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The Valentine Democrat VALE1WINE , NEB. 1. M. RICE , Publinber 'SC MDO ' CHATS BY THE WAY. Governor McMillin , of Tennessee : "My information leads me to believe that Judge Parker Avill be elected Pres ident of the United States by a good , safe majority of the Electoral College. To my mind there is no question as to how the Empire State Avill go. It looks to me as if this State was as cer tain to go Democratic as is Maryland. NCAV Jersey , Connecticut , Illinois and Indiana are all , so far as I can learn , more than reasonably certain to cast their votes for Parker and Davis. " Republican "prosperity" talk , or iwhat shall be said of the increase un der Democratic rule in our export of agricultural products from $25,000,000 an 1800 to $250,000,000 in 1SGO , to $ S35.- 000,000 in 1000 , an average of only fifty-six per cent , per decade V Edward M. Shepard. President Roosevelt deliA ered an ad dress at the Auditorium , in Chicago , III. , in the year 1S94 , in Avhich he made use of inflammatory and extreme lan guage , that strikers should be shot , as folloAvs : "Any man Avho engages in a strike , or any man AVIO goes Avhere a strike is on should be shot. " * * * Hon. Harry Rusk. Chairman of the Democratic City Committee , of Balti more : "The State of Maryland AA'ill just as surely cast her electoral vote for Parker and Davis as Avlll .Texas. I have also received the most cheering HCAVS from West Virginia and several of the smaller States in the Far West. The first named State , I am told by leading Democrats there , Avill unques tionably be redeemed for Democracy and constitutional government. Friends tell me that Colorado and Montana will surely go Democratic , and we also have a good fighting chance in Wash ington and Utah. " u * A man who congratulates an assas sin , as Roosevelt did Governor Tay lor , of Kentucky , the day after Gov ernor Goebel Avas assassinated , at the Kentucky State capital , is not a fit subject to be Pres-ileut of free Ameri ca. * * * Albert B. Meekiu , of Chicago : "The city of Chicago will be carried by Par ker and Davis by from 35,000 to 50- 000 majority. I look for the State of Illinois to go Democratic by a good , safe majority. I also hear the most flattering reports from Indiana. " * * * To police the world will be rather a stiff job for even Uncle Sam to under take , and yet that seems to be the hope of President Roosevelt if the proposed Hague Peace Congress will give him the appointment of Chief Police Com missioner. ! -J * sjt Former Senator Henry G. Davis finds that the expenses of the Government have groAvn from $5.29 per capita in 1S92 to $7.14 in 1904 , an addition of $10 a year for each average family. These figures are a faithful index of Republican extravagances. * * * When the Republicans last year held back the iiu-estigation of frauds in postal affairs , the Democrats of the House clamored for opening the books. Judge Herrick challenges the NGAV York Republicans to open the books. It is the only possible Avay effectively to answer charges affecting the integ rity of a business administration. * * * Where is the administration going to get money to defray expenses and meet an iueA'itable recurrence of a deficit ? Will it sell bonds ? Will it impose more taxes ? It might do both. * * * Carl Scliurs only reflects sound , pop ular judgment when he says there , are "TAVO Roosevelts , the ideal , the legend ary Roosevelt , as he once appeared , and the real Roosevelt. " The real Roosevelt is the man who wants to be President for an indefinite indul gence of his ambition. s C * t The people all the people pay the bills of imperialism and a constantly increasing military establishment. * c * Judge Herrick said in his speech of acceptance : "My election as Governor AA'ill mean the restoration to their ap propriate sphere of all the different poAvers of the gOA-ernment , instead of all being centralized in the hands of the Executive. " And that , too , is what the election of Judge Parkei ; as Presi dent Avill mean for the Federal GOA-- ernment. * * * Republican campaign managers are assessing both parties in Alabama Avho are represented in Federal offices. There are a feAV Democrats in under the civil service. They are asked to make "as liberal contributions as pos sible. " * * Senator Isador Rayner , of Maryland : "Take Maryland out of the doubtful column. Our State is certain to go Democratic. I believe the same of NeAV York and West Virginia. The general outlook is all that any Demo crat couid Avish for. " Ijikc Jjod : o Also. There is something in the Roosevelt letter of acceptance which , with all its rough rider attributes , suggests the raucous bumptiousness of Henry Cabot Lodge. The junior Massachu setts Senator was among the first of the stand-patters. He hada way of answering Democratic inquiries in the Senate with insolent mannerisms with ( which , he asserted "we shall do what ; we please in our own good time. " He took the position that the majority alone Avas responsible for legislation , and interference was brazen imperti nence. The letter is almost as like lodge as Roosevelt It has the arro gance and contempt of opposition of both. It is easy to surmise a collabor ation between these two illustrious if ) friends- ; PARKER AND LABOR. JUDGE PARKER'S LABOR RECOR1 SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. Bis Decisions Have Been of Inestimabli Value to the Cause of Labor i Throughout the Union. Should Judge Parker be elected Pres ident of the United States , he could be safely trusted to uphold the interests of labor as against those who would oppress and degrade the American workingman. His record on this sulv ject Is clear and straightforward , There is no duplicity about it ; nc beating around the bush ; no carrying water on both shoulders the favorite method by which Mr. Roosevelt evades personal responsibility , and seeks to conciliate the trusts , while trying at the same time "to catch the labor vote. " Judge Parker made his record on the labor issue long before he was thought of for any other than judicial office. Doubtless his sympathy with labor and his keen sense of the rights of those who have to toil for a living are rooted in the fact that from the lirst he had to earn a living for him self , and worked for years at humble compensation while building up the reputation which helped to raise him to the highest judicial office in the State of New York. In Republican campaign literature it is stated of Theodore Roosevelt , as something to brag of , that "he never needed to do a day's workThis cannot be said of Judge Parker. He is a poor man to day , and from boyhood he has had to work for a living. The Republican boast that their party has nominated for President a man who "never needed to do a day's work. ' ' while the Democrats huve nominated a man who has always had to work to maintain himself and his family , illustrates the difference between the parties as well as the men ; between the party of aristocracy and oligarchy , which has named Roosevelt for head of the Na- tion , and the party of liberty and equal ity , Avith Parker for standard bearer. Roosevelt , the aristocrat , who , a Re publican campaign document says , "never needed to do a day's work , " is never able to speak of workingmen without a sneer , as when he said in his book , "Ranch Life , ' ' that "they ( cowboys ) are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers ; nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same breath. ' ' How different the tone which runs through the numerous decisions of Judge Parker in cases before him af fecting the rights of labor the rights of his fellow-citizens , Avhom , unlike Roosevelt , he does not regard as in feriors , but as equals in every respect to himself ! Labor , in the State of New York and in the United States , owes a large debt to the broad-minded decisions oi Judge Parker , who has steadfastly re fused to be swayed or warped from his consistent maintenance of every measure tending to secure to the work ingman the rights of which men of the Roosevelt stamp who , as boasted in Republican campaign literature , "never needed to do a day's work , " would like to deprive him. But for this attitude of Judge Parker , as a member and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals , laws intended to promote the interests of labor would have become dead let ters , and the workingman striving to better his condition with the aid of wholesome legislation , would have been at a grave disadvantage. It is not necessary , therefore , to guess at Judge Parker's course toward abor , should he be elected President. It is also certain that , with his strong regard for the Constitution , and .he rights which it guarantees to every citizen , Judge Parker , as President , would not be inactive , as Roosevelt has been , while the Republican Gov ernor of Colorado , or any other State , used the military , at the will of un scrupulous employers , to deprive citi zens of their constitutional rights , and to deport them from their places of residence. Roosevelt has by silence ind inaction tolerated these outrages , ind given encouragement to Republi can Governor Peabody and Republican -nilitia General Bell , of Colorado , to persist in their course of violence , op- u'ession and persecution of labor , al- : hough his sworn obligation as Presi dent leaves no doubt of his duty to in terfere. With Parker in the Fresi- lential chair Peabody and Bell would never have dared to deport miners from the State because they belonged o a labor union. Judge Parker's vigorous advocacy of he rights and dignity of labor is il- ustrated in his whole judicial career. In a strong dissenting opinion , case of Rodgers v. Coler , 1GU N. Y. ] , Judge Parker argued in defense of the right of the Legislature to require that pre vailing wages be paid to those em ployed upon State and municipal work. Never has a Judge used language clear er , or more direct and earnest than Judge Parker used in this case , which , in a great State like New York , paying out in the behalf of the State and its municipal divisions millions of dollars yearly to workingmcn , was of the ut most importance and value to labor throughout the Union. The New York State law providing that "all stone used in State and mu nicipal works , except paving blocks and crushed stone , shall be worked , dressed and carved within the State , " Judge Parker took the side of labor , and delivered an opinion in favor of the law , which was needed to prevent the cheap , unorganized labor of Ver mont , where Senator Proctor , one of Roosevelt's right hand men , controls the quarries , from driving the union stonecutters of New York out of their special field. Judge Parker , in the case of the Peo ple v. Hawkins , upheld the law requir ing that goods made in any penal insti tution be marked "convict made , " so that such goods should not be sold on tin equality with goods made by honest labor. Judge Parker delivered the opinion if the Court of Appeals sustaining the law , which provides that "no employe shall be required or permitted to .work in a biscuit , bread or cake bakery 01 confectionery establishment more thai sixty hours in any one week , or more than ten hours in one day. " Before this law bakers sometimes worked nearly twenty hours a day. and slept ii the bakeries , with results that can be imagined. One of the most important , and per haps the most important , of Judge Par ker's decisions , Avas that of the Na tional Protective. Association of Steam litters and Helpers et al. vs. James M dimming. The lower court had giver judgment virtually forbidding the strikers to interfere in any Avay Avitl the business of the employer , or to do any of the things which workingmen consider they have a right to do in or der to make a strike effective. Judge Parker delivered the opinion of the Court of Appeals , strongly upholding the rights of Avorkingmen on strike 01 about to strike , and laying a solid foundation for labor to stand on in all such matters in the future. These are but examples of the atti tude of Judge Parker toAvard labor from the very beginning of his career. They show him to be labor's friend in a real and practical sense. Ilis decis ions speak for themselves. They breathe that spirit of justice , impartial ity and fairness Avhich is all that labor asks for in the atVvocacy of its rights , and they prove Judge Parker to be en tirely fearless in his opposition to those grasping employers who , if they were not restrained by such decisions as those of Judge Parker , would seek to grind the very soul out of the working- man. man.With With Judge Parker in the White House American labor AA'ould have there a true and tried friend , not one , like President Roosevelt , who talks and vapors and then when an issue like that of the deported union miners in Colorado is presented to him shirks hi duty for fear of displeasing the rich Republican corporations that OAVU the mines. Judge Parker's record as a friend of labor speaks for itself. Every true friend of labor will vote for Parker. WARNING TO HEED- Rough Rider President Now Speak ing Soft But Holding Fast to His Big Stick. Speaking of Roosevelt's quiescent state in the campaign , and of his sup pressed volubility and inaction , the Houston ( Tex. ) Post shouts a note of warning Avhen it says : "The country is not to be deceived. If Mr. Roosevelt be elected he will then have the Avhip handle and the party managers and the people AA'ill be the cattle he Avill drive. We haAe seen how he smashed all precedent , rode dOAvn all consen-ative opposition and scorned all advice in his first term , de spite the fact that he Avas seeking the nomination. "There is no reason to doubt that , Avith a lease of four years in his OAvn elective right , he will follow his bent more impulsively and ruthlessly than he has done for the last three years. "All the fire he is now smothering Avill break loose then , and woe to the man , the race , the State , the section or the nation that brooks his imperious will. " Full of Wind. The Pullman Car Works closed Thursday , throwing 7000 men out of work. The Jeffersonville car works are fast coming to the same point , and nearly all the cement mills in Clark are idle. J. Kern is getting higher and liigher , and the full dinner pail is get ting full of yrinCL. Jeffersonville and. ) News. , - _ A . , NEGRO ON NEGRO. Conservative Advice by Thrift , IJye- putable Colored Citizen. Of all the speeches made during the recent session of the American Bank ers' Association , none has attracted greater attention than that of Mr. John Mitchell , Jr. . a negro , a respected cit izen and successful bank president , of Richmond , Ya. He discussed the color line in the South froin a point of A'iew which gained for him the respect and hearty applause of the thousand or more financiers who heard his re marks. The sum and substance of Mr. Mit chell's speech Avas that the industrious Avhites and blacks of the South are friends , and that there would be no such thing as a serious race question in the South , but for the good for noth ing loafers , of which he said each race has its share. "It is primarily the black loafers Avho cause the trou bles which beset our race , " said Mr. Mitchell , "and we negroes Avho are striving to better our condition and add to the moral and material Avelfare of our people despise them as thor oughly as do the whites. " Continuing. Mr. Mitchell said : "I am a product of Southern soil , was educated in Southern schools , have been a member of the City Council of Richmond , and have had the generous aid of leading Avhite citizens of that city in building up the business of the savings bank of which I am the President. Speak ing for myself , I can honestly say I have never been discriminated against Lecause of my color. A bank man aged by negroes could not exist in the South without the encouragement of the white business men. In Virginia alone negroes are operating banks having an aggregate capital of $250.- 000 and deposits of $300.000. Our Vir ginia negroes own property valued at $18,000,000 , and the crops raised by negroes throughout the South have an average value of $172,000,000 a year. When you hear a reputable Southern Avhite man denounce the negro , you may in almost very case be certain that he means the loafer , not the Avorker of our race. "In conclusion let me say. that if I have created a different impression from the one which some of you have received from other sources. I have fulfilled my mission. " Mr. Mitchell's speech was roundly applauded , and Col. Lowry , President of one of the na tional banks of Atlanta , Ga. , made a felicitous speech in response , confirm ing all that his felloAV brother had said as to the prime cause of AA'hatever an tagonism exists between Avhites and blacks. Mr. Bigelow , President of the American Bankers' Association , complimented the negro financier upon his speech and assured him that the association had listened to it with pleasure. TO BE REDEEMED. Assuring Outlook For Election Re sults in Maryland. The Baltimore Herald , an independ ent newspaper of Democratic proclivi- ties , but which supported the Republi can party in 1S06 and 1900 , has been investigating the political situation in Maryland and finds ample ground for the belief that five of the six Congress ional districts will be earned by the Democrats. The sixth district has a very large negro vote and will probab ly re-elect the Republican incumbent. The Herald says there is no more 3oubt about Maryland as to Presiden- : ial preference than there is as to Vir ginia. It looks for a majority for Par- considerably in excess of that gi.v- for Cleveland in 1892. SUN-SHINE. Republican Newspapers Never Weaker in Support of Their Ticket. If any one doubts that Republican harmony in New York should this year be spelled AA'ith a small "h , " let him glance oA'er the editorial columns of the Republican neAVspapers of New York City. The Sun , while it shines feebly for Bruce , Avho is running for second place on the State ticket , declares in the most cold-blooded way that "Higgins has neither the character nor the abil ity to qualify him for the Governor ship , but lie AA-ill serve as Avell as any one to point the Avay to OA'erwhelming and deserved disaster. " Just think of that for a paper "that shines for all. " The Press throws fragrant bouquets to Iliggins. but says , "An otherAA-ise excellent ticket has probably been dan gerously injured by the nomination of Bruce for Lieutenant-Governor , and whether Republicans can reconcile themselves to supporting him in suf ficient numbers to elect him will re main in doubt. " Think of that for a paper that boasts of its regularity in swalloAA'ing any sort of a ticket which the Republican bosses dare put up. To round out this impressive display of harmony and brotherly loAethe Wall Street Journal , in a double headed ed itorial , pelts the whole ticket Avith brickbats and decayed A'egetables. This able exponent of Republicanism de clares in so many words that the jig is up. "Under the incubus of Odell and Odelism , " at says , "the Republican State ticket is doomed to defeat. " The poor old Tribune will eA'idently be the sole supporter in New York City of Avhat the Sun is fond of calling "The Grocery Shop Ticket. " Thinking people are disgusted with the clap-trap about "Roosevelt's vig orous and courageous handling of the trusts. " If Roosevelt be really the her- cules Avho is clubbing the life out of the trusts , why are all the trust mag nates in favor of his election , and why. in heaven's name , should they be the chief contributors to his campaign fund ? Mr. Morgan and his co-workers are not fools. INDEPENDENTS ENTHUSIASTIC Gratification Over the Strength of State and National Tickets. A surprising and gratifying fact it is that almost Avithout exceptions the prominent independents in New York are quite as enthusiastic over the nomination of Judge Herrick for GOA-- eruor as over that of Judge Parker for President. John E. Parsons , Everett P. Wheeler , John G. Milburn , Fran cis Lynde Stetson and a host of others Avho have supported the Republican ticket for some years past have pub licly expressed their intention to A-ote and work for the overthroAV of Odell- ism as Avell as RooseA-eltism. The Democrats of New York , being of like mind , it is considered a certainty that the Empire State will give a large ma jority for both State and National tickets. Shy of the Subsidies. Mr. Fairbanks bemoans the fact that Americans are compelled to pay $150- 000,000 a year to foreign ship oAvners for the transportation of American cargoes , but he seems afraid to come out flat-footed for subsidies as a rem edy for the existing evil. Why afraid , Mr. Fairbanks ? Why balk at a propo sition which involves no worse rob bery of the people than is sanctioned and carried out under many schedules Df tlie Dingley tariff ? P CUBA ANDTHE PHILIPPINES THE LOGIC OF JUDGE PARKER'S POSITION. 'Consequences ' of ths War With Spain Involve the Grave Qastloa Whstiisr We Shall Remain a Republic. Was not the experiment of turning the Cubans loose to govern themselves good enough. Has not even a little time proved that they were capable oC self-irovernment ? Ami how is it with the Filipinos ? In those 2000 islands there is a saving proportion of intelligent people sensi ' ble'enough to govern the rest of them. They Avere our allies in the struggle Avith Spain. Avhom they had fought for nearly 200 years. Cuba's battle had been very much briefer. The Demo cratic party started in to force the Avar with Spain on the high ground of hu manity. The existing Republican Ad v. . ministration , for one reason and an other , held off the AA-ar as lone : : s it possibly could in the face of over- AA'helming public opinion. To the credit of some Republican patriots , but not of the party , there Avas a body of members of the House of that party , who joined cheerfully Avith the Demo crats Avho Avere clamoring for some thing of a definite and positive policy which should justify the olden boast for this Republic that it Avas the home of the brave and the land of the free , and that the harbors of all its long extending shores afforded haven for. the oppressed of all nations. For this the Democracy of Congress , indorsed by the Democrats of the United States and the patriotic , sympathetic people of this country , forced , drove and goaded the Republican Administration to go into the Avar Avith Spain. It was not to oppress anybody ; it AA-a * not in any spirit of bravado. The American people have ever been a peace-ioving population. They had their Avars enough and a plenty. They had fought each other to the bloody finish of better and happier mutual understanding. They Avent into that little fight Avith Spain , united and determined to win. They , did AA-iu , and the glory , scant as it Avas , Avas enough to go all around to be shared by our common country. Cuba AA'as freed and put Avhere she could govern herself. Exactly the same con ditions obtained and preA-ailed as to the Philippines. It was early an nounced to them that there would bo no conquest for territory. ( See Mc- Kinloy's papers. ) By all the truth o the history of this Republic they had every reason for faith in the sincerity , of American professions. Their lead ers of thought not the miserable Mo- ros Wood has been killing but right eously ambitious human beings , horne- lovinjf , home-preserA'ing people , had read Avitli thrills of delight the story , of America , the Republic of the United States ; read the words of the Declara tion of Independence , studied the meaning of our Constitution , and Avere satisfied. And IIOAV are they feeling noAV ? What security , what hope is held out to them in the professions and promises and pretenses of our Chief Executive , Avho has belittled and abused the statesmen who have made our Republic the boast of the highest attainment of human government" ; Definite promise of self-government was made to the Cubans and was kept. They have justified our confidence in them. A like promise Avas made to the Filipinos. It has not been kept. It Avill not be kept Avith Theodore Roose velt still President of the United States , and ambitions longer and in definitely to rule this country as he " has recently been dominating his own party. The last analysis of it all K shall i we remain a Republic or embark upon empire , which Avould mean our ccri i tain destruction ? "The people of the United State ? , " , as Judge Parker says in his letter of , ' acceptance , "stand at the parting of the Avays. " To return to the old right way oC the Republic he has maCe a noble ap- ' peal. He has met all the boastful challenges of the Republican President bravely , unshrinkingly. The people of the United States Avill endorse Judge Parker in November. GREAT DOMINANT ISSUE Is Cause of the People Against tha Trusts. W. E. Jenkins , of Baltimore , Presi dent Maryland Division Travelers' Protective Association , says : "Tallc about leading issues , there is no issue so dominant to-day among business men as the anti-trust issue. Compara tively feAV men > I meet on the road talk imperialism , or any other prominent question. The all-preA-ailiug topic with all classes of people is the greed Df the trusts as so forcibly illustrated in the case of the coal trust and the beef trust , both , of which appeal di rectly to every householder. Every woman Avho markets and shops appre ciates the importance of the trust question. There is none other so A-ital nthat appeals so directly to the vot- ng masses. Judge Parker's great de rision against the trust railroads in ? avor of commercial travelers , declar- ng the anti-scalping law unconstitn- ional , made the boys all happy. We ire in a condition to throw off otir oats and go to work for him with A'im. le has thousands of champions in the ield , and new recruits are added daily. t Aviil be a red hot figlit from now ; nt. " Stress of the Trusts. Frank Streat , of Flint , Mich , ex- 'resident United Commercial Travel- rs , says : "There is no class of citizens nirt more by the trusts than the re- ail storekeepers. First and foremost , rusts squeeze wages down to a point , -here the customers of these stores ave not the means to purchase any- Liing more than bare necessities f life , and in tens of thousands of rises ' not even these. Only the very , b'eapest goods are bought , and these re bought scantily. Children ara jantily clothed. The trusts are th ideous offspring of the Republican arty.-