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THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1901. in was a standing order, as was the order to attack at once in case the enemy appeared. STARTED FOR THE ENEMY. 4T think," he said, "that everybody started in when the enemy's vessels appeared in sight; it was. their duty, to attack, and I remember that I had feeling of satisfaction at that time that there was a standing order to close in, the possibility of accident in executing that movement." The witness also said, in responding to another question from Mr.

Hanna, that while he had seen the Texas he had not noticed which way she was heading, as It was his especial concern to clear her. Speaking of the ranges used during the engagement, he said that they changed SO rapidly he could not undertake to give them, and he at last told the officers to decide the range for themselves. Captain Clark was also questioned regarding his statement, in chief that the Brooklyn had time during the engagement engaged four different vessels, and confirmed his previous testimony, saying that she was alongside all four of the enemy's ships, and in response to a question from Mr. Hanna as to whether there were not other American vessels engaged at the same time, he replied: "The Oregon was firing as fast as she could with her bow guns." Proceeding with the description, he said that for some time after the Viscaya went ashore, and when only the Colon was left of the enemy's vessels, the Oregon did not fire, and that when she did resume the work only the thirteen-Inch guns were used, with the exception of one or two shots from the eight-inch guns in the forward turret. "Did you fire the thirteen-inch gun in pursuance of a signal from the Brooklyn?" Mr.

Hanna asked, and the witness replied: "No, the thirteen-inch guns were fired after a conference with officers on board the Oregon. I had feared damage to a the gun mechanism and hesitated to use the guns, but decided to do so. If any signal was made from the Brooklyn I did not see it, and it was not reported to At this point the court took a recess for luncheon, after which Captain Lemly announced that he had no further questions. Mr. Rayner then asked: "Were any of the Spanish vessels run ashore or destroyed in the channel as provided in the standing squadron orders close and destroy the enemy in the channel?" "No.

sir." "Was the battle of July 3 completed in accordance with any squadron orders previously issued?" "No. sir." "Do you know anything about A signal to close up and follow the flag made by Commodore Schley from the Brooklyn?" remember a signal, 'Follow being made, because I ordered it repeated. We did close The court asked Captain Clark the following questions: "Did any of the enemy's ships indicate an intention of ramming our ships during the early part of the battle?" "Not that I know of. I saw nothing of it." "Did you at any time receive an order from either the Navy Department or the commander-In-chief of the North Atlantic Squadron not to expose the Oregon to the fire of land batteries?" "No, sir." Then Admiral Schley was called. NO HOSTILITIES IN PANAMA Captain Perry, of the lowa, Reports All Quiet on the Isthmus.

WASHINGTON, October Navy Department has received a mail report from Captain Perry, commander of the batt'eship Iowa, which is now watching over American interests at Panama, stating that affairs on the isthmus continue quiet and that there has been no material change in the situation. Captain Perry gives details of the firing by Colombian insurgents on the British steamer Quito, and the subsequent saluting by the insurgents of the British flag on the English gunboat Icarus, all of which was reported by cablegram at the time of its occurrence in September. A dispatch from Caracas says that the Venezuelan Government and the German legation have arranged the difficulty arising from the affray between German sailors and the police of Porto Cabello on October 6 last. The Venezuelan Government communicated to the German Minister the Information that the two men concerned in the attack on the German sailors had been arrested and would be tried. The German legation, therefore, notified the Venezuelan Government that it would consider the incident closed, while awaiting notification of the punishment of the offenders.

Advices from Colon, Colombia, say that the war ministry at Bogota has issued a notice that unseemly conduct, disobedience of the orders, any communication with the insurgents or evidence of peculation on the part of the officers of the Colombian army will be punishable by the instant dismissal from the army of the guilty men. Dishonorable conduct on the part of certain milltary men Las given rise to this. OUR TRADE IN EUROPE American Methods Not Satisfactory to Merchants Abroad. Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. WASHINGTON, October a report to the State Department Consul Hill, at Amsterdam, gave extracts from a letter recelved by him from the American Trading Company, of that city, on American bustness methods in Europe, as follows: "One of the reasons for the small sale of American furniture and other manufactures in Holland and European countries In general is the slow delivery, owing to the absence of stock in the factories.

"As to the European imitations of Amerlean specialties, we can state that they are not cheaper than American goods, and of very bad workmanship. But we are sure, if we showed this people their faults and supported the home trade, they would work as well as manufactures in the United States and we would not need to send money three months before we saw the goods; on the contrary, we would pay three months after invoice. "We have had an offer from British house to take goods on consignment. The managers propose to send us stock and to pay for all advertising. That would be the way for Americans to do business.

United States manufacturers do not understand how to treat European dealers. We never receive the goods at the right time; we also think, if we give bankers' guaranty in New York, the manufacturers could take the risk of sending the goods payable against shipment documents in Holland, lustead of New York. "We do not think American exporters will ever be willing to send stock on consignment, but it would be to their interest to keep samples in Europe, and Amsterdam would be the right place, being on the seacoast and the centre of a neutral country. "We are sure, If we could keep a permanent exhibition of American goods here, large buyers of Europe would come to examine them, and much trade could be done. We would be prepared to give American manufacturers every MILES WANTS NO CANTEEN Commanding General Believes Soldiers Better Off Without I It.

Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. WASHINGTON, October his report to the Secretary of War, Lleutenant General Miles takes Issue with the head of the department and the majority of army officers on the subject of the canteen. The report has not yet been made public, but it is known that the canteen question is one of its lending features, and that General Miles takes the broad ground that the welfare of the army no longer demands the canteen, and that consequently no necessity exists for the repeal of the anti-canteen law. What makes General Miles' present attitude on this question more remarkable than would otherwise have been the case is the fast that in the past he has been one of the strongest advocates of the canteen system, and was partly responsible for Its original Incorporation Into the army sygtem. According to General Miles' present beltef, the American soldier is better off without the canteen, with Its beer and light wines, and it is said he presents statistics to bear out his statement that the morale of the army has improved since the anticanteen law has been in operation.

Will You Go and See One of the Best Expositions! And a marvelous electrie illumination at Buffalo, A sight never to be forgotten. Pennsylvania Rallroad's last seven-day excursion from Philadelphia, $9 the round trip, October MACHINE FACES PATRIOTIC REVOLT Creasy Urges Voters to Unite Against Foes of Honest Government, Says Election Offers Opportunity for the Release of Commonwealth From Infamous Bondage. Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. HARRISBURG, October following address has been issued by Chairman Creasy, of the Democratic State committee: "To the voters of Pennsylvania: An extraordinary chapter in the history of Pennsylvania politics has just been recorded, one which should arrest the thoughtful attention of every citizen and arouse him to a sense of his bounden duty toward the Common wealth. In the conflict which has been waged ed with the persistent foes of honest government all efforts to protect the ballot box from pollution have been either openly and bitterly opposed, or sinister attempts made to nullify the fruits of intelligent and earnest work for ballot reform.

At every step, obstacles have been put in the way of the free and Independent exercise of the right of suffrage. Needless and vexatlous requirements have been insisted upon with the sole object of preventing the success at the polls of those non-partisan movements absolutely necessary at times to overcome the combined power of evil forces in public life. THE TREASURY RING TERRIFIED. tide of patriotic revolt against intolerable conditions, it was determined to break down, it possible, this inspiring union of honest citizenship through an eleventh hour appeal to the courts. This action was not based upon even a fragment of justice--for any alleged trespass upon personal rights could have been fully considered at any other time-but the barest technicality of procedure.

The purpose was so plain that none could be deceived and was as unjustifable as it was significant. It was hoped to prevent a half million Democratic voters from having the opportunity to strike a direct and effective blow at the blighting and doomed cause of Quayism. Such a transparent scheme of unprincipled and desperate political leaders clearly shows the fear which possesses them. possibility and growing certainty that A trustworthy representative of the people will be commissioned to take charge of the State Treasury Alls the ring with alarm. This one fact should serve as an unerring Angerboard, showing the honest voters of Pennsylvania their duty in this crisis.

Never before has such a plan to defeat the manifest public will been resorted to. Never before have baffled political conspirators dared to snatch the ballot of his choice from the citizen's hand. Never before have political highwaymen thus attempted to hold up the patriotic freemen of our great State. EARNEST WORK ALL ALONG THE LINE "Happily, this despicable device to save an Imperiled machine has utterly failed. The utmost demands of party regularity have been swiftly and completely complied with.

The reform banner is still aloft, bearing the honored names that every honest Democrat in Pennsylvania, and every honest Republican as well, should be proud to indorse at the polls. We, therefore, in the name of a Democracy that means the very highest form of political purity and personal and official integrity, appeal to you to gird on the armor for an Immediate and triumphant assault upon the citadel of Quayism. Let the remaining days of the campaign be zealously devoted to bringing every voter into line for Yerkes and Coray. The signs of victory are most en. couraging on every hand.

An earnest union of good citizenship in every county, in every city and town, and in every election district, will surely mean the utter rout of the enemies of the people. A vote for Yerkes means the upholding of the highest standard of judicial ability and integrity; the protection of the court of last resort from the contamination of evil influences. Every citizen is vitally in. terested in the maintenance of the purity of the tribunals of justice. A vote for Coray means an effective protest against the prostitution of public office to base selfish purposes.

"The State Treasury has been the financial fortress within which a conscienceless and corrupt ring has been entrenched for nearly forty years. To drive them out, open the books and enforce honest administration, is the supreme duty of voters this year. The chance to do this has never been so favorable. Now Is the time for a union of the patriotic citizenship of our long enthralled Commonwealth which will lead to its speedy release from the Iniquities of machine bond. age.

"WILLIAM T. CREASY," Democratic State Committee." "Face to face at last with the swelling ALL-DAY REPUBLICAN MEETING Governor Stone Says it is Safe to Elect Men the Newspapers Abuse. Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. LANCASTER, October Republi. cans held an all-day meeting in Walker's Woods, in the extreme southern part of the county, to-day.

Governor Stone spoke, sayIng that the Democrats in the State are badly mixed up this year. They have a Republican candidate for Treasurer and a platform with no principles. The reformers' platform is only one of vituperation against the State government, and If the last Legislature had been as corrupt as claimed Senator Quay would not have been elected, as the money was on the other side. It was his opinion that it was pretty safe nowadays to elect the men newspapers abuse. Senator Penrose discussed the condition of the State Treasury, declaring that under rule no money had ever been lost through malfeasance of public offices, or failure of national banks.

He perdicted a majority of 50,000 for the Republican State ticket in Philadelphia. Frank G. Harris discussed State Issues and dented the charges made by a Philadelphia newspaper that he had absented himself form Legislature sessions. Congressional Candidate Cassel promised, if elected, to represent all people and 1 not any party. RHOADES URGES PARTYLOYALTY Democratic Candidates for Chester County Offices Given a Reception.

Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. WEST CHESTER, October Democratic nominees for county offices were given a reception this evening in the rooms of the Young Men's Democratic Association. After a social period of an hour the meeting was called to order by E. Dallett Hemphill, president of the club, who introduced B. F.

Rhoades, of Media, the principal speaker. Mr. Rhodes urged loyalty to the party and its time principles and pointed to Chester county, where, happily, Democracy In late years had been accorded a fair chance of winning victories at the polls. He was followed by the candidates, by Colonel A. McHolding, E.

Dallett Hemphill and others. "YOU'RE LICKED," SAYS CREASY "It May be a Good Thing for the Party," Replies Stone. Governor Stone and W. T. Creasy, Democratic State chairman, came down from Harrisburg on the same train yesterday and were seen chatting pleasantly together, A passenger who overheard A part of their conversation said that Chairman Creasy remarked: "Governor, we've got you licked." "Well, I don't know," Governor Stone is reported to have replied; "I think it may be a good thing for the party to get licked once in a while." PENROSE AND STONE AT YORK Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES.

OXFORD, October first Republican meeting in the Southern end of the county was held here to-night. United States Senator Penrose, Governor Stone, F. G. Harris and Congressman Butler were the The Governor and bis party dined at the M. E.

Church and afterward held a reception at the Oxford Hotel. J. W. Hickman, of Russellville, presided. Senator Penrose was the drst speaker and claimed that the government of Philadelphia is commendable and that the municipal debt of the city Is being reduced.

The Governor was modest in his remarks, confining them to jokes. He spoke on the law against corporations and forestry and how they ylelded money. Of kidnapping he said: "I approve a law to hang a man a who would steal a child from its parents." He predicted that. Pittsburg would give fifteen thousand majority to the State ticket. Of the cartoons that characterize him as being ugly he said that he was not handsome, adding that it was not the future that bothered him; it yas the past.

The same speakers spoke at the fair ground, Lancaster county meeting, in the afternoon. GRIEST CHANGES FORM OF BALLOT Proposed Constitutional Amendments to be Printed in Their Entirety. Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. form." THE AMENDED BALLOT. The proposed amendments as they appear on the amended ballot follow: PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO.

1. HARRISBURG, October of Commonwealth Griest to-day changed the form of the official ballot in order to meet the objections raised to the proposed amendments to the State Constitution as they appeared the form originally certifled by the State Department. The chairmen of the Democratic, Union and Municipal League State committees contended that these amendments should appear upon the ballot in their entirety. After consultation with 'Attorney General Elkin, Secretary Griest issued the following statement to the County Commissioners and Sheriffs: "After consideration of the form of the official ballot, under the head of 'Proposed Amendment No. relating to an amendment to the Constitution, it is thought advisable to state the same in two propositions instead of in only one, and to state it in the exact language used by the Legislature; also under proposition No.

2, to state such proposition in the exact language of the Legislature. "The form of the inclosed ballot is the same in every respect as that heretofore certified to you, except that part relative to the Constitutional amendments. You will, therefore, use the inclosed form in printing the ballots, so far as the same relates to the said amendments, using the ballot as heretofore certified to you as to the names of the candidates for county and State offices. "Our object is to leave the ballot heretofore certified to you unchanged except that part relating to the Constitutional amendments which is contained in the inclosed "Shall Section 1, Article of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows? "Every male citizen twenty-one year of age, possessing the following qualifications shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject, however, to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the General Assembly may enact: "First--He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. "Second--He shall have resided in the State one year (or having prevlously been a qualified elector or native citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) Immediately preceding the election.

"Third--He shall have resided In the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. "Fourth-If twenty-two years of age and upwards he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shall have been asses at least two months and paid at least one month before the elec- PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2. "Shall Section 7, Article VIII. of the Constitution be amended so as to read as fol- lows? "All laws relating to the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout the State, but laws regulating and requiring the registration of electors may be enacted to apply to cities only: "Provided, that such laws be uniform for elties of the same PROPOSED AMENDMENT No.

3. "Shall Section 4, Article VIII. of the Con. stitution be amended so as to read as follows: "All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot or by such other method as may be presoribed by law. Provided that secrecy in voting be preserved." Copies of the amended ballot were certifled to-night to County Commissioners and Sheriff's with instructions that the amended form was the in every respect as the form originally certified to them, except that part relative to the Constitutional amendments.

There was a conference on the subject at the Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia, In the which were present W.T. Creasy, Democratic State chairman: Frank M. Riter, Union party State chairman; Clinton Rogers Woodruff, chalrman of the Municipal League campaign committee, and Samuel M. Clement, secretary of the Union party committee of nine. Their purpose was to bring the matter more directly to the attention of Secretary Griest.

SEMPLE DENIES LIBEL Tacony ex-Police Sergeant Arraigned in Magistrates Court. Ex-Street Sergeant Ellsworth J. Semple, of the Tacony Police district, who resigned fro mthe force because of alleged political persecution, was arraigned before Magistrate Cunningham yesterday on the charge of libel, preferred by Acting Sergeant James A. Fagan, of the same distrlet. Semple was arrested on Tuesday, but the hearing of the case was postponed on Wednesday until yesterday.

Henry F. Walton appeared as counsel for Fagan, The alleged libel consisted of a part of the leter written by Semple on September 22 to Superintendent of Police Quirk resigning from the force. Semple said that he had obtained conclusive proof against Fagan to the effect that he was a thief, but because of Fagan's political Influence he was never punished. The letter was offered in evidence yesterday, and Samuel Roop, clerk to Superintendent Quirk, read It. Besides the charges against Fagan, It wag also said in the letter that the writer (Semple) had been compelled to pilot repeaters about election booths on election day in the Interest of the administration, and when he refused to work about the polls Lieutenant Dungan threatened to drive him off the force.

Semple's resignation was not accepted, and the Police Board of Inquiry tried him and he was dismissed. Fagan testifle that he was the person referred to in Semple's letter, and in answer to a question from his counsel he said that the charges made against him by Semple "were absolutely Semple was required to enter $600 bail for his appearance in court for trial. Common Councilman William R. Knight, of the XXVth Ward, entered security for Semple. Speaking of the polltical duties required of the pollcemen of the Twenty-seventh district, Semple said: "During the last Councilmanic election in the XLIth Ward Lieutenant Dungan, of the Tacony station, called four men from among the squad at roll call and instructed them that they must produce ten votes each for Herbert Painter, the administration candidate for Councils.

The men were Sergeant George Milligan, Acting Sergeant Bates, Policemen Edward Jones and Rudolph Bollinger, the latter being no longer on the force. Horace Davenport, city committeeman from the XLIst ward, and clerk in the office of the Building Inspectors, was present at the time, and when the four policemen said they did not know wheher they could produce the number of votes demanded, Mr. Davenport said: 'All right, lleutenant. Take them down to Director English's office, and if they have a care for their jobs maybe they will be able to get the votes when the Director 1g through with "The men were taken to the Director's office by Lleutenant Dungan himself. DIrector English was not in when they called, and I don't know how the matter was finally settled.

A short time previous to the primary election last January with two House of Correction from guards and four policemen, was relieved duty and did nothing for six weeks but work in Lieutenant Dungan's own division, the Second of the XLIst Ward, to enable him to carry it for the ad. mutistration at the February LODGING HOUSE VOTES ILLEGAL Thirty- Four Registered From Lombard St. "Temperance Hotel" Struck Off Union Party Makes Rapid Progress in Work of Purging Assessors' Lists. Judge Wiltbank put in a full day yesterday in the work of purging the assessors' lists, and name after name was struck off after the counsel for the Union party had shown that the registration was fraudulent. There was no let up in the attack upon the lists and the day's work resulted in a notable gain to the Union party.

A large crowd followed the proceedings carefully. John H. Fow again appeared for the Unionists while David J. Smyth and Joseph P. Rogers defended the assessors.

There were many clashes between counsel and the court was forced several times to call the nttorneys to order. The feature of the day was the striking from the list, by peremp: tory order, of the names of 34 alleged voters fraudulently registered from the "Baltimore Temperance Hotel," as. a cheap lodging house at 440-42 Lombard street Is known. The Lombard street lodging house case was first taken up and two witnesses were called by Mr. Fow.

They were Charles Diver and Peter Curtin, who said they had been paid to go to the lodging house on Tuesday night and Wednesday night and count the rooms and the number of guests. Diver testifled that he paid 25 cents for sleeping quarters upstairs on Tuesday night and he counted fifteen rooms in the house, five of which were empty at 3 o'clock in the morning. On the following night he paid fifteen cents for the privilege of sleeping in the cellar and there were only three other men there. He was corroborated by Curtin. On cross-examination Diver said that he had been paid $2.75 by George C.

Anderson. Attorney Rogers attempted to show that the witness was an ex-convict, but this was ruled out. COULDN'T READ HIS REGISTER. Felix Stearn, the proprietor of the place, was then recalled and produced his register, but the entries were written half in English and half In Hebrew, and Stearn himself could 1101 read them. Mr.

Fow offered the books in evidence as silent witnesses, and after the colored janitor, James Wilson, who did not know how many rooms are in the house or, in fact, anything which could help either side, had been examined Attorney Fow made the motion that the names be struck off and the Court made the order. Attorney Fow also succeeded in having six names registered as voters at the Grant House, Eighth and Spring Garden streets, struck from the list. The manager of this hotel, William Anderson, had refused to listen while a subpoena was read to him on Tuesday and he was brought in under an attachment yesterday and fined $5 for contempt. Anderson was then sworn as a witness, and he admitted that Thomas Bedloe, J. P.

Campbell, F. Doltz, J. E. Kelly, H. Frosa and H.

Bohn had all moved away, and these were the names the Court ordered struck off. During the proceedings Lieutenant O'Brien, Samuel Maloney and two or three other ward politicians sat back of Attorneys Rogers and Smyth and occasionally prompted them. FIVE REGISTERED FROM VACANT HOUSES. At Attorney Fow's request the Court again took up the 7th division of the XIlIth ward, where five men had been registered at 428 North Eighth street, whereas the house was alleged to be vacant. Laura Mendle was called as a witness, and testifed that she rented the hot on September 23 last, but she stated that none of the five men is living there now, and the Judge ordered their names to be struck from the list.

Considerable time was devoted to the 10th division of the Vth Ward, the assessor, John J. Curley, going upon the wit. ness stand and under the prompting of Attorney Fow calling off name after name which he agreed should be struck off, as the parties had moved since he made the assesament. "The shown question of residence is obviated If it is that this is 81 mere lodging house for the accommodation of transient guests," was one of the dictums announced by Judge Wiltbank during the course of the hearings. ASSESSORS MUST ATTEND COURT.

Attorney Fow stated that James Sheehan, the assessor of the 2d Division of the Vth Ward, had agreed to present him a list of names to be struck off because the parties had moved, but Sheehan had not done so, and his counsel, James B. Givins, had informed Mr. Fow that he was sick. "Why can't he come here?" asked the Judge of Attorney Givin. understand he was here this morning, but he had to go replied the lawver.

"The assessors should all understand that it is their duty to be here," remarked the Judge. P. Winkleman, proprietor of the house, 510 South Fourth street, testified that the nine men whose names were on the assessor's list lived there. Mr. Fow questioned him closely respecting four of the names, and he said the men had lived there since last June or July.

Mr. Fow then called the Judge's attention to the entry on the assessor's list made by the assessor, that he had been Informed by Mr. Winkleman that all of the nine men were there when he made his canvass on May 6. In view of the statement of the witness that four of the men came there in June or July Mr. Fow moved that the names of those four be crossed off as being improperly registered, although he admitted that they were entitled to vote.

The Judge refused to strike the names off. Mr. Fow called Police Lleutenant O'Brien to prove that the house is a gaming house, but the Court ruled that such evidence was irrelavant. Samuel Wilson, who keeps the lodging house 309 South Seenth street, in the 16th division of the Vth ward, and who had been brought in on an attachment, was then questioned as to the residence in his house of two men whose names were disputed. He admitted that no one named "Charles Wilson" lived there, and the name "Frank Fisher," he said, should be Charles Fisher.

Judge Wiltbank directed counsel to subpoena Charles Fisher to be in court this morning. The witness then said Willam King lives at his house, but that he comes and goes and only pays for the time he is there. On Mr. Fow's motion, the Judge struck King's name off the list. The XIth ward will be taken up this morning.

PERSONAL APPLICATIONS NECESSARY Upon the convening of court yesterday Judge Wiltbank filed a voluminous opinion in the matter of the application made by counsel for the Union party to strike off numerous names of voters on the assessors' list I nthe 17th division of the Ward, which had been registered in the extra assessment made last August. The grounds advanced by the petitioners were that the registration of voters in such extra assessments can, under the law, only be made upon personal application of the parties to be registered. This, it was OCD. tended, had not been done. While the court holds that "personal application" is necessary the petitioners, the Judge says, should have first gone to the meeting held by the assessors in September to revise the list, and there made the application to strike off the names.

The petitioners are given leave to amend so as to show an application to the assessor of the division for a hearing, and the 28th instant is fixed for an argument in the matter. DEMOCRATS NOTIFY CORAY Fusion Candidate Accepts Nomination for State Treasurer. E. A. Coray received formal notification of his nomination for State Treasurer by the Democratic party in the following letter from the notification committee: "To HON.

ELISHA A. CORAY, JR. "Having been appointed a committee to notify you formally of your nomination as a candidate for the office of State Treasurer by the Democratle party of Pennsylvania, we take this opportunity of performing the pleasant duty. "You have not been chosen for this 1m- portant position because of any politcal opinion to which you subscribe, nor of any political party to which you belong; but for the higher reason that you are regarded as an upright, courageous and competent man, who will carefully guard the public interests, should you be elected to the office for which you have been named. "We believe the great majority of the honest, intelligent citizens of the State want a man at the head of the State Treasunry who is honest, fearless and capable, no matter what opinion he may held as to purely political topics.

The questions that test a man's fitness for the important office for which you have been named are: Is he honest? Is he courageous? Is he capable? Believing that you fully represent all that good citizens demand, you have been selected as our candidate, and we feel that you will receive the cordial support of every Democrat who has the welfare of his State at heart. "In selecting you as its candidate the party is but following the advice of that great Democrat, Samuel J. Tilden, whose memory is revered by our party as one well worthy the honor which it has universally received. On November 2, 1871, he delivered an address which found a responsive echo in every intelligent man's mind. In that address occurred the following extract: 'If we find our dwellings wrapped In flames we should not inquire whether it was an Irishman or a German; whether it was a Republican or Democrat who lent us a hand to put out the fire.

And on this occasion, in this great city, knowing nothing about the action of your committee of seventy, except what I have heard, caring nothing who unites with us or with whom we unite for this grand object, I come before you to advocate a union of all honest men against a combination of necessity that existed for a union of honest men in New York when Samuel J. Tilden uttered these words exists in a still stronger sense to-day in Pennsylvania, and it is believed that your selection as a candidate will aid materially in bringing this union about, and we sincerely hope that you will accept the nomination in the same spirit In which it is tendered, and that you may be triumphantly elected and the cause of good citizenship vindicated. "ANDREW J. PALM, E. INGERSOLL, J.

FITZSIMMONS, "GEORGE R. DIXON, "JOHN T. Mr. Coray replied: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: "Replying to your letter advising me of my selection as the candidate of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania for the office of State Treasurer, I desire, in accepting the nomination, to say I appreciate the trust you have reposed in me.

To Justify that confidence, and to carry into effect the principles enunclated in your platform, so far as they relate to the office of State Treasuver, will be my single purpose if elected. also wish to express the honor which I feel in being associated on the ticket with so pure and able a jurist as Judge Yerkes, whose election at this time, for obvious reasons, is a matter of great Importance. "In this connection it may not be Inappropriate to make some allusion to the issues of the campaign. During the Arst five months of the present year the people of Pennsylvania were permitted to witness the unfolding of the most ingeniously-devised and gigantle scheme of public plunder ever attempted in any single session of the State Legislature. The scheme involved the purchase of the organization of that body.

It involved the purchase of a seat in the United States Senate. It involved the changing of the libel laws for the purpose of muzzling the public press. It involved the destruction of popular government in cities of the second class. It Involved laying all the real estate of the great city of Philadelphla under tribute to the machine. Finally, it involved reimbursement to the machine and its henchmen for all the time and trouble incurred by themselves, out of the assets of the Commonwealth-that is to say, the taxpayers of the State were to be made to pay the expenses of their own humiliation and robbery.

It was In the spirit of resistance to this conspiracy that fusion had its birth. The decent Democrats and decent Republicans in the Legislature, laying aside all questions of party polley upon which honest men may honestly differ, fought shoulder to shoulder for the honor of the Commonwealth and the protection of Its taxpayers. In that battle your chairman, Mr. Creasy, and Representative Palm were among the foremost champions of the rights of the people. "The results of the struggle there waged are now matters of history.

The public press is still free to expose the schemes of the corruptionists, and is improving the opportunity, The State's subduvial deposits of coal have not changed ownership. The Supreme Court has removed tax ripping club the machine held over the city of Philadelphia. Popular government, however, 1s suspended in our cities of the second class. Trolley franchises worth millions of dollars recently owned by the State now repose In the pockets of the machine leaderg--sufficient in value to pay all the expenses of all the larceny committed, and, together with the many smaller grabs, varlously disguised, leave a handsome margin of profit to the machine for its session's work. "The harmonious action of the Union and Democratic parties concentrates the here.

tofore divided opposition which has hindered effective protest being made against the machine at the polls. The spirit and purpose expressed in the platformsof the Democratic and Union parties are identical. They speak for honest government. The machine platform indorses all the plundering acts committed by the Legislature. The Issue is thus squarely drawn.

The struggle is transferred from the halls of the Legislature to the people. This is the court of last resort. Victory for the machine would Inevitably be construed AS an indorsement of all the iniquities of which it has been gullty. election will have an important bearIng upon the contest for Governor and the Legislature next the year. If the machine 1903 is entrenched when Legislature of convenes, the largest army of spoilsmen that ever assembled at Harrisburg will be on hand clamoring for the fleshpots.

Another United States Senator is to be elected at that time, with which to pay for services rendered its and the machine has no other assets candidates, than those they get out of the Commonwealth. "The kind of government we have In Pennsylvania comes high, but the people can continue it Indefnitely if they are willing to vote for It. and pay for It. It is inconcelyable, however, that they will do this any longer, and I am confident the day of dellyerance is at band. "Recognizing the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, by their platform adopted August 15, 1901, have made these questions the Issue of the present campaign for the purpose of overthrowing the corrupt ring which now manages public affairs, I have no hesitation that accepting the nomination of your party upon platform.

Very truly yours, A. CORAY, JR." "October 24, 1001." TWO LIVES LOST IN A FIRE Woman Who Vainly Tried to Rescue Her Tenant Was Badly Burned. GLOUCESTER, Mass, October lives were lost, one person was badly injured and $1,500 damage resulted from a fire in this city to-day. The dead are: Mrs. Margaret White, aged 50 years, and Rodney Snow, aged 58 years.

Both were lodgers with Mrs. Hayes, occupant of the building. She was badly Injured in trying to rescue Mrs. White. Snow was a longshoreman living in Ipswich.

Mrs. White was a widow. THE FIRE RECORD Nearly all houses in Lamar, burned night. Loss, 000. Several horses and cows were roasted alive by the burning yesterday of the barn of John Lair, a farmer, living near Smithville, Md.

The factory of the Park Hosiery Company, at Pottstown, and two adjoining houses burned yesterday. It is thought tramps set the building afire. Loss, $20,000. The carpenter and blacksmith shops and supply house at Richard's colliery, Shamokin, were burned to the ground yesterday, causing $8,000 loss, partly covered by Insurance. The Union Coal Company operates plant.

The actual loss from the burning of the Hammond Packing Co's plant, at Hammond, Wednesday night, was yesterday estimated at $600,000, and it was said the inability to All orders for 8 few weeks will bring the total loss to $1,000,000. JOHNSTON DENIES STORY OF BRIBE Admits Paying Money to Architect, But Says It Was to Avoid Suit Eleven Thousand Dollar Due Bill Signed When He Was Sick and He Forgot All About It. "What became of the due bill?" PAID RATHER THAN BE SUED. Contractor Robert S. Johnston yesterday went on the stand in his own behalf in the U.

S. Circuit Court in the trial of his suit against the city to recover $90,762.50 alleged to be due him for work on the Boys' High School, and emphatically denled the truth of the testimony given by Architect John D. Austin on Wednesday that Johnston had entered into a conspiracy with Austin and two contractors to defraud the city of 000 and had paid $10,000 to Austin as his share of the deal. The court room was crowded and Captain Johnston was on the stand all day. After stating that he had nothing to do with putting in the bid for Allen B.

Rorke and denying that he had ever seen Austin prior to putting in his own bid, he was asked: "What did you know when you put your bid in concerning the number of bidders in the field?" "Nothing, sir." "Did you know McManus' "No, sir." "When you filed your bid, what knowledge had you that McManus' bid was larger than yours?" "None. My clerk and myself were the only ones who knew anything about my bid." "What conversation did you have with "I went to see him with regard to a 000 contract. The elty owed me money and I was worried. His secretary told me that he was instructed not to sign the contract. Later I saw Mr.

Kavanagh and he took me into his little front room. 'What is the matter with the I asked you ever give money to he inquired. to my sorrow, I I replied. Then he told me that McManus had stated that he and Austin and myself were in collusion. 'It's a I said.

never spoke to McManus but once, and that was seven years I then said to Kavanagh, 'What is this? A he said, "it will hold you up. You had better go and see Mr. I saw Mr. Kinsey and he repeated the charge. I told him I had given Austin money, sometimes to keep the Sheriff off and sometimes to keep him out of the poor house when he came to me shaking and with tears in his eyes." HIS STORY OF THE DUE BILL.

At this point Attorney Johnson interrupted the witness. "I want you to tell me about that due bill for $11,000. But tell me first what did you pay to Austin while he was architect of the Hoard of Education?" "Not a cent, sir." "Did you ever give him anything for doing or not doing his duty?" "Never, "Well, tell us what money you ever gave to "Once when I was very Ill in 1898 Austin came to visit me at my house. I was dangerously ill at the time and under the care of two physicians. Austin said he could help me and my family more than anybody on earth.

He sail he was in a position to satisfactorily settle my account with the suit in the event of anything hap. pening to me. He proposed that I give him a due bill for $11,000 In consideration of the services he might render my family after my death. On that condition I signed the bill." "What happened after that?" "When I recovered the recollection of what I had done passed entirely from my mind. I was obliged to be held up in bed to sign the bill, and I Was so weakened by drugs that I forgot all about signing the bill.

It was afterwards presented to me and I saw my signature. I was struck as with a thunderbolt. I was told it held as collateral security and that I would be sued if I did not pay, so sooner than go to law over the matter I settled the FORGOT ABOUT SIGNING IT. Atterney Catharine then began to question the witness. "You deny having added anything to your bid "Yes, sir." "You do not deny.

however, that you gave certain sums of money to Austin?" "No, sir." "How much did you give him altogether?" "About $7,000 I think. He would come to me and beseech me for money until sometimes I would have to go and borrow the money myself to help him out. This went on for about two "You say that in 1898 you gave him a due bill for "Yes. sir; I did." "Isn't it true that the asked you for 000? Inquired Mr. Catharine.

"No, sir, It is not," answered the witness. "Is it not true that prior to this you had indorsed two notes for Mr. Austin, one for $3,000 and another for am not certain about that. I was so sick at the time that I can't distinctly recollect." "Weren't those notes outstanding at that time?" "I don't remember. I don't whether they were for one or three "Did you not pay Austin in several sums on that due bill about "I don't "Mr.

Austin came to me and said he wanted some money and that he had sold the due bill. The recollection of my signing this had entirely passed from me. But rather than be sued I settled the bill." "Do you, then," Inquired Mr. Catharine, "wish this jury to believe that standing the fact that you had given to Mr. Austin A due bill for $11.000 in the event of your dying, and the you knew nothing more about it unt' It was presented to you, that you rtheless paid Mr.

Austin $10,000 on the never paid Mr. Austin $10,000," replied the witness, "and I never paid a cent on that due bill until it was presented to me In the way I previously mentioned. I never told any one on earth that I added anything to my bids. I told Mr. Kavanagh that Austin had told me to add $12,000 the morning the bids were Howard G.

Peppercorn, assistant in Mr. Johnston's office, was then called to the stand. He testifed that be had made the estimates for the building of the Boys' High School. He stated that the original estimates drawn up in lead pencil were about $9,000 In excess of the final estimates and that nothing had ever been added to this. FIGURES ON BIDS ADMITTED.

Lawyer Johnson then offered In evidence two sheets of paper, containing figures and details of the plaintiff's bid for the High School contract. One was written in lead pencil and the other in ink. They had been prepared by the contractor's clerks in bis office on the morning the bid was submitted. Mr. Johnson sought to show that the figures thereon would refute the charge made that the contractor's bid bad been padded.

Solicitor Catharine objected to the papers on the ground that they were hearsay evldence. Judge McPherson admitted them, however, stating that counsel for the elty had referred to their contents during the progress of the trial. William Cadwalader, a carpenter in the employ of Contractor Johnston, testifled that the wainscoting furnished by the plaintiff was made of hard Georgia pine of a very fine quality. Its "sappy" condition, he explained, had been brought about by posure to the elements during the year work on the building was suspended. Mr.

Catharine, on cross-examination, endeavored to get an admission from the witness that he had seen genuine "sap" pine in the paneling and mill work used in the Interior construction of the building. Mr. Cadwalader, however, denied that sap pine had been used. Going to the tower, Lawyer Johnson called Thomas Blight to show that the stone used in its construction was equally A8 good as that specified in the contract. The witness said "six" cut stone was used in the tower above the "rose' window and that it 18 now just as good as the stone below it; which, be said, 1s also "six" cut, although the contract called for cut stone to be used all over the building.

Hardware dealers, tile men and plumbers were then called by Lawyer Johnson to show that the materials of their respective lines used on the High School operation were of a first-class quality and that the work done by Contractor Johnston was thorough and perfect. GOES TO THE JURY TO DAY. Both sides having closed, Judge McPherson requested that the addresses of counsel to the jury be deferred until to-day and that he would ask the attorneys for both sides to state their legal positions in the matter. Attorney Johnson stated in his argument to the Court that be proposed to show to the Jury that the defendant was not entitled to any set off by reason of any defective work in the bullding in view of the fact that the contract had been accepted and that the building has now been occupied since its completion. He said he would further show to the jury that even if they believed that there had been collusion between Contractor Johnston and Architect Austin, still the contract was not violated.

Mr. Austin, he said, was an outside party and did not award the contract. This, he said, was done by the Board of Education, and even if the figures had been raised the contract still remained a good one between the city and the contractor. In reply Mr. Catharine stated that the last contract on which the plaintiff is seeking to recover was entirely distinct from the other two and that he proposed to argue to the jury that fraud had been perpetrated and that one of the parties in Interest had been benefited by the fraud, and that the whole contract was void from the very beginning, and that therefore the plaintiff was not entitled to recover.

The case will go to the jury to-day. OBITUARY (Official List Marriages and Deaths and Death Notices Page 13.) PRINCE JOACHIM MURAT PARIS, October Joachim Napoleon Murat, a grandson of the ex-King of Naples, died here to-day. (Prince Murat was the grandson of the celebrated cavalry leader of that name in the army of Napoleon and of Caroline Bonaparte, sister of the Emperor. The younger son of this couple, Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat, came to the United States about 1826 and settled in Bordentown, where his uncle, Joseph Bonaparte, the ex-King of Naples and Spain, had found a home. In August, 1831, Lucien Murat married Miss Caroline Georgina Fraser, of Philadelphia, who was, however, a Virginian by birth, and descended from the Scotch baronial family of Lovat.

By her he had Ave children, four of whom were born at Bordentown, and the youngest at Paris. The eldest of the three sons was Joachim Napoleon, who was born at Bordentown on July 21, 1834. He accompanied his parents on their return to France in 1849. Prince Joachim was a brigadier general of the French army for twenty-six years, without a command, and was retired in 1896. He entered the ranks at the age of 17, and was the only general who gained the military medal as a private soldier.

In 1870, Napoleon II. made him a brigadier. Later, Boulanger deprived him of the rank for a short time because he was a member of the imperial family. In 1854 Prince Joachim was married at the Tuileries to the Princess Malcy, daughter of the Prince of Wagram, by whom be had a son and two daughters, all of whom are married, his son, Prince Joachim, being the father of a very large family. The Princess Malcy died in May, 1884.

Five years after he became engaged to Miss Mary G. Caldwell, the well-known Southern helress, but the engagement was soon broken off because of the extravagant demands In the way of a settlement of her fortune that were made by the prospective husband.) ELISHA WEBB, a well-known shipchandler, died on Wednesday night at his residence, Fifth street and Girard avenue. He was a native of Kent county, Delaware, and was 57 years of age. He was in the service of the Ericsson Line from the close of the civil war until a year ago. He was the inventor of the light feed lubricator.

He was a partner in the firm of Wingate, Webb Melvin, marine machinists and steam gauge manufacturers, and in that of Elisha Webb Son. His wife and son, Elisha, survive him. JAMES R. CANTWELL, brother of Monsignor Cantwell, of St. Philip's Church, died yesterday morning at his late 1439 North Sixth street, after several months of illness.

He was a native of Tipperary and was nearly 80 years of age. He was for many years a distiller, a member of the firm of Andrew C. Craig Co. He is survived by a son and three daughters. MISS MARY E.

DELLEKER, who has been for many years assistant to M. F. Claridge, assistant superintendent of the Post Office, died on Wednesday at her home in Germantown, 5920 Wayne street. Funeral services will be held this morning In St. John's Church, Thirteenth street above Chestnut.

GEORGE T. BARNES, Congressman from the Tenth Georgia district in the Fortyninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-Arst Congresses, died at his home in Augusta, yesterday. A He was at one time a member of the national Democratic committee and prominent In party polities. He was 86 years old. MRS.

ELIZABETH L. WHITELOCK, wife of Samuel E. Whitelock, died yesterday at her home, 317 Broadway, Camden. She was a sister of the late Henry L. Bonsall, for many years editor of the Camden Post-Telegram, and was 70 years old.

JAMES R. CANTWELL, 80 years of age, for many years engaged In the whisky manufacturing business, died yesterday at his home, 1439 North Sixth street. ELISHA WEBB, a shipchandler on South Delaware avenue, died yesterday at his home, Fifth street and Girard avenue, of congestion of the kidneys, aged 57 years. MARSHAL SHAW, a former manufacturer, of New York, and later Rock Island, died yesterday at Chicago, aged 74 years. DAVID KURTZ, of Birdsboro, 8 pioneer in the four milling aged 76 business in Berks county, died yesterday, years.

Funeral of Father McPhilomy. The funeral of Father McPhilomy, rector of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, will be held on Monday. Bishop Prendergast will probably celebrate the Solemn Requiem Mass. There is only one store in Philadelphia where you can secure PIANOS We are the only local agents for the famous instruments.

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