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HEARST IN ILLINOIS.
The strength of Hearst in the Demo
cratic Convention of Illinois is an as
tonishing thing. That great state should
be one of the most cautiously conserva
tive in the Union; for Its business inter
ests are Immense, and Chicago is not
more easily the second city of the coun
try in population than in wealth and
business. But the wealthy men of busi
ness of Chicago are not largely asso
ciated with the Democratic party, as
they are in New York. The difference
and contrast appear in the Democratic
conventions of the two states.
The heart of the Democratic party in
Chicago Is socialistic through and
through. Such Is the dominance of Chi
cago in Illinois proportionately the
game as that of the City of New. Tork
in the state of the same name that
the Chicago Democracy, imbued with
the socialistic spirit, gives the Democ
racy of Illinois its own cast of charac
ter. Among the Democrats of Chicago
there Js, moreover, a less proportion of
native and a greater proportion of for
eign element than even in New Tork;
and it has had less political training
and less civic experience.
If Hearst can control the Illinois dele
gation it will give him powerful support
In the convention; for Illinois is the
third state in strength, and may be al
most a foil to New Tork, which will
be controlled "for Parker. Hearst, how
ever, cannot, as It appears, get the
nomination, nor even come near it; but
he will have a strength in the convert
tlon that will have to be reckoned with.
It may be, and indeed probably will
be, a powerful factor in deciding the
nomination. Hearst could not possibly
be elected; but since there is no proba
bility that he will be nominated, there
is no occasion for speculation on the
subject.
WHEAT IS STILL KING.
"Within thirty days new wheat will
be moving to the warehouses south of
Snake River, and in less than sixty
days this golden stream will be starting
on its annual flow through the Palouse,
the Clearwater, the Big Bend In fact,
all over the great Northwest A liberal'
increase in the acreage -and unusually
favorable weather have combined to
present better prospects for a record
breaking crop than have been in evi
dence at any corresponding period
since 1901. A continuation of present
prospects will result in a crop of ap
proximately 50.000.000 bushels for the
three states. Unlike some big years of
the past, the crop now approaching har
vest will command a very remunerative
figure, a 50,000,000-bushel yield at pres
ent figures being worth to the Pacific
, Northwest more than $35,000,000.
This sum will represent the actual
value of the cereal at tidewater mar
kets, but the stream of gold which
flows inland to pay for it drifts and
surges back and forth in a thousand
channels before Its power-is exhausted.
The supremacy of wheat as king of our
resources has at times been questioned,
but with such a crop as now seems
practically certain no other product of
the three states can approach this great
cereal in prominence as a factor in our
commercial life. The marketing of this
vast amount of wheat means labor and
attendant emoluments for an army of
harvesters and thresher men. It means
employment for more trainmen and
freighthandlers, stevedores and long
shoremen. The extra trains required to
move it to tidewater and the steamers
which take it to foreign ports consume
large quantities of coal, which in turn
causes the disbursement of more money
among, the coalmloers.
With such a large portion of the mil
lions that the foreigners' will pay for
the coming crop diverted Into channels
where It will be used over and over
again, it is difficult' to estimate how
many times for commercial purposes its
exact value will be multiplied as it is
passed from one branch of labor and
Industry to another. "Wheat for more
than forty years has been the pre-eml
nent factor in our commercial great
ness, and, while the inroads made on
the Industry by diversified farming
have been plainly discernible in short
crop years, they have all been to our
commercial advantage. The man who
abandoned wheat did so because he
found greater remuneration in some
thing else, and the country as a whole
was a gainer by the change. At the
sumo lmo -nrostlp-A of wheat has
been comparatively unaffected, for the
wheat farmer has pushed farther oacK
and opened up new territory that is
turning oft crops fully as large, and in
some cases larger, than those which
were secured from the land now paying
hf;i.w nroflts In diversified farming.
This increase .will for many years offset
the" loss occasioned by the use of wheat
land' for other branches of agriculture,
and, except in short-crop seasons, like
last year, the reign of wheat as king in
the Pacific Northwest will last ror
many a year.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL
CONVENTION.
The College of Electors, everslnce the
election of the elder Adams, has been a
mere registering body. In the days be
fore National conventions Presidents
and Vice-Presidents were not elected by
the people, but by the Legislatures of
the respective states of the Union; that
Is, the legislatures chose the ' electors
and the Electoral Colleges of each state
voted for the candidate of their choice.
Since the election of General Jackson,
in 1828, the different states, as -a rule,
have voted as a unit for President
though, there have been occasional di
visions of the electoral vote of states.
Oregon, California and Ohio have fur
nished recent examples.
For the first forty years of our Gov
ernment, candidates for President and
Vice-President were nominated' br ca
bals and'juntas, and Congressmen hold
ing .caucuses at thecapltal. The coun
try .was ruled by an oligarchy; a few
leaders who manipulated the members
of Congress designated the candidates
and influenced and directed the State
Legislatures In the choice of the Presi
dential Electors. "We had no National
or State Conventions, by which candi
dates for President or Governor were
nominated by delegates chosen by the
people, until about 1840, when the Con
gressional caucus, which nominated
Presidents from Madison to Jackson,
found itself finally superseded by the
National Convention.
Henry Clay made a vain effort In 1816
to upset the system of nomination of
President by Congress and caucus, but
Monroe was nominated, as had been
Jefferson and Madison, by the old
method. The Democratic Legislature of
New Tork In 1824 refused to give the
people authority to choose Presidential
Electors. The Tennessee Legislature
first nominated Jackson for President In
1826. Then Martin Van Buren, who saw
that Jackson was the coming man,
prompted Tammany Hall to declare for
"Old Hickory." In the Electoral Col
lege of New Tork for 1828 Adams had
sixteen votes and Jackson twenty
votes, but soon after the election of 1828
the system of choosing electors by dis
tricts was changed to electing by gen
eral tickets.
President Jackson, who favored Van
Buren for the succession, wrote a letter
early In the Spring of 1835 urging the
Importance of making a nomination by
National Convention. This conven
tion was called to meet at Baltimore on
the 20th of May, 1835. Over 600 dele
gates were present, and twenty-ona of
the twenty-six states of the Union were
represented. The "two-thirds rule," In
vented and adopted by the friends of
Van Buren at this convention, was
brought forward by his enemies at the
Natlona'l-Democratic Conventlon.of 1844
to plague and destroy the Inventor. At
the next National Convention, that of
1839, the Democrats renominated Van
Buren, while he "Whigs turned 'down
Clay, General Scott and "Webster and
gave the nomination to General Harri
son. Harrison was nominated ty tne
South, because tie was a native of Vir
ginia, a pro-slavery man. The nomina
tion of Harrison over his conspicuous
rivals was obtained by the same meth
ods that In later times nominated Polk,
Pierce, Hayes and Garfield. "Webster
was urged to take the nomination for
Vice-President, with Harrison, but he
spurned the offer with ill-concealed
contempt. Had he accpted the tender
he would have been President Instead
of John Tyler. He lost thus the only
chance he ever had of being President
The Democratic National Convention
met at Baltimore the 5th of May, 1S40,
and' unanimously nominated Van Buren
for President In the election that fol
lowed, out of 294 electoral votes Mr.
Van Buren received but 60; out of
twenty-six states he received the votes
.of only, seven.
As years roll on the National Con
vention begins to become a body regis
tering choice already accomplished by
the people, which was not always the
fact In the past From 1836 and 1840 to
1884 the -National. Conventions made a
real . choice, save when Lincoln and
Grant were renominated. Because of
Bryan there promises to be ati old-fashioned
contest In the Democratic Na
tlonal Convention like that of 1844, 1848,
1852 and 1856.
AGRICULTURE IN EDUCATION.
Agricultural colleges presided over by
wise men that Is to say,- by men well
fitted to direct the courses of study in
such schools are concerning them
selves In regard to the proper direction
of the education of boys who expect to
go back to farm life from college. Ag
rlculture, the oldest of industries, has
been sadly bungled at times and In
places in the great, abounding "West
Of this bungling Oregon In times past
has had Its full share. In recent years,
however, there has been a notable effort
made to bring farming to Its proper
place at the head of the industries, and
with this effort our State Agricultural
College Is In full accord. It has come
to be accepted as a fact that it is no
longer possible to farm in a general
way without knowledge of soils, drain
age, seeds, rotation of crops, etc.; that.
while there may be a "major crop," as
in college there Is a major study, other
crops must fit In,, so to speak. In a sup
plementary way, If the land is made to
do-Its best without exhausting Its pro
ductive properties, and the farmer Is
able to pursue his vocation with profit
Briefly, farming must be specialized
if the farmer Is to be successful in his
vocation. Dairying, hopgrowing, poul
try-raising, pomology, truckraising
where market conditions warrant, and
flaxgrowing where soils and demand
favor It beekeeping and the growing of
small fruits. Is each a special branch of
farming, In a sense overlapping each
other. In any one of these the young
farmer requires special Instruction If
he would, without loss of time Involved
In the slow progress of learning by-
experience, make it a means of profit.
Intensive farming has" not Come In to
displace extensive farming, but to sup
plement It, vary its monotony and in
crease Its profits. Going back to the
farm from the Agricultural College, the
young man, If he has. been wisely di
rected in his studies and experimental
work, will understand not only the best
'methods to be employed for increasing
the yield of the extensive or major .crop,
but he will in a general, way understand
the correlated branches of agriculture.
A knowledge of entomology must have
been acquired, whether he devote him
self to fruitgrowing, truck gardening or
the production of cereals. That Is to
say, he must know his friends from his
enemies in the animated nature on his
farm, or he will not know how to dis
criminate between them -to his own ad
vantage. These creatures are his real
competitors for the possession" of the
land and crops. Many of them contrib
ute to the health of the plants and trees
upon which they are found. It Is the
business of the student In the science ot
agriculture to find out which of these
Insects he can foster to his advantage
and which he must exterminate or
make war upon in the interset of his
crops.
It will be an inexcusable oversight
therefore, to return a boy to the farm
after a course In an agricultural college
without such knowledge of insects as
will enable him to control them. He
should for the same reason be made ac
quainted with birds. There Is no sci
ence, Indeed, that has more collateral
branches than that of agriculture. To
study it is to study the open book of
Nature itself. To this study the text
books are but auxiliaries and guides.
The outlook for special education In
agriculture Is good. Interest In such
education is widespread, and is' making
steady growth from year to year. This
being true, - it is Eafe to predict that in
the not distant future farmers as a
-class will be as specifically and as gen
erously educated as are men of any
other profession or vocation In life.
FOOD CONTRABAND OF WAR.
Russia declines to modify her rule de
claring coal, naphtha, alcohol and all
similar substances to be contraband, as
well as "all objects Intended for war by
sea or land, Including rice, provisions.
etc. Jurists make a distinction be
tween things essentially contraband.
such as munitions of war, and things
which may or may not be contraband,
according to circumstances. In 1793 the
English government confiscated provis
ions goinjr to France; but this elaim has
long" been regarded as barbarous and
untenable. By orders In council the
British cruisers were ordered to stop
all vessels having on board breadstuff's
and bound to France, and bring them
into any convenient port. She claimed
to justify her course by the law of na
tions that all provisions be deemed con
traband and liable to confiscation. The
American Government claimed that
when two nations went to war those
who chose to live In peace retained their
natural'rights to pursue agriculture or
manufacturing; to carry the produce of
their industry for exchange to all na
tions, belligerents or neutrals, as usual;
to go and come freely without molesta
tion. The enforcement of these British
orders In council nearly destroyed
American commerce.
These British orders in council were
soon modified, and British cruisers were
instructed to capture only those ships
which were found with the produce of
the French islands in direct voyage to
Europe. This gave direct trade to the
French Islands free to American ves
sels conveying the property of her own
citizens. During the whole Napoleonic
struggle the United States was a foot
ball for France and England to kick be
tween them. Under the. Impression that
neltler France nor England could dis
pense with the use of our wheat and
flourt 'President Jefferson in 1807 recom
mended an embargo on all American
shipping, until one or both the belliger
ents should acknowledge our neutral
rights by a repeal of their obnoxious
orders and decrees. The British orders
in council declared the coast from Brest
to the Elbe In a state of blockade, the
consequence of which was an interdict
of commerce with the blockaded ports
under pain of forfeiture of vessel and
cargo. Napoleon replied by issuing his
Berlin decree In 1806, by which Eng
land and her ports and their commerce
were placed under like interdict Jef
ferson's embargo act was a failure; we
could not starve out France and Eng
land. So far as the doctrine that food was
contraband of war Is concerned,, both
England and France enforced It against
us in the Napoleonic struggle, and so
pinched the profits of our neutral trade
out of our pockets, and Jefferson's Im
potent effort to bring France and Eng
land to terms by the embargo act only
made a bad matter worse. This was
due to the- fact that, owing to Jeffer
son's failure to build an adequate-navy,
we were too weak to defend our neutral
trade as we would today. "We were so
weak that France and England both
bullied us in turn.
But since the Napoleonic struggle we
have become a powerful Nation; we
supply England largely with her bread-
stuffs, and England could not afford to
accept the declaration that food Is con
traband of war, because it would mean
starvation In event of war with a great
Continental European power, and we
could not afford to accept It because It
would destroy our neutral trade with
Great Britain.
"When France claimed the right to
confiscate- rice to China in 1885 Lord
Granville remonstrated promptly and
strongly. At the beginning of the South
African "War England detained some
cargo.es consigned to Lourenco Marques
and for some time there was an Impres
sion that Great Britain intended to at
tempt to enforce a claim she had resist
ed when made by France in 1885 in her
Chinese "War. But England did not at
tempt to enforce the doctrine of food as
contraband of war against the Portu
guese port of entry, because no country
would lose so much as Great Britain by
the recognition of food as contraband of
war. Coal which Is designed for the
use of the war fleet may clearly be re
garded as contraband of war, but Rus
sia cannot hope to stop all English and
all American trade with the Industries
of Japan. Today England's protest is
merely academic, but in event of war
with Germany, France or Russia It
would become a burning Issue, not only
to England, but to the- United States.
England would refuse to accept the
principle of food as contraband of war,
because if she did her people might
starve, and the United States would not
accept It because It would, mean the de
struction of her enormous trade In food
exports with Great Britain.
The hitch In the proceedings In be
half of Mr. Perdicarls Is said to relate
to a guarantee of Immunity for the ban
dit who captured the American gentle
man who had wandered so far from the
protection of his flag. If Raisuli suc
ceeds in collecting hte ransom and se
cures immunity from 'punishment, the
seizure of Americans Will undoubtedly
increase at an alarming rate. It ha3
been ungallantly asserted that the ban
dit captors of Miss Ellen Stone should
have been punished by being left with
the lady on their hands. This would'
have deprived the American lecture
platform of an attraction of moderate
interest, but it would also have discour
aged the business of capturing Ameri
cans and holding ihem for ransom. It
does not appear that Mr. Perdicarls Is
much more of an American than was
Miss Stone, but as we failed to estab
lish a precedent in the way of discour
aging this specific form of bandltlsm In
her case we shall probably be obliged
to adopt the same rule In dealing with
Ralsull.
And stllj our bank clearings continue
to show satisfactory increases each
week over the corresponding- period In
previous years. Shipments of . small
fruit, are ahead T)f :any previous season
to date; the wool clip approaches' the
record in proportions and exceeds it
in net returns; the salmon catch Is fair.
and prices are good; grain crops are
going to break records, and the prices
are high. A building boom Is on all
over the city, county, state and North
west, and yet that sad. refrain of the
knockers "sings on and is never still,"
and out of the goodness of their hearts
these pessimists whisper to the new
comer and the old-comer alike that a
big smash isj coming "after the fair,"
and that now Is not the time to Invest.
Numerically these knockers are not
strong, but like the lone wolf on
Unalaska's shore, they make an un
comfortable noise, which, at times,
drowns the quiet unanswerable logic
of the good citizen who is content to
call attention to facts as they exist,
and as by sheer force of circumstances
they must continue to exist for many
years. In the face of the present mar
velous agricultural aid Industrial de
velopment in the Pacific Northwest,
the attempts of these calamity-howlers
to check the healthiest boom that ever
struck the Pacific Coast, will meet with
the same success as Was enjoyed by
Mrs. Partington when she swept back
the Atlantic Ocean with a broom.
The school children of the state may
well be taken into counsel in connec
tion with an event that is of future im
portance. The Lewis and Clark Expo
sition clearly comes under this head
The scheme first to Interest and then
instruct them concerning the Fair and
the historical event that it will celebrate
is a wise one, whether viewed from the
standpoint of the present or the future.
Enthusiastic, energetic, intelligent to
enlist the grand army of school children
In the ranks of workers for the" Fair is
to increase immeasurably the influences
that are working for its success. The
Lewis and Clark story, plodding and te
dious in detail to those who acted while
they wrote It, is to the adventurous
schoolboy of today a fairy tale with
wonderful embellishments; a historic
tale eagerly seized upon and readily
absorbed. "With this story all of the
school children of the Pacific North
west, extending eastward even to Mon
tana and the Dakotas, should be made
familiar during the next school year.
The 510 Immigrant rate from Europe
has stimulated steerage travel to such
an extent that the arrivals of foreigners
this season promises to. break all former
records. As none of the new arrivals
are union men, they quickly find work
which has been abandoned by strikers
in. New Tork and. adjacent territory,
and by sheer force of numbers promise
to settle the labor question along the
docks and in other places were brawn
and muscle are .first and, brains sec
ondary considerations. The growth of
the country for the last few years was
so rapid that the demand for labor out
distanced the supply, in spite of liberal
drafts on the Old "World. Now that
there has been a pause In the forward
movement and the supply of labor Is re
ceiving heavy additions from abroad,
there will probably be a decrease In the
number of strikes with which, we have
recently been troubled.
Inall parts of the country the Repub
lican victory in this state has been
hailed as an unmistakable Indication of
the way the National election will go.
The Administration's course with re
gard to the Philippines and Panama is
generally considered as having had
strong influence with the voters of Ore
gon, but above all the result is hailed
as an overwhelming indorsement of
President Roosevelt, the great Repub
lican majority being characterized by
many papers as a personal tribute to
the President himself. A Democratic
paper like the New Tork "World calls
the Oregon election "a rude awakening"
for its party. The universal interest
taken in the election and the unanim
ity shown In drawing the. same lessons
from the result may be gathered from
the clippings taken from papers re
ceived In one day's mail and reprinted
on this page.
The burial of "William Barlow will
take place today In the cemetery on
the hill east of Oregon City. This is a
historic burying-ground. "With the ex
ceptlon of Lee Mission Cemetery, at Sa
lem, there is not another in Oregon to
which the dust of so many state-build
ers has been consigned. Picturesque In
its- wild and solemn beauty, within
sound of the ceaseless monotone of the
falls of the "Willamette, overlooking the
city which was the goal of thousands of
Immigrants in their long march from
the Missouri to the Columbia in the
early years, this cemetery is altting
resting-place for the dust of pioneers.
Some of that feud-producing corn
juice which has made Kentucky famous
seems to have trickled over the state
line and swelled the veins of the Hoo
slers. Three dead and two fatally
wounded in a street duel in Bryants-
vllle, Ind., is a record which would be
creditable, or rather discreditable, to
the average Kentucky feud, which has
always had the reputation of being
nearer the real thing in that line than
anything else of which we read.
A lire term in Connecticut's state
prison Is preferred by Antonio Sapa-
rano, a murderer, to freedom In Italy.
When shown his pardon the other day,
a condition of which was that he return
to his native land, he exclaimed: "I
can't go back to Italy and work for 15
cents a day. I, would rather stay here
In prison.
A fine illustrated article on Oregon
appeared In the Ohio State Journal (Co
lumbus) June 5. Much of It was de
voted to the work of the Deschutes Irrl
gation & Power Company, of whose
undertaking The Oregonlan gave an ac
count recently. It Is publication of
such articles In other states that does
real service to Oregon.
Unlnstructed.
St Louis Globe-Democrat, (Rep.)
In order to avoid mistakes, speak of
"unpledged Democratic delegates." The
entire party Is "unlnstructecLV .
PAST, PRESENT. AND EUTDRE.ff j
Reflections on the Life arid Death' of
Levi Z. Lelter.
Chicago Tribune.
Fifty years ago Levi Z. Lelter came o
Chicago, th$n a city of 70,000 people, and
began clerking for small wages. Hun
dreds of young men were coming here
early In the '50s full of hope and ambi
tion, and resolved to win fame and for
tune. Many of them set out in the race
better equipped, to all appearances, than
Mr Lelter. They had more friends or
money. They had had college training.
Some failed utterly. Others began as
clerks and remained clerks. Others
achieved only a small measure of success.
What Mr. Lelter did all Chlcagoans
know. -'
He owed everything to himself and
nothing .to luck. It was not by accident
that he settled in Chicago. .He had what
Bagehot calls. In speaking of men of
business, "a wonderful guessing power of
what Is going to happen." and he guessed
correctly that this was to be a great
business city. He had faith In the growth
of Chicago, and when he came to have
money to invest ho invested it here. In
land and in local enterprises. He con
tributed to the development of the city
In many ways at the same time that he
was making money for himself. Mr. Lel
ter had the. business mind, the ability to
see opportunities, and the courage to
take advantage of them. Add to this un
bounded capacity for hard work and the
result is easily imagined. In time the
clerk of 1S54 became one of the merchant
princes of Chicago. In less than thirty
years he had accumulated a great for
tune, and there remained to him more
than twenty years of life In which to en
joy It as pleased him best
Possibly there will come to Chicago
this year some young man who will turn
out to be as fine a type of the self-made
man as Mr. Lelter was. But when he
dies the Chicago of 1934 will not have
quite the feeling regarding him that the
Chicago of today has for the self-made
man who died at Bar Harbor yesterday.
He came here when the city was a
sprawling country town. He was among
the first successful men of Chicago
whose names were known outside Its
limits. The city loses a remembrancer
of Its hopeful and boastful youth when
It loses Mr. Lelter.
A CALLOW CRITIC,
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
Recently in Portland, Or,, a young man
named Miles Walter F. Miles, to be ex-
iici-wua one oi tne narticroants in an
oratorical contest We have not seen his
speech in full, but one utterance Is suf
ficient and that is his declaration or af
firmation that "the editorial columns. of
our leading newsnaDers are knocked
down to the highest bidder."
we know nothing of this younjr man.
whence he cometh nor whither he goeth,
but either he Is a natural crank or has
confined his newspaper reading to a class
of papers which, though few in number.
justify the opinion expressed by him. If
tnis libel Is a result of a natural mental
Infirmity he would be better oft In an
Institution where weak minds" are attend
ed to, but if his opinion is formed" from
reading newspapers he can Improve his
mind very much by reading decent ones.
such a course might also Improve and
strengthen him so that he could be more
fair . and truthful when he comes to
speak of newspapers.
Boiled down, this young fellow charges
that the editorial columns of all the lead
ing newspapers are for sale. He makes
no exceptions and no distinctions, but
lumps them all together and declares in
effect that none of them are honest If
he had charged that the advertising col
umns ot the newspapers, are for sale his
fault would have heen less, but even
that would not have been strictly true.
There are many papers In the country
which positively reject certain advertis
ing matter and will not tflka It at any
price, but all know who have had any
experience with newspapers that a great
deal of advertising matter Is, printed
which the editors and managers 4o not
indorse, and If it is 'couched In proper
language It is not the business of the
management to investigate every such
advertisement and certify that It is gen-
ulne and proper.
"When it comes to the editorial columns
the case Is entirely different It may be
true that there are editors who can be
bought, but to make this charge against
all, and especially all the leading ones. Is
a miserable slander. We suspect that
this man would have a very lively and
unpleasant experience If he should ap
proach the editor of any leading news
paper and make a money offer for that
editor's opinions. It is very likely that
he would find his way down stairs very
much accelerated, and that he would
have very little Inclination to call again.
General Kuroki's French Descent.
New Tork Tribune.
Several French soldiers, survivors of the
Chinese expedition of 1856, are responsible
for the statement that General Kurokl,
who Is leading the Japanese forces In
Manchuria, Is In reality half French. His
name, they say, Is properly spelled Cu
rique. According to the story of these
soldiers, a French officer. Captain Cu
rique, while serving in China In 1S56, mar
ried a Japanese girl. A son was born to
them, who was given the Japanese name
Kurokl, corresponding to the French Cu
rlque. This son Is General Kurokl. Cap
tain Curique died last year In France. Un
til the last he corresponded with his son,
who has since become famous.
Shirt Made In Six and a Half Minutes
Chicago Tribune.
The up-to-date song of the shirt lasts
just six and one-half minutes, according
to a factory Inspector for whose edifica
tion the foreman of a shirt factory start
ed a piece of cloth on the rounds and
made it come out ready for a customer's
back before tho second hand on a watch
had revolved seven times. In this time
seven girls had contributed their efforts
to the finished product One machine in
this shop makes 16,800 buttonholes a day,
or 23 In a minute, and in a ten-hour day
a man can cut 250 dozen shirts.
The Thing Is Proved.
Chicago Record-Herald.
"What's the use claiming that one man
has as much of a show as another In this
tforld? If you'd -vvrltten Shakespeare's
play's probably nobody would ever have
paid any attention to them. Look at me,
for Instance.
"I've said more than "40 times that I
didn't believe In vacations, and nobody
ever paid any attention. Then along comes
Russell Sage, saying what I'd said, before
him, arid everybody gets excited over It
It's not what you say In this world. It's
who says It"
A Good Story.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, tells a story
illustrating the differences of pronunciation In
different parts of the country. "It Is related,"
says the Senator, "that when the first tide
of New England settlers began to drift to
Kansas, Mlssourlans tied 9. cow at each cross
ing of the Missouri River. If the emigrant
said 'cow,' ho was permitted to crose, but If
he pronounced It "keow,' he was told to return
E&st, because the natives were satisfied that
h was an evil-minded abolitionist. The Kan
sas people evened up by tying a bear on their
side of the river, and If the emigrant eald
bear.' he was given the right hand of fellow
ship, b'ot If he pronounced It bar,' he was
given an hour to get back to Missouri, because
be was an advocate of slavery."
A Summer Item.
Town Topics.
"By Maw Eddy! I'm glad my wife thinks
he believes In Christian Science."
"Why. has It any good points."
"Sure. She can't Insist now that she't got
to go away for health this Summer."
THE OREGOX ELECTION. '
Forecast That Was Realized.
Philadelphia North American.
As It (the result of the election) stands,
the gain over the Republican plurality of
two years ago approaches 5000 votes, and
as an augury of Republican, triumph in
November it Is just that much brighter.
In this connection an editorial published
In The Portland Oregonlan a month ago
showing the weight attached to this
yeaV's election Is of interest The Ore
gonlan said:
Oregon's plurality In June will either be
larger or smaller than the 15.000 plurality
thrown for members ct Congress two years
ago. It it Is larger, the Nation wllr conclude
that Theodore Roosevelt's character and policy
are approved here and elsewhere. 'It It is
smaller, every enemy the President has.
whether on Wall street or in the South, or
among land pirates In the West, will take
courage and redouble attack upon him.
Tnere Id another thing that men will say Ir
Oregon gives a Republican majority ot 20.COO
In June, and that Is that Roosevelt Is popular
in the West. It is a: thing that ought to be
true and ought to be said.
Oregon has done what The Oregonlan
hoped it would do. Perhaps It means
nothing. The chances are that It means a
great deaL At the very least It exposes
the hollownes3 of .the cry concerning
"Roosevelt's weakness" raised by "our
friends the enemy."
Nothing Mysterious,
Hartford (Conn.) Times;
As to Oregon, there Is no mystery. Im
perialism and Bryanlsm together have
made It no longer a doubtful state. Bryan
drove the older Democrats out ot the or
ganization, and turned a host of young
voters, who should have become Demo
crats, Into the Republican party. Ore
gon has had a Governor for two
years who is called a Democrat but who
Is more socialistic than Democratic In
his ideas, and who has helped by his acts
to destroy the party. The Democracy in
Oregon is In a bad way, and the same
may be said of the other Pacific -Coast
states.
A Democrat's Disappointment.
Montgomery Advertiser..
It occurs to us that The Portland Ope
gonian has an Inordinately high opinion
of its state, much as we admire state
pride and loyalty. Speaking of the elec
tion of membire of Congress it declared
that "if Oregon should elect a Democratic
member, the Republican party of the
United States will get a blow. In the face,
and so would President Roosevelt" We
should have been glad to see the slap ad
ministered, both for party reasons and
to see how Roosevelt and his party would
take It but the state decided to" let them
off this time and stick to Its sinful course,
An Accurate Statement.
Buffalo Evening News.
Mr. H. W. Scott of The Portland Ore
gonlan, Is very accurate In his statement
of fact when he telegraphs the President
tnat the tremendous Republican vote In
the election In Oregon "Is a tribute to
you." That Is precisely what it is, for the
main point of Democratic attack along
the whole line and even down to the least
important of local elections is Colonel
Roosevelt This splendid achievement of
the Oregon division of the party is but
the first sign of the ground swell that Is
presently to rise Into a tidal wave over
whelming the opposition.
The One Issue.
New Tork Press.
In Oregon It was not the tariff Issue In
the abstract, nor the trust Issue In the
abstract, nor any other Issue that was
tried. The Issue was Roosevelt Roose
velt's treatment of the trusts, through the
circumstance that Roosevelt enforcement
of the anti-trust law in the case of the
Northern Securities merger brought the
matter home to the Oregon voters, was
conspicuous In the canvass. But In the
main the Issue was what Mr. John Sharp
Williams and other Democratic leaders
love to say it is In the whole country as
In Oregon. It was Roosevelt
No Worry Needed.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
In 1S3S McKinley carried Oregon, after
a stiff fight by less than 2500 plurality.
Four years later his plurality was 13,141.
If It Is true, as today's dispatches as
sert, that the Republican candidate for
Supreme Court Justice has just swept
the state by something like 20,000 votes,
while the two Republican Congressman
elected have secured larger majorities
than was the case two years ago, If
seems to Indicate that the administration
need waste no worrlment on the Pacific
Coast
An Echoing Shot.
Springfield (Mass.) Union.
Oregon has "fired the first gun In the
campaign and its echo will not dle out
until the general elections In November,
when the country will express Its confi
dence In Theodore Roosevelt and give the
seal of its approval to his administration.
As in Oregon, so will It be with the other
Western states. The strength of Roose
velt Is not to be measured by' the dis
content of a few Wall-street magnates,
whom he has antagonized by enforce
ment of the laws.
Pretty Good Starter.
Troy (N. T.) Times.
Twenty thousand Republican majority
In Oregon! How is that for a starter for
the 1904 campaign? That shows what the
Pacific Coast thinks of the Republican
party and Theodore Roosevelt and how
It will treat the ticket to be nominated by
the Chicago convention. Oregon is the
herald of a continental victor'. The Pa
cific Coast, which now, as well as .the
Atlantic, Is a seaboard of promise and of
power, pronounces for Roosevelt and Re
publicanism. Indicates a Clean Sweep.
New York Evening Mail.
"It is 20,000, not less, perhaps more,
Oregon's tribute to you,." wires a Port
land friend to President Roosevelt.
Whether the Republican majority in this
Pacific Coast state Is a little under or a
'little over that figure. It Is a record.
What Oregon has. done Is an earnest of
what Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Ne
vada, which went to Bryan ia 1200, may
be expected to do. A clean sweep of the
entire region beyond the Missouri is in
dicated. Reliable Barometer.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
. As tested by tho poll in the election
just held, Roosevelt's lead in Oregon in
1S04 will reach a figure never closely ap-
uroached In the past Oregon's June
election in Presidential years has) since
the disappearance of Ohio and Indiana as
October states, been the most reliable ad
vance barometer of the strength and di
rection of the partisan currents of the
big National canvasses.
Democratic "Iss.ues'' Insignificant.
Baltimore American.
It appears to be a reasonable inference
from the result in Oregon that the Issues
which the Democrats have endeavoreti to
lug to the front have no significance in
that part of the country, that the people
are satisfied wltn prevailing conditions
and not disposed to change them for
Democratic visions.
N On National Issues.
Springfield (111.) Journal.)
In the .first indica'tlon of public senti
ment regarding National Issues In the
pending Presidential contest the results
are decidedly encouraging to Republicans.
Oregon 13 the first state in, the Union to
elect Congressmen, and the campaign In
that state was fought upon National
issues.
. NOTE Affg COMMENT.
It's-wronc tot swear, but the Morri
son-street bridge is wrong, too.
Surely the Munroe-Jeffries fight isn't
going to emulate the Baltic fleet in
postponing action every day.
It a weddlnff in the East is to be
really fashionable.- Miss Roosevelt
must be one of the bridesmaids.
There is something of the true Amer
ican .humor In mobbing .an umpire and
then having- him arrested, for disturb
ing the peace.
A few more receptions such as he
met with In London, and .Dowle will
be envying his prototype the assist
ance given him by "the ravens.
The first forest fire of the season has
,been reported from Sribqualmie. Just
becauso the Northwest has timber to
burn there's no reason why we should
burn it
Barney Oldfield has been arrested.
for running his auto 35 miles an hour.
Quite right: every time the champion.
drops to such a pace he should be run
in for loitering.
The superstitious should be of good
cheer. There's nothing unlucky about
the violent deaths of so many mem
bers of the "13" Club. On the con
trary, it's lucky that persons foolish
enough to belong to such an outfit
should die off.
"When a Tacoma spiritualist persisted
in -materializing the ghostses of such
musty deaders as Socrates and Dem
osthenes to the exclusion of more
novel spooks, no one could blame his
class for rebelling and establishing
a new society. It Is foolish to expect
Socrates might prove capable of gos
siping about your friends on the as
tral plane if that Is the right expres
sion. A newer ghost, one that is less
dead. Is needed for that The new so
ciety will have the word "harmony"
as a prominent part ot its name. All
squabbling people talk much ot har
mony, and there is apparently more
fighting among spiritualists than
among any other people. It is this
that causes some people to regard spir
itualism as' an improvement upon other
forms of belief. Religion leads to
scrapping; therefore the creed that
promotes the greatest number of
scraps must be the most highly devel
oped. It is -very wrong for Mrs. Ballington
Booth to disturb a congregation by an
nouncing that she can see from the
pulpit a number ot convicts (Query:
Can a man be an ex-convict?) seated
in seeming rectitude amongst their
families. "What a fever of curiosity
such a statement must bring on In a
staid, church. "What horror for the
BIffkins to discover that the Sniffkins
were haunted by a skeleton clad in
stripes. And what virtuous indignation
,the- Sniffkins would feel on learning
that the Snuffkins, whom they had re
garded as exemplars, were no better
than themselves; Old Snuffkins, Indeed,
having stolen $50,000 less than Papa
Sniffkins. "With due deference, to Mrs.
Booth's judgment, we think that it
would have- been wiser on her part
to have completed her statement by
mentioning the names of ber prison
acquaintances. The -churchy would thus
have' been spared a period ot unrest.
The ferment would have subsided in
less time, and the business of the
The Boston Herald wanders from the
discussion of the end-seat hog Into
reminiscences ot the family pew In
church. In that enclosure there was
nn trouble over the end seat It was-
invariably occupied by the father of
the family, no matter what distm
guished visitor might be present as
his guest Next the wall sat the
mother of the family, and in Between
sat the family Itself, where it cpuld be
easily controlled by the watchful end
people. The Herald's reminiscences
will touch a chord In tne memory ot
others. The rare occasions when the
head of the family was absent from
the post of honor were sure to be
marked by scheming and grabbing for
the outside seat, where the corner at
forded more ease than could be found
in the hard and upright back, favored
by most churches. No wonder tne
churchgoer struggled for the end seat
with greater determination tnan even
the man in the car. Sermons last or
used to last, longer than the usual
trip In a car, and there was no change
of scene. All things considered, It was
well that precedence determined the
right to the end of the j?ew. If might
made right in that connection, there
would have been some sanguinary
struggles in the kirk.
"WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Little WHUfr-Wbat'3 a cannibal, pa? Pa
One who loves bis fellow man. my son.
Chlcago Dally News.
"Did he start on his Journey well armed
"Tee. he bad two revolvers beside his auto
mobile." Princeton Tiger.
"How do you like that college song Miss
Screecher Is singing?" "Is that a- college
song? I thought It was a college yell.
Puck.
"It's mighty queer about families. There a
Mrs. O'Shaugnessy-she has no children, an
If I raymlmber corrlctly. it was the same
with her mother." Life-
"Honest, now. Jones, did you see a burglar
in your room when you called the P"r
"No: my wife had shifted the mirror In
my room and I didn't know it."
Miss Tytt-Whlch do you think Is correct
"I would rather go home" or'I had rather
go homer Mr. Nevergo-Nelther. I d rath
er stay here."-St. raul Pioneer.
Irascible Old Gentleman (to cab driver)-I
say. Cabby, we're not gotng to a funeral.
Cabby (promptly)-No, and we ain't going
to no bloomln' fire. elther.-Illustrated Bits.
"What do you like most about going to
Sunday school, my little man?" asked the
benevolent stranger. "Coming home, prompt
ly replied the little man. Philadelphia Rec
ord. Applicant I am very hard ajf and cannot get
anything to do. Politician Well, there Is the
Vice-Presidency. Appllcant-Oh. I couldn't
demean myself by accepting that-Town. Top
ics. "In these days," said Professor Burleigh,
"too many society women bring up a child
In the way the nurse girl says It shall go
when they bring them up at all." Cleveland
Leader.
"So," eald her new neighbor, "your hus
band talks Russian?" "Oh. yes. quite fluent
ly." "I had supposed the noise I have been
hearing was. made by your girl ireezmg ice
cream." Chicago Record-Herald.
"My husband la 00 poetic," said one lady
to another in a car the other day. "Have
you ever tried rubbln his J'Inta with harts
horn liniment mum?" interrupted a beefy
looking, woman . with a market ' basket at her
feet, who was seated at the lady's elbow and1
overheard the remark. "That'll straighten
him out as quick as anything know of. It
he ain't got it too bad." The Register.