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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.