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' nished. They arc allowed to "work1 for about
six wceliB if they worked longer, the chair, sola,
or table would fall into dust. After six weeks
the worms are killed by a discharge of X-rays.
Only then the piece of furniture is painted and
upholstered and ready for the antique market.
JUDGE JOHN I. MULLINS of the state district
court in Denver, Colorado, recently made from
the bench the following statement: "In private
llfo I never was a party to the killing of a man
or a human being. I shall never be a Judicial
party to such a killing. The state has no right to
take a life. Capital punishment in Colorado has
not deterred the commission of crime. Murders
have increased. Influential persons escape the
gallows. A man having no right to take his own
life, surely the state can not take that life from
him under the guise of the law. I will do as my
coriscience prompts mo in this matter. I am op
posed to capital punishment. While a judge pf
the district court I shall never Impose such a
penalty upon a defendant. If a person is found
guilty of murder in the first degree and the jury
fixes the penalty at death I shall disregard that
verdict if need be. The state does not give life;
it can not take life. It is contrary to reason and
. contrary to morals. "
AN EDITORIAL that appeared recently in the
Washington Post is just now attracting
widespread attention. This editorial follows:
"Judge Parker's speech of acceptance, by its ex
tremely conservative tone, emphasizes the thought
to which the Post has more than once given ex
pression, that a radical party of large proportions
will bo formed of some of the minor parties now
existing and accessions from the extremists of
both of the great parties. The whig party went
to its grave in 1852 bocause there was not room
for two parties that were in substantial accord
on the exciting question of the time. It is true
that there were several exhibitions of something
like post-mortem activity on the part of the de
funct organization, but they did not amount to
even a faint semblance of a resurrection. As late
as 1877 Mr. Hayes made an effort to call the old
whig party in the south back to life by giving
'to one of its surviving members, Judge Key of
Tennessee, a position in his cabinet, but the experi
ment failed of its purpose, although the appointee
proved a capable official. The real death and
burial of the whig party, the party of Webster,
Clay, and a host of great men, occurred on that
November day in 1852 when Franklin Pierce was
elected president over General Scott. The new
party will not arrive this year, but he who keeps
his ear to the ground can detect signs of its com
ing at a moro convenient season. 'There is a large
radical vote, not only outside, but inside, of the
two parties that are the only competitors in this
as they have been in all past campaigns since 1856
That the bulk of the radicals will get together on
a platform antagonistic to both of the leading
parties seems almost a foregone conclusion. This
year the disaffected democrats and republicans
will not re-onforco the minor parties to any con
siderable extent, but 1908 is likely to witness a
different situation. And, if present tendencies
should continue a few years longer unchecked the
country may witness a combination of all con
servatism to resist the advance of organized radi
calism." CI OMMENTING' upon the Washington Post's
J statement, the Pueblo, Colo., Chieftain says:
No genuine Amorican wants this country to stand
still, and no reasonable American believes that we
have reached the highest stage of our political de- '
yelopment. The radical party, by whatever name
it may bo known, is certain to exercise a powerful
, influence on public affairs, and the surest way to
prevent too rapid and dangerous changes in our
political system is for the conservative party in
power to show itself progressive and watchful of
the interests of the whole people, resolutely en
forcing the laws and remaining uninfluenced either
by tho demands of special classes for unjust privi
leges or by the clamor of the mob for immunitv
from the punishments of the law."
SOMEWHAT in line with these sentiments are
the utterances of the Capac, Mich. News
which, although a republican newspaper,' makes
bold to say: "If the republican party coes rintn
to defeat, it will be due as much to So hiSVndJS
S?B S5 rchIne Plitics se heads are
swelled with long terms in office and whose pockets
are too often filled with public plunder as to
any other cause. The machine po iticians of the
republican party have persistently snubbed the
The Commoner.
rank and file, and .refused to grant their demands,
until even Michigan may well be classed as a
doubtful state."
COMMENTING upon the fact that Mr. Roose-"
volt refused to accept the gift of a small silk
hag made by a Boston girl, the New York Democ
racy prints a list of favors which Mr. Roosevelt
did not refuse. The list follows:
1. Special train from Washington to Pacific
coast and return, sixty-six days, at estimated ex
pense to railroads for running expenses and com
missary of-?l,000 a day.
2. Nov. 4, 1901 Private car from Washington
to New York and return.
3. Nov. 30, 1901 Private car to Philadelphia
and return; army and navy football game.
4. Feb. 9, 1902 Private car to Grafton, Mass.,
and return.
5. Feb. 24, 1902 Private car to New York and
return; launching Emperor William's yacht.
G. April 7, 1902 Special train to Charleston
exposition and return.
7. April 18, 1902 Private car to New York and
return.
8. May 2, 1902 Private car to Annapolis and
return.
9. June 10, 1902 Private car to West Point
and return.
10. July 24, 1902 Private car to Boston and
return.
11. July 3, 1902 Private car to Pittsburg and
return.
12. Aug. 21, 1902 Special train from Oyster
Bay, two weeks tour of New England. . .
13. Sept. 5, 1902 Private car to Wheeling' W.
Va., and return.
14. Sept. 19, 1902 Special train to Indianap
olis and return.
15. Oct. 31, 1902 Special train to Manassas to
Oyster Bay. to Washington.
16. Nov. 10, 1902 Priva.te car to New York to
Memphis.
17. Nov. 22, 1902 Private car to Philadelphia
and return.
18. Dec. 20.. 1902 Private car to Rapidah, Va. '
and return. . '
. 19. Jan. 26, 1903 Special train" to Canton 0.,
and return.
20. June 9, 1903 Special train to 'Cleveland.
O., and return.
21. June 15, 1903 Private car to Baltimore and
return.
22. June 27, 1903 Special train to Oyster Bay
23. Sept. 6, 1903 Special 'train, Hoboken, N. J.,
to Syracuse, N. Y., and return.
24. Sept. 16, 1903 Special train to Jersey City,
to Antietam and return.
,25. Gold and silver loving cup from city of
San Francisco.
2G. Horse, saddle and bridle from citizens of
Cheyenne, Wyo.
27. Finest Navajo blanket ever made in the
west from Indians near Albuquerque, N M.
28. Invitation to attend dinner of Union
League club of San Francisco engraved on pure
gold plate of great weight and value.
29. Invitation from Black Hills Mining con
gress engraved on pure gold plate.
30. Solid gold key from citizens of Pasadena,
31. Piano worth $15,000, from large piano firm
The Democracy adds: "This is but a partial
enumeration of an almost endless list of gifts
received and accepted by Mr. Roosevelt before he
ostentationsly refused the little French girrs flair
which she had made herself and sent to him as
a token of devotion to her adopted country."
BISHOP POTTER of Now York is kept very
busy these days meoting the criticisms di
rected against his connection with the Subway
tavern. Resolutions presented by a comiiH
headed by Eva M. Shontz, werooptaS
Chicago branch of the Young People's Christian
Temperance Union, as follows: "We believe hn
woe pronounced upon the man who givelh W?
brother drink means Bishop Potter, patron oi the
'mora saloon no less than Alderman Kennnn?
the First ward, of Chicago. We claim the rtht
and recognize the duty to denounce wrong in toi
high places as well as in the low. There no?
a saloonkeeper or brewer in the count i?i
. would not shake hands with these reverend In
tlemen. Bishop Potter's last mtetaTcITemf to
us the gravest. All that has been said fnr iJ
years of the danger of the gilded saloon wmen,F
marble floor, which echoeVth staggering Vn?
steps of Amorican culture that woufd s-r
ent a S ggery, is a thousands truer of t
oZ Tii0n With th0 dorsement of 're! g 0n
over it. The poor man wants a club mostly be
.VOLUME J, NUMBER 32.
cause his home is bare and cheerless Tim .
he, is spending for drink would make hiT'7
y cheerful. Mothers will weep over -the dear
forms of murdered sons who got their S , ,ad
at the Subway tavern. Littfe! hungry ujnpk
with anx ous eyes and tear stained cheek tS
point to tho place where papa used to gfbeS
ho drank so hard. Tho story of this pi,h!h
venture will be told through prison bars S!
echo through the death chamber of the prison.
condemned, and we believe it will be heard Si
the judgment bar of God. By the grace o Go w
will earn and retain our right to the name Vn
atics' so long as there is a rum shop to temS
and curse men and rob and murder women and
innocent children." uua
RUSSIA'S abandonment of her control of th
Red Sea in search of contraband goods car!
ried under neutral flags, if brought to pass, will
in the opinion of the Washington correspondent
for tho New Orleans Times-Democrat, bring pe
culiar joy to the officers and men of the ships of
the Russian volunteer fleet which has been as
signed to this duty. The Times-Democrat cor
respondent says: "The Red Sea is about the
hottest place on the face of the earth. To go
through there Is bad enough; to be assigned to
cruise there must be intolerable. The coal stok
ers, who are usually Lascars from East Indian and
hence hardened to high temperatures, often give
way under the terrible heat. Such of our own
transports as go to the Philippines by the Suez
route are compelled to proceed very slowly over
this part of the journey on account of the stokers,
who must be relieved at very short intervals. Tho
reason the climate of the Red Sea Is so extreme,
aside from its nearness to the equator, are the
cloudless skies overhead, the aridity of the neigh
boring lands, such as the great stretches of Sa
hara and Arabian deserts, and the absence of any
thing which would mitigate the force of the sun.
The Red Sea water often measures on the mer
cury 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and has been known
to go above 100 degrees. The air is usually cooler
than the water, especially at night, when radia
tion becomes very rapid. Tho evaporation of the
Red Sea is naturally excessive, so that the hu
midity of the air is great. The Red S'ea basin is
cut off from the general oceanic circulation by a
barrier rising to within 800 feet of the surface in
a channel which is comparatively narrow. As no
rivers enter the sea and little rain falls it becomes
an evaporating pan."
GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, one of the founders
of the republican party, has declared that
he will vote for Judge Parker. Mr. Boutwell was
secretary of the treasury under President Grant,
governor of Massachusets, United States senator,
and a member of the lower house of congress.
In giving his reasons for preferring Judge rarlter
to President Roosevelt, Governor Boutwell says:
"I am with the democratic party because I havo
made a distinct decision in regard to the Phil
ippine policy, and whatever may happen in regard
to domestic affairs nothing can be so unfortunate
as this transformation from a republic to an
empire. Therefore I do not concern myself about
what the democratic party may do, but I am satis
fied that they will not sacrifice the honor of the
nation by leaving a great opportunity. The re
publicans had a great opportunity but they neg
lected it."
THERE is one citizen of New York whose con
science is easier because he has put jlicjy
confessed that on one ocaslon he cast an illegal
vote. The Now York Herald tells the story in this
way:
"W. C. Montague, who lives in North hod,
in the town of Herkimer, cast an illegal vote i at
the town meeting in 1898, and the matter weigneu
so heavily on his mind that he decided to maw
public confession through tho press. He cau&eu
the following letter to be published:
" 'To the Citizens of the Town of Herkimer,
State of New York: Be it known that at tow l
meeting of the year 18)8 an illegal vote was caw.
I, the said party, was requested to support a can
didate. Prom all appearances I looked to oe
legal voter. I knew I was not, but the devi i, iu
whose service I was, threw me, and I comm u
the sin. God has shown me that I must couiess
the same to tho public' ,, n.
"This confession is signed by W. 1UU
tague, Committer.' "
Mr. Davis is in favor of economy and retrench
ment. How the republicans will fight him now
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