Wiatha; To-Dayi FAIR ; COLDER.
The News and Observer,
VOL. XLVI. NO. m.
LEADS hi L NORTH CAROLINA MILES 11 MEWS 111 CIRCULATION,
Germany Will Noi BUdge
A REPUDIATION OF THE BERLIN
TREATY MAY FOLLOW.
America and England Cannot Discredit Their
Representatives in Samoa, and a
Deadlock is the Result.
Washington, March 23. —The German
Ambassador, Dr. Von llollelien, called
at the State Department today ro fur
ther confer with the officials concerning
the Samoan situation. The Berlin au
thorities have communicated very freely
on the subject within the last few days,
and its a result of extended dispatches
from the Foreign Offices the Ambassa
dor has presented a long note covering
tin 1 latest phases of the case. It is un
derstood that the German advices con
firm the arrival of Admiral Kautz, and
the convoking by him of a meeting of all
the officials on the 11th instant. But
they do not show what resulted from
the meeting. All their reports are silent
thus far on this point, but the German
view is evidently one of apprehension
lest serious results may grow out of tin
meeting, in which event the German view
is that the responsibilities should ho
borne by those bringing about the meet
ing. Further than this, questions are
arising as to the extent of authority of
the British and American Consuls act
ing together to do anything without the
concurrence of Consul Bose of Germany.
The German view evidently holds that
the Berlin treaty requires the three con
suls to act unanimously, and not through
n majority. Another question is as to
the right naval commander to take any
political action. The Berlin treaty in
their view would limit the rights of naval
commanders within very narrow limits,
leaving them simply to execute what the
three consuls, by unanimous agreement
determine upon. These are the main
points engaging attention, and in view
of the questions involved news of Ad
miral Kautz’ action following the meet
ing on the 11th instant is awaited with
much interest and not a little concern.
Admiral Kautz has sustained fully
the actions of the Chief Justice of Sa
moil, so far as his investigations have
gone. Ever since the first news of die
riot at Apia last January, the Depart-
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LIKE MURDER IN A DREAM
THE HUTCHINSON CHILD-KILLER CON
FESSES HIS CRIME.
He Crushed in the Heads cf his Children and
Then Set Fire to the
Building.
McPherson, Kansas, March 23. —John
Moore, the Hutchinson murderer, today
made a signed statement of his crime.
Moore murdered his five children with a
hatchet and knife, then burned the house
. over their heads. lie and his wife had
! quarrelled, and he claims they were about
to separate. In the statement Moore
says:
”1 had been feeling pretty bad for the
past two or three days. The children
were all in lied asleep. I turned the
lamp down and went to bed. I then
had one of my worst spells, and my head
hurt me awfully, and everything seem
ed floating before me; and the next thing
that 1 remember after that was trying
to get out of the house. 1 have a recol
lection of going through a struggle,like
a dream that 1 half remember. All the
recollection I have about this is that I
would rather see my children dead than
to leave them in the hands of my wife’s
people. It was like • dream to me that
I done something to 'e children, but 1
do not recolleet using tile knife or hatch
et. 1 loved my children, and I lived for
them.”
THE FIGHT AT ILOILO.
Details of the Engagement Now Fur
nished.
Manila, March 23.—5:10 p. m.—Details
of the fighting at Iloilo on March 10th
show that four hundred rebel riflemen
from i ania were met by seven companies
of fin* Eighteenth regiment of United
States infantry aiid a battalion of Ten
nessee volunteers. As supports, these
troops had three two-inch Hotchkiss
guns, under Genera] Miller, north of
.faro, across the river.
The Americans met with a heavy tire.
One man was killed and ijfteen were
wounded of the Eighteenth regiment,
and there were several cases of sun
stroke. General Miller estimates that
fifty rebels wen/ killed and one hundred
wounded.
.SHERMAN SITS ON DECK.
Santiago do Cuba, March 23. —Mr.
Sherman is feeling very much better
this evening, and his physicians regard
his condition as much improved. During
a part of the afternoon In* sat on the
deck of the Paris, viewing Santiago.
The United States cruiser Chicago is ex
pected here by daybreak to-morrow, and
.Mr. Sherman will be immediately trans
ferred to her. The anxiety of his rela
tives on the Paris is now virtually at an
end.
merit of State, the German and the
i ish Government have been separately
pursuing investigations into the matter,
and. it was in pursuance of our branch
of the inquiry that Admiral Kumz was
sent to Apia. It is not understood that
the investigation is complete as far as In
is concerned, but, at the point where he
stands, he has felt obliged to sustain the
conclusions already reached by the
United States Consul. Luther Osborn,
and the Chief Justice himself. It also
appears that these conclusions arc in
exact accord with those reached by tin*
British naval commander. Captain Stur
dy. of the Porpoise, who was present .-it
Apia during flu- outbreak, and of Mr.
Maxse, the British Consul tit Apia, who
was also a participant. Thus there is
tin array of four witnesses combined in
their testimony, while oposed to them is
the German Consul, Dr. Rose.
The German Government as is gather
ed from the Berlin advices, is disposed
to stand firmly in support of its repre
sentative, although it lias been intimated
to it that by his retirement Rose would
facilitate a satisfactory and speedy ad
justment of the complications in Samoa.
It is manifestly impossible for the Unit
ed States to discredit its representative,
the Chief Justice, or for the British Gov
ernment to repudiate Mr. Maxse in view
oi the weight of the testimony in their
favor, so that a practical deadlock lias
been reached, so far as this matter of
changing the representation of three
powers concerned tit Apia is concerned.
These conditions lead to the belief that
there is some danger of the repudiation
of the treaty of Berlin, and in the pres
ent temper of the parties, it would not
be surprising if this happened without
an attempt on their part to replace it',
although it is, of course, believed that
even in that, event some manner ~f
modus viveiwli will be provided to pre
vent another such clash between the con
flicting interests as happened ten years
ago, resulting in the treaty of Berlin.
TO MAINTAIN UNIFORM TARIFFS
R presentntiros of Northwestern Roads
Confer With Liter-State Commission.
Washington. March 23.—The presi
dents. general managers, and other rep
resentatives of about twenty-five rail
road companies comprising about the
entire trunk line service between Chicago
and Lake Michigan and the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers , and beyond, were in
executive conference throughout to-day
with the Inter-State ConinJerce Com
mission. The result was a verbal assur
ance on the part of all the roads repre
sented to maintain uniform tariffs, thor
ough co-operation, and the appointment
of a committee to confer with the com
mission to-morrow looking to the more
definite and specific action for securing
general stability in freight rates. This
committee consists of Pain (Morton, vice
president, Atchison, Topeka and Santo
Fe; H. G. Bnrt, president, Union Paci
fic: .V. C. Bird, general traffic manager.
Chicago. Minneapolis and St. Paul: B. F.
Yoakum, vice-president. Si. Louis and
San Francisco; C. G. Warner, vice
president. Missouri Pacific; and Edward
S. Washburn, president, Kansas City,
Forst Scott and Memphis. The commit
tee will meet with the commission to
morrow morning at 10 o'clock. The
general conference closed after being
in session from 11 this morning till 0 i<>-
niglit. and most of the magnates have
returned home.
PALMETTO STATE TROOPS.
Pur! of Them on the Way Home—llli
nois Troops Break Camp.
Havana, March 23.—A detachment
consisting of 125 privates and 10 offi
cers, belonging to the Second South
Carolina regiment sailed for the United
States yesterday on board the Olivette.
Five companies of the same regiment
sailed to-day on the Yarmouth, and the
remainder of the regiment will leave here
on the Olivette and the Yarmouth on
Saturday and Sunday next.
'Flic Second Illinois regiment is break
ing camp preparatory to leaving Havana.
QUAY WITNESSES SUBPOENAED.
Philadelphia. Pa.. March 23.—1 t was
announced to-dav that the Common
wealth had subpoenaed all the witnesses
in the trial of former Cnited States
Senator Quay and his son Richard 1L
Quay, which begins April 10th. Be
tween 5(» and 00 persons have been sum
moned to testify for the prosecution. It
is said that Assistant District Attorney
Clement personally attended to the sum
moning of two Pittsburg bank cashiers.
The trial is take place be
fore Judge Beitler.
JOHN L. CIIOSEN REFEREE.
San Francisco. Cal., March 23.—John
L. Sullivan has been chosen as referee
for the McCoy and Choynski tight on
Friday night at the Mechanics Pavilion.
The advance sale of seats already (
amounts to $15,000. i
RALEIGH, N. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH H, 1899.
BRYAN SPEAKS
AT BIRMINGHAM
He Refers Picturesquely to
the Jefferson Banquet.
CAN’T STAND BELMONT
WHO SAYS HE SEEKS TO CRE
ATE DISCORD.
BRYAN PAYS NO REGARD TO THIS
He Says When he Receives Belmant’a Book he
Will Point out Some Cifferenees Be
tween his Democracy ind
that of J -fferson.
Birmingham, Ala., March 23.—Win.
Jennings Bryan spent to-day in Birming
ham, and was given an enthusiastic re
ception by all of the citizens. Not only
the citiz. n* of Birmingham alone, bn;
from neighboring cities and towns many
came to luar the great leader talk c i
the current issues of the day.
“What the Lord’s Supper is to the
Christian, so a Jefferson Banquet ; s to
the Democrat. Just as a good Chris
tian would revolt at having the sacra
ment administered by an infidel, so a
good Democrat objects to having a Jef
ferson banquet presided over by Perry
Belmont,” was the epigrammatical man
ner in which Mr. Bryan r ferred to the
much talkcd-of New York banquet
which Mr. Belmont and his followers
are to give in New York next month.
To-night when Mr. Bryan was shown
the dispatch sent out from New York
by the Associated Press to the effect
that S.nator Teller was conspiring with
Mr. Bryan to create discord in the Dem
ocratic party, he said he had nothing to
say; that he would wait until he rt
reived Mr. Belmont’s hook which the
latter says be has sent, after which he
will endeavor to point out at Qngtb
some of the differences tudween Mr.
Belmont and Jefferson, the patron saint
of the party.
This morning Mr. Bryan, was tc4.s
on a special train all Aver the Birming
ham district, ami lie enjoy d greatly
being shown its wonderful industrial
development. A public reception was
given him this afternoon In the Morris
hotel. To-night at the auditorium lit
addressed an audience of over 4,000 peo
pl . He spoke for exactly three hours,
and was given marked attention.
ALGER ON BOARD THE INGALLS.
Makes Quick Connection at Savannah
for Cuba.
Savannah. Gn., March 25.—Secretary
of War Alger and party made quick
connection here this evening for Cuba.
The party arrived over the Southern and
Florida Central and Peninsular roads
in a special car at half past four o’clock
and at half past nine weiv on the way
to Havana on the transport Ingalls.
From the Secretary’s private secretary
it was learned that the party would
leave the ship at Havana and take a
trip across country and that the In
galls would meet them and take* them
on again at Cieiifiiegos. The whole
trip will occupy about three weeks. Those
who accompany the Secretary are:
M. S. Smith, his business partner at
Detroit: A. M. Henry, his brother-in
law and 11. <L Meredith, of Detroit:
Major George 11. Hopkins, his military
■‘title: Colonel W. D. Mann and Victor
L. Mason, his private secretary and
Colonel W. A. Hemphill, of Atlanta.
WILMI NGTt >N UNDERWRITERS.
Association Formed in North Carolina’s
Chief Seaport.
Wilmington, N. March 23.—The
Wilmington Underwriters Association,
with a capital stock of $50,000. was or
ganized in this city to-day. Mr. N. B.
Rankin was elected President; Mr.
Hugh Macßae. Vice President, with di
rectors as follows:
J. S. Worth, Sam Bear, Jr., W. A.
Riaeh, M. J. Heyer, AY. G. Whitehead,
P. L. Bridgers, J. W. Norwood, B. H.
J. .Ahrens and J. V. Granger.
THE TRANSPORT OF THE DEAD.
The Roumanian, Bearing Her Silent
Company, Puts to Sea.
Santiago de Cuba, March 25. —The
United States transport Crook, former
ly the Roumanian, her colors at half
mast, with her mournful cargo of dead
heroes, the remains of those who were
killed or who have died at Santiago and
in Porto Rico, steamed slowly out of
the harbor this afternoon.
EIRE DESTROYS UNIVERSITY.
Birmingham, Ala., March 23.—Monte
zuma University at Bessemer, Ala., was
totally destroyed by fire this morning.
The tire originated from a defective flue
and forty pupils got out of the building '
without injury. The building cost $30,-
oott. There was $5,000 insurance.
MUXKACSY. MAD ARTIST,
DYING.
Berlin, March 23—Michael Munkacsy,
the famous Hungarian painter, who has
been secluded in a hospital for the in- i
sane at Bonn for more than two years, |
is dying. I
ACCEPTED BY THE
CUBAN GENERALS
The $3,000,000 Offered by
Our Government.
ASSEMBLY IN SESSION
A SECRET SESSION IS TO BE
HELD TODAY.
FIRST REGIMENT COMES SATURDAY
Will Sail for Savannah Armed Cubans Free
a Prisoner, But at a Few Slern Words
from General Lee he is
Brought Back.
Havana, March 23.—The executive
Committee of the Cuban Assembly has
appointed General Bartolome Maso,
former President of the Cuban revolu
tionary government, commander-in-chief
of the Cuban forces, in the Orient, or
Eastern Provinces.
The assembly was in session this
afternoon. The motion proposed yester
day by Senor Gualberto Gomez for the
re-organization of the Cuban army was
passed, but under existing conditions
the action of the assembly in this respect
is unimportant.
A dispatch was read from the Veter
ans Association of Santiago asking the
assembly to restore General Maximo Go
mez to the ]K»st of commander-in-chief.
From General Maso a telegram was re
ceived recognizing on his part the su
perior authority of the assembly, ae
j knowledging it as u duty to sustain the
1 assembly, and lamenting the controversy
with General Gomez.
Little has been said of late as to the
proposed trip to Washington of Senores
Villalon. Hovia and Despaigne, the com
mittee appointed by the assembly on
March 14ih to lay before President Mc-
Kinley the resolutions that, day adopted
on the motion of General Sangnilly. to
, the effect that the $3,000,000 offered by
the United States would not be suffi
cient, and that the United States should
help Uuha to obtain more byway of a
loan. Apparently the matter has been
dropped, lmt to-day Senor Rafael Por
tuoudo. chairman of the executive com
mittee,' suggested that the commission
should hand the resolution to the Koere
tary of War. This course was opposed
by General Andrade, who said General
-Vigor would decline to recognize the
assembly officially, and that the com
mission would bo snubbed. Senor Por
tuondo’s motion was left on the table.
General Sangnilly suggested just be
fore adjournment that to-morrow’s ses
sion be secret, and a motion to this
effect was passed, though some of the
members professed ignorance of the rea
son for secrecy.
It is reported that a secret meeting is
in progress this evening at the house of
Senor Pnrragas, where the dissolution
motion, to he argued on Saturday, is
under preliminary consideration.
The Cuban Generals Diaz, Monteagu
do, Robau. Xodarse, Betancourt and
Peraza, who held a secret meeting last
night, after consulting their commands,
with reference to the course to be taken
in the controversy between General Go
mez and the Assembly, reported that
they had decided to accept the $3,000,-
000 for the soldiers, and also to help to
organize a new Cuban army of 10,000
men under the American Administration.
The Cuban muster rolls are not yet in
the hands of General Brooke. They
were last seen by an American officer
in Guanabacoa, when they were in the
possession of General Roloff, the Cuban
Inspector General. From his hands they
probably passed to the military assembly,
and if the assembly still possesses them
the payment can be indefinitely delayed
merely by the withholding of the rolls
from the American authorities.
General Brooke lias issued an order
forbidding the sale or possession of lot
tery and raffle tickets of any description,
under penalty of confiscation and fine.
A sentinel on the Toledo plantation
yesterday ordered an armed Cuban about
entering to halt. The Cuban, ignoring
the order, pushed on. and the corporal of
the guard, who was summoned by the
sentinel, arrested the offender and start
ed to take him through Marianao to
General Lee’s camp. While passing a
house in Marianao, the two Americans
were accosted by eight Cubans, who
came out with rifles leveled, and were
told to release the prisoner. As the Cu
bans had such an obvious advantage,
the prisoner was released, but the
Americans immediately reported the
incident to General Lee, who sent Major
Russell Harrison, the provost marshal,
to General Mayui Rodriguez with in
structions to inform him that, if the
offending Cuban was not surrendered
within three hours General Lee would go
personally with a sufficient force of
American soldiers to take him. General
Rodriguez found the man and gave him
up, and he now lies in the Marianao
jail.
The First North Carolina regiment will
sail for Savannah on Saturday by the
Segura ncti. The First Texas regiment
will probably sail on Sunday by the Kil- i
Patrick, formerly the Michigan, which, J
with the Florida, will proceed to Galves- ■
ton byway of the Dry Tortngns, where
both vessels will he disinfected. The
Fourth Virginia and the Second Illinois
regiments will go next.
Red Retribution r /is
NEGROES PLOT REVENGE AND
MEET SWIFT DEATH.
Schemes to Inaugurate Race War Spur the
Whites to Arms—Seven Negroes
Dead and Others Flying.
Texarkana, Ark., March 23.—A race
war' is on in Little River county, and
during the last forty-eight hours an in
definite number of negroes have met
their death at the hands of an infuriated
white population. Seven are known to
have been lynched, and the work is not
yet done.
The bodies of the victims of the mob’s
vengeance are hanging to the limbs of
trees in various purls of the county,
strung tip wherever overtaken. The
country is in a state of intense excite
ment. While men are collecting in mobs,
heavily armed and determined, negroes
are fleeing for their lives, and the com
munity is in an uproar. The exact num
ber of negroes Who have been summa
rily dealt with or those who may yet
fail into the hands of Iho mob before
order is restored may never be known.
Seven bodies have been found and
I other victims are being hunted and will
meet a similar fate when run to earth.
; The known dead to date are:
GENERAL DUCKETT.
ED WAIN GOODWIN.
ADAM KING.
JOSEPH JONES.
BENJAMIN .TONES.
MOSES JONES.
UNKNOWN MAN.
Jw King and John Johnston were also
taken in hand by mobs and whipped.
They were afterward turned loose and
have disappeared.
j Little River county is in the extreme
' southwest corner of the State, bordered
on the west by the Indian Territory
and on tin* south by Texas. The negro
population is large and has for a long
time proved very troublesome to the
whites. Frequent murders have occur
red, and thefts and tighis have become
common affairs.
! One or two negroes have previously
been severely dealt with when the peo
ple found it necessary to take the law
into their own hands, but it was not
until Tuesday that the trouble took on
THREE NEGROES LYNCHED.
They Had Fired on Whites in the Pub
lic Road.
Jackson, Miss.. March 25. —Three ne
groes were lynched by a mob near Silver
City, in Yazoo county, last Saturday
morning. After being shot to death, the
bodies of the victims were weighted with
bundles of cotton bale ties and thrown
into the Yazoo River. The negroes were:
Minor Wilson, C. C. Reed and Willis
Boyd.
They are ring-leaders of the negroes
in a race encounter on the Midnight
! Plantation early last week. They were
arrested and taken to Yazoo City jail.
The offense with which they were
charged having been committed in
Sharkey county, the Sharkey authorities
were notitied. Late Friday evening
Deputy Constable Sylvester arrived, and
the prisoners were turned over to him.
r l he constable boarded the steamer Res
cue with the negroes Saturday morning
and reached Silver City with them. The
negroes fell into the hands of the mob
near Silver City, were shot to death and
thrown into the river. The feeling
against these negroes had been very
bitter on account of a disturbance at the
Midnight Plantation last week in which
they, with two other comrades, had tired
on two whites on the public road. A
horse belonging to one of the white men
was wounded, but the men were not
harmed.
$1,100,000 TO CHARITIES.
The Will of the Late Edward Austin
\ Admitted to Probate.
Boston, Mass., March 23.—The will of
the late Edward Austin, which be
queaths $1,100,000 to public charities,
was admitted to probate tonlay. All
parties legally concerned in his estate
under his will and otherwise, assented
to the probate, a compromise having
been agreed upon with reference to ob
jection made by some of the heirs at
law.
Among the public bequests are $500,-
000 to Harvard College, the interest, to
be applied to “needy, meritorious stud
ents and teachers to assist them in the
payment of their studies;” to the (Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, S4OO,- |
000; to Radcliffe College, $30,000; to
Roanoke College, $30,000; to Tuskeegee ■
Normal and Industrial school. $30,000.
These Inquests are made under the
same terms as that to Harvard. He also
gives SIO,OOO to the Bacteriology Lab
oratory of Harvard Medical school, and
SIOO,OOO to the New England Trust
Company, the income to be paid to
“needy aged men and women who had
been in better circumstances in early I
life, but who have become in want when
in old age."
OFF TO DESTROY A WRECK.
Washington, March 25.—The Dolphin
has sailed from Washington l'<>r Norfolk,
and thence to sea to destroy a wreck on
Hie Carolina coast which has been a j
danger to navigation.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
a serious aspect. If then developed that
carefully laid plans had been made by
a number of negroes to precipitate a
race war and that many white men had
been marked for victims. It is learned
that twenty-three negroes were imnli
ented in this plot, and the whites are
now bent on meting out summary pun
ishment to the entire coterie of con
spirators. Seven have been killed and
the work of wiping out the entire list
continues without relaxation. All im
plicated in the plot are known, and par
ties of white men varying in numbers
from twenty-five to fifty, are scouring
the country for them. Wherever one
is found he is quickly strung up and his
body perforated with bullets. The work
of dispatching the first two or three was
an easy matter. But the news soon
spread among the negroes, who, instead
of making the resistance and offering the
battle that they had threatened, became
panic-stricken, and began getting out
of the community as quickly as possible,
j Two whose names were on the list of
S conspirators, got a good start and suc
i cccded in reaching the Texas State line
j before being captured. They were
i swung np without ceremony.
The trouble arose over the killing of
' James Stockton by Duckett. Just prior
to the lynching of Duckett the negroes
had planner the inauguration of a race
war. Duckett was the leader, and at
his death the negroes let the matter
out. The citizens became greatly en
raged. Joe King and John Johnston
were taken to the* woods and whipped.
Other negroes made threats, hut noth
ing occurred until yesterday, when the
wholesale lynching began.
In the gang that was plotting for a
race war were twenty-three negroes, and
it is likely the entire number have been
strung up in the thickets. It is known
to a certainty that the seven ring-lead
ers are «k*ad-. The negroes are fleeing
from the district. Today three wagons
full arrived at Texarkana, having cross
ed Red River at Index last midnight.
RENOMINAII (YcKINLEY
AND HOBART WILL BE HIS RUNNING
MATE.
Reed is Not in it. To Day the President De
parts for Tallahassee. Monday he
Returns Washing'on ward.
Thnmnsville, Ga.. March 23.—Presi
dent McKinley spent pretty much the
whole of to-day in the open-air as did
Vice-President Hobart. This out door
life in a mild and dry climate is doing
much to tone up the system of each, and
to-da.v each showed an Improved stilt -
of health. To-day when not at meals
they were constantly in the air. sitting
on the porches or driving. Tin* Presi
dent's programme after breakfast is a
seat in a rocking chair on the porch until
tiub< to dispatch a little business with*
Assistant Secretary Oortelyou. This is
followed by a drive.
The .lekyl Island trip having caused
reports of a conference there and that
Speaker Reed would be nominated for
Vice-President on the ticket with Mr.
McKinley at the next Republican con
vention, it can be stated authoritatively
that polities were tabooed at .lekyl Is
- land. Speaker Reed declined a Viee
j Presidential nomination at the last eon
! vention, no thought of a change of view
1 on his part ever has been suggested,
and the Administration leaders have not
. had him in mind in this connection,
i Moreover the statement can he mad
that the closest and most cordial rela
tions, political and personal, exist be
tween Messrs. McKinley, Hobart and
Hanna and that for some time they have
had ad, finite understanding that if
Mr. McKinley was renominated his run
ning mate would be Garret Hobart. To
morrow the party leaves here for Talla
hassee where they hope to escape all
elaborate functions and have so notified
; Governor Bloxham. Monday probably
wll find tin President started on bis re
turn journey to Washington, the Vice-
President and Senator Hanna remaining
here.
TO CREATE DISCORD IN PARTY.
Belmont's Charge Against Brvan and
Teller.
New York, March 23.—Perry Belmont.
President of the Democratic club, was
shown an interview to-night in wliicn
Senator Teller, of Colorado was quoted
as saying: “The members of the Demo
cratic Club are Republicans masquerad
ing under Democratic colors.”
Mr. Belmont, in reply, issued the fol
lowing statement:
"Senator Teller is the leader of tin*
Silver. Republicans—the allies of Mr.
Bryan, upholding, with him the Chicago
platform, and naturally uniting with
him in his purpose to create discord *and
division in the ranks of the Democratic
party." j ; JllfU