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Napoleon of Air Lose Craft by
Fire anJ Explosion ai llo
Triumphs. ,
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GALE CAUSES L3TBUCTI0:i.
Alpine Storm T7peti Benzine, Which
Ignites Gat Big During
Repair Work.
Overwhelmed with disaster in his
hour of triumph Count Zc-iiK?flu Wed
nesdny siw tlio glur.t olratilp In which
he hn wrested tho supremacy of th
air from n score of compel liors catch
fire, explodo and drift uway n mass of
wreckage on the wing of a resistless
storm. Four men of the nernu.mt's crew
were badly burned, but Zeppelin him
self escaped Injury. The end of Zeppe
lin's 1125,000 lnnchloe tlio rourlh ho
has constructed enuie at the village of
ZEPPELIN AIHSHTP WHICH
Ehterdliigen, near Stuttgart, and only
(J5 miles from the finishing point of thi
622-nille aerial Journey which the count
was aiming to complete, where teim of
thousands of persons were already gath
cred to greet him as conqueror of the
air.
Orders hnve already been given by
Count Zeppelin for tho construction of
another airship. Subscription lists for
funds with which to provide tho means
have been opened in Iterlin, Bremen,
Stuttgart and other towns in Germany
and Switzerland.
Gets Cheek fur S 1.1,000.
While the nlrshlp wos Indiiig destroy,
ed I'rlvy Councilor Lewald was on his
way to present Count Zeppelin with a
cheek for ft 23.0(H), the budget estliaate
for aeronautic experiments, which it
had beeu decided to give to the navi
gator as a regard for his many years
f Bucrlflco in the Interest bf the father
land. . I'asslng over Stuttgart nt 0 :.'I0 in tho
tnornlug on the lust stage of its voyage..
. aud atecrlng straight for I'rledrlchshu'
fen, the Zeppelin airship moved along
, with the greatest ease. Five miles far
ther on, howover, one of the motors
- , suddenly developed defects and the bal
loon was brought to earth on a plateau
near Echterdlngen.
It .was discovered that the cause of
the breakdown was the overheating of
the piston of the motor and the reduc
tion of the gua In the balloon as the re
sult of an ascension to an altitude of
A fompaalt Airship.
M. Malcot, a French aeronaut, lm de
veloped a new kind of air craft, which
combines the principles of the balloon and
the aeroplane. The directing part is the
aeroplane of triangular shape. It is 0'i
feet long, with a surface of 420 square
feet and made of bamboo and aluminum.
In its center are the car and the appara
tus fur profiling and steering the whole.
A twenty-eight horse-power motor drives
a screw fan of walnut wood ten feet long
and giving 1,2N) revolutions a minute.
The while weight of aeroplane and ma
chinery is attached to a clgar-shaiied bal
loon 100 feet long and 28 feet wide, which
is designed to give additional safety nnd
buoyancy to the whole.
The first formal apieal of the Demo
cratic cnndjb4ea for contributions to
their campuign fund has been made to
the farmers of the land. It begins with
the statement that the first contribution
this year came from an Iowa farmer, a
naturallxed Swede. Bryan's paper, the
Commoner, is asked to call for and re
ceive the offering of the farmers, to be
turned v over to the national committee
later. Bryan has beeu very busy receiv
ing delegations at his Lincoln home and
' conferring with leaders. He maile sev
eral seeches Into a phonograph machine
J. O. riielps-Slokes, the weulthy young
New Yorker, who married Itoe I'astor
out of the rauks of the winders, has I"- -
nominated for the State Asvemhly by
Eighth District, which U on ths lower
East Side of the city. His brother-in-law,
Uobert Hunter, prominent f a So
cialist writer, l to run for Conres In
another East Side section of the rltyt
The New York "World, though opMjed to
aocinlisra, lis come out in support of
Blokes, taking ;he rrouud that "the bet
way to defeat socialism la to have its
blent advocates pvenent their detailed
program to the public." Mrs. btoku will
stake 9 stuni for nr uuvland,
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.000 feet, made by the navigator as a
f ual test of Ilia craft.
Having olrrudy bt all hope of mak
Ing the twenty-four l;jur continuous
(light demanded by the German govern
uirr.i at a condition of the purchase of
the airship, Count Zeppelin recognized,
thnt time no lonscr counted and deter
mined to have thorough repairs exe
cute, before continuing the trip. He
therefore ser.t to FriodrlcbHhafcn for a
sirtit of liK-chiiiiics to place the balloon
In commission again.
Rtnrm Grip Alrahlp.
At .1 o'clock In the nftornoon, while the
rcpiilr work was still In progress, a
fl-:rce fhuiiderKtor.it swept down from
tin; Alps and e Izcd the huge air flyer
In l:s grip. The wind upset a quantity
of benzine which lay mound the ma
chine. In n ui'iiiKMt the Iluld blasted
u;, the flumes reached the gus bug float
ing uli. ft, and there wni a tremendous
explosion.
Simultaneously the hurricane tore tho
bulb-on from lis anchorage and hurled
It, a fiery mass. In a southeasterly direc
tion for liity yards. Then the rear end
of the great lalirle dropped, tho motors
and frame attached to the under aide
crashed to the earth, knocking down
several bystanders, nnd all that re
lur.Iiied of the float airship floated
nvvuy cm the Kale, a mass of blazing
cordnpe nnd material.
The accident to the Zeppelin airship
BUKNED IN MIDAIR.
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recalls the end of tho Frenuh military
airship l'ulrie In December, 1007, which
was then considered the finest; dirigible
balloon in existence. A sudden gust of
wind struck the airship and the 200
men who were holding the guide ropes
were dragged for several hundred
yards. The balloon Bho up to agreat
height and disappeared. Five days later
the I'atrle came down in Ireland.
Count Zeppelin's record-breaking voy
age with his great airship surprises no
one familiar with the present state of
the art of aerial navigation. That a
modern motor balloon can be depended
upon to make voyages of from one to
two thousand miles, under fairly favor
able conditions, has long been known to
men who nro familiar with acronuutlos,
Count Zeppelin's nuccess Is epoch-mak
ing in tnnt It convinces a skeptical
world of the practicability of airships
and of their utility ns engines of war
and us instruments of exploration of
the upper nlr, as well as of parts of
the earth otherwise Inaccessible, Ilk
II. e great unknown area surrouudlng
the north pole. The recent demonstra
tion, although It ended disastrously,
without doubt will assure the rapid
bul'dlt'n of aerial navies by the chief
military powers. In fact, Oermnny.
France, Great Britain and the United
States are nlreudy moving In thut di
rection. France has the Lebaudy and
La Itepubllque alreudy In commission,
and ZepjH'lln's ship, it is understood,
Is to be taken over for the German
army.
NEWS' OP WIN0B NOTE.
To prevent his marriage to a 13-year-old
girl William Williams,. 04 years old.
was murdered and bis boily hanged to
tree near Marydel, Maryland. I
N 1. Crum, a Seattle business man,
accidentally shot and Instantly killed Al-
uert Aloody, a close personal friend.
siding at Virginia City. Mont., with
whom he was hunting ground squirrels
uear mat place.
Heury Jones, one of the pioneers ot
Minnesota, who built the first cabin on
the site where the village of St. Petel
now stands, died recently at Ids hnma in
Franklin Heights, Minneapolis, at the age
su j ram.
Recently little frame buildlnr on
Third street, near Market, In St. 1'auL
burned. It was the building In which, la
September, 1M01, Charles Elchler, the
flrtit volunteer I'ulon soldier of the Civil
vi ar, was mustered In.
A nadonnl reforeudura in Switzerland
on the question ot pruliihitiug Uie mauu
(.vctu.'e and Mile of aliHintbe resulted In a
majority of K0,Hk in favor f the pro-
nimtion. this will men a loas to the
government revenues, as the nxwt fa moat
bramU of absinthe are made in Swltser-
laud.
A terrific earthquake occurred In the
province of Tscna and Arlca, lu Chile.
the Kouthern part of l'eru and Moll via.
Cotis'.dernhle destruction of property, but
no Ioks of life, Is reported. The bl
between Arlcn nnd Lima baa been brokea
ami the telegraph lift? to Bolivia art
damaged. '
The ftritish propomal concerning mili
tary oui'Klio'ia In Macedonia will be ex
amined by the (ieriiKin foreign oltlce la
connection with Kuiu'.i plans for judi
cial and financial reforms iu that coun
try, and the UritUth and Itunxian nutet
regarding Macedonia will be treated by
tierijuiiv as a whole.
INTERSTATE FAIR NEWS
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:::u i acimtii s ron iiaxd.
lix stock. ,
Ruhuiti Ilote Accommodation
Inrg.
or 1'reinlnnis and Cali I'rles
ir:,-,li Class Aniiisenients Pofca
Stpumbcr "-12. Inclusive.
Every year nlnfe the ornanlzatlon ol
tha Interstate live ."lock Fair Associa
tion at .Vioux City. Iowa, the manage
ment of the fair have been making
Improvements. Tho Interstate Fair,
as most people know. Is a private Insti
tution and does not receive state aid.
It never has received aid from any
one except the business men of Sioux
City. It hn, therefore, been forced to
make Improvements Kradually. Even
the railroads have not been so liberal
as they should have been; they have
not been supplying unloading and
loadlnR facilities at the fair grounds
that were entirely up to standard.
This year, however, the Milwaukee
railroad Is busy laying new tracks and
new platforms so as to enable It to
handle the business for the fair with
dispatch. Formerly only one or two
cars could be unloaded at a time.
When the present Improvements will
have been completed, which will be
two weeks before the fair opens, ten
cars can be loaded or unloaded at a
time. ' This news will be especially ap
preciated by the breeders who Intend
to show live stock at the fair. For
merly they have frequently been de
laycd form one to two days on the fair
grounds after the close of the show
before they could get their stock ship
ped out. This Inconvenience will not
obtain this year. On the other hand,
thfy will bo able to ship their stock
late Saturday afternoon Immediately
after the stock parade which will take
place as usual In front of the grand
stand. Hotter Facilities Kverjwlierc.
What applies to the stockmen also
applies to machinery exhibitors and
others. It Is confidently expected by
the management that the Improve
ments which the Milwaukee railroad Is
putting In will greatly Increase tho
exhibits at the fair this 'ear as well
as make the exhibitors better satisfied.
The Interstate Fair management
are to be congratulated upon the
many other Improvements they are
making on the grounds. Parns are
being Tepalred; walks are being fixed
up and better drainage Is being pro
vided for the grounds In general. This
will be a very great improvement and;
will be especially noticeable in cubo
there should be a rainy day or two
during fnlr week. Teams with drags
and .rollers and other paraphernalia.
are at work on the race track everyj
day and they will continue to work.
Unci ino Ittir upturn. A mo in uuiio in,
order to maintain the track In first
class condition, and If possible to make
It faster than ever.
. Good Hotel Accommodations.
One of the things prospective visit
ors want to know about Is whether or
not they will be able to find comforta
ble sleeping quarters In the city should
they decide to attend the fair. It may
be stated In this connection that hotel
accommodations In Sioux City this
year are better than ever, many new
hotels having been built since last
year. There Is no city In the north
west that has better hotel aocommo-
ations than Sioux City. A bureau of
Information has been organized, one
ranch of which will be IocHted at
the fair grounds and another In Sioux
City, either In the Iowa building an
nex In the Commercial Club rooms, or
in the Y. M. C. A. building. This bu
reau of Information will have a com
plete list of private homes where vis
itors who cannot be accommodated In
otels will be cared for. Anyone,
therefore, who reaches the city at a
time when It Is difficult or Impossible
to Keen re rooms nt the hotels should
consult- the bureau of Information nnd
e directed to some private home.
With new hotel facilities It lsr'not like
ly that n. great many will have to go
to private homes unless they so de-
lre.
larger Premiums and Purses.
To InclucA a lnrsrer numher ct breed
ers to make exhibits at the Interstate
Fair the management have Increased
the total amount of premiums offered
very materially. The clasalflcation of a
number of the breeds has been re
arranged so that Instead of offering
four premiums for Individuals' and
herds as has been the case In former
years, six are now offered In many of
the breeds. This Is. true at least of
the Short-horn, the Hereford and the'
Angus breeds of cattle. The purses
for the different races are also very
liberal and will serve to Interest en
immense number of horsemen. Over
160 horses have been entered for the
different race events and among them
are some of the fastest on the turf.
The race program Is said to be one of
the best In tho northwest by those fa
miliar with racing events all over the
country. The races will not be allowed
to drag at any time, but will be con
ducted ns in rornier years with a
snap and vim so characteristic of the
many races that have been pulled off
n the track In Woodland Park.
Wall and Pen Prices.
Stockmen will be Interested In
knowing the price to be charged for
stalls and pens. Box horse stall will
be $3 for the season; stalls 'not boxed.
12; catfle stalls that will hold two
head will cost $2: single stalls cannot
be purchased. Hog pens 8x8 In slse
will rent at 80 cents for the senson and
so will also sheep pens. Stall space
reservation should be. made at least
fifteen days prior to the opening of
the fair. September 7. Preeders who
desire to bring sale stock to tho fair
may do so; for this purpose a reasona
ble number of stalls, at twice the
prices mentioned above for show ani
mals, will be provided, A consider
able amount of sale stock has always
Been on tne grounds In former years.
and no doubt there will be more this
year. In view of this farmers who are
looking for some good foundation
stock with which to found new herds
or .mprove sruuo neros will nave a
most excellent opportunity to find
what thev want durin. ie Lu
There are many advantages In buying
stock at a reir, prominent amomr
which la the fact that nothing but
me very neat cattle, horses, aheep and
swine are ever taken to the fairs.
Amusement iYwturcs.
An addition to th .
mentioned the very teat and highest
priced carnival company, and which
has shown at practically all the lead-
'Ing state fairs throughout the United
muica intiwinnw six years, u -
rrtvTvzT izr.
,to say thut the midway shows will be
.of a. hiKh class order. The shows will
all be clean and suitable for the most
jexaoiing to attend.
Congestion of the traflic of the coun
try so great us to materially Jeopardizo
general prosperity Is now the problem
thnt confronts the t'reat transportation
coiiiimiilcH. From all Indications tho
congestion will be as bad as thnt of
the fall and winter of liKNl-V.Ki", when
whole communities In tho Northwest
Buffered throughout an by winter be
cause there were no cars to haul -oal
mid business became Ma sua ted liecnnst?
the crops were not moved, to marketx
Tho resrt8 of Increasing enr move
ments have come In s.'endiiy "for the
lust six weeks from all sections of the
country. The West anil Middle West
look for exceedingly heavy grain crops,
while the South Is expectant of the
greatest tobacco crop In its history and
a phenomenal cotton crop. New En
gland and the East rejMrt factories :md
mills preparing for a resumption of
full-time work. All of these reports In
dicate that the demand for transporta
tion facilities will be the greatest In
years and that centers of production
will be glutted while markets are bare.
In the opinion- of the inemlers of the
Interstate Commerce Commission there
Is no way now open to prevent this
damming of the tides of commerce.
Ihtrlng the six months ending July
1st less than two hundred thousand liu
mlKi'niits arrived In the United States.
The arrivals In the first half of V.M17
were nearly throe-quarters of a million.,
Moreover, In tho past sJx months the re
'urulug emigrants numbered more than
three hundred and seventy-five thou
sand, twice the number of Immigrants
and more than twice the departures
for the corresponding period last year.
Europeans come to the hind of the free
IxHAiise It Is the land of the dollar.
When there Is a panic, and dollars get
scarce, Columbia does not do much
business ns the haven of tho oppressed.
The figures of the last two years throw
mu1i light on the immigration prob
lem, so far ns It Is a problem of mere
numbers. The flow of newcomers seems
to be regulated by' the demand for
labor, which menus that the country Is
not In danger of being glutted with
people It cannot support.
'he' recent "revolution" In Mexico
deserves ntteutlon as an Illustration of
how small a movement of disorder In
orderly Mexico can mnke a sensation.
A generation ago such rioting ns took
place In the norihern part of the re
public would have been Ignorcih ns
more serious risings were of frefpent
occurrence. President Diaz 1ms
brought order. out of the former Mexi
can chaos, nnd the recent troubles
amounted to little more than rlotlnu
and looting by Idle workmen assisted
by the crlmliml population. Many men
have been thrown out of employment
by the closing of mines and factories,
and were wrought uion by political agi
tators who are hostile to the presence
of foreigners lu the country. The move
ment lucked organization nnd effective
leadership, as well ns justification la
morals or In political expediency.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Ih'grnw has nnuoYiuccd that the dead
letter oiilce during the flscnl year, end
ed July 1. received 21H.IMMI letters leis
thnnfor the preceding fiscal year, and
has returned to the senders i.ioO.lRt)
letters, or 2.323,(K!0 more than for tho
year ended Juno MO, 1007. During 1007
letters containing $(!7,4.")(l were receiv
ed, while for the lineal year Just'eiidcd
the figures were $ir,r!!. Of the money
thus received alstut Ho per cent was
returned to the senders.
A parcels post agreement between
the United States and France has been
'signed by Postmaster General Meyer
ami Ambassador Jesserand, of France.
Ciulor the terms of the convention,
which Is effective Aug. 15 next, pack
ages up to four pounds and six ounces
will be carried at the rate of 12 cenis
a pound. Later the uinxlinuin weight
of packages which can be sent by mall
to France at the rate of 12 cents a
pound will be Increased to eleven
pounds.
The Depart men t of Commerce and
I-nlor has recently completed the estab
lishment ot bureaus of Information at
several Important Euronen:i ports, es
pecially at Naples. Marseilles and
Havre, where the Investigation of the
records of sueplclous aliens may be
undertaken quietly. Lists of such per
sons huve begun to come to the Im
migration authorities in this country.
The City of Buffalo has .received
formal notice from Secretary of War
Wright that It must close Its trunk
sewer Into the Niagara IUver before
July 1, 1010. This notice Is Issued In
consequence of the government's work
on the Itlnck Hock ship cauul.
t :
It Is surprising how good the Pann
ninns can be when American troop"
stand by, watching them. The result
of tho tnunlclual elections Indicated
that the supjsirtrs of the Independent
eaudldnte for the presidency were much
more numerous than the supporters of
I the iroverunient candidate. To prevent
. ehish at the nresldentlnl election and
in..ef.um.w nf American tnwn-th
I . . . i
Koveriinient candidate withdrew, snd
I election passed off peacefully.
Capt. Baldwin's Aeronaut, or dirigi
ble balloon, built for the army, is now
at i'Virt Myer, Va., near Washington
1 . .. .1 1 . V. r t (-.1 I f Pnht Ttill.l-
..-u.u... m w...., ......
wlu' '1" ",Ubt ,wo P''"1
I hnvlug a combined weight of 850 pounds
I lu addition to KM) tiouuds of ballast.
The balloon during the ieed test must
,nuinttt,n au avcrnga of twenty miles
to m .tn ir.
l'""! during the trial flight will be
I determined by taking an average or
I the time over a measured cvturse of
i ftve Baiust aud with the wind.
w. J. ra IS TOLO
OF iliS ilinlfi.
Democratic Candidate Is Formally
Notified at tli j Nebraska
State Cj.j.UI.
RAPS AT THE BEFU ELI CANS.
Says the Overshadowing Issue of the
Campaign Is "2hll the Paople
RuloP"
Lincoln (N'i'b.) corrcaporn'.rnoe :
With a salute of forty-six guns, one
for ench State, given nt daybreak
Wednesday, Lincoln began the Itryan
notification -program. The city was
asilr curly and there were still a num
ber -of decorations being put In place
while the visitors were arrlvlug. The
trolley curs to l-'alrvlew were crowded
nil the morning and the automobile
IH-ople were doing uu active business,
but the larger number of the visitors
remained 1u the city looking at the va
rious points of Interest nnd especially
at the State cnpitol grounds where, the
notification ceremony w.-ir held.
It wns 2 o'clock when Chairman
Muck of the national committee Intro
duced HcpiTsentatlve Henry I). Clay
ton, of Alahaum, chairman of the noti
fication committee, following prayer by
the Hev. Father John V. Nugent of Dos
Moines, lown. XIr. Clayton notified
Mr. Bryan of his nomination hi a
seven-minute speech, nt the conclusion'
WILLIAM J. WIVAN.
of which he handed to the Democratic
nominee the formal letter of notifica
tion signed by ull the members of the
committee. Mb. ltryan then replied and
the ceremony was closed by a short
speech by John W. Kern. TTto vice pre
idem I al nominee."'
llnK nt Hepnblleann
Here are some of the raps given Re
publicans by Mr. Ilryan In his RiK?ech
of acceptance :
"Our platform declares thatthe over
shadowing Issue Is, Shall the people rule
Shall the people control their own gov
ernment and use that government for the
protection of their rights, or shall the
representatives of predatory wealth prey
upon a defenseless public? This is the
issue raised by the known abuses to
which Mr. Taft refers."
"Why were these 'known abuses per
mitted to develop? Can Mr. Taft prom
ise to be more strenuous in the prosecu
tion of wrongdoers than the present ex
ecutive? Does he need more Republicans
in the House or a Speaker with more un
limited r.'ithoritr?"
"The Republican party -an not
attack wrongdoing in high plary without
disgracing many of its prominent mem
bers and it, therefore, uses opiates in
itead of the surgeon's knife."
"For a sreiierntion the Ttepublican par
ty has drawn its campaign funds from
the beneficiaries of special legislation.
Privileges have been pledged and granted
in return for money contributed to de
baueh elections. What can be expected
when olticial authority Is turned over tfl
the representatives who first furnish tht
sinews of war and then reimburse them
selves out of the pockets of the taxpay
ers?" "Only those are worthy to be Intrusted
with leadership in a great cause who art
willing to die for It!"
X on for homemade Ice.
The Technical World Magazine has ai
article describing a new hnnd-iower let
machine Invented in France, which eolvet
the problem of producing ice in Binall
quantities in the home quickly and cheap,
ly. The. important feature is the cylin
der in. which the chemicals are sealed
the latter not requiring renewal, and last
ing as long as the machine and which
revolving in water, produces the ice. It
can also produce cold air. It is a doublt
wall tin vessel, holding five gallons. Tht
freezing process is brought about by tht
gradual automatic admission of carbonit
acid into the hollow sjace between tht
walla and thence by a cross tube Into tht
Interior. The acbl thus released from
I aud
of
the lowerin
the temperature.
Simple Tubercnloala. magnolia.
Dr. Bourrille of Paris has establishes
a very simple and practical method bj
means of which any one may magaose
case of tuberculosis ot a stage earllei
than It Is capable of being detected by tht
ordinary clinical meWiou. It la to men
lire the chest at extreme inspiration ana
at extreme expiration. If the difference it
greater than 1 1-0 Inchea the disease hat
already gained a foothold. Thi was de
termined by examining in this may thou
sands of women and men who were eee
Ing employment.
MiuatfH of the New Tueate.
The founders of the "new theater" at
New York, which aims to be the repre
sentative national theater of Amerioa,
have chosen Wlnthrop Ames of Boston
is director, Lee Snubert as Imaineea man
ager and John Corbln aa literary man
ager.
Americana Olymple Victor.
The American team of athletes gent to
(tie Olympic games in England bare to
taled 1 15 points to England's 80 and
Sweden's 11, not counting the various
coutests in which only Englishmen en
tered.
Mm ir Ml
J -Ah
n,iliii(tn flnmmnnl .
Te led and l"n4eted.
Mr. Taft has be:n variously tried
In the public service. Mr. Hry.iu
Is untried. Mr. Tuft has been dolus,
while Mr. Hrvan has been talking.
One 'is a man of kuowii perioral. iiicj ;
the otiier Is a man of pr-noises only.
Mr. Taft his I 1 lii.lt'd himself with
Ho Issues Cii.t hhles; Mr. Hrynn
conce -.hi s.-ver. i th.,; lie once advo
cated ,:ii t!i. greatest energy. Mr.
Taft ha. :t rec-ird of defeat or fail
ure; Mr. Uryan h.,s been twice uereiit
ed In n national eloctiijji ly a large
electoral majority and-a margin of
from (H.'0,;io td 8:;,H!0 in the popu
lar vote. Mr. Tuft has had a loin; V
lierienco In high judicial pillions; as
a cabinet olllccr, governor In the Phil
ippines, pitclllcM tor lu Cuba and. or
ganizer In the great work at Panama.
Mr. P.ryuu has no such credit mark.
For the last twelve years his business
has beeu thut of presidential candidate
nnd niitl-niltiii-.ilstration politician.
While Taft has been busy in con
structive statesmanship Bryan has
been a radical ugitnpir, seeking to
pull down what nun Ween done so that
he can shape untiunal affaire after his
own rashly experimental fashion.
Tuft points to liia record lu carrying
important responsibilities. Bryan has
never borne any. As, n worker In a
large sense Taft Is known und Bryan
unknown.
Men can he Judged by their asso
ciates ns well as by their records. Mr.
Taft had the active approval of Me-
Klnlev and has that of Roosevelt. He
is in aci-ord politically with Root.
Hughes, Fairbanks. Cannon, . ICnox
and other men of distinction who are
sustaining, and have long sustained,
the heat and burden of the day. Bryan
bus had for his political partners
Weaver, Altgeld, Tom Johnson, Tom
Watson, James K. Jones, William J.
Stone. George Fred Williams and men
of this stamp. lie has fused with va
rious parties, Including Greenback,
Silver and Populist. He would be de
lighted if he could now arrange an
alliance with Hearst, nnd Hearst is by
no means backward about claiming
n lion's share for his help. Iu a gen
eral way the coinpjsitioii of a Taft
?ablnet can be foreseen. What con
servative cltir.cn can guess, without a
sense of alarm, who would be select
ed by Bryan as his nearest -ntlvlsers?
The quality of his past and present
associates is the best Indication ' ns to
what his cabinet would be. His free
silver crusade and his unexpected
jump into the championship of the
public ownership of railroads nre fair
specimens of his intrinsically unsound
judgment.
If Brynn were elected lie could not
have during his term a Congress lu
political harmony with himself, nnd
legislation would accordingly be tied
up for the next four years, a period
that would b wusted In a discordant
deadlock when the need of 'the coun
try is unquestionably an ndiiiinisira-1
tion with power to act. The election
of a president Implies the exercise of
n Hober Judgment based on ticiinite
knowledge nnd accomplished facts.
A vote for Brynn denotes u willingness
to tnke a man on blind faith, beyond
the-known points that ore plainly ad
verse to him. The election of Bryan
Is not probable. Under the circum
stances It seems scarcely possible. It
is, iu truth, impossible If men will
think over the matter with calm de
liberation, weighing the two men fair
ly. In the light of reason and experi
ence, putting aside the clamor of
sham popularity.- Taft means a steady
forward march. Bryan means doubt,
dread, a general pause until a strange
Kltuatlou could be cleared up. St.
Iuiis GloJie-Deniocrat.
Trade imiunee, 0MI,4.-.7,1 1.
Figures for the complete fiscal year
ended with June show a heavy f illing
off In Imports, both free and dutiable.
Imports free of duty have di-oreuso.l
from .1!tii4.02ll,7t;i In 1!)07 to $.-iJ.1.i'.:3.-
3)8 In lfKiS. n decrease of .?llS. ll"l,4r.3;
while liuiiorts that are dutiable and
competitive have fallen from $7;l0.:!!M.-
11(14 In 1!)07 to $tlIS.7:$.US;l In UH'8. n de
crease of ai21,0."2.M7.S. Exports have not
diminished correspondingly. The total
for 11KI8 Is $1,S(10,7!K,0!)7. being only
S'-'O.iC.l.DSl less than for 1!M7. This yeari
the excess or exports Is tH;u.4oi.lU."?, or
$-20.01:7.4.70 greater than lust year. Im
ports fell off nbout 18 per cent, while
the shrinkage In exports is but little
more thun 1 per cent. Those who claim
that In order to sell much we must buy
much will learn something from these
figures. The world buys of us because
It must, not because It wants to, and It
buys pruc4leally the same, no matter
how much we reduce our purchases.
Confidence.
"The country Is on the edge of a
IHTlod of the greatest prosperity It has
ever enjoyed," said John J. Sherman,
president of the Wisconsin Bank Asso
ciation, In a recent address at Milwau
kee. Evidently Mr. Sherman counts
confidently upon the election of Taft
and Sherman nnd of a Republican
House of Representatives, tho abroga
tion of all so-called trade pacts that
enable foreign producers to undersell
American producers lij the American
market, and the complete restoration of
adequate protection that shall guaran
tee "it reasonable profit" In all lines of
productive activity. In no other v.-iy
can his prediction possibly be verified.
American t'emrat and Protection.
Some years ago. says the "Protei-tii il
ls:," the free traders objected to n tar
iff on cement because, ns they claimed,
It would Impose a grievous burden In
building oper.-.tlons. Iu 1S!)0 the pro
duction In this country was only 3:io,
000 barrels. In l!s,8 the output was
4S,l!:0,tKHl barrels, and the domestic nr
tlcle Is cheaper to-day than It was
clghti-cit years ago, when the main de
pendence was the Imported cement.-
Protectionist.
Peukulves are tempered at 470 degrees.
Bf-e. Airaa'i "CnamervatUaa.
A half do7.eu years ago "Mr. Dooley,
in one of his delicious Celtic lmngin
lues, prophesied thnt the time would
conn- when the world would speak of
the Nchruskh candidate us "that gr
rand on hi conservative Wlllyuin Jin
nl;:pi Brine."
If the Irish philosopher had confined
his pr.dl-.tlou to Bryan and elimin
ated tiie remainder pf the world he
would stand to-day as n prophet with
honor, in his own country. It wns a far
cry then to fancy the perennial one in
th. pose of a conservative. In those
days he was a radical of radicals. II
was his Job to be radical. He jielieve-J
thut In ritdicnllsni lay his ehlefest claim
to unlimited advertising and possibL
ultimate victory. He wos ready to
drag the sun from the skies and beat
It Into red hot fetters for the pred
atory everybody-who-hiid-u-dollnr. II
yearned to grapple the moon and turn
it around to see If'the other side were
not a hotter side. He whs Just as will
ing to upset the sola r system as to re
vamp the monetary system. Anything
looked good to him If It were Ju
rudlcnl.
But it's different now. Mr, Bryan
believes that he has ieen beaten twlc
on the charge of radicalism. " In th
stilly watches ad Interim he has figureo
It out that the radical pose Is out of
fashion. He has discovered that th
American is?ople, In sober Judgment
choose prosperity nnd peace and plentj
rather than spectacular theories witfr
resulting Ills they know not of. And se
It Is that, knowing these things nni
weighing-thein, Mr. Bryan has cast oft
the flaming, flaring garment of radical
ism nnd rolled himself of the sober gray
of the conservative. When the Denve'
maelstrom assembled it was not th'
east, but William Jennings Brynn win
Silt on the lightning and curbed thr
whirlwind. It wns not delegates fronr
the Atlantic states, but Mr. Bryan him
self who softened the radical utter
ances and turned the sensational phras
ing of the Democratic national pin form.
The firebrand of '!0 had become th'
tire extinguisher of HKXS.'- It wns Jusi
ns Imperious. Just ns arbitrary, Just nt
tyrannical a Bryan as o yore, but H
was a new Bryan. The hand had no'
iost its cunning. But It was pitching
a different kind of curve.
The change Is not Impressive. It wni
to be expected, and It furnishes its owr
discount. -Mr. Bryan's radicalism failed
of its purpose. A similar fate awaltt
h!s conservatism. For the people ol
the ITuion have learned Mr. Bryan anc
they know thnt his conservatism It
like .his radicalism for revenue only
"-"-Toledo Blade. -
Cniiiutan rubllcttr-
It might be supposed, from the nolst
made by Mr. Bryan on the subject ol
publishing a list of party campaign
contributions, that he represents all the
virtue that cnu be discovered In this
connection. It was only the other daj
that he felt called on to explain thai
neither he personally or his paper re
ccived any part of the campaign cast
sent to Nebraska four yeurs ago on Hit
strength of the representation to tin
Parker campaign managers that Bryat
would try to carry the Nebraska Legts
btture as n senatorlnl candidate. At
Nehraskii's ninjority against Parkei
was no less than Sti.OOO, it'niust be re
marked that whatever became of tin
nfoney, it was obtained by false pre
tenses. An Immense miVount of nionej
was Invested lu the Bryan eanipaigi
fund of ISSMt by the silver mining In
forests, for Bryan's success meant un
limited profits for them.
The worst plague spot in the United
States for a campaign corruption fune
Is Tumniany, on organization without
which the Democratic party woutabt
in n hopeless condition In the Stntt
of New York, and nationally. Tom
many rolls In campaign money, a fhet
that could be guessed from the enor
nious exiKMidifures and huge sulurj
list .of New York City, whose debt li
rapidly approaching $1,000,000,000
What chance Is there thnt Tammanj
will ever publish n true statement ol
its financing of a cnnipalgu? Not oni
dollar In twenty that It spends In po
liilcal work will ever see the light ot
print. Mr. Bryan claims that he wni
lien ten by the use of money In 18!K5 unc
1!H!0, but the popular plurality ngainr.1
him was first 000,000 and then 800,000
und he must have a low Idea of the In
tegrity of the American people If lit
thinks these verdicts were purchased
The Republican party can better afford
to face the publicity Issue, both ns tt
the past and the present, than csn flnj
of the combines with which Bryan ha
been identified.
1'he Two Plat forma.
It Is snfe to predict that n Demo
cratic spellbinder will attempt to dis
cuss tariff duties In n specific way dur
ing the canvass. Possibly Mr. Bryan
himself might not object to having the
tariff question take a shape that would
delay the return of prosperity until
after the election, ns It would be a
profitable asset for him. But few peo
ple of sound Judgment would agree
with h I in. The most radical difference,
however, between the two tariff planks
is that the one f rumed at Chicago em
phatically declares that protection to
American Industry shall be maintained
as a cardinal principle In every change
rf schedules that Is made, while the one
adopted at Denver ns plainly declares
that every change shall be for the pur-jM-se
of bringing our entire tariff sys
tem us rapidly as possible Into accord
with the principle of a tariff "for reve
nue only," with the Idea of protection
rbsolutely eliminated. This last dif
ference Is wide as the jKiles. It Is
enough of Itself to condemn the Denver
platform. The ouo made at Chicago
td'ows that the Republican party Is
broad-minded and Intelligent enough to
adui t Its policies to the needs of the
country as they develop. That mado at
Denver shows that the Democratic
party Is dominated by the same old
Rourhon spirit, that "never learns and
never forgets." which has obsessed It
for the past half century. Patersoij
(X. J.) "Press."
Country Justice How do you know
that this automobile was going forty
miles an hour? Couutry Constable
Them what goes at thirty miles an bona
don't Ulow my bat off.
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