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ROOSEVELT NOTIFIED Of NOMINATION Speaker Cannon, Chairman of the National Corn mittee, Makes the Address. RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT THERETO Chief Executive Touches Upon Some of the Issues That Will Be Before the People in the Coming Campaign. July 27th President Roosevelt was formally notified of his nomination for the presidency by the national repub lican convention. The ceremony took place at his country home at Saga more Hill. There was, first of all., an informal reception, at the conclusion of which Speaker Cannon, chairman of the notification committee, deliver ed his address, as follows: Mr. President: The people of the United States by bind, heredity, edu cation and practice are a self-govern ing people. We have sometimes been subject to prejudice and embarrass ment from harmful conditions, hut we have outgrown prejudice and overcome conditions as rapidly as possible, hav ing due regard to law and the rights of individuals. We have sometinms made mistakes form a false sense >\* security or from a desire to change policies, instead of letting well enough alone, merely to see what would hap pen. hut we have always paid the pen alty of unwise action at the ballot box ami endured the suffering until under the law', through the ballot box. we have returned to correct policies. Tested by experience no nation has so successfully solved all problems and chosen proper policies as our nation. Under the lead of the republican party for over forty years, the United States from being a third-class power among the nations has become in every re spect first. The people rule. The peo ple ruling it is necessary that they should be competent to rule. Compe tency requires not only patriotism, but material well-being, education and statecraft. Liberal compensation for labor makes liberal customers or our prod ucts. Under this policy of protection •ur home market affords all our people A better market than has any other fceople on earth, and this, too, even if we did not sell any of our products Abroad. In addition to this, we have enme to he the greatest exporting na tion in the world. For the year end ing June 30. 1004. our exports to for eign countries were valued at $1.4(50. 000.000. of which $450,000,000 were products of the factory. The world fell in our debt last year $470,000,000. an Increase of $75,000,000 over the pre ceding year. Dilemma of Democracy. This policy of protection lias always been opposed by tiie opponents of the republican party and is opposed by them today. In their last national platform, adopted at St. L»ouis, they denounce protection as robbery. They never have been given power, but they proceed by word and act to destroy the polioy of protection. Their plat form is as silent as the grave touch ing tiie gold standard and our cur rency system. '1 heir chosen leader, after his nomination, having been as silent as the sphinx up to that time, sent his telegram, saying in substance that the gold standard is established and that he will govern himself ac cordingly if lie should be elected. Correct revenue laws, protection or free trade, the gold standard and our currency system, all depend upon the sentiment of tiie majority of our peo ple as voiced at tiie ballot box. A ma jority may change our revenue daws; a majority may change our curreny laws; a majority may destroy the gold standard and establish the silver standard, or. in lieu of either or (Kith, make the treasury note, noninterest bearing and irredeemable, the sole standard of value. Since tiie republican party was re stored to power, ill 1S97. under the lead of McKinley, our country has prospered in production and in com merce as it never prospered before. In wealth we stand first among all tiie nations. Under the lead of William McKinley the war with Spain was speedily brought to a successful con clusion. Under tiie treaty of peace and our »ction Cuba is free. and. under guarantees writen in its constitution and our legislation, it is assured that it will ever remain free. We also nc • tuired Porto Rico. Guam and the Phil ippines by a treaty the ratification of which was only possible by the votes of democratic senators. Civil govern ment has been established in Porto Rico, and we are journeying toward civil government in the Philippines as rapidly as tiie people of the archipela go are able to receive it; and this. too. notwithstanding the false cry of "im perialism'’ raised by tiie democratic party and still insisted upon, whicli led to insurrection in the Philippines and tenda to lead to further insurrection there. The record of the republican party under the lead of William Mc Kinley has passed into history. Who dares assail it? In pursuance of the usual custom the conventon appointed a committee, of which it honored me with the chair manship. to wait upon you and Inform you of its aetion. which duty, speaking for the committee. I now cheerfuly per form, with the hope and the confident expectation that a majority of the peo ple of the republic will in November next approve the action of the conven tion by choosing electors who will as su"e your election to tiie presidency as your own successor. At the close of Mr. Cannon’s ad dress. President Roosevelt, standing on the veranda of his home, under a festoon of American flags, spoke as follows: Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: 1 nai deeply sensible for the high honor conferred upon me by the representatives of the republican party assembled in conven tion, and I accept the nomination for the presidency with solemn realiza tion of the obligations I assume. 1 heartily approve the declaration of principals which the republican nation al committee has adopted, and at some future day I shall communicate to you, Mr. Chairman, more at length and In detail a formal written acceptance of the nomination. Three years ago I became president because of the death of my lamented predecessor. 1 then stated that it was my purpose to carry out his principles and policies for the honor and the in terest of the country. To the best of my ability I have kept the promise thus made. If next November my coun trymen confirm at the polls the action the convention you represent, 1 jhall. under Providence, continue tr V'ork with an eye single to the welfare If all our people. A party is of wortli only Insofar as 1H promotes the national interest, ami ♦ very official, nigh or low, can serve his party best by rendering to the peo ple the best service of which he it capable. Effective government comes only as the result of the loyal co-oper ation of many different persons. The members of a legislative majority, the officers in the various departments ol the administration, and the legislative and executive branches as toward eact other, must work together with subor dination of self to the common end ol successful government. We who have been entrusted with power as public servants during the last seven years of administration and legislation now come before the people content to be judged .by our record of achievement, .n the years that have gone by we , have made the deed square with the | word; and if we are continued in power ! we shall unswervingly follow out the great lines of public policy which' the | republican party has already laid I down: a public policy to which we are giving, and shall give, a united, and therefore an efficient, support. t More I'ortunalc Than Opponents. in all of litis we are more fortunate 1 than our opponents, who now a'.'pea 1 | for confidence on the ground, which : some express anti some seek to have j confidentially understood, that if tri j umphant they may lie trusted to prove false to every principle which in the j last eight years they have laid down as vital, and to leave undisturbed those very acts of the administration because of which they ask that the administration itself lie driven from power. Seemingly their present atti j tude as to their past record is that ; some of them " ere mistaken and oth ; eps insincere. We make our appeal in : a wholly different spirit. We are not ! constrained to keep silent tm any vital | question; our policy is continuous, and is the same for all sections and locali , ties. There is nothing experimental about the government we ask the peo I n!e to continue in power, for our per formance in tiie past, our proved gov ernmental efficiency, is a guarantee as to our promises for-the future. Our opponents, either openly or secretly, according to their several tempera ments. now ask the people to trust their present promises in consideration of the fact that they intend to treat their past promises as null and void. We know our own minds and we have kept of tfie same mind for a sufficient length of time to give to our policy coherence and sanity. In such a fun damental matter as the enforcement of tlie law we do not have to depend i upon promises, but merely to ask that i our record he taken as an earnest of i what we shall continue to do. In deal ing with the great organizations known as trusts, we do not have to explain why the laws were not en forced. hut to point out that they actu ally have been enforced to increase the effect!veness of their enforcement. \\ e do not have to propose to “turn tlie rascals out." for we have shown in very deed that whenever by diligent investigation a public official can b ■ found who lias betrayed his trust lie will he punished to the full extent of the law without regard to whether he was appointed under a republican or a democratic administration. This is the efficient way to turn the rascals out and to keep them out. and it has tlie merit of sincerity. Moreover, the betrayals of trust in the last seven years have been insignificant in num ber when compared with the extent of the public service. Never lias the ad ministration of the government been on a cleaner and higher level; never has the public work of the nation been done more honestly and efficiently. I uwUc Io Change 4.noil I’ulioln. Assuredly it is unwise to change tlie policies which have worked so well and which are now working so well. Prosperity has come at home. The na tional honor anil interest have been upheld abroad. We have placed the finances of the nation upon a sound gold basis. We have done this with the aid of many who were formerly our opponents, hut wlio would neither openly support nor silently acquiesce in the heresy of unsound finance, and ; we have done it against the convinced ; and violent opposition of the mass of : our present opponents who still refuse i to recant the unsound opinions which for tlie moment they think it inexpe dient to assert. We know what we mean when we speak'of an honest and | stable currency. We mean the same thing from year to year. We do not I have to avoid a definite and conclusive | committal on the most important issue ■ which lias recently been before the ' people, and which may at any time in i tlie near future be before them again. . I'pon the principles which underlie this issue the convictions of half of our number do not clash with those of the other half. So long as the re publican party is in power the gold standard Is settled, not as a matter of temporary political expediency, not because of shifting conditions in the production of gold in certain mining centers, but in accordance with what we regard as the fundamental princi ples of national morality and wisdom. I'nder the financial legislation which we have enacted there is now ample circulation for every business need, and every dollar of tills circulation is worth a dollar in gold. We have re duced the interest-bearing debt and in still larger measure the Interest on that debt. All of thg war taxes im posed during the Spanish war have been removed with a view to relieve the people and to prevent the accumu lation of an unnecessary surplus. The result is that hardly ever before have the expendtiures and Income of the government so closely corresponded. In the fiscal year that has Just closed the excess of income over the ordinary expenditures was $0,000,000. This does not take account of $.">0,000,000 expend ed out of the accumulated surplus for the purchase of the isthmian canal. It is an extraordinary proof of the sound financial condition of the nation that instead of following the usual course in such matters and throwing the burden upon posterity by an issue of bonds, we were able to make the payment outright and yet after It to have in the treasury n surplus of $160,000,000. Moreover, we were able to pay $.">.000. 000 out of hand without causing the slightest dsturbance to business con ditions. < oiiutrj on lllgb Plane. We have enacted a tariff law under which during the past Tew years the country has attained a height of ma terial well-being never before reached. Wages are higher than ever before. That whenever the need arises there should be readjustment of the tariff schedules is undoubted; but such changes can with safety be made oniv by those whose devotion to the princi ple of a protective tarlfT is beyond question: for otherwise the changes would not amount to readjustment but to repeal. The readjustment when made must maintain and not destroy the protective principle. To the farm er. the merchant, the manufacturer this is vital; but perhaps no other man is so much interested as the wage work er in the maintenance of our present economic system, both as regards the finances and the tariff. The standard of living of our wage workers is high er than that of any other country, and it cannot so remain unless we have a protective tariff which will always keep as a minimum a rate of duty suf ficient to cover the difference between the labor cost here and abroad. Those who. like our opponents. "denounce protection as robbery" thereby explic itly commit themselves to the proposi tion that if they were to revise the tariff no heed would be paid to the necessity of meeting this difference between the standards of living for wage workers here and in other coun tries; and therefore on this point their antagonism to our position is funda mental. Here again we ask that their promises and ours be judged by what lias been done in the immediate past. We ask that sober and sensible men compare the workings of the present tariff law. and the conditions which obtain under it. with the workings of the preceding tariff law of 1894 and the conditions which that tariff of 1894 helped to bring about. As to Reciprocity. We believe in reciprocity with for eign nations on the terms outlined in President McKinley's last speech, which urged tlie extension of our for eign markets by reciprocal agree ments whenever they could he made without injury to American industry and labor. It is a singular fact that tlie only great reciprocity treaty re cently adopted—that with Cuba—wm finally opposed alone by the represen tatives of the very party which now states that St favors reciprocity. And here again we ask that the worth of our words be judged by comparing their deeds with ours. On this Cuban reciprocity treaty there were at the outset grave differences of cpiniop a i. long ourselves; and the notable thing in the negotiation and ratifica tion of the treaty, and in the legisla tion which carried it into effect, was the highly practically manner in which without saerilce ot principle these dif ferences of opinion were reconciled. There was no rupture of a great party, but an excellent practical outcome, the result of the harmonious co-operation of two successive presidents and two successive congresses. This is an il lustration of the governing capacity which entitles us to the confidence of the people not only in our purposes but in our practical ability to achieve those purposes. Judging by the history of the last twelve years, down to this very month, is there justification for believing mat under simili&r circum stances and w'tli similar initial differ ences of opinion, our opponents would have achieved any practical result? We have already shown in actual fact that our policy is to do fair and equal justice to all men. paying no heed to whether a man is rich or poor; paying no iieed to his race, his creed, or his birthplace. ( :i|iiliil and l.nlior. We recognize the organization of capital and the organization of labor as natural outcomes of our industrial system. Kach kind of organization is to be favored so long as it acts in a spirit of justice and of regard for the rights of others. Kach is to be grant ed the full protection of the law, and each in turn is to be held to a strict obedience to the law; for no man is above it and no man below it. The humblest individual is to have his rights safeguarded as scrupulously as those of the strongest organization, for each is to receive Justice, no more and no less. The problems with whiclt we have to deal in our modern Indus trial and social life are manifold; but the spirit in which it is necessary to approach their solution is simply the spirit of honesty, of courage, and of common sense. Irrigation and Canal. In inaugurating the great work of irrigation in the west tlie administra tion lias been enabled by congress to take one of the longest strides ever taken under our government toward utilizing our vast national domain for the settler, the actual home-maker. Kver since this continent was dis covered the need of the Isthmian canal to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic has been recognized; and ever since the hirth of our nation such a canal lias been planned. At last the dream lias become a reality. The Isthmian canal is now being built by the gov ernment of the I'nited States. We conducted tlie negotiation for its con struction with the nicest and most scrupulous honor, and in a spirit of the largest generosity toward those through whose territory it was to run. Kvery sinister effort whiali could be devised by the spirit of faction or the spirit of self-interest was- made in order to defeat the treaty with Pan ama and thereby prevent the consum mation of this work. The construc tion of the canal is now an assured fact; but most certainly it is unwise to entrust the carrying out of so mo mentous a policy to those who have endeavored to defeat the whole under taking •* Our foreign policy has been so con ducted that, while not oi#c of our just claims lias been sacrificed, our relutoins with all foreign nations are now of the most peaceful kind; there is not a cloud on the horizon. The last cause of irritation between us and any other nation was removed by the settlement of tlie Alaskan boundary. In the Oarribean sea we have made good our promises of Independence to Cuba, and have proved our assertion that our mission in tlie island was one of Justice and not of self-aggran dizement; and thereby no less than by our action in Venezuela and Panama we have shown that the Monroe doc trine is a living reality, designed for the hurt of no nation, lint for the pro tection of civilization on the western continent, and for the peace of the world. Our steady growth in power has gone hand in hand with a strength ening disposition to use this power with strict regard for the rights of others, and for the cause of interna tional justice and good will. Desire Friendship of World. We earnestly desire friendship with all the nations of the New and Old Worlds; and we endeavor to place our relations with them upon a basis of reciprocal advantage instead of hos tility. We hold that the prosperity of each nation is an aid and not a hin drance to the prosperity of other na tions. We seek international amity for the same reasons that make us be lieve in peace within our own borders; and we seek this peace not because we are afraid or unready, but because we think that peace is right as well as advantageous. American interests in the Pacific have rapidly grown. American enter prise has laid a cable across this, the greatest of oceans. We have proved in effective fashion that we wish the Chinese empire well and desire its in tegrity and independence. Our foothold in the Philippines greatly strengthens our position in the competition for the- trade of the east; but we are governing the Philippines iu the Interest of the Philippine people themselves. We have already given them a large share in their govern ment. and our purpose Is to increase this share as rapidly as they give evi dence of increasing fitness for the task. The great majority of the oftl clbls of the islands, where elective or appointive, are already native Fili pinos. We are now providing for a legislative assembly. This is the first step to be taken in the future, and it wmilil hr pminrnt! v' unwi«A tn fir*. -dare whut our next step will be until this first step lifts been taken and th® results are manifest. To have goQ® faster than we have already goi/3 In giving the islanders a constantly In creasing measure of self-government would have been disastrous. At the present moment to give political inde pendence to the Islands would result in the Immediate loss of civil rights, personal liberty and public order, ns regards the mass of the Filipinos, for the majority of the islanders liavo been given these great boons by us, and only keep them safe because we vigi lantly safeguard and guarantee them. To withdraw our government frotn th® islands at tills time would mean to the average native the loss of Ills barely won cKdl freedom. We have estuu lished in the islands a government by Americans assisted by Filipinos. >Ve are steadily striving to transform this into self-government by th© Filipinos assisted by Americans. The principles which we uphold should appeal to all countrymen. In all portions of our country. Above all they should give us strength with the men and women who are the spiritual heirs of those who upheld the hands of Abraham Lincoln; for we are striv ing to do our work in the spirit with which Lincoln approached ills. During the seven years that have just passed there is no duty, domestic or foreign, which we have shirked; no necessary task which wc have not performed with reasonable efficiency. We have never pleaded impotence. We have never sought refuge in criticism and complaint Instead of action. We face the future with our past and our pres ent as guarantors of our promises, and we are content to stand or to fail by the record which we have made and are making. Sign of Fine Weather. In early summer, when the weather (s showery, you may perhaps notice through breaks in the rain clouds an appearance of densish white cloudlets in small, irregular tufts brightly ir radiated by sunshine. The childi-en rail it mackerel sky. Its real name is Cirro-cumulus, and it is a sure sign of leat, and probably fine wetUicr. When a man has reached the point that he believes his own lies it is time for him to reform. Have Bareheaded Craze. There is a craze for going bare headed in parts of England. This ad vertisement over an English hat store is a sign of the times: “No hat cru sade—A few good hats for sale, cheap; hardly been worn; owners no further use for them; best quality; latest styles.” A woman can twist her husband around her finger as long as she feeds him well and doesn’t try to reform him.—Chicago News. Killing Rare Birds. Commenting on the craze for kill* (ng rare birds wherever they may be found, a writer in London Truth sa>s: “I should have thought that the fact that a bird is rare would be a reason for not killing it. I suppose the Idea is that, however rare a bird is. some thing may still be done to make him rarer.” Nearly any .man is willing to spend two dollars’ worth of time to get fifty cents without work. r STEAMSHIP MINNESOTA TO TRY | TO LOWER OREGON’S TIME j '-;-J Great interest is manifested in the long race against the time made by the battleship Oregon, during the Spanish-American war. by the mam moth steamship Minnesota of the Great Northern Steamship company. In order to better the time made by the Oregon, the Minnesota must THE MINNESOTA make the 14,000 miles to San Fran cisco to Key West in sixty-five days. Allowing for the time to New York from Key West, seventy-two days would beat the Oregon’s record. The Minnesota is one or the two largest ships ever built-in the United States. Her gross tonnage is 20,718; net tonnage, 13,323; length, 626 feet; beam, 73 feet. VALUE OF THE RAILROAD^. Investment Placed at $12,000,000,000 by Interstate Commission. Railway statistics for the year end ed June 30, 1903, are announced by the Interstate commerce commislson They show that the par value of the railway capital then outstanding was $12,599,990,258, which represents a capitalization of $63,186 a mile. The number of passengers carried was 694,891.535, an Increase of 45.013.030 over the previous year; freight car ried. 1,304.394.323 tons, an increase of 104,078,536 tons. The gross earnings from the opera tion of the total of 205.313 miles of railway line, which is the aggregate single-track mileage, were $1,900,846, ‘.07. an increase of $174,466,640: oper ating expenses, $1,257,538,852, an in crease of $174,466,640; operating ex penses, $1,257,538,852. an increase of jtf 41.290,105; net earnings. $643. 308,055, an increase of $33,176. 335; income from other sources than jperation. $205,687,480; net income, available for dividends or surplus, $296,376,045. Total casualties, 86.393, of which 9,840 represented the number of per sons killed and 76,553 those injured. Aggregate number of locomotives in service. 43.S71, increase 2.646; cars in service, 1.753.389. an increase of over 313,000 during the year. AMERICA IN THE LEAD. * Educational Institutions of This Coun try the Best. United States Consul Diedrich at Bremen. Germany, has been making a close study of German universities as compared with those of the United States. Mr. Diedrich, who wa3 long a college professor in this country, de clares most emphatically that in his Judgment the “United States offer to day facilities for collegiate, academi cal and postgraduate studies equal in qnantity and quality to those offered by any country in the old world." American attendance at German uni versities is growing smaller continu ally. There is less potency to-day than there used to* be in the expres sion “He was educated abroad." American students have learned to ap preciate the advantages offered by American educational institutions. MADE THE AUDIENCE GASP. Paper Favoring Vivisection Read Be fore Its Opponents. The British Anti-Vivisection society was thrown into spasms at its recent annual meeting through the indiscre tion of Lord Liangattock, a member, who asked permission to read an in teresting letter from a military officer whose name he did not give. In the course of the communication the writ er said: “My views as regards anti vivisection are these; that all the ani mals in God’s creation should sufTer the excruciating torture of hell for millions of years, provided that by do ing this they saved humanity from a pain in its little finger for five min utes.” The paper was excluded from the society’s report und lx>rd Liangat tock was politely requested to famil iarize himself with his correspondence In future before laying It before the august body. Duchess Likes Fast Traveling. The duchess of Marlborough is con stantly In trouble over the rapid driv ing of her automobile, Hhe is abso lutely reckless about traveling at a high speed, with the result that her chaffour is nbonl half the time be fore some English magistrate on charges. She will not have a driver unless he can get the top spend out of the machine. The duchess con tends that motors were made to run. not to crawl. When the duke is along, however, she has the car kept at a moderate speed. Will Cut Cardinal's Incomes. Pius X. is introducing many econo mies in the church administration. It comes largely from his ideas based on hii personal experience when he waB a cardinal. At th'.t time, in Venice, he lived on $200 a month and had free use of a house and a gondola. He now proposes to reduce the in comes of all the cardinals in Rome, allowing them by way of compensa tion free residence in papal palaces. The cardinals do not take kindly to the suggestion, i v ' v v x COSTLINESS OF MODERN WAR. Combatants Already Are Spending $3,000,000 Every Day. It comes pretty high for nations to quarrel these days when implements ol warfare have such tremendous pow ers of destruction and so much deli rate machinery plays such an import ant-part in the game. Military experts have figured out that the war in the Far East is now costing the belligerents just about $3,000,000 a day. Of this sum it is es timated that the cost to Russia is $1,800,000 and to Japan $1,200,000. That the war is proving more expen sive to the Russians than to the Japa nese is due to the fact that it is being fought so far away from the main 1 ase. If Great Britain should happen to become involved in the struggle the experts think it would mean the waste of $5,000,000 a day. $35,000,000 for every week the struggle lasted. And these figures take no account of the initial cost of fitting out the armies and fleets. — CLEVER DEVICE OF HUSBAND. j Bouquets of Parma Violets Put End to Divorce Proceedings. M. Porel. husband of Mme. Rejane. the noted French actress. Anew how to touch the tender chord in his wife's nature when she was trying recently to secure a divorce from him. She was playing in London. Every morn ing she received a royal bouquet of Parma violets. Finally she became curious and applied ‘o the florist to tell her whom her aomirer was. He cabled to M. Porel in Paris and se cured permission to tell. When she learned the identity of the sender of the violets Mme. Rejane exclaimed that he was a dear and that it w-ould be wrong to discard so thoughtful a man. Then she ordered her lawyer to discontinue the suit and the estranged couple made up. Parma vio lets did the business. Foxy Porel. Fads of Society Leaders. Eastern society leaders have their fads and superstitions. Mrs. George Gould defies the old saying that pearls typify tears and wears a col lection that outdoes royalty. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's luck omen is a small gold locket with her initials in monogram. Mrs. Reggie Vanderbilt is never without a certain bracelet of Turkish manufacture*. Mrs. Tommy Hitchcock wears horseshoe diamonr brooches. Mrs. Payne Whitney’s amu let is a necklace composed of ever? translucent precious stone known t( lapidary art. Where Balfour Rests. Premier Balfour has his pleasant sallies with members of parliament now and then. John Morley took him to task some weeks ago for lax at tendance in the houre of commons. Mr. Balfour denied that there was any disinclination on his part to attend the sittings or to listen to the debates. On the contrary, he declared, some of the momeuts of greatest repose that he could snatch from a somewhat strenuous and laborious official career were those spent on the treasury bench listening to his oratorical friends. Colors of the Campaign. The current campaign is a sort of rouge et nolr affair as far as the color of the leaders’ hair to concerned. In red the Democrats have it by a large I majority. Judge Parker has red hair; so also have Mr. Littleton of Brook lyn. who nominated him; “Billy" Shee han of New York. Gov. Montague of Virginia. John Sharp Williams of Mis sissippi and Senator Carmack of Ten uensee. The Republicans are mostly black from Roosevelt down, save where time has silvered the locks of the grave and reverend seniors. •Writes Daily Letter to Brother. There is one habit that Henry G. Davis, candidate of the democracy for vice president, has contracted with which he will not let even the distrac tions of a campaign interfere. He has a brother named Tom to whom he has all his life made it a practice to write a letter daily. They have never had a disagreement. No matter how many engagements he has with politicians, Mr. Davis goes to his room early, even while in New York, to write his daily letter to Tom. I II I _ __ - I 1 HAS CANCELED ALL TREATIES. ~~ Colombia Severs Diplomatic Relations with United States. The Colombian congress has sev ered all diplomatic relations with the United States after canceling all ex isting treaties and withdrawing all diplomatic and consular exequaturs. The action created the greatest ex citement in Colombia, but has the gen eral support of the populace, which is exceedingly bitter toward the United Stat'-s. Colombia has not been represented diplomatically at Washington for more than a year. Minister Cocha. who took up the original canal r.egotia- ; tious, was forced to retire from Wa^i ington because of hi3 demands for a personal consideration as a pre requisite to any treaty. Dr. Herran, /.?£>. 77*2143 Stfj3&4V secretary of the legation, concluded the canal treaty which the congress of Colombia repudiated. Then came the revolution of Nov. 3, by which Panama declared its inde pendence. Even Dr. Herran retired from business then, and since that time Colombia has never been regu larly represented in this country, al though Minister Concha has never presented his recall. SPECULATES IN QUIET WAY. Oldest Wall Street Man Not a Mem ber of the Stock Exchange. Five days a week Edward B. Wes ley goes to Wall street. For a man who has lived ninety-three years he is wonderfully sturdy. He is a million aire many times over. but. although he is the oldest speculator in Wall street, if not in the world, he never has been a member of the stock ex- i change. The whirl, the rush and the roar of the ‘•board" bother him. He loves to play his part in the great strife from outside the lines. With the tape in his hand he sits in his 1 favorite chair in a commission house at 7 Wall street, and there feels the | pulse of the market and gives his or ders to buy or sell. The old man is proud of the fact that he has been a ' speculator all his life, and he confi- j dently predicts he will live to be one hundred and that he will be in the speculative harness then. He has ro thought of retiring. Old and feeble as is Russell Sage. Mr. Wesley is older and has been in Wall street twenty five years longer.—New York Corres pondence Pittsburg Dispatch. NEW RULER OF ELKS. William J. O’Brien, Jr., of Maryland, Chosen for Position. The election of William J. O’Brien, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., as grand exalt' WLltefT JOfi£¥£7/JP. ed ruler of the Elks at the Cincinnati con\ entlon is claimed as a victory for the administration forces over the rad icals in the order. The new ruler is a prominent attorney in Maryland. Scores the “Scorchers.’' Wayne MacVeagli. ex-attorney gen eral of the United States, has taken up cudgels against automobile scorch ers in his neighborhood in Pennsyl vania. He wants them punished as severely as the state law will permit and declares that many of the drivers of these machines are simply speed crazy and seem to get no pleasure out of them at a moderate gait. It is along the country roads that most harm is done. Mr. MacVeagh voices a sentiment that is widespread and rapidly intensifying. Students From Africa and India. Columbia University’s summer school is clearly ahead of all its ri vals, so far as the names of two of its students are concerned. One is a full-blooded African from the gold coast, named James Euman Kodwo Meusa Ostlwadu Humanpunsam Kweg yir-Aggrey. The other. Srirangan Desikachar Sheshadry Iyrngar, is an East Indian. Both are said to be good students. The former will be the flrBt negro to receive the Ph. D. degree | from Columbia. ' HEARS THE NEWS. Emperor Told of Results of Bat* » :s Fought with Japanese. ST. PETERSBURG—The follow . dispatch from General Kur ina’ dated, July 25, has been r* < * i\ i the emperor: ■ Reconnaisances carried out da of late between Kai Chou and S tan showed the summits of heights north of Kai Chou to strongly occupied and fortified A o’clock In the morning of July 2 : enemy, two divisions strong, a - the offensive. Along the lire- oi » posts to the south the enemy d>-> ed a division of infar:frj. eon ing the main body toward !>;. . I twelve miles north of Kai ( horn , coneetnrating his cavalry on r, flank near the railroad. Hi- ad was effected slowly and ar inr was accompanied by a heavy fire r thirty guns, which our c-ar gnu teries successfully answered Japanese fire at first was direct* the heights, which gradually a evacuated by our outpost^. O sharpshooters, with the rear g opened fire upon the advancing anese infantry, and at a favorat meat Colonel Lesch withdrew o guard to a new position a? Hat and our batteries, which had • times changed their positions <•••: • tied the duel with the en* m - iery, also firing in*o the in'an’r. * limns. At about 9:30 o cloc . in *:.-» morning the Japanese b*_an a *. ward movement, at first, with * battalions from the Tsmt.-mkie In this direction our forces occup 1 a fortified advance position wards 3 o'clock in the afternoon * ■ enemy had upwards of a division >f infantry and almost a brigade of fantry appeared west, of the railroad At about 4 o'clock the enemy began to advance and extend its main bod > “Toward evening on July -23 our troops, having left detachments to hold the fortified position, bivouared in the positions assigned to them with the view to a possible r<*ar guard engagement. “Our losses have not been defin:*** ly ascertained, but according to *h« advices at hand they were not c*u siderable. “Owing to the extreme heat th- • were a number of cases of sunstr - among our men. At nightfall our a vanced posts reoccupied Tantch: the southeast. The night pa — **! quietly. “At 5 o’clock on the morning of July 24 an exchange of shots l»egan between outposts in the vicinity of Tantchi. All was quiet on the Kai Chou side and there was no further news. “On July 21 the Japanese occupied a height facing Phkan pass. Th ■ interfered considerably with our ob servation outpost service, and conse quently on the same day a Rus-ian force occupied the pass. On the fol lowing morning Lieutenant Colon-*’ Dementieff. commanding a detach ment. determined to occupy the south ern slope of the hill. This was done about noon. That afternoon the Japa nese attacked and turned our left wing. Then taking advantage of th» formation of the country they bega to turn the right. Other companies of Dementieff’s force hastened to his assistance, to which several com pa nies were also sent from the neare pohits. These troops, as they arrived helped to check the turning opera tions of the enemy, who finally brought into action, however, as much as a brigade of infantry, with which he pressed our troops and turned both our flanks. “Our men. exposed to a terrible fire, retired step by step, but at the sam > time offering a stubborn resistant*** t<> the enemy, who ceased to attack a* 7 o’clock on the evening of July 22. after occupying Phkan pass." SIXTEEN HOURS OF FIGHTING. Russians Forced from Their Position by a Jap Coup. LONDON—Cabling under date of July 24. the Daily Mail’s Nulchwang correspondent describes a fourteen hours’ desperate battle with heavy losses on both sides and which result ed in the Russian position at Ta Tche Kiao being rendered untenable, by rea son of which they will be compelled to retreat toward Ha! Cheng. "The battle began at 6 o’clock in the morning.” the correspondent says, "the Russians resuming the attack on the Japanese position on the height east of Ta Tche Kiao. After a few hours the Japanese left flank from Ta Ping mountain captured the village of Tanghudituan. compelling the Rus sians to retreat to Tienghauituen, six miles from thier base. “The Russians, now reinforced, maintained the position until 5 o’clock in the afternoon, when the Japanese right flank made a sudden appearance on the hills south of Ta Tche Kia i and by a tremendous fire forced the Russians to retreat. “The Japanese firing line extended fifteen miles. “After two more hours of an inces sant storm of shot and shell they swept the last hill and the plain clear of Russians.” Must Give Indemnity Bond. PORTLAND, Ore.—According to ad vices received art the local offices of the Portland & Asiatic Steamship company from New York, the steam ship Aragonia. which is ownert by the Harnburg-American company, will be allowed to carry a cargo of Hour from here to Japan, providing the Portland & Asiatic company first file an Indem nity bond to protect the owners in case the steamship is seized by the Russians. The amount of the bond was not made public, but is believed to be $275,000. President May Visit Fair. ST. LOUIS—Colonel Clarence R. Edwards of the insular department, who has arrived from Washington, announces that President Roosevelt will probably visit the World’s fair in October. Colonel Edwards says that the president is anxious to see the exposition and the details of the trip will soon be completed. The most dreadful thing against women is the character of the men who praise them.—Harriet, Ladv Ash burton.
