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" youthful murderees in jael
Harvoy Vein Dine. Gustav Marx. Peter Nexderrneyer and Emil Roeski. Who
Killed Seven Men in Their Brief Career of Crime. Captured
in Indiana After an All-Day Fight.
MURDERS TO WHICH CHICAGO
BANDITS HAVE CONFESSED.
Oaucler, Otto, murdered in saloon
of Ernest Soires, 1820 North
Athljnd avenue, July 9.
La Gross, D. C, murdered in his
saloon, 2. JO Mcrth Ashland
avenue, Auj. 2.
Johnson, Adolph, rnu.rfered in
saloon of B. C. La Gross, 2120
North Ashland avenue Aug.
Johnson, Jamc: D-, motorman,
killed in robbery cf Chicago
City Railway ccmpany barns,
Aug. 30.
Stewart. Fr.incis W.. clerk, killed
in roijbery of Chic3QO City
Railway company barns, Aug.
30.
Qumn, John, detective, killed
white trying to arrest Marx.
Sovea, L. J., brokeman on Penn
sylvania railroad, killed on
freight tr-in at East Tolleston,
Ind.
In addition to these murders, the
same bandits wounded six men
in committing robberies.
Possessed of all tin eowanlice ami
ri cunning of tin? sheep killing dog,
four voting men are now in tin county
jail at Chicago; cowardly because
Ihey had murdered chielly 1 1 1 - helpless
and uususpecf Pig. ami, despite tle-ir
boasting, were all captured alive with
loaded wiviiMMis ill their hands; cun
ning be-e-ause they rccogni.od the fart
that their very recklessness and ainla
eity in iriim- would i i fti to distract
attention fron nidi youths as Ihey:
bloodthirsty because they iniinliTcil
unnecessarily, not even to assure the-ir
own safety, hut from sheer lust of mur
iVr, as the sh"('p killing dog lears the
throat:; xt the scorer of sheeii. while
he does not. even drink the product of
his fangs.
Sullen anil yet boasting, there they
are alike. yet not alike, for they vary
in some characterist ics. They miuht
1mt1i;ims le classified Harvey Van
Dine, the brains; Gusta.- Marx, the
lieutenant and second in intelligence;
Peter Niedetm'V er, the murderous, ami
Kmil Roeski. the w'ak. drunken, vic
ious and unprincipled.
Bruised and wounded, the three
men when captured, yet retained a
decree f their bravado, a bravado
which is soon ; pass away, for as
1h shadow; deofMi about them and
the skeleton of the gy.tlows develops
its If more cb arly tltre will conn a
new comprehension ar.el a frightened
understanding of vtiat it is which
they have done
Thre rnve b""ri Ci.vtde D.ivals and
Hick Tnrpius and Robert Macaires.
There have been James brothers and
Younger brothers, and goodness knows
hoV many other distinguished an 1
fraternal highwaymen.
You may count them all. with all
their exploits, and find nothing so in
tensely dramatic as the story of the
battle of Miller's Station Vv. 27.
Truly, it was a great chapter in the
long history of crime in Chicago. The
mind of the dime novelist never con
ceived a scene more thrilling th in the
last stand and final capture of the
three remaining authors of the car
barn murders Van Diiu. Niedemey er
and Roeski.
The round tip of this trio was ac
complished at hard ost. One man was
killed, others were badly wounded, aft
er a desperate man hunt, a dramatic
vespo and recapture.
For hours these three men fought
like caged rats, and when finally
cauiu.t they were sights fur the gods.
They were salted with buckshot, their
flesh was torn with bullets, they were
Meeting from scores of wounds. Yet
all will live to join Marx and meet
agiin on a clear road to the gal
lows. The capture of the men was very
serious business for all concerned,
anil yet it carried a touch of humor.
With two special trains of Chicago po
licemen armed with Winchester rifles,
the final work was done by a little
hand of rabbit hunters and an arma
ment of shotguns. Charles Hamilton,
the village blacksmith cf Kast Tolles
ton. was the man who brought down
the game.
To put it in stati-tiea! form, the net
results of the day were one man dead.
1,. .1. Sove.i. a brukeman. shot down
remorselessly by the bandits: two
men of the posse wounded. Detective
Sergeant Matthew Zimmer an I Police
man Joseph 15. DriscoII. and three can
lured of the most hardened and re
markable croup of criminals ever
known in Chicago Harvey Van Dire,
Peter Niedemeyer and Emil Roeski.
For other results w ithin the past six
months of a charmed career of crime,
these young men may count to their
credit flvo men murdered, eight others
wounded, ami a half doen places
looted of money in various amounts.
Says Football Is Injurious.
Dr. S. F. Taylor, president of Steph
en's College. Columbia. Mo., took ad
vantage of the Thanksgiving season to
express somewhat heretical opinions
about football. "I think." he says,
"that any man who will play football
i- a fool and any college president or
professor who encourages such a
brutal and degraded sport is encour
aging brutality and a spirit of crime.
1 wivthirds of the work done in the
gymnasiums here and in other parts
or the country is positively injurious,
and I tell you there is not an athlete
or gymnast in the United States to-day
who will live to the age of 6'. "
Two Kinda of Humorists.
Mark Twain long ago arrived at the
conclusion that it Is a very serious
Thing to be a professional humorist.
Recently a society youth cf the "Wil-lie-off
the yacht" sort w as Introduced
to the anther. "Aw. I say. Mr. Clem
en?. 1 think It must be awfully eay
to be f::nny. don't you know." "It is,
fur you unless you try to be." grimly
replied the man who has made mil
lions laugh.
The face of Van Dine marks him
easily a- the brains, the devise r. of the
iuaitct. It i.; a long face, with h
clenr c uiplexli.n. such as would natur
ally accompany red hair, and is lerne
well iijxim a strong neck suited to the
body oi' the ;.thleti. Van Dine is known
to be.
Though bruised, ami with somewhat
of the feveri-li look resultant irorn the
day's terrille adventures and the pres
ence of a few small shot in the head.
Its expression whs firm and almo-t
placid. The jaw is strong, the fore
head a good one, eyebrows finely
arcln d. and, t a ! n all in all, the man
is not unhand' o:i:e.
Hut it is tin; eyes which fascinate.
They are of a singular gray blue and
have an expression which is pu.y.ling
and indefinable. They are not exactly
snake like, but they are mystifying.
Had Vim Dine escaped alone, unham
pered by companions, there might
have been a longer story to tell of a
man hunt, a story similar to that of
the murderer Trace', who. not so long
ago. roused the entire Northwest along
the I'acilic coast, in his pursuit.
The fact and form of Niedemrycr
are in sharp contrast with those of
Van Dine. Taller and darker than the
real leader of the i;rup of killers,
there is no redeeming quality to him.
His swart features are irregular, his
.speech harsh, and the expression of
his face generally is that of sullen
antipathy to all mankind. His look ?s
not intelligent. I ut has a certain craft
iness about it.
His nose is a spread Roman, his
chin is strong, but it is his mouth
which reveals the quality sf the man.
It is cruel and brutally lascivious. It
might have been the mouth of some
low Roman serf, whose duty it was to
drag from the arena the bodies of
Christian maidens mangled by wild
beasts.
The whole aspect of his face was
that of some of the duller and clumsier
caruivora. He was the bloodthirsty
one of the group. He it was who
could not restrain his desire for kill
ing, and did unnecessary murder at
the car barns.
Not in him was it to confess with
any freedom. Only with grunts and
nods of the head did he confirm the
story of Van Dine. He should have
been a member of the Bender family,
so murderously famous in Kansas
criminal history.
Marx has a face with no impressive
features, save that it has an expres
sion of self-consciousness and vanity
in what his career has been. That
expression is now rapidly changing to
one of fear. He realizes what is com
ing. Roeski does not belong to the group.
He must have become connected with
them through some accident, and have
been retained by them because of his
knowledge of their crimes. Of medium
height and weight, red-nosed, weak
fvatured. and watery-eyed, he sat there
answering the questions of reporters,
sullenly and hesitatingly, but -with ap
parent truthfulness. Every item of his
make-up stamped him as what is
known as a '"bum."
Future Naval Heroes.
The largest class that ever entered
the naval academy at Annapolis is
just beginning its first year's work.
There are 320 "middies," ranging in
age from 15 to 20 years. All but
one are from the United States as
bounded by its historic limits; one is
a native Hawaiian. The noncon
tiguous territories of Forto Rico and
the Philippines have no representa
tion. There are no negroes in the
class. Two colored applicants at
tempted the examination, but failed
to attain the required grade. The
last negro who succeeded in passing
the entrance tests was taken from
bed In the night and deposited on a
red iron buoy in the bay, where he
remained until morning. The fol
lowing day he took the hint and re
signed. Will Make T. B. Feel Ashamed.
Hearing that Thomas Bailey Aid
rich only writes one sonnet a year,
one of the Billville brethren ex
claimed, "Jerusalem! I write three a
day. and split rails on the side!" At
lanta Constitution.
He was shabbily dressed and in a
pitiable state of fright. He seems to
be a.i habitual drunkard, the twitch
ing of his 1 and.; indicating a nervous
state, even b:'yo.id that induced his
pres nt condit ion.
For i- months these four men had
killed with j.h Utile regard for life as
that exhibited by hunger-crazed ani
mals. No fear of the law ever caused
them to stay their trigger lingers, if
the wiping out of one or more human
live.; was. necessary to their secur
ing a f. w dollars and cents or essen
tial to their escape- from peril, out
we.it the lif" or lives a.; rapidly as
a candle is snulTed by an expert shot.
Yet. lifter an all morning battle v.ith
o.'Iicers of the law, standing at bay
on the edge .r the froen Toll ston
n.arsh, with birdsho! loaded guns of
the farmers pointed at them, they hes
itated for just one moment and staid
their slaughtering hands.
Earlier in the (;ay they would not
have hesitated. They would have shot
down the farmers like so many dogs.
Tin ir wounds hud not impaired their
almost supernatural marksmanship.
Each carried 1"' rounds of ammuni
tion. They stood behind a rude barri
cade of cornstalks. The fro.en marsh,
with its tangled reeds, and brambles,
and scrub, furnished at least a tem
porarily safe retreat. The farmers
were not dangerous. Their binlshot
stung, but it did not seriously wound.
Policemen were creeping on them
from corn shock to corn shock, and
troni scrub pine to scrub oak. But
the young bandits were not surround
ed, and had a fair chance for at least
a few hours more, if not lillimaie,
liberty.
In the morning when they fought
their way from the dugout on the
sand dune shore of I-ake Michigan
through a cordon of Chicago detec
tives who thought they had snaied
them like rats in a trap, they swore
to die fighting and killing till the
last. W'h their fiendish accuracy of
aim thoy had shot down Detectives
Driscol! and Zimmer. and although hit
themselves, with Emil Roeski, their
pal, hail made their escape.
For six miles they plowed their way,
leaving bloody trails, across sand
dune, through dwarfed forest, and
over ice-coated marsh. They wanted
an engine to aid them in escaping. A
brakeman stood between them and the
object of their desire. With a smile
and scurvy jest. Neidemyer killed
him. The blood lust was still upon
them.
But standing behind their feeble de
fenses of frcen stalk they looked one
another in the eye. In that moment
something put that which they had
never known fear into their hearts,
their thirst for blood was quenched,
and their career as man killers ended.
Without an instant's hesitation, each
man threw up his hands and surren
dered to the farmers and to certain
death on the gallows.
"I thought it was no use fighting
any longer," said Van Dine. "We
could have killed every farmer in
front of us, but what would have been
the use? We would have been 'got'
Student Pays Freak Wager.
In payment of a wager on the
Yale-Harvard football game George G.
Coolidge of East Orange, N. J., a sen
ior of the Sheffield Scientific school
at Yale university, and said to be a
cousin of J. Pierpont Morgan, has
taken out a junk peddler's license in
New Haven. The bet was laid with
a classmate, who if he lost was to
take out a bootblack's license. Both
young men are very wealthy. Cool
idge is required to make weekly re
ports to the chief of police of the
amount of junk he gathers, the nature
of the same and when and where it
was bought and sold.
Ex-Governors on Committee.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce, over which Senator Elkins
presides, is almost made up of ex-governors.
Mr. Cullom of this state, Mr.
Kean of New Jersey. Mr. Foraker of
Ohio. Mr. Tillrran of South Carolina.
Mr. McLaurin of Mississippi and Mr.
Foster of Louisiana have all served
one or more terms as governor of the
states which they cow represent in
the senate.
before niht. and somehow I didn't
want to do any shooting."
Van Dine was the first to throw up
his hands and call out that he sur
rendered. Two magazine revolvers,
one blued revolver ami one pearl han
dled weapon were taken from tho
pair.
Kmi1 Roeski, their pal, left the two
soon alter they broke from the dug
out, and, despite h severe bullet
wound in the hip, walked eight rnik s
across th" country to Aetna, a station
of the Wabash railroad. In the toilet
room bo washed his hands and cleared
th" traces of blood fioni his clothing.
Then he bought a ticket to Chicago,
and. exhausted, lay down on a bench
to sleep until th" train should arrive,
tie awoke to gaze into the barrel of
a revolver aimed at his head by De
tective Falkland.
" I guess I'm it," lie said quietly.
Not a tone of regret, not a trace of
sorrow appeared in the voices or faces
of Van Dine and Ncidemjer, a-s in
the gathering twilight, nursing their
bullet anl shot wounds, they sat in
Chief O'Neill's oflic" and confessed ev
ery crime of which they had been
accused.
Nonchalantly and glibly they ad
mitted the responsibilty of the quartet
for seven murders and the wounding
of seven other men. They told of the
money they had secured from the
robberies of which the murders to
them were but insignificant and un
important parts. They laughed over
the double killing involved in the Chi
cago City railway car barn robbery.
The cases against the four young
bandits were placed before the grand
jury Nov. 28. After hearing the con
fession of the prisoners true bills for
murder were voted against all four.
WANT TO KEEP CURIOSITY.
Villagers Would Retain Intact Rock
Forming Washington's Profile.
The residents of Mamaroneck, N.
Y.. led by Father Meister. a Catholic
priest, have formed an association to
pte.serve a wonderful phenomenon,
which has become known as Washing
ton rock.
The likeness portraying tho head
and features of the Father of His
Country appeared several years ago on
a rock near Oriental point. It was
supposed at the time that it was pro
duced by a blast, but. because it is
close to the site of Washington's head
quarters, where ho fought the battle
oi Heathcotfl hill, and within a stone's
throw of the old house where Cooper's
character, Harvey Green, in "The
Spy." lived, some of the superstitious
people of the town are inclined to at
tach a supernatural origin to it.
The head and features of Washing
ton are stamped on the rock in massive
size and at certain angles the resem
blance is complete. The nose is formed
by a projection and the mouth and
eyes by the dark coloring of the
rock.
Public meetings have been held and
the people interested have formed the
Washington Rock Association. It is
proposed to collect a fund and place a
bronze tablet upon the rock and dedi
cate it Oct. 21. 1904. the 120th anni
versary of the battle of Ileathcote
hill.
Fads of Wealthy New Yorkers.
James Reilly. one of New York's
little known millionaires, has a curi
ous fad that of providing for the
decent burial of indigent dead. He
is in constant communication with a
number of undertakers, who keep
him posted regarding such cases as
he wishes to look after. Another
rich New Yorker, Samuel Martin,
spends a good deal of time and money
in helping important victims of the
police force. He is always camp
ing on some officer's trail and many
a victim of police tyranny has had
reason to thank Sam Martin for
timely aid.
Promotion for Gen. Chaffee.
Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young,
who was confirmed by the senate a
few days ago, will reach the retiring
age on Jan. I) next. This will make a
vacancy as chief of the general staff.
It has been announced that Major Gen
eral Adna R. Chaffee will be appointed
to the vacancy, and this will make a
vacancy on the general staff to be
filled by some other major general.
Senator Frye's Cause of Pr&z.
William P. Frye of Maine boasts
of being the only great-grandfather
in the United States senate, a girl
baby having arrived at the home of
his grandson, William Frye White, in
Washington. Mr. Frye is willing to
acknowledge that there are great
grannies in the senate, but revels in
the distinction of being the only great
grandfather. Need for Montana Gold Mines.
Senator Perkins says he knows why
nature located gold mines in Butte,
Mont., instead of coal deposits. He
was there not long ago and was
charged 75 cents for a shave and a
shine. In the washroom attached
to the barber's shop he wanted the
use of a comb for a few moments, anf
this cost him another quarter. He
rinsed his hands after arranging his
hair and wiped them on a towel near
at hand and once more gave up 25
cents. "And then." he says, "it
dawned on me why gold instead of
coal mines were to be found in that
robbers' roost."
Cockrell a Lover of Whist.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri finds
his chief recreation in duplicate whisL
His evenings at home, when devoted
to this kind of card games, are no one
or two hour affairs. A few minutes
are grudgingly devoted to luncheon
somewhere about midnight and then
the game is resumed and fought to
a scientific finish. The senator has
half a dozen friends who can always
be depended upon to make up a tabl.
Can
Commoner
A SLUMP IN STOCKS.
Since the election of 1900 there has
bHn a slump in the market value of
stocks amounting to more than $7.7"iO.
000,000. If the democrats had been
successful in the last presidential elec
tion the republican papers would have
charged this tremendous slump in
stocks to the democratic administra
tion. How will they explain It now?
When it is referred to at all it is de
scribed as a matter of small impor
tance, and oftfn defended as a really
desirable thing. We are told that it
was a "natural liquidation." an elimi
nation of "speculative values." a "set
tling down to a solid basis."
The readers of The Commoner are
asked to remember that this slump in
stocks Indicates one of two things. If
the slump means that the water Is be
ing squeezed out of the stocks, that
fictitious values are being destroyed,
and that the industries are simply
settling down to an honest basis, how
will republicans defend an administra
tion that permits the inflation of
values and the watering of stocks?
It cannot be denied that many have
suffered by the slump. Those innocent
purchasers, of whom we hear so much
when remedial legislation is suggested,
have been suffering. It is said that
the steel trust has 98,000 stockholders,
and all of these have suffered by the
fall in prices. Why should they be ex
posed to this loss? Many of the hold
ers of this stock are employes who
took the stock more to encourage the
idea of co-operation in industry than
to make a profit out of it. They want
ed to show their appreciation of what
they regarded as a generous offer on
the part of the company. Was it not
a little cruel to thus reward their con
fidence? When will "confidence" be
restored among these people? What
about the widow who put her scanty
savings in preferred or common steel?
We always hear of ths widow when
we discuss the money question or at
tempt to curb corporate rapacity, why
is she k.-'pt in the background now?
The Kansas City platform proposed a
remedy that, if adopted, would have
made it impossible for an interstate
commerce corporation to have watt-red
its stock. This tremendous loss would
have been prevented if that remedy
had been adopted before the steel trust
was organized. What remedy have the
republican leaders for the situation
which now confronts them? What is
the president doing, what is the repub
lican congress doing to protect the
public from watered stock?
If to escape this dilemma the re
publicans insist that the shrinkage in
stocks does not indicate a squeezing
out of water, but a loss in actual and
honest values, what will they say about
an administration that, results in such
a blow to industry? Can the country
be said to be prosperous if honest
stocks have suffered a shrinkage of
nearly two billions of dollars in three
years? Is the industrial condition a
satisfactory one?
PAYNE CALLED IT "HOT AIR."
The New York Commercial is very
mmh opposed to congressional in
quiry into the postofflce scandal. The
Commercial says: "Let the department
itself run to cover the rascals who have
been mismanaging the country's postal
business. It will be time enough for
congress to take a hand when it has
been disclosed that the postmaster
general is not doing his full duty in
the most effective way possible." Will
the Commercial undertake seriously to
say that the postmaster general's atti
tude from the beginning of these
scandals was such as to justify the im
pression that he is willing to do his
full duty in the most effective way
possible?
The organs that had no difficulty in
locating the causes of the industrial
depression in 1892-96 are giving some
exhibitions of ground and lofty tum
bling in their efforts to locate the
cause of the industrial depression of
1&4J3.
Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt performed
that Panama "coup" in order to attract
the limelight from Mr. Hanna's Ohio
victory.
In the opinion of Mr. Hanna, "what
the sainted McKinley said" amounts
to nothing when there is no campaign
on hand.
Having executed a complete somer
sault on the tariff question. President
Roosevelt feels quite able to execute
a similar acrobatic reversal on the
race question if convinced that it is
expedient.
The manager of a government de
partment who can prove that there is
no graft in his division will be eligible
to a paying position with the dime
musee circuit.
When the Chicago Chronicle talks
about "sham democrats" it is time for
the general public to laugh.
They Keep it Spinning?
Comment.
A CHANGING POLICY.
It will be remembered thai when
Miss Hulclali Todd, postmistress at
Greenwood, Del., was removed, it was
announced by the administration that
she was removed because thc was
"personally distasteful" to Senator Al
ice, who represents the Addhks fac
tion of the republican party in Dela
ware. With but few except Ions. I he
pations of that po.stofiice protested
against Miss Todd's removal, but the
administration would not relent its
lepresentatlves insisting that the re
moval of this postmistress was neces
sary because one senator had stated
that she was "personally distasteful"
to him.
On November 19. Mr. Roosevelt re
appointed Joshua K. Wilson, a negro,
!o the e;flice of postmaster at Florence,
S. C. The while residents of that te.-.vn
unanimously protested against the re
appointment. The two South Caro
lina senators like wise protected; but
Wilson was reappointed.
It seems that, th" administration's
policy is subject to alteration. In
Delaware the protest of one .senator
representing the Addicks republicans
is suHicient, while the protest of two
senators in South Carolina is of no
avail.
THE LAW'S DELAYS.
Writing in the Independent on the
law's delay. Justice David .1. Brewer
says: "I was assur-d by one in a posi
tion to know that in a single state one
of the great railroad corporations by
appealing every judgment against it to
the supreme court of the state that
court having a c rowded docket made
enough in compromising the judg
ments against it in the trial courts to
pay the entire cost of its leal depart
ment." Justice Brewer has devoted
considerable thought to this subject,
and while few wiil. we think, be in
clined to agree with him concerning
the denial of the right of appeal in
criminal cases, it cannot be doubted
that marked improvement must be
made with respect to the delays in all
cases.
PERRY HEATH S GOOD LIX'K.
It is reported tiiat the only penalty
that will be rpquired of Perry S. Heath
for his part in the postofflce scandals
wiil be his resignation as ere retary jf
the republican national committee.
Mr. Heath will be permitted to retire,
not however, necessarily as a punish
ment, but because it is thought to be
bad politics to permit him to remain.
It would seem, however, that inasmuch
as Mr. Roosevelt has had so much to
say about honesty and fidelity to duty,
he would be able to devise some plan
whereby Mr. Heath could be called to
account for his official misconduct.
"With all Its superb vitality tho dem
ocratic party cannot survive constant
defeat," declares the Indianapolis
News. But the democratic party has
survived constant defeat. The trouble
seems to have been that the democ ratic
party could not endure some of its
latter day "victories."
The administration action In the
Panama case is hardly square with
Mr. Rcwsevelt's announced determina
tion to carry out the McKInky poli
cies. The McKinley name is good to
conjure with, but the McKinley poli
cies are obstacles that are not allowed
to deter our strenuous executive.
The Djrbin vice-presidential boom
is calculated to make cold chills play
tag up and down the spine of one Wil
liam S. Taylor. Anything calculated
to remove Durbin from the Indiana
state house is exceedingly dangerous
to Mr. Taylor's well-being.
The territories will knock separately
for admission this time. And despite
its platform promises the g. o. p. will
do a little "knocking" on its own ac
count. Emperor William has had a polypus
removed from his throat. The polypus
is raging in quite a large majority of
this government's administrative de
partments. Are the gentlemen opposed to the
promotion of General Wood quite sure
that the Jai Alal business is eligible
to the protection found in the statute
of limitations?
The crushing sound merely Indicates
that the trusts have been quick to avail
themselves of the invitation to apply
the screws to the people with a little
more vigor.
Colombia's protests must be ad
dressed to ears that refused to hearken
to the apeal from South Africa.
COMMONER THREE
"The next fight begins tomorrow."
The present fight is on today.
Is "Whale Colombia" to become our
national song?
Coutliv of The Commoner.
The daily m-wspapcis print the
names of the few men who oci asiora I
ly "chan out the betting ring." Ow
ing to the fa f that even the daily
newspapers are contiiied to cettaiti
limits as regards size, the names of
those who are i h'anccl out ate never
printed.
Shall the democrat i'- parly full under
the control of men who always vote
tlx republican ticket when they lull
to make the- democrat ! patty so mar
ly like the republican patty that an
expert cannot dce- t any elinrei)ie?
That is a question that every !.il
democrat .hould ponder over.
A few years ago Great Britain
laughed with v,b e at the nugest ion
that fdie might be compelled to piiy
damage's for allowing the Aliilmma l
put forth from le-r shores. Thin is a
hint to (he prominent ud minlst rat Ion
leaders who laughed with glee at men
tion of the Panama affair.
Thos" deluded persons who point lo
(lie ousting of CongrcHhrnaii Roberts as
a precede nt for ousting Senator Smout
ove-rlook on'1 ve-ry vital point. Rob
erts was a democrat in a lepuhli' an
c-ongress. ami Smoot is a re publican in
a republican congress.
Having promised all kinds e(f ic
I'orms, the? sultan of Tutke-y In.Us'M
that he has done- all that may be fair
ly requir'd of him. This remii.ds u.-;
that Mr. Philander Knox occupies a
very similar position as re-guids at
tacking tlie trusts.
The! attention of the governor of In
diana is respectfully c alb el te the fact
that Governeir Beckwlth is te hohl ef
nce for another term ami that he is
now reaeiy to accept ex-Govenior Tay
lor anel insure him a fair trial.
General Wooel is now called upon to
:-;tcp to the front ami tell where he; y,nt
it. This growing inquisif i veiiess eui
the part of the people Is becoming
quite wearisome to a large contingent
of administration favoriie:.
Has the president e-ver thought ut
trying the injunction cm n- ah it rant
republicans. Some of his warme:!
friends anel admirers have foune! it
very useful in d'-aling with uhhX n ;e i -ous
woi king men.
It is reported that Addjcks is, to re
tire? from polities, but it would be J".st
as well to discount the report. Mr.
Addic ks has a little matte r ejf de liver
ing a fc-W dfdegate-s tc) atle.Iid lo be-fere
he can gracefully retire.
Nebraska republic ana love to t&Jk
about the "re-cle-mption" ut Ne-biaska
from "dcnio-pop rule." Re-cent grand
jury indictments in the federal court
at Omaha indicate the extent of the
"redemption."
Republican sneers
south" would be in
"solid New England"
at 1 he; "tolld
better taste If
did not c ling te
its idols with a tenacity never equalled
by the- states south of the old .Musou
and Dixon line.
The steel trust is pre paring tej create
a $1.",0 !.( vacuum in the dinner
pail. But this will not prevent, its
chief buglers from making the usual
appeal when camjaign time come
again.
Mr. Hanna is on eat;y street so far
as his senatejrial place Is concerned,
but he must watch those; gentlemen
who are inclined to seduce Mr. Herrick
into taking second plate; on the Roose
velt ticket.
The people who wink at the buying
of senatorial seats have very little;
grounds tor complaint when senators
sell their political patrc,nage.
The Philadelphia ledger in talking
about "the passing of Perry Heath."
The Ledger is mistaken. It is not
Perry who has paised it is merely
the time embraced in the statute of
limitations.
The amount the government pays
for carrying the mails and for rent
of pejstal ears comes very near pay
ing the entire cost of running the pas
senger trains which carry United States
mail.
The Nebraska senatorial scandal is
another argument in favor of popular
election of United States senators.
Has it come to pass that appeals to
national honor and to Justice are to
be denounced as Impertinent by con
gress and cabinet?
The president is determined that
Crum shall have one more try at the
"door of opportunity."
The Indications are that corruption
will run rit before water runs througli
the isthmian canal.
Mr. Hanna says there is nothing tn
discuss. Hut can he tell us bow old
Ann is?
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