Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 6, 1908, Page 2

V] THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER | PUBLISHED NVERY AFTHRNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. Tntered in the postofice at Bemidil. Minr., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---85.00 PER ANNUM ME2CHANTS SHOULD REACH FOR TRADE. The following from the Hawley Herald hits the nail squarely on the‘ head and we commend the article to the careful and thoughtful perusal of the business men of Bemidji. “The trade territory of a town is not all dependent upon the distance to neighboring trading points. The | trade depends upon the enterprise of | the merchants and the residents of the town, If a town does not reach after the trade it will come only as it is forced to. But if the merchants go after business in the surrounding country, adverti way, and making good every word | of their advertising, trade will come from an ever increasing radius, the town will gain a reputa- tion for being awake and it will forge to the front. It is the men in the town and not altogether the men living within a certain number of miles from it that make the town.” OBSERVATIONS. [By A. G. Rutledge.] SOMETIMES, Across the ficlds of long ago He sometimes comes to me. Alittle 1ad with face aglow— The lad T used to be. And yet he smiles so wistfully, Once he has crept within— 1 think that he still hopes to see ‘The man I might have been! ‘There are enough serious things in life without considering yourself one of them. Sometimes you can offend a man by paying him a compliment, but when you do, it is generally because you didn’t make the compliment strong enough. The Chicago mother of fifteen children says she is the happiest women in the world, and to show that she is not selfish she wishes that every woman could have as many. The statement of a Chicago scientist that water is intoxicating is a handsome vindiction for those Kentucky colonels who have all along been refusing to drink itas a chaser. As one among the many incoun- sistencies of the voteless sex may be mentioned the fact that every women will shriek at a mouse yet wear a rat in her hair. LAWSON JURIPS INTO FRAY Foretells Blue Ruin if Bryan Is Nominated. Denver, July 6—Tom TLawson of Boston got o the Denver fray with true Lawson vim. The critic of “Fren- zied Finance” sent to the Johnson headquarters a sizzling telegram in ‘which he foretold blue ruin for the Democrats in Massachusetts if Bryan is nominated. The telegram was sent to Frank A. Day, Governor Johnson’s secretary, and was waved in the faces of visitors to the Johnson rooms at the Albany hotel as another proof that “Johnson is the only man who can win.” This is what Mr. Lawson said: “Get to work on the Massachusetts delegation. More than three-quarters of the delegates are looking for a goog excuse to leave Bryan. Quote me that if Bryan is named Massachusetts will go for Taft over 100,000. Johnson can carry Massachusetts. “If Bryan is named Hearst wil surely run a strong independent ticket and work hard for it. If Johnson is named I believe he can secure Hearst's endorsement. “For everybody’s sake, under no cir- cumstances allow the governor to be named for second place. It will kili his future, and deservedly. Can you not find some way to impress the pub- lic that Governor Johmson will not take second place? They are putting it strong in the East today that he wili and it raises the devil with the weak kneed delegates, who, if they were sure Jfohnson’s name was not to bs used to strengthen Bryan, might get the required pluck to break. You must find some way to have this understood now before it is too late.” Protes: Against Gag Rule. Denver, July 6.—A vigorous protest against what they call “gag rule” in the national house of representatives will be mace to the committee on res- olutions of the convention by the mem- bers of the committee from New York and Jowa. A conference was held be- tween representatives of these two ptates at which a plank was prepared Jor introduction in the committee with 9 view to havirg it made a part of the Democratic pirsform. Socialist Labor Party Meets. New York, July 3.—The national convention of the Socialist Labor party met here to nominate a candi- date for president. Daniel de Leon, ng in every possible | € By ROBERTUS LOVE. [Copyright, 195, by Robertus Love.] ENVER is a mile D uigh. This may be one reason why the delegates, alternates and oth- ers attending the Democratic national convention which meets there July 7 may expect a high time. A tablet on the side of a build- ing i the Colorado metropolis sets forth IGNATIUS J. DUNN. the interesting fact that the altitude at that point is exact- 1y one mile above sea level. Never be- fore has a national political convention elected to hold itself so high up in the world, and never before has such a convention been held so far to the westward. In 1900 the Democratic na- tional convention met in Kansas City, that being until the present year “far- thest west” for all national nominating conventions. Denver is pardonably proud of its distinction in securing this great con- vention, where will assemble 1,008 del- egates from all the states and territo- | pemerations, as Denver Thopes to get ries to nominate candidates for the CEEVHGWT. B NG R y TORL: the United States. This will be the twentieth national nominating conven- tion of the historic party, but the first to meet in a city the site of which was a barren plateau when the Democratic party nominated in 1856 its last sue- cessful candidates prior to the great political changes brought about by the clvil war. The first settleraents upon the land now comprising the thriving city of Denver were made in 1857. Originally the place was called St. Charles, but a littie later the name was changed in honor of General James W. Denver, territorial governor of Kansas, which at that time included the Colorado courtry. In 1850 the city received its charter, and in 1868 the first railroad connection with the rest of the world was made. In forty years Denver has grown from next to nothing to undis: puted greatness. American energy, the precious metals and the Colorado cli- mate have made Denver the metropolis of the Rocky mountain region and one of the most enviable cities in the world. 1t is practically impossible to discover anybody who once having seen Denver will speak ill of the city. To most persons Denver and delight spell the same thing. Denver and determination also might be said to spell the same thing, for the hustling representatives of the Colora- do capital were so determined to se- cure this convention that they pledged the Democratic national committee $100,000 to help defray convention ex- penses, and the money was in sight be- fore the national committeemen could say Jack Robinson. Denver also pledg- ed the construction of a convention hall, to be called the Auditorium, which should be the biggest of its kind In the United States. The city has ful- filled that pledge, having put up-a splendid stone, steel and briek ftruc- ture, with a seating capacity larger than that of Madison Squaré Garden, In New York. The Gardenlseats 12, 185, to be exact, while the Denver Au- ditorium seats 12,500. This capacity Is far in excess of that of the great Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake City," who has run for governor of New York several times on the party’s ‘ticket, is prominently mentioned for the place. the Cincinnati Music hall, the Metro- politan Opera House in New York or JOHN A. JOHNSON AND WILLIAM J. BRYAN, LEADING CANDI- DATES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. presidency and the vice presidency of g5 at most cut Hustling Colorado City and Its Mammoth Auditorium many more big conventions. It is situ- ated in the business center of the city. The structure contains 4,500,000 cubic feet of space and is lighted by 5,000 sixteen candle power electric lights. Three million brick -and 1,500 tons of steel were used in the construction. The 12,500 seats are all opera chairs, no cheap wooden affairs, and there Is room for the placing of a considerable number of extra chairs in the immense hall when occasion calls for them. As to exits, this hall has the rest of the United States gasping for air. Within two minutes the entire building can be emptied of its human throng. As to ventiiziion, the Denver Auditorium seems to surpass every known prede- cessor, for it has two great fans, each ten feet in diameter, midway jn the house, to send cold air through the building, while there is an exhaust fan to elimina‘e the foul air. Each fan has a coil of 12,000 feet of pipe to be filled in summer with cold water, thus es- tablishing a cooling plant, and to be filled with steam in winter, thus heat- ing the building. The Denver promoters. however, de- clare that the July climate Is so pleas- antly cool that every delegate will be able to sit comfortably in the hall with his coat on instead of “eing compelled, J ntlons, to go “In shirt sleeves” uné with a haundker- chief under his collar. Ignatius J. Dunn of Omaha is the man selected by the Nebraska delega- tion to nominate William J. Bryan for the presidency. Nothing In American life is so inter- esting, so dramatic, so full of thrills, as a national political convention. Derver fully realizes this fact and has determined to supply the delegates and the thousands of visitors to the con- vention of 1908 with an éxtra serles of thrills. This being, as stated, the first time that the Rocky mountain plateau has had the privilege of entertaining a national body of such importance—of world importance, it may be said— Denver proposes to let slip no oppor- tunity to prove to the rest of the Unit- ed States that the city is a pretty good place to visit in the good old summer time. There are, first of all, the “Seeing Denver” cars. On these electric coach- es the visifor may observe under the tutelage of a scholarly and humorous lecturer with a megaphone most of the sights of the city—the broad, clean business section, the wholesome, happy residential areas, the parks, the state capitol building, the city’s public li- brary and the state librury and, in fact, everything to be expected in a modern city except slums. Denver has no slums. Visitors from the far eastern sections of the United States who may have become accustomed to looking lmpon western cities as the resorts of foot- pads and other kinds of holdup men will discover that there are mo dark | streets in- Denver where a footpad mdy operate. Perhaps in no other city of the nation is electric light employed | s a permanent police force. Of course there are living policemen, too, but the city fathers of Denver some time ‘ago put in operation a unique lighting sys- tem with a particular intention toward making robbery a difficult and perilous pastime. Even the alleys are bril- liantly lighted, so that the crook finds little chance to operate.. As'a result of l.the electric police force nocturnal rob- beriés and assaults are scarcely known in Denver, fosit It the visttor to whom th Jecture - Slgn'1s ot satisfiecl with that unusual | altitude he need riot go home without going higher. Let him take a train for the famous Georgetown loop and be- yond to Silver Plume, which is two Inlles high. The trip is a matter of only about three hours and is as full of thrills as the fretful porcupine’s ex- terior is full of quills. Past gold mines prodigiously rich the train climbs up the mountains, the track winding around and up so that at Georgetown it crvsses over itself twice, In case two miles high is too low for satisfaction, there is still higher climb- Ing by rail. The road which climbs Gray’s peak, not far from Denver, is the “highest up” railway in the world. In a zigzag fashion the train crawls up the mountain wall until all around the amazed tourist lies perpetual snow and within his range of vision are 182 mountain peaks of the mighty Rocky range. This high line 1s something new, having been in operation but two seasons. The altitude reached by this railway is 14,000 feet, considerably more than two and a half miles. Should further thrills be sought after these the passenger may make a one day trip into the Royal gorge and re- turn. Another trip is that into the wonderful gold fields of Cripple Creek and their vieinity, which, in the lan- guage of an enthusiast, is “a one day trip that bankrupts the English lan- guage.” A night’s ride from Denver is Glenwood Springs, the beautiful wa- tering place. A similar distance is the Pike’s Peak reglon, with Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs and the cog road up. Pike’s Peak and the drive through the astounding Garden of the Gods. Denver itself is about fifteen miles from the mountains, though the mar- velously clear atmosphere causes the stranger to imagine that he can walk to the mountains and get back before | breakfast. ' Gold and silver are by no means the only products of Colorado. In the delightful little valleys and on the plateaus around Denver one may see the prettiest of farms, agriculture being made possihle and profitable through irrigation. Denver is at the junction of the South Platte river and Cherry creek. Along the banks and in the bed of Cherry creek, right in the city, used to | be placer gold in paying quantities. | For that matter, anybody in Denver today may go down to the creek with a pan and wash out $1 or $2 worth of gold dust in a day’s work. | “Is that so?’ exclaimed an excited tourist who recently visited Denver and heard this fact casually mention- ed. “Why, I don’t see anybody down there looking for gold. Why don’t you folks take advantage of your opportu- nities and pick up gold if it is lying around loose?” The informant, a Denverite, smiled softly. “Why,” he replied, “there’s nobody in Denver poor enough to have to work for $2 a day, so what's the use?” Colorado is the only state in the Un- ion which has a preacher for governor. The Rev, Dr. Herry A. Buchtel, chan- cellor of the Unifersity of ‘Denver, is | the chief executiye of the state. An- other interesting |political fact is that women vote in Colorado on equal terms with men for any candidate, frcm the man who runs for justice of the peace to his fellow citizen who seeks the presidency. Never before has a national convention met in a state where the enthusiastic ladies in the galleries of the convention hall will vote in November for or against the candidates nominated at the con- vention. Colorado 1is called the Centennial | State because it was admitted to the Union In 1876, just a hundred years from the promulgation of the Declara- tion of Independence. It is the most mountainous of all the states and by far the richest in mineral wealth. Den- ver has the largest smelting works in the world, but for all its furnaces it is a remarkably clean city, with a pellu- cld atmosphere and no trace of coal smoke smut on the walls of the build- ings. Denver has four high schools and sixty-five graded schools and.no less than 180 churches. As proof posi- tive that the town is altogether up to date the fact may be mentioned that the public library shortly is to be housed in a Carnegie building. But the Auditorium, built primarily for the Democratic national convention and secondarily for all other big con- ventions, shows and spectacles which are expected in the next two or three generations, is built exclusively of Den- ver funds. EASTERN DELEGATES ARRIVE Bryan and Gray Seems to Be 'Favorite Ticket. Denver, July 6.—“Bryan and Gray” was the talk of the last arriving poli- ticians and delegates to the Demo- cratic national convention, the senti- ment being that such a ticket will be named. . One of the arrivals was John T. Maher, private secretary to W. J. Con- ners, chairman of the New York state Democratic central committee and in charge of the state headquarters at Albany. “There is a sentiment through the Fast,” he declared, “for Judge Gray. But there is a decided sentiment for Governor Johnson for first place and a large sentiment for Bryan and John- son as the ticket, but it is scarcely probable that Bryan and Johnson will be the ticket, but if it should be it would sweep the country. However, Judge Gray is very well thought of by our delegation and is a safe, strong man. ? “There is a, sentiment in New York that Bryan and Hearst may get to. gether. If that is true it will be of great strength to the ticket. Hearst has made a grand fight and we are pleased to see a manifestation by Bryan of theé olive branch. It will be accepted and, if so, the ticket made stronger ‘than possibly anything else could make it.” - FOUR DEAD, FIFTEEN HURT Utlca Flyer Wrecked Near Boon- ville, N. Y. Syracuse, N. Y., July 6.—The Utlca fiyer on the Rome, Watertown and Dgdensburg railroad was wrecked near Boonville. ‘Four persons wers NO PARAMOUNT ISSUE Democratic Platform Will Differ From 1896 and 1900. Joctor about taking Ayer's lic Sarsoparilla. Trust > czactly es he says. e : Lips whitc? Cheeks pale? Blood thin? Consult your doctor. Bad skin? Weak nerves? Losing flesh ? Consult your doctor. No appetite? Pcor digestion? Discouraged? Consult your doctor. Wo have the formulas of ll © 110 sacret-! Wo publish SRR o Ao SEVERAL PLANKS IN GROUP|what will be s effect on the bfficial Resolutions Will Be a Broad Declara: tien for Equal Rights for All and 8pecial Privileges to None—Pre- €onvention Gossip. Denver, July 6—The Ilatest vice presidential candidate to reach the city is Colonel J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago, who, while making no ex- travagant claims, admits that he would not decline the nomination if the friends who are pressing his candidacy should succeed in landing the prize for him. He says he will have sup- porters in Georgia, Virginia, Washing- ton, Idaho and other states. Mr. Lewis pronounced unequivocally for Bryan and on the subject of the platform declaration on ctions said: “As to the injunction plank I must insist that the Demccratic party must remain where it put itcelf in 1896 and 1900 and, by ratificaticn, in 1504. We should repeat the platform and take no step which wi mply apologies for the past or indicate a mere bid for votes. e have announced our posi- ton as a principle atd should let the matter rest there. The plank should stand as it has been : ated.” There will be no prenouncement for a paramount issue in the campaizn, as silver was made in 1896 and the inde- pendence of the Philippines in 1900, but the intention is to include several planks in a group so as to give them all equal prominence. This is in ac- cord with Mr. Bryan’s idea that there should Le a general pronounccment against favoritism to certain classes. This he ccnsiders the tendency of the Republican party and, believing that 1t is marifest jn the unfair operation of the tariif, in the encouragement of trusts and In urdue friendliness to railccad and other corperations, he takes the position tkhat to single out either and label it ¢s pre-eminent would be to minimize oiker qu equally important. Hence the resolu- tions will be a broad declaration for equal rights for all and special priv- ileges to ncne and it is believed that this end can be atiained by dec’aring for reformis in the ministration of government in many d tions. Plans to Prolong Contest. Plans are being made intended to lop off the Bryan vote in the conven- tion to such an extent as to prevent his nominaticn ca the first ballot, if possible, through the application of what is knowa as the unil rule of vot- ing. With the first Lallet out of the way the opponents of Mr. Bryan de- clare that all instructicns will then be off and the convention can proceed to nominating a ticket free from’obliga- tions to the Nebraska leader and in the true spirit of Democracy in con- ventfon. Just how this plan is to be worked out and put into creraticn aad i roll call are questions to which no definite answer can be given, even by those advocating the plan. With the machinery of the conven- tion in the hands of the Bryan forces it is stated by his friends that it will be impossible to carry out this plan should there be objection to it. Notice that it was being considered, however, had the result to start the Bryan lead- ors to figuring and should it develop In their opinion that the result would be a gain instead of a loss to the Lin- coln leader it might be decided to make no interference. In this event precaution would be taken to make sure that those statés where Bryan would make gains by the plan should hold the necessary caucus on the ques- tion, as well as those where losses to him might occur. The suggestion that instructions are tulfilled and may be abandoned after the first ballot is also declared by Mr. Bryan’s adherents to be theory and not fact. Instructions which have been glven delegates to vote for Bryan, they contend, mean continued voting for him until a nomination is made. The Bryan people regard the concep- tlon of the plan to be rather the evi- dence of a forlorn hope or effort than Rs an opposing movement fraught with danger to their success. SENATORSHIP IS INVOLVED Indiana Opposition to John W. Kern for Vice President. Denver, July 6.—The vice presiden- tial situation with reference to John W. Kern of Indiana’ is not unmixed With complieations, which are grad- ually coming to the surface through members of the Indiana delegation now on the grounds. Prominent Dem- ocrats in the Indiana delegation have expressed themselves as confident that Wwhatever may be the issue in the pres. idential race in Indiana this fall that the state is certain to be carried Ly the Democrats for the state ticket, in- cluding the legislature, which will elect a successor to Senator Hemen- ‘way. There are several Indiana Dem- ocrats who have their eyes fixed on the senatorial toga in the event of the correctness of this election sur- mise. One of the members of this delegation now in Denver is said to be looking forward to this contingency with considerable hope. aspirants that if Kern should be nom- inated for vice president and the Dem- ocratic national ticket should be de- feated that it would make Kern ihe | logical candidate for senator from In- | dlana. The prestige given him by his | nomination for the vice presidency would be insurmountable for his com- petitors in the senatorial race, it is feared. Hence, these particular Indi- anans are not urging Kern's nomina- tion for second place with all of the | zeal that might otherwise characteriza their support. It is said to be the feeling of these | PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATIC LEADER SCORED BY BRYAN £+++w++++++++m++«1«-j JAMES M. GUFFEY‘. SCORES JAMES F. GUFFEY Mr. Bryan Addresses Delegation o Pennsylvanians. Lincoln, Neb., July 6—W. J. Bryaz made his first front porch speech tc an enthusiastic delegation. Tom L Johnson of Cleveland, who was in con ference with Mr. Bryan when the vis itors arrived, also responded with & speech. The delegation consisted of members of the Bryan Democratic league of Pennsylvania, more than a score of delegates representing the anti-Guffey wing of the party and sev eral women, 108 people in all. National Committeeman Guffey came in for a scoring at the hands of Mr. Bryan, Mr. Johnson and James Kerr. In the speeches, bristling with in- dignation, Guffey was charged with betraying the will of the people. micaer for Vice President. Denver, July 6.—Herman Ridder of New York, proprietor of the New Yark Staats Zeltung, for vice president. Upon good authority this is said to be the Bryan preference at the preseat time. With the arrival in Denver of sevaral prominent Democrats who are close in the confidence of the Ne- braskan came the report that Mr. Brvan had decided that Mr. Ridder was strongly available for the nom- Ination. Not that he expects to dic- tate to the convention the man who shall be named, but to let it be known to his supporters the name of the can- didate he favored. DAILY PIONEER FOR LEGALS Attorneys and others having the handling of the publication of legal notices should remember that the Daily]and- Weekly Pioneer ccver the entire week, with regard to the legal publication of notices. 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