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INDICTMENT AGAINST
MRS.LORENZ
‘ Indictment Also Returned Against
George F. Lorenz —The Evi
dence Showed That Lo
renz and His Wife Acted
as Go-Betweens.
Washington, June 22.-The grand jury
which has been investigating postal as
■ fairs today returned an indictment
against August W. Machen, Diller B.
Gross, Samuel A. Gross, George F. Lo
renz and Martha J. Lorenz, the two lat
ter being residents of Toledo, Ohio. As
previously stated in these dispatches the
■specific charge is conspiracy to defraud
the government. The indictment is based
on section 5.440 of the revised statutes,
which provides a penalty of SIO,OOO, or
two years’ imprisonment, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
It was said by Assistant* District At
‘ torney Taggart today that the indict
ment was found against Mr. and Mrs.
by reason of the fact that the
evidence adduced before the grand jury
showed them to be the go-between for
the Groffs and Machen.
There are twelve counts to the indict
ment, eleven of which are substantially
the same as those found previously
against Machen and the Groffs. The first
count of the present indictment, which
relates to the conspiracy charge, sets
forth that on July 29, 1900, in the District
of Columbia, Lorenz, Mis. Lorenz. Ma
chen and the Gross brothers, “conspired,
combined, confederated and agreed to de
fraud the United States government of
its moneys," by the following arrange
ment. Machen should advise and rec
ommend to the first assistant postmaster
general the purchase from the Gross
brothers of a large number of the Grolf
t'as'< ners for mail boxes at $1.25 cacti,
and should procure payment thereof,
upon which the Gross brothers should
retain GO per cent of such payment, or
*5 cents for each fastener, and the Gross
brothers should then pay to Mr. and
Mrs. Lorenz, either or both, the remain
ing 40 per cent, which was to be "eon
v. rt.-d. appropriated and applied to (be
use" of Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz and Ma
chen The indictment says that this
agreement was carried out by Machen
on Jur.'' 30. recommending the purchase
~<• G.eoo of the fasteners at the price
mentioned: that the Gross brothers, on
tin same date, presented a bill for these
fasteners at the price mentioned:
test on September 13 of the same year
Machen recommended to the first assist
n ■; postmaster general the payment of
■l,at bill: and that the Gross brothers
Living thereafter, and on September 2"
of that year, received from the. United
States $7,500 in payment of the bill."
Diller R. Gross, on October 20. same year,
'■aid $3,000 to George E. and Martha J.
Lorenz.
Lorenz and Wife Arrested.
Toledo. Ohio. June 24.—George T. Lorenz
and his wife. Martha, who were indict
ed by the federal grand Jury at Washing
ton a pew days ago in connection with
the scandal in the postoffice department,
were arrested at their home at Madison
avenue here this morning at 8 o'clock
by Deputy Cnited States Marshal Win
ders. They wore taken before United
States Comrpissionor Bropgh, where their
attorney, John F Kumler. demanded the
right to a preliminary hearing. This lias
been set for 2 o’clock tomorrow after
noon out it is not believed that the fed
eral authorities will bo ready for a hear
ing at jh: t lime and the case will prob
ably be continued to a later date. Mr.
and Mrs Txirenz each gave bond In the
sum of $5,000
Loud Charged with Complicity.
Washington. June 22. The Post tomor
row will say that among the matters
whi h Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Bristow is investigating is the pur
chase from a California company, the
Postal Device and improvement Company,
of some 17.000 devices for indicating tlio
hours of collection of mail. The invention
is that of the postmaster at San Fran
cisco, it is said.
Tito company controlling the device was
largely made, up of California postal ■ m
plcyees' and The Post will say that It is
inform'd that former Rejiresentative
Loud, formerly chairman of the house
postoffice committee, took an active part
in their behalf and wrote several let
ters urging the device in the department,
and in one of them said it would be an
accommodation to him. if the matter were
attended to.
After the company had difficulty In
securing its money for the device, Mr.
Loud, The Post will say. appeared at. the
department in its behalf, but specifically
disclaimed any interest in the company
other than that it was composed of his
constituents. He took the ground that
whether the necessity or lack of neces
sity for the device, constituents of his had
secured the contract and furnished the
articles called for. Therefore, he believe !
they should be paid, as the government
had stipulated to pay 'hem.
During his recent visit t > Washington,
Mr. Loud, on certain of his visits to the
department, took up some of these unpaid
bills, making it plain, however, that he
appeared only in behalf of his constitu
ents and not as one financially interest
ed in the company.
Grafting Done in Seed Bureau?
Washington. June 23.. Preliminary steps
are being taken forth? hearing j,y the
court of claims of the suit brought
against the government by th? legal repre
sentatives of Arthur C. Nellis of New
Turk, for payment of SIB,OOO, claimed to be
due him for furnishing seeds to the de
partment of agriculture during a recent
fiscal year Nellis was the contractor for
furnishing the so. ds for which congress
appropriated slvs.S74. but the sum of $lB,-
OW was withheld by the department be
cause of the alleged failure of the con
tractoi to carry out the terms of his con
tract tn the satisfaction of the officials.
The officials were not satisfied that all
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A large share of the evils and sufferings
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From the girl entering womanhood to the
woman who arrives at the Grand Climac
teric or "Change of life,” there are trou
bles, ailments and irregularities—too of
ten borne in silence —which undermine
the health and result in disease. Where
s: h i auditions exist. Heaven help the
sufferers to fully realize their perils
and dangers!
It is well known that ordinarily medi
cal treatment too often fails to build up
th" delicate nervous system of woman,
and give necessary tone and strength to
seeds contracted for were received by the
department and after an Inquiry, conduct
ed by Beverly T. Galloway, the depart
ment decided to withhold the final pay
ment. Nellis atdsmjited to have the paper
bags in which the seeds were inclosed
made in Washington by a machine in
which an official of the agricultural de
partment is said to hqye invested some
money, but the scheme proved a failure
and he was compeJl»d to go to New York
and have the work done there, this neces
sarily causing some delay in the distribu
tion of the seeds.
Fraud Alleged in Land Office.
Washington, June 26.—(Special.)—Scan
dals in the government service are not
confined to the postoffice department. Gi
gantic frauds have developed in the land
office in connection with the Indian T r
ritcry and Oklahoma land allotments and
in the enrollment of tribesmen for in
dividual allotments preparatory to the
breaking up of tribes. Because he wants
to get at the unvarnished facts with the
same promptness which has character
ised the work of First Assistant Post
master General Wynne in the postoffice
investigation President Roosevelt has
again looked to a newspaper man to run
down the scandals in Oklahoma. He nas
commissioned Francis E. Leupp, a news
paper correspondent of Washington and
his close personal friend for many years,
to make a thorough investigation of the
Comanche, Apache and Kiowa Indian
leservaticns, the result of which will be
compiled in a confidential report for sub
mission to the president. Mr. Leutip
leaves early next month on tills mission.
Secretary Hitchcock lias recently re
turned from a I rip to Indian Territory
and Oklahoma. While away the secre
tary heard many rumors of scandal re
garding the allotment of lands. The situa
tion there was a revelation in that he had
I ridej himself on the fact that the in
terior department, through its large
corps of inspectors, was at all times
"next" io conditions in both these ter
ritories. When tlie president got an ink
ling of tlie scandals he told Secretary
Hitchcock what he has already drilled
into Postmaster General Payne's offlc'al
bend: “Get at the facts," regardless <ff
the consequences. But that lie might be
.sure of having his orders carried out.
tile president has himself commissioned a
man to run down the rascality.
Mr. Smith’s Statement - .
Washington. June 26.—Former Postmas
t< r General Claries Emory Smtih has ad
dressed a letter to Postmaster General
Payne in regard to tlie report of General
Bristow on tlie Tulloch charges.
Mr. Smith says in part:
"I wisli to accept the largest measure
or responsibility which belongs to me in
connection witli all these matters, but it
seems due to fairness to state certain
facts. The war against Spam, declared
three or four days later, was dated bac.t
to April 21. IS'IS. That, was the very day
on which I was sworn in as postmaster
general. My first duty, before even fa
miliarizing mvself with the department,
was to make immediate provision for
the letters of the scattered army of 250.060
men which was promptly raised, follow' d
by provision for the full mail of the
islands. The administration had been in
stalled for more th.in a year. The depart
ment force had been organized, and. of
course, it was properly accepted as ’t
was found. When the immediate duty in
hand wis taken up. it was discovered,
< uriously enough. Ajat there were abso
lutely' no records the military postal
sc: vice in the civil war. There were no
known precedents. We had nothing to
guide us. Wt had to make our own plans
The determination of tlie general plan
.nd policy devolved on th postmaster
general. The execution of the details de
volved on th-' first assistant's bureau. We
bad at first no special appropriation ami
s> had to meet the requirements out _>f
the regular appropriation. Afterwards
v hen th*' special appropriation became
available we had to recoup the gem rul
appropriation in order that the regin .r
service might not suffer. These tilings
were effected in part through th:- Wash
ington office, and orders were given which
subordinate officials neither did nor w< r ■
required to understand, and out of it Ims
grown .1 vast deal of unnecessary ml.--
understanding."
The Tyner Cases Considered.
The grand jury which has been con
sidering the postoffice cases presented by
the investigating officials hold a brief
session today, examined several unim
portant witnesses and adjouurned until
Monday. What is known as the Tyner
ease, involving tlie abstraction of papers
by Mrs. Tyner from the safe in tlie office
of the assistant attorney general for tic*
-totfi. d( p.irtmcnt, probably will be
p iced before tlie grand jury early next,
week. Although two indictments already
have been returned against August W.
.Machen, the former genera,l superinten
dent of the free delivery system, addi
tional evidence is lining put into shape
for submission to the grand jury ill"
case <>f alleged forgery which postoffi .' •
inspectors have been looking into in con
nection with other charges brought
against Mar-lien will not lie pressed, tin
< viilence being conclusive and th< alleged
i.fft'nsc being by th" statute of limitation
closed.
Roosevelt Will Stick to Payne.
"The president has absolute confidence
in Postmaster General Payne atid lias n<>
thought that he will leave the cabinet,"
said Senator Hanna today after an ex
tended visit to the white house. He added:
"The president, is satisfied with the
work Mr. Payne is doing and appreciates
liis integrity and executive ability. Mr.
Payne lias no thought of resigning, but
if he did. his resignation would not be
I- '. pted by the president."
puna *; iianna said it w is ui.fortunat"
that Mr Payne's health wis so poor and
that h< could not go away and recuperate
because his presence is needed in Wash
ington at this time.
Assistant Attorney Genera; Robb, of the
post ifiice department. today submitted to
First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne, a decision in the money order con
tract case which holds that the bid of
Pam Herman, of New York, who sub
mitted a bid $15,000 below that, of the
present eontrhetors. meets the require
ments of law and that he is therefore en
titled to receive the contract.
This is the case which led to the recent
dismissal of S:iperinteTidr-.it Met. .tlf, of
tile money order dopartmi ,:t. The pres
ent division has a considerable bearing on
.Mr. Metcalf's appeal for rehearing now
pending before the president. Mr. Met
cid opposed acceptance of tlie Herman
bid. Mt. Robb' holds that the award of
the contract to any other than the low
est bidder in this case would be in contr.a
venti 11 of the Interests of the government
ami against sound public poiici Ho says
that the lowest, bidder has furnished sat
isfactory evidence of his financial respon
sibility and of hi. mechanical ability.
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have taken a great deal of medicine dur
ing the last ten years, but none of them
of such value as Paine's Celery Com
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for the nerves and the troubles from
which women suffer so much that J ever
used."
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONt ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JUNE 29, 1903
RUN THE RASCALS TO
EARTH, COMMANDS
ROOSEVELT,
Clarkson, and Others Fear the Effect
on the Party, but It Is Said the
President Is Resolved To
Uncover All Rascality.
End Not Ln Sight.
Washington. June 23—(Special.)—"Get
at the facts; I'll be responsible for •'..0
consequences. Tlie postoffice department
has got to be cleaned up an 1 cleaned at
once."
This is the emphatic order that has
gone forth from the white house to
Postmaster General Payne, and that of
ficer now sedtns to realize that the pres
ident. will tolerate no half hearted in
vestigation. So intense lias become the
situation as regards the postoffice scan
dals that no official of the administra
tion. however high up lie may be. feels
competent to predict wiiere the inves
tigation will end or what more startling
.sensations it will bring forth At the de
partment tlie excitement, among the em
ployees is on the increase and pervades
every branch. Tills is regarded as a
bad sign and every postoffice Inspector
in the employment of Hie government is
working over hours here artfl* in other
parts of the country. Now that Hie in
vestigation has begun the president de
clares that the accounts of every post
office. in Hie country shall be gone
through before this investigation stops.
A large force of inspectors lias been dis
patched to New York and they already
have facts in hand which indicate that
New York will prove almost as fertile a
field for scandal as is the department
here. Indeed, it is believed that New
York politicians of prominence will be
seriously implicated in the scandals. And
still the president says, "Keep it up."
General James Clarkson, who has a
way of coming to Washington to advise
tlie president whenever an ugly ques
tion such as negro appointments it: the
south or scandals in the government
service is up, got a severe turn down
at the white house Saturday. Hearing
the rumble of thunder over in New York,
General Clarkson came on to Washing!' n
to warn the administration of the sad
political effects that would follow an up
turning of -affairs in tlie New York post
office. He first saw tlie postmaster gen
eral and endeavored to discuss the ques
tion from Hie standpoint of political ex
pediency. The postmaster general had
alicady gone aground on the same argu
ment and he advised tlie general in these
words:
"You had better not talk that way at
the white house. The president won't
stand for it."
Clarkson and Platt Rebuffed.
Be he had the party's Interests
so keenly at heart, however, the general
thought he could present the matter to
the president in a light, that would ap
peal to him. S ' lie came to the white
homo armed with a lot of talk about
the i ritii .il situation in New York poli
ti s. Before he had a chance to ask
the president to let up a bit, he was
informed that the postoffice investiga
tion was not being conducted to boost
the lepul.l: .ins. but in the interest of
chan gov • rnment. General Clarkson lett
the white house without further ado.
Senator "Toni” Platt, of New York, is
another who has oeen made aware of
the president’s determination in the mat
ter. The senator came over the other
night to look over the ground. JR had
a talk with the postmaster general Fri
day night and told him that the stirring
up of trouble in the New York post
office was certain to cause the party
lots of trouble. Mr. Payne and Senator
Platt are old friends in the business of
polities and he gave the New York sen
ator a bit of advice which had its effect
next day when the president and the
senator lunched together. After the
luncheon it was announced that "post
office matters were not discussed." This
proved disappointing news to the New
York postoffice officials, especially Post
master Van Cott, whose son is sail to be
badly implicated in the scandals there.
There is no doubt tell here that. "Tom"
Platt's mission to Washington was lor
the sole purpose of doing wnal lie could
to call off the postofficu Inspectors that
are now swarming on the trail of cer
tain persons in the New York office.
Only Postmaster General Payne's timely
word of advice saved the senator from
an interesting scene with the presi
dent.
Postmaster General Payne's position is
one of increasing embarrassment. In
deed, his closest friends admit that the
situation looks bad for him. When the
Tulloch charges were first, made Mr.
Payne gave an interview to a dozen
newspaper men at the postoffice depart
ment, in which he declared the Tulloch
charges were so much "hot air" and had
no more weight than a "stump speech."
The forthcoming report of Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General Bristow, who
is in charge of the Investigation, is said
to sustain practically every one of the
Tulloch charges. The postmaster gen
eral informed the president of this fact
yesterday afternoon at ». conference. The
president, while regretting to place Mr.
Payne in an awkward position, feels that,
the Bristow report should bo made pub
lic. and he has so ordered. Mr. Payne
will,, therefore, have, to indorse a report
confirming the charges which he only a
short while ago declared to bo "hot. air."
Will Mr. Payne resign? Will he not
find that he can be of more assistance
to the president, as western manager of
the presidential campaign than as a
cabinet officer? These questions are be
ing asked by officials of the administra
tion and they are not getting very quick
or definite answers.
Payne Has Bungled.
There is no getting around the fact
that Mr. Payne has bungled the. inves
tigation from the beginning. When the
president returned from the west he
found things going in a very unsatisfac
tory way despite the emphatic orders he
had telegraphed from various points in
bis tour that the investigation was to
be pushed with vigor, and the fact that
the entire postal service is undergoing a
thorough inspection is tlie result of the
personal concern Hie president has shown
since his return. Mr. Payne started out
by making light of the charges that
there was any scandal in the depart
ment. Although startling revelations had
been made while the first assistant post
master general, Mr. Wynne, was acting
in Mr. Payne's absence in the West
Indies last winter, Mr. Payne upon his
return declared that the newspaper had
kicked up too much of a racket and he
proposed that the investigation should
continue quietly. He persistently laugh
ed at the charges that his department
was in a rotten state of corruption. He
argued with the newspaper men in a
levltous vein that they were making a
mountain out of .a mole hill and that
there was no fire despite the smoke Mr.
Wynne had stirred up.
But when Mr. Bristow, whose faculty
for hounding down scandals and scoun
drels was manifested in the Cuban postal
frauds, took up the investigation he
straightway made trouble for the post
master general. Henry Cabot Lodge,
senator from Massachusetts and all round
policeman for the white house, was an
other disturbing factor. He asked tlie
postmaster general months ago to re
move Machen and put in a Massachu
setts man. The postmaster general did
not see it that way. And Lodge, who is
ever on the hunt for political plums, de
termined to make it hot for Payne.
MANY UNCERTAINTIES SURROUND
OUTLOOK FOR COTTON CROP
WHEREVER three or more south
ern business men are found gath
ered together these days it Is a
pretty safe bet that the tuple they are
discussing is the peculiar condition under
which the new cotton crop w m be usher
ed Into the market. There Is no othof
subject, quite so close to the heart of the
southern business niun, and naturally, for
there can bo no overestimate of the im
portance of the relationship between the
cotton crop and southern prosperity. Each
year adds to the extent and tho Im
portance of this relationship, it is not
only the cotton grower and the cotton
buyer who now feels the effect of cotton
changes, but since the southern states
become In so great a degree the
jeene of the manufacture of cotton yarns
and cotton goods of all kinds thousands
of mill owners, mill operatives and others
diifctly depending upon these have a
vital interest not onlj' in the size of the
crop and the price of the staple, but m
all tlie conditions which enter into the
marketing of the crop.
Probably never before have there been
conditions similar to th ,se now prevail
ing; certainly there lias been nothing like
it in recent years. Tills is true not only
with regard to tlie present high price tor
spot cotton and for the future delivery in
tlie early months during which the new
crop will be brought to market, but it is
especially true of the conditions which
face the manufacturers of cotton goods.
With the visible supply of the present
ci op at a minimum which for practical
purposes means nothing at all, mills in
al, parts of the countr; have found it
necessary to shut down. Advices have
been received indicating the probability
that 500,000 spindles will be shut down in
Hie Fall River district during the coming
week. Tlie same story is told on all
sides. At the present high price of cot
ton the mills cannot buy tor the purposes
of manufacture, as that would mean, .it
tlie present and prospvtive prices for
their fabrics, a direct 10-s. Many milling
companies which have had otton in stock
have found that tlie onl;, practical thing
to do was to shut down their mills and
sell their cotton to H.o .vlio are willing
to pay apparently exorbitant prices in
order to till their contracts. These shut
down necessarily enta:i much hardship
upon the operatives, who are thus de
prived of the opportuni. fir work, upon
those directly dependent upon them, upon
these with whom the; must trade-in
fact upon entire communities; but no
lilame can attach to tin- mill owners for
conditions which are in no sense tlielr
making.
The cotton year covci < the period be
ginning with the Ist of September and
ending the 31st of the following August.
While a considerable p rtion of the. new
crop is marketed during the August pre
ceding, the records are all made from
the Ist of September. This new cotton,
under normal conditions, figures in the
visible supply of the old crop and con
tributes to the making up of the sur
plus which is carried ov>•: into the new
This year the conditions are such that
the new crop is very b' ekward. Uom
missioner of Agri, iltur" Stevens esti
mates that for the country at. large tlie
crop can be said to be i\ “ty days late.
It is, of course, worse in some sections
than in others. The mos - conservative
cotton men sa\ it is sure o be two or
three weeks lat- mu' jr tri" most favor
able Conditions that ■ a prevail during
the coming two months With this nec
essary delay in the bringing in of any
considerable portion of new cotton anti
with the fact that there Is practical!;-
nothing of the old crop lef'. the usual
surplus carrier! over from one season
into the next lias been wiped away. Inis
runs as a rule from five hundred bales
to a million and more.
Eor all practical purposes, therefore,
there will bo absolutely no surplus car
ried over this year There is a steady
increase in the amount of cotton con
sumed by the mills of the world, that
having now reached something like elei
en million bales.
The demand for itton goods In all
parts of the world is increasing. New
markets are being opened up each year,
cotton fabrics enter more and more into
the daily use of the people. The de
mand is steadily. certainly growing
greater with each pa. sing season.
Is there a eorresp-nding increase in
the. supply’ Comniiss.oner Stevens es
timates show an inert.ised acreage tins
veai of about 3 per cent. but. tins he
thinks has been full' b - v ,he
grasses and weeds t ' t have sprung tip
to retard the growth of the staple as
the result of the gr "hed weather con
ditions which have ic-vailed this spring
and early summer. The greater chance
of increase of tlie. crop in this state is
that it may com" from the increase in
the amount of fertilizers used, the extent
of which it is diffi ult. to estimate; bqX
even here it is cont .led that this in
crease in fertilizer c "• umptiun may be
offset by the fact that it is impossible
to get as good results from fertilizers
in weather of tlie lend that lias been
prevailing as in the more balmy weather
which is i?ssential t the making of a
normal cron.
All of these consid' Miens conspire to
the uncertainty which must necessarily
prevail with regard to the new crop.
There ar , in tact, uncertainties at every
turn. Is it possible, with highly tavor
able weather conditio; 1 prevailing from
now to \ugust, to "ff"M the present
handicaps? One ma: wlio knows al!
about cotton will tell vou that it is not
possible to make a m-ximtim crop un
less conditions have been favorabte from
the earlv spring, while another is posi
tive that even with the present handicaps
it is possible to still make a full crop.
With regard to prices, no man can say.
The south is always bullish when con
sidering the cotton outlook. The con
ditions this year certainly seem to augur
high prices even should every condition
from now be as favorable as can be
hoped. Cotton mill men say they cannot
run the mills at a profit with cotton
bringing more than 7 cents a pound, but
the increased cost of the raw material
must necessarily in time bring a rela
tive Increase in the return for the man
ufactured product. However that may
be—and it would seem to be a question
calculated in itself to bring on more bilk
—there is no 7-cent cotton in sight. Cer
tainly there is nothing in the present
prices for cotton futures that can be re
garded as presaging a- slump back to
the old prices of a fejy years past.
Perhaps a comparison of the present
prices with those of the past few years
will be pertinent to this discussion. '1 he
following table shows the highest prices
on futures for the early months of tlie
new crop during the past five years:
Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
3d week in June, 1393.. .6.26 6.24 6.22 6.24
3d week in June, 15'.i9...5.61 5.66 5.69 5.74
3d week in June, 1900...8.86 5.,0 8.54 8.53
3d we.-k in June, 19*6...7.80 7.71 7.67 7.70
3d week in June, 1902...8.05 8.07 7.94 7.95
3d week in June, 1903..11.95 10.51 10.10 10.03
When it comes to discussion of the
size of the crap or of 1 rices, there must
therefore, be much uncertainty. Each in
dividual expert lias his own theory and
his own proof with which to demon
strate that he is right.
It is certainly conceivable that, the eea-
■on might be further noted for unfa
vorable conditions to such a degree that
the price would soar up toward 20 cents.
Poselbie, because all things are possible,
hut, of course, not probable' But can it,
in any event, be very low? Suppose there
would be such a combination of favor
able conditions durinjt the rest of the
summer that the total crop would ex
ceed anything the south has yet made
reaching, say. a total of 11,500,000 bales.
Would tho price, even in the face of that
crop, be low in view of the constantly
increasing demand and of the lack of
surplus to go over from this year?
Who can tell the answers to all these
questions, so full of Interest to the en
tire south? One man's prediction is about
as good a u that of another. The only
certain thing about the cotton outlook
at this time, as it has been so many
times in the past, is its superlative un
certainty.
State Senator Davis, of Burke county,
was talking cotton witli Commissioner
Stevens and a congenial party at the de
partment of agriculture yesterday. "In
all my experience," said he. "I never
found but one man who was a real philos
opher when it came to cotton. 1 met him
a few years ago during a season when the
bears were having things all their own
way. hammering the price of cotton down
and down, to the intense consternation of
every fellow in Ute south who was indulg
ing in tlio expensive luxury of contracts
for the future delivery of cotton, and
there were lots of them Os course, every
southerner was certain that cotton was
going to bring a high price; we always
feel that way. 1 was solicitor general at
the time and my duties took me to Au
gusta. One evening after we had ad
journed court. Judge Roger Gamble, who
was presiding, and I dropped into tho
Commercial Club on our way from the
court. \Ve had heard no news from the
market during the day, not being particu
larly interested, so as we went in Judge
Gamble asked whether any of the gen
tlement in the group we joined had heard
from the cotton market. The day before,
ft seems, there iiad been a slump of 46
points, and of this particular day there
bad been a further fall of 63 points. As
soon as the question was asked we saw
by the crestfallen expressions that everj
fellow in tlie crowd was on the wrong side
of the market, but they were game and,
in the discussion which followed, each
fellow came to to front with his pre
diction that cotton was "all right, that
‘they could not keep it down' however
hard tlie bears might try, and so on. You
know the way it goes.
"During all this talk I noticed a gen
tleman, with stinbrowncd skin that indi
cated an out-of-door life °f some kind,
who could hardly keep still in his chair.
He fidgeted about and once or twice half
rose. Finally, after Senator Fat Walsh
had delivered himself of a most eloquent
and optimistic prediction about the im
mediate rise In the price which might be
expected, this gentleman could stand it
no longer. 'This talk is all right, gentle
men,' said lie. with vigor, 'all right so far
as it goes but there's one thing you have
all fail'd to take into consideration.
Whenever you predict about, cotton you
will do well to remember that cotton is
•I 4 fool!’ ,
“And h.-.- added Senator Davis. was
the only real philosopher on the subject
of cotton that I ever met.”
SILVER CORNER’ IS SMASHED.
Brokers Planned Huge Rake Off
front the Pius Award.
Washington. June 27.- The state depart
ment. through Judge Penfield, the solic
itor, by an adroit movement, has
broken what appeared to be a corner in
the silver market.
When the Mexican government recently
deposited $1,423,000 Mexican money
in the Bank of Mexico. sub
ject to the drafts of the
I'nlted States, in payment of the Pius
award, the state department was con
fronted with tlie necessity of turning tlie
money into United States cash and depos
iting U- here. For some time silver brokers
had been watching the negotiations and
when they were applied to the state de
partment was inuirmed it would cost
about $40,000 United States money to con
vert tlie fund and transfer it as desired,
rius was regarded as exorbitant, charge
but no beltia; and no other bid was of
fered.
Finally Judge Penfield hit upon the plan
of turning this Mexican silver Into Fili
pino money. Director Roberts, of the mint
bureau, who has been buying bullion for
the Philippin" account, has been confront
ed with a strongly rising silver market
and something very like a corner in that
commodity. He, therefore, readily adopt
ed Judge Penfield’s offer of a big lot of
Mexican silver and closed an agreement
by which at an expense of less thon $42,-
000 the amount of the Pius award can be
placed in the hands of the Catholic
church, th? beneficiary of the award, and
the 70 tons of silver can be transferred
to the United States mints.
DOOMED TO GALLOWS,
HE MURDERS PRISONERS
Hot Springs, Ark., June 27. —Jim Dough
erty. condemned to die August 14 for the
murder of Chief of Detectives Jack Don
ahue here on Christmas day last, today
deliberately assaulted and killed with a
razor Roger Williams, a fellow prisoner
in the county jail and the leader of the
men arrested on the charge of perpetrat
ing foot race swindles.
A mob of 500 people gathered at the jail
tonight and wnne the sheriff was plead
ing with the people to jet the law take
ns course a leniaie prisoner in the cor
ridor called out through the. window that
Dougherty liad cut his throat. The sheriff
qilieKly investigated and found that the
murderer had taken the steel ends of his
shoestrings, flattened them out and made
a 2-inch incision on each side of the
throat, causing death. I'lie mob was al
lowed to view the remains and quietly
and quickly dispersed.
Williams' remains will be shipped t<>
I.ouisviile tomorrow.
TRAIN ROBBER BREAKS JAIL.
Logan Forced Jailer To Open Door a'.
Pistol's Point.
Knoxville. Tenn., June 27.—Harvey Lo
gan, the Montana train robber, under
sentence of twenty years, escaped from
the Knox county jail this afternoon at a
o'clock.
While his guard's back was turned Lo
gan threw a wire over his head and
lassoed him, tying him tight to the bars
of his cage. Having one entire lloor of
the jail to himself, Logan next secured
two pistols placed in the corridor of the
Jail for use by officers if needed.
When Jailer Bel] appeared in answer
to a knock from Logan, the prisoner
passed out a bottle saying he wanted
some medicine. As the jailer put out his
hand Logan covered him with a pistol,
forced him to unlock the door and take
him to the basement of the jail.
Then lie forced Bell to take him to
the sheriff's stable and saddle the sher
iff's horse. This done, Logan mounted
and rode away in the direction of the
mountains. A posse started In pursuit of
the desperado within one hour.
Sheriff J. W. Fox tonight offered a re
ward of SSOO for the capture of Logan,
dead or alive.
His Hands Were Cold.
New York Herald: Orville Nervuss—
Stop rubbing your hands like uiat. The
weather’s not cold.
Sammy Shivvers—Welj, I'm not warmin’
the weather; I’m warmin’ me hands.
’ 1 Here is a bright boy in Crestline. Ohio.
In writing of his work for The Satur
t'y,", , day Evening Post he says:
“When I saw your advertise
ment I knew that there was a
Rv*. ■ Y iSo i good chance to earn some
3 • money, which I wanted. Isold
i m y « rst ,en c °P> es easily and
\ then started to work for new
i ~customers. My order has
Uv' grown until I now sell more
t,lan sixty a week. I deliver
I’ >- i a " f ' ie Co P' es on F r *d a y> after
r ' school closes, and on Satur-
r i day- In addition to selling
> A ' single copies I have earned
•' about $ 12.00 by taking t early
I''' subscriptions.’’
UnMn * ' ' TN A DAINTY little booklet uliich
s ' I 1 we send to any boy free,
WBeI. IS \ twenty-live out <.f more than
' M4CT ‘ three thousand bright Loys tell in
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' ' T SA a ’’ made a success of selling
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'I pictures of the bin s—h tter< telling
p,-. I how they built up a pa; ing business
BWmSSY' outside of school hours-iineresting
! Some of these boys sre making $lO to sls
i a week. You can do the came. NO MONEY
jjll - REQUIRED TO START. We will furnish
ten c °P lct flrst week free of charge, to
V j be sold at five cents a copy. You can then
k i ®'’ nd U 8 wholeraie price for as mens' a >
l | you find you can rell the next week IF
l" 1 YOU WILL THY IT. WE WILL SEND THE
L reamaj? Emm? 1■ | COPIES and everything necessary
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DEMOCRATS OF 101
OUST IM,
Only Four Members of the Commit
tee on Resolutions Were in
Sympathy with Bryan.
All Nominations Were
by Acclamation.
THE TICKET.
Governor —Jeremiah B. Sullivan.
Lieutenant Governor—D.B. Butler.
Judge of Supreme Court —John R.
Caldwell.
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion—A. B. McCook.
Railroad Commissioner —W. S.
Porter.
Des Moines, lowa, June 24. — 1 Iv- dem
ocratic state convention, by a vote of
463 9-I'l to 354 1-10 today Refused to adopt
a minority report signed by four mem
bers of the committee on resolutions,
adding to the platform c i ■ it.'l by the
seven mombcis constituting tlie ma.;", i.v
of the committee a plank reaffirming the
democratic national platform of 1960, and
by a vote of 628% to 199% rejected an
other minority report adding to tlie plank
demanding government control of rail
way charges a provision that in ase s.' h
control should not prove eife live the
national government should acquire ow n
ershlp of railroads.' Al! the nominations
were made by acclamation, the iriends
of Judge A. A. Van Wagenen, of Sioux
City, having concluded not to present his
name for governor after it became ap
parent that the convention would not
adopt a government ownership plank,
which he has favored. J. !'•■ Sullivan,
nominee for governor, has been affiliati ■!
with the Bryan wing of tlie party, out
he was acceptable to the gold demo
crats.
State Uliairmau Jackson 'ailed the con
vention to order at 11 a. rn. and iiaw d
J. 11. Quick, of Sioux City, its temporary
chairman. Mr. Quick said in pail-
"The chief issue of 1896, in the form
then put forward, is dead. 'Io attempt to
galvanize it into life i- to b" fa.se to the
spirit of 1896. The spirit mak"th alive
but the flatter killeth- lot this text shod
light upon your deliberations. The para
mount issue of 1960 must wait Tlie ""i -
sciences of men were- and still are wrung
bv our argum -nts against imperialism, but
the fancied welfare of their packetb "'ks
prevailed on the day of election. And
now the new feudalism of tlie trusts so
overshadows ail else in men s minds that
they' will not shape their political course
by considerations of our foreign or colon
ial police. The issue of today was im
plied in every past platform yet. In the
declaration of 1779. in Magna Caarta,
wherever right has striven against might.
But it awaits expression at our hands.
All forms of oppression have been bound
into a single sh if and named the trust.
In it Is the currency m mopolj. rea
out for the banking business of the
world. In it is government by injunction
invoked by corp 'rate employes ..f labor
In it is imperialism seizing the homes of
weaker people f " t"" exploi:.'tio-n of • ip
ital. At the trust we may aim our blows,
confident that vlrnii the Goliath falls,
down with him will go all the hosts of
Philistine evils at. which we hive hih'i
hacking."
When tiie convention met at 2 o'clock
permanent organization was effected.
M. Haron, of Davenport, presented tho
report of the committee on resolutions
and made the only speech in its support.
J. M. Parsons, of Rock Rapids, submit
ted the minority report in favor of gov
ernment ownership, of which lie was
the only signer, and spoke in favor of
its adoption. After tlie rejection of the
report, W. H. Robb presented the af
firmative plank. It w’.s rejected and the
report of the majority committee was
adopted without division.
Preamble to Platform.
The preamble to the platform reads:
"We find much in the domestic affairs
of the nation that ought to be changed.
The tariff policy, originally adopted tor
the avowed purpose of raising revenue
to meet the enormous burdens of the
civil war, has been turned to the use of
individual and class interests until it lias
become the creator of countless unearned
fortunes, and the shelter of huge com
binations of capital, organized in tlie
' Diarrhoea
When you want a quick cure without any loss of time,
and one that is followed by no bad results, use
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
It never fails and is pleasant and safe to take. It is
equally valuable for children. It is famous for its cures
I over a large part of the civilized world. I
form of trusts, which are strangling
competition in many of our industries,
destroying individual effort, crushing am
bition largely in every line of industry
and already acquiring power which en
ables them to dictate in their own in
terest the prices of labor and raw ma
terial and the cost of transportation of
finish'll products.”
The platform, as it related to state af
fairs, calls for economical governmeiff,
equitable taxation of corporate and pri
i vate property, the purchase of supplies
from the loit-.st bidder the sub."it 'ioa
of a. local option for tlie present mulct law
and state aid in the building of perma
nent buildings. Government by injunction
is denounced and the election of Lnited
Stat l ? senators by direct vote <6 tlie peo
ple is demanded. Further, the plat, irm
reads:
e are unaltci ly oppi h p
icy of imperialism by this government in
stituted, t'oste
I republican party. And we demand that
1 our government shall declare it to be
its purpose, and without delay, to ipjopt
| such measures as shall give to the
pie of tiie Philippine islands and I’orto
I It;. 1 " their inalienable right '■!' self -;ov-
I eminent.
"We condemn the republican party for
its financial policies, which would foist
on the country an unstable curr"ney,
based on tiie jjnctrtaiu private uri-
Against the Aldrich Bill
"We protest against the plan p" i"i'- I
in the Aldrich bill recently I 'lore 11:
United States seriate by which the m ■
of the nation shall be loan'd to lanit r
isks upon the bond acl seciiiiiiis |: -
vate eorpoi'ations, as an effort i.> give
value and stability to watered h-’i’.'ls
and s' urities of corporations and iruffs,
many of which ar" maintaining moil'■;
lies in defiance of law and paidii- .-enti
rr.ent.
"We insist that tlie integrity of nit
money of the nation he guard'd wi'i.
■ ' - ■ ■ :
| be sufficient in volume to m-tlie ue ■ is
and the business in(' r<s:s of the coui"'y,
and it shall b? sif< guard"d n.v ■ u ' d
legislation so as to prevent the ganibi' is
of Wall street from corneiiag H- m ne"
market, thus inflicting untold injure
the smaller business men, the farm.' rs
and the laborers of the land.
"We deplore the corrupt condition ?f
tlie government service in tiie p ist -ffica
department and demand a thorough in
vestigation "f that and other
ments by a congressional com: ii'te*,
publicity as to such conditions, and pun
ishment of all wrongdoers
I “As the most g feat -
I present conditions are the evils v i h
i come from trusts, iinl as those evi':-; are
I made possible by legislation , ivorit g o'fl
class and against another by tr.nis, 11-
- tiou privilege' and by ni"n.'p":.v "gt
nal sources of supply of natural products,
; therefore, to tho end thmt the evils ' -
I neeted with the growth of trusts m . :"-
: eliminated, wo call for the v' 1 "■ va' f
: the tariff from ail trust made caods and
i demand that all tariff schedules be ad-
I justed with a \i< w to tariff for t
■ only.
! "Wo ask for such changes in mir law.
i statutory or constitutional, as will limit
i the charges by railroads to suer, an
I amount as will yield only a re.tsonablo re
i turn "n tho capital actually invested and
| will render it impossible for transpor
i tation favors granted to any one and sin h
i as will make certain that all railwav
' companies would be treated alike as
■ statutes provide penalties that will be
I fectuil to secure a compliance with them.
I "\\licn the sources of supply 'f my
I product are in the ownership nf those
I who combine tn exfort from the people
I an unreasonable amount for such prod
i nets, then wo believ'? it is the duty of the
' government to take uc!
i necessary to secure an equitable distnb’:-
I tion thereof, with fair compensation tl
■ file owners of tho same, and so that the
king i
I tho wants of man may not be perv?
j into means for hi- opprossim-i "
I WINNERS r.EOiyr the SOUTH
I Annnpoli Md June ‘
; th" n ;mos of candidates; from southern
i states who passed tho mental examine
: lion for admission to the naval acad -
j my as midshipmen, which were held nt
| tlio academy last week. The names In-
■ eluded in p“i fen thesis are alternates wi'.->
I passed, and whose principals have not
i been heard from:
j Guy Evans Laker. Virginia; E. F.
| Barlow. Tennessee; Carl Barnes. Geor
| g:a; L. W. Bellinger, South Carolina; It.
F. Bernard, Virg
Bringman. Virginia); R. A.
Florida’ Arthur J. Butt, Alabama.
She V7as Present.
| "And when you marry." she soft!/
I said. "I hope you’ll remember to in' It®
i m. to the ceremony."
I He looked thoughtful.
I "It will be awfully crowded, no doubt,"
| h<' said, “but 1 think 1 can ring you In
• somehow."
| And a moment or two later she do
l dared the ring an astonishingly good fit.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘ ’
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