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JiOJlINEE. AND PLATFORM: i IV now Tlli CJT1. i (few Received With hfr ail Ollirr Deutuasf rations at Balletla Hoard What Different Men Think of tnei.tlon'e Work. At o'clock yesterday, when of Bryan's nomination was received here. South street, near Washington.

was almoa to. stree. i travel. The 'crowds before the bulletin board at th Western L'nlon and Postal companies o1c made 'a compact thine. operator Foley, of the Postal, read the news af DrjAn's nomination, in a loud voice, and was answered by a roan of approving cheers.

The announcement was followed 7y a cheer, and this cheer was re echoed by the crowd In front of the other bul lcfcs. In a Pennsylvania street throng The newt wa received with a cheer fre a few persons. A' Kepublican proo' the cheers for HcKinley. and these were BiTen with vieor. la front of The News office the throng was expectlntr Bryan'a nomination.

There wax a shout from a portion of the crowd, while the remainder appeared to be deeply Interested without saying so. Among rhe conservative Democrats there wm a feeling that "Bryan was the best of the silver crowd," but tbey said they did. not like the crowd. Otto N. Frenael said, for instance, that he "did not see hoTv a "Democrat could vote for a Popu list BVXl'M AVILI.

SOT lie IJerllaea To Dlw the Aetlon of tae.Coaveatloa. W. D. Bynum returned from. Chicago list night.

This morning he was asked for his opinion respecting the platform and the aadl late. He asked to be excused from dlocussing either. He returned home before the Eastern men had left Chicago, and dos not know their opinions or the ulsuosIUon of any of them as to either or renouncing the action of the convention He maintained silence respecting the possible action of the sound money mm of this section; and declined to discuss the question with reference to pccxjble future action by that element. lie said that he wa exhinisted after his wetk of hard worst at Chicago. He vas In tonsTilfatlon with several men.

jromlnfrnt in the gold movement, but wnat was discussed could not be ascertained. WHAT GOV. MATT1IKW SAYS. Iadoraea the omlnii len It 111 lie Heeehed WilU Kntbaslasiu. OoverrTor Matthew was quick, to send a of congratulation on hearing of ilr.

lirjan's nomination. lie ana smoking 'a. i 'ly when the of JJran's nom I came. Ween' asked wh it he the ui; at of the work of the convention, Mr. Alatttews sa.d: 1 boiieve the nomination a goo I ore.

Mr, Jlo is a man thoroughly In sympathy the platform rd tne sen t.nifrit cf the convention. He represents trie 'Ttouidit of the West. I anticipate the ronii aTTin la one which Will arouse great OPIMUNS OF CITIZF.XS. The Wholesale IX fctr let Opposed To I tb I'Ja tforsu hat Hen ny. sentlmnt In the iiisirW liiJUnapoV.s almcst exception aid regaxJless of political op I th piatformTadopted at Chicago, All lwjk upon it aa a menace to th busl jr.r'i Zitit rests of the ijountryan.l us filling" ith future with appirhensloa and.

dread. rMany while expressing them 1 selves fnely. in condemnation of the plat firm, exprepsiy stipulate that they shall! iot be named In print. As one Demctrrans BicrJLiat i to all kinds and conditions of and thfese free silver people are so vindictive that they would not ecrui 'e to injura'our business sbouUL we openly take a stand against them. 1 have with many of them in past three' nre intolerant lot I ftcwr met." amors the who were not sverse to "haviha their senitmt'nts printed.

The News glvts the following: W. Murphjr tDomocrat) We have Ct to think over the political situation withgreat care. This is a very, serious rnalYir. DouU Weisserrberger (IterHib'an) The 1 sentiment on street' oVer in favor of honest money. Tlii sentiment Is eiecllly strong ti( traveiinp men of the street; j.

Henry Sevrlu It was a ccnwiuian of J'opulist aad art In Austria about thlrtr years had a pertol inflation and of d.sturbeVl value sfth as this Chfcairo proposes to bring about in this country. Austria suffered long jrenrs for er folly: I.lkjs"Aitstrla we are a trading fatjon and have an Jiocest cur icf cy w'th which. to do business with the oJtor natjCh cf th's earth. Alrredit Kinp Hepubllcan Next fall we wlil down iei ticket nominated at Chl Tai that's alh Jicijuelin HiiiH.lnv (Democrat) My ither. J.

Hollid'ay. is in St. Louis. Ion want to know wtfc he thinks of Jt? He his frPiuently sail that he was aitf fie liver, an.l that he would no: 1' vet for a free silver I. S.

"lor.lon. ex presl lerrt Board of Trde (Republican) Hoy oratory will. hot th ji'atrform adopted at Chicago. As the gis oa th free silver cs.ue will grow weak. The i lotric of common pern will knock out the maker of smooth nded pt riiHls.

This will be a eaa i on, thTne'rtt8 of honest money, g.n 1 will be elected, i T' ona Iliert. superintendent of po lice 0 v.mccrat) I tlon't want to be held re nil for tt.ut tr.er.dir of mine have I will Oo in politics. I th t. 'ti tlrr. lis ajid time.

fTerrvTr Mathews I am an "In porter and It almost that 1 can tv sst ro ouch a platform or such a as the Democratic convention has Mni do any Importing tl i.le with b'sln'a bad on this plat Kore! srne from whom buy 're old for helr goods, and we can' rev iher bills with deprec.a led silver. If m't buy" at reasonable futures can't If we can't sell we can not emelsv clerks. The mtsehle. sifts down hr'c I'srh the whole mercantile business. No, noj we' can't support such a platform.

nankera Views. 3. T. Maldtt. RepuNloan We will now hive a clean cut Issue.

I have faith In th In favrr of honest money. eoeomertial A than hasvtr experienced would foUavy the triumph 3f (he free silver cause. Ik. tTf Kiivfr cAiisf a ir! triumph would be a complete monetary revt tion 'The declared policy of this ever sine It has reined ts'tfen to" roamta in the equality of Its Mi faith tn the honesty and goot urpo of the people Is io strong that I da rU lieve the nominations made at CV rao.and the adopted there ran Mcdlcrd B. "Wilson (Democrat) I cr tatjUy cun not indorse the platform, as I a.r fcts the gold standard.

Myf Idea that thoe who are not in sympathy with the platform man at Chicago should at. from vorlng the ticket ma Je 'V Thit course preferable to pominatln; a I gold standards candidate and disrup'int the party. Jjohri P. Frenzel (Democrat) The rlat Xo. n) aud the candidates doveta' perfect candidate and platform to an honest con science Is pasjt my uncerstanawg.

AVllae st Saya It la Piracy. Ti Is cothLclc more or less than piracy spaa the Dmocratlo party," sail Joha R. IV. is lenxcTatie in tae sens or i co to the principles ahleh have tk. tie oiiemrti frc the or its org snlxation.

Jut this la tb att ral rroXtr of party management on tel. It 1 Vt' fi'an 'with false gVand 1 wma r2z. tin Ie schism. How a Iti cnit can reconcile the support of Wilson speaking of the pitirni. I alJe of the street, and the crowd b'01 promulgated dootrlnea which, If they and radk alism of the conven t.

inn company's i hr.u. i rrvaii niui.i i.rin? wift anJ cer iitr.n Onp thini. however, ia gratifying. tha reae.n that I arn Democrat I will not vote for may member of nor for any elector, who stands on the frse sllyer platform. IThey hive ruminated a svart fcly Know a rominent Democrat unles he I an out and out fre s'lver mart, who does But dtut ray opinion.

The hoajr, the patriotism of the country by that platform. If an immigration wouij attempt to carry out the priactM. enunciated In this Chicago platform It would iearad th na. tlon and destroy Its credit. uu the other hand I can vote for MeKinley." ot a Democratic ('pavrntlan." "It was not a i Democratic "convention, aid Samuel O.

Pickens, Democrat, "It was a convention of Populjjjts and an archast. In Its! mad power It brutall? ly trampled un1 foot the lmmemorU! I usages of the Utmocratlc partj' which had oe er befor bt en violated, and boldly overthrew political ricip; which have been the foundation stones of the party tn. It (iraniMrlnn an In th.lr stead eociai oraer. iny ran oown me nag ui the Democracy and ran. up the black of AltgeJJUrru I "The platform is Just what we might expect from thu revolutionary body of Populists, communists, anarchists and fake financiers led by the Bryan.

TiU mans and Altgelds. In order to divert attention, from its violation of a primary' tenet of Dt mocrary In striking down the right'of the State of Michigan to have Its lawfully choeen repreHentatives sit In the convention it hypocritically In Its platform recites the devotion of the party to the maintenance of the rights of the States. It recites the devotion of the Democratic party to the preservation of personal rights aid observance of constitutional limitations, and then declares Itself In favor of such legislation as will prevent freedom 'of private contract a to payment of debts. It demands that the Government shall place Its flat of one dollar pn fifty ceats' worth of silver and compel Its acceptance by the people, and then denounces the Government for upholding the law and protecting the people and their property, from the, reign of the mob. Is It to be wondered at th.it this convention repudiated the only Democrat who has been elected President and seated since the aar? Free silver at 16 to bad as It Is, In my Judgment, is not the worst thing this convention declared for.

The 16 to 1 li.nacy goes only to the question of honest finance. Hut th Altgellian denunciation of the Federal authorities and the courts for the preservation of the pub lic peace and the. protection or the llv the property cf the people when the and municipal authorities of a great State and city had permitted a reign of terror to exist, goes to.the very life of the: republic I can not believe that the great property owning, order loving, law abiding farming population upon which the free silverites are counting for support are ready to to41ow a party which plants itself on so vicious a declaration as this. "The convention, true to Its character, nominated a. for Its candidate.

Mr. Bryan Is thirty six years old. He has had no experience in finance, in bus! ness or in public affairs which would qualify him for the great and responsible office of President. He is merely the "boy orator of th Pkit? "It was perfectly apparent to an observer at the convention that Governor Mauhews I could nver btcrmr a tvorlTe before that body: He Is too good." a man. He has some old fajihioned nations ot Democnt.c pria.

iple and of law and order which renierel him cbnoxiou to the crowd which had control at Chlcigo. Now. the alternatives are McKinleyism or Altgeli ism. Between there. In my judgment, a Democrat can have no choice.

How Maror Tsteart Vleira It. Mayer Taguart. discussing the convention, said: "The convention, made up as a whole, including delegates and audience, was ent.husiastlc.aad easily swayed In any direction by a popular speaker. Hill was received with gTeat applause, and waa called for many times. lo the time Lryan stepped upo the platform.

Hill waa the lion of the hour. But when Bryan be talking; his delivery was In short feentences and paragraphs, wltha cracker at the end of every line, which lifted the people frena their seats. He bad ji ovation from the time he started until he ha.1 finished. Fmm his si.ie r.f th, questicn. Bryan'a speech was by far the abltst mi.lt, and it was predicted by manv the press men around me that it would nominate him." "As to the platform?" "The platform on the currency question la almoHt identical, with that passed by the Indiana State convention, and I believe that 9 peri cent, of the Indiana Democracy will stand by the majority plank of the State eonvention which waa reiterated at "Do you mean that for Instance the eouKd money en7 wUr suppt" Hte free silver Dlatform" business men of Meridian street, who are pla A great many of them will not.

but what Is lost will be made up by recruit from the Republican party. In other words, wherever there Is a gold Democrat who will not support the Chicago platform there Is a silver Republican who will." "Have you heariKmany Democrats say they will not vote the "I have heard a great many say they were not In favor ef that platform, but very few who have, aaid they will not vote it." "Are you In favor ot another convention to nominate a cold Democrat? "I have heard ta.lk.of snch A convention, but I do not believe that it will be called. .1 am very opposed to such a movement as tnat." Indorsed II Albert Sabot. Albert Sahni (who has been quoted as r.ntl) says: "I heartily lnorse both platform and candidal and will be for the ticket first, last and all the time, and will surely vote the ticket If live until elec lien day." Harrison Haa XothlntcTo Say. "No.

no; I baye nothing to say," said General Harrlaon when asked for his Opinion of the Chicago con ver tlon. Other Fvpr aalona. Pierre" Gray I do not look favorably upon any movement for the nomination Of another national Democratic ticket, I am a Democrat, I could accept the candidate, but can not approve the platform, Kmll Rassmann (Democrat) 'In the worda of James Whltcomb Riley, TNothln' at all. to say." My choice on that platform would have been Pennoyer and Tillman. Charles L.

Holsteln (Republican) it Is ine wiuest piece oi pouticai crazy ever known. I believe that the whole tMtig will! fall to pieces In six weeks. John Foley (Ik mocrat, original Matthews boqmer) Mr, Bryan stands for the Sentiment; of the convention, am glad to see him nominated, but, of course, preferred MatthewsL Mr. Bryan has back Of him a principle much stronger than many people think for. What was the matter with Matthews's boom? Well, I hardly know, except that it did not grow Mr.

Matthews's cnances were ruined by I tne atiuuuc ot ine ruiii men, who lauei to support him. There was a crowd from Indiana present, and their presence was felt. to far as I know, none of them worked against him, but they might, as well have done so. Warwick Ripley (Republican, for silver, but not at 16 to 1 I see in the nomination much that appears in the nomination of Mr. Lincoln.

Mr. Lincoln was nominated on a principle which was not encouraged by the politicians of th party. It la the name with Mr. Bryan. Mr.

Lincoln had the people behind him. and so has Bryan. I do aot believe Bryan be elevned. howvr Martin J. Murphy Deputy City Comp troller (Demix rau Well, 1 won vote tor 4 iU'Kinlrv.

anvhow. Taylor W. tIunrton.Vbar keeptT (Repub Kcanl I've leen. trying, to see how free Silver and inflation will help me, I receive fit a week wcs Suppos we have free i wr, ill pa.N nasins power of the silver oiollar on a gold would be omy 5t FTed P. P.ush (P.epublican) The platform la Pppulistie.

The nominee for Pre l.lent is a Pormllsl; Both will surjely go down in Nove itir. L. M. Marmoa, Republican, of th Nor dyke as ilarmoa Company Djcus.ag i cents, woum i get zx: a fijr tending bar? Not My wages would rise to abcu: t) and I shoid reallv tse trett.nir on a golc basis onlv $10. This woold make Ia a week in gold, LdgarA.

Perkins (Detuot rat) Pres! lent 'ration of Vborl The Vtform thf a v.Vat suit me in ev'r w. The tick.t be satisfactory to the la fc Int rest. riatasr; THE IXDIANArOLIS ISTaTVS, SATURDAY, JULY 11. 1590. r.

can II 1 an platform is entirety out of mv lln of business. We dun how the Democratic polUy would, affect us, bjt we area little afra.d of it. What ever hnr.s business generally hurts I. Parrv. the fan' Manufacture lng Company (Republican 1 think the lemocra't have had convention (That was a Populist affair at Chicago, and I would not surprised yet If the lH mocrats got together and he 1 1 a von yention; If not.

hr wW eerily lea ve ZTtat 'box i It Is Very unsound on its money and tariff i planks. Atlornev General Ketcha'm (Republican) The platform if successrui ana live i uu to mean ruin and suffering to this coun try. Smiley X. Chamber Kepubli un The raiiKo of silver has never received eo severe a blow as It received at this Ch' casro convention. Th character of this convention, the steeche? mil and the spirit manifest! have ca.st an odium upon the Aa a ot' the liberal and extensive i rtaor.lv rTit itar.Jnt well lefxn Issue.

Our It publican friend made mistake after and" before their convention In attempting to subordinate the financial to the tariff issue. It will now be seen th.it th' can not be done, and all possible efforts should be male to educate the people upon this important ques.ion. Doubtless many Democrats will vote the Bryan ticket, and doubtless' mny more wouli do so If the Republicans had not made It so difficult in their platform and their nomination by so pronouncedly emphasizing the tariff. Issue. Suburban Views.

The suburban Democracy on the whole Is pleased with the nomination. There are a few Democrat who at present will not awaliow the rlatform. and the Pro pose to do a lot of thinking before making up minds whether they will support the Ucket. William J. iihlnn (Democratic leader.

West Indianapolis) The man's all right, and every Democrat is for Jilm. He brainy, a gTeal orator and Is with and of the masses. He Is young but no age is set when a man shall become smart, dome of the Democrats here are not satisfied with the platform, but they can not fail to come round all right before the election day. 1 have already talked to Republicans and Prohibitionists, who say Bryau is their man. W.

J. McGrew (West Indianapolis, secretary of the Democratic committee) Hryan gives general satisfaction to the lemoerats, who seem to prefer him to any of the other candidates in nomination. The fac; that he la a young man appeals strorrrjly to many of us'. The party workers nowadays are young men. and they are tired of rkl fellows, who alwayt lead and get all the fat offices.

I am one of the Democrats who do not like the plat lorm. an 1 I do not know what I'll do In November. Patrick Ready (West Indianapolis. Democrat) I tnet twenty Democrats on my wuy home to supper last night who said they woId not vote for Bryan. D.

M. Moroney tOemocrat). Haughvlile The candidate si lts us ail right an I catches the HaughvlDe silver dm. We are lor him and the platform I have been talking to one ot the leading gold men of our town. He was pleased over the nomination of Bryan, and sakl fee would vote for him.

I believe that ti.e cthrr gold sympathisers here' will do l'ke wiiQ. I W. P. Canneld (Haughville, Democrat, or Sound inclinations! ine man and theplatlcrm are satisfactory. All the Democrats of Haughville wui vote tor tne ticket, and a good many Republicans will i ote for It, too.

J. C. McCain Republican), i Councilxan, West Indianapolis We're satisfied and smiling. W. L.

Hosa (Republican). Treasurer, West Indianapolis Suits us all right. Dead I T. E. Stafford.

(Republican), Haughville Lots of Democrat here will pot vote Bryan. They tnink that a man who is not. gcoi enough for their great leaders is not geed enough for them. The Number of Satisfied. pissatisfled gold Democrats went over the list of Democrats In bus neas In ile street and Washington ttreer to day.

and tfok exceptions to Mayor statement that 99 per cent, of the party satisfied. One of them submitted a lit, stowing that tha one original silver Dem crat reported In these two streets (Albert Call), one more had been addei eiss a fooutn saioon South 1 keeper, gome of the gold Democrats were outspoken In their opposition, i Utr.ers hsla ut their hands and fled at the approach of the Interviewer. ril TO THK Dr. T. X.

Ilryan, of This' City, and Mrs. J. R. Fisher, of HaaR vllle. After Bryan had been nominated yesterday afternoon Dr.

T. N. i Bry an was asked as to his relation to the nomine. "I am of the same stock." he Replied, "and h' father. Judge Silas L.

Bryan, of Salem. for twelve years, and knew him well. I think he represented bis district In Congress for one or more and he was Judge far a number of years. He has; a license to preach, I though he did not. use It.

He was a good orator, and a man of fine address and of uprightness ot character. The son. who has received such' distinguished honor, was a mere lad when I left Salem. The nominee for President has an own cousin in Haughville a Mrs. Fisher, wife of a railroad man.

She hunted me up some months 'fego to make inquiries aa to our relationship to the young Nebraskan lawyer and orator." Mrs. Fisher Is the wife of J. R. F(sher, of Springfield street, Indlanola, a fireman on a passenger engine of the P. E.

division of the Big Four. She Is the daughter of Andrew K. Bryan, of Salem. I1L, a brpther of Jennings Bryan's father. She Is six years younger than the candidate for President, and has a strong facial resemblance to him.

She says that he Is one of five children, one of whom Is dead. He was brought up Ion a four hundred acre farm, and. became big and stronr with the work he had to do. He was an exceedingly bright boy and fond of study. His father assisted him In his studies to his great advantage.

He derived his father a love) for politics and for speaking. Mrs. Fisher met her cousin at Salem last year wheh his mother was very sick. She asked him one day whsn he would be a candidate for President: "Well, not next time, anyway," he answered. 'Mr.

Bryan's mother did not live to see him nominated for. President. "I am sure that all his relatives were as much surprised as I was to hear of his nomination. We dldahot know ha waa a candidate." said Mrs. Fisher.

A Matthews lliosrapbr. A "campaign" life of Governor Matthews on which a well known citlsen of this city has expended three months of labor is locked in a vault of one of, the leading publishing bouses. Cycle Races Tbartday Cveninjf. The Indianapolis Cycle Track Association wfli give "night races next Thursday evening at the Bread Ripple track. Entries have been received several well known local riders.

Including Tom Dnvtd. A. M. Cnlg. Ollle Bar noolow, A I Weijrand.

Jocob Steinmeta. Harry Deputy, Marshal i Levey. I II The Merchants' Specialty Company, of Mun cie. was incorporated lo day with a capital stock of Jt. Paper cu tiers and merchants supplies are to be manufactured.

The tar City Cycle Club, cf Lafayette, has been incorporated. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL Judge Baker, of the Federal Curt, has gne to itihen for the rummer. MissNelle C. Filbeok. of Terre' Haul, is vla Ittna; the family of Mr.

JT. J. ut North Fenylvariia atreet, I Mrs. H. A.

Simmans and da'ugrrter. Nathalie, of Detroit, ari visiting Mrs. N. J. Re id in Cherry street.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl von Hake and daughters Alberta and Norma, have sorte. to ii.khart Lake, tj spend the summer. and Mrs, Lon B.

Chapman, of Capitol avenue, north, have returned from NobUsvllle, where they have been visiting Miu Virginia Storrs, of Evansvtlle. I Mis Nellie Kreider. of Omaha, are the arues Miss Suzanne M. Clarke, of North Xetr Jersey street. I Mm.

T. C. liay. Miss rtorenc and Mr. tmik iit will be at home informally Mon.Hr afternoon and evening, for their a iesta.

iierris. of VVt.rce and Louise and Misa Laliutn loav. of No tn vitaUoo aav beea issued. i I i. 1 1 The OnintiM Heen Opinion.

i Omaha li Tji tiumimtiun of f.ir l'n th i'Li t.il S'uj ln a of tl poi Wbt li. I. iju c.uiVr nUiiii met tai were very fr i i vii hJl ih.xie vM tj.t ji 't fiUji.in. wli.i th'ugut if Mr. iiryjui aa a ln si iifu'.

i was nt an 1 i'ho f.r Ihr mlnatian. nl. while he w.i rf otrr.iz. u. among the tin moat chaTniion xfi" fr illver fiux.

It was felt thai he woul I have tittle chance with the politliai veteran whv haJ ntred the race afid priMicuted a r'igjrcvs ampaljcn. Vhatevr may hae bt djar Mr. ltrrao br hia friend. nom.ntion was due uimunl b.illr to Hia it ch In fcuptorl of th4 maj irlty report if ihe iiuiifi.rni vommKlw waa by far the on the free Oliver aiJe that was al dreseej to the oun vent ion. A eharacteri.

me utterance In lis sophistries. Its appeal to ciaaa prejudke. anJ its (enetalities." delivered In the theatrical manner of a hlt Mr. Hrynn la maitff. It pnxlui ed an effect up that lmpreiwiiunable ttudy which left little tu don to aecure the nomination of the man who mad It.

Thus Mr. Bryan may elairn that the dintlmruiphed htmor which haa been conferred uiH.n linn la unstained by any deals in triK'ie or mauipulailona. but came as a tribute to hi brilliant and unflinching advocacy of the cbu. for which he etanda. No deny that Mr.

Bran la a man of ability. An an exponent of free ullver he ha, perbap no superior In, the country. liut in hia brief public career he gave no evidence of state Kmanahip or of the puael6n of those 3uaiirlcatinn which fit a man for the great ut ten and renponaihtlt iea of the cftlce of chief mxrlntrate of 7t.uo0.x of people. The ability to make a brilliant apeech la nut aufflclent rfemn mendaiion for Ireldent of tha United States. Mr.

ilryan will be carefully weighed ured uring th months that Intervene the ay ot election in Xmreruber. and thei words that won him tha nonitnatiprt at 'flicrajto will count for nothing with the millions of Intelligent voters who will render their verdict upon the action of that convention, ftrepresentinjr prtnqiples and policies which we profoundly believe, are hoatile to the rtUereata and weif.ue of the American peopl whlen we believe would be productive of greater dicaste in th financial and buaineas Interests vt thia Jcountrjr than they have ever experienced we confidently predict that Mr. Bryan and hia party will be overwhelmingly defeated at the polls. the Means. Chlcagiy Times Herald (lad.

The "nommation of William Bryan as the Democratic candidate, on a Popullatlo platform, for President of the United States, means that there ia a scattered, not numerous, but resolute party In this country In favor of: Extinction of the right of private contract. Compulsion of the people of the United States to take IS pounds of silver aa th equivalent of 1 pound of gold, whea In 'the market) of the world 1 pound of gold la worth 30 pounds of silver. 1 Revival of the Income tax. Legislation so to alter the Supreme Court of the United States as to make It Populistlc. Voluntary bankruptcy of the national Oov ernment.

Involuntary bankruptcy of all business men of the United States who are not Vaoderbllt and Aston, capable of resisting, or surviving: the inevitable panic when the national monetary standard flumped from guld to sliver. Manger Ahead. Chicago Intef. Ocean It Democratic in.lt intentions nnd In Its method, but it broke away from the 'experienced managers of that party and fell under the control of men. who, after graduating In Democracy, had taken a post graduate course ia Populism.

Tbe result Is a platform which Is a mixture of. Democracy, Populism and anarchy, softened with a little InfaaUn of socialism, and a standard bearer that is cal of all these Ideas and Is blessed with a temperament that eirahlea him to put quest'or able doctrines In the most poet Id and persuasive light 1 efore the people. There'i la dSnarer ahead unless the people of the nation wake up more thoroughly to the. situation than they have since the days nC Hhe great rebellion. The condition of affairs the coita try is such as to make the people a comparatively easy prey of the dema trues, and everv effort by those who would save tois fountry from a great crisis is now demanded.

Absolted From Allealnnce. Chicago Chronicle Dominated by men who are strangers to IV Democracy and by Ideas even more grotesque, in their novelty, the Chicago convention hns named a leader who Is not a Democrat, and adopted a platform which is not Democratic. By Its revolutionary and sectional by its shameful Indorsement of the Republican and Populist tc heresies of Cheap silver and frreen backlsm, by Its cowardly abandonment of tariff reform and by Its amazing demand for the restoration of the barbarous spoils system, no less than by the nomination of a ram wholly unlit, the Chlcafc convention absolves all loemocrata from allegiance to its candidate and its principles. Briefer Comment. No Democrat who cares for the fame or the future of the Democratic party can cast a for any nr Corurresa, who can for one nvrment stand upon such a platform and call it Uemocraey.

Louisville Post Our worst fears have not only been realized, but new and horrible doctrines have been added In the Chlcaao platform, which can not possibly blind a Democrat, who Is unwilling to abandon the fundamental principles of his party. Richmond (Va.) Times Th Courier hopes that the honest money (Mmocrats of New York and of other Stntm will put in the field an Independent, iretiutne and Democratic presidential ticket and continue the fight against both McKinleyism end debased sllverlsiu. Buffalo Courier In nominating Wm. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, for President, the Democratic national convention at Chicago has decided wisely and well.

A better man for the position could not have been selected. His name will be a tower of strength In the West and South. Roanoke tVa.) Times The noailneo is more distinguished as the "Boy Oratir of the Platte" than for any achievemen. In statesmanship or legislation. And yet the corn try Is to be cowgrstulated'otr his nomination over the list of fanatics and extremists who contested with him for the1 prize.

Petersburg (Va.) Index Appeal iDenv). He (Bryan) ia a candidate alike to trust and to admire, to stay wtth: nd to shout over. He is the kind of candidate to grow upon the people. He is at. once strength and admiration.

Strong as he is on the day of nomination, he will be many hundreds of thousands of votes stronger on the day of election. Leadvllle (Colo.) Herald No member is hound by ai eonvantlon whose irregularities and defiance of rule and precedent were next after of sectionalism and th gospel of hate, tts own particular priJe. To day every man whose Democracy Is" graven oa bis heart and stored among the Ideals dearer to him than all aave honor, is absolved from party tie St, Paul Globe With a free ballot and a fair count we be lieve that Alabama end Tennessee and Florida can not be held in the free silver column; and the States in the North and East which have In the past cast the deciding votes in close presidential elections, will not cast a s'ngle vote for a free silver candidate for President. Charleston News and Courier The candidate nominated at Chicago Is well suited to the platform. He has.

been one of the most voluble shriekers for silver. For two years past he has separated from the regular orKanization of bis party and organized a free coinage Democratic party In Nebraska, th Btats ot his residence. Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep). Sufficient unto each day Is ths evil thereof, snd from Chicago come even a surfeit of It. There may be sound money Democrats In that convention who feel compelled to support a repudiation and an anarchist ticket.

We do not, powever, believe that there are 3S1 sound miTiey Democrats In the 'United States' who will feel under any such necessity. Brooklyn Eagle The refusal of the majority tn the committee on resolutions to in the platform a plank requlrina existing contracts to be settled on 'tbe basis of the standard in force when made, la repudiation. It I worse evn than that. If anything can be worse. It 'a a distinct denial of the chief claim upon which the advocates of free silver profess to Teat that doctrine.

Detroit Free Press i Let nobody imagine that this is an ordinary political contest tipun which the American people are now It Is the 'deliberate purpose of the infatuated men who controiled the Chicago convention to fan popular prejudices Into a fierce blaze, to weld together all the scattered elements of dlsconent and to ore them as a mighty weapon of attack upon the country's thrift, enlightenment and progress. Boston Journal The acme of the cheap money fanatics, however, is reached In the proposition to so tie the hands ot the people that they shall not be. allowed to protect themselves by legal contracts against lose from a debased measure of value, iiefore this prcgram could if rarrl out the laws on the ata lute books would have to be abolished and the constitution of the United State rewritten. Philadelphia Record It is the regulation Popullstlc gospel of fiat Ism, calling not only for silver monometallism, but In insisting that the Government shall monopolize, with the afterthought exception in favor of Slate banks, the issuance of money, and that It shall not have power to provide itself with means for the redemption of it notes, thus pronouncing for an ultimate sys tu of irredeeiuabie paper "ras; money" in its worst form, it is a platform from which Iemocrats turn away suk.at heart. Louisville CAiUrier Jcumal ieni.

Lunacy having dictated the platform. It "was perharet natural that hysteria shauM evolve the cnrlutate. The nomination tf a "Gov ur jtor" for the WhKe House at this Juncture of the ration's tffatrs, domestic and foreign, wlirn the ripest experience, the bet tested wisdom, the broadest patriotism and the arreatest ecutive aoility are required, comes perilously near la hum the one fatal step from the sublime, it is to the future that (he VVorJ looks In considerins; the effect1 of. this Convention. There Is no doubt as to the result of the eiec tton, except as to the ie of McKinley's popular and electoral ma).

untie. To question this is to d'Mibr the inteii.uace. the undertvlrur ety and the public morality of trie people. Tke Oaiaocraus pxty, ii tw; p. ie luj.ted.

wlil be the natural rallying point f.ir I i reaction aattl a Itepublu an Wiin In In favoritism toward trust which is sure to follow the e. act on of McKinley. New York Wo id Xo man 1 better CtlM to ate And te r. i the raits af hia lAirty. He lars iy anie ilt tne convention In the promulgation of the doctrines which fbe platform announces, i Had tb de.egatc ipted a alnjrle reo I lutl.m.

thjr would havij written a maarnincent dei iaration of priaclplea In the nomination of this eloquent and aalant XebrasVan. who honors atate aa much a his State honors him. He la rhe slaa in the jllUcal slty that telis that it Is worth th eltrt to send leirtsUtioB for the people's money td the White House. I Cincinnati Enquirer We doubt whether the Chlcaco convention could have rbostn any man so well equipped to unite and. inspire the cheap money fanatics as Mr.

Bryan. He will be aaxreaalve. and unless the Republicans shall rise to a Just appreciation of the national peril by greeting aggresatva repudiation bv euuallv agaresAive resistance, is mors han possible that the contest may be doubtful. The peril Is a grave one. but united patriotic citizen in th heroic effort th occaalun demands can easily win an triumph bver the combined foes of national honor.

Philadelphia Times (Dtm.l. Sdmethina more' than the stability of the business Interests of the Inrled Rtatea. some thing more than the prbsperttr of every maae eamina citizen, every possessor of a eavinirs bank account, or of in.i try's accumulations 1 In any other form. Is involved In this mad I assault upen the roundntlon ot our nnancial and cosnmercial syatems. It Is a direct, and undiscussed attack upon th nation's honor.

Repudiation! Consider the word well, study It in all its aspects, remember what it means In the case of Individual or nation. New Yorfc. Sun J. The Chicago ptafforni ls without' a redeem In a feature to commend It to patriotic cltlzena of any political faith, i There la not a single vital attribute of Democracy presented in it. with the single exception of the perfunctory j.

or the) cUy and said: are paragraph on equality; of tariff taaes. It ta a prtHJlamatlon of organUed repudiation, agrar Putting the chariot before the horse, laniam and anarchy, and It must, summon He only changed the tommon expression every Intelligent and patriotic cltUen. igard tne agricultural class, who may have mt pjutiBLiviia, v. va. tie ajralnst the triumph of.

a madness that is as deadly In Its almas was the madness of aeoseslon in IS), and i without even the. poor excuse that secession had for its 'suicide. Philadelphia Times The London Preaa. Th decision of the Chicago convention is madness not devoid of certain pernicious con gruity, as it will make the presidential election a conflict of crazes between the two of pmteetion on the one hand and socialism and free silver on the other. The outlook for the United States is black, Indeed.

L)ail Urapblc. I Mr. Bryan resembles his famous country man who said of eternal punishment: "Our people will never stand It." Mr. Bryan's creed may appear nonsense to an educated reader, hut he is a perfectly logical hlmetaliist. it i Is ahmoat a nlty That he has not a be tux.

chance. But Mr. WcKiOley Is sound on money, and is almost sura to win. Dally News (iJb eral.l. I The Democrats have 'committed suicide, for So far aa the presidential contest is concerned.

S' ZTJ or silver. Herein the great, aanirer rir America's future. 'Only by skinful and ex manipulation did Mr. Hanna save the tepublican party from disruption on the same question, and before the next presldenUal elec Hon this corroding heresy may have worked itself so deeply lnt men's minds that a fr silver President wilt be Inevitable. Tha Stand ard The selection of Mr.

Ilryan was not uw: because he has shown himself the most pov erful advocate of the policy which the con vention has committed (itself. Vv however, must we think of a arty whose best rr.an i gives utterances to such stuff as his speech and which listens to It with unanimous ap'irovaL He knows his hearers and suits himself to their Intellectual When Mr. Smailey savs that he believes Mr. Bryan to be sincere It is only at. the expense or bis intelligence and good sense that we can.

accept this vindication of his political morality' The Times, TBS COUNTY DEMOCRACY. Ootlook. For the Conventlora To Held On the Twenty Second. Be The Democratic county convention will be held July 22, and the prospects are that it will be a lively one unless the feeling between the eold and silver Democrats can be) healed A full ticket is to be i i nominated, but there are cot many candl i rgs wno overuearo w. dues except for sheriff.

There' are five Philosopher, and was so taken aback that or six afirant fori that office tn sigM dropped his eggs, and whea they were anl mere coming around the bend. John "mashed exolalnaed. satlafled as to the Sehadd's friends siyj they think he will fragile character of his eggs, "As sure as be nominated: for county assessor, fcnd Ks are. eggs." This brings back Dean Bruce M. Wiley thinks he has the Inside Swift's fancy to the name of Alexander track tor coroner.

I 'he Great, which, he aaid, only meant If there Is a fight In this county It will 1 "a11 eKs under the fcrrate." be to secure the mana semen: of county "Cleanliness Is next to godliness. Is the affairs, Taggart, Holt. Sahm and most and the truest of all provokers have had the i management of the T.f'JJfJ? w.Jr Vit.niw.a countv for vears. and th. ih th.

rom their fondness for water, cleanliness free silver "push" want It now. claiming I that they should be put In a position to get some tf the county offices that have been i passed, around to the managers of the county Democracy. The fight will be at! the primaries and not in the convention. It will not be a fight of gold and ailver, but a struggle between two factions of the party The gold men are trying very hard to fix up all differences, and Mayor Tag gart says that he is satisfied there will be? no differences In the party on convention uay. Another story Is that the "goold bugs." to cuote William Flynn, will allow the Eilver push, to get on the county ticket, expecting that the Republicans will, figuratively speaking, wipe the earth with them, and that they will be so dead politically that they, will never be heard of again.

GOWDY SERIOUSLY ILL He Has ot Improved Aa Rapidly As Was Hoped For. Republicans ere becoming concerned about the condition ef Chairman Gowdy. Reports from Rushville Indicate that he is seriously lib It is; feared that he has rheumatism ot the stomach or some severe bowel complaint. To day's reports Indicate that he was possibly some better than yesterday, but upon tha whole the reports have not. been as reassuring as his friends have hoped for.

Capt. Jnck Gewdy'e Condition. Special to Tha Indiana pot Is News, P.ushville, July '11. Capt. Jack Oowdy, chairman of the Republican State committee, is still seriously.

If not alarmingly, sick of Inflammation of stomach' and bowels, with complications pointing to peritonitis. His physician. Dr. F. O.

Hackleman, is hopeful of his recovery, and says that he Is resting better than he has for somedays. Mr. Gowdy Is not so sick that he has lost all Interest In and his family have kept him posted on the Chlcaao convention. His physician will not let him talk, although he Is desirous of conversing with friends. POOL ROOM CLOSED.

Kotlce? Served On Tron By the Police Serffennt Stationed There. Captain Qulgley and Sergeant Crane called on Wlllam Tron. th proprietor of the Kingston and supposed owner of the Mercantile Telegraph Compagy. and told him that the superintendent of police; had ordered the poolroom closed. He eald to the police: "All right, gentlemen.

Just as you say. I don't care for the place, and It has' caused roe a great deal Of trouble. Douglass ia gone, and a new man from Chicago is in charge. I will tell him your orders when he conies in." A' sergeant was placed at the room this afternoon, to see that it remained closed Candidate For Joint Representative Special to The Indianapolis News. Brookvtlle, July 1L The delegates from Ripley, Franklin and Union coun ties met.

in Join i Democratic convention In the court house here to day to select a candidate for Joint Representative. James B. Kidney was chosen chairman and O. W. Gilvtn secretary.

Moses Remington, of Brownsville; Daniel A. Pate, of Versailles, and Mr. Senger, of Franklin county, were named In connection wtth the office, but after the ballot. begun, owing to jthe enforcement of the unit rule. Mr.

Patej withdrew bis name, Mr. Senger having brevloualy done so, and the selection of ifr. Remington was made unanimous; A number of speeches were. made, felicitating the Democracy over the result in Chicago'. i Shooting? In tlie II i at way.

At Michigan street and. Senate avenue, yesterday afternoon, a man rail out into the street tn pursuit of two btber men. Unable to overtake them, he used si pistol and fired three shots at the runaway. Two pedestrlajte were nearly In the Una of thi baliets. and shouted In mercy's name for the: shooter to atop.

He finally put up his pistil and w.aiked awy. with, none to dtturb. The Spirit Of Orcanlta Ion. Cincinnati fcnq'alreT. Teacher you! are to stay In after school and da three ettr examples.

WlUle What! And srit put out of the Scholars' Union for or kin' overtime? I wil. I don't thiiik! i i FOR OLD SAWS 1 i fOIDLB OKHilX OP MA1V ACIET PROVERBS ANOSIYKCS. The Cart Befare the llorae. How Old la That Why hcald David'a Sow Get Tlpay Why la the tirar Mare the Better Horsejt New York Tiroes. the cart before thi When was that first said? The (art must have been Invented after the horse waa Archaeologists have raised the question' whether the horse was' not first i v.

v. archaeologista generally. Captain Bou rke. the L'nlted States Cavalry, excepted. Vnnklnr miirh rwni th hnnu tnals t.

Kana iiba I a nvwas a. aa aa sa 4 Amaa I Ail aa because the horse aa a domesticated ani mate Is first seen In a picture and bitched to a chariot, that that was tirt initial step toward the using of him. This conclusion, we believe, can not be the natural one. To turn, then, to the old proverb. The early groom, say1, belonging to one of the Pharaohs, blundered, and his august master scolded him In the i choicest said, "You are putting the cart before the oxen." There la Rabelais, who uses the time honored proverb, "II mettoyC la chaxette devant les boeufz," and the Jolly Cure of Meudon was repeating a peasant's expression about, his cart and oxen.

In all the old'proverhs It is the cart, or the wagon, which Is In use, yet with as often as not aa "A creaking cart lasts the longest." or "To make a cart go you must grease the i 1 "A living dog Is better tha? a dead lion." That saying too. la of i the most remote Antiquity. One variation in Latin vu. iw'" sujtanr, ia oe rreeiy translated as bares Insult dead lions." It exists In good form In a French manuscript of the fourteenth century, AHeux valt un chien seln fort qe un leoun freld mort," or, 1'A Sound and 8trOI5" WOrth mor tTUn COld i an dead Hon. 1 Dy Hook Or Crook, Kverybody ought to know by thl3 time vhe origin of the expression "by hook or croou" ana yet teOTle wilt refer to It the V.l pastor and bis flock and a crotler.

What e' Myihjgr recalls la the feudal rlgbta of the nobles In regard to the forests. A herf. If he wsed "a hook." which waa a wle' a hrP edge, and so cut down growing branches of the trees, might have had his ears lopped off or his nose silt by the forest keepers. But the poor man might, by means of a crook or curved stick, pull down the dead wood and suffer no punishment. Probably the people In the forests helped themselves freely to wood, and got.

it "by hook, or crooki" What a profound brain that must have been which worked with that simplest of expressions, "As sure as eggs are eggs." j.says some one with a dome like headr that phrase could only have come from some mathematician. He was absorbed In a problem fraught with difficulties, and i he'remarked "As sure as is There i a roini to nuiriwima had all to do' with their religious cere monies. The Jews followed up the idea during the passover festival. There Is a whole history of religion tn this proverb. When acetlclsm and dirt followed It', bo came sinful to be sweet and clean.

Queen Isabella, for a vow. it Is said, wore her underclothing unwashed until she conquered the Moors, and frippery made with a dirty tinge still bears to day the name of "Isabel color." In Aristotle there Is this phrase. "Cleanliness is a half virtue and tha: embodies the true Greek idea. So far as has been discovered, the saying is due to' the great and good John Wesley. He recommended neatness in dress and the plentiful use of water.

He did not slovenly Here la something from a sermon i of his: "Cleanliness is. Imleed, next to godliness. The expression may liave been originated long before: the irrne of Wesley, but he certainly gave It th stamp of authority. We know there Is a sentence of George Herbert's which reads: "His (the clergyman's) apparel i Is plain, but revered and clean, without spots or drst, the purity of his mind breaking out and dilating' itself, even to his body, clothes, and habitation." Say Vhat we may. it was Wesley who boiled all this down and gave us the elixir of in five words.

'To Plnclc at Crow." There has been an immense, amount of pother and lost erudition over "to pluck a crow." A most Ingenious person dived into French for It, "Crow," so he sail, was the French "croc," which when pronounced loses its final When the French dandy wears mustachlos he the ends of them and. his mustachlos are "en croc" Therefore. If you wanted to find fault with a Frenchman, yoa threatened to pull his mustache or his beard. Let us stick to our old crow, corvus, because he Is not a nice bird to pick, and there Is something nasty in the Idea cf, after 'having) plucked him. the eating of him.

To "eat, dirt" da bad, but hardly worse than to eat crow, for we say we don't hanker after crow." Whether Beaeonsfield ever did invent that famous phrase, "all wise men are of tha same religion," and when asked what It "Wise men do hot; tell," we do not know. It sounds like Disraeli, and. was exactly suited to his own bellsf. Probably the saying will always be attributed to. him.

But John Toland, in his "Clldophorus," writes that a clever man, when asked the sarrie queetlon by an inquisitive woman. gave the identical Disraeli answtr. Then, piqued, ahei wanted, too, to have the dots put over' the l's. Then she had for reply: "Madame, wise men never" tell." And John Toland was an author of the close of. the 'seventeenth century and the beginning of the last century.

Why shoqld a man racking his brain gtt into "a brown study?" Why not a blue or a red study? Despair Is black. and color sensitiveness accounts Tor trat We have Congreve's lines: "Invention his brain grows muddy. And plack despals succeeds brown study," and still brown remains enigmatical, "To call a spade a spade" has a com moh sense ring about it. It Is Very old. In "The Garden of Wysdome" (1530) J'OU may read: "The Macedonians! call a mattock nothing else but a mattock, and a spade a spade." The Hotel Rambouillet.

which really 'invented tie euphuism, did not call a spade a spade, and to day. the elegant CastUllan shifka certain very good and common words. The story runs that the expression was due to Philip. The Greet tailed some other people "liars and traitors," and these persons felt aggrieved, and insisted on having an apology. "Nji a lif of it." sakl Philip.

"We Macedonlansj ill a spade a spade." I "As drunk as David's That may be a low phrase, but It is of great antiquity, and may be cl aened among the posers becau. ie its derivation seems to be almost undiscoverable. Here Is a highly ingenious stcry, which Is presented for wfckl it is worth. arl that Italian maxim, "Bl non vero molto ben trovato," may be cited, which means "If it is not true, li'i mlghty ingerious." When Charlemagne wtaJ km, for the advancement of learning In his realm ihe founder! a learned society. The members had Biblical names, given them and Carclus Magnus trailed hlmftelf, fjr short.

"David." As the debates were dry. there was plenty of good win, ami so he learned society imbibed freely, Charlemagne, imitative cf Porson. took a great deal ot anj so Lra vi 1 was often which tn French means notrung t. but "Uead drunk," Now, "saUl." pr SOME TEETH nouncei "sou," comes near to sow, anl la some of the older French dialects th English would be almuet approached, oo David" and "saw" were made to Join company; and maybe the Norman brought, over to Kit land the queer expreion. Tou find In the eWUte Sir T.

Move's kes" flTTi 'lhe f.hre. "sow druk" ar.d a cntury of more before ou can firv the expression, "to be Sronke as any awyne. The; lloer'a Flack. Can anybody doubt the pluck of the Boer? He miy the exponent of arrested civilization, but vre respect him for his fighting qualities. Why.

should we say "Dutch courage T' In our younger days, when a lad wanted fight and was over combative." we used the expression, "He has got his Dutch tip." The term Is evidently derived from the use of Holland gin. In former days much schnapps was Imbibed, and alcoholic courage was called "Dutch courage," and we may be Indebted to the English navy" for the expression. There is another cant term, "As glib as a Dutch uncle," which seems quite contrary to any Hollandlsh traits. Tour Dutchman never. is glib.

He is as heavy la form he la slow in his. speech, Evidently the phrase came rrom the dislike the English had for the Dutch in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, tand so an unjust and meaningless phrase was coined wnich passes current to day. Nobody yet has solved the meaning of VOnco in a blue moon," and we hear It often In the United States snd occasionally la England. It seems that the versatile Miss Braddon.ls fond of "a blue moon." Would somebody be kind enough explain the derivation? It sounds as if it were French and maybe related to "comes blue," er Impossible stories. "Hot as blalz ers." That Is old English.

Hie modification Is "hot as blazes." Blazes we can understand, "Blaise, in the Century dictionary is referred to "Blae," and "blae" may mean "livid, or pale blue," and has a Scandinavian derivation "Go to blazes" signifies "Go to perdition." or the place of eternal fire ana brimstone. You may "blaze away" with your fowling piece or wl jh your artillery. There Is the verb "to braze," whirti means to mark a tree, the white wood under the dark bark showing that there may have been a color significance when the word. was first used. But it is "Blaizes." wtth a capital and an In It, we want, especially as It is old English to say as drunk as Blaizer, or Blaizes." Some irreverent person declares that St.

Blasius or Blazlus was t' ie patron of the wool workers in England, and that an a certain day the wool combers met and celebrated the festival and Imbibed too much, and so the conviviality of mat oay was united, witn tne name or a very worthy saint. A Pnssllng Qoestloni "Gray mare the better Is rather, puzzling. In the equine family, as among their legitimate masters, it might often happen tiiat the female was by very far the better animal. But why gray? Why not a strawberry roan, or a bay, or a sorrel? What Houyhnhnm fancycan there be herej Macauley offers an explanation. He says it is "a vulgar proverb," And that "I'ae gray mare Is the' better 'horse" originated "In the preference generally, given, to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach horses of England." which.

we may add. was a Dutch taste. Lp to snuff." Why not "up to smoker Was the' Englishman more astonished when Sir Walter Raleigh blew smoke Uvan. when, he saw the Italian or the Imitative FrenJimen, under Catherine de Medlcis. take snuff? There Is no question but that the aboriginal South American smoked tobacco, but did he snuff? Probably he did both things.

Though we find the early American pipes, we have not yet discovered the snuff boxes. It is again depressing to learn that "up to snuff." In a measure, eluded us. Introduction of various substances Into the nose must have taken place la the most remote times, for sternutation was always a pleasurable sensation and a help for certain head troubles. "To get into a scrape." How. did that phrase come about? Y'ou may scrape a bone, but what has that scrape to do with i row; why do we i say "There was a alluding to a small fight? Is trier any connection between the two words the difference being in ths letter only? "Scrap," the Century dictionary tells us.

Is, tn one particular sense, slang, and means "a scrimmage." We too, tn common usage "scrap" as refuse. Let us try and handle "scrape, There la a Swedish word "ekrap," and in a phrase like this, "draga en in 1 scraeper, that would mean "to be drawn Into a difficulty or a row." In "Tristram Shandy" there is the example: "Trust me, Yorick. this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later bring thee into scrapes and difficul ties. It mlgnt De tnat by constant "scraping" there came about chafing of a person and then resentment, and the row, or the difficulty. You might be then rubbed the wrong, way, and the.

"scrape" Anyhow, as It stands, to "get Into a scrape" offers a good medium 'for oiscusslon. IS THE SUBURBS. The Indianapolis foundry in Harding street is closed during tne annua, inventory. The Rathbone sisters. Banner Temple, West Indianapolis, will hold a moonlight picnic In Walnut Grove next Thursday evening.

Fourteen hundred tickets have already been sold for the excursion to Blue River Park to be run under' the auspices of the West Indianapolis Republican Club tomorrow. Some one' succeeded In passing a counter felt dollar for Ice cream and cake at tits lawn festival given by the Ep worth league of the First M. E. church. West Indlanapoiis.

City Marshal Perry, of West Indianapolis, and hia workmen are busy during the annual street cleaning and weed cutting, The result Is that the streets are rapidly asBuminsr improved appearance. The West Indianapolis School Board's request of the City Council for with which to purchase ground and build a new school house. Is now under consideration by the finance committee of the Council. Trinity M. E.

Sunday. schooL West In dlanapolls, will hold its snnual excursion to Bethany Park next Wednesday. Ths Mercy and Help department of the Ep worth League will give a peanut social at 78 Arbor avenue on Tuesday evening. Police Saaseaded. Bpecial to The Indianapolis News.

Jeffersonvllle, July 1L Capt Will lam Cisco, chief of the metropolitan po lice of this city, was suepended from duty lust evening by a majority of the board. pending an investigation, which Is set for Tuesday next. In the Interim Sergeant Hall will act as captain. The suspension was made on the strength of rumors that Captain Cisco had mistreated his wife. Commissioner Kllgus, of the board, desirea to be quoted with saying that Captain Cisco Is being persecuted, while the accused re ports that he is ready for Investigation, at which time It will be demonstrated that a mountain has been made out of a mole bilL The deposed officer has figured In a number or important arrests.

He asserts that political enemies have instigated the prosecution, a 1 1 How the Popnllsta Resrartl It. Charles X. Mathews, editor of the Non Conformist (organ of the Populists) salt I expect that this platform will be accept able to the Populists. It Is regarded as a Populist platform as far as it goes. I think Bryan la nearer in accord with Populist sentiment than any man mentioned for the presidency in this con vention.

The Populists go further In their platform and advocate the election of Senators by the people and the Govern ment control of the railroads. Bryan Is also In accord with these propositions. This paper has been opposed to any kind of fusion with the Democratic riarty. but now that this radical platform has been adopted snd such a man as Bryan placed upon it, tbe Populists are called upon ti lace a different situation, What they will do remains for ths St, Louis convention to determine; HM MMM VM i Xu Threat To Kill. In the Mary C.

Henderson divorce case against James IL Henderson, Judge Bar tholomew issued an order restraining ths defendant from molesting the plaintiff and her daughters. The latter say there wa no threat on the lathers part to kill, but taey simply wisa to escape annoyance. Applying; Ilia Talents. New York Press. Managing Editor Can Mr.

Scribbler write up the murder case to day? City Editor I'm afraid not, has delirutn tremens this morning. Maaaging Editor WeU. give him Ste pan Crane latest book to review. oJ I i i 3 4 I' "A a r. ft TOO FTaLm taSs Ij? ebOSV 142,110,233 of Property Destroy Bt rTsirt lq thr United tWates.

nW Torsi Bun. To most persons Qs subject Of fir los la Interesting, even if It does not appeal to them personally. For twenty one years the Chronicle, the principal organ ot ths insurance Interest la this cKy. has pub lUhed tables setting forth ths annual fire loss la the United Elates, and thl jrsar thess tablas, comparing similar losses In earlier years with those of last year in all parts of the country, are more Interest i lng and illuminative than ever before. la consjidering the loss by fire, insurance men look.

at the subject from two points. Ths property loss Is one thing to th the insurance loss la another The first it the total loss; the second, the loss that falls upon the: Insurance companies, la brief; there were 38.0C3 fires la which destroyed B3.J61. pieces ot property the total loss amounted to JlC.Uo.r3. and in Insurance loss These amounts are enormous In themselves, but It is to be recorded that the average property loss and the average3 Insurance loss wera smaller tha ever before, being J3.T93 for the former and for the latter, as against 3.93s nd respectively la I3t4. That Is.

In the insurance covered (M per cent. oT the loss, Tvnlle in 114 it covered leas than Go per cent. In lSSi there were 22.711. fires In dwelling houses; next In. number were th fires in stores and offices, wcich amounted to 12, 643; livery stables, barns and tobacco (barns (a rather strange combination) came third, with 8.14S fires.

Three hundred and two colleges, school houses and convents, were burned, 503 theaters and public and private halls and 340 diurches. Manufacturing establishments to rhe number of i.Zit, and hotel, clubs and restaurants that of L33I were Injured more or less seriously by fire. Of the 53,951 pieces of property injured, 15.HS3 caught fire from exposure to fires (originating elsewhere. and the loss caused by thee 14(W0 flr amounted to nearly J.JS.O' j.uoo. equal to mora than 26 per cent, of the total loss.

The Liahteat Losses. Naturally, the summer months show th lightest losses. May was the month of lightest property loss, and June that of lightest Insurance loss. The greatest Insurance loss and the greatest number of fires occurred In October, seemingly, be cgus; the furnace fires began to be llshte 1 In that month. The greatest property loss.

however, occurred in March; in that moma occurred seven' fires Involving, losses of more thfui J20O.00O each, while three of them caused losses of more than each: The Western States provided a larg' percentage of the fires than ever before. with 40.7 per cent, to their account; the Middle States had 2S.5 per cent. The fires in these two sections were more numerous than Jt l4, but tn the Eastern and Southr era, and th Pacific State the percentage decreased. A table of especial Interest Is that show lng th fires caused by electric wires or Jlghts. Naturally, the question ot elec irlclty as a cause of fire did not come up very long ago: la fact.

It la only for the ten years 'U8C on the mai ter are to be had, in ikjj mere were i frres caused by electricity, as against 217 In but the' fires caused by exposure to those started by electricity numbered. 13, Instead of 169 In the former year. 8o the total number of fires caused by elec tricity waa 338 in 1895 and 2S6 jss4, a very marked falling off. It as evident that rreater rare In insulating wires and 1 other matters connected with electrical plants Is taken. A tztwe OI tne nsnes too.

occupied a considerable part of the Chronicle's book and affords much of Interest and Instruction. Accidents caused fires, 2S of them In the District ot Columbia and 27 In New York State, Hot arslie and coals started sis nres, ana wnuie only 49, while burglars caused Candles set 248 fifes, and carelessness only 203, while children playing with fire were responsible for iL a ires to mo of 63S were due to clirars, cigarettes and totoaoco pipes. While 3,607 wcr caused by defective flues. Of these JC8 were In II linre. anrt aai in this State, Drunken men set is fires fct 13 States.

Explosions caused 3,051 fires: of these were dust explosions, occurring la Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Fireworks and firs cracker caused 119 fires; Incendiarism. Urhtt 833, and matches. 1.771. Mhscileypu chli dren started 21 fires and nateraj gas ST.

two of which were tn New York State, The much maligned plumber caused only 61 fires with, his furnace, while locomotive sparks set Spontaneous combus tlon is held responsible for 621 flresv stoves for VMS. and tramos for 2G8. Of tinkncrwa and unassignable origin were o.fwi fire. while 8,30. were not reported as insurance losses.

A study of the cause tables en able the Chronicle to say that the In herent and common causes show each an Increased percentage, while the Indirect (of criminal and mischievous origin) anl the unknown and unreported show each decreased percentage, Some of the Losses. j. In the twenty one years covered by tables, 25 gymnasiums have been burned, 138 armories, 13 chambers of commerce and boards of trade and 3,144 churches. In fourteen yeara barns and stables i were burned, and 170.949 dwellings. Flfty seven grand stands' nave gone up lit smoke, 73 artificial ice factories.

2J50 1c houses snd CI refrigerator factories have i succumbed in twenty one years, and so have 941 theaters and opera Houses. IS four vears 16 tin plate factories have been burned. On the other hand, the business failures and the fires da not maintain an even ratio, in spite of the humorists of fhe weekly papers; ln iefc there were 013 failures and 38.003 fires, while in 1SD4 the figures were 12,724 vand 33.549, and In 18S3. 15,508 and SUSS repecuvelt. Not only' did October, lSw, lead the months In the number of its but it has them in the matter for twenty: years, During that time fires started la October; 'December comes next with 23.

8u9 flrs. During thepast twenty years New York suffered a property loss of KM.OOa.TSi). Pennsylvania one of tri73.UsG.fi2, Illinois one of $125,730,034, and Massachusetts one of Ohio will be glad to fifth A losses, With lia.l0.W3 damage. The average loss at a fire was 1ea irt lSK than ever before, but this was due to the absence of any very great fir, the actual number of fires was great by L605 than that of Th total loss during th twnty one years comrliered in the tables amounts to This Is absolutely and entirely lost, an avrag of more than a year. Such a loss demands serious prset.cal arv ton.

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