St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 27, 1896

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Barnes, Algea, ee | ae ant | 7 a Haines, Gleason and Tayler, WI po, 77 . . , 7 4 ö 0 i yt | 1 * 5 ü N — 5 ö Some well-known men about town nn be given an opportunity to tell under aS what they know about the gamie of apy in general and the game in particular as played in swell West End resorts under the patronage of lovely women, i They are the gentlemen who have deen parting with their shekels with great reg-. * 4 * f _, Mention of the Iowan's Name. \ Corrupt Bosses Would Boost Him 7 for Governor : seriously and i , or believes thas it is merely a qurey that will quiet down, eS. THEY FEAR HIM AS MAYOR i cree 0 ° s 7 has JR, } nominee INO FRICTION. WITH BLAND Filley, pcm That the People De- | the matter freely. I have not Fade: | Riflorts to Create Strife Among Demo- outside of A8. Louis. The whole th re- 2 oe 5 ear ak 1 mand Decent Candidates, for Once gard as a mere diversion, which will sub-| eratie Free Coinage Leaders in ein a short time, and will/cut no figure. f Supports a Reputable Man. in the real Aght. . Missouri Will Fail. “I am convinced that I am not regarded Sg tte | r cause of the fact that the ta , % There is a well-defined impression not aroused any spirit of opposition. If} Special to The PostDispatch. N 700 ae abroad in political circles that Col. Ed the talk of my friends were regarded as in- JEFFERSON CITY Mo.. Feb. 27.—The \ hy I Butler and Uncle Filley are quietly work- | dicating that I were at all formidable some Post ‘ * , — 15 Ve ing for the nomination of Charles Nagel one would be out fighting me. 8 8 f 5 f Gov. Stone this morning concerning the ar- ; “It seems to me that the people of At. J ticle in to-day's Republic referring do ex- No one supposes for a single moment | Louis attach too much importance to the Gov. Boles of Iowa, Mr. Bland and himself that either Butler or Filley have any liking 8 of — gg — ie Tones nha He said: ae ! at for Mr. Nagel, but with the shrewdness n 8 “That does not amount to much. It is al 8 en 2 characteristic of political bosses they have analyzed the temper of the people and real- ize that they must select good men if they ters, which, after all, affect us much more than anything concerning the broader af- fairs of Missouri. There are the questions of street railroad and conduit franchises, the laying out of a system of broad and beautiful boulevards, the problem of clean wish to win. In oe words they would - ' most a daily habit of the Republic now to | sinuation. I am not willing, however, to an- noy the public with personal quarrels, and will nod if I can avoid it. I prefer to leave that field to be cultivated by those who are constantly preaching ‘harmony.’ I am not fighting men. I fight for those things I be- “| lieve to be right and for the bes’ very adroit, but it will find that it labors in vain in its apparent.purpose to create fric- tion between Mr. Bland and myself. That scheme has~been tried before and failed, and it will fail again. Bland and I are both personal and political friends. He knows that, so far as I am concerned, if he de- siresethe Presidential nomination, I am his friend. I presume I know as much of Mr. Bland’s feeling on the questions involved in the pending struggle as does the Republic. There is not in or out of Missouri a purer’ and more faithful and devoted public man than he. “IT believe ex-Gov. Boies stands in the same class so far as these qualities go. My entire connection with the mention of ex- Gov: Boes“ name in relation to the Presi- dency appears on the surface; there is noth- ing concealed,..Mr. Sam B. Cook of Mexico, ‘| wholly without my knowledge, printed an efiitorial in his paper favorable to Gov. ‘Boles as the Democratic candidate! Mr. Cook then wrote to me and, ag he says, to other Democrats in the State, asking us who e best the community, regardless of not be supposed to have any ondness for Mr. Nagel. The tood as an obstruction in the e bosses and their tools since elements o party. Filley articular atter h ernment. While his ideas may have seemed vis- fonary at times he has fought the dark- lantern schemes of the corruptionists, and as is usual in such cases no one has ques- tioned his motives. As it stands he is the one man connected with the present. ad- inistration whose name has not been irched in some way. As acting Mayor in absence of Wal- bridge, Nagel —4 had on Bre t them- His reprimand of Jai agner is embered, and it showed him as a o had definite ideas of the duties of al officers. : utler is chiefly interested in further- ing Mr. Nagel’s candidacy for Governor be- cause he has a strong desire to see some one else in the mayoralty chair. rec- Ognizes very clearly that the President of the Council, if promoted, would be a con- stant stumbling block in the way of his numerous schemes, wing’ Colonel has his ts wants some an man at the head of municipal affairs who Nagel 12 2 7 will de complacent and obliging. ould not be the man, and if he were made ernor he would be forever out of the way. is more deeply interested. He sees time has c when d he hopes to cover the names of such there is any bond of ole man” and Mr, tified i i Mayor, Willey realizes that it would ifficult — persuaie him to take care of stuff 2 re = ee _* 1 Ts. ‘ 2 8 N 4 N 8 4 * . 8 and well-paved streets, the hospitals, t jails and the asylums, which are constantly pressing themselves upon us. “They are all of the greatest interest to us and should be dealt with honestly, in- em tome A and vigorously. “The trouble 14 that in seeking to rectify all the evils we have we are inclined to scatter too much. We agitate a question looking to some great municipal reform for aw or two, hold a mass-meeting and pass resolutions, and then we fofget all | about it. Instead of undertaking one thing at a time and following it till we have wor out a definite result, we do a great deal g and accomplish little. “For five months we have not driven a nail in the new City Hall, and yet columns have been written and yards of oratory ex- pended in advocating this 2 and that plan when all that is needed is for those in charge to | ad make a showing. “It is my interest in these made me pay attention to cit without a thought of seeking an office. Iam not a candidate for any office, but I’ wil say frankly that if I were desirous of hold. rather Occupy. my present positing than wee ¥ presen on th within the gift of the people.” e SHALL HE WITRDRAW? ‘Blackburn's Fair Answer to the Geld Standard Democrats. Special to The Post-Dispatch. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 27:—The repeat- ed calls of the gold standard ts for the withdrawal of Senator Blackburn, so as to give ‘opportunity ‘for another nomination, are culminating 0-day in the circulation ot a petition among them asking him to get off the track. Tue Blackburn managers have agreed to reply to this, when it is presented, affairs | will be put, “Is it the desire of the Demo- of the Legislature * 28 5 0 s caucus vote in favo Adra wal he will do so. But the: -of proposition from the Black- burn men is that if a majority in that cau- cus is in favor of his remaining on the the stan members who have heretofore refused their support shall there- votes for him at every joint matters that } avenue, | with the A Bearc what we thought of his suggestion. My letter to him was written in reply. He de- sired to publish it, and I told him he could do as he pleased. That is the whole of it. In that letter I simply expressed my opin- toh of Gov. Boies as a Presidential possibili- ty, and stated in substance that ff there was no candidate from Missouri, and I knew of none, that I was inclined to look with great favor upon Boies. Except with one or two persons with whom I conversed casually in St. Louis, I had never spoken or written a word to a human being concerning the candidacy of ex-Gov. Boies until I wrote the letter to Mr. Cook. That is all I care to swy, and that is really more than the im- portance of the Republic’s article demands.” WENT WILLINGLY 10 DEATH. Suicide of a Telegraph Operator After Arranging His Own Funeral. BOSTON, Feb. 27,—William H. Pearson, known as one of the youngest expprt %ele- graph operators in the West, held a Tong con- versation with Manager Stonier of the Hyde Park Morgue, in which he practically made all arrangements for having his body em- balmed, told him he was going to commit suicide, then went to the home of his cousin, and locking all the doors, adjusted a gas tube to a burner, turned on the telephoned to the police station, giv- angsty — the man, but id was f on investigation he had given a wrong and all efforts to find him and pre- ed were Unavailing. sudden death of his wife ed as the cause. She visit to her Ohio home and Pearson gone to the depot do meet her on her return. Instead, he received a tele 84 she had died on the train from a 8 attack of pneumonia. Since that event he had been despondent and many times said there was no use living. The deed was committed at the home of his cousin, Mrs. James Bell, No. 4717 Evans and was planned and carried out utmost care and deliberation. h of the body revealed a razor in one of Pearson's shoes. It is though) he put the weapon there for use in the event of deins taken in charge by she police. He was determined that his plans should not be frustrated. In his room werß found a club and a hatchet, put there, it is thought, for convenience in c tempt to break in before he was Pearson’s father is a wealthy re arn er, who lives in Auburndale, near Toledc O. He is 76 years old. M ec 85 telegram yesterday stating was serious and his life d Pearson had not seen his fa left home at the age of 16 to t ~ x, 1 * 4 „ * “ 1 > 3 1 4 * 3 . * i en i 5 72 el ‘ * 7 * 1 * 7. 4 a ® a rail at me in some way, directly or by in- “The Republic doubtless thinks that it is | if GOLD Bucs, Bimetallists in the Ascendancy : All Over Missouri. REVIEW. OF THE SITUATION. It Is Not Apparent Hew the Francis Single Standard Faction Can Hope to Elect Delegates. Unless those who control the party organ- ization in Jackson County are woefully mis- taken, the Administration factionists are counting without their host when they de- clare through their organ, the Republic, that the Kansas City district will send a delegation to the Sedalia convention favor- able to them. Chairman H. S. Julian of the Jackson County Democratic Committee, in a recent letter to a member of the Post-Dispatch staff, says that his county is just as sure to send a solid free silver delegation to Sedalia as is any other county in the State. Mr. Julian’s assertion is corroborated by statements equally emphatic from Marcy K. Brown, the ex-Prosecuting Attorney, State Committeeman M. A. Fyke and other Democratic leaders of like influence in Kan- sas City. These men all point, in a spirit of jocu- larity, to the faet that Congressman J. C. Tarsney for years industrionusly applied him- self to e task of educating the Demo- crats of the Fifth District to the support of the rehabilitation of silver and until a eat flood of golden light burst upon him rom thé White House he kept the district bestrewn with free silver literature, Of course, they feel duly grateful to him for the good work he did in the cause in the past, and unite in according to him the roper meed of praise, though, because of his late apostasy, they declare they cannot remain in Con longer aid him to gress. Jackson County so completely dominates the Fifth 3 . eee the . emen quo accep true would seem to be no doubt as.t “ong of the de oaths Sen 0 ’ county of the datrict, ig however, ly free silver l of Leseuer lives there, is recent tion for 16 to 1 togetnhe ae oe See pudiation of the ‘is ent, would ap- r to 88 an silastic and Bape — ream 8 e stronghold to the 7 hope in e the police should at jin, | MADE flu LONELY. NEATH ) ANT] ALIN 25 — — ‘of a Railroad Wreck on Lew Harper. It was about six years ago and Lew Harp- er, Chief clerk of the Southern Hotel, was on his vacation. He was down m Tennessee bruising around trying to amuse himself as best he might. ; N One day he god mixed up in a railroad ac- cident. A train rolled off a high embank- ment and the passengers were pretty badly mashed up. Some of them had legs and arms and heads broken, but Harper escaped without a scratch. The press sent the news over the wires and the passengers were all anxiously sending out messages do relatives 3833 announcing that they were not ead. Harper was standing around doing noth- ing when the telegraph operator approached N. , Have you sent any messages to your friends?’ he asked. “Nope,” said Harper. “Glad to have you use the wire if you'd like to,” continued the operator. 3 „Thanks,“ was Harper’s reply as walked away. : Then he began to think, Who was mere to whom -he could send a message that he was safe, He couldn’t think of a single soul. He saw other men tele & away to wives and children, but he couldn’t think of any one but the boys and he knew would give him the laugh if he sent word that he was sate. : 15 made him feel lonesome to be down there in that strange country with no one to care much whether he lived or died. He came back to St. Louis and the next thing that happened to him was a wedding. Now he has good advice in store for every young man. pre THIS BURGLAR WHISTLED, And Miss Anna McQueen Accompanied Him on the Piano. Special to The Post-Dispatch. The Effect . NEW YORK, Feb, 27.—To the accompani- ment of a dozen popular airs played on the piano by a pretty young woman, 4 ‘thief boldly entered a house in Harlem yesterday and carried off $500 worth of valuables. The burglar entered the house of Mrs. French on One Hundred Fifteenth stree?, while that lady was busy in the kitchen. On the ‘floor, in room, was Miss a 4 1 en, —— was playing the piano ‘back | bottom deal” seances of Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. Algea and the other 8— urable beauties who had a rake-off for the turkey lunch and liquid refresh- t and Vandeventer and Spring avenues. . f these gentlemen do not figure in Judge Peabody’s Police Court within the next ten days as experts on the great American game it will be because the City Marshal's minions cannot find them. This announcement will cause great con- sternation among a number of Hloods, as many of the habitues are men of affairs to st town for a sufficient period to avoid appear - ing in court against the lovely ladies, Besides, some of them have been such assiduous contributors to the “rake-off’’ that the trip might be Inconvenient for an- other reason. As soon as Chief Harrigan had secu , from ex-Detective George Gran = names of the players in suspended him Woeful Reports of Killing Heat l . MERCURY 125 M THE SHADE. Men, Women and Children Drep Down and Die in the Streets and Crops Are Burned Up. Special to The Post-Dispatch. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 27.—The Ca- nadian-Australian steamship Miowera ar- rived to-day several days late, having been awful destructién to marine property along the Australian coast the weather on land has been unprecedentedly hot and the death Tate from sunstroke has been excessively. In a great many sections the crops are uted. Tn — 113 in the shade is Startling statistics are to hand of death from heat. | to the sailing of the were int at demand for 3 883 * * ere 1 en 2 N 0 3 1 a } District ice Court. David Mt O 9 department it was Matter referred to the t to . ; th: thi 0 tlously disposed So the list was sent to Assistant City At- torney Egger and he turned it over to City Attorney Clover. Here is the shape in which the names reached Mr. Eggers: Mrs. Florence Barnes, 3856 Olive street. Witnesses: ' Ex-Officer George Granberry. ' Prof. Robert Nelson, 2625 Washington aves nue. ‘Dr. Will I. Campbell, 608 Olive street. ‘ Joy Glydden, 913 Pine street. Sheldon, 107 North Eighth street. 913 Pine street. the thind te apeinet Mrs. Kate Algea, 1218 North avenue, and the list of wit- "Beckto as follows: ay gets | Macke * * 2 . Tare ohn Booher atto „ 520 dvs street, August Albrecht, 48 Joy G 913 Pine street. Jack Pine 107 North Mrs, D. B. Taylor of venue Is also marked as a b 6 states that the Taylor are the same as whom it will prove inconvenient to leave * Another reason for was that the wre would de more ex- of, e ularity and good nature at the top and 7 ments at their establishments on Olive 8 — Ss 2 " } 5 7 : 7 * 2 * > 28 N eh Pow Ny N . od >. e **