THE: citizen.
WILLIAM C. NEGLEY - - Publisher
THURSDAY. APRIL 11. IS9S.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS.
DK. J. B. SHOW ALTER, of Mlllerstown boro
FOR ASSEMBLY.
JAMES N. MOORE, of Butler.
JOHN DIN DINGER, of ZellenopU.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
J A*'OB M. PAINTER, of Butler.
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR.
PRANK E. McQCISTION. of Butler.
The Congressional Delegates elected
"lit District, John Wonier: 2nd, C. M.
Brown 3rd. Geo. Maxwell, 4th, H. D.
Hockenberrv; sth. John Clark: 6th. A
L Timblin; 7th, Matt Bippus: Bth, R.
M Johnston: 9th T. H. Greer: 10th. W
S. Dixon; 11th. C. F. L. McQmstion:
12th, A. C. Zeigler: 18th, Sid. \\eihl,
14th. Joseph Graham: loth, Reuben
Shanor.
War News.
Yesterday the House at Washington,
nfter a hot "debate and one scrap be
tween Brtunm. of Pa., and Bartlett, of
(ia passed the following resolution .
"Resolved, etc-., That the president
is herebv authorized and directed to in
tervene "at once to stop the war in Cuba,
tii the end and with the purpose of se
curing peace and order there, and es
tablishing by the free action of the
people thereof a stable and independent
government of their own in the island
of Cnba. and the president is hereby
authorized and empowered to use the
land and naval forces of the nation to
execute the purpose of this resolution
The Senate split on the majority and
minority reports of their Foreign Com
mittee, and debated all day, Spain got
an awful scoring. Final action will
probably be taken to-day.
The Government has purchased the
liners St. Paul and St. Louis. The
Squadron at Hampton Roads were out
practicing yesterday.
The Official Report of the
"Maine" Disaster.
It i not within the province of the
Scient:i ■ American to discuss the politi
cal asp • :£ of the problem which con
fronts • ■ s country with regards to
Cnl a. I: is not for us to determine
wh< tail represent condition of the
unhappy island, blighted as it is by all
the miser. of a two years' war, can
be considered as affording a casus belli
between ourselves and Spain.
The blowing up of the battle ship
"Maine," however, presents a problem
of an entirely different complexion
one that has touched the nation to the
quick. How deeply we have felt the
loss, and appreciate the terrible circum
stances attending it, is shown by the
significant, the portentions, calmness
and self restraint with which the situ
ation has been endured. The attitude
of the public has been one of anxious
and pntient expectation, in which hasty
conclusions and precipitate actions
have met with universal disapproval.
The report of the Naval Court was
made public by the President without a
word of comment on Monday, March
28, and with regret we have to say that
the worst fears have been realized and
the suspicion that the "Maine', was de
stroyed by a submarine mine is fully
confirmed.
The summary of the official report
has been published in the daily press
and is already widely known.
The appearance of the wreck, as in
dicated by the dra.vings, proves not
only that'the ship was wri eked by an ex
plosive placed beneath her, but that the
mine must have been of vast size and
power. No automobile torpedo could
have blown the central portion of the
hull out of existence and forced the
keel at frame 18 right up through the
body of the ship through a vertical dis
tance of thirty-four feet. We have on
record, thanks to Chilean war, concrete
evidence of what effect a Whitehead
torpedo will have against the hull of a
ship like the "Maine." In that war the
"Blanco Encalada' was struck below
the water line, at about the same point
on the port bow as the "Maine," by a
torpedo carrying 175 pounds of guncot
ton. The result was a horizontal rent
in the plating, twenty-five feet in length
and not over five feet in width at the
widest part. The ship was raised and
repaired, the injury being quite local.
If it took 175 pounds of gnncot
ton to produce a local rent in the "Blan
co Encalada," it must have taken a
simply enormous amount of explosive
to produce the awful wreck of the hull
of the "Maine" which is shown in the
official drawings referred to. The
tearing open and throwing back of the
decks was undoubtedly the result of
the subsequent explosion of one or
more of the magazines within the ship
The scale on which the scheme of
destruction was carried out was too
elaborate for execution by private indi
viduals, and it is unlikely, on account
of the risk to general shipping, that the
mine was left to be exploded by being
struck by a moving vessel. The
"Maine," lying at anchor, would swing
about with change of tide over on arc
some 700 feet in diameter. The exact
location of the mine must have been
understood by the conspirators on
shore, and careful observation of the
exact position of the "Maine" must
have been obtained in order that the
mine could have been electricaliy ex
ploded at the exact moment at which
the ill-fated battleship, floated over the
fatal spot.
The authors of this horrible catastro
phe are unknown. Iu all probability
the solution of the question will ever
remain a mystery. It seems, however,
impossible that a mice containing
many hundred pounds of guncotton
or similar explosive could have been
placed under the vessel after she was
anchored there. If a mine had been
placed there before this particular point
of anchorage had been selected, it
must have been with the knowledge
of the authorities. The fact that this
place of anchorage was an unusual one
and that, according to the reported
eyibence of Capt. Stevens, of the
"City of Washington," it was the least
used buoy in the harbor, and no war
ships had been moored there, to his
knowledge, for five or six years, lends
food for a terrible suspicion.—Scientif
ic American. •
WASHINGTON.
Congressman Showalter has recom
mended Dr. J. C. Barr, of Mars, for
pension examining surgeon for Butler
county vice Dr. J. C. Campbell, re
signed.
The National government has de
manded that Turkey pay over $40,000
reparation to the mother of Frank
Lenz, the Pittsburg wheelman, who
was murdered in Armenia three years
ago while on a trip around the world on
his bicycle.
On Friday W. G. Bassler was ap
pointed pestmaster at Zelienople, vice
Frank Zehner removed.
Pensions have lately been granted to
Daniel MeMackin, Coylesville, (supple
mental) *4; Martha Eckman, Butler, SS.
The pension of Tatty Speer of Mur
rinsville wars increased for $6 to per
month.
Samuel Newell McFann. sl2.
POLITICAL.
Lycoming Co. went for Wanamaker
last Saturday, his friends securing 46
delegates to the County Convention to
W. A. Stone's U). in Williamsport 12
of the 14 precincts elected Wananiaker
men.
Crawford Co. elected three W A.
Stone delegates to the State Conven
tion. but two of the three nominees for
Assembly are said to be independents.
Erie Co. defeated the C. W. Stone
delegates to the State Convention, and
the delegates elected are uninstrncted
for (Governor but instructed for D.iven
pori for Congressman-at-Large. In tiie
fight for Congress in the Erie-Crawford
district liiggins of Erie won over Bates
of Meadville by a small majority.
INTERVENTION
PRESIDENT'S
SUGGESTION
Washinoton, April 12.—The presi
dent's message on the Cuban question
says:
To the Congress of the United States:
Obedient to that precept of the consti
tution which commands the president to
give from time to time the congress in
formation of the state of the Union, and
to recommend to Its consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary and
expedient, It becomes my duty now to ad
dress your liody with regard to the grave
crisis that has arisen in the relations of
the United States to Spain by reason of
the warfare that for more than three
years has raged in the neighboring island
of Cuba. Ido so because of the intimate
connection of the Cuban question with
the state of our own Union and the grave
relation the course which it is now incum
bent upon the nation to adopt must needs
bear to the traditional policy of our gov
ernment, if it is to accord with the pre
cept laid down by the founders of the re
public and religiously observed by each
succeeding administration to the present
l ' l 'i'iie present revolution is but the suc
cessor of other similar insurrections
which have occurred in Cuba against the
dominion of Spain, extending over a
period of nearly half a century, each of
which, during its progress, has subjected
the United states to gnat expense and
effort in enforcing its neutrality laws,
caused enormous losses to American trade
and commerce, caused irritation, annoy
ance and disturbance among our citizens,
and by the exercise of cruel, barbarous
and uncivilized practices of warfare,
shocked the sensibilities and offended the
humane sympathies of our people.
KfTccts of the Rebellion.
Since the present revolution began, in
February, ls'-'o. this country has seen the
fertile domain at our threshold ravaged t.y
lire and sword in the course of a struggle
unequalcd in the history of the Island, and
rarely paralleled as to the number of com
batants and the bitterness of the contest
by any revolution of modern times where
a dependent people, striving to be free,
have been oppressed by the power of the
sovereign state. Our people have beheld
a once prosperous community r. due- d to
comparative want, its lucrative commerce
virtually paralyzed, its exception s! pro
ductiveness diminished, its fields laid
waste, its mills in ruins, and its people
perishing by tens of thousands from hun
ger and destitution. We have found our
selves constrained, in tho observance of
that strict neutrality which our laws en
join and which the laws of nations com
mands, to police our own waters and
watch our own seaports in prevention of
any unlawful action in aid of the Cubans.
Our trade has suffered; the capital in
vested by our citizens in Cuba has
been largely lost, and the temper and
forhearanco of our peoole have been so
sorely tried as to beget a perilous unrest
among our own citizens, which has inev
itably found its expression from time to
time in the national legislature, so that
issues wholly external to our own body
politic engross attention and stand in the
way of that close devotion to domestic ad
vancement that incomes a self-contained
commonwealth, whose prime maxim has
been the avoidance of foreign entangle
ments. All this must needs awaken and
has indeed aroused the utmost concern on
the part of tills government, as well dur
ing my predecessor's town as In my own.
Attempt* Made to Mediate.
In April, 1896, the avlls from which our
country suffered through the Cuban war
became bo onerous that iny predeossor
made an effort to bring about a peace
through the mediation of this govern
ment in any way that might tend to an
honorable adjustment of the contest be
tween Spain and her revolted country, on
the basis of some effective scheme of
self-government for Cuba under the flag
and sovereignty of Spain. It failed,
through the refusal of the Spanish gov
cinment then In power to consider any
form of mediation, or Inctood any plan of
settlement which did not begin with the
actual submission of the Insurgents to
the mother ccjpntry, and then rely on such
terms as Spain herself might see tit to
grant. The war continued unabated. The
resistance of the insurgents was in nowise
diminished.
The efforts of Spain were increased,
loth by the dispatch of fresh levies to
Cuba and by the addition to the horrors
of the strife of a new and inhuman phase
happily unprecedented in the modern his
tory of civilized Christian peoples. The
fiollcy of devastation and concentration
naugura'.ed by the captain general's
banilo of Oct. 21, 18i#i, in the province of
Pinar del Kio was thence extended to em
brace all of the island to which the Span
ish arm was able to reach by occupation
or by military operations. The peasantry,
including all dwelling in the open agri
cultural interior, were driven into the gar
rison towns or isolated places held by the
troops. Tho raising and movement of
provisions of all kinds were interdicted.
The fields were laid waste, dwellings un
roofed and fired, mills destroyed and, in
short, everything that could desolate the
land and render it unfit for human habi
tatiou or support was commanded by one
or tho other of the contending parties,
and executed by all the powers at their
disposal.
Awful Suffering of the People.
liy the time the present administration
took office a year ago reconcentration—so
called—had been made effective over tho
better part qf the four central and west
ern provinces, Santa Clara, Matanzas,
Havana and Plnar del Rio. The agricult
ural population, to the estimated 1 umber
uf 300,u0u or more, was herded within the
towns and their immediate vicinage, de
prived of the means of support, rendered
destitute of shelter, left poorly clad, and
exposed to the most unsanitary condi
tions. As tiie scarcity of food increased
with the devastation "of the depopulated
nreas of production, destitution and want
became misery and starvation. Month by
month the death rate increased in an
alarming ratio. 1# March, 1897, accord
ing to the conservative estimates from offi
cial sources, the mortality among the re
concentrados, from starvation and the
diseases thereto incident, exceeded 50 per
centum of their total number. No prac
tical relief was accorded to the destitute.
The overburdened towns, already suffer
ing from the general dearth, could give
no aid. Socalled "zones of cultivation,"
established within the immediate area of
effective military control about the cities
anil fortified camps proved Illusory as a
remedy for the suffering. The unfortu
nates, lieing for the most part women ami
children with ageil aud helpless men, en
feebled by disease and hunger, could not
have tilled the soil without tools. eed or
shelter, for their own support or for the
supply of the cities. Reconcentration.
adopted avowedly as a war measure i::
order to cut off' the resources of the in
surgents, worked its predestined result.
As I said in my message of last Decem
ber, it was not civilized warfare; it was
extermination. The only peace it could
beget was that of the wilderne.-s and the
grave. While the military situation in
the island had undergone a noticeablo
change, the extraordinary activity that
characterized the second year of the war,
when the insurgents Invaded even the
hitherto unharmed fields of Plnar del Itio
and carried havoc and destruction up to
the walls of the city of Havana itself, had
relapsed into a dogged struggle in the
central and eastern provine< s. The Span
ish arms regained a mea-ure of control in
Pinar del Rio and narts of Havana, but
under the existing conditions of the rural
country, without i 111 mediate improve
Tll. Nt of their productive situation. Kv :n
thus partially restricted the revolution
ists held their own and tleir conquest
and submission, put forward by Spain as
the essential aud sole basis of peace,
seemed as far distant as at tho outset.
Spuulsli Policy Changed.
In this state of affairs my administra
tion found its.'lf confronted with tiie
grave problotn of its duty. My message
of last December reviewed the situation,
and narrated the steps t iken with a view
to relieving its acuteness and opening tiie
way to some form of honorable settle
ment. The assassination of the prime
minister, Canovas, led to a change of gov
ernment in Spain. The former adminis
tration pledged to subjugation without
concession gave place to that of tt more
liberal party, committed long in advance
to a policy of reform involving the wider
principle of home rule for Cuba and
Porto Rico. The overtures of this gov
ernment. made through its new envoy,
General Woodford, and looking to an ini
mediate and effective amelioration of the
conditions of tho island, although not ac
cepted lt> l)ie extent of admitted media
tion iu any sh >|>e, were mil oy assurances
that ii-.m - ral . 111 mi advanced plia e,
would l>c foi;tr. ith oil", io.l to C'.ioa, with
out waiting for the war lo end, and that
more human.* methods should th 11 efortii
prevail in the conduct of hostilities. Co
insiileiitully w:*.h these declarations the
new government of Spain c mt nucd and
completed the policy already begun by iis
prei.eee.isor, o. !■ -iitying frh nilly regard
lor this nation l y releasing American citi
zens held under one charge or another
conoe. ted with the insurrection, so that,
by the 1 nd of November, not a single per
son entitled in #hv wav to our national
protection remained in a prison.
While these negotiations were in pro
ress, the increasing destitution of the u_i
fortunate reconcentrados and the alarm
ing mortality among tliem claimed earnest
attention. The sucueiii which had at
teu<lc4 the limited mcwuru of relief ex
tended to the snfferlng American citizens
among them by tin l judicious expenditure
through the consular agencies of the
money appropriated expressly for their
succor by the joint resolution approved
Mav 24, 1597, prompted the humane ex
tension of a similar scheme of aid to the
great Ixnly of sufferers. A suggestion to
this i mi was acquiesced in by the Spanish
authorities. On Dee. -4 last I caused to
be issued an oppeai t > the American p«*o
ple, Inviting contributions in money or in
any kind ior the succor of the starving
sufferers in Cuba, following this on Jan.
$ li_v a similar public announcement of
tile "formation of a central Cuban relief
committee, with headquarters in New
York city, composed of three members
representing the American National Red
Cross anil the religious and lusincss ele
ments of the community. The efforts of
the committee have been untiring and ac
complished much.
Arrangements for free transportation to
the island of Cuba have greatly aided the
charitable work. The president of the
American Red Cross and representatives
of other contributory organizations have
generally visited Cuba, and co-operated
with the"consul general and the local au
thorities to make effective distribution of
the relief collected through the efforts of
the central committee. Nearly fc-lxyMM in
money and supplies has already reached
the suffcri rs, and more is forthcoming.
Thesupplh - ar ■ admitted duty free, ana
transportation to the interior has been ar
ranged so that the relief, at first neces
sarlTv confined to Havana and tho larger
citit s. is now extended through most if
not till "f the town- where suffering exists.
Thousands of lives have already been
saved. The necessity for a change in tho
condition of the rec .ncentrados is recog
nized by the Spanish government. Within
a few days past the orders of General
Weyler have been revoked, the reconcen
frados are. it is -aid, to be permitted to re
turn to their homes, and aided to rc.-umc
the self-supporting pursuits of peace;
public works have been ordered to give
them employment, and a sum of $(>00,000
has been appropriated for their relief.
The war in Cuba is of such a nature
that short of subjugation or extermina
tion a final military victory for either side
seems impracticable. The alternative
lies in the physical exhaustion of the one
or the other party, or perhaps both—a con
dition which in effect ended the ten-years'
war l>v the truce of Zanjon. The prospect
of such a protraction and conclusion of
the present strife is a contingency hardly
to be contemplated with equanimity by
the civilized world, and least of all by the
United States, affected and injured as we
are. deeply and Ultimately by its very ex
islence.
What This Nation Should I»o.
Realizing that it appears to Ik 1 my duty,
in a spirit of true friendliness no less to
Spain than to the Cubans, who have so
much to l« se by the prolongation of the
struggle to seek to bring about an imme
diate termination of the war To this end,
I submitted, on the 27th ultimo as a re
sult of much representation and corre
spond! nee, through the United States
minister at Madrid, propositions lo the
Spanish governmi nt looking to an armis
tice until O t. 1 for the negotiation of
peat*' w.'.ii the good ollices of the presi
dent. .
In addition. I asked the immediate re
vocation of the order of leconeeutration,
so as to permit the people to return to
their farms and the needy to be relieved
with provision; and supplies from the
United Sie.'es to operating with the Span
ish authorities - > ;.s to afford *.h:it relief.
The rei y of the Spanish cabinet was
received on iho night of tli-- 31st ultimo.
It oi.ers. tho means to bring about
peace in Cuba, to confide the preparation
thereof t > the Insu'ar parliament, in is
much as the concurrence of that body
woul'! '< nee- s ary to reach a linal result.
It be ng, however, understood 'iiat the
power served by the const it utio. lto the
centr:! government are not lessened or
diminished. As the Cohan parliament
does not meet until the itli of May next,
the Spanish government would not object,
fo. its | art. to accept at once a suspension
of hostilities if asked for by the Insurgents
from the general-in-chief, to whom it
would pert en, in such case, to determine
the duration and condition of the armis
tice.
The proposition submitted by General
Woodford and the reply of the Spanish
government were both in the form of
brief memoranda, the texts of which are
before me, and are substantially in the
language above given. The fuuetlon of
the ('u . in parliament, in the matter of
"preparing'' peace and the manner of its
doing so .ire not expressed in the Spanish
memorandum; but, from General Wood
ford's explanatory reports of preliminary
discussions preceding the final conference,
It Is understood that tho Spanish govern
ment stands ready to give the insular con
gress full powers to settle the terms of
peace with the insurgents—whether by
direet negotiation or Indirectly by means
of legislation, does not appear.
i'luns X'ropofted For Intervention.
With this !a-t overture in the direction
of Immediate peace, and its disappointing
reception by Spain, the executive was
brought to the end of his effort.
In tjiv annual message of December
last I raid:
"Of th" untried measures there remain
only: Recognition of the insurgents as
Lelllgerc-n recognition of the Independ
ence of Cuba; neutral Intervention to
end th : war by imposing a rational com
promise- between u:e contestants, and in
tervention in favor of one er the other
party. 1 e.iU. not < f forcible annexa
tion; that cannot be thought of, That,
by our code of morality, would be crim
inal aggression."
Thereupon I rcviewcu thes ■ alternatives,
iu the light of I'resident (Grant's measured
words, uttered in 1875, when after seven
years of sanguinary, destructive and cruel
hostiliths in Cub i. he readied tlie couelu
sion that the recognition of the indep ii l
ence of Cuba was impracticable and inde
fensible; and that the recognition of lel
ligercnce was not warranted by the facts
according to tests of public war. I com
mented especially upon the latter aspect
of the question, pointing out tiie incon
venience- and positive dangers of a recog
nitlon of belligerence, which, while add
ing to the already onerous burdens of neu
trality within our own jurisdiction, could
not in any way extend our influence or
effective oilii os in the territory of hostili
ties. Nothing has since occurred to
change my views in this regard—and I
rccognir.o as fully now as then that the
Issuance of a proclamation of neutrality
by which process the so-enllod recognition
of belligerence is published, could of itself
and unattended by other action, accom
plish nothing toward the one end for
which we i.ibor, the instant pacification of
Cuba and the cessation of the misery that
a fillets the island.
Opposed to it* coftni/.iii£ Ilitlcpemleiice.
Turning to tiic question of recognizing
at this time the independence of the pres
ent insurgent government iu Cuba, we
find safe precedents in our history from
an early day. They are well summed up
in President Jackson's message to con
gress, Dec. 21. IB:{t>, on the subject of tho
recognition of the independence of Texas.
He said:
"In all the contests that have arisen out
of the revolutions of France, out of the
disputes relating to the crowns of Portu
gal and Spain, out of the separation of the
American possessions of both from tho
European governments, and out of the
numerous and constantly occurring strug
gles for dominion in Spanish America, so
wisely consistent with our just princip! s
has been tho action of our government
that we have under tho most critical cir
cumstances avoided all censure and cn
countered no other evil than that pro
duced bva transient estrangment of good
will against those whom we have b. en by
force of evidence compelled to decide."
Thereupon Andrew Jackson proceeded
to consider the risk that there might bo
imputed to the United States motives of
seltisli interest in view of the former claim
on our part to the territory of Texas, ami
of the avowed purpose of the Texans in
seeking recognition of independence as an
incident to the incorporation of Texas in
the Union; concluding thus:
"Prudence, therefore, seems to dictate
that we should still stand aloof and main
tain our present aUltude, if not until
Mexico itself, or one of the great foreign
powers shall recognize the independence
of the new government, at least until the
lapse of ( me or the course of events shall
have p'o.ed beyond cavil or dispute the
ability ol the people of that country to
maintain their separate sovereignty and
to uphold the government constituted by
them. Neither of the contending parties
can justly complain of this course. By
pursuing it we are carrying Jont the long
established policy < f our government, a
policy which nass •cured to us respect and
lnlUt 'nee abroad, and inspired confidence
at home."
These are the words of the resolute and
patriotic Jackson. They are evidence that
the United States, in addition to the test
imposed by public law as the condition of
the recognition of independence by a neu
tral suite (to wit: that the revolted state
shall "constitute in fact a body politic,
having a government in substance as well
as In name, possessed of the elements of
stability," anil forming <le facto, "if left
to itself , a state among the nations, reason
ably capable of discharging the (illties of
a state ): has imposed for its governance
in dealing with cases like these the fur
ther condition that tcognition of inde
pendent slateleio 1 is not due to a revolted
depetidenc. until the danger of its being
again subjurat *d by the parent state has
openly passed away.
Historic I'reeedcnU Given.
This extre -ee test was in fact applied in
the case of 'i x is. The congress to whom
President !:s n referred the question
as one "probably leading to war," and
therefore a proper subject for "a previous
understandin_- with that body by whom
war can alone he declared, anil by whom
all tiie pr .v.-: us for sustaining it's perils
n,t;st be furl:, .lal," left the matter of the
recognition I'c.vas to the discretion of
the exvi . i o ■, providing merely for the
sending ■i •• qdomatlc agent when 11:
president so mid be satisfied that the rc
public of Texas had beCuine "an indc
Pndent state." It was so recognized by
r> sident Van liaren. who commissioned
a charge d'affaires March 7, 183 T. after
Mexico had abandoned an attempt to re
conquer the Texas territory, and when
there was at the time no bona fide contest
going on between the insurgent province
and its former sovereign.
I said in my message of December last:
"It is to be seriously considered whether
the Cuban insurrection possesses beyond
dispute the attributes of statehood which
alone can demand the recognition of bel
ligerency in its favor."
The same requirement must be no less
seriously considered when the graver is
sue of recognizing independence is in
question, for no less positive test can be
applied t > the greater act than to the
lesser; while on the other hand the inllu
ences and consequence of the struggle
upon the internal policy of the recogniz
ing state, which form important factor«
when the lecognitlon of belligerency is
concerned, aro accessary, if not rightly
jliinirmMe factors when toe real question
is wheth r the community claiming recog
nition is or is nut independent beyond
peradvi nture.
Nor. from the standpoint of expedience
ilc, I think it would be wise or prudent for
this government to recognize at the pres
ent time the independence of the so-called
Cuban republic. Such recognition is not
necessary in order to enable the United
states to intervene and pacify the island.
To commit this country now to the rec
ognition of any particular government in
Cuba might subject u.s to embarrassing
conditions of international obligation to
ward the organization so recognized. In
case of intervention our conduct would be
aubjeet to the approval or disapproval oC
such government; we would be required
to submit to its direction and to assume
to it the mere relation of a friendly ally.
When it ahull appear hereafter that there
isid the island a governm tit capable of
performing the duties and discharging the
r.mrti ins of a separate nation, and having
as a matter of lact the proper forms and
attributes of nationality of such govern
ment can be pr> :nptly "and readily recog
nized and the relations and interests with
such nation adjusted.
Thcre remains the alternative form of
Intervention to end the war, either as an
impartial neutral by imposing a rational
compromise between the contestants, or
as the active ally of the one patty or the
other.
As to the first, it is not to lie forgotten
that during the last few months the rela
tion of the I'nited States has virtually
been one of friendly intervention in many
ways, each not of itself conclusive, but
all tending to tho exertion of a potential
influence toward an ultimate pacific result
just and honorable to all interests con
cerned. The spirit of ali our acts hith
erto has been an earnest unselfish desire
for peace and prosperity in Cuba, untar
nished by differences between us and
Spain and unstained by the blood of
American citizens.
The forcible intervention of the United
States as a neutral, to stop the war, ac
cording to the large dictates of humanity,
and followed many historical precedents
where neighboring states have Interfered
to check the hop -less sacrifice of life by
internecine conflicts beyond their borders,
is justifiable n rational grounds. It in
volves, however, hostile constraint upon
both the parties to the contest, as well to
enforce a truce as to guide the eventual
settlement.
Grounds For Intervention.
The grounds for such intervention may
be brielly summarized as follows:
First —In the case of humanity and to
put an end to the barbarities, bloodshed,
starvation and horrible miseries now ex
isting there and which the parties to the
conflict are either unable or unwilling to
stop or mitigate. It is no answer to say
this is all in another country, belonging
to another nation, and is therefore none
of our business, it is especially our duty,
for it is right at our door.
Second—We owe it to our citizens in
Cuba to afford them that protection and
indemnity for life and property which no
government there can or will afford, and
to that end to terminate the conditions
that deprive them of legal protection.
Third—Tiic right to intervene may he
justified by the very serious injury to the
commerce, trade anil business of our
people and by the wanton destruction of
property and devastation of the island.
Fourth —And which is of the utmost im
portance. The present condition of af
fairs in Cuba is a constant menace to our
peace, and entails upon this government
an enormous expense. With such a con
ilict waged for ye irs in ail island so near
us and with which our people have such
trade and business relations —when the
lives and liberty of our citizens are in con
stant danger and their property destroyed
and themselves ruined —where our trad
ing vessels are liable to seizure and are
seized at oar very door by warships of a
foreign nation, the expeditions of filibus
tering that we are powerless to prevent
altogether, and the irritating questions
and « ntanglcmcnts thus arising—ail these
and others that I need not mention, with
the resulting strained relations, are con
stant menace to our peace and compel us
to keep on a semi-war footing with a na
tion with which we are at peace.
The Maine Kxplosiou.
These elements of danger and dishonor
already pointed out liavo been strikingly
illnrated by the tragic event which has
deeply and justly moved the American
people. I have already transmitted to
congress the report of the naval court of
inquiry on the destruction of the battle
ship Maine, in the harbor of Havana,
during the night of the lath of February.
The destruction of that noble vessel has
filled the national heart with inexpressible
horror Two hundred and fifty-eight
brave sailors and marines and two officers
of our navy, reposing in the fancied se
curity of a fr cndly harbor, have been
hurled to death, grief and want brought
to their homes and sorrow to the nation.
The naval court of inquiry, which, it is
needless to say, commands the unqualified
confidence of tbe government, was unani
mous in its comlusion that the destruc
tion of the Maine was caused by an ex
terior explosion, that of a submarine mine,
it did not assume to place the responsi
bility. That remains to be fixed.
In any event, the destruction of the
Maine by v.-lia' ever exterior cause, is a
patent and im:ir. sive proof of a state of
things in Cuba that is intolerable. That
condition is thus hoivn to lie such that
the Spanish gove.-nment cannot assure
safety and security i > a vessel of the
American navy in the l.arbor of Havana
on a mission of peace and rightfully
there.
l-'urtlu r rcf- rrin lln this connection to
recent diplomatic correspondence, a dis
patch from our minister to Spain of the
Kith ultimo., contained the statement
that the Spanish minister for foreign af
fairs as-ured him positively that Spain
will do all that the highest honor and
justice require in the matter of the Maine.
The reply above referred to of the 31st
ultimo also contained an expression of the
readiness of Spain to submit to an arbitra
lion all the d fferenees which arise in this
matter, which subsequently explained
by the note of the Spanish minister at
Washington of the 10th inst., as follows:
"As 10 the question of fact which
springs from the diversity of views be
tween the report of the American and the
Spanish bo:irds. Spain proposes that the
fact be ascertained by an impartial in
vestigation by experts, whose decision
Spain accepts in advance."
To this I have made no reply.
Opinion of l'reitiilent Grant.
President Grant, in 1575, after discuss
ing the phases of the contest as it then
appeared, and its hopeless and apparent
indefinite prolongation, said: "in such
event, I am of opinion that other nations
will be compelled to assume the responsi
bility which devolves upon them, and to
seriously consider the only remaining meas
ures possible, mediation and intervention.
Owing, perhaps, to the large expanse of water
separating the island from the peninsula the
contending parties appear to have within
themselves no depository of common confi
dence, to suggest wisdom when passion and
excitement have their sway, and to assume
the part of peacemaker. In this view, in the
earlier days of the contest, the good offices of
the United States :is a mediator were tt-nder.-d
in good faith, without any selfish purpose, in
the interests of humanity and in sincere
friendship for both parties, but were at the
ime declined by Spain with the declaration
nevertheless that at a fur are time they would
be indispensable. No ii tima* toil lias been re
ceived that in th opinion ot' Spain that time
has been reached. An l yet the strife con
tinues with all its dr horrors, and all its in
juries to the interests 0;' th" United States and
if other nuti-n:
"Sachpirtj :a ; quite capable of working
s" it injury and daraaee to the other, as well
. ouilth relations and interests dependent
iSi th" xi.-t'-nc'. 01 jwaee in the island; but
tli . r.t vpa o of reaching any adjust
..it.L 1,. 1 t y.- thus fiir failed of achiev
i*.success whereby one party shall pos
si ss and CDiit.'ol th • island to th" exclusion of
the other. Und r th" circumstances, the
te-y of others, nth r by mediation or
I>> inttirrentkm, seems to bo the only alterna
tive which must, sooner or later, b* invoked
for the termination of the strife."
Li the last annual message of my immediate
predecessor, during th" 1 tending struggle, it
was -ail: "When the inability of Spain to
d al -ueeessf'iily with the insurrection has be
cor.i manife-.:, aM • ,1 is demonstrated that her
si verei;;uty is 11-t in Cuba for all puriioscs
of its rightful • nee. a'.i I when a hopeless
struggl ; for • -t.ibli am at li:ts degener
ated into str: 1 1 111. .tus nothing more
than the list 1 vs -lerill • of human life and
the utter destrueti m of the very subject mat
ter of tlie conaiet, si i i.i! i- it will be presented
in >vl>ich our oblig it • to the sovt reign ty of
Spain \v!i b■ • 1 - -.1 11;;. higher obligations,
which we can hardly li itate to recognize and
discharge."
Untold d I'aclUration Needed.
In my annu.il m- t.t/ '.<> co::gn s December
last, speakingof thi-, question, I said: "Tho
near future will de:uo;istate whether the in
dispensable condition of a righteous peace,
just alike to the ('abans and to Spain as well
as equitnbl" to all our interests so intimately
involved in the welfare of Cuba, is likft'y to be
attained. if not, the exi rency of furtl.fr and
otln r action ly th ■ United "stat'"l will v« main
to !»• taken Wh.-a that time com . ta.it r. ■
tion will be determined ia tile line of indis
putable ri.'ht and equality. It will bi faced
without misgiving or hesitancy in the lisht of
the obligation this government owe. to itself,
to the people who have confided to it the pro
tectiun of their interests and honor, and to hn
manity.
"Bnre of the right, keeping five from all of
fense ourselves, actuated only upon upright
and patriotic considerations, moved neither by
passion nor selfishness, the government will
continue its watchful care over the rights ami
property of American citizens, and will abate
none of its efforts to bring about by peaceful
agencies a peace which shall be honorable ;ind
enduring. If it -hall hen-after appear to lie a
duty imposed by our obligations to ourselves,
to civilization and humanity to intervene with
force. it -hall be without fault on oar part and
only because the :n cessltv'for action -ei _'lld lie
*o clear as to command the support .?" .l ap
proval of the eiviliwd world."
The lone trial has that the object for
which Spain has waged the war cannot lie at
tained. The fire of insurrection may flame or
may smoulder with varying seasons, but it ha
not lieen. and it is plain that it cannot be, ex
tinguished by present methods. The only
hope of relief and repose from a condition
which can no longer 1»- endur.-d is the enforced
pacification of Cuba.
In the name of humanity, in the name of
civilization, in behalf of endangered American
interests which ■ us the right and the duty
to speak and to act, the war in Culiamu-st stop,
l'robleiu Left With Congress.
In view of these facts and of these consider
ations, I ask the congress to authorize and em
power the president to take measures to secure
a full and final termination of hostilities be
tween the government of Spain :uid the people
of Cuba, and to secure in th 'island the estab
lishment of a stable government capable of
maintaining order and observing its interna
tional obligations, ensuring peace and tran
quility and the security of its citizens as Well
as our own, and to use the military and naval
forces of the United States as may be neces
sary for these purposes.
And in the interest of humanity and to aid
inprcserving the lives of the starving people
of the island 1 recommend that the distribu
tion of food and supplies be continued and
that an appropriation be made out of the pub
lic treasury to supplement the charity of our
citizens.
The issue is now with the congress. It is a
solemn responsibility. I have exhausted every
effort to relieve the intolerable condition of
affairs which i- at our dnors. Prepared to exe
cute every obligation imposed ui>on me by tin
constitution and the law, 1 await your action.
Latent Move of Spain.
Yesterday, anil since the preparation of the
foregoing message, official information was re
ceived by me that the latest decree of the
queen regent of Spain directs General Blanco,
in order to prepare and facilitate peace, to
proclaim a suspension of hostilities, the dura
tion and details of which have not yet been
communicated to me. This fact, with every
other pertinent consideration, will, I am sure,
have your just and careful attention in the
solemn deliberations upon which you are
about to enter. If this measure attains a suc
cessful result, then our aspirations as a Christ
ian, peace-loving people will be realized- If it
fads, it will only lie another justification for
our contemplated action.
W11.1.1 AM MCKINLEY.
WANAMAKER'S LABOR RECORD
He Tells the Story of a Conspiracy to
Blackmail Ills Finn—All tlio Facts
Laid Bare Before the People of Penn
sylvania—Tliev Should He the Judares.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Harrisburg, April 12.—Everywhere
that ex-Postmaster General Wanama
ker goes he is greeted with crowds and
attentive audiences. His progress dur
ing the past week has been an ovation.
Everywhere that he has spoken he has
dealt sledge hammer blows at corrup
tion and bossism. And the point of it
all is that he presents facts to em
phasize everything he says.
The enemies of Mr. Wanamaker—the
An&Vews-Quay crowd —have assailed
him personally and politically, and es
pecially upon what they term his "la
bor record." Mr. Wanamaker has per
mitted this to go unnoticed until last
Wednesday night, when, at Athens,
Pa., he replied to his traducers in the
most energetic and convincing way.
He denounced as unmitigating false
hoods all the stories that have been
told about his so-called "labor record,"
and revealed some facts concerning
himself and his firm that are of the
greatest interest.
Mr. Wanamaker prefaced his speech
that evening by reading newspaper
clippings attacking him. He then said.
"Clippings of newspapers like these I
have just read have been sent out from
Philadelphia to the country newspa
pers by the Andrews-Quay manage
ment, endeavoring to poison the work
ingmen of the state against me by ail
effort to make it appear that I had im
ported foreign workmen, who take the
place of American laborers. To prove
this charge a single case in nearly 40
years is cited where my business house,
composed of John Wanamaker, Rob -rt
C. Ogden, T. B. Wanamaker and Rod
man Wanamaker, doing business un
der the name of "John Wanamaker,"
was fined for employing a man contra
ry to law.
"Let me say that I was never charged
personally of even so much as trying
to evade any labor or importation law.
The case on which the iirm of John
Wanamaker was fined was during my
absence in Europe. No papers were
ever served upon me. I was not a wit
ness in the case; in fact, I had no
knowledge of the latter until long after
It was over. I would dismiss this mat
ter here if it was not so apparent that
the Andrews-Quay candidate fcr gov •
ernor, who dare not face you upon the
real issues of this campaign, which are
of broken promises, unequal taxation,
machine corruption and legislative de
bauchery and dishonor, proposes to
raise this irrelevant and false and mis
leading question to divert your atten
tion from vital issues, and because I
wish to embrace this opportunity to
emphasize the position that I have con
sistently maintained on the question of
immigration for 15 years.
THE ALIEN LABOR CASE.
"The case in question hinged on two
points. First, did the head of a de
partment make a contract with a for
eign workman in violation of law?
Second, had he authority from the firm
to employ such workman? It is an in
flexible rule of the firm of John Wan
amaker that no one shall be employed
in any capacity whatsoever except by
the head of the employment depart
ment, and so strict is this rule that I
myself have no authority to employ
any one, and cannot do so except
Uirougli that medium.
"The man who instituted this suit
against the firm brought a letter of in
troduction and recommendation to one
of our buyers, when in London. The
man asked many questions about
America, about the chances of secur
ing employr.*"::t and tie: possibilities
of advancer..en'. The buyer, an En
glishman by biith, t ok an in'erest .n
the man, and ;>• : .uaJed him that 110
country aff< . •:« d >ucl« opportunities as
did Ameii". . Our buyer told tlie man
that he cou'.d net gu irantee him em
ployment. but v . uhl u•**.* his best ef
forts to assist him if he would come to
Philadelphia. Th' u;,'l the influence of
the London 1. e, hich introduced
the man to • ur buyer, he loaned him
the money to \ ay the man's passage,
and upon his arrival in Philadelphia
made good his promise to a -.-ist lifm.
"Without communicating the pecu
liar circurof tnces to our firm our buyer
on his return from l.is visit to Europe
instructed the man to apply for em
ployment in the regular way. The ap
plicant was given tin- same examina
tion that all others are given, and an
swered every question satisfactorily.
His name v. as placed upon the eligible
list. Scon after an opening for such a
man was reported and he was given
employment.
TROUBLE STIRRED UP.
"The man was recommended as a
skilled laborer of a class that is un
known in America. I>ut after a trial,
while he proved a competent workman,
he showed himself to be a man of bad
instincts, and he was removed for in
sulting a lady customer. He refused
to work in the new department to
which he was assigned and left our
employment, not, however, until after he
had attempted the worst kind of black
mail —appearing in person in our gen
eral office and demanding S2OO or he
wouhl bring suit against our firm for
the violation cf the contract alien la
bor law, claiming for the first time
that he had a contract with our silk
buyer, though it was a year after he
had entered our employ. As I learned
afterward, for many weeks, our firm
was threatened with prosecution by
certain lrr«.sponsible lawyers, unless we
paid the man several hundred dollars.
Of course our firm refused.
"Suit was brought, to which our at
torneys attached little significance, and
much to their surprise, and wholly un
known to me. a verdict was given
against our ilrm. and not until months
ufter did it dawn upon any of our peo
ple that the prosecution could have
oeen Inspired by politics, and that the
verdict might not be accident, but the
result of methods.
FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT.
"This is viewing the case from the
most unfavorable standpoint, to out
firm. Let us take the other view; that
our buyer did employ this foreigner,
and that he did pay his passage to
America. This fellow was recommend
ed as a skilled laborer of a class un
known to the American trade, was said
to have served an apprenticeship ot
many vears—unlike the American
salesman, he had picked pins and
wound ribbon for a year. He had la
bored a term of years in a factory, and
knew how every silk product was
made.
"He had learned the ladies' tailoring
business. He was able to suggest har
monious and becoming colors. and to
tell accurately the number of yards of
a given width required for any style,
for a person of any size. He \\ as a
skilled and artistic window dresser: in
fact, it was believed that he combined
the learning of the manufacturer, the
knowledge and taste of the dressma
ker. the ability of the salesman and the
art of the window trimmer. To attain
this proficiency required a dozen years
of plodding work, such as the Ameri
can salesman will not do.
"But our silk buyer, believing he saw
an opportunity to increase the efficien
cy of his department, did encourage
this man <■> make Philadelphia his
place of residence and shaped things
so that he became a salesman in his
department, believing that the smart,
quick Yank* e sab -r.tan would learn
from the Englishman in a few
months ali that i- had taken him years
to leam. thereby giving our salesman
the benefit of the Englishman's ex
perience and long term of apprentice
ship. without the years of drudgery,
making our American salesman more
efficient, tluir services more valuable
and their wage earning capacity
greater.
"Under the alien labor law our buyer
could have made a contract with this
man and agreed to pay his passage to
America, not as a pauper nor a com
mon or unskilled laborer, but an artist
in a new line. He did not come in any
competition with any American work
man. but was really an instructor in a
new field of work, secured for the edu
cation and betterment of every man
employed in our silk department.
FIRM'S PROUD RECORD.
"This is the cn'y case where we have
been fined for vio:ating the labor law
in 40 years. Upon the payroll of our
firm are nearly 8,000 people, whose
wages range annually from $20,000 each
to the boys at $250. We have employed
in the past 30 years more than 100.000
persons, and have never had a strike
nor a threatened strike. We are never
obliged to seek workmen, but only to
choose from the 5.000 people who apply
to our employment department for
work every 30 days. It would be ab
surd to <ro abroad to hire salesmen
when dozens apply daily who are ac
quainted with Philadelphia, with the
manners and customs of the people,
and who are, therefore, the most suc
cessful salesmen and saleswomen.
"Though we sell goods made in al
most every country on the globe we
have never found it necessary to em
ploy any but English speaking peo
ple. Our house has for years main
tained a pension roll for aged and wor
thy employes: a system of weekly ben
efits. absolutely controlled by the em
ployes themselves, to be paid in case
of sickness or death, has paid more
than SIOO,OOO. Employes are allowed a
discount, reduiing the price of goods
to cost. Length of service is rewarded
by increase of salary, other things be
ing equal. Xo young children are em
ployed in any service in the house.
Salesmen and others at times are al
lowed dividends in addition to their
salaries.
"A man or woman's nativity or creed
are not made conditions for employ
ment by our establishment, but only
intelligence, integrity and capability.
A free school had been kept up for
years among the younger employes to
give them a commercial education.
AN AMUSING FALSEHOOD.
"That employes are searched before
leaving the store is an amusing and
desperate falsehood, and that they are
compelled to patronize the house or its
restaurant is another and ridiculous
falsehood. I believe we pay the high
est average wages paid by any large
mercantile house in America, and for
36 years, since our business began, we
have not defaulted an instant in the
wages of our employes.
"And I want to repeat what I have
said many times before. The employ
ment system and wage schedule of our
store are now and have always been
open for investigation; we have always
accorded individuals who are interest
ed in labor questions, and especially
committees representing workingmen's
organizations, the fullest privileges and
facilities to examine into our methods.
"I would not dignify this charge with
denial but for fear some well meaning
persons may be misled. It is so ridic
ulous. It would be as reasonable to
say that Senator Quay was guilty of
murder, because a careless motorman
on his street railway killed a passen-
ger, or that the president of the Stand
ard Oil company, or a stockholder in
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
was responsible for the misdeeds of
Senator Andrews, because he happen
ed to be in the employ of those corpora
tions. This is not a campaign of per
sonalities. I have no personal quarrel
with Senator Quay or slated candidates
of the machine. It is a battle against
system, and if tonight I find it neces
sary to use personal names, it is be
cause names best designate the sys
tems they are responsible for and con
trol.
WHO HIS CRITICS ARE.
"It is indeed strange that all these
criticisms should be inspired by men
who never employed a dozen men at
one time, except to do political work;
and that the head of a merciless polit
ical machine, who for 20 years has
caused laws to be passed that have
constantly encroached upon the rights
and decreased the wages of the work
ingman, should be able to cajole and
deceive intelligent labor men, is still
more strange.
"Workingtnen, let us see what Sena
tor Quay has done for you within the
past 20 years, when he had it within
his power to do much. He has filled the
statute books of Pennsylvania with
laws giving to the great corporations
your valuable franchises. He has so di
rected legislation that the privileges of
corporation.- are well nigh absolute,
while their interests have been so well
protected that an unjust proportion of
taxation falls upon the people. He has
been piling the load < f taxes and debt
upon von. while millions of dollars of
Interest on your state money have been
used to perpetuate his political machine.
IN THE LAST LEGISLATURE.
"At the last session of the legislature
his senate committee, under orders,
killed the anti-trust bill, that would
have made unlawful the combinations
between persons and corporations to re-
Itrain trade or increase the priceof pro
duct beyond a legitimate limit. He, with
» half dozen colleagues in the United
States senate one year ago held up
the tariff bill for the benefit of the
trusts of the country, while millions of
dollars' worth of foreign made goods
were being shipped to this country, and
the smokeless chimney, the silent loom
and the unemployed thousands today
bear witness"to their work.
"His friends are the bankers of Wall
street; his meeting place the private
offices of the People's bank; his con
ferences are he' 1 hi the secret cham
bers of C'cr.l ccr; ■■rations. He was
forced to r.dr it, undtr cr.th, that he
v.as a sptd.!.itor cf s-usrar stock while
the sugar schedule was lieln;; made,
and was one of the fix United Stat- 1
senators v::o <>!»•• 1 d..Clare for higher
duties on st!
"He na:..ed T.;,:;-hman of Pittsburg, as
minister to Switzerland against the
protests of all the state labor organ
izations, Vt ho i.ad n> t forgotten his ar
bittnry me Intis in the Homestead
strik ■ as Cf 'i gie's boss.
"He cause your schools' money to be
withheld while you pay interest to
banks for iv ney to pay your teachers.
"He causes the personal property tax
to lie withheld while your county issues
bonds.
STATE TREASURY METHODS.
"lie plans indemnity bonds to tak
Improper and dishonest advantage of
the state tt. ,sury to assist In carrying
R. payroll for unauth tir.ed employes.
"He protects the mileage crabbers
and has committees appointed on the
pretense of helping starving miners,
and his committees rob while on mer
cy's mission.
"He has attempted to take t1.000.000
from your public schools to relieve the
brewers from paying their share of the
taxes.
"I want to be just to Senator Quay
and give him all the credit due him.
He did read in the I'nited States senate
part of a large tariff speech that was
prepared for him in Philadelphia. He
threatened to read more, which forced
a compromise. Broken pledges to all
except the corporations mark his po
litical pathway, yet he still finds ways
to favor corporations and to fool the
workingmen.
"Thi« year he is trying a nev. scheme.
He thinks he can win your votes for his
slate candidate upon the issue of an
immigration bill, a copy of which I
hold In B V hand. It is as honest as
any claim they make, although as a
matter of fact, his slated candidate is
the author of #nly the enacting clause,
consisting of 19 words, while the bill. I
am reliably informed, belongs to Sena
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts."
At Royersford on Friday night last.
Mr. Wanamaker held up the record of
William A. Stone to a great audience
He showed how false had been William
A. Stone to his constituents in the
past: how he had broken his sacred
v.ord in promising to vote for McKin
ley and then voting for Quay. It was
a most startling and scathing arraign
ment of William A. Slone. Mr. Wana
maker said:
MR. STONE AS A DELEGATE.
"The Republican voters of Allegheny
were almost a unit for McKinley, and
the known relations existing between
Mr. Stone and Senator Quay, who was
also a candidate for the presidency,
were s tch as to arouse a storm of op
position to Mr. Stone. To save him
self from defeat Mr. Stone, together
with his Quay colleague, signed and
forwarded to the Republican county
chairman of Allegheny county, and
caused the same to I published in the
Allegheny county papers, the following
pledge, bearing date of March 25. ISJ>6:
'We pledge that we will honorably
and fully represent and vote in accord
ance with the will and preference, for
president, of a plurality of the Republi
can voters of the congressional dis
trict within which we are candidates
for delegates, whenever expressed by
a plurality of those voting a prefer
ence at a primary election held pre
vious to the meeting of the national
convention, in which we are delegates
after due notice has been given by
the chairman of the "nty commit
tee that they will have an opportunity
in said primaries to express such pref
erence.
(Signed) ROBERT M'AFEE.
■W. A. STONE.
"The publication of Mr. Stone's
pledge 'to vote in accordance with the
will and preference of a plurality of the
Republicans in his congressional dis
trict, as expressed at the primaries.'
relieved him of all opposition and he
was chosen a national delegate and In
structed by an overwhelming majority
of the votes cast to support William
McKinley. But in the face of liis
pledge and the binding instructions he
had received for McKinley he voted for
Senator Quay: and I am informed by
a close friend of Mr. Stone that his
moral obligation did not trouble him
In the least, but so anxious was he to
know what effect It would have upon
his political future, if he disobeyed in
structions, that he went about asking
the judgement of other delegates.
THE MENACE TO TAXPAYERS.
"If Colonel Stone made a solemn
pledge in '96 upon a most vital ques
tion and defiantly broke it to please his
master, on a question purely of senti
ment. as his vote could do Mr. Quay no
real good, dare you as taxpayers place
faith in his promises to protect your in
terests, and dare you make him the
custodian of your affairs and the
guardian of your moneys? Can you be
lieve that he will be less false to his
promises now than to his pledge in '96?
It is because of this condition of
things in our state that I am here to
say to you that you do ivell to think
before you continue the old regime. 1
do not ask you to take me. I do not
want you to save anything for me.
Save yourselves. Save your taxes, your
honor, your work, or Quay and the
corporations who keep him in office will
own the state.
"Electing W. A. Stone Is to elect
Quay and Andrews for four years.
Breaking up the slate now will save the
Republican party, which, if it does hon
estly and honorably, is Invincible. If
It does not it goes down like the old
VVhig party, and woe to the blind lead
ers who plunge the party of Lincoln
.nd Grant over the precipice."
I Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
mi
&AkiHo
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
| ROYAL BAKING POVkDrR CO.. NEW YORK
JMFpaperJ
v 7, 8, and 10c to 30 and 35c J
C Some are new patterns V
and some are old, but all S
1 recent patterns, and we \
v defy you to name the v
\ new ones from the old,
r unless you have seen ?
7 them before. s
I Prices at other places 7
P are in the neighborhood \
/ of 75c and 80c. They C
S are making a profit, but %
S we are selling out, hence r
\ we must lose money. 7
I Many are buying paper J
P that they do not expect S
) to use until fall. The V
5 prices bring them to C
l DOUGLASS' I
y 241J3. Main St. Butler.
Eyes Examined Free of Charge
R. L. KIRK PATRICK.
Jeweler and Graduate Optician
Next Door to Court House, Butler, 1 a
r!t . :• sjkisr
. *\\ t
AffiCtf V »• )'I M INK.
*VU : i V : ; v ;
GOOD FARM FOR SiILS.
The Ford farm in I>. r.cgal twp., i ear
Mi!!, . town is for sale. It o'n tains
,i!.ui;t 150 acres, is v\«.• 11 watered and in
good condition I'or terms in.'jutre a
his oTice
StPiacribj lor the C>ti*ES
jj A COMPLETE STOCK OF :§
1 FURNITURE 1
'ore. Reason is we b>u>jht it cheaj>er. No matter which room t3s>
you want ; ■ fnniish you will find suitable furniture here for it.
''arlor goods stock i < larger than ever Bed room furniture in
». —mahogany. <»ak or maple Dining r.»ii) furniture was never s<>
low in pric< as it is to l.i> |w
I'otne in ainl s.-e tiie farges'. and best stock of Furniture we I«SS
have ever shown.
I b-M >• " <•." • • <•- I*—*?
•» t «%. «t> / «v
gl A: COUCHES 5i5.00 A: ®
Sh Made up with.mt fni:_-< .iinl nieely finished at the bottom with
:i mahogatiizi 1 tiii:-«■! wood. It's a better i. ";*h than we sold
Bed or gna rel >ur jrou wish Have
fc=>{ other couches at SB, SlO and $12.50.
§j A ODD CHAIRS, 55.00 X||
Y»j Suitable for the Parlor or Sitting
m
Jf><M Room: quote the pi ice of the five- |£g
Vgjjl >ll.ir one. r.° wc consider it one of
Va ' n6a ! !l *'" there are
They are worth seeing before you j^jj|
1 Campbell fiTempleton 1
M•>. > ,3>^ ©<;.[ <;j. pg2
A NEW DEPARTURE
in the CAHPtT UuSIIESS
SOttETHiNG NEW,
SOMETHING ECONOHICAL,
SOMETHING SATISFACTORY.
We are pleased to announce to our patrons anil trade at large
that we have added A NEW DEPARTMENT to our
store. A cut order Carpet Department. Also a new and iai
proved method over the OLD WAY of i'oiiig a carpet busi
ness. We will try and make this clear to you, and our reasons
for making this statement, In the first place, v.e do not have
to invest a large amount. Do not catrv big ro!is of out of
style Designs and Colorings. J\ BIG FACTOR We
have no remnants to eat up profits. I)o not require an exlri
salesman to handle carpets. Buy direct from first hands, tbus
saving to you and ns the middleman's profit. If you want a
new Carpet this Spring for your
Parlor, Library, Dining or Bedroom.
"iVe can furnish it at a saving of 25 per c „'.it. Before y u buy
come and see our Sample line of Carpets, consisting of l'ine
Velvets, Axminster, Body Brussels, TapesLery ;;-itextra
Supers and Ingrains,
Mrs. J. E. ZIMMERMAN.
j MILLINERY! %
4 All this store sssks to obtain of you i 3 your con3idera- m
« tion, and Ist the gooJs—Variety, Quality and Style #
» for the price—Prove whether it pays tJ buy here. We 9
0 are prepared to do a bigger business than ever, and P
V are going to get it on merit. Come and see the hats
we are selling at Si 50, S2 50 and $3 50. ?
J STYLE RIGHT IN LINE WITH THE £
J DEMANDS OK FASHIONt - 4
5 HEADQUARTERS FOR HOSIERY £
J AND UNDERWEAR. ?
I MARKS'
J 108 S. MAIN ST.
4L'4- TtvX- V>"<k %.Vr
HANDSOME FOOTWEAR.
Have you seen the n2>v aad up-to date styles in tine lan.
Dongola and patent leather shoes with fancy vesting
tops at
BICKKL'S
They are beantus. All sizes and all widths to fit and suit nil.
TO EACH CUSTOMER WE WILL GIVE FREE A
PACKAGE OF
BICKLE7S
PREMIUM SEED CORN
One of the most productive corns in the market. Guar
anteed to ripeD, ia strong and hardy, • bushels t) the
acre.
The FARMER who brings the best selection of corn from this n\d to
my store before the FIRST OF OCTOBER, 1 898, vi/t be given a
premium on that ,hy of s\o.oo worth of shoes.
Call And Get a PACKAGE.
JOHN BICKEL.
House Cleaning
mixed with the paste before P apcrin K the result will be very satisfactory. We are
also headquarters for Moth Balls, Insect pjwder, Ilelnbore etc.
REDICK & GiIOIIJMAN
-! t :r ,
109 XORTII M.VIX ST. BUTLER.
WE SELL DIRECT TO FARMERS. %
Farmers be Wise, Deal with us and Save 40 percent, on your Fertiliser#, g
5 YOU SAVE SALESMAN'S EXPENSES AND AGENT'S PROFIT. i
• 5 Analvsls. I'hos. Acid, Ammonia, Actual I'otash, S
"-S per cent. per cent. per cent. S
•2 Pure Raw Bone Meal :2t<>i!s 4 to 5 saa.oo per ton. jfc
>5 Four Fold Fertilizer ato 10 2 M 3 2 to 3 16.00 jfc
5 Smoky City * " Bto 10 lVjtoi!}*
> Big Bonanza 44 9to 10 22 to
5 Potato Special 44 , 9to 10 3 , ll to4>J Cto 7 a3-o» £
| Tobaceo Special 44 *.« 11 to IS 3to 4 4to 5 ai.oo « |
;■ Bone and Meat 15 to 16 4 to 5 XB.OO j.
For samples and pamphlet, write W*LKBR. STRATMAN A CO., Herr's Island. PITTSBURG. PA. S;
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