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and streets and hire burglars, pick
pockets and human riff-raff to gath
er at the hall.
Each thug or tramp is paid five or
ten cents in advance, and by the time
this is consumed in vodka he becomes
qualified to act with the rest of the
“true Russian patriots? 1 Conse
quently these hired vagabonds are
ready to kill, burn or rob wherever
their leaders suggest. In this way
all the recent Russian massacres have
been organized.
Some of the battle cries of the
Black Hundreds are, “Down with
the schools and a free press! Down
with the Jews and intelligence! Long
live our divine Czar and the Russian
Church!”
It is to be hoped that the Russian
people will learn to know their true
friends and will rid themselves of
these thugs who pose and have the
temerity to call themselves “True
Russian Patriots.”
$200,000 for Wesley Memorial.
Seven Bishops composing the Epis
copal College of the Methodist Epis
copel Church South, occupied the pul
pits of Atlanta Methodist churches
last Sunday and inaugurated the
movement for a great Wesley Memo
rial in that city. Subscriptions
amounting to $200,000 were realized.
Bryan, if He Wants It.
Chairman Griggs, of the Democrat
ic Congressional Committee, said:
“All this talk of nominating a
Southern man for the Presidency
next year is nonsense. There is only
one man in sight_to lead the Democ
racy next year and his name is Wil
liam Jennings Bryan. If he wants
the nomination that’s all there will
be to it. Bryan dominates the Dem
ocratic situation as thoroughly as
President Roosevelt controls the Re
publican party.”
Telegraph Strike. ,
San Francisco had another strike
added to the list last Friday, when
250 telegraph operators employed in
Oakland and San Francisco by
the Western Union and Postal Tele
graph Companies left the keys and
walked out of the offices.
Schmitz Still Mayor.
From his cell in the San Francisco
jail, Mayor Schmitz returned to the
board of Supervisors the municipal
budget and a message vetoing the ap
propriation of $720,000 for the re
construction of the Gery street rail
road. Schmitz also objected to a
special tax of 20 cents to raise reve
nue for the city government.
Chinese Baptized.
Seven Chinamen, converts to Chris
tianity, were baptized at the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church, New York
City, better known as John D. Rocke
feller’s church, by its pastor, Rev.
Dr. Aked. Mr. Rockefeller, the gen
erous patron of the church, was plain
ly the most interested spectator of
the ceremony. After the service end
ed, Mr. Rockefeller waited in the
church vestibule and shook hands
with the seven.
Signs Recount Bill.
Believing that public opinion de
mands a speedy settlement of the
Hearst-McClellan mayoralty contest
of 1905, Gov. Hughes signed the Pren
tice bill for a judicial recount of
ballots. _ ;. w i
Affidavits Brand Oil Octopus.
The Standard Oil Company’s de
nial that it has offered free oil or
> rebates in the city of Pittsfield, Mass.,
and the question of doubt raised by
Standard’s representatives as to the
authenticity of the affidavits upon
which the charge was based, have
been followed by a request from Her
bert Knox Smith, of the Bureau of
Corporations of the Department of
Labor and Commerce, to Thomas L.
Hisgen, President of the Four Broth
ers Independent Oil. Company, to
forward to Washington the affidav
its in question.
The affidavits forwarded to Com
missioner Smith are as follows:
“I, the undersigned, a member of
the firm of eKlly Brothers, mer
chants of the city of Pittsfield,
Mass., hereby certify that a repre
sentative of the Standard Oil Com
pany offered to furnish us kerosene
oil free of any cost or charge what
soever.
“JOHN H. KELLY.”
“I, the undersigned, hereby state
that a representative of the Stand
ard Oil Company offered to furnish
to Mr. W. O. Root, a merchant of
Pittsfield, Mass., kerosene oil abso
lutely free of any cost or charge,
and that said offer was made to me
while acting in the capacity of head
salesman for the said Mr. Root, my
present employer.
“ARCHIE M. COUCH.”
“I, the undersigned, John Dris
coll, a merchant of the city of Pitts
field, Mass., do hereby certify that
a representative of the Standard Oil
Company offered me a rebate of two
cents per gallon upon each and ev
ery gallon of kerosene oil which I
might purchase under terms of a
certain contract submitted by the
said representative of the Standard
Oil Company, which contract I de
clined to sign.
“JOHN DRISCOLL.”
All of the affiants are responsible
citizens. The affidavits were sworn
and subscribed to before James Fal
lon, notary public, Pittsfield.
The Haywood Trial.
E. M. Stuart, formerly chief engi
neer of the Blaine mine, in Silver
City, Idaho, corroborated Harry Or
chard’s story of William D. Hay
wood’s attitude toward Frank Steun
enberg, former Governor of Idaho,
whom Haywood is charged with mur
dering, when he testified that he
heard Haywood say that Gov. Steun
enberg was a tyrant and monster and
should be exteiminated. The State
also read extracts from the Miners’
Magazine, official organ of the Feder
ation, published in Denver, editorial
comment, speeches and reprint mat
ter covering a period of five years
previous to Steunenberg’s death
which were admitted by Judge Wood
for the State.
Among the extracts were resolu
tions adopted in 1900 by the Silver
City Local of whioji Haywood was a
member. Gov. Steunenberg was de
nounced as a “villain” and “ty
rant” and the working men of the
State were called upon to defeat him
at the ballot box. A speech of the
then president of the Federation, Ed
ward Boyce, in Salt Lake, in which
the miners were advised to arm, was
quoted at length.
Other articles referred to Steunen
berg as a “Hessian, a villain and
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
mine-owner’s lackey, whose name
should be uttered with loathing by
every honest man.”
After consuming one whole day in
reading such extracts Senator Borah
announced the State had closed its
case.
The defense made an unsuccess
ful attempt to have the court direct
the jury to acquit the prisoner on the
grounds that the state had not proved
its charge. Judge Woods ruled that
the defense must meet with evidence
the case that the State has presented,
and it was arranged that Haywood’s
counsel present their fii'st testimony
Monday.
“What is a Democrat?”
At the request of the New York
World, William J. Bryan tried to
define the World’s question, “What
is a Democrat?” Mr. Bryan con
sidered the subject from two stand
points. The first from a purely par
ty standpoint. '■*
“A Democrat may be defined as
one who is a member of the organi
zation known as the Democratic par
ty. If he allies himself with the
Democratic party and votes the Dem
oc atic ticket, he is entitled to be
called a Democrat, in so far as that
term is used as a party designation,
although he may not indorse all of
the party platform or be democratic
in his instincts. If in addition to
voting the Democratic ticket he in
dorses the platform adopted by the
party no one can dispute his title to
the appellation Democrat when the
subject is viewed from the standpoint
of party. A parly organization has a
right to choose its own name, to write
its own platform, and to nominate
its own candidates; and employing
the word Democrat in a part ysense,
the party has a right to withhold the
name Democrat from any one who re
fuses to accept the party’s decision
without questioning the right of a
person to leave his party organiza
tion at the command of his conscience
and his judgment. It is only fair to
say that he cannot take the party
name with him if he dissents from the
opinions and acts of the majority
of the party, for the rule of the ma
jority is as much a part of party gov
ernment as it is a part of our theory
of government. Men upon the out
side may claim to be more Democratic
than men on the inside of the party
—and under a broader definition of
the w ord Democrat z they may be—
and yet from a party standpoint their
claim cannot be allowed without the
obliteration of party distinctions.
11 If then, by your question, What is
a Democrat? you mean to ask for a
definition considered from a party
standpoint, I would say that a Dem
ociat is one who considers himself a
member of the Democratic organiza
tion, who works with the Democratic
organization and who expects to vote
the Democratic ticket.”
Mr. Bryan believes that the above
views are narrow and that the ques
tion calls for a broader consideration
of the subject, and says, “If the
Democratic party is entitled to the
name, it must be true to the ideas of
Democracy. I will define a Demo
crat as one who believes in the riile
of the people. The word democracy
is derived from the Greek, and the
two words, demos—the people, and
krateo—to rule, leave no doubt that
a democracy is a government in which
the people rule.”
Mr. Bryan quotes Jefferson and
what he believed, and then says:
“What Jefferson said was true at
the time he said it. It is true today.
Two parties are found in every coun
try, and no matter by what name they
are known they represent the two ele
ments in society. Those who trust
the people are everywhere endeavor
ing to bring the government nearer
to the people, and to make it more
responsive to the will of the people.
Those who distrust the people are
everywhere endeavoring to obstruct
each new step toward popular gov
ernment.
“Our United States Senate is more
Hamiltonian in its method of elec
tion than the House, and the constant
growth of sentiment in favor of the
popular election of United States
Senators is evidence that the demo
cratic idea is larger than the mem
bership of any party. Today a man
can hardly claim to be democratic in
his ideas and yet oppose the popular
election of United States Senators.
“If a man is really democratic in
sentiment, that is, if he really be
lieves in the rule of the people, this
b lief dominates him in the consid
eration of all questions that come
before the people.
“He looks at questions from the
standpoint of the whole people and
not from the standpoint of a few.
His conception of society is that it
is built from the bottom, not from
the top. While the aristocrat pic
tures prosperity as dripping down
to the masses from the well-to-do,
the democrat cannot imagine a pros
perity that does not begin with the
producers of wealth.
“It is hardly worth while to
waste time upon one who is really
aristocratic in setniment. It is im
possible to make a democrat out of
him until he has a change of heart.
In 1896 a number of persons left
our party who called themselves
Democrats. Some of them were aris
tocratic in sentiment, and their de
parture was perfectly natural. They
have not come back, and they will
not come back so long as the Demo
cratic party is democratic, but a far
greater number of those who left
us inTB96 left from misunderstand
ing. Most of these have come back
and Jhe rest will come back.
“To recapitulate, a Democrat, ac
cording to a party definition, is a
man who connects himself with the
Democratic party and acts political
ly with those who bear the same par
ty name. In a broader sense, he is
a Democrat who believes in the rule
of the people and who desires to
make the Government the instru
ment in the hands of the people to
carry out their will. Such a man
trusts the people and favors such re
forms as will give to the people an
increasing power. And a real Dem
ocrat will not only favor Democratic
methods in government and insist
upon the right of the majority to
rule, but will favor the administra
tion of the Government in the inter
est of the whole people according
to the Jeffersonian maxim, ‘Equal
rights to all and special privilege
to none.’ ”
French Cruiser Leaves the Fair.
The cruiser Victor Hugo, one of
the vessels which represented France
in the Jamestown Exposition inter
national fleet, left Norfolk, Va., Sun
day.
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