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PORTLAyp, THURSDAY, JUNE 2S.
It Is almost necessary that Roosevelt
should resign the Governorship of the
State of New York. Free action, either
as Governor or as candidate for the
Vice-Presidency, will not be possible,
so long as he holds his present office.
For this office is both political and judi
cial; the duty Is upon him of passing
on the Democratic officials connected
with the ice trust, and he has the
power to remove the Mayor of the City
of New York from office, upon the
charges against him. At the same time
he is a candidate for the Vice-Presidency,
and he Is expected to be the
National spokesman of the Republican
party for the campaign. Resignation
of the office of Governor seems abso
lutely necessary.
It would seem that the troubles In
Chicago between contractors and work
ingmen in the building trades were
about at an end. The several unions
are withdrawing, one by one, from the
federation, and work that has been sus
pended for many months Is about to be
resumed. The disagreement was not
over wages or hours of labor; but the
men Insisted on their right to limit the
amount of work which any man should
do in a day; to limit the number of ap
prentices so that there should not be
enough artisans to take the places of
those Inclined to fall out, and to require
that builders' materials should be pur
chased only under the direction of the
unions. It was this last requirement
that the contractors and owners re
fused, -with most posltlveness, to sub
mit to. They told the men of the unions
that If they wanted to shut out appren
tices and fit their own sons to be vaga-
uonds and beggars, they might have
their way, but they never would yield
Jpjite demand that materials should be
purchased only from Dersons or at
places dictated by the unions. It will
be gratifying to learn that building In
dustry Is to be resumed at Chicago after
so long Interruption. No less than 60,
000 men in the building trades in that
city have been idle since January last
Time was when the Democratic party
was in favor of the acquisition of terri
tory by the United States. In I860 it
declared distinctly in favor of the ac
quisition of Cuba. Both sections of the
party the Breckinridge section and the
Douglas section made this demand, in
their platforms that year. The party
now Is so changed that it declares it
unconstitutional, and contrary to the
Declaration of Independence, to acquire
territory, beyond our continental lim
its. During more than forty years the
Democratic party made every effort to
get Cuba. Consent of the governed, or
difficulties of colonial administration,
did not trouble it at all. In the Ostend
manifesto (October, 1854), It was de
clared, In the face of the world, that
"we should be Justified by every law,
human and divine, in wresting Cuba
from Spain, If we possess the power."
As an alternative It was proposed that
Spain should be given the option to sell
Cuba to the United States for $120,
000,000. This Democratic offer of so
much apiece for "yellow bellies" does
not shut the mouth of the party
against denunciation of the award of
520,000,000 to Spain in the settlement for
the Philippine Islands, In the recent
treaty of peace.
Upon going to war with Spain two
years ago last April, the Congress of
the United States declared that It was
not the intention of this country to
exercise sovereignty. Jurisdiction or
control over Cuba, except for pacifica
tion of the Island, and, that accom
plished, the United States would leave
the government and control of the
loland to Its people. The Oregonlan
ever has regarded it as unfortunate
that this pledge was given. It was not
necessary; but given, it must be kept.
Our forces must be withdrawn from
Cuba, and the Island will be permitted
to assert Its National independence.
But it Is as certain as anything can
be that the United States will be again
Involved in war on its account. We
shall be forced to retake Cuba; for
Cuba, as an Independent state, will
make connections and alliances hostile
to our interests, and we shall be
obliged to fight the great power or pow
ers associated with her. The declara
tion we made was a bit of cheap Phari
saism which will cost us dear. "We
"were under no kind of obligation to
make It. It was partly a partisan trick,
and partly a concession to a namby
pamby sentimentalism. Of course, we
didn't give any such promise or assur
ance as to the Philippine Islands, for
nobody at the time thought of the Phil
ippines. "When we went to war with
Mexico we didn't tie our hands in this
"way, and great states are the fruits of
our common sense.
"Woman suffrage was decisively
"turned down" in the National Repub
lican Convention at Philadelphia. A
strong protest against the" Inclusion of
a woman suffrage plank was presented
from associations of women In several
ei&tes. It was urged that "the duties
of public life are such as cannot be
carried on in the seclusion of domestic
life; that the participation of men in
public affairs is not opposed to, but di
rectly In line with, their duty of cher
ishing and protecting the borne from
dangers which may attack it from the
outside; that the extension of suffrage
so ardently desired by certain women
is not necessary to the general welfare
of the community; that it is not called
for as an act of Justice to a body of
citizens who are suffering deprivation
of rights by reason of present disquali
fications; and that the assumption that
the suffrage should be extended to
women as an act of Justice is a fallacy
which has led many broad and Intelli
gent minds from the paths of common
sense." It may have been a conse
quence of this protest that no mention
of female suffrage was made In the
Philadelphia platform. A woman suf
frage plank was, however, adopted in
the platform of the state convention of
the Prohibitionists of Illinois at their
state convention on Tuesday, and a
similar plank will doubtless be incor
porated In the platform of the Prohibi
tionists at their National Convention.
ALLIES, XOT RIVALS.
If the powers of Europe should be
forced to crush the antl-forelgn cru
sade In China, which the nominal gov
ernment there today either cannot or
will not suppress, Russia would not be
permitted to do more than her legiti
mate part and duty as one of the allies
whose common Interest of self-protection
compels them to occupy Pekin,
even as the allies twice crushed Napo
leon and twice occupied Paris In 1814
15. It is true that Russia has an army
of over 100,000 men on the border line
of Eastern Siberia and throughout Man
churia. There are 30,000 men at Vladi
vostock. There are at least 20,000 men
at Port Arthur. There are thousands
of Russian troops at Tallen "Wan,
Moukden, New Chwang, Harbin and
other recently Russianized cities, and
there are 50,000 Russian soldiers along
the Amoor River boundary of Man
churia. Despite the fact that Russia
can place more troops at once In the
field in event of a serious war between
China and the powers of Europe, she
Is not yet In a position to take any
unfair advantage of the present situa
tion, for she Is hopelessly inferior In
naval strength to the combined fleet
of England, Germany and Japan. For
this reason, and only because of this
reason, Russia will not attempt to use
the present opportunity in China to
her own selfish advantage and aggran
dizement. , On any attempt to do so
England would Join hands with Japan
and expel her from Corea and Manchu
ria. England, Germany and Japan clearly
do not Intend to leave to Russia a pre
ponderance of forces upon the scene of
operation, if decisive action becomes
necessary. England has a division of
her Indian Army in transit to China;
and her Hong Kong troops have al
ready reached the scene of hostilities.
Japan has an army of 1S0.000 men, from
which ample forces could reach China
within a week. "Whatever is done In
China by the powers will be done with
out reference to anything that is not
necessary for the common benefit of all.
For time being, all the rival powers
of Europe will be obliged to Join hands
for mutual protection and the restora
tion of order, so that Russia, despite
her nearness to the scene with the larg
est number of soldiers, will not be per
mitted to take any unfair advantage of
the situation for her own selfish benefit.
For this reason, nobody will see war
between England and Russia grow out
of the present situation In China
Russia Is not ready for war with
England and Japan on the Chinese
coast, because her naval forces are so
weak that she would certainly be de
feated and evicted from Manchuria
and Corea, If Russia, from a naval
point of view, was strong enough to
defy the combined fleets of Great Brit
ain and Japan, she would occupy Pekln
and place a Russian protectorate over
China tomorrow; but she Is not ready
for this, and will not be for nearly
three years. All the nations concerned
can now fairly unite in the efforts to
save the lives and property of their
subjects. If it were a mere question of
politics or commerce, separate negotia
tions would be both natural and proper;
but today It is a matter of life and
death, of Chinese barbarians against
European and American residents.
MARRIED WOMEN AS TEACHERS.
The action of the School Board in
refusing to permit teachers who marry
during the school term for which they
have been employed to continue in the
service seems to discriminate Judi
ciously between married women who
are settled In the profession of teaching
and young women Just entering matri
mony. Naturally and properly, the
wedding occasion Is the event of the
lifetime to a young woman, absorbing
all of her energies in preparation,
and much of her thought. To ex
pect her In this flutter of preparation
and delight to discharge with Justice to
her pupils the exacting duties Incident
to teaching a class in the public schools
is folly. She will not thus at this time
discharge them, for the simple reason
that she cannot.
This is not to say that all married
women should be excluded from the
teacher's profession. An Ironclad rule
embodying this principle would work
personal hardship, be unjust and un
generous In many cases, and deprive the
public schools of some of their most
valuable teachers. The woman to whom
marriage has been an economic failure
and, unfortunately, there Is a multi
tude of such may and frequently does
return to the vocation which she pur
sued before marriage, bringing a re
fined experience to the service and fur
nishing the guarantee of earnest, con
scientious determination to do her best
In the necessity that Is the mainspring
of her effort. The young woman whose
father is able to supply her wants and
maintain her at home, as companion
to and assistant of her mother, has no
such spur to her endeavor In wage
earning vocations as that which impels
a woman again to take up work that
she had relinquished for marriage. The
former may be devoted to her profes
sion in the sense that, in pursuing It,
she finds pleasure, but, other things
being equal, the bread-and-butter phase
of endeavor gives the most earnest
service, and it can scarcely be called
presumption to say that this must be
present In the case of a married woman
who performs the dual part of home
maker and wage-earner.
The question of shutting married
women out of the vocation of school
teaching Is not a new one. Such pro
cedure has been sometimes urged upon
the hypothesis that when a man en
gages to maintain a woman in a home,
after the manner prescribed by society
and made necessary by the legitimate
requirements of motherhood, he should
be allowed to do so. But since there
can be no compelling clause to this
contract, Insistence upon this rule
would manifestly work hardship upon
women who are so unfortunate as to
marry men who cannot or do not make
a living for themselves and their fami
lies. And, while society in righteous
indignation might or may wish to shut
wives out of wage-earning vocations,
as a means of compelling husbands who
are willing to be supported to earn, the
living, the chances are that this method
of procedure would leave the unhappy
wife of an incapable the choice be
tween want and divorce.
It is well known that some of the
most efficient teachers in tHe public
schools of the country are married
women. Thoroughly competent In every
respect, the romance of life having been
succeeded by its realities, these teach
ers are a dependable quantity of a
type painfully lacking in the labor
world. The young woman who may re
sign her position as teacher In this city
to get married this year since by the
rule of the Board she must resign if
she marries may be found to be ef
fective material a few years hence.
Through conditions that she does not
now contemplate, she may be forced
to apply for reinstatement, but for the
time being her exclusion from the
teacher's corps will be for the best in
terests of all concerned Including her
husband.
DECADENCE OP THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
The New York Tribune calls atten
tion to the fact that the Democratic
party In New England has lost all Its
men of high character and ability. With
the death of ex-Governor William E.
Russell, the Democratic organization In
Massachusetts went over bodily to
George Fred Williams and the Bryan
ites. The Democratic leader for many
years in New Hampshire, Frank Jones,
headed the Republican delegation to the
Philadelphia convention. The same
decadence in the Democratic party is
noticeable in Connecticut and Maine,
where there were never so few Demo
crats as there are today. Bryanlsm
has forced all the men of repute out
of the party, as it has to almost an
equal extent in New York and New
Jersey. In Michigan, the former Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
state, Allen B. Morse, who was Consul
General at Glasgow under President
Cleveland, has left his party and be
come a straight Republican, because he
Is utterly opposed to Bryan and is an
expansionist R. A. Montgomery, an
other lifelong Democrat, makes a sim
ilar announcement. Frederic P. Olcott,
a Gold Democrat In 1S9G, was a dele
gate from New Jersey to the Philadel
phia convention. W. R. Shelby, chair
man of the Gold Democratic state com
mittee of Michigan, says that Bryan,
who was repudiated in 189C, has not
changed, and his platform has not im
proved with age, and declares that
sound-money Democrats will not sign
away their political rights to Bryan.
Mr. Shelby will himself support the
Republican ticket this year, as the sur
est waj- of making his opposition ef
fective. He declares that "every sound
money Democratic vote will be regis
tered for the Republican candidate."
The Democratic banker, E."c. Bene
dict, the close friend of ex-President
Cleveland, has published a letter to the
Democrats of Connecticut, In which he
bitterly attacks Bryan, but wants a
"third ticket." A "third ticket" would
only prove indirectly beneficial to
Bryan. The Palmer and Buckner ticket
In 1896 received only 133,148 votes out of
a total poll of 13,923,097, less than one
In a hundred. It was able to beat the
National Prohibition ticket only a little
over 1100 votes.
There Is nothing remarkable In this
steady secession of the votes of men of
high character and ability from the so
called "Democratic party." Up to the
outbreak of the Civil War, the Demo
cratic party had ruled the country from
the election of Jefferson In 1801 to the
Inauguration of Lincoln In 1851, some
fifty-five out of sixty years of our Na
tional life. Outside of the ugly ques
tion of slavery the Democracy had up
to this time been the best party In
American politics, especially on the
question ot sound finance. The Demo
cratic statesmen, Benton, Buchanan,
Van Buren, Wright, Marcy, Dlx, Til
den, Seymour, Calhoun, exhibited far
more ability In the discussion of the
questions of finance, banking and cur
rency than did the great Whig states
men, Webster aud Clay. Since the Civil
War the Democracy has been a mere
party of negation, devoted to the gos
pel of folly and fraud In the shape of
flat paper money and flat silver, and
later It has become further debased by
Its adoption of the doctrines of Populism
and state socialism, expanding natur
ally into free riot The secession of
men of high Intelligence and ablllty
since 1861 has left that party essen
tially without men of great governing
capacity. A few artful demagogues
continue to attempt statesmanship, but
as a rule men who have any 'stake In
the country In shape of property, or
any strong business Intelligence, are
afraid of the Democratic party of to
day, which has come to be the repre
sentative of radicalism and socialistic
theories, which It continues year after
year to push to a more and more radi
cal extreme. Men who are too intelli
gent and too honest to become political
pickpockets or social pirates have no
use for the present Democratic party,
which is chiefly a camp of political
blockheads and cranks commanded by
Ignorant and unprincipled demagogues.
No wonder intelligence and ability flock
by themselves rather than longer fel
lowship with folly and hobnob with
fraud.
The President has ordered American
troops from Manila to China for the
defense of American citizens, without
the authority of Congress, despite the
fact that the Constitution gives Con
gress alone the power "to declare war."
But war may exist without any declara
tion, and it is the duty of the President
of the United States to protect Its citi
zens all over the world in such a situ
ation. It is no more an act of war to
land soldiers in a foreign country than
to land sailors and marines, and the
American naval commander did not
hesitate to send ashore sailors and ma
rines at Alexandria, Egypt, for the pro
tection of non-combatants during its
bombardment by the British fleet in
1882. The President, as Commander-in-Chief
-of the Army and Navy, may
land either soldiers or marines in a
foreign country for the protection of
American citizens whose lives are un
lawfully threatened. President Jeffer
son, a strict constructionist of the Con
stitution, did not hesitate to send troops
Into Spanish territory to protect Amer
ican citizens, "to rescue a citizen or
his property." In 1818 President Mon
roe authorized General Jackson to pur
sue the Seminole. Indians Into Florida,
then a Spanish colony, and Jackson
took possession of Pensacola and St.
Mark's. In 1S46 General Taylor, sent
to the Rio Grande with troops to
protect the people of Texas, fought
the battles of Palo Alto and Re
saca de la Palma before any dec
laration .of war by Congress. Con
gress never did declare war against
Mexico, but simply recognized "a state
of war existing by the act of the Repub
lic of Mexico," May 13, 1S46. This act
not only provided for the future prose
cution of the war, but was of itself a
vindication and ratification of the act
of President Polk.
The Democracy Is mightily hard, up
for a Rough Rider it may call its own.
Schley has declined point-blank to run
for Vice-President, and Dewey, having
failed as the kite, does not yearn to
be the talL Joe Wheeler is a Democrat
and a gallant soldier, but he says he Is
out of p&lltlcs, and he certainly is out
of touch with his party on the main
question of expansion and the way to
get it. Fitzhugh Lee has been for
gotten. Miles Is too much of a soldier
and not enough of a Democrat, even for
a Democracy that has a Populist as its
leader. The next best thing seems to
many Democrats to be David B. Hill,
who was a Democrat and who has the
great apparent advantage of hailing
from New York. He half bolted in 189;
but while the lamp holds out, etc. He
would serve as bell-wether to bring
other Democratic estrays into camp.
But Hill seems to object, and says he
does not want It What scruples can he
have that Invite public respect, after
his open announcement tliat he will
support Bryan? Perhaps he hopes that
what happened to Roosevelt, the un
willing, at Philadelphia, may happen
to Hill, the apparently unwilling, at
Kansas City. Bryan may not be able
to withstand the popular clamor, nor
his neighbor at Lincoln, Populist Vlce
Chalrman Edmlston, who Is out In a
pronunclamento for Towne. Bryan and
Hill would certainly make a lively and
Interesting fight in New York and the
Nation.
Let us wait for the stories of the luck
less prospectors who did not strike It
rich at Cape Nome before we get ex
cited about the romantic yarns once
more beginning to appear In print. The
Oregonlan does not say that they have
no basis in fact. It has never doubted
that there Is gold at Cape Nome. It
knows there Is. Gold may be found In
great quantities. But It questlbns If
the game Is worth the candle to the
great throng who have Joined the after
rush. It knows from the lessons of all
past experience that It will not be to
the great majority. They will return
poorer In purse, richer in knowledge,
and many of them broken in spirit
and health. A few do well very well
but they are nearly always the pioneers
In the field, or those who have by pur
chase or by fraud acquired their claims
from them. The storekeeper, the lodging-house
and restaurant people, the sa
loons, the gamblers and the scarlet
women thrive while the boom Is on In
any mining camp. So at Nome. But
the fullest development of known fields
will be adequate to support only a small
portion of the present and prospective
population; and the surplus must go
off Into the hills and try to find and
open new territory. This Is a task of
almost Incredible hardship, and few are
equal to It
The attitude and policy of the
United States toward the question of
the ultimate fate of China, and that
of the great powers of Europe, Is en
tirely distinct The United States has
certain commercial treaties with China,
which a European protectorate would,
of course, be expected to respect; but
this country today has no quarrel with
China except so far as the protection
of the persons and property of its citi
zens Is concerned. What China does
or may do In the future beyond this
does not now concern us. But with the
powers it is far different The great
Empire of China touches the dominions
of Russia on the north and west and
the dominions of England and France
on the South, in India, Burmah and
Tonquin. The fate of China concerns
Japan, from which It is separated
by only a narrow sea. If China
should ultimately break from her
sleep of centuries and become a for
midable military unit of enormous pro
portions and mobility, It would not con
cern the United States, but it would
most deeply concern the powers of Eu
rope. The resurrection of China, which
would surely be of enormous commer
cial value to the United States, would
contain no threat of military Injury to
us, while It might be a source of seri
ous alarm to the powers of Europe.
The Ninth United States Infantry,
that started yesterday from Manila for
China, was organized by act of Con
gress, March 3, 1855. It fought the bat
tle of White River, Washington Terri
tory, on March 1, 1856, and that of Spo
kane, on May 17, 1858. During the Civil
War the Ninth Infantry served at the
battles of Stone River, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw
Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and At
lanta. It served In the Indian cam
paigns in Dakota in 1866-1867, and took
part In the Sioux War of 1876-1877. In
the Santiago campaign of 1898 It took
part In the battle of San Juan Hill, and
after the surrender of Santiago the
Ninth was chosen by General Shatter
as the regiment to enter and occupy
the city. It was sent to the Philip
pines In March, 1S99, by way of San
Francisco and served at Caloocan and
at San Pedro Macatl, and was In Law
ton's expedition to Arayat last Autumn.
It Is the first American regiment to
see service in China.
The present is not the first occasion
when the American Navy has come
Into armed collision with China. In
November, 1856, our naval forces as
saulted and captured three Chinese
forts In resentment for unprovoked at
tack of the Chinese upon the American
vessels of war. In the assault a gallant
young American naval officer was
killed and several of his men killed
and wounded.
The Cook County Democracy put for
ward a dummy candidate for the Illi
nois Democratic Gubernatorial nomi
nation. His name is Adam Ortselfer,
and he was easily beaten by Samuel
Alschuler, who is not from Chicago,
but from Aurora. The Illinois Demo
crats are trying to save Carter Harri
son for better things. They may turn,
out to be worse.
The proposal of The Oregonian's cor
respondenthimself a veteran to burn
the Confederate battle-flags Is not
without merit There will always be
controversy over them while they are
at Washington. How would it do to I
have s. great reunion of 'Northern and
Southern soldiers, and let them take
charge of the conflagration?
Why not a prohibition plank lit the
forthcoming Kansas City platform? It
might, of course, aggravate the historic
Democratic thirst for everything but
knowledge, but then, few Democrats
expect to practice what Bryan preaches.
Democrats of the cowboy states say
they are going to "stand off" the nomi
nation of Roosevelt with that of Buffalo
BilL -Whether they intend this a3 a
sneer at Roosevelt, Buffalo- Bill or the
American people, is a point for study.
Probably Mr. Qulgg simply thought
for a little while that he was the Re
publican party, and therefore fairly
entitled to wrl'e the platform. No won
der Mr. Hanna's friend Grosvenor re
gards him as a usurper.
THIS IS PICTURESQUE.
The Political Situation as Sees by
Henry Watterson.
The editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal writes In this way about the
Republican convention:
It should go without saying among Intelli
gent men that the business just completed at
Philadelphia was done In a thoroughly work
manlike manner. Tho way Quay went In on
Hanna's blind or, rather, on Hanna's straddle
over McKlnley's blind and stood Hanna's
raise, contained method and Instruction to am
ateurs, but the way Piatt called Hanna's bluff,
and. with Quay's hand In reserve, made sure
of the show-down, was a, liberal education.
Teddy, being the pattern boy of the class, 13,
by a Action of courtesy, Buppoaed not to un
derstand these cabalistic terms familiar only to
the elect; but. Teddy has traveled a bit In
Colorado and In Cuba not to mention New
York and, perhaps, they will not be wholly
Greek even to him. Anyhow. Piatt gets rid of
Roosevelt as Governor, Quay gets even with
Hanna, and the ticket Is the gainer for the
deals and double deals that did the work.
From this statement put so pictur
esquely In the vernacular of Kentucky,
the editor proceeds. In the same article,
to talk about the coming Democratic
convention. What follows is mighty in
teresting reading:
The managers ot the Democratic party, how
ever optimistic, can not disguise from them
selves the meaning and potent of these proceed
ings. The Democrats will meet at Kansas City
tho Fourth, of July. The very cate tells the
story. On tho Fourth, of July even the sporting
gentlemen ot the Republican party "get
drunk," as the saying goes; but they sober up
next day. The Democrats will assemble at
Kansas City the Fourth of July. As most of
the rogues in the country have sought the shel
ter of tho Republican party, and some of them
have found their way to the front of It, so
most of ho cranks and fools have by one route
and another got. If not Into, at least within
speaking distance of the Democratic party.
They will all be at Kansas City. The man
with a grievance; the man with a scheme; the
man who plays a system and the man who is
habitually unprosperous and the nolso-maklng
donkey who is enamoured of his voice will not
only get drunk at Kansas City on thj Fourth
of July, but they will stay drunk; albeit, as a
rule, such men are not much better sober than
drunk; overflowing with uncalculatlng optim
ism; impelled by the bravery of Ignorance; sure
of one thing only their own unbounded self
confldence hopelessly, fatally Inexact on all
things else. In sporting life they are the men
off whom the professional gamblers live. In po
litical life they are tho prey of tho profes
sional politicians. The professional gambler,
all dress and display, with his exposed roll of
blll3 and his excess of shirt-front and mock
sentiment. Is typified by the average Repub
lican poltUcIan; the would-be sport, with his
moon-face and his scant purso, is the perfect
picture of the average Democratic politician;
and. In any contest where the odds break even,
or anywhero near to even, the result Is a fore
gone conclusion.
In a word, tho Democrats are not merely up
against a brace game, but they are greatly
handicapped by their gallery. They can only
win by some phenomenal run of luck, such as
Cleveland had the first time In Burchard and
the second time In the Homestead riots. Tet,
tho very suggestion of these things by a Dem
ocrat to Democrats, Is considered a kind of
treason by tho managers of the Democratic
party. They are, as a rule, so sensitive to
counsels and so Jealous of Intrusion that, al
though they are sure of their candidate and
their platform, they resent advice as a kind
of assault upon their leadership. Yet what
they need to do on the one hand and not to
do on the other hand Is as simple as esti
mating the weight and value of two small hogs;
because, unless they get votes In 1000 that Mc
Kinley got in 1S0C, they must Inevitably be
beaten.
If the Democratic leaders who will presently
convene at Kansas City could see the wisdom
of a frank acceptance of the situation as it
actually Is If they could see the wisdom of
letting go tho beautiful, but Illusory fads of
Populism and of planting themselves in the
sober truths of Democracy If they could see
the wisdom ot realizing that all the outlying
territories from Porto Rico to the Philippines
are with us to stay and that their stronghold
Is to tackle the Republicans upon their ad
ministration as far as we have gone and their
intentions with respect to the future dropping
free silver as a mirage they would sweep the
country; and the undoubted popularity of a
brave young statesman and soldier, like Theo
dore Roosevelt, could not stop them. The Re
publican party is in a woeful minority. Ex
cept for tho Gold Democrats It would have been
swamped In 1S06- The negro out. it Is merely
an aggregation of capitalists and preachers,
with a sprinkling of sports. Theso latter laugh
at such, combinations as that of 1600. Tet any
party, headtd by solid men with sober alma,
can beat It; though It can be beaten by none
other.
It is not at all that Mr. Bryan, and his Im
mediate followers and advisers, should humili
ate themselves; or take back anything; but it
Is that they should realize facts as they are,
and concede to those of their fellow-Democrats
who could not go with them In 1S00 equal sin
cerity with themselves. They must get at
least enough of these back to make the differ
ence between McClnloys vote and Bryan's vote
taking their chance on the neutral vote or
else they will bo beaten again; and If they be
beaten again they are lost.
In all these matters the Courier-Journal has
bosn so outspoken that no one ought to be
able with any acceptance to misunderstand It
It is a Democrat, not a Republican. It made
its opposition to the revolutionary action of the
Chicago convention of 1830 Instant and reso
nant It did not stand on the order of Its go
ing. It went at once. It refused to accept the
revolution and made Itself the backbone of the
act of revolt. It was the beginning and the
end of this. Naturally, It Incurred the organ
ized hostility of Its party and the deep resent
ment of the local leaders of that party In Ken
tucky. But behold tho result: Today the
Courier-Journal !s tho beacon-light of thousands
-Tj-ea. tens, hundreds of thousands of Demo
cratswho but yesterday were abusing fc.
Why? Because It was right and they were
wrong.
From the standpoint of self-interest It Is
nothing to the Courier-Journal what Is done or
said or who Is nominated, or what is left un
done or unsaid, by tho Kansas City conven
tion. The Courier-Journal Is a Democrat not
a Republican. We have our own opinions.
Being no longer a leader, but a follower, we
have the right to say what we please to say,
and we shall speak the truth, as we see It It
is our opinion that tho nominees of the Kansas
City coavenUon amy be elected. But they
cannot be elected unless a few men, capable,
as tho saying is, of playing cards, get to
gether with the purpose of seeing that th
lines of the campaign are laid In broad and
sober counsels.
Mr. Dooley on Roosevelt.
Mr. Dooley was in Philadelphia last
week. He appears to have heard from
Roosevelt to this effect: "Little did I
think," he says, "whin I shtud on th
top iv San Joon hill waltln" 'f r th br-rav-est
men In th wurruld to catch up with
me," he says, "that th' time was near
at hand whin I shud be so disgraced,' he
says. "Whin I set In fever sthricken San
dago atln me lonely lunch Iv Imbammed
beef an pencJn me gay round-robing. I
nlver thought th' day wud come whin
this dishonored be heaped upon me," ho
aaya. Yet Mr. Dooley was sagacious
enough to see the end from the beginning.
He prophesied that "they'se a plot on to
chloroform him an tatoo him with th
nocimyn&tlon. If these don't succeed !
'twill be puc In a. basket an' laid on bis
fr-ront dare shtep, "twill be mixed Into
his food," Tatootag with the nomination
A exquisitely clover.
HAJfXA IN OREGON POLITICS.
A. Story That Skew Some Inventive
Genias.
The La Grande Journal prints the fol
lowing from Portland. The Oregonlan re
prints It just because It Is readable, as
many things are which have least possi
ble resemblance to truth:
Portland, June 23. (Special to the
Chronicle.) United States Senator Joseph
Simon, who for 20 years has been the
head of one of the factions of the Repub
lican party In Oregon, is home from
Waohington as full of harmony a3 an egg
Is full of meat. Having by a tortuous
path reached the height of his ambition,
and at the time of his election two years
ago anticipating that he would soon be
recognized as the undisputed boss of Ore
gon Republicanism, ho has found that a
greater boss than he has shorn him of alL
power to reward his faithful henchmen,
and he has come home to do something
he has never done before in his4 tumultu
ous and eventful political career. He ex
tends the olive branch of peace to men
he has met in the past and whose politi
cal ambitions he has crossed. This Is the
story:
Back of it all stands Mark Hanna.
Recently the Oregon boss Interviewed
the National boss. There were hot word3
and mutual defiance. Mark Hanna told
Senator Simon that as long as Mr. Mo
KInley was President ex-Senator John H.
Mitchell would be recognized as the lead
ing factor in Oregon politics, that it was
Mitchell's loyalty that had saved Oregon
to McKlnley in 1S96, and that the Ad
ministration resented Mitchell's defeat
and tho criticisms" of The Oregonlan,
which was recognized as an organ of Cor
bett and Simon. 'And further, that Imme
diately after the Presidential election all
the power of the National Administra
tion would be exerted for the return of
Mitchell to tho "United States Senate. Mc
Brlde would be taken care of by a Presi
dential appointment suitable to a genial,
loyal gentleman, who is serving an acci
dental term in the United States Senate.
BInger Hermann Is to hold the Southern
Oregon Republicans In line to turn over
to Mitchell at the proper time, and. In re
turn, can retain his present position in
case of McKinleys re-election.
After heating all this from the National
boss and conscious that the loss of the
Multnomah delegation had left him al
most powerless, Simon came home.
His offer to the Mltchell-McBride fac
tion is in accordance with the dictation
of Hanna. Simon will see that his follow
ing In the Legislature will go Into caucus,
and the result of that caucus Is to be the
election of Mitchell Hanna having dis
posed of McBride In the meantime. Then
two years from now Fulton Is to be given
the nomination by acclamation for Gover
nor. This will throw Geer out in the cold,
but no one sfems to care. It will also
force Dunbar, Secretary of State, out
as he and Fulton both hall frdhi Astoria
but there is tho Federal pie counter for
professional office-holders of the Dunbar
stripe and, in return for all this. Simon
asks for re-election two years hence, and
promises faithfully to play second fiddlo
from that deal on.
And if these propositions are not ac
cepted, Mr. Simon smiles and says there
will be no Senator elected, that his influ
ence In the Legislature will prevept any
one from gutting a majority or, at least,
he can prevent the election of either-Mitchell
or McBride, by throwing his influ
ence to Hermann or some other "weak
sister." And two years 'from now he will
control the party machinery, will dictate
the regular Republican Legislative ticket
from Multnomah, and that the Mltchell
ites can then hope for no assistance from
the Democrats, as the latter will see an
opportunity to win, and will nominate a
straight ticket and that the Mltchellites
will be forced to bolt If tney get a ticket
In the field, and that either Simon's "fac
tion or the Democrats will win.
This Is the game that Joe Simon is
playing, single handed and alone against
a faction he had overthrown, until the
strength of the National Administration
came to Its defense. It Is to bo Harmony,
with a big "H," and Mitchell and Slmoa
for Senators, or war to the knife, and the
knife to tho hilt
The Sacrifice of Roosevelt.
New Tork Post, Ind. Dem.
Governor Roosevelt's nomination for tho
Vice-Presidency will, no doubt be vastly
popular with his party. Wo think It will
add strength to tho ticket especially In
tho Middle West where they do not take
their politics sadly. The Rough Rider in
second place will rouse a certain kind ot
enthusiasm, and doubtless win some votes,
beyond the reach of the smooth writer
at tho head of the ticket From the stand
point ot political expediency, therefore,
tho naming of Roosevelt must be conced
ed to be well advised: but In Its effect upon
tho State of New Tork It will bo little
short of a disaster, while Its result in
lowering the personal prestige of the Gov
ernor 'himself la melancholy In the ex
treme. This Is Sound and True.
New Tork Times.
Without exception, so far as we have no
ticed, the private letters from soldiers In
the Philippines to friends at home com
plain of tho leniency with which the war
against the Insurgents Is conducted, and
In the strongest terms expresses the
opinion that the time for severity, for
treating the natives still In arms as ban
dits guilty of capital crimes, has long
slnco come.
Secret of Disruption.
Lincoln (Neb.) Journal.
Like the Populist party, the Knights
of Labor have split Into two factions,
each of which has been holding a Na
tional convention at Washington, tho
chief object of tho two bodies being to
annihilate each other. The secret of tho
disruption of the Knights is the same as
that the of the Pop. split There wero
ot enough lucrative offices to go around.
Oregon Enemy's Country.
New Tork Tribune.
There are rumors that William Jen
nings Bryan has bought a now geography,
In which Oregon, In common with most
ol the United States, is described, as "the
enemy's country."
MEX AXD WOMEN.
SIgnorlna Paola Lombroso, who has Just pub
lished a book on the "Problem ot Happiness,"
Is a daughter of Professor Lombroso, the
criminal anthropologist. Miss Paola disagrees
entirely with the views of her father.
The friends of Amelle Rives, the novelist,
deny that she is a wreck, as has been widely
stated. She 13 living a secluded life in tho
Blue Ridge Mountains, they say, not because of
poor health, but because she Is hard at work on
a. new novel.
The German Emperor has sent Herr Etzdorf,
Landrath of Elblng, to Windsor on a private
mission to Queen Victoria. It is believed that
Herr Etzdorf has been ordered to acquaint
himself with the Queen's model farm at Wind
sor, and other such farms In England.
Speaker James J. Myers, of the Massachu
setts Legislature, still lives In the quarters
he occupied while a student at Harvard. These
are a suite of rooms In Wadsworth Houso,
near the old gate. In the building have lived
many Harvard presidents, and Mr. Myers'
study was once Washington's reception-room.
Captain McCalla, of the cruiser Newark, who
Is In command of the American contingent
under Admiral Seymour, of the British fleet
Is a teetotaller. Correspondents who were
thrown with him when he was In command of
Guantanamo Bay In tho Marblehead, or "Tub
of Blood." as that little ship was known In
the Navy, ray that ho was a most hospitable
soul, and never received a friend In his cabra
without offering him a drink, but the drink
was. Invariably raspberry vinegar, his favorite
tipple. Of this he had a great store, all of
which had been made by his wife.
. NOTE? AND COMMENT.! .
i " -
It is astonishing how unlike -Mckinley's;
"latest photographs'.', .are. -
Now tho magazines will have a chapca
to work off their old cats of Roosevelt
It now looks as if Pennoyer really
was not a candidate for the Vice-Presidency.
When the weather is all right peoplo
go around Inquiring what's the mattec
with it
It's a dull day in Seattle when th
papers do not pass on some story 'about
new discoveries at Nome.
When printed Jokes become so old
They're .no more tolerated. j .,
The cornio papers cabbage them
And have them illustrated. "
A man who wore his typewriter's pic
ture Inside hfs watch has found out that
a woman in th6 case always makes trou
ble. Of course, the Democrats will put a,
prohibition plank in their platform, but
j the Prohibitionists must watch It if they.
expect it win be nailed down.
He stopped, he said, in Ladysmlth,
While waiting for relief.
And longed with eager yearning for
A llttao horseless beef.
Thoy aretgoing to run excursions down
to Lincoln, while Bryan Is there engaged
in silence tnext Summer. The rates will
be abnost low enough to be an induce
ment Tho wlfe of a New Tork butcher has
bought a baby for 5100. There are sev
eral In this neighborhood which she could
have got a good deal cheaper If they;
wero sold at their actual value.
Some Luther autograph manuscripts
have been discovered in the Vatican
library by Professor Flker, of Strasburg.
They are two commentaries on the Epis
tle to the-Romans, one on the text and
the other on tho sense, and two com
mentaries on the Epistle to the Hebrews.
They wero written In 1510 and 1517. short
ly before tho nailing of tho 95 "theses at
"Wittenberg.
There is an amusing story about Wu
Ting-fang, tho Chinese Minister. When
he was at the Mardl Gras festivities at
New Orleans, he obliged an autograph
hunter by writing something on the bore's
cuff. That part of the cuff the recipient
cut-out and put into his pocketbook, and
has since been showing it to Chinese
liundrymen, who all agree that they
"can't make him out" but at the same
time fall Into spasms of merriment a3
they look at It Evidently Wu Ting
fang Is a humorist
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who Is manag
ing the great lake-shipping deal for hi3
father, made hl3 business debut la Wall
street about one year ago In a deal In
leather-trust stock. Toung Mr. Rocke
feller went into tho market took hold of
the common stock of tho trust when it
was selling around 6, and worked tho
price up to 40 on the New Tork Exchange.
In this deal young Rockef elleris supposed
to have bought something like 200,000
shares. As the stock has since fallen back
to Its old price, It is not known positively
whether this debut cost or made a for
tune. "Philadelphia is the 'city of homes,"""
said a man from there the other day. "I
mean by this that we have more private
residences than all of New Tork, Brook
lyn and London. I am not figuring on
apartment-houses. I mean separate
houses for each family. The steady and
conservative habit of tho peoplo is ac
countable. Tho mechanic who has a
steady Job Immediately buys -a home. He
does it on the Installment plan. In a few
years ho has that indebtedness paid. Then
the homo Is his. He will not selL This
ha3 built up tho city wonderfully in tha
past few years. All these homes can ba
reached within 15 minutes rido fromthae
business dlstrlct-
Most actresses design, or calmtx dej
sign, their own gowns. Many years ago
Mrs. Langtry declared that ln-her opln
ion, "the play's the) thing"; and shef
further admitted that she never gave hen
costumes a thought until tho time cams
for putting them on. But then, in ona
way Mrs. Langtry differs greatly from
most of her professional sisters, inasmuch
as she takes enormous pains over th4
fit and general appearance of her homi
gowns. When sha first burst on tha
great London world tha "Jersey Llly"
constantly appeared robed entirely in
black, the sablo tint giving an added,
value to her exquisite complexion. In
those days an all-black gown was sup
posed to spell deep mourning, and to Mrs.
, Langtry is duo tho credit for having
proved to the world the sartorial value
of such materials as crepe da chine,
and, abovo all, of black chiffon.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHKSS
-Courtney Dabster Is up to date in. every
thing." "Yes, he Is. Ill wager he has already
Been a sea serpent rigged out In golf plaid."
Chicago Record.
Mack I understand your wife Is taking les
sons In cooking. How la she getting on. Wyld
She hasn't passed the dyspepsia stage yet.
Brooklyn Life.
"We Intend to hold a. lawn fete," said Miss
Beechwood to Miss Bellefleld. "What kind of,
a lawn feterr-' asked the latter. "A ralnlesa
one, we hope.' Pittsburg Telesraph.
In tho allegory, Spring wore a look of hor
ror. "If rural free delivery of malls becomes
universal," sho was saying, "how aav I to.
avoid receiving virtually all tho odes ad
dressed to ma?" Detroit Journal.
"I nebber could un'staa'." said Uncle Eben.
"why It Is dat I finds so much mo' satisfaction
In marchln foh miles, hoilerln' 'hurrah, dan
1 does walkln a few furlongs behln a mule,
sayin' 'glddep. "Washington Star.
He A maid must not expect such lovers as
she finds in books. Few men are paragons.
Sho Oh! I should rot expect a paragon. I
should be satisfied with a lover, young, hand
some, brave, noble and unselfish. Puck.
A Hummer. "We ought to get a name for
that midnight flyer of ours," said the general
manager. "Can you think of anythingr "Mid
night flyer? Lemmo see," said the general pas
senger agent. "How would 'The Skeeter dor
Indianapolis Press.
Scientists are so tiresomely practical. They
entirely lack breadth of comprehension. Here
Is tho Popular Science Monthly with an article
on "Winking," in which it says that "no sat
isfactory determination has been made of the
reason we wink." Doesn't that tire 70U? But,
of course. It Is qulto probable that no friendly
looking pretty girl ever wanders by a "popular
scientist." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Boys They Left Behind.
S. E. Klser In Chicago Times-Herald.
They've gone, and with them, too. Is gone
The gladness that was here;
They've seen sad looks In loving eyes.
They've clasped warm hands and said,' good
byes
To sighing ones and dear. ,
Ah. but they haven't gone to fight
With foemen o'er the waves, ? 1
They haven't gone to win renown -
Or haul disgraceful banners down.
Or lie In heroes' graves.
They didn't march to drum and flfe;
Or patriotic song
They're Just the girls who've gone away
To spend the Sumiwr while we stay
At home and toil along.