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MORRISON’S VIEWS
or the urrt as a msasuxb
OF TARIFF REFORM.
It Pom Not Pleaao All bnt It Is the Beat that
Cnuld be Enacted Under Circumstances.
Wurt he bays «>f the Cotton bcbcdule.
Washington. September 21.—f Special. 1—
Colonel W. R- Morrison is a name promi
nent in the tariff history of the country.
He was the earliest of the tariff reformers
after the war. The bills he drew, his hori
zontal cuts in schedules, his wars with
Stem Randall when Morrison was chief of
the ways and means, are recent P o '” 11 ' s *
At present Colonel Morrison is one o ®
commission on interstate commerce. -•*
asked to talk about tariff and the recent
Got man law. the appended conversation en
“U * What do you think of the tariff M| l
- -£±paT<S-
After so much discussion.
Mori ison, “1 could not expect to add a n -
thing of interest to what has been:sa.d on
the subject. The bill does not to i\e us ad
“at«r r.S
pitted, but U U ~ •»«=" “!*•' “ ‘ “ u
thing we have had in r.uu>> hope d
such an advance towordobtained
of two votes turns the scale agamet us
and with many more than two ,n<Hr^ c
Protectionists’ in the body, we could hard-
Fv expect a much better bill to get through
Senate. A measure at “X’en
tory and complete cannot be driven
through such a body by any
rood reasoning or scolding. 1 had several
years’ experience in a democratic nous
made up as the senate now is. It may be a
better law could have been passed if the
question of tariff taxation had been kept at
the front when we came jnio power, then
the question was red-hot.”
••Will the bill as passed be, for want of a
longer free list, lower rates, or for any rea
son. considered an abandonment of the
principles of tariff reform?"
• No. Hew could that be? The rates are
lower than in the Mills bill, which was en
dorsed by the national democratic conven
tion in In the matter of free raw ma
terials the bill Is far in advance of any bill
passed in our history by any parly n
puts lurnb-r. wool, copper, salt and many
other articles on the free list, which many
years ago I tried, but failed to do. It cuts
the tax on coal, iron and load ore In two,
and makes reductions in all the schedules.
For illustration: On iron and steel in all
form- for building, on iron and steel rails
and on pig Iron, one-third the tax is taken
off. On woolen goods under the old law the
tariff tax was from CO to 160 per cent—an
average tax of about on JIOO worth of
imported goods. Under the new bill the
rate is from 35 to 60—an average tax ot
about for importing >IV) worth. The
reductions in other schedules are not so
large, but they are considerable in all.
Free Raw Material Neeeaaary.
•The number of articles on the free list
could be increased with great advantage.
Except in time of war all of our tariffs
have left many articles untaXed. Our
earliest tariff legislation gave some receg-
r. to the principle by drawback (re
funded duties paid on imported articles
used in making other articles for export).
Free raw materials become more nnd more
necessary each succeeding year. Our man
ufacturing capacity in many industries is
already far in advance of the wants of our
people. W.» mu. t have foreign markets to
avoid enforced Idleness. We cannot have
foreign markets where we meet competi
tors Selling good-* made of umaxed mate
rials while we tax such materials. AU the
general bills presented to congress in recent
years, by rnyrelf, and I think by others,
proposed additions to the free list, but the
free raw material doctrine was first fully
recognized and became a pronounced prin
ciple of tariff reform about fifteen years
ago, during the congressional services of
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, who was its fore
rr.’-st and ablest champion.
•The cotton Hihedule is one of the out
rageous feature* of the new bill. The av
erage rate was mere t ian Xi under the oM,
and Is still mote than 4U per cent under
the new law. Some cotton cloths end
yarns are taxed at s’•* or more on the 3i«o
worth, and on kt.it good.- we must pay as
high as s."•>. yet we g*t, utmost daily, re
ports of wages 1h ing reduced In cotton in
dustries !n various sections of the coun
.try. the towering of wages Is always
charged to the lowering of the tariff. Ito
tection ts insist th- t we must believe
th<-m when they any that foreign manufac
turers of cotton g mis can buy our cotton,
take it over the sea, and to runs in the in
terior, manufacture and return it, pay an
average duty of more than s<u on the SUM
v. rth fur ti»e privilege of returning it. and
th». n und-r.-vll the home .manufacturer un
it s he r»-luces v.api.”
••How will the new Jaw affect the demo
cm tic party 7'
••Mun- was promised and bxpecte-l -than
Is provide! for in the new bill, ant some
disappointnie* t follow*, but I think this
will be oily temporary. What has been
gained will be beneficial to the country
fir.-t and afterwards to the party. The in
come tax will be popular with those who
do not jay it and unpopular with those
who do. It will eventually drop out or he
extended to all who nave incomes. When
In 1X76, I - .is advocating my first tar.ff
bill in congress. 1 sail: 'Burdens of gov
ernments should "be terne in proportion to
ability tn bear them. Property should pay
the taxes, ’le who has much should pay
iwh: he who has little should pay little;
a.id he who has none, none.’ There an* a
great many people in this country today
who believe in what I then said.
The Sugar Svhedalr.
•The sugar tax is unpopular. Viewed
from a partisan standpoint, it was shrewd
in the republican party tt» empty the treas
ury and turn over fiscal c ti’airs to the demo
cratic administration in t*-. condition which
made a tax on sugar ne« >-«rv to prevent
s. deficiency and meet tlus obligations of
the government. The hotn*e did not believe
the necessity existed, and resisted the lay
ing on of this tex. Even the senate hesi
tated —some of its memb«t-s opjosing any
tax on sugar, others pre I erring the Mc-
Kinley law, with both protection and
bounty. There could scarcely be any ques
tion as to th s necessity i fter the letter
of the secretary of th- tri asury advising
the senate that a tax on str. :ar was neces
sary to prevent deficiencies, and the letters
of the president advising members or the
house that a tax on sugar is in accord with
the democratic platform ard democratic
principles, and that a. tax on coal and on
iron ore Is undemocratic and t'ot n«*> es.-ary,
thus confirming the trear”*’j* statement
that revenue fn.ni sugar is Indispensable.
A portion of the democratic press woul 1
make it appear that the prudent was
with th- house for free sugar. This is not
only hurtful to the party, bu: it is un
true. The tatters of the prrrddcnt and
secretary of the treasury shot*.’ that the
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ALFRE) PEATS, DEPT. 67, UiCAGQ.
Mention The Constitution.
TTTTC WF.ICirrJV CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1894.
i administration favors a revenue tax on
sugar as a measure of wise economy and
good democracy. The much written and
said of alleged corrupting Influences in con
nection with the passage of the bill
through the senate is damaging to the
party. Venality is inseparable from the
protection system. Its corrupting power is
one of its abominations. So long as money
!is to be made through legislation, money
will be used to procure legislation. This
abuse is not new, though it grows with
Ithe growth of the protective system. Pro
tection uses money to elect its friends nnd
to prevent the election of Its enemies. I n
fortunately, it has more direct
| methods of gaining its end, and
! so long as it Was money to give for
I Protection somebody is likely to bo found
ready to take It. I have not been to the
capitol since 1891. and am not well advised
as to more recent methods, but the eugar
schedule, however objectionable it may
; lx- in certain respects, might go through
I the senate without anybody be-
1 ing bought. The planters, refiners
’ and trusts get very much less protection
< and bounty under the new bill than they
' had under the McKinley law. The Wilson
| bill, as reported by him from the ways
I and means committee to the house, provid
ed for free raw sugar, ’* cents tax on rc
! fired, and an annual declining bounty for
eight years, was. 1 think, as advantageous
to the sugar interests as the present law.
The Mills bill left to the home producer,
i tefinera and trusts, much more than they
| get under the law just passed. Certainly
no one who knows them would accuse
either Mr. Wilson or Mr. Mills with other
than the best aims and purposes when they
offered as much as the senate gave the
planters, refiners or trusts.
”The sugar provision ot the bill based
on the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty is a
rank swindle, which has and will cost
us several million dollars in revenue, given
i away each year. This treaty can be ended
I in twelve montha from n-xt November it
notice is promptly given that this so-called
reciprocity treaty must be terminated.
“What will be the effect of the president’s
letters so severely criticising the bill? Will
ti’.*y not el'.- et the party injuriously?
“1 think not. Some allowance is always
made for deferred enthusiasm. In the letter
to Mr. Wilson the president tried to scold
the senate into making a better bill. The
letter to Mr. Catchings explains that while
the bill ought to have given us more re
lief and lower taxes, it is still such a're
duction ol tuxes and improvement on the
law repealed that he withholds his veto that
the people may have the benefits to be de
rived Uorii lower taxation and front the re
moval of hindrances to industrial progress.
Anything hurtiul in one letter wiii be cured
by the o-.hcr. The protectionists have b. <-n
diligently at work for more than thirty
years in building up and fastening upon us
the protective system, and it is not to be
undone by a wave of the presidential hand,
or even the manifestation of executive dir
pleasure. We have been at work the last
twenty years to undo these protective
abuses of the republican party. We are
making progress, with some hope of near
ing the end, which, if it shall come in an
other ten years, will atone for many short
comings.
•'Will the free sugar, coal and iron ore
bills pass the senate next winter?
“Any tariff legislation next winter is un
likely. Certainly there will be none with
out an amendment of the senate rules. Even
then it will be doubtful us the senate is now
made up. in 1857 the democratic senators
of E-ulsiuna voted with their party to re
duce the duty on sugar from 30 to 24 per
cent. Nearly 40 years later, in the congress
just a<ijourned, the democratic party could
not rely upon the continued support of the
l.ctiisiana senators for the passage of a
till protecting sugar by 40 per cent duty,
(inert used by of a -ent a )«>und and an
additional 1-lOth. as against sugar coming
i from the countries paying a bounty on ex
' Pert, so strong is the greedy hold of a com
| paratively few sugar planters and refiners
I of that.state upon its d«-mocr..tlc senators.’*
FItICKS AltE I.OWEK.
Since the Senate Tariff Bill I*sh .<>d Woolen
Goods Uuve Dertlued.
Knoxville, Tenn., September 20.—-(Special.)
The claim set up by the republicans that
the new tariff law will destroy the woolen
I goods Industry of this country is pt oven
false right here in Knoxville.
In this city Is located the largest woolen
goods factory in the south, and v e of the
largest In this aountry. The Knoxville
woolen mill is capitalized at ssoo,t*W. it
has twenty sets of cards, S(X) looms, and
employs tiw) operatives, with :x payroll of
JS..’vjo a month. The mill turns out IXSOO
yards of cloth a day, and the annual pro
duct amounts to between 55>hO,tWO and
• >1.000.000.
The milt has been In operation ten years
J and has p a j i well. It Is paying well today.
: Its pr<»duct consists solely of woolen goods
- -Jeans and »• ; ■•*:m*r»-. Its cassime’-es are
all wool a”d equal the imported goods of
the seme class. Many of the patterns are
very neat stripes for gentlemen's panta
loons.
Mr. .1. A. M-Keldln, brother of Jim Mc-
Kei.lin, of Atlanta, the secretary and treas
urer of the evmp.n.y, showed me through
the mill* and talked freely about the value
of materials at present and before the new
I tariff law went into effect.
“I don’t behove the new tariff law will
. j ass-ct the profits of the woolen mills of
this country In the least,” said he, “but
you may find others who hold contrary
i views, of course the price of goods has
! been materially reduced under th- n-w
' tariff law, but, at the same time, the raw
, mat< ria! h»» been proportionately reduced.
Wool i;t ; bout 25 per cent cheaper than it
was and wook n goods have perhaps been
reduced in the same proportion.
N'.* Cwt in Uattea.
"This reduction was, however, not a sud
den one,” he continued. “Both wool aid
woolen goods have been gradually dectln
-1 i,>g since the house of representatives
passed the tariff bill on the first of last
February. But when Mr. Cleveland wrote
his letter to Chairman Wilson and it ap
! peared to the country that there would be
no tariff law passed on account, of the dis-
• agreement between the two houses, both
I woo! and woolen goods Jumped up some
; what in price. Then, when the bill passed,
they declined again, but have never gone
, back quite so low as they were.”
, “The new law has not caused you to re
duce the wages of your operatives?” I
i a. Ited.
, “Certainly net. There is no good reason
that 1 can see why the new tariff law should
I j caune any mil) to reduct- wages, unless it
’ be, just row, for political reasons. 1 have
, .h< ard of such things being resorted to in
, j some iiortl-. rti mills, though 1 know per
' , stnally of no instance. As I said before.
( as the raw material is reduced In propor
ticn to the manufactured product, th- new
■ voohn schedule of the tariff law should
, j not Interfere with the profits of any of the
, ( mills in the country.”
"Are the farmers from whom you buy
t I your wool dissatisfied with having it pu.t
■ on the free let?”
I’armc-ra Arc \<»t Exactly Plcnaed.
i ’ “Well, there is s-.tne little kicking among
them. They get leas for their wooi now.
bnt then they buy the r clcthmg and every-
I . thing else they consume cheaper, and the
■ | new tariff evens things up for them. With
the farmer, like the manufacturer, the ex
tent of his complaint rests largely upon
whether he is u republican or a demo
crat.”
“In what proportion has wool been re
duced by the new law?”
“Well, before the tariff bill was prepared
by the ways and means committee in VVitsh
iirgtun tub-washed wool sold for from 32 to
35 cents u. pound and unwashed wool for
about 22 cents. Now tub-washed wool
brings from 21 to 22’g cents and unwashed
wool about 16 cents.
“The new tariff is not affecting us,” con
tinued Mr. McKeldta. "We make ;<> a
that we have no difficulty in disposing of.
We make a fair profit upon them and our
mill is dcing well.”
And so it goes. The people are buylufi
goods for their clothing cheaper, and ths
jnilla are buying their material cheap r.
The profits of the mills are not interfered
with, the wages of labor are not affected,
bnt all the people are being benefited in
that they buy what they .wear one-fourta
or more less than they did before the new
democratic tariff law went into effect.
There are all sorts of manufactories here.
In none of them, not even in the coal
mines of the surrounding country, have
the wages of tabor l>een reduced. Indeed
the outlook for prosperous tpnes in this
section is bright. There is not. a silent fac
tory nor tin idle mine in all this section
of Tennessee. E. W. B.
As the standard for purity and perfection
the whole world over. Dr. Price's Baking
Powder is beyond comparison. Its purity
and goodness are unquestioned.
HEFI :i!!> A TH I Al,.
Kicnragnans Still Holding the Amer
en as as I’riNonern.
New Orleans, September 20.—The steamer
John Wilson arrived this afternoon from
Bluefields. On board the steamer was Cap
tain James Brown, agent of the Oteri fine
at Bluetlelds, who has returned to the state
for a short while.
Captain Brown said to a reporter of The
Times-Democrat that affairs were practi
cally in the same condition ns reported by
the steamer Gussle. The Nicaraguans are
pursuing the cv» n tenor of their way, and
are administering the government of the
reservation according to their own way of
thinking.
Business in the town of Bluefields is very
dull, and there does not appeal* to be much
ohance for a revival of trade. The bajiana
planters are shipping nearly the same
quantity of fruit, but the demand is not
as good as it might be for the season of
the year. The disturbed condition of
things in the reservation for the past
several months has destroyed the confidence
of the foreigners in nearly everything con
nected with the country, and it is useless
to expect much progress until all danger
of more* Internal disruptions is over.
The I'iiiied States war ship Marblehead,
which has been lying oft' the bluffs, has
gone to Port Limon. She carried back the
two American Sim l.ampton and Captain
Miltbanka, who had been carried io the
country from Costa lti«a by the British ship
Mohawk.
Captain O’Neill, of the Marblehead, had
taken the two men to Minefields with lhe
intention of seeing them tried at their own
request fcr the crimes which the Nicara
guan commissioners have laid to them, but
both Models a.id Cabezas, who still have
supreme control of affairs in Blueflelds,
would not grant permission for the men to
be given trial, and would not allow them
to be taken ashore.
Mr. Lampton and Captain Miltbanks are
anxiously waiting for permission to be
granted by the commissioners for a trial
i.i Blu< fields, and when the Marblehead left
the biUli’s without the desired trial taking
place, they were greatly dtsappol ited.
it is said in Bluefields that the American
secretary of state, Mr. Gresham, hus wired
the American minister, Mr. Baker, to have
the two refugees returned to Biueti.dds,
and to see that they are given a fair an 1
impartial trial with the -captain.: of the
<l!I. eret.t vessels present at the tri 11. When
the John Wilson 1-ft her atK-licrage at the
bluffs, the United States v.ur ship Columbia
was lying off the coast.
The Poorest Man in (he AVorld
Can wrltje to me and receive by return mail,
in a plain envelope, sealed, free, a prescr'p
tion with full directions for a speedy, per
manent and private home cure for Lost
Manhood, Nervous Debility, Atrophy, Night
Losses, Varicocele, etc. I will furnish the
medicine, if desired, ch aper than it would
!><■ put up at a drug store. Amin mG. B.
Wright. Box No. 1828, Marshall, Mich.
GOOD Eon THE SOI TH.
Gain in Enrnlugs of Southern Rail
roads Over Same Time Last Tenr.
Baltimore, Md.. September 20 The Manu
facturers’ Record in its review of railroad
and industrial matters in the south for the
week, says:
"The August reports of prominent rail
way systems in th-* south show a gratify
ing gain in the aggregate over the same
month of 1833, and as < group they make a
much better display than the trunk lines
of the n<<rthv.-e::t<rn or western groups.
For c ample tin* earnings of the Chesa
pi-ake and Ohio, ihc Kansr.s City, Memphis
and Birmingham, the Louisville and Nash
ville. the Memphis and Charleston, the
Mobile and Ohio, the Nashville, Chattanoo
ga and St. Lottis, the Norfolk and West
ern, and the Southern (the Richmond and
Dam’ille and East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia), reached JG,726,487 last August,
nearly SiWt.OOO more than in August, 1893.
Nine of the northwestern lines siiowed ax
increase of less than JJCO.'H'o over August,
is-.;, while six trunk lint In the middle
and eastern states decreas. I over 5.7)0,000,
and a group ’•* twenty other iin* s in the
mi'idfi- ..nd w<-.-iern states decreased about
J?-).ix«>. This ; .iin in c atliern < linings is
not due to the cotton movement, for cotn
patt.it!Vt-iy lit'ie h's been shipp'd by rail
as yet. It is print ip illy caused by the gen
eral inerea.*'* in business in the south.
“Aniong the new i.iiliv.ad enterprises are
electric ro; I-’ In Georg.a. Kentucky, West
Virginia, Tdaryiand and Florida, aggregat
ing nearly sixty mile--, and a twenty-mile
branch of the Gould system in Texas.
"Throughout the south there is a very
■decided revival in industrial matters, and
this is sp. -iullv m tic. able in the resump
tion ot’ ,rl: by ru-ny concerns that have
been idle for months. There is also a de
cided increase in the organization of im
por’ani manufacturing and mining enter
prises.”
A V.'ord to Youag Men.
"I can Ii artily say to any young mon
who is v..-mling employment, work for L.
F. Johnson »v Co., follow their in.-tructions,
and ..on will suc<*e--d.” So writes an agent
of B. F. Johnson A. Co., of Richmond, \ a.,
and that is tiie way all <>f their men talk.
JtltMOl M. OF IADIAN I’RISO-XF.ItS.
Geronimo's Hand to I’t* Tnken to Fort
Sill. Indian Territory.
Washington, Bentember 20.—General How
ard ha.< i.-: .led orders from the headquarters
d-.partm. r.t of tie- < at, at. Governor’s Is
land, N. Y., to Lieutenant Allyn Capron,
Fifth infantry, with Camp-jay I. Twelfth
ini'U’tvy (Indian company), to proceed with
<., t delay to Fort Sill, Indian Territory,
with all the Apa< he Indian prisoners
(Geronimo's band) now at Mount Vernon
barracks, Alabama. E --kim-m-Zeiu and
l:is band of about forty San Carlos Indians,
also prisoners at the same place, will re
main where they ate until further orders,
but they must bo taken away very soon,
as tiie post is to be abandoned -liter Oc
tober Ist. J.ieuienant Hugh L. Scott,
Seventh cavalry, now on duty at Fort Sill,
lias been designated by lhe commanding
general of lhe army to t ike imrie liat-j
charge of the Italian prisoners after their
arrival at Fort 8:11, Lieutenant Capron re
maining for the present on duty with the
Indian company. All personal property be
longing to the Indians nn.l mimic property
in tbe-.r use, when, in th ■ jiid. wicnt of the
commanding oiiieer of .'Liuiit V< mon bar
racks, the cost of replacement would ex
c .*'i the cust of trail qiortation of which,
vvi.l .shlj ped to F.-rl Sill, i 'us specially
applies to doors, window sash. >■! ■., which
w<li be o£ use in Hie construction of new
■hellers. . ,
WILL NOT CONTEST.
FRECKIJfRJGE GIVES VP THS CASE
anii on r.xsis ale eight.
Eor n .'line Thongli, It Was Scat y—Friends
of lhe Colonel Started Out to Hunt up
Funds —All is Serene Now.
Lexington, Ky., September 18.—The offi
cial count of Fayette county was com
pleted at noon today, giving Breckinridge
205 plurality over Owens. There is no con
test or protest of any kind.
The Leader this afternoon publishes a ta
ble of seven counties, official, and Bourbon
unofficial, but conceded by both sides, giv
ing the vote as follows: Owens, 8,072;
Breckinridge, 7,803; Settle, 3,391; Owens’s
plurality, 26U. These figures are practically
final and Breckenridge will not contest.
Madeline Reticent.
New York, September 17.—Miss Madeline
Pollard, who is now living In this city, at
No. 7 East Thirty-first street, declined to be
interviewed today. She ignored all reference
to Breckinridge, but said that she had
given up all Idea of going on the stage lor
the present, at least. She asked to be ex
cused from answering any questions relat
ing to Colonel Breckinridge.
2>L 3 Pollard’s friends say that she gave
tip the iuea of a stage career, in opposition
to Mr. Nelson Roberts’s advice, on the
ground that she had not received sufficient
instruction in her part to make her per
formance a good one, and that she didpiot
propose to pose on the stage simply to
gratify people's morlbid curiosity. It is
also said that there wi<s great difficulty in
arranging for a tour for Miss Pollard, sev
eral managers being very unwilling to book
her at their theaters.
She is at present hard at work upon her
book, which she hopes to finish soon. It
will be a work of fiction, founded upon her
own life. At the Thirty-first street house
she is known as “Mrs. Higgins.”
Peace in the kitchen means joy all over
the ho-.tse. There is peace in every kitchen
where Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is
used.
DESHA HAS A FIGHT.
Ho Is Stnoshed in tiie Face and Drawn a
Knife —A Bitter Feeling Exist*.
Lexington, Ky., September 21.—Desha
Breekinridge had a sensational altercation
with James Duanne Livingston, formerly
of New I'ork city, in the Pheonix hotel at
6:30 o'clock this afternoon. Livingston was
standing at the news and cigar stand read
ing an afternoon paper when Desha Breck
inridge came in and bought a package of
cigarettes. Livingston spoke to Desha and
extended his hand, saying:
"It is all over now; we ought to be
friends. Shake hands.”
Breckinridge with an angry look on his
face, replied:
"No, you one-horse scoundrel, I will not'
take your hand. You profess to be a man’s
friend and then stab him in the back.”
Livingston replied to this by saying he
had done nothing of the kind, when
Breckinridge called him a d —d liar.
Then Livingston struck at Desha and
knoc’wd his glasses off, following this up
with a blow on the neck. Desha reached in
iiis hip packet ami instantly Hashed in the
air tiie long, bright blade of a big dirk.
Datil men were a« pale as death. Living
ston, in a moment of despt ration, grabbed
at the giitte-fiirg blade which Breckinridge
bad aimed at his heart. The knife went
between tiie second and third fingers of
Livingston's right hand, cutting the third
linger to tiie bone. The cold steel sent a
shudder through Livingston’s frame and lie
grasped fits right hand with his left in or
der to slop the terrible flow ot blood that
was dyeing the tiling of tne lobby.
Two witnesses say that. Lane
also flourished a big Knife, but
Lane denies this.
Livingston was hurried into the wash
room where his wounds were bathed and he
was then taken to the office of a physician,
where his hand was dressed. A friend th: n
took livings ton home in a buggy, and
Desha Breckinridge went to his rooms
across the street.
K R«»»» with JiiUkc K iaU.i-inl.
Just before the trouble occurred with
Livingston, Desha and Lane, whu were
walking up Main street in front of the
I‘r<*< kinriuge headquarters, met Judge
George D. Kinkhuad, .who made several
speeches during the campaign, denouncing
Colonel Br-cklnridge in the most scathing
terms. Desha Breckinridge said to Judge
Kinkheud that the election was over and
lie wanted to tell him that he was a d—d
liar. He also applied several other vile
epithets to the judge, who replied that he
was unarmed and did nut want to have any
ditliculty in the ojien street. Deshu io! I
him to go ui>d arm himself and lie w’uuid
meet him anywhere or at any time. He re
peated this several times.
Then Lane, who is a comparatively
stronger here, having recently come to
aucxington from Mt. Btening, said, address
ing the judge:
‘Bo this is Judge Kinkhead, is it? When
you sajd that decent people would not en
tertain Colonel Breckinridge, you lied. Aly
sister tnteriained him in Woodford county,
and I say to you that you arc a.”
Judj.e Kinkh*ad again said that lie want
ed no trouble on the street, and that he
was not armed, when I.ane threw his < out
oil’ and sai 1 that he was not armed either,
and then repeated tiie language
had previously usod to the judge. Jtflge
Kinkhead then walked on out tiie street
Guards his home. When seen by your
corresj.undent, Lane said:
"Yes, I t ailed him a , and I will
TAKE STEPS
Jr time, if you are a suf-
Rier from that “course a jh jt- I, *L
<., humanity known as vP/tL
constr.nntion, and you
can be cuted. There is <
th” nidence of
hmmrcds oi bv
im. "itr.-s.s
the fact that, . Tp
all its earlyEfflwJx' /
stage ■. ooti-’X!np-*y'/7
tion is a curable y- / J
cv< ry case, but a I Lr'** Vjsl
fitilv Q'i per cent, are t \ 's9.
cured by Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Dis
covery, even aft«*r the disease lias pro
gressed so far as to induce repeated bleed
ings from the lungs, severe lingering cough
with copious expectoration liucludinff tu
bercular matter), great loss of liesh anti ex
treme emaciation and weakness.
Do yeti doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported tons as cured by “ Golden Med
ical Discovery ’ were genuine casts of that
dread and fatal disease ? You m »«t ta ke
cur voi d for it. They have, in nearly every
instance, been so pronounced by tfee.bcst
and must experienced home physicians,
who have no interest whatever in mis
representing them, and who were often
strougiv prejudiced and advised against
a trial of “Golden Medical Discovery,”
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses, in curative power over this
fatal WL’lady. all other m-dicines with
which the* are acquainted. Nasty ccd
liver oil and its fildiv “emulsions” and
mixtures, bad b< eu tried in nearly all these
case-, and had either utterly failed to bene
fit.. or bed only seemed to benefit a little lor
a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations of the hypo
phosphites Lad also been faithfully tried
in vain.
The photographs of a large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catsrrh and kindred r.ialauir , have been
tkillfull* reoroduced in book of 160
p.v.-es which will be mailed to you, on
reccint of address and six cents it*
stamps. You can then write to those who
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perience.
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Meuicii. Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
fight him any way he wants to fight, and 1
what is more, if any of his friends want to :
take it up, I will fight them, too.” ‘
By this time a number of strong Owens ,
men, at least one of whom has already ;
killed Ills man, began to crowd into the <
lobby cf the hotel. One of Colonel Breck- 1
inridge’s friends, fearing that there would ’
be trouble with Lane, got J. Breckinridge
Villey, a strong Breckinridge supporter, to
go in and persuade Lane to leave the hotel. 1
At first Lane declined to go, but after tak
ing a drink with Villey, he listened to th®
latter’s advice and went home.
Judge Kinkhead is a great-grandson of
Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Ken
tucky, and is a first cousin of John T. Shel
by, Colonel Breckinridge’s law partner,
who Slapped Attorney Johnson In the face
during the famous Pollard trial. Judge
Kinkhead is about forty-two years of age.
He has always been considered a man of
the highest physical courage, and every
body expects th<t more blood will be shod
before this trouble is over.
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IN THE LABOR V, VISLD.
Boston Clot’ilng Makoia jo on » Strike
Against »v.calr.-s.
Boston, September 20.—The ready-made
clothing industry of this city was complete
ly paralyzed today by a strike of operatives.
At an early hour this morning a committee
from the United Garment Workers’ Union,
acting upon the instructions from the cloth
ing trades district council. No. 2, cainm-r.c
ed the war by calling out every operative,
pressman and baster employed in the shops
here. By noon 2.0 O) were out and at the
close of the day 5,500 clothing workers had
joined the strike. The issue of the strike
is now clearly defined as bving an endeavor
to secure the abolition of the lumping and
sweating system and the adoption of ths
weekly wage system and the nine-hour day.
Although the contractors favor the de
mands of the operatives, they claim that
as the wholesalers decline to grant any
thing their hands are tied. Both contrac
tors and manufacturers are surprised at t«»
completeness of the strike. It was expect
ed by the trades council that in some
shops a few operators would refuse to come
out, but the doubtful ones were among
the first to leave, and today it is confi
dently asserted that not a contractor within
a circuit ot five miles can obtain an opera- I
•tor.
The strikers held a monster mass meeting i
in Well’s Aietnori.il hall this afternoon and
it was tiie sentiment of the meeting that
no one should return to work under old
contracts. This evening the Clothing Trades
District Council are drawing up agreements I
for the signatures of individual contractors, I
who have pledged themselves to accede to
the demands of their employes and who will
also give bunds that they will abide by the
agreemen..
The general consensus of opinion is that
the operators have struck just at the right
time, and the manufacturers will have to
increase their prices fully 40 per cent.
Willi tae Deaver*.
Fall River, Mass., September 20.—The
weavers’ union held a large meeting this
morning and voted to grant one-half a
week's pay to ujl financial members. Sec
retary Whitehead says the amount of
money that will be given out will be about
$3,50U. The union bus 113,000 in its treas
ury. The idle weavers in and out ot the
union are c/ainuring tor assistance ana
lhe savings tniriKS report that the with
drawals are three times in excess of tne
deposits. The feeueonnet null is running m
fun today and tne DurP*t nnfl reports a
large gain in weavers. Tne weavers' union
will make another attempt this week to
induce the Seaconnet help to leave their
work.
Another Strike Probable.
Little Rock, Ark., September 20.—As the
last smoke of the recent railroad strike
died awuy another ominous cloud appears
, in the horizon, which may yet hr ak with
scarce 1.-ss fury than did the troubles ot
last July, involving tne state, possibly tne
country, in another labor war. falnee Satur
day lhe Alissouri Pacific is said to have
d!sohui; e(l fourteen tiremen and six en
gine, rs at this end of the line and eight or
ten firemen at Van Buren on the charge of.
be:ng iinnli. aled in the strike or expressing
sympathy with it. There are said to be
1 twe.ity-fi -e more names on the list of men
to be decapitated ;*oon.
Th<- major:ty of these men refused to
go out in the strike, but some of them
1 casually expressed sympathy with the
strikers and for this reason are being de
capitated.
i The railroad men are very much exer
cised over the action of the company and it
is stated on good authority that the
! Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and
Locomotive Engineers have issued an ul
timatum to tiie effect that unless the com-
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Heptember 26th a general strike wiil oe de
clared. An ex-railroad man told a reports r
this afternoon that a list of 125 names was
taken to the headquarters at St. Louis last
Alonday and that all .of them will be dis
charged. Most of them run on the Fort
Smith branch. Several Little Rock fire
men have laid their grievances before the
firemen’s convention now in session at
Harrisburg, ari l some action may be tak n
upotj t’ae matter there. It has been learned
later that five more firemen were dismissed
today.
General Lo£.nn’* Plater Suicides.
Murfreesboro, 111., September 16. —Mrs.
D. A. Rogers, the sister or General John A.
Logan, who attempted suicide by taking
morphine here last Wednesday, died heue
last night. Her weakened system and dis
tressed mind could not be rallied. Mrs.
Rogers for several years managed the Lo
gan house, the chief hostelry of the town.
I*<er last huslkand. W. S. Rogers, now di
vorced. was a member of the famous 103
of the thirty-fourth Illinois legislature,
which, on May 19. ISSS, elected General Lo
gan to the United States senate and shaped
his course for the vice presidency. Mrs.
Rogers saw her property gradually d’s
appear and this- caused despondency and
resulted in suicide.
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