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nC22E5ffTl K I" , KOVMBBR25.104- The Commoner. i How It Happened t The republican Tictory in the presi dential contest is apparently the most sweeping which has been won by any party since the" Greeley campaign of. 1872, and possibly since the overthrow and destruction of the whig party in 1852. It does not appear mat the dem ocratic candidate has won more than a email state or two outside of the solid south, if he has even done that, and the adverse pluralities in the' states for which his, nomination was especially aimed, as a rule, seem, to have gone beyond those directed against Bryan in 1900; while the states of the central west, if not those of the far west, have dealt In peculiar and unfeeling wanton -nes with reorganized democratic pre tensions. .Chicago, which gave McKln lpy only about 17,000 plurality In 1900 gives Rdbsovelt a lead approaching 100,000, and all through the west tho republican landslide seems to have been of a similar mighty an destruc tive character. The conclusion is unmistakable, de mocracy reorganized, democracy "safe and sane," has met with popular re pudiation far worse than that encoun tered by democracy under radical or Bryan leadership. So far as triumph can be discerned in the debris of poli tical cataclysms, it is Bryan's rather than that of the reorganizes, and for radicalism rather than "safety and san ity." One of the leading New York organs of democratic reorganization THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL la Few People Knew How Useful it ! Presarvlaff Health and tleauty Nearly everybody knows that char coal is the safest and most efficient disinfectant and purifier in nature, but fow-realize-itsvalue when-taken- Into the human system for" the same clean sing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the better. It is not a drug at all, but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and car ries them out of the systt m. Charcoal sweetens the breath after Bmoking, drinking, or after eating onions and other odorous vegetables. Charcoal effectually clears and im proves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic. It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; it disinfects the mouth and throat from poison of catarrh. All druggists sell charcoal in one form or another, but probably the best' charcoal and the most for the money Is in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges; they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather in the form of large, pleasant tasting loz enges, tho charcoal being mixed with honey. The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condi tion of ,the general health, better com plexion, sweeter breath, and purer blood, and the beauty of it is, that no poi'dble harm can result from their continued use, but on the contrary, great benefit. A Buffalo physician in speaking of the'benefits of charcoal, says: "I ad vise Stuart's Charcoal .Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stom and bowels, and to clear the com plexion and -purify the breath, mouth and throat; I also believe the liver is greatly benefited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores and al though in some sense a patent prepara tion, yet I believe I get -more and better charcoal in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges than in"any'of the ordinary charcoal tablets." exclaimed, after tho nomination of Mr I ranter: "An opposition at last!" but Instead we have less of an opposi tion than ever. Such is the fact, inex plicable and disturbing as it may bo How this comes' about is a question now open to general discussion.- The true exnlanation is doubtless to be found in tho consideration of many factors all working in one direction In the first place, tho country has re mained fairly prosperous in a business way, notwithstanding a heavy reaction in the stock market. Industrial inter ests, while not wholly satisfied with tho situation.aro too well satisfied, un der recollections of experiences Id 1893-90, to care to risk ' the consequ ences of change in the government at Washington, and the whole force nnu influence of. the business interest have been bent about as decidedly in favor of tho republicans as four years ago. Again, it was too much to expect that the return of control of tho demo cratic rarty to tho men and interests that fought Bryan and radicalism so bitterly in 1900 and 189G, could carry with it tho hearty support of tho demo cratic masses who had for eight years, through ridicule and abuse of excep tional volume, followed the desperate fortunes of a brilliant leader proclaim ing a new and disturbing gospel of party purposes and duty. There was possibly a chance of bringing tho two party factions together for tho cam paign in some heartiness of unity, but this was destroyed when Judge Parker after his nomination, sent his famous gold telegram in violation of the tacit conditions upon which his agents had secured his nomination. Thereafter only a grudging support was assured to the party ticket from the followers of Bryan. Judge Parker, moreover, proved lacking in those elements of inspiring .leadership so necessary at such a crisis in the party's life. He was not known to the people, and his long silence, ex tending beyond the canvass for nomi nation far Into the presidential cam paign, made him more than ever an unknown and uncertain factor to tie to. When he. did come to speak out it was with such want of incisive and ag gressive proclamation as to awaken little response; and he was throughout weighed down by a gum-shoe leader ship about him which everywhere stim ulated misgiving and distrust. Beyond all is the unquestioned fact that there is not room enouch in the country for two parties appealing to the same or a Wall street quality of conservatism. If that is to be the program the people will choose the party most closely identified with it; just as, in 1852, when the whig party went over essentially to the democratic position in regard to slavery, tho peo ple chose for a pro-slavery party tho one whose record best proved its de votion and with such emphasis as ta wipe out the otlier party. Democratic reorganization had in deed become necessary; but a reorgan ization forward and not backward, and it was a backward reorganization which has been so tremendously jumped upon. Such seems to be the lesson of the result Springfield Re publican. Truth Crushed to Earth Several years ago I was engaged in crushing truth to earth for a Chicago newspaper. That Is to say, I was a special writer, employed in jot ting down history unhampered by facts. When the annual schuetzenfest at tracted thousands of German sharp shooters from all over the country it seemed fitting that 1 should record some few of the most important things that did not happen at Schuetzen park. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OP THE COfinONER'S CLUBBING OFFERS For the Season of i904'o5 Periodical Lift RccuUr Trice THE COMMONER (Wk) f 1.00 Must bo Included In all orders CLASS A Farm and Homo (S-Mo.) B0 Missouri VHoy Farmor (Mo.)., .GO Farmer's Wife (Mo.) 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Hubhcriptions maybe cither sew or renewal, except where "NBW" is expressly Indicated. Foreign pontage 62 cents extia on Com monkii, on other periodicals, ak tor rate. Our Responsibility. We cannot guar antce the solvency or continued publication ol nny periodical. Our responsibility to sub scrlbcrs ceiuca when wc have paid tor their subscriptions to tho periodicals ordered. I Snd all ord9rm to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. So, ono day, I wrote a thrilling talc of how the wife of one of tho sharp shooters was carrying her small habe in her arms when a peddler came along with a large cluster of balloons; how the babo entangled its tiny fingers in tho many threads; how the peddler unwittingly let go, and how the bal loons snatched the little thing from its mother's arms and horo it far up into the air out over the lake. Having worked ud the readers' sym pathy for the distracted mother to a satisfactory point, I .proceeded to illus trate tho peculiar advantage of rifle practice by telling how the father, with his unerring aim, picked off one balloon after another until the weight of the baby just overbalanced the buoyancy of the remaining ones and the little chap floated gently down into tho arms of a man in a boat. Some 10 years later I was the pro prietor of a newspaper a thousand miles distant from Chicago. My corre spondent in that city was a lively young chap with such a nose for news that my paper often contained Infor mation of happenings in Chicago which were utterly overlooked by the press associations, news bureaus and other special correspondents. One morning at breakfast I was run ning my eye over my paper, when I came upon a report of the annual schuetzenfest at Chicago, and there, in the midst of it, was my yarn, word for word. That day I called up my Chicago office by wire. "Was that story about the baby and the balldons a true one?" I asked. "Yes," said the correspondent; "1 witnessed the incident myself." "I wish to congratulate you on the excellent manner in which you handled it. It was charmingly written," I said Glad you think so," he answered, "but I thought it was pretty bum. I could have done it a whole lot better if ) hadn't been so rushed." I toll this story now merely to illus trate the wisdom of the proverbial re mark that truth crushed to earth will rise again. Brooklyn Eagle. Oct Rid of Vitality Sappers Debt is a great force waster, because very few men or women can be heavily in debt without worrying or being anx ious. If you are so deeply involved that it is impossible to extricate your self without going through bankrupty, then take your bitter medicine at once, and start again. Pay your debt in full afterward, when you are able. Get rid of all vitality-sappers. If you have taken an uniortunato step, retrace it if you can. 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