Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1903, Page 6

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Notary Publie. e e, Not willing to let Kansas Oity get ahead of it in anything, St. Louls pro- poses to have a little flood of its own. to Nebraska popocratic papers must not let the ofl burn out until they get some other kind of political fireworks to set off. The competition for the Omaha post- office plum is yet young. It is by no means safe to figure that the entries are all in, Notwithstanding the delightful time he has had throughout his western trip, President Roosevelt will probably be willing to admit that after all there is no place like home. S Kansas Clty is boasting of flve square miles of mud as a souvenir of the recent water fall. Before the era of paved streets Omaha could boast of five square miles of mud every ralny day without half an effort. - e The settlement of the Union Pacific strike and the striking off of the differ- ential on the Union Pacific bridge will eventually more than offset the losses incurred by the recent labor troubles and more recent heavy dew. e For some finaccountable reason the call for a meeting of the democratic state committee to fix the time and place of a state convention says not a word about a joint session with the populist allles in reform. 'Twi not always thus. ——— The Russian newspapers do not like the severe criticism passed by the Amer- ican press upon recent exhibitions of Russian religious bigotry and territorial greed. The way for Russia to avoid such unpleasant remarks is to refrain from glving cause for them. P —_ - — The removal of the bridge arbitrary will not extend Omaha’s trade territory all by itself, but it opens up a wider fleld into which it may be extended by push and energy of Omaha jobbers. The only way to get the business is to go after it and keep after it untll it is corralled. That brilllant reception in Paris to Edmond Rostand as the author of “Cyrano de Bergerac” may be expected to call forth another note of protest from the Chicago man who insists that Cyrano was evolved by his pen. As long as it produces no international dif- ficulty, however, the world of letters will be safe. —_— The sentence of & man to ten years in the penitentiary who led a mob that lynched & negro in Missourl is some- thing of a new departure in law en- forcement In the lynching belt. It is seldom that the instigators of mob vio- lence against negro offenders are ever prosecuted and still more seldom that they are ever convicted. It is intimated that the crying demand for an early judicial convention in this district comes solely from lawyers on the bench and at the bar who want it over at once so as not to interfere with THE PRESIDENTS RETURN. President Roosevelt is again at the national capital, after the most exten- sive and notable journey ever made by a chief executive of the United States. From the beginning to the close the trip was an ovation, manifesting to an extraordinary degree the popular respect for the great office of president of the republic and of esteem for its incum- bent. Mr. Roosevelt has been greeted during the past sixty days by millions of his countrymen and he has received from all the most cordial and respectful consideration. He has spoken hundreds of times, always commanding the ear. nest attention of his audiences. No word has been utterel by anyone in his presence to give him offense, no one has shown toward him a feeling of enmity or even dislike. That President Roosevelt has strengthened himself in the general pop- ular regard and confidence Is not to be doubted. That he has learned much that is valuable from this personal con- tact with the people i8 equally certain. He is as firm a believer as was Mr. Mc- Kinley in the policy of keeping close to the people and it is a policy the ad- vantages of which to the head of the nation cannot easily be overestimated. At Indianapolis the president said that the thing which had struck him more than all else wherever he had been is the fundamental unity of our people. He found them united for national growth and progress, all believing in the great destiny of their country and ready and willing to assume whatever obliga- tions and responsibilities the working out of that destiny may require of then Having met the people from the Atlan- tic to the Pacific coasts, the president said he failed to see “how any man can look at them and not see that in- evitably they belong to the expanding and not to the stationary races of man- kind.” The latter class are certainly not to be found in any great numbers in the west, whose people are in accord with the view of Mr. Roosevelt that our nation must play a great part in the world and cannot help doing so. In the many addresses made by the president during his trip there has been much for the thoughtful consideration of the American people. They have been free from partisanism and have appealed to the practical and the patri- otic Instincts. Cultivation of the higher ideals of citizenship, obedience to law and loyalty to the government have been urged. Repeatedly the president has said that this 18 a government of liberty through the law and that all must have equal justice under the law. One of his strongest utterances is this: “Thie is not and never shall be a gov- ernment of plutocracy. This is not and never shall be a government of a mob. It is a government in which no man is to be permitted elther to domineer over the less well off or to plunder the better off. It is a government in which each man is to be guaranteed his rights and in return for which it is to be seen that he does not wrong his fellow. The su- preme safety of our country is to be found in a fearless and honest adminis- tration of the law of the land.” There will be a general sense of grati- fication that the chief executive has got back safely to the seat of govern- ment, with improved vigor, to take up whatever duties await him. E—— MAKE 4 TEST C4SE. It is to be hoped that the mayor and council will plant themselves firmly in opposition to any scheme that contem- plates the repairing of the Bixteenth street pavement at the city’'s expense. That thoroughfare has been repaired and repaired and vepaired until the patches cover more area than the orig- inal pavement, There is no more valid reason why the property owners on the principal retail thoroughfare of Omaha should not pay for the repaving of the street than should the property owners of any other street on which the pave- ment is worn out. As a matter of fact, the owners of property on Sixteenth street, between Leavenworth and Cum- ing streets, derive greater benefits from the traffic than do the property owners on streets on which travel is compara- tively light. 507 The plea that the city must keep its principal thoroughfare in good traffic condition constitutes no defense for the refusal of the property owners on that street to pay for its repaving. If any class of real estate owners in Omaha can #fford the expense incidental to the pavement of the roadway adjacent to their property they can. If the city is impotent to compel the repaving at the expense of the adjacent property it is equally impotent to compel owners of lots to construct permanent sidewalks adjacent to their lots and to replace these sidewalks when they are worn out. If the city umes the obligation to keep forever in repair a street that has once been paved, we may as well give up all projects of replacing the wornout wooden block pavements with substan- tial material at the expense of the prop- erty owners and let the cost of repav- ing be taxed up to the whole city. e HAVE WE A CONSTITUTION? In order to prevent the multiplication of state offices, the framers of the con- their summer vacation plans. If neces- sary the court should invoke itself to issue #n injunction to prevent the in- trusion of politics into its vacation pleasures. T —— Let everyone who is so disposed con- tribute of his own free will to the reliet funds for the flood sufferers. “But no forced exactions, either from business men, office holders or liquor dealers, There is no more reason why a demo- cratic office bolder should be held up on the plea of charity to boost the brass band of a partisan political organ than that saloon keepers should be cajoled into fnvoluntary subscriptions by a re- publican mayor controlling the police survelllance. stitution of Nebraska l‘mited the num- ber of state offices to be created by the legislature, or any other co-ordinate branch of governmedt, to the number expressly named in the organic law. The language of the constitution is ex- plicit on this point, as folows: No other executive state office shall pe continued or created and the duties devolv- ing upon officers not provided for by this constitution shall be performed by the offi- cers herein creal In the face of this specific prohibition a batch of state offices has been created by succeeding legislatures and officérs placed upon the state pay rolls under various titles and placed upon the state pay rolls as deputies to the governor and deputies to other executive officers It is & well established principle of law THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1903. that one cannot legally do indirectly that which cannot be legally done di- rectly, This principle was confirmed by the state supreme court when it pro- nounced unconstitutional the act con- ferring upon three salaried deputies to state executive officers the powers vested in the State Board of Transporta- tion. The same principle was again re- affirmed by the court when it declared unconstitutional the act creating the office of state insurance commissioner. In the face of these decisions, how- ever, the legislatures of 1001 and 1908 have, under high pressure from various interests and Interested parties, created a number of new state supernumeraries that are to be maintained either by fees or by direct salaries. The last of these state officers extraordinary is the state architect at a salary of $2,500 a year. ‘While this may not be extravagant for a really competent architect, the ques- tion that presents itself is whether we have a constitution and whether the legislature, the governor, the auditor and the treasurer are bound to obey it, or whether they can stretch the consti- tution like a rubber band to suit the emergency. Is it not about time to call a halt upon this flagrant disregard of the plain letter of the constitution? If we can with tn}punlty create these new offices in spite of the prohibition of the constitu- tion why can we not with equal im- punity raise the salaries of all state officers above the constitutional limit? If the legislature and the state officers are at liberty to violate the constitution why should the ordinary citizen be re- quired to obey the laws or constitution? A NEW OUTLET FOR WHEAT. In the opinion of some students of our foreign trade in breadstuffs Amer- ican wheat producers cannot expect a material enlargement of the demaud for that grain from European markets. It is pointed out that wheat is the one American commodity that sells in com- petition with the world, meeting in the markets of Europe the products of South America and the European con- tinent itself, to say nothing of the scattered areas of wheat growing in other sections of the globe. In order therefore to secure an assured demand from year to year for our surplus, thereby maintaining a profitable price for the producer, it is essential that a new outlet be found and this seems to be promised in the Orient, though it may be some time before the promise can be realized. A writer in an eastern financial jour- nal says the European market, so far as wheat is concerned, will take care of itself; what is needed is a propaganda devoted to the far east. Wheat is slowly = but surely establishing it- self as a permanent food article in eastern Asia and the outly- ing islands and archipelagoes, and while customs are slow to change there, western clvilization is gradually over- coming ‘the obstacles that present themselves. “The opening of a wheat market in the Orient means a great upbuilding of our merchant marine in the Pacific. Already some of the largest steamships ever launched are being prepared for trade with China and Japan and these are but the fore- runners of a great fleet that might be utilized, were our trade with the trans- pacific nations properly developed. The practical point is, that if the farmer can be assured a new outlet for his wheat, agricultural interests In the United States will boom as never be- fore and with that the case all indus- tries will benefit proportionately.” Un- doubtedly there will in time be devel- oped a large demand for wheat in the Orient and it is something to be worked for, but it is easy to overestimate pos- sibilities in this direction. So far as the immediate future is con- cerned the outlook for American wheat producers appears most favorable, The best Kuropean authorities on the world's wheat crop estimate that the yield in Europe will be about 250,000, 000 bushels less this year than it was in 1902, while they think that the American harvest will exceed that of last year by 150,000,000 bushels. If these estimates should prove to be cor- rect there will be a demand from Eu- rope for all our surplus wheat, with the necessary effect of advancing the price. Judging from conditions as they now appear the total market value of the American wheat crop of this year should be the greatest ever known. ———— The decision just rendered by the state supreme court in favor of the Western Union Telegraph company and against the village of Wakefield, which sought to impose an occupation tax upon all the business transacted in the town by the telegraph and telephone companies, proves upon close inspection to be a sweeping decision against the telegraph and telephone companies. While the court pronounces a tax levy upon inter- state dispatches and government dis- patches illegal, it affirms the right of towns in Nebraska to impose a reason- able occupation tax upon telegraph and telephone companies for the privilege of doing business within such towns. Broadly interpreted, this decision is far- reaching. The doctrine promulgated by the court applies not merely to tele- graph and telephone companies, but also to express companies and other common carriers, including rallroads. It stands to reason that if an occupation tax levied upon common carriers for local traffic is valid so long as it is confined to trafic within the corporate limits or within the state, it follows as a sequence that towns and cities in Nebraska may, it so empowered by the legislature, im. pose taxes for the maintenance of mu- nicipal government upon corporations engaged in state traffic in addition to the municipal taxes levied by the state boards and apportioned to the towns and cities on a mlleage basis valuation. ogpm———— In the meanwhile the railroad tax agents appear to be mightily pleased over the assessment fixed by the state board for the raliroad property in Ne- braska. Notwithstanding their piteous pleas for a reduction from the old as- sessment, which they characterized as excessive and unreasonably burden- some, not a single one of the roads has undertaken to get redress by appedl to the courts. The supreme court of the state of Ne- braska has again gravely decided that the playing of base ball on the first day of the week, commonly known as Sun- day, is prohibited by the statutes and is a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. There is no manda- tory Injunction attached, however, that will require a revision of the base ball schedule for this year. Sems———gasbaiih The movement to change the name of the Protestant Episcopal church is not having an entirely smooth road, as de- termined opposition is developing in several quarters. The gpirit of con- servatism is usually strongest in church matters. Only Ome Left. Cineinnat! Enquirer. When Colonel Bryan picked out for Prest- dent a man who had never been heard of outside his township, he was possibly in the act of demonstrating that there was really no available man but the “old commander.” Springfield Republican. Specifically stated, the charg Machen is this: Mall box fasteners, costing 2 cents aplece to make, were 8old to the government for $1.% aplece, and on each $1.2% Mr. Machen received 40 per cent com- mission. The Truly Stre; New York Sun. When you want to see men that were really strenuous in really strenuous times, look at the Grand Army of the Republic men. They stand out from the tin soldiers like battle flags among the newest product of the bunting factory. No Objection Made. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It s claimed that General Sherman couldn't endure ‘“Marching Through Georgla™ and yet that was the tune the band played when the latest statue of the old warrlor was unveiled. But of course it made very little difference to the general. Working the 0ld Chicago Chronicle! Advices from the anthracite region indi- cate that the coal barons are about ready to provoke another strike and thus have an excuse for still further advancing the price of coal. Unfortunately, the miners appear to be entirely willing to accommodate them. In this situation the consumer may as well prepare to “pay the fiddler” as usual. me. e Sty Agitation Among “Guinea Pigw.” Boston Transecript. There are a great many people in Eng- land who will hear with considerably mingled emotions the decision of the su- preme court that Whitaker Wright must g0 back. The ‘guines pigs,” men who lent distinguished names to the directo- rates of his “com " would have been perfectly reconciled ' opposite decision by the court. By Starts the Fountain of Gemerosity, St. Louls Globe Democrat It is remarkable that in floods and many other forms of public calamity there s no insurance and that sufferers must face their losses unalded. As far as the United States Is concerned, an important resery- lon must go with the statement. In c of a catastrophe public sympathy here in- stantly takes the form of material ald. The national government and state govern- ments act with prompiness, All Ameri- cans combine to lend a hand when disaster descends upon a community. In some atate capitals tents and other relfef material are kept on hand for emergencies. Busi- ness organizations are always among the first to act. Rellef funds, or the sub- stantial assurance of them, are telegraphed at a moment's notice. All who are within ach of the scene of calamity exert them- lves to relleve the most urgent distress, and strong committees take up the supple- mentary work, which is of high im- portance and must continue long. This system has grown up of itselt. It is In the character of the American peo- ple. In a country as broad and populous this there must be destructive storm 0ods, conflagrations and other phases of widespread loss and suffering. But there is also the ready hand of ‘sympathy and effective assistance. Those who must start anew find that the easiest practi- cable terms are offered them. The givers of today may be the next to call for succor, but aside from this consideration Ameri- cans are always generous and thoughtful when the cry of calmity is heard. One of the reasons why Immigrants are coming to the United States at the rate of a million a year is that a broad humanity, as well as free government, prevails within our boundaries OUR PACIFIC CABLE, Covering the Last Stretch Between Manila and the Mainla Chicago Inter Ocean. The first section of the American cable across the Pacifie, from San Francisco to Honolulu, was lald in the last two weeks In December, 1%2, covering a dis- tance of 2,276 miles, The second section of the cable, from Honolulu to Guam, was to be lald im- mediately, but no report has been made of the progress of the work. The dis- tance from Honolilu to Gusm is 3,860 miles, bnd more time was to be given to the laying of this section of the cable than to any other. Meantime the third section of the cable, from Manila to Guam, has been 1aid, and at midnight on the first day of June a mes- sage was sent from Guam to Manila. The distance covered by this seotion is about 1,200 miles, and the whole cable was laid in one week's time. As soon as communication s established between Honolulu and Guam the United States will have an American cable line across the Pacific, the direct cable ex- tending from San Francisco to Manila, connecting there with lines to Japan, China and with the American tele- graph lines extending to every commercial town in the Philippine islands. While the American company has been laying the cable from San Franclsco to Guam, the British company has completed a cable from Vancouver, by way of Fan- ring island, Fii islands and New Zealand, to Australia. This gives Great Britain wire connection with her Pacific colonies by way of Canada and the Pacific ocean, as well as cable connection with them by way of the Indian ocean. In & few months Washington will be in direct communication not only with the larger towns in Hawail and the Philippines, but with the mining centers in Alaska. A great deal of work has been done by the army engineer and telegraph corps which will become of special value with the com pletion of the Pacific cable OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. According to a German writer the so- clal democratio party 18 expected to show Increased strength at the coming elections, it being the only German party that has steadily grown for the past twenty years. The vote of the party in 1581 was 312,000, At each of the five subsequent elections it made gains, casting in 1898 2,107,076 votes; and this year it is expected that the number will reach 3,000,00 anl elect 100 members of the Relohstag. The demands of the soclal democrats in Germany are very different from what they are in this country. With three exceptions, we should hardly call them soclalists at all. These exceptions are gratultous legal proceed- ings, free medical attendance and burials, and progressive income and inheritance taxes. Most of thelr other demands would seem reasonable to Americans, however radical they may apear to Germans. They include freedom of speech and the press— which has about it a flavor of old- fashioned famillarity—legal equality of the sexes; free mnonsectarian schools with compulsory atendance; responsibility of the government to Parliament; disestab- lishment of the churches; substitution of the militia system for a great standing army, etc. As all candidates for the Reichstag must have an absolute majority before there can be a cholce, it was nec- essary to vote over again 48 per cent of the constituencies at the last election, and at the second poll all other parties com- bined against tbe soclal democrats. It is said that this is not llkely to happen again. According to the writer of the ar- ticle from which these figures are taken, they form “by far the best led, best man- aged and most homogenous party in Ger. the only capital in Burope which reached by the main trunk lines, separated by several hundred miles from the European main railway system, of which Brindisi, Salonica and Constanti- nople may be regarded as the three south- ern termini. There is now projected a line from Athens to Salonica, which will put the Greek metropolis in direct con- nection with the whole continent, It Is to have the standard continental gauge of four feet elght: inches, and when it is completed it will be possible to run through carriages from Calais to Athens. The Greek capital will then be within three days of London. At present the quickest route between the two cities, by way of Brindisi and Patras, occuples five days and involves a sea voyage almost as long as that between Brindisi and Egypt. Hitherto Athens has been the only Euro- pean capital to which there is not a dafly malil from Great Britain, a privilege en- Jjoyed even by Tangier, in that semi-civ- flized country Morocco. That reproach will ceass with the opening of the new line, which will enable tourists to reach the classic ground more rapidly, more con- venlently and more cheaply. oo The Paris correspondent of the London Times, in a review of the present political situation in France, says that the conflict between church and state is becoming more acute dally and that the extremists on both sldes are making moderate counsels im- potent. If it had not been for the futile resistance of the religious orders, he says, and the vain attempt of the bishops to arouse a popular agitation against the min- istry and the parliamentary majority, their most active opponents would have failed to secure anything more than a platonic approval of thelr demand for the denuncia- tion of the Concordat. The joint efforts of the religious orders and of the majgrity of the episcopate, headed by the archbishop of Paris and three other cardinals, seem, he adds, fo have created a new situation which must necessarily affect the policy of the government. The premier himself de- clared in Parllament a couple of months ago that the Concordat could only be main- tained so long as its provisions were loy- ally observed by the church. A large and active section of the republican party, pos- sibly an effective majority of the govern- ment's supporters, now contend that the demonstrative disobedience of the episco- pate is a direct breach of the obligations undertaken by the church in that agree- ment, and they are straining every nerve to induce the government and the country to rescind it. . - The French, as well as the English and Germans, are awakening to a sense of the vast future possibllities of the cotton grow- ing industry in Africa. The whole question was discussed at a meeting of the French Coloniol unfon in Paris the other day, when General de Trentinian, ploneer of cotton cultivation in the French Soudan, and other influential persons were present. M. Pel- terle, president of the Freneh Cotton asso- clation, said that the experiments of Gen- eral de Trentinlan in the Soudan proved that cotton of good medium quality could be grown in that region without any improvement in the method of culti- vation. Had his Initiative been followed France would now be several years in advance of her African nelghbors In Togoland and Lagos. He referred to the danger of the absorption of the Euro- pean cotton trade by the United States, and maintained that French Africa and the Soudan were better qualified than efther Togoland or the Congo coast land for cot- ton growing. He deprecated the introduc- tion of American methods of cultivation on the ground that Africa was not ripe for them, while the superior fertflity of the sofl made them unnecessary. In a general dis- cussion which followed special emphasjs was lald upon the necessity of encouraging native cultivation by buying all the cotton whish they produced. A Shanghal paper, Bhen Pao, publishes the text of a treaty just concluded between Siam and Japan, which is considered im- portant not because of its wording, but trom the fact that It was negotiated im- mediately atter the lapsing of the Franco- Slamese convention. It is in four clauses and is rather in the nature of a modus vivendl than of an actual treaty—‘“Japan and Slam are cordlally desirous that the two contracting parties should obfiin reciprocal commercial advantages. The two allies will encourage the development of more and more amicable relations be- tween the educated classes of the two coun- tries, and with this object in view general committees will be established in all the tmportant centers in order to facilitate voy- ages from one country to the other. The principal professors of the two allies shall meet in congress twice & year—in the spring and in the autumn, on the days to be chosen by them. When the Slamese stu- dents make excursions in Japan everything shall be done to assist them." Standard 01l Precepts. Minneapolis Times. In the precepts offered to his Bible class, Mr. Rockefeller seems able to harmonize the spiritual and the real, the theory and the fact, in & manner truly wonderful. For instance, he says: “It is always a good thing to be contented, bgt mingled with this content there should always be alert desire to better yourself both worldly and spiritually.” This is g0od advice and ad- mirably carried out by Mr. Rockefeller In example as well as precept, but the next sentence is not 8o easy tu adapt either to circumstances or the concrete doctrine of the teacher. Listen: “Do not better your- selt at the cost of another.” Observance of the golden rule and the possession of great riches hitch with as little grace today as they did In the days when the golden rule was formulated POPULARITY OF ROOSEVELT. Opposition to His Nomination Com- paratively Trifiing. Portland Oregonlan. The popularity of President Roosevelt is remarkable when we remember that from the first day of his incumbency he has acted in the spirit of his recent character- istic declaration: “1'd lke to be elected president, tut remember that I'd rather be three years a whole president than seven years only half a president.” The opposi- tion to President Roosevelt Is small when we remember that none of our great presi- dents have been without a vigorous, out- «poken opposition. Washington, during his last term, was so shamefully abused in the public prints by Freneau, the editor of a flerco democratic paper, that he indulged in A burst of passion when he read it. The Jeftersonians, even while Jefferson was still a member of Washington's cabi- net, opposed every measure of Washing- ton's administration with flerce malignity on grounds and pretexts for the most part unreasonable and untenable, sometimes Jeven puerile and contemptible. Washing- ton was grossly libeled before his first administration closed, and Jeferson, while still his secretary of state, encouraged the author of these attacks by retaining him as a clerk In the Department of State. In Washington's. second term the demo- cratic papers bitterly assalled him because of his proclamation of neutrality when France declared war against Great Britain, which was distorted Into showing hostility for France and partiality for Great Britain, When Washington refused official inter- course with the French minister, Genest, and forced his recall by his government in 179, 10,000 people in Philadelphis threat- ‘Washington out of his house effect @ revolution or com- him to declare war in favor of and against England. Parties in the senate and house were very evenly divided, and party spirit was as violent as at any time in the history of the coun- try. The casting vote of Vice. President Adams was called for twenty times upon points of importance In the organic law in one session of congress. In 178 the antl-federalists returned a majority to the house of representatives, and Washington's administration was in a minority. The administration candidate for speaker was defeated by a majority of ten votes. The Jay treaty with Great Britain .was de- nounced with - extraordinary bitterness. Washington was accused of having over- drawn his salary and appropriated the money to his private use. No public man from the organization of the government to the present time was ever so vilely, shame- fully and infamously abused as Washin ton in the last years of his administration. In the house of representatives the demo- crats refused to vote for a resolution de- claring the undiminished confidence of the people in the president. Washington's ad- ministration was a great success, but the response of both bouses to the president's ‘farewell address was made discordant by Glles of Virginia, Andrew Jackson, Edward Livingston, Albert Gallatin and Macon, who voted in the negative. Washington re- tired to Mount Vernon, denounced in the Philadelphia Aurora as a signal illustration that “the mask of patriotism may be worn to conceal the foulest designs against the liberties of the people.” Jefterson in his last term became so un- popular that he did not venture to fish for a third nominatién. Madison had such bit- ter opposition to his war policy in 1812-14 that nothing but the news of peace saved him from secession on part of New Eng- land. Monroe, a mediocre man, was presi- @ent during what was termed ‘“the era of good feeling,” when ex-Président John ‘Adams, as elector, was his vote for “Mon- roe and Tompkin John Quincy Adams, an able president and an upright man, was personally very unpopular. President Jack- son, while always victorious before the peo- ple, did not lack bitter enemies in the ranks of his own party, like Calhoun, Hayne and others. During Jackson's administr tion men who had been his friends became his political foes, and men who had been his foes became his friends. Lincoln did not lack a very vigorous opposition to h renomination on part of the leaders of his party ins 1864, This opposition Included Chase, Wade, Henry Winter Davis, Sum- ner, Horace Greeley, Fremont and Carl Schurs, who even after his renomination urged his withdrawal from the ticket in favor of another candidate. Grant was so bitterly opposed in 1872 that if the demo- crats had not sulked in their tents and re- fused to vote Greeley might perhaps have been elected. Cleveland was bitterly op- posed for renomination both in 1588 and 1892, and Harrison, an exceptionally able president, did not lack opposition to his re- nomination, an opposition that included Tom Reed of Maine and Platt of New York. 1t we contrast the bitter opposition within his own party, which every aggressive president has encountered, the opposition to Roosevelt s trifing. Outside of the sta of New York it has no visible means of support. e POLITICAL DRIFT. Senator Falrbanks' boom has taken a seat in the Roosevelt band wagon. Colonel Watterson thinks he has killed the Cleveland boom. Colonel Bryan also claims that distinction. When the large bores claim the center of the stage it ill becomes the popguns to squabble in the wing ¥ Bourke Cockran’s prophecy that Cleve- land could be ¢lected in 1904 s received with rude laughter in democratic circles. With the exception of 18% Mr. Cockran's prophe- cles have been sadly at varlance with the returns. “Just for fun” the voters of Amesville, 0., last spring elected a town loafer to the office of mayor, expecting that the gov- ernor would depose him. But the governor refuses to interfere, leaving the town to enjoy the fun to the lmit It s the opinfon of the supreme court of the United States that when a muniei- pality wishes telegraph wires put under ground 1t is far better to order their burial by direct legislation than to coax the fu- neral by an exorbitant tax on poles. There are 30,000 negro voters in New York, 24,000 in New Jersey, 3,000 in Rhode Island, 8,000 in Delaware, 60,000 in Maryland, 15,000 in West Virginia, 18,000 in Indiana and 14,000 n Kansas. On the basis of the ma- jorities in the elections of 192, the transfer of this vote would have resulted in & dem- ocratic vietory in all of these states. Victor Murdock, not long ago a reporter and lately managing editor of the Wichita Eagle, covered his assignment in fine style when he ran for congress the other day to flll & vacancy. He carried every precinct JOMN BURROUVGHS AT HOME. J— Talks About Trip with President in the Far West. Poughkeepsie Kagle. John Burroughs, who returned last Thurs- day from his trip to the Yellowstone park with President Roosevelt, was in Pough- keepsie Monday afternoon. Sincs leaving the president's party Mr. Burfoughs has spent several weeks visiting friends, one of the visits belng on a ranch in northern Montana, sixty miles from a raflroad. Mr. Burroughs looks very well, and says he gained five pounds during the strenuous trip with the president, though he had rather a bad cold just before they started into the Yellowstone. They had & delight- ful time, and life in the open air did both a great deal of good. Mr. Burroughs tells many Interesting storles about the presi- dent. “Mr. Roosevelt is as whole-souled and genuine in everything he does as any one can be, and the people who believe he is posing are mistaken," sald Mr. Bur- roughs to an Bagle man, *“‘He llkes to hunt big game, but doesn't care much for fishing or for shooting small game with a shotgun, and that is thoroughly chardoteristic of the man. It is the great problems, the big work of the presidency that he enjogs and not the fame and applause he receives.” Speaking of himself, Mr. Burroughs said he felt as strong and ready for a long tramp as he ever did when he went Into the national park, but was rather doubtful about the horseback riding., “I used to ride when I was a by, but I told the presi- dent 1 hadn't been on & horse since be- fore he was born, but I found I could spring into the saddle as easily as any of them and the riding didn’t even make me stiff or sore. We did not take any very long rides, however, and probably didn't ride over fifty miles altogether, ‘though we often went over very rough ground and up and down steep pitches. The roughest rid- ing we had was one day when we tried to got close to a big herd of elk and suc- ceeded, too, after a long chase and a dash up & mountain about as steep as a horse could scramble up. We counted some 3,000 elk from one spot whers we had a good view. The president said I would do very well for a ‘Rough Rider’ before we got through.” Asked about his experfences traveling over the snow on skies, Mr. Burroughs said he was very doubtful about whether he could use them at first, but when he found progress over the deep soft snow impossi- ble without them he put them on, and after some mishaps got on very well. President Roosevelt had tried them only once hefore. They would each break through the soft snow once in a while. One day they had a Httle race down a short slope at the foot of which there was a rise. “Soon after we got well under way the president broke through the crust and plunged headlong into thé snow. I called out, ‘There's the downfall of the adminfstration!’ as I went by. Then in another minute or two I came to the bottom of the slope and broke through myself. The president had scram- bled up by this time and called out, ‘Whero are you now, Oom John?' " Concerning the great natural attractions of the Yellowstone park, Mr. Burroughs was particularly impressed with the grand- eur of the great canyon, but said of the varlous sections of the infernal regions, on exhibition, the bo¥ling and spouting springs, ete., while interesting, he would not go far to see them . Mr, Burroughs talked of many other things seen during his journey. “The most abundant birds on the plains seem to be the mendow larks. They look lke our meadow larks, but their song is entirely different and with much more varfety about it. The west gencrally has not nearly so many birds as we have here, but they beat us on wila flowers. P — PASSING PLEASANTRIES, Is Scotch whisky so called, pro- Because it's the liquor that gave 8 name to the 't W Ve %,7ame to the eotch people.’~Cleveland “Speaking about stage frights,” said man at the ballet show, “there's one now 't —Somerville Journal. B;"T‘Pl::'::l ,& wonderfully bright child ot in his district and beat the other fellow two to one. Murdock sports the loudest cardinal-tinted hair in the bleeding com- monwealth. The states in which from present indica- tions there will be rival delegations to the next national republican convention divided by the color line are Alabama, North Caro- lina, Texas, Loulsiana and Arkansas. The colored vote of the last state is mnot for- midable, but there are two republican - tions in Arkansas and they ran rival tick- ets at the last election Baltimore election district captains are known as executives, and at the recent municipal election the sum of $0 an elee- tion district was apportioned by the re- publicans among election day workers, there being 308 voting precincts in Baltl- more, In the city of New York the average cootribution of the republican organization is 320 a district, sometimes considerably loss, “I never observed any special accomplish- menta. “It has wisdom beyond its years. When Brinkin asked it to recite for the ladi and gentlemen, it backed up into a cormér and refused to say a word.'—W: g y Washington “What was the troubl “He couldn’t swim." “What has that to do with his failure?" “He got into n company where the stock was all water."—Chicago Post. ““That new man of yours.” said the pro prietor of the store to the Separthent e e seems to be a mighty hard work Yes." replied the latter, “that is his specialty.” ““What, workin| “No, seeming —8yracuse Herald, First Lawyer—Well, I've just made a for- tune. msfe““d Lawyer—Whose was it?—Brooklyn e. MY SHIP FROM SPAIN. H. G. Leslie in Youth's Companion. On, Captain, on whose wrinkled cheeks, Are marks of storm and beating gale, Have you not seen on distant seas, Somewhere, a glimpse of stranger sail— Perchance when evening And misty clouds presaged the night, Uplitted, on some crested wave hen slipping slowly from the sight? ux ship should have a sheen of gold, nd silken seils like bridal train, And bear a perfume, faintly sweet, Of roses on the hills of gpun. dows fell, Youth promised me long years ago Thip ship should sometime come to me, And bear its lade of wealth and fame, From distant lands beyond the sea. It has not come, [ know not why, It may have sought this port 14 vain, And in some unknown harbor le, And idly fret its rusting chain. Meanwhile, I've beat the anvil's face, And felt the heated furnace blast, And wealth of brawn and honest tofl Into life's circling currents cast. mbed the headland morn and eve, n the dark horizen line, 1 a glimpse far, far at sea Ot this boiated ship of mine. Full three-score years have fled away, And still I patient watch and walt My whitening hair and feeble steps ‘Bugsest that It may come 100 late For what 18 wealth to him who dies, Or honor in the hour of pain? The Lethe for the ill of years Was never borne by ships from Spain, The Best TONIC d\xhen ou nr:dwoa'qut with the 's heat ai iness meyrc is nothing so rdruhlnf;‘m invigorating as Horsford’s Acid Phosphate A teaspoon in a glass of water is a delicious thirst quencher and tonic that revives and the entire system. Genuine bears name “Horsoed 'v® on label.