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YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem
perature, 71 deg.; minimum temperature, 52
deg. ; precipitation, 0.
TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and warmer;
northerly winds.
PORTLAVb, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1.
DIVIDED RESPONSIBILITY.
In the presence of this fearful acci
dert on the Morrison-street bridge, the
proper feeling Is one of pity for the
hapless ones who went down to death
and Injury, and sympathy for their rel
atives and associates. The mind In
stantly files, however, to thoughts of
responsibility and punishment. These
it is dangerous to pronounce upon In
the excitement of first Impulses.
We have no desire to excuse criminal
negligence "where it exists, and no dis
position to arouse indignation against
those not deserving of blame. But it
does seem to us that the popular out
cry against the city and county author
ities should be tempered by reflections
necessary and Just.
It is not strictly true that the bridge
was notoriously unsafe. Assertions of
its doubtful character, partly in the In
terests of those who ardently desire a
new structure, had been made, and a
prominent engineer went so far as to
say that it would be dangerous for the
crowds of 1905; but it Is very doubtful
if any one of those who now rail at the
city and county authorities would have
closed the bridge yesterday If In con
trol of it, .Thero Is no record of any
suggestion on mat score irum uiuac
who profess to have known of the dan
ger If prescience were given to us,
then we could act differently: then the
County Court would have closed the
bridge.
But in so doing it would not have es
caped censure. Traffic would have been
suspended for two or three hours, no
accident would have befallen, and the
air would have rung with charges that
the scare was used to hurry up con
struction of the new bridge. There is
no way to close a bridge to those-jyho
ouroose standing on it, and leave it
open to through travel. Passengers do
not placard their intentions on their
clothes. Even with ropes stretched
across the entrance and three -or four
policemen on guard. It Is almost im
possible to keep people oil the bridge
except by clubbing- them.
The responsibility for this accident.
therefore, must be divided by the city
and county authorities, who would as
suredly have done differently could they
have known what they do now; by the
exhibitors, who lured hundreds to the
bridges, as to the proper points from
-which to view the "armless wonder,"
and by the crowds themselves, who
were as well informed concerning the
bridge as any one else.
Nothing can now restore the dead or
remedy the awful mistake. But in the
' public view it is some consolation to
know that whatever doubt has existed
concerning the construction of a new
bridge has now been removed. The
accident has made it imperative. It is
fortunate the necessary enabling act
and referendum are already matters
of history- The new bridge should be
built as soon as possible.
It is seldom that the railing of a
bridge will be strong enough to support
a crowd, all pressing eagerly to the
rail to see an exhibition on the river.
In every such case there must be very
grave danger, and prudent people
ought to know It. Bridges are made to
cross on, not to be packed with dense
crowds to see the sights. And suppose
a panic should arise from any cause;
people would be trampled to death.
And again a runaway team or uncon
trollable automobile would bring death
to many. The use of the bridges for
such purposes ought to be strictly for
bidden. THE PECULIAR CASE OF 3IUXSEY.
Mr. Frank Munsey was a most es
tlmable gentleman, who had succeeded
In his own line of business, and he
knew no reason why he should not run
a newspaper. He had made a success
of a magazine: possibly also he had
conducted profitably a bank, law office.
spice factory, water works, farm and
flour mill. Possibly also he Inherited
great wealth and thought to measure
it In the newspaper business against
those whose properties represented the
Hfework of their proprietors. At any
rate, from another line of effort Mr.
Munsey broke Into the newspaper field
and the rest Is perhaps best told In the
brief words of the press dispatch;
New York. July 30. Announcement Is made
that the New York Dally News plant and
good will will be sold at auction In this city
on August 21. The Dally News nas ren pub
lished by the New York Publishing Company,
of which Frank A. Munsey Is the principal
rtockhoMer.
Mr. Munsey had exalted Ideas of
newspaper work. His paper should !
nore, so far as possible, crimes, prize
fights and scandals. It would minister
to the select few and the highest clr
cles. As tor yellow journalism, and all
that the name Implies, he would hav
none- of it. Possibly he did not suffi
ciently reflect upon the proportion of
idle, trifling-, -worthless persons whose
names fill up every subscription list,
and without whose support no paper
can live exTcept in the very largest cities.
Doubtless he did not know how many
readers buy their newspapers principal
ly for the crime, scandal and sporting
news it contains, or at least for that
class of information which chronicles
some one's failures, misdeeds, losses
and misfortunes. In New Tork. our
largest city, this experiment "should
have succeeded, if anywhere, -and how
well It succeeded we shall see by again
having recourse to the Associated Press
report:
Xew York. July 30. Announcement Is made
that the New York Daily News plant and
good will wilt be sold at auction In this city
on August 21. The Dally News has been pub
lished by the New York Publishing Company,
of which Frank A. Munsey is the principal
stockholder.
Mr. Munsey would have got along all
right if it hadn't been forvcompetition.
But the more competition he had, the
swifter must be his descensus AvernL
In Mattawamkeag. for example, we un
derstand that many excellent people
who used to delight in the clean, whole
some and conservative tradition of their
newspaper were much moved when red
Ink and yellow reading matter had
forced into Its purview the seamy side
of life, with its "stories" of "human In
terest."
PROPER CLEMENCY.
According to the testimony of physi
cians and the careful estimate of Gov
ernor Chamberlain thereon, the man
"William P. Peacock, lately convicted of
murder In Polk County, Is a degener
ate, both physically and morally. It Is
a stretch of charity to call this creature
a human being, but since he is thus
classified the Governor hesitated to
send him to the scaffold, heavily handi
capped as he is by Nature, and decided
to commute his sentence, to Imprison
ment for life. Governor Chamberlain
is not a man who takes a sentimental
view of crime or criminals. Hence
when he says, after viewing the mis
shapen body in which this creature.
who Is possessed of an Idiosyncrasy for
murder, lives, that he feels that in re
fusing to commute the sentence Im
posed by the court upon Peacock he
would be a party to judicial murder, he
gives a reason for his action in the
premises that all must respect. The
time will come when a creature of such
doubtful status as a human being will
not be permitted to survive his birth
and become an object of shuddering re
pulsion and scourged compassion to
mankind. A burden first of all to
himself, he not unnaturally becomes
the victim of morbid whims and fan
cies. Through these he is a menace to
the community in which he lives, and
later becomes a charge upon the state.
Parental affection, the most tender and
unreasoning of the human emotions,
does not sanction the humanity, so
called, that permits a hideously de
formed babe or a congenital idiot to
survive its birth. In an economic sense
the state does not sanction it. And who
shall say that true humanity sanctions
the preservation of life that In the very
nature of things must be a curse to its
possessor throughout all his days?
It Is always a difficult question in
such cases to determine the moral re
sponsibility of a creature whom the doc
tors pronounce to be a physical and
mental degenerate, but it is better to
commute the sentence of such a creat
ure than to hang him, for the history
of England and this country has been
disgraced In the past by the hanging of
murderers who In later times were re
garded as mentally Irresponsible. Bel-
llngham, an English merchant, who
murdered Prime Minister Percival In
the lobby of the House of Commons In
1S12, was tried, convicted and hanged
within a week after the commission of
his crime. He was of Insane lineage
and he had been ruined in business by
the breaking out of war between
France and Russia, for which he held
the British government responsible, and
therefore shot Prime Minister Percival,
whom he treated as the executive head
of its administration. Bellingham had
never seen Mr. Percival until he killed
him. He was a lunatic of the same or
der as the Englishman who snapped a
pistol twice at President Jackson be
cause he believed he had been ruined by
Jackson's action respecting the United
States Bank. The assailant of Jackson
was pronounced Insane and sent to an
asylum, where he soon died of brain
disease.
Gulteau was a degenerate. His let
ters written In 1S66 and published after
his execution were filled with the same
rant. "I'm God's man; I'm God's man,"
that he shouted during his trial. On
the scaffold, Guiteau. with face full of
color and eye bright and exultant, sang
"I'm going to the Lordy." Dr. McBrlde,
then Superintendent of the "Wisconsin
State Hospital for the Insane at Madl
son, examined Gulteau and pronounced
him clearly Insane, and predicted that
the autopsy would show that he had
organic disease of the brain. The au
topsy did reveal that Gulteau's brain
was badly diseased.
The objection to hanging the criminal
Insane Is that . under our present laws
you cannot destroy them as you do
mad dogs or noxious animals, who are
destroyed as dangerous to public safety,
but are not treated as morally respon
sible for their destructive acts. The
man who cuts a throat to steal a purse
Is clearly a proper subject for capital
punishment; but a man who, because of
the delusions and hallucinations of a
broken mind, commits a murder, ought
not to suffer capital punishment unless
he can be shown beyond a doubt to
be morally responsible for his crime by-
being legally and medically sane. To
hang a man of doubtful sanity and
therefore of doubtful moral responsibil
ity Is to place an unjust moral stigma
upon the insane man and inflict wan
ton disgrace upon his family and
friends. Such a gross degenerate In
mind and body as Peacock ought never
to have been suffered to go at large.
His criminal Instincts must have been
known, and he should have been placed
under restraint like a vicious dog who
shows signs of madness.
The negroes even In enlightened Bos
ton have not yet all learned to recog
nize thctrue friends of their race.
"When Booker T. "Washington, the edu
cator, on broad lines ot utllltyof self
respect and of humanity of his race. Is
hissed by colored men, and a meeting
planned in his honor is disturbed by-
rioters of the same class, the magnl
tude of the great work for which he
stands the emancipator of the negro
through education looms up as
mountain of difficulty that it will take
generations ot the most persistent ef
fort to surmount- A very suggestive
text for a plain sermon, after order
was restored upon this occasion, might
hav been found in the words: "Marvel
not that I say unto you. you mxtst be
born again." Only through.4 serrations
of education Is the story of the civiliza
tion of a race unfolded. And after
these generations shall have come and
gone and come again, the declaration.
"Ye must be born again," will hold
against the laggards who have fallen
behind In the march of evolution.. This
Is true in all races of men, and It is
perhaps only more noticeable hi the
African race because of Its late start
and the sharp comparisons that are
Instituted by color and racial charac
teristics. The patience of Booker T.
"Washington is said to be unlimited, and
his faith in the ultimate enlightenment
of the American negro unwavering. He
certainly needs an exhaustless mine of
both upon which to draw as he slowly
mounts the "hill difficulty" which con
fronts his race, bearing- his "Christian's
pack."
THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT.
A valued subscriber writes us from
the forks of the San t lam as follows:
Dear Mr. Editor: I have wondered why you
do not run a puzsle department in yonr Sun
day or weekly paper. There are several of us
here who would enjoy guessing at the answers
to the puzzles, especially if prizes were offered,
and I for one could submit a few for solution.
Trutlng you will excuse the liberty of this
Intrusion. I remain, etc. etc.
"We have always regarded a puzzle de
partment as a thing to be avoided as
long as possible, along with comic sup
plements, red ink and signed editorials.
But on reflection there seems to be
something In the correspondent's Idea,
and a few puzzles are herewith sub
mitted:
No. 1. ENIGMA: It Is understood
that John Barrett was appointed Minis
ter to Argentina at the urgent solicita
tion of President Roosevelt, who pre
vailed upon Senators Mitchell and Ful
ton to recommend him. It is also under
stood that this story Is merely a clever
ruse ot Senator Mitchell, whose devoted
adherent Mr. Barrett has been for many
years, and possibly was invented to
save the feelings of Judge C. H. Carey,
the nominal choice of the delegation.
Puzzle: "Which is the truth?
No. 2. ILLUSTRATED REBUS: It
is understood that Senator Fulton looks
upon Judge Carey as the real author ot
his (Fulton's) election.and would have
insisted upon Carey's appointment If
the President hadn't desired otherwise.
"With $10,000 a year for four years, and
perhaps eight, and with his well-known
ability in making legal and business
turns in a thriving country' like Argen
Una, where foreign capital is pouring In
and needs expert advice, Judge Carey
would have had a good thing, which his
friends regret to see slip away from
him. It Is also understood that Judge
Carey, for both business and family
reasons, could not think of going to Ar
gentina, and that he has certain polit
ical matters In view which are more to
his mind than $10,000 a year. Puzzle
"What does Carey want?
No. 3. DOUBLE BACK-ACTION
ACROSTIC: It is understood that Sen
ators Mitchell and Fulton are much per
turbed at the damage pending over
their political machine under the con'
tinued domination of Carey and
Matthews in the Republican circles of
Multnomah City and County, and that
their elevation of Frank Baker to the
state chairmanship only presages what
they would do with the county commit
tee of they could get control of the
committee. It is also understood that
In the Mitchell camp all Is proceeding
methodically and smoothly, according
to the plans of the senior Senator,
whose adherents, one and all, from
Carey to Baker, and from Baker back
again to Matthews, eagerly run to do
his bidding. Puzzle: What have we
here ruction or harmony?
No. i. DIAMOND SQUARE: It is
understood that the present police re
gime in Portland is the product of the
Mitchell machine, operating through
the county committee and the Civil
Service Commission, and that any mal
feasance by the department will be
punished by turning over the city and
county government-to the Simon peo
ple. It is also understood that the po
lice and fire departments are still
manned by their original Simon person
nel, and that Mayor "Williams has stub
bornly resisted every attempt of the
Mitchell forces to control his policy or
to supplant Simon men with Mitchell
men. Puzzle: in order to get Snow,
Kerrigan and Day oft the force and put
Mitchell men on, will It be necessary for
the "Simon men to get control of the
city government?
No answers to these puzzles will be
published in next Saturday's or in any
subsequent Issue of The Oregonlan.
Subscribers who solve all four of the
puzzles correctly will please find the
prizes Inclosed herewith.
Portland is the only port on the Pa
cific Coast that dispatched any wheat
ships to foreign ports within the month
Just closed. The fleet was not as large
as some that have departed from this
city on the first month of some past
seasons, but it was large enough to
show where the headquarters of the
wheat business of the Pacific Coast was
located. Not only did Portland dis
patch two grain cargoes for South Af
rica, but two coasting steamers were
dispatched with full cargoes for Cali
fornia, our Southern neighbors appar
ently having insufficient stocks for their
own needs. Tacoma millers have made
frequent drafts on Portland stocks
within the past season, and as the wheat
exports of Tacoma and Seattle were
only about one-tenth as large as those
of Portland for the month just closed,
the Puget Sound ports are little, if any,
better provided than San Francisco.
Meanwhile spot stocks at Portland are
by no means depleted; and next week
will be replenished by the arrival of
the first new wheat. August shipments
from Portland may be smaller than
those for the month Just closed, but
they will be larger than those which
go from any other port In the Pacific
Northwest.
Few movements are more marked
than that of the well-to-do people
toward the country. The growth ot es
tates, not merely such domains as that
at BUtmore, but those of moderate size
spread around a country house. Is phe
nomenal. The old Idea of living all the
year round cheek by jowl' with a long
row of others in a crowded city has
gone to the grave, where it should have
gone long ago. Even In the "West the
movement is noticeable, although here
there are not the same reasons for it as
in the older states, where cities are
larger and where city life Is much
farther removed from country life than
is the case in our newer country. The
advantages ot the movement are very-
many. It for no other reason than the
sense of fellowship that a "country
place" Inspires, It Is a desirable posses
sion for the wealthy. To see with one's
own eyes how the poorer farmers live.
to see their difficulties and the perse
verance that overcomes them, will
prove the true touch of Nature tnai
makes us all kin. The movement is a
good thing for the East, and will be ot
Increasing- benefit with the passage of
years.
The Canadian Northern Railway
Company now proposes to construct a
line from Edmondton, In Alberta, to
AtUabasca-Landing, ninety miles north
ward. At that point, saving a carry
or two around the rapids, an open water
course leads to the mouth of the Mac
kenzie River, via the Great Slave Lake.
Steamers now run on the Peace River
and the Mackenzie and Slave Rivers.
Two flouring mills have been built this
year on the Peace River. At Fort ver
milion, TOO miles north of the Amer
ican boundary, a fifty-barrel roller mill
Is grinding wheat, for which It pays
the farmers 5L50 a bushel. This mill
was established In J.SS6. There is an
other mill at Fort Providence, on the
Mackenzie River, 150 miles still farther
north, less than 400 miles from the Arc
tic Circle. At no very distant day a
railway will be run direct from "Win
nipeg Into the Peace River "Valley, and
beyond it to the Great Slave Lake,
where connection can be made with
steamers running to the mouth of the
Mackenzie.
One of the most unique of royal pro
cessions was that of the King and
Queen of Great Britain and their suites
to the famous marble quarries of Con-
nemara a few days ago. The hill was
steep and muddy, the royal carriage was
dilapidated landau drawn by two
jaded horses, the road was lined on
either side with peasants and bare
footed women in red petticoats, and the
lumbering vehicle was helped up the
hill by the sturdy push of genial Irish
men, and eased down on Its return by
ropes attached to the axles, upon which
men acted as a brake.- "Without doubt
Their Majesties will be popular In that
part of Ireland hereafter. There Is only
one way to reach the lowly of earth to
them. They cannot be touched from
exalted heights without the mortal of
fense that comes with condescension.
Charles M. Schwab, energetic, cap
able, ambitious and successful as a' me
chanic in the great steel mills at Home
stead during the earlier processes of
their marvelous development, cannot
fill the position to which he was ele
vated when the great steel trust was
iormed. He must resign sooner or
later, and according to report Henry M.
Frick will succeed him very soon.
Schwab was master of his trade, but he
is not a master of finance. In attempt
ing a role for whiph he was not fitted
by Nature or occupation he has gone
down. He must soon go out, and In
going he will be fortunate if he is per
mitted to take with him Into obscurity
his mental faculties unimpaired by the
severe tension to which they have been
subjected by undue exaltation and con
sequent overstrain.
Oregon would be at a distinct disad
vantage, compared with the Eastern
States, ' In celebrating an '"old-home
week" such as Is now attracting New
Englanders from all parts of the coun
try- Our people cannot find a better
place to live than their own state, and
a reunion of those that had never been
separated would be Impossible.
"America Is becoming too big a place
for a restricted social colony," says
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. The statement
Is correct, with te exception of the
tense. "Becoming" should be "has be
come."
The Fourth of July Sacrifice.
Philadelphia Press.
It Is 15 days since the Fourth of July,
but reports are still coming in of deaths
resulting from wounds received on that
day. Tho Chicago Tribune, which has
kept account of this matter, stated on
Sa-urday that 52 persons were known to
have been killed on the Fourth and that
162 deaths have occurred since from lock
jaw following Injuries received on the na
tional holiday, making a total of 214 vie
tlms of the Fourth of July.
This Ib a large total, but large as it
is it cannot Include all the fatalities re
sulting from the celebration of the Fourth
of July. From some of the largest cities
no reports have been made, and It Is un
reasonable to suppose that they
caped with no fatalities. Then, also, the
two deaths that occurred In this city Sat
urday from -tetanus could not have been
known to the Tribune when It made 'up
its list. Taking all things Into consider
anon. It is reasonable to suppose that at
least 250 people have died as the result of
Fourth of July Injuries.
This Is a fearful sacrifice to make to
the celebration of a national holiday. And
It becomes all the more horrible when Its
uselessness Is considered. The parents and
guardians whose thoughtlessness and
heedlessness are responsible for most of
this slaughter should ask themselves
whether It Is worth the while. But
parental remorse alone will not remedy
the evil. The- laws now. on the statute
books against the sale and use of fire
arms must be strengthened. This year's
list of Fourth of July casualties, which
is larger than ever known before, should
arouse public opinion to . the need of en
ergetic action.
A Fsbiobs nangarlna Exile.
New York Herald.
Elek Ludvlgh, one of the leaders ot the
Hungarian revolution, a compatriot of
Kossuth, and later a member of the staff
ot Major General Julius Stahl, U. S. A,
in the Civil War, died Tuesday night.
Mr. Ludvlgh was a son of John Lud
vigh. a Judge in Hungary. In l&tS, a
price having been set upon his head for
his part in the Hungarian reolution, he
became an exile. He lived In London and
Brussels until 1S56, when he came to New
Tork with a letter of introduction from
Kossuth to "William IL Seward, and at
the beginning of the Civil War he Joined
the Union forces, serving on the staff of
Major-General Stahl and Russell A. Alger.
After the war he engaged In the Importa
tion of laces In this city. He retired from
business several years ago.
In 1S71 Mr. Ludvlgh married Rose Dus
seldorf. ot this city, who, with three chil
dren, survives him.
A younger brother. Count Jules de Lud
vlgh. Is president of the government rail
ways of Hungary, and a member of the
Hungarian Senate.
' "What He Shot.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Mistaking a woman picking cherries in
his cherry orchard, for birds. John Ryff.
a well-known farmer in the town of Osh
kosh. shot a heavy charge ot blrdshot
lato the tree and was horrified to see
Mrs. Margaret Gksst, wife of Charles
Giesst, who has charge of a cheese fac
tory near by, drop to the ground. Sev
eral hundred shot took effect, but Mrs.
Giesst was not seriously injured, the fall
from the tree to the ground causing the
greatest Injury.
Connecticut Deer Increasing:.
Hartford Times.
The results of the law for the protection
of deer are becoming manifest in the
marked increase in the number of those
pretty animals in all parts ot the state; in
fact, so common have they become in
some sections that they attract little more
attention than the smaller and more famll
iar of our wild animals.
DEMOCRATIC VIEWS OF BRYAN.
Hopeless!
Macon Telegraph.
Mr. Bryan's case is hopeless. This
would be a matter of little moment, but
the trouble is. alas! that as long as he re
tains any considerable number of follow
ers the Democracy's case Is hopeless also.
Scad Him and Cleveland Array.
New Orleans States.
It would prove a godsend for the
Democracy were It possible to have Mr.
Bryan chosen as a high Joint commis
sioner to settle something m uanomey.
and Mr. Cleveland to perform a similar
service in far-away Thibet.
Democracy's "Walking Delegate.
Chattanooga Times.
The best thing Mr. Bryan can do Is to
'go way back and sit down." The con
servative elements of the two factions
of the party have agreed to the arbitra
tion plan and that eliminates the walk
ing delegate Mr. Bryan from the equa
tion.
Maine for Cleveland.
Mobile Register.
Some Idea of how widespread Is the
belief in Grover Cleveland may be found
In these sentences In a letter from a
gentleman living In Bucksport, Me.:
What do you think of Cleveland for a
third term? I like It. He would receive
the hearty support ot all Maine Demo
crats."
"Why He Fljrhts Ccveland.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Colonel Bryan says Grover Cleveland
wrecked the affairs of the Democratic
party. Grover hasn't yet given his
Judgment as to what would have become
ot tno anairs oi me party nau uiuuei
Bryan "landed for one term only in the
Presidency." Mr. Cleveland is manlfestly
resarded by Colonel Bryan as a formid
able candidate for the Democratic nom
ination next year, notwithstanding his re
straint.
Interloper Compared With Cleveland
Atlanta Journal.
Let Bryan eliminate Bryan, and then
Inharmony will be eliminated. As long
as he keens brlnglna forward Bryan.
Just so long will Inharmony be brought
forward. To speak In a nomeiy xasmon,
Clevclandlsm got here first, and It certain
ly looks like It Intends to stay awhile.
If we are to Judge by the popular re
ception It got only recently when it came
out for a bit of airing, as it were.
- "Wonld Defeat HIa Party.
Providence Telegram.
At present the Democracy Is In no con
dition for the conflict on account of the
attitude of Mr. Bryan, who seems de
termined to accomplish the defeat of the
party. If he cannot have his own way In
the selection of a candidate and the
framing of a platform. The waning in
fluence of Mr. Bryan, however, gives en
couragement to the Democracy that be
fore the Presidential campaign opens his
power to do Injury will have been
practically eliminated.
An Important Kicker.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Nashville American, like the Eagle.
a Democratic paper, was lately the re
cipient ot a scratch by Mr. Bryan. It
replies by saying that "he Is a dead poli
tician and the conductor ot a Darning
newspaper which cannot bite; he is de
generating Into an Impotent kicker and a
cheap common scold to wnom noDoay
who Is anybody pays any attention."
It Is satisfactory to the Eagle to know
that It has no opinions about Mr. Bryan
to retract or to reverse.
"Worse Than Childish.
Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Bryan Is growing more and more
tiresome. His pretense that the Demo
cratic party was beaten in 1KK and isoo
on account of President Cleveland's un
popularity Is a little more foolish than
most of the things he Is saying. After
a man has been defeated twice for the
Presidency good taste demands that he
should retire from politics and keep still;
his explanations of his failure are likely
to be absurd, and In the case of Mr.
Bryan they are worse than childish.
Should Stay in Nursery.
Selma (Ala.) Times.
The constant attacks that "Mr. Bryan
makes on Mr. Cleveland causes a weary
feellne to pass over us. e are not
Cleveland man by any means, but for
Bryan to be constantly nagging the ex
President makes us tired. It looks like
the Nebraskan is in a hard row of stumps
when he can find nothing else to harp on
but Cleveland, who Is now at Buzzard's
Bav nursing that little ten-pound ooy.
who nut in an appearance a few weeks
ago. Mr. Bryan had better confine him
helf to the nursery for awhile, rather
than be running about the country abus
ing Grover Cleveland.
A Person of No Importance.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Mr. Bryan should not be considered.
one way or the other. In the sense of
truckling to him or trying to grainy ms
particular financial views. To use
common expression. Mr. Bryan will not
be "in it." as a potent factor. Neither
should the possibility of a bolt on Mr.
Bryan's part cut any figure In the mat
ter. That he may head a bolt If the
ticket Is not satisfactory Is true, but if
the Democratic party Is so afraid of a
bolt on his part that It will suffer him
to name a candidate ana piatiorm, it
Is defeated In advance. No reincarnation
of 1S9S and 1900 stands even a reasonable
chance of success, and all intelligent
Democrats know It.
Nominee From Cleveland Win-?.
Helena Record.
"William V. Allen, of Nebraska, who was
Senator from that state In the days of
the Populists and who Is one of the few
men left In that political party, predict
ed In an Interview In Spokane last week
that the Democrats will nominate a man
agreeable to the Cleveland wing of the
party for President next year. Mr. Allen
Is a close friend of Mr. Bryan. "While not
nrofesslne to be anything out a Populist,
he has had a good dead of traffic with
the Democrats and knows them through
and through. He Is a close personal
friend of Bryan. He would like to see
Bryan elected. It will not be charged that
the wish Is father to the thought In Bill
Allen's case, when he says he thinks the
Brvan forces will be lncontlnentally turn
ed down next Summer in the National
convention.
A Rolter's Confession.
Chlcaco Chronicle.
Mr. Brvan Is the only man twice noml
nated for the Presidency by the Demo
cratic party who has found It necessary
to publish a long statement tenamg to
prove that he Is a Democrat. In this
nnoloirv for his more than ten years
of bolting and Populism the Nebraska
demagogue admits that In 1S32 he voted
for James B. "Weaver for President, but
he excuses himself by saying tnat in so
doing he followed the advice of Democratic
committees of the state and the Nation,
which had no hope of carrying Nebraska
for Mr. Cleveland, though they am tmnK
it possible to deprive Mr. Harrison ot
its electoral votes. "When we remem
ber the attitude of this Populist toward
Grover Cleveland at that time and dur
ing all the years that have since elapsed
we may be pretty sure that no committee
recommendation was necessary to secure
his vote for weaver. He tooK to tn
husks naturally -and Inevitably. The
probability is that he had been voting
the Populist UClteL at aeverai precetuns
elections and was quite as favorable to
A. J. Streeter in IKS and to Benjamin
F. Butler In ISSi as he was t James B.
Weaver in 1SS2.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
There Arc Others.
Tacoma News.
The operations of safeblowers, masked
highwaymen, pickpockets and thugs In
Seattle, the narration ot which fills a
large space In the dally record of events
in that city, indicate that the large Jail
population of that city Is not nearly
large enough. Seattle ought to start
a 950 club, with suitable a'ccommodatlons
at Mr. Cudahys hotel.
Heaven at Slns:le Bonnd.
Paisley Post.
Frank C. Baker, of Portland, was elec
ted Chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee July 15. Mr. Baker Is
a stanch Republican and a friend to
both factions of the party in Portland.
No doubt the election of Mf. Baker will
bring these people together and In the
future they will work with a common
purpose the advancement of the Repub
lican party.
Hovr to Stop Lynch In ft.
Medford Oregonlan.
The Oregonlan struck the keynote when
It said the negroes have the remedy
In their own hands to stop the burning
of their race at the stake, and that Is to
stop committing the unutterable crimes
of which they are guilty. It they are-
possessed of human Instincts they will
desist of their own accord; but If not.
they will and should go to the burning
stake, even to extermination. .
"Who Is itr
"Ward Observer.
"What's to be done and why," asks
The Oregonlan. discussing the-Civil Serv
ice CommIsslon,s Portland police. After
all the admissions, damaging as they ap
pear, and true as they are. The Orego
nlan turns pitifully to one not "In it
anyway, to reclaim the whole scandalous
proceeding. Instead of applying the too
ot Its boot to the grafter of the mutton
headed Civil Service Commission, for
whose act the Republican party must
stand responsible, until he.ls kicked out.
Friendly Overtures Reciprocated.
"Whatcom Reveille.
Rivalry and competition In Itself Is a
good thing, but can be carried too far.
When people from the different sections
meet In a fraternal way and mingle to
gether, this intercourse Is bound to result
In a spirit of Increased friendliness and
greater desire for the unbuilding, not of
certain sections alone, but of the whole
state, and the value of this can not be
measured. The remarks made on this
ne by the gentleman from Portland Mr.
Mills were very timely and appropriate.
The Orits and Their Dream ot Power.
Bend Bulletin.
Next year's state campaign has begun
early and It looks very much as If ex
Senator Simon had planned some fun
for himself and trouble for the Mitchell
Fulton combination. The police depart
ment ot Portland is the most sensitive
political barometer in the state. "When
ou find it being ripped up the back by
The Oregonlan you may know a hot tlmo
Is projected and that the "other fellows
war, the nolice department as a founda
tion upon which to build or a cairn from
which to Inspect the very soul of the
enemy. "When the police department
is on our side it is a model of efficiency
and propriety. When It Isn't well, It
Isn't. It 13 evident that the old Simon-
Mitchell fight Is booked for another ap
pearance In Oregon. And Mitchell has
had his day and is an old man.
No Railroad Influence, of Course.
John Day News.
The attempts of the Baker City Demo
crat to belittle the Portland press and
business organizations now striving for
consideration In the plans for opening
new trade territory through railroad ex
tension, are doubtless supposed to be in
the Interests of Baker City, but in real
ity they serve no good purpose and are
very unbecoming. The press of this sec
tion correctly represents the Interests
and reflects the sentiments of the busi
ness men. and It is a unit for demand
ing modern traffic facilities with Port
land. And if Portland business men see
fit to help secure the needed railroad, they
have a much better right to do so than
the Baker City people have to try to pre
vent It. Portland is working in the In
terests of the entire state, and should aid
In securing the proposed road; Baker City
is holding back In her own selfish inter
ests, and should stop trying to down the
enterprise.
Survival of the Fittest.
Pendleton Guide.
Unreliable mechanics and laborers are
more dangerous to organized labor than
anybody or anything. It Is the worthless
vagabond and tramp who Is admitted Into
unions that often bring them Into seri
ous and almost unavoidable trouble.
They only care to work enough to get
booze, cigarettes and free lunch. There
Is scarcely a day passes that some tramp
printer does not come into the Guide
office to look for work he hopes he won't
get. and to find an excuse to ask for the
price of a meal or a night's lodging. "We
know them by their Impudence and rum
my mugs. The printing trade Is an edu
cational trade and any man who Is com
petent to work at It should be capable of
being a gentleman, yet the average
tourist Is the most wretched spec!
man of depraved manhood on the faco
of the earth. Printers of respectability.
whose duty it Is to maintain the dignity
of their unions, should turn down such
cattle. The Guide office Is union straight
out and will at all times comply with the
laws of the union, but It would suspend
business If It had to depend on such
creatures.
The Country Editor's Snnp.
Nowata Advertiser.
To run a newspaper all a fellow has to
do Is to be able to write poems, discuss
the tariff and money question, umpire
baseball game, report a wedding, saw
wood, describe a fire so that the readers
will shed their wraps, make a dollar do
the work of ten, shine at a dance, meas
ure calico, abuse the liquor habit, test
whisky, subscribe to charity, go without
meals, attack free silver, defend blmet
allsm. sneer at snobbery, wear diamonds,
invent advertisements, overlook scandal.
appraise babies, delight pumpkin-raisers.
minister to the afflicted, heal the dls
jrruntled. fight to a finish, set type, mold
opinions, sweep the office, speak at prayer
meet'.rg. stand In with eevrybody and ev
erything. One Gritty Terra to Another.
Seattle Times.
Somewhere In the stories of mythology
Is told how the Phoenix rose from its
ashes but Heppner, Or., Is a city that
has risen from the mud. Her recovery
from the disasters of the cloudburst last
month has been decidedly Proenlx-Uke
and Is In a fair way to recover all that
was lost of a pecuniary character. Sit
uated in the midst of a good farming
and stock-growing section she promises
to become one of the best cities In Cen
tral Oregon. Her misfortune has served
as a good advertisement of her resources
Jnly.
Black and White.
, O, did you hear light feet pas by
Xow June has overtaken July,
And passing kissed her on the mouth
That breathes of Summer and the South?
June was so quick to come and go.
But like some langourous Indan queen.
Beneath her gold veil scarcely seen.
July goes by with footsteps slow.
She carries In pne lazy hand
A strange fruit from a foreign land;
Forbidden fruit from Eden brought.
And from Eve's dying fingers caught
By Father Time, who dallying here
Once with the daughters of the year.
Chose out July to be his own.
And laid hU scythe down by her throne
Leavlnz the tons of men unmown.
. NOTE AND COMMENT. -
Portland Is to have seven mounted po
licemen. This Is exclusive ot those that
ride the hlcn horse.
Abyssinia Is to have a mint of her own.
Soon the country will be dominated by a
Julep Instead of a negus.
If our clams would only enter the pearl
business. Oregon would soon humble boast
ful isconsln on all three points.
The Sacramento Bee is already buzzing
about the need of reform in state prisons.
Of course, some o the horses are still
in tho stable.
A New Yorker with a glass eye adver
tised for a wife similarly" adorned. In
Portland It is not necessary to advertise
to get the glassy eye.
Arrested highwaymen that complain ot
being made an "exhibition" should remem
ber that they are getting just the same
sauco as they gave their victims.
A secret stairway has been discovered in
the City Hall at New York. Modem Im
provements have rendered unnecessary the
use oi such antiquated contrivances.
"Thousands of armed guards alone en
able the King to carry out his visit to Ire
land." says John T. Keating. Mr. Keat
ing must have a keen eye to penetrate the
disguises of the brutal soldiers.
Canada Is thlnklug of introducing com
pulsory voting. That's an old Central
American trick, only there it is carried
further, the compulsion being extended to
the way the ballot Is marked.
It was with somo Incredulity that we
read of two New York women swimming
100 yards with their clothes on. Further
reports show that the feat was nothing to
bo wondered at, since tho women wero
wearing ball dresses.
Baker City, Or. C. M. Schwab, says the
Jocular Milwaukee Sentinel, has accepted
a situation as reporter, on the "Watcher ot
this city. He says what ha needs is ex
citement. Schwab is too much of a piker for Ba
ker. ,
It Is now authoritatively stated that
Schwab Is to resign tho presidency of the
Steel Corporation. Most people will be
surprised to learn that Schwab still held
the job, and combined with it European
tours, gambling, and Philadelphia rest
cures.
Placervllle, CaL, July 31. (By Oregon
grapevine.) The escaped convicts having
been discovered today drawn up in circular
formation. Sheriff Reese instantly sur
rounded them, placing his men at the cen
ter of the circle, so that the desperadoes
could only move In a direction that would
lead them from the posse.
Sacramento,- Cal., July 31. The despera
does have been enticed from a strong po
sition by three companes of militia. The
Colonel ordered a strategic movement to
the rear, and when this was executed with
remarkble speed and precision, the con
victs at once abandoned their stronghold.
San Francisco, July 3L Despite the fact
that several desperate men are within a
few hundred miles of the city today, street
cars are running as usual.
Sacramento, July 31. A special session
of tho Legislature will be called for the
purpose of passing laws that will make It
a penal offense for escaped convicts to
be found with arms In their- possession.
Placervllle, July 31. A special to the
Buzzer from Dead Cow Gulch says that
the convicts are thought to be surrounded
In Placer County, and that It Is almost
Impossible for them to escape from the
United States.
Roosevelt's Trae Greatness.
It is with pleasure that we observe tho
country to have been mora deeply stirred
by the President's feat of rowing a lunch-
basket-laden skiff to the picnic grounds
than by his wild 30-mlle ride through a
thunder-and-lightning night. This Is as it
should be. Merely spectacular displays
already count for too much with the pub
lic After all, a ride In the darkness Is
not such a terrible thing; It Is from tho
other stunt that most men would" shrink.
You know how it Is rowing In a plcnlo
party. Your feet are jammed against the
teakettle until you get a permanent cramp
in both legs. The corner ot a basket hits
you agonizing jolts in the spinal column
If you lean back an Inch. The kittenish
spinster (you remember a New York Judge
has said that It is libel to call a woman
an old maid) In the bows and the portly
chapeione In the sternsheets and the kids
between the thwarts bring the gunwale
within half an Inch of the water, so that
you catch a crab at every stroke and
splash the pretesting woman at each end
of the boat. The sun scorches you, your
arms ache, and the kittenish spinster
cries "Oh, Mr. Snooks, do row faster," as
you see Popkins airily paddle by with your
best girl In his canoe. And this Is what
the President undertook when he might
easily have fixed things so that ona of his
boys was left for the grub boat. And he
didn't upset a thing, and presumably didn't
utter a word stronger than "By George,"
whjch, we are informed, is his favorite
expletive. Tnat's tho man for all our
vote- If he couldn't guide a measly old
ship of state after such an exploit then
we may as well haul down the colors.
Nonchalant 31 r. ICeenct
"I am not embarrassed, only annoyed,"
said Keene after losing a million and a
half.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Gushing -young -woman (to famous actor)
Oh. do you know, Mr. Starlelgh, I'm simply
mad to ro on the stage! Famous actor Yes.
I should think you would be. my dear young
lady! Punch.
She Ah t you know Miss Gabblo by sight,
then? He Oh, yes, I may say I know her to
speak to. She Indeed, you're In luck. Most
people know her to be spoken to. Philadelphia
Press.
Manager-I think. Mr. Grooves, that there la
a future for you If you will only live up to
your own good Judgment. Mr. Grooves I hops
to dt better than that. I am going to try to
live up to my press notices. Boston Tran
script. Blgby rra saving up money to go to Eu
rope Hlgby Indeed! How are you getting
' Blgby Fine! I've already got together
eno'ugh for the tips, and as soon as I can scare
up traveling expenses I'm off.-Chlcago Dally
News.
"Hookllne Is positively the most credulous
man I ever knew." "Have you been proving
It recently?" "Yes; I told him one of his
own fish stores a few weeks after he'd told
It to me. and he believed It!" Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
"Do you know that you could own a hous
for the money you spend on smoking?" "Tes,"
answered the obstinate man. "but maybe tho
trouble with taxes and astessmcnts ana re
pairs -would drive me to drink.- and that would
be worse." Washington Star.
"And what." asked the "x!ngton-sfc-eet
father, "would you advise me to teach my boy
that he may be rich and prosperous In his
wiser days?" "Well." said the sage of Frank
lin square. "If you want him to get unreason
ably rich. I'd suggest a. course either In run
ning an ice pUnt or genteel bank robbing."
Baltimore News.