Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 13, 1904, Page 4, Image 4
V THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1904. Tiie Omaiia Daily Bee. B. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. , - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daflv Kf fm-lthnut HnnMnvl One Vea.r..M.or Dally Bm and Sunday, One Year 6X Illustrated Bep. una Year 1 00 Sunday Mo.. On. Year 2.00 Saturday Bee, One Year J 60 Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. LOO ifbLIVERED BIVCABRIKK. Dally Bee (Without Sunday), per ropy.. Ic Daily (wiUiost Sunday), per week. ..12c Dal'.y bet (Including Sunday), per week. 17c Sunday Bee. per codv oc vi. iter w i-venlng. Bee (luldin Sunday), per week 12o C'omplalnta of Irregularity In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. , South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Street, t hlrago 1640 Unltv Building. New York-232x park Row Building. ashlngton frtl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. j .REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expres or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Only J-rnt stampn received in payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exoManRea, not accepted. THE BEE PLBLI8HINU COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, am.'. George, B. Tzschuck, aecretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evenlng-snd Sunday Bee printed during tlio month of June, 1904, was as follows: 1 ;..., 4to S .... 29,728 I i.S,m,7o 1 an.4.-t 17 20.BMO , 18 20.HS0 ' It 2M.12U W 20.U70 21 .20,740 23.... ,..2,700 .,.im,720 I ,20,7ftO f ,A21,7.K T ;.;.2,7fM I r.t.2,TlH I ,...av,H 23.... 54.... 2a.... 26.... 27.... SO, 720 ,1M1 ItU.TIMI 10.... a.... 11... . u.... 14.... ,.,t2W,4O0 .JW,HSO ,...ao,ooi 27,775 80,110 2 2,M0 2 SO.BKO li ,.i.ao,no 80 20,770 Total.j S83.0MA Less unaold and returned copies.... tt,7i; Net total sales....'.' 873,872 Dally average 20,112 OEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to b i ore me una mn day or June. a. u. lWi. (Seal) . r, . ; , . Ht B. HUNOATE, , Notary Public, Every ehoer for Parker Is applnusg for Grover Cleveland's rqpord. The scavenger law promises to prove a windfall for Omaha lawyers. Our police board truly decides that firewater and firemen" are Incompatible and cannot mix, at least in Omaha. An inexperienced man as county treas urer would have been swamped by the operation of the new . scavenger law in Douglas county. The generosity of the Russian char acter wa never so Btrongly shown as In the grace with which It turns over towns and forts to the enemy. No new paving in Omaha this year perhaps, however, the paving contract ors will Inform us whoa we may. expect them to let us have the work done. "Eat less meat In the heated season" is a good rule, to follow,, more especially Just now, with a strike in all the big meatpacking establishments threaten ing. Colonel Bryan has the solace of know ing that he will be the whole thing once more at the democratic state nom inating convention for, "Nebraska next month. . j Since the nomination of Parker and Davis the Watson and Tibbies boom has actually reached the point where the pictures of the candidates appear'ln the newspapers. Telegrams being received at Esopus would indicate that several well-known democrats did not mean what they said in 1806 and again. In 1900; but do they niean It nowt : Harvard university is to introduce the study of Jln,jltsu -presumably with the intention of nding a field of contest wherein it will have some show of win ning against Yale. Recent advices) would indicate that Bandit Ralsoull has been encouraged by the ease with which he connected with the Terdlcarls relief fund and that he Is already hungry for more. Three people have been killed as the result of republican primaries in West Virginia. West Virginia republicans should be more careful of their votes this year with a resident of .their, state running as candidate on the democratic .ticket. After baying attended five national conventions of his party W. II. Thomp son declares tha convention at St. Louis to have joeeu; best of all, although it doubtless suited hi in least of all. There Js nothing like looking for the sliver lining when the clouds roll up. Later developments will show whether the conference between the steamship companies over, liutnlgratlou rates is really for the purpose of restoring the former tariff or to call the attention of the possible Immigrants to the fact that the low prices will not coutinue for ever. Nebraska could without doubt have had the second place on tho Parker ticket had It only been bold enough to claim. But the candidate for vice presi dent launched by the Nebraska de niocraeya few months ago seems to have been entirely overlooked at 8t Louis, ' The World-Herald expresses the opin ion that the nomination of our fellow Nebrasktn, T. II. Tibbies, for the vice presidency on the populist - national ticket is not likely to iuterfere with his plans for the future. Who knows but that brother Tibbies' plans for the future contemplate revolutionizing the I'nlted States senate by the use of the gavel as Us presiding officer I LET WELL EXOVOH ALOSE. The railroad lawyers and tax agents who conducted the campaign of educa tion last year at an outlay of $30,000, ex pended prlnclpallyin subsidizing cheap editors and lubricating dear, lobbyists, are said to be preparing an onslaught on the State Board of Equalization, with a view to bulldozing the board into rats lng the assessments of other than rail road property on the plea that It has not been returned on the same ratio of val uatlon as the railroads. The plan of attack, as given out by Bob Clancy, the literary attache of John N. Baldwin, is disclosed through a double-shotted edito rial in the Blair Pilot, in which a stren uous effort is made to prove that the Nebraska railroads have been overval nod this year, and that an example is to be made of Douglas county, "the home of the tax agitators." With the kindest feelings towards the embattled railroad artillerists The Bee ventures the advice, without cost, that they had better "let well enough alone. In support of this advice It would call attention to the report of the Interstate Commerce commission, Issued within the last forty-eight hours, embodying railroad statistics for the fiscal year end lng June 30, 1004. According to the Interstate Commerce commission the capitalized value of rail roads in the United States, including the trunk linos, branch lines and side lines, broad gauge and narrow gauge, Is $&), 180 per mile. It goes without saying that the Nebraska railroad mileage will aver age up in its earning capacity, and con sequently its real value, with an equal amount of mileage' in any 'other state west of the Alleghanles. , Computed at the par value of stocks and bonds on the basis of $63,1 86 per mile, the actual value of the railroads in Nebraska would aggregate $363,051, 800, which, assessed at one-fifth, would have made their assessed value $72,700,- 272, while as a matter of fact they are assessed at a fraction less than $47, 000,000. Assume, however, that the bonds and stocks of the railroad mile age of Nebraska are worth only 80 cents on the dollar in other words, that the tangible property and franchises are worth 20 per cent less than their capl tallzation the aggsegate value of the railroads of Nebraska would be $201, 161,088, which, reduced to one-flftr gives $08,232,217, as against a fraction less than $47,000,000 of its actual as sessment. Will any reputable railroad manager or magnate contend that the railroads of Nebraska are worth less than 80 cents on the dollar of capitalization? They certainly must concede that the bonds, which constitute more than one-half of that capitalization, are worth par or within a, few cents of par, and 20 per cent off from the entire capitalization would leave the stocks at about 60 cents on the dollar, which is certainly ex tremely low. In spite of this low esti mate the railroad assessment as made this yeariB still over $11,000,000 below the one-fifthof the capitalized value of the roads after deducting 20 per cent for possible shrinkage. For all these reasons ' and several others we submit to the gentlemanly tax agents and railroad lawyers whether It would not be good tactics on their part to follow the famous advice of the late Senator ' Hanna and "let welj enough alone?" WILL THEY STULTIFY THEMSELVES 1 Of the more than six million demo crats who voted for W. J. Bryan un questionably a large majority of then! sincerely believed in the . principles avowed in the Chicago and Kansas City platforms and especially in the money plank. Those who . were not for free silver but supported the ticket In the last two national campaigns In order to be "regular" constituted ' a minority of probably not more than one-fifth of the democratic vote. Nor Is it to be doubted that a very large number of the adherents of Mr. Bryan in the last two national campaigns still think that the financial plank of the platform of 1800 and 1900 was sound and right and therefore that the money question is not dead. These democrats have now presented, for their support a candidate for the presidency who says that he regards the gold standard as firmly and irrevo cably established and shall act accord ingly if elected. Will they stultify themselves by voting for him? Will the millions of democrats who have earn estly and sincerely denounced the gold standard, charging that it is a device of the money power to control the gov ernment and enthrall the people, recant all they have said,, repudiate the utter ances of years, and support for the pres idency a man who is unqualifiedly com mitted to the .gold standard and Its maintenance? The pertinence and the Importance of the question are obvious. It is in the thought 'of hundreds of thousands of democrats. Already there are indica tions of revolt against the St Louis candidate. . Whether or not the feel ing being manifested will assume ser ious proportions cannot flow be pre dicted with any . degree of certainty, but it is by no means Improbable that it will grow, especially - among western democrats. It is most natural that they should associate . the attitude of Judge Parker with the influence of the money power of the east, with the plu tocracy of Wall street ' They are not likely to be satisfied with being told that before his nomination Judge Par ker was known 'to be a gold standard man. If there was such knowledge It was carefully withheld from, the con vention and Parker's chief champion, David B. Hill, stated that he did not know what the' candidate's financial views were. Unquestionably If Parker bad sent his gold standard dispatch be fore the nomination be would have been defeated. His representatives In the convention realised that be could not be nominated on a gold standard, plat form and therefore agreed to Ignore the money question. It would be idle to make any estimate of the number of democratic votes Parker will lose. by reason of his dicta torial message to the St. Louis conven tion, but that the number will be large is not to be doubted and they will not all be In the west. There are many thousands of democrats in the eastern states, even in New York, that are not favorable to the gold standard. Many of these will not renounce the position they have so long held by supporting Parker. We confidently believe that the course of the democratic can didate has improved republican chances everywhere except in the south and possibly has materially benefited them even in one or two of the southern states. Instead of harmonizing the democracy It has widened the breach that existed before the meeting of the St. Louis convention. ' rsma 1TEWTORK OVBERSATORIAL COyTEST. The state of New York occupies a commanding position In the politics of this year. Not only are the republican and democratic candidates for the pres idency citizens of the Empire state, but a governor is to be chosen and both parties are at present giving even more attention to the matter of the selection of gubernatorial tickets than they are to the national candidates. It is of course recognized that the contest on governor will have a more c less de cided Influence on that for president, so that the leaders of each party are seeking the most available men to head the 'state tickets. Severs.! prominent republicans are be ing considered as possible candidates, among them former Secretary Root, who would make a strong leader, but he is not seeking the nomination and is understood not to desire it. If he could be induced to accept a nomination the republicans would be assured of a most aggressive campaign, for Mr. Root is a man of great energy as well as ability. He is moreover very popular with the masses of the party. With Mr. Root as their candidate the republicans would feel that a campaign would be made in the state as thorough, as dig nified, as convincing and as successful as was the campaign made by Theodore Roosevelt himself when be was a can didate for governor. Among possible democratic candidates for governor Mayor McClellan appears to be most prominent in the attention of the party and if he desires the nom ination he probably will get it There is no doubt that he would prove to be a strong man, for it is said his popularity in New York city has been steadily growing since he became mayor. He has not in all things pleased Tammany and this fact has been to his advantage in popular regard, though it may have lost him the favor of some of the Tam many politicians. If not a "pivotal" state this year, New York will certainly be '"the center of" political interest .and the' hardest fighting will be done there. . LAY IT UNDER THE TABLE. The proposition submitted to the re publican committee of Douglas county by Tom Blackburn should be summa rily laid under the table, not because it emanates from Blackburn, . but be cause it is not debatable. The proposi tion is , unrepublican, unprecedented, and bears on Its. face the rankest dis crimination. From time immemorial the functions of the congressional committee in every district of the United States have been to name the place and fix the time for holding the nominating convention and to apportion the delegates to which each of the political subdivisions (of which the county is the unit) that make up the district are 'entitled. Nowhere has a congressional committee under taken to arrogate to Itself the right to subdivide a single county, or for that matter all of the counties, Into voting districts. Nowhere has a congressional committee attempted to deprive the gov erning bodies of the respective counties of their legitimate prerogative to make their own apportionment within the county. Nowhere in this country is there a precedent for singling out one county for a primary election, under ar bitrary rules and conditions, while other counties in the district are permitted not only to dispense with primaries, but to allow delegates elected by a former county convention to act in future con ventions. This Is precisely the propo sition of the committee of which Black burn is the sole maker and owner. The Blackburn proposition should be laid on the table, furthermore, because It is tantamount to a public declaration of a lack of confidence In the Integrity of the committee of Douglas county. There would be no objection to holding Joint primaries, so called, but the con gressional committee really has nothing to do with Joint primaries for the nom ination of members of the legislature, candidates for .county offices and can didates for the Board of Education. That matter is left to the discretion of the county and city committees. When the congressional committee has decided when and where the convention to nominate the congressman is to be held and apportioned the number of del egates Its duty will have been dis charged. The counties will be free to elect the delegates Just as they deem best and these delegates - prop erly certified, either by the election of ficers, If they are elected by direct vote, or by the chairman and secretary of the county committee if elected in the county convention, will be entitled to admission in the congressional conven tion. In the present Instance It Is proposed that the delegates elected In Washing ton and Sarpy counties by the county conventions called to select delegates to the state convention shall be duly ac credited and recognised as representa tives of Washington and Sarpy counties in the next congressional convention, but that ta republican of Douglas county shall hold primaries under spe cific rules and conditions that will de prive them of the privilege of electing these delegates in a county convention. Whether these rules and conditions are satisfactory or not, the congressional committee has no right to prescribe them or dictate what they should be. If, however, Blackburn and his com mittee insist upon running the prima ries of Douglas county for congressional nominations, let them assume the au thority and responsibility both and foot the bills. The county committee can look on with equanimity, but it certainly should not stultify itself by abrogating the powers preperly vested in county committees, not only In Nebraska, but everywhere in the United States. After all the heated atmosphere to which we have been treated by the dem ocratic press regarding the evils of the money power, their two chosen standard bearers are both men of wealth, gold standard men, pure and simple, and the power behind the nominations has been Wall street and the trusts, whose op position to President Roosevelt is be coming more and more pronounced every day. The trusts fear a curbing of their power at the hands of the repub lican administration, hence their trans fer of allegiance, which has been wel comed by the democratic party. If this is not a complete reversal of the tradi tional policy of the democratic party, what is it? Its policy of vacillation and expediency does not stand comparison with the consistent policy of the repub lican party, made up of the great middle class of the nation, in whom, on the last analysis, lies the nation's strength. As a direct result of the insane cele bration of the Fourth of July in Omaha one man has lost his life at the age of 34, owing to the premature discharge of a 22 blank cartridge that burned the palm of his right hand and became fatal through lockjaw. Who is responsible for the untimely taking off of this man in the prime of life? The coroner's Jury will say that he came to his death by accident The court of public opinion should say that he came to his death by the reckless disregard of unwritten laws that command every community to pro vide safeguards against Just such deadly accidents by the suppression of Insane Fourth of July celebrations. The report of the Interstate Commerce commission showing that 0,640 peo ple were killed and 76,553 were in jured by railroad accidents In this coun try last year, proves the necessity for greater care on the part of railroad man agers and persons connected with the operation of trains. America has the highest percentage of casualties of all the countries of the earth, and the only action taken looking to improved condi tions is the annual comment of the newspapers following the publication of the official figures. W hile the laws passed by congress for" life-saving devices on cars are in a great measure Ignored by the railroad companies. The attempt of the World-Herald to blackwasb County- Treasurer Fink 'be cause, in the discharge of his duties as prescribed by law" and interpreted by the courts, he has published the delin quent tax .list in The Bee, is not likely to reflect on Mr. Fink with the rank and file of taxpayers, . although his action was doubtless a- sore disappointment to the popocratic paper, If anyone is at fault in the matter it is not Mr. Fink, but the board of commissioners, who failed to act within the prescribed time because they wanted to give the World Herald a cinch on the Job. The Board of Fire and Police Com missioners Is to be commended for its enforcement of the rule by which intem perance is made a cause of removal for any member of the police or fire depart ment No man is fit to stand guard over the life and property of this community who indulges excessively In drink, and for the same reason no man who goes on periodic sprees should be retained on the fire force. Doesn't Jleed the Money. Chicago Record-Herald. Lord Kitchener has mads up his mind never to marry. In other words, he wishes American glrla to understand that he doesn't need the money. PaaUblas; the Soevealr Fiead. Brooklyn Eagle. A costly table In tha Japanese section at tha St. Louis fair has also been ruined by vandals, who required pieces of It to keep as souvenirs. How would It do to collect tha ears 6f the vandals as sou venirs of a happily departing species? Also, One Death. Minneapolis Journal. Before the Fourth the Omaha city ooun ctl decided that It was not right to de prive tha dealers In fireworks of their profits. Twenty Omaha people were maimed on the Fourth, several of them for life. Tha dealers, however, have a nlo profit. The Rasebad Ual Lottery, Boston Globe. Uncle Sam's laws against lotteries are strict, but the Rosebud reservation draw ing is very like a lottery. There are x.00 quarter sections to be allotted, and of these it is estimated that 1.600 are valuable. For tha first number In the drawing there is a standing offer of $10,000. while the first 100 numbers are estimated to have a cash value of 15,000. However, the drawing schema is better than the Oklahoma rush. Danger la Tea Much Harry. Washington Post. It Is charged that while only trained, high-grade men can operate trains that are not fully equipped with all the latest Im provements, tha Installation of these im provements la often used as an excuse for employing Inferior men, thus offsetting sny measure of safety that might have been added by the Improved equipment. The public, after all, is to blame. Every man, of course, regrets the lose of life in rail way accidents and is ready to censure the managers for running trains at too high a rate of speed, but when he starts on a trip he wants the upeed limit removed. The nation is In a hurry and the railroad com pany that proposed to lessen the speed of trslns for the express purpose of reducing the chances of accidents would promptly be ridiculed es an old fogy outfit and its business would f te lu Oval. ROVXD ABOUT XEW YORK. Rleples aa the Carrent af Life la the Metropolis. Moralists endeavor to Impress upon man kind that no good comes from swearing, but there are exceptions, especially In the matter of tax values. In Omaha, for In stance, no material advantage Is gained by swearing after the schedules are In. The ebullition is useful only In relieving the pressure on the hot air tank. New Tork City presents sn altogether different aspect to the swearing multitude because swearing there counts for much. By that method the assessed valuation of personal properly shrunk tSS.OOO.OOO this year. Only five New Yorkers whose personalty assessment was over $1,000,000 did not have their assess ments reduced by the swearlng-off process, They are Andrew Carnegie, whose assess ment of 15.000.000 is the largest In the list; Russell Sage, who pays personal tax on 12,000.000 of property; Frederick Vanderbilt. assessed for $2,000,000; Alice Vanderbilt. $1,000,000, end W. K. Vanderbilt. $1,000,00), The largest reduction was the cutting off of $1,700,000 from the $2,009,000 assessment of John Jacob Astor. Alfred O. Vanderbllts assessment was reduced from $l,500,ono to $250,000. J. P. Morgan's $fi00.0C0 assessment was reduced to $400,000. The original secernent on personalty amounted to $4,5JS. KS4.3M. Almost every one Included In the list for assesments visited the office of the tax department during the time allowed for rectification of the records. The total of personalty left subje -t to tax after the swearing off is $626,071.$7i:. With the steadily Increasing population of New York there Is a corresponding In crease in rents. While this would no doubt go' on under any system based on the pres ent plan of ground ownership there are some phases of It which aggravate the situ ation snd which are bitterly complained against There- Is a practice popular with fotelgnera, particularly Italians, of leasing tenements for three, Ave and ten years. In this way many future purchasers are broken In. This leasing process, so popular In Mulberry and Mott streets, Is not re garded favorably by philanthropists. -It Is complained that Inasmuch as few owners will lease an entire building for much less than the rentals bring the lessee Is obliged to grind the tenants In order to recoup himself. Tenement workers, indeed, have occasionally met this leasing practice in ugly form. There are many Italian mer chants on a large scale who Invest their earnings In tenements In the Italian quar ter. A house In the Italian quarter brings from $20,000 to $30,000, of which the larger amount usually remains on bond and mort gage. The humble purchaser always moves Into the house, acts as Janitor, rent Collec tor and repair man and pays off a good part of the mortgage every year, until he becomes the unencumbered owner. The German emperor has determined to confer decorations on those who risked their lives In saving passengers of the Ill fated steamboat General Slocum, recently burned In the river at New York. As the former ruler of many who Ipst their lives on the vessel, he has Instructed Consul General Buenes to procure for him a list of names of those whose rescues were dis tinguished by heroism. It was he who first cabled for a list of the dead, which was promptly sent. While this list was being prepared, however, another request was re ceived for the names of the bravest three women nurses. This Consul General Bue nes submitted to Health Commissioner Dar lington, who is now engaged in the deli cate task of picking these from among the many women who did noble service on that occasion. The erase for trading stamps that hns seised the metropolis has, It would seem, given birth to swindling companies, and the authorities are being kept busy in Investi gating complaints. The latest scheme Is to establish a "cash stamp" corner. The tradesman buys stamps of the company In lots of 5,000, at the rate of $4 per thou sand, and gives them to his customers, one stamp for every ten-cent purchase. He signs a contract to redeem the stamps presented by customers In books of 1,000, giving goods from his stock to the value of $2.25. The company agrees to purchase from the dealer the redeemed stamps, pay ing him $2.25 a thousand. In cash or credit If all the stamps Issued were redeemed the company would make a profit of $1.75 on every thousand, less expense of desk room, rent and printing. The plan of the swindlers Is to flood a district with stamps, take the money of tradesmen, and perhaps redeem a few lots of stamps, but when the time comes for the redemption of any great number of books the offloe of the concern will be found vacant and the swindlers missing. Popular actresses made in the past from $300 to $1,600 a year on the sale of their photographs, but now this source of rev enue Is altogether lost to them. "I," said a popular actress, "drew from my photographer, up to ten years ago, a regular annual Income of t00. I was under contract to pose only for him; he had the exclusive sale of my pictures, and on each picture that he sold he paid me a royalty. "That Is the way It used to be with all popular actresses. They signed papers to the effect that they would pose only for one photographer, and he signed papers to the effect that he would pay them a royalty on each of their pictures that he sold. Thus they made easily from $5 to $25 a week. "No such pleasant condition exists to day. The change Is due to that perfecting In the half-tone process whereby the maga stfies, the weeklies and the newspapers can reproduce photographs beautifully." When the case of Wlnford Burkhart, a former soldier In the Philippines, charged with abandonment by his wife, came up be fore Judge Hlgglns in Jersey City the other day and the court was Informed that Mrs. Burkhart was at the Jersey City hos pital too 111 to appear at the hearing, he left the bench and called up the hospital over the telephone. "Hello! Is this Mrs. BurkhartT" he asked, after she had been called to the 'phone. "Well, this is Judge Hlgglns of the crim inal court." "What do you want of me, your honor?" "I want you to tell me the story of your husband's Ill-treatment of you," Judge Hlg glns answered. "Well, judge, It was like this: He slapped an army officer in the face over In the Islands. They sentenced him to five years' Imprisonment. I went to see President Roosevelt pleading for my husband's free dom, and he was released. Then I got him a Job. And, Judge, soon after that, with out sny cause,' he deserted me." "I'm much obliged to you, madam," the Judge answered, hanging up the phone. Returning to the court room he said to Burkhart, who Is 25 years old: "I'll hold you in $250 bonds, and you must pay your wife $3 a week." Not being able to furnish bond, Burkhart went to Jail. Like the shade of Hamlet's father the monument to Sunset Cox In Cooper square continues to move uneasily about through the lanes and plasas of this neighborhood. .When one rides downtown on a Madison avenue ear in the morning he sees the bronse figure of tha stateman at the front door of John Wanamaker's shop, and when ha returns In the evening he finds the statue communing with Peter Cooper a block away. There has beei so much of excavation work in this neighborhood In the last year that poor old Sunset has shifted around fifty times. He is the brum ghost of Ntw York. DEMOCRACY'S LEADER. Ixulsvllle Courier Journal (denv): It Is a good ticket. It Is a strong ticket. It Is a winning ticket. And it ought to be to every Intelligent and loyal democrat an acceptable ticket. Chicago Tribune (rep.): As a cltlien and a Jurist, Alton B. Parker has been upright, clean-minded and honorable. The demo cratic party has done well In presenting to the country a candidate of such personal rectitude. Philadelphia Record Idem ): After eight years of political nightmare the democratic party has shaken off Its delusions, recov ered possession of itself and of Its faculties and resumed Its historical place as the conservator and defender of the rights and Interests of the common people. Chicago Post (rep.): The party Is to be congratulated on its choice. It has se lected a strong man, a man of unusual In tellectual force and sterling charatcer, a type of our best clUsenship. Judge Parker Is a fit leader, and, although he has de voted himself sealously to his profession, he Is no novice in politics, snd for years has been a recognised power In democratic councils. Pittsburg Dispatch lnd.): The moat hit ter partisan will concede to Judge Parker with gladness the high personal character which Is essential to an ssplrant to this most exalted office of all known on earth As to his qualifications as a statesman the people must await the deevlopments of the campaign to discover, and as to his fitness for the great position for which his grooms men have nominated him doubtless the world will never know more than now. Springfield Republican (ind.): In personal Intercourse, Judge Parker, according to all accounts. Is a kindly, tactful man and well adapted to-dealing with all sorts of men. Not the least valuable characteristic of the man as the democratic candidate, more over. Is that in personality. Judicial type of mind and steady, well-poised intellectual processes, he stands as the antithesis of his formidable opponent. All this can now fairly be said of Judge Parker, whose char acter and policies will become more and more defined as the weeks pass by. POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS. New1 York Sun: A sunrise nomination, but a sunset platform! New York Tribune: Where are those perspicacious romancers who have been telling us about the "pathetic" figure cut by William J. Bryan In the St. Ixmls con vention? Chicago Post: Esopus sends out a seem lngly convincing campaign cry. Parker has passed the parish church plate for fifteen years, and neither Parker nor the plate has been found wanting. Philadelphia Press: Judge Parker's mother is reported to have said that she attributes his success In good part to a generous application of the rod In his youth. Other mothers will please take notice. New York World: Fancy William Jen nings Brysn st the head of a two-thirds majority surrendering unconditionally to the minority on the vital plank of the plat form! Bryan may be a demagogue, but he Is not a coward. Cleveland Leader: How that middle name of Hon. Henry Gassaway Davis would have fitted some politicians! Only In the sense that money talks, however, can that amus ing middle name be said to be appropriate. Davis was never guilty of much speech making. Springfield Republican: David B. Hill Is not reputed to be an emotional man, yet after the nomination of Parker had been made he Is reported to have "laughed and cried alternately." It will, perhaps, be In teresting to observe what he does last of all, when this campaign Is over. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: A man in his 81st year occupies second place . with Parker. Should he succeed to the presi dency he would not last long. In case of his death or disability the secretary of state would become president. Is Hill slated for Parker's secretary of state? Portland Oregonlan: The picture of Richmond Pearson Hobson delivering an Impassioned harangue before the demo cratic convention and the picture of Rich mond Pearson Hobson on the deck of the Menimao before Santiago show what a vast descent there is from the ideal to the real. PERSONAL NOTES. The youngest member of the democratic national committee Is R. A. Billups of Oklahoma. He is only 24 years old. Senator T. C. Piatt has purchased Villa Eden at Highland Mills, N. Y., to please his wife, who says she Is tired of "living around In hotels." Judge Parker's mother says she used to whip him frequently. He will realise the utter triviality of that kind of whipping after November 8. Washington A. Roebltng of Trenton has given $10,000 to the fund to establish new buildings for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y., destroyed by fire recently. A foreign observer, after a trip in this country, wrote a magaslne article In which he declares that Americans sre totally without grace and asks: "How could we expect to find grace In a country where the men chew tobacco and the women gum?" David Rankin of Tarkio, Missouri's farmer king, was given a handsome leather couch by some of his employes on his seventy-ninth blrthdsy, which arrived last week. "Boys," said the vigorous old man, "I've got a lot of these things in the house, but I never have time to use them." AS LONG AS THEY LAST ' $15.00 Regular Price $20.00 to $30-00. Every Business Suit goes for $15.00 Every Outing Suit-goes for $1.00 Every Rain Coat, Ladies or Mens 3 31 off Every Straw Hat ....2? Per Cent Off Every Pair Odd Trousers 33i off This Sale for Cash Only, This is our regular stock and there U ABSOLUTELY no reservation on the articles advertised. , Fantam Street KOW FOR CAMPAIO FrDGE. Enltahtenfna- tha Peaale aa the Aetlr. Itles af Oreataeaa. Chicago Inter Ocean. As the crisis approaches, mors of th habits and customs of the Dweller at Esopus are revealed. Every day humsi traits are shown. The simple II f Is opene to view through the special correspondent snd the photographer. On Wednesday morning Judge Parkei took a swim before the camera an Wednesday afternoon, with the aaelstanrt of two hlrrd men and two grandchildren he drov Mary Jane, the white lamb will two Mack legs, out of the public rivei road back into the Parker grounds. Ot Wednesday evening he sat on the porcl and rested. The world knows that these things hap pened at Esopus on Wednesday. A weel ngo It would not have cared a rap ahou: them. But fame and the special corre spondent have seised upon Judge rarkcr an his Jeffersonlan simplicity, and the dem ocratlc candidate finds himself In the po sltlon of the famous cltlien of Oyster Bay Their esses. Indeed, are parallel snd an sure to give rise to a campaign of per sonai Information that will be more ex citing than any campaign of persona) or atory possibly could be. May we not ex pect something like this: Thn president cot JUdre P a rker'i up with an appetite breakfast conslstec this mrtmlng and ate of muffins, two eggi heartily of bacon and esRs, of which he rrom tne pet nen o1 on of his grand whs always fond dur ing his ranch life In children, and adlst of blackberries. Th distinguished Juris' prefers his eggs don on both sides. Hi often calls for a sec ond dish of berries the west. A Rocky rora cantaloupe and a glnss of milk fol lowed. Or this: The president spent Judge Parker spill the morning punch- ha'f a cord of wood lng the bag in his sfter he had taken gymnasium and box- his morning swim lng with the chll- today. Although he dren. Revolver prac- says nothing and will tlce in the afternoon have nothing to sav showed that Mr. .until notified of his Roosevelt was as nomination, around skillful as ever In Kttopus It Is gener hitting the bullae e.jally known thai lJudge Parker hut Iflxed Ideas on th jsubject of splitting (wood as an exer iclse. Or this: When the presl-. Judge Parker has dent had finished his given up coffee on breakfast of cold the advice of hit sliced tuun, fouriphyslelan. Weeds In eggs, and a newithe potato patch breakfast food this claimed his attention, morning, he or ganl ltd Archie, Quentln, and Theo dore, Jr.. Into a lawn and with his two grandchildren ht spent a busy morn ing, judge iMrkei mowing party, and had .Ittie to say to before noon the lawn the correspondents at Oyster Bay waslwho - were looklna looking spick and over the fenoe, and span. The lawn wiii'when asked what be bo mowed every thought ot the action Thursday after this, at St. Louis lntl In the afternoon the mated that he would president took a await the notifies horseback ride. Ition committee. Breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and tha physical exercises of presidential candi dates are not the only things that It Is the duty of the special correspondent to tell about, however. Even tha animals at Esopus and Oyster Bay take on a national Interest at this time, snd we nay .expect to real .that: TjAltm Mirii A lLTr Jim Ik fancy bred hen thatjwhlte lamb with the was given tne presi- diock less, sot into dent by a neighbor, more trouble this has been laying blue afternoon when she eggs. This freak ofls'.lpped down the Helen Maria's was cliff near the river unaccounted for un-jand was found hang til yesterday, wheivlng by the rope that one of the Roosevelt had attached her to children was deteoted'her stake. Judge coming rrom the Parker, ills grand hennery with a mis- children, two hired cnievous smiie. a men. and a corns or brush and a cup oficorrespondents res dye, cued Mary Jane Just in time to prevent strangulation. For we are, after all, a human interest people, and whatever cdncerns our presi dential candidates and their dally life Is sure to lure the public to read the fudge pages of the great American newspapers. LAUGHING LINES. "They say the stork has no voice." "It doesn t need any. It has a loud-voiced proxy in nearly every family. "Chicago Tribune, "Runnybout has a beautiful automobile suit and hat, but no auto." "No, he is having the machine enameled to match the clothes." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "United we stand!" thundered the demo cratic orator In the convention. "Oh, I don't know," interrupted an ob servant brother, "It seems to me that di vided we stand." Cleveland Leader. "Why Is gunpowder like baking powder?" "31ve it up." "They are both used In making crackers." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mistress We shall shut up ths house for a few days, Norab. Ws are going to Devil's lake. Norah (crossing herself) The saints pre ss rve us! Chicago Tribune. HOT TIMES IN GEORGIA. Atlanta Constitution. Hot times, believers I Dey got ms oa ds run; But de watermllllon's yander, with his ripe side ter de sun; En de peach Is rosy red Not too high up overhead. En in spite er all de weather I'm a-havin' er my funl Though de white man got me gwlne fum de breakln' er de day. En de mule Is In de furrer, en s-leadln' er de way. Though de furrer's mighty long. Still I'm slngln' er s song, En sometimes I sits as happy as s mockln' bird in Mayl But I thump de watermllllon, whar he klvertn' de groun". En I knows, de way he answers, dat his health Is good en soun'! Though de weather make me run, Oh. fm havtn' er my fun. En Georgy Is de Promts' Lan'ao, shake de peaches down I t i I