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antic upon all British subjects In
America. On Octobor 5, 1765, the boll
was muffled and tollod as the ship
"Royal Charlotte' boarlng tho stamps
for Pennsylvania, Now Jorsoy and
Maryland, under convoy of tho man
- of-war, "Tho Sardine," came up tho
Dolawaro. On Octobor 31, 1765, when
the stamp act wont Into operation, tho
boll was again inufflod and tolled.
On Fobruary 4, 1771, tho boll called
a town meeting In tho state house
wpiaro, when It was resolvod that
tho claims of parliament to tax tho
colonies was subvorslvo of tho con
stitutional rlKhts of tho colonies, and
that tho union of tho colonics ought
to bo maintained. On Fobruary 4,
1771, tho boll convenod tho assembly,
whon a petition was sent to tho king
tor tho ropoal of tho duty on toa, and
Again on October 18, 1773, tho bell
called a town mooting, when resolu
tions wore passed denouncing the
buyors and vendors of tea as enemies
of their country.
On Juno 1, 1774, whon tho port of
Boston was closed, tlm boll was muf
fled and tolled. On Juno 13 that
same yoar, tho bell called another
town meeting in tho state house
square, whon tho peoplo pledged the
city of Philadelphia to tho common
cause of liberty.
Tho flrst tidings of tho battle of
Lexington reached , Philadelphia April
24, 1775. Tho following day the boll
called a public meeting and tho record
says that 8,000 peoplo assembled at
tho state house and pledged themselves
to associate for thd puipose of defend
ing themselves with arms, their lives,
liberty and property, against all at-
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1775, the second congress began Its
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Coming Homo To Roost
In the course of its long-and undis
puted control of tho law-making ma
chinery of tho state of Wisconsin the
republican party, with a disregard of
the principles of common justice of
liberty and of public decency which
is common to parties long in power,
enacted a law prohibiting the appear
ance of any candidate's name in more
than ono place on the ballot. This
cynical prostitution of the function of
legislation to purely and avowedly
partisan ends was not confined to Wis
consin. Similar outrageous abuses of
authority conferred, in the interest of
the whole peoplo disgrace the statute
books of numerous commonwealths
whoro "the machine" had reason to
fear that fusion would prove too
strong for craft and greed, unless the
citizen was hampered and obstructed
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There never was or could be an hon
est reason for any enactment of the
kind; Its sole purposes were neces
sarily to render selective voting diffi
cult or impossible and to foster and
assist minority government.
But, while Wisconsin is not alone in
having such a law, it is the first In
which poetic justice seems likely to
be satisfied by the recoil of this en
actment against those who framed
it. The two republican factions there
have named separate state tickets,
but an identical list of presidential
electors and it is now up to them to
devise some means whereby the bal
lot can be conveniently arranged with
Regard to this national ticket. Ob
viously, If the names of electors ap
pear only In the La Follette or only
In the Cook column they will fall
short by a good many votes of com
manding the full republican strength
of the state, yet this law, which was
enacted as a republican coercive meas
ure and to prevent the election of can
didates favored by a majority &of the
voters, prevents them from' being
placed in both columns. To insure
them anything like a fair show, there
would have to be an amount of ac
curate and Instructed splitting which
is impossible of attainment.
While deeply sympathizing with
the honorable gentlemen who have
been nominated for electors, it is im
possible to withhold a smile of pleased
approval at the way tho sins of a
despotic party machine have found it
out. Detroit Free Press.
"Mr. Stanley, I Presume"
Of all the incidents in the life of Sir
Henry M. Stanley, the most famous
was his meeting with Dr. Livingstone,
the lost missionary-explorer of Africa.
Stanley's own account of this helped to
make it so, says the New York Sun.
Everybody saw the unconscious hu-
1dont exorcise of tlxe elective Xnmchfce. treconterlnVa llUle !
side village thousands of miles from
civilization, marched with flags flying
and guns firing to the group of natives
surrounding the solitary white man in
the whole region, lifted his hat and
said, just as politely as he might have
done on Broadway:
"Dr. Livingstone, f presume? '
Negro minstrels caricatured it, ev
erybody laughed over it and then it
was forgotten almost until on a very
solemn occasion it was recalled to the
explorer himself. After his return to
England from the relief of Emin
Pasha, when honors of all kinds were
being heaped upon Stanley this was
before he became Sir Henry, M. P.
Cambridge University summoned him
to commencement to receive from her
the honorary degree of LL. D.
The senate house was crowded, the
recipients of degrees of honor wero
numerous and of great dignity. Tho
Duke of .Devonshire, chancellor of tho
university, conferred the honors, and
up in the gallery the under-graduates,
In. accordance with a time-honored
custom, guyed each dignified recipient
as he came forward in hood, and gown
to receive (he parchment creating him
ah honorary doctor of the university
and to hear the public orator sound his
praises in formal Latin phrase.
At last came Stanley. As ho moved
forward to the rostrum a shrill, piping
voice from the short-gowned youths
in the gallery Inquired:
"Mr. Stanley, I presume?"
And chancellor, public orator nnd
even Stanley himself ' joined in tho
roar of laughter which swept through
the senate house.
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