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Well done steaks will bo rare for a season.
Tho snoclal wire strum: into Buzzard's Bay
carried the message that was never sent
The president might try some of that pub
licity remedy on tho packing trust right now.
Authorities on fishing generally agree that
the old-fashioned angleworm is the best all
'round bait.
Tho principles of democracy will never suc
cumb until Truth is dead and Falsehood en
throned forever.
The long run of "republican luck" has been
jarred at last. The Chicago Chronicle has become
an avowed republican organ.
It is barely possible that the packing trust
will hand in its campaign contribution in time
to stave off annoying publicity at this time.
General Grosvenor is figuring it out. When
the general begins figuring the man who first
said that "figures do not lie" turns over in his
coffin.
John P. Hopkins claims that it was a "vindi
cation." But there are those who think that it
was a case of "us kind o fellers must stand together."
Mayor "Golden Rule" Jones of Toledo is dea.d.
Men like Mayor Jones are so scarce that the world
pauses to drop a tear when it hears of the death
of one of them.
The "business mon" who inaugurated the boy
cott against tho Denver News and Times show
symptoms of a desire to call for help in the work
of letting go.
While the Rothschilds are distributing that
$3,000,000 among tho poor they should not over
look tho poor little trusts in this country that
have to bo "protected."
It will be generally admitted that 'specials
concerning tho Parker horse are a great relief
from specials about cross-country rides, b'ar killing-
and vocal trust busting.
Tho czar assures the Finns that their "his
toric destiny is ihflissolubly bound up with those
of Russia." That sounds like Judgo Taft talking
about the Filipinos at an administration banquet.
On the pension question tho democratic party
and the republican party agree that the veterans
who deserve pensions should have them. They
disagree however, in this wise the democrats
would grant pensions from patriotic, motives
while tho republicans insist on granting them for
political reasons.
The Commoner.
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The Wall Street Journal asks: "Where has
all the gold gone to that has been produced since
the Lydians began to coin money?" The Journal
should ask Mr. Rockefeller.
When the republican Chicago Chronicle begins
supporting Mr. Deneen we may expect to see
icicles hanging from the cornices of the Cnicago
National bank in mid-July.
Having fought labor unions virulently and re
lentlessly for several years, it is only natural that
Mr. Walsh's personal organ, the Chicago Chron
icle, should become a republican organ as well.
Paul Morton's political elevation so soon after
his announced conversion recalls the scriptural
saying that the last shall be first. But being
scriptural does not make it the more palatable to
the old-timers who yearn for the fieshpots.
The delegates from the miners' union who en
deavored to have a personal interview with Pres
ident Roosevelt would seem to be entitled to some
attention from the gentlemen who have the
awarding of the Carnegie hero medals.
Tho Intellectual editorial advocates of tho
gold standard who made so much fuss because tho
delegate from Hawaii made possible tho silver
plank in the 1900 platform should be consistent
And make a fuss because Judge Parker's nomina
tion was made possible by the delegates from ter
ritories that have no vote in the electoral college
If Mr. David B. Hill is not too busy he might
explain wherein advocacy of government owner
ship of railroads is "sillier" than advocacy of gov
ernment ownership of coal mines and coal carry
ing railroads. But it Is quite probable that Mr.
Hill is too busy.
Volume III., Commoner Condensed, Is now
ready for delivery. Orders on file for the book
will be. filled as rapidly as possible. If you have
ordered tho book and do not receive it by July 23,
notify Tho Commoner.
Kentucky, South Carolina, Missouri, Wiscon
sin, South Dakota, Rhode Island and Oklahoma
joined Nebraska in, the minority report in tho
Illinois case, but in the haste the names of tho
minority members were not signed to the minor
ity report. Members from other states may have
been friendly, but these expressed their desire to
join in the minority report.
Having ruled that the United States can have
"colonies" the g. o. p. convention admitted the
delegates from the Philippines But having ac
cepted the supreme court decision that the con
stitution does not apply in the Philippines it was
inconsistent for the g. o. p. convention to admic
delegates to a convention in a constitutional gov
ernment. But anything inconsistent usually bears
the g. o. p. brand.
A comparison of the platform as reported by
the sub-committee with the platform as adopted
by the convention will show how important was
the work of the western members of the commit
tee on resolutions. A straightforward tariff le
form plank was substituted for a straddling plank;
the anti-trust plank was greatly strengthened;
the labor plank was materially enlarged and the
demand for a larger navy was stricken out. The
platform as adopted, but for its silence on tho
money question, the income tax and direct legis
lation, would be an exceedingly strong document.
Nebraska democrats will be interested to know
that the resolutions committee adopted tho Ne
braska plank on the pension question: "Democ
racy would secure to the surviving soldiers and
sailors and their dependents generous pensions,
not by arbitrary executive order, but by legisla
tion which a grateful people stand ready to enact."
Tho plank was adopted while Mr. Bryan was ab
sent from the sub-committee, the committee ex
plaining that it stated the position of the party
better than any other platform had. Mr. Bryan
made his acknowledgements and expressed his ap
preciation of the compliment thus paid to the Ne
braska platform.
Addicks'
Great
Influence.
TXTVtmt "Drt rtswtJ. X .1l
UDU o-xoiuciiu xvuuaovoiL appointed Byrne
Addicks' henchman in Delaware, to be Unitwf
"vvu u,u" tiLLuiuuy lot Dela
ware, the senate refused to con
firm tho nomination on the
ground that he was unfit and in-
1 A . wuiyeteuu luven senator Hoar
refused to vote to confirm. All attempts to force
the nomination through tho senate failed Ami
now President Roosevelt has again taken tin this
man so severely denounced by Delaware citizmiq
and so thoroughly turned down by the senate and
made him assistant district attorney in New York
Addicks, however, seems to have enough nul"
with the president to secure recognition foH
understudies, and what .Delaware refused has been
VOLUME 4, NUMBER 27.
foisted off upon New York. It remains to be soon
whether New York will submit to the imposition
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The list of Fourth of July casualties for thn
present year, up to and including July 12 is Z
T. zrMw ?ed and 3'454 wo"nded. bf the
The Fourth s atter several will doubtless dm
Long as a result of their injuries
Deixth Roll. Tuis enormous and useless dam
age to humanity calls renewed
attention to the need- of more earnest work in tho
securing of more humane methods in the observ
ance of the great holiday. The efforts put forth thh
year for a "sane and sensible Fourth" boi-o K00(i
results, and the efforts should be continued mu
nicipalities can aid greatly in the work of re
stricting the deadly cannon cracker and the equal
ly deadly blank cartridge. The need of reform in
our methods of celebrating the Fourth was never
more apparent
A Very
Queer
Situation.
Tho old adage that "politics makes strange
bed-fellows" is again verified by the queer, not to
say numorous, political situation
in West Virginia. Mr. Davis,
the democratic nominee for vice
president, is the father-in-law
of Senator Stanhen U RiUnc f
that state. Senator Elkins is credited with hav
ing placed West Virginia in the republican col
umn, and Mr. Davis is relied upon by his party
to swing his' own state into line for the demo
.cratic ticket. It is'not often that such a condi
tion exists in a national campaign, and it will be
watched with great interest by the voters of the
, country.
The
Inconsistent
"World."
The New York World' complains that the sub
stitute trust plank was "voted into the democratic
national platform by the terri
torial members of the commit
tee on resolutions." The World
calls this "the blight or terri
torial dictation." The World
continues: "It Is bad enough to admit territorial
delegates to the convention, but to admit them
to the committees on an equal footing with the
great states of the Union is a political crime."
And yet we have not noticed that the World ob
jects to the nomination of Judge .Parker, notwith
standing the fact that had it not been for the
territories his vote on the first and only ballot
would have been much shorter of the two-thirds
majority than it was. Judge Parker's managers
counted' largely on the delegates from the terri
tories to make his vote large enough to start tho
"band wagon" enthusiasm. It seems very diffi
cult for the World to be consistent.
Exposing
Its
Ignorance.
The New York World of July 11 says; "Mr.
Bryan could control only 191 votes against the
Parker telegram. That is tho
number he would have been
able to control against a gold
standard plank if David B. Hill
had had t.hfi TianlrhnnG nf a boiled
carrot." Without taking note of the World's re
marks concerning "control," and admitting that
the World probably knows more about the condi
tion of Mr. Hill's spine than any other newspaper,
The Commoner points to the World's claim that
only 191 votes could have been mustered against
the gold standard plank in open convention as
proof positive that the World knows absolutely
nothing about the sentiment of the masses of
democracy The World is a provincial of the
provincials. Its horizon is bounded by the state
lines of New York on a clear day, and by the
municipal boundaries of Manhattan on a foggy
day. And the World spends most of its time in a
fog.
The Minneapolis Journal, published in the city
once presided over by -Mayor Ames, says: "It
might have been an oversight,
Speaking hut the democratic convention
Of never indorsed tho supremo
Oversights. court Missouri." Perhaps
the esteemed Journal can assure
us that it Was an oversight that the republican
platform did not Indorse the supreme court of
Minnesota in its position on the Ames case. And
perhaps the Journal can assure us that it was an
oversight that the republican platform never in
dorsed the republican governor of Indiana in his
refusal to honor a requisition for a fugitive from
Kentucky justice because that fugitive happens
to be a republican prominent enough to no
cheered to the echo by a republican national con
vention, which said fugitive attended only after
being assured that no Kentucky sheriff would be
allowed to drag him back to answer to the ha
of assassination. While speaking of oversigow
the esteemed Minneapolis Journal , should tahe
in the whole field.