-bearing debt in
' creased $9,068,930, the non-interest-bear-
■ ing debt decreased $26,847; the cash in
• the treasury decreased $4,712,339.
i
Wilson Continnes to Improve.
San Antonio, Tex., April 3.—Con
’ gressman W. L. Wilson is still at the
ranch of ex-Congressinan Ben Cable,
eight miles south of here. He is rapidly
l gaining in weight and strength, and if
no relapse occurs will be able to resume
his work in conwess in a few weeks.
A Tobacco Factory Burned.
Raleigh, April 3.—A special from
Mount Airy says: L. W. Ashby &
’ Sons’ tobacco factory was burned;
' cause, defective flue; loss, $50,000; half
, insured. Two hundred persons are
. thrown out of employment. One hun
; dred and ten thousand pounds of manu
factured tobacco of fine quality and
10.000 pounds of leaf were burned.
JAPS IN HAWAII.
The Islands Hara Another Serious Pi sh
, lent on Hand Just Now.
Honolulu, April 3.—By far the most
serious problem that confronts the
provisional government at present is the
attitude of the Japanese laborers and
their representatives here. The Nauiwa,
the Japanese warship stationed here for
several months, left port a few days
ago ostensibly to to go to Hawaii for
target practice. J. Fuyii, the Japanese
consul general, went with the warship.
The Nauiwa returned on the 21st.
Either by coincidence or prearranged
plan, was met about 20 miles away by
another big Japanese warship, the
Takachiho.
During Fuyii’s absence, the Japanese
on several plantations have struck. The
government brought all the strikers, to
the number of 70, to this city, and they
are now in jail. The Japanese are
against the provisional government, and
their consul and other officers have done
all they can to foster a feeling of antag
onism.
At the last meeting of the councils the
executive was asked whether Minister
Willis was still carrying out his plan of
intervention for the purpose of restoring
Liliuokalani. The object was to let the
nations understand just how the matter
of restoration stands. In reply Presi
dent Dole read the following communi
cation from the minister:
Legation of the United States,
Honolulu, Feb. 14.
Honorable S. B. Dole, Minister of Foreign
Affairs:
I have the honor to acknowledge the re
ceipt. of your communication of this date,
in answer to my letter of the 19th ult.,
and inform you that on the 30th ult. I was
notified by my government that the
Hawaiian question had been referred to
congress, and that my special instructions
had been fully complied with.
With assurances of high esteem, I am,
sir, very respectfully,
Albert S. Willis,
M. E. and M. P., U. S.
The president said that the expression
“my special instructions have been com
plied with” seemed to answer the ques
tion asked.
BISMARCK’S BIRTHDAY.
The Emperor Wrote Him a Letter of
Congratulation on the Ocuhnloii.
Berlin, April 3.—The band of the
Lauenburg Rifles and the Altono Cho
ral society serenaded Prince Bismar Y
at his home in Friedrichsruh in honor
of his seventy-ninth birthday.
Telegrams, letters, gifts and flowers
flowed into Friedrichsruh in a constant
stream throughout the day. Count von
Moltke, the emperoris aide-de-camp, ar
rived at Friedr.chsruh with an auto
graph letter of felicitation from the em
peror and a splendid cuirass with epau
lets, which Prince Bismarck immedi
ately donned, remarking upon the good
fit. Tne emperor's letter was most
flattering. It said the steel of the cuirass
was a token of sincere German grati
tude to which his majesty desired to
give expression.
Among the prince’s Numerous visitors
was a deputation from the Halberstadt
Cuirassiers. Prince Bismarck said he
hoped to be able soon to enter into per
sonal Communication with ths regiment
at Halberstadt.
BALTIMORE’S CENTENNIAL.
The Maryland Metropolis Will Have a
Show in 1897.
Baltimore, April B.—Baltimore is
getting ready to celebrate the hundredth
anniversary of her incorporation by
holding an exhibition in 1897. Accord
ing to present plans the exhibition will
not be confined to the products of the
state of Maryland, bfit will include the
products of the entire south.
A centennial association is asking the
legislature for a charter. It has fixed
its capital at $1,000,000. It is not be
lieved, however, that that sum would
be anywhere near sufficient if the exhi
bition should be broidensd in its scop:
so as to include the whole sonth.
Louisville Councilmen Indicted.
Louisville, April 3.—The grand jury
has returned indictments against four
members of the city council and Park
Commissioner F. H. Gibbs, in connec
tion with the recent alleged corruption
in the council. The indicted members
are Andrew Hillenbrand, Ollie C. Root,
Thomas Scally and Edward Reese. Park
Commissioner Gibbs, alleged to have
engineered the bribery, is charged with
false swearing in denying that he bribed
and councilman. Hillenbrand is charged
with false swearing, and the others are
charged with plain bribery. Other in
dictments may follow.
Two Children Burned to Death.
Hartwell, Ga., April 3.—Mr. Wil
liam Dooly’s dwelling house was con
sumed by fire, burning to death his two
little girls, two and four years old. Mr.
Dooly was at work in a field some dis
tance from his house. At dinner hour
his wife left the two children asleep and
carried dinner to Mr. Dooly in the field.
On returning Mrs. Dooly observed that
the house was on fire and on her arrival
found the house completely destroyed
and the bodies of her children almost
consumed.
A Great Strike in the Coke Region.
Uniontown, Pa., April 3.—Reports
from all the mass meetings in the ooke
region have been received at the head
quarters, and immense meeting was
held at Leisinring. Frick men are di
vided. The leaders state that the very
lowest number who will declare for
higher wages and greater privileges is
10,009. This number may be made 14,-
100 before the end ot the week, and the
Frick men are not into account.
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Death of the President of Peru.
Lima, Peru, April 3.—General R°
migio Morales, Bermudez, president <
Peru, who had been sick for a lor.
time, is dead.
PRICE hIVE CENTS.
SEEKING A NEW MAN.
Scheme to Run General Tracy
For President.
HARRISON TO BE LEFT OUT
The Reed Following Pleased
With Anything Against
Harrison.
Washington, April 3. James S.
Clarkson, of lowa, spent several days
in this city last week, and during his
visit conferred with the Reed-McKinley
leaders in congress.
Since his departure gossip among Re
publicans has disclosed the subject of
some of those conferences, apd talk
about the contest over party reorganiza
tion in New York shows that an expla
nation of the Milholland-Bliss imbiog
lio is in circulation among Republicans
in the south and west. The Republi
cans of the provinces are asked to be
lieve that underlying the whole contro
versy is an effort to control, through the
influence of New YorK, the next Repub- ~
liqan presidential nomination.
The Bliss people are represented to b®
manoeuvering for the nomination
Benjamin F. Tracy for governor. Bal
lot reform is to be theic-cry and General
Tracy's record as counsel in the Me-
Kaue case their pledge and the plat
form. If the battle is won by a ma
jority large enough to attract national
attention General Tracy is to become
New York's Republican candidate for
the presidency, the assumption being
that with New York at his back in the
east and the personal good will of the
Harrison people to encourage him in the
west he would be prominent in the
national convention. But if this "move
ment should fail than the Tracy delega
tion from New York is to go over to
Harrison. The strong parsonal attach
ment existing between Harrison and
Tracy is cited as evidence tii t the ar
rangement described will n*t fail of
success because of any disaj. .-einent on
the part of the principals.
The Platt people are opposed to Har
rison, and there tore opppsed to this Tra
cy program,. They are recommended to
the sympathies of their brethren in the
south and west by the statement made
for them that their purpose is purely
and entirely’ local in scope. Their one
aim is get co.itrol of New York state
and prepare the way for a long lease of
local Republican power. Their candi
-date for governor is not to be a presi
dential quantity- in embryo. They will
cross that bridge when they- come to it.
It is coniessed for them that they do not
like Harrison and that they are likely to
be found, when the time comes, sup
porting any other candidate in prefer
ence to him. But for the present they
are attending to home affairs, leaving
the Reed boom in upper New England
and the McKinley boom in the middle
states, to flourish or languish w.thout
action of any kind on their part.
This explanation of the New York
Republican situation, though regarded
as a tribe novel, is developing much
discussion here. Naturally, the Reed
people and the McKinley people like it
as far as they understand it. Anything
that looks like circumventing or defeat
ing openly a movement designed to ben
efit Harrison meets with their unquali
fied endorsement. They will trust to
Platt and Milholland to -‘show up” on
the right side of the party fence when
the tint? to select a presidential candi
date comes.
The Harrison people seek to turn the
matter to account by connecting it with
the proposition to reduce the representa
tion of the south in the next national
convention. That is openly advocated
by Chairman Carter, of the national
committee, who is accepted as being tor
McKinley as first choice for president
and Rse las sacond choice. B illot re
form, which is to be tlia Traey shib
boleth, is, they insist, the very soul and
essence of what southern Republicans
must fight for. And if they are to tight
effectively they must stand by those
whose purpose it is to make this issue
greater even than that of protection.
The southern men here are bitterly- op
posed to Carter’s proposition, v.liich
would weaken their influence in national
conventions, and if the Harrison leaders
can persuade them that Platt's move
ment in New York is one p'aass of this
game, or, if successful, lively to assist
in carrying it out, Ree 1 or McKinley
delegates in the south may be difficult
to obtain.
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A Divorced Woman 7.1 Ordered. < '
Pomeroy, 0., April 3.—Elizabeth, tha
divorced wife of Dr. Richard Slaughter,
was found dead on the next door neigh
bor's porch with three bullets in her
head, at n dnight. She lived alone.
She was 70 years of age. Clayton Stahl
and wife, on returning from an enter
tainment, fell over the dead body at
their door. She is supposed to have run
to the neighbors when attacked and was
murdered while trying to get in that
door. The body shows marks of kicks.
The front door of the dead woman’s
house was lound open and the lamp
burning. Nothing was disturbed.
A Fruit Pest Travels Bast.
Washington, April 3.—The San Jose
scale, an insect which has proved most
destructive to orchards in California,
has appeared at De Funiak Springt,
Fla., and Riverside, Md. In Maryland
an orchard of 300 peach and apple trees
has been practically ruined by the pest.
The insect made its first appearance in
the eastern states last year at Charlotts
ville, Va., where the state board of ag
riculture, with the help of the depart
ment of agriculture, has just completed
operations which, it is hoped, have
destroyed it in that locality.
A Virginia Road Sold.
Norfolk, April B.—The Atlantic and
Danville rai’road was sold here under
> r ler of the United States court for sl,.
195,900 to B Newgaes and associates.
