1 EIGHT PAGES 5 COLUMNS. SOKANTOX, PA., MONDAY 3IOUNING, NOYEMHEIl 12, 189-1. TWO CENTS A COPY. PLUMS FORTHE FAITHFUL Some oi the ratronage hkh Gov ernor Hastings Will Control. XICE SALARIES ATTACHED From Present Appsorancc It Will Not B Very Difficult to Get Men Enough to ' Occupy Thcso Positions of Public Trust. ' Sy tho United Press. Harrisburg, Nov. 11. Tt is the belief of close observers that when General Hasting becomes gov ernor the offices at his disposal will uot need to seek tha men to any great ex tout. In fact, several men have already volunteered to fill each oflice, and the season of office-seeking Is quite young yet. According to the Patriot, the most Im portant of these olllces whloh General Hastings will have ut his disposal Is secretary of the commonwealth, the sal ary of which Is $4,U)0 a year. Secretary Ilarrlty has made on an average of over $17,000 a year out of the office on salury and fees. The deputy secretary receives ?2,500 a year; chief clerk, $2,200; cor poration ilerk, $2,200; ten other clerks, $1,400 each; one extra clerk, $1,500, and messenger, $1,100. It has always been the custom for the chief clerk of this department fu serve us the clerk to the board of pardons, the salary of which Is $000 a year. Other Snug Berths. There are only a few appointments in the executive department. Tho most Important la private serretatry to the governor, who receives a salary of $2,000 and $500 additional as recorder of the board of purdons. The executive clerk receives $1,600 a year; assistant execu tive clerk, $1,800; messenger, $1,200; type writer, $1,200; page, $:io0, and night watchman. $"0. The Janitor of this de partment is paid out of the contingent fund. Jacob Allen, a faithful old col ored man has .filled this place continu ously for twenty-three years. He Is a Republican and will likely be retained by the incoming governor. The attorney general's oflice Is worth $11,000 a year lu salury and fees. The sulary of the attorney general Is $3,500, or $5"0 less than that of his deputy, who receives no fees unless by agreement of the attorney general to divide them as Attorney General Hensel does with his deputy, James A. Stranahan. The law clerk of this department receives $2,200 a year and the stenographer $1,500. The adjutant general receives a sal ary of $2,500 a year and $C0d additional for serving as a member of the military board. The chief clerk gets $1,800; two clerks, $1,400 each; two temporary clerks, $1,200 each; messenger, $900; messenger in the flag room, $000; keeper of state arsenal, $1,500; six assistants, $SO0. In addition the military board usually selects one of the clerks In tha adjutunt general's department for Us secretary, a position which pays $100 n year. Places Already f illed. There will be no changes In the de partment of public instruction until 1SU7, as the governor has no power to remove the state superintendent before the expiration of his term. The in cumbent, Hev. Dr. Schaeffcr, lias over two years to serve. With the excep tion of two clerks and a messenger, the attaches of this department ere hold-over Republicans. The salary of the state superintendent Is $4,000 a year; two deputies receive each $1,800; three clerks each, $1,400, and a messenger,. S900. The messenger Is also messenger In the office of the secretary of the state1 board of agriculture at a salary of $:I00 n year. State Librarian Egle has over three years yet to serve. Ho was originally appointed by Governor Beaver, and it Is thought he- will not be disturbed by General Hastings. Sorrie of his asslst ; ants will have to go to make room for . Kepublleans. The salary of the state (librarian Is $2,500 a year; first assistant, $1,800: second assistant, $1,500; mssen- -ffrtr, $1,000; night watchman, $900, and two cataloguers, $1,200 each. The state librarian Is also allowed a stenographer and typewriter, whose salary conies out of the contingent fund. One of the most lucrative places in the gift of the governor Is superintend ent of banking, which pays $4,U00a year. The deputy superintendent gets $2,500; two clerks each $1,400. There are also three examiners In this department who are paid In fees. Another comfort able position with a large Income which the governor-elect will have at his com mand Is factory inspector, which pays $3,500 a year. There are also twelve deputies each of whom receive $1,200 a year and traveling expenses. Take Your Choice. . Among the other places which the In coming governor will control are dairy nnd food commissioner,, which pays $2,000 a year; inspector of gas meters for the city of Pittsburg, $2,000; super intendent of public printing and bind ing, $2,000; clerk to the superintendent, $500; ha"bnr master, Phlladelphla,$2,500; health officer, Philadelphia, $2,500; and others of less Importance. One of tho best paying offices at the disposal of the governor Is that of Insurance com missioner, which is worth about $8,000 a year in salary and fees. The deputy Insurance commissioner Is paid $1,800 a year; two clerks each $1,400; an extra clerk the same amount; a stenographer, $1,200, and messenger, $900. General Latta, the next secretary of Internal affairs, wlfTcontrol a number of good appointments. With' one ex ception the attaches of the Internal af fairs department are Republicans. The exception is Major Forster, a veteran of the Mexican ami" civil wars. The secretary of Internal affairs receives $4,000 a year nnd $500 In addition for serving as a member of the board of pardons. It la likely that . General Latta will bo chosen secretary of the ' state medical council when he takes Colonel Stewart's place In the council. This position pays $300 a year. The salary'of the present secretary of Internal affairs Is $3,000 a year. The next secretary will receive $4,000, as provided by the act of 1893 Increasing the salaries of ofrtaln state officials and employes, including the auditor gen- " oral, mho will hereafter receive $4,000. The deputy secretary of Internal af fairs receives $2,300 a year," exclusive of$200foractIngaHsecretaryof the board of property. Next deputy sec retary the most important position In this department Is chief of the bureau of Industrial statistics, who receives $2,500 a year. This appointment la mde by the secretary of Internal affairs by the advice and consent of the governor. Other places in this department , are drafting clerk, the salary of which la $1,700; thirteen other clerks, $1,400 each; two collectors of statistics, each $1,500 and traveling; expenses; messenger, $1,200; stenographer, $1,000, and night watchman, $1)00. , ; Ex-Senator Mylin, the next auditor general, will control thirteen clerkships, the salary of each being $1,400 a year; chief clerk, $3,500; corporation clerk, $3,G00; messenger and night watchman, each $900. DON CAMERON IS FOR REED. Ue Thinks the Lx-Sncoker lthe Strongest .Man in the l ost. By lh Unltad Press. Washington, Nov. 11. Senator Don Cameron has returned to Washington feeling quite comfortable over the snug majority the Pennsylvania Republicans gava on Tuesday last. In view of the frequent mention of Senator Cameron's name In connection with tlje nomina tion for the presidency, a reporter of the New York Sun proceeded to sound the senator on that subject. He deslares positively that he has no presldontial aspirations and never had "the bee in his bonnet," notwithstanding all the good-natured statements to the con trary. He says he would like to see Tom Reed elected president, for he be lieves he would make an admirable ex ecutive. ' He considers Mr. Reed the strongest eastern man yet named, and he realizes that Harrison and McKlnley are both In the field for the nomination . He says ex-Prcsldent Harrison Is as much a candidate now as he was two years ago. HIh work In the recent campaign showed that, and the enthusiasm he arouses wherever he appeared Indicates that he still has many warm admirers in the Republican party. TAUBENECK FEELS GOOD. Populists Say It la the Greatest Victor)' They Ever Won. By the United Press. Washington, Nov. 11. The Populists fire beginning to crow over the election and to claim that the result Is the great est victory the People's party has ever won. They claim to have doubled their vote and effected the break-up of. the solid south, und at the same time to have made the Populist party the only silver party In the United States. 11. E. Taubeneck, the chairman of the national Populist parly, indorses all these" claims. He says that the party in the south and west will unite und make silver the only issue In 1890, and he thinks It lu an issue upon which the Populists will win. SALT TOR HIS WOUNDS. Congressman Ricliurdu Given u Bag of Chestnuts by Democratic Soldiers. By the United Press. , Wooster, O., Nov. 11. Tho Democra tic soldiers here purchased a bushel of chestnuts and sent them la Congress man Ricliarauut New Philadelphia, the defeated Democratic caudldale. They did this because he referred to the petition of the soldiers, asking for the appointment of L. R. Kfamer to the Wooster postofflce, as having no weight with him, and called them "old chestnuts." 1 CRUSHED BY A BIG MAJORITY. Beaten Populist Candidate Is Now Dyiug from Disappointment. By the United Press. Rtdfield, S. D., Nov. 11. Judge Isaac Howe, the Populist candidate for gov ernor in the late campaign, Is lying ill nt his home here, with small hope f'.-r Ids recovery. Tho incitement nnd fatigue of tho campaign were more than he could en dure, und the tremendous muj.irily against him Ih doubtless also a grievous disappointment. POLITICAL Sl'ARS. Bynum, of Indiana, saya the people are too restless. Evans, Hep., for governor, carries Ten nessee by 9,wj. Chris aiageo saya Democracy's eoosc Is permanently cooked. Allman, Pop,, for goveruor of Pennsyl vania, polled 13,104 votes. , The plurality of Owens, in 1 Breckin ridge's district, is down to 2. Kdltor Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, is a candidate for Illinois senutorshlp. . Coxey has given . employment to his twenty-one stranded followers at Moa slllon, O. Bell (Pop.) is elected to congress over Bowen in the Second Colorado district by 5,000 majority. Utah's two senators will decide the polit ical complexion of the next senate. No one seems to know how Utah will go. Reed, Hurrlson und lleKlnky are re garded at Washington as the three lead ing candidates for presidential honors in law. , John Donovan, of Bay county, will con stitute the Democratic party In Michi gan's next legislature. He has 20 plur ality. . For tho first time In the history tf Wayne county, O., every Kepubllcun on the state, district and county tickets re ceived majorities and the county is Ke publlcan. ' ' A revised count of the vote in the Six teenth Illinois district elects Finis E. Downing (l)tin.) by Ki majority over John L. Mnaker (Kep.). This makes the Illi nois delegation stand Republicans 21, Democrats 1. It Is reported that Attorney General 01 ney contemplates resigning, because the drudgeries and responsibilities of the of fice are wearing on him. Congressman W. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, Is spoken of as his successor. Senator John Sherman frankly admits he was greatly surprised at the dimen sions of t lie avalanche. He attributes the result to a general protest against the Democratic administration by the Ameri can people, who are Intelligent enough; to know that the public business has not been conducted properly during the two years the Democrats have had control of the government. I , - t KEYSTONE VIGNETTES. Latrobe will build a )HO,000 water plant. The 526 "riser" case will be 'disposed of at a special term of court in Dauphin county this week. - : Daylight thleveB stole watahas and jew elry worth $600 from Eugene. A. Raw's home, at Bethlehem.' :" . . - Esherlte Evangelicals have made a for mal demand for possession of the Schuyl kill seminary at Fredericksburg. v For revenge a workman named Dlrlgd struck Thomas Brenlnger, of Schuylkill Haven, on the head, fracturing the skull. Warren borough has appealedto law to prevent the Young ilous Christian as sociation from erecting a building du town property.. , - ; rail Italian Shot Down in Cold Blood by a Fellow Country man on Bunker Hill. ASSASSIN LAY IN AMBUSH Following His Revolting Clime Joe Biisken Eludes Arrest and Gains a Start of Seven or Eight Hours Another Added to Our List of .Murders. A foul and ct.ld-blooded murder was. committed last ivenlngon"Bunker Hill" a section of ijiunmorc borough popu lated by Italians and situated near what Is known as the old No. 6 plune. The murdered man was an Italian and his slayer, who has escaped arrest, is of the same nationality. Rather than murder, the crime was assassination, and the two Ituliun witnesses of the re volting act were too drunk after their arrest to throw any light on the affair, and at an early hour this morning were laying In a bestial stupor in the Dun more lockup. The name of the escaped murderer is Joe Buskeen. He is 33 years of age, 3 ft. 10 In. In height, of slender build, has a light colored, heavy, sandy mous tache, curled at the ends, and Is thought to be clad in a blue suit of clothes. Francis Combort. the dead man, was married and conducted u sniull store on "Bunker Hill." Both men worked as section hands on the Erie and Wyoming Vulley railroad. They llad Been Drinking, During yesterday Buskeen, Combort, Tony Ritch and John Embriel partici pated In a drunken carousal in Dun more, and while returning to "Bunker H1U" engaged In a quarrel at 6.30 o'clock on the wire bridge over Roaring brook near the railroad car shops. In the scuffle which ensued Combort's hat was knocked over Into the water and the quartette had a general fight. Buskeen separated from the others and started homeward along the pathway that runs up the hillside studded with laurel shrubs. About ten minutes later Com bort and his two companions started along the same route. When the trio reached, a. turn In the pathway About two rods below the Erie and Wyoming tracks a shot was fired and Combort fell upon the bunk skirting the upper side of the path. A bullet had pierced his chest almost in its center and in a line with the heart. As Combort fell Buskeen sprang from the bushes and in the presence of his two fellow-countrymen fired an other bullet into lib victim's prostrate body. Klich and Embriel wade no, attempt t0 detain Iiuskeen until ho hud ran a short distance back und along the path way, ana wnen tney startuu toward him the assassin halted them with his weapon und then ran to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western tracks and disappeared In the direction of Elm hurst. These particulars were gleaned chiefly from James Klicn, a watchman at the cur shops across the brook, and from Italians who appeared on the scene shortly after- the shooting and claim to have obtained their informa tion from tho two witnesses, who were for the moment sobered sulllclently to realize what was happening. Murderer Had u Good stun. The Dunmore police und Justice of the Peace Scott were notified at once, but not until after 8 o'clock was a de scription of the murderer' flashed over the wires from tho Brie and Wyoming depot. Even then the description was given wrong and the error was not rec tified until nearly midnight. Sheriff Fahey was given but iuvugrc Informa tion of the crime shortly ufter it hap pened and he did not 'receive even a few details until several hours later. In the, meanwhile County Dbtective Shea could not be located and at an early hour this morning tho murderer had had a start of seven or eight hours. Justice of the Peace Scott Impanelled the following coroner's jury which viewed Combort's body: I'. C. Lnngan, Michael Flnncrty. Putrlck McHule, Frank Pettorsall, Martin Gallagher and Mr. Reardon. At 10.30 o'clock the re mains were taken to the establishment of Undertaker Letchworth to await an Inquest by Coroner Kelley today. In the dead man's pockets were found a watch and chain, a small knife with the blade opened and a little over one dollar In coin. When he left home earlier In the day he hud over Jl'O on his person. H Is a Tough Character, Buskeen, the murderer, has often been under arrest for fighting and petty crime, and has been considered a very tough character. He Is married and childless. Combort's wife became quite 111 after being told of her huBbandt violent death. This Is the sixth murder among the foreign element within the county' within a few mouths. The most recent killing was that done by Merloa, who escaped to Italy after shooting down a fellow countryman In Old Forge In day light, and In the presence of a hundred spectators. . Previously In Taylor a man received a slush -from a knife, the wound extending from the left shoulder down and across the bowels to a point over Die right hip, the cut almost dis embowelling him. At Arcubald, two murders occurred recently. Last win ter, on Blair avenue, this city, a Po lander named Tomulinus, while, en gaged In a brawl, was killed by a blow from an axe. i FROM WASHINGTON. Recorder of Deeds Taylor will resign, under pressure. , Rear Admiral Oherardl has been placed on the retired lUt. Wall street men say that there will b an Issue of So,Ooo,000 or IllU.Ovo.uOO 6 per cent, government bonds before congress again reassemble,- - The FUIRM OFJUSSIAN CZAR The Imposing Ceremonies at Moscow Yesterdav, STREETS PAYED FOR PARADE Two and One-Half Miles of Cobble Pue racnt Laid In Ouu Night Grand Fu neral Procession-Solemn Ser vices In Ibcriun Chapel. Moscow, Nov. 11. The Imperial party, with the bo.ly of Alexander III., arrived here today. Al though thousands were busy ull night putting the city In morning for the late czar, the streets ut daybreak looked us If some great festival was to be cele brated. But for the heuvy folds of black which hung high and low on all walls, a person would have thought that the crowds thronging every corner and open space had come to celebrate u national holiday rather than to lament the death of a powerful monarch. Such ceaseless universal activity and such enormous numbers of peasants, tourists and sol dier hud not been aeen here since tilo coronation of Alexander III, more than ten years ago. . ' . , , Ten thousand men worked all night to complete the druplug of the city. More than a thousand wrre employed In pav ing with cobblestones the streets through which the body was to pass. They laid two and a hulf miles of pave ment and scattered over it layers of sand to smother the rattling of car riages and the clatter of cavalry. The train with the body arrived nt 111. 10 o'clock. Cxar' Nicholas ill wus saluted 03 soon as lie alighted by the Grand Duke Serglus, the metropolitan of Moscow, and Kolomnu. the higher clergy, many generals and other offi cers. The procession was then formed In groups und the generuls, who had removed the pall, bore the coffin slowly to the funeral cur In the station yard. Then, amid the lolling of a thousand bells, the head of the huge column moved slowly toward the Red tlate. OrJcr of Procession. Tho master of ceremonies wore full uniform. Behind htm came the second and third companies of the Moscow household dragoons with a bund of trumpeters: two companies of grena diers, their murshul mounted; Ihe first company of dragoons, a company of cadets from tho Emperor Alexander Military academy; court lackeys, the family standard of the Romanoffs, the red war standurd, Alexander lll.'a charger led by two staff officers; the stable servants of the Imperial house hold; the banner and arms of Moscow; the Imperial navy flag, carried by nn admiral; an Immense black silk mourn ing banner and an equally large whlta banner, each carried by staff officers; the grand escutcheon of the empire, borne by four major generuls; the grand standard of the double eagle, carried by two major generals and two colonels; a deputation of city officials; numerous societies and delegations of merchants, shopkeepers, worklngmen and peas ants, all marching abreast; the mayor of Moscow and the mayors of all other fowns lu the government of Moscow; noblemen, official carrying on cushions of gold bordered with silver the decora tions of the late emperor; the Imperiul regalia, also the crowns of Poland, Siberia, Taurla and Astrachun, the em peror's war sword, the historical Insig nia of Moscow; the clergy carrying 'likvhted tapers; the court confessor and the proto-presbyter, Janysclleff. holding aloft the picture, of a saint. The Fnneral Car. The funeral car, which came next, was drawn by eight horses led by eight major-generals. Directly behind them rode Nicholas alone, looking pale und resolute. His uniform was half hidden In crepe. The order was then: Count Woroiwoff Duehekoff, minister of the Imperial court; the commandant of the guards and eight adjutant generals; the Prince of Wales, alone the Grand Duke Michael, the Grand Duke Serglus, the Grand. Duke Alexander, the king of Greece, Prince Alexander Petrovltch and the Duke of Oldenburg, escorted by adjutant general; the Moscow di vision of grenadiers. In the first carriage behind the grena diers rode the czarina, the Princess Allx and the Grand Duchess Xenla. The carriage was flunked with esquires. The Queen of Greece, the Grand Duch ess Elizabeth Feodorovna nnd the Princess of Wales occupied the next cur rlage, which was flanked with esquire and two grooms of the chamber; the ctarlna's suites, foreign ladles and their Sultea,. ladles of the court, and bed chamber, the czar's physician aud per sonal attendants, a company of cadets, several companies of artillery, eight military companies from as many Rus sian military districts. , , At the Iberian chapel the procession . , . Times' Thanksgiving Raffle. hiilted und the clergy stepped out bear ing the mirtu.'ulouM picture of tho Vir gin, with, which they blessed the body. The metropolitan und higher clergy awaited the body ut the door of the cathedral of the Archangel Michael. They walked before It to the groat crimson dnis under the gold und silver canopy in the middle of tho building. Generals of the urmy placed the coffin on the dais aud removed tho pall. The members (if the Imperial family gathered between the gorgeous pillars at the foot of the coffin nnd listened In silence, broken only by sobs, to the reading of the solemn mass for the dead. The service closed with music. The imperial family and their attend ants thmi retired to the palace within the Kremlin, and the persons holding tickets were admitted to the cathedrul. They passed round the dais slowly, looking at the dead czar's face. After them came people of all sorts, udmltled lu the order dictated by rank. The body Is Watched day and night by six stuff officers, twelve subalterns and two special guard:; at each door. Masses are held ut appointed hours and everybody whatever his creed or na tionality is welcomed to bid farewell to Alexander III. fiexdTxd'a stiletto. Andrew J uku Stabs Ills Wife i:ight Times While the Woman Wus Begging for Mercy nnd Struggling for Life. By the United Press. Wilkes- Rarre, Pa Nov. 11. Ono of the most brutal crimes on record In Lu zerne county, and there has been many or them within the past two months, took place nt Hazlcton on Saturday. The perpetrator of the deed Is Andrew Juka, his wife, Annie, being the victim. The scene where the tragedy occurred Is a small house, one story high, located on Harrison street, on the outskirts of the city. From what can lie learned, Juka left his wife several months ago, and has since lived with a friend In Eckley, a small mining town near Ilazleton. His wife hUH, been living ever since they parted with her daughter, Mrs. Taru. With a rope on which was a neatly prepr.red noose and a stilleto, he called at the residence of his son-in-law on Friday night. On Saturday morning he appeared to be rather pleasant and waited until the son-in-law, Taru. had gone to work. An hour later ho made an attack upon his wife. Annie. He put the rope around her neck while she was alone In a room nnd managed to get it around the colling Joist, but he found the latter too low and his at tempt to hung her failed. In the mean time his wife fell upon her knees and begged in a mnst piteous manner to spare her life. His daughter, the only other person In the house, heard the cries and ran to her mother's usslstancc, but this only enraged the brute all the more, and ho began to again attack his wife with the sharp instrument. The woman fought hard for her life, but the demon drove the dagger Into her elghf times in various parts of her body. The woman finally sank ex hausted to the floor and her daughter, terror stricken, fled to the -nelgbors, quite a distance away, for assistance. Tho brute then fled from the house und run up the mountain side and dis appeared. Neighbors soon appeared at the house, nnd the unfortunate- woman was at once removed to a more com fortable home. She Is still alivo to night, but it is the opinion that she will not recover. Constables are on the murderer's trail. Should he be brought back to Hazleton he will. In all probability, be lynched, as the Indignutiou is at lever heat. CABLE CHATTER. Copenhagen is now a free port. A revolt has broken out in the province of Orissu, India, und troops uud police have been sent to the scene, Herr von Huiumerstcln ' Is appointed Prusslun minister of husbandry, to the great Joy of tho Gorman Agrurluns. A fire damp explosion In the coal mine at Brueoho, Bohemia, yesterday killed twenty miners and Injured many more. . The Princess Bismarck Is reported to be seriously ill, and Dr. Schwvlnger has gone to Varsalu to attend her. The steamer Clyde, from Buenos Ayres, which arrived ut Southampton, (reports the disappearance aud probable drowning of an Amertcun passenger. Deputy Sulnt 'Homme, Republican, was elected to the French senate yesterday for the district of Isere, formerly rep resented by Senator Couturier. A cloudburst near Valencia, In Venc luelu, ha killed ljo person and damaged the coffee and other crops, to the extent of hulf u million dollars. Houses have been leveled, bridges washed away und traffic generally suspended. Tim ; British cruiser Calypso or the training sqbadron was sighted yesterday sixty miles north of the Canary Islands. Shu parted from the rest of the squadron lu a gale a few day ago, and when tho other vessels reached Las Pnlmas with out her, much anxiety for her safety was felt. . 'S Holds President Clevelnnd Kcsponsi' , ble for Democratic Defeat. XOT CONSISTENT OX TARIFF Intimates Thut tho President Perched 1 pon the Wing of Every Honest Tariff Keforraer-Uill Wilson Swallowed Too Much ids Ice, Ky the United Tress. Cincinnati, Xov. 11. The Tribune will tomorrow publish a sensational but characteristic interview i with Henry Watterson ut Louisville, j Its chief features follow: "Who Is to blame for Tuesday's de- ! font?" Colonel Watterson was asked. 1 ".titlO and 512 Lackawanna Ave. on earth. Its all his fault." "And what'a to become of the Demo cratic party?" "I don't know. I. am not certain ' whether we've got any iJemocrallu party or not. One thing. Is certain.. Tariff reform has Bot to go down to j thejfoot and start over." : i "Do you mean that ' the Democrats ! must abandon tho issue?" " 1 "No, on the contrary. If I could make ' the platform in 1S96 I would merely re- i peat In yet stronger lan'lfuaife the plat, form of 189:'. But a tariff for revenue only must be advocated hereafter only ! by men Who are honest enough to keep their promises and brave enough to put the principle into luw when the people have given them power. Tho "Wilson out was not a Democratic measure either before it left the hands of Its author, or after it had boon mangled and distorted by the senate. I am sorry for the fate that overtook William U Wllswn last Tuesday, but I caniuil re press the thought that he accomplished his own defeat by listening to the coun sels of othfrs less courageous than he, and not daring to stand firmly for tho pledges of his party. Cleveland as a Ueformcr. "Grover Cleveland was never n con sistent tariff reformer. When he be came president of tho United States It took him three years to find a policy, and then he ran away from It us soon as he was caught. In 1SS7, when he wrote that first famous mesuge, ho got so soared about it that ten days later he published an Interview lu the New York Herald, taking the backbone out of Xhc whole tiling: Then ho sent Gor mnn and Scott to the St. Louis conven tion In 1888 with a cut and dried plat form that made the most miserable and cowardly straddle on tho tariff question ever Invented. "Look how Cleveland acted In ISM. William 3. Vilas went to Chicago as the personal representative of this man who pretended to be the great pioneer; the John the Uaptlst of tariff reform. And what did they try to do? They tried to ram a protectionist essay down the throats of self-respecting Demo crats. They stoli a plank out of tho Republican platform and wanted a Democratic convention to indorse it. Finally, when he was elected president despite this apostesy to the principle of his party, Cleveland deliberately sat on the wings of every honest and able ad vocate of low tariff, and forced the wretched Wilson bill upon the party, with all Its labyrinth of trouble. "To this action of a Democratic presi dent may be chiefly ascribed the de moralised condition of the Democratic party." , "Now, who ahull the Democrats m. minute. In 1M6?" "Uh, my Lord, man," said, "don't talk about that. What I am afraid of is the possible fact thut It may make very litileulln'erence. A strong effort will be made la the next Democratic nationul convention to send the tariff Issue ti the rear and raise the strange banner of free silver. This may split the party in a thousand pieces, or de stroy It altogether." ' "Could the Democrats win upon the Issue of free silver?" "Never. It would be a fatal step for tho party to take. Yet we must be prepared to see the attempt made to commit Democracy to that financial heresy. Our only hope Is to stand by our guns and stick to the demand for constitutional tariff." 1 WIRE WAITINGS; Knights of Labor will hold u national convention at New Urlenas Tuesday. Thomas Lloyd, of Buffalo. N. Y.,' was asphyxiated by Illuminating gas ut Chi cago. In the wreck of the Spanish ateamer Fernando on the Cuban coast, ten per sons were drowned. , WEATHER REPORT, : Fair Monday; Increasing cloudiness Tuesday; conditions favorable tor rain Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, pNLEYS ! ML JS tittered at Prices Far Below Their Real Value. - 80 Children's School Umbrellas, 2G or 23-iuch, natural wood or ox idized handles, at 43c. 100 Ladies' Umbrellas, "Extra Gloria," 2G-inch Paragon frame, beautiful liue handles, $1.00. 10 Ladies' Umbrellas, Twilled Union Silk, natural wood, rubber and horn handles, $1.75. GO Ladies' Umbrellas, Twilled Union Silk, black, brown, navy garnet and green, handles, small Dresden knobs, Ivory, natural root or fancy bent sticks, with nea silver trimmings," 2.25, 82.75, $3.25 and 3.75. 100 Gent's Umbrellas, English Gloria,' 73c; Silk Gloria, $1.00; Union Twilled Silk, $.$0 and 82; Extra Union Twilled Silk, S2.50, S3.00 and S3.C5; sizes 28, 30 and ; 32-inch. Handles finest imported ! natural sticks, Weichsel, Congo, ; Scotch furze, French oak, acacia : and olive, in bulbs, hooks, crooks and roots, FIN LEY'S MIN OIL CLOTHING Wholesale and RetaiL H. A. KINGSBURY 313 Spruce Street. Telephone, No. 4633. , , We will have wet weather. We will furnish you with SHOES lor wet weather. It will be a healthful Invest meat. 0 J 114 Wyoming Avenus. D I 1J BOY YOUR PRESENTS OF W.'J. WEICHEL, JEWELER, 408 SPROCE STREET, Aud get checks on that beau tiful Piano to be given away Christmas week. , N, B. Repairing of Fine Watches a specialty, LEWISEIUYSDAVIES ill.
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