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THE MOTCXIXG OREG02JIA2s WEDESDA"r. JUSE 27, 1900. ;h? (Dragoman Metered at the Postoface at Portland. Oregon. xls second-class matter. P TELEPHONES. "Editorial Rooma....l601 Business OSe....667 ' REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Tv Mail fnrataee Dretiald). In Advance '"Dally, with Sunday, per month...... $0 85 fXsair, sunaay excepted, per year w fcXtolly, "with Sunday, per year fl W unday, per year w The Weekly, per year 1 Tl "Weekly. 3 months 50 To Cltv Knhcribers lv Dally, per -week, delivered. Sundays exepted.l5c J ally, per week, aeuverea, sunaays lnciuaeo-iaK; POSTAGE KATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: f,10 to 12-page paper lc f iu to 24-page paper , SS to 36-page paper - 3c News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed invariably "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of nay Individual. Letters relating to advertising, isubecrlptlons or to any business matter should be addressed simply 'The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poema or stories1 from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It -without solicita tion. No stamps should bo Inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue. Tacoma. Box SC3, Tacoma postoSlce. Eastern Business Office be Tribune build ing. New Tork city; "The .Rookery." Chicago; the S. C Beckwlth special agency, New York. For sale In San Francl by J. K. Cooper, 748 Market street, near Use Palace hotel, and Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter strert. .For sale Jn Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 817 Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair and warmer; northerly winds. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JCXE 27 Wheat is badly burned in Minnesota end the Dakotas; and since wheat Is "their chief crop, the loss will be great. In many quarters the failure will be attributed to "the Administration," and on this basis there will be an effort by I, the calamity leaders to carry those states for Bryan. Besides, it may be argued, with some appearance of plau sibility, that if it was right in former years that McKInley should have the , credit of good crops, it is no more than fair that bad crops should now be charged up against him. Humorous, or cheap, as all this is, there will be votes for Bryan wherever "calamity" can set the music again on its old scrannel pipe of wretched straw. Extraordinary consequences have fol lowed the enactment of the new cur rency law. Within the short time that has elapsed since then, over $300,000,000 of Wz and lower interest bonds have been refunded into 2 per cents, and it has 'Caused hardly any comment. The Financial News (New Tork) says that In financial history there Is nothing to compare with it. It will reduce the amount of the interest charge by $6,000, 000 a year, and it places the credit of the "United States on a higher basis than that of any other nation. Tet of course tills act comes In for partisan denuncia tion. Most of the Democratic state conventions Keld since it was enacted have taken a "shy" at It, and the Kan sas City Convention next week will hold it up to infamy, with lurid rhet oric Managers of the Democratic party in Kentucky intend to have the Governor call a special session of the Legisla ture, to repeal the Goebel election law. This is to be done before the November :tlon. It will be a confession of Judgment, before the whole country. against this infamous law. Tet the act does not proceed from repentance, but from fear. The real object is to remove the danger of rejection by Congress of the electoral vote of Kentucky. It is believed by the Democrats that if the .election this Fall were held under the Goebel law. Congress would throw the vote of the state out of the . electoral college; and very probably it would, especially If the vote of the state would elect the Democratic candidates. The country would probably approve and sustain the rejection of a vote so taint ed with fraud, a vote secured through such outrages on electoral rights as the Goebel law was Intended to authorize and support. Conscience makes cow ards of those who enacted this law. and now they announce their intention . of repealing it, hoping for a chance, .since they will still have the election machinery, to carry the state without it. But what a confession against the injustice of the law and the iniquities practiced under it! A protective tariff for the products of Oregon (wool excepted) is a 'humbug. because we ship our products to dis tant markets, mostly to foreign coun- ries, and those countries could not Ihlp Into our country the like products, compete with ours. The "protective" tariff for wheat, hops, lumber, etc.. Is a delusion. It serves merely to catch gudgeons. Thus, it becomes one of the main supports of those tariff iniqui ties that bolster up many great trusts. A tariff, when it protects at all, is a protection to capital, mainly; In very limited degree to labor, and becoming less and less sq. Our wheat, hops and lumber we must sell in competition with the cheapest in the world; but we "protect" such great monopolies as the wire and stee1 trust against the com- ?etltor. Again, putting it on the ground a general principle, what right has government to lay its taxes with pur pose and Intent of enhancing the price of one man's products or commodities, ' at the cost of the other man, who must buy them? Is this a legitimate func tion? All the "protection" that any particular line of commodities receives somebody has to pay for; and the gen eral result of the system is and can be no other than the taking from the pock ets of the many for the benefit of the few. Newspapers like the Salem States man will, of course, continue to talk about the great advantages accruing to Oregon from a protective tariff against foreign products, such as we also produce in large quantities and can find no market for except by export; "but it is shallow business. It is, how ever, the mos! effective support that the great beneficiaries of protection, the monopolies and trusts, can receive. The Bryan Interview at Lincoln is "plainly a protest against the movement to make David B. Hill the candidate for Vice-President, Bryan could oth "erwise have seen no reason Just now to assert the necessity of having as runnins: mate some one "in harmony I with the platform," and to warn his i party against the danger of a ice- fPresldent who "would repudiate the cTatform." "No man worthy to be con sidered for such an office would accept a rcminatlon upon a piaxiorm repug nant to his views on any important Issue," he adds. All this is fair notice up-jn Hill to quit, and the Hill boomers to drop him. So far; as the ex-Senator is concerned, he didngt seem to need U. The chairman of the New York Demo cratic committee says Hill does not want the Vice-Presidency, and would not accept If nominated. "Having' just come from Wolfert's Boost, It is evi dent that he speaks by the card. But he adds that the New Tork delega tion will work earnestly for a modi fication of the 16-to-l plank. That seems to be more than enough for one state delegation to undertake at Kan sas City, without the additional handi cap of a candidate with a record on silver the Iemocracy would have to ex plain and apologize for. BRYAN A POPULIST. The fatal weakness of Bryan Is that he is first a Populist and then a Demo crat. The Sioux Falls Populist Con vention nominated Bryan upon a plat form drawn substantially by his own hand. What this Populist convention uttered, the Kansas City Democratic Convention will certainly reiterate. There will be no Democratic campaign-; it Is sure to be a Populist campaign, as In 1896, only more so, for Bryan in 189G was first a Democrat and. then a Popu list. Mr. Bryan still recites the "free-silver" shibboleth of 16 to 1, but his real battle-flag Is Populism, which includes not simply a demand for cheap cur rency to the extent of unlimited paper money, but stands for opposition to all corporate rights, for unsettling of con tracts, for the ultimate enactment of radical socialism In government. The Chicago platform was thoroughly Pop ulist, but the Sioux Falls platform is a more violent and extensive expression of tire whole body of Populist doctrine. The Sioux Falls Populists would rem edy trusts by Government ownership and. operation of railroads and of "the means of the transmission of Informa tion." The Populist platform made at Sioux City foreshadows the platform to be adopted by the National Democratic Convention to meet in Kansas City. The nomination- of Bryan on this plat form is fatal to the hopes of those conservative Democrats who bolted Bryan in 1896, but who fancied that some modification of his attitude on public questions would enable them to support him this year. Bryan knows that he must have the votes of the party represented in the Sioux Falls convention to have a fighting- chance of election, and to secure those votes the Democratic party will place him on this Populist platform. Under these circumstances it is not easy to under stand what Democratic politicians like Hill In New Tork had to gain- by con tending about platform expressions, after having yielded to the demand for instructed delegate for Bryan. Bryan means Bryanism. and Bryanlsm this year means red-hot Populism, which Is really far more repulsive to conser vative Democrats and Independents than even flat sliver and Its ultimate fiat paper, because recent financial leg islation has quieted that issue for the present; but the battle of Populism will have to be fiercely fought to a finish in the National campaign this year. Bryan, the Populist, is a far more threatening emissary of social turbu lence, a far more destructive possible political Incendiary, than Bryan the evangelist of cheap money, for "cheap money" is a burnt-out rocket compared with the rest of the fireworks already planted on the Populist platform upon which Bryan will be sure to stand. Bryan as a free-silverite at 16 to 1 Is today less formidable for practical evil than he was in 1896, but Bryan as a Populist is a more formidable possibil ity as agent and architect of political disturbance and social unrest than he is as the flat-money fire-drake of 1896, with Its starry tail beginning' to pale Its ineffectual fires. NOT A WOODEN INDIAN. Governor Roosevelt's reluctance to accept the nomination for Vice-Prosi-dent was due in part to the fact that he shared the popular estimate of the practical insignificance of the Vice Presidency of the United States, and its barren opportunity for the display of statesmanlike abilities. The truth is that the office of Vice-President, from the Presidency of Washington to that of Van Buren, was held by men in the very first rank of political life, men of great ability, high ambition and most distinguished record of public service. The Vice-Presidency was never considered to be a political gFave for its incumbent until the political managers of National conventions began to nomi nate comparatively mediocre men for what was in theory a very exalted of fice in its Implied responsibilities. Of the twenty-four men who have held the office of Vice-President, four have suc ceeded to the Presidency through the death of the elected occupants. It is only since the original fundamental re quirement of fitness for the office of Vice-President viz., that he should be a statesman fully equal to the duties and responsibilities of the office of Pres ident has fallen into neglect and merely available rrfen been nominated, that this great office has come Into popular disrepute. To a full man, like Roosevelt, the office of Vice-President Is a vantage ground of exceptional opportunity for increased political acquaintance and the accumulation of large political In fluence. Because the Vice-Presidency was worth little or nothing to com paratively mediocre statesmen, like Richard M. Johnson, Dallas, Hamlin, Colfax, Wilson, Wheeler, Morton and Stevenson, it would be absurd to as sume that it would be a worthless op portunity for a man of such abounding energy, aggressiveness and patriotic ambition as Roosevelt, To men of parts and ambition, the United States Sen ate furnishes a great opportunity for the display of public talents and for the consequent increase of political fame and influence; but to a roan lacking su perior talents-for public life, the oppor tunity of the United States Senate is not only of no advantage, but his very mediocrity, by its conspicuity and com parison with the standard of superior men, becomes more obvious than It was before. The Senate was a great field for Edmunds, Conkllng, Morton, Sher man, Matt Carpenter, but it was .of no historical advantage to men without superior talents for public life, like Marion Butler or McBride. The posi tion of Roosevelt as Vice-President is of high social consequence and favored opportunity for the acquisition of in creased political influence, an oppor tunity that is sure to be used to Its 'fullest capiclty by a man of irrepressi ble mental and physical vitality, a man of ambition, moral courage, frankness, a man as full of restless energy and lmperiousness as the late General Will iam T. Sherman. Such a man, full of 'talk, full of dlsputatiousness, full of patriotism, full of ambition, younjr and hopeful,'1 can not possibly be snuffed out or become obscure in the public eye because he is not an orator within the Senate. No matter; he is a ceaseless talker without the Senate. Roosevelt is always a social and political force through his vigorous individuality, and to such a man, while the Vice-Presidency may not prove a horseblock to the Presidency, nevertheless it is sure to be practically a political pulpit and In no sense a mere political bombproof or treadmill. WIIY THE NORTHERN ROUTE? The advantages of a trans-Pacific ca ble by way of the northern route are daily becoming more apparent, and, viewed from a commercial standpoint, it is beyond question the route that should be selected. Pacific Coast trade is developing rapidly, not only with the far East, but with Siberia and with Alaska. This development has become so great that Its commercial telegraph "business, added to the revenue which will be secured from the Oriental end of the line, is believed to bo sufficient to make it self-supporting from the start, without the aid of a subsidy. This northern route, if selected, would follow the great circle path of steamers going to the Orient, and would require less submarine cable than, any other that. could be laid out to the far East. Leav ing the Columbia River or Puget Sound, the line could be laid in comparatively short lengths to Sitka, Kadlak, Dutch Harbor, Attu; thence across to the Japanese-Russian border and down Into Northern Japan, where lines already constructed could be connected with. The Philippines are, of course, the ob jective point, and to bring them Into connection with the rest of the system would require but about 200 miles of cable In addition to existing lines. The distance from the Paciflc Coast termi nus of the line by the northern route to a connection in Northern Japan is less than 4500 miles, and, allowing 10 per cent for slack, less than 5000 miles of cable would be required. This could be laid in six links ranging from 690 to SCO miles each, and accordingly a much lighter cable could be used than that required for the southern route, whore the shortest link Is the 2100-mile stretch between the Paciflc Coast and Honolulu. Our Interests In the Ha waiian Islands are such, of course, that a cable there is an absolute necessity; but, adding the length of a cable from San Francisco to Honolulu to that of the one required for the northern route to the Orient, the total is less than that of a cable to the Philippines by way of Honolulu and Guam. The latent wealth of Alaska's mines and fisheries is suf ficient, when fully developed, to main tain a large population, which is in creasing at a more rapid rate at the present time than ever before. This de velopment justifies the advantages of cable communication, and the business will show a steady Increase. Aside from the commercial value of a cable line following our highway to the far East, there Is a higher value which can not be reckoned In dollars and cents. Many a good ship has gone down be fore the destructive gales which sweep over the North Pacific In the Winter months, and hundreds of lives have been sacrificed. From many of these wrecks men have escaped in boats, only to meet with starvation or final destruction on the inhospitable shores of the northern islands, which are now shut out from all communication with the outside world. Had there been cable communication with Dutch Harbor or Attu, and a reve nue cutter stationed there, when the steamship Pelican became overdue, help could have been sent the crew, which left the ship In small boats, and some and perhaps all of the missing men might have been saved. For the past month Dutch Harbor has been the ren dezvous for a fleet of ships carrying a greater number of passengers than have ever assembled so far from com munication with the outside world since the days of '49. The attention of the entire civilized world Is centered on this fleet, and news of Its movements would quiet the fears 6f thousands of people and be worth fortunes to the owners of ships. The object of all work under taken by the Government, or with Gov ernment assistance, is with the avowed intention of providing the greatest good for the greatest number of citizens. Such being the case, the northern route for a trans-Pacific cable is the only one to be seriously considered. AIR FOR THE 3IAN BEHIND THE GUN. One of the most difficult tasks which has attended modern navy-bulldlng is that which has addressed itself to malt ing ironclads In action habitable to the men behind the guns. In the flght be tween the Monitor and Merrlmac it was found that the men simply could not live In the submerged hull of the tur-" reted vessel because of the suffocating gases generated by the explosion of gunpowder, which found their way be low and were there confined. Neces sity, therefore, thus early in the history of the construction of the Ironclad compelled the Introduction of some ap paratus for official ventilation. The old methods, that had been in vogue since navies were, had to be discarded, and Tankee ingenuity set to work to supply their place. Rotary blowers operated by steam were Introduced, by means of which air was drawn from one-half the steamer through a system of pipes and forced into the other. Later the air was drawn down through the tur rets and forced throughout the vessel, but this was found to Increase the dan ger to the men below, and the plan of obtaining a supply through armored cylinders forced out through the turrets was tried. It was at this stage of de velopment in navy-bulldlng that a strange disease attacked the crews of the monitors. Being confined to them. It was soon known as "ironclad fever." The first symptoms were similar to those of typhus, but later severe occip ital pain followed, succeeded by com plete aphonia, coma and death. The Introduction of adequate ventilating ap pliances caused the disappearance of this singular disease, and in time these metal boxes, almost entirely sub merged, came to be regarded as health ful as any vessels afloat. Ventilating appliances have kept pace with the evolution of the modern battle-ship in other details, but still the man behind the gun, and especially he whose duty Is in the fireroom In trials of speed, whether for test or in battle, finds his greatest discomfort and dan ger in breathing the superheated at mosphere that no system of ventilation can fit to the vital needs of living or ganisms, while the fighting machine is being maintained at Its highest degree of speed and efficiency. The require ments placed upon human endurance in the torpedo-boat service are terribly se vere, and it If still doubtful whether the value of vessels of this type in oc- tlon Is not more than offset by the ter rible strain to which the men are sub ject In operating them. The man behind the gun shrinks from no duty. He immolates himself unhes itatingly upon, the altar of his country in pushing the modern battle-ship. or the torpedo-boat to the limit of Its speed; but it is evident that human endurance has nearly reached Its limit In this direction, and that, if a still higher rate of speed is developed In naval vessels, it may be at the expense of human life in the firerooms. About all the light we get out of the controversy between Qulgg and Gros venor over the authorship of the Phil adelphia platform is that Quigg wanted one form of expression and got it, and Grosvenor wanted another form, thought he hid It, and didn't get it. After the subcommittee had prepared the original draft of the platform, it was handed to Mr. Qulgg, it seems, to edit and work over Into more readable and succinct shape. The New Tork politician and ex-Journalist performed his editorial duties so thoroughly that when he was through, specific Indorse ment of some policy of legislation in favor of the merchant marine (presum ably the Hanna-Payne-Groavenor subsidy- bill) was omitted; and the expan sion plank was minus a declaration of the Republican purposes with reference to our Island possessions. Mr. Qulgg's blue pencil was used with discriminat ive judgment in the one matter. He does not seem to have done so well in the other. But what were Grosvenor and the remainder of the committee do ing that they did not examine the plat form after the Qulgg labor of "putting it into shape" had been completed? An impressive feature of the New Tork situation Is the general opinion that, with Roosevelt as candidate for Governor, Republican success for both State and National tickets was proba ble; with Roosevelt as candidate for Vice-President, the chances for both are problematical. All New Tork Repub licans outside the circle of the Piatt influence understood it, and declared the facts. Republican newspapers, like the Tribune and Commercial Adver tiser, protested against the plan to withdraw the Governor from the state; and Roosevelt himself openly said his "best field of usefulness to the public and to the party is in New Tork." It was realized by all that, with Roose velt out of the way, Piatt would cause the nomination of some pliant creature of the machine, who might or might not be elected. Many persons who want Roosevelt for Governor because he is honest and efficient will vote against him for Vice-President because they will not vote Xor McKInley. The alarm over New Tork Is genuine, and It Is well founded. That crops never fall In Oregon is again brought to mind by the State Board of Horticulture's estimate of the fruit yield, which Is printed in this morning's paper. Reports of extensive injury by frosts and cold rains had left the general impression that Oregon fruit would not yield well this year. But the investigation of the board brings out that, taking the state as a whole and including all kinds of fruit, the yield of this season will be up to the average. The chief sufferer has been the Fellenberg (Italian) prune, in Western Oregon. Apples promise an unusually large crop in every section of the state. With the additional pros pect of a good market, the Oregon fruitgrower has cause for rejoicing rather than for lamentation. He will partake of the general prosperity this year. Eight days after the first steamers from Cape Nome, another reaches port from the north with news of only a part of the fleet. Nothing is reported from the Elder, the Nome City or the Despatch. There need be no uneasiness about them. The Elder and the Nome City reached Dutch Harbor In good time, and continued their journey with many others. Up to June 12 only-twelve vessels had arrived at Nome. The total fleet is nearly 100. The three Portland vessels simply belong to the great ma jority which have taken no undue chances in trying to push through the ice. The probabilities are that when LI Hung Chang gets down to his work in good earnest a number of heads will roll into the basket. Decapitation is a distinguishing feature of the Chinese form of government. Old LI has been in danger of it more than once himself, but is fortunate in being at present In favor at Pekin. How long his three eyed peacock feather will wave is, of course, uncertain in the present chaotic condition of affairs in China, With the task of subjugating the Philippines practically done, with troops on the way to China, and with some very lively Intentions as to the Bosphorus, the United States would seem to be realizing its ambition to be a world-power. The Oregon delegation will support Jim Ham Lewis, not necessarily to a nomination, but as an evidence that they care nothing for their votes. Seattle, it is said, will be shown by the census to have more than 100,000 people. At any rate, there's no ques tion about the ciphers. The shedding of American blood at Tien Tsln is the final argument that this country has interests In China it must protect. A MISTAKE CORRECTED. Responsibility for the St. Lonia An archy. Kansas City Star, Ind. Harper's Weekly, in commenting upon the disorder in St, Louis, makes the same mistake which many other papers at a distance have fallen Into. This miscon ception Is that the Democratic Governor, actuated by political motives, demands that the Republican Mayor shall suppress violence, and the Republican Mayor, seek ing to make the other party responsible, demands action on the part of the Gov ernor. This Is erroneous to the extent that the police department of St. Louis Is no more in control of the Mayor than It Is In con trol of Harper's Weekly. On the con trary. It is solely under the direction of the Governor and certain Commissioners appointed by him. The Sheriff, also. Is a state officer. Hence, when the Governor says tho municipal authorities of St, Louis should deal with the situation, he does so knowing that the St, Louis police is not under municipal control, but sub ject to his own orders. v Harper's "Weekly expresses disbelief in the Governor's declaration that the State of Missouri can't pay JSODO a day to call out the mllltla. Thts Is literally a fact, however, owing to the merely nominal taxation of tho state, Furtbennore, Mls- souri has onlr 2000 militia, because-of the Democratic fear of militarism- Thewnole thins is a great lesson of the folly of merely nominal government, which, in an emergency, has neither money nor troops nor stamina to act. PROBABLE IJSS OF NEW. YORK. Re arlcs fey- a. Leading: RepaBlIcaa Paper of Chlcaa-o. "Republicans must prepare to Lose New Tork," is the headline of the leading ed- Itorial of the Chicago Times-Herald, ot j say: "Theodore Roosevelt having failed to stem the 'tide of Republican enthusi asm that would not permit him to escape the Vice-Presidential nomination, the Re publican party must now face the serious problem of electing its ticket without the electoral vote of New York. "Whatever may have been the political chicanery and deceit behind the fictitious 'stampede' that overcame Governor Roosevelt's hon est instinct, and snatched him from his chosen sphere of duty and usefulness, thero can be no doubt that it weakens the Republican ticket in the state with the largest vote in the electoral college. "Outside of the hurly-burly of Philadel phia, the people of the United States, vrho elect Presidents if they do not control conventions, have watched the game with the gravest misgivings as to its conse quences. They have seen the conspiracy of Tom Piatt to rob New Tork of an hon est Governor win through the absolutely unwarranted claim that the prairies were aflame demanding the nomination of Roosevelt for Vice-President. "Nothing could have been further from tho truth. The all-pervading sentiment of the West, where Governor Roosevelt's personal .attributes have made him a pop ular idol, asked that his earnestly ex pressed wish for a second term should be respected. The "West was not deceive! by the trickery and skulduggery that sought to take that square-set Jaw out of the way of Tom Piatt and Jam it Into the smooth round hole labeled the Vlco Presidency. "In Albany Governor Roosevelt was the death's head at every corporate feast, the fly In every pot of oily Jobbery for which Thomas C Piatt lives and schemes. In Washington Theodore Roosevelt will bo far removed from the offlco in which he has been a terror to rascals and a stumbling-block to all kinds of Legislative log rolling and Iniquity. 'Tom Piatt would rather have a Demo crat in the Governor's mansion at Albany than a second term of Governor Roose velt. "But the Republican voters and the In dependent citizens of New Tork were pre pared to force a second term for Roose velt, The only way Piatt could check mate the popular demaad for this was through forcing his n&mlnatlon for Vice President. "This is What he accomplished before ho left Philadelphia Wednesday night with a glad heart beating exultantly under his fractured rib. "And now "Western Republicans must be prepared to face the difficult task of elect ing McKInley and Roosevelt without re lying on New Tork state. The truth can not bo concealed that as a candidate for Governor, an office in which his fearless impetuosity and honest Instincts were needed, Theodore Roosevelt would have attracted thousands of independent Re publicans, anti-Tammany Democrats and civil service reformers to the support of the Republican ticket. As candidate for Vice-President his personality will not count for a rush to win support from these classes. "If a man like Bird S. Coler Is nomi nated for Governor by, the Democrats agalnEt any stool-pigeon Tom Piatt may name, does any one doubt that the dis gust over the political assassination ot the Rough Rider will endanger both tho state and National Republican tickets? "He is but a shallow student of tho crooked ways of New York politics who does not fear the worst from the Jockey lng that has rehabilitated Thomas C Piatt as the undisputed middle, end and confidence man of Republican power in New Tork. "By playing the game for Thomas C. Piatt, tho Republican delegates from the "West have confronted their constituents with this ill-favored tabic of November possibilities: Uryan vote In 189C 170 New York's electoral vote 30 Kentucky's electoral vote 12 Maryland's electoral voto S CO Total 232 Necessary to elect 224 Including one from Kentucky. "It will be perceived that if Bryan wins In New Tork, Kentucky and Maryland In addition to the states he carried in 1S&S he will be elected. "In order to overcome any such possible result of the abuse of "Western sentiment in' Philadelphia, it will be necessary for "Western Republicans to win at least nine electoral votes among the following states which cast them for Bryan four years ago: California 1 Idaho 3 Kansas 10 South Dakota. 4 Washington 4 Wyoming 3 Montana J Nebraska 8 1 Total 30 "It happens that these eight Western states, by reason of the odd one in Cali fornia, cast precisely the same vote for Bryan In 1SSG Jhat New Tork cast for McKInley. Western Republicans will have to hold every electoral vote the great Central "West polled for McKInley In 1S9G and gain at least nine votes from the above table to Insure the election of Mc KInley and Roosevelt, should the" peculiar conditions in New Tork result In the loss of that state. "Although the restoration of the Tam many party to power in Albany might bo fraught with serious consequences to New Tork, the rest of the Union might beai the calamity with equanimity if it elimi nated once for all the dominant and domi neering voice of New Tork in National conventions. "It would be worth the struggle to know that a President can be elected without consulting Boss Piatt or Boss Croker." JUST A PLATFORM OF "WORDS. The Philadelphia. Stamp Speech and What It Declares. The New Tork Journal of Commerce, which has been friendly to the Republic an party, and which is supporting Mc KInley and Roosevelt, makes this com ment on the Philadelphia platform: Party platforms Increase In length as they decrease In Importance. When they really gave some Information as to the action parties would take If they obtained power they were reasonably brief and definite; of late years they have sought to avoid committing the or ganizations putting them forth to any specific line of action, and to conceal thts omission by multiplicity of words; they have Invited tha voters to put a party In possession of the Federal Government on the ground that It mo nopolized all the wisdom and vlrtuo and pa triotism In the country, and should bo trusted, like a wise monarch, to uso plenary power for the good of the subjects. The so-called platform adopted at Philadel phia Is not a platform at all; It is not a declaration ot principles nor a programme of action. It is a declaration of ends to be at tained by government. Now, there Is no dif ference among rational men as to the ends to be attained; everybody desires to be prosper ous; everybody desires to have the Nation honored and Influential; everybody Is In favor of the millennium; tho only practical question is as to the means of attaining It. As to this the campaign speech adopted In Philadelphia In place of a platform tells us very little. It declares against the free and unlimited coin age of silver; but that has already been dis posed of by legislation. As to further finan cial legislation the platform is In "favor of such legislation as will enable the varying needs of the season and -of all sections to be promptly met In order that trade may be evenly sustained, labor steadily employed and commerce enlarged." The genbackers and sll- verltes are In favor ot just tne same mins; what a party platform Is for Is to tell bow a political organization purposes to attain this end. but the Philadelphia document gives no Information. The platform approves of "the honest co operation of capital to vet new business con- dltlons;" so do the Populists. It condemns "all conspiracies and combination!-. Intended to re strict business, to creaio monopolies, to limit production, or to control prices." So does everybody: no one ever advocated conspiracies to restrict business, create monopolies and con trol prices. What means p to be takes to effect this purpose! The document gives no In timation; it adds nothing to the undisputed principles of the common lair. The public Is Invited to continue the Republican party In power and trust to Its goodcetis and wisdom to And means ox attaining the ends desired by all. plutocrat and pauper alike. vTofeSlp bsIdyeTeven he A large majority of the party seems to t the platform Is too timid to specify the means to be taken to attain an end regarding which there Is no dispute. The party is to favor of "legislation which will enable us to recover our former place anions the trade-carrying fleets of tho world." The advocates of free ships are just as much in favor of the end as the advocates of subsidies are. KEEN AND JUST CRITICISM. The New Tork Times, an Independent Democratic paper, which, however, strongly opposes the present tendencies of the party and shows Inclination to support McKInley, as against Bryan, ia filled with indignant wrath at the state ments made by some of the speakers in the Philadelphia convention. It quotes this from the speech by Senator "Wolcott: When Mr. McKInley became President ho took the reins of Government after four years of Democratic Administration. For the first time In more than a generation Democracy had full swav, with both houses of Congress in party accord with the Executive. No summary ot the unmerciful disasters of those four years can convey an Idea, of a tlthu of the ruin they wrought. And It makes this vigorous comment and wholly just reply: The triple brass that Horace thought must bavo fortified the heart of the first mariner' who Intrusted his cockle shell to the storms of ocean should also be securely bolted to tho Jowl of a man who with Wolcott's record In the Senate could make Wolcott's speech at Philadelphia. Tea, there were unmerciful disasters in tho years of Cleveland's second Administration: gold disappeared and the debt piled up; bank ruptcy became a National amusement; a con siderable part of the population made a living as receivers ot railroads; banks closed their doors, factories shut down, and men by thousands walked the highways of, the land clamoring for work or food, as the Colorado Senator truly says. But who brought these unmerciful disasters on tho land? Not Grover Cleveland, nor yet his party, not then Bryanlzed, It any one seeks tho causa of these evils, let him seek It In 15 years of Republican paltering with silver. Let him seek It In the Sherman sliver coinage act of 1S90, that placed our currency system on a foundation so unstable that confidence withered under Its operation and departed al together when the closing of tho Indian mints revealed to us the full peril of our situation. Then It was that President Cleveland sum moned Congress In extraordinary session to repeal the act, and stay this Republican plague. Then it was that ho and all his Cab inet and tho chief Democrats In the country planned and pleaded and tolled night and day to force that repeal bill through a reluctant Senate. They succeeded, and the bill passed the Democratic House In a flapa. and the Democratic President signed It, ard everything that could be done to avert the disastrous con sequences of Republican recklessness was ac complished. But where was "Wolcott In those anxious days? "Why, he was voting In the Senate with Peffer and Jones and Stewart and all the Pop ulist rout for an amendment to the repeal bill providing for the free coinage of silver. And on the 30th of October, 1SSM, he voted against the repeal, again allying himself with the forces of ruin and disaster. Every tramp In the land that went barefoot after that had a moral right to demand a pair ot boots of Edward O. Wolcott. Every industry that failed, every worklngman who lost his Job. every manufacturer who was forced to shut down, and every Investor who saw his Income wiped out, had the right to hold Senator Wolcott responsible. Vet this old free-allver agitator, this only half-reformed Bryanit", has the hardihood to stand up and charge upon c Democratic Pres ident tho unmerciful disasters that he helped to bring on and refused to help avert. Pennsylvania to Bay Valley Forge for a Park. Philadelphia Inquirer. Historic Valley Forge is to become a state. park. It is the purpose to take Immediate steps toward the purchase of this historic ground by the State of Pennsylvania. A committee has been appointed to corre spond with all patriotic societies through out Pennsylvania, and all Americans .who have the good name of Washington at heart are appealed to for tho purpose of helping along the crusade. Tho proprietary rights of the Valley Forge Association are not to be infringed upon, for the extenslvo territory contains many landmarks that are now falling Into decay. It is these historic mementos of the Revolution which will be taken caro of when once the State of Pennsylvania is tho overseer of Valley Forge. nis Audience Rone In Riot. Providence Journal. "Ham" Garland has fallen out of sight of late as a novelist fresh realists have occupied the attention of the fickle pub licbut ho comes to the front once more as a lecturer. He made an address before a Wisconsin audience regarding the early settlers, in which he espoused the cause of the Indians, and Intimated that tho progress of civilization In the West was something to be ashamed of. Tho famous ohlef. Black Hawk. wa3 a greater man than Lincoln. At this his audience roso In riot. Mr. Garland's revolutionary ideas in literature seem to have extend ed to life In general. The ought to sit by himself awhile and Indulge In seriou3 reflection. MBX AITD WOMKW. Henry Graves, the Chicago millionaire, says he has lived la Chleago longer than any other man. He went there CO years ago, and for CO years has lived In the same house. Professor Max iluller. In a recent Interview, sold: "I lost very little time on novels beforo my Illness. Now I delight In them. Not that I read them extensively myself. They are read to me." Major Henry Shelley Dalbals, of the Middle sex Imperial Teomanry, who was killed In tho fighting outside Senekal a few weeks ago. was one of tho representatives ot tho Illustrated London News at the front. Miss Baden-Powell, a sister of the Colonel, keeps a flock of about 170 exquisite live speci mens of Indian and Japanese butterflle"?, which she has bred herself. She also has a pet spar row, which Is her constant companion day and night. General CronJo was unique among the Trans vaal Generals. He alone ruled by fear. A si lent man. with stooped shoulders and hard, hunter's eyes, men were never attracted to him as they were to Lucas Myer and Louis Botha. Whip always In hand, he stood over them as a harsh cshoolmaster stands over his boys at rchooL No weak-kneed burgher ever came to Cronje for leave to go home. At Paardeburg he had no ambulance, and refused Lord Rob erts offer to relieve him of his wounded. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "I wonder what the Chlnsie Empress would say If she had to quit Peklnr "I know what her last words would be." "Whatr "Is my hattee on stlalghtr' Cleveland Plain Dealer. Not the Only One. The little girl slipped something beneath the edffe of her plate. "I wish." she fold, under ber breath, "there was an anti-crust law! That's what I wish!" Chicago Tribune. "No, Harry, I am sure we could not be happy together; you know I always want my own way In everything." "But, darling, you could go on wantlntr It after we were mar ried." Brooklyn Life. "Why does a fairy talo customarily end, and they were married and lived happily etr after"?" "That has come to be essential," she replied. "That Is what shows It Is a fairy tale." Washington Star. Husband "What! No lco this sweltering weather? Didn't the Ice man leave any? Wife Ho left plenty, but that new girl has be-n keeping the refrigerator open all day to cool off the kitchen.' New Tork Weekly. NOTE AND. COMMENT. ' .' r. Thp Republican rabblt's-foot: certainly; augurs that the candidates will run well. This Is the kind of weather we read about in tho works of James Lane Allen. Those Boxers cannot be blamed for act ing tho way they do. Look at the yellow streak in them. If a man only knew Just when to shoot. ' And when to give up his gun. He would have better health and then to boot Ho would have a lot more fun. Personal Hon. W. S. Taylor, of Ken tucky, accompanied by a large retinu of detectives, is sojourning at Niagara Falls. The Kansas City hotel-keepers areJ pointing with pride to their prices, but the delegates are viewing them with alarm. If the Chinese Army makes use of tho bombs they send over here for Fourth of July celebrations, there is no hope for their enemies. A typographical error .yesterday made) The Oregonlan say: "Wtnfleld spoke for his faction of the Democratic party In "ISW." It should have read "Douglas." Now doth the country merchant choose His stock of Fourth supplies. Bombs and things without, much fuse. As well as liniment to use On damaged bands and eyes. "Mr. Davis," said the delegates to tho Republican convention, "we can't accept you or your Boer-plank, There's tho door." "Where's the door?" asked Davis. "Tou'll have to show me. Km from Mis souri, you know." There's nary patch o' cloud or I haze drlftla through the sky, There's no cblll warnln' In the atr o showers bye an bye, Thero ain't no dark an' Bomber cloak a-shroud-ln' ole Mount Hood. There ain't them gray streaks In thewest, that never means no good. An,' so we're sure the rains has go&a. for things looks this way when t Ol' Sol comes out an comes to stay, an Sum mer's here again. The fir trees stand out on the hills -when half the sky Is red. An when the sun Is slnkln In his soldca glow In bed. Tho Jagged peaks that lino the east look Jag geder at dawn. When Sol sneaks up behind their backs, and turns tho daylight on. An soon the birds Is chirpln up their momln song, an then The world wakes up, an finds for Bure that Summer's here again. The clouds 'II sometimes hang aroundttlll 'loss about July, An only once a week or so we'll see a patch. o sky. But when they're gone, an gone for good. It's well worth waltln' for. To see tha mountains on beyond all big an white once more. We don't complain about tho rain or growl at Nature then. Nor make no fuss, enough for us that Sum mer's here again. Swinburne' Sons of Victory. (Astraea Vlctrix.) England, elect of time. By freedom sealed sublrme. And constant as the sun that saw thy dawn Outshine upon the sea. His own in heaven, to be A light that night nor day should see with.. drawn. If song may speak not now thy praise, , Fame writes It higher than song may soar or faith may gaze. Dark months on months beheid Hope thwarted, crossed and quelled, And heard the heartless hounds of -hatred bay Aloud against thee, glad As now their souls are sad Who see their hope In hatred pass.away And wither Into shame and fear And shudder down to-darkness, loth to see or hear. Naught now they hear or see That speaks or sho-ns not thee Triumphant: not as empires reared of lyore, The Imperial commonweal That bears thy sovereign seal And signs thine orient as thy natural shore Free, as no sons but thine may stand. Steers llfeward ever, guided of thy pilot hand. Fear, masked and veiled by fqaud. Found shameful time to applaud Shame, and bow down thy banner toward thi dust. And call on godly shame To desecrate thy name And bid false penitence abjure thy trust; Till England's heart took thought atllast. And felt her future kindle from her fiery past. Then sprang the sunbrlght Are High as the sun, and higher Than Etrange men's eyes might -watch; It a- dismayed: But winds athwart it blew Storm, and the twilight grew' Darkness awhile, an unendurlng shade; And all base birds and beasts of 'night Saw no more England now to fear, no loath some light. AH knaves and slaves at heart Who. knowing thee what thou ant. Abhor thee, seeing what none savo there majf see. Strong freedom, taintless truth. Supreme In ageless youth. Howled all their hate and hope-aloud at the While yet the wavering wind of strife Bore hard against her sail, whose freight bk hope and life. And now the quickening tide That brines back power and pride To faith and'love whoe ensign is thy name Bears down tho recreant He That doomed thy name to die. Sons, friends and foes behold thy start the same As when It stocd In heaven a sun And Europe saw no glory left her sky save) one. And now, as then she saw. She sees with shamefast awe How all unlike all slaves and tyrants born Where bondmen champ the bit And anarchs foam and flit. And day mocks day, and year puts year to scorn. Our mother bore us. English men. Ashamed of shame and strong ln mercy, now as then. Wo loosed not on these knaves Their scourge-tormented slaves; We held the hand that fain had rUcn to smlto The torturer fast, and made Justice awhile afraid. And righteousness forego her ruthless right; "We warred not even with these as they; We bade not them they preyed on make ot them their prey. All murderous fraud that lurks In hearts where hell's craft works Fought, crawled and slew In darkness; they that died Dreamed not of foes too base For scorn to grant them grace; Men wounded, womrn. children at their side. Had found what faith In flends may live; And yet we gave not back what righteous doom would give. No falo white flag that fawns On faith till murder dawns Blood-red from hell-black treason's heart of hate Left ever shame's foul brand Seared on an English hand; And yet our pride vouchsafes them grace too great For other pride to dream of; scorn Strikes retribution silent as tho stars at mora. And now tho living breath , Whose life puts death to death. Freedom. whoe namo Is England, stirs and thrills The burning darkness through Whence fraud and slavery grew. We scarce may mourn our dead whose fame fulfills The record where her foes have read That earth shall see none Ilka her bora ra earth be dead. Algernon Charles Swtsbura.