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R e gt MARCH 3, 1879, BRACLOn — . e R Eggs at 25 cents a dozen makes a noise like a shell game. | One way to raise the mortgage would be to catch Mike Davis. l One political pull is worth a peck of petitions, affidavits or mno affi- davits. | Down in Kansas they are praying for rain. Up here in Northern Min- nesota we are about ready to pray the other way. 1t is getting go it costs almost as much to ride a bicycle on the side- walks as it does to buy gasoline to run an automobile. Perhaps the Koochiching county farmer who is raising a patch of to- bacco wants to be the big smoke in his part of the country. | For the benefit of the Great Nor- thern Railroad company will say that if there is anything that Bemidj likes better than a new depot it is two new depots. Mary Garden took 100 pairs of silk hose with her to Paris which causes the St. Paul Pioneer Press to remark that Mary must be getting ready for rainy day. Dr. Wiley finds out in a long drawn out hearing being held in “Washington what he could find out in twenty miutes time in Milwaukee. He wants to know, “what is beer.” Senator Bailey of Texas wants lemons put on the free list. Texas when it sent Bailey -te-the-Senate. and that will be enough for a while ALL IN A BUNCH. The crops, congress, the tariff on ‘wool, reciprocity with Canada, Gov- ernor of Minnesota, attorney general, Sheriff Hazen, Dr. Dumas;, rain, price of eggs, riding on. the side- ‘walks and where is Mike Davis are topics which interest a certain num- ber of persons and are important enough in a way but when, it comes down. to the real paramount issue of the day you will have to look under the heading “Standing of the Clubs.” It is well enough to know how the reciprocity campaign is coming on in Canada but the real American first wants to know whether Minneapolis won another game or whether O'Toole lost or whether the Chi- cago Cubs still maintain the lead. ‘While it has been a pretty good year for politics baseball has politics beat amile. The way the big leagues have mixed things up is both pulse-moving, heart-engaging to say the least. In the National league Chicago, New York and Philadelphia and Pittsburg are rubbing shoulders with each other for first place and even the poor, dispised St. Louis Cardinals have a fighting chance to win the penant. In the American association it is another case of “only Lord knows who will win and | he wont tell.” Just at present Min- neapolis heads the list but the lead between her and Kansas City is scarcely large enough to let daylight in while Columbus trails' closely along and Milwaukee is but a few feet behind, with St. Paul fighting valiantly within 60 points of the top. As the matter of fact any one of the teams of the American associa- tion might win the banner. In the American League Detroit still leads but Philadelphia is hopping along at a good rate and may overtake the Tigers and be the one to fight out the world’s series as was the case last year. In any event it is a great year in baseball and who cares for politics when the baseball clubs are 80 evenly matched. DETHRONED. ‘William J. Bryan, three times can- didate of the democratic party, for president of the United States, can no longer be looked upon as a politi- cal leader in this country. For a long time Mr. Bryan’s power has been weakening and while of course it has ty In a national campaign,it was only the other day in Congress that complete downfall of ‘the once bril- liant “boy orator of the Platte,” was made complete. The incidence to which.we refer, Was the vigorous denunciation of Mr.|- Bryan on the floor of the house by| . 5 ¢ : A New Back for an 0ld One—How It [ Oscar ~W. Underwood, democratic. member - of Alabama, and democratic leader of the lower house who ac- ling untruths but of the offering un- falr and unwarranted critielsm of the members of his party in Congress in regard to tariff revision. It all came about from a public in- terview which purported to be an authorized statement from Mr. Bryan in ‘which he declares that it was time that the democratic leader Un- derwood was unmasked. “The. actions of Chairman Under- wood' im opposing an immediate ef- fort to reduce the iron and steel schedule reveals the real Jndei w00d,” the Bryan interview said. Speaker Clark and other tarift reformers tried to secure the adoption of a resofution instructing ‘the ways and means:com- mittee to take up other schedulés in- cluding the iron and steel schedules, but Underwood and Fitzgerald, the Fitzgerald who saved Cannon in the last Congress—suceeded in defeating the resolution.” Mr. Underwood declared this state- ment absolutely false and explained hig attitude in regard to revision and tariff schedules and during the entire explanation and during all the time that he was denouncing Mr. Bryan in the most vigorous language, not one word of disapproval was heard from any democratic member of the house, and -when Mr: Underwood had seated himself a bumst of applause told him- that the democratic party was with h#m rather than with Mr. Bryan who must now stand forth a discredited and discarded leader. And thus is the “No cross of gold, no crown: of thorns’” man whose elo- quence won: for him the highest hon- or in the power of the democratic party in that memorable Chicago convention, read out of his own par- ty which he has fought so hard but unsuceessfully and probably often lunwisely for: gave. the rest of .the country .one, | It must not be supposed that.mere- [y Because the big men of the:demo- cratic party no longer look upon Bry- an as their leader, that he does not still, control and wield and influence lover thousands of members of the democratic party, for it would be an error to presume that such is the case. So long as Mr. Bryan is possessed of his elogquence and mag- netism and so long as he continues to make a bid for popularity as he (does on the platform, and through (his paper will he continue to be a [power of more or less strength in [national potitics. |being am overshadowing factor in [the selection or the election of a But so far as candidate, his sun has has set never to rise again. Long ago he realized fthat the great ambition of his life to become president, could never be rea- lized. While Mr. Bryan is forced to istep down and out and while many of the things for which he has stood have been fallacies,—chief among them his free silver craze—his per- | formance in the national political ar- fena for the past twenty years has not [been a bad thing for the nation. |In fact, it is true that many of fthe things for which Mr. Bry- an stood for at the beginning of his [career have been adopted by success- ful candidates and at the present time are in force. This much too, can be said of Mr. Bryan. He has at all times been {frank in voicing conviction and we belleve has been honest in his public life. In fact, it is likely that he could have made a better showing fconvictions. It is contended by any if he had not been so devoted to his convictions. It is contended by many that if he had never made his Madi- son Square speech upon his return from his trip around the world, that he would have stood an even chance of going to the White House in his campaign against President Taft in 1908. At that time he went into the issues of the day at great length and some of the daclarations he made 80 offended different factions of the democratic party that he never has been able to heal the wound thus caused. This is particularly true of the southern democrats who since that time have been but luke warm in their support of the Nebraska| man. Pl As he- stands today Mr. Bryan neither could elect or defeat a candi-- date. Aspirants for Washington na- turally would rather have his support any considerable differenice’ in the cused the Nebraskan not only of tel-| strergth of any one candidate. ~ FAIR EXCHANGE Is Done In Bemidji. shoot across the region of the kiq— neys, and again the loins are so lame to 8toop in agony. No use to rub or ‘apply a plaster to the back in this condition. You cannot reach |the cause. Exchange the bad back for a new and stronger one. Follow thé example of this Bemidji citizen. Samuel - Collard, 1024 America Ave., ' Bemidji, - Minn., says: “I willingly conform all I have pre- viously ‘said in a public statement, regarding Doan’s Kidney Pills. This remedy never fails to relieve me when I take it. _¥or months I suf- fired from severs pains in the sma.l of my back and my limbs and joints were-stiff and sore. At times I was unable to work and there was al- ways & feeling of languor in evi- dence. 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REYNOLDS ¢ Architect and Realestate Broker Offices—Room 9, O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phone 23 G * PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block R. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block £hone 396 Res. Phone: 397 JPDR. C. R. SANBORN ' = ... PHYSICIAN AND ‘SURGEON A. WARD, M. D. : ® Over First National Bank. Phone 51 ‘One of the at $4.50, or “cut of selling. e s s mteh qQuality can that reduces the size or the number of profits that stand between .the factory and you is a plan in your benefit. Regal Shoes are Sold Direct from the Factory to Wearer at Cost Plus Five Per Cent. Com- ‘mission and the Low Regal Selling Cost Herefofore, all good shoes have been Bfiilt to sell at fixed “even” prices—$3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00 and so on. would not permit it. . All this has been' changed by the Regal 's. ¢ just as many other necessities are sold—and just as'a// necessitics should be—at a definite, small-commission over cost of manufacture—in our case only'5 per cent.—plus the cost money.” The new plan gives you Regal Shoes nearer to actual cost, and charged with smaller and fewer profits than any other make. The price is stam?ed on the shoes at the factory.. This stamp is your guaranty that more o shoe you tan ‘buy. igh Cost of Living chief causes of high prices is high profits. Any plan If a shoe could be sold at, say $4.35, shoe traditions It had: to be “built.up” by adding unnecessary expense to sell’ down” (to its hurt) to sell at $4.00. Shoe Company’s new plan of selling shoes It makes no difference whether or not the price figures out in *even your money goes for quality and less for profit than in any other Regal Prices are now ¥3%° to i e House fo. 601 Lake Blvd. Phone 351 DR. A. E. 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