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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19
.BRYAN AND THE ARMY.
I Bryan's speeches in their epileptic
eloquence and tawdry logic begin to
'snow clear signs of woe. He persist
' ently stoops to the lowest arts of- a
political pettifogger addressing an au
dience upon the density of whose ig
norance he can safely rely. He per
sistently garbles th-e language of Jeffer
son, Jackson and Lincoln in face of re
peated exposure of his trickery. He
persistently charges Governor Hoose
velt with responsibility for the ice trust
"In face of Roosevelt's specific statement
that, so far as ne was clothed with
any legal power by the State of New
York, that power bad been Invoked
against all violations of anti-trust leg
islation; that he had enforced the anti
trust legislation to the fullest extent of
his executive powers and influence.
Nevertheless, Bryan persists in treat
ing Governor Roosevelt as if he were
the responsible maker of the laws of
New York as well as their executive.
But the ixiost outrageous feature of
Bryan's campaign rant and cant Is his
persistent attack made on the Army.
In his letter accepting the nomination
for the Presidency, Bryan said: "The
establishment of arbitration will Insure
friendly relations between labor and
capital, .and render obsolete the grow
ing practice of calling on the Army to
settle labor troubles." He charges the
Republican party with wanting a large
Army "so that they can build a fort
near every large city and use the Army
to suppress by force the discontent that
ought to be cured by remedial legisla
tion." Bryan's reference to the "grow
ing practice" of calling In the Army to
settle labor troubles is not justified by
the facts. Since 1877, when the mob
of strikers burned the railroad shops
at Pittsburg, Pa., and murdered a num
ber of the state jmilitia, the military of
this country has been called Into serv
ice in labor troubles but twice. Presi
dent' Cleveland, in 1894, when Gover
nor Altgeld, of Illinois, refused to use
the state troops to suppress lawless
ness, disorder and crime at Chicago, or
dered General Miles to protect private
.property and the United States mails.
Had it aiot Tjeen for the regular troops
kon that -occasion, the great city of Chi
cago would liave been looted and de
stroyed by the rioters. The Democratic
Governor of Idaho called upon the
"United States Government for Federal
assistance, in April, 1899, to quell fright
ful roininff riots which had already re
sulted in the destruction of a very valu
able mining plant, the murder of a
'number, of peaceful. Innocent persons,
.and! 42ie complete terrorization of a
iances of the employ
ment pf the regular Army since 1877 in
quelling serious riot, murder and de
struction of property resulting from
labor troubles, is what Sir. Bryan is
pleased to describe as "a growing prac
tice." The regular Army in Chicago in
1894 and in the Coeur d'AJenes in 1899
was not. interfering with peaceful labor
on a 'strike; it wis-dealing with a band
of murderous anarchists who had
burned or blown up the property of
their -employers and had murdered or
maimed the laboring men who had re
fused to strike or engage in criminal
acts. Mr. Bryan's assertldn that, when
labor has asked for arbitration, has
asked for relief from government by
injunction, for shorter hours of labor,
his answer has always been "a large
army' is an unmitigated falsehood.
Our Army has not been increased in
proportion to the increase in our popu
lation, commercial - interests and
wealth, "With the exception- of the
-years 1867 and 1S68, during the Indian
wars .following the great Civil "War,
when the Arms was 36,815 and 50,916,
and the present year, when it is 64,729,
the regular Army since 4.862 has not
been much if any above 26,000. In 1814,
-when we were at war with Great Brit
ain, the regular Army was but 2000 less
"than it is at present. The present
strength of the Army was fixed by
"United States Senator Cockrell, of Mis
souri, a faithful champion of Bryan,
and by July 1, of next year, the reg
ular Arms' will be reduced Tsy the ex
piration of the so-called "short-term"
regulars to ahout 27,000 men. The reg
ular Army was increased to meet the
exigency of war in 1812-14; in 1845-4S;
in 1861-62, and in 1899. It has always
"been reduced to its old proportions
when the warlike emergency has ended,
and our regular Army has never been
expanded in time of peace as a menace
to labor.
As for military interference "with
labor," which President Cleveland en
forced against murderous rlote-fe in Illi
nois, it is exactly what President
"Washington ordered General Wayne at
the head of 15,000 men to enforce
against the "moonshiners" of Western
Pennsylvania' in 1TO4. President Cleve
land did not interfere with labor any
more than did President Washington.
Both of these Presidents interfered
with riot, disorder and murder. Labor,
when it does not destroy property and
commit murder. Is In no more danger
of military interference than any other
law-abiding element The regular
Army in 1894 and 1899 did not inter
fere to prevent the employment of ar
bitration to settle labor disputes; it in
terfered to stop the employment of
murder and arson by lawless strikers.
Of course, Mr. Bryan knows that ar
bitration, voluntary or Involuntary,
falls down in practice. You could le
gally enforce compulsory arbitration
against a corporation, but "striking
labor can abide by arbitration or repu
diate it at will, just as several mines
did in the recent anthracite coal strike.
An Army is wanted to hunt down mur
derous outlaws, but peaceful striking
labor has nothing to fear from our
regular Army, whether "it be Ir rge or
small.
THE 3IAN BEHIND THE HAMMER.
Windjammer Jawsmith Bryan goes
about the country with his little ham
mer out for everything in sight. In
him we behold the ancient and honor
able profession of the knocker lifted to
itq highest power.
What does Mr. Knocker see- in this
country to commend anything at all?
No, absolutely nothing. As a whole,
our territory is too. large, our wealth
too great. Too many people are mak
ing money. And yet, prosperity?
Alack, what is your boasted prosper
ity? Lending money, are you? Well,
that is a sign of poverty. Dinner-pall
full, is it? Well, that shows you have
no ideas above the stomach- Spread
ing American institutions, are we?
Well, the more they spread the worse
for all concerned. Prosperous, are you?
Nothing of the sort. The gold standard
Is ruining the country, imperialism is
ruining the country, the trusts are ruin
ing the country- We shall be the death
of the Filipinos, and the Filipinos will
be the death of us.
Or, take things more In detail. The
Government Is a despotism, the Army
Is a mere Instrument to enslave "the de
pendencies and abolish trial by jury.
The poor are damned because they are
not rich, the rich are damned because
they are not poor. Whoever has noth
ing should have plenty, whoever has
plenty should have- nothing. The tariff
Is all wrong, the currency system Is all
wrong, the courts are all wrong. In
the form of a catechism, it would stand
about like this:
Q. How may we recognize good?
A. Everything that is not.
Q How may we recognize the bad?
A. Everything that is.
Q. What Is the genius of American Institu
tions? ;
A. Tyranny and oppression
Q What form of government has, the United
States?
A. An unlimited despotism.
Q What Is the American volunteer?
A. A scoundrel and a cutthroat.
Q. What does the American flae stand for?
A. Slavery and tyranny.
Q. Should the flat; be advanced or hauled
down? ,
A. Invariably hauled down.
Q. What of our rich men?
A. Their -wealth Is all stolen.
Q. What show does the poor man stand In
this country?
A. None.
Q In a contest between the United States
and an enemy, whose success should he strhe
for?
A. The enemvs.
Q. Is the word of Americans v. ho have been
in the Philippines as trustworthy as that of
antls who have never been there? ,
A. Not In a thousand jears.
Q. Would Dewey, Otis, Merrltt. Anderson
and Lawton be entitled to credence as against
Agulnaldo?
A. Not on your life.
Grandmother Jones says that this Is
just what the people want, and that
Bryan will be elected. Is It possible we
have become a nation of knockers?
THE ALTERNATIVE.
The report that Russia will demand
$500,000,000 as her share of the Indem
nity to be paid by China to the allied
powers is incredible, unless we assume
that Russia means to accept the cession
of territory in lieu of cash payment.
In 1814 France was compelled to sat
isfy the allied powers by a- monetary
compensation of $140,000,000, and suffer
the severe contraction of her European
boundaries. In 1870, after her war with
Germany, France was forced to pay a
money indemnity of $1,250,000,000, in
addition to the loss of 5668 square miles
of territory. In 1866 Austria was com
pelled to pay Prussia $30,000,000, less
half that amount for the cession of sev
eral important duchies that were to be
Incorporated into a new German con
federation. In J87S Turkey agreed to
pay Russia $200,000,000 In installments,
to recede the Province of Bessarabia, to
hand over a large territory in the Cau
casus, to recognize the Independence or
seml-lndependence of several Balkan
States, and to present England with
Cyprus and Austria with Bosnia and
Herzegovina. In 1897 Turkey forced
Greece to pay "a war Indemnity of $17,
600,000, and to submit to a readjust
ment of the frontier in, the victor's
favor. In the recent war bet-ween
China and Japan the revised treaty of
Shimonosekl gave Japan $16,000,000 and
15,000 square miles of new possessions
In the Island of Formosa and elsewhere.
China's notorious inability to pay at
the utmost more than $200,000,000 money
indemnity will either compel the pow
ers to be moderate In their demands or
accept a cession of terr-itory.
The late William L. Wilson, ex-Congressman,
ex-Postmaster-General, was
a college president when he was elect
ed to Congress from the Second Dis
trict of Virginia, in 1882, and he died a
college president. He was an amiable,
upnght gentleman of considerable
scholarship, a fluent and agreeable
speaker, but he cannot be said in poli
tics to have risen above the rank of a
theorist and political doctrinaire to
that of a statesman. He was a college
professor translated to the halls of Con
gress, and such men as a rule are tact
less politicians, who treat a question,
as Wilson did the tariff, from the stand
point of some inflexible, hard-and-fast
theory. Mr. Wilson was doubtless a
useful and accomplished college presi
dent, but as a statesman he was pos
sessed of more culture than common
sense, as was evident when he became
chairman of the House committee on
ways and means, the framer of a tariff
bill and leader of the Bemocratlc ma
jority on 'the floor of the House. His
conscientious devotion to his duties in
Congress doubtless helped to break
down his health. He would have been
a happier man, of longer life and larger
measure of unbroken public useful
ness, if he had never undertaken to
play the part of a practical tariff re
former and political economist In poll
tics. He could "teach and preach tariff
reform from' text-books to his classes,
but the work of framing a tariff bill
that will endure the test of experiment
is likely to be better done by an able
merchant or manufacturer than by a
college professor.
POLIOTCAI. BAD MANNERS.
The English public Is glad that Its
elections are over, because they have
been" a carnival, of bad jnanners and
evil passions. The Victor Tlot In Colo
rado, the vulgar abue of Roosevelt by
the hoodlums In f Fort Wayne, are ex
ceptional exhibitions of brutality in pol
itics in the United States, but every
English Parliamentary election is dis
figured by a display of mob violence
like that inflicted upon Sir Robert Fitz
gerald, the newly "elected Conservative
member, for Cambridge City, who was
brutally assaulted and kicked in the
hoad by roughs while addressing a
country meeting. Irt the matter of the
brutal license of th public press and
personal partisan violence to political
opponents, the political, manners, of our
people have greatly improved since the
days of Washington, when men of the
intellectual rank and high social breed
ing of Jefferson, Hamilton and Burrfdi'd
not hesitate to stoop to methods -of
shameful duplicity and brutality. Fre
neau, the editor of a fierce Democratic
paper and clerk in the State Depart
ment, under Jefferson, defamed Presi
dent Washington, and Jefferson relates
with grim satisfaction that Washing
ton lost his temper and swore by thfi
eternal "that d d rascal Freneau ha'd
sent him three copies of his paper full
of libels on him and the Government,
with the impudent intimation that he
asked them circulated under the Presi
dent's frank." Jefferson, while Wash
ington's Secretary of State, kept Fre
neau in office after it was known that
his main business was to libel the
President,
When President John Adams passed
through Newark, N. J., on his return
from the seat of government, some can
non were fired in his honor, and a man
named Baldwin 'said he wished the
wadding had lodged in the fundamental
part of the President's pantaloons, and
for this offense Baldwin was fined $100.
In 1800 Jefferson was charged with
about every crime on the calendar.
He was stigmatized by the clergy as an
atheist and a French infidel, and the
common people of the country were
told that, should he be elected, tler
Bibles would be taken from them. In
the campaign of 1800, while Alexander
Hamilton was addressing a meeting in
the seventh ward of the City of New
York, he was attacked by a well-known
rough, Tony Wortman, who called him
a Tory and swore that he had run
away from the British Army, and by
violence and abuse endeavored to pre
vent Hamilton from addressing the
meeting. Aaron Burr was charged by
Governor George Clinton's organ, the
American Citizen, with having attended
a1 "nigger ball" given by one- of his
colored servants and danced with a
.buxom "wench." Hamilton's son,
Philip, was killed in a duel; Dewltt
Clinton fought two duels; Coleman, edi
tor of the Evening Post, killed his oppo
nent in a duel; Edward Livingston, a
great lawyer, Secretary of State under
President. Jackson, was the leader of a
brutal political mob.
General Henry Lee, "Light Horse
Harry," the father of General Robert
E. Lee, in 1812 was so brutally beaten
by a Democratic mob in Baltimore that
he was made a cripple for life. Similar
scenes were enacted at Norfolk, Buffalo
and other places. The Jeffersonian De
mocracy hated the illustrious Patrick
Henry so intensely that when he died
the Virginia Legislature refused to
adopt a resolution authorizing the erec
tion of a marble bust to his memory,
because he was a Federalist. John
Randolph, In public speech In the
United States Senate, referring to the
combination of Clay and Adams, de
scribed it as "that of the Puritan with
the blackleg," and fought a duel with
Clay, who at once challenged him.
Randolph shocked the propriety of the
Senate by openly drinking flowing
mugs of ale furnished him In his seat,
and carried the horse jockey Into the
Senate, boots, spurs, whip and dog. He
called Daniel Webster In public speech
"a vile slanderer," President Adams "a
traitor," and John Holmes "a danger
ous fool." In 1828 General Jackson was
attacked by the Adams men, who, pub
lished the so-called "coffin handbills."
General Jackson, In 1812, at Mobile", had
ordered six Tennessee militiamen con
victed of mutiny shot, and these hand
bills, Illustrated with wood engravings
of six coffins and giving the story of the
trial and execution of these men, were
distributed and posted all through the
country. General Jackson's domestic
relations were brutally invaded, by the
publication of baseless insinuations
against his wife,, a Mrs. Robards, whom
Jackson had married In good faith, sup
posing her decree of divorce complete.
The New YorkAmerican, the organ of
literature, fashion and good society,
brutally insulted the memory of Mrs.
Jackson, even after the Presidential
election, "when Mrs., Jackson, died. Ex
President Jefferson declared "that "one
might as well make a sailor of a cock,
or a soldier of a goose, as a President of
Andrew Jackson," but Daniel Webster
wrote his wife that President Jackson
was a man of dignified bearing and ex
ceedingly courteous manners In the
campaign of 1832 General Jackson and
Van Buren were both the1 subjects of
most shameful personal abuse. In the
campaign of 1840 the Democrats de
scribed General Harrison as "Old
Granny." ."Old Cider-Sucker,' "Old Pet
ticoats," and the Whigs' pictured Van
Buren as "Matty the F6x."
There have been campaigns marked
by partisan brutality in public man
ners since 1840, but the general tend
ency on the whole has been in the di
rection of better manners and temper,
both on part of the public press and on
part of the people. The increased re
straint of the press has been reflected
In the Improved manners and temper of
the people.
A few days ago a correspondent
called attention to a. statement going
the rounds of the Dehiocratic press that
two-thirds of the faculties of Yale and
Harvard Universities are going to sup
port Bryan. A poll just made of the
Harvard faculty sliows quite a differ
ent complexion of things. Out of sixty
three professors and instructors, thirty
are for McKInley, five for Bryan and
one for a third party; thirteen are not
'yet decided (among them the dyspeptic
Charles Eliot Norton); nine prefer not
to state their views, and five1 are not
voters. The Boston Journal recently
made a canvass"o the faculty of Bos
ton University, with the result that
twelve are for McKInley, one for
Bryan; the Boston Institute of Tech
nology, sixteen for McKInley, none for
Bryant one, against both; -undecided,
three, and non-committal, seven. A
-poll of Dartmouth College faculty
shows, thirty-six for McKInley, one for'
Bryan. A poll of the students of Har-S
vard University was In, progress last
week, i" "
Ex-Governor William P. Dillingham,
of Waterbury, Vt, who has been elect
ed by the Legislature to the United
States Senate to fill the unexpired re
mainder of thp term of the late Justin
-S. Morrill, is an excellent lawyer, a
"man of conservative temper and high
personal character. He has been Gov
ernor of the state, Yhas served In both
houses -of the State Legislature with
great credit, and will make an able and
useful Senator. He is the son of the
late Paul Dillingham, who was Gover
nor of Vermont in 1864-65, and two of
his brothers were officers in the Union
Army, one' 6 them, Major Edward Dil
lingham, being- mortally wounded at
the battle of Opequan, September 19,
,1864. The new Senator comes of excel
lent stock for bralnst patriotism and
capacity for .public life. His, chief com
petitor for the Senatorship was General
William t W. Grout, who. has been
eighteen Vears In Congress, and relaxed
his firm clutch on his seat in the confi
dent expectation that he would be
elected td the Senate. Senator Dilling
ham Is in the prime of life, being about
55 years of age. benator Morrill died
in December, 1898, and Governor Smith
in January, 1899, appointed Jonathan
Ross, Chief Justice of the State Su
premo Court, to serve as Senator until
the biennial meeting of the Legislature
in October, 1900. Senator Dillingham
wilt serve until the end of Senator Mor
rillte term, which expires March 4, 1903.
Sir Alfred Mllner, who has been ap
pointed Governor of the conquered
South' African Republics, is an excel
lent man for the position. He knows
by long residence In Cape Colony the
Afrikander character; he knows per
sonally the leading men of both the
Transvaal and the Orange River Col
ony, arid it was not his fault, but Paul
Kruger's, that war broke out between
Great Britain and the Transvaal. Sir
Alfred believeB that the Afrikander,
who is a law-abiding citizen, should be
trusted with self-government. In his
negotiations with Kruger for the en
largement of the suffrage, he said that
he did not wish the Uitlanders to have
more than a minority representation,
compared with the Boers, and alto
gether he showed himself a man of
manly, fair and. sympathetic spirit.
The report that Russia Is about to
break away from the concert of the
powers Is probably well founded. Rus
sia's situation toward China Is differ
ent from that of any of the other pow
ers, for she has a frontier coterminous
with that of China for some 4000 mileB.
France touches China only through
Tonquin, and England through Bur
mah. Russia is poor in purse and nat
urally shrinks from being obliged to
keep its Asiatic border of vast extent
in a 'perpetual state of defense against
possible Chinese attack. Russia natur
ally has no desire to see the economic
and military rehabilitation of China ac
complished, because it would vastly In
crease her 4aPEer front a formidable
Chinese Invasion. For this reason Rus
sia has always desired to treat China
as -3. friend and an ally.
The report that the Empress Fred
erick was secretly married in England
some months ago to Baron SechendorfC
would be" wholly unbelievable except
for thf fact that In the special line of
making foolish, unnecessary and oth
erwise, unaccountable, marriages, old
folks easily excel. The story may or
may not be true, but If the latter, it
should surprise no one who has kept
tab, ao to, speak, upon matters of this
sort. Since an idiosyncrasy of this
kind is quite inexplicable, It has be
come the habit to dismiss the subject
as often as it comes up with th& remark
that "there is no fool like an old fool."
Mr. Montag feels a natural reluc
tance" about going against Mr. Mc
Craken. He never- could run very much
as a candidate; now he Is loth to run at
all. Truth Is, any Democratic or Citizens-
nominee will have a rocky road
on November 6. The Presidential elec
tion interferes with the chances of any
one not on the Republican ticket. It
must be especially annoying to a local
Democrat to know that he will be tan
gled Up in the tail of the cyclone that
is due in November.
Florida cities anxious to get the state
capital away from Tallahassee argue
that the seat of government should be
at "."a city which. is in close touch with
the outside world." It would be Inter
esting to know whence they 'have de
rived this theory of state capitals. Any
Oregon or Washington man could have
told them better.
Mr. Hanna seems to have demon
strated conclusively that he can do
much for the laboring man when an
election Is pending. If he would do as
much after, there would be less the
matter with Hanna.
It has long been something of a
problem in Portland how to get
along with its ppllceidepartment. Now
we may have a chance to see what we
can do without it.
Bryan's reference to the ice trust in
his Madison-Square speech was truly
pathetic. Where did he learn to speak
of a halter in the house of a man who
was hanged?
Perhaps, aiter all, there is "a bloated
gorgon with splenic eyes assuming
Democratic party dictatorship." Cro
keV has sent J. Ham Lewis away from
New York. i
It ought not to be a strenuous choice
between Croker and Hanna. Little as
we love Hahna, we cannot love Croker
more. a
Registration.
When the Times was claiming that Seattle
ought to have 85,000 people as a conservatUe
population, Portland publishers, railroad and
buslnoss men hollered like loons declaring that
Seattle oujrht not to have mpre than 60,000
and cited the municipal registration of April,
1000, as against the Portland registration for
state election In June the former being 11,000
and tho latter about 10,000. Now that Seattle
has Jumped to 17,000 registration and Portland
Is credited with 13,003 more people, let the
web-footed city walk to the front with a reg
istration of 20,000 In order to hold nor ratio
of population oyer Seattle. Seattle Times.
The registration in Oregon was closed
last May, and cannot be opened again till
the year 1902. If opened now, undoubted
ly 'the registration in Portland would be
carried up to 20,000, perhaps above that
figure, Owing to this omission in frara-
Ins the registry Iawthe vote. of Oregon"!
will fall fo.OOO to 20,000 short' of the num
ber Of legal votes actually in the state.
It Is certain, however, that Seattle next
month will not cast 'anything near 17,003
votes. This registration includes the great
body of the men who have been at Seat
tle during the year, large numbers of
whom haVe departed. The actual vote of
Seattla next month will be below that-ot
Portland.
REPRESENTATIVE CONSISTENCY.
Governoe Stone a Shining: -Type of
Anti-Imperialist Candor.
Chicago Tribune.
"However much this war is to be de
plored we must so end it as to leave our
prestige unimpalreu. It would be most
unfortunate for us and greatly lessen our
Influence with the Asiatic nations to end
the war in such a way as to leave the Im
pression that we were worsted or that
whatever' concessions were made were ex
torted by force of arms. Unless the Fili
pinos are whlppeil into submission it will
require a high degree of diplomacy to end
the war to our advantage."
The above paragraph is not quoted from
the speech of a Republican campaign ora
tor, It is part of an address by ex-Governor
William J." Stone, or Missouri, de
livered at Aux Vasse, Mo., on August 26",
1899. At present Mr. Stone Is acting as
vice-chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, He is in charge of the East
ern end of the Bryan campaign and Is
making speeches In the Eastern States,
In which he takes the position that the
United States troops should be withdrawn
at once from the Philippine Islands,
where, he declares, they are waging an
unjust, unholy and cruel war.
A year ago no man was more insistent
that the war must not be ended In such a
way as "to impair our prestige." He even
talked at that time without a shudder
of "whipping the FIHpfnos Into submis
sion." Now he Is" ready to shed tears as
h6 extends the hand of sympathy across
the ocean, for campaign purposes, to
Agulnaldo, who Is in tho patriot business
for revenue only, as he has several times
demonstrated. '
Is it any wonder that the people are
disgusted with the so-called "imperialism"
issue and that Bryan and his managers
are Jumping all over the Kansas City
platform in a vain attempt to find a
plank which shall prove more substantial?
"Why MagnzIncH Are Unent.
Letter in New York Herald.
The protest in the editorial columns of
the Herald against the practice of leav
ing the edges of periodicals untrimmed
will doubtless be seconded by the great
majority of readers everywhere. Never-
I theless, there are good reasons why most
puoiisners hesitate or refuse to meet the
convenience of their patrons in this mat
ter. The majority of periodicals are placed
"on sale" with the newsdealers, under
which arrangement unsold copies are re
turnable for credit at the prices charged.
Periodicals with uncut edges are the re
turnable class, but, .so far as the pub
lisher is concerned, the magazine is sold
when It bears evidence of having been
read.
Many years in magazine circulation
work has convinced me that for small
deceptions, the retail news trade-in
league with certain large classes of read
ersstands easily at the head of the col
umn. Periodicals are made to yield from
two to three profits, and, then, perhaps,
bring a credit equal to first cost.
Publishers would be very glad to cut
the leaves of all magazines If they could
safely do so, for convenient examination
aids sales, but the easy consciences -of
reader and dealer stand squarely in the
way.
Incidentally, could I "put astde "for a
rainy day'' what is lost by the dally and
Sunday newspapers of New York through
their accepting detached headings In lieu
of complete copies in the making up of
returns, I could build and give away a
castle on the Hudson every year.
It Is well known that many of the news
boys on trains, newsdealers at hotels,
railway stations and other public places
are In the habit of permitting readers
to U3e such magazines as they desire for
a few hours upon payment of a small
sum, 5 or 10 cents, the book Being re
turned after perusal. In this way the
news agent is benefited, but, as the mag
azine itself has not been sold, the pub
lisher receives nothing.
Unfortunate Mr. Stevenson.
Boston Herald.
Adlal Stevenson is in misfortune. De
cidedly the best 'joke of the campaign is
on him. To have quoted, in an article
contributed to the North American Re
view, as a veritable utterance of Abraham
Lincoln, words which, it is said, first
saw the light as a purported message
from his spirit in another world, Is a
most ridiculous performance. No one can
presume that Mr. Stevenson committed
surh a fault deliberately. He probably
found the quotation published somewhere
as genuine and seized upon it for his
purpose, without taking pains to verify It,
a dangerous course in these days. He
is a victim of overconfldence. It Is to
be hoped that we shall be able to keep
this kind of literature out of politics. If
it should become the fashion to cite al
leged communications from dead states
men for guidance and warning, politics
would become even more a game of Im
agination! than it is now, and that is
unnecessary. It would come to pass that
the spirits of Just men made perfect
would be suspected of manufacturing
campaign Ilea.
Hopefnl Even of North Carolina.
United States Senator Prltchard of
North Carolina, thinks that if all the vot
ers In the state are permitted to exercise
the right of franchise on election day,
McKInley and Roosevelt will carry the
state by at least 25,000 majority. Times,
he says, are good, and money is plentiful,
and everything Is favorable to Repub
lican success, providing the Republicans
can get a free ballot and a fair count.
The Administration of President McKIn
ley Is Indorsed by a large majority of the
voters in North Carolina, and there Is a
disposition on the part of many of the
prominent Democrats to support the Pres
ident at this election. They wish a con
tinuance of the present good times, ac
cording to the Senator, and are satisfied
that the only way this can be brought
about is by the election of the RepuM'can
candidates for President and Vice-Prcs'-dent
HIh Downward Pntli.
The Washington Post makes Eome re
marks on Mr. Bryan's campaign, the
force and Justice of which will be gener
ally rpcognized. After pnying a warm
tribute to the high qualities of his In
dianapolis speech, In, which he presented
with so much power and dignity the argu
ments against imperialism, and which the
Post pronounces "almost unanswerable,"
our Washington contemporary says:
If Mr. Bryan had, then and there, -withdrawn
from public observation and refused all Invita
tions to the circuit and the stump, he would
bo today ten times stronger In the estimation
of the American people than ho now is, after
an almost frantic campaign and after tho de
livery of uncounted mlchie-vous harangues.
An a Medicine.
New York Eveninc Post.
Inability to respect a candidate for its
highest office is a little short of a dis
aster for a democracy. It often suffers
stiango delusions about public men;
falls down before images with feet of
clay, and all that; but that Is better than
the political dejection which comes from
the general conviction that voting is re
duced to a balancing of dangers, and a
choice between two unworthy personali
ties. "Vote as you shot," used to be the
shibboleth. "Vote as you pray,", was an
other. This year the watchword is,
"Vote as you take medicine."
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: SAVED. (
Today is the anniversary of tho Union
victory of Cedar Creek, the brightest I03e
in the chaplet qf Sheridan, whom Grant
rated the greatest soldier of the Civil
War, It is Sheridan who is the savior
of Buell's center at Pcrryvllle, the savior
of Rosecrans' army the first day at Stone
River, the spearhead of Grant's assault on
Bragg's center at Missionary Ridge, the
foller of Lee's turning movement at tho
Wilderness, the victor of Opequan and
Fisher's Hill, and tho Incarnate genius
of battle at Cedar Creek.
It is not our purpose to recite the de
tails of Sheridan's Marengo; for it Is a
twice-told tale, but to point out the po
litical fact that while the winning of this
critical battle made- Lincoln's election m.
1S64 certain, the loss of it would probably
have imperiled It. The defeat of the Re
publican party in the Fall election of 1862
in the States of New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and ,
New Jersey was due to the failure of the
Nation's armies to gain decisive victories;
it was the first symptom of weariness of
the war, a remonstrance against the
seemingly futile expenditure of so much
life and money. The same situation con-,
fronted Lincoln in August, 1864, whoss
prospects of re-election, were so doubtful
that the "Oh, peace at any price" Demo
crats were jubilant. When Thurlow Weed,
the second week of August, 1S64, told Lin
coln that his "re-election was an impossi
bility," and as late as August 22 Weed
wrote Seward that there was "not the
slightest hope of success, the people are
wild for peace." Henry J. Raymond, editor
of tho New York Times, wrote Lincoln
that "the tide is setting strongly against
us in every state." 33. B. Washburne wrote
Lincoln that "were an, election to be held
now in Illinois, we should be beaten."
Simon Cameron wrote "Pennsylvania' Is
against us," and Governor Morton wrote
that "nothing but the most strenuous ef
forts can carry Indiana." Raymond
thought New York would go 50,000 against
Lincoln. On the day that Lincoln re
ceived these letters, August 22, from
Weed and Raymond, he wrote this mem
orandum to be seen at that time of no
one: "This morning, as for some days
past. It seems exceedingly probable that
this Administration will not be re-elected.
Then It will be my duty so to co-operate
with the President-elect as to save the
Union between the election and the Inau
guration, as he will have secured his elec
tion on such grounds that he cannot pos
sibly save the Union afterward."
The Democratic National Convention,
met August 29th, and at first the nomina
tions were received with enthusiasm by
the Democrats and solicitude by the Re
publicans. United States Senator Henry
Winter Davis, of Maryland, and White
law Reld, both wrote that "McCIellan and
Pendleton were a very strong ticket, and
we fear the result." But on September 3
came the announcement of occupation rf
Atlanta. Then September 19 and 22 Gen
eral Sheridan won. two signal vlct:r!es
over Early at Opequan and Fisher's Hill.
Then the tide began to turn in Lincoln's
favor, for these -victoria's were a triumph
ant answer to the cha"rge that "the war
was a failure." Secretary Chase, who
had been sulky and wavering during Jutl
and August, now announced his suppo.t
of Lincoln, and took the stump for the
ticket. On September 22, Fremont, the
nominee of the radical, factious Repub
licans, withdrew his candidacy and prom
ised to do his part toward defeating the
Democratic ticket, and October 2 Chaye
wrote John Sherman that Lincoln's re
election was now certain. But all this
change since September 3 had been
brought about by victory in tho field, and
it would have been a dangerous set-back
for the Republican political prospect bad
Sheridan on October 19th received a tre
mendous reverse Instead of wresting a
glorious victory out of the jaws of a
great defeat. When Sheridan reached the
field, he found the array beaten, with a
loss of 24 cannon and nearly 6000 men
killed and wounded; he found the Sixth
Corps and the cavalry barely holding its
own; the Nineteenth Corps badly shaken
up, and the Eighth Corps as an organ
ization completely dispersed. To have
held his ground would, under the circum
stances, been a creditable military per
formance for General Wright, but the
moral effect of such a great reverse
would have been of enormous advantage
to the peace party. It would have para
lyzed Grant's military operations before
Petersburg to have re-enforced Sheridan
in time to recoup his losses, and it i3 not
too much to say that Sheridan's decision
to Instantly attack the enemy and wrest
the victory from hl3 grasp assured Lin
coln's victory in November beyond a
doubt. Early lost all the guns he had
taken and 24 of his own, and his army as
an organized fighting force disappeared
from the Shenandoah Valley. No wonder
Lincoln wrote a letter of thanks with his
own hand to Sheridan and made him a
Major-General In the regular army for
Cedar Creek, for his defeat would have
closed the great Virginia campaign. In
disaster, and before it could possibly have
been retrieved the election would have
been held, with the result in painful
doubt because of a great reverse which
gave fresh color to the charge of the
Democracy that "the war was a failure."
General Bnclcner for McKInley.
Four years ago the Gold Democratic
ticket was Palmer and Buckner, and It
polled a total vote of 132,371. If he had
lived General Palmer would have voted
for McKInley next month, and he sa'd
so In the last letter he wrote for publica
tion. General Buckner makes the same
announcement. "I am not going to take
tho stump for anybody," he declares, "but
I shall do what I can to secure the elec
tion of Mr. McKInley." The General says
his advices from Kentucky convince h'm
that the Republicans will carry the state,
and that tho real Democrats of the state
have no sympatny with either Bryanlsm
or Goebellsm. He says further that In
the election for Governor last year at
least 20 per cent of the honest vote of
Kentucky was thrown out and nullified.
The General looks for a repetition of the
crime, but adds that Congress will take a
hand In the matter, and, for one thing,
should deny a seat In the Senate to J. C.
S. Blackburn, who claims an election
from the Legislature that trampled upon
all majorities except those of its own
Goebel members.
Why the Stock Marlcet Is Rising.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
In anticipation of the re-election of
President McKInley the odds over in
New Tork are still about five to one, with
Croker tired of betting the stock markets
ar steadily rising. The rise Is not phe
nomenal, because McKInley might die, but
meanwhile the market Is still rising, and
what is more it will go on rising after
the usual slight slump superinduced by
the fact that the good effects of that re
election have been discounted has been
corralled. Doubtless It will occur to the
crpakers to remark that there should be
no slump whatever, but as there always
Is a slump where the benefits have been
discounted, -and as the slump in the event
of Bryan's success would carry us all
down after McGlnty, It won't be neces
sary to'oav anv attention to what they
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'' rX0EE AKD CO'MMENiU. V
The police force seems ta be ill-starred.
The joke about having coal to-burn ta
now one day over due.
Now let us make ready to welcome tho
meeting of the thugs and footpads union.
Corn is King in Kansas, but the-pevjple
of that state are .not howling against im
perialism. The removal of the vehicle tax doesn't:
help the wheels of municipal government
to revolve.
The man behind the brick has no moro
terror for Teddy than the man behind
the machette.
If free advertising is worth anything
Grover Clevland has found that silence 1st
Indeed golden.
A good many lifelong Democrats havo
had their sentences shortened for good be
havior this year.
Mr- Bryan spent yesterday looking for
an Issue to succeed the strike. At last
reports he had not found it.
The report that Croker has agreed to.
deliver the vote of the Epworth Leaguot
to Bryan Is not generally credited.
It is rumored that after November
Coin's Financial School Will confer tho
degree of N. G, on Its distinguished grad
uate from Nebraska.
They accuse Teddy of having prominent
teeth, but owing to Bryan's Industry with
his tongue no one can tell whether his
teeth are prominent or not.
Having annexed Abraham Lincoln, tho
Democrats will probably be ready to
claim William McKInley as a patron
saint about 10 years from now.
Youtsey will not gain anything by dy
ing. They will convict him anyway, Jusr.
to show what Kentuckv justice can do
when she gets a good light-proof hand
kerchief over her eyes.
Mrs. St. Charles, of La Crosse, Wis., on
the 12th Inst., gave birth to five boys.
She has had IS children In seven yearjs,
triplets and twins predominating among
them. Mr3. St. Charles Is evidently a.
believer in Washington's famous maxim,
"In peace, prepare for war."
The negro vote will be generally cast
In favor of the re-election of McKInley,.
for, to quote the New York Age, "within
the past four years it has become a mat
ter of Democratic policy to disfranchise
by Constitutional and other enactments
this large bqdy of the American elector
ate In those years four states have com
mitted themselves by Constitutional en
actment to a nullification of the provis
ions of the 14th and 15th amendments.
These acts, and other things, "lead to the
conclusion that the Democratic party has
become thoroughly committed to the mon
strous policy of making color and pre
vious condition a test of citizenship in tho
republic which has Just added 15,000.000
of off-color people to its cltzenshlp.'
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPH ERS
Solace. "Was the play sad. Miss Bin rT"
"Yei. ery; It I hidn't had a box of canidy
with me, t couldn't have sat through It."
Chicago Record.
Didn't Count. "Then you wouldn't call Wai
ters an offlce-seekerT" "Certainly not! Call a.
man an office-seeker because ho ran on thi
Prohibition tlclcet?" Puck. ""- " -
He Told. Teacher Now-, will some bright
little boy tell me what blrtl Is the most famous
In American history" The the ? Sammy
I know, teacher. The Plymouth Rock rooster
Is. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Prepared for Relatives. Husband (at dlnnpr
My! My! This is a regular banquet worthy
ef a Delmonico. Finest spread I've seen In am
age. V'hat's up? Do you expect company T
Wife No. but I presume the cook does. Now
York Weekly.
Brigss Wonder how Stover Is dolni? now
adays? Grlgcs Oh, he must be dolntc finely:
must bo making no end of money. You know
h& has alwajs been troubled more or less with
rheumatism. Well, he now calls It gout. Boa
ton Trancrlpt.
Bad Form. Mrs. Hlghblower Don't forget.,
my dear, that in conversation the Interest mufifc
not be allowed to flag. Clara But I'm sure I
do my best, mamma. "May be 30. But while
the pianist was playing I thought, once or
twice, that 1 detected ou listening to him."
Life.
One Added. "I see that you have added to
your collection of golf sticks. Miss Frocks,'"
said youns Mr. Postlethwalte. "I do not un
derstand ou, Mr. Postlethwalte," rejoined
Miss Frocks. "My collection of golf sticks has
been complete, so far as 1 know " "Perhaps,
but I saw Chollv Goslln on thf course with
you this morning." Harper's Bazar.
The Candidate KIhh. '
(After the Manner of Wordsworth.)
Tho candldato stooped down and kissed
The little fellow full and fair
Upon the lips all smeared with Jam;
The urchin's ma stood watching thero.
The child h& used no handkerchief.
And sniffled loudly, now and then;
The candidate bent down once more
And kissed the little one again.
"Ah. blessings on thee, little man!"
The famous politician said
.Tears trickled from the mother's eyes.
The candidate he bowed his head.
The little one stood fllent there.
And nibbled at his brtad and Jam?
"And let me tell jou. madam." said
The politician, "who I am."
He totd his name; she stood amazed.
And than she wiped her tears away;
JTe told her of the office that
Ho hoped to get on 'lection day.
And once again ho stooped and kissed
i Tho lips all smeared, his hand he laid
Upon the little fellow's head,
And many line remarks he said.
And. turning to the mother, then
He said; "Your husband, whero is ho
Pray tell him how I kissed tho boy
His politics, what may they be?
"I do not know," the woman- said.
"Just where my husband is today
I do not know his politics.
Or not at present, anyway."
"You do not know his whereabouts?"
The candidate he made reply;
"Perhaps he's gone to town, and ao
Will ba returning by and by?
"And does he change his politics
So frequently that, as you say.
You cannot positively tell
What they may be from day to day?
"I don't believe he's gone to town
And if he switches often, sir,
Tve never found it out." she said;'.
He wondering stood and looked! at her.
"And. madam, say how this may be,"
He answered, "that you do not know
Your husband's present politics
How did he vote a year ago?"
"Ho didn't vote a year ago,"
She said, as with her hands sho hid
Her'tearful eyes; "that is. at least,
I didn't know it If he did."
The child he still stood sniffling thero, .
He licked hi3 fingers and his chln;v
Poor boy! he had no handkerchief.
And sniffled to keep something in.
"Now, tell mo," said the candidate,
"Now, tell me, pray, how this may be."
She bowed her head; "My husband's dead
He died two years ago," said she.
The candidate he went his way.
And something rose up In hta throat;
"Confound the luck!" they heard him sa7
"I-wlsh they'd let the women votelf
S, B. KJser In Chicago Times-Herald.
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