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JULY W, 1905 .1 ABANDONING THE PARTY Tlio St. Louis Globe-Democrat sees In the resignation of John It McLean from the democratic national commit tee another evidence of -the dissolu tion of the democratic party. It calls attention to the withdrawal last year of the Chicago Chronicle from the ranks of democracy and announces that Mr. McLean's resignation is to be followed at an' early day by Mr. McLean's newspaper completely em bracing republicanism. But assuming that the Enquirer is to become a republican organ, how does that indicate" the dissolution of the democratic party? The Enquirer has afforded very lit tle comfort or assistance to the de mocracy for a number of years. Mr. McLean himself has been a type of politician tha,t the masses of the party do not fancy. As a democratic boss of Cincinnati, Mr. McLean has always been in alliance with George Cox, the republican boss. Their political in timacy could not have been greater had they belonged to the same party. Mr. McLean as a candidate for gov ernor several years ago well nigh wrecked the Ohio democracy because the north Ohio democrats found it impossible to support him. The men who used to follow the leadership of Thurman, Pendleton and Campbell could not tolerate the character of politics which Mr. McLean practiced. In view of the overwhelming pre ponderance of the republican party in Ohio no doubt Mr. McLean deems it good business to ally himself with the dominant party. Mr. McLean has always allied himself with the com mercial element in politics, and it is not strange ho has found it a difficult task to thrive with so uncommercial an element as the democracy. We fancy there will be found no great disappointment among Ohio democrats because of Mr. McLean's resignation as national committeeman or in the event of the Enquirer em braces republicanism body and soul. There will be no douftt a feeling that the alliance will be one in harmony with the general tendencies of both Mr. McLean and the Enquirer. That the democratic party in Ohio and throughout the country will sur vive the withdrawal of Mr. McLean and the Enquirer we have not the slightest doubt. Some really great men have from time to time aban doned the party without wrecking it, and probably there will be others to leave it in the future. The time will come, however, when the American people will render ample judgment upon the republican party in some way or other, and in a manner that will abundantly- demonstrate the in destructibility of democratic prin ciples. So when we receive word that the Enquirer has formally joined the re publican party we shall wish it good luck and happiness without in the slightest degree imagining that the episode will indicate the death of prin ciples which were virile before either McLean or the Enquirer were born and which will live to bless humanity after they are both dead and forgot ten. Houston, Tex., Post. A MOTHER'S LOVE Katherine M. Gurnett, writing in the Omaha World-Herald, says: How pathetic is the story which Mrs. Bernice Sylvester told to the Omaha police matron, and yet how thoroughly typical it is of hundreds of other cases. A son, admonished in loving anxiety for his welfare, left his widowed mother because she had told him the truth, had pointed out to him the inevitable result of his evil ways- a kindness which, we may be RUft ON "Painkiltev asd the RlMMHa.l4ffia yoa. The Commoner. sure, none of his convivial companions and so-called friends would vouchsafe. It is too bad ho did not understand her; it Is too bail so many boys and so many girls do not understand and appreciate the deep lovo that is at the root of these admonitions the love that God has implanted in every par ent's heart. And now sho is searching for him, Now she is relenting in her heart of hearts. She tries to condone his faults, feeling that perhaps she wag unreasonable. It is this the mother love that urges her on, that enables her to stand with anxious eyes in the abode of criminals in the hope and in the fear that her lost one will ap pear. We are told that her son, hearing of her arrival, had eluded her. Let us hope not. Rather let us believe that the son of such a mother lias something better in him, something that will eventually conquer his way wardness and lead him back, eager and penitent, to the arms of the best friend he has in all the wide, wide world. Boys and girls, think" twice before you break your mother's heart. If in the past you have railed to appre ciate her love and care, begin now to return some of it. If you have left her on account of some petty griev ance, go back and laugh the trouble away. She will meet you with the dear old smile that beams only on a mother's face and casp you in the arms of which you have long, oh so long, been a stranger. Don't wait un til, in answer to the summons that will surely come, you arrive too late to hear the sound of the voice that is still and can only gaze on the dear old face, with its tired eyes forever closed, and press a kiss on the folded wrinkled hands, whose work is forever done. Ww, U&h&f tut S1eel Rooting, $15QPer IQO Sqm Fmoi I r!httd red both ildci! moit darfcbU nd economic! . In. f ... .1.11. . .... I . faaaiM. itorrt. cburchtt. erlbi. Doallrt hoa.... iu-.i ;.?i.r ri--I-Ti JT" ' . . " '""V?"! luuuni. nrrii v:i incnai o it liiru.f. Inll.. .. f MTTIi .- j '...": " .. 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' A GBEAT CONTINUED STORV The continued story of the Equita ble, which has been running in the papers for several months, is easily the most attractive serial of the sea son. Mr. Lawson's "Frenzied Fi nance" does not compare with it in interest. It is many years since a work of pure fiction has so seized on and held the reader. No novelist has shown greater skill in the develop ment of his plot, in the frequent in troduction of new and important characters, in the elaboration of ex citing situations, and in the unveiling of the motives which actuate men, than can be found in the story of the Equitable. The opening chapter gave no clew to what was to come. It introduced simply Mr. Alexander and Mr. Hyde. It related to the extravagances of the latter in the way of costly dinners, extravagances with which the public was tolerably familiar. There was enough, however, to catch popular at tention. Every succeeding chapter has had its dramatic episode. New characters have been introduced bankers, railroad men, statesmen, dummy directors, false trustees and their dialogues have been wildly in teresting. In the last chapter Chaun cey M. Depew was the leading char acter. He did not appear smiling and story telling as at a banquet, but he appeared in the privacy of the di rectors' room of the Equitable, lend ing its funds on insufficient security. There are to be more chapters to the story, and they ought to be fully exciting as any that have gone be fore. It may be that the scene of some of them will be laid in the crimi nal courts and that a few of the characters will reappear in those courts. The story could not have a more dramatic and happy conclusion than the verdict of a Jury "guilty as charged." There are people who are complain ing because all there is to tell about the Equitable is not told at once. That is unreasonable. If that were Newspaper Bargains Every family should havn a daily paper. 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