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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 0, 1904.
THE MUNICIPAL COW.
Woodburn Is a quiet little village in a
beautiful and fertile agricultural section
of Marlon County. Its citizens are In
iharmony upon most questions affect
ing the peace and dignity of the village.
Being an incorporated town, they hold
annual elections. The main point -of
difference disclosed at these elections
is expressed in the question, "Shall
cows be allowed to run at large in the
city limits?" Year after year this ques
tion is decided In the affirmative, after
a hot canvass, by a large majority. The
annual election that was held there last
Monday was a repetition of similar
events in past years. The liberty of the
streets and such dcoryards, gardens
and orchards as she can manage to in
vade by energetic efforts In the night
time has been guaranteed to the family
cow in Woodburn for another year by
a vote of two to one. And yet it Is said
that the "poor widow" element Is not
a ruling factor in that village, nor are
the villagers generally averse to clean
streets, nor do they, as the old lady In
"Cranford," look upon the municipal
cow "as a daughter," to be cherished
by the family and when shivering Jn the
blasts of Winter to be protected by
"flannel waistcoat and drawers" to
make her comfortable.
The phase of village life which guar
antees the freedom of the streets to
the family cow Is nothing new. It is
common to the chrysalis state in which
villages remain for longer or shorter
periods, according to the vigor of the
life that stirs within them. It Is char
acteristic, not of a transition from rural
to town life, but of the tenacity -with
which steady-going, tender-hearted folk
cling to their Idols. The municipal cow
is an epitome of tradition, affection,
usefulness and gentleness. She Is dear
to the hearts of the children, and, if
we may believe the assertions of parti
sans In the annual cow campaign that
distracts villages, she is the chief de
pendence of the multitudinous poor
widow in their midst.
Her owner has, moreover, "always
kept a cow"; his forefathers rejoiced in
a similar possession. And why should
people who are too .lazy to keep a cow,
or too aristocratic 'to bend the knee and
manipulate the udder, Interfere with
the ancient and accepted conditions
that permitted thrifty village folk to
revel in an abundance of fresh milk
and cream and make their own butter?
No satisfactory answer has ever yet
been given to this questolon. It Is safe
to say there never will be one. Every
village must either outgrow Its cow era
or It must plod along on its unsightly,
malodorous streets to the music of tink
ling bells, Indefinitely. Forced growth
in this line is impossible. The "two-to-one
vote" in favor of the freedom of
the municipal cow, which Is recorded
year after year with unvarying same
ness, is in striking evidence of this fact.
Whatever may be true in this respect
In wider communities, in semi-rural
municipalities throughout the land the
masses rule the classes; the family cow
Is at the head of the ticket her triumph
at the hustings assured.
DANGER IN GREAT WEALTH.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie would esteem It
a privilege and an eminently moral and
proper duty to contribute $500,000 or
$1,000,000 to assist President Roosevelt
in his political battle with Wall street
for nomination at Chicago. .We have
nothing to say against the use to which
Mr. Carnegie proposes to dedicate some
part of his fortune or against the cor
rectness of the impulse which moves
him in antagonism to the President's
Wall-street opponents.
But suppose Mr. Carnegie was of an
other mind. Suppose he felt that the
President's course in the anthracite
strike and in the Northern Securities
prosecution stamped him as an unsafe
and dangerous man whose defeat at
Chicago or in November was demanded
by evej-y consideration of public policy
and common honesty. Then would it be
possible for those who now welcome
him to view his financial activity with
equanimity or approval?
It is only a little while ago that Mr.
Carnegie offered to subscribe some $20,
000,000 to set the Filipinos free. If we
assume that this was a meddlesome and
unwise proposal, It does not require a
very vivid Imagination to picture a rich
man of Mr. Carnegie's Impulsive tem
perament, but without his judgment or
conscience, running amuck in our poli
tics and society, handing out millions to
defeat reforms or accomplish nefarious
undertakings which could not possibly
win popular approval.
It Is the hardest thing in the world
to bestow great wealth vithout doing
more harm with it than good. Some of
the Scotch towns and universities that
have been selected for his charities are
already complaining that he is exerting
a pauperizing tendency and undermin
ing the sturdy Independence which has
hitherto been the backbone of Scottish
life. Thp young man who works his
way through college is likely to be
stronger for life's battle than If some
rich man like Carnegie pays his way.
Some of us are superstitious enough
yet to distrust the beneficence of gifts
that come from money made in ques
tionable ways. Some of us never look
for a blessing to go with fortunes piled
up from gambling or liquor-selling.
Some of us doubt whether Chicago Uni
versity, with all Rockefeller's millions,
exerts a net influence for good equal
to that of one small college like Will
lams or Bowdoln, supported by gifts
all hardly earned and bestowed each
one with a prayer of consecration. Some
of us wonder If the money made by Mr.
Carnegie through high tariffs would not
have achieved more for honesty and
happiness if It had been originally di
vided between consumers In lower
prices and the miners in higher wages.
MR. ELLIOTT'S EXTREMITY.
City Engineer Elliott will probably
find some difficulty In satisfying the
Taxpayers' League; for the simple rea
son that It requires him to travel In
two distinctly opposite directions at the
same time. Much is required and ex
pectedof publlcofficlals; but In this case
the demand is more than usually exact
ing. A week or eo ago the Taxpayers'
League studied the City Engineer's of
fice and came to this conclusion:
The Engineer should be an authority on
the subject, a leader, not a follower. There
should be specifications that will produce re
sults. Inspections that inspect. The Engineer
should be an educator of the people brave
enough to withstand popular clamor, strong
enough to do things. Instead of allowing the
people to b driven hither and thither by
the conflicting claims of Interested paving
contractors he should. If necessary, protect
them from themselves. The facts In the
case before us are sufficient to show the
kind of talent required In the office of the
City Engineer. We are spending hundreds
of thousands of dollars a year now: on
streets, and bedeviled and bewildered property-holders
have no place to go for advice,
no one on whom to lean, and the result Is
our picturesque If Impassable streets.
Now again the Taxpayers' League has
studied the City Engineer's office, and
what does It conclude? That the City
Engineer should be a leader, brave
enough to withstand popular clamor?
That he should rule his department as
with a rod of Iron and show meddlers
the door? That he should be the en
gineer himself, a place for the public
to go for advice, for a strong tower on
which to lean?
Nay, verily. That was well enough
In March; but In April he should be a
reed shaken by the wind. He should
be swayed around and buffaloed and
In general incapacitated by yielding to
the Taxpayers' League or the Executive
Board or any old Influence that comes
along. His subordinates should report
to the City Auditor, and be subject to
dismissal by the Executive Board. In
stead of having his Inspectors show up
early in the morning at the work under
their charge, they should be at the office
at 8 o'clock so that somebody or other
can observe their goings out and their
comings in and report to the Execu
tive Board or the Taxpayers' League
or possibly the Auditor. How strong a
City Engineer would become -when
hedged about by these petty restric
tions, how safe a pillar on which the
public may lean, any business man can
figure out in a moment.
We incline to think the Taxpayers'
League did a little worse on Its second
thought than on Its first Perhaps
if Mr. Elliott has erred in his ad
ministration it has been on the side of
too great lenience with the Buttinskis,
possibly including members of the polit
ical' organization to which he belongs.
It is the very general Impression that
his office has been made the conven-.
ience of political workers In need of a
job. If the Taxpayers' League has
found this out, and has the courage to
say so, it will not lose anything In pop
ular estimation. And If this sort of
thing has been going on, it should be
stopped.
A good way for the Mitchell organi
zation to commend Itself to the business
element, where it has been weak here
tofore. Is to work a reform In the mat
ter of superfluous deputies- at the City
Hall and the Courthouse. An Incidental
lesson, of Sheriff Storey's recent ex
ploits Is not likely to be lost upon the
community. It, was not to his credit If
he weakly yielded to solicitations for
appointment of unnecessary deputies.
We think that Portland has confidence
In Mr. Elliott's capacity, purposes and
energy, and that It will have more if he
asserts himself along the lines of the
original advice of the Taxpayers'
League.
OLD LADIES' HOMES.
The attendance upon the annual tea,
held under the auspices of the Old La
dies' Home Society of this city, testifies
each passing year to the growing inter
est of the community In the develop
ment of the purpose to provide. In due
time, a pleasant and cheerful abiding-
place for aged gentlewomen who,
through reverse of fortune or because
they are "alone In the world," need the
protection and comfort of such a home.
This Idea has been elaborated In many
older and wealthier communities, in
suring the care, pleasure and comfort,
to many worthy women thus situated
that can only come with a settled abiding-place
suited to the needs of aged
women and -the care which Is requisite
to their comfort.
The Louise Home In Washington, D.
C. founded and endowed by the late
Hon. W. W. Corcoran as a monument
to his wife, who died in her youth, but
whose brief years were Instinct with
loving kindness toward those who
walked In life's lengthening shadows, Is
a conspicuous example of an institu
tion of this kind. The Crocker Home
In Oakland Is another object-lesson In
the same line, and there are a number
of others of similar character In differ
ent parts of the country.
The Patton Home, in the northeastern
part of- this city, has for a number of
years been, according to Its'" means,
what is implied In the name of an Old
Ladles' Home. Its beginnings were In
the donation of the late Matthew Pat
ton an honored pioneer of the block
of land upon which It stands. The
building represents the self-denying ef
fort of years on the part of a devoted
band of philanthropists. Through their
efforts and the public Interest which
they have awakened the Home has been
all that Its name Implies to a number
of women in every way worthy of care
and consideration. It Is recalled, also,
that one man, of refined and gentle na
ture a musician, who knew more about
harmony than finance, and who was
without a home In the Winter of life
found in this Institution gracious wel
come and generous care until he went
smiling and serene to join the choir In
visible. This and similar examples of
care and consideration shown to that
mos't sensitive of all human beings, the
helpless and homeless aged, constitutes
the unwritten history of this and sim
ilar institutions, the bare statement
of the facts conveying little Idea of the
true beneficence of their work.
The Patton Home is, however, distinct
in Its organization, though similar In
purpose, from the work which has been
undertaken by the Old Ladles Home
Society which gave gracious welcome to
all who chose to attend the reception
given In Its name last Monday. The
nucleus of its endeavor is in what Is
known as the Betty Farmer bequest of
$1000. received frdm the estate of Mrs.
Farmer some years ago, and a bequest
of $15,000 of the late Hon. H. W. Cor
bett, which in due time will constitute,
with the first-named sum and some
other moneys that have been accumu
lated, an endowment fund for the main
tenance of a Home that It Is the pur
pose of the society to build when, In
the judgment of its financiers, the
proper time comes. It possesses,
through the further generosity of the
late Henry W. Corbett, a beautiful
building site on the East Side, and the
custodians of the property hope within
a few years to place a suitable building
thereon. This hope will without doubt
be realized in due time. The effort is
one with which true philanthropy is In
full sympathy.
HOPE FOR THE FAIR BILL.
Whether the Lewis and Clark Fair
appropriation should be won or lost,
nobody can help applauding the grit of
Its supporters In clinging on in spite of
every rebuff that meets them. All ac
counts agree in crediting Mr. Tawney
with great fidelity and diplomacy; and
his actions have earned for him as they
should secure the friendship and Inter
est of every loyal Oregonian at every
future opportunity focreciprocatlng his
good offices. Good turns like this
should be remembered.
Confidently as we hope for the ulti
mate passage of the bill, we would not
seek to Ignore or minimize the difficul
ties. It is pretty certain, for example,
that the Oregon men had gathered Into
the House on Monday every member fa
vorable to the bill whom they could
find. A larger vote for it. therefore, Is
hardly to be looked for. Another mani
fest discouragement Is the undisguised
opposition of influential Republican
leaders, like Payne and Dalzell. Their
hostility is based on a firm conviction
that neither this request nor any other
should be suffered to swell the total ap
propriations of the session, which will
have to be shouldered by the Republi
cans in the ensuing campaign, both
Presidential and Congressional. This
antagonism Is not likely to be lessened
as time goes on and other appropria
tions pile np.
What we must expect on these lines
is foreshadowed in the determined
stand against the bill made by John
Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, the able
and resourceful leader of the Demo
cratic opposition. It will be Incumbent
upon Mr. Williams, at the close of this
session, to prepare and promulgate to
the country an array of the acts of the
Republican Congress, so contrived as to
emphasize the amounts of its appropri
ations. The sums appropriated for St.
Louis and for Portland, if any, will
form a noteworthy feature of Mr. Will
lams' exhibit, and will lend point to his
charge that the Republicans are ex
travagant. A consciousness of this ar
gument ex'plalns both the opposition of
leading Democrats, who might other
wise be friendly, and the reluctance of
leading Republicans, who would almost
certainly be.
This is why, no doubt, Mr. Tawney
has forborne to ask for the long-expected
rule. A special rule Is customar
ily Invoked only as the last resort of a
party measure whose necessity Is rec
ognized by the party and for whose
purpose the party is willing to go on
record. The party leaders have natur
ally hesitated to assume this responsi
bility for another fair appropriation,
and instead they have afforded Mr.
Tawney every facility for getting his
bill passed without recourse to the des
perate expedient of a special rule. All
that could be done has been done to
facilitate the passage of the bill, under
suspension and under privilege, and
Speaker Cannon obviously was ready
to declare the bill passed if he had not
been arrested by Democratic obstruc
tionists. Under these circumstances
any hesitation in the committee on rules
need not cause surprise.
Without a realization of these difficul
ties, no true apprehension of the full
meaning of ultimate success can be
had; and yet there are many as strong
or stronger reasons for confidence.
First of these Is the absolute promise
of Speaker Cannon that the desired rule
will be forthcoming In the event of a
last extremity. Under that rule a ma
jority will pass the bill. The Senate
still has in reserve an amendment to
the sundry civil bill, which, once in
serted, It is past belief the House would
throw out. In every issue of this kind
the chances of weakening are always
greater with those who are ostensibly
guarding the treasury In deference to
some abstract theory than with those
who are anxiously striving for some
definite, concrete thing they very much
desire.
We should not be surprised, therefore,
to see members In the House, who have
measurably satisfied their conscience
and established a record, now give way
in deference to the urgent appeals that
will be made to them, in obedience to
the desires of the majority, and In a
fuller recognition of the historical mer
its of the celebration than they have
felt before. It would be very natural
IC some members, heretofore rather un
decided, should be favorably influenced
by the open declarations made on the
floor of the House by men like Major
Lacey, of Iowa, for the Republicans,
and Champ Clark,- of Missouri, for the
Democrats. The remarks of Livingston
and Bartlett, of Georgia, are also well
calculated to encourage Southern Dem
ocrats to support the bill. Doubtless
some part of the Southern Influence In
favor of the appropriation Is traceable
to a belief in the South that the people
of Oregon are not unreasonably bitter
toward the South In Its efforts to solve
Its own peculiar and difficult problems.
Humanitarians who believe In extend
ing the protection and experience of
wisdom to young girls In their Inno
cence, rather than in reformatory effort
after they have been led astray, have
sounded a serious and sonorous note
of alarm in furtherance of this purpose.
It is stated by circulars sent out under
the authority of the Woman's Christian
Association that has established head
quarters in St. Louis, that an organiza
tion pledged to secure for the purposes
of an abhorrent traffic some hundreds
or thousands of girls between the ages
I or-12 and IS years and bring them to
that city during the Summer has been
formed and is already engaged in active
endeavor in this line. The plan as
stated is to send agents Into rural or
suburban communities with instructions
to engage girls to come on to St. Louis
under promise of remunerative and of
course honest employment In connec
tion with the Fair. When these unso
phisticated damsels arrive they are to
be met by other agents of the organi
zation, or syndicate, and misled to their
ruin. Incredible as these statements
are, their truth is vouched for by
women whose names stand high upon
the muster rolls of philanthropy, and
this alarm Is being sounded over their
signatures. If this danger exists, It Is
an appalllng one, and the alarm may
well be sounded in every community
that expects to furnish Its quota of vis
itors to the great Fair. It Is In the
power of parents to defeat, by the ex
ercise of the most ordinary prudence,
these monstrous schemes of the vile, by
seeing to It that-3$gir young -daughters
do not go to the Fair unless properly
chaperoned. If father and mother, one
or both, cannot go, let them see to It
that their young daughters do not go
alone where the snares of the tempter
are spread for the feet of the uawary.
Parental Ignorance In such matters Is
inexcusable, and parental Indifference
is a crime. The danger may be exag
gerated, but that It exists In a degree
cannot be doubted. Abuses that trench
upon vlleness belong to great crowds,
for whatever purpose they congregate.
Ignorance Is the witless handmaiden of
these abuses. Parental Indifference Is
their great procurer. It Is well enough
to sound this alarm, even if an exag
gerated one, In order that these two
forceful auxiliaries, of a vile traffic may
be put out of commission. In this
view the warnings of the good women
who have this matter In hand cannot
have a too wide publicity.
The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church will be held In
Los Angeles next month. A strenuous
time Is already foreshadowed. Among
the seemingly irreconcilable points of
difference that will come before the
quadrennial body will be a rule of 32
years' standing In the church which for
bids dancing, cardplaylng, going to the
aters and participation In other amuse
ments of the more worldly sort.
Whether this rule Is abrogated or not.
It Is plain to the ordinary observer that
relatively few Methodists who belong to
city churches now observe It. The coun
try delegates, led by the old-fashioned
ministers, will. It is said, insist upon
the retention of the rule, while the city
delegates, Including the pastors, will
speak and vote for Us abrogation. The
general conference has In late years
held many stormy sessions. Progressive
measures, comporting with changing
social conditions and religious convic
tions, have generally prevailed. If pre
cedent Is followed, the rule In regard to
-amusements that are de'emed "sinful"
will be abolished, though not without
earnest protest on the one hand and
urgent appeal on the other.
Whatever disagreements may have
arisen at times over alleged unfair
treatment In regard to rates, the fact
remains that the O. R. & N. Co. and Its
connections lying to the eastward is the
only railroad system that has ever done
anything for Portland. It is also a fact
that both of the Northern roads have
spent millions to build up the Puget
Sound cities and divert trade from
Portland territory to those cities. It is
possible that these facts may have
caused the suggestion made by Mr.
Wilcox at the banquet in Mr. Mohler's
honor to the effect that Portland
should throw all of the business possi
ble to the Harrlman roads. Mr. Harrl
man has within the past few months
given Portland as good an Oriental
steamship service as that of any other
port north of San Francisco, arranged
for the construction of a railroad into
Central Oregon, and given positive as
surance that the Rlparia-Lewlstonroad
will be built. Portland will reap lib
eral benefits from these Improvements,
and can afford to co-operate with the
men who are supplying them.
The stupendous character of the re
clamation service is just beginning to
be outlined by the work of the engi
neers of the Geological Survey. The
construction of some of the largest
dams and canals In the world is fore
shadowed by the surveys of the past
two years. Difficult problems confront
the engineers. These Involve new and
unsolved questions, and present phys
ical features that have to be carefully
studied before actual work is begun.
The engineering colleges were never be
fore so full of students as now, and
from present Indications every Intelli
gent, energetic, purposeful young man
who is wrestling with engineering prob
lems In technical schools will And him
self with plenty to do when he receives
his degree. As in all other vocations,
there Is room at the top, and the young
man who leaves college a few years
hence, equipped with the technical
knowledge that will enable him to solve
problems In irrigation, mining and con
struction, will reach the top, not by
slow and toilsome stages, but by easy
ascent.
There seems to be enough spectacular
detail in connection with the arrest of
Mr3. Emma Watson, alleged Oregon
land swindler, to qualify her for an Im
mediate debut on the stage as soon as
she gets clear of the land frauds. Aside
from the fact that she is "chic" in ap
pearance, wears an "expensively
trimmed hat and patent leather boots,"
the waiting world Is Informed that a
man in a red automobile took from her
boarding-house a trunk "filled with
laces and gowns," and that he was also
intrusted with a chamois bag "reported
to have contained $40,000 In uncut dia
monds." Further detail Is supplied In
the information that the Deputy Mar
shal who arrested her carried two re
volvers as "a part of his equipment."
This latter precaution was to prevent a
rescue by "powerful friends" who were
alleged to be plotting to save her, but
if she brings along the uncut diamonds,
fine gowns, laces, etc., and is as pretty
and chic as reported, the Marshal may
need them to warn off kidnapers In
search of a good thing.
Portland's long lead over all other
Pacific Coast ports In the wheat ship
ping business continues to Increase, an
other big carrier being chartered yes
terday to load for Europe. This latest
craft secured for Portland loading
comes north in ballast from Sari Fran
cisco, where she was unable to secure
any outward business. The export
wheat business Is practically ended for
the season at every other Pacific Coast
port but Portland, but this city still
holds large stocks, not only of wheat,
but of other grain, and will continue
shipping right tip to the coming of an-other-eeason.
THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA.
John Sharp Williams.
Meridian Star.
There Is no necessity for Mississippi or
any other Southern State being In a great
hurry about expressing preferences for
Presidential candidates, but It will be well
enough to keep an eye on the distinguish
ed statesman from this state, whose great
ability and eminent fitness for the high
office with which his name has been con
nected is universally recognized. There is
not a man in either branch of Congress
who commands to a greater degree the
confidence of Democrats and Republicans
alike than John S. Williams, and If dele
gates to the National Convention are to
be burdened with Instructions they should
be instructed to cast the vote of this state
for him.
His Lost Cause.
Sioux City Journal.
It would be something pathetic to find
Mr. Bryan at the St. Louis Convention
looking up some delegate from his own
or another state for a ticket of admission.
It would be something appealing to sym
pathy to sec him a minority delegate from
Nebraska rising In his humble place to
hold aloft the tattered banner of a lost
cause. But in Nebraska, as everywhere,
cruelty Is the rule In polltlca If men will
not adjust themselves to the . conditions
of their time they will find conditions
nevertheless inexorable. If they will not
sidestep before the great wheels that go
round and round they will be cast down
and ground In the dust.
Author of a Panic.
Washington Post.
No one questions the capabity of Mr.
Olnoy to fill the Presidential office ad
mirably. He is of full Presidential size.
But his candidacy is based on the assump
tion that he would be acceptable to certain
business Interests that are alleged to be
bitterly hostile to Mr. Roosevelt. Yet, is
it not a fact that Mr. Olney, as Secretary
of State, wag the author of a panic In
Wall street? How does his reputation for
conservatism comport with that dispatch
to the British Government which gave
Wall street the most unpleasant after
noon It had experienced in many an event
ful year? Jingoes applauded that ex
tremely risky bit of diplomacy, but Wall
street trembled.
No Southern Man.
Charleston News and Courier.
If we are entirely frank with ourselves
and with the great outside public we must
admit that our political stability In the
last few years has not been of a character
to strengthen us In the good opinion of
the people of the rest of the country.
No Southern man ought to be nominated
for President by the Democrats at their
next National Convention, and no South
ern man ought to be elected President of
the United States unUl the Democratic
party which he represents shall stand
firmly upon the great principle forming
the basis of Its character and achieve
ments in the illustrious past.
The Biggest Figure.
Austin Chronicle.
There are numberless thousands of Dem
ocrats, loyal, faithful nnd devoted, who
steadfastly believe that Grover Cleveland
la the only Democrat who can defeat
Theodore Roosevelt, and Mr. Cleveland is
by all odds the biggest figure looming up
today against the Presldenlal horizon. His
courage no man doubts. His ability is be
yond question, and while he has been the
subject of unmeasured abuse, his integrity
of conviction, purpose or action has never
been successfully Impeached.
Speaking of Gratitude.
Louisville Post.
Representative Webb, of North Carolina,
says very truthfully that. "Mr. Cleveland
was the friend of the colored man";
nevertheless this did. not- prevent the
Southern politicians from Joining in the
Democratic conspiracy to destroy the sec
ond Cleveland administration. Today
they are applauding Mr. Cleveland for the
help they gave him, but when he wanted
their help he could not get it. If the
people of the South have any gratitude
for what Mr. Cleveland has done they
Bhould change their leaders.
Judge Parker's Merits.
Albany Argus.
At the head of the highest court of the
greatest state In the Union sits In digni
fied retirement from party strife a Demo
crat whom all men love and respect. He
Is no self-seeker. He has no enemies.
He Is no- factlonlst, no place hunter. His
reputation Is National. His attainments
.are of Presidential size. His Democracy
Is beyond cavil. His patriotism, his In
tegrity, his conservatism and common
sense are known everywhere.
Parker's Handicap.
New York World.
August Belmont, the subterranean sprite
of rapid transit; Patrick McCarren, who
for conjectural reasons last Fall De
stroyed and now seeks to restore Brook
lyn's "autonomy;" ex-Senator Hill, the
stormy petrel of political disaster; ex
Senator, Murphy, Crokers friend in short,
pretty nearly all the men who for ten
years have led the New York State
Democracy to defeat favor Judge Par
ser's nomination.
Dead as a Doornail.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Mr. Bryan was nominated on'the plat
form of 1S35 and defeated; Mr. Cleveland
was nominated on the platform of 1S92
and elected by a handsome majority.
Bryan and free silver lost In 1896; Cleve
land and tariff reform triumphed In 1S92.
In 1904 free silver Is as dead as slavery
or secession and William J. Bryan Is not
mentioned as a Presidential possibility.
An Irresistible Sweep.
Charlotte Chronicle.
A talk with political leaders In Wash
ington makes one thing plain the Cleve
land wave Is coming along with an Irre
sistible sweep. "He Is the only man that
Democrats can with with," Is what one
hears on all sides. Tho Chronicle's ob
servations In recent days leads it to be
lieve that Cleveland's nomination will be
Inevitable.
Parker or Hearst?
Albany Argus.
There are two candidates In sight, Par
ker and Hearst; no more and no less.
Which does New York want? That Is all
there Is to the question today. The answer,
In Ironclad Parker delegates, already
promises to be emphatic and unequivocal.
Its Mind Made Up.
Mobile Register.
The South, or that conservative element
of the South which forms its greatest po
litical force, has definitely made up Its
mind. In the matter of the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency and looks
with hope to the nomination of Grover
Cleveland.
Could Be Elected.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
If the Democratic convention should
take up Cleveland and nominate him by
acclamation we have no doubt that he
would be elected by a splendid majority.
Right at Home.
Omaha Bee.
Mr. Bryan does not have to go so far to
find the "enemy's country" this year.
A Horrjd Example.
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal (Dem.)
We shall see what we shall see. Nor
need we be discouraged. In the long run,
Mr. Hearst may serve as a horrid exam
ple, showing Democrats their danger,
drawing them nearer together, and. In
Y"i a onrl iAlntf mnra rsfA tVinn Tti-r T .
us at least hope so.
SOME MORE WINSTON STORIES.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
"Down In North Carolina," said Colonel
Winston once. In describing how he came
to bear a military title, "there was an old
tavernkeeper whose custom It was to con
fer a title on all his guests. One day he
would address every man who came to his
hostelry as 'Judge," the next day as Ma
jor," the next day as 'General. and so
on. The day I arrived he was dealing In
Colonelcies. He addressed me as 'Colo
nel Winston and 'Colonel Winston I
have remained ever since. Had I arrived
a day later I would have been a Gen
eral." When Colonel Winston was United States
District Attorney his deputy was P. C.
("Charlie") Sullivan, afterward defeated
for Governor In 1SS6. Sullivan's absolute
disregard for his personal appearance has
passed into a proverb. When he ran for
Governor he was called P. "Coatless" Sul
livan. One day Senator Dolph, of Ore
gon, came to Tacoma and Colonel Win
ston called on him at his hotel. Then the
Colonel hied himself to Mr. Sullivan's of
fice. "Charlie," he said, "you used to know
Senator Dolph, didn't you?"
"Yes, over a dozen years ago."
"Well, you ought to go and call on him
while he's In town."
"Oh, there'd be no use of that. Colonel;
he wouldn't remember me," protested Sul
livan. "He hasn't seen me for nearly 15
years."
"Yes, he would remember you, Charlie,
I'm sure he would," persisted Colonel Win
ston. "Why, how would he remember me?"
demanded Sullivan.
"Why, he'd know you by your clothes,
Charlie," returned Colonel Winston with
an air of conviction.
In 1S92 Colonel Winston, single-handed.
tackled Judge L. B. Nash, of Spokane, and
Judge Thomas Carroll, of Tacoma, In a
Joint debate at North Yakima. The latter
was the Democratic nominee for Congress.
Judge Nash spoke first and dilated at
great length on the fact that Colonel
Winston was an "ex-rebel," while Mr.
Carroll was an old Union soldier, who car
ried rebel lead In his body. Then It came
Colonel Winston's turn.
"If Judge Carroll," he said, "has rebel
lead In his body I honor him for It. I
honor any brave soldier of the Republic.
But. my friends, I didn't shoot him. No
Republican shot him. I never smelled pow
der during the war. But If Judge Carroll
wants to find the man that shot him, let
him go down to North Carolina. He'll
find him there, yelling his lungs out for
Grover Cleveland and free trade."
In 1892, while speaking In the open air at
Everett. Colonel Winston was Interrupted
by a noisy Populist, who insisted on ask
ing him a question.
"Do you think, Colonel," he demanded,
"that there is an equal distribution of
wealth In this country?"
"No, sir, -I do not think so," answered
Colonel Winston. "And that's not the
only thing that Isn't equally distributed.
For example," bending his shining pate
down where the audience could see It.
"I'm willing to swear that there Isn't an
equal distribution of hair in this country-"
That Populist asked no more questions
that night.
The Populist- Convention of ISM refused
to nominate Colonel Winston for. Con
gress, chiefly because he was a lawyer.
After the convention was over Colonel
Winston came home to Spokane, and on
the way home he talked politics with a
chance acquaintance on the train.
"Do these Populists think, Colonel"
began the stranger, when Colonel Winston
Interrupted him.
"Think!" he exclaimed. "Good Lord,
man! What has a Populist got to think
with?"
Honeymoon of NeFIsons and Walls.
New York American.
Frank T. Wall, tho cordage- magnate,,
who so bitterly opposed the marriage of
his daughter to Jules Blanc Nellson.
brother of Mrs. Reggie Vanderbllt, a week
ago, was married himself to Miss Emily
Unckles Wednesday. After the ceremony
the happy couple raced in a gayly be
decked carriage to the Pennsylvania de
pot and boarded a train for Washington.
It Is understood the recently wedded Nell
sons will Join them In a trip to Palm
Beach, where the double honeymoon will
be spent.
The feature of the wedding that Inter
ested society was that it meant a re
conciliation between Jules Blanc Neilson's
bride and her father, who refused to give
his consent to the marriage when It was
first proposed.
After Nellson had taken his bride from
the Wall residence and had gone to Phila
delphia with her he announced that Mr.
Wall himself was about to marry, and the
cordage magnate, who had Intended to
have his own wedding In secret, then hur
riedly Issued invitations for a seml-prlvate
affair.
South Might Assert Herself.
Savannah (Ga.) Press.
As long as the South eats humble pie
she will be treated as an inferior, a poor
relation. It might not bo amiss for her to
assert herself this time. In case she has
to choose between one of her own emi
nently deserving sons and an objection
able Eastern or Western man.
Sound and Safe Leadership.
Vlcksburg (Miss.) Herald (Dem.)
It is more than natural, it Is Inevitable,
for Democrats of political pride and prin
ciple to be turned by "the yellow peril"
to the refuge of sound and safe leader
ship, even to Grover Cleveland.
The Innocent Bystander.
Manchester, Englnnd Chronicle.
Foreign devils shindy klckee.
Damme? bag of tricks!
Chinaman no ha-penco pickee,
Always gettee kicks.
Foreign devils battle makee,
Russia and Japan;
Samee gamee; come and takoo
Swag from Chinaman.
Chorus
Chin chin Chinaman
Russia lettee fly
Mlssee Jap,
Me the chap
Getteo blackce eye.
Jappy smack- . .
Russia back
Me the bullet stop
Chin chin Chinaman
Cop, cop cop!
Missionary preachee "Brother;
Christian lovce foes."
Alle samee, kill each other,
Cut'off brother's nose.
Foreign devils flghtee, bangee,
Takee allee can;
Then If someono musteo hangee
. Hangee Chinaman!
Chorus
Swing, swing Chinaman
Swallow muchee pill.
Makee sad,
Velly bad
"Little Mary" 111.
Powers flght
Alee right
Comee out on top
Chop down Chinaman,
Chop, chop, chop!
Song.
Robert Loveman.
It Isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on the hills;
The clouds of gray engulf the day.
And overwhelm the town.
It Isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining roses down.
It isn't raining rain to me.
But fields of clover bloom.
"Whero every buccaneering bee
May find a bed and room;
A health unto the happy!
A fig for him who frets!
It Isn't raining rain to me.
It' a raJnlnsr vlolato.
. NOTE AND COMMENT.
The Difference.
Bryan says he can't discover where
Parker stands. Parker can't discover
what Bryan has to stand on.
In his wild desire to die poor, Carnegie
rushes Into politics.
The F-fair ap-ap-approprlntion has
a b-b-bit of a st-st-stutter.
A man that marries is usually mis
guided. Afterward he's mrs-gukled.
Thibetans call their, country the roof
of the world, but they seem unable to
keep the lid on.
These are dull timas in Oklahoma. But
one man was killed at the Democratic
Convention in Lawton.
A young girl's meet eloquent speech is: "I
love you!" a man's fe. "Ccdk and take a
drink!" Pendleton Guide.
Drinks cost money.
Mrrch went out like a gentle zephyr kiss
ing a sleeping beauty. So there. Taccna.
Ledger.
Tacoma, apparently, was the sleeping
beauty.
"How pretty It must be in ze Sum
maire." said the foreigner to Mrs. Irv
Ington, apropos of the Virginia creeper
around her house, "how pretty it must be
when your walls are covered with crawl
ers." In a local divorce case the husband tes
tified that his wife, who I much heavier
than he Is, knocked him out of bed, where
upon he said: "Hereafter, madam, you
shall sleep on the outside." To the un
biased observer this declaration seems
to have been a mistake. A man can only
be kicked out of bed once, whereas he
might be kicked against the wall until
the kicker grew weary.
There are schools that teach advertis
ing, drawing, shorthand, cooking and
hosts of other things by mail, but this ap
pears to be a new one. The advertisement
is from Printer's Ink:
HUMAN NATURE TAUGHT thoroughly ty
mall or no pay. Mention P. L and got
Samples from Lessons free. SCHOOL OF
HUMAN NATURE. Athens. Georgia.
It seems that the writer of the adver
tisement has a good deal of faith In one
constituent of human nature credulity.
An exchange quotes a few Hems from
Irish papers. One correspondent sent a
story from Birr otherwise known as Par- V I
sonstown about a lady that was kllK-J """
whilst hunting, and concluded by stat
ing that "the deceased met with a similar
accident on a previous occasion.' Anoth-r
writer said that he had been In the
Transvaal "between six and seven times,"
and a third writer proudly declared that
he had "never put his name to an anony
mous letter."
MIs3 Ella Fletcher, in an absent-minded
epell. took a drink of water while a pin was
In her mouth Sunday morning. The pin wen
crosswayo and she coughed it up. but l.
gave her quite a scare. Castle Rock Leader
It Is one of woman's most mysterious
gifts to be able to hold pins In her mouth
without devoting her entire thought ti
them. Let a man be misguided enough o
attempt holding a pin in his mouth ar.J
he Is likely to get cross-eyed trying t
watch It. But a woman she can Loll
five hairpins and a dozen smaller pins la
her mouth while she Is having her uimur.
PORTLAND. April. 5. (To Note and Com
ment.) I am In trouble and come to yru.
There are five In our fa"ml- three Uttle chil
dren, my husband and myself, liy "h r-
girl" is going to leave because she ' ge-.
tired" though every one who ses ua br-
could easily deckle which Is fat and r s$
Now, I have helped that girl every way
know how, running down to the baseme:(
furnace and up to the attic clothesline t
oavo her steps helped her wash. too. evej
since she first came, when baby was only i
iew weexs ow, ana neiped ner Iron and sweeri
I hav6 taught that girl every iota she know)
aoout civiuzeu noueeKeeping, from care
plumbing to the elements of wwiisnr
have simplified our menus until breakfad
consists solely of health fooda; I have gle
her a better and mnnt MunfArtnhiA mwtm
she ever had at home, and I pay her a sun
which, estimating the value of her "keen" al
$12 a month (modest enough), makes h.l
wages equal to one-third of our total fami
Income. That leaves only two-third wit3
which to pay taxes and Insurance and t
clothe, feed and support five persons.
I can't pay more wages, and I can't t"4
the work alone. I wish I bad the spen.lir.ij
money she has! "What shall I do? Can 1
get out an injunction to make her stay, ci
should I put the children In a "Home." I
my husband get a divorce on the ground C4
desertion and go out to work myself?
This letter Is genuine all but the signa
ture. HAPPY HOUSEWIFE.
P. S. I can do about twice as much wri
as the above-mentioned girl ever dreamed t-f.
H. H.
Whllo naturally reluctant to rush in
where Ella Wheeler Wilcox or Dorothy
Dix might fear to trend, our heart would
have to be of adamant if such an appeal
were to go unanswered. The expedient
suggested by Happy Housewife at the
conclusion of the letter Is not without
merit, bu It Involves divorce court pro
ceedings, to which some strait-laced per
sons still object. Why not make this "fat
and rosy" maid the mistress of the house?
Then she would have to run from Lase
ment furnace to attic clothesline, wbll
Happy Housewife grinned and grew fat.
Besides Happy thore is a Hooligan
smack about the name that leads us t
believe H. H has not lost her sers? l
humor Happy Housewife would th
havo a whole third of the family Incom
for her very own, instead of a mcas."
two-flfteenths, and she would have even
ings off on which to spend it. And wit'a
the abolition of the health food break
fast, fatness, we doubt not. and roslnes..
we are sure, would be the lot of Ilapry
Housewife, w.ho could snap her flnsirs at
care, and carry her nam de guerre in g. a
earnest.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
She Does your employer ever tell hs -If c
funny stories? He No. but we don't da
undeceive him. Town Tople,
Bad cookery has done much to unierml-s
the health of the race. Indeed. notKrur tJu
done more, unless It be good ooker--ku &
First Little Girl My father to an !!.-;
what does yours do? Second Little Glrl-W. xz
ever mamma tells hlra. Glasgow Een.2g
Times.
Sunday School Teacher Now. Tommj. tan
you tell me whose day this k? Tommj -Yes n:.
It'a Bridget's. Delia bad last Sunday out
Philadelphia Press.
Miss Corsetta "What a faeatttiful bouquet
Clair has In her lap over there in th tfc'rd
back. Miss Pompoudora ( looking j That 3
her hat. Cleveland Leader.
Brown Don't get gay. or I'll be frcrd ta
pound a little sense lato your head. Green
Huh! It would take a doaen men like you t
pound any senee Into ray head. Chics go Dai y
Newff.
(Gentleman with comic face has just finis"- I
very pathetic story.) Brown (who Is . ;
deaf, ami has ben watching Ms expreun -Ha!
Ha! Very good! Funatewt thing I've h - 1
for a long time! Punch.
"Gosh!" exclaimed the farmer, as he star 2
in awe at the Siamese twins; "I wonder hnr
they got that way?" "I'm not sure." repllcl
the circus wit, "but maybe they went ta
take a drink and asked seme one to Join
1 thm." Philadelphia Record.
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