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Silverites More Anxious
for Harmony.
BOIES ON THE BATTLEGROUND.
Bland Backers Use the Fact
Against Him.
TELLER ON MANY TONGUES.
His High Tariff Views to Hurt His
Chances.
Vigorous Speeches Mail* at the Mass
Meeting of the Sonnd Money Ele
ment-Bole.' Vl.lt Connected With
a Revolt In the Rnnka of the Illi
nois Delegation, and the Governor
Bald to Hove Captured 13 Votes
from Illinois—John H. McLean Son
Mentioned for First" Place.
Chicago, July 4.—The climax of to-day’s
ante-convention developments was the
mass meeting of the gold men In the Au
ditorium this evening. The speeches of
ex-Gov. Russell of Massachusetts, Sena
tor Gray of Delaware and District At
torney Fellows of New YNork were vig
orous enough In their denunciation of the
line of action which the convention Is
The Building In Which the National Democratic Convention Will Be Held
bent on taking on the silver question,
but they stopped short suggesting a rem
edy or any plan by which the "sound
money advocates could hope to stem the
current now setting so strongly against
them.
Gov. Russell's remarks particularly
brought out in strong relief the difficulty
which is beginning to loom up before
the silver managers—what to do with the
tariff. Nearly all the bolting republi
can delegates at St. Louis declared that
their states were solid for free silver and
protection. Gov. Russell seized upon this
point and asserted that if republican pro
tection was right in principle, then sil
ver legislation was equally so, but If pro
tection was wrong in principle, unjust
and oppressive in practice, as the demo
cratic party had ever declared and still
declared, then silver legislation was
equally so, and ought to receive equally
emphatic condemnation. This point was
obviously directed against the arguments
advanced in favor of the selection of
Senator Teller as the free silver stand
ard-bearer, he being also an earnest ad
vocate of protection, and as such its force
was appreciated. The effect will un
doubtedly be to augment the perplexities
which the managers are finding in deal
ing with the tariff plank of the platform.
The gold men took some courage from
the developments of the day and to-night
express confidence that they will receive
much more consideration in the conven
tion at the hands of the silver men than
they hai heretofore felt to be their
portion.
Controller Eckels said: “The silver
men have been talking to-day of a de
sire to secure harmony in the convention
and several gold men with whom they
have talked tell me that, in their opin
ion, there will be a material modification
of the programme that has been an
nounced by some of the radical silver
men. There will be no attempt to cut off
discussion; no single day convention based
upon the idea that only silver men are
to take part in its proceedings. They rec
ognize, X think, that there is an election
to be held before the decrees of the con
vention can be executed. Harmony is
w hat they need.”
In the constantly changing estimates as
to the probabilities of the success of the
various candidates, the boom of the lowa
tx-governor, Boies, assumed much promi
nence to-day. It transpired in the course
~f the day that the telegram which
brought the ex-governor to Chicago was
dosely connected with the reported re
volt in the ranks of the Illinois delega
tion against the alleged dictatorial policy
Of Gov. Altgeld. It is asserted that un
der the leadership of Delegate William
Prentiss of the Seventh Illinois district,
the support of thirteen Illinois delegates
has been obtained for the lowa man.
Some prominent Ohio men this evening
were circulating the statement that John
r. McLean was not to be considered for
second place.
• The ticket will be John R. McLean
and ,” said Beriah Wilkins, with a
significant emphasis, and don’t you over
look it."
The action of the Ind.ana delegation
in refusing to send a representation to the
silver conference at the Sherman house
last night has aroused a feeling of an
tagonism to Gov. Matthews’ candidacy
and has also set afoot a movement for a
' icus of all the silver forces for Mon
day next. This movement 16 being pfished
tv Senator-elect Money of Mississippi ex
tongressman Casey Young ofi Tennessee
-'•itional Committeeman Thomas of Col
fpje Jltenittg |
orado and Delegate Haynes of Idaho.
They desire to thus agree upon a full I
slate of officers and candidates to he
voted for by the silver forces.
Delegate Coekran of Mississippi ex
pressed the sentiment of the extreme free i
silver element when he declared to-day 1
that for a silver man to be nominated by i
the aid of "gold bug” votes would cast
4 "b.lght upon the ticket and disparage
the nominee in the eyes of true silver
men.”
As the power to call a caucus is vested
In Senator Jones and his sub-committee,
great pressure Is being brought on the
committee. The Matthews people are op
posed to such a programme, and are
lighting it at every stage.
With all these divergent Interests clash
ing it will readily be perceived that thus
far the securing of the democratic free
silver nomination on this glorious Fourth
of July remains anybody’s tight.
RALLY OF THE GOLD MEM.
Ex-Gov. Flower Tells Why Farm
Products Sell Cheap.
Chicago, July 4.—A public meeting of the
friends of the "sound money” cause was
held this evening in the Auditorium—a the
ater connected with the hotel of that
name, and capable of seating some 6,000 or
7,000 spectators. There was not a vacant
seat to be had when the serious business
of the evening began—the hour between
seven and eight having been filled up by
select pieces of music given by the band
of the First Regiment. On the platform
were seated Senator Gray of Delaware.
John R. Fellows of New York, Franklin
MacVeagh of Chicago, and many other
prominent supporters of -the sound money
cause and a large number of ladies, While
W. C. Whitney of NeW York occupied a
seat in one of the boxes.
The meeting was called to order by ex-
Gov. Roswell P. Flower of New Y'ork,
who said: "We are just emerging from
the panic of ’93. In that year the banker,
the capitalist, the manufacturer, the mer
chants were all cut In the middle finan
cially. It gradually paralyzed the coun
try until In the year 1893 it began to
knock down the last brick in the row
and that was the agricultural commu
nity. All through ’93 and '94 the farmer
was getting good prices for everything
he raised from the soil and it would seem
as though he had escaped the ravages of
the panic, but like all panics, It did not
end till It reached him. The farmer has
had a sad lot for the past twenty .years,
but no sadder than other Industries, and
as I will show. He Is suffering from an
overstimulation by the governments
the world of his particular line of indus
try. In 1861 the congress of the United
states gave land grants to the Union Pa
cific railroad. It was found necessary to
connect California with the rest of tha
union in order to save California to the
rest of the union. Then followed the build
ing of the Southern Pacific and Northern
Pacific, the Rock Island and the various
other branches of commerce that reach
out from this great city of Chicago. The
railroad companies received alternate sec
tions of land from the government free
of charge. The building of those rail
roads induced settlers all along their lines
to purchase what the railroad did not
own and open up the territory. Then the
railroad companies advertised their
land in Europe as homes for
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney,
Who Is Leading the Gold Standard Forces at Chicago.
the poor and sold them and
brought into this country another large
body of people to compete w-it.i the rar
mers of the east. The farming lands of
the east were worth on an average *.w p-r
acre. The interest on one acre °-,, t *
land twenty years ago would be W-<. a
farm in lowa, Illinois, Minnesota or Ne
braska is worth five dollars an kcre—the
interest on that land per annum would be
thirty-flve cents. Now for this d-fference
on an acre of land, three dollars and fif
teen cents, the farmer of the west could
raise double what he could on the eastern
land, and send all the products of one
a're to Liverpool for the difference in
the cost of interest on hts lands per an
num. What wonder that land values in
the eastern states went dow-n until the
western lands commenced to raise in
value. These cheap rates of transporta
tion by rail and water from the east had
levelled the land In the eastern states
and raised the value in the west, so that
if there had been no other causes at
work, the farmer in both the east anu the
west would be, sure to do business on a
rising value on his farm.
But the British government loaned the
money to Canadians to build the Cana
dian Pacific, opening the vast prairies like
our own, and their wheat when har
vested was sent directly to Liverpool.
Then English capital also bought 4.000
miles of railroad in India, opening up vast
wheat fields and cotton fields in compe
tition with our own. You all remem
ber the Baring failure of 1890. The money
that firm expended went to develop the
Argentine Republic, opening those vast
and prolific fields with railroad systems
and waterways, so that she produces
40.00P.000 or 50.000,000 bushels of wheat an
nually. Not only that, but Russia opened
mi 2,000 miles of her frontier with rail
road, as beautiful and productive prairies
as our own wheat fields.
“Do you wonder that the farmer Is un
happy with all the governments of
the world stimulating the farming in
dustry and opening up their unused lands
to the farmer? Do you wonder that the
farmer has a hard lot? Do you wonder
at the low price of wheat and corn, when
you. In this United States, have more
than doubled the acreage and the crops
between 1871 and 1891? Do you wonder
that cotton was low In 1895, when in 1894
the cotton planter raised 50 per cent, more
cotton than he ever had raised before?
Is this not the rational reason why the
farmers’ products are low? Is not this
the proper and only safe reason why the
supply Is always greater than the de
mand of the world?
"There Is no manufactured article but
what has met the same fate as the
farmers product. All have been reduced
from one-half to two-thirds—the steel rail
from $l2O to $23 per ton. Iron ore of
which you have such vast fields In Min
nesota, greater than any country In the
world, is produced to-day at one-half the
cost of seven years ago. You know a.ll
about this Iron business here, because In
this city of Chicago you manufacture 5,000
tons per day, and the full output of your
Iron industry here is equal to the whole
of the output of Great Britain. Lead Is
produced and sold at one-half the price It
was seven year* ago. Copper, through
the inventive genius of Americans, meets
the same fate. Silver, through new appli
ances. Is mined at one-half the cost It was
twenty years ago. And gold is produced
in greater quantities this year than gold
and silver were together In 1873. The sil
ver and gold production of that year was
$178,000,000, and In 1895 of gold alone, $199,-
500.'(0U.
"You, my farmer friends, you are not
alone In tne depreciatlve prices of your
i products, and I challenge any silver man
I to give a reason so clear and cogent why
! corn and wheat and other crops of the
i farmer have fallen because silver ha*
fallen.
“But, ladles and gentlemen, I leave these
questions of the hour In other hands. It
is now my pleasant duty to present to you
a gentlemen high In standing in this city
as a merchant and a financier—the Hon.
I Franklin MacVeagh.”
Mr. MacVeagh addressed the meeting.
He said that this great assemblage had
gathered because the nation and the dem
ocratic party were brought face to face
with an impending crisis. Thirty-six years
ago, in 1860, a memorable democratic con
! ventlon had met. Then also the nation
and the democratic party stood face to
face with an Impending crisis.' Then the
unity of the nation was at stake. Now its
honor was at stake. That honor had to
be preserved. Agonies and waste of war,
north and south, would turn to wanton
ness In the pages of the nation’s history
if the country should have been preserved
only to become a defaulter and to pay
its debts with 50-cent dollars.
Continuing, Mr. MacVeagh gaid: "We
who appeal to the coming convention
against silver monometallism, are not all
gold monometallists —though even gold
monometallism, as now existing, includes
an Immense proportion and immense ag
gregate of silver coinage. Many of us
are earnest bimetallists, eager to see sil
ver and gold made equal in the coinage
of our country. That which for this crisis
unites bimetallists and gold monometal
lists. is the awful spectre of sliver mono
metallism; for the free coinage of sliver
at 16 to 1 by this nation alone Is silver
monometallism—and by all the unchange
able laws which govern the economics of
nations It must be that and nothing less
The fact that silver monometalllsts wili
not argue for silver monometallism, but
use the arguments of bimetallism, makes
their propaganda dangerous; but it
doesn't change Its aim, nor would it
change the dreaded results.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1806.
“The only thing that blmeallists and
gold monometallists and all men who
have eyes to see into the r.a ional abyss
of silver monometallism can do. in the
face of the present crisis, ,s to stand to
the defense of the existing system. The
case Is simple; the issue is pU:n; the road
is straight, and no one of us can look to
the right nor to the left. “We cannot hope
to appeal with success to nil of the sil
ver delegates. The great t.udy of them
would not listen to even persuasion. The
wild character of the movement is shown
In its fury and anger. Bit there must
be many silver delegates who find them
selves out of touch with fury and reckless
ness and who can still be made to see
where this passion and excitement is car
rying them and their party, and possibly
their country. To their sober reason this
meeting is an appeal. They may still listen
to the solemn warning of dispassionate
men. dispassionate Americans. We are
here without passion, without excitement,
without fury, but with a perfe t vision of
the crisis that is being forced upon the
partv and the nation.
“Unless the silver men with conserva
tive tempera Intervene, unless those In
tervene whose patriotism Is more precious
to them and whose democracy is more
precious to thsm than adneience to a
single idea, this majority will sweep the
convention. Where will it sweep it to? It
will sweep It Into hostility with ths abid
ing sentiment of ths people, that senti
ment, which Is the single def- nse of tha
nation. It will sweep It into hostility
with the abiding conscience of the
nation. That conscience whose sober
rigor will abate all sophistries
which work against the honor of the na
tion. For what will the aim be—what
will be the Imposition? To pay the na
tion's debts In 50-cent dollars, and that
Is national dishonor. For quibble as we
may—quibble as Horses Holes has lately
been quibbling, the national debt Is pay
able In the equivalent of gold. That is
the bare business fact, backed by the
conscience of dispassionate America and
the conscience of the world Hop lately
has It become even conceivable to sober
minded men that the majority in a na
tional convention of a great historic party
will headlong decide to urge a policy
whose effect, even before It could be en
acted into law and at the first moment
when it should'become certain would be
to plunge their country Into convulsions
and panics whose disasters would be new
to the experience of the world?
How can such action be pos
sible? Will not the traditional sense of
the grave responsibilities of a majority
defeat this frenzy? Is the majority so
blind that It cannot see the precipice and
the abyss? Let them ask the business
men. They will tell them what sliver
monometallism means —what 16 to 1
means. It means havoc. It means ruin.
It means the prostration of all business,
all finance, all manufacturing—by a cy
clone of panic. It means years of hope
less depression after that. It means the
remorseless narrowing of all employments
ar.-i the payment of scant wages in 60-
cent dollars. It means salaries and *ll
fixed incomes reduced to 16 to 1 silver; It
means savings banks deposi.s and build
ing associations shares and every form of
credits cut to the level of silver. It
means the dissolution of the whole sys
tem of credit which Is as the breath of
Ilfs to the nostrils of business. It means
the Introduction of an unstable, fluctuat
ing currency that no business man and
no workingman can foretell the vxlue
of from ciay to day. In brief, there Is
but one clafes of men who could be bene
tttted. The silver miner could not be, for
he would throw away for a temporary
and Irresponsible outlet In this market
all his hope* of that permanent and re
sponsible outlet which Is only obtainable
through the consent-of the leading citi
zens. The laborer would not be beneflt
ted, for If he got a silver dollar for his
50 cent, wheat, his dollars would be worth
only 50 cents. There Is, I say, but one
class who would be benefltted, and that
class was described by Altgeld In his
speech at Peoria when he spoke openly
of himself as a man with a great deal of
property covered by a great deal of dust.
So much for what this questionable ma
jority, If not arrested by conservative sil
ver men will attempt to do for the na
tion. Now let me ask what It will do for
the democratic party. It will defeat the
democratic party. That is the faith of the
business world—and for that faith they
thank heaven. The democrats party can
stand defeat in a worthy cause. If neces
sary, It can stand extinction, for It has
a glorious history that will live.
What It cannot stand is the
odium of sliver monometallism,
and of the paltering with the honor of
the nation and the prosperity of the peo
ple.
But what does defeat on tills Issue
mean? Who does not know? Who can
fail to know that If the democratic party
shall borrow this populistic Issue from
the populists and bo defeated It will not
regain the respect and confidence of the
people for years and years to come; nos
after all those years until it has been
born again? The silver movement will
pass as the greenback Movement has
passed, and as has passed all that eerles
of historic attempts to make money out
of nothing. But It will leave the demo
cratic party hopelessly discredited fop
many years to come. If the convention
declares for free coinage at 16 to 1, by
this nation alone, that action will not
be democratic action; It will be populistic
action. A democratic convention
may turn populistic and many dem
ocrats may turn populists, but a million
democrats will remain democrats. No
wave of populism can sweep them off
their feet, and their feet are on tjie plat
form of the historic principles of the
party.”
Mr. MacVeagh declared that Altgeld
was the ideal free silver man, and asked
if he was the idea* democrat. (Shouts of
no.) The people of Chicago knew, he said,
how the Illinois state convention would
have -been against free silver had It not
been for Altgeld’e corrupt and shame
less action. The cheering and hissing
was kept up for several minutes, and
every attempt of the speaker to con
tinue was interrupted by prolonged
cheers. Some admirers of the governor
In the rear of the theater attempted to
off-set the hisses by calling for cheers for
Altgeld and were answered by loud cries
of “Put them out ”
Mr. MacVeagh closed with Introducing
to the meeting, as a man who under other
circumstances, might have been the presi
dential nominee, the Hon. William E. Rus
sell. (Cheers.)
Mr. Russell was frequently applauded as
he spoke, and when he asked whether the
free silver programme was in accord with
the faith and practice of Jefferson and
Cleveland, he was answered with loud ac
clamations and plaudits In honor of Presi
dent Cleveland. These were renewed when
he afterward spoke of the free silver move
ment as a turning of their backs upon an
administration which had upheld with
courage and fidelity the national credit
and honor.
When Mr. Russell resumed his seat,
amid much cheering, Mr. MacVeagh In
troduced to the audience Senator Gray of
Delaware as “one of those senators whose
abilities, character and opinions had help
ed to preserve and continue the beat
traditions of the best days of the United
States Senate.”
When Mr. Gray concluded there were
loud calls for Senator Hill.
Mr. MacVeagh, however, informed the
audience that Senator Hill was not in the
hall, but that he would now Introduce a
man who was always welcome to Ameri
can audiences—Col. John R. Fellows of
New York.
Col. Fellows said that the condition
which confronted the democratic party
to-day was so unique, extraordinary and
bewildering that he was at an utter loss
on what lines to address the meeting.
He has not been unaccustomed for the
(Continued on Sixth Rage.)
CRETE EAGER FOR A CONFLICT.
THE tOSCEHT OF THE POWER!!
DOE* NOT IMPRESS THE REBELS
•
They Have Too Vivid a Recollection
of the Horrors In Armenia—The
Inionists In the House of Commons
1 rite a Strong Policy—Balfour's
Iteslgnatlon .Not Improbable,
London, July 4.—The discontent in the
government ranks with Mr. Balfour's
leadership has grown apace since the
abandonment of the education bill. His
management of the debate on the next
great ministerial measure, the land rat
ing bill, displayed so little tact and so
little desire to be tactical, as to cause
the House to think that he Is wearied of
the game of politics or of the cares of
the leadership. The Impression has be
come general that he will soon relieve h‘s
party by resigning and going to the up
per house.
The statement made in the House of
Commons yesterday by the parliamentary
secretary to the foreign office to the ef
fect that the Turkish government had
agreed to immediately apply the measure
which the powers demanded for the pur
pose of restoring tranquility In the island
of Crete is not accepted inside or out
side of parliament, as In any way assur
ing a settlement of the trouble between
the Turks and Christians there. The
events In the Island have been such ns
to render futile mere diplomacy. The con
cert of the powers does not Impress the
Christian Insurgents, who no doubt have
In mind the much-heralded concert In
the case of Armenia, which was laughed
to acorn by the sultan.
The Cretan Christians have no faith In
diplomatic promises, having hud exper
ience of thetr worthlessness through many
years of Turkish misrule, and they mean
to bring about. If possible, a decisive con
flict that will overthrow the Turkish re
gime.
A conference of the Christian leaders,
held yesterday, at Kampos, resulted In a
determination to disregard the offers of
Georgl I’aaha Berovltch, the new Chris
tian governor, unless the reforms prom
ised are solidly guaranteed by the powers.
If the governor convenes the assembly only
about a dozen deputies are likely to re
spond.
Tha debate on the Cretan situation In
tha Housa of Commons last night allowed
that the dominant sentiment among the
unionists and the unanimous feeling of
the liberals was In favor of a strong Brit
ish policy even Should It go to the length
of armed Intervention. Mr. Curzon, the
parliamentary secretary of the foreign of
fice, stated, however, that the*governmnt
would not Imperil the peace of Europe by
Viking Isolated aotlon, and that it would
go only as far as the other powers were
willing to go.
The deceased wife's sister MU, though
read a second time In ths lords, is by no
means out of danger. Onoa before the
upper house passed the bill on its sec
ond reading by a "fluke,” the bishops
falling to rally against It. On the third
reading nearly the whole Episcopal bench
appeared and threw It out.
The court which Is to try Dr. Jame
son and his co-raiders, will be composed
of the lord chief justice, Mr. Baron Bol
lock, and J. S. C. Hawkins. There are ru
mors of an application to postpone the
trial for the presence of witnesses from
South Africa, some of whom are now
In the thick of the fighting In Mashona
land. The government, that Is Mr. Cham
berlain, appear genuinely anxious not to
delay the proceedings and further to get
as soon as possible a report as to the
Inquiry by the commission on the char
tered company. The reply sent by Mr.
Chamberlain to the demand of tha Trans
vaal government for the trial of Messrs.
Rhodes and Belt and Dr. Harris Is un
derstood to be that the English govern
ment will deal with the question under
the light of what the commission may re
port.
RUSSIA’S RULERS.
The Imperial Couple Make Formal
Entry Into St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, July 4.—The emperor
and empress made their entry Into St.
Petersburg to-day. The buildings along
Newski Prospect were gaily decorated
with flags, flowers, etc., but the crowd
In the streets was not large and there
was very little suggestion of a holiday.
Their majesties arrived at 11 o’clock and
were welcomed by the grand dukes, dele
gates from the Semstovos, the city corpo
ration, the provincial nobility, etc., who
presented them with bouquets and bread,
the latter upon splendid silver salvers.
The mayor also presented a resolution
passed by the corporation founding a chil
dren’s hospital and remitting the arrears
of 14,000 rate payers In commemoration of
the coronation of the emperor at Moscow.
The imperial couple drove to the Kasau
cathedral between two lines of troojis.
From the cathedral they proceeded witti
out a guard to the fortress and thence to
the railway station, where they took a
train for the Imperial residence at Tsar
skoe Selo. The czar and czarina will re
turn to St. Petersburg on July 7. The re
port that the czar is suffering from Jaun
dice Is untrue.
Y ANKEE DOODLE IN LONDON.
The American Flag Displayed In
Honor of the Fourth.
London, July 4.—The weather was clear
to-day and the sun shone brightly. The
United States embassy, the United States
consulate and the West End hotels were
all decorated with American flags In hon
or of the anniversary of American Inde
pendence, and flags were flying from the
American shipping at London, Southamp
ton, Liverpool, Glasgow and other ports.
The vehicles in the coaching meet in Hyde
Park were also decorated with the Ameri
can colors.
United States Ambassador Bayard held
the usual Fourth of July reception at the
embassy this afternoon.
Sir Walter Besarvt, the novelist, spoke
■this evening at a meeting called to promote
the Idea of the unity of the English-speak
ing people of the world.
A BICYCLE RECORD BROKEN.
The Time from Chicago to New Y’ork
Red need Nearly Five Hoars.
New York. July 4.—Arthur E. Smith,
the western cyclist, who left Chicago last
Sunday for this city in the endeavor to
break the bicycle record of 142 hour* and
15 minutes, between that city and this,
arrived here at 3:21 o clock this afternoon
smashing the record by four hours and
fifty-four minutes.
Guilford’s Annual Celebration.
Winston, N. C., July 4.—Ten thousand
people attended the annual celebration at
the historic Guilford battle ground to-day.
The address was delivered by United
States Senator Marion Butler.
GATHKHSHt KG'S LYU IIIXG.
A Graphic Mnrj of the Midnight
Raid of fho Moll.
Gathersburg, Md., July Sidney Ran
dolph. a negro charged with a brutal as
sault upon the Buxton family at this place
on May 25, which resulted In the death of
little Sadie Buxton, was taken from the
Rockville jail, where he was confineJ.
awaiting the action of the November
grand Jury, this morning, about 2:3U
o'clock, by a mob of thirty or forty mask
ed men and hanged, lie went to hta death
without saying whether he was guilty of
the horrible crime, his only utterances j
being cries of murder as he was carried
away from the Jail by the resolute body 1
of men.
About 1 o’clock this morning the Jailer
In charge of the Jail, an aged man who
has served In that capacity for years, was
awakened by rapping on the front door. |
Not once thinking of its being a mob bent !
on violence, he opened the door and was
confronted by two masked niun, who de
manded the keys. The Jailor, taken com
pletely by surprise, attempted to slam
the door, but the men gained entrance,
followed by as many as could crowd Into
the smull structure, all being heavily
masked. At the points of revolvers the
thoroughly frightened Jailer was com
pelled to give up the keys.
The mob at once proceeded to the cell
where Randolph was contlncd and un
locked the door. The negro, hearing the
confusion In the corridor, surmised at once
what was about to happen, and seizing a
stool, attempted to defend himself, out
with little effect. Strong arms soon had
the frightened man bound and out of the
Jail, where a wagon was waiting to take
his away. The drive lo the previously se
lecteil place, about two miles west of
Rockville, on the Frederick pike, was
quickly made and the rope was quickly
placed around his neck.
Then he was asked If he had anything
to say, but not a word could be drawn
from htin. Many efforts were made to
make him confess, but to no avail. The
rope was thrown over a limb and the
trembling negro was dragged fully twenty
feet from the ground, where, at last ac
counts, his body wns still hanging, and
will remain until taken down by the au
thorities.
Knowing their, victim had breathed his
last and apparently satisfied that the right
man had been hanged, the lynching party,
which. It Is understood, was composed of
the best citizen* of the community, who
were perfectly sober and orderly, then
quietly dispersed, believing they had exe
cuted the perpetrator of the most atro
cious crime ever committed In this coun
ty. The leaders of the lynchers are not
known, and the afTnlr was kept so se
cret that none save the participant* knew
of It until after it was all over.
Gaithersburg, Md., July 4.—Relative to
the lynching of Kidney Randolph last night
by unknown pe'rspns the following will be
of Interest: In a letter from Walter Gaines,
clerk of the superior eourt of Baldwin
county, dated MUledgevllle, (la., to Deputy
Sheriff Thompson. Mr. Gaines states that
he believe* from the description of Sidney
Randolph that he was a man who was
wanted In Georgia for the murder of an
old lufly there about throe years ago. The
name of Bhiiit negro was Ben Temple. Ho
murdered Mrs. I/Conard with an ax.
“Please look at this negro you have and
see If he has a scar on either side of his
face near the eye. The description of your
negro answers pretty well to the negro.
Ben Temple. Certainly the negro has lived
here, either In the city or the country.”
Deputy Thompson examined Randolph
and found'tihe scars described. Everything
Is quiet. No one In Gaithersburg seems to
know anything of the lynching and It
comes as a complete surprise.
MARYLAND’S DEMOCRATS MUM.
No Enthusiasm Over the Delegation's
I Departure.
Baltimore, Md., July 4.— The dissatisfac
tion In the ranks of the Maryland demo
cracy was clearly Illustrated to-day when
the state delegation to tihe national con
vention assembled at the Camden station
and took the 10.30 o'clock Baltimore and
Ohio train for Chicago. There were Just 22
persons In the party, Including the dele
gates, democratic leaders and newspaper
men. Four years ago Maryland's represen
tatives to the national convention and
their friends occupied three special trains.
To-day one Pullman and Vice President C.
K. Lord's private ear “Delaware" accom
modated them. There was no music this
morning as in former years, no parading
to the railroad station, no Jubilant demon
stration on the part of the multitude and
no guard of 'honor from the big demo
cratic clubs of the olty. The individual
members of the party went quietly to the
station and as quietly took their seats In
the car assigned them. The three or four
silver men of the delegation tried to got
up a little enthusiasm as the train pulled
out, but the effort was not very successful.
Date last night Charles C. Crot'ners, of
Cecil county, candidate for attorney gen
eral last fall, one of the delegates-at-large
telegraphed his resignation to Chairman
Hattersley W. Talbott of the state central
committee. Mr. Talbott will fill the two va
cancies made by the withdrawal of Messrs.
Crothere and Marlon DeKalb Smith prior
to the meeting of the convention.
SAVANNAH CADETS.
They Visit Washington and Leave
There For Home.
Washington, July 4.—The Savannah Ca
dets of Savannah, Ga., sixty strong, un
der command of Cant. Brooks, together
with a camp of confederate veterans, ar
rived In this city yesterday afternoon from
Richmond, where they had been In at
tendance at the re-unlon of the United
Confederate Veterans. Yesterday after
noon and to-day were spent in sight-see
ing. The Cadets and veterans left here this
afternoon at 3 o'clock for Savannah.
No notice had been given the local mil
itary organizations of the proposed visit
of the Savannah men. so that It was im
possible to entertain them.
ORE MINES C'LOSED^jp.
Heavy Stock and Light Demand
Throw* 1,500 Men Out of Work.
Ironwood, Mich., July 4.—An extensive
shut-down occurred at all of the mines of
the Metropolitan Iron and Land Company
last evening, and fully 1,500 men were
forced into Idleness. The cause of the shut
down Is the light demand for Iron ore The
fact that they have In the stock piles about
600,000 tons of ore and that the season Is
so far advanced, with sales so far of only
about 100,000 tons, prompted the shut
down.
EVERETT MII.LS CLoskD.
Sept. 8 the Date Fixed for Reopening
the Doors.
Lawrence, Mass., July 4.-Owing to the
present unsatisfactory condition of busi
ness, the Everett mills will shut down
Friday, July 10, and remain closed until
Tuesday, Kept. 8, unless there should be
sufficient Improvement In the business
situation to. warrant an earlier start.
About 1,200 hands are employed.
I DAILY. 810 A YEAR.
{ _ S CENTS A COPT.
I WEEKLY 2 TIMLS-A-WKEK O A YEAR
TAMMANY'S FOURTH OF JULY.
LETTERS OF REGRET READ FROM
MANY PROMINENT LEADERS.
President Cleveland Makes the
Coinage Issue the Theme of His
Letter—Tremendous ConseqnaeeeS
Involved In a Mistake In the Fi
nancial Policy of the Govern
ment—Senator Hill Opposed to
Perilous Experiments.
New York. July 4.—A* usual, the Fourth
of July was a great day In Tammany
hall. Politics were for the once laid aside
and patriotism had the call. The social side
of the Tammany Society, or Columbian
Order, made itself manifest tn speech and
song glorifying the land of the free and
the home of the brave, and the silver
tongued orators were listened to and ap
plauded by an audience that packed Tam
many hall to the doors. Letters of re
gret were received from President Cleve
land, Vice President Stevenson, Senator
David K. Hill, Secretary of State Rich
ard Olney, Secretary of the Interior Hoke
Smith, Justice Rufus F. Beckham of the
United States supreme court. Senator Will
iam F. Vilas of Wisconsin, Hon. Don
M. Dickinson, Hon. John E. Russell of
Massachusetts, Senator Edward Murphy,
Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert,
Gov. Charles O'Ferrall of Virginia, Hon.
Ohauneey F. Black, ex-Oov. Roswell P.
Flower, Hon. Henry Watterson, Senators
James Smith of New Jersey, and J. D.
Mitchell of Wisconsin, and many others.
President Cleveland, after regretting hi*
Inability to he present said In his letter:
"The situation that confronts the coun
try and the democratic party at this time
Invests with unusual Impressiveness thl*
commemoration of oug beginning as a na
tion. When, as appropriate to the occa
sion, our stupendous advancement is re
called the fact should not be overlooked
that our progress has not been by chance,
but Is ulie result of a wise observance of
the monetary laws that control nation*!
health and vigor; and while we contem
plate with pride (he commanding place wo
occupy among the nations of the earth.
w should not forget that this has been
gained only through a Jealous preservation
of financial soundness and a careful main
tenance of unsuspected public credit.
"The high, and firm financial ground
which we have thus far been able to hold
should not he abandoned In 'the pursuit of
a policy, never attempted without na
tional Injury, and whose bright promise of
Individual benefit has never been fulfilled.
"If there Is anything In the present
conditions that Impeaches experience and
Indicates that we can safely change our
present high financial standard for the
free, unlimited and Independent coinage
of sliver, this should be made plainly
apparent before such radical departure
finds a place in the party creed.
"The tremendous consequence® of a
mistake in dealing with the financial ques
tion now pressed upon us as democrats,
should constantly make us thoughtful and
solicitous. I am confident, therefore, that
the voice of the Tammany Society, al
ways potent In party council, will, not
fall to be heard in warning and protest,
and at a time when tho felicitations of
our people appropriate to Independence
day urn mingled with apprehension."
Senator Hill wrote as follows: '’Having
been commissioned by the demoracy of
the state to attend as one of the dele
gate* of the approaching convention, I
find myself unable to accept your cour
teous Invitation. A few suggestions per
tinent to the present crisis may be deemed
appropriate. It Is the duty of the demo
cratic party at the present hour to ad
here more firmly than ever to Its well
established usages and to vigorously
maintain Its cardinal principles. Any
departure for purposes of expediency at
this time from either Ita usage* or Its
principles Is fraught with danger.
"Its usages are found In the rule* and
proceedings of Its national conventions
from time Immemorial, and patriotism,
as well as good policy, requires that no
perilous experiment should now be at
tempted by their abrogation."
Senator Hill then briefly summarizes the
party’s creed and In conclusion adds that
a substantial departure from these senti
ments and policies will surely Invite dis
aster In nation and state, wthlle faithful
adherence to them will pave the way t®
deserved success.
GI.OIIIOI * DAY IV GOTHAM.
The Fourth of July Celebrate*
Much the Some An in Other Years.
New York, July 4. —The Fourth of
July was celebrated In New York and vi
cinity to-day much the time an In past
years. The features of the celebrations
were speech-making. plcniclng and ath
letic sports. Business was entirely sus
pended In this city, and the down town
streets had a deserted appearance. The
stars and stripes floated to the breeze
from all public buildings and many pri
vate houses were decorated In honor of
the day.
Christopher R. Forbes raised the flag on
the pole at the battery at sunrise. He was
assisted by a number of G. A. R. posts.
As the flag reached the top of the staff,
the Daughters of Veterans sang "The Star
Spangled Banner." An address was made,
and three cheers were given for the flag.
At noon the chimes of Trinity played •
number of national and patriotic airs.
The principal parade of the day was that
of tho National Association Naval Cadeta
which was viewed by thousands of persona.
The weather was threatening all day.
but this did not deter those who had ar
ranged to spend the day out of doors.
INDIANS STARVE TO DEATH.
The Remains of a Family of Five
Found In Canada.
Toronto, July 4 —News has reached here
from River Mobile, on the north shore,
to the effect that a party of hunters from
Moisie found the remains of seven In
dians about 200 miles In the interior. The
remains were those of a family consisting
of father, mother and flve children. A
few notes In the Maskoupie language
undoubtedly written by the squaw, show
ed that the family had started from Mol
sle last fall for the Hudson Bay hunting
grounds. After having traveled about 200
miles the provisions ran short and there
being no game, one after another suc
cumbed to starvation, the woman beinir
the last to die. *
UinSTING OF A CANNON.
One Man Killed Outright and Two
Others Badly injured.
Woodstock. Vt„ July 4.—By the bursting
of a cannon In to-day's celebration at
Bridgewater Corners this morning, Charles
Beldour was killed and William Coudrey
■was so badly injured that he may die.
Charles Southgate had a leg broken, and
was otherwise Injured. Bert Woodward
also had a leg broken and was hurt in
ternally. Several others were slightly In
jured.