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WHBlf OUT Or TOWlt.
afeserlkers IntIii taa city tva.
raurllr tkeeU kav Tk
saaUl. t b.sa. A a 4 rasa will fc
; as ottos) as rat4.
About ths last call for the open
work hose, of both the lawn and the
other kind. ' "
Chairman KeiWr need - not worry.
He will receive plenty of advice while
he la on the Job. '
"Art .we civilized?" asks the Wash
ington , Post. Well, sometimes yoo
don't act Ilka it.
Worry over the probable car short-
axe increases ag worry over the possi
ble crop shortage disappears.
The physician with, a real cure for
nervousness lugb't, to do a good busi
ness just now at Springfield, 111.
Candidate Sherman's whiskers can
not be brought to the front in this
campaign. They1 are side Issues.
Paris reports that the next change
in style will reduce women's hats to a
very small site. And the bills? . -
The laboring men of the nation are
making it plain that they do not need
any hetp in "delivering" their votes.
Mr. Bryan carried Kansas the year
that, corn was selling in that state at
10 cents a bushel and wheat at 50
cents.
Mr. Bryan will make only about 150
speeches In the present campaign.
That's comparative silence for Mr.
Bryan.
The Geological Survey reports that
the earth vis drying up. That is where
th earth is different from the spell
binders. Minnesota prohibitionists by mis
take have elected a aaloon keeper to
office and he refuses to resign. That's
"one on the house."
4 The premature explosion of the rail
way" employes' alate Is furnishing
about .the, only excitement of the clos
ing days of the primary.
: The weather man and the farmer are
working side by side just at present,
and Old King Corn'a plumed head
never tossed more proudly.
Maine, Vermont, Arkansas and
Georgia hold their elections in Septem
ber nd October:. It ia conceded that
Arkansas will go democratic.
The stork has left a son at the home
of. Senator and Mre. Beveridge of In
diana. ' Senator Beveridge endorses
al) of President Roosevelt's policies.
Chairman Mack says the democratic
national committee has a flat pocket
book. Apparently, there is no way to
guarantee deposits in the democratic
bank.
Ambassador Thompson escaped all
the manifold dangers that beset the life
of a freight ;brakemn and. railroad
superintendent, to be finally knocked
out. by a bicyclist. Such is fate.
The Russian government strongly
disapproves of plana being made for a
general celebration of Tolstoi's birth
day. Tolstoi has not done much to
make the Russian government, fee)
glad be was born.
A New Orleans man who started the
report' that yellow fever had appeared
In tie city explains that it waa "only
a" joke." The man who starts that
kind of a joke I. ought to be tendered
some decoration by his admiring fel
low townsmen, v
XR. BRTAX 01 TBX TUCSTS.
"The democrstlc psrty hss been
urging, yesr after year, the strict en
forcement of the Sherman anti-trust
law." said Mr. Bryan in his speech at
Indianapolis On occasion of tbr notifi
cation of Candidate Kern, and the
statement Is In keeping with most of
the arguments and declarations made
through the rest of, his speech. The
Sherman anti-trust law has been on
the statute books for eighteen years.
In four years of that time the demo
crats were in complete control of both
branches of congress, jf which Mr.
Brysn was a member, yet the record
fails to disclose one effort of the party
to secure the enforcement of the law.
The first real step In that direction
was taken under a republican ad
ministration, which, by an amendment
to the law,, covering the rebate fea
ture of trust abuses, made effective
enforcement of the law possible.
In arguing in favor of the Denver
platform's proposition to prohibit a
corporation from controlling more than
0 per cent of the total amount of any
product consumed in the United States
Mr. Bryan declares that "when a cor
poration controls 60 per cent of a
product It supplies 40,1)00,000 people
with that product.". This might be
important, if it were true. But when
ever such a condition haa even been
approached experience haa proven that
the field Is sufficiently Inviting to In
duce Independent concerns to combat
the trust. The alleged monopolies of
which Mr. Bryan complains are theo
retically useful, but are practically
Impossible. No one knows -this better
than Mr. Bryan, who prefers to deal
In theories rather than'" established
facts.' .
The traveling man la the' object of
deep concern on Mr. Bryan's part. In
1896 Mr. Bryan exuded . volumes of
oratory and rhetoric to prove that if
the free silver fad was, rejected by the
American voters the traveling man
would have to pack his grip and hunt
another job, as the country would go
to the bow-wows and people would not
have the money with which to buy
goods, even if they wanted them. This
year Mr. Bryan is predicting that the
traveling salesman will have to quit
the road unless the democratic posi
tion on trusts is ratified by democratic
success at the polls in November. The
mere fact that there are more travel
ing men on the road today, working
for better wages than ever before and
ppushlng the products of competing
manufacturers and jobbers in every
line of commodities, does not bother
Mr. Bryan at all,
On the proposition that trusts, or
licensed corporations, should sell their
products "to all purchasers in all parts
of the country at the same terms,
after making , due allowance for the
cost of transportation," Mr. Bryan
runs directly counter to a proposition
laid down' by, him in his address be
fore the, Chicago conference on trusta
In 1899. This would absolutely de
stroy competition and make the travel
ing man, for 'whom Mr. Bryan is so
keenly concerned, wholly unnecessary.
In his Chicago speech Mr. Bryan de
nounced the trusta because they com
pelled the man who owned an article,
wool, for instance, to sell to one man
at one price all over the United States.
If Mr. Bryan would have the corpora
tions sell their products at une price
everywhere why should he not allow
them to buy their raw materials at
one uniform price all over the country?
No one will argue with Mr. Bryan
on the necessity of . controlling and
regulating corporations of all kln.de
In their relations to the public, but
thinking men will be slow to agree
with the remedies he proposes. The
remedy will come through the correc
tion of abuses that grow out of opera
tions of the so-called trust?, in any
attempt to stifle t Industry or prevent
competition, and cannot be found, as
Mr. Bryan' suggests, in an effort to
limit ownership in corporations to 25
per cent of stock, or production to
50 per cent.. The. evil is one that will
have to be settled by regulation, ac
cording to the republican plan, and not
by platitudes or mathematics, as sug
gested by Mr. Bryan.,
THE WORLD'S WATER SCPPLT.
One of the first lessons In 'the old
school geographies was that about
three-fourths of the earth's- surface
was covered with water, and later on
the clans in physical geography learned
that under the land surface was a
great subterranean sea. covering every
inch of the globe. Now it appears
that this water aupply is ueing ex
hausted so rapidly that the subterra
nean sea Is getting shallower every
year, while the lakes and ' rivers are
rapidly drying up.
Striking statements on the depletion
of the world water supply are made
in a bulletin recently issued by the
geological survey. The bullJiin con
tains statistics showing the result of
extensive investigations made by the
experta In this branch, of the govern
raent service in every - part of the
country. The report shows that in dig
glng or boring for water" the water
level has lowered between ucven and
fourteen feet tbroighfut the entire
United Statea. In ? other "words," the
man who diga a we'll iif 'any part of the
country has to go trot seven to four
teen feet deeper to find water than he
would have done twenty-five years
ago.
The geological survey offers some
explanations of this lowering of the
water level, w hich include the hint of
a remedy. One explanation s that the
taking from the earth of ueh vast
quantitiea of oil and natural Las. the
development of which 'industry has
been remarkable in the last quarter
of a century, has created an empti
ness which nature ia Ailing tip with
water. The experts are not prepared
to make predictions or definite state
ments on the subject, but Incline to
the opinion that If this drain on the
oil, gas and mineral deposits Is con
tinued the wster supply will naturally
continue to find a lower letvl.
The IU effects of this reduction of
the water supply cannot be over esti
mated. Each lowering of the level
under the earth's surface Increases the
dryness Of the tillable portion of the
soli and Increases the possibilities of
drouth. It Is probable, too, that the
destruction of the forests has helped
much toward lowering the water level
and injuring the value of the soil. The
warnings of the geological survey
should prove another incentive to con
gressional action looking to the preser
vation of the forests and the conserva
tion of all the country's natural re
sources. .
A SPVll TV LVRRtKCT REFORM.
Secretary Cortelyou of the Treasury
department has discovered three words
In the Aldrlch-Vreeland emergency
currency bill, passed by the last con
gress, that are certain to hasten action
looking to further amendment of the
national currency laws and which have
already caused a reopening of the plan
to secure a physical valuation of the
American railroads.
When Senator Aldrtch withdrew the
provision of the bill making railway
bonds available as security for new
issues of emergency currency it was
generally thought that that feature of
the measure had .keen eliminated.
Careful reading of the law as passed,
however, discloses the fact that after
a description of the bonds and securi
ties available as a basis for such
Emergency issues appeared the words
and "any other securities," approved
by the secretary of the treasury. The
three words cover railroad stocks and
bonds, commercial paper and anything
else the secretary might approve. Mr.
Cortelyou has accordingly asked the
Interstate Commerco commission to
give him such information as Is ob
tainable as to the value of any railroad
bonds or stocks as may be tendered to
him.
As there are some $16,000,000,000
of railroad and other bonds and se
curities outstanding that might be of
fered as a basis for emergency cur
rency Issues, the proposition confront
ing the secretary and the commission
Is a formidable undertaking. It is not
probable that Secretary Cortelyou will
have any occasion to pass upon the
value of such securities, as there seems
little prospect that there will he any
Issue of the emergency currency au
thorized by the bill, but ihe discre
tionary power lodged in the secretary
Is alarmingly large, and might lead to
serious results In the hands of an' un
worthy official or In case of great finan
cial stress. ,'The difficulty is compli
cated by the fact that emergency cur
rency Issues are most likely to be
asked at times when valuea of sucb
securities as those allowed In the
measure are uncertain and unstable.
' The Aidrleh-Vreeland bill was ad
mittedly a makeshift and the discovery
of the clause which openB the way for
the admission of all kinds of securities
as a basis ror emergency currency is
sues will unquestionably serve as a
spur to congress to take up further
and full revision of the currency laws
with the least possible delay.
KEEPIXO THE RECORD STRAIGHT.
A masquerading letter writer essays
to make a point In the democratic
World-Herald on The Bee s comment
on the Baltimore Sun's bolt of Bryan,
n which we referred to the Sun's sup
port of Brynn in 1896 as being "with
out enthusiasm in order to keep its
record straight." The letter writer,
who is afraid to sign his own name,
concludes his explosion thus:
"To keep Its record straight," eh?
The Sun's record for democracy is left
Just about as straight as that of a porch
climber or shell-game man for honesty.
That is just what was said about Mr.
Bryan when he embraced Parker and
the Wall street gang in 1904 to keep
his record straight. We would advise
In this connection referenoe to the
speech made by Tom Watson at the
populist state convention at Lincoln in
the fall of that year in which he told,
without mincing, words, what he
thought of Mr. Bryan's abandonment
of his former allies. If we recall cor
rectly, Watson in substance denounced
Mr. Bryan as a Benedict Arnold, a
backslider, a deserter, a partisan who
cared more for party regularity than
for principle, and various other simi
lar pet names.'
If the Baltimore Sun supported
Bryan in 1896 to keep its record
straight, did it do anything worse than
Mr. Bryan 'did when, to keep his rec
ord straight, he 'supported Qoldbug
Parker after having hired a hall in
Chicago to denounce him publicly and
to deny that he was entitled to call
himself a democrat? It hardly be
comes any Bryanite to draw compari
sons with "a porch climber or a shell-
game man."
; OAC tl'STi MtLE-
The action of the Union Pacific Rail
road company In making a special rate
of 1 cent a mile for festival occasions
in Nebiaska may not be accepted as
establishing a precedent for future
basis of rates, but It does show a spirit
that is not only commendable, but
worthy of emulation. The Union Pa
cific, In common with the ether Ne
braska railroads, stoutly resisted the
enactment cf the 2-cent 'are law and
ever aince has withheld favorj that
were formerlv granted the public in
the way of special rates for special oc
casions, its action at present is a cer
tain indication of restored sanity.
The mottt pleasing feature, perhaps
of the Union Pacific's action is tbat the
rate' is granted with a cordiality that
shows no bitterness lurking behind It
Other railroads in Nebraska have made
slight concessions In passenger tariff
for the State fair, but have done so
grudgingly. The cent-a-utlle Ur of
the Union Pacific comes with grace
so cheerful that the people will wonder
what has come, over the spirit of the
railroad dream. '
The opening of another large tract
of land on the Sioux Indian reseivalion
Is not a sign that there are fewer In
dians, but means that the Indians are
making better use of their land. In
stead of chasing Jack rabbits nnd simi
lar small deer across broad acres of
fertile prairie, the noble red man to
day is raising corn and wheat and im
pounding his stock within fenced en
closures. These are some fact com
mended to the good people of the east
when they are making up their esti
mate of the west!
Traveling men who make the smaller
town In Nebraska and come very
much in touch with the sentiment of
the voters, find very little reason for
the belief that Mr. Bryan will pull any
stronger in his -own state than he did
In 1900, when he failed to carry it.
The Bryan enthusiasm exists mainly
In the offices of a few newspapers
whose business It Is to beat the tomtom
and try to distract the voters by their
noise.
Senator Tillman,, in an interview In
Pails, says Bryan should win because
It Is bad policy to allow one party to
remain in power indefinitely. Senator
Tillman has no objection to allowing
the democratic party to remain in
power indefinitely in the south, and
has contributed his best effort to the
disfranchisement of the negro in order
to keep the democrats in power and
Benjamin Ryan Tillman in office.
Omaha should have had a western
wool market by right of discovery, but
It appears that the Gate City, if it gets
it at air, will have It by right of con
quest. But this will not be the first
fight that Omaha has had with Chi
cago, nor will It be the first victory
that Omaha has won from the great
city by the lakes.
The Bryan campaign . committee of
Baltimore haa resolved to raise money
for the establishment of a "permanent
democratic dally newspaper" In that
city. The democratic papers of Balti
more refuse to stand hitched so long
as Mr. Bryan is running.
"David B. Hill's active support of
Bryan would mean a large Increase in
Bryan's vote In New York," says the
Nashville American. Exactly, and
that's perhaps the reason Mr. Hill re
fuses to actively support Mr. Bryan.
The republican' opponent of John A.
Johnson in the race for governor of
Minnesota is not only a Scandinavian,
but he eats pie with a knife. No won
der Governor Johnson did not want a
renomlnatlon.' ' i
"The. mountains will not come to E.
H. Harriman." says the Washington
Post. Any mountain that will not
come to E. H. Harrlman is apt to be
punished by having a tunnel run
through It.
Minister .Wu Ting-fang may be pro
moted by hie government to be an am
bassador, but he will hardly become
too dignified to ask questions. .
Colonel Bryan says he is willing to
make up with Colonel Guffey, who re
torts two parties are necessiry to a
reconciliation.
Geaeral . Prosperity's Urowlna; Army.
Pittsburg Dlpslch.
Hundreds of men ar being added to
the forces In the mills every few days,
and thus good old general prosperity is
coming into command of his Invincible
army. J
Main. Ip for te Start.
Chicago Tribune.
If there la any vice presidential nominee
who has been overlooked by the notl
catlon committees let him speak up. Time
Is flying, and the campaign should be
under full headway as soon as possible.
A Fool for Lack.
New York World.
Distrusting the banks, a Mordllton. Ark.,
man burled $1T),000 in greenbacks in an
old pail In IBM. For the decaying mass
which ha dug up the other day he has
been able t collect 19.975, thanks to the
efforts of at treasury redemption expert.
Sometimes V tooi -ni n,s 'money have
great and undeserved luck.
Vetera) of tie ! Tracks.
t . Boston Transcript.
The appearance of Benn Pitman, at the
age of 86, on the platform of the national
shorthand reporters' convention, recalls
how large a part of the progress of that
useful art has been made In the lifetime
of men now living. The bane of short
hand is the multiplications of privatekv
constructed systems, largely for the ad
vertising advantage of the promoters.
Btandardlratlons. on approved funda
mentals, Is now shorthsnd's greatest need.
A tataac for Everybody.
Kansas City Times.
Postmaster General Meyer believes that
postal savings banks, which would ab
solutely insure depositors agttinst loss
and pay them Interest on their deposits
besides are , more needed " and more de
sired than 4 guarantee bank deposit law,
which would? assess the depositors of sav
ings banks having no stockholders to In
sure ths depositors of large banks against
the risk. Incurred through dishonest or
negligent officials of such bank. And
besides,- the' jiostal savings banka would
be accessible to hundreds of thousanda of
depositors who now have no convenient
banking f"t'liles. '
Baltimore American.
Cuba will be turned over to the Cubans
next year. Then the 1'nlted Statea will
have mads the magnificent record, op
posed to all precedent In dealinga or great
nations with Inferior ones, of having
rescued a suffering and weak neop' rront
their oppressors, relinquished possibilities
of aet gain for Itself, spent Urn and
money In putting the weaker nation in a
condition to pre fit by its Independence and
then presented it with its national free
dom as . an unforced gift.x It is at this
tims impossible to fore.et the vast moral
Influence which this action will have upon
the future destiny of ths world in Its
relation. I human liberty. j
o rsKii)EruL rinixci lim;,
.Mr. Rryaa Prerereat'i. for Rnltered
914 mt III Urea-.
Brooklyn Kagle (mrt. rlein.i.
Chailes A. Walsh, once secretary i( the
democratic national committee, lia writ
ten a letter ssttlna forth some of the rea
sons why organised labor should not sup
port the democratic ttrket this year. Here
Is on of them:
"In the southern states th democratic'
party has always controlled the lawmakers.
I want to fairly call your attention to the
labor legislation of the various states and
make the charge, the truthfulness of which
will be recognised by every man. that,
speaking generally, no section of this
union hss poorer laws for the protection
of labor than those stales always known
as democratic. In no other atstrs do we
find worse conditions as to child labor,
the farming out of convict to contractors
and other abuses."
It must be admitted that there Is war
rant for th indictment. Nor will II be
easy to answer this:
Toy depend on an obscure and meaning
less plank In the Denver platform; you
Ignore the history of the party, the char
acter of Its machinery, the evidence of Its
own laws, where It has had power to make
the laws,
Organised labor has no batter friend than
Bryan In commonwealtha where that
friendship can be safely shown. He Is the
champion of those who are governed with
out their consent providing they do not live
In the south. The preferences of that sec
tion must always be consulted, whether
they are for child or convict labor or for
the shotgun at the polls. Mr. Bryan knows
on which side his political bread Is but
tered.
A Political Barometer.
Philadelphia Press (rep ).
The abolition of early elections In all the
close states deprives tha country of any
authoritative preliminary Indicator of th
political weather In the year of a presi
dential election. Oregon holds Its election
In early June, before the presidential Is
sue hirs been fsirly joined. Arkansas Is a
September state, but furnishes no evidence
In Its vote that Is helpful In contested
states. Georgia Is not much better, but
Maine and Vermont, In the fluctuations of
their September vote, have frequently
prophesied the outcome of the general No
vember election.
Vermont holds its state election next
Tuesday. It chooses a governor and state
ticket, and, while the national campaign Is
hardly begun, the result of th Vermont
election will be awaited with special Inter
est as showing In a measure the political
drift. Vermont Is not a changeable state.
From J6.000 to 17.000 votes are about all th
democrats can show, while the republicans
usually run up forty odd thousand. Bryan
received 10,179 In 1S9 and McKlnley 61,127.
In 1900 Bryan did better and the republican
ticket did not fare as well, but four years
ago Roosevelt received l'i,439 and Parker
9.779.
Bryan manifestly is stronger even In
Vermont than Parker. Four years ago at
th state election In Vermont the repub
lican ticket received 47,115 votes and the
democrats NS.56. While local considerations
modify atate results and make them a
rather uncertain guide, nevertheless the
rise or fall of the republican or democratic
vot In the Vermont election on September
1 will, as compared with four years ago,
have value as a political barometer In fore
casting election probabilities.
Mr. Taft and (he Tar I a.
Philadelphia Ledger (ind.).
Mr. Taft's attitudo on the tariff Is al
most exactly in tine with President Mc
Klnley' Impressive farewell speech at Buf
falo, In which he Indicated with firmness
and unmistakable clearness that in his
opinion' the time had come to reform the
tariff. The tariff schedules are admittedly
iniquitous and injurious to manufacturer
and consumer. The tariff Is not the main
issue. If Mr. Taft shall be elected he will
have a congress with him, and may effect
a large meausure of reform In good order
ar.d for the benefit of th whole country.
If Mr. Bryan be elected, he can do nothing
except to make a disturbsnce with a
house snd senate hostile to him. But if
the tariff were the chief Issue, and if Mr.
Bryan could sway congress to his will, the
country and business would be safer with
Taft in command than with Bryan.
The great need- of the country is a season
of sanity and recuperation and reforms
carried on in a moderate and reasonable
manner. The most eager tsrlff reformer
may well doubt the benefit that would
accrue to the country, even In the name of
tariff revision from a season of disloca
tion, perturbations and radical treatment
of the tariff or any other question at the
hands of Mr. Bryan.
The Issue is. shall Taft or Bryan be In
trusted wllh the guidance of the nation for
four years? Careful people who think well
of their country know in which direction
the risks lie.
Doesn't Look Donbtf!.
Kansas City Times (Ind.).
The republicans of Missouri, at the pri
mary Mlection this month, polled 60 per
cent of the tremendous Roosevelt vote of
19)14, when Roosevelt carried Missouri by
:S.000. And this vote was polled without a
contest of any kind of sufficient importance
to Induce a large attendance of republicans
at the primaries.
Th Kansas democrats at the primary
election polled less thsn 60 per cent of the
very small vote given Parker In 1904. when
Roosevelt carried Kanaas by more than
126,000. And the Kansas democrats had
three' candidatea for governor who can
vassed the state before the primary elec
tion. What reason have the Bryan managers
for claiming that Kansas Is a "doubtful
atate" and Missouri "safely democratic,"
In view of the showing msde In the pri
mary contest?
Merely Straw.
New Tork Times. (Ind.).
The Sundsy Times reported yesterday Its
continued csnvass of sentiment among
worklngmen and employers in this city
with respect to the republican, democratic,
Independence league, socialist and prohibi
tion candidates for the presidency. Of 1.&6J
secret ballots cast 1,029 were for Mr. Taft.
In the canvas of the week preceding th
republican candidate had Hi of 779 total
ballots, while Mr. Bryan's votes on both
occasions averaged less than one-third of
Mr. Taft'a. The "army of the unemployed"
was not represented In the balloting.
. If straws show at all the drift of-po-lltlcal
sentiment, we infer that Mr. Bryan
might win among the voters of this demo
cratic city lrj some campaign when Its un
employed outnumber Its workers.
Brlaalstsl Cosirta tmi Ularepat.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The statements of attorneys and other
interested In the Hains case Indicate that
th Thaw "brain storm" ia to be sur
passed. The new ailment for use In de
fense Is to be some sort of "reciprocal
insanity," or a kind of nervous tension
generated by one ''high-geared" and fret
ful personality and communicated t
another with the direful result that each
becomes insane. The plea of lnssnlty -used
in relation to defendants In these days Is
of such a sort that, If the argument Is
sound, ninety-nine In every hundred
Americans at Urge ought lo be incarcer
ated. The consciousness of this fact In
the mlndi or the pjulic bilrga tribunals
Into dUrrput.
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DISREGARDED PRECEDENTS.
Times When Presidential faadlrtatee
Observed Strict Silence.
Indianapolis News.
The modern practice of speech-making
by presidential candidates Is In marked
contrast to the early practice. In former
times It was considered undignified for a
candidate for president to make any open
effort in his own behalf and candidates
generally observed strict silence. The
theory was that If a candidate opened his
mouth to say anything or even wrote the
most commonplace letter It would be used
against him.
General Scott, Whig candidate for presi
dent in 152, owed his defeat in part to two
Innocent, but unfortunate expressions,
used by him long befor his nomination.
In 146, when he expected to be ordered to
Mexico, he 'bespoke ths support of th ad
ministration for Ms military plana by say
ing In a published letter that "soldiers had
a far greater dread of a fire upon the rear
than of the most formidable enemy in the
front." Fnr this expression President Polk
declined to order him to Mexico at that
time, and when Scott was nominated for
president six years later, he never heard
th last of "the fir upon th rear." The
other expression occurred In a note to the
secretary of war. One day the secretary
called at General Scott's office and found
that he waa absent. On returning and
learning that the secretary had called, the
general wrota a note In explanation of his
absence, saying that he "had only stepped
out for the moment to take a hasty plate
of soup." When he wss nominated for
president, the "hasty plat of soup" fig
ured In all sorts of caricatures and brought
upon him ridicule that he did not deserve.
Abraham Lincoln, a frequent speaker
prior to his nomination, did not utter s
word publicly during the campaign. He
made no addresses, wrote no public letters
and held no conferences. His letter of ac
ceptance contained only 134 words. The
practice of speech-making by candidates
after their nomination began with Garfield,
waa continued by Harrison and McKlnley,
and received great Impetus from Mr.
Bryan. It 1 no longer considered danger
ous for a candidate to talk, and the people
seem to like publicity.
TEST FOR REAL LAW,
Featares of th Recent Traaedy la
ew York "High Life."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The latest murder In New York "high
Ufa" lacka many of the sordid details
that mad Harry Thaw's crime nauseating,
but the pernicious principle back of it Is
the same familiar one. A husband, fancy
ing himself wronged, assumes the preroga
tive to punish by taking human life. In
the present case a defense of Insanity will
be Impossible. The character and ability
of the murderer are such as to exclude
this plea. The crime was deliberate, and
most cold-blooded. Only the "unwritten
law" can save Captain Hains from capital
punishment.
The line la more distinctly drswn than
ever before. The murderer is no weak
degenerate. No possible excuse can be
found for his act. Yet It Is by no means
certain that lie will be convicted. A Jury
and another were found that would not
consent to the punishment of Thaw. If
Captain Haln escapes It will be estab
lished beyond any further doubt that even
in the moat ultra-clvlllxed city of America
murder Is no crime If the murderer de
clares himself to have been unhappy In
his domestic relations. The Hains trial
will be the most notable test of the "un
written law" that America has yet seen.
Tar 1ST Revision.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican (ind ).
Judge Taft repeats his determination, in
caae of election, to adhere lo the party
program of having a special session of
congress called right after March 4, next,
to revise the tariff. There Is thua tha
certainty of an early attempt to overhaul
the tariff, If not an actual overhauling-,
whichever way the election goes. Business
Interests will necessarily regard thla as
a disturbing factor, but the lesson of It
all Is that there should b less tariff for
business to depend upon. To build upon
legislation of thla special character Is to
build on foundations that are ever exposed
to a shsklrug.
Political Paaalc.
New York Sun.
A Strang world. Governor Johnson Is
nominated a third time because he was
elected twice. Mr. Bryan waa nominated
a third time because he had been beaten
twice.
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PERSONAL SOTE.
Springfield, O.. and Springfield, 111., hav
Ing acquired a certain prominence, Spring
field. Mass.. makes a hid liv lelllna nf mi
automoblllst there who got peevlh because
nis new machine was out of order and gave
It away to a strangflr.
If all democratic officeholders In ihh
country would dig up in the same propor
tion that the grand old mayor of Tlmpson,
Tex., dug, the campaign fund would 1st k
nothing desirable. He came across with a
whole year's salary-seven pjunks
Kaiser Wilhelm'a government he a long
memory, t'harlea Hlsler. assistant chef at
the Rellevue-Btratford, found It out on o
recent trip to Germany, when he was ar
rested for neglecting his milllary duty
twenty-five years ago, and was fined llJi.
Rufus I. Cole of Johns Hopkins unlveisll
has declined an invitation to succeed Dr.
George Dork In the fhair of medicine at
the University of Michigan. It Is said that
Dr. Cole will become- director of the new
Rockefeller Research hospital In New York
City.
Most of the leading railroad men of this
country have risen to their" present high
eminence from lowly lots and posts uf duty.
One of the most remarkable careers of this
kind ia that of Mr. P. H. Houlahan, re
cently appointed general manager of both
the Toledo, Bt. Ixiuls A Western and the
Chicago & Alton railroad companies. This
is a position of tremendous responsibility
and one that is, as It should be, highly
remunerative to lis holder. Mr. Houlahan s
attainment of this post Is the culmination
cf thirty-one years of service In the rall
wsy world. He began his work In life ai
the age of 12 as a humble water boy, serv
ing section hsnds, on a western road.
MERRY JI.VGI.ES.
Now speech Is bounteously tossed
Wnile wo reflect with glee,
Whutever beef of grain mav cost.
That food for thought is free.
Washington Star.
The lover can't help showing
The girl he's calling on
That when he's slow In going.
He's positively "gone.'
-Philadelphia Press.
The goat gave a partv,
But did not know at all.
What to .call It, till the parrot jOmrkfd.
"Why not a butter ball?"
Baltimore American.
Rehold the fly! So small a thing
10 aart aoout on busy wing:
How ssd to think it ran t he neat
And wipe the nilcrobea from lis feel.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A crowd, a dashing amhhian e.
A copper with Ins star;
Backward, another girl hns lofi
A trolley car. Detroit r'tee Press.
Nothing sure In this life?
That is hsrrllv right.
Just start lo find a gas leak
With a naked light.
Baltimore American.
Matilda's lips sre Cupid's bows.
Her nose wss aquiline.
Her teeth they stood in two white rows.
Her hair was thick and fine.
But. oh. her eyes were badly crossed:
She. got that way, alack.
From matching herself buttoning
Hit new waist dewn the ba'-k.
Now York Press.
When alrahips gayly float Shout
The mortals who must dwell
On earth won't daro to venture out
Without a stout umnreli:
-Washington Siar.
' AN OLD STOHY.
Washington Star,
haven't any chance." lie said;
world has closed the door
opportunity that opened unto
of yore.
th
innti nave an nrru um.
Tim
might v tasks are carried through
e world, no longer young. leave
nothing more for youtn to uo.
And he watched the steamship
liaM
on Its Journey far away
Tn lands thai omd their treasures
to
us only yesterday. , .
He ssw the locomotive as It labored
hard for speed.
Its efforts Insufficient fr a walling
public's need. '
He heard the voices calling from (he
wilderness BO lUeD.
"Come ye, with hearts of courage
:; come
snd wsncn rroin irn-ir
The harvests that for centuries
llRVrf
waited 'neatli our soil,
Impatient for the cheery call of com
mon sense snd t'-ll."
The air Is all a-whlsper with the mes
sages that fly ......
To tell of years more wondrous than the
wondrous years gone by.
And still he cries, .' I ha' no chance"'
And still the world- sweeps on.
Nor heeds the plaint that It has heard
since ages past and gone.
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