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This day's mail came, however, in
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2. That item all parts of the country
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of every pledge of the party’s platform.
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Is it surprising, therefore, that the cir
culation of The Weekly Constitution is
more than 156,0(><> -tlie most extensive
of any we< i.ly newspaper published in
the western hemisphere?
How long •:> seas.ble editors in Georgia
going to talk about the "intrinsic” value
of gold? Th• y certain;? oughtn't to talk
about it v.ith'.ut t-lling their bewildered
readers wiiat it. is
A titayfllitg Report.
The report of Special Examiner Chal
mers. of the department of justice,
which, by the way, is published ex
clusively by The Constitution, has
created a sensation.
In this report Mr. Chalmers makes it
plain that some of the federal officials
In Alabama have prostituted their po
sitions. and have oppressed the people,
Imprisoning hundreds of innocent men,
and manufacturing fraudulent fee and
expense accounts to the extent of at least
$•>0,900 a year. Names have been forged
in expense accounts and money has been
poured out like water to pay bogus wit
ness fees. But this is not till. The spec
ial examiner intimates that similar out
rages are probably occurring in every
State in the union.
Mr. Chalmers recommends a change
in the mode of appointing United
States commissioners. He would have
them appointed by the president, and
suggests that they should be lawyers of
good standing. The fee system should
be abolished and the officials shotfid bo
paid fixed salaries. A further investiga
tion is recommended with a view to pun
ishing the persons who have been guilty
of these frauds and acts of oppression.
The department, of justice is moving
In the right direction, but it would be
well to have a special congressional com
mittee look into the matter and go to
the bottom of it. The methods of the
federal commissioners and deputy mar
shals should be investigated in every
state, and no guilty man should be al
lowed to escape.
It is safe to say that much of this
alleged corruption and oppression is
due to republican administration and to
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 13.
the nature of our internal revenue laws.
These odious statutes are detested by
the people, and just, judges have fre
quently condemned them. Our internal
revenue system keeps some localities
practically in a state of civil war all the
year round. Frequently their enforce
ment is left to unscrupulous men, ami
rapine, bloodshed, perjury and the
spoliation and imprisonment of the in
nocent have been among the results.
We cannot hope for an immediate and
sweeping reform, but if congress will
take up the report of Mr. Chalmers and
act upon it many abuses will doubtless
be corrected, and the federal crusade of
robbery and violence in many states will
be stopped. Something should be done
without delay.
Speaking of a tariff for revenue only,
doesn't it seem that some of the brethren
are trying to get the revenue first?
You I’ays Your Money and You Takes
Your Choice.
It is said that cuckoos are cross-eyed,
but for double twisted observation com
mend us to The Atlanta Evening Cuc
koo. For instance, see the following
from Wednesday and Thursday’s issue of
Secretary Smith’s paper:
SILVcH BEFORE TARIFF. BRIGHT FOR BLAND’S BILL
Senate Decides to Probable That It Will
Sidetrack the Tar- Pass the Senate
iff witn Bland's In a Few
Bill. Days.
People’s Interests at Republicans Caught
Stake. In a Trap.
From Our Own Cor- From Our Own Cor
respondent. respondent.
Washington, D. C., Washington, D. C.,
Marell 7. —It is hard March 8. -What
to tell whether sim- looked yesterday
plicity or cupidity is morning to be fool
the actuating motive ish and dangerous
on the democratic turned out to be one
side of the senate. of the wisest politi-
This morning the cal moves of the pres
democrats are pre- ent session.
paring to run their When it was first
heads into a great known that, by demo
big noose which the, cratic aid, the Bland
repubbeans have es-i bill was to be con
pecially prepared forlsiflered prior to the
them. It is to take tariff bill, The Jour
up the consideration nal correspondent, in
Os the Bland seign- common with all the
iorage bill. afternoon men, be-
lt the democratic lieved that it was a
senators are trying dangerous step, cal
to wreck their party ciliated to delay, if
and to so long delay not destroy, the hopes
tariff reform that it’s of tariff reform.
fruits cannot bel It transpires, bow
tested, they are tnov- ever, that, instead of
ing in the right dlrec-ithe democrats falling
tion. into a republican trap,
the latter— wore the
victims of their own
I machinations.
All the signs go to show that the republi
can voters propose to compel their party
to take up the silver issue. The democrats
have an opportunity to dispose of it.
To Be “Fired Out.”
The Charleston News ami Courier
makes the following queer suggestion,
which is both suggestive ami amusing:
When Barry Gantt was in Atlanta the
other day he told a reporter for The Con
: st’itution that "we don't want any third
I party business in ours. We ate going to
fight it out on democratic lines, and the peo
ple in other states will find it much better
t > do the same thing. We have had no
third party in South Carolina, and we find
the democratic platform is big enough for
us all.” There is a great deal of truth in
what Barry said. "We don’t want any
third party business in ours,” because a
third party is unnecessary in South Caro
lina as long as third party men are per-
I niitted to control the democratic organiza-
I tion. They are "going to tight it out on
| democratic lines" as long as the democrats
let tin in. Wiiat the democrats ought to do
is to tire them out of the party.
In other words tin insignificant' mi
nority. which is in favor of repudiating
the financial pledges of the Chicago
; platform, is anxious to fire out of the
> party the overwhelming (majority of
i democrats who stand firmly and fearless
ly on the platform.
Wo believe this experiment has boon
tried in South Carolina several times,
and always with the same result. The
democratic majority has not only re
fused to bo tired out of (he party, but
Ims taken charge of the party machinery,
solidified the organization and prevented
a dangerous breach that might have re
sulted in turning the state of South Caro
lina over to the republicans.
There has never been the same condi
tion in Georgia that has existed in South
Carolina, and consequently the demo
crats here have never been seriously di
vided.
The deplorable financial condition of
the country, brought about by the estab-
I I’shment of the single gold standard, has
s?t the plain, common people to think
ing and they cannot see any remedy in
a division which weakens their power.
On the contrary, a majority of those who
imagined they saw a glimpse of hope in
the third party movement have now
come to the conclusion that the demo
cratic platform is big enough and broad
enough for every honest man to stand
on. The truth is. democratic principles
invariably fit themselves to the necessi
| ties of the people, and the pledges of
' the platform, faithfully carried out, pro
j vide a remedy for every political and
financial hardship that the people are
the victims of.
More than this, those pledges, to which
the party has solemnly affixed its ap
proval, can be carried out without detri
i inent to any legitimate interest. The
I free coinage of silver, involving a larger
■ volume of money, would relieve the
I country from the paralysis of values,
prices and business that the single gold
; standard lias wrought; and a tariff for
I revenue only would lift from, the
s shoulders of the people the unnecessary
burdens of taxation laid there by the Mc-
Kinley law.
In short, the democratic platform pro
mulgated at Chicago, and endorsed by
j a large majority of the people of this
j country embodies either directly or by
i inference every reform that is necessary
: at this time to bring relief to the peo
; pie and promote their welfare and pros-
I perity. Wo think the people, driven
| into a corner by the undemocratic ele
i moots that have recently combined
' against them arc beginning to see and
I feel this, and for that reason the third
party movement has lost or is losing
whatever incentive it. may have had.
Under all the circumstances, it. is amus
ing. therefore, for The Charleston News
and Courier—a goldbug organ—to be
clamoring against democrats and urging
that, they be fired out of the party be
cause they b<4ieve in democratic prin
ciples and stand on the democratic plat
form.
It is amusing because the proposition
leads to a consideration of the process of
"tiring out” which the Charleston pa
per proposes, and the m»ad naturally
conjures up the spectacle of four or five
men, goldbugs and bank agents, firing
ten thousand mon out of a party. We
do not exaggerate the proportion.
The Constitution takes occasion, how
ever, to invite all men who oppose re
publicanism and goldbuggery, who ob
ject. to the rule of plutocracy, and who
desire to promote good government, to
lake their stand on the democratic plat
form. It is broad enough for all.
———————— —£ "
It is pretty certain that some of the
eastern plutocrats are discovering that the
single gold standard cuts both ways.
“Financial Repose.”
Mr. Cleveland is credited with saying
that he will veto the seigniorage bill for
the reason that siu'h a. measure “would
be destructive of the repose which now
surrounds the financial condition of the
country.”
And yet, it. is precisely this repose
which the business men and the people
would be glad to set' disturbed and des
troyed. It is the repose that precedes
death; the repose that follows a fatal
cohapse.
We trust Ml’ Cleveland will permit
that repose to bo disturbed as far as
the seigniorage bill will disturb it. The
addition that measure will make to our
currency may sustain prices at their
present level, but. it will not lift them
much above it. It may help business by
keeping prices and values from going
lower. The only important effect it can
have is to convince the people that the
democrats in congress are not entirely
owned by the plutocrats.
We beg Mr. Cleveland, in the inter
ests of his party, to affix his signature
to ihe seigniorage bill when it is sent to
him.
Macon will now have a democratic post
master, and a Daisy, too.
Town amt Country.
The department of agriculture has is
sued some statistics which show that
our town population is increasing much
more rapidly than our rural population.
The following table will show the drift
during recent years:
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Census years. g. ’S P'S**
o r- p
3 . g. So
:op £ o
: A ? SoS
, • , . w tr tn
18.3012,866,020 fi861,509~ 672
is io 17,069.453 1. H'u 5.52
185"23,191,.876 2,8117,’,56 12.49
iB6O 31.143.321 5,072,gi6 16.13
1 5 '":18.355,371 8,071,875 2n !>::
1880 50.155,783 1 1.::|8.;,f7 22.57
1890 <.2*.!,i 18,235,670 29.12
hi IS3O only seven of every ion per
sons lived in town, but in Ix'.Mi twenty
eight of every 100 live in cities. Our
city population is now. in proportion to
the country, twice as great as it was in
Such conditions are not encouraging,
and it is plainly the duty of the gov
eminent to do everything in its power
to promote the interests of agriculture
and make life more attractive in the
farming districts. There can be no per
manent prosperity so long as popula
tion remains so unequally distributed.
But it will tax the ingenuity of our
wisest statesmen to devise method, tha:
will turn back the rushing ti,.17 from tlw
cities to the country. Within the past
twelve months our fartmts have lost
$.'>12.1100,00(1 by the shrinkage of values.
Many of them do not consider Ihe fact
that this shrinkage affects city people,
too. They simply figure up their own
losses, and then in disgust abandon
their farms and move to town. Before
they are much older they will learn that
the fatal single gold standard will smash
them wherever they go- in the largest
city as well as on the smallest farm.
It is said that "some good -a ’ Stern man”
has already gone into training.
•
The Seigniorage Bill.
The democrats in the senate carried
the seigniorage bill to ti third reading
before John Sherman and a small part
of the cuckoo contingent realized wiiat
they were about. (
'Ulie republicans had to use
the seigniorage bill to obstruct and an
tagonize the tariff mea«sure, but Mr.
Stewart was persuaded to withdraw
his free coinage amendment, and the bill
went to a third reading. The presiding
officer was just about to put it upon its
passage, when Mr. Hoaj- moved to ad
journ. Tiiis was the signal to tiie east
ern contingent and a few of the cuckoos,
but they failed to secure a majority for
adjournment.
John Sherman, who is the recognized
leader of the eastern democrats and the
cuckoo contingent, tried hard to have
the bill referred to what Senator Me
I’herson calls the “feenawnee” commit
tec, but he could muster only six votes—
four republicans and two cuckoos.
On the motion to adjourn, Sherman
mustered twelve votes, so consideration
of the bill was resumed. An attempt
was made to amend it, but it had gone
beyond tin? amendment stage. After
sonii' talk tin* bill was allowed to go
over, principally for the accommodation
of Mr. Sherman, who is probably under
the impression that he can rally the
cuckoos and the eastern contingent to
his support.
The real question behind the opposi
tion to the seigniorage bill is Ihe issue
of more bonds. This is tin' milk in the
cocoanut, and it will ooze out in some
way before the measure is finally dis
posed of. From the standpoint of the
people and their interests, there is every
reason why the bill, should pass. From
the standpoint of tije goldbugs there is
every reason why it should not pass.
Consequently, shall probably see
arrayed for and ;ainst the measure
those who represi' * the interests of the
people and those ?vho represent exclu
sively the money lending interests.
There is every reason why the bullion
stored in tlie treasury should be utilized
in behalf of the people and the business
interests of the country—not a part of
the bullion but. the whole of it. Never
theless the seigniorage bill merely calls
for the coinage of that part of the bul
lion which repros'.'nts the difference be
tween the market, price of the metal at
the time of its purchase, and its money
value after it is coined. The bill will
place in the treasury available assets to
the amount of $55,000.000—a sum equal
to that received from the sale of bonds,
and will remove even the shadow of a
necessity for the issue of an additional
supply of bonds.
John and the eastern con
tingent are opposed to the seigniorage
bill because it will destroy their main
argument in favor of a new bond issue.
Their conspiracy is not yet complete.
The cormorants are not yet satisfied.
It will be interesting to watch the
maneuvers of those who have allied
themselves with the plutocrats. Will
John Sherman, the great loader of that
('lement, be able to rally to his assist
ance the same men who aided him to
establish the single gold standard last
autumn? Will he be able, by filibuster
ing, to kill two birds with one stone—
practically defeat the tariff bill by delay
ing it, and also defeat the seigniorage
bill by taking advantage of the senate
rules.
Can there be found in the senate a
sufficient number of democrats to enable
him to still further wreck the policy of
the party?
We believe not!
Is it really true that sugar depends on
“sugar?”
—
Gladstone and Roseberry.
The Greatest Englishman of our time,
after a pnolic career of sixty-two years,
voluntarily lays down the burdens and
cares of office, and seeks the rest which
he has so nobly earned.
At the age of twenty-three, in 1832,
Mr. Gladstone entered tlie house of com
mons. six years before Victoria ascended
tlie throne. He soon entered tlie tory
cabinet of Sir Robert Peel, and so im
pressed his personality upon the public
that Macaulay spoke of him as “a young
man of unblemished character—the ris
ing hope of the stern and unbending
tories who followed Sir Robert Peel.”
About this time his first book, "State
Relations to the Church,” made him fa
mous as a political writer. He served
as president of the board of trade and
colonial secretary, becoming in the mean
time :i. strong advocate of free trade.
In 1847 Oxford sent him to parliament,
and lie continued to represent that bor
ough eiglitecn years. In 1852 lie became
chancellor of the exchequer in the Earl
of Aberdeen's ministry, and went over
to the liberals. As the leader of that
party in 1.8(56 he defeated Earl Russell's
ministry on the Irish reform bill, and
at. once went to the front as the con
trolling force in British politics. In 1868
hi* became first lord of the treasury,
and a year later his disestablishment
of the Irish church sent: the Disraeli
ministry out of power.
Mr. Gladstone made a thorough study
of the Irish situation, and recognized
tin' gross injustice of compelling a
Catholic population to maintain a for
eign Protestant church, wiih confisca
tion and imprisonment ns penalties fur
disobedience. In the Irish hind
bill passed, a measure which gave ten
ants the right to carry on litigation with
’heir landlords, besides providing for
peasant, proprietorship and the encour
agement of real estate improvements.
Tlie Gladstone ministry went out when
parliament was dissolved in 1874, but
in 18.80, when the Irish question came
to the front again, Disraeli went out
and Gladstone succeeded him again. In
ISSG the home rule lull claimed his at
tention, and has ever since been his fa
vorite measure of reform.
During his long and ’active public
catcer Mr. Gladstone has written many
works of such enduring fame as "Homer
and Hie Homeric Age,” ".Inventus Mun
di” and "Heroes of the Heroic Age.”
His capacity for work has always seem
ed to lie unlimited, and some of his
speeches in his eighty fourth year are
fully equal to his best efforts when he
was in his prime He retires when at
the zenith of his power, full of honors
and full of years. His declining strength
and failing eyesight warn him that he
should call a younger man to the leader
ship of bis party, ami in Eord Roseberry
lie has found a man who is eminently
fitted to succeed him and carry out his
policy.
Roseberry has been called the Blaine
of British polities. - lie is magnetic and
a man of the world, as well as a diplo
mat. lie- is comparatively a young man.
and at the ago of forty-seven is appa
rently at his best. His ability was gen
erally recognized in parliament before
be was twenty-five, but be did not make
a serious business of polities until re
cent years. His marriare to Miss Han
nah Rothschild allied him with the
strongest banking house in the world.
Since that lady's death it has been ru
mored that bo would marry a daughter
of thi> prince of Wales, but he is appa
rently in no hurry to take a second wife.
Nobody, except Laliouchere and a few
radicals, believe that Roseberry will de
part in the slightest degree from Glad
stone’s policy. Although a peer he is a
consistent liberal, and it is probable that
ho will carry ort tlie liberal programme
of depriving the upper house of its veto
power, but it is not likely that ho favors
the abolition of the house. Irish leaders,
like Justin .McCarthy, are perfectly will
ing to accept the new premier, and if
there are any breakers ahead they are
not in sight. Unlike Gladstone, he is a
jingo and advocates a vigorous foreign
policy. This will only strengthen his
popularity with all classes of English
men.
Upon the whole, the general verdict is
that the grand old man will be succeeded
by the man of all others who is best
fitted to take his place. I’ortunatcly, the
change does not deprive England of Mr.
Gladstone’s services. He still remains
the great commoner.
The south is not in favor of secession at
the west. We need the west in our polit
ical business.
An Immigration Pointer.
A few years ago a farmer in Nebraska
went to Florida and made his home
there. Hi* wrote occasionally to his old
neighbors, and the other day fourteen
families from the northwest passed
through Birmingham on their way to
join their Florida friend.
This is one of the natural results of
immigration. It is a mistake to suppose
that it will be necessary for the soulh to
keep immigration agents at work for a
long period. All that we have to do
is to induce 100,000 good north western
farmers—men of intelligence and means
—to come here, and they will do the
rest. In the course of a few years they
will draw their kinsmen and friends
after them, just as the lonely Nebras
kan did in Florida.
If one immigrant can attract fourteen
families—some seventy persons in all
-100,000 such men would induce njillions
of immigrants to come south in a few
years. We need immigration agents at
the start, but the best factors of tlie
movement will be tlie immigrants them
selves after they get a foothold here.
The grass that has been growing under
the feet of the democratic party in Wash
ington should be mowed down.
Human Nature in New Jersey.
When the good people of Franklin
Park, N. J., discovered the other morn
ing that during tlie night two negroes
had murdered Mrs. Baker and her in
fant while asleep their indignation was
unbounded. It was some consolation
to know that Mr. Baker had killed the
two assassins, but the Franklin Park
people felt that something more was
needed. One law abiding citizen offered
to be one of a half dozen men to hang
the father of one of the negroes, but
he was persuaded to give up his design.
The citizens generally declare that they
would have lynched the murderers if
Baker bad not killed them. Some say
that they would have flayed them alive
and others say that they would have
burned them.
The people of this New Jersey village
have heretofore condemned southerners
for occasionally lynching negro rapists
and. murderers. But as soon as the pro
vocation came home to them they wore
transformed into the open advocates of
lynch law. As we have had occasion
to remark before, human nature is very
much the same everywhere. There are
certain horrible crimes that would cause
lynchings and perhaps burning at the
stake, in even the most peaceful New
England village.
“Sugar” seems to be a big thing In pol
itics.
As to “the Atlanta Bing.”
We observe that wherever Mr. Atkin
son makes a speech, he continues to
charge that he is opposed by “the At
lanta ring.”
We have on many occasions heard this
same charge made by other candidates,
but wherever and whenever it has al
ways been regarded by the people as a
confession of weakness. It will be so
regarded now.
If Mr. Atkinson will cast his eye over
the political history of Georgia during
the past t wenty years and recall to mind
the circumstances under which various
worthy gentlemen have found it neces
sary to bolster up their claims by posing
as the victims of a mythical Atlanta
ring, he will probably feel less inclined
to follow such an example.
Wo do not understand that Atlanta
and the Atlanta newspapers have been
in any more haste to endorse the candi
dacy of General Evans than the people
and papers of oilier sections of the state.
It is a fact which Mr. Atkinson will do
well to remember that General Evans
received no formal endorsement in At
lanta until after Iho people and papers
of a good many communities had spoken
in favor of his candidacy.
Tlie truth of the matter is that the
people of Atlanta are not different from
the people of the rest of the state. Tlie
same qualities of head and heart—tlie
same (‘loments of character—that com
mend themselves to the people in other
parts of Hie state commend themselves
to the people of Atlanta. A noble ca
reer, tempered at every point with gen
tleness commands the approval of peo
ple not only in Atlanta, but everywhere.
Senator White seems to be taking the cake
as a supreme court judge. He remains in
the senate instead of taking his scat on
tlie bench in order to protect sugar. What
is the country coming to?
The Senatorial Race.
Senator Colquitt, if we may use a com
mon campaign phrase, is squarely in
the senatorial race. His letter to Mr.
E. R. Hodgson, of Athens, not only
makes this fact plain, but it emphasizes
the senator's well known loyalty to the
democratic platform.
Senator Colquitt announces that he
win continue to oppose a high protective
tariff, the growing system of corporate
wealth, any interference with the bank
ing systems of tlie states, ail legislation
favoring special classes and a consoli
dated republic. He announces squarely
for honest bimetallism—the use of both
gold and silver under like conditions.
This is an epitome of tlie Chicago
platform, as the democrats of Georgia
understand it, and if they have their
way the senator elected by the next
legislature will lie its bold and uncom
promising advocate.
Tlie announcement of Senator Col
quitt’s candidacy will give the campaign
a more definite nape. He has expressed
his views so clearly that the people
know exactly where he stands, and they
will naturally look for an equally frank
statement from the other candidates.
This is just what our people desire. They
will not favorably consider the claims
of any senatorial candidate who remains
mysteriously reticent, and evades any
question in regard to his position and
ids sentiments concerning tlie great
financial and economic issues of the day.
The candidates will have to go before
the people or in some public manner de
fine their status. Tlie democrats of Geor
gia stand on tlie Chicago platform, and
they do not propose to blindly endorse
any candidate without knowing his
views. Every candidate must show his
hand. It is no time for mystery and un
certainty. The democratic platform is
the standard by which till democratic
candidates must be measured.
EDllOniA L COMMENT.
A Florida jury has come to the conclusion
that Corbett and Mitchell did not "fight by
appointment.” It probably considers their
meeting a striking coincidence.
Though Stonewill Jackson was a man of
deep religious feeling he invariably fell
rsleep when in church. He was a dyspeptic
in his youth, and for a year lived on stale
tread and buttermilk.
Vermont and New Hampshire grow more
slowly than any other states in the union,
and the former seems, as nearly as may be,
a finished and fenced-in community. Old as
the state is, one county has less than 4.000
inhabitants, and another less than 10,000.
Villages in both states are drained of their
young men. who go to Boston or New York
in search of careers not to be found at
home.
A remarkable case of petrifaction was
discovered when the body of Solomon
Krepps was exhumed in Taylor’s cemetery,
near Brownsville, Pa., for removal to an
other graveyard. The grave was near the
fence which separates the cemetery from
the national pike, and it is supposed that
water percolating through the limestone
roadbed had kept the body covered with a
calcareous solution. The clothing wai
found well preserved, although tfie burial
took place eight years ago. The hair and
beard were crisp and felt like threads of
glass. The body was entirely turned to
stone, and so hard that smart blows with a
pick made no impression.
Most of the northern papers severely con
demn the late General Early lor his con
nection with the Bouisiana lottery, but Ihe
Philadelphia Inquirer says of mm: it is
not necessary to approve of Early to make
an effort to understand him. Walter bcott
wouiu have delighted in him. He never
succumbed to tlie success of his toes. ±ie
wore the gray clothes of nis cause until
he died, and remained to the last unrecon
structed.”
A San Francisco drayman named Beres
ford bought a sick horse the other day.
He carried the horse home, and the ani
mal sneezed in Mrs. Beresford’s face. A
few days afterward she was taken w 'th
chills and pains, and with a swelling of
the forehead. She grew constantly worse,
and was taken to a hospital, where it was
discovered that she was suffering with the
glanders. The upper portion of her face
was eaten away, and she died. The hus
band and children have been exposed to
the disease, and their condition is being
closely watched. The horse has been killed
and the traders who sold him to Beresford
arrested.
IFA7,A'.S' AND TALKS.
General Pierce M. B. Young, the United
States ministei to Guatemala and Hondu
ras, in speaking of the reported revolution
in the latter cruntry, said ;
"I have been away from Honduras for
a month or more, and any fighting, such as
I see reported in the papers, has occurred
since 1 left. The matter is a purely po
litical one, and I do not think it would
amount to anything more than a change of
administration. I judge from the reports
that not more than 506 lives have been lost
in the whole affair, and I anticipate no
further trouble, at least for a while.
"You see, there has been some hard feel
ing between Nicaragua and Honduras for
a long lime. Tlie new conqueror of Nica
ragua, Bonilla, is a wealthy and popular
young man of about thirty years of age.
in some political troubles that transpired
not long ago he was driven out of Hondu
ras and went to Nicaragua, where he be
came a member of the Nicaragua senate.
He will be remembered as the person who
was on the Pacific Mail steamship Costa
Rica a few months ago when that ship
was fired into by order of the Honduras
authorities. The American captain, at the
instance of the American consul, refused
to give up Bonilla, and the president of
Honduras, General. Vasquez. ordered his
officers to have him taken. Several shots
were fired at the American vessel, which
was putting to sea with lights out to es
cape the authorities. Subsequently the
whole affair was explained and amounted
to nothing more than a diplomatic incident.
“Mr. Bonilla got to Guatemala in safety.
It seems that he there conceived the de
signs which he has just executed. Gath
ering about him a number of revolution
ists, and with the help of certain political
influences in Nicaragua and the Nicara
guan army, lie marched across the fron
tier and laid seige to Tegucigalpa, the cap
ital of H onduras. The last news is that
the city has fallen and that Bonilla has
ordered a general amnesty and an election
for president. Vasquez has tied. General
Vasquez is an accomplished soldier and an
educated and polished gentleman, but
seems to have been somewhat unpopular
personally.
"The whole trouble amounts to little more
than a contention between two political
factions striving for dominance. So far as
I can learn there lias been no change in
the constitution of the country suggested
and no intention of depriving the people of
any liberties they now enjoy. -It is merely
another method of changing administra
tions. Tn the United States we do it by
means of an election. Among these South
Americans they reach the same result by
a little different method. General Bonilla
Is a polished gentleman and an able gen
eral. and I think there will be no further
trouble now for some time in Nicaragua.”
FIND THE MISSING
WORD
TO APRIL. IST.
AN INTERESTING CONTEST IN WHIOH
EVERYBODY JIAS THE SAME CHANCE.
The Missing Word competition craze .s the
latest fad in England. It is exciting the
whole country, and hundreds of thousands of
people are rackmg their brains for missing
w..rds.
Several London weeklies have started what
they call "m.ssing word competitilfcis.” and
the craze has affected all England to such an
extent as to block the money order otllce and
embarrass the whole postal service. The
scheme is this: A sentence .s printed every
week from which one word .s om.tted; tor
instance, “Siuita is a and people are
Invited to send in their guess w.th a money
order for a shilling. The money seat in is
d.v.ded among the guessers wljh name the
correct word. A few weeks ago one paper
distributed uoo among forty-three correct
guessers, each man receiving over SBOO for
his shilling. The money order blanks have all
been used up at many postoffiees, the mails
are clogged, and clubs have been organised
to go into the guessing business.
To Constitution Readers
The Constitution makes this proposition:
Among those who supply the missing word In
the following sentence, between now and the
Ist of April, 1894, we will divide one
t urtli of me subscription receipts of all those
wli > send guesses with their subscriptions.
This leaves us the bare and actual coat of
furnishing the paper to subscribers for the
The Sentence.
WE FIND A SERIOUS ERROR IN
THE NAVY OF TODAY TO BE THE
HEIGHT OF OUR
CRUISERS.
Supply the missing word in the above sen
tence, and if you guess the correct word you
will share with the others who are as fortu
nate one-fourth of the receipts from the sub
scr.ptions of all those who guess.
The Guarantee.
No one knows the word missing except the
managing editor, who has placed it in a
sealed envelope and which will Tie opened on
April Ist. We pledge our honor that the
d. radon will be made and published just as
outlined.
The Prospect.
Suppose 5.00 b guesses were made. This
would leave $1,250 as one-fourth of the sub
scription receipts, for so many names, to be
d.vided among the successful guessers. Sup
pose ten persons guessed the word, this would
give them $125 each: if twenty, $62.50, etc.
Suppose the.-' are 10.000 guesses—-which is
n >t improbable -this may give from SIOO to
s'oo each i-i tin- sue■-.•ssful guessers. Cheeks
will be mailed immediately after April Ist.
Conditions and
Inducements.
The terms of the contest are few and
simple.
1. Every guess must be accompanied by one
year’s subscription to The Weekly Constitu
tion, sent to any address at sl.
2. The sender of a club of five at $1 each,
for one year, is entitled to a free paper one
year, and also a guess.
3. W.th every subscription, the missing
word should be written plainly, with the name
and address of the guesser. It is not necessary
to rewrite the sentence—simply wr’te the wor<|
and label it “the missing word for Apr!
Ist.”
4. Renewal subscriptions are entitled ta
guesses just as new subscribers.
Try Your Hand, it May
Profit You.
Remember that you get the greatest t
best of all American weekly newspapers
every guess. Yon cannot do without
Constitution for 1894.
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