SAMfIfE TIM
Unless Department Concedes Er
ror In "Dear Schley" Letter,
HODGSON TAKES THE STAND
Acknowledges Correctness of the
Strategic Manouver For Which the
Brooklyn Made the Famous Loop.
Saya Schley Gave the Order.
Washington, Oct. 5. —In the flchley
naval court of inquiry Mr. Rayner,
i hlef of counsel for Admiral Schley,
asked Judge Advocate Lemly to sum
mon Admiral Sampson as a witness
in the caae. The request grew out of
a difference In the construction of a
sentence in Admiral Sampson's letter
to Commodore Schley, written from
Key West May 20, while Commodore
Schley with the flying squadron lay off
Cicnfuegos. This Is known as the
"Dear Sir" letter, and in it as printed
in the navy department documents
supplied to the senate the admiral
said, after expressing his opinion that
notwithstanding the report that the
Spanish squadron was in Santiago, it
were better to continue to blockade
Cicnfuegos and Havana, "we shall con
tinue to hold Havana and Santiago tin
til we receive more positive informa
tion."
During the examination of Com
mander Raymond P. Rodgers this dis
patch was under consideration, when
Mr. Rayner expressed the opinion that
the word Santiago had been inadvert
ently used by the commander-in-chief,
assuming that he meant to use the
word Clenfuegos, as better correspond
ing with the context. As the docu- '
ment was printed there was a paren
thetical note, to which Admiral !
Schley's initials were attached, saying ,
that evidently the wrong city had been |
mentioned. Mr. Rayner asked Judge !
Advocate Lemly to make this conces ,
sion, but the latter declined to do so. j
saying that he would produce the
original of Sampson's dispatch to i
prove that ne had said Santiago. Then
Mr. Rayner said: "I cannot take that
word Santiago to mean anything but
Cienfuegos. It is an imputation upon 1
Commodore Schley, and I cannot per- 1
mlt it to rest without summoning the 1
author of that dispatch," to which
Captain Lemly responded: "I have
told you once before that you can sum
mon any one you please."
"Then," retorted Mr. Rayner, "sum-I
mon Admiral Sampson."
While Commander Rodgers was on
the stand Mr. Rayner submitted a
computation of shells from the Amer- ■
lean fleet which had struck the wreck- \
ed vessels of Cervera's squadron, I
showing that at least 34 per cent, of
them were fired by the Brooklyn. This
computation Mr. Rayner said had been
prepared by Admiral Schley upon the
basis of a report made by the board
of survey, of which the witness was
the senior member.
Commander Hodgson gave a graphic ,
description of the battle of Santiago, '
describing the part taken by the
Brooklyn, and explaining the change
in the entry of that vessel's log.
Of the Maria Teresa he said:
"Me had hardly made that sheer, :
however, to port before he fell off
again, for the reason, apparently, that
a shot was fired from the Brooklyn's
S in< h gun. The Teresa got abaft our
port beam, and the helm was ported
on the Brooklyn Immediately after
that. We were swinging with port
helm. I heard the commodore sing
out: "Hard aport,' or words to that
effect, and Captain Cook sang out.
'Helm Is aport.' 1 saw at that time
the crucial moment had arrived in
making the turn, and I suggested to
the commodore that that turn would
run us Into the Texas, or very close to
her."
"What did you say and what was
the reply?" asked the judge advocate.
"As near as I can remember, I said,
'Commodore, if you goto starboard
you will run into the Texas,' and he
said, 'Damn the Texas. 1 cannot help
that. She must look out for herself.
He will take care of that.' And he also
said, 'I do not propose togo in any
closer and subject myself to a torpedo t
attack.' I suggested then that we back !
the starboard engine, and he wanted
to know why, and I said, Because it j
would give the Texas a wider berth
and shorten our turning circle.' Cap- j
tain Cook objected to this, and so did !
the commodore, but there was a mo
ment'e discussion as to whether it
would be better to turn on that shorter
circle with smaller speed or take the
larger tactical diameter with faster
speed. It was decided that it was
very essential to get around quickly,
as the leading Spanish ship was then
standing to the westward, and if the ;
Brooklyn did not stop her she had a
good chance of escaping. So the helm i
was put hard aport.
At Thursday's session Lieutenant
Doyle, formerly of the flagship Brook
lyn, was recalled for the purpose of
continuing his testimony begun the
day before. One of the first questions
asked him by Mr. Rayner was how
often he had seen Commodore Sohley
under fire at Santiago.
"I did not have an opportunity, as
the commodore was always near about
the conniag tower, to observe his con
duct during the battle, but immediately
previous and after I did have an op
portunity to do so. He always struck
me aa being just about as well possess
ed aa It was possible for anybody to
be under those circumstancee."
An Interesting turn was afforded
Wednesday by the introduction
of the first witness in Admiral Schley's
behalf. This was Lieutenant James
J. Doyle, who was a watch officer on
board the flagship Brooklyn during
the war with Spain. The fact that
Lieutenant Doyle was put on the stand
, does not mean that the navy depart-
I ment has concluded the presentation
jof its aide of the ease. Mr. Doyle was
' called by the department, but as it
I also had been the purpose of Admiral
Schley to summon him, advantage was
taken of his presence on the stand to
question him as an original witness
for"the applicant." He was under ex
amination by Mr. Rayner in the inter
est of the admiral when the court ad
journed for the day.
Before undergoing examination at
Mr. Rayner's hands Lieutenant Doyle,
at Captain Lemly's request, explained
his part in the battle of July 3 and his
original entry in the ship's log con
cerning the famous loop and his alter
ation of that entry because he subse
quently discovered that his first entry
had been erroneous.
There was a long examination of
! Commodore Sharp at the afternoon
j session regarding the battle notes of
I the Vixen, written by Lieutenant Har
t low. The copy of the notes printed
\ aboard the Brooklyn dieffred from the
notes attached to Sharp's official re
port to Sampson. The printed copy
was more favorable to the Brooklyn,
ilt has been claimed by Schley's
| friends that the notes as printed on
! the Brooklyn were correct, and that
I the notes attached to Sharp's report
| had been garbled by the navy depart •
i ment. Sharp testified, however, that
I the changes were made by Harlow on
i the Vixen.
j On Tuesday the court made good
; headway, concluding with Ad
; miral Evans and hearing three new
; witnesses, although the testimony of
! one of them was not concluded when
i the court adjourned for the day. Ad
miral Evans' testimony was along the
j same general lines as was his state
ment of the day before, but some of
| the points were presented in greater
| detail in response to questions by Mr.
j Raynor. The new witnesses were j
1 Captain Sigsbee, who commanded the ;
1 scout St. Paul during the Santiago'
! campaign; Mr. Thomas M. Dieuade, a
newspaper correspondent, who was on
; the Texas during the battle of July
i 3, and Chief Yeoman Gustave E. Beck
i er. who was a clerk to Admiral Samp j
! son during the war.
At the inception of Admiral Evans'
testimony Mr. Rayner asked: "Did
i you have a conversation with Com
: modore Schley on July 4, some time
; during the morning between 8 and 12
I o'clock, on his flagship at Santiago,
in the course of which you used lan ;
i guage as follows: 'Did you know that
Jack Philip started to run away at the
beginning of the battle?' and to which j
Commodore Schley replied: 'You are
mistaken about that. Evans; I saw J
nothing of the kind. The Brooklyn;
made a turn, and you must see the
tactical situation that made it necea- ]
sary?' "
"That I ever intimated that Captain |
Philip attempted to run away is pre-1
posterous on the face oi it,, replied ■
Admiral Evans.
Mr. Dieuade, the newspaper man 1
was then called to the stand. He said
when he first noticed the Brooklyn she
was going seaward. When she passed i
the Texas he said he made a note of
it which read: "It was Brooklyn; close'
shave." The witness seemed to have
heard Captain Philip give several ord
ers. but not the one to back the en
gines.
"You seem to have heard every
thing else," said Admiral Dewey.
Here's a Chance For Settlers.
Chamberlain, S. D., Oct. 7. —The
work of securing thp signatures of the
Rosebud Indians to an agreement, re
linquishing or settling their portion of
the Rosebud reservation in Gregory
county, is practically completed. The
lands will be opened to settlers shortly.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 30.—Rudolph
Bock, a bookbinder of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
died Nov. 27, 1893, leaving an estate of
$40,000. The banking house of Laden
berg, Thalman & Co., of New York,was
named as executors of the estate. They
could lind no relatives of the dead man
until some months ago, when It was
learned that a distant relative named
Mrs. Christiana Mathias, was once a
resident of this city. A representative
of the banking firm came on here to
Investigate only to find that the wo
man had died in the poorhouse last
November.
YELLOW JOURNALISM
VERSUS
REPUBLICANISM.
We are amused, rather than con
cerned, by the declarations of the late
Democratic state convention, for we
readily recognize, as all people must,
the co-operation of certain newspapers
In their preparation, which papers,
falling in their attempt to disrupt the
Republican party, have crawled under
the tents of the Democracy with their
stale and false charges and succeeded
In having them adopted as a Demo
cratic platform. The platform of the
late Democratic state convention will
be found in the files of the so-called
jnellow journals during the past few
months.
We believe in surrounding the press
with every constitutional guarantee
vouchsafed to it since the foundation
of our government, but it is a public
menace that these constitutional guar
antees should be so misused as to
have permitted many of our newspa
pers to have degenerated into a yel
low journalism such as is detrimental
to any state or country.
We charge the ao-called yellow jour
nal* with being subsidized by tha full
page advertisements which they carry.
The advertiser it permitted to dictate
their policy, and at his behest these
newspapers have perverted the news
columns and the editorial page from
being an honest record of dally events
to a labored attempt to misrepresent
facta. —Extract from the platform of
the Republican state convention of
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, August. 21,
1»0L
mm HAPPENINGS.
j News of Interest From All Parts
of the State.
I TIN PLATE MEN'S TREATMENT
Six-Million Dollars Limestone Com
bine to Be Incorporated—Westing
house Company to Build New Town,
| Trafford Park, near Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Oct. 4.— The American
Tin Plate company has adopted a pol
, icy of conciliation toward Its employes
who were recently engaged in the
steel strike. While the terms of the
I settlement of the strike do not permit
the recognition of the Amalgamated
Association, not the slightest discrimi
nation, it Is officially stated, will be
allowed against the old men when they
return to work.
Pennsylvania's Limestone Combine.
Pittsburg. Oct. 4. —A combination of
stone and limestone companies of
Pennsylvania is being formed, and ap
plication will be made in a few days
for a charter The new combine will
| have a capital of 000.000. The
; properties to be taken include fourteen
sandstone quarries and 29 limestone
J quarries. R. K. Cassatt, of Philadel
phia, is mentioned lor president. The
. new concern will employ 10,000 men.
Fourteen Mines May Close Down.
Scranton, Pa., Oct. 4. —Because Gen
eral Manager Bryden, of the Scranton
Coal company, one of the concerns un
der which the New York, Ontario and
Western company conducts its mining
operations, has closed down the Pine
Brook mine, and refused to say when
j it will be opened, the employes now
I threaten to close down the other thir
| teen mines operated by the company.
Westinghouse Co. to Bulk; New Town
Pittsburg, Oct. 4.—The Westing
house company will commence at once
[ the erection of a new town and a
mammoth foundry plant at Stewart
station, a short distance oast of this
city. The town is to be called Traf
ford Park. The cost of the improve
ments will reach $5,000,030, and over
2,000 men will be employed in the
work.
Shamokin Strikers' Novel Grievance.
Shamokin, Pa., Oct. 4.—Twelve hun
dred men and boys went on strike at
the Natalie colliery yesterday to force
the Shamokin Coal company to evict
James ateman, an ex-foreman, from
a company house at Natalie. Bate
man gained the enmity of a nunibar
of miners several months ago and they
determined to drive him from the
village.
Pittsburg's New "Elevated" Finished.
Pittsburg, Oct. 7.—The Pennsylva
nia and Fort Wayne tracks were
joined yesterday over the new ele
vated structure on the Liberty street
side of the new Union station. At II
o'clock traffic was suspended, over
1.000 men were set to work, and it
7.30 train No. 15, the Chicago express,
passed over the new elevated tracks
Druggist Shot Midnight Thief.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 7.—Shortly
after midnight Saturday P. A. Dean,
the proprietor of a drug store in Ply
mouth, found two men in his place
One of them escaped but Dean pulle
his revolver and fatally shot the other
in the mouth. He was Joseph Pavo-1
litz and his pal, Joseph Schmitt.
New Industry For Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Oct. 7.—lt is announced
on good authority that H C. Frick
and the Mellon interests, composing
the Unltn Steel company will build at
once a new $200,000 plant at Donora,
on the Monongahela river, to make
broom and mattress wire and other
specialties.
Coal Workers Strike.
Scranton, Oct. I.—Eight hundred
employes at the Pine Brook shaft of
the Ontario Coal Company struck t! is'
morning agp'nst working with other
men who hat; no wo. kins; cards
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF.
D:ini< l Sellers, of Lancaster, com
mftted sulci'e jesterday by hanging
himselt
Joseph Rathowitz, of Allentown,
was n.an'ft Insane by excessive smok
ing ot cigarettes
His skull fractured by u fall down
stairs, Patrick Ryan died at Mahanoy
City yesterday.
Andrew Doscewitch, a miner, fell
down a l'ittston colliery shaft yester
day and was killed instantly.
Wlnans Hull, ol Carbondaie, was
yesterday it Honesdal;* indicted for
the murder of Edward Sehoonever.
His train derailed near HazleLon,
Monday night, Engineer Harry Walts
was pinned under tho englns and
killed.
By the accidental discharge ot his
gun, at a shooting match at Mahanoy
City yestt rday, John Seiiillo was so
riouf ly Injured:
An unknown enemy threw a s'on r
through a window at Misses E'li and'
Sophie Costello, at Shamokin, but
they escaped injury.
Rev. Bernard Repass, of Allentown
has accepted the pastorale ol th
Lutheran charges at Emlenton, Pe
tersburg and Parker CMtv.
The Epworth League of the Chant
bersburg Methodist Episcopal Church
donated S3O *o the congregation of
the Shippep.sburg C.uirch, recently de
stroyed by fire.
The York Merchants' Association
yesterday visited Baltimore, Mil. i ;
the guest of the Baltimore Merchan
and Manufacturers' Association an ■
the chamber of commerce.
| FCSIONJJEAL ON
Democrats Finally Accept Terms
of Union Party Managers.
TO DISRUPT REPUBLICAN PARTY
That Is the Game So At to Pave the
Wty For a Democratic Governor
and a Wanamaker Legislature at
the Ensuing Session.
(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Oct. 8. —As was ex
pected. the Democrats have withdrawn
their candidate for state treasurer in
order to permit of the carrying out of
the deal to have E. A. Coray, the nom
inee of the Union party, put upon the
: Democratic tiiket in his stead.
This will complete the compact made
between James M. Guffey, member of
: the Democratic National committee
from Pernsylvania and tae Wanamak
er manners of the Union party, by
which tl oy ?rs to work together
against the Republican party this year
to forra a nucleus of an organization
which will run a fusion campaign for
the election of members of the legis
lature next year, who will be called
upon to elect a United States senator.
It is quite manifest to all of theWan
amaker adherents that their favorite
cannot hope to be supported by regular
Republicans for the United States sen
atorship or any other honor in the gift
of the Republican organization.
They fear, as the Philadelphia Rec
ord said a few days ago, that "Wana
maker is a dead cock in the pit," but
as long as the cash holds out they pro
pose to make the best fight they can
for the money.
Guffey sees that he cannot lose any
thing, particularly as it is understood
that part of the deal with the Union
party managers is that the Democrats
shall be permitted to elect the next
governor in retui.i for their support
of the Union party candidates for the
legislature.
BREAKERS AHEAD FOR GUFFEY.
The withdrawal of Palm, the Demo
cratic nominee for state treasurer, does
not meet with favor in Democratic cir
cles and Guffey is going to have trou
bles of his own in working out the
| scheme.
Guffey would have nominated Coray
instead of Palm when the Democratic
state convention met at Harrisburg,
but he found the sentiment among the
delegates to the convention pronounced
against the placing of a disgruntled
and bolting Republican on their ticket.
He was afraid to force Cor .y's nomi
nation. He decided to put Pe mon the
ticket, temporarily, at least.
Had Palm withdrawn before, Guffey
would have been compelled under the
Democratic rules, to reconvene the
Democratic convention, and he would
have had to nominate a Democrat in
place of Palm. The state convention
adopted two resolutions calling for the
nomination of a Democrat in the event
of either of the candidates with
drawing.
Now theDemocratic state committee
will have to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the withdrawal of Palm. The™
be a vigorous protest against the sub
stitution of Coray for Palm, and it
is not improbable that there will be
a lively struggle at the meeting of the
state committee.
Chairman Creasy has been visiting
different parts of the state, meeting
members of the committee and work
ing in the interest of the nomination
of Coray.
Coray has nothing In common with
Democracy, the Democrats opposed to
his nomination say, and »t is quUe
manifest that he has no place in the
regular Republican organization, as he
has been an insurgent for a number
of years. He is an ardent Wanamaker
supporter.
The managers of the Union party
know that there is no likelihood of suc
cess at the coming election, but they
hope to form an organization, as their
state chairman, Riter, indicated on his
acceptance of the position which he
now holds, in order to be in shape for
the I,'nited States senatorial contest of
next year.
CORAY WILL BE KNIFED.
The Union party managers and Col
onel Guffey have evidently not taken
into account the feeling among straight
Democrats throughout the state
against the Wanamaker movement.
There will be thousands of Demo
crats who will not vote for Coray for
state treasurer. They realize that he
has no standing in either the Demo
cratic or Republican party and they
resent the Idea of his being foisted
upon their party at this time simply
to oblige the Wanamakerites.
Coray is a very erratic politician.
He will be cut most where he is best
known to Democrats. In his home
county of Luzerne, Democratic com
mittees have already adopted resolu
tions protesting against his being plac
ed upon the Democratic ticket.
In Philadelphia he will be cut many
thousands by the Democrats who are
protesting against Colonel Guffey com
ing into this county and dictating to
tho local Democracy. He practically
told them that unless they nominated
the Wanamaker local ticket he would
read their organization out of the
Democratic party.
Imagine what these Democrats will
do with Mr. Coray when they reach
the ballot box.
Guffey has practically given over the
Democratic organization in the Quaker
Clty to Judge Gordon who is on the
Wanamaker staff of political support
ers and the Democratic voters have no
redress excepting as they propos* to '
act at the coming election.
[ VEBKES WEAK AT HOME
Candidate for Supreme Court Not
Strong Among His Neighbors.
A MAN OF VIOLENT PREJUDICES
He Is Assured of Defeat Should He
Aspire to Re-election to the Com
mon Pleas Bench In Bucks County
at the Coming Election.
Special correspondence from
| Doylestown tells of the weakness of
the Democratic candidate for the su
preme bench, who at the instance of
| the Wanamaker interest in Philadel
phia has been placed upon the Union
party ticket.
"Judge Harman Yerkes, of Doyles
town, the Democratic and anti-Repub
lican candidate for judge of the state
supreme court,"says a Doylestown
correspondent, "has presided over the
| courts of Bucks county for nearly 18
. years. He was first elected judge by
: more than a thousand Democratic ma
| jority. At the close of his first term
, he was renominated and elected by
j the bare majority of about 230 votes.
The prediction has been repeatedly
made in Bucks county lately that he
cannot be re-elected to another term
because of the enemies he has made
in and out of his party. His second
] election as Judge of the Bucks county
courts was only made possible by the
votes of Republicans who supported
his candidacy.
"During his second term he has de
veloped the attributes of a czar. He
has assumed to regulate and manage
men and affairs in his own county as
only a despotic ruler would do. He
has commanded grand juries to do his
biddingas noother judge in these days
is known to do. He has gone far out
j of his way to exert his power, and has
j lost the esteem of many of the best
I people of Bucks county.
| A MAN OF VIOLENT PREJUDICES.
"Judge Yerkes is a man of strong
and violent prejudices. These preju
dices he carries upon the bench and
allows them to control him in certain
instances. Up to the first nomination
of Bryan he was an intensely bitter
Democrat, but in the first Bryan cam
paign he sunk his partisanship and
opposed Bryan's election. For this he
has never been forgiven by straight
out Democrats.
"During that campaign, as an illus
tration, Judge Yerkes came to dislike
a certain Democrat in Doylestown who
was enthusiastic in support of Bryan.
| This man headed a company which
I later applied to court for a distillery
license. .Judge Yerkes, many believed,
declined to issue the license because
of his difference with this man on the
Bryan issue. The case was carried to
the supreme court, which directed
Judge Yerkes to issue the license, all
the conditions of the law having been
complied with.
"In a subsequent case,not at all con
nected with the one referred to, Judge
Yerkes took occasion to utter a slur
upon the supreme court such as is
without parallel in the judicial his
tory of this commonwealth. That de
liverance should be upon record In
the Bucks county courts, and might
have been made the basis of impeach
ment proceedings had it been desired
to proceed in the matter.
"The prejudices of Judge Yerkes are
many and deep-seated. He is extreme
ly sensitive, and dislikes criticism. He
himself criticises freely, but he does
not want his views or his actions com
mented upon adversely. He resents
anything of this sort, and many of his
opinions are burdened with this re
sentment.
"During the early years of his pres
ent term the Republicans elected as
district attorney the county chairman
of that party, who directed the fight
against his re-election. That district
attorney had the most trying experi
ence that has ever befallen a similar
CONSUMPTION THREATENED.
C. Uiifir, JIJ Mn pie St. , Champaign, 111., writes:
"1 was troubled with hacking cough
loravearand 1 thought 1 hail consump
tion. I tried a great many remedies and
was under the care ol physicians lor sev
eral months, i used one bottle of Foley's
Honey and Tar. It cured me, and I have
not been troubled since."
•lames Mc.Fmlane, Lapoite.
C. I>. Voorhees. Sonestown.
LADIKS: There is nothing equal
to this Home Treatment Orange Lily
and 1 Icrbald Tonic for female com
plaints of every nature. We would
suggest to all our lady readers who
sutler and wish to know the truth
and avoid expense, to send to Mus.
Mai.ixda Kii.mkk, Shunk, l'a., for
a free sample with full particulars.
I had a running sore on my leg tor
seven years.' writes Mrs. .las. Forest, ol
Chippewa Falls, Wis., "and spent hund
reds of dollars in tryi.nr to gut it healed.
Two boxes of Burner S ilve entirely, cured
it." Beware of substitutes.
.lames McFarlane, Laporte.
C. I). Voorhees. sonestown.
Don't Tobacco Spit and nnioke Vour I.IIV Ann}.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. lull of life, nerve and vigor, take No To-
Uac. the wnmler-wnrlcer, tliat makes weak men
strong. All druggists, r.Oe or SI. Cure guaran
teed llookloi ami sample tree. Address
Sterling liemedy Co., Uhlcaro '*■ Nov; Yo'k
Cider.
I will open my cider
mill on September 12 and
will run Thursdays of each!
week until October 31, 1901. j
JOHN M. CONVERSE,
SONESTOWN, PA.
official in the county. Judge Yerkes
seemed to take advantage of every op
portunity to humiliflte him.
"Judge Yerkes lacks the judicial
temperament in a conspicuous degree,
some intimation of which has been
given. He can not restrain himself
in his likes and his dislikes, and car
ries them upon the bench. He never
forgets an enemy and rarely remem
bers a friend. He is absolutely selfish
and self-opinionated.
"There is another feature of Judge
Yerkes' unfitness for the supreme
judgeship, and that is his lack of ex
perience in the higher or more In
volved law. Almost his entire time as
a judge has been given to petty crimi
nal cases. He has rarely been called
upon to pass on questions involving
momentous or even intricate ques
tions of law.
"Much of the business of the Bucks
county courts has been and is of a
minor character. The business of the
county is almost exclusively agricul
tural. and that, as everybody knows,
does not call for much or important
litigation. Consequently Judge Yerkes'
experience as a lawyer and as a Judge
is with cases of no great importance.
"Judge Yerkes, realizing, no doubt,
that he can not be re-elected to the
position he now holds in his own
county, has exerted every possible ef
fort to secure another job. He has
even thrown over his strong Demo
cratic tendencies to accept the straw
of independent Republican support.
He wants to sit upon the supreme
court bench, and he is willing to sub
vert his party inclinations to take ad
vantage of every opportunity that may
be the means of securing the coveted
position. It is no lol'ty ambition that
urges Judge Yerkes on in the pending
campaign. He simply does not de
sire to retire from the judiciary to
the place of a mediocore lawyer in a
Unall country town."
YELLOW JOURNALISM'S DLAME.
To the yellow journalism that has
persistently villifled, misrepresented
and abused the President is mainly
due the crime at Buffalo, and it is
up to the reputable, honorable portion
of the American people to say how
long that vile and malicious and crim
inal inciting of murder shall continue.
The President ignored it and trusted
the people, but he could not make a"-
lowance for the human wolf, the hu
man rattlesnake, the human mad
(log lying in wait for him here and
there and ready to strike when oppor
tunity offered. These deadly elements
exist in society and, inflamed by the
vile and murderous journals, which
egg them out, they do their work, and
the crime of last Friday is the first
fruits of that unrestrained and mur
derous poison poured daily out among
the people for the gain of nominally
decent men whose money is soaked in
the blood of the best and bravest in
the land. Cause and effect are plain
and unmistakably seen in this mat
ter, and the murder-makers of yellow
Journalism are back of the Anarchist,
the crank and the crazed assassin who
follows logically the prompting of their
political abuse.—Bridgeport Standard.
CANNOT BE TOLERATED.
Relentlessly, indecently, outrageous
ly the yellow journals have denounced
every man in public life and have
sought to increase circulation by the
cruellest and most indecent cartoons,
supplemented by red ink head lines,
editorial vituperation and persistent,
constant effort to array mass against
class and arouse the worst pa sions
of mankind. The time has come when
this kind of journalism can no longer
be safely tolerated, when the good
name of this nation demands that such
debauchery of public principle be
stopped, and stopped forever. —New
Ilaven Leader.
Q. A. R. MEN ACT.
Colonel Fred Taylor Post Adopts Rcso«
lutions Denouncing Yellow
Journalism.
Colonel Fred Taylor Post, G. A. R.,
of Philadelphia, has adopted resolu
tions which set forth:
"The comrades of Colonel Fred Tay
lor Post, No. 19, Grand Army of the
Republic, record the fact that we deep
ly deplore and detest all such teach
ings and utterances that lead weak
minded and misguided creatures to
deeds of assassination, and we stand
pledged to help, aid and assist lawful
authority, to the fullest extent of our
power, in putting a summary ending
to such treasonable utterances, wheth
er made by Anarchists, Nihilists. So
cialists, political leaders or editors of
vicious and dangerous papers and mag
azines.
"We also enter upon record that wo
deplore and denounce the publication
of the offensive and diabolical car
toons that appear in the most con
spicuous places in sensational and
unscrupulous newspapers. Inflaming
the minds of men and women to das
tardly thoughts and deeds, and, in the
interest of American law, order, peace,
government and decency, we recom
mend the passage of the severest laws
against all such pernicious journalism.
"And we also enter upon record our
approval of the action of the mayor of
Philadelphia and his director of public
safety in resolutely prohibiting quite
recently the Anarchistic agitator, Em
ma Goldman, from publicly promulgat
ing in this city her infamous doctrines
of treason to the state and nation
doctrines which lead to the assassina
tion of those high in authority, and
for no other reason than that they
are the legally chosen representatives
of law, order, peace and government."
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