The News and Observer.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 21.
TOOtE ILADBOEgIT ®F &m GTOQmfl QDAQIUf-
SILVER WAS HIS THEME
SENATOR JARVIS SPOKE TO A
LARGE CROWD YESTERDAY
AT MORGANTON
ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION
It Was the First of a Series ofSpeeches
Mr. Jarvis Proposes to Deliver in the
State in the Advocacy of the White
Metal—He Denounces the Recent
Panic as a Conspiracy ot the Money
Power-Shows that as Gold Appre
ciates the Price of Products Falls.
Special to the News and Observer.
Morganton, N. C., Aug. 27.
Judge By-nun adjourned court at
11:30 o'clock to-day, and according to
appointment Ex Senator Thomas J. Jar
vis made the first of a series of silver
speeches he is to deliver in the State
within the next few weeks. Senator
Jarvis was introduced by John 11. Pear
son. The court house was crowded.
There were many Populists, a few white
Republicans, and fewer still of colored
people present. The speaker was in
good form, calm, earnest, indignant
upon occasion, and eloquent at the close.
The attention of his audience was
marked, his argument lucid, exhaustive,
and full of common sense. His illustra
tions, though homely, were effectivee,
and his speech had a good effect upon
party prospects. This is the universal
opinion.
He said the people were sovereign.
The power in other governments was from
the king down. Here it was from many
kings up to their chosen servants for the
time being. The driver of the presi
dent's carriage, Carlisle’s servants were
at the ballot box equal to the men em
ploying them.
The financial policy, he said, would be
settled finally exactly as the sovereign
people willed it. It might tabeone year,
two years, many years, but in the end
their decree would be law. The money
question would not down. It sat by
every fireside, hovered over every indus
try, was uppermost in the thoughts of
every man.
He did not profess to know all about
it. There were men present a* well
posted as he, some of whom differed
with him; there were others who had not
given it mature thought, to them espe
cially he spoke.
Bi-metallism and monometalism were
explained by the speaker. A monometal
list. he said* was the man who wanted
only gold.
There were, he declared, two sorts of
money, primary or redemption, and re
deemable or secondary. Primary money
is always metallic and by it all property
is measured
If be bought a house in Morganton for
$2,000 and gave a check on a Raleigh
bank that would be secondary money.
If the party selling again bought and
turned over the check, and deeds were
passed, yet values were reached not
from the* check but from the redemption
money, none of which kad yet passed.
The check was only a medium of ex
change, valuable that far, but of no
avail in fixing value. A dollar was
3711-4 grains pure silver, 412 1-2 of
standard silver so made by the father of
the Republic and continued the
standard, as three barley corns made
one inch. The Republicans were the
crimiual authors of the act of 1873 since
which the purchasing power of gold had
been continually increasing and the price
of all produce continually decreasing.
The remedy was to restore silver to the
place it had before 1873.
Senator Jarvis declared that he was
as ever, on that line, not to be deterred
from maintaining it because the Popu
lists occupied the same ground. A man
might come into the Speaker's house if
he behaved, and remain; but he should
not run the Speaker out.
Ideal money, he said, was fixed and
stable, preventing the enhancement of
debts, and assuring the creditor an equit
able pajment. Both metals, notone,
experience showed to be this ideal money.
The present low prices were the direct
result of gold's appreciation.
Casual causes, local incidents, and
over production had been cited as ac
counting for the great fall in values. But
statistics covering years showed that a
ruse in gold meant a fall in wheat, cot
ton and bar iron.
“Open the mints,” he cried. “While
the French mint alone remained open,
silver maintained itself at 15£ to 1.
Open mints was Democratic doctrine
fifty years before the Populist party was
born ”
He mocked the shriekers for an honest
dollar. In fact, the best part of his
speech was devoted to this. He read
copiously Goschen and Bishop and Walsh,
to show that low intenst might
accompany scarce money, and metal
lic payments were not necessarily
<quitable payments. When the national
debt had been half paid it would have
taken more of wheat, cotton, corn, bar
irou and wool to have discharged the
residue than it would have required in
1865 to have wiped out the whole debt.
We had worked for the bondholder a
whole generation without lessening his
claim upon our earnings. There were
years since 1873 when the debt of the
country had been nominally reduced one
hundred million, when, in tjuth,
it had been actually increased.
He said he was no antagonist to wealth
or rich men. He rejoiced in the growth
of towns aud cities, the enlargement of
industrial plants, the awakening shown
in spinning cotton in the South, but he
could not shut his eyes to farmers only
making enough to eat.
From thirty million pounds sterling,
the production of gold had fallen to nine
teen millions in twenty years, and the
arts consumed more than half of this.
Though it had been discarded by Eng
land, Germany and the United S’ates,
silver bullion still buys of the staples of
life what it did when admitted to coin
age. The speaker said men of his faith
were called crazy by the gold bugs. If
this were true all the world, except Eng
land, was crazy till 1873. England was
crazy till 1816. The majority of the
United Senate was crazy; the
majority of the Democratic party and
the majority of the American people
were the same.
We had been compared to Mexico.
The comparison. Senator Jarvis held,
was not fair. The governments were
different, the climate different, the civil
ization different. But it would be un
welcome to the gold bugs to compare
M< xico now with Mexico ten years ago,
the United States now and the United
States ten years ago. The panic of 1893
was a conspiracy, and our return now
from the pestilence of that year was
hailed as prosperity. He said it was rot
to speak of it as the Charlotte Observer
daily did. He begged Populists to work
in harmony with the Democrats and se
cure the wished for result. Here he
read Tom Settle’s late interview in
Washington.
Senator Jarvis closed with an eloquent
appeal to the descendants of the men
who surrounded Ferguson on King’s
Mountain to girdle with fire this latest
attempt to plant the flag of English
moneyed supremacy over our land.
Mr. Bower followed him, taking the
same ground and worked the crowd up
to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. His
speech was on a different line from that
of Sera*or Jarvis. He was in a humor
ous and happy vein. His description of
the crying need of divorce proceedings
between the Pops and Rads on the
ground of Republican falsity to the mar
riage vow was ludicrous in the extreme.
Newt Hallyburton, he said, privately
claimed that the Rads would keep the
children, Jeter and Maryann, and let the
old woman, the Populist party, go with
such frocks as she had when married.
The skies are brightening in Burke
politically. Toleration for all men of
all opinions is the watch word. Aud in
God we trust is the motto of our dollar
and of our campaign.
THE CROPS OF THE COUNTRY.
The Abundant Rains of the Week have
Greatly Improved Them.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 27.—The
Weather Bureau, in its report of crop
conditions for the week ended August
26th, says:
In the States of the central Mississippi
and lowerJMissonri valley and upper lake
region, the abundant rains of the week
have improved pasturage and crops,
especially late corn, which is now ma
turing rapidly.
The eastern portion of the cotton belt
has suffered further from excessive rain
fall, and complaints of rust and shed
ding are numerous. An improvement,
however, is reported from Alabama, Ar
kansas and Oklahoma. In Tennessee
cot on is b gnning to suffer from
drought, and raiqs would prove bene
ficial in Arkansas and Texas. The crop
is generally late and but little picking
has yet been done.
Tobacco has suffered seriously from
drought during the week, especially in
Maryland, Virginia and Ohio, and com
plaints of premature ripening are quite
general.
THEY WANT MOKE MEMBERS.
Southern Freight Association Discusses
Plans ot Organization.
New York, Aug. 27.—The Southern
Freight Association held a meeting here
to day. It is understood that they dis
cussed the plans of organizing the new
association.
They want a few more lines before the
organization is completed. It was the
sentiment of the members present to con
tinue under the rules of the old associa
tion for another month, by which time
they hope to get more members and then
formally organize.
It was learned that the meeting had
not succeeded in reaching an agreement.
The committee appointed to solicit sig
natures from lines not then represented,
presented its report, indicating that
many of the lines would refuse to sign
an agreement.
The lines in question included the
Nashville, Chattanooga aud Bt. Louis
the Western and Atlantic, Louisville and
Nashville, the Georgia Railroad, the
Mallory Line Steamers, the Georgia
Southern and Florida, East and West of
Alabama; Atlantic aud Danville, Mem
phis and Birmingham, Florida C. and P.,
Mobile and Ohio, Port Royal and Au
gusta, Clyde Steamship Line.
AMERICANS ARE PROTECTED.
The Turkish Government Doing ail it
Can to Restrain Lawless Hands.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 27.- A ca
ble was received trom Minister Terrill
at the State Department to day, saying:
“The Porte gives emphatic assurances
of security for American citizens at Tar
sus.”
No doubt is expressed as to the Tur
kish government doing all it can do to
protect American citizens, but with the
best intentions, the government is not
always able to restrain the lawless bands
and marauders in different parts of the
Empire. Up to the present time the
Turkish government has acceded to all
requests presented by Minister Terrell
aud has shown a willingness to carry out
the promise conveyed in the dispatch re
ceived to-day.
RALEIGH. N. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 28, 1895.
RANSOM REAPPOINTED
HE WAS NAMED AS MINISTER
TO MEXICO AGAIN LAST
SATURDAY.
BUT IT WAS NOT MADE PUBLIC
Until it was Announced by the State
Department Yesterday—He Left his
Home at Weldon Last Night for
W ashington to Make Preparations to
Retnrn at Once to his Post ol Duty
lie W ill be Accompanied to Mexico
by his Son Thomas R. Ransom.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 27.
The re-appointment ot ex-Senator
Ransom as Minister to Mexico was made
public to-day.
Mr. Ransom was notified of his ap
pointmeut Saturday evening just before
lie left for his home in Weldon. He has
been making preparations tor the last
week to return to Mexico, having been
assured that he would be appointed. The
commission bears date August 24.
This end.s a legal complication by.
which Minister Ransom, after several*
mouths service at his post at the City of
Mexico, was decided ineligible to fill the
office to which he had been appointed
prior to the expiration of his term as
United States Senator. It was held by
the Treasury accounting officers that he
fell within a Constitutional inhibiti n
against the appointment of Congress
men to offices created, or whose emolu
ments had been increased during their
service in Congress. It has been gener
ally understood that Mr. Ransom would
be promptly reappointed, and the slight
delay which has occurred presumably
has been for the purpose of definitely
ascertaining that there was no mr -e
legal or other obstacles in the way of
renaming Mr. Ransom to the Mexic n
mission.
Mr. Ransom will return to Washing
ton to-night to make further prepara
tions, and will leave within a few days
if his health permits. He will be accom
panied by Tho?. R. Ransom, his son.
Minister Ransom will probably return to
North Carolina again later in the fall to
take part in the campaign.
His health has improved rapidly since
his arrival at home last June, until fit
now says he was never in better physical
condition in his life.
Auditor Holcomb’s decision holds that
the money already paid to Gen. Ransom
as minister can not be re collected by the
government. The minister is therefore
out only his salary from the Ist. of July
until the 24th. of August.
Arrival*.
R. A. Leach, H. S. Bryan and wife,
Miss May Oates and Miss Willie Hill, of
Charlotte.
MARRIAGE IN PERSON.
Loch Lilly Becoming a Popular Re
sort to Visitors.!
Special to the News unit Observer.
Roxboro, N. C., Aug. 27.
Tickets are out announcing the mar
riage ot Miss Aimo Hare to R. P. Brooks.
Both of the contracting parties live at
Woodsdale. Mr. Brooks is an -enter
prising and successful young merchant
of the place in which he lives, while Miss
Hare is popular and atttaetive. The
ceremony is to be performed at church,
and promises to be quite a social event.
They will leave on the north bound train
for Washington, Baltimore and other
Northern cities.
Loch Lilly, a beautiful little covered
lake, lying five miles west of Roxboro,
is fast becoming a popular resort for the
pleasure-seeker. Almost every day par
ties, either from Lynchburg, Danville,
South Boston, Black Walnut, of Vir
ginia, or from Durham, Oxford, Hills
boro, are found visiting this beau
tiful lake, covering as it doe* about 200
acres of land, ono half of which is cov
ered with beautiful water lilies.
A WHIT EC Al* OUTRAGE.
Au Old Woman and ll*r Daughter
Beaten Almost to Death.
Sergeant, Ky., Aug. 27.- Great ex
citement prevails on the Virginia side of
the Cumberland Mountains, six milts
eisst of this place, over a Whiteeap out
rage.
Last night, about eleven o’clock, an
unknown number of men went to tho
home of Martha White, a well known old
woman,aged 65 years,and pulled both her
aud her twenty-year old daughter from
their beds, and taking them to a patch of
woods near their home, tied t hem to trees
and beat them most brutally. They were
finally rescued by a neighbor.
To day they are both alive, but are not
expected to survive their injuries. A
posse of twenty men, headed by Sheriff
Holbrook, of Wise county, are scouriug
the Cumberland Mountains for the per
petrators.
ANOTHER SPANISH VICTORY.
Aud Another Insurgent Leader Ottici
ally Reported Dead.
Havana, Aug. 27.—A column of troops
numbering 240 men, it is officially an
nounced, commanded by Capt. Francisco
Amador, at Cuchillas, in the Taname
District, has had a brush with an insur
gent force commanded by Maj. Majia
and numbering, it is claimed, 400 men.
The government troops are said to have
captured the positions occupied by the
insurgents who left three dead and four
wounded upon the field, among the lat
ter was the insurgent Capt. Sindo, On
the other side, it is reported, only tw o
men were wounded.
SIR KNIGHTS PARADE
THEY FORMED TIIE GRANDEST
PAGEANT EVER SEEN IN
THE HUB CITY.
OVER 25,000 OF THEM IN LINE
The Streets, Sidewalks and Rools of
Buildiugs Were Thronged With
Spectators—Lines of Parade Were
Formed in Thirteen Divisions in a
Column of Double Sections—-The
Evening Given Up to Merry-Making,
Banquets and Receptions.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 27.— Seven hun
dred and fifty thousand people saw the
parade of over 25,000 Sir Knights Temp
lars to-day aud with one accord pro
nounced it the grandest pageant ever
witnessed in Boston.
People were everywhere, in streets, on
sidewalks, on the roofs of buildings and
street cars, clinging to tops of telegraph
poles, whenever the vigilance of the
police and linemen was relaxed for a
moment; in wagons and drays filled with
seats in the side streets, and on hundreds
of grand-stands, large and small, along
the route,
The clear skies and hot sun of the past
two days had given way to heavy clouds,
but finally the sun broke through the
clouds vigorously endeavoring to drive
the mists away.
Trains from every direction brought
thousands of uniformed Templars and
their friends to swell the host. At the
depots the crowds were of almost suffo
cating density. From every State, com
manderies began to arrive at an early
hour, and thousands of spectators came
with them. The streets near the depots
echoed with the din of scores of bands
and the tramp of arriving Knights and
their escorts. The railroad men were
completely overwhelmed by the magni
tude of the crowd.
The police appointments were well
nigh perfect. Shortly before the parade
started, platoons of officers cleared every
street through which the Sir Knights
were to pass and roped them off, and
until the last division had passed, no
traffic of any kind was allowed on those
thoroughfares. The lines of the parade
were formed in thirteen divisions in a
column of double sections.
At Jurne o’clock the commanderies
of the first division began to gather
on the south side of Commonwealth
avenue, i near Berkley street, and at
about the same hour the other divisions
began to take up their positions in the
avenue of the back bay district. There
was the usual delay consequent to the
formation of great pre-cessions, but all
was in readiness shortly after 10 o’clock,
and by 10:55 the long line was in mo
tion, the signal for the start being
greeted by the cheers and salutes of
10,000 people gathered near the start.
As the great body of Knights moved
down Commonwealth avenue, the spec
tacle was an inspiring one. The music
of 100 band 3 and the applause of thou
sands of people filled the air. Gaily
bedecked horses pranced at the head of
each division, while the contrast of the
dignified black cloth of the uniforms, the
waving of the rich plumes, the silver and
gold emblems, conspicuous in the
Templar uniform, presented a scene that
was pleasing and impressive.
The first division, which was led by
Right Eminent Sir Samuel C. Lawrence,
Grand Commander of the Grand Com
mandery of Massachussetts and Rohode
Island, as Chief Marshal, with Right
Eminent Sir Charles C. Fry, as his chief
of staff and fifty four of the prominent
Knights of the Boston commandery as
aide*, including the i epresentativesof the
grand commanderies of the United
States, as escort to the Grand Marshal,
with ninety three aids from the more
prominent commanderies of America;
Boston commandery, Detroit command
ery, as special secorts to the most Emin
ent Grand Master Hugh McCurdy; the
officers of the Grand Encampment in
carriages, and subordinate command
eries,
Commanderies from Massachussetts,
Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont, comprised the second,
third, and fourth divisions.
New York, Virginia and Vermont
were represented in the fifth division.
Eminent Sir Arthur McArihur, Grand
Captain General of the Grand Command
ery of New York, rode at the bead as
Chief. Eminent John Sisson acted as
chief of staff,|with twenty-four aides from
the commanderies of New York City.
The succeeding divisions were made
up of comma uderies from the Western
aud Southern States. Michigan led in
numbers, the entire Ninth division being
composed of commanderies from that
State. Tennessee and Georgia comman
deries were in the eleventh division with
California and New Jersey, while Ala
bama'and Louisiara marched with lova
and Minnesota in the twelfth. West
Virginia aud North Carolina, with com
manderies from Kansas, Colorado, Mon
tana and Wyoming, constituted the
thirteenth division.
The head of the line reached the re
viewing stand at Blackstone Square at
11:45. At this point the carriages con
veying most Eminent Sir McCurdy,
Grand Master, and the officers of the
grand encampment, dropped out of line
and the occupants joined Gov. Green
halge in the reviewing stand, where for
five hours they viewed the marching
Knights.
Tho day wits intensely hot. Many
women aud children were ovetoome in
the dense throngs and scores of Knights
who bad started on a four anti a half
mile tramp, dropped out of the line. The
ambulances from the police stations and
the Emergency Hospital were busy all
the time.
The most serious accident reported was
Miss Lillian Dudley, sixteen years old,
who was crushed in the crowd at the cor
ner of Hanover and Washington streets.
Her spine was seriously injured.
This evening was given up by the
Knights to general merry-making. There
are banquets and receptions, and at
every headquarters an open house is in
order. The conclave was officially
opened by exercises in Masonic Temple
immediately after the close of the pa
rade. To-morrow the serious business
of the conclave will be in order.
BASEIIALL YESTEItDAV.
At Brooklyn: k. h. e.
Brooklyn, 0 5 0 0 0 7 0 0 *—l2 18 4
St. Louis, 0000000 2 B—s 9 2
Batteries: Gumbert, Cronin and Burrell;
Kissenger, Kliret and Otten. Attendance,
1,000.
At New York: r. h. k.
New York, 0 0 8 2 0 0 2 00— 7 10 1
Louisville, 4 8 0 0 1 0 0 0 0— 8 10 5
Batteries: Meek in and Wilson; Inks and
Warner. Attendance, about 880.
At Boston: R. H. K.
Boston, 0 14 0 0 2 4 2 *—lß 15 1
Pittsburg, 2 1 0 0 0 0 50 0— 8 9 4
Batteries: Stivetts and Gnuzel; Hart and
Merritt. Attendance, 1,000.
At Philadelphia: r. ir. e.
Philadelphia, 230100000 6 7 3
Cleveland, 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 O*— 7 14 2
Batteries: Carseyand Boyle; Cuppy, Knell
and Zimmer. Attendance, 2,7H4.
At Baltimore: r. h. k.
Baltimore. 00 0 2 2 0 1 5 *—lo 17 1
Cincinnati, 00000000 0— 0 5 5
Batteries: McMahon and Robinson; Dwyer
and Vauglin. Attendance, 2,ion.
At Washington (firstgame); r. h. k.
Washington, 100100 1010 0— 413 1
Chicago: 0000011200 1— 5 14 2
Batteries: Anderson and McGuire; Hutch
inson and Kittridge. Attendance, 1,200.
At Washington (second game): H. h. k.
Washington, 0 501000 *— 6 8 1
Chicago, 11 00300 1— 0 10 3
Batteries: Corbett and McGuire; Dolan
and Donahue. Called—rain. Attendance.
1,800
How the Clubs Stand.
clubs. Won. Lost. PrCt.
Baltimore, 63 36 .636
Cleveland, 68 39 .635
Pittsburg, 59 45 .567
Boston, * 56 43 .566
Brooklyn, 57 45 .559
Philadelphia, 56 45 .554
Chicago, 58 47 .548
Cincinnati, 54 46 .540
New York, 52 50 .519
Washington, 32 62 .330
St. Louis, 31 73 .298
Louisville, 24 76 .240
Where they Play To-Day.
Cleveland at Boston.
Louisville at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at New York.
Chicago at Philadephia.
Pittsburg at Baltimore.
St. Lours at Washington.
TIIE KILLING OF QUANTREL.
The Death of Capt. Simon Hersly
Brings the Facts to Light
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 27.—Capt.
Simon Hersly, a man who served with
distinction under Gen. Forrest, died at
the home of his brother, near Roger, this
State, yesterday.
Intimate friends have known for some
time that he knew of the killing of the
noted Confederate, Quantrel, but the
facts did not become generally known
until after his death. He was
sent as a recruiting officer by Gen
eral Forrest into Kentucky, and as
Quantrel was returning from a raid
he stopped in the vicinity of Bardstown
and began depredations. Hersly at the
request of citizens there waited on Quan
trel and asked him to desist, but Quan
trel would not listen to the demand. He
was warned to make no more raids on
the property of Kentucky Confederates
and the two men separated.
It was in the spring of 1865, and
Quantrel became desperate. He made
another raid, and, during an engage
ment was killed. It had been generally
believed that Quantrel was killed by
Federal troops.
TWO MORE RACES FOR GENTRY.
lie Will Pace at Fleetwood Thursday
aid at Louisville September 12.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 27—Secretary
Pprtej pf the .Lpuisville Driving Associa
tion received a telegram from New York
to day stating that all arrangements had
been made for a free-for-all pace to take
place here September 12, between John
K. Gentry, Jo. Patcheu and Robert J.
The puree will be $5,000.
These three famous pacers will also race
a Fleetwood Thursday in a free for-all
pace for a purse of $5,000. The entries
are:
John R. Gentry, 2:03 3-4, b. h., by
Ashland Wilkes—Dame Wood, by
Wedgewood; M. E. McHenry, Freeport,
111.
Joe Patchen, 2:04, blk h. by Patchen
Wilkes Josephine Young; John G. Tay
lor, Chenoa, 111.
Robert J., 2:01 12, b. g. by Ilartford-
Geraldine, by Jay Gould; Village Farm,
East Aurora, N. Y.
Star Pointer, b. h. by Brown Hal-
Swtepstakes, by Knights Snow Hill;
Village Farm, East Aurora, N. Y.
Rubenstein, 2:06 12, b. h. by Baron
Wilkes-Ollitipa, by Aristos: Matt Laird,
Mansfield, Ohio.
Mascot, 2:04, b. g. by Deceive-Miss
Delmore Empire City Stud, Cuba, N. Y.
Directly, 2:07 34, blk h, by Direct-
Mabel, by Naubue; M. Salisbury, Pleas
anton, Cal.
Secretary Carlisle Gets Back.
Washington, D. 0., Aug. 27.—Secre
tary aud Mrs. Carlisle returned here to
day. They left Washington almost a
month ago and spent most of the time in
a tour of the Great Lakes, later making
a short visit at Buffalo. Secretary Car
lisle resumed his official duties this
morning.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
QUAY WINS HIS FIGHT
LAST NIGHT’S CAUCUS SHOWS
THAT HE HAS A MAJORITY
OF DELEGATES.
TWO CONVENTIONS MAY MEET
Unless There is a Compromise Before
Time lor the Delegates to Asenihle--
The Anti-Quay People Have Cap
tured the Place ol Meeting but the
Senator’s Followers are in Good
Spirits Over Their Victory and are
Parading the Streets With Brass
Bands.
Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 27.— The anx
iously-anticipated caucus of the two
factions of the State Republican party
were held to-night aud the results there
of make ik appear certain that Senator
Quay has a majority of the legally elect
ed delegates and has, therefore, won his
fight.
The Quay caucus determined to hold a
separate convention, and unless there is
a compromise before morning, two con
ventions will meet to-morrow.
The day has been one of interest. From
early morning delegates and visitors
poured into the city and to night the
streets and public places are jammed
with adherents of the two fac
tions, shouting at the tops of
their voices the names of their
favorites. The prospect of an
exciting battle has attracted to Harris
burg many of the rougher element from
the larger cities, and trouble is looked
for, although up to mid-night there has
been nothing more serious than an oc
casional fist fight. At this hour the
Quayites are parading, with bands play
ing, and their exuberance is so infectious
that many of the anti-Quay shouters
are joining their ranks. Aside from
the announcement that Quay has a
majority of the delegates, and that there
will probably be two conventions, the
news feature of the day was the capture
of the opera house, where the convention
was to be held, by the anti-Quay people.
A dramatic company was holding forth
at the opera honse, and there was to
have been a matinee this afternoon and
a performance to-night. Chairman Gil
keson is said to have received informa
tion that the Quay people had planned
to fill the honse at the afternoon per
formance with “heelers,” who would
refuse to leave at the end of the
performance, and remain all night,
thus gaining possession of the house. To
circumvent this move, Chairman Gilke
sou bought off the theatrical company,
and, securing the keys from the lessee,
placed in the house about one hundred
ex-policemen, special officers and other
determined men, who arrived from
Pittsburg to day under charge of Super
intendent of Police Roger O'Meara, of
that city. Their meals were sent into
them and they will remain in the house
all night.
To morrow’s convention is to select
candidates for State Treasurer and Su
perior Judgeships.
The political situation here appears to
be just as uncertain as ever. Neither
faction will give out positive figures,
leaders on both sides contentiug them
selves with the statement that their fac
tion is on top. At the anti-Quay head
quarters David Martin and C. L. McGee
possess the appearance of serene confid
ence which has characterized their every
action during the past 24 hours. They say
the fight is over and that Quay is badly
whipped. At the Quay headquarters the
information is of just the opposite char
acter. Ex-Ohairman Cooper, Congress
man Robinson and Senator Quay appear
just as confident as ever that they have
delegates to control the convention.
Both of the State headquarters are open.
Secretary Rex presides over the Quay
rooms at the Lochiel Hotel, and Chair
man Gilkeson is in command of the par
lore of the Commonwealth Hotel.
At both hotels delegates are register
ing, and arrangements are being perfected
for the seating of delegates, newspaper
men and spectators in the opera house,
where th*» convention will be held to
morrow. The present prospect is that
there will be two sets of admission tick
ets and an inevitable clash of authority.
The leaders of both sides profess to
believe that there will not be two con
ventions. The fact remains, however,
that both factions are provided with the
usual printing and blank forms, and are
going through the motions of registering
delegates and instructing them as to the
methods of choosing representatives on
the standing committees.
Both factions held caucuses tonight.
The anti-Quay caucus met in the Su
preme Qourt Chambers at 9:15 o’clock,
and without calling tho roll, held a five
minute meeting and adjourned until 9
o’clock to morrow morning. The Quay
caucus assembled in the Quay head
quarters at 9:35 o’clock and transacted
much business. One hundred aud fifty
three uncontested delegates, eight more
than a rawjorlty, answered to their
names. The Quay people decided to
hold a separate convention tomorrow.
Another Record Broken.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Aug. 27.—At the
meetiDgof Jacksonville wheelmen to-day
A. V. Connerat, of Savannah, Ga.,broke
the Southern track record for one milo,
going the distance in 2:10 1-2. He was
paced by two tandems with flying start.
Tho old record was 2:14 1-2, made fey
George N. Adams of this city, in Ander
son, S. C., on a dirt track.
The bicycle, it is said, is accomplish
ing one result which all the doctors ard
reformers have been unable to secure -
it is abolishing the ct rest.