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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, XOVEMUKll 30, 1J04. Tbe morning Jlsiorian EST A It LI SII ED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. I. RATES. By mail, per year f 6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per month 60 . THE SEMI-WEEKr ASTORIAN. By mp.il, per year, in advance $1 00 DISAPPEARANCE OP DEMOCRATS. The vote of Illinois has been canvassed and pre sents some surprising: results, says the Ledger. In 1S96 Illinois which four years before had given the Cleveland electors about 27,(XX) plurality, was car ried by McKinley and Hobart by the unprecedented plurality for that state of 142,498. In 1900 Me Kinley and Roosevelt ajjain carried the state, but by a plurality that was reduced to 95,000. Long be fore election this year the Democrats were talking about Illinois being "doubtful." The Republicans were deadlocked for a long time over the nomina tion for governor. That seemed to give the Demo crats hope. Then it was asserted that the labor troubles in Chicago would result in a great loss of support for the Republicans. The Democrats seemed to consider themselves the logical beneficiaries of any factional troubles in the Republican party or of any disaffection in the ranks of labor. Long before elec tion, however, the Democrats admitted that the claim of Illinois as a "doubtful" state was untenable. The managers of the Parker campaign conceded it to Roosevelt. But the plurality! Illinois gives the Roosevelt and Fairbanks electors 632,745 votes, or nearly 35, 000 more than were polled four years ago for Mc Kinley and Roosevelt The Parker and Davis elect ors are credited with 328,006 supporters as compared with 503,061 who voted for Bryan in Illinois in 1900. The Democratic vote shows a falling off of 175,000 as compared with four years ago. Roosevelt's plu rality over Parker in Illinois is 304,739, or more than double the McKinley plurality in 1896. "What has become of the Democrats, anyway t Assuming that the 35,000 increase in the Republic an vote came from Democrats, there are still 140,000 Bryan supporters in Illinois in 1900 to be accounted for. Debs had 9,687 votes in Illinois four years ago. but was supported by no less than 69,225 on the 8th of November last Here are 60,000 former Bryan men than in the socialist ranks. Watson, the Popu list, does not seem to have pined much support any where, but he received 6725 votes in Illinois, which represents another small contingent of the missing Democratic vote. It seems incredible that Democrats should turn prohibitionists, but the prohibition vote in Illinois this year was 34,759 as compared with 17, 623 four years ago. But the Watson vote of 6725 and the increase of 17,000 in the prohibition, 60,000 in the socialist, the 35,000 in the Republican vote in Illinois, all combined and credited to defections from the Bryan Democracy of 1900, would leave 55,000 Illinois Bryan men still unaccounted for. The dis appearance of Democrats is one of the great political been "a picnic" for him, and he was sure of his place for life. And Panama keeps on the even tenor of her way, for she has come to stay. THE BANNER STATE. . According to the official eanva.w of the votes made in the various counties in this state, the actual plu rality which President Roosevelt received in the re cent election was 72,683, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. There were very nearly three vote cast for th Roosevelt electors for one that was cast for the Parker electors in this state. This majority does not seem so large when it is compared with the phenomenal majorities given in Pennsylvania and in some of the older states, but when it is considered in connection with the size of the total vote in Washington, the probabilities are very strong that it will give Washington the record as the banner Republican state in the union. So far as the figures have beeu published, there is not a state in the union which has given Roosevelt such a plurality, in proportion to vote, as has Wash ington. Pennsylvania, which is looked upon as the banner Republican state of the union, has a voting population ten times as great as that of Washington. Had Pennsylvania given Roosevelt a plurality such as Washington gave him, in proportion to population, Roosevelt would have led Parker some 720,000 votes in that state in the recent election. Until the official figures of all of the states are published, it will Ik impossible to tell what percent age of the voters in each state voted each ticket. The votes cast for the various minor parties will have au important bearing on the matter of percentages. The present indication is that Washington will take the record this year of having the highest percentage of Republican voters in its population of any state in the union. 000lO$0$Ov000$OJOi0$000 o t Swell Togs O o O For Men. P. A. STOKES Home of Swell Togs o 09 O mysteries of the present year. WHERE PANAMA IS DISAPPOINTING. Panama, the new isthmian republic, is likely to prove a disappointment to the anti-imperialists and the professional denouncers of "militarism," says the Standard Union. Panama had a fine opportunity to play the "horrible example" of what "militar ism" will lead a country to and she hasn't done it. Her threatened revolution hasn't "revoluted," and there's no news for the "yellows" to print about her. No sooner did President Amador hear of the alleged plot, led by the Generalissimo of the "army," than he demanded that officer's resignation, and got it, without shedding a drop of anything but ink. The general is now on the retired list, and his "braves" are all reduced to just ordinary policemen, for Panama is one of the countries that need no army, perhaps the only one, since she has "influence" with Uncle Sam. But let not the finger of scorn be pointed at Panama and the Panamans on account of the willing ness of the commander-in-chief of her military forces to overthrow the government. As a matter of fact General Hueras, "for it is he," is not a Pan aman at all, but a Colombian, and it turns out to be the fact he was only the instrument of disgruntled "outside" politicians. He was on the isthmus when the revolution was launched and joined the move ment, just as some Englishmen in the time of our revolution joined the continental army, like Charles Lee, only to attempt its betrayal. And Panama had been very good to him, too. Esteban Huertas, when he listened to the voice of the tempter, threw away the opportunity of his life, for the isthmian as sembly had voted funds to send him through the United States and the principal countries of Europe to study their military organizations. It would have DIVORCE AND THE CHURCH. The failure of the drastic canon against the di vorced in the convention of the Episcopal church, whatever else it may or may not indicate, does cer tainly reflect the growing unfaith in legislation, gays the Saturday Evening Post. It is surprising that men should be so slow in recognizing that evils do not exist through lack of laws against them but through lack of human beings willing to indorse in practice as well as in theory the standards which the proposed laws would seek to impose. But it is, on the other hand, gratifying that men are beginning to awaken to this truth. Legislation against crime which all men recog nize as crime, and which mast men shrink from as crime, is more or less effective because of the recog nition and the shrinking. But where is there, where has there ever ben, a piece of successful penal legis lation that has been in advance of clear, convinced and crystallized public sentiment! What humanity needs is not lawgivers but light- givers, ror, given tne light, the law against dark ness follows. Fewer lawyers and laws and legislat ors; more competent teachers and more competent preachers. O o o o 99 O O o o o o 0 o o () 0 V ' a 0 0 5 s S 0 0 6 o i 0 J 0 JL f HwhMw -ATTN sr" r Mot . faff!! C I yft ,1 p Xr , TIME you were seeing us about your Winter Suit or Overcoat if you expect to be In the "running" with the fashionably dressed men around town. These garments are "chock full" of good quality, and style tnat Is only pro duced by a first class City Tailor. To buy your clothes here Is to be well dressed, and to be well dressed is half the battle of life. P. A. STOKES We Fit Anyone Money Back if Dissatisfied The independent voter is abroad in the land, says Mr. Bryan's Commoner. No national election in re cent years has presented such conclusive evidence that the voter is doing his own thinking, and it is a good omen for the future. Folk, a Democrat, is elected in Missouri by a plurality of about 30,000, notwithstanding the fact that Roosevelt carried the state by about the same plurality. Johnson, a Demo crat, is elected in Minnesota in spite of the over whelming majority received by Roosevelt in that state. Douglas, a Democrat, is elected in Massa chusetts by a large majority, although the president received something like 85,000 plurality. Alva Ad ams, a Democrat, is elected in Colorado as a rebuke to Peabodyism, although Roosevelt carried the state. Toole, a Democrat, is successful in Montana, although Roosevelt carried that state also. LaFoIette, a Re publican, wins in Wisconsin against the opposition of both senators and all the Republican members of congress, in Micnigan the Democratic candidate ran far ahead of the Democratic national ticket, while Governor Garvin, the Democratic candidate in Rhode Island, is barely defeated. Berge, the fusion candi date, runs some 30,000 ahead of the combined vote of Parker and Watson, in Nebraska, and Kern, in Indiana, Osborne in Wyoming and Dale of Kansas cut down the pluralities given in their respective states for the head of the Republican ticket. Fisher's pera Mouse L, E. SELIGi Lessee and manager Week Commencing Honday, Dec. 5 ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY I JAMES KEANE And his entire conipnny, presenting a new lino of plays. High class Vaudeville specialties between tne acts. Popular Prices Reserved Seat. ,r0c; Gallery, 25c. Seat sale opens Saturday morning at Griffin's Book Store. S7?e STAR THEATER ASTORIA'S FASHlONARte VAUDE VILLE HOUSE IN CONNECTION WITH STAR AND ARCADE THEA TERS Of PORTLAND N N Excitable Pr.eh.r Arraigned. San Francisco, Nov. 29. Inuito Selby, who attempted to shoot Judge HeD- burJ. was today arraigned In the police court He appeared as his own attor ney. He asked the court for ball and the amount was fixed at J10.000 In Rurlty or $5000 In ensh. 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GMRE 543-545 Bond St Valencia, Spain, reported to have sunk with all hands on November 15, hits arrived here leaking badly, with her pumps broken. ' Strike D.olsr.d Off. Ouruy, Col., Nov. 29. President Moy er of the Western Federation of Min ers tonight gave out a stutement that the strike In the TellurMe district had been declared off, and an official state ment to this effect will be Issued Im mediately. It touches the tickle. Rogers' White I'lne Tar cough cure. Try It. Charles Rogers. Chtnft of Projrim Monday. ChanM of Act Thursdays! MAT I N KK DA I L V AT '-'.45 1 M MONSTKIt KILL Week lteglmiliig MONDAY MATINEE, NOV. 2& Feature Act COWLBS AND ALDEN In their pastoral play by Howard P. Taylor JONATHANS COURTSHIP" BCHILLKR I1ROS. In a novelty Act The Violin Virtuoso and the Singer HICKMAN AND MORTON The clever sister soubrettes HARRY 11ROWN The singing cartoonist, a Euronean novelty EDOUARD SCOTT, Astoria's Favorite Ilarltone "You're the Flower of My Heart Sweet Adeline." 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