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"WHEREIN PARKER'S CHANCES LIE.
."When one studies the table of votes in the elec
toral college he is not surprised that Judge Parker
should be deeply interested in the situation in In
diana and New Jersey, as he is reported in our dis
patches to be. If Judge Parker is elected he will
probably receive the electoral vote of one or both
of those two states, which figure most prominently
in democratic calculations. Wednesday's Oregonian
contained a "Washington dispatch, presenting the
claims of the national republican committee, which
may mislead those who are following the fight. Ac
cording to this dispatch, the republican committee
concedes Parker 166, claims 290 for Roosevelt and
Here we have a total of
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comni ttee has probably conceded, loltne solid
BOUth-fcParker ;
'; The democrats figure several plans of winning.
They will get' the 151 votes of the south. Should
they be able to swing the states classed as doubtful
Colorado', Delaware, Maryland, Montana, Nevada,
Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming into the demo
cratic column and also carry New York, with its
39 votes, they will have a total of 225. The num
ber neeesfery to elect is 239, and ihe vote of Indi
ana, 15, would just make up the deficit.
c It "will be seen from this statement that the dem
ocratic candidates may be elected without any par
ticular landslide. The democratic managers claim
a fighting chance in Wisconsin and Connecticut,, al
though it is reasonably certain Wisconsin will give
its 13 votes to Roosevelt. Connecticut has hereto
fore been influenced by New York, and a democratic
victory in New York might put Connecticut's seven
votes in the Parker - column, although this is not
to be expected.
But the democrats are able to figure a simpler
table of victory, and Judge Parker's anxiety about
New Jersey and Indiana indicates that he is relying
upon this other combination for success. The solid
south and New York will give him 190 votes. It is
not unreasonable to suppose that West Virginia and
Maryland will go democratic this fall, for up to the
time of the nomination of Mr. Bryan both states
had been unswervingly democratic. Their 15 votes
would bring up the total to 205. If Colorado's fiye
and Delaware's three are also captured by the demo
crats, the total will be 213, and Indiana and New
Jersey, the latter .with 12, will find Judge Parker
in the 240 hole. v
It is quite probable that the democrats hop
to win through victory in the states included in
this last classification. New York is, of course,
claimed by both candidates, and, despite the claims,
the state is one of the most doubtful. Parker is.
depending entirely upon the Empire state, for
without it he can not hope to win. West Virginia
and Maryland may perhaps be counted for him,
leaving Colorado and Delaware to be fought for.
If the democrats can win in those states and carry
Indiana, where Tom Taggart is making heroic ef
forts, and New Jersey, their nominee will come
out with 240 votes, or one more than enough to
elect. .
Here we have the democratic election dream in
a nutshell. Whether or not they can hope for In
diana is questionable, for the state can not be fig
ured on at any time. In 1896, when Illinois gave
McKinley more than 100,000 'plurality and New
York rolled up a lead of 200,000 for him, Indiana
gave him only 18,000 and but 8000 more four years
later; The vote of New Jersey for the past 12
years shows that the people there voted just about
as those of New York voted and It is a reasonable
assumption that the candidate who gets New York
.will also get New Jersey. . ' ; '.
The democrats are up against one very difficult
propostion,' and as yet none of their spellbinders
has offered a solution of the trouble. In 1896
and 1900 Bryan was opposed by gold democrats,
who have been given the credit for the election of
the lamented McKinley. Parker this year must
contend with those Bryanites who will not heed
the tom-tom of any other candidate than Bryan.
There is bound to be apathy among those demo
crats this year, but to what extent they will refuse
to support the national ticket can not be foretold.
The doinoerats huve an uphill fight to make, and
victory in Indiana and New Jersey seoms absolute
ly essential to their success.
OlR UNDERPAID LAWMAKERS,
. An item in the Maine September election that
escaped notice because of the larger interest in the
presidential campaign was the defeat of the ro
pused amendment to the constitution increasing the
pay of members of the legislature from $150 to
$300. There was no question as to the wistloinx
of paying adequately for useful public service; the
voters simply declined to consider their legislators
seriously and voted down the proposal overwhelm
ingly. Maine's lump sum of $150 for a legislatiy term
is the smallest paid by any state in America, says
the Saturday Evening Post. It is ridiculous com
pensation for the time and work of an intelligent
citizen, and yet public sentiment by a vote at the
polls decided that it is enough. A traveler found
a settlement of converted Indians in the far west
whose spiritual needs were supplied by a Sjinday
sermon for which the preacher received a dollar a
week. "Don't you think it's might poor pay!" he
asked. "Mighty poor preach," was the reply of a
bronzed deacon. There might be a similar weigh
ing of values in the Pine Tree state.
New York and Pennsylvania pay members of
their legislatures $1500. Measured by remunera
tion, these great commonwealths should fare far
better than Maine. And yet it was only the other
day that we read in a newspaper friendly to the
administration in power that a Pennsylvania leg
islature ended a session of loot by stealing for its
members all the state house furniture that could
be carted off, and most of the New York papers
regularly declare each new legislature in that state
to be worse than the last, which means the worst
of all. Allowance must be made for the extrava
gance inseperable from politics, but with all ex
aggeration deducted, the fact remains thai our leg
islators have neither the confidence nor the admira
tion of their constituents.
An old story tells of the new congressman who
spent the first week in Washington wondering
how he got there and the rest of his term wonder
ing how the other fellows got there. A state legis
lature is a primary school compared to the national
body, and so its members come in for coarser ridi
cule than the congressmen. 'He was a member
of the legislature, but he has since reformed," is
a familiar jibe in local districts. , 5
. All, this is a distinct part of American humor,
put underlying it, is serious significance, If we
examine it faithfully we begin to see why repre
sentative government scores so many failures. It
may be a joke to elect cheap men to pass laws and
to pay them less than it costs to live at the capi
tals, but the jest grows grim when they settle down
to work and make their expenses somehow. Does
not the American voter help the graft game by ex
pecting his representatives to be grafters t '
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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
; Every now and then, some, one rises to advocate
a return to the brutal methods of the past, says
the Taooma Ledger." Boys and girls of spirit are
generally inclined to assert themselves, and occas
ionally in a manner that disconcerts their elders,
even 'as their elders did those who came before
them. These boys and eirls are always liable to
find the school room a somewhat monotonous place,
and, consequently, their animal spirits rise .for the
purpose of breaking the monotony.
Naturally the teachers are dismayed. They be
lieve, with the pope, that "order is heaven's first
Jaw," and seek by one method or another to pre
serve order. In the old days this was done by means
of the hickory stick, and the hickory stick still has
champions among those who believe that order in
the school room is the first essential.
But corporal punishment in the school room is
based on a false estimate of the value of school
education. ' Boys and girls go to school, j$js as
serted, for the purpose of learning to read and
write, to learn how to calculate and speak and
wrije the English language correctly, and this can
not be accomplished unless order is preserved.
It is true that boys and girls go to school partly
for the purpose of learning these things. But the
main purpose of education, the sole purpose of a
true education, is the acquiring of a character that
will stand the storm and stress of life. One must
be devloped at all points. One must have a resolute
spirit. And corporal punishment is an evil be
cause its . natural ' tendency ' is to break the
spirit of the child upon whom it is inflicted.
It is impossible for one. to have too much spirit,
if he'must combat the obstacles which life is sure
to put in his way, and the school room, if it would
be worthy of its mission, must foster and develop,
not destroy, the force that is required to fight the
world battle.
It is safe to assert that corporal punishment
is the refuge of none but a dull teacher, and in
stead of commending the teacher who resorts to it,
as some ,are yet prone to do, it should be prima
facie evidence that the teacher is incompetent to fill
his of her place, and the teacher should be discharg
ed at once as hopelessly incompetent.
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