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Displays.
Speaking of the explosives used on
July 4. the Sun says: One fireworks com
pany manufactures a set piece, "Agri
culture." at $1,350. "Manufactures"
cost $675. and a triple column and stars
with the O. A. K. badge 600. Other
fancy-priced special pieces are the train
of cars; U. A. R. badge. $335; firemen
with engine and hose, J350; George
Washington on horseback, extra large,
1240, and the soldier figure and sailor
figure, $235 each. All these are of heroic
size..- Of the regulation set pieces, de
vlgned for any and all occasions, the
highest price, $420, is charged for a very
elttborate piece called the Girandole.
Daniling Diamonds," another, very
large piece, comes at $203. the I'leiades,
extra large, at $200; the extra large
Gothic cross at $IS0.: and there are a
cor of other pieces which cost above
$100 each.
Of the shooting fireworks, rockets and
bom&s are the favorites, because of the
beauty of design which they show and
because tley make the greatest show
ing for the money and can be seen by
the moBt people. The bombs are high
est in the price list, some of them cost
ing $40 each, which Beems a consider
able sum to pay for a loud report In
midair and a minute op two of beauti
ful . tire display overhead, especially
when one reflects that a very fair bi
cycle con be purchased for that price,
and a bicycle goes a long way- compared
In a two-minute bomb. These bombs
are fired from mortars or upright guns
and burst when about a mile up In the
air. They display in all colors Bnow
ers of pearls, chrysanthemums, stars,
rtracons. fans, necklaces, rings, scrolls,
and a variety of other devices. The
price for first-class bombs goes as low
as $7 each.
A CONSTANT KIVALRT.
In rockets there Is a constant rivalry
tnnni th various firework manufac
turers for new effects and designs. The
parachute rocket has long been lanu
llnr Tt hns been successfully used for
signalling' by night lu war times. All
the finest of the new rockets are of the
parachute variety. Two of the finest
.f the nw designs, are the prize cometlc
rocket and the peacock plumes rocket.
The former ascends to a great hejght.
leaving a heavy fire trail like, the tail
of a comet, and discharges a single star
of creat size and brilliancy. This star,
with a uarachuta attachment, floats
Blowly down, changing from white to
red. from red to green, and from green
to blue: then suddenly becomes a fiery
wheel, revolving rapidly, and finally
bursts Into a shower of tinted meteors
which flash and shoot, forming laby
rinths of fire in the darkness. The pea
cock plume explodes when at the height
of Its flight, forming a veil of feathery
plumes which Intertwine In varying
hues until the display terminates with
a volley of salutes. These two vurie
' ties cost $105 a dozen. The Japanese
bombshell rocket aj. 137 a, doaen Is an-:,
other very' beautiful firework, but Is
somewhat less elaborate, the display
terminating with the explosion of the
rocket into streamers of fire, forming
willow trees, chrysanthemums, or
..I . 1 .. mi. .... .hum ti tha
cannon rockets, used mainly for polit
ical meetings ond parades,: which ex
plode with a tremendous concussion
high In the air; the cascade rockets,
sending down cataracts of fire; the
dragon rockets, that writhe fantastical
ly across the sky, and the wonderful
telescope rockets, each of which lit the
end of Its upward course releases four
more rockets, and these bursts Into
clusters of colored stars. The "very
latest," according to the catalogues, are
the electric shower rockets thus des
cribed. "Bursting In mid-heaven, they form
an aurora borealls-Uke shower of elec
tric jewels of emerald and sapphire
tints, falling slowly to the earth. The
grandest discovery In the art."
All these rockets uscend In a direct
course, but there are those called gey
sers, or umbrellas of fire, which do not.
They revolve rapidly In their flight,
throwing off sparks, and as they ascend
in a spiral course they look like wheels
of lire mounting into the air. The
"prismatic whirlwind" Is something of
the same nature, but at the top of Its
rugm it Decomes a crown or varicolored
fires. The directions for setting this oft
are as follows:
"Place on a smooth surface In the
open air, light the fuse, and withdraw
to a convenient distance."
OTHER QAY DEVICES.
s What Is meant by "a convenient dls
- tance" the directions fail to state, but
It Is to be supposed that it would be the
distance to the nearest house, as the
results might be disastrous should the
"whirlwind" proceed across country In
stead of .heavenward. A very gay per
formance Is that of the dragon's nest
1 mu.ID3UU Ur ucvriuMlieiIl. VI lilt? UIU-
tlme mine. This, being set upon the
ground and lighted, becomes an ama
teur Vesuvius, spewing forth colored
fires, squirming flashes of flame, and
shooting stars, and finally booms itself
Into darkness with a big bang. Even
more gay than the dragon's nest Is a
large mine which goes by the profes
sional name of "Devil among the Tail
ors." This starts with an illumination
In colors, followed by a stream of bril
liant fire, then a fountain of electrio
stars, and finally shoots out a mass of
writhing serpents which explode with
loud reports. The flying pigeon Is an
TOP
thing fried in COTTOtENE is appetizing, whole
some and healthful less greasy, tastes- better,
more digestible. ' - - - ; C
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THE N. K. MIRBANK COMPANY,
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Interesting and beautiful exhibit
achieved iy the aid of a length of tele
graph wire stretched between two. trees,
the wire having previously been passed
through the center of the piece. Then
the fuse Is lighted and the flying pigeon
In a blase of glory files there and back.
A special departure this year Is the
line oX water works, for use only on
bodies of water. They are floated and
then set off. There are diving devils
which plunge under the water, flying
Ash which leap out of It, water vol
canoes, floating mines, and many other
designs, the beauty of which Is aug
mented by the reflections In the water.
Besides these novelties there are. of
course, all sorts of Improved pin wheels,
Catherine wheels, rosette wheels, tri
angles, flower pots, and colored fires.
Even the humble "nigger chaser'whlch
files abont with the agility of a light
ning flash and the purposelessness of a
decapitated chicken, finds a place in
the catalogue.
AS TO FIRECRACKERS.
"But how about the firecrackers?"
asked the reporter, after going through
page after page of wonderful and com
plicated contrivances. "Don't you han
dle firecrackers any more?"
"Oh, yes; plenty of them." said the
fireworks man. "There's always a good
out-of-town demand for them, although
as fur as the city Is concerned, they're a
drug on the market. But there's some
thing wrong with the firecracker Indus
try. The Chinese importations are get
ting poorer every year. Accidental
business Ideas, maybe."
"Do all these packages with the ex
tremely Chinese lettering really come
from China?" .
"They do, Indeed: and that's where
our firercrackers will continue td come
from until we can get men to work for
ten cents a day here. They're Chinese
cheaplab6r, and hand labor at that."
"Hasn't. any .machine ever been. In
vented to" .
"How "long da you suppose a man
would live who attempted, to? Introduce
machinery where these firecrackers are
made? He wouldn't last much longer
than a firecracker after you'vellghted
the fuse. But there's something wrong
over there. They aren't doing as good
work as they used to. Less noise for
your money and more crackers that
fall to go off than there should be.
Here's a firecracker catalogue. You no
tice that we don't quote prices on the
ordlnury Chinese cracker'
He pointed to the item under the
heading "Chinese firecrackers," which
read: ' '
, "Subjttct to market fluctuations. Net
prices quoted on application."
In another place was this announce
ment: "The weight and quality of firecrack
ers hus been materially reduced of lute.
To supply the demand for a first-class
article we have Imported an.old-fash-
luned extra loud cracker."
These were quoted at $1.25 a box,
twenty packs to the box and eighty
crackers to a pack. Extra crackers
and cannon crackers were also In the
list. One line of trade which has In
creased is the torpedo business, and
the reason was suggested by two items
in the catalogue: 1
"Ironclad torpedoes, A heavy report
Ing torpedo. It Is. a cat teaker.".
"Bombette torpedoes. This Is a very
large torpedo with a very heavy report
a regular cat exterminator. No need
of sleepless nights with a box of these
at hand."
"These," said the dealer, "are a boon
to the human race, those torpedoes,
Aien with humanitarian Ideas, or
women .who..jM afraid of plutdls, use
them in case of cats. They are mighty
effective, and don't leave any dead
bodies around to litter up the yard un
less the cat dies of heart disease. You'd
be surprised to see the orders we get
for these. I'm thinking of getting up
a special bicycle brand for use by bi
cyclists against attacking dogs. In
that way I might get back a little of
what the wheel has taken from my
trade."
SHE WANTED TO KNOW.
Her ComplexionNeedvd Knlsomining
and. Mho Haw a Good Pattern.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A lady riding on a railroad train was
quite annoyed by the fixed store of a
long, lank, leathery looking woman
sitting just across the aisle. She had
piercing black eyes and she kept them
fixed on the lady a face.
Finally the train stopped at a little
Biuuoii ana me xeen-eyea woman
leaned across the aisle and, laying a
bony, ring-loved hand on the lady's
arm, said:
"Bcuse me, ma'am, but kin I ask
you a question?"
"Certainly."
"Well, I jlst wanted to know If your
complexion Is natchreel, or If It's one
o' these inanieled kind I've heerd of.'
"My complexion Is natural, madam."
"It Is? Well, I'm Jlst sorry to hear
It. I was hopin' it was one of the in
ameled kind an' that you could tell me
where I could git one like It. That's
an. inank you, ma'am," and she re
eumed her fixed gaze.
THE MAN.
From the Washington Post (Ind.)
The fact Is that (McKlnley has attracted
to himself a great number of warm
irienus. Ho Is genial, kindly, unassuming,
kouu nearieu, ana Honest. We do not
wimuer max tie is generally beloved.
we is Held In renect and eonll
dence by men of every purty, and nohoily
doubts that. If elected, he will make an
nonest, upright, and conservative chief
magistrate. We congratulate the Repub.
llcan party.
THE PLATFORM.
From tho Cleveland World (Rep.)
whenever bimetallic currency can bg
made stable the Republican party will be
a silver as well as a gold party, but not
until thou. Because it is the party of
prosperity, and it knows the conditions as
well as the blessings of prosperity. It
believes, too, with Senator Hoar, now In
Paris, that the marriage day of the two
metals In the presence of all the civilized
powers Is not far distant.
' fried in COTTOLENE is a
most toothsome morsel to tempt
a fickle appetite. Once tried,
then all desire for lard-fried
thincrs will vanish: Every
rBiiaasiBia mutant, i
THE KIND OF A MAN
RICHARD BLAND IS
HU Bcrluiax and Development as the
Apostle of It to I.
THE ABLEST ADVOCATE OF SILVER
Talks Aboat Coinage Some Hard
Qaeslioas asd Plaia Answers.
Turned Dowa for the International
ConferencePhilosophical Bi
metallismA Senatorial Pro
gramme Story of a Refused Testi
monial. W. 13. Stevens, In Globe-Democrat.
Shortly before he went out of con-
grevs, Mr. liland was a guest at a din
ner given to several Missouri members
by ex-Senator John B. Henderson.
lllnd." suld Gen. Henderson, "some
Eastern people were discussing you In
try presence the other evening. They
were wondering whether you were hon
est In your professions, whether y u
roully believe what you talked nbuut
free coinage. They wanted to know
what I thought about It."
What did you tell them?" asked Mr.
Bland.
"I told them," sold den. Henderson,
that you believed all you said about
free coinage."
i in much obliged to you," said Mr.
Bland.
I told them," Gen. Henderson went
on, after a moment's pause, "that you
were honest In your sliver professions
because you didn't know any better."
I don't know that I am so much
obliged tc you after all,' suld Mr. Bland,
goo ! i.cmoredly.
Nobo who came In contact v. Hh
Mr. B.'und while he was In Washlne-
ton tver questioned his sincerity on the
coinage question. Opinions as to Mr.
Bland's knowledge in that direction
differ according to the standpoints ot
those who hold the opinions. And yet
Mr. Bland's earnestness ot conviction
is matched by his readiness of speech
on silver. Ho was never known to be
without something to say upon any
phase of coinage or In answer to afiy
argument. Of course, his arguments
did not seem logical or conclusive to
those who differed with him. Judge
Culberson, of Texas, the Father or tne
House, was wont to Bay that Mr. Bland
was the most remarkable debater He
had ever listened to In congress.
'He Is always wound up," said the
Judge. "He doesn't have to mane
steam. The moment he gets on his feet
and Is recognized he starts right off at
forty miles an hour. I don't know that
I ever saw a talker just like him. He
is a murve! to me."
The fact Is, Mr. Bland has been a hard
student on the money question. While
he has great forcefulness of character,
he Is personally one of the most modest
of men. He never makes a snow or nis
Btudy, and never utilizes his stock or
Information except to carry some point
in furtherance of the cause. He Is
never, on dress parade. For years the
leading blmetalllsts of other countries
have recognized Mr. Bland us the fore
most representative of that money
theory in this country. Kuropeans of
International reputation have sought
his acquaintance and maintained cor
respondence with him. '
. lnih- tiastera. vee Mr:- Bland Is
wrong, because he Is narrow, prejudiced
and Ignorant. Mr. Bland may be all
wrong on the money question, but it is
not for want of thought or Information.
There is so little of sectional prejudice
about him that It almost never Bhows
in his speeches. He doesn't even lose
his temper when he talks about Wall
street. He insists earnestly that the
men who have money ara mistaken In
their views of what will follow the free
coinage of silver. The fact that he
bore no part In the war, though born In
a slave state, helps to show the temper
of the man's mind. Yet if he could have
seen that secession was right what a
fighter he would have been! Mr. Bland
Is a philosophical bimetallism He be
lieves the double standard, with all of
the gold and silver there Is in the
world for money, is the best thing for
all of the people, and, therefore, he Is
for It
BLAND'S OFFICE.
The room of the committee on coin
age, weights and measures is in the old
part of the capltol under the dome,
opening on a side corridor but little
used. It looks out on a court, and Is
warmed and ventilated by an old-fashioned
fire-place with a quaintly carved
Carrera marble mantel, one of only
half a dozen to be seen In the whole
capltol. There Mr. Bland was to be
found when the house was not In ses
sion, and there was the place to hear
the theory of bimetallism expounded at
Its best. In the closing months of tho
fifty-third congress, when, after twen
ty-two years of service, he had been
beaten at the polls, and when only chaos
seemed to face the Democracy, Mr.
Bland had no doubt of the ultimate
triumph of tho caime of silver. In a
number of conversations he forecosted
with accuracy what has come to pass.
He said that the only hope for the
Democratic party to pull Itself together
was to take a decided stand for free
silver, regardbms of the rest of tho
world, and upon the old ratio. lie said
this must be done, and that the sooner
it was done the quicker would be the
recovery. It wussuggosted to him that
there was a very large element in his
purty which could not follow such uc-
tlon. That, he thought, should not bo
considered. He wanted the party to
commit itself to la to 1 because It wus
right, in his opinion. He believed that
with such a platform the country could
be tarried. He believed the election re
turns of November, 1894, would hasten
the adoption of such a course by the
Democracy, and Just before he went
out of congress he did all in his power
to bring the party to commit Itself so
far as the Democratic representatives
could do it. For that advice and urging
Mr. Bland was derided by the Demo
cratic majority in the last congress as
an extremist and a crank.
One day Mr. Bland was asked In the
committee room what he really thought
would happen If the United States
should pass an act providing that on a
certain date the mints would be thrown
open to free and unlimited coinage of
sliver at a ratio of IB to 1.
"I believe the other leading nations
would promptly follow," he said. "We
would have sliver restored to its pluce,
and would go on with the double stan
dard." "But, suppose the other nations didn't
follow; suppose tho irnited States had
to maintain free coinage of sliver alone,
wnat then" was asked.
"I suppose It would give our bankers
and capitalists quite a wrench," was
the reply,, "but It would only be tem
porary." '
The time In which Mr. Bland made
this reply was probably much like that
In which Oeorge tephenBoi, tho In
ventor of the locomotive, answered the
anxious Inquirer who Interrupted the
explanation of his plans to ask what
would happen if a cow should get on the
erack.
"It would be bad for the cow," said
the Inventor, and went on to elaborate
the general advantages of steam loco
motion. So, Mr. Bland, absorbed with the ben
efits to be conferred upon humanity by
the acceptance of silver at IS to 1, can
see only "a temporary wrench" of the
monetary system If this country tries
to go It alone with free silver. That
temporary wrench Is to his mind Insig
nificant as compared with what he con
ceives to be the greatest good to the
greatest number. He says that the Im
mediate effect might be to put gold at
a premium and to stimulate the ex
portation of It But in a few months,
perhaps in two or three only, the gold
would be coming back, the premium
would disappear, the country would be
gin to feel the benefits of an Increased
volume of currency based on coin gold
and silver. Mr. Bland hasn't the
slightest Idea that free coinage of silver
Is going to drive gold out or Is going to
send this country to a Bllver basis. He
believes that the double standard would
go Into effect with the concurrence ot
other nations, perhaps not Oreat Brit
ain at first; but certainly with that of
France and Germany. Should the oth
er nations hold back for a time to let the
I'nlted States blaze the way, he Is sure
the monetary disturbance In this coun
try would be but a matter of a few
months.
AN HONI3ST MAN.
A good deal of mullce enters Into the
motives which make some men advo
cates of free sliver. The Idea that the
wealthy may be made to sulTer to some
extent Is not altogether displeasing. En
vy Is a strong argument. Mr. Bland
was never heard to give expression to
such a spirit. He Is a commoner by na
ture. He thinks free coinage means the
betterment of the condition of the masse.
That is what moves htm. He may be
all wrong In his premises and conclu
sions, but he believes what he says and
his motives are pure.
When Mr. Bland went "to congress
twenty-four years ago he had a good
farm In the suburbs of Lebanon and he
had some thousands of dollars In money.
He has got the farm now, but the money
Is gone. He Is poorer than on the day
he first went to Washington. The pa
tornKy of the silver dollar Is his, but it
has not multiplied dollars in his pocket.
Not many people know that . when
MV. Blund was serving his lost three
months in congress there was delivered
to him one day by the express company
tne liinetit sliver service thait sound
money could buy. It came us a tribute
from the mountain states' admirers of
silver's champion. Mr. Bland barely
looked Into the box, saw what It con
tained, directed it back to the senders
ana saia nothing about It.
The supporters of Mr. Bland are figur
ing upon the necessity of sonie revolu
tionury acts to Insure his nomination.
They are misleading themselves: II
their candidate ever gets a majority In
the convention, even though It be by a
single vote, the requisite two-thirds will
be given to him. There hasn't been an
Instance since 18GU when a Democrat
camllduite for the presidency received
majority and failed of the two-thirds.
Tht two-thirds has come promptly on
the following ballots when the majority
point was passed. When Tilden went by
the majority point at St. Louis In 1876,
delegates Instructed fur lUmilrloks, no
tably those from Texas, changed to
1 llden on the next ballot and nominated
him.
Before Seymour and Blair were noml.
nated In 1868, a caucus for the PendlO'
ton men was held to consider tho very
proposition Bland men are now agltu'
ting tho abolition of the two-thirds
rule. They counted a majority of the
delegates with them, and a motion was
carried to push the repeal of the rule
at the next session of the convention.
After this was done the New York dele
gation met and sent Judge Green to the
Pendleton leaders to urge a reconsidera
tion of the caucus action.
"New York," said Judge Green,
"urges you. not to reverse party tradi
tion, but to let tho two-thirds rule
stand. I am authorized by our delega
tion to say to you that If on any ballot
Mr. Pend let on shall receive a majority
of the convention, even though It be but
by half of one vote. New York will cast
her entire vote for your candidate."
The Pendleton caucus met again be
fore the convention did. Judge Green's
statement was repeated. Tho caucus
decided not to Interfere with the two
thirds rule.
FULL OF VIGOR.
Those who have heard Mr. Bland's
"Mr Speaker!" or "Mr. Chairman!"
never forget It. That Is not because the
voice Is rasping or melodious, high,
pitched or low-toned. The forceful per
sonaltty Is Imparted to the first words
that Issue when Mr. Bland gets on his
feet. And, us Judge Culberson ex
pressed It, from the opening sentence
he Is In the full vigor of delivery. His
speeches are without introductions,
They wind tin as they begin, all earn
estness for sliver, with small regard for
choice of words or polish of phrases.
Mr. Bland is always full of his subject
and yet he never slops over as some of
these sliver orators do. In the last ses
sion of the fifty-third congress,' when
tne tinal efforts were made to get
through the house silver legislation in
the form of coinage of the seigniorage
William L. Bryan was dwelling on the
enormity of the offending against sit
ver. He pictured the evil consequences
which were to follow, and became so
impassioned that, with tears in his
volce.he declared that, If he could there
by avert these evil consequences from
future generations, he would "willing
ly lay down his life." The house burst
out into a horse laugh. The climax
was turned to burlesque, and " the boy
orator of the Platte" finished In confu
stun. Mr. Bland, in the twenty-two
years of his uphill work in congress for
silver, never lost his head. His warn
ings sometimes bordered a little upon
lamentations, but he never read him
self out of his party or lost faith In the
ultimate vindication of the cause of
the whlto metal.
It Is not dltllcult to understand how
Mr. Bland enmc to make coinage his
specialty. "The crime of '7.1," as the
venerable Senator Stewart calls it on
all occasions, tho demonetisation of si I
ver, had taken place In the congress
preceding the one in which Mr. Blond
began his career. If there was any
thing with which the new Missouri
member felt especially fumlllar that
subject was the precious metals. Short
ly after he completed his education and
rcfigjied his majority at his Kentucky
home ho went to the Pacific slope to
seek his fortune. He settled In what is
now Nevada and mixed mining with
the practice of law for several years.
He was county treasurer' out there.
Then he came to Missouri, and became
his brother's law partneq at Rolla, Boon
after settling In Lebanon, the extension
of the Atlantic and Pacific, railroad
opening up that part of the Ozark
country and making it more attractive.
Mr. Bland had lived In Missouri less j
than ten years when he was elected to
congress. " Here is another evidence of
the man's forcefulness of character.
Without any Confederate record, at a
time when that counted In politics, and
with only eight years residence in the
state, at the age of thirty-seven, he
was elected to congress.
The speaker of the Forty-third con
gress was very willing to let Mr. Bland
have the committee assignment which
suited his Inclinations. - There are two
committees of the house which deal
with forms of money the banking and
currency and the coinage, weights and
measures. At that time banking and
currency was the dominating commit
tee of the two. Permanent upon it had
been Judge Aylett II. Buckner, one of
the strong men of the Missouri delega
tion. The national banking and cur
rency laws came from that committee.
coinage, weights and measures was one
of those committees which existed for
little more than the purpose of giving
some member of the majority a chair
manship and a clerk. Furthermore, as
the preceding congress had revised the
coinage laws, there was no prospect for
any serious work by that committee,
yet In three congresses. Bland had
pushed the coinage question to the
front, had forced a transfer of the rela
tive positions of these two committees
and had begotten the Bland dollar. The
sixteen years which followed steadily
Increased his prestige us the foremost
advocute of free coinage of silver. The
persistency with which he pressed the
Issue made him In the eyes of tho Kast,
a silver crank," yet In each successive
organization of the coinage committee
the speaker recognized the position Mr.
Bland hud won by making him the
chairman or the leader of the minority
of the committee, according as the
house was Democratic, or Republican.
These facts are interesting to recall,
because they go to show how thorough
ly logical is Mr. Bland s candidacy for
the presidential nomination it ii to i
wins at Chicago.
TRYING TO DOWN HIM.
In view of the swelling list of free
coinage delegates to the Chicago con
vention, it Is Interesting to recall that
fourteen months ago a manifesto com
mitting the Democratic party to a W to
1 ratio was circulated on the Demo'
cratlc side of the house of representa
tlves. There was 200 Democratic mem
bers In the house of the last congress.
The paper received thirty-one signa
tures. Mr, Bland's name headed the
list. The Democratic representatives
who would not sign number over 100.
Of the thirty-one who signed the tie
duration in favor of committing the
Democratic party to such a platform
twenty-one were congressmen who hui
been defeated for re-election. Not only
did the big Democratic majority In the
house a little more than a year ago re
pudiate Mr. Bland as a leader on tho
coinage issue, but it was guilty of one
of the meanest nets of purty ingratl
tude. The Wolcott proposition had
gone through the senate providing for
the election of delegates to an inter
national monetary conference. In order
to secure representation of the silver
sentiment It provided that the senate
should select three and the house the
same number of delegates. This legis
lation wus enacted In the full expecta
tion that such a conference would be
held. The general understanding was
that Mr. .Bland would be one of the
delegates. A final Vote was not reached
until the closing hour of the congress,
and tlien It appeared that In conference
the proposition hud been changed so as
to make eligible as delegates only those
elected to the Ofty-fourth congress
This was done through the insistence
of certain members of the house who
had practical control of the mutter und
who said openly:
"We don't want any cranks In this
thing."
The proposition was changed solely
for the purpose of shutting out Mr
Bland. And now the man who was set
aside by the party leaders as a crank Is
a presidential candidate who will enter
the balloting at Chicago, it Is claimed
by his Missouri managers, with 200
votes.
Up to the present time Mr. Bland's
candidacy has not been treated serious
ly In Washington. The wise men of
the national capital weren't convinced
that McKlnley had a walkover until all
the rest of the country saw It. The Re
publican senators held daily cloak
room conferences until they had fig
ured out the impossibility of McKin
ley's nomination. For several weeks
Democratic senators have been en
guged in the same pleasing work of de
termining by cloak-room consultation
the programme for the Chicago conven
tion. The parallel doesn't run all the
way. There is this difference: The Re
publican senators who beat McKlnley,
In their minds, had among them four of
their number who were candidates for
the nomination. The Democratic sen
ators have no candldaes among them
but two-thirds of them will sit In the
convention as delegates, and they are
strongly Impressed with the feeling
.that what they say will go a long way
toward the determination of the con
vention's action. If tho masses of the
Democratic party show the same dis
position to turn down their senators
that the Republican masses did, the
parallel will be completed. The plan of
the Democratic senators Is a comprom
ise, a declaration of ardent devotion to
bimetallism with the ratio left for fu
ture conditions to fix. As for candi
dates, these so n u to is do not consider
Mr. Bland the remotest possibility. He
Isn't on such a platform as the senators
will formulate. If enough of them get
on the platform committee and are al
lowed to have their way. But if the
convention gets away from the senators
and pronounces unequivecolly for 16 to
1, Mr. Bland will be In the front rank
of possibilities. The candidate of the
senatorial cloak-rooms Is Vice I'resl
dent Stevenson. He Is the choice of
such extreme silver senators as Morgan
and Pugh, of Alabama, and of such gold
standard Democrats as Brice und Gor
man. If Mr. Bland amounts to any
thing In the Chicago convention It will
have to be over the heads of the Demo
cratic senators. ,
VOTERS IN VAKIOI S COUNTRIES
The I uitcd States at the Head of All
Nations.
Twelve million voters participated In
the presidential election of 1892, and 12,
GOO.OUO voters, It Is computed, will take
part in the presidential election of 1S90.
There will be one more state voting this
year than four years ago, but during
the Intervening time restrictions upon
tho suffrage, greatly diminishing the
electorate, have been established In
various southern states, particularly
South Carolina and Florida. The total
number of mule Inhabitants of the
Untied States of votingage, as re turned
by tho Federal census of 1890, was lfi,
840,000; but this total is subject to a re
duction of 1,160,000 aliens, and about
as many more persons are- deprived of
suffrage by legal causes In various
states and particularly by con stltu'
tlonal restrictions established by tho
voters,
A very recent computation made eftl-
dally of the electors of the United King
dom gives as the total S.4K.000 out or a
total population of J 000.000. Of these
voters (30,000 reside In Scotland and &30.
000 In Ireland. The United States stands
at the head of all nations La respect of
the mere number of electors.. though the
changes of residence., which are fre
quent here, but comparatively rare in
turope, keep the actual number of
voters far below the number of those
who are eligible. France, with a total
population very much below that of the
United States about one-half the popu
lation of this country hus 10.000.000
electors. Germany has 10,600.000 elec
tors and the number Is Increasing stead
ily as the restrictions upon voting are
decreased. In Austria there has been
a radical reform In the electorate by its
wholesale extension.
Up to a dozen years ago the total num
ber of voters In Austria was 1,200.000. or
less than, tho voting population of Nl?w
York state, though the total population
of the Austrian empire Is 41.000,000.
There is now pending in the Rwochsrath
at Vienna a bill presented by the presi
dent of the council of ministers. Count
Badent, which adds two members to the
existing 353 deputies In the Reich ara th.
The pr-sent number of electors In Aus-
tro-Hungary is 5.300,000. Of the mem
bers of the Rcichsrath the great land
owners elect fifty-eight the cahmbcrs
of commerce twenty, tlv? towns 116 and
thw counties 129. The total number of
possible electors who, under the present
system are excluded from the franchise
in Austria is 210,000.
Italy Is peeiiinr among Kuropean
governments having representative In
stitutions In that whifc.ithe actual num
ber ot Qualified electors bt large, the
number participating Is very small. In
other words, a very large mumber of
Italian citizens qualified by law to vote
abstain from doing st desiring by this
method to r?cord thetr opposition to the
course of the Italian government in its
relation o the papacy. In 1892, 3,006,000
Italians were on th registered rolls, of
whom 1,600,000 voted about B r?r cent,
of the total population ot Italy. Bel-
glum Is a country which up to ten years
ago had less than 100.000 voters, but this
number has vastly been increased by
the introduction of universal suffrage,
with, besides, a provision of cumulative
voting whereby some citizens are en
abled to cast two ballots. I n the con
fusion which has resulted the advocates
of universal euffragvj have been out
voted.
In the United States tlit-re Is one
voter to every 4 i:.rsons; In Great
Britain, one to.vory six persons; In
France, one to every 34, and In Italy
one tu every iteti persons. New York
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