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Subscribers requester a chaagt ef addt ess must give the OLD as well as the NBW address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upoa application. Addrea all communications to THE COMMONER, Llaaela, Nafr. Evansvillo and Kishineff seem to havb trotted a dead heat" "Reorganization" is the shibboleth of the disintegrators. Of course the Iowa idea about revising the tariff is to revise it up. The "Iowa idea" might try rusticating with iho "Babcock idea" for company. Mr. Heath evidently believes that his health will bo benefited by "absent treatment." Organize a democratic club in your precinct and got ready for the battle of 1904. '-t Postmaster General Payne's explanatory de partment is running "hot in its journals." Governor Pennypacker's silence indicates that ho has sent a wh e flag to the cartoonists. , Governor Cummins has used the "Iowa idea" as a ground wire for his vice presidential boom. Young Mr. Rockefeller says he prays for light and gets it. But he charges us 20 cents a gallon. The Berlin professor who declares that alco hol is the. source of life Bhould throw his reverse lever. I Attorney General Knox might endthe postal scandal by getting out an injunction against the "grafters."' ; The shipbuilding trust made the mistake of putting the water into its stock instead of undor .its product. s rhe Commoner. ' The democratic platfqrm that meets with the approval of republican leaders and organs Is in need of some extensive repairs. ; Perhaps those postofflco officials made ef- forts to secure an increase in salary merely .as a means of distracting attention. 1 I ST It is. not surprising that most of the republi can organs criticise Mr. Bryan for his remarks upon the Iowa democratic platform. Of course Russia is in Manchuria for the pur pose of doing for the "Manchurians all consistent with their welfare and Russia's duty. ,-Every time Governor Durbin expresses a h'igh regard for law and justice ex-Governor Taylor winks his eye, and snuggles up closer. It develops that most of the negroes involved in the Evansvillo riots were imported for voting purposes by the republican managers. The genuine "Iowa idea" seems to be to keep in close connction with the gentleman who dis tributes the fat secured by the fryingpan. , The "Subscribers' Advertising Department" offers exceptional opportunities to Commoner readers who want to offer or secure bargains. Those Sulu slaves who have the blessed .priv ilege of purchasing their freedom at "the usual market price," might try forwarding a protest Concerted attacks upon Mr. Bristow will not draw public attention from the administration's failure to act promptly upon Mr. Tulloch's charges. Temporary defeat in a fight for 'the right is preferable to a hollow victory on a meaningless .platform. Th.o pump ucod by the Brooklyn Eagle in in-v flating the Cleveland boom seems to be working with a reversed valve. Mr. Hanna's campaign slogan of "Hands off" is vociferously echoed by certain gentlemen in the postofflco department. "Turn the rascals out" is a pretty good cam paign slogan, but it must not degenerate into -'Turn the rascals loose." It seems that the "negro question" has slopped over, to the northward side of the once famous Mason and Dixon line. Of course ox-Governor Taylor from Kentucky is filled with sorrow because of that Evansville mob's disregard of law. Mr. Cleveland still poses In the attitude of a man who is quite willing if the people insist, but is fearful lest they will not VOLUME 3, NUMBER 27, Governor Durbin of Indiana is rusticatinK in Yellowstone park. In the meantime ex-Go Taylor is sticking pretty close to Indiana soi ' , Everv time tho Chinnvm nv.-i- ... . editorial telling what It conceives to be w democracy," the editorial is printed with -proval by the leading republican organs. Is it possible that President Roosevelt's Rin ness to act in the postoffice corruption case? la due to his fear of the pillar pulling ability of tho men who occupy the g. o. p. temple? Does anybody expect prosecution of the noau office rascals at the hands of an administration that owes its existence to the ssheming abilitv oS the men responsible for those rascals? Charles Eliot Norton says the literary center of the country has shifted from Boston to Phila delphia. The statement is calculated to cause a feeling of disgust in the shadow of Princeton. r " iM There is a big "guessing contest" on in Wash-. ington. Those engaged are guessing whether they will be jailed or permitted to go after making a - few feints at the pillars of the republican temple. If there is not a working democratic club in your precinct, go to work and organize one. A little work on the part of each loyal democrat will result in frustrating the plans the reorganizes have for 1904. The organs .hat pretend not to know Judge Walter Clark are not belittling Judge Clark they are merely exposing their own fatuous ignorance. "" yt Governor Durbin of Indiana has his . hands full these days protecting Taylor and Finley from justice and Evansville criminals Irom mob law. The Wall Street Journal complains because? Speaker-to-be Cannon declares that no financial legislation is needed. Is it possible that the Wall Street Journal has not heard that the mones question is a dead issue? President Roosevelt's cablegram to Manila was sent in four minutes, but the time was ample for all he had to say concerning the Philippine problem. Doubtless Perry Heath will recover his h'ealth simultaneously with the successful smothering of the charges of corruption in the postal department Andrew D. White wants the colleges to train young men for cfficeholding. This would bo all right if the colleges could devise some method of keeping the office-seekers' out of the way ofi their trained young men. The rumor that Mr. Hanna was to retire from business in order to devote his entire time to politics is unfounded. Mr. Hanna finds it diffi cult business to handle his politics since Tom Johnson camped on his trail. Postmaster Ceneral Payne tries to make the postal scandal appear as third-class matter, but it is proving a first-class bunch of trouble for the administration. Of course the republican managers believe in reciprocity they favor giving the trusts anything they want providing the trusts will put up the sinews of war. Joseph Chamberlain is slowly coming to a realization of the fact that ho has an up-hill job of it trying to convince the BritiBh consumer that the foreigner pays the tax. There should be -enough difference between democratic and republican platforms to render unnecessary plans and specifications for the proper designation of each. Editor Charles Emory Smith has succeeded in giving ex-Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith a clean bill of health. This may be satis factory to the editor and ex-postmaster general, but the people want something more. The San Francisco Star has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The Star lives because it has a mission Jo perform, and it is performing it valiantly. As a champion- of democracy the Star stands well up at the head of the list. t President Roosevelt is reported as believing that it is not now necessary to send that protest to Russia, its agitation having been- sufficient Let's see; what states have selected their delegates to the 1904 republican national convention? The address delivered by Hon. Howard S. Taylor at the Fourth of July celebration under the auspices of the Fairview Jefferson club is printed in full in this Issue. It is worthy the careful con sideration of every thoughtful " and patriot!! citizen. Of course Emperor William could not restrain his cheers when he discovered that the American navy was not just what Lieutenant Potts ap peared to represent it A proniinent army physician declares that the American officers who remain on duty in tho Philippines for a year are subject to mental and physical deterioration. And this republic suffers from moral deterioration while it keeps them over there. Suppose we allow the national convention to nominate a vice president," suggests the urbano Mr. Piatt of New York. To be sure, out in tho meantime the proper g. o. p. authorities will see to it that the proper selection is made for tho convention. If tho Nashville American has had tho cour age to. give the names of its principal stockholders and the party affiliations of its editors, the copy of tho American containing the same failed to arrive at The Commoner office. Is tho Nashville American afraid to speak out? If Secretary Moody is so awfully insistent upon investigations he might investigate that lit tle, matter of the tons of smokeless powder dumped into tho ocean from an American warsuip. If this will not keep him busy ho might put in the rest of his time investigating the army transport purchases during tho lato scrimmage with Spain. It is reported from the east that woodpeck ers are deceived by tho humming wires and are attacking the telephone" poles. They mistaketho buzzing of the wires for tho buzzing of insects. Those woodpecicers remind one of those repub licans who believe in tariff revision and cling to the notion that the men who control the republic can party will allow the tariff to be re-vised. Tho "whisky ring,' tho "star Toute" scan dais and tho postofflco rascality Tecently uncov ered all occured under republican administrations. The first two were not exposed and the perpetrat ors punished until a democratic congress toolc hold. There is a lesson in this for those who would have the present postoffice scandal probed to the bottom and all" the guilty participant punished. . - A ' . 3 . rnwwj o.Ltft..i.lui