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Newspaper Page TextV THE MOfSNING OKJSGONIAIS, SATITRDAT,. HAT 21, j.904. H? w$mm Entered at tho Poatoffleo at Portland, Or- as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br mall (postage prepaid in advance) Daily, -with Sunday, per month JO. 65 Dally, -with Sunday excepted, per year 7 50 Dally, -with Sunday, per year ......... 9.00 Sunday, ier year ... ................ 2.00 The "Weekly, per year ............... 1.50 The Weekly, 3 months 50 Daily, per week, delivered, Sunday ex cepted ............ 15c Dally, per -week, delivered, Sunday In cluded 20c POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico 10 to li-pa.se paper ................ ...lo IS to 30-page paper - 2c 22 to 4 4 -page paper ...4... Sc Foreign rates double. Tho Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot under take to return any manuscript sent to It without solicitation. No stamps should be in--closed for this purpose. EASTERN' BUSINESS OFFICES. (The 8. C. Beckwith Special Agency) New Tork: Rooms 43-49. Tribune Building. Chicago: Rooms 510-512 Tribune Building. KEPT OK SALE. Chicago Auditorium annex; Postofflce News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Beaver Julius Black, Hamilton & Kend rlck, 908-812 Seventeenth street. Kannns City Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut. Io Angeles B. I Gardner. 250 South Spring, and Harry Drapkin. Minneapolis M. J. Kavanaugh, 50 South Third; X Regeisbuger, 317 First Avenue South. New Tork City L. Jones & Co., Astor Souse. Ogdeo F. R. Godard. Omaha Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam; McLaughlin Bros., 210 South 14 th; liegeath Stationery Co.. 1308 Farnam. Oklahoma City J. Frank Rice, 105 Broad way. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South street. St Louis World's Fair News Co., Lousl ana News Co., and Joseph Copeland. Saa Francisco J. K. Cooper Co.. 746 Mar ket, near Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand; Goldsmith Bros., 238 Sut ter; I. E. Lee, Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market; Frank Scott, 80 Ellis; N. Wheatley, 83 Stevenson; Hotel Francis News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ed Brinkmon. Fourth and Pacific Ave., N. W.; Ebbltt House News Stand. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 76 deg.; minimum, 46. Precipitation, none. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and continued warm; northerly winds. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, MAX 21, 1904. SIGNIFICANCE OF JUNE. "Tou don't have to vote the Republi can ticket now In order to vote for Roosevelt In November. Be liberal, and vote 'for opposition candidates for Con gress, for the Legislature and for local officers. Then In November you can vote for Roosevelt, if you want to." Undoubtedly; but the vote that will tell for Roosevelt In November is the vote that will be cast in June. A clear and decisive Republican victory in June will produce an immense moral effect all over the United States. It doesn't matter whether the majority for Roose velt in Oregon be G000 or 25,000 In No vember. But it does matter whether the Republican majority shall be the larger or the smaller figure, In June. And they know it who are urging that there is no reason why Republicans should stand solidly together now. It Is the subtle purpose of these pleaders to break, if they can, the moral effect of the Republican victory In June. If the Republican majority could be pulled down, or candidates beaten, these per sons would be quick and loud In their declaration that it boded ill to Repub lican expectations for November. For if this far "Western state, it will be said, doesn't stand by Theodore Roose velt, or shows a falling off, what are you to expect for him elsewhere? They do not -want Roosevelt elected, they do not want the Republicans to have control of the next Congress, who gloze in this manner, and tune proem and argument to support of these fetches. Juggles and dodges. They know they can do more hurt by defeating Re publican candidates and by reducing Republican majorities in June than in any other was. And that is their ob ject In telling you that "you don't have to vote the ticket now in order to give the electoral vote of the state to Roose velt In November." Every voter of Oregon, who desires the election of Theodore Roosevelt, should see the significance of the vote in June. The popular vote of Oregon in November will have no significance at all. TIMELY WARNING TO GAY GOVERNORS "Wisconsin is the scene of a most in structive ilustration in popular gov ernment. "With much of Governor La Follette's ambition to aid the people in their perpetual conflict with the polit ical machine that centers at Milwaukee and Includes many rich politicians and manufacturers of the Payne and Pfister school. The Oregonlan has frequently expressed. Its sympathy. His operations are not unlike those of other "Western Governors, like Van Sant, Toole and McBride, who have Imparted much pic turesqueness and some measure of dis tinction to an office sometimes rele gated to characterless monotony. These home organizations have afforded a serviceable countercheck upon the am bitions of the dominant forces In state delegations at "Washington. The trouble with Governor La Follette is that he has ridden the party too hard. Men like Spooner will not brook the ceaseless Interference and autocratic dictation of a busybody at home, even if it is a Governor. It has been La Fol lette's ambition to make everybody In the party knuckle down to him and swear an oath he should prescribe and go to Congress, if at all, only on his sufferance. He has tempted fortune too far, something as tho Governor of Washington has, and the split at the Madison convention is the consequence. This division of the party will teach the headstrong Governor a lesson, and pos sibly his opponents also may learn something to their advantage, such as the danger of letting things at home drift along until they get beyond con trol. Something like this would doubt less have happened in "Washington un less the Senators had hud operators of brains and decision at home. Observe, however, that the "Wisconsin disruption will not affect the vote of the state on President. Both sides. In an admirable spirit of moderation, have nominated the same candidates for Presidential electors. There will be two rival delegations to the Republican Na tional Convention, and we make little doubt that the 6pooner crowd will be seated. The probabe result In the state election is a Democratic Governor. The plurality for McKinley in 1300 was 106, 000, but La Follette had only 48,000 over Rose In 1S02. La Follette and Cook will divide the Republican vote somewhere near even. On the Presidential issue the state is safely Republican by over 100,000. Its total vote is about 375,000. JAPAN'S PRESTIGE UNIMPAIRED. Four Japanese armies are now In the field. The Talu Army Is advancing westward in two divisions upon the railroad, which runs, roughly, north and south. Troops have been landed at Nlu Chwang, to the west of the Llao Tung Peninsula, and at Takushan, to the east. Other landings have been ef fected upon both sides of the peninsula near Port Arthur. "With the exception of the fortress there, Japan now con trols all the territory from the Talu west to the Chinese boundary of Man churia, and north almost to Halchen, the point on the railroad toward which one division of the Talu army is march ing. The main feature of the Japan ese advance is, of course, the Yalu army. Yesterday's dispatches reported that 20,000 men of the division moving against Liao Yang encountered, a force of 30,000 Russians, and fell back upon the main body. These figures indicate the magnitude of the operations being undertaken west of Feng "Wang Cheng, and the incident shows that the Japan ese are moving with their accustomed care, and are preparing for each step before making it. Moving parallel with this division is one with Haichen as its objective point. Ready to advance in support of both these divisions are the men landed at Takushan. The situa tion may be comprehended by regard ing the Northern Pacific as" the Russian road. A Japanese armyjmay be imag ined moving westward lipon the line, one division headed for Olympia and the other for Chehalls, representing, re spectively, Liao Yang and Halchen. Other Japanese troops may be supposed in possesion of Kalama, representing Nlu Chwang, while still others are be ing landed on the north shore of the Columbia above "Vancouver. It is clearly the Japanese intention to force a decisive battle at Liao Yang, if possible, or at Mukden, and every in dication points to their success In ac complishing this.. The Russians are be ing driven in from all outlying posts, and it will be hard for Kuropatkin to avoid being brought to bay, as his en emy desires. And when the Japanese close in they will have taken the pre caution to have more men and more guns on the spot than the Russians have. As to the naval situation, it re mains unchanged. The contention that the loss of the battleship Hatsuse re duces the Japanese fleet to an equality with the Russian is foolish. At the out set Japan had seven battleships and Russia had the same number, but of less aggregate tonnage and fighting ca pacity. The Japanese have lost one battleship, the Hatsuse. The Russian Petropavlovsk was a total loss. In ad- -I dltlon, their battleships Retvlzan, Po bieda, Czarevitch and Poltava have been damaged by mines or torpedoes, and from the lack of facilities for re pair at Port Arthur are presumably still crippled. Bui the Russian inferi ority on paper is nothing to their in feriority in action. The Japanese, In a word, know how to handle their ships and the Russians don't. And in addi tion it appears that the entrance to Port Arthur is now blocked, so that the finest fleet in the world would be helpless inside. As to the Japanese loss by the sink ing of the small cruiser Yoshlno In col lision, the wonder is that some such accident has not occurred before. The .Japanese Admiral has not hesitated to maneuver large numbers of ships in all kinds of weather, as shown when he al most trapped the Port Arthur squadron when the Petropavlovsk was sunk. In such circumstances accidents are bound to happen, and the Japanese have cause to rejoice that a comparatively unim portant vessel like the Yoshlno was the victim. They will not be as downcast over the loss of the magnificent battle ship Hatsuse as would have been the case had she been sunk directly by the Russians. If torpedo-boats are a"ble to creep out from Port Arthur and lay mines without detection, it seems as tomshing that none of them should make an attack upon the Japanese squadron. From the cockle-shell torpedo-boat to the 12,000-ton battleship, the Russian ships lack the animating spirit that alone can render them for midable. DECREASING BREADSTUFF EXPORTS. The heavy shrinkage In American ex ports of breadstuffs for the current sea son, as compared with those of a num ber of preceding seasons, Is causing considerable discussion in the financial and commercial papers in the East. Interest in the matter has been in creased by the appearance of "Brom hall's Corn Trade Year Book," compiled by a prominent Liverpool expert In this publication is presented extensive figures showing that Russia and Argen tina have been annexing much of the prestige held by North America as a grain shipper. Commenting thereon, Bromhall says: Looking ahead until December of this year. It will be pretty safe to prophesy that Russia will have exported over 400.000,000 bushels, and Argentina nearly 200,000,000 bushels In the 12 months, while the American total may not exceed 250,000.000 bushels. The change In the relative position of the three countries. It will be seen. Is not alone due to the growth In the exporting capacity of Russia and Ar gentina, but also, and In the main, to the falling off la the capability of America to feed the world," as was once expected of her. The assumption that there has been a falling off In the "capability" of this country to feed the world, or that por tion of it which she was expected to feed, is erroneous, and does not account for the falling oft in grain exports. There are still millions of acres of idle land in this country which can be used for wheat production, and until t is brought into use our "capabilities" In this line cannot truthfully be said to show a falling off. Many factors have conspired to restrict the exports of breadstuffs this season. One Is the un paralleled prosperity and attendant in creased purchasing power of our own people. This has had the effect of tak ing up a larger proportion of the crop than usual for home consumption. For many months the price of wheat in American markets has hovered above a parity with the foreign markets, and so long as American buyers would take the wheat at higher figures than the foreigners would pay, the latter were obliged to turn to Russia and Argentina for supplies. The American farmer, always averse to selling on a rising market, has shared with the consumer in the gen eral prosperity, and, not being pinched for money, as he has so often been in the past, has refused to sell, even at prevailing high prices. "With the ex ception of the visible supply, which Is all stored where the trade can without difficulty keep accurate tally on its di mensions, the quantity of wheat on hand "in this country can never be ac curately estimated. The Government makes a report March 1, purporting to give the amount in farmers' hands, but it is nevec accepted by the trade as anything better than a guess, and not infrequently more wheat has come out of the country after March 1 than was reported in fanners' hands on that date. This may or may not be the case this season; but there is nothing surprising or alarming in the fact that we have not shipped the usual amount of wheat abroad at a time when prices were higher at home. Even should the time come when all of the wheat grown in this country would be required for home consump tion, there would be no special regret over the lost prestige, for wherever wheatgrowing has been abandoned in this country it has been -to make way for a more profitable crop of something else. It was not very long ago that the "Willamette "Valley's normal wheat crop was about 6,000,000 bushels, and now the output is frequently less than half that amount, and yet the "Willamette Valley has been a distinct gainer by the aban donment of its wheat acreage for the more profitable diversified farming. Europe can never test the "capabili ties" of America as a wheat producer so long as the cheap labor of Russia and the Argentine supply her for less money than our farmers think it is worth here. If an era of bad crops in the countries mentioned should result in dollar wheat for a few seasons, American exports would soon go back to their old-time proportions. LAKE COUNTY'S REPROACH. The reign of lawlessness in Lake County, involving the murder of at least 'one prominent citizen and the wanton killing of thousands of sheep, has been universally deprecated throughout the state, so far as we have observed, with the exception of the Chewaucan Post, published near the scene of the outbreaks. The Post prints a column on the subject, the evident purpose of which Is to justify the-kill-ing of the sheep and condone the mur der of Mr. Conn. It finds that the cat tlemen drew a deadline over which the sheep should not pass, that their man date "should have been respected," and that they "were as much within their rights as was ever a miners' meeting, and those sheep were as legally exe cuted as was ever the order of a miners' court." The conclusion, . of course, is untenable, for Lake County is not an unorganized camp of miners, under the necessity of lynch law.- The Post argues that because the cat tle were first on the ground they are entitled to keep the sheep out a propo sition whose statement is its own refu tation anywhere but in a region terror ized by the cowmen. Its solution of the whole problem Federal control is also vain, for not in that way can Lake County or the State of Oregon shoulder responsibility off on the Government at Washington. These outbreaks are the concern and the shame of the peace officers of Lake County; and if they are unable to punish the offense and pre vent lis repetition, their duty under the law is to apply to Governor Chamber lain. It Is- The Oregonian's opinion that the Governor cannot altogether clear his skirts by saying that he must not move until he Is applied to, and his offer of a reward, made -yesterday, in dicates his acceptance of that view; but whether this is true or not, it is the most foolish thing In the world for Lake County to" seek immunity from censure on the ground that control of the ranges should be In Federal hands. At the end of the Post's article, how ever, we find this paragraph: It Is only fair to say that this article was set by Mr. Sain before he loft and is his personal opinion, and not intended to com mit tho paper to any policy. As a disclaimer, this utterance may well serve as a model for all papers running local editorials in Lake County and should serve as an effective insur ance undertaking in behalf of those Mr. Sain left behind in his well-timed If somewhat treacherous departure. Dis agree though we may with Mr. Sain's conclusions, we can only praise his dis cretiona quality with which he seems to have Imbued the locum tenens. One can hardly help suspecting, however, that if Mr. Sain was afraid of the cow men, his understudy is equally afraid of the sheepmen. Altogether the episode forms an exhibit in freedom of the press which is anything but creditable to Southeastern Oregon and suggests most painfully a recent homicide and trial in the State of South Carolina. Members of the sporting fraternity who diversify the pleasures of betting on the high card with wagers on horse races conducted by leased wire are fearful lest the refusal of the "Western Union to assist in the game by carrying racing reports will seriously Interfere with the breeding industry. This Infer ence is hardly warranted bs' the facts, for, in spite of the advent of the auto mobile, good horses ase today very scarce and command higher figures than ever before. Representatives of the British, Japanese and American Governments are now scouring the Pa cific Northwest in an endeavor to secure horses, and have great difficulty in supplying the demand. If the fate of the horse-breeding industry rests with the poolroom gamblers, respectable men will not care how soon it Is sealed. Fortunately, however, for the lovers of that noblest creation In the animal world, there will always be a sufficient demand for horses for commercial pur poses, and for use In legitimate sport, to prevent any slackening in the breeding industry. Russia has tested at great expense and not a little disappointment the truth of the familiar adage, "The more haste the less speed." "Rush work" on the equipment of her battleships has practically disabled many of the ves sels of the Baltic fleet. As a result of undue haste, it has been found that the engines and boilers that have been placed in the new warships are defect ive and must be taken out and replaced by machines that can do the work re quired. This being true, the Baltic fleet will not sail for the Far East in July, as has been announced, and Indeed not for many months to come. The loyal subjects of Russia are striving to be patient under-the reverses that were caused by the unreadiness of the coun try for war. The Czar, with more sa gacity than he has been given credit for possessing, keeps himself popular by appearing constantly-before the public, by hailing the soldiers of the rank and file as "brothers." and by extravagant laudation of the army. That the Jap anese will exhaust themselves and I Japan will be drained of her resources while Russia waits and Russians at home chafe and fret is possible. The re currence of losses like those that have recently befallen, the navy of Japan can not be often sustained. It may be that it will not be necessary to dispatch the Baltic fleet to the Far East at alL But the fact remains that if the very exist ence of the Russian Empire depended upon it, this fleet could not now depart, since the vessels that compose It cannot now be moved by their own power. Dollar wheat has been in evidence again in Chicago for the past two days. In fact, it has been within hailing dis tance of that famous mark for several months. The persistency with which it hangs around that remunerative figure must be very distressing to one "William J. Bryan, who in former campaigns has pointed with pride to, cheap wheat as one of the natural accompaniments of a Republican Administration. Then there was "Wheat-Chart Jones," who wandered- up and down the State of "Washington proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that wheat and silver could not be divorced, but-must rise and fall together. The present abode of that fa mous Jones chart and accompanying key and explanations is unknown, but wherever it is, it cannot safely be res urrected so long as- wheat is nearly twice as high as it was when the chart was made, while sliver has fallen about 13 cents an ounce since the first Bryan campaign. " If Judge Turner consents to run for Governor of "Washington in the belief that his success might carry with it possibilities of another term In the United States Senate, it might be a wise precaution for him to keep a string on clients like the one mentioned in a Spokane dispatch as paying him 512,000 per year. Judge Turner's success in winning a sufficient number of Populist votes to make him Senator in 1897 is hardly a fair criterion as to what may happen to him when he runs for Gov ernor. In the Senatorial fight It was necessary for him to control only about fifty-five votes, while he will need a thousand times as many to make him Governor. Democratic strength is usually overestimated by the Demo crats, and there are a good many "ifs" between the Hon. George Turner and the Governor's chair, and a few more between that exalted seat and the United States Senatorship. The -State Department has decided that "Fighting Bob" Evans was right in his opinion that an American gun boat had a right to go wherever Amer icans were permitted to reside and en gage in business. This right wa3 dis puted a short time ago by the Taotai of Kiu Kang when Rear-Admiral Evans desired to send the American gunboat Villalobos up the Yangtse River. The Taotai entered a protest to Minister Conger, and the correspondence of all parties was forwarded to Secretary Hay, who has just notified the Chinese government of America's privileges as, they are understood on this side of the Pacific. Our tariff laws do not always permit a verification of the axiom that "trade follows the flag," but so long as a portion of our marine fighting force is in charge of Admiral Evans the flag can be depended on to follow trade and see that it is protected. iThe custom of celebrating the birth day of Queen "Victoria has not entirely lapsed, though the third anniversary since her death is now at hand. The force of habit finds illustration in the continued observance after her demise of the natal day of the good Queen. It may be said, however, that the record of her long reign is one of which all loyal sons of Britain are justly proud, even though they do not regret that the weak personality of an aged woman at the head of the government has given place to the stronger personality of a man not young, but still forceful. This continued observance of the 24th of May will touch a responsive feeling in the hearts of thousands who mourned the death of the good Queen as a personal loss, even while they recognized the fact that it was her time to die and that the nation gained rather than lost by the event of her death. No one need despair of voting because he was unable to register. All that is necessary is to produce at the polls the acknowledged certificate of six free holders that the applicant Is a qualified elector. Every legal voter who Is not registered should make full calculation to avail himself of this provision. In the cities this matter will take care of itself. But in the country districts throughout the state the voters should attend to It by prearrangement- Owing to the trouble of a special trip to the county seat many farmers have not registered. It will be very easy for them to meet together at the polling places on election day and certify to each other's qualifications, and this should be systematically done. Oregon will lead off in June with the most splendid Republican majority ever thrown in the history of the state. It will be, as It 'should be, big enough to electrify the country. Such majority is due to President Roosevelt, as the first voice of the campaign of 1904 to Presi dent Roosevelt, the man whose knowl edge of the West, whose sympathy with the "West, and whose service to the "West, are unequaled. To Oregon it Is a special appeal; for to him, more than to all others, is due the recognition ac corded by the United States to the Ore gon Exposition, upon which all eyes here are now concentrated. Approve the President In June by twenty thou sand! It is his due. Suppose Japan should emerge victori ous from the present conflict. What about control of China? "Will Corea re main Independent? Is the war for ter ritorial aggrandizement? Japan's Min ister at "Washington has replied to these and collateral questions with most di rect and unequivocal speech in an in terview with Frank G. Carpenter, to be published in The Sunday Oregonlan to morrow. Takahira's clear statement he revised the Interview before It was sent to The Oregonlan may be taken as an official declaration of his govern ment. 1 From the ..registration it may be judged that 96,000 votes will be thrown in June, in comparison with a total of 8S.701 In June, 1902. Passing over the vote for Governor, which was not a party test, the vote on Secretary of State stood thus: Dunbar (Rep.), 47,623; Sears (Dem.), 30.557; Barzee (Socialist), '55S9; Davis (Pro.), 4935. On the In creased vote of this year the. Republican plurality should increase. POLITICS" OF THE SENATE. "Washington Post. Almost one-third of the Senate wblch means almost 30 Senators is now more or less engaged in looking after political fences. A member, of the House must fight his campaign every two years, but a Senator only once in six years. By a provision of the- Con stitution there are virtually three classes, and therefore only one-third of them comes up for re-election or re tirement with every Congressional campaign. The terms of some of the most prominent Senators of both par ties expire March 3next. In the class are" such Republicans as Aldrich, Hale, Lodge, Hawley, Proctor and Quay, and such Democrats as Daniel, Cockrell and Bate. But practically all tho Sen ate leaders are certain of being re turned by their State Legislatures. It is the Senators, younger in service and less prominently known, who must fight for their laurefk The Senatorial campaign will be comparatively of minor interest, for another reason. The present Republi can majority of 24 cannot be seriously impaired, however the disastrous the fortunes of the election may prove for J tntlr party. If one were to hazard a prophecy, it would be that on the whole the Democrats can gain at best but four or five seats, as most of the Republican Senators in the class come from rockribbed Republican states that will not be swept from their moorings by any political upheaval. But when, at the beginning of the short extra session of the Senate. March 4 next, the 30 .Senators march to the clerk's desk, escorted by their colleagues, to take the oath of office lor six year3, there will necessarily be not a few new faces apong the number. The list of the 30 whose terms expire next March follows: Aldrich. of R. L Ball, of Del. Bard, of CaL Bate, of Tenn. Beveridge, of Ind. Burrows, of Mich. Clapp. of Minn. Clark, of Wyo. Cockrell. of Mo. Culberson, of Tex. Daniel, of Va. Depew, of N. Y. Dick, of Ohio. 1 Dietrich, of Neb. Foster of Wash, Gibson, of Mont. Hale, of Me. Hawley, of Conn. Kean. of N. J. Kearns. of Utah. Lodge, of Mass. McComas, of Md. McCumber, of N. D. Money, of Miss. Proctor, of Vt. Quarles, of Wis. Quay, of Pa, Scott, of JV. Va. Stewart, of Nev. Taliaferro,, of Flo. Only seven of these are Democrats, the smallest number .of Democrats in any one of the three classes. They are Senators Bate, Cockrell, Culberson, Daniel, Gibson, Money and Taliaferro. Of these Senators Daniel and Money have already been elected for six years more. Their credentials have been placed on file In the clerk's office. The only Democratic seat in the seven in any possible danger is that from Mon tana Republicans expect to elect a Legislature that will send one of their own men to "Washington in place of Mp. Gibson. Chances are probably In their j - favor, Successors to two of the 23 Repub licans have already heen elected. Sen ator Dick, ofi Ohio, will suceced him self, and Maryland has chosen a Demo crat in place of Senator McComas. Therefore, even if Senator Gibson is defeated in Montana, tho Republicans cannot increase their present majority in the Senate. Of the 21 remaining Republicans, 11 are from states that will surely send Republican Senators here in their places, namely: Michigan, Minnesota, Wyoming, "Washington, Maine, Con necticut, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Senators Clapp, of Minnesota; Foster, of Washington, and Quarles, of Wis consin are the only ones in this list of 11 who have a fight for re-election on their hands. All are sWving their first terms. There will be zest in the Con necticut campaign because of the prob ability that General Hawley will not be a candidate for re-election. Several rivals will step forth for his toga. Senator Quay cap be re-elected if he chooses, but Pennsylvanlans have been in a quandary as to whether he would retire from private life. There are five other Senate seats which probably are entitled to be classed among those surely Republican quite as much 'as the 11 already enumerated. They are from the following states: Rhode Island, Cali fornia, Indiana, Nebraska and West "Vir ginia. Rhode Island has been electing a Democratic Governor for two or three years. Last year the election was very close,, and Republicans hope to redeem the state next November. But even if they fail In that, the prospects are strong that the Legislature will remain Republi can, as it has been all during the admin istration of a Democratic Governor, be cause of the manner of apporfioning mem bers of the Legislature. In the event of a Democratic landslide, however, any one of the five states mentioned might elect a Democratic Legislature. Were It not for the factional quarrels In West Virginia, there would be no danger to Republicans in that state. The five remaining Republican seats are seriously doubtful, with the possible ex ception of Senator Kearns, of Utah. It is said that Mr. Kearns will not be re-elected but the Legislature should be Republican, unless there is some upheaval because of the recent Mormon troubles. The other four seats are for Delaware, New York, New Jersey and Nevada. The prolonged factional quarrel between the Delaware Republicans might enable the Democrats to control a majority of the next Legis lature. New York is classed as one of the doubtful states this year. If the Demo crats sweep it for their Presidential can didate, they will have a majority in the Legislature, and would In that event choose a Democrat to succeed Mr. Depew. About the same is true of New Jersey, where the Legislature will have the choice of a successor to Senator Kean. Nevada has failed to change to a Re publican state since Senator Stewart, one of the oldest Senators in point of service, decided to be no longer a Sliver Republi can voting with Democrats. It will prob ably elect a Democratic Legislature this Fall and a Democratic successor to Mr. Stewart, now of the majority party in the Senate. In fact, he announced shortly be fore the end of the recent session that he contemplated retiring from publfc life at the close of his present term. Summing it up, it will be apparent that Democrats have almost nothing to lose In this Fall's Senatorial campaigns, and a great deal to gain, although without hope of coming anywhere near controlling the Senate during the next Administration. They have prospects of losing one seat, and have already gained one seat in Mary land. They have a fighting chance to re cover four and possibly five seats from the Republicans, and a very remote chance for five other seats. The Answer. Kansas City Star. Mr. Bryan's inquiry, "What Is a dol lar good for?" might be answered by saying that It is good for just about twice as much as it would have been If Mr. Bryan could have had his way. 0 An Angel in the House. , Leigh Hunt. How sweet It were. If. without feeble fright. Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight. An angel came to us, and we could bear To see him Issue from the silent air At evening In our room, and bend on ours His dlvlna eyes, and bring us from his bow ers News of dear friends, and children who have never Been dead indeed as we shall know for ever. Alas! we think not what we dally see About our hearths angels, that are to be, Or may be If they will, and we prepare Their souls and ours to meet In happy air; A child, a friend, a wife, whose soft heart sings In unison with ours, breeding Its future wings. KEW TREASURE SHIPS AND OLD.? New York Globe. -If the present were the ample days of the great Elizabeth, and the news had reached the sturdy Hawkins or the reck less Drake at Plymouth that a shp with 59.C00.O00 In shining gold was afloat, we might expect feverish outfitting. In times when piracy was more respectable such a prize would have been too tempting to neglect. The stout lads who, laid the foundations of English greatness on tho sea would have risked a subsequent decla ration of war legalizing a sally A few years ago La Bourgogne carried $8,000,000; but probably it is true, as is said, that the shipment on La Lorraine Is. the largest single one of record. Yet, if tho comparison Is with -fleets. It is not true, as has been said, that a new record has been made. The flota, as the Spanish called the treasure squadron that for nearly 300 years annually sailed from Ha vana to Cadiz more than once conveyed gold and silver to the amount of J20.000.000. Such was the steady drain, which old Spain regularly made on the New World. Some of the dashes of the English against the galleons were most product ive. When Drake made his famous jour ney around the world, although England and Spain were then nominally at peace, off the coast of Peru he took from the Cacafuego treasure to the amount of $3,000,000. "On board was a certain quan tity of Jewels and precious stones, 13 chests of silver, SO pounds weight of gold, 2$ tons of uncoined silver, two very- fair gilt silver bowls, and the like trifles," says Chaplain Fletcher, the historian of the ex pedition, with clumsy pleasantry. A half century later one of Blake's captains caught the flota almost within sight of Cadiz. Of the four ships three were sunk, and one, with $3,000,000, caps tured. A sum, estimated at $9,000,000. went to- the hoard at the bottom of the sea, and there remains. In 17(2, when the Active and the Favorite caught the Hermlone off Cadis, her cargo summed up 544,648, and each captain received 65,000, the lieutenants 13,000, and the ablo sea men 455. No wonder privateering died hard. As late as 1S04 the English Inter cepted the -treasure ships, although again there was no war, and bagged three ships with $4,000,000 on board and sent one with $2,000,000 to the bottom. But the English were not always successful, as the story bf Greynvile's Revenge, as told in the "Ballad of the -Fleet," amply testifies. It was one vessel against 60 during a whole night, and it is not strange the loyal balladist-exclaims: "God of battles! was ever a battle like this In the world be fore?" And the rest they came aboard us,' and they fought us hand to hand. For a dozen times they came with their pikes and musketeers. And a. dozen times we shook 'em off as a dog tha shakes bis ears When he leaps from the water to the land. But the old privateering, buccaneering, semi-piratical days are over, and La Lorraine travels without convoy and without alarm. The men of today are perhaps as money loving, but they play the game of getting It according to dif ferent rules. Iowa's Humiliation. Waverly (la.) Demcrat. And yet it is published to the world that the Democracy of Iowa has Indorsed the stripling Hearst for President. The record in truth so shows, and according to the rules of the game it cannot be disputed. But yet, if this record assumes that the Democratic citizenship of Iowa Is for Hearst or the vagaries he represents, we want to denounce it as the infamous He that it is. There is not one In ten nay, not one In a hundred of the real Iowa Dempcrats but that" today bow their heads in humiliation at the action of the State Convention that presumed to give voice to their sentiments and desires. And to these, more than to any others, the truth need be told and pressed hard upon their understanding, lest in the despera tion of their shame they turn away from the party forever, instead of remaining where thoy may lend a hand toward pull ing it out of the slough of despond to which Its enemies have consigned it. Mr. Hitt and Uncle Joe. New York Evening Post. At last a public man has been found who is willing to take the Vice-Presidency. Incredible though It may seem, in view of the way this high place has been contemptuously declined, Representative Hitt would actually like to have It. More over, ho begins in the right way, by a sly thrust at the body over which he is em bltious to preside. He is a thoroughly ac ceptable candidate, a man of education and sound views, who ha3 served with distinction in the House. 'Yet, for the particular task which will be assigned to this year's Vice-Presidential nominee, he is not well fitted. A record of con scientious work upon our foreign relations In a period of peace Is not the thing to set the Western prairies afire. Mr. Hitt has not the homely wit nor the avuncular and benign aspect which throw a rural audience into transports when Mr. Can non appears. Clogging the Financial Wheel. New York World. It is little wonder that Great Britain is losing her commercial supremacy when the authorities, at the instance of the treasury, swoop down upon a captain of Industry like Ernest Terah Hooley and lug him off to Bow street. Mr. Hooley was arrested on complaint of a certain Alfred J. Paine, who insists that the de fendant induced him by false pretenses to Invest money in worthless undertak ings. Following the conviction and spec tacular suicide of Whitaker Wright, the arrest of Mr. Hooley is likely to exer cise a still further depressing influence upon British high finance. We order these things better in the United States, where high finance is held In more general es teem. Their Ages. New York Sun. Robert Roberts Hitt was 70 years old on January 16 last. He is nearly two years and four months older than Speaker Can non, who was 68 last Saturday. The Man in Chrysanthemum Land. Pauline Johnson in Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator. (Miss Johnson Is an Indian.) There's a brae little berry-brown man At the opposite side of the earth. Of the White, and the Black, and the Tan, He's the smallest in compasj and girth. Oh! he's little, and llely, and Tan, And he's showing the world what he's worth. For his nation Is bom, and Its birth Is for hardihood, courage and sand. So take off your cap To the brave little Jap, Who fights for Chrysanthemum Land. Near the house that the little man keep9 There's a Bug-a-boo buUdlng Its lair, It prowls, and it growls, and It sleeps At the foot of his tiny back stair. But the little brown man never sleeps For the Brownie will battle the Bear He has soldiers and ships to command. So take off your cap To the brave little Jap Who fights for Chrysanthemum Land. Uncle Sam stands a-watchlng near by, With his finger aside of his nose John Bull, with a wink of his eye. Looks around to see how the wind blows Oh! lolly old John, with ee Ever set on the East and its woes. More than hoeing their own little rows, These wary old wags understand. .But they take off their caps To the brave little Japs Who fight for Chrysanthemum Land. New he's given us Geishas, and themes For operas, stories and plays. His silks and his chinas are dreams. And we copy his quaint little ways; "" Oh! we look on his land in our dreams. But his value we fall to appraise. For he'll gather his laurel and' bays. His cruisers and columns are manned, And we take off our caps . To the brave little Japs Who fight for Chrysanthemum Land. N0TE.rAND COMMENT. Up in the AlV. There Is talk of an Ice cream supper, but ye scribe was not reliably Informed whether it is a sure go or not Cecil News In Arling ton Appeal. ' 1' . "Bound American. in Morocco" the kidnaped If ordinances can do It, Portland will soon be made moral. Most disappointing! A ffreboat fop two whole days and not a real big fire will come. The people that complain laws are not enforced are always those that want new ones enacted. The Jews at Paltava have presented the Czar with a loyal address, allee same some of the Irish, towns do King Ed ward. France was granted a sort of suzerainty over Morocco by the recent agreement with Great Britain. The Indications are that she was given a wildcat to pet. A pencil swallowed by a New York girl came out at her wrist, and the girl didn't feel It as much as a young reporter who sees the blue pencil going through his copy. The girls of Rosemary Hall, Rock Ridge (Conn.), have a custom of walking across country for a week" every year, each taking along a camping outfit. Once more the girls seem to-be out-strenuous-lng the boys. A butcher In Pittsburg is a Bryan Democrat. This fact rendered him sad on a recent occasion when he slaughtered a steer that seemed to be in great pain. On opening the carcase he found that the steer had swallowed a whole copy ol the Commoner, which had disagreed just as much with the animal a3 it does with Cleveland. An anonymous correspondent remarks on a post-card that "the dratted wind gets under and over the scoop hats and make their fair wearers nervous. Wouldn't It rattle you? It most certainly would If we wore a "scoop" hat, which, by the way, would not be an Inappropriate hat for a reporter. But then It would rattle us .still more it we had to wear skirts and the dratted wind showed any dispo sition to get under them. The moving-picture machine is likely to add a new feature to political campaigns, especially if the pictures are faked, as they are in the case of battle scenes. "Japanese capturing a Russian battery on tho Yalu" Is none the less exciting, be cause tho battery is captured somewhere In New York, and "President Roosevelt Giving Campaign Cigars to Negroes" will be hooted no less vigorously in the South, because the negro in the pictures is a mlnstral man and the Roosevelt is an other. Combining business with pleasure i3 sel dom accomplished so successfully as it was done by a Chicago man bearing the jaw-wrenching name of John Sztanka on a recent occasion. Mr. Sztanka made a trip to the health office and obtained a permit to bury his brother, and while down town dropped into the County Clerk's office and got a license to wed his brother's widow. England is periodically torn up over the "deceased wife's sister" bill, but how is the deceased husband's brother to be regarded? In Brooklyn last week a man tried to swallow a pig's foot, taken from a dish on the free-lunch counter. The foot stuck in his throat, and fearful lest he should be detected in the act of eating free lunches, the man tried to shove it down with his finger. This jammed the trot ter In a bad way, and the man had to ba taken to a hospital, where his throat was opened and the foot removed. The moral of this Is not quite clear, but the story indicates that when you open your mouth you should be careful not to put a foot In it. The Skamokawa Eagle contains a poem on the old descriptive ballad style. It tells about a logging camp on the river, and duly compliments the foreman, tha engineer, the chutebuilder and others, but the most heartfelt tribute is evident ly that paid the cook: There is Miss Olga Anderson, Well liked by all the crew, A regular queen In the kitchen. And knows just what to do; The meals are always ready. And seem so much like home. We always will remember her. No matter where- we roam. How is It that this paragon remained a "Miss." The loggers down the rivet must be slow. WEX. J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "Well!" he muttered, butting his head on a landing as he fell down the elevator shaft. "As Mr. Kipling would say, "That Is another story.' " Harvard Lampoon. "When your father comes home I shall tell him to give ou a whipping." "Hold on, mal lLet pa remain neutral don't drag him Into this affair." Judge. Heavy Tragedian There's a theatrical man ager in New Tork Just crazy to have me Join his company. Soubrette I should say he is. Chicago Daily News. Nodd I may be detained at the office tonight. Mis. Nodd Then, In case I want to call you up over the telephone, what is the number of your club? Town and Country. Ted She cuts rather an odd figure. Ned No wonder! Her gown cost nine dollars ninety eight, her hat two dollars forty-nine, and ner shoes one dollar Eeventy-four. Judge. Ier wish to look at some er false hair," eald the embarrassed young lady. "Very well, miss," rejoined the dlplomatlcsalesinan. "What shade does youj friend wish?" Chicago Dally News. "I wonder where they get enough money to pa for all the wars?" said Mrs. Dumleigh. "I'm not sure, my dear,' repnea uumieign, "but I Imagine the map publishers furnish It." Chicago News. Clara Our club bars out gum chewing and slang. Bertha It does? Clara Yes; women who chew gum and talk slang oughtn't to cut any Ice in a literary club. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. "What Is that automoblllst complaining about?" "He saye the laws are wrong. He tants all pedestrians to wear numoers and se cure permits before being allowed to cross the streets "Washington Star. First Student Pop sent me $10. Said h9 hoped I would expend It profitably. Seconi Student Did you? -First Student Partly. I put two cents of It Into a postage stage to write him for more. Judge. "What makes Brown so haughty these days?" "Why, his secret benevolent associa tion has elected him to an office that has title seven feet longer than any title there is In Smith's secret society." Chicago Evenirg Post. "Ugh!" exclaimed the exchange ticket, with drawing as far as possible into the corner ct th pocket, "you're -from a pawnshop." "Sup pose I am." retorted the pawn ticket. "I an the pawnshops one redeeming feature." Phil adelphia Ledger. Distinguished Artist Perhaps If you came here you will get a better light on the picture. This studio is not nearly large enough. Fair Visitor (desirous to understand) Tes, yes; I know. One can't get far enough away from your pictures! Punch.