A PLATFORM
For Democrats !s Laid
Down by Mr. Bryan.
IN A LONG SPEECH.
tie Is Given a Magnificent Ovation
by a Huge Assemblage in Mad
ison Square Garden.
New York.—Such a welcome as
"Seldom iu this country's his
tory has been accorded to a private
citizen was given to William Jennings
llryan at Madison Square Garden last
night in the celebration of his return
from a year's absence, spent in for
eign travel.
As the guest of the Commercial
Travelers' Anti-Trust league, Mr.
Bryan was greeted by more than 20,-
000 persons, who filled the great struc
ture from floor to upper gallery. At
the same Unit? the streets and avenues
outside the garden were choked for
blocks by other thousands who stood
patiently waiting for hours for the
privilege of even a fleeting glance at
the distinguished visitor. The Interior
•of the garden was a waving sea of
color. Every person in the audience
had been provided with a miniature
American flag and every cheer from
20,000 throats was accentuated by the
waving of 20,000 tiny staffs bearing
.the stars and stripes.
When Mr. llryan entered the hall :
the proceedings, which already had
begun, were brought to a temporary
pause for eight minutes while volley
after volley of thunderous cheers
rolled through the great building.
When Chairman Tom L. Johnson in !
his introduction of Mr. I try an referred
to the guest of the evening as "the
first citizen, if not the iirst official of
the land —not yet the first official,"
and Mr. Bryan rose, the great gather
ing broke out in unrestrained cheer
ing, while the band played "Hail to
The Chief."
So touched was Mr. Bryan by the
welcome that as he stood waiting for j
the cheers to subside his eyes filled <
w : ith tears and he strode nervously
from side to side of tlie narrow plat-_
form.
Last night's reception proved to be
the sounding of the democratic cam
paign call. Mr. Bryan's speech was a
clear cut outline of his ideas as to
what the democratic policy should be.
Mr. Bryan said lie returned to the
United States with delight and more
proud of its people and its govern
ment than ever. He said the cause of
international arbitration was making
great strides in Europe. He said his
tour of the Philippines had convinced
him that our government should deal I
with the Filipinos as wo had dealt ]
with the Cubans. He said there should I
be a change in the method of electing j
United States senators; that they
should be elected by the people. He I
spoke in favor of an income tax and !
in favor of arbitration in disputes be
tween capital and labor, at the same
"time condemning government by in
junction. He declared in favor of the
eight-hour work day and said it was
sure to be universally adopted.
'J "The people see now what they
should have seen before, namely, that
no party can exterminate the trusts
so long as it owes its political success
to campaign contributions secured
from the trusts. The corporations do
not contribute their money to any
party except for immunity expressly
promised or clearly implied. The
president has recommended legisla
tion on this subject, but so far his
party has failed to respond. No im
portant advance can be made until
this baneful influence is eliminated
and I hope that the democratic party
will not only challenge the republican
party to bring forward effective leg
islation on this subject, but will set
an example by refusing to receive
campaign contributions from corpora
tions and by opening the books so |
that every contributor of any consid- !
erable sum may be known to the pub
lic before the election. The great ma-1
ji rity of corporations are engaged in I
legitimate business and have nothing j
to fear from hostile legislation. While j
men may differ as to the relative im
portance of issues, and while the next
congress will largely shape the lines
upon which the coming presidential j
campaign will be fought, 1 think it is i
safe to say that at present the para- '
mount issue in the minds of a large j
majority of the people is the trust is
sue. 1 congratulate President Roose
*slt upon the steps which he has
tr.ken to enforce the anti-trust law
and my gratification Is not lessened
by the fact that he has followed the
democratic rather than the republican
platform in every advance he has
made.
"There must be no mistaking of the
issue and-no confusing of the line of
battle. The policy of the trust mag
nates will be to insist upon 'reason
able legislation' and then they will re
ly upon their power to corrupt legis- :
latures and intimidate executives to J
City Officials are Removed.
New Albany, Ind. William V. j
Grose, mayor of this city, was im
peached and removed from office by
the city council Thursday. John Tag
gart and Charles W. Poutch, members
of the board of public works, were
also removed from office. City Clerk
Brisby assumed the office of mayor
and appointed a new board of public
works. The removal of the mayor
and members of the board of public
works was the result of an investiga- 1
tion conducted by a council commlttea |
regarding the acceptance of a sewage I
system just completed.
prevent the application of any reme
dies which will interfere with the
trusts. Our motto must ba: "A pri
vate monopoly ic indefensible and in
tolerable,' and our plan of attack must
contemplate the complete overthrow
of the monopoly principle in indus
try.
"We need not quarrel over reme
dies. We must show ourselves willing
to support any remedy which prom
ises substantial advantage to the
people in their warfare against mo
nopoly. Something is to be expected
frofti the enforcement of the criminal
clause of the Sherman anti-trust law,
but this law must be enforced not
against a few trusts, as at present,
but against all trusts and the aim
must be to imprison the guilty, not
merely to recover a fine.
"But it is not sufficient to enforce
existing laws. If ten corporations con
spiring together in restraint of trade
are threatened with punishment, all
they have to do now is to dissolve
their separate corporations and turn
their property over to a new corpora-
I tion. The new corporation can do the
same thing that the separate corpora
tions attempted and yet not violate
the law. W r e need, therefore, new
legislation and the republican party
not only fails to enact such legisla
tion, but falls even to promise it. The
democratic party must be prepared to
propose new and efficient legislation.
"Recent investigations have brought
to light that nearly all crookedness
revealed in the management of our
large corporations has been due to
the duplication of directorates. A
group of men organized or obtained
control of several corporations doing
business with each other and then
proceeded to swindle the stockholders
of the various corporations for which
they acted. No man can serve two
masters and the director who at.
tempts to do so will fail, no matter
how much money he makes before his
failure is discovered. Many trusts
control prices by the same methods;
the same group of men secure control
of several competing corporations and
the management is thus consolidated.
It is worth while to consider whether
a blow may not be struck at the trusts
by a law making it illegal for the
same person to act as director or offi
cer of two corporations which deal
with each other or are engaged in the
same general business.
"A still more far reaching remedy
was proposed by the democratic plat
form of 1900, namely, the requiring oi
corporations to take out a federal
license before engaging in inter-state
commerce. This remedy is simple
easily applied and comprehensive.
The requiring of a license would not
embarrass legitimate corporations—it
would scarcely inconvenience them —
while it would confine the predatory
corporations to the state of theii
origin.
"I cannot permit this opportunity to
pass without expressing the opinion
that the principle embodied in the
protective tariff has been the fruit
ful source of a great deal of political
corruption as well as the support of
many of our most iniquitous trusts. It
is difficult to condemn the manufac
turers for uniting to take advantage
of a high tariff schedule when the
schedule is framed on the theory that
the industries need all the protection
given, and it is not likely that the
beneficiaries of these schedules will
consent to their reduction so long as
the public waits for the tariff to be
revised by its friends.
"Rate regulation was absolutely
necessary and it furnishes some relief
from the unbearable conditions which
previously existed; but we must not
forget that the vesting of this enor
mous power in the hands of a com
mission appointed by the president
introduces a new danger. If an ap
pointive board has the power to fix
rates and if it can by the exercise of
that power increase or decrease by
hundreds of millions of dollars the an
nual revenues of the railroads, will
not the railroads feel that they have a
large pecuniary interest in the elec
tion of a president friendly to the
railroads?
"Experience has demonstrated that
municipal corruption is largely trace
aole to the fact that franchise corpor
ations desire to control the city coun
cils and thus increase their dividends.
If the railroad managers adopt the
same policy, the sentiment in favor
of the ownership of the railroads by
the government is likely to increase
as rapidly throughout the country as
the sentiment in favor of municipal
ownership has increased in the cities.
"I have already reached the conclu
sion that railroads partake so much
of the nature of a monopoly that they
must ultimately become public prop
erty and be managed by public offic
ials in the interest of the whole com
munity, in accordance with the well
defined theory that public owner
ship is necessary where competition
is impossible. I do not know that the
country is ready for this change. I
do know that a majority of my own
party favor it, but I believe that in
creasing numbers of the members of
all parties see in public ownership the
sure remedy for discriminations be
tween persons and places and for the
extortionate rates for the carrying of
freight and passengers.
"Believing, however, that the opera
tion of the railroads by the federal
government would result in a cen
tralization which would all but obliter
ate state lines, I prefer to see only the
trunk lines operated by the federal
government and the local lines by the
several state governments."
j Rural Guards Killed 12 Rebels.
Havana, Cuba. —Gen. Avalos and
< Pino Guerra are close to each other in
the vicinity of Guinea, whither Ava
j los, with 1,000 cavalry and rural
guards marched Thursday from the
village of Sabalo. A battle is expect
ed shortly. The only tight of conse
quence reported Thursday was a three
hours' conflict between 150 rural
guards and 300 insurgents near
| Campo Plorido, 20 miles east of Ha
| vana. The rural guards charged up a
j hill, routing the Insurgents, who scat-
I tered. At least IS insurgents were
j killed and many were wounded.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1906.
Plans of Hoosier Methodists
TO CELEBRATE BUILDING OF
FIRST CHURCH IN STATE.
Committee Appointed to Prepare for
Centennial Event—Old Structure
Restored to Original Sit*
Four Years Ago.
Charlestown, Ind. Ninety-nine
years ago the first Methodist church
built in Indiana was dedicated. In
celebration of the ninety-ninth anni
versary and in preparation for the
one hundredth the Seymour district
conference of the M. E. church has
just appointed committees and laid
plans in a general way for a cen
tennial celebration in August next
year.
The plans are to be for a state,
not a district, celebration, and it is
expected to gather, not only all of
the leading Methodists of Indiana in
and around the little restored church
building, but also to bring to it many
of the men of national fame.
The original log cabin church
building was completed in August,
1807, near the home of Nathan Rob
ertson, the leader of the Methodist
movement in the "new Indiana coun
try." The town of Charlestown,
which is now preparing to celebrate
its centennial on September C, had
ust been laid out, but Methodism had
practically no footing in the place.
The Presbyterians and New Lights
were the principal denominations in
the town, and the influence of the
>
Old Church as It Appeared Before Its
Restoration,
following of Wesley in Clark's grant
was confined to a few societies scat
tered through the woods. , •
The society or congregation that
gathered to place the logs of the
church one upon another is stated
by Rev. George K. Hester, an early
circuit rider, to have been organized
at Nathan Robertson's home in April
or May, 1803, by Rev. Messrs. Ben
jamin Lakin and Ralph Lotspeech. It
is said to have been the first Meth
odist society in Indiana.
A PRIEST ASTRONOMER.
Father Hagen Appointed to the Vati
can Observatory.
The Vatican observatory now has
an American director In the person
of Rev. Dr. John George Hagen, the
Jesuit astronomer who until a short
time ago was chief astronomer at
Georgetown university, Washington.
Father Hagen was appointed by Pope
Pius X.to this position on the recom
mendation of some of the foremost
astronomers of Europe and America.
He is an Austrian by birth, and an
American by adoption, having been
born in the village of Bregenz on
March 6, 1847. He entered the Jes
uit order at 16. and when he had fin
ished the curriculum in the Jesuit
House of Studies he was sent to the
universities of Munster and Bonn for
the purpose of studying higher math
matics and astronomy, for which
he showed an aptitude even before
he entered the order. He studied
theology under the English Jesuits,
then came to this country in 1880. He
was appointed director of Georgetown
observatory eight years later.
The accurate laws of the variation
of stars are credited to Father Hagen.
Ho has published an "Atlas of Vari
able Stars" in five series, comprising
240 charts and more than 10,000
stars. This work represents 18
years of observation by night and cal
culation by day.
Besides the Atlas Father Hagen
has published four volumes entitled
Would Succeed Diaz.
Gen. Reyes, Alleged Leader of Rebel
Movement in Mexico.
City of Mexico.— Gen. Bernardo
Reyes, who is alleged to have been
GEN. YES.
(Mexican Who Would Like to Be
come President of the Republic.)
the leader in a revolutionary move
ment recently in progress in this
country, is at preseat governor of the
state of Nuevo and a general of divi
sion in the army. Up to two years
ago he was minister of war, but fell
Among the ministers who preached
at Robertson's in the early days was
the dauntless Peter Cartwright, the fa
mous circuit rider, who is said to
have been the only man who ever
won an office over Abraham Lincol%
in a contest before the people. Cart»
wright came to the grant in com
pany with Benjamin Larkin, in 1804,
and preached in the beautiful .grov®
in the valley below the church. In
the church, in 1807, Rev. James Gar
ner preached the first sermon ever
delivered on Christmas day by a
Protestant preacher in Indiana. Ho
The Restored Church—Old Logs Pro
tected by Weather Boards.
took his text from the words: "They
have seen his star in the east and
are come to worship him."
The old log church passed through
many vicissitudes. It first stood on a
beautiful bill, on which is situated
the burying ground, where the mem
bers of the Robertson family and
many pioneer Methodists are sleep
ing. Many years ago the building wag
removed from its original site, bui
services were still held in it.
Then for many years it was used
as a stable, and rapidly passed into
decay. At various times plans for
the preservation of the building were
discussed by Indana Methodists, and
in 1902 the venerable Bishop Waldon,
of Cincinnati, in an address at the
deputy camp-meeting, in Jefferson
county, suggested that measures
should be taken to prolong the ex
istence of the oldest church of the de
nomination in the state.
Committees were appointed to raise
funds and arrange for the restoration
of the building to its original site.
The logs composing the church and
the original site of the church were
purchased. It was with great dif
ficulty that the exact location was
discovered, but finally the church was
placed back over its old foundation.
The restored church was carefully
weatherboarded and shingled to pre
serve the logs from the weather.
The interior has been restored to
its original condition. The church
was rededicated in August, 1904, with
imposing ceremonies.
"A Synopsis of Higher Mathematics,"
and is now working on the remaining
one to complete the set. He was
one of the speakers at the mathemat
ical congress at Frankfort-on-the-
REV. JOHN G. HAQEN, 8. J.
(New Director of the Vatican Observ
atory.)
Main in 1896. He has one remaining
ambition —the publication of the com
plete works of Euler, the Swiss
mathematician, whoso patron was
Frederick the Great. Father Hagen
has collected a number of Euler'a
works already and published an index
of them. It would take about $40,-
000 to publish the entire work, he es
timates.
into disfavor with President Diaz and
was relegated to his present position.
Reyes is very popular with the army,
and is a man of iron courage and de
termination. Since his removal from
the cabinet, the reason, as alleged,
that his son published in his news
paper an article attacking the Diaz
administration, Reyes has chafed over
conditions existing in the country, and
may take the present opportunity to
try conclusions with Diaz in an effort
to wrest from him the reins of power.
It is conceded that he brought the
army up to its present state of effi
ciency, and it is known of all men
that he entertains desires to be ruler
of the republic. He is in the prime of
life and ruggedly healthy.
Prench Painter Works Hard.
Zlem, the great French colorist, is
85 years of age, but is still able to
read without glasses. He has worked
all his life, many times night and day.
! Up to five years ago he was constant
ly busy with his palette and brush.
This wonderful old man has been
uainting since he was seven years old.
some years ago he presented to Paris
80 of his finest pictures, which are
hung in a special room of the Petit
Palais called the Salle Zieiu.
(SOUNDING THE SEA
GOVERNMENT HAS LEARNED SE
CRETS OF OCEAN BED.
! Wonderful Apparatus by Which a
Depth of Six Miles Has Been Un
covered by the Prying Eyes of
the Scientist.
The oceanographer knows the floor
of the sea to-day almost as thorough
ly an the georgrapher knows the con
! figuration of the land, but not more
than 35 years ago it was believed by
| even some men of science that there
! were places in the ocean abyss that
I were fathomless. Navigators a few
( years ago solemnly assured credulous
j landlubbers that they knew the loca
tion of certain holes that never could
I be sounded, because they were bottom
j less.
There are tremendous deeps, but
| the greatest that a ship properly
equipped with sounding apparatus has
ever passed over, has been found and
I recorded by an infallible method.
The ship was the United States
steam collier Nero, and it was inciden-
JOUNOING Pot IN A) 10
U° £ T *CHI~D r H OFL dIHHiR
tal to a thorough exploration of the
; Pacific for a transpacific cable that
she picked up a few handfuls of the
i remotest bottom, 75 miles east-south
| east of the Island of Guam, six years
, ago. The spot was christened the
j "Nero Deep" and no sounding rod has
ever gone further into any ocean. The
depth was 5,269 fathoms, or only 66
feet less than six statute miles. The
peak of the highest mountain on earth
is not so tall.
The work of the Nero probably
never has been equaled by any other
vessel surveying for a cable route.
Incidental to the soundings the natur
alist of the ship collected much ma
terial relating to the character of tha
bottom, adding something to the
great stock of knowledge already ac
quired. The Nero made soundings
every ten miles over a zigzag course
of 21,519.5 natuical miles. The ex->
ploration practically covered a sea
territory 14 miles wide and 6,000 miles
long, and for thorougness has never
been excelled.
The pressure at six miles below the
surface is about five tons to the square
inch, which the tissues of the deep
sea animals are formed to resist.
Some of them are so soft that they dis
integrate when they are hauled into
the air. All come up dead. The sud
den and enormous decrease of the
pressure as they ascend and the im
mersion in a temperature of 80 de
grees from a temperature of 35 de
grees is enough to destroy any sort of
animal life.
The first accurate knowledge of
deep sea conditions and life was ob
tained by the experts of the famous
Challenger expedition around the
world, beginning in 1872 and lasting
about four years. Even the Chal
lenger, which sounded great depths
and brought up many new animals
and specimens from the ocean floor,
used the old-fashioned and unreliable
rope sounding apparatus. Sir William
Thomson, who devised the machine
for sounding with piano wire, had one
put aboard the Challenger, but the
British conservatism of the explorers
made them stick to the rope which
served them well rather than experi
ment with new fangled things. So
Sir William's device was consigned to
the storeroom.
The United States navy and coast
survey profited by Sir William's inven
tion, however. It was only a few
months after tho Challenger expedi
tion had started that Capt. George E.
Belknap, of the navy, in the steamer
Tuscarora, fitted up for sounding for a
submarine cable from California to
Japan, took one of the wire machines
along. He used it by attaching the
wire to his own improved apparatus.
It is Capt. Belknap's sounding ma
chine, perfected by then Lieutenant
Commander C. D. Sigsbee, that is
now in use 011 the most famous and
complete of all sea searching vessels,
the Albatross of tho United States
fish commission.
This machine is here illustrated. The
globular part is the sinker or shot,
which is detached by the impact of the
rod running through it against the
bottom or by the slacking of the
sounding wire. The weight of the
shot, including the thermometer, is
about 70 pounds. When the project
ing bottom of the rod is forced by the
weight of the shot into the sea floor it
lifts a valve and fills the cylinder with
specimen soil. The shot is detached
automatically. When the rod begins
to ascend the valves are closed and
the contents of the rod are protected
from wash.
Insomnia Cure.
An excellent way to cure insomnia
Is to bandage the eyes with a hand
kerchief before retiring. The com
press seems to drive away the blood
from the eyes and so cure, or at least
temporarily relieve, that feeling sc
often experienced by sufferers from
sleeplessness, of trying to seo in tlit
dark.
! BACKACHE IS KIDNEYACHE.
Get at the Cause —Cure the Kidneys.
Don't neglect backache. It warns
you of trouble In the kidneys. Avert
the danger by cui>
laid
pain in my
whenever I stooped or lifted. The
urine was badly disordered and for a
long time I had attacks of gravel.
After I began using Doan's Kidney
Pills the gravel passed out, and my
| back got well. I haven't had back
i ache or bladder trouble since."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
j Foster-Milburn Co., Ruffaln, N. Y.
The First Striking Clock.
According to historians, the first
i striking clock was Imported into Eu
| rope by the Persians about 800 A. D.
! It was brought as a present to Charle
magne, from Abdella, king of Persia,
| by two monks of Jerusalem.
New Term of Opprobrium.
Frederick Townsend, charged in a
London court with maliciously wound
] lng James Ridley, pleaded in justifl
; cation that Ridley had called him a
| 'Glasgow Irishman."
Alum Baking Powder Is Wholesome,
; Dr. Herman Reinbold, the expert
: German chemist, in a recent official
, report concerning Baking Powdery
! declares that a pure alum baking pow
der is better and less injurious thai
the so-called cream of tartar powders.
He says that if the quantity of alu»
contained in a sufficient quantity of
baking powder for a batch of bread or
i cakes for an ordinary family, be con-
I centrated to one mouthful of food,
and taken into the stomach of any
| one person, no matter how delicate,
j it could do no harm. On the contrary,
alum is wholesome in proper quanti
ties. This is undoubtedly the reason
the State of Missouri, quickly repealed
a law that prohibited the manufacture
of the most wholesome, of all baking
powders. So much for Alum Baking
Powders.
Has Been Buried for Centuries.
The body of a young woman haa
been discovered in the ancient Priddy
lead mines in Somersetshire, Eng
land, some 16 or 17 feet deep In the
waterbone slit that has been accumu
lating since the days before the Ro
mans came. The hair is wonderfully
preserved, and remains in the plait
in which it was worked. Beside the
body were found five large blue and
green glass beads.
YOUNQ COLONEL IN DILEMMA
Ways of War Were a New Thing to
His Understanding.
At the Army and Navy club in
Washington a number of veteran offi
cers were telling stories, when Gen.
Chaffee told this anecdote of Gen.
Carr, who died in New York soma
years ago:
It appears that Gen. Carr, at the
outbreak of the civil war, had left
Troy to take command of a regiment.
T.lie engagement in which, as colonel,
he first figured was at Big Bethel. His
regiment had been halted for rest
and refreshment in a pleasant place
and had not yet experienced the ex
citement of a skirmish. It happened
however, that confederates were id
ambush in the immediate neighbor
hood and from a safe hiding place
they opened fire on the northerners.
Carr, so the story runs, instantly put
spurs to his horse and dashed up to
a group of officers. Excitement and
bewilderment were apparent upon his
young face as he approached the
party.
"They are firing upon my reH
ment!" he shouted. "My God! N'o.v
what is to be done?"— Harper's
Weekly.
DUBIOUS
About What Her Husband Would Say.
A Mich, woman tried Postum Food
Coffee because ordinary coffee dis
agred wtih her and her husband. She
writes:
"Hy husband was sick for three
years with catarrh of the bladder, and
palpitation of the heart, caused by
coffee. Was unable to work at all
and in bed part of the time.
"I had stomach trouble, was weak
and fretful so I could not attend to
my housework—both of us using cof
fee all the time, and realizing it was
harmful.
"One morning the grocer's wife
said she believed coffee was the cause
of our trouble and advised Postum.
I took it home rather dubious about
what my husband would say—he was
fond of coffee.
"But I took coffee right off the
table, and we haven't used a cup of
it since. You should have seen the
change in us and now my husband
never complains of heart palpitation
any more. My stomach trouble went
away in two weeks after I began Pos
tum. My children love it and it does
them good, which can't be said of
coffee.
"A lady visited us who was always
half sick. I told her I'd make her a
cup of Postum. She said it was taste
less stuff, but she watched me make
it, boiling it thoroughly for 15 min
utes, and when done she said it was
splendid. Long boiling brings out the
flavor and food quality." Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason."
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