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Wbeatley, 83 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House News Stand. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 55 degrees; minimum, 47 degrees, precipitation, .16 of an inch. TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain; southerly winds. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1904. THE DESPERATION OF A CANDIDATE. It is truly pathetic to find the Demo cratic candidate sorrowing over the unscrupulous methods his opponents are employing In the campaign. His eense of propriety and of civic virtue is awfully shocked at what he beholds or imagines. He puts up this story, to-wit The chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee was the Secretary of Commerce and Xabor. In that position he had opportunities for gaining Infor mation that he is believed to be turn ing to use In politics. As chairman of the committee he Is now trying to elect the President His chief duty in this endeavor is the collection of a campaign fund. "And now it is notorious," shrieks Mr. Parker, "that there has resulted from this organized lmportu nlty whatever may be .the precise way in which it Is made effective an over flowing treasury to the committee, of which boast is openly and continually made Let us say, first, that Republicans haven't been hearing about this "over flowing treasury"; much less have they heard of any "boasting" about it On the contrary, it is "notorious" through out Republican circles that money is and has been extremely scarce for this campaign. All who have approached Republican headquarters have received the same uniform tale about the scarc ity of funds. Judge Parker Is simply repeating statements Invented by press and speakers of his own party, of which they have no proof whatever. From what "corporations" or "trusts" has Chairman Cortelyou been extorting or soliciting funds? Party press and party speakers have been making this asser tion for weeks. Challenged to name even a single Instance, they have made no response except to4 repeat their general assertion. If they had such In formation, can it be supposed they would no thasten to give R? But, like liars when they perceive they are not believed, they raise their voice still higher. But what of the party programme of this virtuous gentleman, whose senslbll itles are so stirred by an Invention of his own partisan supporters? It Is based on an immorality of depth and oreadth and heighth unequaled in our politics, and long lasting. It started with an alliance of the pro-slavery South with the great City of New York, in the days before the Civil "War, and has continued to this day. During the civil war New York was the only dis loyal city of the North, and so disloyal was it that it was necessary to detach divisions of .veteran soldiers from the Army of the Potomac to put down Its riotous resistance to the war for the Union. The city threw an Immense majority against Lincoln In 1860, and again In 1B6 the vote being more than two to one against that Lincoln whom Judge Parker now pretends to laud and to honor. To this day the combination of the City of New York with the Solid South has been maintained the latter through suppression not only of the suf frage but of discussion, throwing In 159 electoral votes, always counted in ad vance; the former undertaking through Tammany, the most -flagitious as It iaM the largest municipal organization that ever existed, to supply through the vast voting hordes of the city, and through the Influence of great combinations of capital that resist all efforts to bring them under legal control, the remaining number of electoral votes necessary to the success of this gigantic conspiracy against the fundamental principles of the country and its government Judge Parker never has been the man to re sist this conspiracy; he now Is Its fig urehead and the man to do its bidding, if Its present scheme should succeed. Individual Democrats have been and are worthy men; but the Democratic party has been infamous, these fifty years, and the enemy of the country It is the present head of this party who is distressed- lest its opponents should sully the honor and subvert the liberties of the country! It certainly Is an in stance of sufficient hardihood: and If it be said that this criticism Is harsh, the ready answer Is that Judge Parker's attack deserves even harsher treatment The candidate of the conspiracy be tween Tammany and the Solid South backed as all know by Belmont's bank' ing and railway syndicates, and by Havemeyer, of the Sugar Trust, and as Is commonly believed by Rockefeller and. Rogers, of Standard OH, assuming a virtue and prating about the subver sion of hosest suffrage and overthrow . of political Ideals, by -opponents 1 Let it pass for bald effrontery; for that's what It is. ' ' It is, difficult always to ascertain the sources of campaign funds, or the amount of the contributions. In every political campaign money is necessary. and if the sums are supposed to be large conjecture will be busy about the sources of them. It is fully believed that great syndicates and trusts are backing Parker; yet the belief has no positive proof, but stands on the be havior or attitude of the Belmont- .Havemeyer-iSugar Trust-Standard Oil, Coal Trust and Railway gangs, some of whom are openly for Parker and have been from the first, while others have spoken with Intense hitterness against Roosevelt. Thus, there are more indi cations by far that the so-called trusts are acting -with the Democratic Com mittee than with the Republican. In any event the "inside" never will be known; but it is known that a syndicate acting through Belmont at .St. D6uls, nominated Parker, and it is known that Havemeyer, of the Sugar Trust, and Rogers, of Standard Oil, have been roaring against Roosevelt. On the other hand, if Judge Parker or his committee had any such indications that great trusts and corporations were supporting Roosevelt, you may besure they would be specific In their statement; for" it would be worth everything to Parker If they would name some of the mighty trusts and corporations which he says "have been putting up fabulous sums of money for election of Roosevelt. But he will not, nor will his committee. Not that they prefer the indirect and skulk ing method. They simply have no facts. Parker would be elected If he could support his statements by giving names and particulars; and you may well suppose he would if he could. SHARP STRATEGY OF PROIOS. Smart are prohis. Why? For letting local optionists bear the heat and bur den of last election while they them selves dozed in the shade and laid plans to get busy. Prohis knew all the time that the local option bill was a prohibition dodge, but kept still as mice. "When optionists denied prohibition, prohis didn't squeak. But I. H. Amos, big chief of the prohis, laughed in his sleeve. Now that the law is enacted and prohis are busy, optionists - cry Sneak!" It's too bad, really. Smart prohis. Stupid optionists. Did a man dare call the local option bill Its name last June, a frantic anti- saloon leaguer or reformer was a-strad- dle of his neck. Amid it all prohis moved cat-footed and with bated breath. But they quietly promised to use the bill for all the prohibition it was worth, should It be enacted Into law; yes, Indeed, there was no mistake about that Their benighted allies did not. however, think they had enough spunk. And so the allies used the prohl polit ical machinery, not knowing it was loaded. If prohis were mum, discretion was the better part of political valor. As often as they boasted of their purpose, down on their heads showered the wrath of their allies. Whenever sharp-eyed mortal detected prohibition optionists howled round him like Co manche Indians. If he intimated that things were not perfectly lovely be tween the prohis and the anti-saloon leaguers, he was all but scalped and tomahawked. And now, behold the voter, who was beguiled with the promise of precinct option, unable to accomplish his desire unless he shuts out liquor from the whole county. Verily his ears were fed on wind. Smart prohis. A gold brick. truly. INDEPENDENCE THAT IS REAL. Ethan Allen, of Tacoma, Democratic candidate for the Legislature, unlike some of his colleagues higher up on the ticket seems to be a man possessing firm convictions as to right and wrong, honesty and dishonesty, and a proper respect for the rights of his fellow-men. When the Pacific Coast Lumber Mann facturers' Association asked Mr. Allen vto sign fa. pledge to support "any and all measures" that may secure for the state the 40-cent lumber rate demanded. Mr. Allen declined and accompanied the declination with some excellent reasons therefor. Among other food for reflec tion which he supplied to the voters was the following: A man who may enter public office, has no conceivable right to pledge himself to other action than the honorable conduct of that of fice. I am In favor of this 40-cent rate, yet, because I refuse to pledge myself to support "'any and all measrurea" that the lumber as sociation shall ask me to support, my oppo nents are to be held up to you as the only ones fit to be Intrusted with the lawmaking power. I wear no collar, neither railroad nor lumber. There Is nothing in the past history or the present outlook In Washington poll tics to warrant the belief that this manly declaration for good, old-fash ioned honesty In politics will be recog nlzed. At the same time It Is refresh ing, and serves to call attention again to the Iniquitous methods which the lumbermen have adopted In their efforts to secure a 40-cent rate. As we have previously stated. The Oregonlan is not passing on the merits or demerits of the 40-cent rate. That is a matter which comes within the province of the Interstate Commerce Commission or the courts, and it can never be adjusted by any act of a State Legislature un less that Legislature stoops to the methods of the grafter and blackmailer. The support of "any and all meas ures" means much at a Legislature, especially a Washington Legislature. Every man who has ever attended the sessions at Olympla can recall numer ous "cinch" bills that have been Intro duced by political highwaymen for no other purpose than blackmail and ex tortion. These bills will, of course, be in evidence at the coming session of the Legislature. No body of lawmakers ever assembled in Washington or any other state without Including in their number a few unscrupulous grafters who can be depended on to handle such legislation. Accordingly we shall And emergencies arising at Olympla wherein the votes, of these outlaws will count as heavily as those of the presumably more respectable members of the Legls lature. Then the decent and hlghmlnd ed members who have pledged them selves to support "any and all meas ures" will be called upon to redeem the pledge they have taken. Among dther legislation slated for ac tlon at Olympla Is the repeal of the antl-gambllng law. The demand for the repeal of this law comes from about as select an assortment of social out casts "as ever cut a throat or scuttled a ship," but the gamblers "will go to the front with at least a few votes pledged, and the. credentials for ecur ing others. The logical sequence Is a trade between the gamblers and the lumbermen. But this prostitution of the lawmaker's powrs does sot end with the assistance given bad legisla tion. It can also be used as a club with which to kill off measures of real merit Nothing quite so pernicious has yet been Introduced into a political cam paign by respectable men, although such tactics have long been in vogue by the grafters and blacklegs of the under world. The independence of Mr. Allen and one or two other members who have followed his example will probably cost them their election, but there will be no humiliation In defeat under such circumstances. ALL HAIL TO CLACKAMAS! Many a futile rainbow has faded un seen In the spray of Willamette Falls and many a noble chlnook has wasted in the swirl below, but no' longer is It vanity. The Hon. George Brownell Is Acting Governor; and not only that, but Acting Secretary of State to boot and President of the Senate. Dreamiest of dreams come true! Who was ever so big before in Oregon that he could oc cupy these three highest pinnacles at once? Though the two-fold cloak of dignity shall drape George's figure but a hasty span, the patter of Winter's rain on Autumn's leaves in Clackamas no longer Is dreary, nor melancholy the murmurous music of Willamette beside McLoughlin's cypressed tomb. Never before has fertile Clackamas nursed In her bosom the chief of state. Years back the first Provisional Governor, George Abernethy, was hers, but that was long ago, ere farmers learned to trade their votes lor free legal service In the city by the falls. How will the Clackamas Nonpareil use his prerogatives and Immunities? What occasion could be more "extraor dinary," In the meaning of the consti tution, than this for convoking the Legislature? Will he remove the Su preme Judges, call out the militia to execute the laws against the corpora tions and railroads and labor unions, summon the "naval forces of this state" to stop illegal fishing in Clackamas River, empty the Penitentiary and dis miss Governor Chamberlain's myrmi dons and their families who are said to have fattened themselves on that Insti tution? Will he makeJlm Campbell Adjutant-General? How about Grant Dlmlck for Penitentiary Warden and Tom Ryan for something else? Might not Physician Kuykendall's hope go glimmering? Could we not have Sena tor Fulton's friends put on the Pilot Commission at Astoria, or would that be possible after Senator Fulton has chased George away from re-election to Presidency of the Senate? And the fees of Chamberlain are they not George C.V.? The princely emoluments of Dunbar, too? Verily the worthy poor of Clackamas County and all that vote should live dry and warm this Winter. Let not Will Gatens,' Chamberlain's secretary, usurp Mr. Brownell's prerog ative. What, a clerk more exalted than the sweet statesman of the Clackamas and the President of the Senate? Let Gatens keep off the grass. George C. shall plant his legs under that mahog' any desk In the Statehouse and Impress the bosom of his pants on the executive scat and be custodian of those regi mental colors that bear blood stains of Oregon heroism from beyond the sea PRUDENOE IN AERIAL NAVIGATION. It is impossible to withhold a word of admiration for Professor T. S. Baldwin, of San Francisco. He Is Inventor of the dirigible balloon which has been stupe fying amazed thousands at the St Louis Fair by Its wondrous flights through the air. Some days since the airship slowly sailed into the heavenly blue with a very tight hold on mother earth by means of a long and strong rope. Then the rope was discarded and the- monster tested its pin feathers, so to speak, by rising to the prudent height of twenty feet and doing various Interesting stunts. Then again the navigator, who had returned from pre vlous excursions with a whole hide, sound limbs and tolerably serene nerve. essayed to fly over the entire City of St Louis. He got back all right Yes terday he surpassed all previous at tempts by rising 1000 feet, bucking the wild winds at will, and coming back to terra firma right side up with care. It is to be observed that throughout all these perilous ventures the Inventor risked his life by proxy only. He pro cured the services of a young aerial navigator who had more faith In the machine and his own good luck than Baldwin had. But the Inventor doubt less thought it unfair to science and a curious and Interested world to take the chance of depriving posterity of the benefits of his further experiments, and he remained on land. He knows the dangers of the fickle air currents; of a great silken bag confainlng an explo sive element like gas; of a heated mo tor adjacent to th6 gas; of steering ap paratus likely from the nature of its construction to get out of order; and of the deadly power of gravity over live bodfes falling from a great height The airship navigator Is and probably will remain on a par In the hazard of his calling wlththe parachute Jumper; and if he keeps It up the end Is likely to be the same. So we' shall continue to re gard the Baldwin experiments with In terest and no little concern for Bald win's substitute. A DEMOCRATIC BOOMERANG. The American farmers, who are this year receiving the highest average price that they have realized for their wheat since the early '20s, will be much pleased with the efforts of the Demo crats to have the tariff on wheat re moved. As a sample of ludicrous rea.- sonlng the Democratic argument In fa vor of its removal Is also amusing. The Dallas (Tex.) News very kindly sounds the warning for the Republicans with the statement that "the short crop of American wheat and Hie rise In the price of bread as a natural consequence have brought the Republican party face . to face with a condition which it little anticipated when Its leaders framed the Dingley bill." The News predicts that the question will be one of the most Important that will come before the next session of Congress, and warning ly remarks that "It remains to be seen whether the dominant party will stand out against , the people to the enrich ment of a few traffickers in wheat who alone are benefited by the Dingley law." Here Is argument fully as lucid as the mathematical calculation xhlcb, by the addition of two and two, secures a sum total of five. The Dingley tariff on wheat was placed there for the protec tlon of the.-'Amerlcan farmer. Never before, since the enactment of the law. has there been so little wheat offering for export or such high prices main talned at home. And yet Europe and all of the rest of the world are today I buying cheap wheat, and nothing but the tariff prevents the American farmer from belnjfc subjected to the competition of India, the Argentine and Russia. The trend of the American markets for the past few months seems to indicate a home demand for nearly all of our wheat at prices materially higher than those prevailing abroad. These prices would be impossible If the duty of 25 cents per bushel would be removed, and the American farmer would suffer accordingly. The present is exactly the condition that was an ticipated when the Dingley law was framed. It may be questioned whether or not these prices are warranted by actual conditions at home, or are partly due to manipulation, but there can be no question about the advantage of the tariff at this time, so far as the farmer Is concerned. The "traffickers in wheat" have no concern in the matter. and are decidedly indifferent as to whether there Is" a duty on wheat or whether It comes In free. Prices cut no particular figure with their operations. They buy and sell on the market price, and their profits and margins are prac tically the same whether the farmer Is receiving 50 cents or 51 per bushel for the cereal. There are a great many thousand wheatgrowers In Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and they have all made money this year because the shortage In the Middle West and Northwest has created a demand for their wheat at higher prices than it would command in Europe. Oregon wheat, or wheat flour, from these three states has been sold as tar isast as New , York, Boston ana Philadelphia, and as far South as New Orleans, ajuFffie busffifessHicsJjeen rjan- uerea possioie oniy oecause me auiy on foreign wheat was sufficiently nigh to shut It out of the field. As evidence that the duty has added nearly 25 cents per bushel to the value of our wheat, there have been several occasions this season when the price In this country lacked less than three cents of reach ing a figure where foreign wheat could come-In and, after paying a duty, sell at the same price as the American prod uct A repeal of the Republican duty on wheat may be good argument for Texas voters, but it will fall on deaf ears In the Pacific Northwest The farmer vote will hardly go Democratic for the pur pose of securing free wheat from the pauper-labor countries like India and the Argentine. A boy of 16 years, held for murder In the jail at Vancouver, B. C, since last February, was taken out a few days ago for trial, In apparently a dy ing condition, he having contracted tu berculosis during his long term of 1m prlsonment This example does not bear out the contention that British Justice Is swift In Its movements. The vlciousness of the law's delay, pf which we hear so much In this country, could hardly be more strikingly or painfully illustrated than It has been In this in stance. The evidence upon which this wretched lad was held was purely clr cumstantlal, and he should not have been allowed to perish, practically speaking. In prison from a disease con tracted there while waiting during slow months for the hearing to which, guilty or Innocent, he was entitled. A drunken man, while in a state of homicidal frenzy, was shot and killed In Tacoma by his son Monday after noon. The young man's plea Is self- defense and the defense of his mother, both of whose lives were In danger, or so thought to be, from the violence of the Intoxicated husband and father. If Investigation proves the truth of the son's story, his act, shocking as It was, must pass as justifiable homicide. The case is not an isolated one In this state. Such cases seldom go beyond the pre liminary examination that follows the voluntary surrender of the parricide who slew his father to save the life of his mother. Lamentable as Is such an act, it Is held to be Justified by what has gone before. New York probably will be a very close state. If the result depended on New York It would be fairly open to doubt and debate. But It does not New York though Roosevelt has at least or worst an even chance to carry the state Is not at all necessary to his election. But it Is necessary to Par ker's election; and then there will be forty-one to fifty-six votes lacking, New York State, through the villainy of Tammany In the days of Tweed, voted even against Grant. That might be repeated now.. Hence if the result now depended on New York, we should call It doubtful. At least, there would be much more Interest In the returns than there actually will be. Hay's speech at New York had point The Democratic party was described as "a fortuitous concourse of unrelated prejudices." The Republican party "Is the ship all else Is the sea." It would Indeed be "a policy of adventure, reck less and wild," to put the control of the Government in other hands until "the Republicans forsake their record and the Democrats get rid of theirs." At St Louis a destructive platform was adopted. Then there was an attempt to mend matters by nominating for the Presidency "a gilt-standard man who had voted for free silver whenever he got a chance." All of which and there was more of It is mighty good epl grammatlc stuff. Our Senators and Representatives In Congress will do all theycan to bring a transport or two to Portland. Same old story. Somebody Is always needed to show the War Department that Port land Is on the map with one of the world's great rivers bearing its com merce to and from the sea. Our Sena tors and Representatives will do all they can to Inject that fact into the thick cranium of the War Department once more. Even if wars of the barbers are pain ful, they have taught many men to shave themselves. Luckily a citizen can perform that function for himself in the seclusion of his domicile whether the day be Sunday or the hour mld- nlcht TCn donbt msnv a noor devil of a barber heeds the -money, but how about the poor devil with the sprouting beard? Tn a country where crass is Kreen all the year and butter fat brings a fancy price, a dairyman who dilutes his milk with water deserves to be fined four times. A dairyman has Just been taxed $25 in the Justice Court for Ms fourth offense. He should move to a country where Natmre is greedier. Admiral Dewey, it is said, has taken an active position in support of Presl dent Roosevelt To be sure. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, along about May 1, was a most power ful supporter of Admiral Dewy THE BETTING AS A SIGN. What It Is That .Makes the Election of Parker Impossible. New York Sun, October 27. The bets on the election of which, there is a dally record represent an utterly Insignificant part of the money which has been risked throughout the Union on the election of President Roosevelt Thcy afford only a trifling indication of the prevailing confidence In that result aa compared with that of the stock market and business and enterprise generally. Whatever other causes may have con tributed to give the upward Impetus to the stock market which has been so re markable recently, the prime and most potent cause has been unquestionable confidence In the election of Mr. Roose- elt and the continuance of the tried and successful policy of the party now la control of the Government The stock market may be described as pe culiarly an "election market" For the moment the international complication caused by the Russian outrage or blunder or hysterical demonstration of timidity In the North Sea has thrown something of a cloud over the situation, but it seems reasonable to assume that all pos sible danger of serious trouble will soon be removed by proper explanation and apology on the part of Russia. That cloud dissipated, the hopefulness whioh had risen In the financial and commercial world will bo restored. This confidence, bred of the prevailing confidence of business and speculation in the continuance of the Republican party In power, recalls the state of business sentiment as the election of 1900 was closely approached. It Is even stronger, so far as is indicated by the steady ad vance in prices on the Stock Exchange during a very considerable period since the opening of the present Presidential canvass, and more especially during the last few weeks. That is, many millions have been risked In Wall street on the election of Mr. Roosevelt, and the speculators who have ventured their money because of that feeling of assurance have been men In every part of the Union and In both parties. Even the South, which will vote solidly against' Mr. Roosevelt has corf- trlbuted considerably, If not largely, to speculation which would not exist It there was not such a feeling. If there should arise any serious and widespread doubt of that result of the election the speculative current would at once be re versed, with consequences .which would be calamitous, at least Immediately. In the business world generally there would be a like setback If the theory of the continuance of the Republican party in power now so strong, should be abandoned to any wide extent To say that the policy In Government which the Republican party represents gives a basis of certainty to business, and that the substitution for It of the problemati cal policy of the Democratic party would introduce a serious element of uncer tainty Into business, is not to express partisan prejudice, but to record a fact which Is recognized by every man of affairs. The election of Mr. Parker would put business all at seaT No definite calculations of the results of it could be made, except that the doubt would be distinctly Injurious, if not calamitous. Mr. Hay expressed the. feeling when ho said on Wednesday night that "if you vote the Republican ticket you know what you are doing, but no wizard son of a seventh son can tell what the Demo crats would do with the Government If It was given to them." It Is that .conviction which produces the assurance among men of business and finance that the common sense of the American people makes the election of Mr. Parker impossible. The business and speculative world Js proceeding on the assumption that the policy of the Gov ernment during the last eight years will be continued for four years more. The Parker Primer. Kansas City Star. Today's lesson from-the Parker Politi cal Primer: v Who la the great foe of corporate greed? Judge Parker. How do we know this? His friends tell us so. Who are these friends? Mr. August Belmont. Mr. W. F. Shcehan. Mr. Cord Meyer and ex-Senator James Smith, Jr. Why are these gentlemen so anxious to check corporate aggression? Because, as directors of trust?, they appreci ate the menace to the common people from the great corporations. Hare we sny further evidence as to the Democratic candidate's attitude? Yes. The character of the contributors to the campaign fund is a guarantee of the sincerity of the fight on trusts. "Who are these contributors? The financiers of tho Standard Oil group and of certain other great corporations. why are these great corporations contributing funds for an attack on themselves? Became their mnacm n. vr tious and they fear that unless Judge Parker la elected they may forget themselves and take an undue advantage of the plain people. Is this not good of them? Yes. But they- are all Beautiful Characters and they live only to do good to others. Honors an Open Enemy. Thomas E. Watson. Therefore. I say. I am aealnst Mr. Roosevelt But his letter rings with manly frankness and resolution. He does not dodge; he does not straddle; he Is not playing wltn loaded dice; It Is not a confidence game. He comes square out tells you: "This Is the thing I am for; the situation as you see it; the yoke as you feel It; the injustice as you know It I am for It, I am for It and If you elect me that Is the thing you are going to continue to get " (Applause.) And, as much as I am against him. I can honor the bold and open enemy, as every fighter honors the foeman who 13 worthy of his steel, -and who gives him a fair fight In an open field. (Applause. A voice: now aDout tne otner renow? ) 1 am J going to treat of the other fellow. (Laugh ter and applause.) Judged by every prin clple of political definition, the Republl can party is a party that has a creed which unites them all, a purpose which combines their individual strength, a lead er who says: "I am ready to fight for this thing because I think It Is right That Same Divine. Chehalls Bee-Bugget Rev. D. L. Rader, editor of the Pacific Christian Advocate, of Portland, Insult ed Portland womanhood. at the state con vention of thn Oregon W. C. T. U. in that city last Thursday by stating that "there are more bad women' than good women in Colorado, and about half of the women In Portland are bad." That Is the same divine who restored gambling to the city of Tacoma a few months ago by using his church Influence in favor of the Democratic candidate xor Mayor, Wright Since the latteris election gamb ling, although a felony,. Is as public as of old all due to the reverend doctor's dabbling In politics. Some people grow wiser with age, but the doctor isn't among the number. A Warning to Married Men. Everybody's Magazine. The wife of a Kansas City man has srot a divorce from him for good but strange cause. The head and front of his offending her Is this: "Whenever I asked for anything (says the lady) I "al ways got It without question." Naturally she wearied of "that kind of humdrum existence." The excellent man was too tame and plgeon-llvered. The lady pined to bo contradicted. She wearied of per' petual Summer and "haying her own' way always. A solemn and needed warn Ins! Oh, our brothers in the married state! Lest half of it secede, be not too yielding and suave! Play the 'bluster ing. Bubbly Jock" occasionally. The chief falling of us wen is that we are too good. Joe the world and to. our women SatkJ. THE SOUTHERN VOTERS' POWER St Louis Globe-Democrat Some of the political arithmetic men are showing that in 11 Southern States, which constitute the nucleus of the solid South, l.ESO.OOO voters In 1900 ..elected 112 members of the electoral college, while New York's 1.54S.000 voters chose only 36 members of that body. If the New York voter had the same power !n the election his state would have chosen 92 members of the electoral college instead of So. If the Southern voter were on an exact kcquallty with the New Yorker in voting power his 112 members of the electoral college would have shrunk to 43. Some thing Hko 43,000 voters were required in New York to offset 16.700 votera In the solid South. This Inequality In voting power works a serious injustice to the North and West, the great progressive and Republican sec tion of the United States. It is on the votes of the men who have several times the weight of the Northern voters In the electoral college that Parker relies for his poll In the election. If the canvas3 were confined to the section of the country where the vote Is full and free, Parker would have as little chance of winning as has Swallow, the Prohibitionist No body would be on the stump for Parker If his election should depend on the vote of the great free, Independent section where every voter casts his ballot for whoever he likes, and has It counted as cast Nobody would be on the stump for Parker la that event because Parker would be on the same level as Debs, and his vote would be put In the scattering column without doing bjm or his support ers any Injustice. It Is "Safe to say that this inequality will not be allowed to continue perma nently. Men who profit by It by getting Into Congress or the Governorship of their states are In the habit of lecturing the country about how to run National affairs. Williams, of Mississippi, who represents only 1433 voters In Congress, has been loud-mouthed from the beginning of the canvass against Roosevelt and the Re publicans, while the men he talks for rep resent only a twentieth or a thirtieth of the poll represented by most of the mem bers of the Republican party. Then when the Republican platform proposes to In quire Into this Inequality and Illegality, Williams, Watterson, Tillman and their fellows become excited and denounce tne Republicans as sectionall3ts. The Issue of representation in Congress and the electoral college Is a question to which the American people will some day have to give sorloua attention. Roosevelt and Watson as Authors. Alfred Henry Lewis in the November Success Both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wateon have proofs of courage higher and be ond that of Mr. Parker; they have writ ten books. To write a book is the most recklessly daring deed to which man may lav his hand. There Is no slightest chance of fraud or Imposition; all, in the nature of things, must needs be open, stark and fenceless. Should you ask a lawyer a ouestion for which his Ignor ance knows no reply, he has but to cough, look grave, mention the business as something difficult and deep, and say he must consult the books. You respect him the more; your reverence goes clamber ing. Does a doctor find himself con fronted by a malady beyond his skill,, and for which he has no name or remedy; why, then a puckered brow, a sapient shake of tho head, silence, and a bread. Dill will save his reputation. But writer has no cover; there Is his worK, In black and white, helples3 beneath the lens of criticism. He who would pull It to pieces may take his time, and send for the reoulred Instruments. It cannot get away; It must remain and await his pleasure. A writer, in all he does, is as much in tho open field as a horse run nlnjr a race. He may be sure, too, of a score of envious stopwatches about the track to snap the quarters, and show he has fallen off from previous performances, or failed In competition with some rival. Therefore, it may bo said again, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Watson evince both courage and sincerity in that they have written books. More; the books are good books, worthy the shelves of centuries, and able for their own defense. They may be trusted, for phrase and substance to turn what shafts of criticism are shot aaglnst them. These books tell the stories of their authors. Those of Mr. Roosevelt are remarkable for lucidity, and the even temperature of tone and style. They speak of schol arship and manhood, and smell of an equal and distributed force- Mr. Watson a are rife with an unconscious but none the less heated partisanship, and the style bears heavily on tho bits. Mr. Par ker, more prudent or less furnished, has written no books, and doubtless feels safer for It Income From Liquor Tax. Boston Transcript Napoleon used to say when he was look Ing over the imperial accounts that no virtue paid nlm as well as brandy. With oul ecuuuig 111a cynicism, we cnu realize that liquor furnishes a great proportion of the funds required to operate our Gov ernment Thus of the $494,175,683, the ag gegate of customs collections and internal revenue receipts the last fiscal year?19G, 53S.616 came from liquors of all kinds, Im ported and domestic. Through customs and Internal revenue the Government col lected $G5,2S2,101 on tobacco and Its manu factures. The total of the two items Is Vwi.370,717, or enough to pay the pension charges and leave 5120,000,000 over. Living Expenses in Japan. New York Press. Japan Is no longer the land of cheap living. Rents have advanced from 200 to 300 per cent Europeans who used to pay from to to $12 a montn tor a wnoie nouso now content themselves with a single room. Prices of food, drink, etc., are a. long way beyond those of Europe. A bot tle of beer costs from 13 to 25 cents. 2-cent cigar fetches 13 cents. The only cheap article Is French champagne, ow ing to the low duty paid. Germany's trado with Japan Is falling off; America's and England's are increasing. Gotham's Speckled Exhibit. New York Telegram. New York City captured all of the prizes for excellence In municipal exhibits awarded by the Louisiana Purchase Ex position. Communities desiring samples of our municipal bosses, heads of messes. some with beautiful speckled records, are requested to write. No trouble to show goods. Possibilities of the Future. .Oshkosh' Northwestern. The luxuries of one generation are the necessities for the next It I3 not lm possible that In a few years more the' poor man of this country will ride to his work In a neat $50 automobile and look enviously at his rich neighbor who Is able to sail , around la a 520CO airship. Standard Oil and Parker. Chicago Tribune. Standard Oil says that it didn't help to nominate Parker. But, in the same solemn, public statement Standard Oil say3 that it is not Interested In copper, steeL banks, railroads or gas. The dis ingenuousness of the second denial taints the first All Want Pie. Cincinnati Inquirer. Bourke Cockran says Democracy is faith and Republicanism an appetite. Still, Democrats -cannot be blamed for stettins: a little nuagry occasionauy. it is act amply demonstrated that even an geia do not eat Always Thu. Atchison Globe, An AtchUon man who has nothing -wlMUrer to 0-9, i buy all the-Uin H0m AND COMMENT; . Road to success a subway. . Every prizefight has a silver lining- Gans la not so .black as his prospects were painted. Maybe Rojestvensky hopes to get'ths decision on a foul. It's a day wasted when there's no raid, Sheriff Word must think. The Thanksgiving turkey's death war rant has now been officially read and there's no chance of an appeal. London denies the report that the sail ing of the Channel squadron has any con nection with the Gans-Brltt decision. Rear-Admiral Jewell, of the European squadron, judging from the reports of his speeches, must be a jewel of a talker. The Japanese and Russian armies are watching each other, say the dispatches. Good; that relieves the public of the duty. Canadian railroads, says a Pittsburg pa per, are offering as high as 51.50 and IL ia a day for laborers for construction work. but are unable to procure sufficient men. The Russian fleet has left Vigo undam aged. Admiral Rojestvensky will prob able, be called upon to explain why he didn't mistake the town for something else. Fame is deceitful. Here Is the Brook lyn Eagle saying that "the Dod worth line, plying between Tacoma and the East re fuses to carry the United States malls." What do Tacoma and the Dqdwells think. of this? Michael Davitt, says the New York . Evening Sun, in reply to an Invitation by a branch of the United Irish League to contest West Clare, wrote: "I have no Intention of again submitting to the penal servitudo of Parliamentary life." According to the Pittsburg Dispatch a woman who has ideas on the issue of race suicide has written to Treasurer Peabody, of the Democratic National Committee, saying: "I am the mother of 11 children. My husband thinks "llooBevelt fine. I think, as I look at my brood, his views are away off, so I enclose a small check." When William Allen White gets started. there's nothing he'll stop at Speaking of the Democrats, who have slipped, he says, into the Hason with Wall street which Roosevelt had spurned. Bill remarks: "No wonder, then, that the incense burning at the altar of their gilded Joss smells like embalming fluid doused on punk!" What's the matter with Kansas? It has often happened that two young men have fought over a girl, and the winner has copped out the prize... The Kansas City Journal tells of a case in which two girls fought over a young man. who watched the contest The end was truly In accordance with feminine logic. One girl was licked, and, struggling to her feet she took the young man by the arm and walked off with. him. Now and then an item from soma coun try paper is detached from its environ ment of home news and neighborhood fellowship and serves to make some city reader smile a, smile of half-amused, half- regretful recollection of another country town and another country paper. Here are a few metropolitan items from the Chicago Post's correspondents: A. F. Shaw, 064 TVlnthroo avenue, and a- frlend have gone to Green Lake, "Wlau, on a fishing trip. Lefley and Dorothea Johnson expect to spend the "Winter here Instead of going South. Fannie Bloomfield Zelsler played at the musi cal cycle given at the Butz residence. The Lotus Club will give- a concert soon. The entertainment will consist of solco, duets, single and double quartets. Your true motorist is not puffed up, although his tires may be; he is meek and long-suffering toward the foolish few that would stand in the way of progress in speed alpng the highway. New York po lice are notorious in their persecution of the driver who runs his auto at a higher speed than eight or ten miles an hour. They follow the cars on bicycles and ar rest the chauffeur, who Is making a speed test solely In the Interests of science- Would It bo a matter of surprise, then, if the motorists of New York were to resist arrest and to do all la their power toes- cape from the tyranny of tho police, the Insolence of office?" It is but natural that every possible means should be em ployed to foil the police, and one might reasonably expect the owners of automo biles to equip their cars with quick-firing guns and grenades for the destruction of the minions of the unjust law. But what do we find? Lata telegrams from New York show that the automobllists have adopted a humane gun, which discharges a pint or so of ammonia into the eyes of the pursuing policeman. Thus blinded, the blue-coated tyrant falls Into the gutter and there Is no arresfc lor exceeding the speed limit Instead of being killed, tho too officious policeman is temporarily disabled, or at most blinded for life," and yet motorists are execrated as a law breaking class. . VEX- J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "Pa, -what'ie a repartee?" "Oh! merely an insult with its dress suit on, my son." Puck. Manager "What do you want to be a star for? Actress Well, I've failed at everything else. Brooklyn Life. Honest He It's hard to keep a secret some times. Isn't it? She I don't itnow; I've never tried It. Detroit "Free Prees. "Why Is the football reason like & wash day?" "Give it up." "Because that's the time to see the line-up." Cleveland. Plain Dealer. Pauline (tarcastlcally) Jack etruts along as If he owned the earth. Elvira (sweetly) No wonder. Last evening I promised to let hlin become my husband. Chicago News. Butcher I need a boy About your size, and will pay 70U $3 a week. Boy Will I have a chance to rise? Butcher Oh, yea. Tou must be here at 4 o'clock every morning. Judge. "Of course, Charles," said the wife. "I thanlcyou for this money, hut it isn't enough to buy a real fur coat." "Well." replied the great brute, "you'll have to make It go as. fur as you can." Philadelphia Ledger. Kwoter He laughs best who laughs las. There's a great deal of truth In that old saw. Wise Tea, but there's more truth In the new saw. that he laughs beat who laughs first and whose laugh lasts. Philadelphia Press. Gertrude Do yon think a woman la Jsetlfled in using deception In order- to ecnre a fcus handT Frances For mercy's sake, how do you expect a woman is ever going to get married, t .hould like to know? Boston Traaeerlpt. "Oh." sneered the self-lseportaat lawyer who aa cross-examining, "you talalc yoa Jaww It n rtn't vnnr' "Sat a site. rellM tfe,w!t- ntes. "For instance, I ce't taow fcw you manage to secure aa odekl clleaC" Chi cago Xewa- "How old are your' brusquely Uyrtf the ccmlc-opera manager. "B!lteB," tie appli cant for the chorus replied. wU wptctiw candor.. "Tea? For how Bftay ifun- fcv. yoa been la that dear- jttion T ' Pfall delsfei. Prea . -