Mr. Sherman's animus in connection with the convention of 1888 is expressed in the following: "On Saturday evening [June 23] I was telegraphed by different persons that I would certainly be nominated on Monday. That was the confident belief in Washington. . . . On Monday, the 25th of June, I did not anticipate a change on the first ballot from the last one on Saturday. I did expect, from my despatches, that the nomination would be made that day and in my favor, but, as the result proved, an arrangement had been made on Sunday JOHN SHERMAN AT THIRTY-FIVE. that practically secured the nomination of General Harrison. This became obvious in the course of the vote on Monday, and, as Harrison was practically assured of the nomination, Pennsylvania voted solid for him and ended the contest. I "From the best information I could gather from many persons with whom I conversed, I have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that I was defeated for the nomination by New York. was assured before the meeting of the convention that I would have six votes from the beginning from that State, and could reasonably hope for a large addition to that vote in the progress of the balloting. Instead of this I did not receive a single vote, altho three or more of the delegates had been distinctly selected in my favor and had given pledges to their constituents that they would vote for me, but they did not on a single ballot do so, except I was advised that at one ballot one of them voted for me. "I believed then, as I believe now, that one of the delegates from the State of New York practically controlled the whole delegation, and that a corrupt bargain was made on Sunday which transferred the great body of the vote of New York to General Harrison, and thus led to his nomination. It is to the credit of General Harrison to say that if the reputed bargain was made, it was made without his consent at the time, nor did he carry it into execution. "I believe, and had, as I thought, conclusive proof that the friends of General Alger substantially purchased the votes of many of the delegates from the Southern States who had been instructed by their conventions to vote for me." Estimate of Garfield.-Mr. Sherman sums up his opinion of the character of President Garfield in the following language: "I knew Garfield well. From his early advent in 1861 in the legislature of Ohio, when I was a candidate for the Senate, to the date of his death, I had every opportunity to study his character. He was a large, well-developed, handsome man, with a pleasing address and a natural gift for oratory. Many of his speeches were models of eloquence. These qualities naturally made him popular. But his will power was not equal to his personal magnetism. He easily changed his mind, and honestly veered from one impulse to another. This, I think, will be admitted by his warmest friends. During the trying period between his election and inauguration his opinions wavered, but Blaine, having similar personal qualities, but a stronger will, gained a powerful influence with him. When I proposed to him to be a delegate-atlarge to the Chicago convention, he, no doubt, meant in good faith to support my nomination. When his own nomination seemed probable he acquiesced in and perhaps contributed to it, but after his election he was chiefly guided by his brilliant Secretary of State." A Lincoln Anecdote.-The following characteristic anecdote is told of Mr. Sherman's first meeting with Lincoln: "Abraham Lincoln, the President-elect, arrived in the city of Washington on the 23d day of February, 1861, and, with Mrs. Lincoln, stopped at Willard's Hotel where I was then living. On the evening of his arrival I called upon him, and met him for the first time. When introduced to him, he took my hands in both of his, drew, himself up to his full height, and, looking at me steadily, said: 'You are John Sherman! Well, I am taller than you; let's measure.' Thereupon we stood back to back, and some one present announced that he was two inches taller than I. This was correct, for he was 6 feet 31⁄2 inches tall when he stood erect. This singular introduction was not unusual with him, but if it lacked in dignity, it was an expression of friendliness, and so considered by him. Our brief conversation was cheerful, and my hearty congratulations for his escape from the Baltimore 'roughs' were received with a laugh." The pictures herewith are used by courtesy of the Werner Company, Chicago. The Anatomy of Speed-Skating.-"The typical speedskater has a short body, capacious, round chest, with well-developed back; his thighs are strong and very long, as are also his legs. His feet are large and flat. His weak points are his calves, due to the long, flat skate to which his flattened foot is so closely bound. The large muscles of his chest are not exercised, and his arms, held lying idly along his back, are unused except in an occasional spurt, when they are brought down and swung straight from the shoulder. They say that they catch less wind held that way, and that the position is restful to the tense extensors of the back. This is, no doubt, true, but the result is disastrous to symmetrical development. This type of figure is seen at its best in such skaters as the Donahues, McCormick, the old-time professional, who still skates a fast race altho now forty years of age, and in Wilson Breen, a professional, who has been a winner of much gold and glory by means of his long legs and powerful thighs. The conclusion that speed-skating alone is not a good exercise to develop a well-built, symmetrical man will be patent to any one who reviews the facts. If indulged in, it should be, as done by McCulloch, in conjunction with other forms of athletics which bring into action the muscles of the arm; calf, shoulders, and chest." R. Tait McKenzie in The Popular Science Monthly. "THERE was something sensational, if not spectacular," says The New York Observer, "in the concerted prayer at Cleveland on Thanksgiving Day when between three and four thousand Christian Endeavorers bowed in prayer precisely at noon for the conversion of Colonel Ingersoll. It was unwise to give publicity to any such intended cooperation, but we were hardly prepared for the declaration of the editor of Sabbath Reading, a small religious sheet published in this city, that he could not pray for Ingersoll's conversion because he believes that the infidel has committed the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost." The General State of Trade. With the exception of mild weather at cities in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota, colder weather has stimulated sales of seasonable merchandise at nearly all points, but only by contrast with preceding weeks. Wholesale trade is dull, merchants preferring to reduce stocks at the end of the year to make ready for annual inventories. In retail lines, particularly in holiday specialties, there has been a marked increase in demand, tho thus far in some instances not equal to expectations. Irregularity is shown in mercantile collections, general trade throughout the country being relatively most satisfactory in the central Mississippi valley. a decrease for eleven months a year ago from its dividend by the Tobacco Trust depressed the 1893 of 10.7 per cent. Exports of wheat (flour included as wheat) from both coasts of the United States this week aggregate 2,458,000 bushels, against 3,156,000 bushels last week, 2,536,000 bushels in the week a year ago, 3,217,000 bushels two years ago, and 3,277,000 bushels in the corresponding week of 1892. Exports of Indian corn amount to 2,391,000 bushels, as compared with 1,867,000 bushels last week, 292,000 bushels in the week one year ago, and 1,227,000 bushels in the corresponding week of 1893. The present week's total foreign shipments of Indian corn are the largest for any week since that ending May 2, 1892, and are explained by our telegraphic advices from New Orleans of an extraordinarily heavy outward movement there. per cent. Bank clearings throughout the United States In industrial lines woolen manufacturers report livery. 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The export from New York for the week showed a considerable increase over the week before. The Department of Agriculture departed from its usual course in stating the cotton crop in bales, and this occasioned a good deal of criticism. Had the crop been computed upon the known crop of last year as a basis the figures for this year would have been some 400,000 bales larger than they were. The feeling in the trade is that unless the Department has some improved methods of getting information it had much better report conditions and leave to the interested public the computation of the number of bales. As the statement of bales was based upon the Department's estimate last May of area, it was an estimate of an estimate. The traders regard the Department's figures as those of the producing and bull interests, and put little faith in them.-The Journal of Commerce. Electric Insoles. NO COLD FEET → State size of Shoe you wear. 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In the second round, played December 15, Pillsbury defeated Tschigorin in twenty-five moves. Lasker was too much for Steinitz, and the veteran resigned after thirty moves. The players have agreed to play a six-round tournament, i.e., every man will play six games with each other. Every player will get a prize. 1st, $250; 2d, $150; 3d, $100; 4th, $50. Besides the prizes, the winner of every game will receive $20, the loser $5. Drawn games are valued at $20, $10 to each player. This is probably the most important Chess contest of this age of the world. It brings together the four greatest masters of modern Chess. We, in America, are especially interested in Harry Pillsbury. The St. Petersburg games will be published as soon as they are received. 4 P-K 3 5 Kt-B 3 6 P-K 4 Solved by M. W. H., University of Virginia. Charles W. Cooper, Allegheny, Pa., and F. H. Johnston, Elizabeth City, N. C. This problem was given in The British Chess Magazine, as a six-mover. We gave it as published to see if any of our solvers could find the necessity of the sixth move. Prof. C. D. Schmitt, University of Tennessee; C. H. Gansser, Bay City, Mich. ; and the Revs. E. P. Skyles, Berlin, Pa., and E. M. McMillin, Lebanon, Ky., were successful with No. 98. Mr. Gansser and Mr. McMillin got No. 97 (Nov. 16). The St. Petersburg Tournament. PILLSBURY BEATS LASKER AND TSCHIGORIN, The great quadrangular Chess Tournament between Emanuel Lasker, William Steinitz, Michael Tschigorin, and Harry N. Pillsbury began at the St. Petersburg Chess Club on Friday, December 13. The President of the club addressed the players in French, bidding them a hearty welcome. The drawing for their respective numbers resulted as follows: Lasker, 1; Pillsbury, 2; Steinitz, 3; Tschigorin, 4. Pillsbury selected the Petroff defense against Lasker, and, by the most brilliant kind of play, compelled the champion of the world to resign atter thirty-five moves. 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A RBITRATION of the entire boundary dispute between England and Venezuela having been positively declined by Lord Salisbury in his reply to the note of Secretary Olney, President Cleveland, in a special message to Congress last week, reaffirmed the Monroe doctrine, and declared it to be the duty of the United States to determine with certainty the true boundary between the possessions of the two governments concerned, and “resist by every means in its power" the appropriation by Great Britain of any territory which is found to belong to Venezuela. The President recommended an adequate appropriation for a commission to be appointed by him for the purpose of making a careful investigation of the boundary question and reporting its findings with the least possible delay. In his reply to Secretary Olney, the British Premier claims that the Monroe doctrine is both generally inapplicable “to the state of things in which we live at the present day," and specially inapplicable to the boundary dispute in question. He further contends that, since the "doctrine" has not been recognized as part of international law the United States is not "entitled to affirm as a general proposition" that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall a number of independent and sovereign governments simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere. He absolutely refuses to accept the doctrine that the United States is entitled to insist that arbitration shall be applied to any territorial dispute between independent States. President Cleveland meets these assertions by saying that the Monroe doctrine derives sanction from the principles of international law, since in international counsels every nation is accorded the rights justly claimed by it, and since the principle contended for in the "doctrine" has such peculiar relations to the United States that its claims can not fail to be recognized. As for the applicability of the "doctrine" to the present issue, the WHOLE NUMBER, 297 President says that "it was intended to apply to every stage of our national life," and that “if a European power, by an extension of its boundaries, takes possession of the territory of one of our neighboring republics against its will," it is difficult to see why, to that extent, such European power does not thereby attempt to extend its system of government to the portion thus taken, it being a matter of indifference whether the extension is made by an advance of frontier or otherwise. Congress received the message with manifestations of satisfaction and enthusiasm. The House promptly and unanimously passed a bill voting an appropriation of $100,000 for the commission suggested, and in the Senate the President's attitude is generally upheld. The overwhelming majority of the newspapers applaud the message as American, vigorous, and eminently just, but quite a number of influential organs, Republican, Democratic, and Independent, deprecate the tone of the President and question the correctness of his interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, being rather inclined to agree with Lord Salisbury's contention that the doctrine is inapplicable to the boundary dispute and that the United States is not entitled to insist on arbitration of the difficulty. Of the many public men who have, in interviews or otherwise, expressed themselves upon the question, only the governors of the several States seem to be in full sympathy with the spirit of the message. Among prominent lawyers, professors of law, clergymen, and business men no such unanimity is shown. Prof. Theodore S. Woolsey, who holds the chair of international law in Yale, says that the pretense that our safety is menaced by the boundary dispute is simply ridiculous, and that the President has assumed a position wholly indefensible under international principles. President Hyde of Bowdoin College, and Professors Hayes and Taussig, of Harvard, find the message to be needlessly bellicose and mischievous. Abram S. Hewitt, ex-Mayor of New York, holds that the Monroe doctrine is totally inapplicable to the situation, and the same view was recently expressed by James C. Carter, the leading New York lawyer. On the other hand, exMinister Lincoln, General Alger, Chauncey M. Depew, and other leading men approve of the message and the stand taken by the President. Historian von Holst, of the Chicago University, is reported as having expressed himself as follows regarding the message: "The Monroe doctrine is nowise involved. That has to do with colonizing and extending power. It contemplates aggressive measures on the part of Great Britain. That does not enter into the Venezuela question. That is simply a matter of disputed boundary. By no license of reasoning, short of wilful misconstruction and misstatement, can the Monroe doctrine be made applicable to the controversy. By no principle or practise of international law can the United States find excuse for the position President Cleveland advocates. The President and Olney have nothing as a basis for their illegitimate doctrines. I condemn their utterances as a public disgrace and calamity." On the other hand, Historian J. B. McMaster, of the University of Pennsylvania, thinks that the message is sound in every particular. He is reported as saying: "The day has come when the Monroe doctrine, which might more properly be called the 'American doctrine,' should either be enforced or abandoned. Lord Salisbury's claim that the doctrine was for a particular time and a particular purpose is not tenable. . . . The doctrine was not for 1823, but for all time. It is applicable 'to the state of things in which we live at the present day.' Monroe not only announced a doctrine, but applied it at the same time. Mr. Cleveland upholds the doctrine and makes another application. The applications are different, but the doctrine is the same." We append American and foreign comment: Neither Jingoistic nor Supine, but Dignified and Firm."The message and correspondence display evidences of earnest thought and the answers to the British contentions are well weighed and convincing. The correspondence in the case resembles the arguments of counsel in legal proceedings. The President's message is the judge's charge to the jury, composed of the members of Congress as representing the people of the United States. In the light of the charge it is difficult to see how any verdict can be rendered in favor of Great Britain and her pretense of believing that the Monroe doctrine does not apply to the present case. So far as America is concerned there is no possible question as to the result. The President will be commended for his firm, patriotic tone and upheld in his position by every American who believes that the time has come for insisting upon a recognition of the United States in all matters affecting territorial acquisitions in this hemisphere. "There is no jingoism in the President's message; neither is there weakness, nor cowardice, nor 'supine submission.' The answers to the points of Lord Salisbury's reply are plain and direct and the President wastes no words in quibbling over technicalities but grasps the situation in a broad patriotic spirit. 'America is for Americans,' the President in effect declares, and to this proposition the millions not only of the United States but of the three Americas will say 'Amen!""-The Star (Ind.), Washington. A Jingo Bugaboo.-"President Cleveland's message to Congress on the Venezuelan matter is a serious blunder. It is a blunder because it is based upon a wrong conception, because it is not sustained by international law or usage, and because it places the United States in a false position. "To interfere in South America and bring on a war between two great, free, and highly civilized nations on any account less serious than a menace such as the President describes, would be the monumental crime of the century. "Are our 'peace and safety as a nation,' the 'integrity of our free institutions,' and 'the tranquil maintenance of our distinctive form of government' threatened by an extension, however unwarranted and arbitrary, of the English possessions in Venezuela? The preposterous nature of this jingo bugaboo is sufficiently indicated by pointing to Canada and to British Columbia, on our very border. England is not a 'foreign nation' in this hemisphere. Great Britain owns more territory on this continent than we do. She was here before we were a nation. If she had the hostile intentions which the President's words impute, did she need to wait for a boundary dispute in distant Venezuela, with a hybrid race, to assail us or to menace our Republican institutions? "The assumption is absurd. And with it falls the structure of ponderously patriotic rhetoric reared upon it by the President."The World (Dem.), New York. 1 ་ "Nobody at that time understood Mr. Monroe's language as having any application to a boundary dispute such as has arisen between Great Britain and Venezuela. It is evidently to the application of the famous 'doctrine' to the present case that Lord Salisbury has taken most serious objection. As presented by Secretary Olney, the 'doctrine' is not only in full force and vigor to-day, but virtually makes the United States the protector and guardian as against European aggression of every other state in this hemisphere. It creates that very protective alliance with the South American republics which in 1826 the House of Representatives expressly condemned and protested against. We should be sorry to think that Mr. Olney shares in any degree the 'jingo' sentiments which just now seem to be especially ripe among New England statesmen, such as Lodge, Chandler, Frye, and the 'bounding' and irrepressible Willy-wee Barrett. We can not but think, however, that he has given to the 'Monroe doctrine' a significance and an application not justified by the language of Mr. Monroe's message, by the circumstances under which that message was written, by the facts of history and the contemporaneous construction placed upon it, or by the subsequent action of the only department of the Government which should have the power to commit the country to a policy of peace or war."-The Sun (Dem.), Baltimore. May Take Jingoism Out of the Next Campaign.-"The 'Monroe doctrine,' as it is popularly understood, is popularly approved. But this approval may be stretched too far by new interpretations of the doctrine. If the position is set up by the Government that the United States is to champion any American country in any controversy with a European power, if we are to indorse Brazil in its contention with France over a boundary dispute now in progress, as well as Venezuela in its quarrel with Great Britain, the people ought to know the fact. The President's definition of the Monroe doctrine claims for it a place in the code of international law on the broad ground that whatever is vital to this nation's safety belongs there. On this proposition, at once all-embracing and conveniently indefinite, we can either let alone any question in South America which does not necessarily concern us, or handle any one that does. This shrewd opportunism it is pretty safe to attribute to Mr. Olney's astute and practical counsel. "The transmission of the Venezuelan correspondence to Congress will enlighten the country and enable it to act understandingly. More than that, it will put an end to any suggestion that the Administration is lukewarm in its 'Americanism'-and so perhaps will have the blessed result of neutralizing jingoism and taking it out of the politics of the Presidential year, after all."The Transcript (Rep.), Boston. Blundering Diplomacy of a Conceited Tyro.-"We do not believe there will be a war or any serious trouble between this country and England over the Venezuela matter, or that there is any actual danger of it. But if there were, it would be directly chargeable to these cuckoo marplots, who have been doing their utmost to becloud and complicate the case and to make more difficult a peaceful and honorable settlement of it. "Nor is the Administration itself free from blame. Amid all the cordial and loyal support that is now being given to him by men of both parties, the feeling can not be ignored that this is a startling 'new departure' for Mr. Cleveland. His foreign policy hitherto has displayed scarcely a tithe of the patriotism, lucidity, and strength of this latest message. It has been unsatisfactory, at times even offensive, to the best sentiments of the American people. Now he has at last discovered what public opinion really is, and has concluded that it is best for him to follow it. He does more. With the zeal of a new convert he seeks to lead it. He is not content with diplomacy, but resorts to defiance. In response to the just demand of the American people that the dispute shall be impartially arbitrated,, he pronounces an ex cathedra decree 30 |