Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, October 16, 1900, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHE' MORNING' OTSEGONMN, 'TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1900. ZSh- Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as" second-class matter, i. . . TELEPHONES. -aitorial Rooms.... lflbjuublness Office... .CST f?35130 SUBSCRIPTION JIATEB. SanV6 PfpaW). In Advance Dailr' fii.?,Uaa&y' P month ,.05 i"1' TrUn Sunday, per year 0 00 SASSS. - tt ,4 M r. POSTAGE BATES. 5(Hi, tM- Canada and Mexico: Xato 32-page paper c Foreign rates double. NiT" dl8i8slon Intended for publication i5 Prenlan should ba addressed invarla Jy! ?irtPe. rogonlan," not to the naroo i any Individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter cnould he addressed simply "The Orcgonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories Srom Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. Jfo stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. jPagct Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, omce at Jin pacific avenue. Tacqmo. Box 053, iTacoma Postofllce. Eastern, Business Office The -Tribune hulldr 2ng. New" York City; "The Rookery." Chicago; tno S. C, Beckwlth spoclal agency. New Tork. Por sain in San rranclsco by J. K. Cooper. 46 atark street near tlic Palace Hotel; Gold emlth Eros. 2S0 Sutter street; F. W. Tltts, 1008 Market street: Poster & Orcar. Ferry ew8 Stand; J.. E Leo. Palace Hotel News Stand. For sale In Los Angeles br B. F. Gardner, 259 So. Spring street, and Oliver &. Haines. 100 So. Spring street. For sale In Omaha by H. C. Shears, 105 K. Sixteenth street, and Burkalow Bros., 1012 Parraan street. For sale In Salt Lake hy the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 W. Second South street. For sale In N4- Orleans by Ernest & Co.. UB Royal street. On file in Washington, D. C. -with A. W. Xunn, 500 14th N. w. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. TODAY'S "WEATHER. Fair; north to west winds. IOR.TLAXD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1C. EVILS AT SXAXILA. It is not to be expected, reasonably, that the Americans in the Philippine Islands Trill be able at once to stamp out the various evils that exist there. -3Jhese evils are rooted in the native character and haver been confirmed by the long-continued abuses of Spanish rule. The mass of the native popula tion is- deeply sunk in almost every kind of Immorality and vice. The Filipino character is not to be changed at once, by the mere presence of an American Army- Besides, social, moral and legal reforms cannot be expected to come directly through military force or military administration. The use cf the Army is o beat down armed re sistance and to clear the ground for civjl rule. Complaint, therefore, that the Army of the United States has not already stamped out the vices inherent in the Filipino character is mere fault-finding, without reason. The natives of the islands fall something short of being the great and virtuous people, the intellectual and moral prodigies, ,lmagne& by our antls. They are not "Washingtons and Franklins and Jeffer sons and Channlngs .and Hampdens and "Wilberforces, crushed, under the heel of military tyranny. They are only a lialf-civillzed horde, of undevel oped moral nature, saturated with vices "which can only be eradicated or minimized through a long period of educational effort and sound civil ad ministration, for which military power must clear the way. Neither the President of the United States nor our military commander in the islands is censurable, as our Pro hibitionists assert, for the existence of evils reported at Manila; for these evils, with the grossness there attrib uted to them, are inherent in the very character of the native population. We shall gradually reduce them, and meas urably overcome them, after a time; but it can no more be done at once than you can persuade the Prohibftion ist out of his fixed idea, JVhat our -brethren of the fixed idea really want at this time is the elec tion of Bryan. They persuade them Belves that this result would, by Indi rection or reaction, give a new impulse to their favorite notion of making peo ple , temperate, moral and Virtuous, through statutory enactment. They feel that they would have small chance of giving Bryan many votes, if they should openly declare for him; but they hope in this Indirect manner to lelp him out. So we have the spectacle of a reformed drunkard one of that eort unfortunately almost always on the brink pfjpioher fall going about the country Tfna special train, fur nished with tin herns, to lecture peo ple who don't, get drunk and don't need reformation, on their duty to the cause of temperance and of morality and virtue in general. Pharisaism is of no race or country. It is useless, of course, to remonstrate with those who pursue this method; but inasmuch as they continually accuse others of being Insensible to the demands of morality, they can have no right to object to a, little plain speech about themselves. STAY VOTE AWAY FROM HOME. Upon reflection, The Oregonian wishes to recall a statement that ap peared in its columns yesterday, in an swer to an inquiry whether a voter who had registered at home, happening to be in another counts' of the state on election day, pould vote In such county, and what he must do to prove his right. The pregonian answered; Under no circumstances would he be permit ted to vote in the other county. He is en titled to vote only In his own precinct. The law does not permit an elector to vote where he "happens to be" on election day unless he tttppens to be home. This is an error. If one wishes to vote only tor state officers or member of Congress. Of course, one must vote in his own county for county officers. Following is section 17, article 2, of the constitution of the state: AH Qualified electors shall vote In the elec tion precinct In tho county where they may re etdo for county officers, and In any county In the state for state officers, or in any county of a Congressional district. In which such elec tors may reside for members of Congress. The constitution is the supreme law. 3La elector of the state, therefore, who happens to be In another county on electioa day, next month, may vote tipon certification of six freeholders, the same as a citizen not registered. If the elector bring these proofs, it will be the duty of the judges to allow his vote. He is to vote for electors of President and Vice-President, and these electors are "state officers,." One may vote outside his precinct, in his own county, If he is willing to take the, trouble of proof. No well-known citizen "of the state who happens on election day to be in another county than that where he re sides, can baye any real difficulty in voting; for he will find freeholders enough who know him. All he will have to do will be to furnish the proof required by law that he is an elector of the state. The registry law cannot supersede the constitution. In prescrib ing the qualifications of electors. It can only prescribe a method of ascer taining whether the person claiming to be an elector possesses the constitu tional qualifications, or not, BETWEEN TWO EXTREMES, The sagacious course in Anglo-Saxon administration of tropical possessions lies midway between too great and too little concession to the native regime. In following tnis true course, the wise administrator must expect to offend the" extremists of each side, and so, if4 he does this, he has established a priori evidence of his correctness. Just this has happened with the McKinley Ad ministration's course in the unfamiliar field of Philippine institutions. It is contended, on the one hand, that "consent of the governed" must, pre cede all exercise of authority. Because the Tagalogs, incited by unscrupulous and ambitious leaders, offer armed re-, sistance to our sovereignty, the Admin istration Is censured for enforcing the Treaty of Paris. There are those ex tremists who reprehend all our meas ures of repression and Americanization of the Philippine inhabitants, With this attitude we are familiar. But ap opposite school is coming into notice. Its most vehement representa tive Is the Prohibitionist, though Mr. Bryan himself, availing of all possible ground of criticism, joins in It. This complaint is that we have not gone far enough in overriding the institu tions of the islands. "We should at once, the complaint Is, have extirpated slavery and polygamy, opium-smoking and concubinage, drunkenness and the social evil. Because we have not done this, McKinley is unfit to be the Presi dent of a free people, and our boasted Christian civilization is a failure. We shall not offer any argument to show that such radical measures would have been unwise. We shall simply state it as a fact, which intel ligent and candid men well know from the history of England's dealings with India, Egypt and the dervishes, and a fact which no evidence and no argu ment would induce the insensate Pro-r hlbitionlst to concede. Tou can't trans form the pagan into a Christian In a day, through law or arms. Tou can't destroy polygamy or slavery by one stroke of the sword, without Inflicting injustice worse than the existing wrong. In a word, accession of white sov ereignty over a mixed Oriental popu lation with age-long habits and pre dilections is a problem for the broad est, gentlest, most patient and most sagacious statesmanship. Candor com pels recognition of the fact that the Administration has solved this prob lem in the most admirable way imag inable. How futile the dreams of the Prohibitionists are may be seen from the continued prevalence of sensual vice, not only in London, Paris and Vienna, but in New Tork" and Port land. A Polish Catholic church has just been unwillingly forced to abandon its quarters in Stanton street, New Tork, because of the open flaunting of Immorality in its neighborhood; and the denunciations heaped by Messrs. Amos and McKercher upon the flag and offi cials at Manila they will cheerfully apply, if you ask them, to the authori ties here in Portland for conditions in the North End. According to one school of criticism, we have gone too -far in the Philippines. According to another, we have not gone far enough. The only safe course is to displease them both,,. ROBERTSON. A man named F. C. Kobertson a lawyer is running for Congress in the State of Washington. He is a Demo crat, and therefore a Bryanite, which is sufficient reason for his defeat. But he is more. He Is a knwn defender of and sympathizer with the reckless band of murderous brutes and bandits who perpetrated the dynamite outrage at Wardner in April, 1899. - But he was the attorney of the assassin gang that jus tice at last reached in part. No fault can be found with him for doing his duty as an attorney. He was not con tent to maintain his relationship to the dynamiters only as paid counsel. He never ceased until his nomination for Congress to advocate their cause in public and private, to justify their pol icy of outrage, intimidation, anarchy and murder, and to oppose the efforts of the civil and military authorities, to es'tablish order in the Coeur d'Alenes and mete out deserved punishment to all malefactors and rioters. His con nection with this deplorable incident in the history of Idaho Is the direct in spiration of his nomination for Con gress. The prominence he received by his attorneyship and personal cham pionship of the lawless miners com mended him to the attention and favor able consideration of Senator Turner. On the one hand, Turner was able to" use the Robertson candidacy to pro mote his own ambitions and schemes of political conquest; on the other, Rob ertson labored assiduously to help him self Into Congress, where he might do for lawbreakers and felons what he had failed to do as mere attorney before the Congressional committee of Inquiry. There, it should be remembered, his course was so obnoxious, and his atti tude toward honest and searching In vestigation so offensive, as to cause him to merit "and receive the rebukes of all the committee except" Sulzer and Lenz. Fit coadjutor for these twain would he be as representative in Congress! The pernicious and demoralizing principles which Robertson stands for have all but wrecked the Democracy of Idaho. Last Spring, at Lewiston, the courageous and honorable course of Qovernor Steunenberg was indorsed, after bitter controversy; later, at Po catello, the party reversed itself and delivered Itself over to h.s enemies. The results have been to serve notice on decent Democrats that they shall have no voice in the control of the parts'. It is this thing that has driven large numbers of them into the Re publican ranks, where all -supporters of law and order find a welcome and a home. It is this thing that has now, through Robertson, fastened itself on the Democracy of Washington and caused It to merit the reproaches of all right-thinking, law-loving persons. Washington cannot afford to vote for Bryan. Still less can it afford to in dorse Robertson by an election to Con gress. He has already achieved a cer tain unenviable notoriety in Washington City. If sent back as a 'Representative, It would thus be advertised that ie Re-r miliar doctrines he holds are approved by the people of Washington. The very candidacy of Robertson is a scandal to the Democracy. His election would.be an offense to the whole Nation. CRITICISM FROM WITHIN. United States Senator Hoar stoutly defends himself against 4he charge of inconsistency in that he opposed his party for two years in Congress and yet today is a fervent supporter of the re-election of McKinley. Senator Hoar insists on the right of free criticism of his party from within before its policy has been enacted, but prides himself on the fact that he haa never voted with the opposition -fron? without; that Is, at State and National elections he always votes with his party, even if his party has declined to follow his coun sels in Congress. In other words, Sena tor Hoar, like ex-Senator 'Edmunds, prefers to trust the final settlement ot the Philippine question tp the Republi can party to settle than to commit it to the administration of so Incompe tent and insincere a mail as Bryan, with the ignorant, reckleSB Demo-Popu-ljst party behind him. Senator Hqar is a man of lnder pendent criticism within his party but he declines to be a mugwump with out his party, From, a practical stand point, why Is not Senator Hoar right? He claims and exercises the right of free criticism Of the policy of his. par- ty, but he prefers to wait .within "his party until it -shall be converted -to the error-of its ways by the logic of events or until the wisdoin of its' policy is proved by the test of time. "Because I do not approve of the Philippine poj loy of my party, a party whose ac tion otherwise has commanded my ap proval and obtained my confidence for more than forty years, why should-1 abandon it for a party for whose intelli gence I feel no respect, and, in whose leader I recognize a man whose advo cacy of free Bilver stamps him as a fool or a fraud, and whose Populism would breed anarohy in practice?" If Mr. McKinley were as fundamen tally wrong in. finance and civil govern ment as Bryan and his party, Senator Hoar would be obliged to "take to the woods," but he is confronted by no such gloomy- situation. His difference with his party is purely one of opinion on a single matter of policy, while his 'dif ference with Bryan and his rabble s a fundamental difference of, fact. Sen ator Hoar does not believe that Bryan and his party can be trusted to solve the Philippine problem, and he knows that Bryan's theory of finance and "free riot" government carries disaster to the country on its enactment and ex ecution. Senator Hoar does pot believe that Bryan has either the ability or the intelligence necessary to the' decent execution of the duties of the office of President of the United States. He differs frpm his party, but he wil nt desert it for a party whose leader com mands neither respect for his ability and intelligence nor confidence in the integrity Of his purpose. Senator Hoar's determination to re form his party from within Instead of turning mugwump and trying to reform it from without is a commendable spirit. Beoause a man differs from his church upon' non essentials Is no reason why ihe should suddenly.. repudiate it, .withdraw his support from all true religion, and offer the right hand of fellowship to an asso ciation of blatant atheists. If the choice before Senator Hoar were on a matter of. fundamentals, suqh as was present ed in 1861, on the question of support or repudlatlpn of the flag, or as is presented today to the "Gold pemo qrats," he could not stay with his par ty and-vote against the flag or for dis honest money, but on a question that Is merely a difference of opinion which remains to be determined by events, Senator Hoar can. fairly prefer to trust the outcome of the Philippine ques tion to McKinley, whom he' personally trusts, rather than to Bryan, whom he despises and distrusts. BOER REFUGEES. . Hundreds of Boera of the better class are leaving South Africa for Holland, Where they will formulate plans in re gard to a future place of residence. America, it is said, is of tenest upon the lips of these people, whose one idea la to escape from British rule, however ben eficent that rule may be. If their Ideas of liberty are not too greatly exagger ated, such of these people as come hither may In time become contented, substantial citizens of the Unitebl States. It is not too much to say, how ever, that we do not want a large num ber of worshipers of Paul Kruger and his ideas of liberty added to our voting population. Americans are hero-wqrshipers them selves, but not of the Boer type. They are speedily checked in this by their very effusiveness, and return1 from their discomfiture sadder but unfor unately not wiser men. There is nq more assurance that the next naval hero will not be tendered ' an ovation and . an arch and given a house and reams of fulsome laudation for having performed his simple duty than that he, being-a bachelor or a yldower, will not marry a wife and lay all of his honors at her feel and transfer to her the title deeds of his house, to the scan dal and chagrin of those who fqrgot In their effusiveness that he was a man, . It is true that the American people do these and kindred silly things, but here their hero-worship ends. They do not exalt a ruler, make him dictator, sub mit unquestioningly to his decrees, obey his mandates and .find sufficient recompense for all in the belief that J they live in a "republic" and are nomi nally its frea and Independent citizens. Such blind and stubborn loyalty' to the powers that be is characteristic of the Boers. A government without Paul 3ruger, liberty without Paul Kruger, are to them unknown quantities. Their views revised in this respect, and themselves trained in civilization by contact for a generation or two with civilized homes, the Boers will make good citizens of the United States, since they will then be Americans and not Boers. Betting is not a conclusive argument, but It is an excellent Indication of the division in public sentiment, New Tork is the betting center, because it is the financial center of the country, and New Tork quotations in the inatter of wagers may be regarded as the ruling figures. Since the fainous bluff bet by Croker of $100,000 to ?250,000, Bryan stock has risen somewhat, probably be cause the Tammany boss' example has unsplrited his "sporty" followers, and h.o has found his own way to bear the McKinley odds in order to hedge on his wager The latest bet offered in Wall street is '$10,000 even that Mc Kinley's plurality in New York State will reach 70,000. It had not been taken at last reports This is not a good bet ting election, anyway, because nearly everybody whose opinion is worth any thing is satisfied that McKinley will be elected. We shall later hear more about bets on the size of McKinley's majority In the various states and in the Electoral College. Cheap rates inaugurated by the transcontinental roads of the Northwest Lwill brings a large accession to our population. This is a matter of satis faction, to the extent that the new cdmers prove to be Industrious, ener getic, thrifty people. For this class, who oome hither with a definite pur pose, there is abundant room and a oordial welcome. Of the makers and maintainers of homes, Oregon cannot have too many. Indeed, it can scarce ly have enough. For the rest the hu man driftwood that is' the Inevitable accompaniment of cheap Railroad fares -4-it will continue to drift without find ing anchorage. OUr people must take their turn' in dealing with these as a pat of the immigration programme from which escape Is impossible. The return tide may usually be depended upon for relief. Our old friend "X," who has not al ways been an unknown quantity in Oregon -affairs, calls attention to an other dreadful case of Republican mal administratlon. Somebody in New Tork was out of work, and his wife, whose life was insured, hanged herself that her children might 'have bread. A sad case, indeed. But perhaps all the facts have not been told. Perhaps the husband lost his employment for good cause. Perhaps he was a drunkard or a thief. Or perhaps his employer owned a sawmjll, and joined a mill combine, shut down his plant and de voted his whole time tQ political pur suits, throwing many men Ut of em ployment at a time when other mills wore running and keeping the dinner pall of their workmen as full as they possibly could, Subh things have hap pened. ' If, as most business men believe, the election of Bryan would result Injuri ously to the country at large, it would portend disaster to the West, and es pecially ' to our Pacific States. - Our states are poor. We want to show peo ple from richer communities how they can inVest their money here. We don't want them to turn away arid with draw from us, through fear of unset tled Industrial and flnanpial conditions. We want development of our commerce yrith the Orient, and want to keep the Philippine Islands as a foothold for it, These things have Immense significance for our people of the Pacific States. The Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany, who Is 111 with a mortal mal ady at her palace in Kronberg, has been an important factor in the po litical status of her country In her days, though necessarily, in accordance wjth the Gerntfrn idea, a silent one, An Inevitable foe of Bismarck during her long ternuof years-as, Crown Princess, she yet maintained a position of influ ence"' that m,a.de fpr the purity of the German court and the dignity of the realm. Her day, however, has passed, and she will soon take her place in her country's anhals a subordinate, but by no means insignificant, place. Men who find "sport" In shooting fowl that1 had previously been decoyed, baited, and practically ensnared, re port an exhilarating time last Sunday on Sauvje's Island, and in proof of their skill as marksmen "and relish as sports men several hundred ducks were shot and anunknown number ''winged" or otherwise crippled, but still left with strength enough to evade the dogs apd die at their leisure. This, be It under stood, is not vulgar "pothunting,'' It It gentlemanly "sport," The end of the great strike is not yet in sight. The motto of ." the miners seems to be, -'The whole loaf, or no bread." The policy of their persistence seems to be of doubtful value, though they have basis for the reckoning that places the operators in a stress in the presence of urgent demand equal to their own in the bprderland of hunger. ; Jim Ham Lewis has accommodated hip orbit to Adlal Stevenson's, and these twin Stars are playing the one night stands 'together in the tail-ender's campaign. It is touching to observe how nobly candidates for Vice-President stand, tpgether. "We have hod thp mistresses' view of the servant-girl question, Now we have the servants' view of the mistress ques tion. It will probably surprise the good ladles who are bothered about good girls tQ earn that there is a mistress question. Fusjori djssenslons in Idaho make Re publican success' there far from Im probable. The party that turns its back on law and order and decency may not expect continued expressions of the voters' confidence. The international boundary continues to "agitate the correspondents on both sides? of the forty-ninth parallel. .When the newspaper diplomats drop it and give the surveyors a chance, the trouble will disappear. INCOMPIjET-a WITWO-C'TAjaK-lJAIf. The Most Oirenulye Error s to tMe Kail of Fame. Chicago Times-Herald. It must be due to some strange over sight that the name of Francis Parkman does not appear in any of the first pub lished, lists for the Hall of Fame. John Flake, who should be one of the very best pf judges on historical writing, is of "the opinion that Parkman is not only the greatest of American historians, hut also one of the world's great historical gen iuses. He ranks him with Herodotus, Thucydid;es and Gibbon, and so would consider him among the chief glories of American letters. It Is noticeable, however, that historians as a class wera not popular with the jury. Motley had only 41 votes and Prescott only S3. Irving was more successful, but the probabilities are that this was be cause his name is widely associated with other work than that of sober history. This conclusion is certainly strengthened by the fact that the three other authors whe Won a place among the ellgibles be long to the domain of belles-lettres, Emerson, poet, essayist and philosopher; Longfellow, poet, and Hawthorne, writer of prose fiction, were all devotees of pure literature. Qn this test, "however, Haw thorne might well 'be put at the top in stead of the bottom, for it would be easy to defend the proposition that he had mate of original .creative genius than any qf the others, all three of whom, were af feoted to a much greater extent than he by the inherited English traditions.. For tho, same reason itwould seem. hat both Cooper and Poe should have received a deeper consideration than was given them. They, too, had the force of orig in? lity if not Hawthorne's very excep tional charm of style. But whatever the respective merits of these writers, we would not admit the discrimination against the historians. A historian is an author, -and Farkman's work is both great history and great lit erature. The vivid naratlve constructs anew all the conditions amid which the French pioneers on this continent lived and moved, As volume after volume passes in review, the story takes on the character of a splendid and complote epio, every, chapter of which is vitalized by the genius of the writer. Here was no conventional effort to compete with Car lyle's Dryapdust, but a fresh and grand presentment of a grand theme first con ceived in its entirety by its one master, Tho style, too, Is beautiful, and always so clear and intelligible, whatever the particular subject of discussion, that it forms a delectable contrast, let us say, to Emersonian mistiness. An American Hall of Fame would be notoriously incomplete without bust or panel to Francis Parkman, author of the greatest distinctively American work that has yet been written. A CANDIDATE HITRTING HIMSELF. Bryan's Speeches Are Turning: the Country Against Him. Chicago Tribune, A lawyer whp argues his own case is said to have a fool for a client. A Presi dential candidate who takes exclusive charge of his own campaign runs a great risk of incurring the same dangers. Mr. Bryan has taken exclusive charge of his campaign. He wrote for his party a plat form which it did not want, and forced its aceptance. Instead of allowing others to do the talking of the campaign, he has Insisted against the advice of many of his "followers upon doing most of the speaking himself. No other Presidential candidate has been on the stump so in sistently as Mr. Bryan, apd none has hurt himself so much. Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance at In dianapolis made him no friends, but it probably lost him no votes. Since then he has gained no votes and has lost many. His letter of acceptance, in which he reiterated his dcyotion to 16 to 1, re pelled many voters whom his advocacy of anti-imperialism might have secured for him. His campaign on the stump has been followed by a steady, loss of votes. Four years ao he sppke about as much as he is doing this year. He then pon flned himself to a single issue. There were many other obnoxious features in the Chicago platform, but he barejy re ferred to them. He ended where he had begun with freo silver and the tone of his eloping speeches differed In nothing from that of the first ones. This year he has passed from subject to subJeot, de serting one after another as he saw that the people did not want them. He began with imperialism and found that valueless. He passed to the trusts and could make no capital there. Finally ho has raised tho cry of "fraud" a cry that is always a confession of expected defeat. Ho is querulous about what he calls the immense campaign corruption fund of tho Republicans. The Republican campaign fund is not one-ha,lf so large as it was in 1S96. Many of the men who subscribed to it then haye not thought it necessary to do so now. All the money that has been collected Is being used for legitimate purposes to pay the expenses of speakers, for the distribution of cam paign literature, for the hiring of bands and halls, and the like. It Is not being used to buy Democratic votes, although Bryan; has implied that such votes are for sale 'iji large numbers. After the defeat pf 1808 the Democrats claimed that a suf ficient number of their party adherents had been bribed to defeat their candi date. No evidence of the truth of that preposterous charge has ever been forth coming. In one respect alone has Mr. Bryan been consistent. From the beginning of his campaign he has sought to inflame the passions of men. He has tried to arouse some members of the community-lnta hos tility against other members. He has shown himself repeatedly to be the'friend pf mobs and the enemy of order. He ha3 grown more outspoken in his attempts to create envy and hatred as the campaign has progressed. By adopting this policy he has alarmed many Democrats who would otherwise have voted for him be cause he was the candidate of the party. BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN METHODS. Everybody to Go to Summer Water ing Places When He Is Elected. Indianapolis News. As I pass along- the street, p.nd oa I look into tho faceB at some of t"e pareworn wpmen who nevet get a chance to talja a Summer vacation at oma pleasant watering place, I wonder how the husbands and sons of these women can And It In their hearts to support the pol icies which are today amassing great wealth In the hands of the few people with a rapid ity naver lqiown before In the history of the world. Bryan at Qulncy, 111. Sq we have people divided Into two classes for political purposes those who an afford to go to watering places and those who cannot. And Mr. Bryan's ap peal is that if those who cannot afford tP go to watering J?lapes will only vptp for him he will fix It so that they can afford to go. If it doe3 not mean that, it means, nothing. He mlffht as well at tempt to excite those women who can afford to wear diamonds against those who cannot, or thqse who keep thrfe or fpur servants against thoso who keep one. or have none at all. Now, there are a great" many -happy and contented people, even some that are Well-to-do, that never go to watering places. The average man has to work all the year round, with perhaps a vaca tion of two weeks in the Summer. But they are not unhappy, They are not conscious of being oppressed aid down trodden, On the contrary, they are. as a rule, happier than those who put in the whole season at watering places. They have pleasant homes, plenty to eat, good clothes tp wear, schools for tholr chil dren, books to read, and theaters to go to. Yet, to hear Mr. Bryan talk of them, one would think that they constituted a peasant class, wprking out their lives in order that a cruel landlord might live in ease and idleness! Jn a word, thp contrast that Mr. Bryan draws is, broadly speaking, between the idle and luxurious rich, who are com paratively few in number, and the great mass of the American people. And It is an insult to the latter. The American people want no man's pity. There are not on the face of the globe richer, hap pier, more prosperous, independent and solf-reliant people than those that In habit these United States. They haye 'no favors to ask from Mr. Bryan or from any one else. They are doing their own wprk, and doing it well, and with a thankful heart, What fhe peoplo of this country wish is an honest and stable financial standi ard, prosperous times, an ordered gov ernment under which peace and quiet shall prevail, an abundance of employ ment at sjood wages, as little interference on the part of the Government with pri vate Industries as may be, and an indq, pendnt and honest judiciary, and a Na tional and individual credit beyond chal lenge. The candidacy ot Mr. Bryaji threatens all these things. Tnrltiflh Ofllpern Resort to Blackmail. London Express. ConstantinoDlo is full of snles. A dis loyal word or the hint of a movement for reform is promptly reported to tho Sujtan. There, at the expedient moment, the offender is quietly carried off to jail, and his friends see him no more. "Wheth er he is in a filthy dungeon or his body Is raclnff down the Bosphorus becomes a matter of interesting speculation tQ be discussed in private, The wily Tur& knows a good thing when he sees it. Therefore, he turns the system- to legiti mate profit. In the remote corners of the empire an officer lonsing for his un-. paid salary will dream that he haa eyl denca of disaffection against the rich men of the place. He puts a few or them Into jail, and keeps them there until they pay a ransomt according to their means. i STRAIGHT OID DEMOCRACY. Refusal to FoIJotv After tbe Isnis Fa-tuus of Brrnl Hartford Times, Jem. If any man wishes enlightenment in regaTd to the political situation In New York, he will naturally pay Eome heed to a leader of the prominence of Charles Tracey, of Albany. Mr. Tracey is a prominent business man, an Intimate friend of Mr, CJeyeland, a man of wealth apd culture, and a Jeffersonlan Demo crat. He seryed several terras in Con gress as the representative of the Albany district, and we suppose him to be cne of the roost influential as well as one of the most intelligent and broad-minded Domocrats in tl)e Empire State.. He states his position this year in tho follow ing words: Yea, I Intend to vote for President McKinler. and I am dolns all I can to bring about his re-election, for I think It would he a National calamity If William J. Bryan should bo elect ed, while It will be a National blessing to have President McKinley rt-elected. There- Is the flame moral Issue as in ISOtt whether we shall havo a debased currency or not. I was In the Houso of Representatives four years, bpth with Major McKinley and Mr. Bryan, and It is with no Intention of offering an affront to Mr. Bryan that I say that Major McKinley Is a much safer man and better equipped for President than Mr. Bryan, t think also that Mr. Bryan, having in his leter o acceptance brought to tho front so strongjy the 18-to-l lssuo, It Is obligatory upon him to attempt to repea) tho gold-standard aqt or be untrua ta the Silver Democrats who are supporting him. When Charles Tracey, of Albany, is opposing tho candidate of the Demo cratic party for the Presidency, we do not expect to see that candidate receive the electoral vote of New York or come very near receiving it. How Mr. Tracey feels in regard to the New York result he tells us in the same interview from which we have quoted above: I am absolutely confident of New Tork State and that President McKinley will be re-elected. Thero has been some; reason to 'fear for Indi ana, but In my judgment that Is passing away; the news I get from that state recently is favorable. Mr. Bryan Is making extremely radical speechea of late, and I believe Is losing thousands of votes by attempting to excite class prejudices. Ho will loss the votes of the very worklngmen he Is seeking to gain. He makes tho mistake of thinking that working men can b deceived where sound principles are Involved, auch as the freo coinage of silver at a ratio of Id to 1. The worklngmen will re sent Mr, Bryan's attempts to excite class envy. J met a worklngmon yesterday who ex pressed his admiration of the address Just Is sued by tho National Democratic Committer, and contrasted It with Mr. Bryan's demagoglci speeches. The worklngmen mu3t see that their wages will he reduced if wo have a 30-cent dollar, By reason of war and loss of credit many countries have been forced to Issue de preciated money, but we kpow what efforts and sacrifices they are making to get back to the gold standard. ai)d yet have we here the astonishing spectacle of a great political party attempting to debase the currency. I cannot think this attempt will succeed. Mr, Tracey stands with ex-Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle, ex Secretary Fairchjld, and many other prominent Democrats, and with a host of the leading business men of N-w York, against the attempts to put a Populist colling himself a Democrat at tho head of the government. "What he says about the failure of Mr. Bryan to secure the votes of the worklngmen is highly significant. The wage-earner3 Of the country are as much in favor of the maintenance of the financial credit of the nation as they were four years ago, and a great majority of them con never be Induced to vote to destroy It. An Oratorical Collapse, Chicago Tribune. The Democratic spellbinders are already showing signs of running short of words qf abuse. Having used up all the ordi nary and understandable terms of this sort, they have begun ransacking the classic dictionary for new ones, nnd the results of their search are more pictur esque than impressive. Ex-Congressman Lewis, of the State of Washington, re cently ornamented a stump speech with this reference to Senator Hanna: "No bloated Gorgon, swollen with party dic tatorship, sits in sacred place, blinking his splenic eyes at us," etc. Before Mr. Lewis repeats this outburst for the bene fit of other audiences, he should make a few slight corrections In it. The three Gorgons were all maidens, and it is a violent stretch of the imagination to re fer to a man as a Medusa or as any other pf the three terrible ladies with snaky locks. "Splenic eyes" la also a phrase to make the Judicious grieve. Splenic Is a medical term, and is used only in re ferring to the physical organ known as the spleen. "Splenic eyes" means the eyes of the spleen. The speaker might as well have alluded to the eyes of the Senator's liver or lungsi "Would it not have been more expressive to have said "potato eyes"? That would have boen a metaphor which anybody In his audience could have understood. Another Democrat ic speaker who has got into deep Water by seeking new and picturesque terms of opprobrium Is ex-Governor Hogg, of Texas, who calls Governor Roosevelt an "iridescent incubator" of something or other, and makes a slighting reference to his "Abderian grins." To classical schol ars like Governor Hogg, who are familiar with the perpetual laughter of Democrl tus of Abdera. this may seem to be a brilliant verbal discovery. But if the true object of the campaign orator Is 'to be "understanded of the people," it would be better to use words that mean some thing to them. On the whole, the Demo cratic attempts to be vituperative in clas sical torms can hardly be called success ful, Democracy nt "Went Point Cram's Magazine, A recent examination of the records of nearly 400 cadets for the past 10 years shows that outside the sans of Army officers, of which there wore 65, 149 were sons of farmers, 115 sons of merchants, 100 sons of lawyers, 37 sons of manufac turers, 32 sons of mechanics. 20 sons of Insurance agents, 19 sons of real estate agents, 14 sons of clergymen, 13 son3 of editors, bankers and bookkeepers, 10 of druggists, 9 of drummers, 8 of school teachers and S of dentists. Among the pthers almost every calling is represented by the fatherp of one or more. Bryan's Pitiful Canvas. Boston Herald, Ind. Said Mr. Bryan at Alton, 111.; ''They tell us that we are loaning money In Europe. AH of you who are loaning money in Europe bold up your hand3." JTot a lax& went up, and he exclaimed: "Then it is they, not we, -who are lean ing money abroad." How's that for a candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people of the tfnited States? Teddy nnd the Hob. Chicago Times-Herald. They bawled and shook their fists and whirled Their scantlings In the air; They called for blood In bucketfuls. But Teddy didn't scare. They ripped and tore and cursed and OTTor. They let their bludgeons fly, And aimed with rocks and bricks and egga, But Teddy didn't shy. They pulled their guns, thy drew their knlvea They wildly swooped around. And noses bled and heads were, smashed, But Teddy stood his ground. And when the fight was over, with A smile that was sublime, IJold Tpddy showed hs. teeh. and sajd, 'Tvo bad a bully, tlmol" NOTE AND COMMENT t h -& Straw votes frequently turn out to o only chaff. The war is over In the Transvaal, all except the fighting. It is hard to Bee how a prohlbtionl trata can ever get ahead. As the campaign grows warm, the can didates' feet grow cold. ; Straw votes tell which way the politi cal wind blows sometimes. The man who votes for a chanse la . not likely to have any if he gets it. It is not likely that Oom Paul will gr thanks fob "Webster Davis this Fall. The Solid South owes its financial o- Hdity to the monetary policy it is goin& to vote against. They are talking of reopening the Drey fus case. France is evidently getting jeal ous of Kentucky. "Three balls," called the umpire, where, upon the batter soaked the ball frora mere force of habit. The concert of the powers theatens t give as its first number a few selections, on the drum and fife. Indian Summer has conceived the happy idea of giving a continuous performance as its farewell appearance. Tillman is beginning to find tbat tho man with tho pitchfork Isn't In as much demand a3 he was last year. "You shall not press a full dinner on the stomach of labor; you shall not crush. , labor with dollars as goodas gold." W J. Bryan. Bryan stopped talking long enough td eat a Sunday dinner the other day. Hei ' will strain that voice of his yet, if he doesn't be careful. The report that Kipling gets J30 a word" fDr his stories Is erroneous. He Is now having an annual clearance sale, and has marked his words down to $49 98. Some New York newspaper now has a chance to print a flash light photograph of Richard Croker sneaking down a bock alley to copper his bets on Bryan. A colony of CO dozen Germans arrived here a few days ago. and has located! In this city. They are all musicians, andt belong to the canary bird family. lit all ther long journey cooped up in tiny cages, only two of them died. The Yale authorities will not proceed against the whisky establishment that is making an unwarranted and unwarrant able use of the Yale seal, lest their ef forts may seirve to advertise the whisky. The Yale attitude on thi3 subject is, as the Boston Herald suggests, like that o tho man who said he didn't object to being cowhlded on the street by an actress, but that he did object to being used as an advertising medium for her show. Among the good stories in circulation -about the late Joseph Harris, the well known master of the City of London School, is one In connection with Lord Mayor Owden. That worthy gentleman was not a Greek scholar, and the Greek oration on speech day in Christ's Hos pital, to which on a memorable occasion he listened. wa3" not hrtelllgible to him, save one word. That word was "Owden," so pronounced, and Mr. Harris used to telt his frlend3 privately how, each time It occurred in the Greek oration. Sir Thom as, fondly supposing that compliment was being paid to himself, rose and sol- i emnly bowed. George E. Watklns has on intelligent dog which frequently goes on a visit to the residence of Mr. Watklns' son Frank, half a mile or so distant. The other evening the dog was gone and Mr. "Wat klns telephoned to his son to know whethor the dog was there. He was, and Mr. Watklns thought he would call him home by telephone. His son hold the dog up and put the receiver to his ear, ana Mr, Watklns called the d-g by name and Whistled for him. The dog at once made a break for the door, and when it wa opened scurried out and was home in a Jiffy, his looks seeming to say: "Here I am. What do you want ot me!" This is the first instance on record, so far as known, of a dog being whistled home by telephone. The rnrnmonnt Issue. Chicago Inter Ocean. Oh. say, there! "VV1U you please Get onto my shape, If you can? I am the Paramount Isau, t The substance ot things Hoped for And the evidence of things Not seen. An set forth In the gospel of Bryanflw I am a yard wide And all woolly. I permeate. And palpitate . And paclflcato All at once. And I must be well shaken before taken, I am antl-corroslve, Kon-explosl e. Adjusted to heat, cold, and position. And warranted not , To rip. tear, ravel. Or run down at the heel. I am a theory. f" Not a condition. And one pound of me Is equal to sixteen ounces , Of all the side Hsuea That must stand from under As I sweep down, The corridors of the campalgn. I am the ., Aldlbrondlfrondlshornlostlcua Of the party, The tranamagntflcanJubajjaallty Of Its principles, And without ma The bottom would drop right out Of. tho whole shooting match. ( An Intangible concept ' Of lndlrlglble effort - Is concealed somewhem About my person. 5 But. just the same, v There are no files on mo ?&i As long as I can keep my tatl wltobiafc'f f It makes no difference "a "Whether I am more Paramount fcr Than Issue, ' Or mora Issue - 1 Than Paramount, , . Because I work Just as well v Backwards or forwards. My paramountcy Is the main thin,, Whether It Is an Isua , Or a bob-tall flush. Up to datu Nobody haa been able To state positively Whether I am an offensive desuetudo, t Or an Innocuous partisan, Pr an Iridescent dream ot Empire, Or a chased rainbow. Or a crime of T3, Or a demonetised Octopus, Or a gilt-edged Money Demon, f Or a Bag Baby. "i Or a barren ideality, Whatever I am w JL I'm IT, C And the Matchless Leader . " Is up against ma To beat tho devil "" " ; Qn a ten-mile level ' Scratehm' up the gravel Wltlv his biff toenail. William J. Lampton.