g$0$:jL . . SSHSESSS &K ibutte. s?W TWO CENTS. SCJIANTON. PA.. MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1S9S TWO CENTS. iaisn-i?r wifW'imJ lt4h&. Ef?rfflefna3fii m Re 'we J ' HASTINGS ANSWERS SWALLOW Exposes Falsity of the Latter's Numerous Charges. WILFUL LIBELS NAILED Also Pays His Bespects to Candidate Jenks, a Sample of Whose Menda cious Mis-Statements -Is Dissected. Facts nnd Figures to Be Pondered by Every Voter No Apology Made for Legislators Who Betrayed Their Trust, But the Republican Party Ample to Punish Its Own Evil Boers. Philadelphia, Oct. 10. Hefore an uudi ence which taxed the capacity of the Academy of Music last night. Governor Hastings paid his respects to Rev. Dr. Swallow. He said: As a humble member ot the Repub lican party who has been honored by It and by the people of the state with the- highest ofllce within Its gift, I am hero this evening1, not no much for the purpose of discussing the national fea tures of the campaign, but to render to you and the people of the state some nccount of my stewardship. The peo ple have the right to demand a faith ful, just and honest administration of the public service. Nothing short of this will satisfy the public demand. Every unfaithful act of a citizen in olllclal station is not only a blow de livered agalt free government, but Is a wrong co- Itted against every other citizen of t tate and a reproach and an Injury to tho party that honored htm. On the other hand, let it be kept be fore the people that money Is not the only property that men in olilclal sta tion are entitled to possess. A good name has value in the public market. We have the best authority for the statement that it "Is rather to be chose-n than great riches," and that lie who robs me of that treasure is a greater thief than he who steals my sliver or loots a bank. The human mind Is so constituted that men may differ In Judgment upon almost every conceivable question and do it honestly "ui from the fairest and best motive. who undertakes the performance . .1 public duty and falls only in the Judgment, or from lack of Judgment, will not be placed in the same category with him who under takes the same duty with dishonest and corrupt motives, no matter what the end mav be. When a man does a good act. his motives nre rarely ques tioned. The wrong act or the wicked act must have a bad motive behind it, and courts and Juries in meting out Justice inquire as earnestly for the mo tive as for the wicked fact, CHATtGES MADE. It is my purpose to call your atten tion to some of the arguments being repeated daily throughout the com monwealth charging wrongdoing by some of the state officials who hold their position by my appointment, or for whose official conduct It Is charged I am responsible. I. One of the candidates for gover nor in February last year charged in a religious newspaper, of which he was editor, "That new metal furnishings have been paid for by the state, but old ones in use by the state carried into the state house cellar, cleaned and returned, were made to personate the new ones paid for." "That In the purchase of material and labor for making additions, alterations, repairs and refurnishing the capitol buildings, and cellars and grounds, also for the executive mansion and now for Grace church, the state has lost many thousands of dollars as the result of an unfair system of competitive bid ding. In other words, that the cost to the state has been two, three, four, as high as eight times, in some instances, as much as it should have been, nnd that not all of this money went to the persons furnishing tho materials and labor, and further that at least some of the board of public grounds nnd buildings custodians have guilty knowl edge of this excessive cost." These charges. If true, should have made It impossible for me to appear before this audience or to hold tho office of gov ernor for nnother day. WHAT FOLLOWED. Lot me tell you what followed the publication which I have Just read to you. Its author was Immediately ar rested on the charge of criminal libel. He was taken into the criminal court. Ho was tried by a jury of his peers and ty court above referred to, the ca mil was convicted. The verdict of the Jury date, in his defense, brought out of was "guilty.' He applied for a new ' course everything that ho could to Jus trial. It was refused, unci, the trial tlfy his charges In regard to the fitting Judge, in his opinion refusing a new i up of Grace church, and lnamuch us trial, Inter alia, said: "The Indictment 'he was found guilty of rVimlnul libel, alleged that these paragraphs (the after producing nil the testimony wlth quotatlons Just read) were published In bis reach, it Is hardly worth the tlm "of and concerning' the members nml of this audience to im.ke nnv fnrthnr superintendent of the board of public grounds and buildings and that the manning of the purpgrapns was to charge them with 'kmmlngly and cor rurtly and fraudulently cheating ar.d defrauding the commonwealth, and with fraudulently and corruptly ml3. us'rjg and misappropriating to them selven and to othars the public moneys of the Commonwealth.' Defendant ad mitted the publication, but denied ttvn he Intended It to refer to the board or its members, or that it In fact charged them with the offense allegc-d In tie Indictment. "The burden was of course on the commonwealth to prove that these paragraphs would be understood by (he public to charge1 the mirbers and superintendent of the board or some of them, as alleged In the Indictment, and the Jury were Instructed that If the commonwealth failed In this proof, defendant could not be convicted. In view of the verdict, wo must assume, the Jury found with the commonwealth on these points. "To establish the defence that the publication had not been maliciously or malignantly made, defendant testi fied at lensth. giving in detail ull the facts claimed to be within his own knowledge, and all the information that ho had received which led him to make the publication; and nothing of this kind, however remote, wa .vrimied Since then the convicted editor bus mercilessly abused the trial Judge, the Jury, the opposing lawyers and the prosecutor, and Is still going about the state, reiterating the same charges, par ticularly about Grace church. Who would not commend at Icnit his mis directed energy7 Ills defense must have been well prepared. He was In defatigable. Ho left no stone unturned. Ho was several times at my stable cross-examining my hostler and tho cook In our kitchen to tlnd something In the garbage or the manure pile to Injure me or my family. ANOTHER CHAHOE. IT. A sain this candidate in the same paper charged "That articles have been furnished for the soldiers' orphans' schools that cost tho state eight fold more than reliable bidders were will ing to furnish the same articles for." The soldiers' orphans' school commis sion Immediately held a meeting In the executive chamber, Its members con sisting of General Gobln, Senator Mitchell, Captain William F. Stewart, Hon. Ira F. Mansfield, Hon. Robert M. Foster, Colonel Ezra H. Ripple and Captain George W. Skinner. The mem bers of the commission at once re solved to arrest him and the warrant was served. When ho faced tho Jury. his princinal defense was that there was no malice Intended. This was the (list case tried nnd the jury leniently found him "not guilty but pay the costs." It was In effect notice to him that we will let you off this time, but pay the costs and don't do It again. I am sure you will admire his mod esty when I tell you that he shortly afterward wrote me a letter hero It. Is, I hold It In my handr asking me to donate Mm fome tr.i ney to help pay tliese very costs. This Is the letter: "Harrlsburg, Pa.. Nov. 16, 1S97. "Governor Daniel H. Hastings: My Dear Sir: The suit against me on the charge of having libeled the commission of soldiers' orphans' schools, of which you are a member, should never have been brought, as I am now prepared to demonstrate to the satisfaction of all concerned. Including the taxpayers of the stnte. "The JCGO bill of court expenses. In cluding the nnmes of many witnesses who were never subpoenaed, should not have neon Inclined, or at least should not have been placed on me. "The bill of expenses over and above $660, and which I was compelled to In cur in my defense, Including my wit nesses, my time, my lawyers" fees, and Incidental expenses, amounting in all to $1,250. ls-a burden I should not and will not be compelled to bear unaided. "In view of all the circumstances, the commission should, and can well afford to pay both of these bills, aggregating $1,910, or less than $175 for each of the eleven commissioners. This should be attended to by or before December 1. 1897. Yours truly, S. C. Swallow." STILL ANOTHER. III. The same candidate hns charged repeatedly on the stumn and in the newspapers "that the sum of $S,330.01 was paid for carpenter work on the rose propagutlng house which the state authorities admitted was not worth, In cluding material and labor, more than $1,800." The rose propagating house referred to was built under an act of the lesls lature of the session of 1895, In which in the general appropriation bill the sum of $1,800 was appropriated. The language used In' the act Is as follows; "For the payment of the erection, con struction, completion and furnishing of a rose propagating house the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary." Under this act a house was built forty ilve feet long by forty feet wide. In two sections, each twenty feet wide, a roof and ends being covered with glass, having brick foundations about four feet high, six rows of shelves each about three and one-half feet wide, one row down the center of eacli house be ing double, two four-foot projecting vestibules, one to the entrance of each house, two rows of brick walks down the entire length of each building, and across their ends, ono boiler houso slx toen feet four Inches by sixteen feet, constructed of brick, with metal roof, and having a brick smokestack about twenty to twenty-five feet high, con taining two separate and distinct hot water boilers connected with lines of four-inch hot water pipes running through the entire length of the two propagating houses mentioned, and of sufficient heating capacity to maintain tho temperature at a proper degree to protect the plants during the coldest weather, patent iron ventilating lifts and supports running the entire length of both of the houses, operating simul taneously, hinged sash that run the en tire length of the roof of both of these buildings, together with all the exca vation, masonry, carpenter work, glass. Iron, painting, nnd material of every kind, finished complete for use, for the sum of $1,800, the amount appropriated, built by Charles H. Miller, who took the bid. I have these figures token from the record of the auditor general of the state. The statement, therefore, that this building cost over eight thouonnd dollars Is utterly and unqi uKt'.e Uy false, and I challenge nny practical builder who understands the value of material and labor to construct a duplicate of this building for nny smaller sum than was paid for this rose propagating house, by the board of pub lic buildings and grounds of the com monwealth, nnd 1 ulso challenge any man to show that the building In ques tion cost more than $3,800. GRACE CHURCH. IV. At tho trial In tlu Dminlilii rnnn. ...4 ..... ....... ' reference to It. As a matter of fact. the church wus (itted up for the occu papcy of tiis legislature In four days and four nlghtM I took pctsonal charge of the work myself, and If the Dauphin county jury hud brought In a verdict of acquittal, there might be fume ground on which the defendant might rest his allegations. It was necessary to fit up rooms for the Bonatc and house of representatives. The cellar was utilized for committee roomy. There were required new bolters, par titions, windows, electric light, steam heat, plumbing, r. tiring rooms, desks, chain', tables, camels and what-ver else wns necessary to make the church habitable by the legislature ItB officers and employes. Every bidder who hud obtained, after competitive bidding, the yearly contract tor furnishing the sup plies to the state government, was summoned and Uliected to do his part of the work by the following Monday night. The fire occurred on a Tuesday. The contractors went to work on Wednes day, and although the church was not completed, tho church was huhltabto for the lcElsluture, nnd tho two houses met on Monday evening according to my promise to thein. There was n dis position among tho members of the general assembly to take a recess for thirty days, f I was opposed to the recces, and it was only when I gave them my per sonal word that the building would be ready for their occupancy on the fol lowing Monday night, that they ac ceded to my wishes, A delay of thirty days would have cost the stute, at a conservative estimate, between twenty and thirty thousand dollars, perhaps more than tho latter figure. The old capitol building was completely de stioycd by fire. Nothing but a smalt amount of furniture was saved. Mark you, every contractor was required to furnish his material and do the work, under his contract price for the year, after the competitive bidding and let ting on the pievious first of June. Two sets and sometimes three sets of work men worked alternately through twenty-four hours of each day. The desks, chairs, tables, bookcases and paper flies comprised a large part of the ex pense, amounting to $16,511.68. The lumber used was measured after it was tint In place and paid for on that meas urement. I am Informed the defend ant hlirelf had It measured, at least he had the opportunity to have It meas ured for use in his triuland still the Jury found him guilty. Since his con viction, he has been as assiduous In repeating his chnrges as he was before. This must convince the people of the stute the kind of regard he has for laws and courts as after his conviction he continues to repeat the crime for which he was convicted. PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES. It may be proper for me to say that the present law providing for the pur chase of supplies for the state govern ment is modelled after that in force by the federal government nt Washing ton. Rv our law and the Constitution there Is a maximum price fixed for each article and the commission Is required to give contracts to the lowest respon sible bidders, each bidder being re quired to bid such percentage as he may desire off the ninxlmum figure. The law requires that each Item must be advertised for bids In twelve news papers of the state and that not more than three of the twelve shall be In the same county. Any person desiring to bid on any articles can apply to the board of public grounds and buildings through Its representative, who fur nishes the schedule of maximum prices. He cun make out his bid and hold It until the day of letting, which Is pub lic, In the executive chamber, where all bids are opened. The contracts arc by law leqillred to be awarded to the low est responsible bidder, who must fur nish a bond for the faithful perform ance of bis contract. All parties have a right to be present nnd the awards are made publicly and each and every bidder has the opportunity to see and examine the bids of his rivals for the contiacts. Inasmuch as the material furnished and work done Is for the slate, the rivalry for the contracts Is always spirited. SWALLOW PRICES. V. Mr. James Campbell, the factory Inspector, had prepared a list of slate supplies and prices as furnished by competitive bidders under the law to the state and then had his agent go to the book store In Harrlsburg kept by the defendant candidate and purchased certain articles of the some kind, at the prices demanded by the candidate In his store. He has made a duplicate statement of the same, which I hold In my hand, which shows that the prices charged at his book store average about sixty per cent, higher than wus paid by the state under the competitive bid ding, which 1 have just described to you. The statement Is as follows; State. Swallow. Per Cent. 1 drawing pen, ivory handle, with Joint, No. 536 K. & E $2 41 !!ti 10 1 quart mucilage 5:i CO 13 1 ream typewriting paper, 8-10 S4 1 00 19 1 Congress Ivory paper cutter, extra heavy, 10- luch 90 1 10 22 2 reams typewriting paper. 8-13 1 Gt 2 00 22 1 compass, 5-lnch, with pencil, pen and needle point, No. 415 K. ff E... 3 04 G 23 24 1 pound of sea Island twine 20 25 23 1 box of Underwood's car bon paper, purple, S-13. 3 13 4 00 27 1 box of 100 sheets W. S. & R. carbon paper. No. 1, black, S-13 3 08 4 00 30 5 gross Faber's No. 30 bands 26 33 34 1 dozen of Mount Holly tablets, No. 301 39 84 42 1 ream of Mt. Holly crown linen. 10 lbs. to ream 2 32 3 30 42 1 dozen Dixon's pencils, No. 929 or 928 2S 40 43 1 box Mlddleton's paper fasteners. 100 In box.... Hi 23 44 1 ream of Mt. Holly legal cap, blue lined record, 18 lbs. to ream 2 07 3 00 43 ,4 dozen Day's rubber penholders. No. 1 15 22 47 1 drawing pen. Ivory handle, with Joint, 1- ineh, No. 523 N. K. ft E.. 95 1 40 17 1 Remington ribbon (black) 1 Remington ribbon (blue) 50 50 11 50 1 gross Easterlironk pens, 41 62 1 ream of Mt. Molly com mercial note paper, 7 lbs. to ream 75 1 15 53 1 Miller Pros, steel eravcr. No. 68G 20 40 54 1 ream of Mt. Holly Con- Bros letter paper, ruled, 12 lbs. to ream 1 2S 2 00 56 1 ream of Mt. Holly paper. Congress cap. 14 lbs to ream 1 quart Stafford's fluid... I MueUlo's envelope opener 1 box Spenceilan pens... 1 W. S. .i li. non-lllllng typewriting ribbon .... 1 boxwood pin cup 40 2 .VI r,s 07 CO 62 1-1 2.'i fit CO 1 00 66 50 S3 C'J 21 40 C7 I pair Seymour scissors, full nickel, pocket size, D-lnoh 27 4n C7 1 pint Carter's crimson Ituld ."(! 93 70 1 i.-,jc of McGlll's fast- jniis, round head, No. I 7 Mi iotvn Excelsior pocket diatles. deal, K. ft T No. 457 1 92 1 Mullln's paper weight. 12 71 leather covered, No. 2 A. U groan E. Faber's rub ber bands, No. C'J 1 cut glass paper weight, 2Mj Inches square U dozen of typewriter nil Vi dozen of No Plus Ultra 10 11 21 37 70 75 20 S2 40 ?0 75 100 brass pins, assorted sizes 10 20 100 1 boxwood ruler, brass edge, 12-Inch 17 35 105 1 rubber ruler, Schram's, 12-Inch 11 23 109 1 spiral pen rack, nickel.. 4 10 l'.O 1 dozen tablets 59 150 154 Vi ream of Mt. Holly type- writing paper, special, cream bond, 8-13 40 110 175 1,000 circulars 71 2 50 250 200 cards nnd printing.... 31 1 50 384 ANOTHER FALSEHOOD. VI. On last Saturday night In this hall, and standing on this platform, this same candidate made the follow ing charge: "In Grace church they bought 146,000 feet of lumber when only GG.000 feet were used. Thoso familiar with their methods say that they had the lumber carried In by the front door, charged to the stnte, and then removed half of It by a back window, but I do not vouch for this. Put that 146,000 were charged to the state while tho amount used wns CG.000 I do vouch for. The bills were regularly 'O. K.' and would have been paid had wo not nrrested them." The nnswer to this assertion is, that It Is not true. The state did not buy ono hundred and forty-six thousand feet of lumber, as alleged; neither did the state buy 06,000 feet of lumlier, as stated by the candidate. It did buy exactly 115,232 feet of lumber and paid for It the sum of $2,910.01. The total cost of the lumber that went Into the church repairing was $2,910.01, and the total cost of the planing mill and car penter work was $2,382.51, making a total cost of the lumber nnd the labor upon It of $3,292.55. Here are the bill and the voucher for It over the hand and seal of the auditor general of the state. RURNINO OF CAPITOL. VII. Again, this candidate for gov ernor has declared In bis newspaper and on the stump that the burning of the state capitol building was by de sign and that it wan done for the pur pose of burning up public, documents which might be used as testimony against certain members of the Re publican party; and that "further, there is convicting evidence of crimi nal carelessness and neglect on the part of the state housa custodians." The last sentence, quoted from his newspaper, contains a serious charge In no ambiguous terms. After this statement he was called upon to tes tify before the joint committees of the two branches of the general assembly on public grounds nnd buildings. He was sworn to tell the truth, and then under oath he did not In any way, either directly or indirectly, Indicate that he had at any time regarded the building as having been set on lire by design. He could give no names of the guilty: he- could furnish no witnesses; he could give no data; he rould do nothing, not even repeat the assertion made In his paper and so at last he declared, under oath, "I have already bodies of sailors. Four nre vet unlden testifled to all the facts within my per- 1 tilled, Including those of two elderly sonul knowledge in relation to the cnpl- I tol building, anil so far as I can recall them. Any further testimony would be hearsay evidence and I have heard I nothing from anyone responsible for i the care of the building burned." This , testimony Is contained In the leglslu- j live record, pages "li and 72S inclusive. and there Is not a scintilla of evidence j given uy mm or anyone eise 10 sup- port his charge of carelessness or ne- j s I At a later date, in an nrtlcle pub lished in the "Pennsylvania Metho dist," of February 11. 1898, he inti mates! that the building was burned In order that valuable papers and docu ments relating to the treasury investi gation might be destroyed. When called upon the witness stand, he ad mitted writing the article and said that when he wrote It. he had In view a statement which he hnd seen in the Philadelphia newspapers bearing on the subject and averred that It wus made "op the statement of gentlemen who profess to know what they were talk ing about." He refused to give the names of the gentlemen who had given him the information and has not yet done so, although a year and a half has elapsed since the Investigation was held. Everybody, at all familiar with the facts, knows there was not a rec ord relating to the treasury or any other department on file In the build ing burned. COMPOUNDING FELONY. A citizen of this commonwealth, who Is a candidate for the highest office within the gift of the people, who with holds Information from the public, which he avers Is "convicting evidence" of the destruction of the capitol build ing of our commonwealth for the pur pose of destroying valuable papers and documents relutlng to an investigation of the state treasury then being made, charges an awful crime, and, in with holding the evidence, if It exists, com mits himself a. greater crime against the people. He Is constantly repeating the charge, but he steadfastly with holds the proof of guilt which ho avers he possesses. No citizen need be told that if he is telling the truth It is his solemn duty to go to the nearest magis trate and inako his Information and furnish the names of tho witnesses. If ho fulls to do hi duty in this regard, he Is worse than nn assassin. He has latterly In his public! utter ances been declaring that he has tho advice of ahle counsel to the effect that, under the lnw, the nttorney general Is the only citl'eu of the state who has the power and whose duty it Is to prose cute thoso whom he alleges to be guilty, and he has, Just as often, In his news paper and on the stump, called upon Continued on Page 1. POSITION POR GRANT. He Will Do Given Command of the District of San Juan. Ponce. Porto Rico, Oct. Ifi. The Stars and Stripes will be formally raised at San Juan on Tuesday. Rrlgadicr General Fred D. Grant will be given command of the district of San Juan, comprising the jurisdictions of Areclbo, Hayamo and Humaeoa, with the adjacent islands. Rrlgadicr General Guy V. Henry will then be gheo commnnd of tho othei- portions; of Porto Rico. INSURGENTS ACTIVE. Filipinos fit la Cr.spl Interfere with American Ship. Manila, Oct. 16. Tho Insurgents at La Caspl have prevented the American steamer Heriuanos from loading or un leadlng, on the ground that there were Spaniards on board. They also refined to allow an ofllcer of tho United State?, cruiser Raleigh to land without permission of General Aguliutldo. Agoncillo nt Paris. Paris, Oct. 10. Senor Auonclllo, special envoy of tho Philippine insurgent gov ernment, arrived at Havre by La Tour nine today and reached Paris late this afternoon. He bus apartments at the Hotel Continental, ohm the same floor with tho members of the United Stntes peace commission, whom he camo to hee residing tho fato of the Philippines but whom ho has not yet met. Steamship Arrivals. Nov York. Oct. 18. Arrived: Umbrla, Liverpool. Balled: Rhynlnnd. South ampton. Havre Arrived: La Touralne, New York. Quornstown Stilled: Lu canla. (from Liverpool) for New York. Flaherty Would Eight. Now York, Oct. 10. Martin Flaherty, the Lowell, Mass., featherwelsht pugil ist, is out with a challenge to meet any man in the world from ISO to 134 pounds, Tommy White, of Chlcaeo, preferred. THE PASSENGERS OF THE MOHEGAN COMPANY'S STATEMENT RE GARDING THEIR FATE. Only Eleven Were Saved Ten Bodies Recovered and Thirty-Threo Miss ing List of Thoso Recovered. Cause of the Disaster a Profound Mystery. London, Oct. 16. The Atlantic trans port company issued the following statement this evening regarding the fate of the passengers and crew of the steamer Mohcgan, which was wrecked last Friday evening off the Lizard, between the Manacles nnd the: Lowlands; "Of the passengers eleven have been B.aved, ten bodies have been recovered, and thirty-three are missing. "Of tho crew and cattlemen thirty nine have been saved, fourteen bodies have bcn recovered and fifty-one are mlaslns." f Since this statement has been Issued nine bodies have been picked up. In cluding two that have been Identified us those of passengers. The reports of the different corres pondents differ widely as to the res cues, recoveries nnd losses, though none have been able to obtain the ex act number of thoso saved or the bod ies recovered. The bodies of the following passen gers have been recovered: T. W. King, Edna King, Master King. James r.lackey, Miss H. M. Cow-en, Dr. Fal lows, 11. Franklin Fuller, Mrs. T. M. Luke. George Seymour, Mrs. L. H. Wnrrener. The latest advices from Falmouth this evening says that thirty-nine bod ies have been Identified, mostly the ladles. One nonpars to be a Germnn. She wore a watch nnd a wedding ring both engraved "1871." The other wore a sllved brooch with the letter "D" In pearls. This Is probably the body of Mrs. Charles Duncan. Nine of the bodies have been brought to Falmouth, the others to the village church at St. Keverne. The rescued passengers are being sheltered at cot- tmraa (ilfinti- tVia uhiv.-i n n .1 lm npnni n.i i"iiu 111- miuit; fltlt Lll 1,1111 i. the sailors' home at Falmouth. Tugs have been cruising In the Vicin ity all day, despite the very rough weather. In hope of picking up other bodies. THE CAUSE A MYSTERY. The cause of the disaster remains the profoundest mystery. Nobody attempts to expluln how the Mohcgan got bo far north of her true course from six to seven miles. There was no fog at the time: while the wind on her port quar ter was not sufficient to prevent, her answering the helm." It has been sug gested that her compass was faulty; but daylight lasted long after Eddy stone light wns passed. The Bailors) say the fact that the Liz ard light was not visible should have served to give the alarm. The masts of the Mohegan, which are above water, show that her stern Is landward, causing a theory that the navigating olHcer, on discovering that he was In the bay, . suddenly turned seaward. Two engineers .vho are saved declare, however, that they never slack ened speed. Remarkable stories of rescues con tinue. Robert Harrow, a seaman, per formed the feat of swimming unaided through the roughest water to Cover- ack Point, a distance of two and one half miles. He climbed up the ragged cliff, where ti searching party found him early the next morning completely exhausted. A C. L. Smith, of Oregon, a passenger, surrendered to a woman In the watVr wreckase that was sup porting him and swam ashore unaided. The woman wns saved. Her name Is reported as Miss Webb, but no such name appears in the company's list. Mopsrs. Smith and W. J. liloomlng dale say there was the greatest diffi culty In launching the boats. The ropes were new and stiff, and tho blocks would not work. Four or five times ns many sailors ns should have been nec essary struggled to lower each boat. The lockers were hard to open. The crew, In a chivalrous effort to save the women, made the mistake of undermnnnlng the boats. There were only four sailors In one Ivoat, which capsized r.ci soon as It was launched. Messrs. Smith nnd Hloomlngdale say that Captain Griffiths had appeared ill all day. The death of T. W. King, who was a newspaper proprietor at Nantucket. Mass., and of his family, Including Mrs. King, her mother, Mrs, Weller, and hlrt sons. Itufus, aged 11, and An thony, aged 7, has caused deev sorrow nt Penzance, where the family had a summer cottage and were very popu lar. Joseph O'Rorke, Mr. King's vnlct, who was saved, says he was on deck when tho crash came Tha lights went out Immediately. Uucdilng to tho I saloon ho heard Mr. King exhorting his family to keep cool, O'llorke, with seven others, clung to the rigging un,tl! 6 o'clock yesterday morning, when a life boat took hlin off. He identified tho bodies of the Kings nnd Mrs. Weller, and will havo them embalmed and taken to tho Unit ed States, in accordance with cabled Instructions from tho relatives of the family ut Nantucket. Falmouth. Oct. 16. Up to midnight tlfty-one bodlew had been recovered. Some were found miles uwny. In coves; nnd It Is expected that more will be washed ashore tomorrow. Many persons undoubtedly were killed by being dashed on the rocks, who would have escaped if cast ashore on nn ordinary coast. Some of the bodice uro horribly mangled. A good deal of Jewelry and money hns been found. As nil tho navigating officers were lost, It Is doubted whether light will ever be thrown on the causes of the disaster. All the flags ashore and on the boats In the bay are at half mast. Sixty Thousand Dollar -iaze. Nov York, Oct. 10. Fire todny de stroyed a three-story brick bulldlnrr on North avenue, Plalufleld, N. J., entailing a 1ob of about JlM.000. Thu ground floor of the building was occupied by the Barge Cycle company and A. P. Thom son, a real estata broker. TIIU NKWS THIS M01INLVU Weather Indications Today: l-alr; Rising Temperature. 1 General Governor Hastings' Reply to Swallow. Wreck of the Mohcgan. Affairs In Cuba. National Democracy's Open Letter. 2 Ocnoral Close of the National League Season. The Markets. 3 local Ilev. Dr. Reed's Sermon on Kindness. First Sermon on the Prodigal Son. Editorial. G Local Grey Process ot Rolling Reams. Sentence Day In Court. Thirteenth Regiment .Member Dies. 8 Locul West Scranton and Suburban. 7 News Round About Scrunton. 8 General Doings of a Day nt Camp Meade. DECLARATION OF GOLD DEMOCRATS Emphatic in the Denunciation of Silver nnd Protection They Advo cate the Unalloyed Principles of Jefferson, Jackson, Tllden and Cleveland. Indianapolis, Oct. 16. The national Democratic committee Issued the fol lowing address today: To the National Democrats of the United Slutes: Your national committee, speaking for tho National Democratic partj-, congratulates the country on the emphatic and merited condemnation at the polls by the people In ISM, of the dis honorable and dangerous doctrines pro mulgated by the Chicago platform. The moral Influence exerted by the Indlanup olls convention, lias amply compensated for the efforts made in behalf of unal loyed Democratic principles, us held and taught by Jefferson, Juekson, Tllden and Cleveland, And today, this platform Is tba rock and firm foundation on which ulone a Drmocrut can rest his political faith. W.e therefore, take tlds oppor tunity to reaffirm with accumulated force, the principles of our party us enunciated nt Indianapolis in 1SIW. Wo believe that the llieory of so-called protection, which in Its last anulysls. in volves the spoliation of the many for the benefit of the few, is dishonest, and that It directly and Inevitably breeds trusts, monopolies, and those special privileges by which the cunning and uicscriipulouii prey on their unsuspecting and credulous fellow citizens. The protective tax Is not only dishonest and oppi esslve. but It obstructs that free and natural Inter change of commodities, which would in creasingly tend to lessen the cost of the necessities and comforts of life to our wage earning classes. It bus destroyed our merchant navy. It has practically driven our flag from the seas, and has forced us Into the humiliating necessity of paying vast and constant tribute to other nations for ocean carriage. We oppose the extension of this Insular sys tem to nny colonies that we have ac quired, or hereafter may accpilre, and fuvor, ns we alwuys have favored, the widest freedom of trade. It Is folly to think of securing fortlgn markets, un less wo are' willing to trade with foreign countries. Especially do we denounce the Chicago platform, for Its virtual abandonment of this great ami lime hon ored principle, The doctrine of free silver Is an exten sion of the protective principle. Free coinage is the protection of a few silver mine owners at the expense of our la boring classes. This policy, were It udopt ed, would rob the workers of half their earnings and by unsettling values, would bring about a paralysis of trade and com merce and reduce us financially to the level of barbarous and uncivilized na tions. We are unreservedly for the single gold standard, and oppose International bimetallism, so colled, as both are Im practicable and undesirable. We believe, that the theory of tho utaudard. and the selection of gold as that standard, has been struck oft In tho mint of human ex perience, as the result of a slowly de veloped and beneficent evolution In civil ization. More than ever do we believe that tho continued existence of our national or ganization Is desirable for the well being ot our country. There Is no other party that represents the principles for which we are proud to stand. Our work is not completed. We are not only against free silver, but we are for sound money. Tho same causes that induced the In dlauupolls convention of 1RM still exists. The financial relief expected of the pres ent administration hns not been given. Tho recent utterances of no less than six teen members of the Democratic nation al committee, declaring for free silver and the renomlnatlon of Mr. Hryan, show conclusively that efforts will bo mado to fight the campaign of 1900 on the free .silver Irsue, and under the old leader. As long ns the principles of the Indian apolis platform remain disregarded by thy old partlc3. our duty to our country, to our party and to ourselves, demands that we should continue our light against free silver, and keep up our efforts to secure fur this nation, such financial leg islation ns shall muko us commercially tho strongest nntlon In the world. Wo protest against tho pollution of tho Democratic party by alliances with thoso tinnncial declarations which are at war with Its old and true creed. With the situation as It exists In some of the various states, we have no prov ince to Interfere. The NatlonnI Demo crats of each stale must solvo their local problems In such a way as may seem to them most likely to Insure tho triumphs of the principles for which the national organization stands, and to tho main tenance of which It Is solemnly pledged. We seek no offices, and wish for no re wards, except tho:io that flow from tho consciousness of duty done. Our prin ciples, tho gold standard, monetary re form, tariff for revenue onlv, civil ser vice reform, rigid economy In the ad ministration of the government, the main tenance of law and order, freedom of contract, and the protection of all con tract rights, must triumph if our repre sentative federal republic Is to be per petuoted. In behalf of these principles, we nppcul to tho sober, settled Judgment of the American people. We should be prepared now, and at all times, to defend them against nssault from any quarter. It Is our earnest hope that our fellow Democrats In overy nook an corner of our land, may realize their error In fol lowing tho vagaries of the Chicago plat form, nnd may unite with us In tho ad vocacy and promulgation of those sound and fundamental political principles which will lead to a rntllicutlon ot them by the vots of tho people, ensuring a truly Democratic victory. tSlgnern Ttin National Committee of the National Democratic Party, by Geo. Foster Peabody, Chairman. In a Dangerous Position. Ually Caitle, Ireland. Oct. 16,-Tho lirltish Rhlp Gantcck Rock, Captain Lau rie, which sailed from the Clyde on Oct. U. for New Castle, N. S. W Is anchored In a dangerous position near the shore In the bay. The crew have landed here. PROGRESS IN CUBA SLOW Colonel Waring Has Found Havana a Very Dirty City. BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL Many Planters nnd Merchants Who Beturned to Havana Anticipating an Early Resumption of Business) Are Going Abroad Again to Walt Until Affairs in Cuba Aro Settled. Sugar nnd Tobacco Crops Are Un sownCondition of tho Cubans Not so Desperate as Is Painted. They Will Battle for Independ- Havanu, via Key West, Oct. 16. Doc tors Lane und O'ltellly have made a report to the surgeon general, Insisting upon the Immediate establishment of an American fever hospital here. The existing hospitals do not isolate yel low fever patients, and the result ia that if a person suffering from any other complaint Is removed to the hos pital he runs the risk of contracting the fever. This wns the case with Stenographer Dalbey, of tho American evacuation commission, who is suffer ing from malarial fever. His next door neighbor Is 111 with a fever of a, different character. Colonel Clous has received a plan of every fortification on the Island, each one Blgned personally by General Hlanco. These plans had been request ed by our commissioners ever slnca their arrival, but were not delivered until yesterday. The transportation commission ha4 begun work upon the plans for the ex tension of the railroad to the camp at Ouunabaeoa, which will be the first to be got ready. They have asked for bids for the work and laborers are being employed to push the work actively. Colonel Waiing has found Havana dirtier than he anticipated. He says it will be neceflsary to tear open tho streets and lay drainage pipes and sewers. He sees no reason to fear an epidemic, as there was no spread of disease when the ntreets. were opened recently to lay water pipes. He Is greatly satisfied with the excellence of Havana's water supply. Industry and commerce continue at a standstill. PLANTERS GO AHROAD. Many planters and merchants who recently returned hen.' anticipating an early leauinptlon of business are go ing abroad again to wait until affairs are settled In Cuba, as, they do not dare embark In business ventures or risk a cent In the present unsatisfac tory and Indefinite condition of polit ical affairs In the Island. In the mean time the country dally grown poorer. The sugar and tobacco crops are un sown. That the condition of the Cubans Is not so desperate or black as Is painted, outside the fact that they are short of rations, is confirmed by Colonel Rowan and Lieutenant Parker, who, after crossing the Island five times, covering 1.C00 miles and visiting every Insur gent camp in the island, report that the men in the camps, are efficient, well disciplined and officered by men of a high order of intelligence and edu cation. From these men who havo struggled and suffered for three long years for their ideal of freedom re sistance is to be feared to any solu tion ot the problem not having for its basis Independence, SULTAN DECEIVES STRAUS. The New United States Minister Gets the Glad Hand. Constantinople, Oct. 10. The sultan today gave nn audience to Oscar S. Straus, tho new United States minister, with the customary ceremonies of re ception, which was of the most cordial character. His majesty expressed pleasure at seeing Mr. Straus again, and his hope that the excellent relations that pre vailed between Turkey unci the United States during Mr. Straus' previous term at Constantinople would bo maintained. The sultan added that he understood tho United States proposed to ralso tho American legation to the rank of nn embassy and to make Mr. Straus an ambassador, a suggestion which, ho observed, was being carefully consid ered by the Ottoman government, After the audience nt the palace, Mr. Straus visited the porto and then the American colony. The Sultan Yields. Canea, Island of Crete, Oct. 16. Ismail Hey. tho Turkish military governor, tills evening Informed tho udmirals of tho foreign warships that the sultan had or dered tho withdrawal of all the Turkish troops In Crete, In compliance) with the Joint note from Great Hrltaln, Russia, Italy and France. Valuable Horse Stolen. Chicago, Oct. 10. Populist, the steeple chaser, wus stolen from tho Corrlgan stables at the Hawthorne track yester day. The horse, which was brought here from Kentucky a month uco, was valued at $10,000. Emperor's Health Is Good. Pekln, Oct. HI. Prince Chlng, on bchalt of tho Tsunir LI Yumou, has given Bit Claude MacDonnld, the lirltish minister, satisfactory assurances us to the health of the emporor. - -H-M-M-H- -4"HttMM 4 WEATHER TORECAST. Washington, Oct. 16. Forecast for Monday: For eastern Penn sylvania, fair: rising temperature; variable winds shifting to fresh southeasterly. For western Penn sylvania, Increasing cloudiness, rain; easterly winds becoming -t; f - f 4 DnsK to men. H-H-H-ftt-f-f-H-tttttttt tt '
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