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THE T^TCE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH
rmBAY, MAY 10, 1907.
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0. R. PENDLETON, President
TAFT ON TOP, FORAKER TAMED,
That man Taft must be a lulu. He
went to Ohio, where Foraker was
breathing threats of fire and sword
tgainst him, made a Y. M. C. A. speech,
refused to talk politics and referred
contemptuously to the "machine
Dosses" and lo! and behold, he was
icarcely back in Washington before the
machine boss and the State Republican
chairman declared ho was the man for
the. nomination for President, and For-
akar meekly chimed in with a virtual
"m«, too.” (Now, how dkl Taft do it?
Was he armed with the left hind foot
of a graveyard rabbit captured in the
lark of the moon, or was It the shadow
»f the "big stick.” and the potent In
<uence of official patronage to be given
or withdrawn? It looks like magic.
SHOG OFF. VR. PRESIDENT.
When told of Mr. Roose ,-elt’s deter- I
mination to see -ha- his client* got
exact Justice.” Attorney Darrow sail: ;
"Under the laws and Consiitu- i
tion. Moyer, Haywood and Petti-
bor.e are to be tried in court by a
Jury of their peers. The forum is
the State Court of Idaho. Under
these facts I do not see. what there
is for President Roosevelt to do.
We have neither a right nor a de
sire to ask of him or any person
that judges shall administer the
law fairly and without prejudice
and without influence from the out
side.”
"That’s the humor of it.
or* e.rr.o
>em to h
tiling R:
tg men ond there doe
e any warrant for the
dicalism which is the
i not BRITISH AND AMERICAN RAIL- ; Hearst has told the truth about the
pre- WAY ACCIDENTS. | Democracy- Mr. Bryan should regard
pre-
A RADICAL DESCRIBED. Why don’t bo me of th so people who
A man being tried for a crime in a are criticising John Tt mpl< Gray- s
A preliminary report by the English it as invitation to tell the truth about j neighboring city pleads insanity at the suggest something better than his
Mr. Hearst’s party.”
_„ rfi or of revolution. What is the need ; Board of Trade summarizes British
of it? Are the people suffering for ; railway accidents during the year 190fi.
jhread? Are they threatened of their The / corresponding report for the
liberty, except as this same Radical-j United States by the Interstate Com-
j i.= m tends to encroach upon it? What I merce Commission has not yet ap-
! is the use to be accomplished? j peared, but a means of comparison be- rederation of JIlners , who is under in-
i Mountebanks and demagogues may ! tween the two countries for equal pe- j dictment join tly with Charles H.
j rant—It is a very large part of their ’ riods of twelve months is afforded by Moyer> pres t' dent oi the federation, and
THE HAYWOOD-MOYER CASE.
The case of William D. Haywood,
secretary-treasurer of the Western
' profession—but if the people are pros- the report for the fiscal year ended j Georga A p e ttIbone, former member of
! perous. if they are living at home and June 30, 1908, says the Railway Age. j ^ executlve commiU eee, for the mur-
Ancient ! in P eace wlth their neighbors, why ’ The comparative figures as given by ; der Qf * ormer Governor Frank Steunen-
Pistol would say.
"shog oft."
Teddy had best
JOHN BULL SUPPRESSES “THE
, "MIKADO."
A revival of "The Mikado” should be
the natural result of the suppression
of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic
opera by the. Lord Chamberlain of
England. The progress made by Japan
tn world Influence is undoubtedly dem
onstrated, however foolishly illustrated.
In this Incident. It is the heighth of
absurdity to suppose the tuneful and
mirthful -but Inoffensive burlesque
would excite the dislike even of na
tional prejudice.
"The witty and beautiful little opera
has been played and sung all over the
world for a score of years without of
fense to the most delicate sensibili
ties.” says the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. "The scene is laid In a sup
posititious Japan, as it might have
been laid in Baratarla or Sulu or Ar
cadia, with equal suggestion of reality.
Except for the pretty costumes the ac
tion la even farther away from Japan
than is Sullivan’s delightful English
music, and if tho Japanese have the
sense of humor that their artists credit
them with they have doubtless enjoyed
the fun as much as anybody. Certainly
It never has occurred to any one of
them that it embodied an affront to
their august Institutions.”
If W. S. Gilbert could only return
long enough to write another little
opera on the official obtusenoss and
bumptiousness of this censorship, the
world would doubtless be the richer for
another contribution to the Pinafore
series.
6UBSERVIENT SOUTHERN DEMO
CRATS.
Only the wiser men see their own
laults and know their own limitation’s,
but probably no man Is wise enough
to take pleasure In the pointing out of
his deficiencies without Invitation by
a painfully superior person. Still the
ordeal may serve some useful purpose,
and so it is perhaps worth while to
quote the New York Tribune's remarks
on ihe subservient position occupied
by Southern leaders in the Democratic
party. It says:
"There are many Southerners in
public life of more than average
attainments. Only a year ago Sen
ator Joseph W. Bailey rebuked
President Aldermnn. of the Univer
sity of Virginia, for Intimating that
the South’s standard of public ser-
RECALLiNG THE TRUE IDEALS.
The “O temporal O mores!” of clear
sighted Cicero is recalled by this warn
ing utterance of the Richmond Times-
Dispatch:
•’O people! O American people!
O great American people! How
much nonsense Is spoken in your
name. How solicitous some men
are for your welfare. How jealous
of your rights. But what are the
rights of the people? To be gov
erned? To have a guardian? We
have not so read tho Declaration of
Independence, or the Constitution,
or the bill of rights, or the doctrine
as delivered to the saints. The in
herent rights of the people are the
enjoyment of life and liberty, with
tho means of acquiring and pos
sessing property, and pursuing and
obtaining happiness and safety:
the right to be independent and
self-reliant; the right to govern
themselves and make their own
rules of conduct, with no coddling
or nursing on the part of the Gov
ernment which they have ordained,
no interference, except such as may
he necessary to prevent trespass.
The real friend of the people is ho
who encourages, incites and in
spires the people to cultivate the
spirit of Independence and manly
self-rellance; not he who counsels
them to look to the Government for
everything.”
The Houston Post finds in this "the
sort of doctrine that inspired Demo
cratic effort in other days," and hope
fully believes that It is "the sort of
doctrine that will appeal to the people
of the United State-s hereafter;” but
that "hereafter” seems a good way off
Just now. "We,” says the Post, "have
drifted far away from these ancient
ideals. Thera are even Democrats who
have accepted all the tenets of pater
nalism and are pointing the people to
the Government as the tountain of all
good. Individualism, the mighty force
which created a great republic, is re
garded by even many of our great men
as an outworn virtue. Those who are
not appealing with uplifted hands to
the mighty Government at Washing
ton are praying to the State Govern
ments, which in turn are absorbing
powers which were formerly exercised
by the communities. ... The old-
time Democracy—liberty’s old-time re
ligion—Is yet good enough for men who
believo in the republic of the fathers.
It is needed in the nation. It is needed
In the State. It is needed in the coun
ty, the city, the home. And some time
it will appear to sweep out of power
thg charlatans who are playing the
devil with the country generally."
Perhaps so. Let us' hope so. But it
can not be so until more public men
and more newspapers stand by their
convictions instead of yielding to the
temptation to “gallop with the gang”
in the hope of sharing in the popular
ity and favor of the autocrats of the
hour.
should professional agitators command ■ it are as follows:
so much .attention? : United States.
Breeders cf strife—thevare the Radl-
berg, is to be called for trial at Boise,
Idaho, today. The prosecution claims
United
Kingdom. .
Year 1906. : it will prove beyond the shadow of a
, doubt the guilt of the leaders of the
* 438 . Western Federation of Miners, known
4.35S as the "inner circle," of crimes extend-
’’9 405 ! in& over a period of five years and in
carry out i eluding arson, train wrecking and mur-
Year to
June 30. 1905.
cals—should be put under the ban of '■ passengers killed .. 330
public opinion, and told to "get thee Passengers injured -.10.133
‘ j Employes killed 3.S07
behind. ; Employes injured ....55.534
This Radicalism is defying the writ- j Total killed 4,223
ten law and revising the revealed ^Vicurltt'empting*’‘tQ 9 .
■U ord. It is seeding to build a temple i con , parisons between things unlike,” j der. The miners, on the other hand
made with hands and founded upon the , jays the - 50rne contrasts between j declare the prosecution is only an at-
the two countries should be kept in i tempt to break their organization and
mind, as for example, great length of j that the detectives have manufactured
main lines in the United States—ten ! the evidence against their men. But,
times that in Great Britain; vastly j outside of the prominence of the mur-
greater length of yard track and sid- dered man, and those charged with the
Ings In the United States—50 per cent j crime, President Roosevelt’s “butt-in.”
more than the mileage of all kinds of and the subsequent controversy, has
time of the act. The kind of a man he I proposition? He who trfiicises ” t
is, and the supposed record of his life j do this or some one will think he is
quicksands of human intelligence. It
will fail. The longer delayed, the
greater will be the fall.
Hell is radical. Heaven Is conserva
tive.
Scotch the snake!
vice is loweq today than it was in
the ante-bellum period. Wo pass
no judgment on this contention.
Rut if Mr. 'Bailey's view is the cor
rect one. then tho South is to be
censured for either indolence or in
difference; for the influence of its
representative.* in national politics,
and especially in the management
of Its pet organization, the Demo
cratic party, is today not one-tenth
of what It was in the closing de
cades of tho struggle over slavery.
There Is now practically no oppo
sition party in most of the South
ern States. Tlie Democratic lead
er* of the South are never harried
by the fear of local disaster. They
can give all their energies to the
tasks of national politics. But this
sense of security at home seems
to have enervated them. They
have ceased to have a will and
purpo*e of their own in national
polities, and content themselves
with taking directions from others.
They have played the opportunist
with cynical complacency, swing
ing from Cleveland to Bryan, from
Rrvnn to Parker and from Parker
again to Rryan without the slight
est Inward or outward compunc
tion.
The Tribune’s manner is one of con
descending superiority even when it
attempt's a word of faint praise, and it
is still more offensive when
It inti
mates thar Southern Democrats are
mere opportunists without courage or
convictions. But its taunt in
A LITTLE SERMON ON RADI
CALISM.
The wave of Radicajism that is
sweeping over the country may have
to get worse before it gets better; but
it is difficult to see how this Radical
ism can get more radical. We have
the spectacle of the two leaders of the
two great political parties vieing with
each other in their Radicalism, and yet
a third party led by Hearst slabs off
because neither Roosevelt nor Bryan is
radical enough for It.
This Radicalism, held aloft In the
name of liberty, is really a despotism.
It permeates other affairs in life. Aim
ing at an alleged “higher law,” it
strikes at the foundation of the writ
ten law—the only real bulwark of free
dom. It sets up a law in ethics which
was unknown to the sages, and a code
of morals not hinted at in the Mosaic
law nor in the Apostles’ creed. It Is
founded ’on the love of dominion, and
the lust for rule. It arrays class against i
class, and sons against fathers. It lays i
its hands on the sacred cloth, and it en- !
ters the jury box. It makes legislative ;
bodies rape the Constitution, and ex- )
ecutive heads tread upon co-ordinate
branches of the Government.
Afflictions upon the people usually
follow in the wake of Radicalism—so
history teaches. We have but to go
back to a time within the memory of
men now living. It fo a queer thing
that Radicalism and commercial and
industrial prosperity travel along the
same road at the same time. From
WANTS TO TAX HEIRESSES MAK
ING FOREIGN ALLIANCES.
Ex-Secretary Morton makes the sug
gestion that an export tax should be
laid on American heiresses who marry
foreign titles. "A tax,” he says,
"should be placed'on the Incomes which
American women carry to Europe after
their marriages to foreign noblemen.
Those good-for-nothing fellows marry
American girls solely for their money,
and some taxation scheme should be
worked out to save at least a portion
of this outgo. Besides, we want to
keep young American heiresses in this
country." •
The Baltimore Sun thinks this propo
sition has merit, "but there would be
difficulty perhaps in collecting the pro
posed import." it says. "The marriages
of wealthy emigrantesses are not mado
In this country necessarily, but may
be made in Europe, and it is to be
feared that heiresses will find foreign
wedlock more attractive even than at
present if they are taxed. The male
tax-dodger is hard to catch, but the
dimpled maidens would be a hopeless
track in the United Kingdom; greater
length of Journeys In the United States,
with Increased chance of accident, com
pared with the short runs on British
roads: passenger train mileage on our
roads about double that. on British
roads; total revenue train mileage on
our lines two and a half times that of
British lines: number of railway em
ployes in the United States about
three times that in Great Britain;
American main lines mostly single
track, while over half of all British
mileage is of two or more tracks; on
the other hand, there is vastly greater
density of trains and traffic on Brit
ish railways than our own. (But giv
ing these and all other considerations
due weight, it remains that the number
of employe* killed in this country
ought not to be nine times as great,
nor the number of employes injured
twelve times as great as on the British
railways, notwithstanding their advan
tage in double tracks and signaling
advertised the case far and wide, and
makes it of greater general interest.
The assassination of ex-Governor
Steunenberg occurred on the night of
December 30, 1905. The alleged motive
for the crime was revenge for the firm
attitude Governor Steunenberg had
taken to suppress the riots and out
rages during the miners’ strike in the
Coeur d'Alene district. The calling out
of the militia and other drastic meas
ures employed by the authorities had
resulted In a victory for the mine own
ers, and the miners were forced to ad
mit defeat
Governor Steunenberg was blamed
by the miners for their defeat. Threats
weTe hurled at him at all the miners’
meetings, and he was frequently
warned by his friends that his life was
in danger. After finishing his second
term as Governor he retired from of
fice and returned to five at his home
at Caldwell. Several years passed and
the Coeur d’Alene troubles apparently
equipment. In respect to safety of tvere forgotten. Then came the shock-
passengers, however, our roads do not ln S news that Governor Steunenberg
suffer greatly by comparison with Brit-
case. The only effect of the law; it Is
to be feared, would be to quicken the j isl * roads for the years here covered.”
influx of titled fortune-hunters. Zest
would be added to the present charm
of impecuious aristocracy if the girls
felt that by going abroad to marry
they would ‘beat’ the tax-gatherer.”
LOST MARVIN BOY.
Amid the pathos and pity of it,
feeling of anger is provoked by the { be allies. Mr. Bryan in his Commoner
HEARST GIVES BRYAN "BACK
TALK.”
It seems that Mr. William R. Hearst
does resent the conclusion of Mr. Bryan
that “we are going in the same direc
tion” and that therefore the Democracy
and the Independence League should
apparent probability that the Marvin ‘ intimated that it might be folly to start
boy wandered around his father's farm
for forty hours and fell from exposure
and starvation within .half a mile of it
while the wholo world was being
stirred up and the better part of the
United States in a way being searched
for him. How could it be within the
bounds of stupidity for his father and
the searchers, in their excitement, to
overlook the little one almost within
the sound of their voices and let him
sink and die from physical exhaustion?
The disposition to persist in the sug
gestion that the little one was kid
napped in the face of the apparently
natural manner of his death probably
indicates the trouble. Filled with the
a new party when the Democratic
party offers to the voter practically
the same policies and ideals and with
an encouraging “prospect of an early
victory." In Sunday’s American Mr.
Hearst shows that he floes not take
kindly to Mr. Bryan’s patronage. He
shows that he intends to' take as much
of the Democratic party to himself as
he can, whether Mr. Bryan likes it or
not. The chances of the Democratic
party are not so rosy that any one need
hesitate to cast in his lot with Mr.
Hearst’s party and do "pioneer work."
The American does not see on what
Mr. Bryan’s "optimlstc estimate of an
early victory” Is based. It reminds Mr.
idea and possibly the romance of the -Bryan that he was defeated in 1896
kidnapping theory, they must have by 601,854 votes and in 1900 by 849,790
failed to search throughly the territory
immediately in their vicinity.
RECREANT PASTORS,
Are pastors no better than their con
gregations? Do they take their color
from the people to whom they minis
ter? The Right Reverend Frederick
Burgess, bishop of Long Island, preach
ing from the abandoned pulpit of the
Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, of St. George’s
church in New York, Sunday, said to
the millionaire congregation, whose
marriefl pastor had eloped with a
young heiress and parishioner:
"You say and you expect that the
men who preach the gospel of
Christ crucified shall be leaders.
"Yes, they ought to be! (But you
votes, and that Judge Parker went
down in 1904 under 2,545,515 votes.
"The movement of the Democratic par
ty is therefore rather away from suc
cess than toward it.”
The American combats the Com
moner’s faith that the Democratic par
ty’s "platform, its candidates and its
had been assassinated—literally blown
to pieces by an infernal machine as he
was entering the yard of his home.
Immediate steps were taken to catch
the assassin or assassins. Rewards,
public and private, aggregating thous
ands of dollars, were offered. Suspi
cion pointed to a man who had been
in the town for some weeks and who
was known as Harry Orchard. He was
arrested and incriminating evidence
against him was found in his room.
Orchard, it was ascertained, belonged
to the Western Federation of Miners,
and had been implicated in several dis
turbances and in a train wreck in Col
orado.
The evidence found in Orchard’s
room, consisting of powder, wires and
fuses, and other material for making
bombs, was strong; but the officers
felt that a confession was necessary.
They believed Orchard guilty, but were
of the opinion that he was the tool and
hired assassin of others. All efforts to
secure admissions from him failed.
Finally James McFarland, a Pinkerton
detective who had broken up tho
Molly Maguires In Pennsylvania, was
called In. After several weeks of care
ful work the methods of the master de
tective prevailed and Orchard broke
down and confessed. In his confession
Orchard directly charged President
Moyer, Secretary Haywood and G. A.
Pettibone, of the Western Federation of
Miners, of having plotted Steunen-
berg's murder and with having fur
nished the money needed. The Steu
nenberg murder was but one of a long
and surroundings. Are thus given In a
“hypothetical question”:
“Assuming as true the following:
“That a person whose mother had
mysteriously disappeared and no
account of her has ever been known
to her .children of the cause of her
disappearance or her whereabouts:
whose brother became insane;
whose father was a constant
drinker of alcohol stimulants;
whose head at birth was so de
formed that it had to be bandaged
in order to overcome the deform
ity; who while a youth of ten
years was violently struck In the
head with a stick, rendering him
unconscious: who in childhood was
subject to fits; who did not learn
to walk until five years of age:
who imagined in youth that his
brother was persecuting him; who
for days and weeks would become
melancholy; who when he grew to
manhcod became an enthusiastic
Populist and Imagined he was per
secuted on account 5f politics; who
spent several hundred dollars in
erecting machinery to discover per
petual motion; who imagines he is
a detective of greatest importance
and advertises himself as such;
who forged the name of a bank
president of this city to eleven or
twelve notes and although well
known in this city attempted to
negotiate them with the president
of another bank in this city; who
without motive clothed himself in
a hood, blackened his hands, cov
ered his head and face and rode on
a bicycle in broad daylight to a
place where several people were
working and then deliberately fired
several shots at a negro: who be
came Infatuated with a divorced
woman, entered a manufacturing
plant in this city and in the pres
ence of a large number of wit
nesses fired several shots into her
body, then deliberately walked to
his home although there was op
portunity to escape, gave himself
up to the authorities, was arrested
and a bottle of morphine found
upon his person, and freely and vol
untarily told the police authorities
and other persons about the homi
cide, and said he would be hanged
for the same; has never shown any
remorse for the same: as-uming
what I have said as true. I .ask you
whether or not at the time of ths
act in your opinion the person com
mitting the act was of sufficient
meqtal capacity to distinguish
right from wrong?”
We would say at least that this man
was a Radical.
not much of a critic, after all.—Glenn-
viilo 'Banner.
We are not acquainted with the
Giennville Banner—haven't got a fine
on Its politics yet—but we do not mind
suggesting that the nomination by the
Democrats of any old thing would be
better than surrendering body, soul and
liver to the enemy, by nominating the
worst Republican of two generations of
Republicans. ” ’Walk into my parlor*
said the spider to the fly.” When the
Democrats look the spider in the face,
they just won’t walk.
“How many mute aspirants for the
Republican Presidential, nomination
bade their fond heart* be still while
they waited to see just what the labor
unions would do to President Roose
velt,” says the New York Evening
Post. But "the disappointed men
waited only to learn, what they should
know well by this time, that the Prov
ident gets into a hole, only to crawl
out in agile triumph.” The members
of the labor committee were charmed
with the way he talked to them. That
is it. With all his bluff and pretense
the President is all things to all men.
The most adept of politicians.
“It is said that President Roosevelt
is preparing an address once more put
ting the third term behind him.—Sa
vannah Press. If he pursues his usual
process of boxing the compavs on the
subject it will end by getting before
him.
Miss (?) Ellen Terry, the famous
English actress, at 59 takes for her
third husband James Carew, 35 years
of age, and her leading man. It is to
be hoped that James will pull well in
leading strings.
WE BEG PARDON!
Gray says Seely is a “common
fakir.” Pendleton said the same
thing about Graves. Of what kind
of material are these Atlanta news
paper men made, anyhow? Amer-
Icus Recorder.
We did not say it. Graves a fakir?
Never!
organization will appeal to the con
science and judgment of the reform series of crimes that Orchard charged
element of the country.”
regard j iggo this countrv reached its
to Southern subserviency to the will
of Northern Democrats, however un
pleasant to hear, is in a considerable
measure deserved. Such subserviency
was necessary for many years after
1865, and the habit once formed, it has
not been as easy to thrown it off as
many Southern men would have liked.
But the excuse for lack of self-asser
tion on the part of the Southern Dem
ocracy has grown less and less for
years, and now may be said absolutely
to have ceased to exist.
will find that in all times and in a'l
places—from the very beginning of
things—the priest has always taken
his color from the people to whom
he ministers.”
The Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, it ap
pears, was a bouse painter before he
became a minister. He was possessed
| of a fatal fluency of speech and this,
doubtless, with the facility for pleas-
| ing his congregation, made him a pop-
I ular minister, followed and flattered,
i The bishop said that Cooke “was a
weak man” and that he never approved
: of him, but he applied the yardstick to
him and said, "As It is with people, so
: it 1? with priest.”
The Irreverent cynics that this
! opinion appears to echo could not be
. more severe than this good bishop, in
his hitterness, denouncing society as
the cause of the recreant pastor's
I downfall. But he, perhaps, said more
I In his grief and anger for the shame
that had hefalien his diocese than he
meant. The occasional downfall among
highest point (until now) in prosperity.
That was also our greatest era of Rad.-
icalism. The revolution of the ’60's—
war and reconstruction—was the curse
that followed!
Trie mad rush for money—the for
ward leap in the greed for power—the
flout of wealth, and the resentful atti
tude of the poor—these things are
claiming the attention to* of thought
ful patriots who love their country.
who love peace and who .wish well all , A Roosevelt-Fairbanks Club, while
classes and conditions of men. I endorsing the President, says we feel
Revolutions are sometimes necessary ' that It win be fatal to Mr. Roosev.
It says:
The Democratic party was radi
cal in 1900, conservative in 1904,
and it now sits stiff and motion
less, apparently holding its breath
lest some word or action will alien
ate either the radical or the con
servative element. It is hard to
define the principles of a party
which Is first for radicalism, then
for conservatism and then for com
promise.
And what is its organization? It
is led in tho House of Representa
tives by a railroad lawyer and in
the national Senate by a convicted
agent of the Standard Oil Trust,
and is represented by a professional
gambling house keeper as, chair
man of its national committee.
It is represented in New York by
race track gamblers and ballot box
stuffers and fraudulent office
holders.
The New York Tribune suggests to
Mr. Bryan to Imitate Mr. Hearst’s
frankness, “now that he is clearly in
formed that Mr. Hearst is organizing
a movement hostile to his party and
to his personal ambition,” and speak
out regarding the Independence League.
"He could rejoin something very tart
about Mr. Hearst’s new party, its In
corporated organisation and its prin
ciples.” says the Tribune, and it con
tinues:
against the Federation officials. "With
startling minuteness he told of the at
tempts made on the fives of ex-Gover
nor Peabody of Colorado, Chief Justice
Gabbert of the Colorado Supreme
Court, D. H. Moffat and other promi
nent men.
The confession of Orchard was fol
lowed by tho arrest of Steve Adams
on a charge of complicity in the Steu
nenberg murder, and he also confessed.
It Is upon the conffessions of these two
men that the prosecution will depend
to a great extent. The case of the de
fense will be helped by the fact that
Orchard's mind has weakened since he
made his confession, and he probably
wifi not be able to take the stand.
Moreover, Steve Adams retracted the
confession he is said to have made, so
that it will not be of much value as
evidence.
It is expected the Haywood trial will
take at least a month.
No, Graves Is a songster, and we do
so love "good vocal singing,” as Cousin
Pete, or Sut Lovinggood, or some of
those old fellows said, or were made pi
say.
Notwithstanding his disposition to
peck sometimes Graves can thrill you
with his trills, or trill you with his
thrills. He is not a fakir, but a very
lovable fellow. As an old-time piney-
woods parson once said of himself,
Graves “was born'd with a looseness
of the tongue and the fidgets," but ho
can’t help that. The charm of his voice
as well as his person outweighs any
little disposition to fret and peck some
times.
We accept Mr. Bryan's word for it
when he says of Willie Hearst, "Wo
are going in the same direction," hut
why, then, did Willie split off? Is it
possible he objects to Mr. Bryan's com
pany?
“Macon is already getting out timber
for anothev horse show," stays* the
Press. The pleasure cf the one she
has just had put the Central City on
its mettle.
If the jury should say Moyer and
Haywood are innocent men Teddy
would have to go down on his marrow
bone3 and apologize outright.
A VAIN DESiRE.
From the Chicago Record Hevald-
I want to go back to the old homo
place
And swing on the old front gate:
In the cool, clear spring I would lave
my face.
Forgetting the proud and the great;
I long to kneel on the springhouse floor
And drink of the rich, sweet cream.
And sit on the step by the kitchen door
And dream as .1 used to dream.
GINSENG.
We sometimes have inquiries about
ginseng, something we know very little
about, but responding to an inquiry
j from the United States regarding the
It takes the Democratic party four j sale ginseng in China, Consul S. L.
years to turn from radicalism to con- ! Qracey, of Foochow, says:
'BARKIS IS WILLIN'.
Referring to “a long editorial” in a
Richmond newspaper “giving the story
told by a colored minister in Spring-
field of his failures to find lucrative
employment for negroes in that city,
due to racial prejudice,” the New York
Independent says: “We do not doubt
that every word is true. There is a
great deal of it North as well as South,
but It does not follow, as that Journal
says, that ‘the negro likes the South
better than he likes the North.’ That
is a question easily settled by
the census. The tide is all In one di
rection, and so strong is it that North
ern cities have these newcomers by the
tens of thousands, and they will not go
back. They find even the Northern
discrimination in business a relief from
lynchings and Jim Crow legislation.
B’ut it is -bad enough even here, where
it is difficult for negroes to get a home
in an attractive location. But they are
making good progress and feel encour
aged.”
The truth of this matter Is simply
that, although the negroes enjoy a
wider industrial opportunity in the
South, they find the color line in some
respects less rigid in the North, and
many of them prefer to stay there on
that account.
It is well that the migration “tide is
all in one direction,” as the South has
already more than Its share of the race
to take care of, and it is better for
11 want to go back o’er the long, lany^
way; >
To stray through the orchard aisles.
Forgetting the price that a man must
pay
For the poorest of fortune’s smiles;
I want to escape from the noise and
mirk
And the scheming of money-mad
men—
But they’d probably want me to go to ■
work
If I wandered out to ere again.
PEOPLE IN POLITICS,
Mr. Cannon aveqs that he®has made
no deal with Mr. Fairbanks, and it is
now up to Mr. Fairbank? to take water,
or start a little Ananias Club ~f his
own.—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
If Mr. Wadsworth fails to mnke the
landing as the Prodigi us and Pluper
fect Prevaricator of the Ancient and
Amalgamated Assembly of Ananinses
after all his talk, the country will prob
ably regard him merely as the Hanpv
Hooligan of the Hierarchy of Has-
beens.—Houston Pest.
Governor Hughes’ idea that a Gov
ernment should be more responsive to
the sentiment of the people is a fine
theory, but there is a fear that it
would, in practice, seriously damage
the political business as a “good thing.”
—Indianapolis News.
An Indianapolis correspondent speaks
•of Fairbanks’ “boom." Everybody who
has heard the reverberations from the
river on a very cold night appreciates
the reference.—Philadelphia North
American.
(Because one New York Governor was
“kicked upstairs” into the White
House. It doe* not follow that, the same
process would be equally efficacious for
another.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Our Gov’nor doesn’t want to fight.
But. by Jingo, if he does.
He’s got the strength; he’s got the
pluck
To make the old thing buzz.
—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
So Mr. Hearst is really a Lincoln Re
publican, but a far different man from
Lincoln. It is just as weil South Caro
linians did not run after Mr. Hearst.
He may be all right in his way, but his
wav and his poli’ics are . .
the general interests of the negroes j South Carolina’s way and South Caro-
themselves that they be pretty well | 1,na ’ s brand of politics.—Columbia (S.
distributed throughout the country—\ C "' > J
so as to excite less race prejudice than i SIGNIFICANT NAM-ES FOR GUNS.
they are apt to do when too much con
gested in one section. On the other
From the Army and Navy Journal.
the wearers of the cloth onlv proves servat!sm anrt four more to turn back; The prices here at presentof Amerl
the rule which shows them to be in a ” in ’ = nd a stickIer for . insist- ; can ginseng range from $4.50 to $8 gold lt appears from a Norristown, Pa.,
the main what thev purport to be and ency cou ’ d crU,ctee such a slow chan £ e -l per pound, the figures depending upon dispatch that “Teddy’s Army” (cr one
should be. the exemplars of their flocks of faith ' But Mr ’ Hearst’s league is | the quality, size, color and shape of the j oi his armle8) is in disgrace. It being
ightning change artist politically. ! r00ti t he larger roots being more desir- j discIoEe(3 that if waE more concerned
It is anti-Tammany one year and it is a b!e. .The wild root is worth 20 per ! about 5eIIin 2' a 30n S, entitled "Teddy, j tan—to’convey an i'dea^of the power of
hand, •such undesirable congestion In
the South tends to prevent the greatly
needed immigration of whites. We
should be entirely willing for the
Northern press to convince the negroes
that they can do better north of Mason
and Dixon’s line.
, in spirit and in morals.
( At the Fort Pitt foundry. Fort Pitt.
Pa., were cast in 1867 for the monitor
j r>, tr i»an torn 20-inch euns. which Cant.
: W. C. Wise, then chief of the naval
j bureau of ordnance, proposed to call
poton and Lucifer. This proposition
! called forth a protest from the pastor
of a Presbyterian church at Pittsburg,
who characterized it ns “most unseem
ly, if not impious.” His letter was re
ferred by the member of Congress to
whom it was addressed to the depart
ment. and finally came Into the hands
of Cant Wi*e for reply. In answer
he called attention to the foreign cus
tom of giving to vessels such names
as Jupiter. Juno, Vulcan. Venus. Jug
gernaut, Inferno and Lucifer and Sa-
pro-Tammany the next. It pictures | cent more than the cultivated article. *?• ™ and TrUe ”^ 25 ™ a CO f’ j Sod canted
Murphy in stripes one year and it helps r The prices of American ginseng have i thaa a * out kee Pmg “the greatest ruler not Jnt er.ded for peace and the
s him elect his ticket the next. It raves been dropping of late as the Korean in tbe worI<i ’’ in th e White House for j utterance of zrned will toward men. hut
an indefinite period. i to as muen misenie, and ce-
| struction on human beings in time of
ar as their namesake, the devil, trie
If they had known of the phonograph
Jn ancient times we might have the );,nd heave n-born; but they are more j popularity if “Democrats are appointed at the corporations one year and the j prod uct Is generally preferred. Gin-
pleasur* of listening to Demosthenes ,imcs wicked and hell-born. The j over Republicans to positions of any next year it does its best to defeat a ser.g for shipment to China should be
himself deliver the “Oration on the ' message that was ever deliv- kind, especially on the pretense of their bill to regulate the corporations. It packed In strong boxes, with heavy
Crown” or Cicero deciaim ‘How long, i ered t0 man was the Xew Command- having a higher grade on the civil s ?r- has elected very few men to office, but j wire or metal protection to prevent
O Catline?” ment. It was an Injunction of peace, ; vice lists.” The President should look three of them are now under indicet- , theft.
• love and fraternity—not a dogma of to this. says , the New York Evening ment. These things and many more!
the New York Commercial. The break- j of time was the birth inti the world
"We ore consuming our forests,” says hate. The greatest event in the anr.als Post sarcastically. "Something must j like them Mr. Bryan might say, if he
be rotten in Denmark if any Democrat only would, and if he felt the need of _ _
can get the highest marks in a civil ( being specific in hia efforts to prevent j >'°n. What does Henry James think j The Telegraph has a contempt for I ven'hj'tb'? u*e' of 3ib!ical nom
fast foods have com* to stay, it ap- .Him who laid down that law.
—
service examination.”
She prqselyting of Democrats. Mr. I * be V should thank him for?
The Fitzgerald Leader Is surprised ) j- 0 d r> at a’l times. He further remind-
to read it In The Telegraph that "Ma- I ed bis clerical c-itio that a number of
. „ I clergvmen had witnessed without pro- .
con is enjoying a street snow, and i j e5t ji!s act of “zhr’etening" in pr=?-
thinks “Macon must have fallen from i rr.ee of a large assembly of ladies and
| her high estate." Our contemporary j H-wr-v'-.
beard an American woman say "Thank ! probably read it in the "ad.” column, i tb» argument did nor nr“vci! for ro-
" ctlve in pre-
nckta
Henry James says that he never
average "street show,”
ture.
indistinct print