w. a -i h A Hk flllC All eta" r Advertir hare "aV """ UnC an opportunity to utilize tt)e elas- rifled column ppilT or THE DIS- PATCH. The Wtll I imll "Ada" are is AH ' well read. They are a good WflRII W and sure investment. tlUllUt ( UAUTC Or aU kinds are supplied ft WAnlO throuli.ll.o ONE CENT A I WORD columns llflR! of THE DIS PATCH. Sttua WlUnft.tions arc so cured quickly. Tho -Adlets" UCID are growing In popularity. iifcsi ., 1 FORTY-SLXTH "SUAE. TENNESSETTERRORS Nearly 500 Desperate ConYicts Now at Large Through out the State. ANOTHEB LOT SET FREE. The Mountain Miners Hare Now Fulfilled Their Threats to the Very Letter, SCENES AROUND THE STOCKADES.- Ko Heal Resistance Offered to the Miniature Armies Which Seemed to Spring From the Earth. TOE GOVERNOR ENTIRELY At A LOSS. Eiery Evidence Tkst the State Authorities Are rmtically Paralyzed by the Coldness of the Insurrection. l'EOBABLE EESCLTS OF THE EADICAT, MOVE fS FECIAL TELEGUAlf TO TnE DISPATCH.) 2?ashviixe, Nov. 2. To-day's event may be regarded as the final fulfillment of the miners threats made five months ago that unless redress was granted them they would drive every convict out of the Wal den's Ridge mining region at the muzzle of the shotgun. At the present time about 450 crime-stained desperadoes roam tho mountains and valleys of East Tennessee, and the people of the State find themselves face to face with a complicated situation. The movement 'which culminated to-day was set on foot by men who sought to pre serve their means of livelihood. Their an cestors have lived on these mountains for generations, and all are believers in the argument of the shotgun. Most of them are coal miners, a, few making such attempts at farming as the mountainous and stony char acter ot the lonely region will permit. A Crisis Reached Last Summer. When leased convicts were first intro duced among the mountaineers tho latter made little objection, not realizing what the innovation meant, but when free men began to be crowded out by the slaves of the coal bosses, the Tcnnesseeans began to. think An ugly feeling soon developed, and a crisis vas reached last summer whenthi- Brice ville miners demands were refused by the company. The men struck, and when convicts were brought to take their places tho moun taineers robclled. The company refused to withdraw tho convicts, and on July 13 the miners put the whole squad on a train fbr Knoxville. The Governor at once called out the militia and took tho convicts back to the mines, but, lie had no sooner returned than the 41 convicts he had taken there, the hundred odd convicts at the Knoxville Iron Company's mine and the militia were bundled after him. Then it dawned on him and his advisers,, all of whom are from the western, and level parts of the State, that they had not quite understood the mountaineers. Finally the State officials and the miners agreed that the convicts should be allowed to return until the Legislature should meet in extra session and change laws which all admitted were unjust. The Action of the legislature. The Legislature was called together and met in September, the mountaineers meanwhile sacredly keeping their part of the agreement, but a majority of the State Solons, heedless of appeals from members who understood the situation in East Ten nessee, retused to afford any relief. They saw that the convict system was worth S100.000 annually to the State and they re fused to see anything else, and the Far mers' Alliance Legislature passed laws on the subject more stringent than ever. The miners' lawyers presented a case claiming that convicts could not legally be sub-let, as they then passed out of the cus tody of the State, the only State prison being that at Nashville. They won in the lower court, "but October 25 the Supreme Court reversed this decision, and then the bitter feeling as engendered which culmin ated in the events of this morning. Friday evening the station agent at Coal Creek noticed that a good many strange mountaineers came down in the trains from Jellico and that others came up from the direction of Clinton. But he thought noth ing of this, nor did anybody suspect what lay back of the very plausible arrest of two oftheguardb at Briceville by a Coal Creek constable. Preparing Tor the Surprise. Bnt anyone who had been in a secure hid ing place near where Thistle Switch could be seen, Friday evening, would have under stood the sileut figures stealing over through the dense forests of the mountain heights and up through the hollows from the valleys below to this one little level spot, could have suspected that something unusual was in the wind, and bad it not been so dark that little more than figure could be made out, it would have been noticed that each of the stealthy approach ers carried a long-barrelled gun, such a gun as so often makes the squirrel drop from far heights, shot clean in the eye. The mountaineers have strange ways of signalling to each other. Some signal had patted from mountain to mountain and in silence and in darkness of a moonless night, they assem bled about 500 picked men. Some wore handkerchiefs over their faces. Others had their faces blacked and thei J hats slouched, others wore garments turned inside out or grotesquely padded. By "half past 8 all were ready and the leader brought an old sword to a carry arms and started up the deep gorge toward Briceville. Tho rest lollowcd in a long file. Quite n Formidable Stockade. The stockade at Briceville was a new wooden affair, built of pine planks of un usual thickness, bolted one to another. It was about 200 feet square and 20 feet high. Inside it were the bleeping rooms of the convicts, the kitchen and eating room, tool houe and a place for the guards when off duty. At two corners were block houses with rifle slots and towers. Tho en trances were through these block houses, aud at 9 o'clock two guards were sitting in one of these block houses. Two others had been outside to stroll about a bit. The rest of the guards and the warden were in the various houses within the enclosure. Thus there were 12 de fenders for the stockade, two outside and ten inside. At 9 o'clock, as one of the guards said to-day in the presence of three others, there came a knock at the door loud and commanding. They had heard no other sound, no movement of feet, nothing but this knock. One guard walked over and opened the door. A man whom neither had ever seen before entered and said: "We have come lor the convicts and to burn the stockade. Give me the keys." This man wore no mask "and he said this with as great a simplicity as one might ask a waiter to bring him a steak or potatoes. The guard said: "We have not got the keys here." Then he stepped outside just to see who this "we" was and how much there was of it. The Warden Decides to Surrender. By the light thrown from the open door into the pitch darkness he saw several hun dred men aud observed that each carried a gun pointed downward The guard went in again and called the Warden who presently came in a state of great nervousness. The man who spoke for "we" repeated his de mand The Warden had brought the keys to the sleeping rooms with him and handed them over. "Now get." said the man, and the ten men filed through the long double line of rifle barrels and paused afar off, where they were soon joined by the two who had gone out for air and had found the supply cut off precipitately by hands clapped over their mouths from behind. The leaders of the mountaineers unlocked the doors of the sleeping apartments. The convicts had heard the unusual sounds in that deadly mountain silence and were all sitting up." With the opening of the door they lay down as though shot- thinking it wa the guards and knowing they would be shot if caught sitting up. But the mounts aineers shouted to them: "Get up, boys, aud scoot for it, we've got hold of this here stockade and you are free." The Convicts Not Enthusiastic. The convicts showed no especial enthu siasm at first. It was not until the mount aineers began to hand them old clothes and cast-off garments of every description that the convicts grasped the idea that liberty was theirs. A convict abroad in the tat tered stripes, synonymous in Tennessee minds with all "that is degraded and base, would be no more free than in a stockade under the flash of a Winchester barrel. But a convict with a change of outer gar ments is quite another man. So they grabbed the clothing and fled without paus ing to put it on. Soon there was a great rolling of stones and crashing of brush that told how fast 160 men were making for the Kentucky border line, 50 miles away. The mountaineers searched carefully tnrough all the buildings inside the stockade. They found a hundred fine guns, put there for the use of the guards against "just such a contingency. They found provisions, which they packed up. ready tor taking away. In the hospital they found several sick convicts, whom they removed to an old building a goodly dis tance from the stockade. When the last' living thing had left that stockade, whose foundations were the cause of all the trouble, a barrel of oil was tapped and the. mattreses were soaked with it. Then some one set fire to it, and the guards, watching from a distance, heard a great shout and then saw a burst of flame. As the lisht bprcad they and the mountaineers with drew into the shadows, but the latter kept, up the wild-honting and the occasional firing of their Jens in the air. A Very Much mistaken Commissioner. Commissioners Alleman arid Ford, sitting in a house half a mile away, writing their report, stopped their work" and ran to the' windows. Commissioner Ford had just finished writing to the Governor all was quiet at Briceville. The ink was not dry when he saw a great light against the sky i and the mountains. "Alleman," said he, "that report of mine will never be sent" The mountaineers passed the house on their winding journey down the valley. They never stopped until they came to the big stockade of the Knoxville Iron Com pany. They surrounded it and called loud ly upon the warden to surrender. He came out instantly and gave up the keys. Here 150 convicts were released, and were assisted to changes of clothing to the full extent of the mountaineers' power. They had not enough extra rags left. They broke open the shop of Storekeeper Chumley and banded out Mich garments as his stock af forded. Then they made ready to burn the stockade while the nine guards and tho warden watched with guns in their hands. But Mr. Chumley came out and begged them not to fire anything. "My wife is at the point of death over my shop and she cannot be moved," said be. AVlien they were convinced that he spoke the truth they contented themselves w ith smashing the glass, tearing up the mattresses, dismantling the furniture and chopping outf-ections of the stockade. . By this time it was 2 o'clock. An Apparently Hopeless Situation. By the acts of these miners the Govern ment and the people of the State of Tennes see find themselves in the face of a compli cated and seemingly hopeless situation. Governor Buchanan "has confessed that he does not know what to do, and for once men ot all parties are in sympathy. The situation is "this: An armed anil organized body of men has marched unop posed through' a considerable section of the State, has damaged and received the sur render of thp State's property, has released the State's prisoners, convicts of the worst stripe, yet it is impossible to pursue or face this small army of revolutionists because it melts away as completely as though it had never existed after it has struck its blow. and reassembles silently to strike the next Li low. All alontr the vallev were strewn striped garments of which the escaped convicts had got rid as tliev ran, trowsers, tattered shirts, bits of striped cloth lay upon rocks, hung in bushes, shoot in the wind irom braucnes of trees. But of the mob that had done all this there was no trace. Not a convict nor a suspicious looking mountaineer to be seen. The convicts had fled and were heard of later, are being heard of now all through the mountains Desiring here, " sleeping there, walking along the roads, skulking behind rocks and trees, some of them hold, otuers timid, all undisturbed. A Few Convicts Surrendor. The trusties and five others whose sen tences were nearly out gave themselves up. Visitors found the usualinhabitants of Coal Creek and Briceville about. They were laughing a good deal and joking one an other. But thev did not in the least resem ble the mob of the night before. That mob had vanished as though it were nothing but a dream of some tired guard, and in this vanishing lay the discomfiture of the Gov ernor and the powers of the State. There is no one to attack, no one to send militia against, no one to arrest. Suspicion at first alighted upon the men who had been foremost in the former agitation, but by a suspiciously happy chance, all these men were in Knoxville Friday night at the theater. The Governor was tele graphed for and reached Knoxville Sunday morning. Attorney General Pickle was already there. The two were closeted in the Governor's room in the hotel all dav. The Governor sent around to the news paper offices two proclamations. The first onered a reward ot $so lor each convict captured. The second was aimed at the mountaineers. It said: Wiieiulis. An armed mob had nvornow- cred tltu'WiirQcn, guards, had set at liberty PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, convicts, had despoiled and burned private property, now, therefore. I, John P. Bu chanan, Governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby offer $5,000 for the arrest and con vlction or the leaders of said mob,'the sum of $250 to be paid after final Judgment In each case. ST- The last Batch Set Free. Having done this the uovemor- iook tue earl v train this morning for Nashville. He had "hardly got clear of the town when a tele gram was sent announciug the news from Oliver Springs. When Saturday night passed without any further violence, and when people who visited Brice ville Sunday found everything so quiet, the hope that t violence was at an end began to be cherished, but there was a feeling of unrest. Oliver Springs lay not far across the mountains from Briceville and Coal Creek a half a night's journey at most and time to get back by daylight, and four miles north of Oliver Springs was the convict mine run by the CumberlandMining and Manufacturing Company. Here was a big stockade with a hospital, store rooms, superintendent's house, convicts' quarters. One hundred and fifty-six convicts were held there, but the Governor and the State guards evidently thought as this mine in Big Mountain had not figured in the other affair that there was no danger of attack upon it. The guard was not increased and no special precautions were taken. Indeed the guards might well have thought that Briceville lay too far across the mountains for the distance to he got over in a night's journey. There were 15 guards, well armed and behind good fortifications. The Cumberland company's stockade, unlike the two stockades captured on the other side of the range, was on high ground overlooking all the other mountains except that against which it was built Unsuspicious of Any Danger. So, Sunday night guards and convicts, all except the two night watchmen, went to sleep with no idea of any excitement that night. About 12 o'clock a negro convict kept awake by sickness, heard a Bound as of horses approaching slowly. He said nothing until all of a sudden the quiet sound gave place to a great scrambling of hurrying hoofs and almost immediately there was a great hanging at the door of the blockhouse at the corner of the stockade. The guards jumped to their feet, rushed toward that door and stood with cocked rifles: "Who is there, what do you want," said one guard. "Open the door or I'll throw this dyna mite against it," was the reply. At this the convicts, most of whom were negroes, set up a great howl and moan, begging the guards to open the door. The gnards did so, through no persuasion of the con victs. Outside, almost surrounding the stockade, were armed men some masked, others merely sooted, but all were armed with rifle! The leader ordered the guards to eet away as quickly as possible. It is said that at this command the guard dropped his gun and ran, like a hounded deer until he reached his own house several miles away. A Scarcity of Clothing. The mounted-mountaineers set about the same business as had been done afoot the other side of the range. The store room was burst open and such of its contents as could supplement what provision the horse men had brought lor the convicts was utilized quickly. The Bupply of clothing was small, however, and the leader saw that it was given to the convicts of short term and therefore lesser criminality. When as many convicts as possible were supplied, the leader said: "Now, boys, skip out; make for the north." "Which wav is north?" said a convict who knew neither stars nor the mountains. "That way," said the leader, pointing, "make a bee line. If "you hajwn't got clothes ask at the mincrsvhouses, they'll fit you out," and thieves, murderers, burners -of houses, guilty of all sorts of outrages, fled over the mountains. They scattered their clothes as they went andBig Mountain Valley was decorated as the vaUey from Briceville to Coal Creek had been two nights before. The mountaineers all dismounted. A few watched the guards who stood not far away. The same dis mantling as of the Briceville stockade took place, and then the saturated mattresses were set on fire.- Soon the stockade was blazing, the flames had caught the roof of the superintendent's house nearby, and Oliver Springs, four miles away, was awakened by a sudden light at its windows. As the fire bazed up the mountaineers got on their horses and watched it from the half concealment of the trees. The End of the System. Some one shouted, "Hurrah for the end of the convicts in these parts!" They set up a shout and then rode away rapidly and silently toward the east The operator at Oliver Springs did not send any news of it until he had his ' breakfast this morning." Just before the stockade was attacked five men rode up to his station door, one of them called him out "Ain't it about time you shut up shop and went home?" he asked. "I have to stay later," said the operator. "What," said the mounted man cocking gun and making the barrel go up and down slowly several time3, "what, I guess you won't stav hereabouts; you'll go home and to bed, hey?" "I guess that's the best place for me," said the operator laughing, and he soon had the lights out and the door locked. When he did send the news to Knox ville it created the greatest sensation since the first landing of ousted convicts in July. The first question was, "where, did the horses come from?" This Was soon answered. All those small farmers in and around the mountains are heartily with the mountaineers and what they are doing. TheBe farmers loaned the horses for the night, and should Governor .Buchanan send out a searching party for the cav alry mob that party would find no trace of it The cavalry mob has disappeared as the infantry mob disappeared. Only this last blow was more" sensational and more ef fective, too, in that it was a sort of climax. The mountaineers have fulfilled their threats. The last convict is gone from the Walden's Range region. The Btockades are destroyed and those who have done it all are apparently safe from' the law, and it seems to be the general impression that no more leased couvicts will toil up the slopes of Walden's Range, that the convict system in East Tennessee is ended. FOBCED TO DEIHK POISON. The Terrible Charge Preferred Against a Colorado Alderman's Son. Boulder, COL., Nov. 2. Special Boulder is all excitement over a terrible crime committed here last 'night George Weiderholdt took Dora Alice Anderson, a pretty, young Swede for a walk, and forced her to take poison against her will She strongly objected, but he held her nose and forced the girl to drink a large vial of laudanum. He then threw away the bottle, which was found this morning, still con taining some of the poison. As soon as the crime was made known, two doctors were called, who worked over her to the best of their abililty from mid night until 9 o'clock this morning, when she died. Weiderholdt was arrested, and is now out on (1,000 bail. He denies all knowledge of the aflair. He. is the son of Alderman Weiderholdt The girl Vas a servant Steps Dowa After Twenty Tears' Service. Cincinnati, Nov. 2. To-day finished 20 years' service of Colonel Sidney D. Max well as Superintendent of the Chamber of Commerce, of Cincinnati, his resignation , having been accepted and his successor, Captain Charles B. Murray, elected. Throughout the business circles of the whole country Colonel Maxwell has com manded attention and respect by his annual reports, which have been models of com pleteness and accuracy. MIILETS GIG VOTE About the Only Thing Just ,Now Being Talked of by Ohio Bepublicans. BETTING ON THE MAJOE. The latest Democratic Claim a Majority of Less Than 5,000. CHAIRMAN HAHN I00KS FOR 20,000 Hamilton County the Principal Debating Ground for To-Day. SIDE ISSUES THAT MAT BE EFFECTIVE ' rTKOM A STAFF COBHESPOJTOENT.J CoLtrsiBUS, Nor. 2. ;Will the cock crow or the eagle soar on Wednesday morning? This is what the whole country, and the Ohio people in particular,- would like to know in advance. As the time for voting draws nearer, the interest in the campaign grows more suppressed but intenser. That trite sentence which.the orators have used bo much of late, "Alone with your con science and your God, " is once more apropos. The people have heard the arguments, and they are now ready to decide the contest. The Republicans are more confident than ever, while the Democrats are still full of hope and counting on a landslide. The headquarters to-day were like Goldsmith's "Deserted Tillage. " All the leaders had departed, but they will be back to-morrow afternoon to receive the returns. Camp bell is making his last and supreme effort at Cincinnati to-night, to line up his ob stinate forces. The Democratic managers haven't much faith in the professions of loyalty made by the Hamilton county kickers, hut they arc willing to take them at their word. How the Governor could possibly win without Cincinnati id the ranks is beyond the conception of enthusi astic Republicans, but with the Ham City politicians in the sulks they don't think he has a ghost of a show. Only McKinley and Campbell Thought Of. In the last stages of the fight the People's party, the Prohibitionists and the legisla tive ticket are lost sight of. It is whether Campbell or McKinley will win. The betting, which may be taken as an in dication of how the people -feel, is in gen eral two to one on McKinley, but this is what it was against Campbell two years ago when he knocked out Foraker. Here are some of the sample bets to be seen on the poolroom blackboards: "One hundred dollars even that McKinley beats Campbell 10,000, or any part of it" "Twenty-five dollars even McKinley beats Campbell 12, 000." This bet was taken. Odds of $1,000 to MOO ihat Mckinley would win are of fered, hatj forfi¬ taker, ,Fitiydol-, rawicfK on McKinley fsqmle acdmmon" wager.. "Not a great deal of money is being put up,. for the reason that the Republicans can't find takers for their liberal offeri. Careful men in both parties base a great deal on the fact that Ohio is a Republican State, and while they admit that Campbell may have gained some free silver farmers or others dissatisfied with the tariff, the num ber is not sufficient to offset McKinley's ex pected plurality. The Cincinnati losses will more than stand off allege. Democratic gains in the country districts. The Struggle for Free Silver. Looking back now it is seen that forcing the silver issue by the Republicans was a mistake. This is especially true, in the northwest, where the People's party is strong, and free silver has become a hobby with them. If McKinley while in that sec tion had confined himself to a discussion of the tariff, he would have won back more of the Republican farmers who have gone over to the new party. Free silver is what the Grange and the Alliance are fighting for, and both organizations are quite strong in the State. v Before going home to vote this morning, Chairman Neal scaled up his estimate in an envelope and turned it over to Colonel Tay lor -for safe kcepiner. The letter will 6e opened at 4:30 o'clock AVednesday after noon. The Democrats have been tearing up Chairman Habn's figures by counties. They claim he fixed McKinley's majority before hand, and then made the county estimates produce the result,. According to Mr. Hahn, McKinley will have 57,835 of a ma jority in the Republican counties, against 37,530 for Campbell in the Democratic ones, making the Major's plurality 20,305 votes. He claimes 8,500 majority in Hamilton, 1,500 in Lucas, where Toledo is located, 3,000 in Cuyahoga (Cleveland), 2,500 in Trumbull, McKinley's native county in the Reserve; Loraine, 2,000; Jefferson, 1,450; Geauga, 2,000; Greene, 2,000. These are the heaviest Republican. majorities by counties. Disaffection In and Around Toledo. Chairman Neal knocks off the 1,500 Re publican estimate in Lucas, and claims the county by 500." Lucas gave Foraker about 600 of a majority in 1880. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction in and around To ledo over Senator Sherman's Federal ap pointees, and it wouldn't surprise Republi cans to see the majority cut down and even wiped out Colonel Taylor is more liberal than Chair man Neal, and concedes the Republicans 750 in Lucas. Chairman Hahn expects 3,800 from Ashtabula. It ought to be 4,000, but the Democrats put it down at 3,600. The fight of the Court House removal is having its effect, and has stirred up bad blood. Colonol Taylor went over the Re-. publican estimates very carefully, and he gave his figures in parallel columns. He puts Campbell's majority in the Democratic counties at 45,085, and McKinley's in the Republican sections at 40,455, thus giving the Major about 1,000 of a plurality in the State. This is enough for all practical pur poses, but it would not be much of a com pliment to the Major. Taylor allows Mc Kinley a surplus of 4,250 in Hamilton county; other Democrats put his majority at 0,000 or more. Colonel Taylor says he has discovered that the Republicans made up their estimates by adding 15 per cent to Ryan's vote and subtracting 15 per cent from Cromley's showing last year. He adds that the vote shows a falling off of 5,000 for the Republicans and 19,000 for the Democrats over 1889, which represents the stay-at-homes in 1890. Ryan, it will be re membered, had a plurality of about 11,000 votes. The Latest Democratic Flgnres. Chairman Neal, in going over the Repub lican list this morning, took off 5,900 more votes that Colonel Taylor did, which would leave Campbell's majority, in his opinion, about 4.900. These are the latest Demo cratic figures, and they can be taken for j what they are wortn. unairman jseai nas been making a dicker with the People's party since the campaign opened. It is claimed he has secured promises from many of them to' 'support" Campbell. The wily 1891 - TWELVE PAGES. Chairman is banking much on their votes and influence. There is no doubi about the Democrats lacking money. In the last few days Mr. Neal has been bothered a great deal by workers who wanted cash for their efforts. He had to turn them away without the long stuff The committee was also too poor to send voters home, but the Republicans have not failed to cart off all the voters thev could find who wonld cast a straight ballot A delegation called at the Republican head quarters to-day after transportion. "How would you vote?" said the man in charge, pointing to a big yellow ballot. "Well," the leader of the party replied, "I would tear off the Republican ticket." "And spoil the ballot," replied the clerk. "I guess it won't pay to send you home. You couldn't help the party, any how." Votes to Be Lost Through Ignorance. This is only a sample of what can be ex pected with the pew election law, and a number of votes are 'sure to he disfran chised. The party that has the most igno rance to contend with is the one that will suffer the severest About the onlypur chaseable section of Ohio is the Hocking Valley where there is a strong floating population that earns a livelihood in the mines. Still, with two men like John Mc Bride and Speaker Hysel working among the miners, the Democrats haven't much to fear from this source. Money will have but little influence in other parts of the State, and the Republican barrel, if there is one, can't do a great deal of harm. The Buckeye people in the main flatter them selves that they are above corruption and bribes. This remains to be seen in the election to-morrow. August Herrman, Chairman of the Hamil ton county Republican Committee, says this evening: "There is no reason to doubt the complete victory of the Republican party on both State and county tickets in the election to-morrow. McKinley's plurality in the State will reach 20,000, and my best judgment is that we will ha've a large work ing majority in both branches of the Legis lature. In Hamilton county McKinley's . plurality will be from 7,500 to 9,000, and ' every man on the connty ticket will be elected. Hamilton County Bepublicans United. "The Republicans here, in so far asthe State ticket' is concerned, present a united front Our vote in the German wards will be the largest since the Garfield campaign. Governor Campbell's quarrel with members of his own party, and the general muddle of changing of boards through partisan legisla tion have operated against the Democracy. Another factor in the local contest was the lawyers' judicial movement In my judg ment it should not, and I believe it will not, cut any figure. Nominations for judges, as all other nominations, should be made by the people, not by a certain pro fession. Summing it all up, my judgment is that McKinley will have from 7,500 -to 9,000 plurality in Hamilton county, and the county ticket from 2,500 to 5,500." M'KINLEY AT HOME. A FITTING CLOSE TO HIS CAMPAIGN AMONG HIS NEIGBBOItS. The Major .Is Tendered a Magnificent Be ceptlon by Marching Clubs and the People in General He Benem a- Parade From. a Hotel Balcony. Cantor Nov. - 2. SpeeiaV Vast as have been many of the political meetings at this, Major McKinley's home, in the pas't, the ovation tendered him to-night .was jbevona all previous recoras. ine "MajorTUmself w In theTTiesl .of apfrlts, and thoroughly a' appreciated the generous welcome. He arrived in the.eity from Massillion in time to obtain a certificate of removal from the Seventh to the First ward, hiapresent place of residence. . Shortly after supper' the noise of a march ing band called him to the balcony of the Hurford House, and here he viewed the passing of the parade giyen in his honor. The clubs of the various wards in the city, accompanied by the Republican Club of Akron, made an imposing pageant. Cheer after cheer went into the air as'the form of their gallant standard bearer was seen. To-night the people tendered him a recep tion that would lighten the heart of any man. Early in the evening people began to gather in the Tabernacle, where the meeting was held, and by the time order was called an available place to sit or stand could not be found. When Judge Day introduced the Major, again the cheer was taken up and would not be quieted until he had commenced to speak. Shortly after he had btgun some one in the audience shouted, "What's tho matter with .McKinley?" The crowd took it up, and "He's all right" went ringing through the hall. A moment later the va rious clubs came marching by and the music of the horns and drum drowned the speak er's voice. The address was a masterly one, reviewing State questions, the tariff and silver. CAMPBELL CL03E3 HIS CAMPAIGN. He Speaks to an Enthusiastic Crowd of Fellow Democrats. Cincinnati, Nov. 2. Special Gov ernor Campbell spoke - at Music Hall to night to an enormous crowd. At no other meeting by any party this year or any other, for that matter has the hall been so densely packed, while outside thousands more cheered themselves hoarse. The en thusiasm was something wonderful, and Campbell was received with demonstrations of pleasure that approached utter abandon. The meeting; was not largely advertised, in a public way at least, and its immensity was a complete surprise. After Senator Carlisle, Judge Ermston, General Ryan and Hon. C. W. Baker had each spoken briefly, Governor Campbell was Introduced. The wildest cheering pre vailed for fully ten minutes. His speech was given up almost wholly to charging cor ruption by the Republican party in the present campaign, Pittsbnrg getting 20 min utes' attention in the arraignment. The Governor' charged that Pittsburg contrib uted $100,000 to the Republican corruption fund, and "the Carnegies and other pluto crats born ot the robber tariff' stood willing to do as much more if necessary. WAITING ON THE ELECTIONS. Blaine's Friends Will Know To-Morrow Jnst What to Do. BANGOR, Noy. 2. Special. General Sprague, a near neighbor and friend of the Blaines in Augusta, says that Mrs. Blaine opposes the movement to give her husband the Republican nomination. General Sprague "says: ""Nothing will be done until after the fall elections,- Mr. Blaine's friends do not want him to be set up merely to be knocked down. If the people in the States that hold elections this fall express their ai proval of the policy, which has practically been created by Mr. Blaine, his friends will then be able to decide upon a course of ac tion. "In Augusta there is the same division of opinion as to what Mr. Blaine will do that exists elsewhere." Republicans Expect to Carry McKecsport. McKeesport, Nov. 2. Special. The outlook for to-morrow is that a large vote will be polled and the1 Republican county ticket go through in good shape, though there will be some cutting by the Straight out Republicans. Some hard hustling is being done to bring ottt.the full vote, and in all likelihoodit will succeed. Out in the township a first-clasa Straightout movement is reported, but-it is believed loth the State mere Many of Them WUl Go To-Day. and connty ticket will pull through even there. WATRES' FIGURES RAISED. BiE NOW LOOKS FOB GO.OOO MAJORITY IN PJ-SiNSYLVANIAw"' Ijist Scrapings ofthoHeadquarl Phil adelphia Kerr Leaves no Figr ie Given Out Everybody Goes i to V- Tote. t. j.- -t i rnri ruiMUKbraiA, iiuv. i. ."iwr - vr "Jfo chance to catch an item in hereto . ? m0Tni with the ; of said General Reeder, this afternoyrhoU lhe'm08t pemiar, most closing up shop and putting up tbhnttt mllcated and nogt rem Jble political t0 ,.,,.. , , 4-C 'tie In Allegheny county's history. The That was about the size of jKe situatioU ,. ... ,.,. '. . -T. ,m tn linheretojl ifternooaf ' j up thp shu of me Bitui ; here pol quince last . !. t Lm a t aw Ahaa -nili iinav everywuere in me reuicis !"c f., have found a ready handlingsinceiast juiy. Scarcely a familiar figure anted the Dem rratic rooms, and the i early in the day with the der. (ton went home ' over his shoul- There was an appearance of life at Re niihlican headauarters. vith a single type writer clicking out an easy march for the Tew visitors who threaded their way over the much-worn carpets to the innersanctum. Secretary Leech had on a neat pair of dark glasses to puzzle those in search of evidence of a recent tussle with the Delaware Sena tor. Clerk Jere Rex clearedaway the pile on his desk preparatory to his Huntingdon trip later on. By evening the place was burdened with a deserted look, and even the Nubian guard at the door had a weary air about him that he doubtless wanted to pawn as a relief. Chairman Watres returned to his desk after lunch and appeared quite uncomfort able in having nothing to do. "You know, of course," said Reeder, in his careless way of telling an interesting thing, "that Watres Is something of a Presbyterian up in Scan ton and never came near these rooms on Sundays. That is one reason why he has such a restful repose in his movements to day. Now, I began as a Presbyterian, but broke the record long ago." "Yes," retorted Watres, "Reeder knows better, but keeps out of the way of doing it." "We shall have 60,000 majority," Chair man Watres said this evening, a plain ad dition of 15,000 to his estimate in the morn ing papers, "and I know it as a solid truth. Why, how can it be otherwise?" Chair man Watres left for Scranton this evening to return again to-morrow. Major John D. Worman, the Democratic warrior whom no one can disturb in temper nor deviate from a strictly Jeffersonian doc trinal course, presided at the Penn Sqnare rooms as long as they were open. Secre tary John M. Snyder, the Clearfield barris ter of semi-Websterian appearance, was the last to leave his desk, after completing a .series of' return papers Sox use to-mowow "night 4IB tuu.been a great help to Chair man Kerr, and has been known to make -some excellent.campaign speeches. "Mr. Kerr has no .doubt of theresult," said Mr. Snyder, "and gave out no esti mate, for the very good reason that such a course invites attention to points that should not be known." K00SEB THROWS TIP THE SPONGE. He Withdraws From the Judicial Contest In Favor of Longenecker. Somerset, Nov. 2. ferial. Since the adjournment of the Republican Judicial Conference, at Hyndman Thursday night last, without making a nomination, it has been evident that an inclination on the part ot the Republicans of this county to sup port Mr. Longenecker has been growing, and reports that a grand rush would be made to his support have reached this place. This state of affairs is very discouraging to Mr. Koo&er, and at 7:30 o'clock this even ing he gave out the following withdrawal from the contest: Up to this time I have asked your support lor President Judge as a right due to this county. It is now obvious that it the three cornered light is continued It will result in the defeat of the party in the district, which I would regret as mnch as anyone, and to avoid this for the best Interests of the party I withdraw from tho contest and ask that my friends support Mr. Longenecker. Copies of this withdrawal are being made and will be posted in most .of the election districts by morning. With Mr. Kooser out of vthe contest the Republicans of this countyVill probably vote for Mr. Longe necker to a man, and there is but little doubt that the returns to-morrow evening will show his election. Crawford County Claimed for Tilden. MEADVn.LE, Nov. 2. Special While a full vote is not expected in Crawford to morrow it will be very fair for an off year. Republicans claim the county by GOO, while Democrats concede Gregg a majoritVj but say Tilden will be elected over Morrison. Thprincipal efforts of the Democrats in this connty have been for Tilden. A BLIZZAED IN THE WEST. Storms and Very Cold Weather In Minne sota and the Dakota. Nokthfiei-d, Minn., Nov. 2. The weather yesterday took still another change for the colder, the thermometer falling to near zero. The weather will interfere with threshing unless it becomes warmer. A dispatch from Warren, Minn., says: After some rain an inch of snow fell here. There are thousands, of acres of grain in shock yet, "and these are covered with ice and snow. The weather to-day is wintry. A Chamberlain, S. D., dispatch says: Snow began falling about noon yesterday and still continues. This is the first snowstorm of the season. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. COO Convicts Loose in Tennessee 1 McKinley's Probable Majority 1 The Allegheny County Campaign 1 A Blacksmith's Horrible Death; 2 The North Side Charges.'. 3 Lawyer Bhapley Talks 2 A World's W. C. T. U. Meeting 3 Classified Advertisements 3 Editorial Articles and Comment 4 The Bealm of Society 4 Theatrical News and Criticism C Death Here and Elsewhere O Industrial Intelligence G Hotel Arrivals and Personals Pittsburg's Great Armor-Plate. 6 The Boston Bank Failure.... 7 More Peaceful News About Chile 7 Kerr Beady for Quay "" Sporting, Ftate News and Weather 8 Campaigns In the West " AHoraeTblePsHepcntance The Outlook In New York-. 1.... 9 A Bering Sea Wonder 1 Work in the Oil Fields - 10 Financial and Commercial Markets II Court Proceedings....... 13 A Phantom Forest '..... la The History of Voting. ..13 sefl 1e; THREE CENT& NOW FORJALLOTS The Political Contest Up to "Where American Citi zens Tabe'a Hand. OPINIONS ON THE BESULT. Republican Leaders Are Confident of County and State. THESTRAIGHTOUTSWELL PLEASED They Are Med They Will Be Success ful at the rolls. BOTH SIDES TO DATE 1 rri. ri J t. - 1 ,. :..,! n " are VHfmr V the fever heat which has been one of its characteristics for the past three weeks, until the last vote is cast and counted to night The peculiarity of the fight lies in the fact that the two old established political parties of the county, which are generally bitterly opposed to each other, are working together, hand in band, for the same county ticket, against an infant movement. The complications constituting a striking clement of the contest, arise from the facts that there are so many tickets for each voter to cast, so many personal feelings involved in relation to the candidates themselves, and so many possibilities for cutting, trad ing and indulging in the other sharp practices common to all elections. The re markable features of the campaign have been numerous, but the most remarkable of all will be produced if those who have made this contest possible should elect any of their candidates. Lack of Discipline. This is not considered possible by any of the old party leaders except those who have gone over to the Independent movement and whose judgment is apparently .affected by their preferences. The old organizations count on their long drill and experience on the field to more than counteract the fire and fighting of the new movement, which, while led by old campaigners is alleged to lack the organized effectiveness and disci pline necessary for a winning battle. The various city political headquarters yesterday showed an excellent illustration of this feature. At the Republican head quarters oi) Diamond street and at those of the Democrats on Fourth avenue, there were all day long pouring in and out again the men who have fought the battles, rallied the forces and forced the conclusions for years past They came in, met their su perior officers,, received instructions and in rinny"caseiiamething of. at least equal value in this kind of warfare, and then re turned to the field. In this way many spots in the party lines that Vtere on Saturday thought to be weak were strengthened and rendered more impervious to attack. At the officers' quarters of the Straightouts, however, there was a lack of this discipline which comes of thorough organization, and although there were constantly on hand a body of men anxious to consult with somebody they were apparently not the kind of men who control votes, and their purpose seemed rather to get something for themselves than to do anything for the good of the cause. At Straightout Headquarters. The Straightout headquarters was only a distributing place for tickets. The leaders were not there. Candidates Fetterman and Pitzsimmons put in appear ance for a short time in the afternoon but the recognized headquarters of the move ment was at A. H. Rowand's law office on Grant street There was a crowd on hand all day but Mr. Rowand was careful not to mingle with them too freely. Many were after money, and that is a commodity which Mr. Rowand claims himself is something the Straightouts are short of. Those who were of any importance politically were taken into Mr. Rowand's private office, where with bolted doors they discussed the situation, while the would-be workers waited vainly in the front office for their time. The crowd got so large finally that the Straightout leader had to abandon his office altogether and by means of a con venient back door he escaped the unfor tunate ones by taking refuge in Candidate Pitzsimmons' office. The pretty brown eyed typewriter at Mr. Rowand's office not knowing of the escape, continued to smile sweetly on all 'who called and informed them that: "Mr. Rowand will see you shortly. Please take a seat" A moment's conversation with Mr. Row and was gained by a reporter after much waiting but he only took time to reiterate his former claims, saying: "We are going to surprise those fellows in many places.- We are sure to win. W have every countrv district solid, boroughs and townships. Allegheny City is ours by 2,500 and likely more. We will give them Pittsburg by 2,000 and still we'll land every X MfE FIGHT ON man on our ticket by 5,000 majority. Re member that until to-morrow night and look out for surprises." Judge Fetterman was asked for an opinion but would only say: "I see nothing but victory anywhere. I feel very confident" Candidate Pitzsimmons thought his chances had improved greatly within a few days and he felt hopeful. None of the other Straightout candidates could be seen hut it was understood they were all out working for their election. At Republican Headquarters. Sheriff McCleary, Secretary Miller and Senator Plinn seemed to have charge of the Republican headquarters all day, and they were busily engaged hearing reports, ad vice and complaints, and at the same time attending to the wants of the workers and various classes of politicians, all of whom were represented numerously. The rooms were jammed all the time. During the early evening District Attorney Burleigh and Judge Porter came in and lent a hand with the work, while dozens of other high up officials and politicians came and went frequently. C L. Magee, who has been in the East since Saturday, returned to town yes terday and dropped into the headquarters for a few moments durinc the afternoon. He was warmly received but took no active part in the business going on. He was asktd for an opinion on the political situa tion and promptly replied: "I think the whole Straightout ticket will be defeated by from 15,000 to 18,000 votes. I can't see how even Judge Fetterman can come any nearer to winning than that The candidate on the regular ticket who receives the greatest number of votes will have a majority of about20,000 over his opponent" "So you think Mr. Fettei-nan will run ahead of his ticket?" "Certainly. Ue is a man with a great many warm personal friends and by reason of his connection for 15 years with Republi can county politics has many firm friends in the party. I am, myself, a warm friend of Mr. Fetterman's, but I am not with bias 4 -" . -!
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