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61ttlic: ()driller 22, 1S33. 5 prittbh Cr, tit girisfon IRELAND'S MOSES. were supported by the strotorest evidetiee and the council reconitnended that the church drop him from their roll Witt that he lie denoseil from the ministry. No defence was offered by the defendant st 3 i nig. You have seen him and tee.

end you may be sure that he must claim to be one of the boys vet. The is that am still a canaidate for that happy state which he and our candidate for Governor reached a great many years ago. having somebody to look after and tise care of me. Rut We are now the only boys that are here tonight. We have got thereat enthusiasm and energy and bratory to come next.

In the meantime. before I go to that. I will state that we had expected Hon. Samuel Randall of Philadelphia here, and lie had intended to be here with us tonight; but lie writes: "I am at home sick with a severe cold, and linable to go out of doors. I am I cannot serve your silinmous but I ant with you, heart and soul." (Great applause.) We have also a letter from our old friend, lion.

J. G. Abbott (great applause), which is as follows: 28 STATE STREET. Octoner 20. 1885.

NY DEAR COLONEL COVENEY-1 see it Is annoiniceit in some ot the papers that 1 am to speak tomorrow evening at the meeting of the Democracy. I should be glad to meet the Democrats of Massachusetts and discuss with them the present situation and its duties. But I leave town tomorrow Morning to meet an engagement of long standing. and so 1 cannot attend the meeting. 1 desire to say, moreover.

how wise think the platform adopted at Worcester in one rompect. I refer to resolutions On matters in whieh labor is interested. The strong ground taken is Just and right. I trust it may be followed up by putting the Democratic party squarely on the site of labor and its interests. 14 doing so no harm will be done to the real and just rights of capital.

Out of the great gains and profits coming from the wonderful discoveries in science and the linprovements ana inventions in ail kinds of machinery labor has not received its fair share. One of the chief dutiom of the Democratic party is to secure, by all fair means. to labor this fair share of the gains anti profits made by the joint work of capital and labor. faithfully yours. J.

G. ABBOTT. And now. gentlemen. having reversed the ordinary order of things by putting before you tirst tile gentleman who seconded the nomination of Frederick 0.

Prince for governor at the convention at Worcester, I come back and adopt the straight plan of ratifying and presenting to you the enthusiastic young orator who nominated him in so elcament a manner, Mr. Philip J. Doherty. Philip J. Doherty was received with applause.

He said: The Democratic party in Massachusetts has a great mission. Fifty thousand men in this Commonwealth, disfranchised for poverty, look to that party alone to obtain for them their rights. Again and again they have appealed to the Republican legislative majority to confer upon them the freeman's privilege. the ballot. (Applause.) But iu vain.

The Republican orators have loudly declaimed in favor of a free ballot. but a free ballot they would not furnish in this Commonwealth. Human rights was the noble watchword of the Republican party in the days of its glory and its pride. Its leaders still profess their devotion to huthan rights in the south. but not in Massachusetts.

It is as self-evident that the exercise of the' right of franchise should not be conditional upon the payment of a tax as that manhood is superior to money. This disfranchising policy of the Republican party arises from a distrust of the capacity of the people for self-government A Republican leader in the House of Representatives of the present year in the debate on the poll-tax question. said: "If this republic is to survive there must be some check placed upon any farther extension of time su I frage." If this republic is to survive! A proposition to extend the privilege of the ballot to those who are too poor to pay a tax leads such men to question the stability of the republic. Such men as this Republican leader seem to forget that the republic depends for its stability upon the labor, the virtues the intelligence and the contentment in the exercise of the just rights of all the people. (Applause.) The strength of the republic in time of peril and of war is in the patriotism and valor of the men in the humbler walks of life.

In a republic. no honest man should be held to allegiance as a citizen and yet be deprived of the exercise of the most important privilege of citizenship. Government rests upon the consent of the governed, and the safety and security of our institutions will be best promoted by giving to all good citizens a voice in the management of public affairs. It is not alone in the disfranchisement of the poor that the Republican party shows its distrust of the capacity of the people for self-government It has placed at the head of its party organization in this State. and.

in nomination for the office of treasurer of the Commonwealth. a man who, as a member of the House of Representatives during the last session, declared that the people of Boston were -Unfit for Seif-G anent. To be exact In the quotation of the gentleman's language, he stated that "a majority of the citizens of Boston do not desire 4 Ho Says to England "Lot lily Pale Goa" The Noble Work of Charles St wart Parnell Eloquently Told In Tam. many Hall By the Gifted Orator, Rev. Henry A.

Browny D. D. Editor Dana of the Sun Calls the Meeting to Order. Nrw onit. October Tammany 11411 this evening the Rev.

Henry A. 'intim. D. lectured in aid of the Irish walla-blustery fund, his ittlbjCt't being, "Ireland's 1IjL Self-Coverbilient." The audience composed mostly Of mechanics tend laboring bleb. with a fair sprinkling set ladies here and there.

The seats of the hall were about half occupied. On tho platform with the lecturer were ex-Miuister A. M. Kieley, ticiieral M. Kirwan.

James G. Martin, Rev. Dr. 'McSweeney, Rev. Father Dr.

O'Neill. NI. D. Gallagher. jamem byrne, John Delahrinty, Dr.

Mr. J. 'Walsh and Jetties Doyle, all prominent in aiding the peoveinet for sllbnlYing money to the fund. Mr. Cliarlea A.

liaii a. presided and Walt briefly introducee by NIr. NV. D. Gallagher.

the president of tbe COMICAL tof lie Irish Leaguer. Mr. Dana, received a groat deal of applause and upon taklug the chair spoke tts follows: 1.solE4 AND CIENTLF.Milrg, SoNlit AND Klipt (or he b. StNil AND ERIS Ote A V.Itit'AIt is not oecesteary tor too to say a vorti to express my sympathy with thee cause of Ireland and of Irish nationality. lliat hi a feels lug xx hien in ono way and allOtiler I 11 11 had tho go4 (I tontine Itiati4est hero hi this community for inure than ta out y-tive years.

Rut there is ono word tub it is ilnDosSitile hOt tO AllV ktol that In to express the profound $at'sfaction and wondering admiration with Vtilicit every person who understands the ease must airmen the, present at to of he Irish cause. If ive contrast the condit owl of the, hish people null their hopes as thev are today with what they have been at any former period within our recollection. we must indeed bo astonished Sit thu progtwos theY have made, and Al the Its-Sabi Future 'which Is onening En foro them. To gc) back over live years and measure what the situation was with what it now is. we Ina).

ityleed, look on. with gratitude to ProvillenCer that such a condition has been produced; that SUCII 111011 have been reared lin front tinning the Irish peoplo to work molt political miracles, for it is a liniracio indeed when WO Soo that tile two great varies of Eiezhind. 'Haft (Admit' radioally to Ireland, are now in Paten a situation that, they cannot either of them hope to carry en the government Withettt Conceding to Ireland What jilttie3 requires. Vv hen wie conshor that. we may traded be to l'oiviiietwe end full of hope for the Ito lull the speaker of time tVcilin Or.

Eratin. Ile began by Payiti mat he wen sorrv that tho audience) was composed of Englishmen or Seotch Men, 11, that lie Collot COIlVilltO Multi oh the riliht Of Ireland to sell-governmell t. to attempt to 'convince Irish now of this was like carrying coals to Newcastle. Ito proposed to give seven 11-amitalt4 Why I rviallti shutliti have self-government. 'I he Irish p-oplo were not allowed to liave uin or a seven-hooter revolver; lie would, thereimmrom, presommt Ui httall lb seven-barrelld argument.

1 hum three highest 1OOlalo4 Ot Ireland were today united in the IVIllott that tho Irish people had the right ell, govertiment if their own bind. Novak hoc of the, bull of Adrian, the speaker said that him believed it to been a iiIt only bull that ever came to Ireland to injure its people was John Lull. blaughter.) 'I lie Irish people for 440 years Lad fought I or the Ittgal of Ptelt-G neent4 they hail never given up their claim to that right. lie Itle)ko of the confiscation of Irish land by successive monarchs down to the time of the treaty of Limerick, anti maid that If England ever had a right to government she bad forfeited it Ijy these acts of injustice oti the part of her sovereigns. 'Hie right of ft to rebel against tyrannical rulers lay at I ho vcry foundation of English constitutional government at the present time.

'I he lecturer then recited a long list of etTressive anti unjust law4. enacted by the Pritish Parliament against the Catholics of Ireland. I hese 14,64,11 5 Kaiti.vvero unreasonahlitand unjust. During all tiiii4 time, lie ttel, the hi- li made Sollitl Wonders. One of them wits in lighting' for Charles they snottbi have sold him nut 614 the Scotch tit'l in return for the million 'tyres of land hili be had stolen from them.

They also made the mistake of I for James I 1. The lecturer 111(4 their reason was that then monarchy bad been cut otT England, and Irishmen wore alwavs willing to light for any one that the EligliSh fought itgalust. in I Ireland had at last a free pat liamerit, and this jested for eighteen years, and Ireland WWI never PO osperatis pr in all ruspeciti am during those elithisten years. In sotto of all its defectsand they were many the colintry nourished under it a8 never hvforei or since. After the enittnration of these wrongs Dr.

said that Sled 'Conceded Homo illtule I I I 4 I el 1 (Tiltirsblrg, ing8 of theWorcester convention, one of the tralcisins the distinguished senator from Massachusetts passed upon the administration. He said that Secretary AVIntney had oeprived a poor, ignorant Irish hoY Of a chance to get a living out of the govern- ment. Why. gentlemen; note the tender solicitude of Senator Hoar, who had lived here in Massachusetts. Ile aided and abetted every scheme To "'reseal the Irish rinigraut and his descendants from chance to exercise any efforts for their support.

Now, gentlemen, the secretary of the navy proposes to give us an honest administration of that navy. and proposes that when the government of the United States makes a contract for a ship that that be finished accordi to the speci ng fications, and does not propose that all the money for that ship shall be drawn before the vessel is two-thirds completed he means that the men who make contracts With the government shall live honestly up to their contracts. The tender solicitude of Mr. Hoar for the shipbuilder! WhY, what a scandai we have witnessed in the country while-Mr. Robeson was secretary of the navy.

William Chandler was atttorney and lobbyist for John Roach at the Navy Department in connection with all his contracts. When Mr. Robeson steps out Of ()thee and 1Ir. Chandler is appointed Mr. Robeson becomes the attorney and lobbiest for John Roach, und thus for eight years the government of the United States has been robbed by two corrupt secretaries of the navy.

aided and abetted by Mr. Senator Hoar's poor Irish emigrant boy. (Applause.) Gentlemen. we know something of the family history in Massachusetts of the present secretary of war it is needless for me to eulogize him before a Boston audience. or before an assemblage of the citizens of Massachusetts.

Thus far the administration has started out well, and gives promise of fulfilling ever" pledge that it made to the peorle. he President of the United States has said that office is a public trust, that he holds it for all the people of the United States, and that no corrupt man. no dishonest man, no incompetent man. shall ba appointed to office or till a public (Mice with his consent. Now, gentlemen, lookiug at the national administration.

svhat is the criticism after seven months which the Republican party has passed neon it. The distinguished senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Hoar, who has scholar- ship none can deny Who has ability and capaeity as a lawyer none can question; Who has honesty of purpose I don't gainsay. but whom we all know is so bigoted, narrow and intolerant that he never sees but one side of a question What Are the Charges he brings against this administration. George F.

Hoar sat upon the electeral corn-mission. and when the State of Florida came before them as judges to bo adjudicated upon, and the distinguished Mr. O'Conor arose and said he desired to present the case upon the general docteine that fraud vitiates everything. and when it was Shown that the Supreme Court of Florida. composed of a majority of Republican judges.

after hearing the whole question in judicial session, bad decided that the Ilayes electors hadn't been elected. but that the Tilden electors had been. How did he get over this? In a way worthy of a pettifogger. and those eight men who stood there to administer justice upon the electoral commission ought to hang their heads inshame forever. They said it was true that the Supreme Court of Florida (lid decide that these were electors de jure.

but that before they had given the decision the time had passed in which they could exercise the functions of their (Alice, and Senator Hoar had the audacity to get up in the Republican convention and talked about fraud in the elections oi a neighboring State. What other criticism does he make upon the administration of the Democrats? Why, the repression of the suffrage in the South that Grover Cleveland would never have been elected president if there had been a fair vote in the South. Does he remember that the Republican party and their commission decilled that the States of Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana had cast their vote for the Republican candidate: and does lie remember that he and his associates made a trade by which they said at the very same election that they carried the vote for the I )emocrats in the election of every other ofilcer? Is this the kind of talk which Senator Hoar proposes to give to the people of Massachusetts and tell us he is honest and sincere. Why, gentlemen, we supposed the war was over more titan twenty years ago. Last July the great commander of the Union armies in the rebellion breathed his last.

Great as will be his fame as a military commander. his highest place in time national gallery will be that of ten hero who desired to unite all parts of the country. His message to Genet-El Butler, his wish that we might be one people. both show that he desired that the American people should have a common should He No North No South. We witnesseet the gratifying' spectacle of two generals in the Confederate service General Buckner and General Gordonacting as pall-bearers at his funeral, and all good citizens who loved their country hoped that we had seen the last of sectional strife and the last attempt to wave the bloody shirt.

We were somewhat surmised to learn early in the fall that the rebellion was still going on in Ohio, and that General Sherman AVHS marshalling loyal Republicans to nut down the rebellion again. NVe did observe in Massachusetts that since the election of Grover Cleveland in November last a new era of prosperity had dawned upon our manufactaring and commercial interests. and we were surprised to learn when the Worcester Convention met. arid just before it. that Senator Hoar was echoing the cry of Mr.

Sherman, and that the Republican party had taken up the old issue. In other words. the salvation army has started out General Sherman blows the tromoone, Messrs. Lodge and Roosevelt play the files. Johnnie Logan beats the big bass drum.

Senator Hoar carries the banner, red upon one side and white upon the other. bearing this inscription upon the red. "Unrestricted and Unintelligent Suffrage in South Carolina and Mississippi" pon the ot her Suffrage ill Massachusetts. Dependent Upon the Ability of the Voter to Pay His Poll Tax." That. gentlemen, is the kind of banner which the itepubiican party and its distinguished senator are carrying.

How Dishonest! And they say that the people of the South ought to be restricted as regards their representation in Congress because the figured statistics show that the people of those States do not vote. How do we stand? The total HUM ber of polls assessed in Boston in 1885 is nearly 120.000. Now. in 1884, of which 1 have the accurate figures, the actual number was 111.033. The whole number of registered voters in th election of 1884 was 05,574.

Taking the number of assessed polls in Boston. and reckoning llkc population of Boston at one-tifth of the population of the Commonwealth. ve have upwards of 000 assessed polls in Massachusetts. Tim largest vote ever east in this city was a total of 312,000. leaving 250.000 polls to be accounted tor: who are.

in other words, disfranchised by the restrictive policy of the Republican party in this State. Another consideration the constitution of the State of Massachusetts provides that there shall be in the Legislature of this Commonwealth a representation of the people annually elected. and founded upon the principle of equality. The Democrats of the South are accused of defrauding their Republican fellow-citizens of their just and lawful representation, and the same charge may be with much greater truth made of the Republicans of Massachusettsthat they defraud their Democratic fellow-citizens of their Just and Lawful Representation. A just construction of the State constitution would give the Republicans 21- senators and the Democrats anti others 19; 30.332 Democrats in eight senatorial districts were not allowed even one senator in representation of the Legislature founded upon the principle of egualitY.

whlio 27.1398 Republicans in eight other senatorial tlisticts were allowed eight senators. and that is the way the Republican party in Massachusetts has all this guy- ernment find have adhered to the theory that this is a goverement of the people, where all ought to have representation. gentienien. fact. Allusion has been made here to the poll tax in Massachnsetts.

The poll tax ought to be belshed, because it is unfair and unjust. Aristotle of the poll tax. writing of the early nation; -The most ignoimposition was the poll tax, WhiCh TI011e bet slaves paid to their tyrant. or to his deputy Or satron or subjugated nations paid to their conquerors." Tortuilian says of it: As the held is of less value lien Silbjeet too burdensome imposltiont so am the persons of men more despised Avhen they pay a poll tax, for it is an indication Of cavtivitY." In the early nations free men paid no poll ttx, the always. ilia poll tax wag levied iii England in the reign of Richard IL, but through a long series of reigns no tax has been so canons.

and io tax has so mueli opposition in England us the of lt tax upon the poll. It Is eqiially odious in it is foreli.tn to our very form cif it)verntrictit it foreign to the idea, mum which thi.i governnicnt wits fonlidedthe right Of a citizen without property qualification as a Prerequisite to cast, his vote. Adam health. the Great Economist, says it Is a tax upon labor. 'rake, gentlemen, another item in our platform.

Three years ago at the Democratic Convention I introduced a resolution asti.ing that the rig-or of the law might be relaxed and the workman might be allowed: to i our industrial classes. They feel that all these great improvements which have sprung -to the front in the way of labor-saving machinery. run by the aide( the master, capital. have to abridged their righta to NUCLI lin extent that they are foreed to organize, as they do the old monarchical couutries of Europe. in defence of their rights.

In my own city, the city of Lynn, I see the most competent evidence of It. 'The people there aro organized industrially, not political ly, for their own defence. There is -an organization powerful in thisland already. but which is destined to be more powerful than any other ever has beenI mean the Knights of Labor. tApplause.) When I was first elected to Congress there was hut one "assembly" of The 'Knights of Labor in Lynn.

Last week the seventeenth "assembly" was. formed. (Applause.) They aregathering in all the trades under their banner, and in the future. if they do not have what they consider their rights, they propose to know the reason why. (Renewed applause.) Year after year men of advanced ideas in the industrial direction have presented themselves at the doors -sof your Legislature.

and have proposed measnres calculated to ameliorate the condition of things. I remember myself well. in 1874I had the honor then ef sitting on the labor committeeand that year I ant proud to say that the committee reported a hill which finally passed both 11011Sef4 and was signed by the goyornor, making it penalno. not making it penalbut making ten hours the limit of a day's work for women and children. -Since then not a great deal has been accomplished in the industrial direction.

Committees from the laboring- classes have knocked at the door. and they have been ceremoniously re- ceived and salaamed into the Togo, and then kicked Out at the back door. 1P(Heir. heart and laughter.) The (lay is come when the Legislature of the State nf Massachusetts as Well as the National Legislature of this country have got to listen to the complaints of these people. (hear, hear.) Laborsaving machinery has so increased the productive capacity of this country that at the present time there is no limit to it.

I remember reading a statement made by an eminent statistician to the effect that in le-rif the productive power of the ma, chinery of the United States equalled the produetive power of the hand labor of 000,000 of people. The development of machinery has so diversified. has so subdivided into branches trades which Man Once Pursued as a whole, that an operative in a shop becomes but a fiftieth part of what he once was. In my own city of Lynn. for instance.

the making. of a boot was divided into many operations, and a man became a mere automaton. I tell you. gentlemen. all these questions will again be presented and will find as able defenders on the floors of the House as some of the honorable gentlemen on this platformbave proved themselves in the past.

(hear. hear.) The workingmen also demand a system of weekly payments, so that they ma'y be enabled to go to the market on a Saturday night. and purchase their provisions, instead of being bound by the corporations to trade at certain stores, and find themselves dead broke immediately after each monthly payment. (Applause.) Mr. Chairman, I think I have spoken my full length of time.

I could say much more. It might. or it might not be of interest to you. Allowme, however. to return you my thanks, and let me say that the pathway of the Democracy of Massachusetts is clear and straight.

Haying put in nomination the excellent ticket which we did at Worcester, it is plainly our duty, as patriots. to give it all the force and power which we can at the polls on the ath of November next. I trust when the sun goes down it will go down on a State resurrected. (Loud applause.) WILLIAM ASPINWALL. An Old Friend of the Candidate for Governor.

The ChairmanLadies and gentlemen, we have here a letter from General George B. McClellan. which I will read: ORANGE, October 15, 1555. MY DEAR MR. PRINCEYOUr8 of the 12th has reached me.

1 regret that my engagements will not permit me to accent your very kind invitation to attend the meeting of the nit. though congratulating the party on your nomination, anti with my earnest wishes for your success. Iremain. Very truly yours. OKOROR b.

MCCLELLAN. Hon. F. 0. Prince.

Boston. Continuing. the chairman said: We are on the military branch just now. (Laughter and applause.) As you observed. our representative, the citizen-soldier.

showed in his gait marks of a bullet which he got before the South was reconstructed. (Laughter.) 1 'am reminded that until within a few years from the time of my early boyhood 1 had the honor of knowing a straight. dignified gentleman who had but oue arm. and that missing arm he had lost in lighting the British iu the war of 1812. and lie was your neighbor.

Colonel Aspinwall. (Applause.) He died at 90 years of age. a few years ago. and we cannot have him here. (Laughter.) But he left a son.

beaming all over with Democratic spirit and hope and fidelity, and today he was nominated as councillor from the district in which he lives; and he is here tonight not to make a speech. nor did he come here with the intention of making a speech; but I told him that as he had seconded the nomination of Mr. Prince at Worcester. and this was his own stamping ground here before this people, and that 1 thought he ought. as Wendell Phillips says.

"to stand up and be counted" among those who come here to ratify this nomination. and 1 ask him to say to you whether he has lost faith in his nominee so far. (Laughter and applause.) Mr. Aspinwall was given a most hearty reception as he came upon the platform. He said: MR.

PRESIDENT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. FELLOW- CITIZENS OF MASSACHUSETTSFor I believe that there are here represented more than the city of Boston the neighboring towns and cities are here tonight to CHve Their Support, so far as they can. to the ticket nominated at Worcester. I have been a little at a loss to know why my friend Woodbury has called upon me tonight, but I have come to the conclusion that he is unwilling to figure here alone as eye of the patriarchs of the Democratic party (applause and laughter), and that he means that I shall show my bald head (laughter and applause) as one man who belongs to the Democracy of the old as well as the Democracy of the present time.

(Applause.) went to Worcester, and there were two reasons which led me to go. These were my anxiety to see that a proper platform was voted by the party, and that Grover Cleveland was supported by the unanimous sentiment of that convention. (Applause.) I wanted to see that the ltemocratic Presiderit, whom we have elected after twenty-eve years of hard effort, should he sustained in his ()dice by the sanction of the votes of Massachusetts from one end to the other. (Applause.) And 1 am happy to say that my fears were allayed, and that 1 every thing was done there that could expect or hope. Then I wanted to see a proper platform adopted.

There was no exception to take to that platform, except that perhaps there were two or three things which I should have liked to have put in there. 1 should like to have seen a the old doctrine of Andrew Jackson. that hard money was the money for the people as well as for the governinent-1 should have liked to have seen that strengthened and corroborated by the Democrats of they best to saynothing about that. because the State issues were more important than the national. The other planks have been referred to.

but there is one which lies very near to my heart upon which nothing has been said. allude to the opposition of the Democratic party to breaking up The Constitutional rriVilege of this Commonwealth to pass their judgment upon the acts of the government every year (applause), and their opposition to electing a government for two or three or four years. I believe that is at the foundation of our republican government; it is one of the principles announced in our bill of rights of government that frequent elections are the safeguard of the people. (Applause.) 1 think we should not change our constitution so as to elect our governmant for two or three or any number of years. Another reason why I went to the convention was my desire to see my friend Frederick O.

Prince nominated. We nominated him. and now 1 believe we will eiect him governor of llassachusetts. (Applause.) Florida, he continued. was acquired rider a Democratic administration.

So was Texas. Oregon. which comprises et erything north ot California. all acquired under Democratic government and all. acOrtling to Dr.

Hale, an enormous mistake. What has the Republican party acquired? Alaska, and that is all they have ever anti Dr. Hale did lel tell us that was a mistake. I presume he would have said it was good thing because the Nveather is cold. and no Southern gentleman van live there.

I say to you. go to Ito) polls on the day of November and deposit the Democratic ballot, awl if You don't elect 'our candidate you will surprise SOille and have the satisfaction of deserving success. i (Applause.) Brilliant Arraignment of the Massa. chneette Itepishitenne. The ChairmanI ant very much blitzed Mr.

Aspinwall fur takini: oft of tity shoulders the imputation which my friend the secretary put when Ito lutroduced to you as the patriarch of tins meet I cover damage from his employer for personal injuries received in the discharge of his duty while obeying the directions of a superior vested by the employer with superintending authority. That resolution was adopted and made a part of the platform of the Democratic patty of that year. The following winter I appeared befz.re the legislative eounnittee on labor and urged some legislation uponethat question. We were there met by all the prominent gentlemen in the Republican party who are now so solicitous that the Legislature shall take Some action Anion this question. fighting with all their strength and energy to prevent any such legislation in behalf of the en.ploye.

We urged that it was absurd under the decisions in Dilassachuseits that the superintendent of the stony Brook railroad was a fellow-employe of the laborers killed by a train a hundred miles away upon the road, whom he never saw. and whose names he didn't even know. For three years we have been agitating this question; the Republican. party has had a majority of both branches of the Legislature, and they have refused to adopt this wise and salutary legislation. or to even give us the tiladstone bill, which has been the law in England for some So much for the sincerity of the Republican party upon that question.

They have had control of the Legislature of Massachusetts, but at last They Introduced a Resolution, finding that the public sentiment of Massa- chusetts is aroused, and there is an agita- ttvli eol iusopunob nre teehtl At their last con- three years uthpoeiym have failed to do it, and hope now to do something. Gentlemen, they are no more sincere in their legislation in relathin to weekly payments. Take them by what they have done, not by what they promise. aud how do they stand? We all know that within the last generation a great change has taken place in the manufacturing interests of Massa- can-Netts A generation 'ago employes were individuals; there wae a personal sympathy between employer and employe. If there was sickness of death in a family there wee an interest felt; but now.by the aggregation of capital while it is true.

that it makes tnaust articles of domestie use cheap. vet the condition of the laboring man and the skilled mechanic in alassachasetts has been constantly retrograding. until at last we have witnessed under our republican form of government what would seem could only exist in misgoverned countries like Preece and Eng land. 'The people of Massachusetts have found it for their protection to form the same kind of trade associations that have existed in those countries, and are now demanding the same recognition. Gentlemen, this sabject must be agitated.

Agitation agitation! is what accomplishes relief and preserves the government. We must agitate these timings from now until the day of election to succeed, gentlemen. in this campitign. If we don't succeed we deserve to, and I would rather stand on a platform of honest principles with men of integrity and honor and fail. than to be triumphant with Unworthy Jerineiplea and Unworthy Men.

(Great applause.) But, In closing I would say we have not chosen an unworthy man. We have presented for the suffrages of the people of Massachusetts a man of unimpeachable character. a man who would "feel a stain upon his honor like a wound." We have known him from his earliest boyhood. as a pupil in time public schools, as a graduate of Harvard University, as a lawyer practising in all our courts, as the trustee for large estates, as the chief exs ecutive of the city of Boston for more than four yearsand no man has ever questioned his honor and integrity. The same fidelity for which he has been noted to his clients and his private trusts he has carried into public life.

and has always felt that "public office was a public trust" which was to be administered for the benefit of all citizens. Personally no man is more kind or genial. During his four years' official life as chief magistrate of this city. a position really requiring a greater degree of executive ability and capacity than the governorship of this Commonwealth, he has been approachable by all; the humblest man or woman who called at the office received his attention and his time. every complaint or business was beard with patience.

and such relief afforded them as the circumstances permitted him to give. The lawyer and time scholar have consulted him as an authority, and he left that office receiving the commendation of members of all political parties. We have faith that asigovernor of Massachusetts he will maintain the same high standard of honor in that position that has marked his career during the sixty years he has lived in Boston. and placing such a man in the gubernatorial chair Nye are certain that Massachusetts will honor herself more than it is possible to honor Frederick O. Prince.

(Enthusiastic applause.) CONGRESSMAN LOVERING. Lynn's Representative Speaks for the Administration. The chairman, Hon. Patrick A. Collins, whom we expected to have had here with us tonight to cheer us with his voice and encourage us with his enthusiasm, I am sorry to say, is laid on a sudden bed of sickness.

We have a telegram from him this evening as follows: CITY 21. 1885. Colonel J. W. Coveney.

No. 252 Washington street: Telegram received. sorry I cannot attend meeting; probably cannot leave home until Friday. P. A.

COLLINS. Ile is one of the representatives of the Democracy in the House of Representatives at Washington from the State of Massachussetts. We cherish those two gentlemen as jewels (great applause), for they represent the hearts and intelligence and the fidelity which belong to those who advocate Democratic principles. first. last and all the thne.

Fortunately for us, his associate in Congress, the Hon. Henry B. Lovering of Lynn, is here amongst us (great applause)the soldier, the statesman and the workingman. I present him to you for a few remarks on the issues of the day. (Great enthusiasm.) Congressman Lovering met with a most cordial welcome from the audience.

He spoke as follows: FELLow-DEMOCRATS OF BOSTONI felt It my duty. even at some personal inconvenience to myself, to be here with you this evening, and to add my mite to the success of this glorious outpouring of the Democracy of Boston, notwithstanding the down-pourings Of the elements outside. I have listened to the eloquent argements of time gentlemen who have preceded me somewhat akin to dismay at finding myself in time position of gentleman Vim() came in at a late hour on an occasion of this sortthe Heft or My Ammunition has been fired away; but I am glad to see that it has produced an effect on you (applause), falling from time lips of those gentlemen, which I fear would not have been the fact if I had given utterance to those truths myself. Representing, as I do, the Democracy of the State of Massachusetts in the halls of Congress, it is fitting for me, perhaps, at the outset of my remarks, to say a word in regard to the national outlook. You have been told how we have struggled for the past querter of a century to obtain the proud position which we- occupy today as a party.

We elected last fall, by the aid of the gooi, solid. honest. conscientious connnen sense of the American people, a man to the office of chief magistrate of the nation who is every inch a president. (Loud applause.) He is Peculiarly and entirely animated with a high and patriotic purpose to administer the great duties of the office in which the American people have placed him, with an eye single to the glory and the adva-ncement of the American nation. (Applause.) Much has been said from time to time of what the Democratic administration has accomplished in the short seven months of its existence.

The eloquent gentlemen who preceded me have drawn a lecture for you. and I agree with them in every word which they have uttered. The Democratic party 61 toda an the eyes of all our countrymen. is not tier despised Demo-credo party of a year and a half or two years ago. We have thus far.

in the few months of our Pational existence. given preof to time people of time nation that the Democratic party means well and proposes to keep its pledges plighted at Chicago. (Applause.) And in my travels among time people, not only Of time State of Massachusetts, but of all other Stetes also, I found Seine men not of our political faith who were fair and honest enough to admit that. in the hands of Grover Cleveland, much has been accomplished in the way of honest reform. (Loud cheeriug.) I am Glad to be With You here this evening.

my fellow-citizens, not to enter into a long argument. I am glad to be with you this evening and in with you hi the ratification of that excellent ticket which was put to the front in the aVorcester conventiona ticket made up of gentlemen well-known and honored and respected in thet localities in which they reSitia and in their various eallings in life Every man's shoulder should he pet to time wheel. and tnen we limey reasonably eepect to elect rm largo it that ticket. It is an "oil" r. krmov nd theme appears to he a lack of enthusiasm on both sbieS of the bowie.

But we are timid to these timings. VA have the advantage of fighting this in the State of alassachesetts in the suelight of a tuitional Democratic administrationsomething Whieh Many of us in our life. and very few, too, in or hysieal livers have net be- I fore eeen, Gem lemn, the speaker who has I preceded hije. sir. tfarganh has made timer tioyt 4,1 a lat Limlm, situated am I atm know ta he true, that there is a feeling of uneaelneeseof unmet, within time ranks of own local affairs.

how can it assure us of its belief in the capacity of the same people to control by their ballot the important affairs of politics and statesmanship in State and nation? (Applause.) On two re. cent occasions the Legislature of Massachusetts Ilan set off new towns and named them for men of wealth, who petitioned for such legislation. 1 ealthy men and great corporations find it easy to secure legislation from the Republican Legislature. With what ease can legislation he obtained in behalf of the baling masses of the people? The Repnk.tan platform recommends to the Legishi ture the consideration of certaut at udry: the di last uttwi.loe labor measures. For one I rejoice in the Pledge.

In my experience in the Legisla- oho-is served that the Republican majority has ever given any consmeration to such measures. A prominent Republican who has been nominated by his party for the State sea-ate said in the debate on the weekly payment bill: -What the laborers prefer in this matter we are not entitled to consider. The principle is wrong', and it is but a step further to say how touch they shall be paid. It is not in consonance with our free institutions. It is more like the government of the autocrat of Russia to pasts compulsory legisla- tion on is subject than the Lepublican Legisl thature of Massachusetts." Ills party agreed with him and killed this measure, although it was recommended by the Governor, indorsed by the press and Petitioned for by the People.

Tho same Republican Legislature re. jeeted the fortnightly payment bill. the em. ployer's liability bill. the arbitration bill and the bill in relation to the employment of women in mercantile establishments.

and yet the Republican convention placed sirch a low estimate on the intelligence of the men favoring these measures. as to suppose that a Promise to support them next year will bring votes to the Republican ticket. 'A platform should be a declaration of principles. (Applause.) It the Republi. can party has turned about and is willing in the future to favor these measures.

its platform should explicitly say so. A recommendation that the next Legislature consider these questions when we bear in mind the record of the party is an exhibition of sublime confidence in the credulity of the voters of the State. (Applause.) What does the Republican party today in Massachusetts stand for? Not for the welfare and prosperity of the masses of the people; not for the hopes and aspirations of the humble and the lowly. No! It stands for their disfranchisement and exclusion from public confidence- (Applause.) It stands for Blaineism and all that it repro. sents: it defenas the iliegal, extravagant and unbusinesslike administration of many departments of the State government.

(Applause.) The Democratic party stands for Grover Cleveland (applause) and an honest national administration; for confidence in, popular government; for manhood suffrage, local sell-government and the amelioration of the condition of the working people of this Commonwealth. (Applause.) At Worcester the Democratic party selected their standard-bearers to represent the Democratic principles. We have met here tonight to ratify those nominations Every man ou the ticket has proven In the past his fidelity to the principles and declarations of the platform. On the Democratic ticket there is no, scoffer at the rights of labor and no conspicuous opponent of every great reform. (Applause.) The candidates need no eulogy and no defence.

They are all worthy of the suffrages of the people. and if elected will give to this Commonwealth an administration of which all lovers of good government may feel justly proud. (Applause.) Massachusetts will do herself honor by elecuag them. JOHN M. Eloquent Speech by the -Young Itepres sentative from Charlestown.

The chairmanWe have reserved the choicest morsel for the last. I shall present to you that eloquent gentleman whose voice in the Legislature last year was raised in opposition to these iniquitous measures which have been discussed so long. and I think that you will be cheered and enlightened by the eloquence and the wisdom of his remarks. I present to you Mr. John R.

Murphy of Charlestown. (Applause.) John R. Murphy of Charlestown who was warmly applauded. said: MR. CHAIRMAN.

LADIES AND FELLOWCITIZENS-1 prefer to stick to the text as laid down by our worthy chairman. When he opened this meeting he said that the best wine was presented -always first. I take it under the circumstances that the worst one comes at the tail. (Laughter.) In View of that fact any extended remarks would be out of place. I had intended to say some few words in behalf the ticket that the party has placed in the held.

hoping they might have some weight. hut the eloquent gentlemen who have preeeded use have taken nearly all my thunder away from me. I can, however. say this, that as one of the rank and tile, that the ticket ee have placed in nomination is second te none, no better names could be placed there than those of the gentlemen wile will, I trust. lead it to victory.

I believe we have many interests that could be placed before the people that would have such an importance in their eyes that they would come to the coucluMon that their interests demanded that they should support the Democratic party in the coming campaign. State issues. to my mind, are the real important issues for us to consider. In our State, we have a barren strip of territory. whose wealth lies in its laboring classes, and it is importart that their interests should be considered in.

the Legislature. in the legislatures that have met in the past it has 'oeen truly and well said that when the workingman of the State comes forward and asks for anpport, that he is thrown out of doors without one solitary consideration being aceorded him. And. as if as an insult. they have placed upon the Republican ticket a man who has fought in the Legislature every bill having for its object the interests of the laborer.

That same man now claims to be the laboring man's friend. Ile has tired of the role of the annual Irishman, and has taken up that of the annual workingman's friend. I need hardly say refer to Mr. Beard of Boston. (Laughter.) If the laboring classes knew what stands behind him they would stand together anti give him such a defeat at the polls on eleos tion day that it would stand forth as a warning in all future time to all men who staud forward as the opponents of equal rights.

Republicanism is hypocritical from the beginning to the end, and in no portion more so than in that portion where they refer to the labor interests of the Cone-nenwealth, and recommend to the Legislature of Massachusetts that they take into consideration the labor bills.knowing full well that when these measures come before the Legislature the men who. as in the past year, will stand forth as the opponents of these righteous aces are the Republican members of the Legislature of Massachusetts. I believe in civil service reform with a mental reservation. I can hardly bring myself to believe in the civil service reform laws enacted and carried out in this State-I would believe in it if operated melee fairly and equitably, provided both parties had equally the same rights and privileges, that they have not got today. The Republican party in the last Legislature by their acts gave the lie to their claim to be the friend of the soldier.

A law was sought to be enacted making exemption as regards the soldier in the operation of the civil service reform law. Every feeling of gratitude demanded that the soldier should receive censideration. The Legislature passed that law, but when it went to the Senate, in order to protect the Governor from the soldier and from the civil service reformer. they made con of a couple of senators and defeated that bill. a righteous and just bill which the interests the soldier demanded should be passed.

We want that the people shonid elect to the Legislature men who shad be worthy councillors of the gentlemen who are upon our ticket. when they have won the suscess that should be theirs. (Applause.) Cheers for Prince and Gilmore and the rest of the ticket brought to a closes feast of Democratic eloquence and enthusiasm. Mill Ooeratoves Bring Suits for Injuries. FALL RIVER, October 21.The result of the suit against the American Linen Mill.

in which the plaintiff last week recovered a verdict of over $4000 for the loss of a hand. has led to other suite of a similar ture for injuries received. A suit has now enterod against the Tecumseh Mills to 1111 over coinages of $20,000 for the loss of a In tile plaintiff, then a lad of 12 years. WitS work in the spinning room of the mill. While engaged one day in cleaning a niu7e he NV cau.tht by the cart of another mule anti his leg was crushed.

The limb was amputated. and a second alumna. tiou was performed a short time afterwards. Wrecked by a Horse and Suzay INDIANAPOLts. October 21.The through express train on the Pau Handle road front Louisville to Chicago.

which left here at 11 o'clock last night. struck a bolza anti batiqzy tt Sharpss Howard comity. at 1 o'clock tills 1taL, ttni was wrecked. The and two cars thrown from the track, and Eligin-er Coorge Crawford wus crushed under the engine. No other person WaS allured.

Renshaw of Gloucester Guilty. LAWRENCK. October 21---In the Superiot Court this afteruoon, the jury returned a oerilict of guilty in the ease of Thomas Renshaw of imPcted for assault with a tialiqerous weapon. accompanied with a recowtotaitLitioli to mercy. EttibORSED.

Continued from the First Cage. F. O. PRINCE. A Sterling Address by the Peo ple.

Candidate for Governor. Hon. Frederick, O. Prince, who was most enthusiastically received, spoke as follows: MR. PRESIDUNT, LAMA AND GENTLENT ENI beg Yon to accept my best and most grateful thanks ior this most nattering reeeption.

much more than I deserve. 018 Is a ratification meethiga meeting' to ratify the nominations of the Worcester Convention. it is not to be expected that I should speak on the occasion. Perhaps I ought not to bo here, but the committee requested my presence, me thank the eloquent speaker who has and I ebeYed the ennimons. just tiken his seat; let me thank the etcquent speakers who are to follow him for the kind words that have been said and that are to be said in behalf of the ticket.

Let me thank yott also. my fellow-citizens. for the kind endorsement which you have given, for what has been already said, and as I may anticipate your endorsement of what is coming I will thank you also for that in advance. (Applause.) I am honored far beyond my deserts, far beyond any claim that I have upon the party. in being selected as its gubernatorial candidate at this time when there were so many who would have well represented the cause, and represented it with more success, probably, than I shell.

As tile president has well said, the doctrine of our party is "principles rather than men, measures rather than men." It is more important that the principles and ideas of tne party should be represented than that any particular individual should represent them. If the candidates are honest and trustworthy, reliable and capable. that is enough. Another word please ellow me. I would congratulate Yon.

my fellow-citizens. on the hopeful enthusiasm which anhnates The Democratic Heart at this time all over the country. Our party has been deprived from all participation in the administration of the government for more than a quarter of a century, notwithstanding that during all this time it contaibed a minority so large that the numerical difference between it anti its opponent was inconsiderableso inconsiderable that manY whose opinions are entitled to respect believed that during Seine of the more re- cent elections, when our candidates were defeated. that we had the popular majority On our side if we did not have a majority of electoral votes. (Applause.) Now there is no mistake about this.

All the figures show it, and it is a defect in our politieal system that it minority, no matter how large it may be. has no representation in the government. We here in Massachusetts know something of thia injustice. (Applause.) During alit this time of our ex- pulsion. as I may call it, frojn office.

during all these years when we have been kept out of nice, during all this exclusion we have told the country over and over again that our national and local allairs were being mismanaged, and that all the interests of the country required that they should come under Democratic control. Why. the chief issue in.the last presidential election was made here, and the results haVO shown that the people have believed what we have charged upon our opponents. and that all our allegations were trite. The chief executive, President Cleveland (applause), is administering the government on the principles of the Chicago platform, and although we bave bad but a few months of power these principles have accomplished an infinity of good.

they have created reform in every branch of the civil government and introduced new and improved methods of carrying On the public businese so that everywhere there is confidence of an improved future. All patriotic citizens cons cede that our President is administering the duties of his great office successfully. All admit this who are not blinded by the prejudices el party and by party bigotry; for there are some persons that Will Not bee the Sun when be is shining at mid-day; there are some persons who will not believe that anything good can come out of Democracy, and let me say that a good many of those persons live here in the State of Massachusetts. (Applause and laughter.) Now, as national affairs have been brought under the control of Democratic ideas and Democratic policy. local affairs.

our home affairs. should receive the attention of the party, for there is reformatory work to be done here in the State of Massachusetts as well as at NVashington. (Applause.) The platform adopted by the Worcester Convention sets forth in clear and unambiguous terms what our citizens want and svhat they hope to have welter Or later. It is but the repetition of principles stated by the party over and over again. year after year, and I am glad to say and to cobgratulate you that those principles are growing fast into favor here.

and that we have a right to expect that before leng they will prevail. (Applause.) Why. if we only had the same right of voting which they have in other States of the Union, which they have even down in the Gulf we shouid have such a majority of the voters in this Commonwealth that would not only keep our party in power, but bring our party into power and keep it there for a quarter of a century. The great ideas touching the nature and functions of the governmeet, touching government as a science which has distinguished the Demoerat le party from the earliest days of its organization. its just conceptions of the principles of administration.

its readiness to adopt reforms demanded by progress and its capacity to appreciate changes and new conditions are being more and more and make us feel assured that the time is not far distant when we shall see the grand old Commonwealth awake from its slumbers of complacent satisfaction with thinga as they are and catch up with her sister States in the march of reform. (Applause.) Democrats of Massachusetts have fought so many battles and endured so many defeats without losing courage or hope, or abating in the least their convictions that they should not falter Dow. when the victory is in view they should continue the contest with more persistence than ever. (Applause.) MON. 'THOMAS J.

OARGAN II. Ilibows ljp Republican Weakness and Endorses Cleveland. The ChairmanYou will listen now to one whom you know very well. and whose eloquence has often fired the hearts of the citizens of Massachusetts and carried consternation to our foes. I Will introduce to you lion.

Thomas J. Gargan. (Applause.) Hon. Thomas J. (Jargan.

who was loudly applauded. said: MIL PRESIDENT. LADLES ANT) GENTLEMEN AND have assembled here this evening. in mass "fleetingfto perpetuate a custom that is as old as Eoston itself. for within a stone's throw of this spot where we now are the government of this republic was founded.

There Sat'n Adams. the North End mechanic, and 'there James Otis told the people that their prosperity and their welfare depended upon the maxim that government to be administered justly should rest with the people. That government of the people founded in lioston at mass meeting has lived for more than a century. For the first time in a quarter of a century, in March last, we beheld the candidate of the Democratic party, elected by the people. take his seat as the chief inagistrate of the nation.

'Ws are here to congratulate ourselves upon the success of that administration during the last six tuouths. Look at the cabinet. lie flax placed a man in the chair of the secretary of state of such a fine sense of honor that no citizen need hang his head, thinking that he is engaged in any guano eontracts. Ile has placed a man at the head of the Treasury Department who has administered the affairs of the government with more ability than we have seen for many years. Ile has placed in the chair of the secretary of the interior a nem who had the courage to investigate one of the crying eVIIS of this country.

We have said to the aborigines of the country that if certain tribes would move Westward they would be guaranteed their lands. how hate these treaties been respected. Their lands have hoen taken from Olean, Here in Tremont Temple, ex- Governor Long presided at the meeting and Senator Dawes protested that justice should be done the Indians. but it was not Until Grover Cleveland said to those men who had invaded those rights. "The rights of these people shall be respected.

and although they are not citizens and have no vote. the government of the United States Is pledged that these poor wards of the nation shall be protected. I give von sixty or ninety (lays to leave the territory." And they did it. ((ireat applause.) lie, has placed In the position of attorileygeneral a man who will not permit any Star route thieves to escape by the collusion of prominent The documents in that eltice and in the district attorney's otlice will be so protected hint indictments against well-ktiowit thieves shall not he s(oleil from Ulf) office. (Applause.) So far le the belectien of his calii: net be has given evidence that he desires to put there JoiCit of honesty ability and capacity.

Ile has placed in the mostdinsportant position in the cabinet, bccause it is where the nation is weakest, the navy, he hag placed there a corruutiltle. holiest man. (ApplauSe,) the proceed FORAKER AT JAMESTOWN. Ile Waves the Moody Shirt and Mabee Excuses tor the Republican Party. JAmesTowfe, N.

October G. B. Foraker, governor-eWet of Ohio. spoke over two hours In Allen' Opera I louse thie evening to an anaience tilling it completely. Ile contrasted the causes which led to the going out of power of the Democratic party twenty-five years and the Repubilcan a year ago.

lie said that the achievements of the Republican partY met tith univemal approbation now. and asserted that had there been a free ballot and an honest count in the Souttt It would still be In power. Ile defended the "bloodr shirt" policy. Ile said it was nut reviving memories Of the war. but was necessitated by occurrences wilco the coullict, and contrasted it with Fitz Hugh Lee's campaign in The Demoerats he continued, promised to look over the books.

count the mune), end restore prosperity. The former wo premises they had performed, but the Ittst was unredeemed. Ihie country was iookiug to FresWent Cleveland for his policy. if he'pronounced for protection the third promise would be performed, but free trade would intensil the present depressed condition of business. BURTON'S MURDER OR SUICIDE.

What the Invretlaation 'Yesterday Revealed Is the Newpora Case. NEWPORT. R. October 21.Tuesday. October 6.

Newport was startled by the announcement that Benjamin Burton, a well-known colored business man of Newport. had committed suicide at his home on Lem street by shoothni himself In the head awl breast. No suspicion was breathed that the deceased came to his death from any other cause than that assigned. and the body was buried by the relatives with the usual public services. Scarcely 2 however.

had the burial taken Place before Italy rumors were afloat The attention of the authorities was called to the matter and an autopsyordered. This WEIN held on Saturday last, and an examination was held in the Common Council chamber in the City I fall this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. Cormier Stanlione presided. and read the names of thirty persons who had been summoned as witnesses, Of these only the following had testified up to 6.15 tonight, when the examination adjourned to tomorrow at 9 o'clock Maria A. I orsey and Emma E.

Burton, daughters of the deceased Allen Dorsey. deceased's aon-in-law Mrs. Frank Trager, Mary Stoddard. neighbors; Charles Harrington. clerk hi Mr.

Burton's office; Drs. II. E. timer. S.

W. Francis. S. H. Sears and C.

F. Barker. who made the autopsy: C. B. Mason.

superintendent of the transfer company in which deceased was interested; Police Officers Charles Stevens and T. L. Freeborn. 'leek-son Carter, the family milkman; and Jet. ferson Morris, a colored neighbor.

From the testimony of these witnesses very little that was new was obtained. No reason was shown for the suicide. The children testified that their father had been despondent for several months. and on one occasion had said to them that he should not be with them much longer. NVlien the eldest daughter found her father lying on the kitchen floor, and screamqd that he had shot himself, her husband, Dorsey, the only man in Um house, came down stairs and looked into the kitchen; but notwithstanding that he bad been two years a student in the Medical Un iversity of Pennsylvania, he did not go near the body, but went to the stables to send some one after a doctor.

hr. Francis, who was the first physician to arrive on the premises. and who immediately had the body plaeed on a table. testified that he did not believe that it was possible for a man. whether shot by himself or bY somebody else, to fall In the position in which he found the body of Mr.

Burton. That many eiremnstances surround the affair which would indicate foul play there is no question. but the indications tonight are that the actual facts in the case will always remain a mystery. Three Pennsylvania Desperadoes. rITTSBLIIIG, October 21.

The deputy United States tnarshals are hourly expected to arrive iu this city with three prisoners. who belong to one of the most extensive gangs of desperadoes which ever infested the tnountains of Pennsylvania. One night. several weeks ago, three men rode up to the Post oilice at Freeland, and commanded the postmaster to deliver all the money in his possession. Ile was directed to open the safe, and when he refused, one of the trio deliberately shot him.

Ile refused even after he was wounded. and did not give up the struggle until laid low by a blow. The post office was tilled then of all the cash, postage stamps and pestal cards. and the wounded pestmaster was left lying on the floor. From the post onice I be rubbers proceeded to the Town Hall of Freeland, where a fair had been in progress.

Here the desperadoes commanded everybody to throw up their hands. Two of them covered the party with their revolvers. while a third collected everything of value that could be carried oil. and made it up in a bundle. College Men in Convention.

MERIDEN, October 21.The thirty-ninth annual convention of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity opened in this city at 9 o'clock this morning. The session was a secret business meeting, and was attended by about fifty delegates in addition to numerous visiting members of the order. The audience was a large and fashionable one, completely tilling the opera house. and containing several hundred college students In full dress. and much of the best society of this and neighboring cities.

The delegates will hold a business session tomorrow morning after which they will go by special train to Middletown and become the guests of the Wesleyan chapter. under whose auspices the convention is being held. This evening at Middletown, lion. John D. Long of the Harvard chapter will preside.

Senator M. C. Butler of the South Carolina chapter will deliver an oration anti Julian Hawthorne of the Yale chapter will read a poem. After these exercises the convention will return to this city and hold a banquet at the Winthrop House. Seriously Injured While Blasting.

WaTKRTOWN. October 21.Edward Man. ning and Lawrence Sweeney. residing on North Beacon street, Brighton. were seriously injured in the face, eyes and internally by the premature explosion of a powder blast today.

They were employed, together with some thirty-live other workmen, by .1. E. Cassidy of NN atertown, and were cligaged in tilling a marsh, owned by Mr. Cassidy, near laneuil. 'Ahoy were at work blasting a clay batik.

As one charge did not explode. they went to retrim the hole. and not us ng water enough. the powder exploded, throw leg them several feet into the air. They worked for awhile afterward.

hitt later i Ir. Kelley of 'Watertown vvits called. and ordered their removal to the Massachusetts tretieral I lospital. Their faces and bodies are blackened with powder, but the greatest fear is for their eyesight. Both are Sweeney has half a dozen children, while Manning has two.

Little Pedlar Laughed at fhem OTTAWA, October 21.After a fight at Cut Knife Hills. Little Poplar. a Cree chief, who is married to a Crow squaw from the United States. started south with about twenty-five of his band, hopini in this way to avoid capture. After he was safely across the lino lie was visited by others of the I kiminion police, who endeavored to get Win to return yeaceably to Canada.

at which suggestion the knowing chief laughed. The authorities here seem perfectly willing that the United States government shall entertain Little Poplar and his hand during the coming winter. Little Poplar claims to be an American Indian. Believers on the Faith PHILADY.LPHIA, October 21.Abont 125 men and women, whose religious feeling has carried them to a belief in divine cures answered the call for a Christian convention. which assembled this morning at Institute Ibill.

to commune upon the power of the holy spirit to arrest. disease. Rev. Dr. W.

Clift of this eity was made chairman. and opened the proceedings with prayer. Carrie F. Judd of Buffalo. N.

made an address. Mrs. Baxter of the Faith Home. in London. was present and spoke, reassuring her audience of power of the divine rule to cure disease through faith.

Hanged in His Cell. October eveninir Cheney 1oyd. a farmer belonging in Rutland. committed suicide in the police thee by strangling himself. Boyd was arrested this afternoon.

lie was found at 6.10 o'clock in the cell bending over with his ileck caught in his handkerchief: his handkerchief was tied to a bar in the 4ell door. 911,1 through tlie noose be bad placed ids bead. Ile wit4 not dead when found, but all efforts to revive him failed. ritlftOn C. Warren's radars.

NEw yogic, October 21.The liabilities of 1orton C. Warren, lace importer, at 47 Oren street. who failed today. 000; asaets. i125000 I urysi n.ws., 1 000; asbototh to have the laws enforced." And under his leadership.

on the pretext that Psosion was incapable of controlling its local affairs, a great department of the city was placed under the management of officials appointed by the Governor. A right of which De Tocqueville spoke as "the very life of American liberty" was thus taken-from the people of Boston. (Applause.) I cen speak as one of the Democratic opponents of that iniquitous measure. the metropolitan police bill, and say that I never for a moment questioned the nevessit of a change in the police commission of Boston. But the Democratic representatives and a low fair-minded Republicans did argue that the place to secure a remedy was at the office of the able.

efficient and honest Mayor of Boston. The men who were loudest in their call for a metropolitan police bill have never made complaint to the Mayor of Boston. The position the Democrats assumed was that it was not within the province of the State to interfere with tne local administration of the cities and towns. They regarded the measure as "an attempt to disturb the corner-stone of the fabric of government." (Appiause.) The Plymouth colony and the Massachusetts colony were both founded upon the principles of local control of matters purely local. In this principle was the germ of the republic.

The patriotic maintenance of this vital principle gave us this Commonwealth and the free United States. The historic significance of this measure to a citizen of Boston is impressive. In 1876 Robert C. Winthrop selected as the subject of his masterly oration, "A Century of Self-Government Completed." In 1885 the Republican party in Massachusetts wrote in the statutes of the State: "Self-Government, a Failure at Boston. the Place of its Birth." "Here," Sam Adams.

speaking of Boston, "the child Independence was born." The Democrats of Alassachusetts believe that in Boston there still survives sufficient virtue. intelligence and public spirit for the redress of any local grievance without calling upon the litepresentativeo of Ilorkshiro and the Cape. (Applause.) Making here our home, and bringing up about us our children, who can have a greater interest in the preservation of public morals and the enforcement of the laws than the citizens of Boston themselves? (Applause.) It is a sad sight for a lover of our institutions to witness this assault on the right of local self-goverument, one of the most cherished and peculiarly American institutions. Boston. for education.

refinement, civilization, literature and the arts, the first city tut this continent. (Applause.) Boston, whose charitable and benevolent institutions are second to none in the world. (Applause.) Boston. where liberty was born and self-government first established! Boston, unfit for self-government! Although written in the statute of the Commonwealth. it is a false.

foul, partisan libel. (Applause.) The peoole of Boston. inspired by the memory of Hancock, and Adams. and Otis, and the patriotic recollections of Bunker Hill and Faneuil Hall are as well to discharge the duties of government as any community in the world. There is a class of legislation now becoming common to which public attention should be directed.

It is based on the idea of the incapacity of the people for the management of their own affairs. A law was passed during the session of the present year by which the public library, an important institution of a certain town, was taken from the control of the town government and vested in trustees named in the act for the term of their natural life. Until the death of one of the trustees the town can have no voice in the selection of the agents to expend its appropriation. Another law was passed authorizing a certain city to turn over to a corporation the management of its public libsary forever, the city still to continue to make appropriations br its maintenance. but never to have any control in the management of its affairs, except a iepresentation of three on a hoard of twelve trustees.

The allegrst purpose of such legislation is to take these matters out of pol.ties. bat I do not believe that the politics et Massachusetts have reached such a low ebb that the cities and towns are not capable of Managing Their Pubicie Libraries. Ta Ling these matters 'out of politics is taking them out of popular control. (Applause.) A few exclusive Individuals prefer to manage these matters themselves rather than to allow the majority of the People to exercise in the good old-fashioned way the proper control of them. To follow the reasonn ng.

of the advocates of these meastires to its legitimate conclusion. the government oi" all ileum titit'lltS of our cities and towns can best be administered by conferritte; all control tat tru-tees elected tor lite. anti divcAing the cittiteis of all man, agt unlit ot their Itca rlghts. (Applause.) If tile Itepulnice.n party doei not believe that thero is stittaic2t anti public spirtt in our cities and towns for the tuanaeutent of their If( I 1( 1 'N. tootle of her colonies.

It was Bahl in relitt tIon to Ireland. "Oh, tut if we grant you tome rule you ill want absolut separa: lion." (Groat applause.) "Ali." said the lecturer. "it is easy to 800 what you N'it," (Renewed applause.) I dont knoW what the Irish people 112 Ilroland may want, hut I do now this. if a votte for wero Liken of .10,000,000 of Irish in 11; America I think that they would to a mon vo absolute eparation. id if with- out a king they would vote for au repliiiiie.

Apphosse.) lila if they aro icailsiied at britou with legislative Inde vve are content. and we advise Engln ad to grant that or stiay have to I 1 i urt her awl tare V. (Applause.) one thing is certain. ClitillOt go to war wit li the tilted mates. Ting country cutt hot a her ears at ny tittle and she doeti not resent it Elightnit doesn't want to give hi me ruin to Ireland.

for that L. would make Ireland prosperous. and she come into competatiou with English Ireland now stands united, intelligent 6 and erect. Slie ter 5lootes to the yptiatis, and says; "Let zny people go." lion Charles Stewart, Parnell, with his follotsers goes into l'arlianwilt tot asks tor home rule for Ireland, if Lowland does not grant that no mats can t) tto, cooeoquences, (Ap plase.) 'filers Ai no power odi earth that ill keep down in ng creasi radicalism of tho Irish Aeoplo. (Great iiiiplausio.

Iris11111011 HILLY some of the n1(1110414 of wartare he resorted to, tut their won't cry. A pplause.) It conellishin of the lecture retiolut- Ufa. of plitiniithy with OW CkitISO were anti the followi ng telegram to Mr. Ii l'rtioll was read amid loud ttopilinsei 11.61 Irish A riteriearis a Now York a meeting e.y the tilltor of the New II ork pion. i A jilbila exlrrioetool of thrir laid isivtlironee of their support.

and 1 to Int. Vitiony to aid to you: attune let Isigislei. 011' I A A Minister Disgraced, MILWACKICK. October 21. Rev.

Enoch inventor clir the Prouty print. J1114 vrevt. ban 13114.1111'0111 itntee In the LaPLot nun irory. An ecclesiastical council, tollinoseil 414evates from 1aP11fit 1litirclioim of lit lint, Janesville, Afton and (is ford stile, convtotell at, yestrrdaY, 111,1 iii (fitirms ero preterred "I'st kroll I A Jacl 4)1 business utu-k-rity, of nit with is certain nunnt ivrinurly wilithor Lelott. The 0 1 a a 1 'I be 11 Waft itillUtIOU 'Li i-caulum was amused tu reading over.