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The Ofegonlan doe not buy poeme or tortsa Jrom lrdllduals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts pent to It -without tollclta tlon. No stamps ehould be Inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. ClBce at 1111 Pacific aienue. Tacema. Box 955. Tacoma poetofllce. Eastern Busings Office The Tribune build ing, New York City: "The Rookory." Chicago; the 6. C Beckw Ith special ageney. New York. For sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, T8 Market street, near he Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros , 23C Sutter street. For sale in Chicago b the P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn strt, TODAY'S WJ5ATHEU. Fair and warmer; rortherlj wind "PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 14. The property-room of American his tory is richer since yesterday, through accession of the "breeze-swept veranda of Sagamore," as our Teddy's piazza 2s characterized by the rhetorician to -whom was assigned the Oyster Bay notification. Whether warm or chill these breezes were, whether "airs from heat en or blasts from hell," was either forgotten or lost in transmission. But s.hen we remember tho vigorous re sistance Governor Roosevelt made to his nomination and' the ominous char acter of the influences that forced' him on the ticket, when we Observe his la bored encomiums of McKinley and note his confessed regret at "leaving the men with whom I have endeavored and worked for civic decency and righteous ness and honesty in New York," the performance bears undeniable traces of a frost. Of course, regret at his en forced absence from the work he char--actertees so approvingly Is not the sum total of the Governor's Sorrow. He keenly resepEs the enforced retirement and seclusion of the Vice-Presidency. The prospect of his political interment there measurably Justifies Mr. Wol cott's apostrophe beginning, "You are still a -young man," with Its unmistak able suggestion of obsequies. Roose velt's discernment in declining the nomination was far more creditable" to blm than was his subsequent consent, under pressure of Piatt's assurance that if he refused the Vice-Presidency he needn't expect the Governorship. The Oyster Bay ceremony is the fitting se quel to the sacrifice. The f4ct is, no first-class man wants the Vice-Presidential nomination or "Will take it if he can help It. Hill had the strength, to put it away, and so did Carter Harrltjon. They -want first place in 1904, and they object to premature burial. Stevenson has no higher ambi tion, and is too weak to resist if he bad. But Hill and Harrison are polit ical stars of the first magnitude. One is at the head of his profession, a de bater without superior and perhaps without a peer, a popular ldolt a man of brains and intellectual convictions. The other is a vote-gettqr of singular efficiency, a successful man of -affairs, a leader who knot's how to provide himself wlth followers. They knew enough to light shy of second place. The only thing that could have forced either of them on the ticket was the affectfon and approval of Bryan, and this Providence or their own cunning had denied them. There is only one thing more fatal to a political career than an unsuccessful run for the Vice-Presidency, and that is an elec- ti n to It. In a popular government and in these hurrying times he Vice President drops out of the battle be cause all the posts on the firing line are occupied by others. Somebody else is Governor, somebody else is in the Senate, somebody else is in the Cab! net There are no messages for him to 'write, io bills to veto, no measures to debate, no appointments to make, or ders to issue, or conferences to control, He is "wedded to silence, inactivity, in anity. Oratorical climaxes come along but another seizes them; crises arise but another snatches from them victory and a name; great acts and epoch-making decisions are ripened by circum stances, but the sickle is in another's hands, while the Vice-President can only look on speechless and Inactive. There is the gambler's chance. The president may die in office. RooBevelt has always been lucky, and they say McKinley smokes seventeen $1 cigars a day. But this is not enough to at tract first-class men to the Vice-Presidency. Unreasoning "veneration of the Constitution involves the "Corollary that its founders could do no wrong. But critical study of 'Its provisions in the light of experience shows that the Vice-Presidency, among other things, is imperfectly devised. A man fit to be President cannot afford to "withdraw himself frpm the opportunities of use fulness and emolument which private life supplies, merely on the chance of one to six that uponhlsjshoulders -will fall the mantle of a departing Presi dent Something .hbalde done to make the Vloe-Presldencyworth hav ing on Its own account, or" 'else to put the Secretary of State first In the suc cession. Neither SewH nor Stevenson 4s fit to be President Many think -Mr. Hobart was not fit What is certain is that our present system Js dangerous, inasmuch as it operates ftput In the White House, in oasof accident a toan qualified only "by having, "bar rel," or else by having rib Enemies. Ahd the public man that hasno enemies is certain to hafye lived to very little purpose. y U" '' "- There is only one, chance in 6, there fore, that Governor Jtoosevelt's nomi nation was a gofrd4rivestment for him, for his party aHA oriine country. "Whatever we think of his impulsive ness, his belligerence or his poses, he has been a most efficient Governor andvi a contribution of infinite picturesque ness to our politics. 4 The Vioe-Fresi-4ency is not the $ield fjir the exerolse of his peculiar gifts, , "JVhether ifs quiet dignity will be lmproved"by admixture of his martial and uncompromising mode is at least 6pen to question, and if he carries his pugnacity into admin istration councils, Mr. McKinley's re- flection on "the anxieties and "burdens of the Presidential office"1 wll acquire fresh significance. In return for this he will wage valiant warfare la de fense of Administration measures, as his exuberant championship of the President and the Republican machine abundantly demonstrates. As Presi dent, If it comes to that, Mr. Roosevelt will be everything th'at Mr. McKinley Is not. The "Congressional President," with all his caution, suavity and exas perating tentative, method, will give place to the "King President," all de termination and dash, reformer and rough rider, set teeth, bulldog Jaw and sombrero. Jackson and-Cleveland will be restored. As with all restorations, the blessings will not be unmitigated. The best of us are but humarl. IX IDAHO. Idaho's political campaign this year promises to be unusually interesting. Many men who left the Republican party on the silver issue are returning to it; many who are still wedded to "16 to 1" are favorable to expansion, and are disgusted -with the humbug cry of "anti-imperialism-'; many--who want to support Bryan are. yet for law and order, and cannot accept him as a candidate on the riotous Sioux Falls platform; others cannot overlook the fact that the Bryan party In IdaTio has been kept from Indorsing the Coeiir d'Alene dynamiters only by the strenu ous exeitions of Governor Steunenberg a.nd his earnest friends. Auditor Bart lett Sinclair, who was the Governor's representative In -the C6i?ur d'Alenes during the troubles there, and who has been disgusted wlt,h the Ientz-Sulzfir j ejemeni oi tne .uemocracy, nas re nounced his allegiance to Bryanlsm and proclaims His intention to support the Republican "party, because "the Demo cratic party in Congress unanimously condemned us for trying to sustain 'the law against the assaults of dynamiters and anarchists," whereas he declares "the Republican party is the party of law and order In Idaho and everywhere else." Governor Steunenberg pursues a different course and keeps up the fight In his party for the supremacy of the law-abiding element, with good pros pect of success. He thus renders his state great service in giving the sup port of his strong personality to the better element of the Democrats. His home county of Canyonstands by him with a solid delegation to the state con vention at Pocatello, and "Indorses his splendid record for economical admin istration and fearless enforcement ot the law" Meanwhile Fred T. Diibols is seeking to succeed Senator Shoup, and is try ing to hold the sllverlre Republicans to the Fusion cause in the hope of serv ing his own ambition. But Senator Shoup and many others are awake and are putting up an earnest campaign for a straight Republican victory. If the Fuslonlsts hold the state (and it is hardly conceivable that they can lose it after their immense majority in 1896), it is not likely that Dubois can succeed Shoup, for he is held In merited con tempt by many Populists arid Demo crats, and there Is a well-defined sentl-J merit In favor of recognizing Steunen herg's great services to the state by tendering him the Senatorshlp In case the Fuslonlsts win in the November election. Added to these complications Is the fact that Idaho Is prosperous and there is nothing on which to base a calamity aampalgn. Everything the state has for sale is bringing good prices, and all the Bryanlte predictions of 1896 are merely ridiculous reminis cences. The sllver-or-bust crpwd are thoroughly discomfited, and cannot re peat the vigorous fight of four years ago. But they atxj struggling valiantly against an adverse tide, and are mak ing Idaho's campaign an' Interesting one to follow. If the forces of good money and expansion succeed, the Na tion may well applaud, but It will have to temper Its rejoicing with regret that so stanch an executive and good a citizen as Governor Steunenberg will In that event be relegated to private life as the reward for doing his duty to his state and holding his party to sup port of law and order. CUBAX TEACHERS VISIT. The visit to the United States of be tween 3000 ahd 4000 pubn. sohool teach- I PrR Vina OnltArt iha af4cnflnTi tf Vt$ nan-4 ers has called the attention of th& peo ple of the educational centers, of pie East to the condition and requirements of the public school' system' of Cuba. While the cause of education in the island la making noteworthy attd pro gressive strides, it i deemed "lhat the work will be greatjy facilitated by teaching the teachers.-and In this teach ing object-lessons are considered of the first Importance. These lessons could naturally be presented nowhere else so well as in the United States, the home of the public sohool system. Tho Idea of a visit of six weekst duration lo the J academic shades of Harvard was ad Vanced by Mr. Alex V. Frye, a grad uate of that Institution "and now Su perlntendent of Public, Schools, in Cuba. Of the 3000 and more. Cuban" teachers, three-fifths' are 'womeoi, and np to this time there- b no dlscrtmlnatlon between the sexes asto payment for similar service performed. Heretofore no ex amination as to their qualifications have been made preliminary to their Appointment, as.teacbera, butr .following tireir return to uuoa, suToh examination will be required. This will certainly be a distinct gain, slnQeupon the fit ness of teachers, from an "educational, moral and executive standpoint de pends the value of the effort put forth in schools. ' It was desirable, and, indeed, neces sary, that this visit of Cuban teachers to the United States should be made as 1 Inexpensive to them as possible. Hav ing undertaken the paternal role toward the Island and is people, the Government was hot 'found "wanting when a request for transportation was made for them, but promptly put its. transports ijurnsiae, jjiCJfnerson, MO Clellan, Crook and Sedgwick at the service of the, committee ,qf arrange ments, and npon these vessels the Cu bans' made the voyage from Havana to New York, free of expensev A spe cial Sthnmer c&ugse has. been arranged for them at Harvard, and Instructors conversant with the Spanish and Eng lish languages have bn seoured. Lodgings in the vicinity are provided by public subscription, and when tiie student's programme Is completed at Cambridge, the Cubans will be con veyed to Washington. Chicago, Niag ara Falls and New York, where they -are expected to use their eyes in the interests of civilization. From the late. ter port they will embark for Havana, 4 the Government returning; -them on its transports. These teachers will be stupid, indeed, if from this trip and ifs advantages for self-lmprovement'they'do not return to their island home -with a valuable Oitinment from the -fitorehousp of ...l- '. I1 .!. 11 lM Kiiuvtjeut: ujui will iuuo.e uiem wuuu better qualified than'befoj'e to expound; tHe lessens of clvillza'tldn to theff pu pils. The visit should not only Impress them with the greatness of our country and the scope Qf our Institution, of public learning, but It should also be' the means of impressing their' puplls with the fact that this country is the friend of Cuba along the higher lines in' which help can safely and Intelli gently be bestowed, 'and that, as such a friend, it deserves thejr loyalty and affection. BRYAN'S GHAtfOE FOJl MISCHIEF. There are thousands of Gold Demo-, crats who voted against Bryan in ISSr,. and who are still for sound money, but believe Bryan, if elected, could do noth ing to make It unsound. A Milwaukee German storekeeper recently answered a Republican, who urged thatj Bryan s for free silver: ''What of it? He can't make it free." This popular belief that Bryan, if elected, could do nothing to upset the standard of value Is a delu sion based upon imperfect knowledge and information in the Judgment of no less man than Professor J. Lawrence Loughlln, of the University of Chicago, who, in the current number o the Jour nal of 'Political Economy, affirms that the currency act of March 14, 1900, does not establish the gold standard, al though the House bill -would have" done so. The Senate finance committee's bill, which was enacted as a substitute for the House bill, does not, affirms Professor Ixmghlln, provide for the payment of the bonds of the United States in gold, excepC so far as they may be refunded Into 2 per cents; It does not provide for the redemption ot silver dollars or silver certlflcates in gold, or the payment of private debts in gold, and, although it makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to keep all kinds of money at par "with each other, it provide no 'means, of executing this order. '" The only authority -which the Secre tary has to accumulate gold for re demption purposes is to redeem green backs and Treasury notes of 1890. The latter notes, however, are soon to be retired as rapidly as' possible, and their $lac?s filled, with silver certificates, af ter which the only currency that the Secretary is required to redeem in gold Is the greenback. Professor Loughlln points out that jn event of Bryan's election a hotlle Secretary of the Treasury, such as George Fred Will iams, could bring silver to the front again to unsettle valiSs. A hostile Sec retary could immediately pay the In terest on the bulk of the bonded debt In silver dollars if he should choose to, do so. Accepting "Professor Jxiugh lin's construction aa correct. It "would bea very great mistake for that hon est Milwaukee German storekeeper' tp vole for Bryan'as a man powerless, If elected, to work any "serious financial mischief, except by new and positive legislation, which "would be impossible so long as the United States Senate re mains, as it is today, in the hands of a gold majority. But would Bryan, if'elected, dare to do all that Professor Loughlin argues he could do? There is no reason for doubting that Bryan, if elected, would do his obstinate arid vigorous utmost to put his financial faith Into Instant practice. Whatever else he may be, Bryan Is a man of fixity of purpose, a man of persistency and courage In a bad cause. He 1s not a weak or vacil lating man. Bryan, and, Bryan alone, is responsible for the,''spec'flc declara tion at Kansas City for sllyer at 15 to 1. It was through his personal Influx ence that the plank dk adopted pre vailed over the policy of simple reaffir mation or the Chicago platform. To Bryan is due the fact that the supreme issue ot the campaign of 1886 Is to be the supreme Issue of the campaign of JSOO the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 .to 1, "without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation." Free silver is the genu ine issue of this campaign, and If Bryan wins. It Is certain .that he will not hesi tate to put Into practice all that he has preached. AS IMPORTANT RULING. Judge Fursman; of the New York Su preme Court, recently made a ruling in an important, case, which bids fair to Place a check upona. growing lndus- - tVm mftlv '. .VIU . try. the rroducfof which eomps ex. tremely high tothe taxpayer. The case before him was that, of an alleged con spiracy to depress the stocks of the Brooklyn Rapid TYahsfc Company, and an attempt was maxifc o Introduce cer tain handwrltrngiF M he accused as evidence. This was ruled out. Judge Fursman Tiecjaring that he read the law as "beln'to the effect that expert handwriting evidence cannot come into a criminal trial, unless'the handwriting itself is at issue, as in forgery cases; otherwise, handwriting evidence can be bfjforce In civil suits onb' When it Is remembered that In recent years numerous Important murder trials have turned upon the admission of,oextaln, evidence oj, handwriting ex perls, human Hlfe $fi many instances having hung jiSbpnth' shading of a lexiprnimpprranc q the ruling -will be recognized. The importance of the deductions of men who claim to have made' a special study of handwriting, though they have np recognized degree or dlplohBr and, Indeed, no special school or system oP Instruction, has been made, by the admission of their evi dence in'court, equal to that of scien tific experts in,' surgery, 'engineering or law. This point "will not, of course, bo settled by one, decision, but It Is something that. a learned and careful Jurist has laid a foundation upon which, as precedent future decisions of importance rhay;-be cased. In any event, this decislbnTwfll e'rve to place a check in the New York courts, where clearly a check Is -needed, upon loose riflings upon this point KIXG' OF IJflUSTRY. 7 Shipments of coal from the various ports of the Atlahtlc' to' the different countries. f the jvorld . hcve stekdily Increased in volume during the past three months. . The middle week in June was ih record-breaker in the dis patch of coal to foreign portk from Newport News. Twenty-one thousand tons wept Ho 'Austria France and Bra zil, -while ther week v following con tractors began a shipment of 600,000 torts to Russia. NearlyaU of this coal was taken from the mines of West Vir- I glnla and Western Pennsylvania. The vast, abundance of the supply from -which these shipments were drawn for bids any anxiety as yet concerning a possible overdraft upon a product that Is nowhere on the face of the earth being replenished. The only feeling is one of satisfaction that our black dia monds have at last found a demand in foreign markets, and that the supply is being pushed forward with character istic American energy. Though a Republic, the United States bftasts a number of Kings. Qnce &ns Cptton held the Stage and, dispensed orders upon which hung the balances of peace and war. The commercial, in dustrial and "financial Interests of the world demanded "what he alone could bestow, and hls favor "was courted by the Government f6r years at the ex pense of the dignity' of the Nation and In mockery of its pretense of uni versal liberty. War came, and the fleecy King was for a time dethroned, only to assume a place among the in dustrial powers of the Nation under brighter auspices, with the result that today cotton la King In a modified buf more powerful .sense than ever before, "vfheat, though from a variety of causes oooupying an unsteady throne, has now and again been halted ag King,- and has briefly extended a powerful scepter over a "wide area of our National do main, while King Corn has been for many years Jh evidence in the porft" and whisky output of the cbuntry. Uately King Iron has wieldecl a powerful scep ter, and, In conjunction "With King Coal, has established an Industrial kingdom, the foundations of which reach the very basis of our productive life. Building, "whether of modern structures that hive whole battalions of workers in the arts of peace, or of battle-ships that attest our .power as 'a Nation at home and abroad, depends upon the b6unty of Iron, and he, without Coal as a moving, force, would be but a sleep ing giant Each of these elements Is a power in the moylng, growing, widely sustain ing life of the Nation and, as Is befit ting a Republican KJng, each Is a ser vant of tho people a servant In livery, powerful only when harnessed to the public needs.. Notwithstanding the tremendous ef forts of humanitarians in raising and systematically disbursing "country week" and "fresh' air" funds for the benefit of sweltering infants and young children in te stififng tenement dis tricts of the great etyes of the Atlantic seaboard, infant mortality In these -cities continues to be appalling. In th first six days of July, a period of unremitting heat, day and night in New York; th,e death list of children under 5 years'of age In that city ran well up Into the huhdreds, while the mortality In this class In other cities was proportionately large. Of course, it Is impossible to tell how much great er the Sum ot Infant mortality would have been but for the efforts of philan thropists to keep It down, but It Is clear that applied assistance, so to speak, cannot successfully stem this fearful tide of lnfante suffering and death. A pitifully helpless hpst must continue to wall out Its brief day and perish as long as thrift and sobriety and per sonal accountability are unknown ele ments in the ordering of a multitude of human lives. Perhaps It Is better so, and that Nature, even when she seemd cruel, is most kind In setting a limit to the store of vitality In these help less little ones, that permits them soon to reach the epd of an existence which is without promise of health, happiness or usefulness. Colonel A. K. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, makes this sur prising statement concerning the elec tion of 1896 In his book, "OUr Presidents and How We Make Them," recently published In New York; Considering the complication which 'con fronted him, resulting- from the Internal feuds of his own household, and an open split on the Vice-Presidency, ?ie (Bryan) made the most Taemoraoie .rcesiaenuai campaign ot tne lie .public, and swept eery atate west of the Mis sissippi with the exception of California and North Dakota. Colonel McClure Is woefully mixed up In his geography. Oregon, Iowa and "North Dakota, which are trans-MlssIs-slppl states, gave their fujl electoral vote to McKinley, and so did Minne sota, the greater part of which lies west of the Mississippi. California gave McKinley eight electoral votes, and Bryan one. Bryan Swept much of the West four years ago, more than he will this year. Less hope remains, as the days go by, fof the safety of the Pekln Legations, and their fate, ominous though It Is, Is dwarfed into insignificance by the greater bortent that hangs over the allied forces at Tfen Tain. Casualties at Tien Tsln must already nearly ex ceed the greatest poBslbilles at Pekln, Klao Choi; is In danger, and reinforce ments seem difficult of withdrawal from engagements elsewhere. Details make the lack Of decision at Tien Tsln seem the less deplorable, inasmuch as the chance of successful advance In apy event 'Is slight The hope of the allied foroes now- Is apparently not so much victory as escape. It Is a melan choly prospect The pnly present hope is in voluntary subsidence of the Chi nese uprising. Effective punishment at the hands, of Europeans Is a long way off. The Dundee A'dvertlser speaks of the impress Dowager of China as ""a mas terful o'd lady who Is carrying on a flirtation with the forces of dfsorder." This Is hot bad. 'indeed, when we re flect that a flirt usually fals, In the end, into a pit of her own digging, we may rogard this presentment of the masterful old Chinese woman as at once clever and consoling Platform difficulties are eyened nip by the discovery that the lncQ$pe-taxdank was lost, strayed or stolen at Kansas City. Aside from this artificial Interest, the matter is of no concern fo any one. Both the platforms would be improved by striking out all after the preamble. Lord Roberts seems to .have been en tirely within the facts vrh6n he 'report ed no troops could ' be spared from South Africa. Perhaps he needs rein forcements almost as badly as Seymour dees. Secretary Hay's demand for connec tion Tflth Minister Conger had a wel come sound, but so did the ultimatum to the Sultan. The Oriental mind is hard to rouse to speedy action. Gold neaocrats and Bryan. New York Journal of Commerce. In committing Itself to the ratio of 16 to 1 the Democratic party repudiates Jef ferson and Jackson; in denouncing ex pansion It disowns the Democratic Presi dents from Jefferson to Polk. Its coinage Idea Is a mixture of folly and dishonesty, obnoxious to reason and contradicted by all experience. Its attitude toward mob law Is that of open encouragement It promises. If It Bhajl have a chance, to de stroy the Independence of the judiciary, the cornerstone of Anglo-Saxon Jurispru dence and civil liberty; it proposes to make the courts reflect the passions of the hour and execute tho decrees of the popular assembly. Mr. Bryap is Identified with nothing but words. He was nominated four years ago because he made a Very clever speech with alliteration and metaphor that car ried away an hlsterlcal crowd. He has been renominated slmpjy because the Democratic party has driven great men from Its ranks and Mr. Bryan? has suc ceeded in keeping himself 'before the pub lic with speeches showing much skill in phraseology and little knowledge of facts and still leas ability to reason correctly. Two years fcgo he played at being a sol dier for a little dramatic effect, like that sought In the presentation of his bust to the convention at Kansas City. He has been little in publje lite and his career Is simply that of a campaign speaker with a pronounced gift" for appealing to Ignor ance and cupidity. It will be very difficult for gold Demo crats, no matter how they feel about ex pansion, to support Mr. Bryan. "We should express utter lack of confidence In the Intelligence and character of the Ameri can" people If we believed the result of the election were in any doubt but -we recog nize fully that there are millions of voters, controlling many stated, who will vote the ticket nominated at TCensas City, and that the rescue of the United States from the control of such men as made up the convention Involves earnest efforts ahd hard work well directed. TWO AMERICAN E3IPERORS. If the Inane Be Imperlaltmn, Bryan and Croker Mnnt lie Rebuked. Chicago Times-Herald. Such absolute control of a great political or ganization by one man as Br an has exer cised this week has Tiever b-fore ben seen in this country. ..." The candidate thus farced !s own lssuo upon- & reluctant com en lloh by an exhibition of neronal power wjilch recalls "the eway of Andrew Jackson two gen erations ago. New Yjjirfc Evening Post. There were discreditable exhibitions of ma chtno power In the Philadelphia convention, but no National gathering of either party ever witnessed suct a display ot brute force,, ex-t erted to sailsfy personal grudges as Crokers performances at Kansas City. Jew Tork Evening Post. This Is a fitting recognition of the two Emperors of the Dem6cratlc National Convention, Emperor "Vlfllarrf of Lincoln and Emperor Richard of New Ydck and London. When Emperor "William spoke, no Gold Democratic dog In Kansas City dared to raise an opposing whine. Even the ever lasting and peripatetic Hill bowed his bald head to the dusty plain and acknowl edged that the Emperor's word was law, and that IS silver plunks,, or six. or three, were equal to one gold one. If Emperor William of Lincoln only said so. Emperor Richard also pUt his foot upon the Hill ami leveled It with the plain as the foundation for the frozen Image of an Ice trust which he with congealed Irony set up In the face of a hot and help less multitude. According to the Democratic platform, "Imperialism Is the paramount lssuo of the campaign." According to that grand old American, Noah Webster, imperialism Is "the p'ower or character of an Emperor; imperial au thority." Ant an imperialist is "one who serves an Emperor; one who favors impe rialism." The only simon-pure Imperators In the United 8tates .are Wfllfam and Richard, and the only blown-In-the-bottle imperial ists are their worshipers and servitors of Kansas City and Manhattan. Boiled Do-rm. Hartford Courant Lot us brush asido the rhetoric and ver biage of the Kansas City platform and see what are somo of the other things Mr. Bryan stands for this year. The repeal of the gold standard legis lation, of course. The substitution of treasury notes for banknotes as our pa per currency. Tho ex proprlo vlgore doc trine, according to which Porto Rican, Kanaka, or Tagajog, once brought per manently undor the flag. Is orought nlso and Immediately under tho Constitution and clothed with American citizenship. The cogneute doctrine that tho United States cannot acquire new territory by cession or conquest without the consent of the Inhabitants a doctrine unknown to those atnful old Imperialists, Thomas Jef ferson, Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk. Idepen"ence and then a perpetual American protectorate for tho Flltpftios. And no surplus In the United Sfatea Treasury. Citizens to whpm this pro gramme seems good and wise will, of course, give their votes to Mr. Bryan. Cleveland Expresses Regret. Chicago Record- Buzzard's Bay. Former President Cleveland, at his Summer home. Gray. Gables, last night expressed his opinion of tho Democratic platform, as follows: I most ardently "hoped and d.eslred that the platform to be construcUd al Kansas City would ba consistent wjth the professions bf those in charge of Democratic management to the effect that harmonising discordant senti ment In the 'party was a object of supreme importance. In tfcese olrcuiristancea. the. In corporation of a specinc demand for free sil ver at the ratio of 10 to 1 la. "of course, great surprise and disappointment On tbe basis of such declaration tho method by which the party Is to be harmonised and Democracy Is to gain the confidence and sup port of our thinking- ana" Tenoctlve citizens Is beyond' ray comprehension. ' Tjie Sanation in Connecticut. Springfield Republican. Connecticut In this campaign is evldentr ly to be forfeited again by the Demo crats because of the silver plank. Nelthee the Hartford Time nor tho New Haven Register; which used to "be regular Demo cratic newspapers, will support Mr. Bry an so far as now appears, and without them there s practically no Democratic press in the state. 1 Cannot ItetnVn o the Fold. Philadelphia Rocqrd. The contention over .the silver plank has demonstrated clearly that the break In the Democratic party that existed when Bry an waS nominated ln1S36 still continues, and stni roakest Impossible to maintain the pbsltlorf Of 1S96 and elect the Demo cratic pandldate. The Record does not agreo with .air. .aryan -ana uie unicago platform. MEX AND TVOMEjr. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, la making a fad of. gardening, and Is spending much, of'hla vacation In tbe cultiatlqn of some exception ally fine panstes. ' Among the iew Congressmen who have been unanimously-renominated, John B. Ketcham. of Kew York, holds the record, having been chosen by acclamation lfl time. General Charles A, "Woodruff,- who Is to be Chief Commissary of Subsistence tinder Gen eral MacArthur, will be greatly helped in his new work by Ms thorough knowledge ot Span ish, which he has epoken like a native since Quite a child. Captain Dreyfus la still at tho Villa Hau terrrr, at Collgnj. near Geneva. There Is a wonderful Improvement In his appearance since his, freedom; he seems to nave quite regained his normal -state of health, which it was at one time feared would be Impossible. Clara Butt, tho English contralto. Is to be married to Kennerley Rumford, himself a well known baritone, this month; They have fre quently sung together, and their duet singing has been very tkPu'w with musical London. They are now arranging a concert tour which will take In America, add possibly Australia. By the elevation of Sir Richard Webster to the office of Master of the Rolls, England is left unrepresented In the great law offices of the kingdom, as the new Attorney-General, Sir Robert FlnTay, Is a Scotchman, and the new Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Carson. Is an Irishman. The latter Is the first man who has been Solicitor-General both la Ireland and In England. William Ashmead-Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, whose letters from South Africa describing t)ie neglect of soldier patients In hospitals bao stirred the tory ranks of England, la Ameri can born, balng Plymouth, Mass., for his birthplace. He la now 40 yeara bid. After he m&dft England his home he was educated st Torquay and at Keble College. Oxford, Where he won a scholarship. Re was elected Member of Parliament for Westminster In 1SS3, ana sat for that constituency a number of years. In 1SS1 he -was married to the aged Baroness Burdett-Coutts INDEPENDENT REJECTION OF BRYAN Xevc YoIc Evening Pot. Such absolute control of a great politi cal organization by one man as Bryan has exercised this week has never be fore been seen In this country. All au thorities at Kansas City agree that a lare majority of the delegates were op posed to having a 16-tol plank in the platform. A majority of the committee bn resolutions went into the meeting on Wednesday evening determined not to allow such a deliverance, and tills ma jority included the representatives of ever Northern State east ot the Missis sippi "which was carried for the Demo crats in the "tidal wave" of 1S32 Con necticut New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as Ohio, which was so close that Cleveland se cured one of the electoral'votes. Almost every leader of any Consequence regarded a separate silver plank as fatal to the party's chances of success. In short the conditions ' were such as apparently to assure tho defeat of the scheme. But Bryan had made np hfs mind that" there should be a 16-to-l plank, as emphatic as language could make it; he made. his influence felt In the commlttce-roam, and the majority shifted to his side; and the same influence caused all opposition to his policy to die out among the mass of the. delegates. The candidate thU3 fprced his 6wn Issue upon a. reluctant, tonventjon by an exhibition of personal power which recalls the. sway of Andrew Jacksjon, two generations ago. Harper's "Weekly. If the pltlablo condition of thep Demo cratic party today Is the result of Bryan rule, and that It is so Is undeniable, what -would be the condition of the United States at tho end of four years of that domination? We have here an object-lesson plain and patent before our very eyes. It Is so obvious that no clear-seeing eye can. fall to aJsCern It Where once was strength and conscience and principle, Sir. Bryan has brought ruin, and the question now before the electors of this country is as to whether they are to call for a simi lar wrecking df this magnificent National organization, the Republic of the United States, at the very moment when It is taking its place among the nations of the earth and Is upon the threshold of new fields of power and influence. In" other words, shall we succumb to Bryanltis, as the poor old party has done, and become Xorever lost? Or are we going to put up our strong will-power against the Inroads of this distressing disorder and wear it out and kill it before it destroys us? Charlotte (X. C.) Observer. We cannot support the candidate nomi nated or tho platform promulgated at Kansas City. . . . We are opposed to the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 1C to 1. . . . The saying that tho antl-lmperlallstlc plank presents the paramount Issue does not make it do so, and, moreover, the Issue does not appeal to Us. This country had no business In a war with Spain, but it got into one, and as a consequence certain territory fell un der Its control. It cannot shirk Its obli gations In Cuba, Porto' Rico and the Phil ippines, If It wanted to. St. Pnnl Globe, Dem. Tho control of William J. Bryan, whjch nnder threat of withdrawal forced the free-silver falsehood dowri the throat of the Kansas City convqntlon, pdlnts to a 'pathway already traveled over In tho journey to Democratic defeat and disas ter. Tills pathway the Globe- refuses to follow. It refuses to support the candi dates of a convention which seeks through 'cowardly evasion to win the support of those whom It feared to openly challenge. Xew York Sun. The one Idea that has united these three National conventions upon a single candi date for President Is silver. That "alone gives vitality to the Bryan canvass. The talk about antl-lmperlallstn is bosh. It Is false pretense. It means a National union against the National flag a paradox. It Is against the free-silver array, therefore, that the Republicans and all honest money men of alt political colors inust stand together and stand fast JftrVv York Times. x The Chicago convention was radical and revolutionary, but "at Kansas City, under the controlling will and firm hand of Bryan, the convention of 1900 has gone to the extreme of folly and of "madness. . . . Tho Times 'will use its influence to brlnp about the re-election ot McKinley to the office he has well administered. TVashlnfrton Post. A dead Issue may be fatal to the parjy that Insists on carrying the corpse. The Post does not see the wiy clear for the Democracy, bearing that silver cadaver, to carry New York, and without New York, how can that party hope to win? New Haven neijlster. ' We risk no'thlng In declaring that not In years has a National ticket been received with such unmistakable signs of fatigue and Indifference. One can almost believe the election Is .already over. Personal Utterance. In an Interview in the Chicago Times Herald. James H. Eckels. Mr. Cleveland's Controller ot tbe Currency, comes dut for McKinley. He repudiates utterly what he call3 "Populism filtered through the chan nel of Bryanlsm." B. Hagemann, president of the German American Savings Bank, of Burlington, la., saysi I am a Democrat but not a Populist. I would have voted' for almost any good Dem ocrat, on a Democratic platform. I am op posed to free silier at the ratio of 16 to 1, and I will not vote for any man or with any party that favors ouch a scheme. In New York such a prominent and con sistent Democrat as Alexander B. Orr, ex-president of the Chamber of Com merce, says that the "reaffirmation of the hideous Chicago platfprm-that em bodiment of financial Immorality and revolutionary violence" arid the renoml natlon on it "as the leader ot the Democ racy of the same voluble, shallow, falla cious and headstrong man," forces him to give his suppbrt to the Republican Na tional ticket Mr. Orr, declares that th6 currency issue Is the paramount issue, "no matter what pertain Democrats who have not the cour age of Mr. Bryan say to the contrary." And in regard to "Imperialism" he ha3 this to say: I am one of those who believed that when Dewey smashed the Spaniards we should have been content to grab and hold one coaling sta tion in those Island'. But I am not so blind that I cannot see that It Is impossible for us to recede from the position that we hate taken there without such a repudiation of words and deeds, without such los of prestige, without such Injustice to our own peoplo as would ren der It a wrong step for the Nation to take. Oregon's Military Horsemen. Salem Journal. Man-Afrald-of-HIs-Horso would not ot course, apply to any ot the mounted offi cers of the National Guard at grand rej vlew last evening. """ NOTE AND COMMENT. ?' , Have you forgotten to buy that monu ment button? It Is time to begin to rest up for our Summer vacations. r Wheat continues to keep out'ot rench of Bryan's eloquence. Soon will each city, town and burg Assert with Indignation The census man did not begin To count Its population. Thus far no wild currents of conven tion lightning have collided with Sylves ter Pennoyer. We're aweary of this dreadful war And hungering for peace. Because we can't keep track of it Unless we learn Chinese. Kentucky politics are getting so quiet that train robberies down there are be ing sent out as news. He made ten conquests at the shore. And sighed because he'd made no more. Until that Fall they bore their fruits In ten big bre&ch-of-promlse suits. As soon as England has time to send a few brigades ot Major-Generals to China the work of crossing the Yangtse Klang will begin. Old Bobs way down in Africa Is up against it yet. Which we can tell because ho still Reports things with regret It Is one thing to make ji success of a strenuous life and quite another to make a go of a strenuous refusal, of the Vice Presidency. Thojgh Bryan Is a real live boss. It's well that wo remember "v That, though, he's It. and It Is he, Deplte his power he will be A dead one next November. Governor Roosevelt will have to be pretty strenuous from now till next No vember to make up for the ennui of the Vice-Presidential duties. Sing a song of gold dust Upon the beach at Nome. And sing It now. for soon you'll be A-slnging Homo, Sweet Home. A Jatc writer on educational subjects advocates the abolition of the classics, algebra, and all college preparatory studies from rural schools, and substitut ing in their place something to reveal the beauties of farm lite; studies of na ture and elementary studies bearing upon agricultural and rural life. "Open their cyesC" he says, "so that they may see and feel something besides the work and monotony ot the farm. The boy who knows how the seeds sprout, how trees and plants are made to grow, where the wild flowers bloom, the names of the birds and where they nest, is happy and contented. Such a boy will not long to leave the farm. Too much of interest to him centers there." Was the epistle to the Hebrews writ ten by a woman? Is the novel question raised by the brilliant church historian of the Berlin University, Professor Har nack, to which he gives the equally sur prising answer that In all probability this is the case. His discussion of this prob lem, which constitutes the piece de re distance In the first Issue of the new Zeltschrlft fur neutestamentllche Wls senschaf t, Is a. skilful combination of tho condition of affairs as presupposed by this anonymous letter with wha$ we know of the character and history of tbe noteworthy couple. Aqulla and Prls cilia. He conolodes that this letter is the product of their pen; the wife in all probability, chiefly on account of the total suppression of the author's name by even the earliest literature, having been tho chief factor In the composition. Harnack does not pretend to have discovered any data In the literature of the apostolic period that would directly or indirectly Connect the name of Prlscllla with the authorship ot Hebrew's. His argumenta tion is entirely along the line of Inner literary and historical criticism, and Is a model specimen of this kind of analytic and constructive research. The author frankly heads his article "Phrobabllla." rLEASATTIUES OP PARAGRAPHERS Jess Is she really so awfully homely? Tess Well. I should say. The girls who graduated with her wouldn't allow her to flgura In tbe composite photograph of tho class. Philadel phia. Press. Mr. Gaswell Are you familiar with the acta of the Peace- Congress, held at The Hague? Mr Dukane To some extent Mr. Gaswell Did that body forbid the use of dum-dum fire crackers on the Fourth ot JulyT-Ptttsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Far From It. What did Scummlna say when you told him of our scheme to make him Alderman?" asked the political leader. "R took him clean on his legs." said the faithful henchman. "He wanted time to think, about It." "In a quandary, was he?" "No; ho vas In a. saloon "Chicago Tribune. Blghead Isn't It strange tho way the na tions are acting .Americans express sympa thy with Kruger. Canadians with Agulnaldo. and Russians with Cronje. Wiaeun Oh! I don't knew. That is about as close as. Chris tian nations can get to the divine command. They Une one another's enemies. Puck. Judge So the prisoner hit you on tho head with a brick, did he? McGlnty Yes, yer i t...i- ti, U tn.nw hn didn't oulto xuJiiur. tfuugc ju- ..-ww.. - - - illl you, anyway? McGlnty No, bad 'cess to him but It's wlshln' he had Ol do bo. Judge Why do you wish that? McGlnty Begorry. thin Ol would hae seen the schoundrel hanged for 'murtherl Tit-Bits. I t "When Webster Davis Spoke. Baltimore American. Then up rose Webster Davis, And nodded to the roars, And gae his helpless hearers His lecture on the Boers. Then he sang to "Old Hundred" In plalntho melody. "Ob. William Jyan Brennlngs Is the candidate for me. Jo, no; I don't mean Brennlngs I .suffer from the heat But Wennlng Brllllams Jyan I'll save him from defeat. "For with him as our leader Our march shall never pause. Hall! Jllllam Brynlng Wennana And his see frilver cause. "Hurrah for Oom Kraul Puger, , Who has our sympathy. And Willing Jynam Brenaas, Who'll march to victory." As on and on ho rambled. The delegates would screech: "It seems that Debater Wavls Has kopjes in his speech." - The Proud Hero. Chicago Times-Herald, He rode In state before the cjwvd That lined the thoroughfare; He heard the cannon booming loud. He saw tho hats In air. He heard the music rising high. He saw the flags above; He heard the people rend the ky Hurrahing out their love. He rose, responsive to the cheers. And bared his stately head. And while the plaudits smote his ears - Below his breath ho said: "They greet mo with hur-ms today. And should I. then, be proud?" Ere night some new er hero may Be worshiped by the crowd. "Ay, but there's one at home whose eyes Are dim with happy tears" And. proud, he heard her constant sighs Aboc their fickls cheers.