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and went there at eleven o'clock. 8he gave her performance on the stage in the dining room and it was precisely the same aa that wlrteh " she" had given in many theatres. Watte changing her costume she said there was an intrusion.

C a p t a i n ( k a p n t n ' a I n t r u s i o n . She declared that Chapman came into the

room .just as though he had expected to •find something that he did not find" there. "My l ittle sister was there.** she added. "He said that I ought to be ashamed of myself, and that I was a disgrace to my sex. I began to cry and two gentlemen came In and said that the Captain would have to go out. I grabbed some 'porteers' and put them around me to protect myself."

"Was there any man in the dressing room at the time?" asked Colonel James.

"No one. Mr. Phipps stood on the other side of the curtain, and when he came in he always warned us before he entered, so that we might throw something around us."

"How was it that Captain Chapman got out?"

"Oh. Mr. Harper wanted to Jump on him and threw him out."

•*Wa*< he thrown out?" "No! He merely went out. Some went

behind and some went before him, but he merely went out."

"Did you hear what the Captain said In the dining room?"

"Yes. He declared that he had seen a woman in an Indecent condition in the dress­ing room.

"Was that truer* "It was not. I Was the only one who was

even partly undressed. I had only my cor­sage off."

Their Miss Routt said that Captain Chap­man expressed himself as convinced that nothtng wrong had been going on, and when he was Invited to take some wine he said it was a very pleasant performance and hp w a s sorry that he could not stay and see the rest of It. "Then Captain Chapman," con­tinued M_rs Routt, "as he went away, said to TOC:—'Never mind, young lady, 1*11 see you outside some night, and you may need to be taken care of.* "

Miss RoUtt was turned over to Mr. Hart, who looked at her with a smile and asked:—

"You are not afraid of me, are you Cora?" The witness did not appear to be and Mr.

Hart proceeded with his cross-examination. This was not particularly productive, but Miss Routt showed that «he was amply able to Mike care of herself. In the course of this *«rles of questions concerning Chapman's en ranee, she said that she was Indignant when the Captain entered the room.

She W M " I n d i g n a n t "Haw indignant?" asked Mr. Hart. "Oh. a s indignant as a lady generally 1?

when a man comes into her room, was the res-ponse.

once more the episode of the signs came up. and when she was asked If the Captain found any siens on Miss Warren, one of the performers, she replied :—

**Not on Miss Warren." "Were there any signs on any other per­

former?" 'Well, there were no signs on Miss Warren,

but, (here were sign? on Miss Renwood. There was one.' The one sign that I remember, and the only one that I saw, was" There was a thrill of excitement In the audience. Then she went on:—" Santa Claus Up to Date.* " Tltrre'was a sigh of disappointment.

Then Mr. Hart asked her about the signs and their various Inscriptions. The witness K:IHI that there may have been other signs, but she (li'ln't see them.

"When the Captain went out. did you say gooJTuff taiiirn in a friendly manner?"

* No. not in a friendly manner. I said, 'Goodby, Cantaln of this precinct!' Then I tlm^w^a kiss to him."

"Did he throw it back?" asked Mr. Hart. "No," the witness said. "Too heavy'.'" suggested Mr. Hart. Miss Routt smiled and made a moue. Succeeding Miss Routt came Miss Kathleen

"Warren," another of the dancers. She said that she had been on the stage since she was fourteen years old. 8he had known Mr. 1'hippe. about two months. Miss Warren, too, was a fine loking young woman, and she wore a Gainsborough hat upon a very pretty head of blond hair. Her description of the scene in th« dressing room began substan­tially the same as Miss Routt's, and in the matn her testimony was in corroboration of her associate In the Seeley entertainment.

"Do you remember what conversation took place "between Captain Chapman and Miss Kenwood?" asked Colonel James.

C a p t a i n Sa id " T h a f i N ice ." "Yes." was the reply. "He went up to her

and sh*» opened her cloak. He satd. as I reeoNect, "That'd nice. I'd like to stay and set the rest of the performance.' "

"Did you see how she was dressed?" "She wore tights and a long Trilby cloak.

Sh«-h*>l some signs, but what was on them 1 did not see—only one. That read^fSanta Claus up to date.' " 1*̂

Miss warren's cross-examination wits with­out interest.

It was then that the star witness of the rasp, but whether or not for prosecution or defence, was called. Mr. Seeley was led In from the School of Instruction. He came In with something like bravado and took his heat In the witness chair with a contented little swagger. He told of the preliminaries of the dinner, which have been told and re~

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told in ihe HERALD. "What did the Captain say when he came

Into the dining room?" asked Colonel J true-;.

' 'Gentlemen. I had been Informed that there was to be an immoral show here, and1

1 can't allow anything of that kind to occur on Fifth or Eleventh avenue. But I And f that nothing of the sort is going on. and I am sorry I have intruded'—or something of that sort.** added Mr. Seeley.

With this statement Mr. Seeley was turned over to Mr. Hart. He answered the ques­tions promptly and apparently without re-ilectioa. As Mr. Hart proceeded, Mr. Par­ker asked:—

'•Have \-ou a copy of this statement. Mr. HartT' referring to Seeley's account of the Chapman adventure.

"Yes." was the reply. Captain Chapman, who at one time had been anxious, began to brtiebten up.

Mr. Hart's cross-examination was based in the first part upon the statement to Commis­sioner Parker. Mr. Seeley said that he had nothing-to do with the vaudeville show—"only with Trilby." he added.

"Did you make any arrangements for any artists when you visited Mr. Lehman, one of the theatrical agents?"

"I don't know what you mean by arrange­ments,** was the answer.

-What did you say to h l m r "I told him that I desire* seven men to'

come out and tell stories and also girts to sine and dance."

"•What did he say?" W o u l d H a v e \ o t t t t a * I n d e c e n t .

' H e sa i l that he had artists who would do almost anything, and declared that be had coochee-ooochee. dancers. He asked me if I wanted them with costume or without? I re­plied," 'fciiu' Mr. SeWley, ''that I would have not blag Indecent—that I wouldn't tolerate it."

The* Mr. Seeley said that Miss Gilson, sis­ter off Lottie Gilson, was mentioned as one who would give something "rather hot."

"What did you understand that to mean?" "Oh. 'Little Pebble on the Beach,' or some­

thing like t h a t " - U s w was 'Little Kgyoi's* name brought

up? . Did he not offer to have 'Little Egypt* dancy before you in her stockings and noth* ing #ts4T*

l told him that I did not wgrnt an ex­posure of the person."

Then Mr. Seeley was asked whether in his statement to Commissioner Parker he had •aid that he did not t suecul lv obUvt to

the women being nude, as there being so would only have a momentary effect, while if they wore gauze drapery the effect would be infinitely greater. He admitted that he had had such a conversation with Commis­sioner Parker. • p • .i

When the visit to Phipps & Alpuerrte w a s touched upon he said that he had declared that he didn't want "Sunday school songs," but that he wanted something fit for bache­lors.

"Something hot, hey'" suggested Mr. Hart.

"Or something with ginger," interposed Mr, Howe.

•Perhaps he doesn't understand that slang." said Colonel James.

"Let me tell you what I mean by hot," said Mr. Seeley. "I mean such songs as are sung at music halls and places like that."

"Oh"* observed the court room, with a faint show of satisfaction.

When the subject of the signs which Miss Renwood is supposed to have worn was reached Colonel James had Just arisen to ob­ject, when a man In the audience was seized with an epileptic fit, and for a moment the Court and the audience arose and appeared prepared for almost any emergency. By di­rection of Colonel Grant the man was car­ried Into the room where the witnesses had been waiting for five hours, and they were permitted to revive him.

The signs continued to be the subject of ar­gument for some minutes after this diver­sion, until It was finally decided to permit the question.

S o m e S n a g e s t i v e Slfrns. Mr. Seeley said that the signs were:—

"Milk below. FarnUhed by Trilby." "Heart of Maryland." "Held by the Enemy."

"Secret Service. But Mr. Hart was unable to get the wit­

ness to describe where these signs were placed. All he would say was that they were "pinned on her Jacket."

Then Mr. Seeley was asked to describe the presents which Miss Renwood distributed to the guests. "Among them was a drum, a box of blocks and a tin horn," he said.

"Is that all?" "Well, there were others, but as there were

twenty-two I can't remember them all." "Wras there not among the presents a small

syrtnge?" "Yes." '•Who bought the syringe7" "Mr. Bergman." "By whose request?" "Mine. It was similar to one which I had

at one time used for earache!" Here, for spme unaccountable reason, the audience burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter.

"When did you hear that 'Little Egypt* was to dance?'

•'Not until I got to Sherry's." "Did she dance naked?" "No!" with emphasis. "How did she appear?" "She was clad In gauze, through which

you could see only the outlines of her limbs," was the reply.

"What did she dance that night?" "The danse du ventre " "She danced on the stage and on the floor,

did she not?" "She did." "Did any one take hold of her while she

was on the floor?" . "No, sir. No one! I—was—watching—her

all the time!" Mr. Seeley said this with great emphasis, and by his intensity caused more laughter, which Colonel Grant had difficulty In repressing.

Your father was present at that dinner, was he not?"

'•Yes," Mr. Seeley nodded promptly. Then Colonel James asked whether the per­

formance of "Utt le Egypt" in Sherry's was or was not less modest than the dance she gave In Chicago at the World's Fair.

C h i c a g o Not a F a i r C o m p a r i s o n . "Well," said Colonel Grant, "that scarcely

define It exactly. Then, you remember. Chi­cago announced that everything would be run wide open. That was In Chicago, too! What was tolerated in Chicago could not be permitted here."

Mr. Seeley said that "Little Egypt's" per­formance was more modest than at Chicago.

"Sh? wore the gauze down to her -inkles, but she didn't there."

1 The court had sat by this time five hours " without a recess, and the appeals for food

became RO urgent that the lawyers begged for their dinner. They pleaded for an ad-

, Journment until this morning at ten o'clock. \ and this was finally decided, but before they

were permitted to depart It was decided to call Louis Sherry on behalf of the prosecu­tion.

Mr. Sherry's testimony Included a descrip­tion of his establishment at Thirty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, and he said that at the time of the dinner he was out of town and did not return until the day after. Then, he said, he sent for Chapman, and contin­ued:— •

"I said to htm, 'Captain, what were you trying to do to m e f He replied:—'I am very sorry. I regret It, and I've made a great mistake

On cross-examination Mr. Sherry satd that he had known Chapmen for the last rtfteeu years. He had never had any "trouble with him." He declared that the Captain In ex­pressing his regret also said that he had d*>ne his duty In acting on the information and that the Chief would uphold him-

"Hoo-ray for the Chief!" said Mr. Howe.

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Hi* Great Jackson Day Speech on the Problems' Which Amer­

icans Must Solve.

Bacquet Held by the Business Men's Democratic Associa­

tion at'the Hotel Savoy.

THEODORA MYERS' SPEECH.

Perry Belmont Compared the Issues of Protection, Mr, Watterson Says, Is the

TRUE DEMOCRATS WAftfTED.

the Great Democrat's Time witli Those of the Present Day.

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SOME OTHER NOTABLE SPEAKERS. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S LETTER - -^- •

Mr. Crain on Business Men in Politics Rsad at the Banquet of the National

M O T S "ANT'EM" Sheehan's Foe Sings His Defiance,

Accompanied by His Own Glee Club,

ALL DISTRICTS IN LINE.

Committee of Fifty Reports That the Home Rule Primaries Will Go

with a Rush.

SHEEHAN IS TERRIBLY SCORED.

Both Purroy enj Senator Guy Riddle

Him with Poisoned Sh\fts

of Sarcasm.

Fordham Bridge trembled to a strange music last night, that was not like the thun­der of New York Central trains or the buzz­ing calliope of the trolley.

It was the basso profundo of Henry D. Purroy singing his defiance to John C. Shee-han. The free silver notes were taken up by the members of the sub-committee of fifty who met last night In Purroy's head­quarters, and this was the song they sang to the melody of the familiar hymn "When I Can Read My Title Clear."

No absentee shall rule New York, No absentee shall rule New York. No absentee ahull rule New York,

liy dirty deputy! CHORUS.

We'll brave the storm. For it eau't be very long; And we'll Umoce Sheehan

By and by! Before each new stanza was sung, the

"Purroy Glee Club" leading, Mr. Purroy an­nounced the author of the verse. The follow­ing was ascribed by Mr. Purroy to former Coroner John B. Shea:—

Our dfntrlrt has n ereat big chief, Aa brave at he can lit1;

An<l he's a terror to tbe foe Of Home Knle Tammany'. THE POET WA8 BASHFl.%.

Mr. Purroy's success both as poet and singer, was so great that he was begged to give the stanzas out for publication. But no!

"This 'ant'em,' " he said, "will be made public at our primaries next Friday night. This Is only a dress rehearsal, and J had hard work to get the glee club to consent to it."

John B. Shea was tenor and precentor of the glee club, and Mr. Purroy was second bass. The others sang cateh-aa-catch-can. There were fifty-nine stanzas to the "an­t'em." the tune was easy, and presently everybody was "onto it." so to speak. Shee-han was waltzed from Fordham to Buffalo In a concord of sweet sounds.

Mr. Purroy called the committee to order at eight o'clock, and the reports of the various leaders as to the prospects of the Tammany home rule primaries were heard. All the re­ports were rosy In the extreme. Mr. Purroy paid his respects to Sheehan In offhand dis­course at first, but later on he read a diatribe on the Tammany leader. He referred to the nomination of Thacher as ridiculous. Shee­han* s animosity, he said, was due to their loyalty to the national ticket.

A FUNG AT SHEKBAM. "W« told them," continued Mr. Pur~oy

"that when they purged themselves of t>r demoralising presence of Sheehan we shoulr* be ready to listen to them, but that we were not willing to be ruled by the carpetbagger

frt>m Buffalo, with not the best of reputa­tions, and who is backed by corrupt men In the city ami Tammany Hall."

At this point Mr. Purroy picked up a manu­script and read from it as follows:—

"Mr. Sheehan, the wounded Buffalo turned tail a few days ago and tried to run away, but another strong thrust from the steel lance of truth has pierced his thick hide and brought him to'his knees bellow­ing again fn Impotent rage.

"To the only part of his scurrility in to­night's papers which Is at all intelligible I have to say that I probably plead guilty to the atrocious charge of being of Spanish-Irish descent and that before the year is out Mr. Sheehan will find the assembled nations have already found out that the Milesian is good fighting stock.

"My parents settled In New York city more than seventy years ago, and I am happy to say that no one of their descendants was ever accused of defalcation or of trying to sell judicial decisions in Wall street."

BEN AMR GUY'S COMI'UMKN'TH. Senator Guy took the floor when Mr. Pur­

roy sat down and said that he could an­nounce that the Melrose section wanted no more proxy leadership, and that the voters of that district were ready to follow Mr. Pur­roy and fight for him.

"He's fought for us," continued Senator Guy, "ever since a proxy leader was forcod upon us. We are fighting the fight of truth and therefore fight in the light, while the other side is fighting the fight of dishonor and therefore fight in the dark.

"As for our former leader, he went away to Europe and we thought he'd come back and take the helm again. We were willing to make him our leader, but we are not will­ing to pllow our own brother to take up his residence abroad and dictate to us through a makeshift leader. If there's no room for free speech and democracy in Tammany Hall then I want to get out.

"When the organization abandons the principles for which it was founded then it is time to get oat. These men who* are trying to lead us 0010 out the only man who's been honestly nominated as the candidate of the people for the Presidency since I came to manhood."

Speeches of similar complexion were made by former Civil Justice J. C. Julius Langbein and former Coroner John B. Shea. Some of the prominent politicians present were for­mer Assemblyman Marrin, former Commis­sioner of Education Goulden, former Super­intendent of Buildings Enoch Vreeland, Ed­ward Mara and Dr. R. A. Joyce.

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ON SOCIAL DUTIES BENT.

Major McKinley Gives More Attention to These Than to Forming

.His Cabinet.

fBT TEU"f.RAPH TO THE HEBALO.l CF.EVELA.VD, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1897.— Major Mc­

Kinley gave up most of his time to-day to social engagements. He took lunch In the Union Club, where Mark Hanna had brought several Cleveland men to meet him. Among them were tbe sons of the late President Garfield.

The Major dined with his sister, Mrs. Dun­can, and In the evening saw a few visitors at the home of bis host. Colonel Myron T. Her-rlck.

So much depends on Senator Sherman's visit to Canton that there is likely to be little activity until after that momentous event The talk of Senator Cullam, of Illinois, for a Cabinet place continues to grow In volume. I hear person* who enjoy Major McKinley's confidence discussing Cullom for the Treas­ury Department. They think the drift is strongly toward the Illinois Senator and say to be Secretary of the Treasury is not beyond his capabilities.

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VEST TO SUCCEED HIMSELF.

V Renominated by Missouri Democrats

for United States Senator. [BT TELEGRAPH TO THE UKBALD.l

JEFIEKSOM Cvtr, Mo., Jan. f, MOT.—The democratic members of the Legislature met in caucus to-night and nominated George G. Vest to succeed himself in the United States Senate

ani Mr, Day to T an Da mo-,

crat:c P*rty

The anniversary of the battle of New Or­leans—St. Jackson's Day—was celebrated last evening by the Business Men's Democratic Association of New York at the Hotel Savoy with good cheer and eloquence. A mam­moth portrait of Old Hickory, surrounded with flags, was placed at the end of the beautiful banquet hall.

Anlong those who, enjoyed the dinner were Alexander Meaklm, Charles F. Allen, John Slatrery, Nelson Smith, M. J, Ahem, Will-lam Donovan, Rev. J. J. Keane, L. J. Calla-nan, P»ev. D. P. O'Flynn, James J. fcalla-nan, Delano C. Calvin, F. Brickelmaier, F. Ranken; C. C. Marble, C. C. Dickinson, Pro­fessor Charles A. Collin. James W. Tappin, Charles H. Knox, Rollln M. Morgan, John A. Mason, Henry W. Schmidt, Charles A. Kins , Edward C. Schaefer, Julius D. Mahr, M. J. Taylor, Henry D. McCord, 8herarc» ElUot, C. L. Schwarzwllder, E. D. Neustadt, Edward Kearney, E. J. Harriot, R. A. Cun­ningham, Leo C. Dessar, Maurice J. Power, John J. \Devlt t , John Milligan, Elbert Cran-dall, Milton Smith, C. Metz, T. J. McBride, M. J. Mulcahy, William Hayes, J. A. Dunn, W. B. Blackwell, M. Rlttenhouse, William I. Young, J. H. Snyder, J. T. Schneider, Charles Goodheim, M. B. Miller, C. F. Barre, W. D'H. Washington, Colonel Henry Gillum, S. M. Bailey, F. C. Rogers, H. A. Rogers, G. W. Olivit and John A. Mapes.

MB. MYKRS FINDS NEW ISSUES. Former Comptroller Theodore W. Myers

presided and Introduced the speakers of the evening.

rERBY BELMONT'S SPEECH. The principal speech of the evening was

made by former Congressman Perry Bel­mont, who said:--

"President Jackson condemned the incor­poration by Congress of a national bank because such a corporation was not neces­sary and appropriate for the exercise of any power vested by the Constitution in Con­gress. He insisted that the word money as used In the constitution meant only money coined of silver and gold.

"The Jackson democracy of sixty years ago insisted that the national government was intended to be a hard money govern­ment—that the power to coin money was a power to coin metallic money and not to make full legal tender paper money—and Congress had no power to issue or to author­ize a corporation to issue full legal lender paper currency. And yet last Tuesday Sen­ator Peffer, who has Invented a great part of the popull?tic fads not known when the republicans first created full legal tender greenbacks, declared that the federal gov­ernment requires silver and gold only to provide for the existing Interest bearing pub­lic debt, but that all the remaining currency of the whole country should consist, of irre­deemable paper, emitted exclusively by Con­gress and based only on public credit, and the national banks should be created by Congress and required to loan that currency on a collateral of commodities or real estate at a rate of interest fixed by Congress.

"He foreshadowed the coming issue to be between the metallic currency of the Jack­son democracy, supplemented by the modern device of sliver and gold certificates not a legal tender, on the one hand, and, on the other, a full legal tender greenback cur­rency as Invented by the republican party, and which was for seventeen years irredeem­able In silver or gold.

FLUCTUATING TAXES.

"In 1894. the last year of a democratic ad­ministration at Albany, our State tax rate was 2.18. Under a republican Govtrnor and Legislature the rate has been as high as 3.24. Our municipal tax rate followed the same upward course. Under democratic Mayors and democratic financial adminis­tration and responsibility, from 1888 to 1895, the tax rates have been 1.95. 1.97, 1.90 1 85 1.82 and 1.79. In 1W6. under the present re­publican administration, the rate jumped up to 2.14. For 1S»7 it is likely to be higher.

"In 1894 thp city government's net expenses were $35,000,000. Last year they amounted to $43,000,000. A few days ago the Board of Esti­mate and Apportionment completed the budget for 1897 The cost to our taxpayers will be more than $45,000,000. Within three years the cost of our city government has increased $10,000,000. This Is the result of republican rule at Albany and at the City Hall.

"Let us begin the fight by creating union among democrats and In the hope and pros­pect of a 'Greater New York' there will be a field for all our energies."

T B I OTHEB SPEAKERS. Former Chamberlain Thomas C. T. Grain

Evil Which L?ads to Anarchy and Unreason in the Bepublic,

Democracy, and B.fore Its Can­

didate, at Chicago.

fBY TELEGRAPH TO THF. HERALD.] CHICAGO, III., Jan. 8. 1S87.—Five hundred

members of the National Democracy cele­brated the victory of General Jackson at New Orleans by a dinner at the Auditorium to-night.

Senator John M. Palmer, late candidate for the Presidency of the national democ­racy. Is ill at his home in Springfield, Hi., but sent a letter. General S. B. Buckner. of Kentucky, late candidate for Vice Presi­dent, was there, however, and was one,of the centres of attraction. Secretary J. Sterl­ing Morton, unable to be present, also sent a letter.

Henry Watterson, of LouisyiUe. Ky., was the chief orator of the evening, and among the other speakers were John P. Irish, of California; Charles S. Hamlin, of Massa­chusetts, and General George W. Babb. of Iowa. President Cleveland sent a letter of regret, which was read by Franklin Msc-Veagh, who acted as toastmaster.

It was about six o'clock when the guests sat down to dinner. Mr. MacVeagh presided with a gavel sent to him from the Hermltagv, General Jackson's home. It was fashioned from a tree cut from the General's planta­tion.

nn. WATTERSQN'H sr-EErn. Mr. Watterson said In part:—"If Old Hick­

ory were alive and could look in upon us at this moment I have an Impression that he-would conclude that the democracy of which he was the embodiment Is not only not dead. nor sleeping, but that it lives and moves and has Its being, and Is scheduled to stay.

"It was said during the political campaign which closed November 3 la«t that what we call American Institutions were on trial; and. In a sense, It may be said that what we call government is. more or less, always on trial.

"What, then, are the decisive questions on which the country is to rest its case for stability and prosperity in the future? Thty are very simple and obvious, gentlemen. First of all, the public order, without which nothing except chaos can exist; next, the public credit, largely embarked in the money of the people, and next, the system of taxa­tion, municipal, State and federal. Sett!-these questions, and settle them right, and we are safe against every manner of do­mestic danger. The party which achieves this end is the political organization to which a majority of the people will henceforward give their confidence.

"Gentlemen, no party can stand, or ought to stand, which so much as seems to set itself against the Integrity of the American Union. Whenever good morals against bad morals, good money against bad money, government against the mob are the issues. I shall KO with that party which stands true to tbe public c e d i t and order, no matter where it takes me. But, following this law of my be­ing In the campaign just ended. I surren­dered none of my original, individual opin­ions. To my mind, one issue absorbed all other issues. The public credit was at slake, and, with it, the public order. The defeat of Mr. Bryan, the election of Mr. McKinley. for the time being, secures us both. How shall we make them secure for all time? That is the question, and on that point I shall speak with deference to the opinions of others, though 1 h-»ve opinions of my own.

"NOT BV RAMPANT r.VHTYlSM." "Mr. Chairman, we are about to close a

hundred years of party warfare in the L'nlted States. The task before us is the reconcilia tion of capital and labor, which are, and of right ought to be, convertible terms. Can we effect this reconciliation? I think we can; but not by the agency of rampant partyism. blinding good men to the truth, arraying class against class, section against section. keeping the people and the country in a stat • of agitation year in and year out, with the danger of a revolution at the end of every four years.

"The government of the United States has no right, constitutional or equitable, to levy and collect a dollar of taxation except for its own support, and. whenever the republican party goes to the country on the negation of this proposition, and on that alone, it will go to certain disaster. It was saved In the last election because the issue of the public order and of sound currency stood between th." voters and protection, the father of paternal-Ism and the godfather of populism.

"If the rich manufacturer can go to Con­gress and demand legislation in the interest of his business, so can the poor agr icul ture , so can the poor mechanic, and it is here where the evils of anarchism took their start and have their fortification. Justice to all is the only common ground for patriotic Amcri cans to stand on; the only possible ground at once high enough and broad enough to draw from each of the two extremes votes enough to compel both to behave themselves."

GKNEBAL PALMER'S LETTEB. General Palmer In his letter of regret

said:— "No doubt the democracy of the ten Middle

States contributed by their influence and hy their votes to the overthrow of the Chicago platform, but they did not waive or abandon

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I n . CLEVELAND TO TROE DEMOCRATS, ii J Upon the Occasion of the Celebration of Jaokson's Victory j

He Says That the Old Landmarks of Democratic Faith Should Be Pointed Out,

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C , Jan. 4, 1897. FBAN^LIN MACVEAGH, Esq., Chairman, Chicago:—

M T D E A B SIB—I regret that official duties prevent my acceptance of the Invite-tion I have received on behalf of the national democrat* of the Middle States to • £ attend their Jackson day banquet, on the 8th inst.

When passion and prejudice threaten t o obscure ihe meaning of true democ- 4* racy and prevent its patriotic purposes, a reunion of those who are democrats «j* for the sake of principle and the good of their country cannot fall to be Inspiring y and useful.

On an occasion when the character and achievements of Andrew Jackson are *? comroerjnorated the old landmarks of democratic faith should be distinctly T pointed out. At such a time It should be Impressively taught that democracy Is T not disorder, that its regard for popular rights does not mean the care of only T a portion of our people, that Its loyalty to the constitution and law does not X mean a petulant challenge of the duty of civic obedience, that its aggressive- 4 . ness does not mean class hatred and sectional vituperation, and that its success should never mean mere partisan triumph at the sacrifice of principle and pa- «j» triotism.

Yours very truly.

made a witty address on the subject of busi­ness men in politics. He declared that when the business men eeased to take an active In­terest in politics there would bo political

Postmaster Charie* W. Dayton spoke of the future of the democratic party, par­ticularly as the opponent of the autocracy of concentrated wealth. Evan Thomas, former president of the association, discussed the power of the organisation, claiming that with right on its aide it jean control from fifty thousand to sixty thousand business men.

Asa A. Ailing* rend letters of regret from President Cleveland, Vice President Steven­son and Senator Hill. Former Commissioner Jamee G. Coleman and John A, Sullivan made entertaining speeches.

their hostility to the doctrines Of the repub­lican party; they did not waive or abandon their devotion to free commerce betwevn the nations of the earth charged only with revenue duties, nor th«*lr disbelief In taxation as a meanr of providing wages for labor. The national democracy will maintain thj policy of free commerce with all nations, lim­ited only by a necessity for revenue and Tor sou.id money for the adjustment and pay­ment of all public and private obligations."

This telegram from Postmaster General William L. Wilson was read:—

"To the democratic party is stlH commit ted the defence of the principles of free govern­ment. We must fight not only the battle for sound finance but a never ending struggle for a Just and equal system of taxation."

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