The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 19, 1905, Page 9

10 BUILD A NEW FORTUNE, NEARLY EIGHTY YEARS OLD, FORMER SENATOR STEWART P BEGINS LIFE ANEW. * akeshis-Young Bride to Gold Camps of Nevada and Rears Comfortable Home-—Still feeis the Wine of Youth At the age of seventy-eight, after having seen two generations rise and pass away; a former Governor of Ne vada, a mine owner of great wealth, a United States Senator for eighteen years, Willlam M. Stewart for long known as the “Santa Claus” of the § Senate, is starting life anew amid the gold fields of Nevada. With the virility of youth this robust and hearty old-timer, says a dispatch from Rhyolite, Nev., has, with his young bride started in to make another million, - Fortune has played prankes with Senator Stewart; at one time he had been one of the rich men of that mil- Honaires’ club the Senate, owning one of the most magnificent private houses in Washington, In the earlier days he extracted huge fees from the law suits of western mines; at anotfer time he has been down on his upper nin he has been engaged in a big £ ject in Virginia; at other times he has} dabbled again in Western mines and has run an Zastern mule f: from the Senate ‘ain once more and with his advanced ye presumed by the unknowning ones he would sink into obscu but like some others, “Bill Stewart has never known when he was down and out, and he immediately started forth a- gain in the battle of life with the purpose to again rebuild his fortunes. The chances are more than even that he will although he is nearly four score years. The Senator expects to reap a pro- fitable harvest from the various legal matters arising out of the vast new gold fields which have been discovered in Nevada. He is an expert on min- ning law and has at least the preced- ent established of having received in former years a fortune as a single fee. Not Crushed by Failure. Whatever may be sald about the Senator politically, his bitterest enemies will not deny that tae physi- cal make-up of the man is marvelous to the last degree and that his courage is splendid. He is of the type that n. ast spring, poor man, rs it was| VIEW OF RHYOLITE, NEVADA, SENATOR STEWART’S NEW HOMz. cannot conceive defeat but goes on fighting. “This alr makes me feel like a four- year-old,” he said as he landed in Nevada with his daughter and his newly-married young wife. ‘There's no like Nevada, I tell you and T-figure that T'll be doing a big law business here before long. Better to wear out than to rust out you know.” The Senator's new house was built from what he had saved out of his model dairy in Virginia which put the last touches on @ financial ruin that was begun when he tried to force a real estate boom in the direction of “Stewart's Palace,” the gorgeous structures he had put up when he was one of the wealthiest men there. Back Among the Boys. The new Nevada home is a_one- story abode, ornamented with red and white stone. It has ten rooms, the bathroom dazzels with tiles and trap- pinngs and has a genuine shower bath. “I want to make it as comfortable as I can for my wife nd daughter,” said the old Senator, “They're not as used to roughing it as I am.” | A wide veranda stretches around the entire honse, and the grounds are being graded, fenced and sodded. There is a pretty stable and a quaint little chicken house, The Sen- ator has purchased two hundred fowls and in his stable, instead of thorough- bred horses he has a large, sleek pair of mules, which he considers more appropriate to the country. Of Another Generation, Tle Is as interested in all these prep- arations as though he were sixty ing a honeymoon with the first serious battle in life. The mules please him | as much as if he had never ridden be- | hind the handsomest teams and in the most luxur' iages in the capitol. | The house, as it Is, compares | to his Washington pak about as a penny compares to a $20 do gold piece, and yet he is immensely pleased with it. | When you see him laughing, boister- ous and boyish, taking the keenest} pleasure in all his poor possessions, and seemingly never giving a thought to those he had lost in his old age you have to rub your eyes and say to) yourself: | “Can this really be Senator William M. Stewart who has had the world at his feet time and again, the man who, as leading counsel for the Fair-Flood- Mackay syndicate on the famous Com- stock Lode, received in one fee $250,000, then the largest sum ever received by any lawyer in the. world in a single fee; the man who was in his prime when President Lincoln was assassinated, and who is the only liv- ing person that saw the oath adminis- tered to Andrew Johnson in the Kirk- wood House; the man who will al- ways be remembered in New York cafes as “the gayest old Santa Claus that ever liked;”’ the man whose political career has had more crooks and turns than a Boston street; the man who controlled tiie state of Ne- vada absolutely; the man who has not even great piety or overscrupu- lous integrity to cheer him in misfor- tune and efable him to look back over a pathway of good deeds and noble endeavors—can ft be that this happy, vigorous, hopeful septuagen- narian is actually Senator Stewart? 'it as usual, prodding the elephant. |}to make others pay him for the privi- lege of using it. MAGAZINE SECTION The Butler Weekly Cimes. ~2 POLITICAL MACHINERY. CLIMATE IN MANCHURIA, It Plays a Prominent Part in the Fortunes of War. The climate of Manchuria plays an important role in the war between Russia and Japan. Up to the present we have had but little precise informa- tion upan this point. Ross has | lately given the Scien American ‘in- dications as to the climate of that -re-| gion and the character of the different) seasons, He states that in the months | of March and April there are strong) southwest winds which bring with t and moisture. At the end nh the winter season ends, The undersoil is still frozen at this time, but the ground can be worked for agri- Congress from Connec culture. April appears to be the only | (or of a century and one of the reall month of spring. At the end of this | yp month the sowing of wheat commences. | 1 Summer begins in May, and at the end of June or the beginning of July the | parti wheat is cut. Up to the end of June It w. rain is rare and the sky is generally clear, while cloudy weather is an ex-/and in the Senate, — It ception, The heat hes a maximum | thought at the end of July and first part of his par August.’ Afterward come heavy rains | olfensi is always robust, or storms. It often rains for several lisens the American people hay days and nights without stopping. ‘The | Mdopted the Platt aphorism. Party soil is completely saturated and inun- dations are frequent. September is the while October ¢' weather ¢ REACHING AND EFFECTIVE AS TO-DAY, Practical Politics. J. J. Dickinson, been publicly uttered and reiterated b; the late Orville IL. PL a Senator i It was this: for the people.” harvest month, es some of the finest r. At this time the ie during the day and with bracing air, while vegetation ig at its height. At the end of the month the first night frosts be- gin to appear, and in November the cold weather commence nd keeps up until March, At Mukden the temper- | ature sometimes reaches a very low de- | gree. During the day, however, the cold is not excessive, and sometin the middle of the winter the sun's rays | become very warm, on account of the | southerly position of that locality, The | maximuih temperature of summer is 100.4 deg. F, About ten months of the | year are dry for the most part, and the excessive wet season only occurs dur- | ing a month or so. At Niuchwang, on! the north shore of the gulf of Liao- tung, the mean winter temperature is 16 deg. F., and the mean fo: the sum- mer, 74.8 deg. The mean annual tem- | perature is 47.1 di The Russian maritime province e a very low mean annual temperature. At Vladiv- ostock the average for the winter is 10.2 deg. F., and for the summer it is | only 39.9 deg. F. og, F HON. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, Chairman Republican National Committee. a THE RIGHTS OF MAN, to Make a Home on a Piece of Land. The right to work, to employ one’s | workers. self, comes from Nature, and not from | in legislative action. If that is true, s the Detroit News Tribune, it fol- lows that legislatures have no right to make regulations which will permit the cornering of opportunities for self- employment. The United States laws governing our national domain of land were originally designed to conform to the rights of man. Our homestead acts were designed to place the land in the hands of those who would actually use it productively, and much of the land was so parcelled out to the great advantage of society. But cun- ning lawyers and unscrupulous men who want to reap where they have not sown, who seek to avoid productive la- Tilden showed the way. party national control. impulse within hi party to a movement si } Which, under the tut fanimates both of the WAS NEVER SO PERFECT, FAR- | 0f party At the Same Time the Voter Has Never BeenSo:Independent—Edu- | Vislied in Wisittgton, Mr, Hanna set cational Campaigns a Feature of Only one aphorism is known to have hs at for a quar- vat statesmen of our time and coun- burs is a government of parties by : s by this rule that the fine old Yankee squared his yote at the polls guided his and action, It accounted for ship, which, though neve pensation was never so strong and | carefully nurtured as at present; party | and are in the woof and web of our na- They Should Include an Opportunity | discipline was never so rigid; party Baath life. ys leadership was never so placidly recog- nized and implicitly obeyed by party | keeps always in his employ—rarely, of The change has come about] course, avowedly—a well-organized ma- comparatively recent years. Inj} chine, usually headed by one or more fact, the present generation of voters] alert and enterprising press agents and have witnessed its coming. Samuel J. r As a result of | ing in the so his teaching, not party principle, but} respectable corporation president to the party organization, won for the Demo- | muc' i sweeping victories in Re- san strongholds and was started] close of one Presiden fairly on the road to a long lease of} the opening of the next Then appeared the] so numer: ina from his business iilar to that of ‘Tilden, | sible to escape sury had brought surprising victories to the t of organization which now | worthy of note that at no time in the at parties is} recent history of the United > PART TWO. the President's request, he could direct the militant forces of Republicanism in eee - the t campaign, has not been able} Peculiar Customs in Blowing the to even nomin surrender the reins Rams on Jewish New Years. management, although the) phe eustoms of different religious | vast responsibilities of the Postiaster-| nodies have undergone many changes Generalship devolved upon him at the} gnoe their inauguration, and these beginning of this year. - | chau are as marked among the It was under the Hanna regime that} | re other relig s bodies vermanent headquarters of the Repub- ancient customs, however, are b National Committees were estab vllowed out, as they were in the sa? Moses, by the’ strictly ortho- dex Jews, especially in certain parts of Europe. and ar those orthodox Jews who, owing to persecution at home, have come to America to make this land their future home, where ANCIENT AND MODERN JEW. ‘thestusttoranmrit® chairman of the Na- , tional Committee settling quarrels be- tween warring factions, quarrels that threatened so to disrupt the party be mptigus ats to seriously darken | tate, Con tween cx its pr ets in intervening gressional and city election The Democr tee’s headqua oltices of Chairny Indianapolis, though much of the work of that organization is still dene in Now York by August Belmont and Wi, F. Sheehan, the leading members of the | Executive Committee ia the last eam paign, As the Democrats have no Fed. n y eral prctronage to dispense, the work that falls to Messrs. Ts . Belmont 4 ehan is of a pure advisory r ee aaah i . isory Characters. Bt ggoes | of conrse, that the: Mat. | Hliam 4. Bryan ence in th very great intlu- | decisions as to policies, | even though he js clothed with no ott elal authorit | The organizations next in importance | to the National Committee are the} State Committees, five States both of the old parties main- tain central committees, whose fune- tions within their respective jurisdic. tions are similar to those of the Na- tional Committees, The Congressional National Commit In each of the forty | tee stands next in the line of our mili: | ANSHENT 3 pilin OF BLOWING THE tant political system. ‘These commit m’s HORN. vely recent origin, | they may et nligtous Hberty, development of our} Ons His the Jewish New system. Each party | Year, t Number i, one of its own committee | the me d holidays to the Jew, in caucus in Washington usually just) When ally 4 sotten, before the expiration of the Congress | and every drain is ait peace with his then in’ session. Each committee in| weishbor Jewish New Year is observed ordanee with the injunetion: nd in the seventh month on the ay oof the month shall ye have le work the cor- Numbers turn selects its officers, whe, as a rule,} ‘The are members of the Hou: Roth of these committees have permanent head- quarters in Washington, from which i are conducted those fierce biennial} loly convocation; nos struggles for control of the House of hall ve deta day ef blow Representat » Attached to et shall it be unto you. committee is a corps of salaried assist | Xix,1. ant secre stenographers, ete. But it is observed quite differently City, ward, county and precinct com- | by the orthodox and the reform Jews. ittees, State legislative and senatorial | The cornet mentioned in the bible committees, Congressional committeesin| is made from a ram's horn, and is each district of the States, judicial dis- | known as the “shofar” and is used in trict committees, not to mention the} all Jewish synagogues ou this New myriad host of political clubs of mush- \ Year's day. room growth and others of stable life and permanent habitations, complete a line of political organizations that | ramify every avenue of our activitic Nearly every candidate for President | tical politicians rang- ul scale from the highly seconded by yused ward worker. These pri- hines are inding from the ul campaign to In av word, vate s are the pol tions, si ried ar S$} unceasing are their American voter tinds it methods, s' tivities that the irtually impos: | Tee, elous perfection of however, it is With all this ma political machinery ss has “ not indolent or lukewarm betw the Amer 1 voter shown more inde- bor themselves by controlling the OP- } campaigns. In an important sense, it! pendence of thought. In fact, this is portunities of self-employment, have | jg as aetive now as it was when the of the reasons for the tinceasing succeeded in cornering large sec-| jines of battle were drawn after the} | and vi we of party leaders,| MODERN JEW BLOWING THE RAMS tions of the United States. The} national conventions of last simmer | » test public opinion, to follow popur HORN revelations of the land frauds in} }:ad done their work. The difference) lar sentiment in ng of plat-] In the strietly orthodox church the the West are worthy of great at-| Ix tention, but they excite less inter- est than do our troubles with President Castro of Venezuela. The} astonishing fact is learned that one man has acquired nearly 23,000 square miles of public land. He does not want to use it himself, and his only object is yeen them is i is in pow —the ional Committee He therefore makes it more difficult for men to employ themselves, and the rights of man are to that extent denied. <ceninecantliponemanmmneaas 20th Centary Empire Building. Great as ts the power of war in the building of an empire—and the Jap- anese-Russian war will probably make a great nation of Japan—there is an even greater force at work in the world that will in the end decide the fates of peoples. This is the power of one nation to absorb the individuals rather than to wipe out or swallow another government. The Twentieth Century will probably witness the greatest centralization of peoples under vast empires, that the world has seen since the days of Roman greatness. When the cen- tury ends, the outlook is that there will be a half dozen first nations, created by assimilation instead of war. THOMAS TAGGART, Chairman Democratic National Committee. Japan will be one, with its influence ig throughout Eastern Asia, Russia tion—the Democratic National Commit- will | tee. eves ee ee ak bet eel | great parties have lines of subsidiary | probably have absorbed Austeia. The organizations reaching itd ete the States, cities, Congressional dis-| combined for self protection. | tricts and counties to the voting pre- will, of course, advance, Germany Latin races of Southern Europe may) have England “hh 50 « cent have anes. and the Unit es, ve spread over the continent, and maybe| ., Between campaigns, the two continents, besides having ab- of the Republican National Committee are in Washington, and are under the immediate supervision of Elmer Dover, the committee’s secretary, and former- With His Favorite Punch. ly Senator Hanna’s private Sree Post. dential secretary. The committee's From the ‘Wesbington headquarters occupy rooms in one of Colonel Watterson said he would|the finest office buildings in the Na- enter the political arena again in the| tional Capital. The Hon. George B. fall, but declined to tell just how, says | Cortelyou, who vacated a seat at Presi- the New York Sun. dent Roosevelt's Cabinet board to suc- It’s a safe wager that he will enter|ceed Mr. Hanna as chairman of the National Committee in order that, at all countries of the earth. ao de conspicuous by 1 of the fact that the Republican | i ind its central or. more in evidence than its National Committees are neither idle nor un- sorbed vast numbers of peoples from watchful. The permanent headquarters ididates | man who has the duty of blow the ‘ netions of or- | yomust be an exceedingly strict American yoter is in- | He must not have shaved his md independent. ‘Th fudeed the ancient Jew ne | party machinery of, to-day is not er He must not have committed offence which would bar him from ated for the purpose of driving men, | like sheep, to the polls or in the ex-| this sacred office. 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