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' ,WlI.t.IAM J. IJllVAN Olf AllMCS W, 3J11YAN
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The Commoner. v7
! medals hd wore when lio headed tho 'Roosevelt
clclogation from California to the laat republican
national convention.
The Waohington Herald is worrying over
the pronunciation of the word "paragraphcr."
Lot's see; what was it Undo Henry Watterson
called it
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Mr. Watterson's geography is all right but
tls gift of nomenclature seems limited.
Tho "also mentioned" list of presidential
candidates is growing larger with each passing
day. Tho Ananias club has not yet sprung its
candidate.
"Pete," the White House bulldog, has been
whipped to' a frazzle by a mongrel dog named
"Rollo." Even the patient canine mollycoddle
has his day.
Tho democratic platform will be fully as
crisp and brief as the four column editorial Mr.
Wattorson wrote demanding a brief and crisp
democratic platform.
Tho cleaning up process In San. Francisco
has had results calculated to convince us that
it is yet possible to clean up Philadelphia, Pitts
burg and Harrisburg, Pa.
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Dr. Belfleld of Chicago has wasted a lot of
time writing an article to prove that women are
of a higher type than men. We knew it all the
time. The trouble is that so many men are not
"type high."
Senator-elect Stephenson of Wisconsin says
ho is fn favor of "prompt and thorough revision
of all tariff schedules, reducing duties wherever
possible without reducing wages of labor." Ho
should amend by leaving off the last seven
words.
Tho Chicago thief who recently stole fifteen
hubarb pies must have burglarized a pie plant.
After "being thdrouKlily cleaned out San
Francisco sebmB determined to bo cleaned up.
If those new submarines can stay at the
lottom long enough no foreign foe can over sink
tern.
"What are the functions of an express com
pany?" asks tho New York Press. One is to
keep a senator or two, in congress, and, another
is to, enable the railroad companies to hide a
portion of the dividends made possible by ex
cessive rates.
Having been blown up tho president of
ruatamala is in a position to sympathize with
Joseph Benson ForakT.
Senator Foraker seems to be ud acainst tho
tact that he has dug up entirely too much proof
in tnat Brownsville case.
American Sunday papers are not now al
lowed to be sold in Canada on Sunday. When
we think of the comic supplements the papers
contain wo can not refrain from expressing ad
miration for the good sense displayed by our
Canadian neighbors.
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The "green bug.' is not the' Insect that.
toisted the price of wheat. The "speculation
mg" is largely responsible.
Says tho Manchester, N. H., Union.: . "Bar
ring an insignificant abrasion of the knuckles
the president appears to have come out victor
unscathed from his opening round with the
trusts." Perhaps; but did he inflict any abra
sions on the trusts?
A Now York banker is raising a row be
cause he lost $50,000 in a fake minimr deal. Tt.
happened to be his own money.
ThO Close Of tllfi "RroWTlRvnift nffnlr nnrl o.
iononintr .of tho Panama orinnl Room rlaaHrmil -
uccur simultaneously, or thereabouts.
PoRfilhlv Rnnntnr Tfrtrnlrof YwniynanA Vio linK.
loriy plan in Ohio .lust in timo to keen from
)eing classified among the "undesirables."
The seven hundred Japanese sailors on
shore leave in New York unanimously decided to
visit Grant's tomb rather than take in the sights
of Coney island. Yet there are those who claim
that the Japanese are rapidly approaching the
American standard of civilization.
It seems that the people of Oklahoma made
mistake in not hitchine an enabling act to a
I6ig stick and calling it a constitution.
A British scientist declares that wa do not.
Ilaugh enough. This, too, when we have been
busy giving tho standpatters the merry ha-ha.
It Is reported that Mr. J. Piorpont Morgan
las changed his religious faith, but what we are
lost interested in Is a change of practice on
lis part,
It is said that Mr. Corey handed his bride
million dollars wortn of bridal presents. Mr.
Oorey would take a great deal less than a mil
lion dollars for what the people handed him on
that occasion.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa., man has been sent to
jail for stealing a half-dozen steel rails. If he
had stolen six or eight hundred miles of steel
rails he might have been hailed, as a Napoleon
of Finance and called to the White House for
consultation about next campaign contribution
time.
A lot of republican papers are pointing to
Schmitz of San Francisco as proof that union
labor men should not be elevated to office. But
what does tho election of men like Pennypacker
and various , mayors of Philadelphia prove
against the. republican party?
The Kansas City man who has been asleen
for forty days luckily miBsed a little moro than
month of speculation about that proposed
tnion depot. Life is full of compensations if
'e look for them.
Now that Boss Reuf. has confessed he ought
send back all those "standpat" and Roosevelt
Tho Butto Inter-Mountain quotes Mr.
Bryan as saying that "the American legal class
as a class is dishonest," and then proceeds to
criticise Mr. Bryan to tho extent of a third of
a column. The Inter-Mountain's criticism
would be in point were it not for just one thing.
Mr. Bryan never made any such assertion.
Governor Frantz of Oklahoma gays ho
would turn down the Oklah'oma constitution If
he were president. Mr. Frantz is governor of
Oklahoma by appointment. Ap soon as tho con
stitution is ratified by v the people and signed by
the prosldeht, Governor Frantz will be out of a
job. This may explain his hostility to the constitution.
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Paragraphic Punches"
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Mark Twain has received-a doctors degree
from one of the big colleges. The honor was
fairly won by careful nursing of old jokeL St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. I
Tho republican executive committee of. the '
Fifth district of Alabama has nominated Roose-
velt for a third term. Tuskegee has 'spoken.
.Birmingnam Age-Herald,
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A football player who joined the Honduras,
army has returned home in disgust. A Central
American revolution is not serious 'enough for
football tactics. Atlanta Journal.
A New York woman is making a specialty
of teaching etiquette to dogs. Presumably it is.
not always possible for dogs to learn anything
like that from theiij, masters. Washington Post.
The Pennsylvania capitpl contractors sold die
air between the legs of tables as mahogany. They
should have been able to dispose of cast iron us
something better than "pure bronze." New York
Evening Post. " C,
Wisconsin is going to build a $4,000,000 capi
tol building. The bidding will be open to nil con
tractors who had no part in building that .$0,000,
000 capitol in Pennsylvania at a cost of $13,000,
000. Omaha Bee.
Attorney General Bonaparte denies with
scorn that he is neglecting the work in his office.
His subordinates, he explains, are very efficient
and industrious. What more could we ask.
Minneapolis Journal.
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A Michigan woman broke her arm spanking '"$
a hoy. We used to be afraid of that and won- -.
dered how in the world it was possible for a -.??
woman to strike so hard without breaking hery,-
arm. Springfield News. . .; ;J:i
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Still, we should be a little careful how. we jeer
at Colonel Bryan for taking up the populist doc-,
trine of initiative and referendum. Some repub
lican, president may be'preaching that stuff before
long. iansas uity journal.
A man has just died in Cuba, aged 150 years.
His faculties are declared to have been unim
paired to the end, but it Is not claimed that Ve
was able to recollect all the revolutions during his
experience. Washington Times.
J. Pierpont Morgan says that the United
States is suffering merely from growing pains. "
Hasn't J. P. got things mixed? So far, the suffering-seems
to have been due to the industrial cap-'
tains getting pinched Milwaukee News.
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How these presidential secretaries do get on! '
Lamont was Cleveland's, became a railroad mag-,
nate and died a millionaire; Cortelyou was Me
Kinley's, and he is now secrgtary of the treasury;
Loeb is Roosevelt's, and is to feather out in
finance as a troliey administrator. Philadelphia
Telegraph. , f
The pastor who, performed the marriage
ceremony for W. E. Corey and Mabelle Gilman
has sent back his fee and apologized to his con- v
gregation. These are concessions but, unfortu
nately, the preacher can not rescind the mar
riage, so the other things don't count for much
Salt Lake Herald.
E. H. Harriman was "unable to appear in the
New York police court yesterday to prosecute the ,
stenographer who is accused of the theft of M -famous
letter to Sidney Webster. It is feared '-'
Mr. Harriman hos almost as scant regard for -i "
police court as he has for the interstate commeroW v
commission. Kansas Gily Times. ;'
"Senator Bevorldge Ib not a constitutional'"
lawyer nor a constitutional statesman " qnvn .
Harper's Weekly. Tush, tush! a ih,.f &:&?
Beyeridge, of Indiana, is the constitution Ibelf
Likewise ho Is the Pilgrim Fathers, the Spirit at
'76, the Declaration of Independence, the Ordi
nance of 1787, the Emancipation Proclamation
the general welfare and tho blessings of llbertv
to ourselves and our posterity. Harper's Weeklv
need a little federal regulation.i-New York
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