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THE NEBRASKA. INDEPENDENT
Aug. 14, 1902
SPECIAL J.:
In our advertisement of last week an
error was made by the printer which we
desire to correct here. The offer adver
tised was one of the biggest bargains in
the grocery line presented in many a day.
Instead of 6 1-cent packages, the quota
tions should have read 6 10-cent packages.
A corrected copy of the "Remarkable
Offer," which is good for 15 days, is pro
duced below. Send your draft, express or
money order for ten dollars and the fol
lowing bill will be shipped immediately.
Every article guaranteed.
100 lbs best Granulated Sugar. ................ . . . $1 00
6 10-cent packages best Soda 50c
2 lbs. best Baking Powder 50o
6 packages best Corn Starch . -50c
4 lbs. best Japan Tea ; , , l $2 00
25 bars Laundry Soap ....$! GO
2 lbs. purest Pepper. 50c
2 gallons best Vinegar. 50o
6 10-cent packages Gloss Starch. f. .50c
Gibs, choice Prunes.. ............... -50c
6 lbs. choice Rice " .50c
4 lbs. choice Raisins.... . '. 50c
4 lbs. choice Peaches.... ........ .....50c
3 packages Rising Sun Stove Polish 7. . -,25c
3 10-cent cans Lye - 25c
2 lbs. Mocha and J ava Coffee 50c
$10 00
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for $10.00. v
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expressed a willingness to submit
their claims to arbitrators and abide
by the decision. The Union Pacific
strike, the anthracite . strike , and the
one In West Virginia among the bi
tuminous tminers are all in the same
stage they were last week. There will
be general rioting and outbreaks pret
ty ; soon. The dinner pails of many
thousand workmen are empty now.
Woman suffrage has accomplished
the acme of success in Australia by
the act of admitting women to scats
in the federated parliament. In New
Zealand, which is still a distinct and
independent colony, women have been
voting for nine years; in New South
Wales they have had a municipal fran
chise since 1867; in Victoria since
1869, in West Australia since 1874, in
South Australia since 1880, in Tas
mania since 1884 and in Queensland
since 1886, and have been struggling
all these years for parliamentary
equality.
The Washington correspondents are
glorifying the past record of Judge
Jackson, the injunctionist. What that
has to do with the principle of gov
ernment by injunction, the trying and
convicting men without a jury is past
finding out. Judge Jackson may have
been a very staunch union man, but
that has nothing to do with his re-
cent decisions.. Because a man was
once a patriot does not justify his la
ter acts of despotism.
President Schurman says: "Aguin
feido is now a private citizen." That
is a most, astounding statement for
the president - of Cornell to make.
"Private citizen!" Aguinaldo is not
a citizen either private or otherwise.
He is a conquered subject of the
United States. After using that phrase
President Schurman talks about
Aguinaldo's influence in "his own
country." The Filipino chieftain has
no country. The Philippines are not
a nation. Their condition is such as
the world has never known before.
Every. British; colony is part of the
British empire and every person- in the
empire has equal , rights. They are all
British subjects. ' The Filipinos are
not citizens of the United States. They
do notstand in the same relation to
the government of this republic that
a resident of a British colony does to
the government of Great Britain. The
territory 'of the- Philippines is "ap
purtenant" to the - United States, as
Justice Brown says, but no part of it.
If President Schurman Is going to ad
dress the - Chautauqua . assemblies all
over the country he should be a little
more precise in the use of language.
Australia, which first introduced the
ballot now used almost universally in
this country and was the leader in
much reform legislation which has
been everywhere accepted as good pub
lic policy, has taken another step in
advance of the other nations. It has
adopted a compulsory, arbitration law.
The demoralization in the army
since we took up wars of conquest and
side-tracked the constitution and Dec
laration of Independence has not been
only in the Philippines. At the great
army posts in this country there seems
to have come a wonderful change over
the rank and file. Around Fort Sheri
dan the people have been terrorized
by the hoodlum soldiers. The guard
house is always crowded and many
prisoners escape. A great many have
been shot by the guards and-some
have been killed:" Such things as these
were seldom or never known in the
old army. If we are to have a large
standing army, hold millions of peo
ple as unwilling subjects and wage
wars of conquest, the same discipline
that has been found necessary in Eu
ropean armies will have to be admin
istered in our army. Gradually the
whole character - of the government
will have to be changed.
The British have ' finished the As
suan dam across the Nile which will
irrigate 2,500 square miles of desert
and make them one of the most fertile
of the whole ..; earth. That sort of
work in Africa is of a different nature
from what Joe Chamberlain and the
British jingoes have been engaged in
at the southern, end of the continent.
It will bless generations yet to be
born while the war debt of England
will be a burden upon the back of the
toilers perhaps perpetually. : The Na
poleonic wars came to an end in June,
1815, but the labor of England is still
taxed to pay the debt that was then
created.
The English aristocracy is over
whelming the Boer generals with com
pliments and entertainments of all
sorts. General Meyer, who arrived at
Southampton with the Intention of
going directly to The Hague, was
caught up by the lords and dukes and
carried off to London where they made
a social lion of him. King Edward
sent his special royal car to South
ampton to convey ex-President Steyn
to London, but President Steyn was
too ill to bear the journey. 'It is said
that he is completely broken down
with nervous prostration and ' had to
be carried ashore on a litter: He was
immediately carried aboard a1 Dutch
ship and sailed for Holland. The
king has sent a -special and cordial
invitation to Generals Botha; DeWet
and Delarey to come to his palace and
stay with him while they' art- in Eng
land. All London is preparing to give
these farmer ' generals " 5ne of tho
grandest "receptions "ever " accorded to
any one in the British -capital. All
this will be a greater test of the man
hood of the Boer generals i than any
thing that has -yyet .occyrred. "7 It is
hoped that they will come but of it
with honor , -::-it ; f :
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It is announced In the , London dail
ies that there was another section to
the agreement made when the Boere
surrendered and not published at the
time. It was an agreement that Lord
Kitchener made . to the f effect, that
there "should be a subsequent confer
ence in London between the Boer gen
erals and the government concerning
the details to be adopted, in Inaugur
ating the new. government, v That is
why Botha. DeWet and Delarey arc
coming to London.
M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the French
t v turn " j wMaMjM
ex-prime minister, has been on a
yachting trip to Norway, during which
it i3 said 5,700 miles were traveled in
six weeks. The ex-premier is now in
robust health, with a bronzed ruddy
complexion. During - the voyage , he
painted eighteen land and:, sea pic
tures in oil, drew fifteen crayon cari
cature portraits, . finished six water
color sketches, and wrote a .little one
act comedy which was acted on board
the yacht . with - great success.
The war In the Philippines still goes
on notwithstanding the constant as
sertion of the republican pres that
peace reigns in every province. The
accounts of the battles are not put
under scare-heads, but off in some in
concpicuous corner -f the paper. And
real battles are being fought, not sim
ply skirmishes with wandering bands
of robbers. One cablegram tells about
the assault 'on a Filipino fort, the
walls of which were so high that it
was almost Impossible to scale them.
I- Is said that it was defended by 500
Filipinos, all of whom were finally
killed except about forty. It was
called by one of the dallies "second
Alamo." The truth about the matter
is that there is war in the Philip
pines the same as there has been for
ti.e last hundred years and there is no
more civil government there than
there ever was. What is given out and
t- editorial writing connected with it
is simply for effect upon the fall elec
tions. :
The cholera epidemic continues In
tt Philippines. Outside of Manila, a
total of r,967 cases have been re
ported, with 4,290 deaths. In the city
there have been 1,350 cases, with 1,
100 deaths.
The demoralization of the army in
the Philippines is shown by a recent
1.' published report on court-martials.
It shows that the accused in 227 cases
were dishonorably discharged, in 231
cases forfeited pay and allowances,
in 115 cases suffered bther punishment,
in 110 cases were fined, and in 320
cases were sentenced to confinement.
A good many persons begin to be
lieve that the published orders for
the reduction of the army in the Phil
ippines were all a fake and that no re
duction has been made or contem
plated. There are no accounts in the
press dispatches of returning troop3
and no mention in the San Francisco
papers of any landing there.
One . of the curses of the United
States is shyster lawyers. A lawyer
writing to a Chicago paper says: "The
fact is that Chicago is as much a bat
tleground as was ever known in the
ancient time when force was the only
recognized law. 'The law's delays,'
politics in the law, and, more than all
other cases combined, an army of
shyster lawyers who take advantage
of these two facts and the thousands
of technicalities to defeat justice have
brought about a condition of affairs
that is simply awful."
The natlbnal association of retail
butchers should be suppressed. They
are engaged in making more trouble
for your Uncle Mark besides the large
amount he had on his hands before.
They demand that the tariff on dressed
meats and cattle be removed; have in
structed their membership to ques
tion every candidate for congress, and
refuse to vote for any man who will
not do all in his power to have the
tariff removed. That is anarchy out
right. Call out the troops or get an
injunction quick.
The American tariff league is in
trouble, too. Cornelius Bliss and five
other members of the executive board
have resigned because the league
fights any and all reductions in the
tariff and is dead set against reciproc
ity, declaring that "it is simply open
ing the way to free trade." The
league is spending more money than
ever and putting out an .enormous
amount of literature. It is crazy over
the plank in the Iowa platform de
manding a revision of the tariff. It
seems that the tariff grafters are real
ly frightened. They should cool down.
They are in no danger as long as the
republicans hold power, no matter
what promises republican candidates
make before election or how much
talking they do. Just let them re
member Babcock and take courage.
After much tribulation King Ed
ward got crowned at last. The Wall
street stock exchange closed in honor
of the event although it never closed
in honor of the inauguration of a pres
ident, not even that of Lincoln. The
financiers of New York show the same
kind of "loyalty" that they did dur
ing the revolution.
Some Of the New England tariff
dunderheads are beginning to realize
that they want a market in Canada.
Heretofore they have seemed to think
that if they could shut themselves up
behind tariff walls so high that no
outsider could climb over them that
they would be perfectly happy. Eu
gene N. Foss, who was suggested as a
candidate for congress, replied: "I
want to see New England something
more than a big summer resort, and,
there is no reason why it should not
be. We have the best class of skilled
workmen right here at home to be
found anywhere. We are, however,
ohliged to go west to secure our raw
material, bring it to New England for
manufacturing purposes, and then turn
to the south and west for a market.
What we want is a market to the
north of us, in Canada. We want rec
iprocity, and now is the time to secure
it." . Mr. Foss will hardly get that
nomination.
The medical report from the army In
the Philippines for the month of July
says: ."During the month the total
sick was 2,265, being 7. per cent of the
command present, 31,050, and during
the same period there were seventy
nine deaths, . including thirty-seven
from cholera, and one killed in ac
tion.'. ,
Tom Watson offers $1,000 for proof
that he was not the father of free
rural; mail delivery. In virtue of the
fact, as he asserts, that he introduced
into congress and got passed the first
resolution appropriating , money for
that purpose, May 28, 1892.
The fantastic performances at the
crowning of King Edward can f be
looked upon only ' as a reversion to
kills, not necessarily, suddenly,
; but SURELY. It preys upon the
intellectual powers more than
we realize. It consumes the
vitality faster than nature can
replenish it, and we cannot tell
just what moment a temporary
or complete aberration of the
mind will result. Headache and
pain should be. promptly re-J
moved -but properly. Jvlany
pain cures are ' more harmful
than the pain.'? Beware. If
you would be safe, take
Dr.
Miles'
"As a result of neuralgia I lost the
sight of ray right eye, and the pain I
have suffered is incomprehensible, be
ing obliged to take opiates almost con
tinually. A friend cave me one of Dr.
Miles Pain Pills and it promptly re
licved me. I then purchased a box and
now my trouble is gone.- They have
also cured my daughter ofnervous
, headache, and I heartily recommend
them to others."- W. J. Cokxey. Bre-
mond, Texas." ; ;
Sold,by Druggists. 25 Doses, 25c.
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
barbarism. In the description of them
many of the writers use the phrase
"barbaric splendor." ,'
The proposition made in the Cu
ban congress is to : Increase the duty
on; pine lumber 40 per cent; on meat
products 50 per cent; on flour, onions,
potatoes, and peas,, ,100 per cent; on
common soap, 150 per cent;- and on
corn, 333 per cent. .'.All. of these ar
ticles are imported from the United
States. In thirty days American pro
ducers may begin to pay for the pro
tection of the beet ,f sugar industry.
There are less than 260,000 acres in
the United States devoted to sugar
beet culture, and of , these nearly 230,
000 are in four states. , It is said that
the loss to the Minnesota millers and
the wheat growers of the northwest
by a Cuban . tariff like the one. de
scribed will 'exceed'. many times tho
value of the .whole beet sugar out
put of .the country The corn growers
and cattle raisers will feel the tariff,
too. It seems that the tariff grafters
have managed to. get all the world
united in a retaliatory war against
us, including littpCuba No wonder
Uncle Mark is having a lot ..of trouble
these days. " o;f"- ' "
The New York. Tribune publishes a
campaign song" landing Roosevelt. One
line of it reads ag follows: "But thy
commission bears " the seal" pf God's
Own hand impressed.' That commis
sion ought, to be framed and exhibited
at every republican meeting. If ad
vertised that it would be shown it
would Insure, a big crowd. The claim
that Teddy has a commission with the
Almighty's autograph attached . to it.
Is In line with the Whole contents of
the republican campaign book.
Illinois Central R. R.
V OF INTEREST TO
STOCKHOLDERS
Free Transportation to Attend the Special and
Annual Meeting at Chicago.
Public notice ia hereby ' given that a special
meeting of the stockholders oi the Illinois Cen
tral Kailroad Company will be held at the
Company's office iu Cnicago, Illinois, on Friday,
August 2i, 1902, at eleven o'clock in the fore
noon ; also that the regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Company Trill be held
at its offices in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday,
October 15, 1902, at noon.
To permit personal attendance at these meet
ings there will be issued to each holder of one
or more shares of the capital stock of the Illi
nois Central Kailroad Company as registered
on the books of the Company at the close of
business on Friday . August 1, 1902. and to stock,
holders of record ou Friday, September 19, 1902,
a ticket enabling him or her to travel free over
the Company's lines from the station on the
Illinois Central Kailroad nearest to his or her
registered address to Chicago and return, such
ticket to be good for the journey to Chicago
only during the four -days immediately preced
ing, and the day of the meeting, and for the re
turn journey from Chicago only on the day of
the meeting, and the four days immediately
following, when properly countersigned and
stamped during business hours that is to say,
between 9:00 a. m. and 5 :00 p. m. in the office
of the Assistant Secretary, Mr. W. G. Brun,
in Chicago. Such ticket may be obtained by
any holder of stock registered as above, on ap
plication, in writing, to the President of the
Company in Chicago. Each application must
state the full name and address of the stock
holder exactly as given in his or ber certificate
of stock, together with the number and date of
such certificate. No more than one person will
be carried free in respect to any one holding of
stock as registered oh the book of the Com
pany, t A. Q. HACK8TAFF,
" Secretary,
The Pleasure
of a Journey;
to the east will be greatly "enhanced
by making the trip via " . "
B. & O; S W;
Lowest rates St; Louis to New York.
Stop-over at Washington, Baltimore
and Philadelphia; : 1 -
Three daily ' vestibuled trains. :
8 3-4 hours to Cincinnati and Louis
ville. ,. ' -: 1
Extremely low rates will be made to
Washington, D. C, in October, ac
count Grand "Army Encampment.
"Write for particulars and "Guide to
Washington." '
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Special "Washington Latter.
HERE la one absolutely safe
rule by which to ascertain
-whether a man Is a good
Democrat and true If Re
publican papers delight to at
tack him, be Is all right Judged by
that standard, my Democratic record
Is "No. 1."
When I wa a child bock in the hill
country of Kentucky, I heard a philoso
pher say, ''When I throw a stone
among a pack of dogs and one yelps
I know I bit him." Applying that dic
tum which is full of wisdom, to my
speech delivered in . Bangor. Me., on
Bunker Hill day, at least one rock
which I threw went straight to Its
mark, for under the fetching title of
The Republican Column Solid" the
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat, Republican
organ grinder in chief west of theMls
sissippi river, yelps editorially as fol
lows: ,. ;,
One of MlHeourfa Democratic congress
men, Clark, of the Ninth district, haa
Just been tellln a few of the Maine Dem
ocrats some of the things he does not
know about" politics. According to the
telegraphic reports of that queer person's
speech, he said, "The Republican major
ity in congress Is split Into warring- fac
tions upon every Issue that is acute."
Clark Is not the Inventor of this observa
tion. He has heard it from several other
Democrats. Ha has read it in some of
the Democratic papers. It-is an error
nevertheless.
On some of the iscties now before con
gress there is a little difference, of opin
ion, among Republicans. On the Cuban
question there was something of a di
vergence. So, too, there has been a dif
ference on the canal question, which, of
course, is not a partisan Issue. But there
Is no divergence on the great Issue of
the day. national expansion. 'All the Re
publicans are in favor of the retention of
the Philippines. All the Republicans also
want to strengthen the gold standard, if
It needs any more strengthening any
where. ' All are against any assaults on
the tariff. Irrespective altogether of the
attitude of some of them on the Cuban
reciprocity question. The only issue on
which there has been any material dif
ference among the Republicans has been
on that of Cuban reciprocity.
Whether I am the inventor of the ob
servation to which the G.-D. takes ex
ceptions I do not know." It is true,
however, as the G.-D. says, that I have
heard other Democrats say so and Re
publicans also, i It is also true that 1
have read it in Democratic papers and
in Republican papers also. It has
been stated over and over again In the
Washington Post, one of the most bril
liantly, edited papers in America, .a
high tariff shouter at that Everybody
here and every intelligent person else
where knows that the Republicans .are
split up on the tariff, and the G.-D.
man alone seems to believe that "the
Republican column is solid." Nobody
who has any reputation to lose will
claim to have originated that idea or
to have made that declaration.
Some of the w8olids.w
Forty-odd Republicans In the bouse
, broke away from the machine and
voted with the Democrats to remove
the differential on sugar and rode
roughshod over the leaders and over
ruled the "chair" on an appeal from
his decision. Has the G.-D. heard of
that? Will it explain that perform
ance to its readers and after explain
ing declare that it goes to show a "sol
id Republican column?" Does the
G.-D. believe that the action of Repub
lican senators sixteen in the open and
"two in reserve"-rin refusing to do the
president's bidding as to Cuban reci
procity is another evidence of a "solid
Republican column?" Ob. yes. but the
G.-D.. says that the difference on Cu
ban reciprocity, which it Inadvertently
confesses to be "material," will not be
discussed In the campaign! And yet
the G.-D. knows full well that the
Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt factions
are living upon that very iwsue and
will make the fur fly from Martha's
.Vineyard to the Golden Gate and from
the great lakes to the gulf of Mexico.
The G--D. knows that. the hottest fac
tional fight among Republicans since
the Grant and anti-Grant clans gath
ered at Chicago In 1880 is now on be
tween the Roosevelt and Hanna gangs,
and yet it prates about a "solid Re
publican column !" Such "flubdub"
may hoodwink the Globe-Democrat's
clientele. If so. It is easily fooled, but
It will deceive nobody that reads any
other newspaper or who. having eyes,
sees and. having ears, hears. Evident
ly the G.-D. is edited for the exclusive
benefit and behoof of the marines.
It knows that Cuban reciprocity was
laid on the shelf in the senate because
Senator Marcus A. Hanna is after
President Roosevelt's scalp, and pro
poses, to take it at all hazards, and
yet the G.-D. has the hardihood to bel
low about "a solid Republican column"
and to denominate me "a queer per
son" because I told the truth and
what the editor of the G.-D. knows is
the truth up in Maine. I have a fair,
square proposition to make If the edi
tor of the , G.-D. will make affidavit
that the Republicans are united in all
things, are a harmonious family, and
will place tbe affidavit in my bands. 1
will institute criminal proceedings
against him on the charge of false
swearing. I will conduct the-prosecution
myself. If I. convict hJm. the
G.-D. is to go out of business. If he ia
acquitted. . I .will resign my seat in
congress and agree uever to be a can
didate for any office whatsoever.
I propose herein to give a few items
and (extracts from Republican papers
and speeches to show that the Repub
lican column, instead of being solid, is
bifurcated.
Item. The. caper of, the Republican
state convention In Wisconsin show:
'that tho G. O. P. in that state la not
only divided Into La Folletto and anti
La Follette factions, but also into Bab
cock and anti-Babcock factions, Bab
cock opened headquarters to lobby for
a plank in the platform Indorsing his
scheme of tariff reform, but the con
vention sat upon Bab.
Senator John C Bpooner is one of the
ablest Republicans In public life. His
friends wanted him indorsed by the
convention. The "convention refused
to Indorse Spooner unless Spooner
would Indorse La Follette. AH went
up in the air and quit In a row.
Item. The New York Press Is busy
denouncing President Roosevelt, Speak
er Henderson and other leading Re
publicans as traitors, free traders, etc.,
because they favor Cuban reciprocity.
Touching the conduct of the Press, tbe
Washington "Post, Independent, says:
The New York Press, leading organ of
the beet sugar faction of the Republican
party, has again unlimbered its battery
and opened fire on Speaker Henderson.
We say "again" because the same guns
were ( being worked In the eame way a
year go when Mr. Henderson was in
Europe. Not only the beet sugar contin
gent, but various advocates of extreme
protection, united in ah effort to prevent
Mr. Henderson's re-election to the speak
ership. . How, signally they were defeated,
how utterly their forces were routed all
that. Is. history, and that history rnay re
peat Itself in December, 1903. " The Press
treats with contemptuous sneers the an
nouncement, that the speaker, after a pe
riod of rest at his home In Iowa, is going
to make "an extensive campaigning trip
in various parts of the country, his pur
pose being to visit as many doubtful con
gress districts as possible."
That same New York Press, radical
Republican sheet, thus spews Its
venom on Speaker Henderson: -
Looking at it in that light, we should
say that if the speaker is determined to
make a campaign throughout the country
Chairman Babcock should make sure that
the spellbinding virtues of tiie Iowa dow
ager remain confined to hopelessly Demo
cratic districts, where the loss of a few
thousand Republican votes would be nei
ther here nor there in the calculation of
how the next house of representatives
may be constituted nor of any : conse
quence In candidatures for governorships
or United States senatorships. Otherwise
we should not blame Republicans for
viewing with alarm, fear and trepidation
the proposal to project the voice and po
litical record of Henderson into the can
vass for congress. The best thing
Chairman Babcock vcan do, if he wants to
carry the house next fall, is to get out
his club and drive Speaker Henderson off.
It is absolutely safe to say that noth
ing so bitter as that about Speaker
Henderson has appeared in any Demo
cratic newspaper in the land, for Hen
derson is persona grata to "most Dem-;
ocrats. ; '
Piling Up Evidence. ,
Item."Never in our history have we
been so un-American as in the 6hort
time elapsing since the Spanish war."
Who said that? A Democrat? Nay,
not so.v It was uttered by Hon. Samuel
W. McCalL the, ablest .Republican in
the house from Massachusetts, repre
sentative from the famous Harvard
district and in all human probability
the predestined successor to George
Frisbie Hoar in the senate. No doubt
Hoar would choose him to succeed
himself, as they think much alike on
public questions. Does that look like
a solid Republican column?" ;
Item. It will be remembered that the
entire Michigan delegation revolted
against the Cuban reciprocity scheme
and voted with the Democrats to over
rule tbe chair and to take the differen
tial off of refined sugar. William Al
den Smith made a speech, in which
he flayed the leaders alive. Therefore
there was great need for some har
mony bunko in the Michigan state
convention. The Detroit Free Press
(Dem.) gives this ludicrous account of
what happened: ,
When the" time drew near' for the state
convention to assemble, the senator Mc
Millan faced an annoying situation. He
himself is very friendly to the president,
but the administration's attitude toward
the question of Cuban reciprocity has ex
cessively grieved several Michigan con
gressmen. In some of the districts the
sugar beet is a consecrated issue not to
be covered by the mantle of partisan pol
itics. The man that does not. hold the
sugar beet n high esteem is lost, what
ever party ho may belong to. Had the
Republican party reduced the tariff on
Cuban sugar there would have been a
small sized Insurrection in these dis
tricts, much to the political profit of the
Democratic enemy. Naturally the Re
publican representatives from these dis
tricts were vexed at the efforts of the
president in . behalf of a policy that
might have meant their retirement to
private life, and they desired to have the
justice of their revolt certified to by their
Republican brethren In convention, as
sembled. To this Senator McMillan as
sented, and the t'boys" were allowed to
frame a platform which approved of in
general the president's administration and
in particular of. the sugar-beet insurrec
tion against that pplicy.
Persons that are given to thought may
regard this as . ridiculously inconsistent,
but here in Michigan n great store is set
by consistency in politics- The summum
bonum 13 neither consistency nor intelli
gence, but votes, and no question ei'cr
had so many sides that a Michigan con
vention could not approve of all of them
when approval meant harmony and of
fices. '.. - -V - . V f ..
Of course he G.-D. will say that that
indicates -..olid Republican column."
but nil other people will understand
that the Republican factions are ouly
sleeping on their, arms, ready to fly at
each other's throats at the first 'oppor
tunity. You can't wuccessfully mix
water and oil. Novmore can tbe reci
procity and antireclproclty ganrs be
harmonized. . ,,.. '
And Vermont Too. '
Item. For the first time since the
Republican party was organized the
managers are afraid of losing Vermont.
They . are . bending every energy f, to
prevent the state going Democratic or
at least to prevent the Republican ma
jority from bslng so cut down as t
constituto a moral victory for the Dsn
ocrats. The troublo arose as follows:
Thcro wes a boodle campaign for th
Republican ; gubernatorial , nomination.
One of the defeated candidates bolttd
and is running on bis own hook, which,
according to the G.-D.'a philosophy, Is
proof positive of "a solid Republican
column." .
Item That the Republican column
Is solid Is, according to the O.-D.'a
logic, conclusively demonstrated by
the tact that the Democrats elected &
governor In Oreffon at the June elec
tion, though the Republicans elected
the rest of the ticket. By such proc
ess of ratiocination the G.-D. could
prove that the Spaniards licked us in
the late war.
Item. The president's Fourth of July
speech at Pittsburg and his threat to
swing around the circle to make a few
hundred speeches in bis own behalf
as a presidential candidate have sent
the cold chills up and down the spi
nal columns of certain beet sugar Re
publicans, as is attested by the fol
lowing excerpt from the Washington
Post (Independent);
President Roosevelt's vigorous utter
ances on Cuban reciprocity wherever hm
goes Is raising a Question among the Re
publicans of Minnesota and Michigan as
to what he is likely to say when he visits
those states in a. few weeks. The solid
Republican delegations from those states
resisted Cuban reciprocity, as interpreted
by the president, claiming that such a
course was Indispensable to a majority
the votes in congressional districts this
fall. Some fear that If the president
makes earnest reciprocity talk In tha
midst of the Minnesota and Michigan con
stituents it may seriously affect the Re
publican totals at the polls.
Because of this there is on toot a plan
to talk over the situation with the presi
dent before he v undertakes his western
trip. In Michigan he will be much of the
time with Senator Burrows, who has been .
a" thick ' and thin beet sugar- advocate.
One of the Minnesota -members of the
house, discussing this phase of the presi
dent's visit yesterday, stated that he was -perfectly
willing the president should talk
reciprocity to his constituents and
throughout his district as much as ha
pleased.
"But I shall have a talk with them aft
er that," he added. "I have never yet
failed to cpnvlnce them that I was right
on matters affecting their own material
interests, and I have confidence that X
shall not fail this time."
It will puzzle even the Ingenuity of
the G.-D. to -construe that situation
into evidence of a "solid Republican
column.
Where There Is Real Harmony.
Item. There is perhaps not a morn
moderate, observant or : conservative
man in congress than Hon. James T.
Lloyd, Democrat, of Missouri In a re
cent Interview be said:
I never observed a better working spirit
prevail among the Democrats than I dfct
this winter in the house. On nearly every
important matter that came np for con
sideration they were united. It was liks
a band of brothers laboring for a com
mon good. Our Republican friends of the
country who- talk so much of Democrat!?
differences and dissensions would hav
found far more of that in the leading rep
resentatives of their, own party In con
gress, .notably on the Cuban reciprocity
bill. The outlook for the Democrats thU
fall Is more hopeful than it has been for
many years, and I think the results will
prepare us to go into the national cam
paign with a confidence that will win.
Of course it will be bo trouble fo
the G.-D. to answer Lloyd's statement.
All.it bas,tp do is to denounce him a a
"a queer person," "a wild Missouri
Democrat" or fa liar." But Lloyd told
the truth nevertheless, which the G.-D.
knows as well as anybody else.
Begging Crumbs.
At some time, at some place, a finer
illustration of "what might have been"
may have been given unto the world
than the recent pitiable performance of
Hon. William D. Bynum, late of In
diana, in Journeying to Oyster Bay t
seek as a Republican that appraiser
ship in the New York customs ofiic
which President McKlnley undertook
to give him as a Democrat. The sen
ate would not confirm him as a Demo
crat, and Mr. McKlnley appointed him
as a codifler of the statutes, a position
to which no senate confirmation wai
necessary. It carries a five thousand
dollar salary and is of uncertain dura
tion. The appraisership carries a sal
ary of $7,500 and is for life. Henco
Mr. Bynum's strenuosity in chasing
the appraisership. Poor Bynum! Then
was a day when he was the fair ros
and expectancy of the heroic Democ
racy of Indiana, but he fell to becom
a Republican mendicanVfor an appoin
tive office. When defeated for con
gress in 1894, as were scores of us. had
he returned to Indianapolis, opened a
law office and remained faithful to thi
great Democratic constituency which
bad so often honored him end which
was 60 proud of bim, he would havo
held a high position in the estimation
of his countrymen whether be won of
fice or lost office. If Colonel Roosevelt
rebuffs bim. It will be a bitter pill for
Bynum and a warning to all others to
remain loyal to their party.
..Streets cf Cold.
The streets of Ballarat the famcun
Australian golden city, if not precisely
paved with the precious metal offer
chances of treasure from time to time.
A scavenger sweeping one of tbe street
channels recsutly found a pretty little
nugget . weighing" an ounce. It 4 was
probably brought from one of the
ralnes ln the gravel used for the top
dressing of the road. Pall Mall Ga
zette.'' ' v :-' '
That Jolce Foreref,
"Oh. yes: Scribbler has written some
splendid books, but he is afraid to
trust them to bring Immortality to his
name. He has nn Idea that will serve
to keep his name before the public for
ever." '
"And how?"
. "He is going to have his name Incor
porated Into a Joke and then turn, it
loose on the stage." Baltimore Hera Id.