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The Oregonian does not buy poema or stories IrdlvlduaK and cannot undertake to re am any manuscripts Kent to It without eolicita- tloa. No stamps should be Inclosed for this jurpose. office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 855, LBKxrms, postonice. 'Eastern TlimlnsvM fffl s tvijvtitij. VimIM. Sng, New Tork city; "The tookery," Chicago; no tt. u. ueekwith special agency. New Tork. 3Tor sale !n fipn rrnnnluvt Viv T. W riftn 78 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and ix yroiosmun Bros., 230 Sutter strert. For eale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., n ijearDom street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Probably fair: winds Shifting to northerly. ORTLAXD, WEDPfESDAT, JULY 11. Colonel Jim Ham Lewis, the plctur- ssque politician of "Washington, a while igo was a great supporter of National expansion. "When the Democratic party sgan to take up its position against retention of the Philippines, the pictur- SQue gentleman of Washington pro tested, and declared that he could not feel that his party was taking the right aurse. But he quickly saw he was losing his "holt" on the party by this DUrse, took the hack track, and now ie is endeavoring again to enfeoff him self to popularity by outcrying every ther cryer against expansion. Colonel rim Ham runs a patent-reversible-po- ltical steam engine, that will fetch and irry In one direction as well as an- ther. Participants in the Kansas City con tention will be apt to rub their eyes lgorously on reading the affirmation 3f Mr. Guffey, of Pennsylvania, that it is the greatest convention ever as sembled. They didn't feel that way at the time, and for many cogent reasons. Complaints were general. "Where were irrity and Gorman, Chilton and Bai ley 7 vvny was it there was no word of sympathy nor participation in counsel prom Cleveland and Carlisle, Gray and jindsay? The very general disinclina tion t f the former great ones of the jarty to co-operate in the convention ras not the only source of dlssatisfac- lon. The Joy Mr. Guffey professes to Zeel must be purely an after-thought, mufactured to meet a specific de- land for rapturous approval. The Sryan people were humiliated at the subordination of 16 to 1, and the gold sople were sickened at the failure of plans to shelve Bryan. Part of the jonventlon, the radicals, wanted Towne for Vice-President; and part, the con servatives, wanted H1IL Both were jed down by the bosses for Steven son, whom nobody really wanted. The popular demand, gratified at Philadel phia in Roosevelt's selection, was bru- Uy spurned at Kansas City, and the low lost nothing in violence because ie movement was bicephalous. Instead jf centered in one object. No dissatisfaction over the Kansas City outcome is keener than that over ie re-election of Jones as National :hairman. There is hardly a bright leader in any state who has not a pa- letlc story to tell about some happy lought of his that was scornfully re jected by Chairman Jones in 189S. Jones Is an old man, 61 in years, and considerably older in achievement of failures. The Domilar designation of llm in the younger and vigorous circles jf the Democracy is "an old woman." Che result of 1896 is attributed, how ever justly or unjustly, to his malad- linistration, and it is charged, without the possibility of refutation, that he is Ilscredited in advance by the defeat jf that year, and as the figurehead of ie campaign is a veritable omen of dls- ster. "Why, then, did the bosses insist on rones' "Well, why did they do lots of )ther things that make defeat almost foregone conclusion? Mr. Guffey may lot have heard them, but mutterings arere common at Kansas City and on the Journey home that the bosses not snlj had no expectation of victory, but 10 desire for it. Mr. Bryan is not a soliticlan, and. while he secured his jwn nomination and his coinage plank. other respects the astute Croker, Alt- jeld, Hill, Harrison, Van "Wyck and jthers left him in the air. They gave ilm not only Jones, but another "old roman" In the person of Stevenson. rhey didn't give him Stevenson as an. id, for both Altgeld and Harrison said private that Stevenson would weaken rather than strengthen the ticket in lllnols. New York's game was trans- jarent So inevitable did it view defeat lat Croker was bound to immolate ill, and Hill was equally determined lot to be sacrificed. All these things lot only justify the discontent mani fested by delegates, but they lend color to the plan of Eastern Democrats, more than once announced ex cathedra, to Join In support of Bryan and silver at IKansas City, regain their old place in ie party, then slaughter the whole combination at the polls, so that they :an get the party back on historic junds again in 1904. If this is not ie belief and the purpose of the East ern Democracy, then all appearances ire certainly deceiving. The conven- icn, Mr. Guffey, was colossal, but not hi the direction of success. Japan coming to the rescue of the )regon; Japan leading the forces of ilvllization against the intrenched bar- jarlsm and isolation of China these ire phenomena that dispel the ancient illusion of Oriental immobility, and throw discredit upon the assertions of ie antis that improvement of the Fili pinos Is hopeless and expectation of commerce with China is vain. Of all ie hallucinations of anti-Imperialism, so-called, none is more fatuous than this. The Hermit Kingdom has become the hnpe of civilization from Tien Tsln ito Pekln. its spirit and sagacity have )mpelled the recognition and indorse ment of all America and Europe, in cluding even Russia. Such inroads as progress has made In Japan will be duplicated in China, and they will be furthered by nothing more effectively than, by atrocious crimes committed in the name of Chinese patriotism. WHY THE SOUTH IS THE BR.YAA STRONGHOLD. The Memphis (Tenn.) Scimitar, a leading dally newspaper of "Western Tennessee, saya the Kansas City plat form is "a chestnut and a paradox." Yet this able paper of Tennessee will support the candidates who stand on this platform, driven thereto by the necessity, as it conceives, of maintain ing white supremacy in its state. This is the temper of the thought of the whole South; and it is the terrible con sequence of the mistake that was made In the days of reconstruction, and of the spirit that forced the- fifteenth, amendment. The South should now be the conservative section of the coun try. It has nothing in common with Bryanism. But It has been driven to Bryanlsm by the one great mistake made by the Republican party. The South is not opposed to expansion. It takes no stock in the outcry against "imperialism." It believes not for one moment in free silver and currency de basement. But Its intelligent voice is stifled on all these subjects, because it is afraid that negro supremacy would. come with defeat of the Democratic party in the South. Here, in fact, is the most impressive lesson in all our political history. It involves the whole consideration of the race question, in its relations to politics and 'the social order, and the suffrage question in its relations to the general welfare of the state. Changes great and radical are always dangerous. It is beyond human penetration to say what their effect is to be on the fabric of society and government. But the danger is so great experience Is so full of the lesson that all changes should be moderate, tentative and slow. It is Impossible, indeed, to maintain the po sition that there should be no change; for, "If we should do in all things what custom wills, the dust on antique time' would He unswept" But we are to be ware especially, or even more, against great innovation and radical change. There is no fundamental precept of re ligion, politics, law or liberty that can be put in uractlce suddenly, to its whole extent, and indiscriminately, without peril to the whole basis and structure of society. It seems that this lesson is one that must be learned over and over again, through all the prog ress of human history. Every new na tion seenis to be cursed and doomed to learn it for Itself, through hard experi ence. Our own Nation, unfortunately, has been, and still is, as little inclined as any to take lessons from the his tory of mankind. Hence it is greatly disposed, in despite of alt history, and even of its own experience, to "plunge" for itself. On the questions of the present time, which at bottom are socialistic, the country ought to have the support of the Southern States, which at bottom are least socialistic of any. But, through Ignorance and party passion, five-and-thirty years ago, an issue was thrown into the political and social life of those states which has changed their whole attitude toward questions of the first-Importance, both in our home and foreign affairs. By negro suffrage, and the fear of negro domination, the South has been put on the wrong side of the great questions of the present day. How long this will last no one can fore tell. It is useless to rail against It. It is simply the fact. Conservatism, order, government, law, economic science. Na tional honor, legitimate National am bition, ought now to have, and would have now, but for this one colossal error, the powerful support of our Southern States. The necessity that has been foiced on the South of guarding against negro domination has thrown the South into the arms of that element in the North most alien to It, and has stripped the country of its natural defense against the socialistic agitation that finds the summation of its series In Bryanlsm. In the entire South there is hardly one important newspaper that believes in the Kansas City platform. Upon the two issues which that platform makes most prominent opposition to expansion and advocacy of free coinage of silver the reputable journalism of the South is practically united In opposition. The busi ness interests of the Southern States are upon the same ground. Yet Bryan and Stevenson will get the electoral vote of every state south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers. "Why they will get them" has been sufficiently explained. But the country has a mighty vitality that can carry the burden of such mis takes as that whioh has thrown the forces of the South on the wrong side of present questions. REASSURTXG. The circular issued by our State De partment and communicated to the powers concerned on July 3 confirms the hope that the worst is over at Pe kln. The Chinese Minister at "Wash ington without doubt has the earliest Information of what really takes place at Pekln. The Empress Dowager is re ported to have resumed the reins of government on the 30th ult, and to have approved the action of the Vice roys of the various provinces In pro tecting foreigners. The circular of our Government was nrnhably issued on the information furnished our Secre tary of State that the insurrection at Pekln, headed by Prince Tuan, had done its worst, and was not supported by the Chinese people or even by the provincial government at Pe kln. It would not be surprising if the whole outbreak should subside so rap idly that by the time the foreign re lieving force reaches Pekln there will be no resistance to its entry worthy of the name. The German Minister doubtless fell a victim to a sudden and unexpected outburst of mob violence, but it Is In credible that Prince Tuan or the Em press Dowager, or any other responsi ble leader, should deliberately commit such a crime and blunder as deliber ate murder of the foreign Ministers. The fact is that war upon the powers on the part of China does not exist to day, and is not likely to exist In our century. The notorious hostility which exists between the Manchu and Chi nese factions forbids it; the reluctance of the practically independent Viceroys of the seacoast provinces to engage in a great foreign war forbids it. The powers could array faction against fac tion, province against province, exactly as the white man has artfully arrayed Indian tribes against Indian tribes In his settlement and final acquisition of all the United States. The policy of our Government in China Is nothing new. It is only trying to protect the lives and property of Americans in China, and all legitimate American interests a policy that we haye repeatedly executed under vari ous Presidents since 1803, when "we fought Tripoli and took Derne, down to the present date. FROM OHABinEBLAEf DRUKK TO CHAaiBERLAIX SOBER. The July number of the Forum con tains a discussion of the shipping sub sidy bill from the pen of Eugene T. Chamberlain, United States Commis sioner of Navigation. Mr. Chamber lain thinks that the present generation will witness a growth of the American merchant marine almost as rapid as has been Its decline within the last third of a century. He qualifies hia prophecy, however, with the state ment that "the shaping hand of leg islation" must be put forth before this growth can become a reality. The only kind of legislation he suggests is the Payne-Hanna-Frye bill, and in this be neficent measure Mr. Chamberlain sees a remedy for .all of the Ills which be attributes to the merchant marine as It now floats. The fact that for nearly two years our shipyards have been em ployed to their fullest capacity; that we are able to build ships as well as they can be built anywhere In the world, and that with cheap steel and coal the United States Is about to re sume the position of superiority held in the days of wooden ships and virgin forests, is admitted to a certain ex tent; but "skepticism is at once aroused when those who press this argument couple It with the suggestion that the true remedy for our maritime situation is the admission of foreign built ships to American registry, be cause they can be bought in the cheap est market." Free ships, which are today enabling Germany to give Eng land such a close race for the carry ing trade of the world, were not al ways so obnoxious to Mr. Chamberlain. Here Is what he said about them in his annual report for 1S95: I have the honor respectfully to renew the recommendation made last year In favor of the repeal of that restriction of law which de nies the use of the American nag. tbe privilege of American registry, and the protection of the laws of the United States, to vessels owned by American citUens and navigated in foreign trade, tnles built In tbe United States. The effect of this law under existing industrial con ditions Is not only to encourage, but virtually to compel American capital, willing to embark In trans-oceanlo navigation, to organize under the laws of other nations and resort to alien nags. Thus, In effect, an American law forces Americans to enhance the maritime Import ance of foreign nations, at too sacrifice of our own. The Fall elections had not yet placed in power the Administration in whose Bunshine Mr. Chamberlain is now bask ing, when again, in October, 1896, he alluded to the now detested "free-ship" policy in the following language: The adverse report of the Senate committee on commerce repealing the restriction of lavr which denies American registry to vessels owned by American citizens and engaged In for eign trade, unless built In the United States, takes that measure out of tho list of those for which Congressional approval may be hoped before the 4th of March. The reasons in sup port of that bill were set forth In ample de tail In the reports of the bureau In 1804 and 1805. While their force seems unimpaired, to reiterate them now would be merely to enter upon an academic discussion without the hope of Immediate practical results. The necessity for the bill remains. The futility of the reg istry law to encourage domestic ship building for the foreign trade has been Illustrated by further Investments of American capital In foreign-built ships, under foreign flags, dur ing the year. Mr. Chamberlain at that time was arguing for the enactment of a law which would give the American capi talist the same right to make an in vestment in marine property that was enjoyed by the Germans or the Brit ish. No subsidies wrung from the American producers were needed to build up a fleet by that method, and, instead of adopting It, an attempt is now being made to fasten on the American people the ridiculous and unjust sub sidy plan which is now making France the- laughing-stock of the maritime world. Subsidies are granted for the purpose of enabling the country to carry its own products to market, ac cording to Mr. Chamberlain's argu ment, and yet the bill he advocates will give the stockholders of a single steam ship line $1,500,000 per year for carry ing abroad passengers in its first-class high-speed passenger steamers. The sailing-ship provision, which is the same as that of France, is illus trated by the experience of the French ship General Melllnet, mentioned in the maritime news in another column. This ship has earned approximately $25,000 in subsidies in the past two years, and In all that time has carried no cargo to or from France, nor has she contributed in the smallest degree to the commercial greatness of France. AX ARCHITECT OF RUIW. Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York City, a man of the highest order of business ability and political intelligence, for many years a leader of the Democracy on the floor of Congress, declares with out qualification that he would not support Bryan for any office under the National Government, no matter -what platform he stood upon. Mr. Hewitt holds that a man who denounced as government by Injunction the perform ance by the Judiciary of duties imposed upon it by the Constitutional law; who denounced the Supreme Court; who sought to overthrow the Judiciary of the country, was "a man too limited in understanding and too violent In Impulse to be intrusted with the great office of President of a Government whioh stands for liberty regulated by law against the Bryan notion of gov ernment as despotism regulated by an archy." This is a very forcible and felicitous statement of the Tact that Bryan represents today even more em phatically than he did In 1896 reac tionary and dangerous Impulses, both economic and socialistic. It is also true that the financial Issue is of exactly the same nature that it was In 1896, when the Democratic party, under Mr. Bryan's leadership, proposed to un settle the gold standard by authorizing the free coinage of silver. The attack upon the standard it Is the Democ racy's declared Intention to attempt The Bryanlte Democracy is in favor of the enactment of free silver at the first opportunity; It Is in favor of irre deemable paper money substituted for sound bank currency. It is In favor of packing the Supreme Court by a par tisan administration at the first op portunity, which would be practically through Increasing the Judges to the number necessary to enact the will ef a Bryanlte President and National Legislature. Finally, the Bryanlte Democracy Is In favor of gen eral bankruptcy, through the attack on values, contracts and property In volved by its policy of free silver, fiat paper and free license for taxing any property that has excited the hunger and thirst of a Populist Congress. That Bryan Is the prospective archi tect of the ruin of prosperity Is not doubted by Gold Democrats of the caliber of ex-Mayor Hewitt, ex-United States Secretary of the Treasury Fair child, ex-Mayor "William B. Grace, and it Is probable that the views of such men fairly voice the opinions of the vast majority of the mercantile classes and manufacturers of New York Btate, as well as the farmers. The doubt ful element, when & Presidential elec tion is held, la not represented by the mercantile, tho manufacturing classes nor the farmers. They seldom vote in contempt of their business' "welfare. The doubtful element Is the working men's vote. Can anybody give a sound reason why Martin Van Buren, after an Administration of exceptional wis dom In very trying times, should have been terribly beaten in 1S40 by so me diocre a man as General Harrison? Can anybody tell why so able and up right a President as Benjamin Harri son should in a prosperous year have been repudiated for re-election by the wortdngmen of the country, who liter ally tumbled over each other In their eager haste to "shoot their granny" by voting for Cleveland? There is no rea son that will endure intelligent exami nation why the workingmen's vote should be given this year for the Demo crats ticket. But their vote Is not sel dom given for whimsical reasons to the obvious architect of industrial ruin. Money continues to accumulate in the National banks of Portland, not withstanding that real estate is a good Investment and opportunities In mines and mercantile enterprises are numer ous and promising. Deposits of Indi viduals and of other banks on April 26 were $7,492,193 01; on June 29 they were $7,697,407 99, an increase of $205,214 98 in two months. Loans and discounts also show an Increase. On Aprjl 26 they were $3,391,084 28; June 29, $3,537, 536 66, a gain of $146,452 38. Money Is coming and going, but is accumulating faster than it Is getting out This is the one unsatisfactory element In our financial situation, but there is conso lation in the reflection that we have the money, and that it is obtainable at low interest for all lines of legitimate business, which is more than we could say this day four years ago. Of the 640 girls who passed success fully the examinations to the New York Normal College, this month, the great majority are Jews. More than five-sixths of the whole number came from the public schools of New York City, of which for many years the best scholars have been chiefly of that race. Of about 800 graduates from the New York City public schools admitted to the free city college for boys, the vast majority are also of the Jewish race. The New York Sun notes these facts, and says that the supply of teachers and for the professions is coming largely from the Jewish race. Jews are also now a notable part of the students of our great universities. Stevenson's own state defeated him fov delegate to the Kansas City con vention, but offered him the place of alternate, which he declined; and he remained away from the convention. His neighbors supposed he never would be recalled from political obscurity, for he is only a commonplace man, with a colorless political and merely per functory official record. But now they are cultivating him again. The strike is renewed at St Louis, be cause, it seems, the strikers thought the nonunion men' who had been employed in the interim were to be displaced. This was not promised, but the strikers hoped and expected it to come about The street railway managers stood, however, to their obligations to the men who had taken the places vacated by the strikers; and now the strike is renewed. Bryan is happy In having forced the Kansas City delegates to come to him. It adds to his dignity at the expense of their convenience and their desire to do him honor in convention. He Is dragging them at his chariot wheels, as it were, and doubtless the enthusi asm rightfully due in such case will be theirs. The Chinese Insurrection benefits not only Lord Roberts, but General Mac arthur. Under cover of the more ab sorbing contest in China, these simi larly circumstanced commanders ought to be able to restore order without in terference from the malcontents and rubber-necks of civilization. The "Foolklller" is the very sug gestive name of a boat in which a young man, on a wager, shot Niag ara rapids. It proved to be a misnomer, however, as the fool who was aboard was not killed, but lives to boast his useless and foolhardy achievement "When you hear from the East you will learn that "Imperialism," so-called, is not .the "paramount issue," but pres ervation of sound money and prosperity Is. No "faked" Issue can be forced to the front, over the dangers Involved In change" of the money standard. There Is a legend in Montana that Clark and Daly, when friends, once played a game of poker In which white chips were rated at $100 each. The po litical quarrel has made it clear who put the stiffness Into the game. It was Clark. The Chinese are improving as sol diers. Port Arthur, a flrst-clas3 fort ress, was captured by the Japanese with a loss of only fifteen men, but 400 Europeans were killed and wounded In the capture of the nUrv forts at Taku. It will be difficult for the Bryanites to preach the gospel of discontent to a people more widely prosperous than at any former period of their history. Therein the Bryan orators will miss the mighty advantage they had in 1896. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, Is shedding tears over the poor Fili pinos, forgetful of the coerced negroes of his own state, who are a majority of the population. It will not do to handle the Chinese with gloves, even If they are Boxers. Spellbinders of Bryanlsm. New York Commercial Advertiser. It is reported that Bryan's managers will not allow him to stump the coun try this year. They feel, it is said, that he so thoroughly Impressed his person ality upon the people in 1S96 that he can stay at home during this campaign and permit his lieutenants to do the talking. That he Is not pleased may easily be believed. To compel him to a speechless inactivity when two or three new planks will bo added to his platform would be the hardest punishment he could bear. It Is safe to say, however, that if he keeps at home and 'does no more speechmak lng than he can manage on hta porch at Lincoln, his lieutenants will, let loose such a flood of oratory as has never been heard In a National campaign before. In quality It will go down to low-water mark. Allen, Bailey, Sulzer, Jones, Coch rane of Missouri, George Fred "Williams, besides a considerable assortment of the "and others," will supply speeches that ought to be one of the strongest helps McKlnley could have. No more sug gestive exhibit of the Democratic party of today could bo had than the Intellectual quality of the men who will take the platform for Bryan. There Is not one speaker of Importance among them all, and in view of that fact the managers may well hesitate before finally declar ing that their chief must keep up semi stato at Lincoln Instead of getting down to the hard work of raising the wind. A CHESTNUT AND A PARADOX. Characterization of the Kansas City Platform by a Southern Paper. Memphis (Tenn.) Scimitar. Reduced to definite propositions, the Democratic platform Is a demand for the free coinage of silver at tbe ratio of 16 to 1 and for the relinquishment of tho Philippines to Aguinoldo, supplemented by an appeal to passions and prejudices of foreign origin. The falsehood about the Anglo-American alliance 1b the cheapest and most transparent demagogy, intended to se cure the support of the to-hell-with-Eng-land elements of our citizens. The historic Democratic prlnciplo of tariff reform Is abandoned for the sake of holding the votes of Populist and Sil ver Republican protectionists. Being Bryanic, it Is necessarily illogical and reckless. It falsely accuses our gov ernment of waging wanton war on its "former allies" in the Philippines. In so declaring it brands as a liar every Amer ican soldier and every foreign resident of Manila who has reported on the cause and beginning of the outbreak of Feb ruary 4, 189S, and accepts as true the un supported assertions of the Filipino junta and its champions in this country. Then follows this extraordinary proposition: The Filipinos cannot be citizens without en dangering our civilization; they cannot bo sub jects without Imperiling our form of govsm ment, and. as we are not willing to surrender our civilization or to convprt the republic into an empire, we favor an Immediate declaration ct the Nation's purpose to give the Filipinos first a stable form of government, second inde pendence and third protection from outside in terference such as has been given for nearly a century to the republics of Central and South America. Mark the paradoxical folly of it The Filipinos cannot become American citi zens without "endangering our civiliza tion , that is to say, thoy nre hope lessly incapable of self-government; yet it is proposed that we set them up in the independent republic business and then establish a new Monroe doctrine for their benefit engaging to defend them against the whole world, if necessary. We are to have responsibility without authority, and the expense and danger of compli cations, perhaps war, with foreign pow ers, without recompense, "We are to hold ourselves bound to stand sponsor for the acts of people who are unworthy to be come American citizens, without right or power to control their acts. Can any Intelligent American contem plate the chances of trouble in such a case, and say he is willing for this coun try to risk them for the sake of a peo ple who have no claim upon us, except so far as control of the Islands makes us responsible for them? "We do not think so. The platform-makers at Kansas City had their choice between two logical al ternatives, and only two. They could have declared for holding the Philippines or for abandoning them dbsolutely. They chose neither. Instead, they said we must act as dry nurse for a confessedly impossible Tagalo republic, and hold our selves ready to expend our blood and treasure In its behalf. So we have the moldy chestnut of 16 to 1 and the role of foster mother to a lot of saddle-colored Asiatics, as the is sues upon which the Democratic party proposes to carry the country, under the leadership of a professional candidate for the Presidency. To doubt that the party will be beaten on such a platform and with such a candidate would be to deny that the American people are possessed of common honesty and common sense. SILVER REPUBLICANS SNUBBED. Former Bryanlte Organ Offers Sym pathy to Towne Men. Denver Republican. The enthusiasm which greeted the men tion of Mr. Towne's name in the Silver Republican convention in Kansas City was greater than that awakened when Mr. Bryan's was uttered. It was becauso Mr. Towne is a Republican, and the mem bers of the Sliver Republican convention, while willing under certain circumstances to accept Mr. Bryan, were not unmindful of the fact that he is a Democrat The great mass of the Silver Republi cans acted at one time with the Demo crats for one purpose only, and that was to secure by what they thought was the most speedy means' the rexnonetizatlon of silver. Apart from that they re mained Republicans. They believe in all the great principles of the Republican party, which awakened their enthusiasm and won their support before the "ques tion of silver coinage became prominent four years ago. It was solely because tho Democrats made the rexnonetizatlon of silver the dominant Issue that tho Sil ver Republicans gave Mr. Bryan their support in 1S0O. Tens of thousands of them, seeing that tho Democracy was returning like the "sow that was washed to its wallowing in the mire," refused long before the Kansas City convention met to cast in their lot with that party. These former members of the Silver Republican organi zation feel that their course i3 vindicated by the action of the Democratic National convention. Those who went to Kansas City hoped that the Democrats would Join hands with them by nominating Mr. Towne. To them tho nomination of Grov er Cleveland's associate on the ticket of 1532 must have come as a rebuff, from the effects of which thoy will hardly recover. A NEW PARTY. Kansas City Aggregation Warn Dem ocratic Only in Name. New York Evening Post Correspondents at Kansas City note the absence of well-known men among tho delegates to the Democratic convention. "With the exception of ex-Senator Hill, of New York, and Senator Jones, of Arkan sas, there are but few of those familiar figures whom one expects always to see on such an occasion the men who have long been conspicuous as the leaders of their party In their various states, and who have attended its conventions so often that they are recognized wherever they appear. It is safe to say that never since the first National gathering of the party in 1S32 has there been an assembly of those who were presumptively leading Democrats which contained so few men who had ever been heard of outside their own towns. There are whole delegations which contain hardly a person who had any standing in the organization half a dozen years ago. Doubtless one element In the great demonstrations over HIU was tho satisfaction which the mass of dele gates felt In having somebody whom they had ever heard of in the convention hall to shout over. Another evidently was their desire to rebuke Tammany, which Is very unpopular in the South and West for its discourtesy to H11L The extent to which Bryanlsm has driven traditional Democracy out of the Democratic party Is seen at a glance when "the veteran observer" at Kansas City casts his eye over the hundreds of delegates to find only here and there a familiar face. It is essentially a new par ty upon which he is gazing a party in which men are now influential who only a few years ago had no sympathy with what had always been recognized as Democratic principles. Populism is in control at Kansas City today, but it is only a few years since Populism was op posed as stoutly by Democrats as Repub licanism. The great argument for putting an explicit declaration in favor of 16 to 1 in the platform Is the plea that it is necessary in order to get the support of those Populists who have already nomi nated for President the" man who is named by today's convention. Thus the character of its personnel fits the charac ter of its proceedings. As the delegates are unfamiliar figures in a Democratic assembly, so Is their action utterly at variance with the record and traditions of the party. , ' REMARKS BY MR. WATTERSOS. Some of His VIctvs as to the "World at ICnnaas City. The Louisville Courier-Journal, though it supports Bryan and Stevenson because, a3 it says, they are the candidates of the Democratic party, has an article of ex traordinary tone and character on the convention and platform. Read these ex tracts and say whether they are an ar gument for or against the nominees and platform and what they stand for: The Democratic leaders, sustained by their own self-conscious rectitude, and ridliu? a wavo of unexampled and unlimited enthusiasm, take the highest high-ground possible. They make no concessions to anybody. They disdain con siderations of prudence. They are blind to geographic distinctions. They burn their bridges behind them. They claim that if they were right In their contention in 1806, they are right now; that the basic principle of prosper ity rests on free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; that most. If not all, of the evils of which tho lowly and the poor complain emanate from the crime of 1873, and the resultant gold stand ard; and. on these accounts, they ask of the country a reversal of the vote by which Mc Klnley was elected and Bryan was defeated four yeas ago. This 1st one way of fighting. It lies not in tho mouth of the Courier-Journal, which has always believed in straight politics, to dispute it. If It wins, It will vindicate itself and need no other approval than its own. If it loses, the men responsible will drop out of sight and mind, never to hope again. They take their po litical lives In their hands, and, llko the paladins of old, they go forth to battle. As theirs Is the risk, be theirs the glory; theirs tho rewards; theirs tho fruits, the honors and the fame. We shall not pretend that these things fall In with our own view of such affairs. We should have counseled another line of battle, a different plan of campaign. But, long ago, the Courier-Journal abdicated Its leadership, accepting that of the men now In tbe sad dle; and we shall abide tho result In perfect good, faith, fervently hoping that they ore right, and that we ourselves are wrong, pray ing that the end will justify these energetic demonstrations In the name of Democracy. It jnay happen that our exclamation will not prqve so clamorous and so resonant as the mora confident and emotional among our com patriots would have It. We may lack some thing of tho sublimity of fervor and confidenco which inspires those who fancy that elections are carried by sheer force of ardor and that votes may be left to cast and count them selves. But we take It that even Governor Thomas, much as ho hates evasion and truly as he would scorn a victory achieved at the cost of humoring those who do not wholly agreo with him, does not covet defeat for Its own sweet sake; nor court the crown of martyr dom as first choice; and, as some votes need to be secured In the coming election that Wero wanting in that of 160C, It may be that the Courier-Journal will como In handy down the home-stretch. . Roosevelt Negotiating: for a Home. Chicago Tribune's Washington Letter. Although it will be some time before the November elections settle who will be the presiding officer of the Senate, negotia tions are in progress between Candidate Roosevelt and the owners of the property in this city where the Governor of New York resided when he was assistant Sec retary of the Navy. It is a comfortable but not pretentious-looking mansion, in the fashionable quarter of the capital not for from tho house presented to Admiral Dowey by his enthusiastic and admiring countrymen. There was never much os tentatious display -made by Governor Roosevelt when- he lived here, but his modest home was the resort for the lead ing literary lights of this and other coun tries, and an Invitation to a function at Mr. Roosevelt's was never disregarded by the lucky recipient who was sure or a feast of reason and a flow of soul, combined with the most attractive ana appetizing creature comforts. Governor Roosevelt Is an ideal host and under stands the art of dinner-giving, being careful always to avoid any overcrowa Ing at his table. Croker's Persecution of HIU. New York Journal of Commerce, The tremendous demonstration which the Kansas City convention made over ex-Senator Hill Immediately after hi3 de feat by Mr. Croker in tie Now York delegation recalls a famous epigram ut tered by General Bragg, of Wisconsin, in nominating Mr. Cleveland for the Presi dency In 1SS4, in spite of the opposition of Tammany Hall: "We love him for the enemies ho has made." The Demo crats of tho rest of the country general ly feel that it is essential to conciliate Tammany Hall, but the truth is that the only Presidential candidates with which the Democratic party can -carry the State of New York are those whom Tammany Hall opposes. Mr. Cleveland did not carry this state in 18SS, but In that year Tammany was comparatively resigned to the inevitable. The Demo crats of the rest of tho country over rate Tammany's political value, but few of them love it as the convention took pains to show. Becoming More Like the Americans. London Spectator. The English are becoming more like tho Americans in the readiness with which they express themselves, less ar ticulate, less frostbound in their display of feeling. Chiefly, as we believe, from, the "effect of a generation of education, a kind of shamefacedness, shyness, in voluntary reticence, describe it how you like has dropped away and the people are more articulate. They are less ig norant and less afraid of their own ig norance, less obliged to wait -for leader ship, less painfully apprehensive of ridi cule. 0 Bryanlsm tlio Issne. Chicago Journal, Ind. Imperialism tho paramount issue? Hardly. Sixteen to one's the thing. Tho battle of 13S must be fought over again. All other issues have faded. Bryan alone remains. We are far from saying that he will not triumph. To say that one does not think Mr. Bryan will win is to confess that the wish is father to the thought MEN AND WOMEN. The wife of General Fred D. Grant Is In St. Petersburg on a visit to the Princess Canta-cuzene-Speronsky, her daughter. Senator and Mrs. Cusbman K. Davis will sail for Norway about the 1st of next month, and will spend the Summer there. Samuel Alschulcr, of Aurora, 111., who has been nominated for Governor of Illinois on tho Democratic ticket, was born in Chicago in 1S59. He has served two terms in the Illinois Legislature. Election to the Presidency In tho early days of tho Government seems to have been con ducive to longevity. Adams reached tho age of 00; Jefferson. 83; Madison. 85; Monroe, 73; John Qulncy Adams, SO; Andrew Jackson, 78, and Martin Van Buren, 70. Arnold Tompkins, who has been chosen prin cipal of the Chicago Manual School, Is one of the best-known and most popular educators in Illinois. To accept this new place at a salary of $5000 a year ho leaves" the presidency of the Illinois State Normal University, a highly Im portant position, in which he has served one year. Henry B. Metcalf, the Prohibition candidate for Vice-President, Is one of tne most highly respected citizens of Rhode Island. As a busi ness man in Pawtucket he has held a promi nent and influential position for many years. In religion, the Unlversallst denomination claims him, and he Is certainly an ornament to that body. Mr. Metcalf touches tbe educa tional world through being president of the cor poration of Tufts College. He was a Itepub- jllcaa until about 12 years ago, NOTE AND COMMENT. - Most of the gas companies are getting out catalomie3 which will do for light reading this Summer. The Boxers worship their ancestors, and they will soon be on the way to do their worshipping at first hands. The man who keeps the beach -hotel With pure delight Is grinning. For when we take our outing, ha Will merely take his inning. Before the Chlneso get through with this little unpleasantness, they will wish they had never invented gunpowder. The paragraphers who take the bathing suit out of cold storage thl3 Summer need not be surprised to find it & little moth eaten. Cigarette-smoking has been forbidden to the employes of the Rock Island Hall road. Of course, a peanut butcher strike is imminent The situation in China cannot be vry serious. The Hon. Li Hung Chang has not yet cabled for advice to tho Hon. John Barrett "That was merely a porting shot" ob served the humorous war correspondent when a charge of lyddite cut him in two in the middle. Even if business down, at tbe morgue is dead, it appears to cost the county a pretty stiff price. It may be added that tho county is tired of coffin up. Four boys died in Boston recently from lockjaw, arising from cannon-cracker and blank cartridge wounds received during the Bunker Hill celebration of June 17. The Commissioner of Pensions an nounces that 105,367 certificates for pen sions wero issued by the bureau during the fiscal year, which closed June 30r or 15,000 moro than were issued during tho year 1S99. They were divided as follows: 0, 637 were original issues, 4352 were restora tions, and 60.578 were for increases, re ratings, accrued and additional. Nebraska in 1S97 paid $19,000,000 on mort gages, in 1S9S $49,000,000 and in 1S99 $73, 000,000, This is a total on mortgage In debtedness paid amounting to $146,000,000. The amount of mortgages in force both on acres and lots in Nebraska in 190 was $176,000,000, so that the payments made in the past three years have reached a sum of only $20,000,000 less than the total mort gage Indebtedness of the state 10 years ago. In addition, the farm lands of the state have doubled in value. Is Nebraska and the states in which Mr. Bryan declares the Republican policy is Increasing the burdens of the farmer, decreasing the number of farm-owners and increasing tho number of tenants? Six of President McKmley's nomina tions, under the act of June 6, 1900, pro viding for ten additional cadets at West Point and seven of tho alternates aro sons of veteran officers of the Regular Army or Navy. Thl3 habit'of giving pref erence to the sons of veterans and Regu lar Army officers is worthy of perpetu ation. The son of a gallant soldier can not afford to do discredit to hi3 father's fine soldiership. Ho not only fights for his own honor, but for the hereditary mil itary honor of his family. Tha army is thus constantly recruited from the best military blood of tho country; from the boys who sing I let them tako what e'er they could. But I kept my father's sword. The British losses up 'to'T'uriS" 15 artf officially given at 243 officers and 2353 men killed; 64 officers and 55S died of wounds, and 123 officers and 37S2 men died of disease, and 60 men accidentally killed, making tho total deaths 7183 of all ranks. There were invalided to England from wounds and sickness, 724 officers and 15,039 men. The missing and prisoners af ter deducting tho officers and men re leased at Waterval after the occupation of Pretoria, were 41 officers and 1469 men, the total casualty list being 24,456 of all ranks. At tho same date there wero over 11,000 sick in the various hospitals, and tho whole estimated casualties sine the beginning of tho war aro put at 51,917, comprising natives and others in the com missariat transport, railroad and medical services. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Auctioneer Lot B2. A genuine Turner. Paint ed during the artist's lifetime. What offers, gentlemen T Punch. Dr. Jalap Let me see your tongue, please. Patient Oh, doctor, no tongue- can tell how badly I feeL-rit-Blts. Just So. "Jack Hugglns' heart Is in the right place." "VTbat makes you think so, dear?" "Why, ho gava it to mo last night." Harper's Bazar. To Memory Dear. "Memory Is ono of man's most valuablo possessions." "Ob, perhaps that's why we hear of Its being taxed." Phila delphia Evening Bulletin. Not His Fault. "Tou married mo for my money!" sho exclaimed angrily. "Oh, well," ho replied soothingly, "don't blame me. I couldn't get It any other way, you know.', Chicago Evening Post. Pressure Removed. "Emellne, didn't it vex you to havo to give the census man your age 7" "No, 'indeed; I've kept It a dead secret so long that it was a blessed relief to get & chance to tell It." Indianapolis Journal. A Considerate Offer. Employer I think I'll have to let you go; there isn't much to do around here, but you don't even seem able to do that. Office Boy Well, suppose you pay me half wages, and I'll stay home until you really need me. Chicago Record. Trained. "I might as well tell ye before we go any fu'ther," said the witness, who had been getting rather the better of tho lawyer, "that yo needn't expect to rattle me by aakln' fool questions." "Not" retorted the lawyer. "Naw. I've raised three boys, an got two grandsons that 's keepln' me trained all the time." Indianapolis Press. Her Various Language. George Edward Day in Z Ion's Herald. I heard the mountains calling, The west wind brought their voice, "With Invitation thralling That left me none of choice. I followed where they drew me Up from tho husky sea; "Be free!" they sang to woo me, "For life Is large. Be freel" I saw the river beckon With fingers crystal clear; I could not stop to reckon The distance far or near. But followed where It led me Round many a rocky curve; It rippled as I sped me: "Serve t Life was made to server I heard the ocean singing Her siren song of old. The witchery of It ringing Along the sands of gold. I Hastened on to hear her With steps I could not stay; Her song as I drew nearer "Pleasure Is life today." Z heard a sighing tender. The forest's leafy lips. Whose music I remember With sweets like honey drips; And holy calm came o'er me As listening I stood With green-arched aisles before me "Seek peace!" whispered the wood. Then night In jeweled beauty Climbed up the eastern sky. "Which one has sung of duty," I asked, "for such as. I?" And through the fragrant weather. As birds in Junetlme call. Her sweet stars -sang together: "Duty must blend them ally ""