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VOL, I s L MILTON, N. CL JANUA RY 11. IttD, NO 7. Men Crowded Around Tin Clamoring For Water. BRITISH SUFFER WITH Descriptions Showing The GILMORE RESCUED. NEGRO SUFFRAGE A FAILURE. containing | Exciting Tale of His Experiences! electors, containing in their ranks the 'blindest ignorance, the bitterest and Engines Among the Filipinos. Manila, by Cable.--Lieutenant J. C. Gilmore, of the United 'States gunboat The Necessity of the Constitutional A m s ndment. . most unreasoning i thousand of whom prejudice, eighty '■mnut read the j Yorktown, who was captured by the j insurgents last April, near Baler, on ; the east const of Luzon, and rescued a The lapse of thirty years lias brought wonderful changes to North Carolina. I ballots that they cast, voting together i as one man, understanding nothing, 1 caring nothing about the issues in volved, satisfied with the knowledge The old civilization, founded on sire that they are supporting the Republi THICT i ^ ew ^ ays a ® 0 by Gol. Luther L. Hare, liiioil. of the Thirty-third volunteer infantry, ; sat Sunday in the apartment of his Hare very, has long since crumbled into dust. Our pec-ple rising up from the . potsherds and ashes of defeat, have can party. Under these circumstances we are brought face to face with the ever- Fearful Suffering The British .Are Under; ing in the Transvaal. London, by Cable.---"The men were crowding around the engines in line, offering the driver.- fabulous prices for a cup o’’ water," writes the Globe cor- respondete. Gesuribing the close of the battle at Enslain, “but it was useless The drivers had been threatened with court-martial if tihey supplied any, as there was great difficulty in keeping a sufiicient supply for the engines. 1 saw one soldier lying flat on the line under an engine, catching a few drops ed toreriptions of the fighting in South Africa give some faint idea of the con ditions under which, it is being carried on. Belated as these letters are. by the. time they appear in English papers they thre w much-needed light upon sister. Mire Major Price, at the Hotel Orients, in Manila, and told a remark- able story of his eight months captiv ity, ending with his dramatic deliver ance from a death that seemed inevita ble. The steamer Venus came into the harbor Saturday evening from. Vigan, province of South Ilocos, with Lieuten ant Gilmore and 19 other American prisoners, including seven of his sail- res from the Yorktown. Lieutenant Gilmore, after reporting came ashore and hobbled along with the aid of a cane, to the Hotel Oriente, where Am erican ladies and officers were waltz ing through the halls to the strains of "inguinaldo’s March.” Although tanned and ruddy from ex posure, be is weak, and nervous, show ing the results of long hardships. He speaks warmly of Aguinaldo and very bitterly against Gen. Tino, declaring that while in the former’s jurisdiction he was treated splendidly but that af ter he fell into Tino’s hands 'he suffer ed everything. Col Hare and Lieut. Howze, the lat ter of the Thirty-fourth volunteer in- fantry, rescued Gilmore’s party Dee. IS, near the headwaters of the built above the ruins left by the havoc 1 present danger that the negroes will and desolation of dustrial system. Political war, a new question- combine with a minority of the vote and inaugurate again ths white evils which thirty years ago gitated ; public mind and formed the themes of ; ; fierce-and bitter controversy have been' i settled and 4ast aside among the rub- j j bish of a forgotten past. The leaders, ' j too, of that day. cure loved or hated. ! reverenced or despised, have passed j i from the stage of action, forever. I Theirs are no longer names to conjure j with. i But out of the inheritance descending j : from, a by-gone generation to the pros- j i ent day, there yet remains unsettled j AN OLD PROBLEM ' which is still as perilous and perplex-i i ing as it was when the tramp of in-. I vading armies echoed along the high - • ways of North Carolina and elections i were held under the frowning muzzles i NEGRO DOMINATION. In vain Republican politicians and ord newspapers cry that the danger is maginary, hatched up 'by Democrats confession ol faitn, the Demceracic party clings without qualification or compromise. Events in the recent past have emphasized its importance, since only a short time ago the negro be came the dominant element in State politics. We saw them then, drunk with power, swaggering insolently over a large portion of North Carolina, heaping insult and indignity upon the white race. Negro policemen, distended with self- importance, patrolled the streets of eastern towns, making the law whose Every .they wore, a farce and a mock ery. Negro aldermen assembled in session, passed municipal ordinances and levied taxes for the whites. White men charged with petty misdemeanors Trained Men and Volunteers to be. Called Out. 65,000 MOORE TROOPS ARE NEEDED, Air. Balfour Says the American Revo lution is the Only War England has Lost—She Has Suffered Disasters. purposes. They cannot meet or explain the solemn fact that ,’c.o.?, than two thirds of all the white voters of the State have identified memselves with the Democratic party. A minority of the white voters, co- operating with the negroes at the polls car place the' black man in power, y vice since he was enfranchised, ne st no domination lias been not a possi- hrUty, but a reality; and both times it c elled ruin. The same elements that nought it about before are still at and, were trates. ind-cuffed by negro officers and ; •o trial before negro magis- j Negro bums, loafers and ! ie campaign barren! ■er the censored cables. reported The heat Abnlet river, after they had been aban- I of federal cann.cn. The question cd i negro suffrage has lost most of its diffi- i culties, none of its. baneful, blighting ; effects, with the flight of time. The Republican leaders of the Reconstruc- 1 tion period, by enfranchising the negro ! visited upon the South an enduring curse. The fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States is i the blackest chapter in the sombre re- red not conjecture another - appor- abo.it -.gain. We whether a thing : could have happened that has already [happened. Does anybody deny that a (fusion legislature placed Greenville, (Wilmington and Newberne under ne- i gro control and that the white people : V those towns were- iff subjection to I negro officials? Is it disputed that ’the Republicans of the second district things, monopolizing city side-walks, shoved white ladies into the gutter. Where the negro reigned there was no security for property. And as a grand and crowning insult a negro editor published to t he world a vile slander upon, the purity of the Southern wo- ma.n iter ^ whirr* the white man bore it all with a quietude which seemed submission: so that questinning lips asked whether he was indeed the de scendant of the heroes who fought at Moore’s Greek Bridge and Guilford court house. But those who knew him, understood his strange silence. They saw it was the ominous stillness that precedes the dreadful earth-quake. Nor were they mistaken long columns of redshirt with frees grim lik along the by-ways, hamlet, the vengeful death. Later, the Norsemen, winding through town and gleam ish soldiers to drink he exhaust pipe of an r en hoars fighting at Enginin', where they lost 179 ■ coast. aim wounded, a ss proved a serious far- Lieutenant Gilmore made the follow- tor in the care of the wounded. Snr- ; ing statement to a correspondent of the doned by the Filipinos and were ex- i cord of the national Republican party.) _ pecting "loath from the savage tribes ' Tl>at measure is an abiding monuaiW t '"' Pe 11115 around them. When the rescuing par ly reached them they were nearly star ved, but were building rafts, in the hope of getting down the river to the of the rankling hatred which raged in their hearts against the Southern peo ple. By its enactment and ratification, they hoped to place this section for ever under the negro’s heel and make perpetual the rule of the Republican sent the negro White the controversy fusion isis to Congress? Is over the fact filled Eastern Winchester, the lurid glare c of the the Re- geon 1 Hosp it kins, formerly of S‘. Thomas ■ Associated Pre writes from the field bespit The Filipinos abandoned on the night of. December 16. We had ' reached the Abulet river, near its >’ some 60.) ; source that morning, and the Filipinos trough the j rafted us over. We then went down cal ; the stream, along a rough trail, guard ed by a company of Filipinos. •ed 1 ived from the fight at Modder night we chei - tc; with Mausers, was put I suspected something ated front company the base h emphasizes ospital takes 28 hou: the difficulty due tp t in 1 length of Jine of commi The doings of the beseigf by recent letters tie Boers con- jn. and,co.ptin- seiged promise to cave dwellers, ikr xorth Carolina with negro magistrates, icnstables and deputy sheriffs, claim- r.s: and exerr.isiiur ajithoritV over ' white men? Do the Republicans con- itend that they did not nominiate and party in the nation. Viewed in the'; light of its consequences, the outran- ‘ rs to the legislature ? Was Jim Young’s name chiselled in grievous blunder, but also h e in o u: Me on corner-stone of ine, the perpetration of which should L and P. Institute in Raleigh? pile the- graves of its quth tain high with infamy. T were in every cense of the That ■ fitted for the intelligent exei t^g ballot. In their hands it. wa armed moun- fohn Dancy Collector of th m i ri gton ‘i 01 Then who but a fool anything except negro If the people want more the same thin hem elect cord printing office flaring into as by the banks of the Cape Fear g the white man’s answer to those v sought to make him subservient to negro. io constitutional amew London, by Cable.-The War Office has neither contributed any light oh the situation in Natal since Sunday nor allowed the dispatches of corres pondents to get through. Consequently the public; impatience finds vent in a discussion of the conduct of the war. The Morning Post demands that the forces afield, afloat and in preparation shall be increased by 65,000 men. To this end it urges that all the trained men the country possesses, militia and. volunteers shall be called out, assert ing incidentally that although the atti tude of the other powers is correct in the diplomatic sense of the word, an invasion, if attempted, v.mild be sud- den, and that now i bend contingencies. The Daily .Mail ts the time to appre- understands that rhe suppression of another general commanding in short!; announced. Africa wii This may hav relation to General Buller’s hasty sum mons from Davenport. It is reported that he came by special train to Lon don yesterday and held a long consul tation with the headquarters staff. This seems to indicate that his advice meat was designed to make impassible hereafter such •deplorable scenes of blood-shed and violence by taking from the negro the ballot which he has mire used and made a. standing threat to the peace and happiness of the Stie. On the other hand the REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION advocates negro suffrage and the claim of the negro race to share with the whites in governing the State. It. is true that Repubrican speaker.- ere! writers, making war on the amend ment, deny the second proposition, and rich only recently was in. ex Davor, is about to be utilized. The critics range up and dow insactions, ti depart, dm ent ting that t i.er Republican legislature. The ne- ues furnished an overwhelming ma- by of the votes in th-at conscienca- back. Phey had been all their life- ind aufstiom-d : r L me ^T ™‘“ ^Mw. Many of them had but recently came from the “I have orders from Gen you all; but my console shall leave you here.” ‘■.I begged him for twi tect ns from savages, would give him letters ■.Large of us Jd, forbids. adding that 1 cans, who would pay him keep him from all harm. ■11 and refused ! jungles of Afric wh^, wither Ires coalition which was supreme re North Carolina from 1894 to 1898 vo^es while their white 1 ' allies mo- preparation for its duties I solemn responsibilities, these formei , ..•.-, j head-hunters and ex-cannibals, mi ng- :'." w Ld expt j ling with the English tongue the lingo ; tere; a majo ; of the -coast of Guinea, were clothed •' • with all the rights and privileges of ’ ! 1 Wiieth i first by ref intelligently in.g to Biffed intent th. sr res pendents the offices. Thus the fear of ! w no domination, foundet in the nences of the past, com- •icy of white map. to act in . rert upon nil piVtiea] . q.i en though they w ished to. do 1 ifteentb. amendment, rhich considered Co cadre; f dishonor king, and denounced raitore all the sons o become full-tied•,ed ; according to rhe", por'dent at L,ady- j not tor to - inply. ^iun a he left with his company, 4 We had seen some savage: American citizenship. Net bui ite '^e'rerei yeYys, they, allies, the .irelawag? 'and only so carnet-baj ruled North Caroline and other 1-1 negros offensive and p leavepolRic^ TIFLEB THOUGHT. J line who fighting under neo11 'Southern flag, dire, for the land love so Weil. It is a. 1. . ox outdid the prevalent tendency there paiiut around and we prepay xd so "Some people.”-.writes the authority, “having spent much time and patient labor in n: selves, find burrows for thern- ere so imoierably monotonous that they prefer to take the chances above ground. Others pass' whole days, with wives and fam ilies, or in solitary misery where there ; tight them with cobblestones, the aniy i weapons that were available to tie. The. ■ next morning we fol Sowed the trail or. ■ the Filipino soldiers,'-fee!lag that it - was better to stick to ''.hem dhan to b® , murdered by savages; but we Gored not catch up with them. Then I order- i ed the men to build-rafts, in the hop,: i of floating down the ri.’'r. It vre.s. a i forlorn hope,. hut ! knew the river pty into' the ‘sens somewhere. not ligk ough to read for work, (I was so weak myself that I did not •ma ret 1 v showing a head outside from of the men coriM. “On the morning of Dre- nd er 18, SouQ ery, r ttes ■ is a matter of history. : and nuisance odor ef : debauch- t followed, • feculent imir. is t r c - I tion arising from every department if j the State government, poisoned the , If we can imagine a horde of Zi ■ Kaffire and Hottentots holding ir 1 bership in the Briere Parliament making laws' for Ermland. the s r 're one absorbing topic engaging the people’s attention since the war has ; been how to keep the negro . from 1 trooping away from fnagik- tin-roofed houses half an hour before daybreak, caryvipg ethilidren in, tbeir aims, or a w 111,? vv a re -warring re the rafts, the Americans came toward vu yelling. One of my men shouted. They are on us.’ He. was lashing a raft of bam- boos. I howeve derate gray ; an unholy j rebels and I sorth- Caro- 1 rail. neither ea;! the Republican party escap from its record. We know that they believe in : government ■bl acks tshatehing the, rains of government, j whites breause they set up that kind However, white men might differ about : °f- government. No Republican con crete. finance or civil service, they for- ; ven-ton has ever .declared for white ; cot all minor differences in the pres- : -'"'P^mu/ y. No Republican platform that white men atone must rule NoTh ■’ 3 « enoe of a common danger, knowing IU ' i that if they divided among t hemselve-, n 3 the negroes would join the ascendancy st- and another carnival of misrule, con- : ta^te would be paralleled -by that wulch -fusion and strife would ensue. • was witnessed when the Southern Consequently in polite al affairs, the negroes passed at a -single bound from ; ctreara of in depend ent thought an 1 I slave-pea and auction block to seats in 'Impartial in vestige, ire was obstruct d. ; the State legislatures and the halls of ! Time and reflection which should have ' Congress. It was only after millions ; been devoted to other matters of great of public funds had been, squander''?:! by importance , incompetent and corrupt officials that 'the white people of the State, driven ■ in self-defence to almost revolutionary necessity, con. fumed upon the vexations less question. The and cease- war and ing mutilated and entire letter's sup pressed. The admiralty-is, seeking transports and is reported to have char tered the American liner St. Paul. inspected previous to the and three Liverpool steam- h; Jr. Balfour, at Manchester ' Carolina. Would that party dare in- ; sort such a plank in their platform? In the past they have given us a State ' administration, composed of ' black and white officials. Have they i repented of their own acts? Will they ! confess that they did wrong? Wil 1 they the Times, and The St. James Gazette join in the almost unaimous metropol itan and provincial disapproval of the government’s explanations. Great Britain’s losses since the war began arc fast approaching 8,000. A Mar Office compilation of casualties, issued last evening, shows a total of 7,213—1.027 killed, 3.675 wounded and 2.511 missing. These'do not include 140 who have succumbed to disease. nor the casualties ar. Saturday. The Daily Mail says: 'eristic bad manners. ’■smith last “With charat - the Transvaal piefige themselves to nominate elect, no mare negro magistrates, stables, aldermen, legislators and and con- con- authorities have refused co allow Mr. Hollis, the American representative at Pretoria, to care for British interests. This is unprecedented in modern dip lomatic history." of pet birds, and they .-fotoe back sim- ■ Rarly laden when the night gets too ; dim for gunners to go on shooting. | There would be a toticu of humor in all . this, if it were not so deeply pathetic ! in its close association vRh possible i measures, rescued the. State from the anew tea: 1 1 was not , ; - ou j mantis which had' seized it. For ulm yell of savages, bru there yell c- f ' thirty years North Carolina, lias 'borne ■T mei:caJ ? s - rescuing troops with the negro, giving him ample op- thoug.it we had Mlipino guards, ann nortun i v to prove his fitness far Die called to us in English to lie dowU That was the finest body re men ■1 hat was the finest body of men *’ 80 : ballotteud the result of this experience and : has proved beyond all doubt anti tragedies. er knows where c art Gilmore couki not teea NEGRO SUFFRAGE In politics he stand-! A FAILURE. highest class of statesmanship, have, ro some extent, been checked in there The line is squarelj drawn between : the Demoura,tie party opposing negro suffrage and favoring a State govern- . progress. Remembering strong and growing evil? domination and of its fath suffrage the last legislature to roll awry those black, !•.. ttering clouds, --hich for tK'n have lowered meanaci! the of mon i men; administered exclusively S. A. L.’s Liberal Offer. industrial Department of the S announces that they have the W hite men, and the Republican 11 - ' [favoring negro suffrage and opposing a j following breeds of fullblooded roos- Aertoo-r 1 Stite S^^®™* administered ex relusively by white men. 'this contest can hardly i g mei - fpj ie Democratic party at what ficin a stray shot or splinter will fall and it is pi0i£ul'®omeuraes to hear cries fix’ "dolly" from a prattling mite who may herself be fatherless or motoerle.fi" tomorrow. We think as litHe as possible of such tilings, put ting then; from us with the light, com ment that they happen daisy elsewhere than in beksiged towns, making the best we can of a melancholy situa- Plastically enough about The 140 Picked men who had rescued him and in 1868. He has learned nothing, for gotten nothing. He taoA.” his party, in making • he eom: nuu! spun, the day Lieutenant Gilmore too Hare thought weak to lire ; through the trip, but there was no a'- i ternative. They shot many rapids, the ' mien losing all their effect's and Liem. i Gilmore some valuable papers. Only 1 14 out of the 37 raf ts survived toe first I night s experiences, and 80 men were Mineral 0 rtpuCFor 8 W . , Tel^rapbk- Briefs. New SpeeM.--The United ' fStaw Hngseiering and Mining Jour-'* 1 croons, ta sent the nal. to to annua” statistical number, 1 Gorman government a letter of than,'a seys that the preliminary statemete of miners’ production in the Unite! ,, . . fireafes to 1899, shows that too total ; Qe mission in j for the efficient protection which the German coionia aurhoidtie-: afforded 99. prod uetaon of metasls ■ in United [ Light Brahmas, Black Lang- tens: The result of i be doubtful. , will find as- ; Isistantie from many white Republicans 11 81 "'who vote their ticket from principle ; and who are sick and tired of the alii- ' nice of their party with the - negro. j They may also confidently expect help ! thunder shans. and Monorcas where he stood : th? horizon of State politic 'muting the constitutional amendment incapable of . ’ either learning or forgetting. In solid ■ phalanx, at every election, without ,re- ■ gat'd, to prill ci p les, j platforms or car.- i didates the negroes march up to Are - polls and vote the straight Republi can ticket. Simply, and solely because it is the Republican ticket and negroes ! have always voted it. They cannot be moved by any arguments addressed to ; reason. ' They have no convictions upon any political cubject. The Demo cratic and Repuihlioan parties might 'exchange positions on the rhmppine question and the neg-roes would unite against Imperialism. They might ex change positions on the financial ques- tion and the negroes would ardently advocate f ree-s hl ve represent the most ignorant. at once They vi cions the Democrats were actuated by PATRIOTISM. If they had listened to the voice o expediency they would not have en such measure while their party was reasonably sure of act me nt. without that enact- .•orruption and mis- from many Populists who feel that their party has nothing to lose by the disfranchisement of the negro. In any ivent the Democrats could win by their jwn strength; for they fight in a just They fearlessly face the saying to the white voters fu- of government of the Republican party in । the days of reconstruct.)on drove them ■ from the seat of government and kept North Carolina: "Choose ye this d. whom ye will serve.” . T. M. HUFFHAM. their in the minorty for nearly twenty j The Democrats could certainly have i relied upon fusion scandals and mis- ' conduct in office to give the Demo- ■ wavy undisputed control of the State and degraded element of our poputa : - or another a-nd perhaps longer period The .French governmen t is cousider- ..ng the advisability of discontinuing the use of the guillotine and con-, templates the adoption in its stead j American. The head of the they uropose to loan to those, who are located on the line of the S. A. L. sys tem, for the purpose of improving their breed of chickens. These roosters will be loaned to parties for a term of nim - ty days, which time.will be ample to get toe breed of name. It is important, in order to get a good pure breed of chickens to let the roosters above men tioned exclusively run in a pen with not more then fifteen hens. Those de siring the service of any one of the above named roosters should apply to .I. .'Strang, Xs^stant Ghief In’d Agent, Portsmouth. Va. Applications will be record•' and served as they come in turn. Pulitzer’s House Burned. New York, Speck:! —The handsome' residence of Joseph Pulliizer, publisher of The New fork World, at 10-12 East Fifty-fifth street, was .destroyed by fire Tuesday and two women servants were suffocated or burned to dec th. The total, loss is estimated at about $300,000. The insurance is $250,000. The victims of the fire were Mrs. Morgan Jellett, the housekeeper, and Miss Elizabeth Mont gomery. a governess. criminal is inclosed in a helmet some what similar to that used by a diver. When the executioner turns on the current two needles leap from their ( sockets, penetrate fire temples, and svaiC the opponents of the Demo- 1 enter the brain. A powerful all,ernat- sratic party regard with terror and ! jug current ruptures and destroys dismay, however much they may affect ' to laugh at it But the legislature de- terntfed that the people should be no more exo'osed to the danger of telling under the control of the negro and his allies, am: accordingly passed the con- stitutioniv amendment which if aclop- tion. But for the i eg -o.es. the jails would be well-nigh emptied. If It were not for negro eriminaJs we should not have a. penitentiarey deficit to de plete the treasury and burden the .peo ple w4th. taxation. Thair .political a filiations are governed by that irre- co-nejlaoie antagonism which ex ststo' world over wherever two radically aif- . The negro question, is a strong and A movement is on foot in Belgium to : Irr fore ye^ was valued at the j ask President: McKinley pluee of »n>r!ui-f.i«a at H^SMU. as I between Kn r'and and U compared vdh $;:14.£65,62‘G 01 1898. ttnansweraible argument for keeping States k to mediate Transvaal. white men arrayed in one party and under one flag. It is a unifying force Wants $!0d t 000. I'hicago. Special.--Miss Etta Thomas niece of Generaf Jpo Wheeler, has be an suit in toe superior courr against , Rlau-s for the Aemrre.ni church i Berlin, which Mi. Lufurge, of N I York, drew up after sevreal modifies- ' tions, do not find aiprc-al upon th ■ the brain cells so quickly that it is be lieved that death will be instantane- ferer! re brought contact Fahrney. d promiA&nt West ; a f f > r- ^ Germ o tenure Gy bnildix;) architect will have to ages for marry. ft is .y man, asking $100,000 dam-' change the plans accordingly dlegod brew'h of pron^se to J Admiral Dewey bar accepted an in- : vvtation to visits. Louis ready in May, -gre Iliac yahrker. who ifi Ife wU1 ^ =‘'™»"»«i«l by lire, new with each other. The r-e-giocs enforce among themselves fidelity to the Re publican party (which they consider the negro’s party) by every v-peobis of boycott, ostracism and intteildalton. The negro who dares to Vote ^de pendent otf his fellows, te^omes l.n- ouf. This seem; Method of exeenth clumsy I'Hi'-ncious. manufactor; .. large patent medicine and. reputed to oe wecr- s^asrtiy an outcast, a mark crueleist persecution by his the thy. has been engaged to Miss Thomas for over five years but that recemtly he broke off too engageraonk on too A plebiscite of tee rrurere of Mexico regarding candidates fa. the pre^den- cy was held Sunday at toe suggG&tton of the Liberal party's national coinmit- tee and resulted in a general'endorse- ground that Ha Cilmis dosuwl Mw Wf-ment „( the 1)rasw Pn»l«i«.n Wszl marry another woman. * • Wives are urged to abandon their Iius- bsawde who vote tire- r?emw.r.itte ti-cSces. Parents to dci- i r.^.r -sons from home. In some instance Derao- cuatie cegroas have been. Ai-vaulted asM baate.il so death. Go we are re in thia State a Uasidml •®d Ureas?' Lewis'! ted. will practically eliminate the negro veto. The Democratic party believed that the quest,yon of negro suffrage should not be kept alive for partisan advantage ba’ settled for the public good. THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION upon the race issue is conoisely em bodied in the proposition that North Oarotoa is a wbrte manu Stale and DMaat be governe'd by -white men. To Wife? to iM®w *8 Sire Br^ artiate to #reir A novel poster was seen by a recent sojourner in Nt Scotia. It printed on rough paper with red paint, in a childish hand, and was tacked to a telegraph pole, re a conspicuous posi tion. “There will be a concert and fair in Mrs. Parson’s sitting room to day. July twenty, at two o'clock sharp. Admission—Adults, five cents; chil dren, two cents; babies, two for a cent.” 20,000 Witnesses. f Frankfort, Ky.. Special.— The ses sions of both houses of the legislature were uneventful. Former Governor Bradley, chief. Tayior, denied stories that troops- had brer, .brought here in citizen s clothes and -hat Republicans had arranged to import here large bodies of men from over the State to intimidate the^legis- labure. 20,000 He said: "We will witnesses. whose summon is to be taken for use before the State contest board, and many of them, I suppose, will, came, but there will be no effort at intimidation. I take no stock in the talk »&pu! ^oottehed.”