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Is it not about tlmo for Delaware to plug up
fiomo of tho "Cas" leaks?
It appears that Senator Burton drew a "vindi
cation" of tho Senator Dietrich brand.
It appears that Mr. Neidringhaus drew a little
too much froth on his campaign plans.
Another explanation may bo that tho "Mys
terious Strangor" has not yet sobered up.
Tho "Mysterious Stranger" seems to havo
played an ovcrtimo engagement In Missouri.
By confining their flesh diet to dried flsh the
Japanese havo also avoided acquiring. a putrid beer
scandal.
Tho campaign of 190G and the campaign of
1908 will bo won, if won at all, by beginning work
right now.
Undo Joo Cannon does not seem to figure
among tho "wild anlmal3 I havo subdued" listed
by President Roosevelt.
- Mr. Neidringhaus' two St. Louis friends prob
ably boliovo that they have received the worth of
their money in advertising.
Speaker Cannon i3 talking very much liko a
man convinced that ho can sit in the speaker's
chair and do a lot of white houso thinking.
Attorney General Moody has the advantage of
having ex-Attorney General Knox's record beforo
him, thus making it easy to avoid following It.
Perhaps tho threat of an extra session was
uttered beforo tho corporations and trusts had
made up their minds that they would not allow it.
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Up to dato Togo and Nogl havo not been called
down by somo parlor warrior. Tho military af
fairs of Japan seem not to havo been Corbinized as
i et.
Congressman J. A. T. Hull will not be able
howover, to make enough of a light on General
Miles to secure tho Miles' reputation for military
Governor Douglas seems to bo one of those
old-fashioned gentlemen who believes that arbitra
tion laws wore enacted for tho purpose of brim-in-about
arbitration. B,m&
With such an example beforo them as that set
by the victorious republicans of Missouri tho dem
ocrats of that commonwealth will probably mako
their majority about 150,000 next time.
Mr. Neidringhaus is having trouble tHn
lis feet into Francis Marlon CoSkrSS snofs hm
this is not duo to either bigness o 'he Srlnl
haus leet or the smallness of the CockrSf shoS"
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issue ot Tho Commoner, four year! aeo? T fiFSt
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The Commoner.
Tho gentleman nominated for senator by tho
republican legislators of Missouri is of tho opinion
that a senator in tho senate is worth two in tho
Busch,
Thomas Carter has again been elected sena
tor from Montana. Senator Carter seems ablo
to continue tho good work of making "Footprints
of Time."
Doubtless tho railroads would accept any kind
of a law regulating rates provided they were per
mitted to select tho judges who would bo called
upon to interpret tho law
Governor Deneen has decided to dispense with
tho services of a military staff, and Governor Folk
has laid down iron-clad rules that lobbyists must
follow. Clearly the light i3 breaking
H. II. Farmer of Hillsvllle, Va., wants to know
where he may obtain a copy of a book written by
Dr. King and containing an account of his expe
riences as a practitioner of medicine.
The governor of Delaware says ho is going to
drive lobbyists and boodlers from the state house.'
"Gas" Addicks is ready for the governor to drive
him from the state house to the senate.
Noting the fact that 7,000 Pennsylvanians were
punished last year for wife beating, the Joplln
Globe is moved to remark that this proves that
Pennsylvanians do something besides voting the re
publican ticket.
In its issue of Dec. 23, 1904. The Commoner
in referring to "Poltlcs in New Zealand," inadver
tantly made a mistake in the address of the pub
lishing house. The editor and publisher is C. F.
Taylor, 1520 Chestr-it street, Philadelphia.
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The Washington Post wants an extra session
so Washington people may the sooner become ac
quainted with the new faces. The Post would bet
ter wait a bit; perhaps some unexpected faces may
show up.
The Chicago college professor who died from
overwork must have been trying to discover some
method of making the college authorities believe
that a mere professor of sciences is worth as much
salary as a football coach.
The republican leaders are so thoroughly in
sympathy with President Roosevelt'3 railroad pol
icy that they are providing him with the support
of such gay old anti-corporationists as Knox
Depew, Burkett and others.
People who do not understand why the eov
ornment printing office turns out so much printed
matter would learn something to their advantage
by investigating conditions about the time the
government mail weighers board tho mail cars
The Washington Post insinuates that there is
no use of having a canal commission "Inasmuch
as there are no useful duties for the bodv tn .
form " Does the Post mean this as a SSopmSSs"
ernmenU " "republica" form of gov-
Hover! ng
Now In
Mid-Air
Thn Rr Pni mv.- n ,.
tUat tuo .mpfno. EbEEK S&3
Of Pnnnmo V.n - ... . 1ULUC
- -.. M, Utta au status. He
is not a citizen of this country
and he is not a citizen of any
other country, m fact, he ha? -
subject. The Po R can Zhttn T Simply a
full fledged citizen His mShSK & ?e made a
a territory and iS Jm A Ud ought to be made
for statehyooadnd m"
his independence now and given hin, promised
as soon as a stab.a Pnvl " dependence
operation. UnlTwe kw whatT b, PUt lnto
aono at Panama Fi m&
VOLUME 5, NUMBER
what ought to bo done In regard to those who ro.
side upon the strip, but if land Is to be held per,
manently American principles ought to be applied
to it. Wo can not afford to have a lot of people
with a status hovering in mid-air and beyond tho
protection of our constitution.
Mr. Archibald Loomls, late of the National
City bank of New York, has resigned. He is the
gentleman who loaned the bank's
Mr. Loomls money to a Wall street Arm to
Stops manipulate some "wash sales"
Down and Out ordr boom, a c?rtain atofik,
He said he would not resign, and
intimated that it was nobody's business how the
bank loaned money as long a3 the depositors lost
nothing. In fact Mr. Loomls struck a regular "the
public be Vanderbilt" attitude. But he has re
signed, and now he assures his friends that tho
resignation was voluntary and that he never put
his foot outside of the law. While Mr. Loomis i3
insisting that he stepped out of the bank there aro
quite a number of people who will continue to be
lieve that he was pushed
Thomas K. Neidringhaus' experiences in get
ting a senatorial toga recall "Private" John Al
len's story. After Mr. Cloveland'3
Neidringhaus Inauguration "Private" John
Can Sco asked for the appointment of a
This Point frlend to tne postmastership at
Tupelo. Mr. Cleveland put him
off time and again, and finally "Private" John said:
"Mr. President, down in my district an old fellow
died and left hi3 estate to his son, making the
proviso that the boy should demonstrate his fitness
to care for the property before it was turned over
to him. I was made trustee. The boy was a wild
blade, and I hesitated about giving him control ot
the property. Ai.ter he had called 011 me several
times and I had pubhim off, he called one day, and
after talking the matter over he looked at mo
sadly and said: 'John, when I think of the troublo
I am having in gettin' hold of this estate, blamed
if I ain't sometimes sorry that pa died.' "
According to government statistics the close
of the year 1902 saw the completion of 33,415 irri
gation systems Irrigating 9,500,-
Irrigation 000 acres of land. The Boston
eend tho Herald has made some Interest
"Big Stick" in& comparisons. It finds that
the irrigation enterprises cost
?93,320,452 anu made 134,000 farms profitable. The
money spent by Uncle S'am on his navy in 1904
would have paid the entire cost of all these irriga
tion systems, and left on hand a balance of ?9,500,
000. According to the government statistics tho
amount spent on the navy would have irrigated
and made profitable an area greater than the com
bined states of Maryland and Connecticut, or more
than "half the area of Indiana. Every dollar spent
on irrigation has added to the material wealth
of the nation. The money spent on tho navy did
not increase the general wealth of the country a
penny. Tho farmer who is an advocate of the
"big stick" policy, or is blinded by the "world
power" glitter, should do a little more earnest
thinking.
Ex-Governor Bulkeley, caucus nominee of tho
republicans in the Connecticut legislature for
United States senator, is not
Tho Bulkeley wholly unknown to fame, and his
Ideas of views on certain matters, now of
"GttinThero"SGrIous and thoughtful interest
to all good citizens are a matter
of record. The Loston Herald says "his notions
of what is right and proper in business have been
illustrated in ways that brand him as one with
loose ideas of justice and honor." Somo years
ago a Connecticut legislative committee had
under consideration a corrupt practices act de
signed to prevent brloery and corruption at elec
tions. Mr. Bulkeley was before the committee and
something that he had said led the chairman of
the committee to ask him: "Do I infer that it
is lawful and right for you, as a candidate for of
fice, to buy a vote which is for sale?" Mr. Bulke
ley s answer was: "I think it is right for a can
didate to secure that man's vote, if he is without
principle and Ignorant, by any means you can use."
1 ho Herald asserts that "there is no doubt in Con
necticut that he (Bulkeley) has put this theory
or carrying elections in practice whenever he ha3
Sni2I?d Jfc .Yould servo him-" The election ot
Bulkeley to the senate will be a very poor way for
SLf?pU?1J?m party t0 "ll0ld UP the hands" of
President Roosevelt in his fight against the en
croachments pf .tho corporations;
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