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Mansfield (0.) Shield: Bristow fur
nishes the words and Roosovolt should
furnish the doeds.
Iron ton (0.) Irontonlan: Even the
mills and furnaces have taken Han
na's advice and are "standing pat."
Steubenvillo (0.) Gazette: The
adulation of Cleveland by professed
democrats shows that they are as
false as ho is.
Middlotown (0.) Signal: The re
publicans claim the credit for our
past prosperity, but they say that tho
present business depression has noth
ing to do with politics.
' St. Clairsvillo (0.) Gazette: Mr.
Hanna's boom is not assuming the
proportions his friends hoped. Teddy
was smart enough to put Mark on rec
ord before the Ohio election.
Manson (la.) Democrat: Chicago
bids $50,000 for the next republican
convention, with good chances of get
ting it. What would be more appro
priate .than the Windy City for a re
publican gathering?
"Wilmington (Del.) Jeffersonian: It
was no fault of the democratic party
that Gkover Cleveland made a fool of
them in' 1892. But it will be their
fault if they permit him to make a
fool of them in 1904.
Chillicothe (O.) News-Advertiser:
Ecnator Hanna's attacks on General
Wood recalls to mind that when a
democrat made the least, mention of
an American army officer's shortcom
ings Hanna called it firing from the
rear.
Fostoria (O.) Times: The disposi
tion of our republican friends to give
all the glory of the late victory to
Senator Hanna must Jar on the ego
tism of a few' disaffected democrats
Who claim they did it with their little.
hatchets.
' Carrolton (111.) Gazette: There Is
yellow journalism and there is white
livered journalism. Tho former syin
pathizea with the plain people and
tho latter advocates the interests of
the highly respectable (?) rich. You
pay your money and you .tdko your
choice.
Aurora (Nob.) Register: The farm
er is getting less for stock, the ex
penses of living are not decreasing.
The public was wheedled into voting
that 'confidence," not money, was all
that the country needed and they are
now learning ' how close the resem
blance between, "confidence" and
"trust."
ElkaderIa.) Democrat: All this
talk "about the trusts being opposed to
President Roosevelt is perhaps manu
factured for effect, mere pretense, to
throw the great body of tho people off
their guard. Hanna, Piatt, Quay, Elk
ins, Gas Addicks, and scores of other
trust magnates,' including Morgan
Rockefeller etv al., Intend to support
him." ,
Portsmouth (N. H.) Times: If Han
na Is to continue as chairman there Is
every reason why Heath should con
tinue as secretary and absolutely no
reason why he should get out. More
over, tho chances are that he will thus
continue or Hanna himself will refuse
to hold tho rudder and guide tho re
publican hulk over the breakers that
threaten its safety.
Madison (Mich.) Gazette: President
Roosevolt is as two-sided on the tar
iff question as tho late President Mc
Kinley was on the financial question,
'lhere is nothing that pleases the re
publican party so much as leaders who
are able to ride two horses at the
same time. It is a regular circus for
them and all in one ring for the same
price of admission.
Gloustor (0.) Press: It is said that
President Roosevolt will appoint John
Mitchell, president of the Mine Work
ers, to a place in his next cabinet.
If this rumor Is founded on tho
truth, it seems nothing more than a
case of the president counting his
chickens before they are hatched.
Some other man may have the choos
ing of the next cabinet.
Anoka (Minn.) Free Press: Grover
Cleveland does not want to be presi
dent any more. He says his determi
nation to that effect is "unalterable
and conclusive." This determination
on his part will save Mr. Cleveland a
great deal of unnecessary worry, for
the democratic party would as soon
think of electing Mark Hanna as Gro
ver Cleveland for president.
Jefferson City (Mo.) Democrat: Un
der no conditions or circumstances
could Grover Cleveland bo prevailed
upon to beepme a candidate for the
presidency; and und'er no possible con
dition could he be nominated were he
desirous of-' such honor. In other
words, Mr. Cleveland's boom has sub
sided into a state of innocuous desue
tude. Thou harmless boom, sleep thou
a quiet sleep.
Crete (Neb.) Democrat: The
Twentieth regiment left San Francis
co, December 1, for Manila. Tho trans
port oumner arrived JNOvemper Zl in
New York with .162 bodies of dead
soldiers. We send .them out and
bring them back for the cemetery br
the pension roll. This Is a good sam
ple of the fruit the empire tree bears
and it is conclusive proof to the plunge
ers that wo are a world power.
Mt. Gilead (0.) Register: Men wio
vote to sustain Mark Hanna, the head
and heart of trusts and monopolies,
must not now complain when hard
times strike them, as the Ohio Pa
triot suggests. Idleness and want
stare thousands of laboring men in
the face. TruBt magnates must have
their dividends. They cut wages and
thoy squeeze the consumers. Between
the two the "captains of industry"
wax rich.
Upper Sandusky (0.) Chief: A Co
lumbus republican paper in its tele
graphic news columns states that 72,
000 mill operatives in the New En
gland states were cut 10 per cent in
wages this week, and that the Inter
national Harvester company, with
headquarters at Chicago, had decided
to lay off 7,500 of its 19,000 employes,
thus affecting a saving to the trust of
$5,000,000 a year in wages. This is
what is called prosperity.
Cameron (Mo.) Sun: In a letter to
tho Brooklyn Eagle, Grover Cleveland
announces that his determination not
to be a presidential candidate is "un
alterably and conclusive," It may be
a consolation to the great Grover to
know that the determination of the
democrats of this country is equally
as "unalterably and conclusive" that
ho shall not be a candidate. This is
the first instance on record where
Grover has been in perfect harmony
with the democratic sentiment of the
United States.
Tiffin (O.) News: Some one should
whisper in the ear of Arthur P. Gor
man thta if he expects the vote of any
considerable number of the Ohio dole
gates in the next democratic national
convention, his Ohio campaign should
be placed in other hands than those
who have become recreant to tho
cause of democracy. Men who have
been honored by the democratic par
ty and afterward have turned and
rended the hand which has caressed
them, have no place in the democratic
councils and precious little influence
with democratic electors.
Emmettsburg (la.) Democrat: Gro
ver Cleveland has jit last announced
that under no circumstances will he
be a candidate for the democratic
nomination 'for president in 1904.
Though' he has had his ear to the
ground for a long time to make up his
mind about the advisability of de
clining. He was never seriously in
the race. He lost his' standing with
democracy in 1896 when he sold the
party out to the money lords of. Wall
street. People respect a frank, manly
opponent, but they - have Jittle use
for a political trader or traitor.
Comments on the Message.
Joplin Globe: From beginning to
end the document makes apparent the
fact that Mr. Roosevelt is quite pleased
with" Mr. Roosevlt's administration.
indefinite promises of the future, it
will not appear an especially brilliant
illumination beside other messages
that have been filed for future inspec
tion. Birmingham News: Tho effort ia
that of an academician rather than
that of a statesman.
Detroit Times: We frankly confess
that we cannot conceive of a more
miserable "flunk" on the part of a
president from whom so much was ex
pected in this particular. Given tho
additional anti-trust legislation for
which he asked and 500,000 with
which to enforce it, Mr. Roosevelt has
not bogun a suit of any kind against
any of these corporate robbers, gives
no explanation of his failure to act,
asks for no more legislation and then
has tho gall to ask the permission of
congress to divert from Its original
purpose the $500,000 that was appro
priated last year for the prosecution
of the trusts.
Buffalo Courier:
not an interesting
The message is
state doruimnnf-.
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apart from the special plea to the peo
ple in behalf of the Roosevelt doctrine
as enunciated in the Panama affair.
Plainly, Mr. Roosevelt has learned the
apprehensive feeling of the public ex
cited by his strange new policy, and
would like to allay it; but it will in
crease rather than subside when tho
whole subject matter Is ventilated in
the course of the discussion of tho
proposed treaty by the senate.
Milwaukee News: The "busier" has
been curbed and shackled and cun
ning and greed roam at large.
Kansas City World: The message
lacks much of being a "ringing one."
It is wanting in the forceful initiative
which usually distinguishes the ut
terances of Roosevolt. The-president
is put in the attitude of a- defender,
rather than an augur, ofc policies.
Houston Post: The president's mes
sage is a sort of' hit or miss docu
ment. It strikes tho governmental
earth in tho high places, enlarges up
on favorite themes with characteristic
cock-sureness, and between the lines
sings a song of rejoicing that'the coun
try is so fortunate iri its presidential
equipment.
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Mobile Item: The president's mes
sage was but little more than a rehash
of what has been often said before.
It is an imperfect review of the' acts
o the administration, with explana
tions that dtf not explain, "and some
The Negro in Revelation.
Thisisa book that needed to ho
written. It is bound to have wide
circulation It will do good wherever
it is read. It is a capital book for the
negro himself to have. It is eminent
ly fitted to inspire rational self-respect,
and above all, hope. For never
was a truer word uttered than that
paying of Paul, "We are saved by
hope." This is as true of the colored
man as of any other -man. Wbatsc-
ever tends to build up hope makes for
the salvation of his manhood. The
first great epoch-making book ever
put forth by any southern man was
that by Dr., afterwards Bishop, A. G.
Havgcod, some thirty years ago, en
titled, "Our Brother in Black." Since
then the best book of the- kind is this
one by Ttev. J. J. Pipkin, "Tho Negro
in Revelation, in History and in Citi
zenship." Chicago Record-Herald.
. Must See Hanna,
The reference to Perry Heath in tho
president's memorandum accompany
ing tho Briatow.renort was taken to
be an invitation for Heath to resign
his position as secretary of the re
publican national committee. Before
Heath is removed, Senator Hanna will
have to be consulted and Hanna has
never yet abandoned one of his
thieves, He will stand by Heath just
as he has by Rathbono. There are
constant tilts between the president
and Hanna, but "Brer Hanna he lay
low and say nuffltn'," Nebraska in
dependent. r
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is a great heart and blood tonic about
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