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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 True and Unfailing Health for Suffering Women. Paine’s Celery Compound The World’s Medicine for the Cure of Female Troubles, A large share of the evils and sufferings which women are liable to, result from special female weaknesses and diseases. 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. — — __ the important female organs. The ex perience of ;.ears, ni' diml testimony and letters from tens of thousands of cured women point to Paine's Celery Com pound as woman’s friend and life giver. Mrs. \\ . I. West, Fremont, Ndb., writes thus:— "1 used Paines Celery Compound for female troubles an id general debility. I 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 pound. J believe it is the best medicine 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 i 1 owll ' vav j" st I,Q " lll ' ■ llave ' ' T SA a ’’ made a success of selling ■ The Saturday Evening Post '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 I «.,<>,J C7?E OO IN EXTRA CASH PRIZES ' J’ ’ ne di<• iNi.XT MONTH among: bo\ s who SELL i-’IVE ' ' or more COI’IES WELLEL\ . ; THE CLRTiS PUBLISHING COMPANY' J 411 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 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. ‘ ’ 7