Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 21, 1900, Page 2

The Rerala--Review. E. C. Kiley. T, J, Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Publishers, GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Count de Castellane says the future of this country is perilous. The re- duction of the count’s income has fill- ed him with an alarm that is hardly justified. A Kansas paper says: “Judge My- ers pronounced Staynezstraw Baczyn- ski a citizen last week.” If the judge pronounced Staynczstraw’s name at the same time he ought to go out lec- turing. Chicago papers are still telling what a great failure Rev. Sheldon made in trying to run a newspaper as Christ probably would. ‘The Kansas preacher may not have come up to the standard but if their columns are to be judged as a standard it would be difficult to edit papers as the devil probably would more perfectly than the editors of Chi- cago’s dailies are doing. It is curious to note that the last three theaters burned in Paris have all been state or, as they are called in France, “subsidized” houses—the Opera (1873), the Opera Comique (1887) and now the Francais. But whereas twelve years elapsed between the burning of the Opera Comique and the rebuilding, the Francais will, it is said, be reopened by the middle of July. Among the as yet unexplored spots on the earth which are to be scientifi- cally attacked during the coming year is Sannikoff Land, lying north of the New Siberia Islands, about 300 miles from the nearest point on the Siberian coast. A Norwegian party will try to reach the place in 1901 from the mouth of the Lena River, where they propose to spend next winter. The coming summer will be consumed in fixing the camp on the Lena. Population of ut four greatest cit- ies of the Russian empire is given as the figures of the recent St. Petersburg, 1,132,677; scow, with its two suburbs, 988,614; , 405,041 (a great increase since , and Warsaw, 626,072. Contrary to what is observed almost universaliy throughout Europe, the men outnum- ber the women in the three first-nam- ed communities, while in the last, Warsaw, the proportion of women is but slightly superior to that of men. Considerable importance is attached to the distance measuring field glass invented by Mr. Zeiss of Jena. It is simply an extension of the natural power of the eyes to estimate the dis- tance of near-by objects. This power depends upon the fact that the space between the eyes serves like a base- line in surveying, the lines ef sight converging upon a selected object from the ends of the base. In the telenieter the effective distance between the eyes is increased by means of prisms, ‘and double images of the objects looked at are formed. The distance between the images.varies with the remoteness of the objects, and a scale shows what the real distance is. Up to about two miles the results are said to be fairly accurate, j Kaan In his “System of Ethics,” Mr. Paul- sen says that acts are called good when they tend to promote human wel- fare; bad when they tend to disturb and destroy it, The highest good of an individual as well as of a society consists in the perfect development and exercise of life. He also says phil- osophical pessimism is not a proved theory whose propositions can -lay claim to universal validity, but the ex: pression of individual feelings, and as such can be merely subjectively true. Inasmuch as we have no statistics on the happy and unhappy lives, the suc- cesses and failures, the author says he is for the present inclined to put as mech faith in the judgment of a plain man of the people as in the eloquence of a pessimistic philosopher. A paper on the blue fox (vulpes lago- pus) of the Pribiloff islands, Bering sea, by Mr. Lucas, is timely now that furs are in season. Fox farms or “ranches” for breeding the animals ex- ist not only in the Aluetian islands, but in islands off the coast of Maine. The foxes of Pribiloff feed on sea birds, seal pups, and dead seals, for which they go out on the ice floes in spring. ‘“Dead-fall” traps have been superseded by “box traps,” which do not kill the animal, and the blue fe- male is set free. White females, how- ever, are killed in order to produce a breed which does not blanch in win- ter. Male foxes are spared if the sup- ply is likely to fail, and all foxes let loose are marked by clipping a ring from their tails. It is hoped to turn the blue fox from a monogamus to a polygamous animal in order to* in- crease the supply of fur. This fox is not crafty or wary of man and is taken everywhere with bait. The director of the Geological Sur- vey has had an appraisement made by experts to determine the value of the specimens of fossil dinosaurs be- longing to the collection of the late Prof, O. C. Marsh, which have been turned over to the National Museum in Washington. According to this estimate the skulls of the monster triceratops, or ‘“three-horned beast,” are worth at least $5,000 apiece, while other skulls vary in value from $50 to $250. The head and neck of the tri- ceratops were covered by an enormous bony helmet seven or eight feet long. THE CALL POR TOWNE INCREASING INDICATIONS THAT MIN- NESOTA’S WELL-LOVED SON fs Wanted For the Presidential Ticket With Bryan—Mr. Towne’s Personal At- titude—Other Notes of the National Campaign — The Lincoln Republican Movement Shortly to Be Inaugurated. State and National Resume of the Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, April 16, 1900. The event of the week, connecting national and state politics, has been de- velopments touching the candidacy of Hon. Charles A. Towne for the vice- presidency. The matter has been quite fully gone into in another branch of the reform press work, wherein has been | given as fully as space would permit | current comment on the matter, and | Mr. Towne’s own very clearly expressed | as well as patriotic and noble senti- ments. Ina short time the county con- ventions of ail the allies will begin, from which there will be reflected, doubtless, a very ‘clear idea of what is | the home view of what should be done. Certain it is that no beloved son of any state has a deeper hold on the love and confidence of his people than has Towne on Minnesota, and that just as deepand abiding is that sentiment of devotion to duty and to our cause, that will sacri- | fice anything and all for that cause. { In connection with the Towne candi- dacy there has been no small attempt by the goppite press to make it appear that there is a change of position on the | money question. The contrary is the | fact, as shown by Mr. Towne. The money question is simply intensified. From discussing the simple free coinage question, we have the whole question, of which free and equal coinage was four years ago but a feature. Now is presented the whole question of the surrender of the money issuing preroga- tive to the banks, the whole control of the circulating medium to the few, the burdens of the special privileges con- ferred, placed on the many. The coming week will probably be | promulgated the programme for organ- ization of the Lincot!n Republican party, as has been briefly mentioned in these letters. In advance, suffice it to say first, that the plan originates in Minne- sota, and next is approved in all sec- tions of the country; that it will em- brace not only silver Republicans, but all those who, regretting the turning of latter day Republicanism into Hanna- ism, will be glad of the opportunity to | rally under the name so long revered, | that of Lincoln. The final consumma- tion will of course be at Kansas City a feature of next Fourth of July celebra- tion. Meanwhile all Republicans de- sirous of participating in such a move- ment will please send names and ad- dresses to i is buredt. Tr. Another of the brave, honest Lincoln Republicans to repudiate Hanna McKin- leyism is Colonel George C. Ripley of Minneapolis, whose recent public ad- dress to that end was published by the St. Paul Globe in full, and which forci- ble and patriotic speech is worthy of the widest circulation. Colonel Ripley is of Revolutionary stock and is among those who earned this right to political inde- pendence by honorable service to his country in the Civil war. *y--ty" | Rn Ominous indeed are the signs of dis- ruption in the G. O. P. ranks. Many life long Republicans are daily declar- ing their purpose to vote for Hannaism no longer. Indeed there are more signs of dissolution of that party than were tobe seen among the Whigs at the same distance before their final taking | off. gat oie: ao Ne wi i Speaking of the same thing the other day, President David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university, whose avowal for Bryan, whom he opposed in 1896, he has recently reaffirmed, said that Theodore Roosevelt confessed as much, and that the imperialist policy was what was ruining the party, as exemplified in Porto Rico tariff. Roosevelt expressed his anxiety thus: “Jordan, [ wish to God we were out of the Philippines and had them off our hands.”’ And, speaking of the alleged deter- mination of Hanna that Roosevelt shall consent to stand for vice president, President Jordan states that Roosevelt recently said to him of McKinley: “McKinley hasabout as much backbone about him asa toy chocolate mam that you see onthe confectioner’s stands.’’ Teddy will no doubt be very willing to run for vice president along with sucha backbone. With real estate still dead, building dull, jobbers’ trade quiet, products | and in other labor troubles. | been denounced as trusts, but has any determination to the assembled wisdom at the nationalconventions. - Labor has practically won all de- mands made in the Twin Cities, and all rejoice at union successes. Itis clearer and clearer that labor will have little or nothing except what it obtains for it- self, and how else to get it except by organization? It is not the builders and masters that labor has to fortify itself against, but the spirit that is abroad, which has grown immensely during the past dose of Hanna-McKinleyism, that labor has no more'rights that should be respected than any other of the down-trodden classes and peoples. The same. spirit which would crush liberty in the Philippines and in South Africa, would drive unionism from the earth. It has had open exemplification in Idaho. There under bayonet rule as vicious as that which ever awed the South, aniners were required to re- nounce under oath membership in any union, and secure.a permit to be em- ployed. Men were sent to the bull pen for the mere crime of being union miners. More than this, General Mer- riam made to President McKinley the following recommendation: ‘I would suggest that a law be enacted by con- gress making such unions or kindred societies a crime; surely history fur- nishes an argument sufficiently in favor of such a course.’’ Twin City labor unions will shortly be supplied with all the terrible facts of the Idaho horrors and outrages as brought out in the congressional inves- tigation, and ‘therefore official. One of the facts shown is that the wicked proclamation of the governor was in | fact the product of President McKin- ley—that the governor instead of issu- ing the proclamation, as he had testi- fied, sent it in blank to the president, who changed it and sent it back, and it was thus issued as the president had censored it. Another is that of the pe- titions sent to Washington, praying for troops to be left at Wardner, purport- ing to be signed by some 8,000 names, were in fact bogus, and not more than one-third of the signatures were genu- ine, but were put on the petitions by the wholesale signing by others. Won’t labor reckon with McKinley when the proper time comes? All the machinery of the administra- tion has been at command to smirch labor unions, in the Idaho investigation They have one seen a hand lifted against the real trusts? be Pee z And this pro-English administration, went to the subterfuge of having Hay’s son cable that there are no proofs on file at Pretoria that Macrum’s mail was censored. The world has the proofs in the fac-similes of opened letters. Poor Hay. Ithas given the whole admin- istration the heaves. __ Condemnation for Clark, but not a word against Quay. Such is goppife righteousness. The wail goes out that the state Rx publican committee is badly in nerd of funds. What’s the matter wirb Hanna? geo re — wi Young America to the fore! Fifty messenger boys won a strike in an hour in St. Paul, and one of their represen- tatives is on the briny bearing resoli- tions of sympathy from Philadelphia, New York and Brooklyn kids to Paul As fatien tuGee not were so preju- diced against Mr. Bryan in 1896 come to know the man, and learn his peal character, they are as pleased with him ds they were formerly prejudiced. A specimen of this is Secretary Erving Winslow of the Boston anti-imperial- ists, who opposed Mr. Bryan before, and who now has the following to say of him: ‘I want to say that I consider Mr. Bryan one of the cleanest, sincerest, most alert and single-hearted public men that we have today.” MT ns oan There is every indication of a clean- ing out of the St. Paul Republican ad- ministration. The fire is specially con- centratrated on comptroller, whose mis- management of the city’s finances is monumental. The Porto Rican iniquity is consum- mated and only one so-called Democrat voted for it. Vale, poor Sibley. There’s not a man of your former admirers in the Northwest, todo you honor. Vale, to the valley of Oblivion. Congressman Fletcher voted for the infamous rule by which it was possible to pass the Porto Rican bill, though vot- ing against the bill. Everybody knows that Fletcher’s party would have had his vote for the bill, if it had~ been needed. “Pray God,” said W. J. Bryan to 15,- 000 hearers at Los Angeles, “that Eng- land may not win over the Boer repub- lower, come reduced exports, or foreign trade, to go along with the gold stand- ard. During March, as compared with March a year ago, exports of breadstuffs have decreased $3,000,000, cattle and hogs decreased $500,000, provisions de- creased $1,000,000, cotton decreased $22,- 000,000 and mineral oils decreased $1,- 000,000. In the nine months last passed breadstuffs have decreased $29,700,000, and cattle and hogs $8,200,000. What fabor and capital have jointly lost in strikes should be added to the score. lics,’’ and. the throng cheered its mighty amen. It is the prayer of the American people, except its trust-cursed, ‘pro- British administration. . Apropos, there is expectation that ex- Secretary Davis of theinterior, who had the manhood to resign that he might speak for the Boer republics, will shortly speak in the Twin Cities. . He will be accorded a magnificent welcome. The frightened goppite papers have The Minnesota reform forces heard | Ow got the figures of the enormous with regret the announcement that | campaign fund of the reform forces up Judge Caldwell would not stand for the | to five or more figures. Did you see vice presidency. Judge Caldwell’s de- | anything of my g! termination was in Senator Jones’ hands for some weeks. It is safe to say that no other man than Judge Caldwell | mentary is now so generally urged asour glorious | "The state press contains many compli- references to Judge Willis’ patriotic action in withdrawing from Towne. Still Minnesota with all her|the St. Paul municipal race, as he did Jove and devotion to this her great son, | in the interests of party harmony. will remain disposed to leave the final G. 8, 0, - HON. CHARLES A. once liberty-loving organization en- gaged in the pettif attempt to narrow and curtail these great guar- antees of freedom, to separate the flag from the constitution, to set up ideals of physical force in place of those «earlier and nobler ‘ideals of manhood TOWNE. TOWNE TALK Movement for Hon. C. A. Towne for Vice President Comes Into the Open. No Favorite Son Affair, but Springs Spontaneously From People. Modest and Characteristically Clear Statement by Mr. Towne--His Views. For a long time Hon. Charles A. Towne, our dearly beloved Minneso- tan, has been in the minds of National leaders all over the country as pros- pective candidate for Vice President with Bryan. It has been quite as deeply in the heart of his close friends, who have taken great care not to say or do anything that would in- fluence the case one way or another. His closest friends have been op- posed to the movement in the respect that they felt that the Vice-Presidency would be no adeauate recognition of their idol, and they also felt that their love and enthusiasm for Mr. Towne, could they decide that the candidacy would not impair his future, cught not to weigh against considerations that might be urged, such as geographical lgcation, party expediency, ete., etc. It may be said without violating con- fidences, that the matter has been brought to a focus by a tremendous demand for Mr.Towne to assent, com- ing from the portions of the East where, in February, Mr. Towne de- livered several addresses on the newer issues, The_substance of these de- mands was that no man, barring Mr. Bryan, had presented the issues to compare with Mr. Towne, and that with both great champions on the ticket such a campaign would be made as was fever before known in this country, if in the world. To this there has been added the consid- eration that the situation suggested a candidate with Mr. Bryan who would represent the allied forces, which Mr. Towne, as recently a Republican, would do pre-eminently. It is to this phase of the matter that Mr. Towne addressed himself particularly in his statement to the press. It Was under Such circumstances that Mr. Towne feJt called on to make a statement, immediately made neces- ‘sary by the fact that the press had brought to light the facts concealed by his friends as long as possible, and the increasing demand for his candi- dacy, and also in the official declara- tion from National Chairman Jones that Judge Caldwell, who would doubtless have been made the candi- date absolutely refused. The follow- ing is Mr. Towne’s statement: “Tt cannot be said with strict truth that I am a candidste for the nomina- tion for Vice President. It is true that for a couple of years past there has been more or less discussion of the matter by friends of mine in dif- ferent parts of the country. Not until | recently, however, has this discussion been so pointed or definite as to re- quire any notice from me. “At first I found little in the idea that commended itself, either to my inclination or my judgment. More re- cently, however, and after considerable reflection I have said that if the re~ form forces of the country should ten- der me the nomination on the ticket with Mr. Bryan I should esteem it a high honor to accept and would put forth all my efforts toward the suc- cess of the ticket. “Not, however, by so much as the movement of a finger would Ido any- thing to complicate a wise, politic and satisfactory arrangement of this matter by advancing ‘any claim of my own to conflict in, the slightest degree with the best interests of the cause for which the Democratic ‘party and its allies stand. It is argued by many that inasmuch as we must secure, in order to ‘win, ‘the votes of several hun- dred thousand citizens who, in 1896 voted against Mr. Bryan, it is neces- sary to make some proof to the ancierit opponents of Democracy that that party was really reborn in: aS = ce 1896, and that the high impulse of that campaign still forms its chief inspira- tion. “Nothing, it is argued, would show that all patriots of the country who are in favor of restoring the republic and of preserving the wedded union of the flag and the constitution, would be sure of finding a welcome and a con- genial environment among the ranks of the rejuvenated and disenthralled Democracy. I own that to me there is great force in this consideration. We must win this year largely by the aid of the votes of Lincoln Repub- licans. “Now Lincoln constantly invoked in his time the principles of Jefferson. What, therefore, could be more con- sistent than to put a representative of Lincoln Republicanism on the ticket with Mr. Bryan, who embodies the very spirit of Jeffersonian Democ- racy. “This consideration is, of course, entirely imperscnal. I have nothing to say as respects my own qualifications for the place. If by the favorable judgment of the Democratic party and its allies, acting with entire freedom, uninfluenced by manipulation of any sort, the decision were reached to of fer me the nomination for Vice Presi- dent, I firmly say I should accept it.” In this connection is of great inter- est Mr. Towne’s view of the issues of the campaign, the pertinent por- tions of his interview with the Duluth News-Tribune, which follows, after having received the paper’s criticism that he was “dropping” the 16 to 1 issue and the circumstances under which his party left him, nationally and locally, together with his demon- stration that whatever has occurred to lessen the demand for free coinage has proven the correctness of the bi- metallic theory. Mr. Towne says: “TI suppose it is something of a dis- appointment to you that I have found something else to talk about recently than the silver question. If I had continued to harp on that subject while the public was becoming greatly ecncerned with other matters so grave as to threaten the very destruction of our Government, it would have been a very convenient proof of the truth of the cheap and easy observation which you advocates of the gold standard have so delighted to-make, that I was a “man of one idea,” etc., etc. I can well understand that it is a serious disappointment to you to find that wa of the Republican party in 1896 to the great speculative banks have somehow men who rebelled against the surren- der been able to: keep up with the progress of events and to be just as bitterly opposed now to the attempted surrender of the Government by thaa same organization to the power of the trusts and the hosts of militarism So far as I am concerned I am noth- ing daunted by loud cries of having ‘shelved silver’ and ‘abandoned the fetich. The principle on which the claim for bimetallism was rested in 1896 is avowed by every standard po- litical economist that has ever written during 2,000 years in any language or any country, and it is no abandonment of that principle to admit that cir- cumstances may temporarily have ob- scured the importance of the question either by a relaxation of the rigors of monometallism through increasing monetary supplies, or by the appear- ance of other issues which, because of their far-reaching importance, must claim first place in the interest of the people until they are settled and set- tled right. There are no terrors for me in the detractions of either maley- olent misrepresentation or ignorant malice. The Republican party has fol- lowed up its surrender to the banks in, 1895 by as base a SURRENDER TO THE TRUSTS, and, above and beyond all else, it has challenged the patriotism of the American people by laying an unholy hand upon the constitution and by pro- posing to divorce the flag from the glorious legends of liberty that have heretofore always waved upon its re- splendent folds. I have not the slight- est hesitancy in saying that all other questions must remain subordinate to this great problem of how to save the Government of our fathers from its recreant betrayal at the hands of the present day leaders of the Republican party. In the days of Lincoln it was the glory of that party to amplify lib- erty, ‘to proclaim far and wide its sanctions and ‘to prophecy the peace- ful spread of ‘the spirit of our institu- tions among mankind. To-day we be- hold the chief -repres “tatives of that and character and liberty upon which the greatness of the republic has been nurtured for 120 years. Believe me,. News-Tribune, and all the other apolo- gists and champions of modern DEGENERATE REPUBLICANISM, you cannot escape responsibility for- this hideous and impious conduct. We will not permit you to fabricate false issues. We will not allow you to bab- ble the jargon of other confliets. The senseless mummery of ‘saving the honor of the country,’ ‘and protecting vested rights,’ and ‘honest money’ can- not be used by you in this campaign to mislead the people of the United States into a mistaken verdict. The patriotism of the people has already detected you. Your crime is fresh upon you. The blood is upon your hands. You will be dragged into tha political arena this year upon the i sues chiefly that are here and now and with which the great h of the American people is to-day full almest to b ting. Pass your Rico tariff Heap up the ce! 'y disapn to those unhappy islander: comed the advent of our songs and flowers. Pursu the Philippines the men y assisted us in destroying the pn Sp: in that ¢ % they were chanting in our h their fond mistaken hopes of inde- pendence. Laugh and snap your fin- gers: at the reproof of the people ut- tered in their newspapers and by the hei i res. It Those who have controlled you have long for- sworn any fealty cither to the welfare of the country or to the wishes of the people. But, as I think, the gods have almost made you mad enough to be ready to visit you with that inevi- table destruction which follows such madness, “It may be that you are right when you say that ‘Mr. Towne and the Du- luth Herald have lost all political prestige in this community.’ I am quite sure that if I have sought any political prestige it has been that I might do what in my best judgment seemed good and wholesome for the community and the country. If I have lost it, so let it be; but allow me to say that I could find little to flatter my personal pride in the fact, if it should ever eventuate, that those who had honored me with anv of their political confidence should be led to withdraw it by the arguments of the News- Tribune. “In ccnelusion, referrig to your sneer at ‘anti-everything,’ let me re- mind you that our liberties were founded in 1776 by men who were ‘anti’-British tyranny, and that the grand deeds of the old Republican party began with ‘anti’-slavery.” THE MINNESOTA DELE- GATION AND TRUE RE- PUBLICAN PRINCIPLES. The final act in the drama of tha Porto Rico infamy remarked the Min- nesota delegation for cowa,S}§> and inefficiency. Five members had their mouths stopped from uttering a single lofty sentiment, as will be the case when they reach the stump, by the inconsistencies cf their position, and the base betrayal of former Repub- lican principles. In the two other cases, Heatwole and Fletcher, neither has the ability to open his mouth effectively or even creditably. Woe’s me. is well for you to do this. What a contrast to our groveling delegation were those few other Re- publicans who,stcod by the colors of Lincoln, even to quoting the early Re: publican platforms against the base betrayers of liberty. Crumbacker, thy Indianian, was quoted correctly when he said that the first Republican plat- form (Fremont’s) declared that the constitution carried political liberty to all territory of the United States, as. well as Lorimer,’ Illinois, that all rights and privileges extend to alb American territory. Here are the planks referred to: * First paragraph, platform of 1856: “THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE PROMULGATED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDE- PENDENCE AND EMBODIED IN THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, IS ESSENTIAL TO THE PRESERVA- TION OF OUR REPUBLICAN INSTI- TUTIONS.” In the second paragraph of same; “That, with our Republican fathers, we hold it to be a self-evident truth that ALL MEN ARE ENDOWED WITH THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PUR- SUIT OM HAPPINESS, and that the primary object and ulterior designs of our Federal Government were to se- cure these rights to all persons within its exclusive jurisdiction; that WE DENY THE AUTHORITY OF CON; GRESS OR OF A TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE OF ANY INDIVID: UAL OR ASSOCIATION OF INDI- VIDUALS TO GIVE LEGAL EXIST: ENCE TO SLAVERY (OR OTHER FORM OF OPPRESSION) IN ANY ‘|TERRITORY OF THE UNITED- SATES.” In sixth paragraph of same: “THAT” THE HIGHWAYMAN’S PLEA THAT MIGHT MAKES RIGHT * * * WAS IN EVERY RESPECT UN- WORTHY OF AMERICAN DIPLO- MACY, AND WOULD BRING SHAME AND DISHONOR UPON ANY GOv- ERNMENT OR PEOPLE THAT GAVE IT SANCTION.” — : The same expressions abound in Lincoln’s platform of 1860, and, be- }yond those particular references, how well can the Democrats the- present administration in the very language used by the Republicans then, in arraigning the Buchanan ad- ministration, for “ITS GENERAL AND UNVARYING ABUSE OF THE POWER ENTRUSTED TO IT BY A CONFIDING PEOPLE.” - .