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POUTLAN I, TCEtiDAY, JULY 14. 1908.
I'lTU-XL NEW YORK.
It is pitiable to think how little
weight, with all its brains and all its
money, New York has in the
affairs ot the country. In the
Senate, for example, that im
perial commonwealth is represent
ed by two ghastly specters. One of
them, Depeiv, is clothed with the
tattered remnants of a reputation for
amusing folly, but he never had the
slightest vestige of the qualifications
of a statesman. He was always a
buffoon, but there was a time when
his buffoonery was supposed to be at
Jiast innocent. Now the country
knows that it was in a measure a
shield fur dishonesty. Poor old De
pew is bad enough as the representa
tive of New York, but Piatt is worse.
This All-Halloween Summer, this lat
ter Spring, would make another Fal
staff very well if h'e had Falstaff's
wit or his manhood. But Piatt has
neither. Not without ability of a dis
reputable kind at one time, he now
totters about, the mere simulacrum
of a man able only to cling to his dol
lars and devise new schemes for add
ing to them. Such Is the representa
tion of New York In the United States
Senate, and yet that state presumes to
Bive lessons to her sister common
wealths upon political respectability.
Look again at the delegations New
York sent to the National conventions.
Instead of choosing her representa
tive men for that duty, as other states
did, she dispatched both to Chicago
and to Denver a mob of shady char
acters, some of whom ought to be
In Jail. A day or two before
the Denver convention the papers
were full of the prodigal pro
vision the Tamamny delegates had
made to carry on a continuous de
bauch while the convention lasted.
The tanks of champagne, the hogs
heads of beer, were duly chronicled
for the edification of the country and
an example to the young of the way
to conduct politics. And when, with
all its pomp and parade of disreputa
ble luxury, Tammany reached Denver,
what did it do? AVhat weight had it
in the deliberations of the conven
tion? It did nothing and it had no
weight. In all likelihood there was
hardly a man in the mob with the
ability to take a statesmanlike part in
the deliberations of a National con
vention or the dignity of character to
entitle him to be listened to by grave
compeers. Tammany's only part in
. the Denver convention was to sit in
crafty silence, waiting to see which
way the wind might blow, and after
all possibility of making a mistake
had passed, then its votes went to the
man who would have been success
ful without them.
Almost the same remarks might be
made about the New York delegation
to the Republican convention in Chi
cago. Nobody heard that they made
any contribution to the platform, had
a word to say about party policy, or
either helped or hindered the nomi
nation of Mr. Taft. Although this
delegation had been pledged to sup
port Mr. Hughes, they did nothing for
him except to sit in cold and indiffer
ent silence while events developed. If
they were not traitors to their man,
they might as well have been. It is
notorious that the leader of the New
York Republican delegation detests
'Mr. Hughes and would have preferred
any other man for President. Why
does New York repudiate her citizens
of name and standing and send so
many men of queer reputation to
the Senate, to the House of Rep
resentattves and to the National
conventions? It is - not because
she ha3 no worthy citizens. In pro
portion to the population, New York
has as many men of Mght and lead
lng as any other state, and probably
more, but for some reason she sedu
lously keeps them out of National
politics and advances her scalawags.
In the realm of Journalism the in
fluence of New York City Is nothing
like what it should be, considering the
wealth and ability at the service of
the paper3 published there. For
j ears the leading papers of the me
tropolis, with one or two exceptions,
have been railing at Mr. Roosevelt.
Kvery mistake he made was magni
fied. Every success was belittled.
He was loaded with sins he had never
committed and deprived of merits
which he undoubtedly possessed.
Nothing was too bad to say about
him. Nothing was too good to say
nbout his enemies. The Sun and Har
per's Weekly even professed to be-
lieve that Mr. Roosevelt was not in
his right mind. Seldom in the his
tory of the United States has a man
been so persistently and systematic
ally vilified as Mr. Roosevelt has been
by the eminently respectable papers
of New York. And what is the re
suit? Only that he is more popular
than ever and more trusted by the
conservative and thoughtful people of
the country. The enmity of the New
York papers is the best fortune a
siatesman can have, apparently. The
friends of Mr. Taft shudder every
time they read a commendatory . edi
torial about him in that quarter.
An old subscriber writes to The
Oregonian to suggest a means by
which owners of nickel-in-the-slot
pianos could more than double
their revenues. He says that he is in
the habit of dropping in at a certain
ice cream parlor for refreshments
and that almost invariably just after
he enters some lover of noise drops
a coin In the slot. This interrupts his
line of thought, destroys his peace of
mind and mars the pleasure of the oc
casion. "If," says he, "the machine
were so constructed that such a thing
- could he done, X would gladly- drop
another nickel in the slot in order to
stop the piano." That seems only
fair. If one man has a right to make
noise by spending a nickel, has not
any other man a right to stop the
noise for a nickel? And just think
of the revenue-producing possibilities.
Every man who wanted music would
drop In a coin, and every man who
didn't want it would drop in another.
That would beat a cigar machine.
THREE. BILIJOXS IX GRAIN.
The grain markets of the world
continue to advance, not in response
to manipulation, but to the immuta
ble workings of the old law of supply
and demand. A 2-cent advance in
wheat in Chicago yesterday brought
the price up to the high level at the
opening of the season last year, with
very small likelihood of there being
any recession in prices for many
months. Not only is the price fully
as high as it was a year ago, when
the short crop in the United States
sent prices soaring, but the crop is
conservatively estimated at 75,000,000
bushels greater than that of last year.
Corn crop prospects are not so good as
they were early In the season, still
the New York Journal of Commerce,
basing its estimate on 1600 special re
ports from the corn belt, places the
probable out-turn at 2,648,000,000
bushels compared with 2,692,000,000
bushels last year. Oats suffered with
wheat last year, and the crop was but
764,000,000 bushels, while this year
conditions indicate a yield of approx
imately 900,000,000 bushels.
Figures are sometimes said to be
dry reading, but there Is deep signifi
cance attached to those which repre
sent the out-turn of our three princi
pal grain crops this year. While
wheat prices yesterday were the same
as a year ago, the price of corn was
20 cents per bushel higher, and oats
were 5 cents per bushel higher. The
Increased wheat yield this year at the
prices quoted yesterday would be
worth $69,000,000. The corn crop
including the estimated Increase of
160,000,000 bushels over last year,
would have a commercial value $571,
000,000 greater than 1907, and the
greater output and increased price of
oats, would make the crop of that
cereal worth $102,000,000 more than
its predecessor. The total increase in
the gross value of these three great
agricultural staples is $742,000,000
over last year.
Based on yesterday's prices, which
are almost certain to be maintained,
the market value of the 1908 crop of
wheat, oats and corn will be in ex
cess of $3,000,000,000. A compara
tively small portion of this vast sum
will be distributed in the Pacific
Northwest, but the conditions are
such that this country may profit by
it to an even greater extent than it
profited by the record-breaking crop
that was produced in Oregon and
Washington last year. With the big
crop and big prices that are now
practically assured in the East and
Middle West, the purchasing power
of the farming communities will be
enhanced to such an extent that we
will witness a decided revival in the
lumber trade. The "lumber dollar"
has always been worth more to Port
land and the Pacific Northwest than
the "wheat dollar," for the reason
that it represents a much larger pro
portion of labor than Is found in the
dollar produced by wheat. It accord
ingly changes hands so frequently
that It creates a large amount of busi
ness in all lines. Increased purchas
ing power due to the big crop will
also mean a larger market for Oregon
fruit, salmon and livestock. With
three crops alone placing in circula
tion $740,000,000 more than they pro
duced a year ago, there is not a sin
gle industry in the United States that
will not feel some effect from the im
proved conditions.
A NEW OR THE OLD BRYAN?
Mr. Bryan's two defeats resulted
from his failure to unite the oppos
ing elements of his party. He and
his supporters started the present
campaign with an effort to weld to
gether those elements. Twice he of
fended the conservatives. Now many
radicals charge him with having
turned against them, and many
threaten to bolt him, as their foes
within the party did in 1896 and in
1900. Bryan's problem, now as be
fore, is how to win the undivided sup
port of his party. .He certainly can
not accomplish this wholly, and from
present indications he may lose part
of either group or of both.
The Democratic nominee obviously
is in a difficult situation. The coun
try will watch with interest how he
deals with it. It has heard that the
Bryan of today is a maturer, broader,
less radical man than the Bryan of
yesterday. It awaits his speech of
acceptance and his stump utterances
to determine whether the Peerless is
a "made-over" man; whether his own
thrifty fortunes have inclined him to
the side qf capital and the employers
of labor, as Tom Watson says;
whether his defeats have convinced
him that he must placate the factions
that bolted him heretofore.
Tom Watson heads the people's
party, that was allied with Bryan in
1896, with Watson as its candidate for
Vice-President. Now Watson is its
candidate for President. Watson
scores Bryan as a "deserter from the
cause of the unprivileged masses," "a
truckler to power, a recreant from
pledge and promise, a calculating,
selfishly ambitious politician." This
comes from one group of the radi
cals. It sounds ominous and will dis
turb Bryan not a little.
Clearly, Mr. Bryan has tried to pla
cate, the "conservative" vote of his
party. He has abandoned free silver,
imperialism and Government owner
ship. In unmistakable degree he has
abandoned the "masses" plea, yet to
what extent will be revealed in the
campaign. These changes of front
can have but one meaning Mr.
Bryan hopes to win votes that have
defeated him.
However, Mr. Bryan's chances look
better than any time before. He is in
position to win back much of the sup
port that twice deserted him, and. in
fact, he has already done It. Bryan
could not damage the country now as
he would have done following his
election in 1S96 and 1900. On the
other side, probably not much of the
radical vote would quit him, since its
only other choice would be Taft, with
whom it would not be satisfied.
Could Bryan carry New York he
would win. in all probability. Should
he lose that state, it is likely his de
feats will be repeated. It may be
possible to elect a President against
the vote of New York, but that has
not been accomplished these fifty
i years. The Democratic .part- i New.
York is badly split up. Last week
Hearst declared in his newspapers:
We have lost confidence in William
J. Bryan." The New York Demo
cratic convention was opposed to
Bryan, sent an uninstructed delega
tion to Denver, and called for nomi
nation of a ticket that would be sup
ported by the "Judgment, conscience
and vote of the majority of the citi
zens of the country" words of the
conservative wing of the party. .
The real war over Mr. Bryan in
the Democratic party will begin when
he makes his speeches. Then the
country will hear from the one ele
ment or the other. Is Mr. Bryan the
old or a new Peerless? The tale is
yet to tell.
THE FALL OF THE BASTILE.
July 14 is memorable in history for
the fall of the Bastile. This prison
had long been used by the French
monarchs for the confinement of po
litical offenders. Victims of the fa
mous lettres de cachet were incarcer
ated there and kept for an indefinite
time, often ignorant of their accuser,
their fault and the duration of their
punishment. Voltaire was once im
prisoned in the Bastile on a Iettre de
cachet, and that experience may have
helped to kindle the flame of hatred
for tyranny which burned in his soul
till the day of his death.
To the population of Paris the Bas
tile symbolized tyranny with all its
hateful incidents. Feudalism, with
its inhumanities, the divine right of
Kings, with its falsehoods and absurd
ities, the absolutism of the church in
earthly affairs, were all pictured to
the Imagination of the Parisian by the
grim walls of the old prison, and
therefore when liberty began her wild
and tumultuous career it was natur
ally the Bastile which was first be
sieged. The fall of the Bastile was
like the tolling of a bell which an
nounced the death of one era and the
birth of another.
The era which died was that of
privilege, and with it perished the be
lief that the great body of the world's
inhabitants are created to toil that a
few superiors may live in ease. With
the Bastile died legalized robbery and
slavery in all its Insidious forms. It
is going a little too far, though, to say
that they died. They still live, but
they have received their death wound.
The era which was born was that of
democracy. When the Bastile fell
the people of Paris announced to the
world that every man is entitled to
his opportunity. Nobody is born to be
downtrodden and preyed upon, and if
some of us still carry riders it is not
because Providence has so ordained it.
Since the birth of Jesus the
outbreak of the French revolution
was the most auspicious event in the
history of the world. The fall of the
Bastile should be reverently com
memorated by every lover of freedom
because it was the spectacular intro
duction to the revolution. It rang
up the curtain on the tragedy of di
vine right.
THE UNPROTECTED PACIFIC.
The battleship fleet on its home
ward-bound trip is within "wireless
distance" of Honolulu, the first stop
on the long route to the Antipodes,
and thence north to the Orient and
home by way of the Suez. Quite
naturally every American citizen will
feel pride in the fine display of power
afforded the world by this great fleet
in its globe-girdling tour, but there is
growing evidence of some disappoint
ment being felt, not only on the Pa
cific, but on the Atlantic as well, over
failure of the Government to leave at
least half of the fleet out here in the
Pacific, where its services are most
likely to be needed. According to
the present itinerary, the fleet will
reach Honolulu Friday and will pro
ceed from there to Australia, making
stops at Auckland, Melbourne, Syd
ney and Albany. The present sched
ule calls for appearance of the fleet
at Manila Bay about October 1, and
two weeks later a call will be made at
Yokohama. At Amoy the fleet will
end the junket, and. taking the Suez
route, will steam for home. Unless
something unforeseen Intervenes, the
vessels should reach their Atlantic
Btations late in December or early in
January.
A year's hard steaming will, of
course, leave the ships in such shape
that immediate repairs will be neces
sary, and in the event of trouble on
the Pacific it would be several months
before trrey could be placed in condl
tlon to make the long journey to the
point where they would be needed.
When the triumphal junket of the
fleet was first proposed, the only de
mand for retention of some of the
vessels on the Pacific Coast came
from the Pacific Coast newspapers
and commercial organizations. Now
that it has been demonstrated that
the task of taking a fleet half-way
round the world is no small affair,
there has been a growing sentiment
against the return voyage. After dis
cussing the possibility of some of the.
Japanese jingoes evading the vigi
lance of the Japanese authorities and
inflicting injury on some of the ves
sels, the New Orleans Times-Demo
crat continues:
The return of the fleet to Atlantic waters,
leaving the Pacific Coast Inadequately po
liced. Is, however, much more likely to pro
duce unfortunate results. Japan's Internal
troubles render the prospect of her engag
ing; In war with the United States more re
mote. It Is true, but they may, on the other
hand, force her either to closer alliance
with China or to the attempted conquest of
the rich Chinese provinces which she no
torlously covets. This country is thorough..
ly committed to the maintenance of Chi
nese Integrity, and to the doctrine of the
"open door." Japan's blow at either would
force us to act or to renounce all preten
slons to a voice In the councils of the Far
East.
The reasons set forth by the New
Orleans paper are certainly of suffi
cient gravity to warrant retention on
the Pacific of a large portion of the
fleet now engaged In the spectacular
junket around the world. If the time
ever comes when we shall need a fleet
in the Pacific, we shall need it in a
hurry, and it should be in striking
distance instead of 13,000 miles away
from the scene of action. While
wishing the fleet all kinds of good
luck in its homeward voyage, it is
undoubtedly true that a majority of
the American people would have
much preferred stationing it on the
Pacific, where it would be less spec
tacular, but more useful.
The Oregon City murderer lingered
close to the scene of the tragedy and
made no attempt to get away. While
he was rushed to the Jail, according
to the story from Oregon City,
large posse of officers, headed by
Sheriff Beatie and accompanied by
Detedira-i'&usfaAu, &a4 ids two. blood
hounds from Portland, were following
the trail scented by the dogs on the
Logan road up the Clackamas River."
This would ' seem to corroborate the
generally accepted belief that the
only bloodhounds that ever get on the
right trail are those in use by the
"Tom" shows on the "ten-twenty-thirty"
circuit. If the stage blood
hounds came no nearer to catching
what they were sent after than those
which have been turned loose In the
Northwest, their places would soon be
filled with, papier-mache' animals. '
The attitude of Mr. Thomas Watson
on Bryan and "this hotch-potch of a
platform, thrown together artfully
with the purpose of propitiating cap
ital at "the same time that it makes
an open bid for the vote of labor,"
is almost certain to cause some ap
prehension as to the ability of Samuel
Gompers to "deliver" the labor vote
to the peerless plutocrat of the Platte.
Mr. Watson has some strange theories
regarding politics and finance, but his
honesty of purpose has never been
questioned, and when he says that
Bryan and his fearfully and wonderfully-made
platform are not entitled
to the support of labor, there will be
a good many thousand labor men,
not wearing the Gompers collar, who
will follow the lead of the present
proprietor of the People's party. The
air wafted up from the banks of the
Chattahoochee and Okeechee may not
be as hot as that which generates
along the banks of the Platte and
"the Wabash far away," but the ped
dler who circulates it has fully as
strong a hold upon labor as Bryan
and Kern will ever have.
It is unfortunate that the Idiots who
rock the boat always have for victims
of their idiocy some friends, although
why any one who is so criminally
foolish as to rock a boat should have
friends is a mystery." It is true, how
ever, that in nearly all cases reported
either a friend or a relative of the
boat rocker has been the victim. This
naturally makes it difficult to get the
playful murderer in a position where
we can make the punishment fit the
crime. And yet the steadily increas
ing death roll from this particular
form of insanity demands that some
drastic measures be taken to lessen
the number of fatalities due to this
cause. Portland was the scene of
one of these tragedies last week, and
another was reported from Olympia
yesterday. The idiots who are re
sponsible for the death of the victims
are undoubtedly sorry, but their sor
row will not prevent some other idiot
from drowning some other victim.
A Georgia legislator has introduced
a bill which would make void the
marriage of any woman who decoys a
man into mating with her through
'use of paints, powder, cosmetics, ar
tificial teeth, puffs, rats, paddings,
drop-stitched hose, high-heeled shoes.
peek-a-boo waists, corsets or other
artifices." Humph! What does the
Georgia man think the woman would
have left?
The difference between the East
and the West is all the difference in
the world. Sunday a. thousand peo
ple watched a woman drown in Chi
cago and none offered to save her,
while here on the Columbia River a
14-year-old girl, already tired out,
bravely went to the rescue of two
men and succeeded.
That long list of persons who pos
sess Oregon & California railroad
lands, in alleged violation of the law,
shows some of the votes that defeated
for the nomination for United States
Senator in the last primaries the man
whose name designated the Fulton
resolution.
It may be hoped that the new cof
fin factory in Salem will do some bus!
ness, but not much. There are a very
few people up the Valley who are
dead and don't know It. Perhaps
self-interest will lead the coffin fac
tory proprietors to tell them.
A member of the Oregon State Sen
ate wants the presidency of that body
without strings to It. That is some
thing no member of the Senate ever
has received, and those who have
tried to cut the strings have had a
hot time of it.
The county might obtain some of
the money for a new Courthouse by
cutting down salaries of county offl
cials. But if that were one of the
means, the officials would probably
not consider the new structure neces
sary. Strange how much Senator Bourne
admires the man who stubbornly re
fused to run for a second elective
term and took the means to nominate
Taft, which Bourne says "may be po
tential enough to destroy our party.'
Of course Democrats have not in
vlted Chamberlain to speak at their
Bryan ratification meeting next
Wednesday night. That might shoo
away the non-partisan Statement No.
1 Republican legislators.
The wool clip of Wallowa County
for 1908 will add $160,000 to her
other products. The column in which
the sheep will stand In November Is
not in doubt.
The present city charter was
framed for the benefit of certain spe
cial interests. Look out for the same
thing again when the charter is
changed.
The local cannery solves one prob
lem in the Valley town. It saves the
surplus and provides light and profit
able employment for those who
need it.
State Senator Milt Miller does not
despair. Probably he can deliver that
speech at the next Bryan convention.
A good speech ought to last four
years.
Wheatgrowers in the Condon neigh
borhood fear no shortage. A dozen
new harvesters have been unloaded
there this season.
Anna Gould's children reduced to
beggary by her spendthrift husbands
would aid powerfully the French idea
of equality.
Uncle Sam is the only fellow
among the nations who is not worried
by a revolution in a neighboring
household. '
Kern called on Bryan yesterday.
Perhaps to ask which half of the
J "White House Bryan would give him. J.
CLEVELAND TIRES OF REFORMERS I
Finding- Out a Few Thtnajs There
About Some Other Thins;.
Cleveland Leader.
The referendum case becomes more and
more instructive. It throws a vivid light
upon the methods and true character of
an entire class of politicians who are
called "reformers." "champions of the
people," "representatives of the masses,"
"exponents of advanced ideas," etc., these
designations being usually self-selected, in
some way, or given under the guidance of
the men so tagged. The candle power of
this searchlight increases every day. It
gets Into deeper recesses of politics and
demagogy-
All Cleveland sees how much protesta
tions of devotion to the principle of the
referendum mean when t$jere Is a pos-,
eibility that the practical working of a
referendum law may be adverse to a
leader of the hue and cry for "direct
legislation" and "popular government."
The entire city perceives that an appeal
to the people is good or bad, in the esti
mation of the loudest champions of the
initiative and referendum, solely accord
ing to its effect upon their plans and am
bitions.
It is such object lessons that make the
shrewdest and ablest men in all countries
scornful and suspicious in their attitude
toward the typical self-exploited "re
former" and "friend of the masses." It
is that which excites their derision when
demagogues ohatter of "the interests" as
opposed to "the people." They see that
'the people" means nothing but my
crowd." Those who oppose the typical
boss who depends on appeals to class
feeling to win his political battles are the
citizens and voters he refers to when he
denounces "the interests." All of his po
litical definitions are personal in their
bias and point of view. Anything is right
which plays his game. Whatever works
the other way Is evil.
Of such are the loudest shouters lor ma
scheme to establish minority rule and
trick .rule, which is known as the inti
atlve and referendum. .
NEW REASON TO OPPOSE BRYAS
Knows Nothing; ot Grammar, or the)
Laws of Nature, Says This Paper.
Brooklyn Eagle, Dem.
Th resolutions about Mr. Cleveland,
adopted by the convention in Denver,
awkwardly obtrude proof mat men
author is ignorant of Deity, anatomy,
the Constitution and the correct use
of the English language.
This is not a matter as to which
can be made apply the words ot Josh
Billings: '.'What's the use of correct
English, so long as your heart's in
the right place?" It is, strictly speak
ing, a subject to which the wiser re
mark of Artemus Ward is applicable:
Tf vou can't write in a grammariy
manner, you'd betters shut up shop."
The clumsy and unknown person
from Nebraska who offered the reso
lutions is said to have received them
from William J. Bryan. The first sen
tence is: "As it has pleased the Ruler
of the Universe to remove from our
midst Grover Cleveland, late President
of the United States, who was three
times the candidate of the Democratic
party, be it resolved:"
It neither pleased nor displeased the
Ruler of the Universe to remove
Grover Cleveland. He did not remove
him. Mr. Cleveland's life was doubt
less commendable to the Almighty, but
he died on account of natural causes.
He acquired a disease which finally
ended his life. The ending of that
life was due to laws which affect liv
ing and dying, which the Ruler of the
Universe established, but with the
course of which He does not inter
fere. The operation of those laws removed
Grover Cleveland. They did not re
move him "from our midst." "Our
midst" is our stomach. It is nothing
else and it is nowhere else. The
expression is often misapplied to obit
uary resolutions, but the misapplica
tion is always due to Ignorance of
grammar and to ignorance of anatomy.
Mr. Bryan is an offense to the schol
arship of his country. He is Ignorant
of its Constitution. He is Ignorant
of anatomy. His mind is a howling
wilderness concerning the laws of
Deity for man and man's responsibil
ity for himself under those laws. A
few other candidates for President
have been as defective. Their parties
have survived them. A party is a very
strong organization. Some of the
these candidates for President have
been elected. The country and the
Constitution have survived them, for
the country and the Constitution are
very strong.
Crotrr Wants TJ to Boy a "Rain."
Pall Mall Gazette, London.
Richard Croker's only desires are sup
posed to be a wish for a hermit-like exis
tence in his 500,000 residence outside
Dublin and to win classic races. His
most intimate friends form this opinion.
But he has, so to speak, broken out in
a new place. He has become an an
tiquary, not of the ordinary kind, but a
sort of National antiquary.
The "boss" wintered abroad in Egypt,
and when he reached Assouan found
what he was in search of a ruin that
would grace the United States If shipped
there. When he discovered the ruin it
was partly drowned by the dam thrown
up by the modern engineer. There, on
the Island of Philae, stood the lonely,
stately ruins, as though calling for some
body to save them. And save them he
will if he can.
He holds that they should be purchased
bV the AmpHran ntirtl AT,,a , 1. .-,
to grace the Central Park or some other
amxus ill ttew lora.
Ex-Governor Has 36 Feet of Boys.
St. Louia Pour-Til
Ex-Governor Francis and Augustus
x nomas, me piaywrignt, met in the Savoy
Hotel lobby, Denver, Colo., and addressed
each other like two characters out of the
comic supplement.
"Hello, Dave," said Mr. Thomas.
"Why, hello. Gus," replied Mr. Francis.
"Y0UT lookfnfir Tnlcrhtv fin,
said Mr. Thomas. "I'm glad to' see it at
your age.
"Well, Gus, I ought to look fine," re
plied Mr. Francis. "I don't do a thing."
Mr. Thomas then asked about the
Francis family and the ex-Governor said:
"Do you know, I've got 36 feet of Francis
boys in my family? There are six boys
and every one of them is six feet tall."
Chicks Hatched by the Sun.
York Dispatch to Fhiladelnhia Record.
Leander Bernhart, of Yoe. this countv.
thinks he has found a substitute for the
incubator. He says he has evidence that
the sun can do the work.
While in his barnyard he was much
surprised to hear a peeping from a pile
ot sawaust, ana to see tnree nuffy chicks
issue forth. He raked over the pile and
iouna mree empty eggshells.
He thinks that the eggs were acciden
tally covered over and that the hot sun
of the last few weeks hatched them out.
Frank Darey'i Prescience.
Burns News, July 8.
It is safe to announce that William J,
Bryan was nominated yesterday for the
Presidency by the Democratic hosts as
sembled at Denver. And most likely an
Indiana man will be his running mate.
Mosquito Bite Lead to Death.
Baltimore News.
Harry Taylor, aged 13, of Long Island,
N. Y., scratched a mosquito bite and
blood poisoning followed, resulting in his
death.
PEERLESS ONE AS A BIG BOSS.
How New York Democratic Paper
Looks I poa Him.
New York Post, Dem.
Boss Guffey, of Pennsylvania, may be
all that Bryan says he is, but it is cer
tain that Bryan Is all that Guffey says
he la. The Pennsylvantan's statement
yesterday struck to the very midriff of
the Nebraskan. It shows him, when most
boastful of its high principles In politics,
to be as shifty and unscrupulous as any
politician of them all. It is clear that
Colonel Guffey's only real offence Is dar
ing to oppose Mr. Bryan, to declare his
nomination unwise, and to affirm, what
is the undoubted truth, that the Judg
ment, as distinct from the instructions, of
60 per cent of the delegates at Denver
is against putting Bryan again at the
head of the ticket. This is the unpar
donable sin. Guffey's political crimes
may have been anything you please, but
if he were only throwing up his hat for
the reat citizen of Nebraska, he would
have been taken effusively to Mr. Bryan's
bosom, along with Sullivan, of Illinois,
and Murphy, of New York. A wicked
boss ceases, ipso facto to be one, the
moment he supports Bryan. That has al
ways been the rule and it Is so today.
The fact remains, however, that if ten
representative and influential Democratic
leaders had shown the outspoken courage
of Guffey, six months ago, Bryan's nomi
nation would have been made impossible.
But they were afraid. They dreaded the
political terrorism which Bryan wields so
remorselessly. Himself, as Guffey says,
a boss of the most tyrannous and pres
criptive sort, he has made it his business
to threaten with destruction every man
who ventures to object to the Bryan mo
nopoly of the party. By such means he
cowed those Southern Senators who, in
their hearts and consciences think an
other Bryan candidacy a monumental
blunder, yet who dared not withstand him
lest, by his machinations, they should be
retired to private life. Democrats every
where looked for bold leadership against
Bryan, but almost nowhere found it. The
result Is the pitiful appearance today of
a great party, saying as the French peas
ants did when Napoleon III imposed his
will upon them, "11 nous faut un maitre."
And Bryan steps forward as the master.
Mr. Bryan- is Just now doing a great
deal of billing and cooing, but It is all
with a purpose. He wishes to soften old
asperities, for the time being, and to
disarm former antagonisms. It would
be a real pleasure to him to have at
least a semblance of unity and enthusi
asm behind his nomination, at the start.
But no one who has studied the man can
doubt that his nature, his alms, and his
plans remain the same, and that In due
time he will make them manifest. Bryan
as even a quasi-conservative is unthink
able. He is bound to play, in this "cam
paign, for the highest radical stakes. As
the fight thickens, we shall see him re
sortins: to his old inflammatory tactics.
With the material of discontent and suf
fering more abundant to his hand this
year than ever before, he will play upon
it with all his old agitator's skill and
recklessness. He may at the beginning
put on awkwardly the decent coat of a
soher Statesman, but lone before the
campaign is over, he will throw it off and
be haranguing the crowds, and endeavor
ing to set class against class, in shirt
sleeves freedom. Nemo repente; and the
transformation of Mr. Bryan into a sure
footed and steady leader would be far
too sudden to be creditable.
NEW YORK AT THE CONVENTIONS
Small Influence of That State In Con
trol of National Politics.
New York Times. Dem.
Although the State of New York has
secured one candidate for the Vice
Presidency, and may get another before
the week Is out, we hardly think that
Its people can congratulate themselves
on the Influence of the State organiza
tions in National politics.
At Chicago the Republican delegation
was bound up to the support of a candi
date for the Presidency whom very few
of them desired, but whom they had
been powerless to reject because he was
strong in public esteem and they were
weak. Their candidate for the second
place was taken not for his National
reputation, or his strength In New York,
or for any evidence he had given of
fitness for the Presidential succession,
but mainly because of irreconcilable
quarrels over other candidacies and
with the hope of placating some at least
of the conservative sentiment in the
state. His nomination can be said, with
entire respect, . to have been in the
nature of an accident, the mere possi
bility of which was not seriously con
sidered a week before it occurred.
At Denver the opposition to the nomi
nation of Bryan, which unquestionably
exists on the part of a very large part,
if not the majority, of the Democrats of
New York, cannot be said to be repre
sented in the delegation controlled by
Mr. Murphy, and it is no injustice to
that leader to say that his dominating
aim Is simply to retain all the influence
he can for Tammany in New York, what
ever may happen to the party in the
Union. The state. In short, seems, so far
as National affairs are concerned, to be
in the hands of the respective machines,
who pursue their petty purposes with
small consideration for the interests or
prestige of the great community they
nominally represent.
Let the Heathen Rage.
Lebanon Criterion.
The Baker City Democrat in speak
ing of The Morning Oregonian calls it
"the dear old journalistic-paralytic,"
and in mentioning its editor calls him
"the 'Great Editor" of the ancient
sheet." The article is republished in
the Albany Democrat as an editorial.
The Oregonian has not invited a little
country weekly to defend it, but the
thought occurs to a back-woods editor,
the Albany Democrat is about 50 years
old which is near the age of The Ore
gonian. The Albany paper is almost as
large as it was 40 years ago, while the
Portland paper has become one of the
few really great papers of the country.
Just a few weeks since one of the
greatest church denominations of the
country, in a convention of the leading
members, voted The Oregonian the
ablest newspaper in the country. Yet
these jabs do not worry The Oregonian
and these small papers feel wonderfully
relieved when they unburden their
spleen and hatred for the great paper.
To Move the Whole Town Ten Miles.
Valdez (Alaska) Dispatch to New York
Tribune.
The old town of Cordova, originally a
nsning and trading port, Is to be moved
bodily a distance of ten miles. With the
building of a railroad It became neces
sary to have land for terminals and a
place to build large docks, so a new site
on Orca Inlet has been selected and put
In shape. Forty thousand dollars have
been spent on the streets and in building
bridges. All the buildings in the old town
will be moved to the new site.
Disguised Woman Lifts Steel Girders.
New York Dispatch.
Sarah Longs, aged S3 years, disguised
as a man, worked seven months in the
tunnels of the Pennsylvania railroad at
New York, carrying steel girders ordi
narily handled by two men.
Woman Uses Skirts as Blinders.
' Cincinnati Inquirer.
Mrs. Allen O. Parrish. of Wapakoneta,
O.. while her barn was on fire, tore off
her skirts, and, blindfolding her horses,
led them out of the stable just before the
building tumbled in.
Where KJsslna; la Assault and Battery.
Baltimore News.
A jury at Wilkesbarre, Pa., decided
that when Edward Sullivan kissed Miss
Aenes Finn against her will and bit her
iXsa tiia act was assault, ana. cattery.
CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR
A poem by William Wordsworth and read
June 26, by Jr.. Henry Van Dyke at the
funeral of Grover Cleveland. Princeton,
fi. J.
Wno Is the happy warrior? Who Is he
That every msn In arms should wish to
be?
It Is the generous spirit who, when brought
Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
Upon the plan that pleased ills childish
thought:
Whose high endeavors are an inward light.
That makes the path before him always
bright:
Who. with natural lnstinet to discern
What Imnwlnlra can -nffnTrn Is diligent to
learn :
Abides by this resolve, and stops not there.
But makes his moral being his prime care:
Who, doomed to go In company with Pain
And Pear and Bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain:
In face of these doth exercise a power
Which Is our human nature's highest dower;
Controls them, and subdues, transmutes, be
reaves Of their bad Influence, and their good re
ceives ;
By objects which might force the soul to
abate
Her feeling, rendered more compassionate:
Is placable, because occasions rise
So often that demand such sacrifice:
More skilful In self-knowledge, even more
pure.
As tempted more: more able to endure.
As more exposed to Buffering and distress;
Thence, also, more alive to tenderness
'TIs he whose law is reason; who depends
Upon that law as on the best of friends:
Whence. In a state where men are tempted
still
To evil for a guard against worse 111,
And what In quality or act is best
Doth seldom on a right foundation rest.
Ha fixes good on good alone, and owes
To virtue every triumph that he knows.
Who. if he rise to station of command.
Rises by open terms, or else retire.
And in himself possess his own desire;
Who comprehends his trust, and to the asms
Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim.
And therefore does not stoop, nor lie In waft
For wealth, or honors, or for worldly state;
Whom they must follow; on whose head
must fall,
Like showers of manna, if they come at all;
Whose powers shed round him la the com
mon strife.
Or mild concerns of ordinary life,
A constant Influence, a peculiar grace:
But st-ho, If he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which Heaven has)
Joined
Great issues, good or bad for human-kind.
Is happy as a .lover, and attired
With sudden brightness, like a man In
spired ;
And. through the heat of conflict, keeps tha
law
In calmness made, and sees what he fore
saw ;
Or. If an unexpected call succeed.
Come when It will, is equal to the need
He, who, though thus endued, as with a
sense
And faculty for storm and turbulence.
Is yet a soul whose master-bias leans
To hometelt pleasures and to gentle scenes;
Sweet images! which, whosoe'er he be.
Are at his heart; and such fidelity
It Is his darling passion to approve;
More brave for this, that he hath mueb. ts
love
TIs, Anally the man. who, lifted high.
Conspicuous object in a nation's eye.
Or left unthought-of in obscurity
Who, with a toward or untoward lot.
Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not
Plays, in the many games of life, that on
Where what he most doth value must be
won ;
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay.
Nor thought of tender happiness betray;
Who, not content with former worth stand
fast.
Looks forward, persevering to the last.
From well to better, daily self-surpassed;
Who, whether praise of him must wslk the)
earth
Forever, and to noble deeds give birth.
Or he must go to dust without his fame.
And leave a dead, unprofitable name
.Finds comfort in himself and In the caueel
And, while the mortal mist is gathering,
draws
His breath In confidence of Heaven's ap
plause This Is the happy warrior; this is he
Whom every man in arms should wish to b.
Note. In an Introduction to this poem,
written by Mr. Wordsworth, he stated that
many passages in the poem were suggested
by what 'was excellent In the conduct of
his brother John, who perished In ship
wreck, and also of Lord Nelson, the famous
naval hero. The poet also added: "My
brother John greatly valued moral and re
ligious Instruction for youth, as tending to
make good sailors. The best, he used to
say. came from .Scotland; the next to them
from the North of IQngland, especially from
Westmoreland and Cumberland. where,
thanks to the piety and local attachments
of our ancestors, endowed, or, as they ara
commonly- called, tree schools, abound."
SCHOOLMA'AM MUST OBEY LAW
Loses Valuable Homestead Because She5
Didn't Live On It.
Yakima Republic.
The' sad duty fell to Register Cole
man and Receiver Stelnman, of the
United States Land Office, yesterday, of
taking away from one Joanna Wyatt, a
young and attractive echoolteacher of
Seattle, a homestead in the Horse
Heaven country. But there was no '
choice; the law of the case was clear,
and the young woman loses her land
and her improvements.
Strange as it may seem to those who
are more or less familiar with the land
laws of the country, there are quite a
number of people who make entry on
public lands without apparently any
understanding of the laws under which
these lands may be held. Miss Wyatt
evidently is a member of this class. She
filed upon the homestead in section 18-7-26
some time ago. and Instead of mak
ing any proper residence thereon, con
tinued to pursue her vocation of school
teaching In Seattle. In her testimony
In the case yesterday she admitted that
the only residence upon the land which
she could claim had been put in during
vacations and when "It ' was conven
ient." On the other hand, she testified
to improvements made by her. which
cost a very considerable sum of money,
doubtless all of her savings out of an
$80-a-month salary, for a long time
past; and these improvements were ad
mitted by the contestant. The law is
clear that bona fide residence must be
established, and it is not the law or the
policy of the Government to permit
professional people residing in the
cities to acquire public lands for specu
lative purposes or for homes In the
future; the policy is to award the lands
to people who are farmers and who will
make the lands productive.
I
A Party That Bunooea Itself.
Prineville Review.
While there is no question that
through Statement No. 1 the Republi
can party of Oregon has buncoed itself,
yes, smashed itself, there is little or no
complaint heard over the fact that Gov
ernor Chamberlain is booked for the
United States Senate. Only those who
have the welfare of the Republican
party as a party at heart are the
ones who object to the Statement No. 1
method of doing business. Now that
the compulsory law has been enacted
by the people. Republicans will be more
careful hereafter or their party is
threatened with sequestration to that
niche in ancient history which . is at
present occupied by the Whig corpse.
It is true that in this instance. State
ment No. 1 finds strong favor with the
Democratic voter, who naturally wants
to see his party represented in state
affairs, but It may not always be so
pleasant to his taste. But a fair and
impartial view of the situation con
vinces one more and more that State
ment No. 1 is here to stay, no matter
which party is injured in its operation,
for it is a god-send to the minority
and thrives on the misfortunes of the
majority, thus acting as a brake.
Dead Handa Guide Horses' Reins.
St. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch.
The wife of Joseph Grant, a ranch
man in the Black Hills, killed by light
ning, found him sitting upright in his
Hnirifnfi- thA reins, the horns
vueetj, " .
having made his way home.
Doing; the Right Thins; at Drain.
Drain Nonpareil.
The Drain school will open up this
Fall at the usual time, and will con
tinue right alons a the best school In
Jthe state,