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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. PAGE FIVE