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ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURINq PAST WEEK. THE Ohio Sheriff Loses a Badly Wanted '"an --* Wilson Must Answer to a Charge of Burglary--Awful Death of Chicago Man--Drownings. Kiwbezzler Breaks Jail. John D. Douglass, who was being held at Percy until Sheriff Fisher of Lima, ()., could arrive' aftpr him, broke jajl with tlie assistance of outside friends. Doag- lass was Vanted at Lima, O., on a 'charge- of embezzlement and Sheriff Fisher was on the way after him. Douglass effected his escape by sawing the large heavy wooden door o' the cell in two and crawl­ ing out. Mayor Wilson offered a reward for his capture and the surrounding coun­ try was thoroughly searched, but no trace could be found of the fugitive. Sheriff Fisher :s very much chagrined at the es­ cape of . his prisoner. Two Men Drowned. Two men were drowned at 3 o'clock Sundii.v afternoon near the foot of Iceland .-avenue, Chicago, and only a short dis- 'danoe"«way from a crowd of bathers. Charles Johnson, Edward Schubol,. Louis Ochershonsen and George Bohr hired a Boat of Joseph Bohnet and rowed out from shore to swim. When , the boat, was about 3Q0 feet out Ochershausen and Bohr disrobed and began to dive, the oth i- Lwo men rema.in.ing in the boar. Boll- net. who was watching the party from the shore; noticed that 'often the men would djve from the'side of the boat, each time almost capsizing it. The party had been out some time and had been doing a good deal of frolicking when suddenly two ol' the men dived from the boat at •the same time, causing it to careen to a dangerous extent. The men remaining in fho boat, seamed to appreciate the dan­ ger or become momentarily frightened, fur they both leaped, to their feet. This movement was fatal. The frail vessel began to dip water and almost instantly capsized. The two swimmers tried in vain to help their drowning companions and barely saved their own lives by rcliuging 1o the upturned boat, from which they were rescued by Bohnet. The Shef­ field avenue police were notified at oncc and a crew ol' men was sent to search for the drowned men. The t>ody of Charles Johnson was found within twenty min­ utes, but. the body of Edward Sch-uliel was nut recovered. Johnson was a Swede, 3S years old, married, and an engineer. Srhultel was about 30 years old and mar­ ried. He was a clerk in the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company. Army of the Cumber land . Committees are being appointed and arrangements rapidly made for-the an- reunion of the Grand Army of the Cumberland, to be held in Roekford Sept. 2-> and 24 Major George S. Boper, of Roekford, is chairman of tho general com­ mit fee of arrangements, and announces that many distinguished men from all over the country will attend. Gen. Wil­ liam S. Rosecrans, president of the so­ ciety. will 1«> unable to attend the re­ union. being in California for his health, and" Gen. James Harnett, of Cleveland, will "probably preside. The reunion will excvl in j>oint of numbers the annual iState encampment, and there will be many prominent men present. The prin­ cipal addmss of the occasion will be de­ livered by Gen. David S. Stanley, now governor of the soldiers' home at Arling­ ton. near Washington. A banquet will l>e tendered the visitors. Among those present will be Gens. H. V. Boynton, Don Carlos Buell, R. A. Alger, J. C. Breck­ inridge. .1. D. Bingham, John M. Palmer; T. J. Wood 'and James D. Morgan. Col. Frank G. Smith. Mmj.-Gen. Alexander MeCeok. Lieut.-Gen. John M. Sehofield, Major Daniel Butter field and Senator Manderson. Mangled by a Cable Train. Thomas Boyle, a laborer hi the employ of rhe West. Chicago Street Railway Com­ pany, was killed instantly by being struck by a West Madison street cable car. Boyle, in company with a fellow laborer, Charles Murphy, was engaged in cleaning out the vault underneath the cable at a point near Rockwell street. Murphy had just left the manhole to empty a pail of mud, which had been handed to him by I* ivle. in the gutter. Neither man saw a rapidly approaching train. Just as the grip car reached the manhole Boyle •thrust his head up. Fie was pulled up out of the hole and dragged fifty feet before the car could be stopped. The ' man's bead was almost severed from his oody. The man was dead when picked up. It wats necessary to use jackscrews to raise -the car so as to get the body out. The iKxly was removed to the county morgue. Wilson Caught Playing 'Possum. Tom Wilson, of.Peoria, must answer an indictment returned against hitfi charg­ ing him with attempting to burglarize the Washburn b?nk on the night of -May 11. He feigned illness .ind for four days did not eat a bite. When tlie Woodford authorities called for him he claimed he was too sick to make the trip. Three physicians-were called in and they made an examination, declaring Wilson was only playing 'possum. He has made sev­ eral attempts to escape, and recently a quantity of saws, files and other imple­ ments w«4 discovered in his cell. State News in Brief. W. H. Traphagen, cigar and news­ dealer at. Roekford, has assigned.. As­ sets. $1,913; liabilities, $2,OS.'-5. The safe in Harrigan Brothers' coal office in Jacksonville was blown open and .rifled of its contents, $40 in cash and ,.$102 in checks being taken. W. Reynolds is dead. He had resided in Roekford since 1840 and was an ex­ tensive horse dealer. He was the owner of Reynolds' circus. William Morris and Howard Bishop were identified as the men who held up and attempted to murder E. B. Hunt, tfie Illinois Central station agent at Walker. Captain J. R. Tanner, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, arrived in Al­ ton Friday on his way tt> St. Louis, but was compelled to stop over on account of injuries received in a runaway accident at Quincy. He complains of a severe con­ tusion on his "head and much suffering from internal injuries, but insists that a little rest will bring him around all right. H-' was interviewed by many local Re­ publican politicians. There were twenty-one applicants, four of t'hem from Chicago, for the position of superintendent of the Canton schools to succeed Prof. C. il. Bardwell, who re­ signed.-- S. S. Beggs of Eaeannbn'. Mich.. received the appointment, his salary be­ ing fixed at $1,500 a year. The towboat Oakland, from St. Louis, bound for New Orleans, with a tow of barges containing bulk grain, sank two of her barges in the Mississippi river oppo­ site St. Genevieve island.- The two barges and their contents, 100,000 bush­ els of grain, are a total loss. It is esti­ mated that the Mississippi Valley Trans­ portation Grtr^pany bustains a loss of $50,- 000. . The 2-year-old son of Cornelius Ma wery of Decatur fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded to death. When Alfred Montgomery, a well- known portrait and animal painter, step*, pod from the train Saturday evening at Bloomington, he was confronted by police officers, who escorted him to a patrol wagon and took him to jail. He was ar­ rested on complaint of his wife, who al­ leges that he lias failed to" support his family, although abundantly able to do so. The Board of Live Stock Commission­ ers made a report to the Governor of its transactions since July 23, 1894, when the rules adopted by the live stock ex­ change and the board went into effect. Since that time they have inspected 17,- 400 cattle,.12,043 cattle have been tagged to sell on the open market, and 4,938 to be held for postmortem examination. Out of these 1,444 have been passed and sold at an average of $5.50 per 100, dress­ ed weight, and 3,494 tanked. This has^, saved to the shippers and producers *Sf live stock at least $135,000, and the con­ sumer has been protected by the destruc­ tion of the diseased animals. John Schlenker, a young German, hurl­ ed himself from the third corridor of the county jail at Chicago, and died at the county hospital. He never recovered, con­ sciousness. The deceased was from Wtir- temberg and had. no relatives and few friends in, the city. A kind-hearted ser­ vant girl,. Mary Molinsheimer, took pity upon the'lonely and penniless man. She secured the permission of ner. mistress to let him sleep in the bar if upon,,the' prem­ ises. A fruitless ques^for work disheart­ ened the young German. In a fit of des­ peration he stole $4 from the pocket book of the girl who had befriended him. For this act of ingratituue he was bound over to the criminal court. Broken-hearted and friendless,-the man took his life. At Pepria. State's Attorney Richard -T. Cooney filed his amended report with Judge Li vett of nie County Court and the County is thus saved between $0,000 and $7,000. The matter of the State's attor­ ney's reports has been under considera­ tion for some time. Judge David Me- Culloch was appointed by t!:« Board of Supervisors to represent the county in an examination which has been completed. Mr. Cooney agrees to accept the terms of the Auditing Board and the money will be turned back into the treasury. Mr. Cooney followed the precedent estab­ lished by his predecessors, who retained a $5 fee for each count in an indictment where there was a conviction. On the Auditing Board's interpretation of the law on the point he is allowed but $5 for each case. A marriage tinged with romantic but pathetic features was solemnized at Mount Carmel Monday. Rev. Lueien D. Noel, a young minister from Kentucky, was recently called to the pastorate of tlie First Presbyterian Church. Immediately after his arrival he was taken dangerous­ ly ill and Iris life was despaired of. His fiancee, Miss Sue Kineaid, a handsome Kentucky girl, was notified, and arrived Monday morning. An immediate mar­ riage was determined upon. The hour for the ceremony was 10 o'clock, but at that time the groom was in such a low condition that a postponement was ,had until 4 o'clock. At that hour he had rallied slightly, and with the bride'staud- ing by the groom's bedside the ceremony was performed by Elder J. H. Stotlar of the Christian Church. An unloaded revolver upset the calcu­ lations of Robert Stone at Chicago the other day, and landed him in the cells of the police station. Stone, who is a colored man, walked into the grocery of Samuel Silverman, and, finding no one in the front part of the store, proceeded to help himself to the contents of the till. With 90 cents and a revolver to the good, he started to leave the premises, when Sil­ verman came from the rear of the store and inquired his business. For answer Stone presented the revolver and pulled the trigger five times. The grocer laugh­ ed in his face, and then made a dash. A struggle followed, in which the negro came off victorious, leaving Silverman bruised and bleeding on the ground, the result of heavy blows from the butt end of the revolver. At this juncture Officer Bell appeared in the doorway of the store, and Stone walked into his arms. Clarence, the 9-year-old sou of F. E. Web.k_ u j^Qjgfliercia 1 traveler residing at Elgin, was^ttrowned in Fox river Tues­ day morning. With Harry Patterson and Willie Mulock he went to the river, where the latter had a frail canvas canoe. Clar­ ence insisted on trying the boat, and against the protests of his companions pushed out into the stream. The canoe capsized in aOotit five reet of water. The Patterson lad went to the rescue of his companion. He righted the boat, but could not induce the terrified boy to let go his hold. When Patterson was about exhausted Clarence sank, and the former, to save himself, turned toward shore. When >he reached shallow water he lost consciousness and was dragged out by his companion. People who had gathered worked over the lad for half an hour and he was revived. The body of Clarence Webb was recovered with drags. The reduction in the number of saloons in Chicago has not been made. It was as­ serted some time ago that the brewers in­ tended to close 500 saloons. Collector Mize gave out the official figures. There were 10,190 retail liquor dealers' certifi­ cates, against 10,218 last year, a loss of but twenty-eight. There Were 424 retail malt liquor dealers' certificates issued, against 480 a year ago, a loss of fifty-six. or a total loss of eighty-four. The coni- missioner of internal revenue, in his bul­ letin, reviews" last year's receipts from the department, and shows an increase of $3,584,537.90. Collector Mize furnishe 1 from the Chicago office $792,487.40 of this increase, or 22 per cent. The State of Illinois contributed $1,309,003.85, or 3S i>er cent of the increase in the revenue. While Illinois lias furnished but 0 per cent of the population of the country, it contributes 20 per cent of the internal tevenue collections. Its collections last yotk for the four districts were $30,004.- 009.GO. the total collections of the country being $145,000,000. Near Galena, Joseph Bomeke was killed by a mad bull, which attacked him as he. was passing through a field, and gored him to death. His body was terrible- mangled. Bloomington society has been quite happily agitated by the discovery that George Ingersoll. a young business man, and Miss Lucy Burke were married some months ago in Chicago. Mrs. Ingersoll :s the daughter of Lou Burke, one of the most celebrated animal > painters of the West. A reception was tendered the young couple at the home of the bride's parents. The Wabash river, which runs through the east part of Marshall County, has been out of its banks for several days and thousands ofw acres of fine corn has been totally destroyed,--Small grain was mostly saved. Frank Shontz, a carpenter, wait killed on the State fair grounds at Springfield by the explosion of a small cannon, which had been- used in the production of the spectacular exhibition known as the "Fall of Pompeii." He discharged the ca'nnon several times, but the last time it exploded before he could get away. A piece of the iron struck him in the head and he Jjved but a few minutes afterward. He leases a widow and four aona; WHAT IT MEANS. FREE COINAGE OF SILVER ATTHE RATIO OF 1 6 TO * - The Consequence Would be the rrecline of the Purchasing Power of a Silver Dollar to One Half What it will Uui at X'reseut. A silver dollar weighs sixteen times as much as a'gold dollar.. This is what is meant by the coinage of silver "at the ratio of 10 to 1." "Free" coinage of silver means that silver bullion when brought to the mint, shall be coined into 'dollars at the ex­ pense oLjthe United States government, without w^t to the owner. By the "unlimited" coinage of silver is meant that all the silver, American or foreign, brought to • any of our mints shall be so coined, at the owner's de- teinaud. When the ratio of 10 to 1 was estab­ lished by the government, sixteen ounces of silver bullion were worth, in the mar­ ket, just as much as one ounce of gold bullion. A silver dollar and a gold dol­ lar were then worth precisely the same before they were coined, when they were coined, or after they were melted. The face value of a silver dollar was its actual value. , But of late years pure silver has de­ clined in value, so that now the com­ mercial ratio, instead of being 10 to., 1. is about 31 to 1. That is to say. an ounce of gold bullion is-exchangeable for thirty-one .ounces of silver bullion, in­ stead of being exchangeable fofc oulv six' .teen ounces of silver bullion, as it for­ merly was. Silver bullion is thus worth in gold only Ubqut half .as much as 4t was when the coinage'ratio was made 10 to 1. . • v ; A silver dollar, with the stamp of the, government - upon it. passes far more than it is worth, just as a paper dollar passes for more than the paper upon which it is printed is worth. The credit of the government is behind the paper, dollar, and the credit of the government is behind the silver dollar. The United State government lends its credit to ev­ ery man with an American silver dollar in his pocket, so that he can pay liM) cents of debt with 53 cents' worth of sil­ ver But the credit of the government is not behind the uncoined silver, in the form of bullion. Therefore the bullion is exchangeable for other commodities only to the amount of its actual or intrinsic value; The "free and unlimited coinage of sil­ ver at the ratio of 1(5 to 1" means, there­ fore, that the government of the United States, instead of pledging its credit for the maintenance of a limited amount of coined silver at parity witii gold, shall pledge its credit for the maintenance of an unlimited amount of silver, now worth only 81 to 1. at a parity with gold, at a ratio of 1(! to 1. By this the United States would undertake to double the value of every ounce of silver, coined or uncoined, in the world, and extend an invitation to all the nations to send their surplus silver here to lie coined into sil­ ver dollars at a ratio of 10 to 1. These silver dollars, if coined in an un­ limited quantity, would not be worth as much as gold dollars, because it is the credit of the government which makes those we now have equal in purchasing power to a gold dollar, and the credit of the government is not without limit. "I.nlimited" coinage of silver would ex­ haust its credit, by exhausting its power to -redeem its pledge to maintain silver at a parity with gold, at the ratio of Hi to 1. The consequence would be that the silver dollar would soon decline in pur­ chasing power to the commercial value of the bullion it contains, and would be worth little, if any, more than half-a- dollar in gold. As nil private and public debts not explicitly payable in gold would then be payable in these half-rate dol­ lars,-our gold would disappear from cir­ culation and would quickly be drawn out of the country in paying our obligations and purchases from gold-using countries where our silver coins would not be ac­ cepted. As a consequence we should in a few months lose all of our $(>12,000.- 000 of gold, leaving us with a much con­ tracted and greatly depreciated currency. A disastrous panic would ensue, followed by the suspension of thousands of fac­ tories and business houses, a general business collapse, and the loss of employ­ ment by hundreds of thousands of wage- earners and laborers. Under our present monetarv svstem, and until the agitation for the free coin­ age of silver became a dangerous men­ ace to business and labor, we had the. most.. prosperous years ever known in American historv. SILVER AND COMMERCE. How Free Coinage Would Incommode Our Foreign Trade. One of the first and most disastrous effects of a change of the standard of value in this country from gold to silver would be the dislocation of our foreign trade. Every merchant understands, though it is probable that thousands of his fellcw citizens do not, that all trade done between nations that are on a gold standard basis is subject to an enormous fine in the shape of losses incurred by reason of the fluctuations in the rate of exchange. Merchants understand, and they should now take the trouble to explain it to oth­ ers. that a cargo of wheat or cotton shipped from New York to Liverpool for sale in the latter market will be sold and paid for there at prices reckoned and stated in gold. No act of Congress mak­ ing silver the standard of value, or pre­ tending to give it equality as such with gold at 3.0 to 1. Or at any other arbitrary ratio, \yill have any effect at all in Liv­ erpool <_.r London. They buy and sell in those cities in terms of* gold": not by the '^mcd gold sovereign,of England, but by the pound sterling of gold which means a pound i;i weight and not in coin. And that is something that American law cannot touch. We can change our own standard if we choose, and make it differ­ ent to that of Great Britain, France, Germaey and the other principal com­ mercial countries of the world, but we cannot make them change theirs. What then would happen in shipping cargoes of American merchandise to any European markets if this country adopts a silver basis? It is clear that their sil­ ver price oil this side would be constantly affocted, and harmfully .on the whole, by the fluctuations, upwards and down­ wards. of the gold price of silver itself in London, Paris and Berlin. This would introduce an element of endless confu­ sion into our foreign trade both ways, and compel merchants on both sides to be continually speculating on the prob­ able rise or fall of silver between the sailing of a ship from one side of the Atlantic and the unloading of her cargo on the other. Our foreign trade would thus be subject to the risks of gambling. Every consignment of goods sent from our ports to those of gold standard coun­ tries, and vice versa, would have to be made largely on chances. Neither the shippers nor the consignees would be willing to take these chances, except with the expectation and assurance that their profits would be proportionately larger for the extra risk they ran.--Ship­ ping and Commercial List. An Object-Lesson on Free Silver. Do you wish to* know how you can turn the tide in favor of "sound money?" 'Let our great railroads run free excur­ sions to Mexico and Colombia--fre«. only to representative laboring men (not5%aik- ing delegates)--and show them tho prac­ tical operations of free silver: show it in its glory and iii its fulness; show how pleasant it is for labor to be crucified on the cross of silver. All expenses should be paid, and a most merry crowd it will be. It is not bribery nor buying of votes, but education by object-lesson.--Besse­ mer. Ala., communication to the New York World. "Tlie Font's Iteveiijge." -- ' •** THE F^AHLE* There was once a man who climbed a tree, and had in his hand a saw. A.nd while- he was in the tree his enemy came beneath, it and lay down to sleep in the shade. And the man said to him­ self: "Behold, my enemy is asleep and in my power! I will avenge myself upon him by sawing off a limb of this tree and allowing it to fall upon him and crush him." v And as he said he did; but he sat upon the limb, and when k fell he fell with it, and was grievous­ ly injured. But the sleeping man was not injured. THE; MORAL. There was once a farmer who went, in debt to a banker.. And values de­ clined aud money became scarce, and he said: "I will have a law passed making my debt payable in cheap money, and thus I will be avenged upon this Gold Bug." And as he said hp did. But when debts had been made payable in cheap money lie received only cheap money for the products of his farm, and he was required to pay double the amount of cheap money for his oecessi-* ties; and the Gold Bug foreclosed the. debt and was not injured, but the farm-' or was ruined. ' And this is the story of "The Fool's Revenge." " . -. . \ WILLIAM J. BRYAN, POPULIST.; Stewart Bears Testimony to the Nominee'# Uadical Principles. If additional evidence were needed that William J. Bryan is a Populist it may be found in the declaration o? the Populists^ themselves, their allies and abettors^ in the two conventions" which met at St. Louis last week' and indorsed Bryan. In the silver convention William M. Stewart, Republican Unit­ ed States senator from Nevada, b'^re testimony to Mr, Bryaii :s principles iii these words: • • I know William ,T. Bryan. ^ He believes what we believe. He is as true to his prin­ ciples as a needle to the pole. He is not a Democrat iju good and regular standing having said time and again that if the Deui- octatic party adopted a gold platform he., would not support it. Iii the same convention Judge Scott of Nebraska! in the course of £i fervid speech, invoked the Almighty to send pestilence and disease, warr&hd famine upon the. nation "rather than subject us to four more years of oppression Under Grover Cleveland." He then called- for three cheers for Bryan.- which' were heartily given' show­ ing the estimation in which a Democrat­ ic President, was held by . a gathering which indorsed the Nebraska . candidate.. So wnueh for the silver convention. In the Populist gathering the testimony to Mr. Bryan's populistic orthodoxy was even stronger. Judge Oreen of Nebraska, an intimate friend and associate of Mr. Bryan, in answer to a question from a Texas dele­ gate. said: "I know Bryan. 1 know him personally. He is my friend, and I say to you he is as true a Populist as you or I." As Judge Green is, according to his own statement, a Populist of thirty years' standing, more convincing could hardly be asked for. < But the proo/ accumulates. James B, Wea « r of Iowa, twice the candidate of the 1 opulists for the presidency of the United States, in nominating Mr. Bryan sa id: I place in nomination for the presidency of the t'nited States a distinguished gentle­ man. who. let it be remembered, has al­ ready been three times indorsed by tiie Populist party of his own state--once for represeutatiyq in Congress, once for I'uited States senator and only last week for the presidency. The inference in the last clause that the Coliseiitii convention was a Populistic gathering is both plain and sincere. But of that later on. The best evidence, however, of a man s faith--political or otherwise--is to be found in his own words. On the 4th of November, 1S!).'$, at Lincoln. Neb.. Mr. Bryan, in addressing a Democratic state convention which had voted down a free silver resolution by a two-thirds major­ ity, made this declaration: If the Democratic party, after you go home, indorses your action and this be­ comes yonr sentiment. I want to promise you that I will go out and serve my coun­ try and my <iod under some other name, if I go alone. Divested of the hyperbole, which is Mr. Bryan's favorite rhetorical figure, this deelaration meant that he would desert the Democratic party and become a Populist. Does anyone doubt that he has ful­ filled his declaration? Mr. Bryan is the nominee of three na­ tional conventions. Two of these were openly and avowedly Populistic. The third--the one which met in Chicago- was Populist in everything but name, and that name was stolen from a party with which it had no sympathy. That it was a Populist convention was proved by the fact that it nominated Mr. Bryan. That gentleman could not have accepted the Democratic platform of 1X1)2 or of any previous year. He could not have faced a Democratic con­ vention-with his record behind him. Nor. on the other hand, could the Chi­ cago convention have nominated a Demo­ crat. Tlie feeble attempts that wore made to do so showed the estimate in .which Democrats were held by the con­ vention. Teller, the Republican, was accorded consideration and might have been nominated, but Democrats of life­ long standing were either contemptuously thrust a.-ide c-r not mentioned at all. It wi« a Populist convention. The two St. Louis assemblages which have adjourned after indorsing Mr. Bryan were also Populist conventions. He has had the indorsement of no one but Populists fop the last three years. He is claimed by tlie Populists. He is ex­ ploited as a Populist. He admits that he is a Populist. He is a Populist. Is any further argument necessary?-- From the Chicago Chronicle iDem.). Two Kinds of Dollars. The Santa Fe railway has a branch from Rincon, N. M.. to Guyamas, in old Mexico. On both sides of the boundary liji£ between Mexico and the United States this company pays its section hands a day: but the Mexicans are paid in Mexican dollars, while the Ameri­ cans are paid in American ^silver. The Mexican employe, if he crosses the^Iine. finds that his dollar is only, worth 50 cents; but tlie American employe, if he crosses rhe same line, finds that his dol­ lar is worth twice as much as at home. The Mexican dollar is a free coinage dol­ lar and is valued at the market price of the bullion which it contains. The Amer­ ican dollar is intrinsically worth less than the Mexican, but it has the credit of the government at its back, and its purchas­ ing power is equal to that of gold. The proposition to establish free and unlim­ ited coinage of silver hpre is a proposal to Mexifranize our silver dollar. Who is the true friend of the silver dollar? Is it the man who desires to "strike down at .one fell swoop" its present purchasing power? Or is it the man who wishes to preserve its purchasing power intact? Wmeh of these two is the friend of the poor, the friend of the workingmanV Free coinage of silver saves the Santa 1 Fe road just one-quarter of the wages due to its section hands, because it pays 1000 Americans $1000 a day in Ameri­ can money, but pays 1000 Mexicans only $500 in American money, while nominal­ ly both are earning the same , wages. Workingmen! think of these things and be not deceived! AVIiat Silver Means to Workingmen. There are $4,500,000,000 in 'wages to be paid the workingmen of this country annually at 50 cents on the dollar. That is what the Democratic platform means. Who are the creditor class in the United States? There are the bondholders, wim have about $000,000,000 of government bonds, they could be paid in silver dollars worth 50 cents each. Then there comes the 10.000.000 laboring men. front the farm haud to the railroad engineer, frotti the counter girl to the cashier, earning from $1 to $4 each per day. at the low­ est average $1.50 a day, making $15,- 000.000 a day for ".00 working day*. $4,500,000,000 annually, seven times as much as all the government bonds or.fi- standing. To pay the workingmen in lu­ cent silver dollars would mean the t-J- nual loss of one-half their income, or $2,250,000,000: or in plain words ' iiis wages would be cut down from $l.i.>tV to 75 cents a day.--A V\ otkingman iu Iww Yolk -Tribune: " - \--"-- poured in tinder free cotnage. Yo& might just as well, expect them to be able to make every poor man rich. The silver coin would go for its bullion worth, -and the laborer, the mistress of the house, every one, would have j to receive the marked-quoFation daily in order A "ad­ just.' ' You can grant nothing to un­ certain primary money except the riiin of the holder. You might as well grant that the. druggist could accommodate himself to '& variable* measure for poi- sq&ojis drugs. The Lord help the patient who would have to "adjust" under such cjtcum«ances.-^H. A. F&rrbairn in New .York Evening Post. SAW HOW FREE SILVER WORKS. Though a. Lifelong- "Democrat,"'.He . will TSot Vote tfor Bryaji.*' j: i AnQthbr well-known Hoosier Democrat rt*ho finds he cannot conscientiously sup­ port the presidential nominee" oii k free silver platform is Capt. William Schrodt of Jeffersonville. Ind., who is chief book­ keeper for the firm of Harbison & Oath- right of this city. Capt. Schrodt has al­ ways voted the Democratic ticket pre­ viously under all circumstances, but the Populistic dose this time, he says, is en­ tirely too bitter for him to take. Many years in the life of Capt. Schrodt have been spent in Mexico. .Central, America and South America, and he ob­ served the free ̂ silver plan in its actual workings. To a reporter fOr the Evening Post he said: "I find it impossible to support Mr. Bryan on the platform Upon which lie was nominated. He may be a very bril­ liant'young man, and I have no doubt that he is. Still; his monetary views are sq decidedly opposite to those I hold that I will not be able to vote for him.: It is well enough for people to talk about free .silver, but wheu they have lived for years in a country where they have tried it. as I have, they will not be ,so ram­ pant for something about which they now know nothing. Tt has been four or five years since I was in Mexico, but I am satisfied that there has been little change. There were millions of paupers then,-and Mexico will always have the poor with them iu large numbers. "One advantage to impoverished fami­ lies down there syas that they could take their silver plate to the mint and have it coined into money, but the poor had n,o silver plate. Laborers there get o0 cents a day. as a general thing, but in some remote cases, for skilled labor, the workmen arc paid 35 cents. Their silver dollars have plenty of silver in them, and they are heavier than those in the United States, but they are not worth as much. The only way to make a sil­ ver dollar worth a dollar is- to put a dol­ lar's worth of silver in it. If this is done file might just as well carry the nrfiel- about in lumps, and not go to the troubV- of having it coined. Down in Cent nil America the country is flooded with silver that is not worth its face value anywhere, even in the sections where it is made. The poor are ground down and pay double prices' for every­ thing. while the wages are the same. "I have been in South America, too. where it is used, and the same state of affair* exist there. They tried it as an experiment, just as is proposed here, and it will take a couple of hundred years for the people to recover from it. There are several silver mines in South America which have been closed for want of capital to continue the work. In fact, i he value has declined so rapidly that there is no money in having it coined. If every resident of the United States owned a silver mine I could see some sense in his wanting free coin­ age."--Louisville Post. SILVER CATECHISM. Q.--W hat silver-standard countries have free coinage? A.--Not one. There is not in all the world a mint open to the free coinage of silver at.anv ratio. NEW PAETX FORMED GOLb.STANDARD DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE. The Whole Trouble with Silver. The trouble and the whole trouble and iniquity of thy silver basis would be its uncertainty, its mobility, its erratic qual­ ity. The yardstick, tojise a familiar simile, would be o0. 25. 50. 15 inches in a single day. or, in other words, the worth, the purchasing power, of silver would vary, for no one can for a mo­ ment think that any country or federa­ tion of countries could maintain-- the ps*r- ity between gold and silver under the. load of the latter metal which would be Q.--Does not Mexico coin all silver brought to her mints? A.--Yes; but she charges $4.41 for each 100 coins, and the coinage is at 10.51 to 1. so that she re- coins European silver at a cost to the holder of aljout 10 per cent, and Ameri­ can silver at a cost of 7 per cent. Q.-- Does not India free coin silver?' A. --No. The mint was closed three years ago. Q.--Does not Japan coin free? A.--- No. The mint closed some years ago. It coins subsidiary silver on government account, as all mints do. The currency is Bank of Japan notes. $l.'i4.000.000. redeemable in full legal tender silver coin. These notes correspond to our greenbacks of 1808. except that they do not go below 50 per cent, discount. "Q.--What is the result? A --That the finances are disordered. There is tio security for business. There is no fixed standard of value. The yen (dollar) is worth 53 cents in gold one day and 51 the next, as the price of silver fluctuates .a the .market, exactly as our greenbacks fluctuated. Q.--Is this true of all silver standard countries? A.--It is true of each and till. There is not one in which business is not speculation, because there is no fixed standard of value. Q.--What is meant by "a silver basis?" 'That the notes 'issued are redeemable in silver: that -silver is the mu>no\ td fiual redemption. Q.--What is its practical effect? A.-- To drive gold out of circulation and out >f use as money, either as currency or as 3 reserve for redemption, as it is now used by our bauks and by the govern- jietit. Q-- Is this a universal result? A.-- it is. There is not a (silver .standard country in the world in which gold cir­ culates or is used as money. The, more valuable money is always hoarded or told iu speculation as a commodity. Q.--Would not the adoption 'of free Silver coinage prove a measure of --con­ traction. giving us less money than we jave now? A.--It would. More than f500.000.000 in gold coin and certificates would be immediately driven out of cir­ culation or use as money. It would tax the silver-tnining capacity for ten years to make good this deficiency.--New York World. „ Yield of Farm Products. Vie decline in the value of farm prod­ ucts is Mitficieritly accounted for without reference to th£ "crime of 1S73." by the increase of acreage in cultivation. In the United States alone, the amount of land planted in wheat, in 1875, was 20,- 381.512 acres: in 185)1 it was 39.5)10,897 :1,.res--increase of 50 per cent. The Yield o: wheat in the United States in 1875 was 292.130,000 bushels; in 1891 it was 011.780.000 bushels--an increase of more than 100 per cent. In addition to this increase in the amount of wheat produced in this country, a similar in­ crease has occurred in India. Russia and South America. Prices are fixed by the law of supply and demand. The increase in the supply has lowered the price. A similar increase has taken place in the production of corn, oats, cotton and other agricultural products. POLITICAL NOTES. The T'nited States Tobacco Journal complains sarcastically of the demoneti­ zation of tobacco, "the money standard of old Virginia," and laments thr7 pass­ ing of tlie. good old times when "it took three gold dollars to buy one pound the weed." Borrowed money which was worth "200 cents on the dollar." wlien bor­ rowed. should be repaid in money of the same kind. This is not politics, it is common honest.*. - The Westerly (R. I.) Weekl.' says; "If a vote for Mr. Bryan is a <fot» for a 50-cc-nt dollar, a vote for a gold-S"--fld;ird Democrat might be described as a vote -for-n- 75-cent dollar.--The oulv effective Thirty-three States Represented at Indianapolis--It Is Decided to Hold •' Convention' in September and to Name a National Ticket. Palmer the Leader. Under the name of the National Demo­ cratic party ofw the United States the gold standard Democrats will hold a national convention in Indianapolis Wed­ nesday, Sept. 2, and nominate candidate^ for President and Vice President. Thia was decided upon at the meeting of the committee in the Indiana capital. Sena­ tor John M. Palmer, of Illinois, was made the chairman of the permanent national committee, and to. him will be left tha selection of , the Executive Committee which is to perfect the details of the convention. Thirty-three States wore personally represented when the permanent commit­ tee of the sound money Democrats was organized, but' three more States were added to the roli because they had al­ ready appointed committeemen, , who. ALTCELD IS INDORSED CHOSEN BY THE POPULISTS OF ILLINOIS. Entire Democratic; State Ticket Nomi­ nated Except W. F. Beck forAnditdh Whose Place Is Filled by A. L, Max­ well Victory for Taylor. JOHN M. PALMER. vote ,v>r a l(X)-cent dollar is a< vote for McKLiley and Hobart. Wi? do not know what McKinley's pop­ ular majority will be, but we know what it ought to be--sixteen to one. Thf St. Paul Dispatch Says: "The election of Altgeld in Illinois will mean as iaueli in prestige for free silveri amciig free silver. Democrats, as if Bry­ an were to carry the state." If the government has power to "make money," why does it collect taxes'-from us? Why does it not ' 'make money" and Ut us alone't however, had been unable to get to the conference in time. The movement .for a third ticket was considered national and the decisive step in the warfare against free silver was taken. The national committee of the new party will exert its influence to have every State send delegates to the convention. States will be asked to join the movement with the understanding that It will not be obligatory for them to put electoral tickets in the field unless they deem it wise. It is the intention of the national committee to send speakers of national reputation into every doubtful Stateias soon as the nominations have been made. The committee to prepare the call re­ ported the fo'fowing: Call for the Convention. "To the Democrats of the United States: A political party has always been defined to be an association of voters to promote the success of political princi­ ples held In common; The Democratic party, during its ivhole history, has been pledged to promote the liberty of the Individual, the security of private rights and property, and the,supremacy of the law. It has always insisted upon a safe and stable money for the people's use. It has insisted upon the maintenance of tha, financial honor of the nation,'as wel^ as "ipon the preservation Inviolate of the in­ stitutions established by the Constitu­ tion. "These, its principles, were abamJonM by the supposed representatives of the party at a national convention recently assembled at Chicago. «The Democratic party will therefore cacse to exist unless it be preserved by the voluntary action of such of its members as still adhere to the fundamental principles. No majority of the members of that convention,, how­ ever large, had any right or power to surrender those principles. When they undertook to do so that assemblage ceas­ ed to be a Democratic convention. "The action taken, the irregular pro­ ceedings and the platform enunciated by that body were and are so utterly and Indefensibly revolutionary and constitute such radical departures from the princi­ ples of true democracy, which should characterize'a sound find patriotic admin­ istration of our country'^ affairs, that its results are not entitled to the confidence or support of true Democrats. "For the first time since national par- tics were formed there is not before the American people a platform declaring the principles of the'Democratic party as rec­ ognized and most courageously and con­ sistently administered by Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland, nor are there nominees for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States, pledged to carry those principles into practical effect. The faithful and true Democrats of the United States are de­ termined that their principles shall not be ruthlessly surrendered^ nor the peo­ ple be deprived of an opportunity to vote for candidates in accord therewith. "Therefore the National Democratic party of the I'uited States, through its regularly constituted committee, hereby calls a national convention of that party for the announcement of its platform and the nomination of candidates for the of Sees of President and Vice President of the United States and the transaction of such business, as is incidental thereto, to be held at Indianapolis. Wednesday, the 2d day of September, 1890, at noon, and hereby requests that the members of the party in the several States who believe in sound money an|l the preservation of law and order and who are unalterably opposed to the platform adopted and can­ didates nominated at Chicago, will select in such manner* as to them shall seem best a number of delegates to the same equal to twice the number of electoral votes to which such States are respective­ ly entitled. i1 ...- -. , "Such delegates shall be duly accredit­ ed according to the usages of the Demo­ cratic "party. Their credentials shall be forwarded or delivered to the secretary of this committee with all convenient speel, fend this committee will make up and announce the roll of the delegates enti­ tled to participate in the preliminary or­ ganization of the convention." Telegraphic Brevities. H. B. Bartholomew, of Philadelphia, dropped' dead, on the street at Los An­ geles, CaL Both tests of the compressed air motor for street cars made at New York were believed to have been wholly successful. - " The tomb of M. Stam#uloff, the ex- premier bf Bulgaria, who was assassinat­ ed in the streets of Sofia in July la3t rear, 'h*as been seriously injured with a dynamite bomb- Wong Chee, the most prominent China­ man in southern'California, who was shot by highbinders, died at Los Angeles. Before his death he identified his mur­ derers, who are in jail. .. v . . -. ^ Patrick Coyle, GO years old, was killed at New Madison, Pa., by his son Walter!, who but for,the intervention of a priest "WKMjjd have been lynched. Singularly enofugh, the prieat'* ame was Fathe; Populists at Springfield. for Governor...'. John P. Altgeld tor Lieutenant Governor......v.^.... • • • • • -- M o n r o e , 0 . C r a w f o r d For Secretary of State.. ..Finis IS. Downing I;or State Auditor.. A. L. Maxwell t or State Treasurer Edward C. Pace lor Attorney General..... George A. Tends tor University Trustees.. Julia Holmes Smith, Richard P. Mor­ gan. X. W. Graham. For Clerk Supreme Court Ethan Allen Snlvely- For Clerk Appellate Court...Geo. W. Jones The Populists of Illinois met in conven- tion at Springfield Wednesday and nomi­ nated the entire Democratic.State ticket, with the exception of W. F. Beck ft«- Anditor, who resigned. The place was filled by the nomination of A. L. Maxwell of Flat Rock. It was 11 o'clock befon Chairman Maxwell called the delegates to order. There were about 300, or one- third of the full representation present. Every reference to Bryan or Altgeld was the signal for an outburst of applause.. The Rev. M. F. Troxell offered prayer. The band played and Secretary Kell read " the call for the convention. Chairman Maxwell made a speech, ic which he briefly reviewed the history and work of the Populist party, a record ol which, he said, they had no reason to b# ashamed. When the speaker alluded to the financial issue and said that he felt no doubt as to where the people's party would stand the cheers shOok tH6 building. : C. B. Palmer, of Richland County, was introduced as the temporary chairman, and made a brief speech of thanks. It was decided to refer all resolutions (o the committee on plai«form without reading, and the convention took a recess until 2 p. m. Song by Mrs, Pennington. When the convention was called to or­ der Mrs. Pennington, of Arkansas, was introduced and sung her famous song, which was received with such enthusiasm at the St. Louis convention. She was re­ called and sung "The Gold Bugs Can't Get Back." . * ; T r The report of the committee on perma­ nent organization was read and adopted, presenting the name of H. G. Jones of Jefferson County as chairman, W. C. Pecking of I.ostant as secretary, James Lindsay of Decatur as assistant and for sergeant-at-arnis E. J. Liudliolm. Chairman Jones Speaks. Chairman Jones was introduced and said: I believe there are more eyes in Illinois turned eagerly to this convention than have been hitherto turned to any convention ever held in the State. Illinois, proud in the mem­ ory of her great men. looks ta tlie common people for deliverance from the oppression of the gold power. We who come from the humbler walks of life know what it Is to listen to the wail of distress. It is heard wherever labor earns-bread, hence It be­ comes us well to espouse the cause of the American people. Shall we turn a deaf ear to them, to the widow and orphan? Far be It from us. We want for all a condition of things in this country that lusures honest remuneration of honest labor, when the farmer can exchange his product for the goods of the shopkeeper: when the lives of men shall be respected as well as the rights of corporations. We have been called anarchists. Do you believe the Federal authorities would allow this great body of men to assemble in this State house if they believed us anarchists? No, fellow-cltlzens, ltlsyour newspapers that have been subsidized. The sooner the plug- hat gentry get Into the gold party the sooner the common people will get Into the Bilver party. We hear the cry go up* all over the country "the middle of the road." When the choice lies between McKlnley and Bryan, "the second son of man," between Altgeld, who had given the State of Illinois the best Industrial administration it ever had. and Tanner, where is "the middle of tlie^sd?" This climax was greeted with tremend- ous cheering. Mr. Jones ridiculed the "50-cent dollar" idea and the "Mexican-dollar argument," and denounced them as unfair. He declared that the people's party had made a mistake, and that he was convinc­ ed that whatever action the convention might lake it would be right. r; The committee on rules reported and an attempt to change the representation on tho State committee from senatorial to congressional districts was defeated. The committee on credentials then re­ ported on the Cook County contest. It was dccided to seat the Taylor delegates, and to allow the Burns men to fill toe va­ cancies existing. , . .i • ' .,^ The Platform. The committee on platform then report­ ed the following, .which was adopted: We, the People's party of the State jiois, in convention assembled, hereby adopt the following platform: 'V 1. We heartily indorse the platformvof the People's party adopted In St. Louis, July 22. 18SKI. as a statement of our political princi­ ples relating to national questions, especially emphasizing that part of said platfonij which designates the Issuance of money by the National Government, without the in­ tervention of banks, and the free coiuage of sliver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, as the predominant Issue of the pending Presiden­ tial campaign, and we are in favor Of all hon­ orable ways and means by which a union of all citizens who agree with us upon this Issue may be effected. 2. We recognize the present system of taxation In the State of Illinois and its prac­ tical application as a gross injustice to, the great masft of the people, and we demand of our next Legislative that they devise a: m'ore equitable system, and we favor local option in taxation as a measure to that end. 3. We favor the submission of an amend­ ment to the State constitution giving the Legislature power Ssnact laws, and pro­ vide for their enforcement, regulating, con­ tracts and conditions that may arise from- time to time betweeu corporations and their employes, and we also favor the adoption of the amendment to the constitution which is to be voted upon at the next general elec­ tion, which provides that the Legislature may submit three amendments to be voted • upon at the same general election. 4. That we favor such legislation as wilf prevent the product of convict labor of our State eomlng Into competition with the prod­ uct of free labor. 5. We recognize, the fact that there ire various questions relating to State Issues and local government not covered in the above resolutions, and as to such Issues we call attention to the fact that our national platform declares for direct legislation by the initiative and referendum, and we arefu favor of the adoption of a systenTof direct legislation under proper restrictions in deal­ ing with our State and local afTalrs by which all of said questions may be duly considered and Voted upon by the people. a. Resolved That the administration of Gov. Altgeld deserves unstinted praise for its'-earnest, and able devotion to the rights of the people and its fearless efforts to cor­ rect public abuses and bring under control public despoilers should have the unqualified approval of all law-abiding citizens. An adjournment was then taken until ,S o'clock. y Four Electors Are Named. At the evening session Charles K. Palmer made a speech urging, the accept­ ance of the offer made by the democratic party i~o place four Populist electors oa the State ticket, and offered a resolutloa naming Dr. Howard S. Taylor and Heiv man Alschulcr of Chicago. Herman K. Taubeneck of Marshall and John P- Stcllo of Moulit- Vernon~as the choice of--1 the convention. After a spirited debate it Was decided to nominate the candidate* singly and the four men named were nom­ inated. . The electors on the Democratic ticket were indorsed with the exception of F. M. Youngblood, elector-at-Iarge, G. F. Foster of the Third district, George M. Lecroa# of the Nineteenth dfitrict aiia;Joseph B. GUI of the Twenty-second district, who wiii be withdrawn to make rvoai for UMk fc'ODUlistS. s