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D. E. ST1TT, Editor.
Entarad aa rood -clan mattar September 8, 1908,
at tha poat office at Monmouth. Oregon, under the
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FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1912.
Spectacular Flapdoodle.
When Mr. Bryan proposed in
the Baltimore convention that
his party should stand openly
committed in a declaration op
posing the candidacy of any
man who represents the spejial
interests that are seeking to con
trol the Government and exploit
the people, there was some very
righteous indignation in defense
of that good old Democratic
doctrine of state rights. Such
might not have been the case,
perhaps, had not the Commoner
in his zeal to purge the party of
undesirables demanded that
special representatives of those
interests, holding seats in that
convention, be declared persona
non grata, and their further par
ticipation in the party proceed
ing denied. This was the spark
that touched off the state rights
rfieworks.
Eminent Democrats of the old
school, from Florida, from Vir
ginia, from West Virginia and
elsewhere leaped to their feet in
fiery protest against interference
by anyone with the state privi
lege of choosing whoever was
deemed fit, by those who made
the choice, to appear as coun
cilors in the party's National
convention. No one should un
dertake to dictate to a sovereign
state who its representatives in
such convention should be; and
it must be understood then and
there that such insolence would
not be tolerated so long as there
were lusty lungs to oppose and
denounce it.
To all this the average man
feels like saying "pish" and also
"tush," for the average man from
one end of this country to the
other is well aware of the sort of
game that this type of state
sovereignty is pleaded to defend.
The people saw that game played
at Chicago and they have
watched the course of it at Balti
more. They are familiar, more
over, with the methods by which
men of this ilk are selected as
party representatives and they
know that such methods have
little to do with an untrammelled
expression of choice by the
people. These men are enemies
in the political camps of the peo
ple enemies strongly equipped
with the sinews of war and the
counsel of shrewd and able ad
visers and coadjutors. Their
one purpose is to spike every
progressive gun aimed at the old
order, and in achieving that pur
pose they care as little for state
sovereignty "as they do for the
Tenth Commandment.
Mr. Bryan had the courage to
do at Baltimore that which
ought to have been done at
Chicago, which, as a matter of
fact, should have been done
years ago in the National con
ventions of both of the leading
parties. The demand expressed
' at Baltimore is no new demand.
It has found ample expression
among the people at any time
during the past 15 years; and at
the present time the people are
not at all deceived bv the clamor I
of state rights from men who
train as lieutenants of the pre
datory chiefs. Portland Telegram.
An Act of Fine Courage.
Mr. Bryan believes that the
time has arrived to put aside
courtesy when courtesy inter
feres with the vindication of
principles. It is also clear, that
in Mr. Bryan's judgment, policy
should go with courtesy.
The Commoner has conducted
a more masterly game of politics
at Baltimore than any other
leader there. His game was not
shrewd in the fox-cunning sense.
It was masterly, rather, on the
ground that it sought advance
ment of priuciple; and mani
fested the courage to make ap
plication of that principle in the
personal sense aud without ref
erence to the effect it would have
on individual political fortunes.
Mr. Bryan knows that every
one else knows just what Boss
Murphy is at Baltimore for. Mr.
Bryan holds that in fact and act
the convention should assume
thesame attitude toward Murphy
and toward all the other trained
machine interests working for
reactionism, that the Democrat
ic party orators are bound to
take on the stump after the nom
inations are made. By arousing
the spirit of progressive protest
against the chiefs and emissaries
of reactionism who are willing
that the convention make any
declaration it pleases so they
choose the man, Mr. Bryan
brought the convention to re
uunclfition of the control and
influence of these men. And
later he arose in his place and
protested that if the convention
denounces theft, it should not
receive the stolen goods.
Whatever may be the result,
it was a fine, courageous thing
to do. It was rebuke by high
class political morality; and if
Champ Clark were not more
concerned with securing the
nomination than in bringing
about absolutely clean politics
he would have followed Mr.
Bryan in denunciation of
Murphyism and all that it stands
for, not merely by saying that
he was not allied with it, but by
announcing that he would have
nothing to do with it.
Champ Clark is an oppor
tunist, of doubtful earnestness in
the progressive cause. Mr.
Bryan invited him to resolve the
doubt; and that he failed to do
so. Portland Telegram.
Know.eogc.
The pleasure and delight o:
knowledge far surpasseth all other
in nature. We see in all other
pleasures there is satiety, and after
they be used their verdure depart
eth, which showeth well that they
be but deceits of pleasure and not
pleasures, and that it was the nov
elty which pleased, not the quality.
But of knowledge there is no
satiety, but satisfaction and appe
tite are perpetually interchange
able. Bacon. ' '
Rafts of Cocotnuts,
In the Philippine islands one fre
quently sees a raft of cocoanuts be
ing floated down the river to mar
ket. The "buoyant nuts are closely
packed into a circle, braced across
with bamboos and tied with fiber,
and the queer craft, with its native
paddler, is then ready for the trip
downstream to a point where the
raft will be broken up and the co
coanuts sold. Wide World Magazine.
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Prvrne.
A Maine man, at the Maine so
ciety's reunion in New York, prais
ed the sturdy perseverance of
Maine's sons.
"Perseverance, pluck, self de
nial.'' said he, "those are the quali
ties that bring Maine boys success.
"It wn a Maine boy in Paris
he is a successful sculptor today
who was sought out in his garret in
the Rue Roissonade by a rich friend
who wished to invite him to a New
Year's luncheon.
"The rich friend, who hadn't yet
decided on the hour for the lunch
eon, said: .
" '1 don't know- whether to set it
for 12 o'clock, or 1. By the way,
old chap, when do you lunch as a
rule?"
" 'Thursdays.' said the Maine
boy." Exchange.
Th Boon of Envelop.
I remember when envelopes came
into use, and what a boon they were
considered after the old system of
closing letters with wafer or sealing
wax. Before envelopes were invent
ed letters were always written with
an eye to the position of the wafer
or seal, a blank space being left to
correspond with the pluce where
this would be put on the outside,
lest the written portion should be
torn in opening. The introduction
of another convenience occurs to
me namely, perforated sheets of
postage stamps. Before this inven
tion we had to cut our stamps with
scissors. From Walter Gilbey's
"Recollections of Seventy Years.". '
Msant What H Said.
"Yes," said Mr. Jones, when a
certain girl's name had been men
tioned, "1 know her to speak to, but
not by sight."
"You mean," cut in the prompt
corrector, "you mean that you
know her by sight, but not to apeak
to."
"No, that isn't it. I never saw
her at all to know her, but 1 speak
to her nearly everv day."
"How can" that be?"
"She is the telephone girl at the
exchange." Exchange.
"btralght a String."
One often hears this expression,
but few realize how false the meta
phor is. A string or rope is never
straight when left to itcelf. It must
be pulled on at both ends to
straighten it. It is impossible to
throw a rope on the ground so that
it will lie straight, as you will dis
cover if you try it, no matter how
old or how new the rope may be.
This is.-, because a rope, or string is
made by twisting together an enor
mous number of particles which are
held together in ways which are at
present beyond our understanding.
These molecules pull on each other,
and then the twist on the strands
helps to put kinks in the rope and
in the string, so that you can never
throw either of them from you and
have it lie straight on the ground.
New York Sun.
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The Duke of Queenfberry, who
died in 1810. delighted in being the
patron of running footmen, foster
ing that Institution in its last dnvs.
A man came to be hired as n run
ning footman by that ancient peer.
His grace was in the habit of trving
their puces by seeing how they could
run up and down Piccadilly, Lon
don, timing them from his hnlconv.
The runner could put on the duke's
livery before the trial. One dsv n
candidate presented himsplf, drpss
ed, and ran. At the finish he stood
before the balcony. "You will do
very well for me," said the duke.
"And your livery will do very well
for me," replied the man, and gave
the old duke a lat proof of his abil
ity as a runner by running away
with it. Running footmen on the
continent, preceding the carriages
of the nobilitv. continued to he an
institution until about half a cen
tury ago. !
Audiono.
"That audience chpered my re
marks repeatedly."
"Yes," replied the morose man.
"1 never yet saw an audience that
wouldn't rather hear itself holler
than to listen to somebody's talk."
Chicago Tribune. :
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