(!• tt. KIMIDF.lt, Editor.
M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1901.
VOL. I.—NO. 21.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Oompiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AN1> POLITICAL,.
■Among- -those who arrived at New
York, on the 15th, per steamer Lakn,
from Bremen and Southampton, were
Gen. Fred. D. Grant, his wife and
son Ulysses S. Grant.
Hon. Thus. Carter, of Montana,
president of the St. Louis World’s
Fair national commission, and ex
Gov. Francis, of Missouri, chairman
of the board of directors, arrived at
Canton, O., on the 15tli, and called on
the president. In response to their
earnest request, the president prom
ised, in a few days, to issue his proc
lamation inviting- the nations of the
world to participate in the exposition.
On the 15th, under proceedings in
voluntary bankrutpey, the Chicago
Title and Trust Co. was appointed
temporary receiver for the George II.
Phillips Grain Co. Bond in the sum
of $100,000 was given.
The official Handelsblad, of Amster
dam, while incredulous regarding the
story that an attempt is being made
to persuade Air. Kruger to sign a doc
ument authorizing privateering
against Great Britain, on the 15th,
warned the Boer leaders that “no civ
ilized power would approve of the
adoption by the republics of a medie
val system of warfare like privateer
ing.
The government of Denmark, hav
ing determined to return the visit
of the Llnited States training ship
Hartford the cruiser Yalkyrien, in
command of Prince Waldemar, the
king’s youngest son, will sail for New
York in January, and afterwards visit
other American portss.
lure for the British Indian govern
ment, is in ihis country investigating
the methods of the agricultural de
partment and its work among the
farmers, with a view to applying a
similar system in India. lie is espe
cially interested in the cultivation of
cotton, tobacco and sugar cane. Mr.
Mollison, after completing his in
quiries in Washington, will inspect
the agricultural experiment stations
in some of the states.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Kansas’ population, according to
the assessors’ census, is 1,467,803, a
net increase in one year of 23,100. The
largest gain was 6,519, in Wyandotte
county; the largest loss, 2,059, in
Cherokee county.
On the 15th nearly live hundred ca
dets from West Point arrived at Bufs
falo, N. Y., and went into camp with
in the Pan-American exposition
grounds.
On the 15th the first motor funeral
on record in Knglaud occurred at
Coventry, on the occasion of the in
terment of an old employe of one of
the automobile companies. The hearse
was a special * -constructed six-horse
power car. All the three cars used
were drap*d with black.
On the 15th 704 exiled persons, many
of them being women, started from
Constantinople for Yemen, Arabia.
The prisoners include those who were
implicated in the recent fire at the
harem of the Yildiz palace.
On the 15th three additions to the
United States navy were christened
and launched at the shipyards of the
Maryland Steel Co., at Baltimore, Md.
They are torpedo boat destroyers,
and will be known as the Whipple,
Truxton and Worden.
On the 16th the entire town of Lan
dess, Ind., was destroyed by tire.
There was no fire protection what
ever. The town had a nonulation of
300. A’o casualties were reported.
Crop reports from Italy indicate
tlie wheat prospect as slightly in ex
cess of last season’s harvest of 42,
000,000 hectolitres. For the first time
in several seasons the olive crop will
be good, and the prospects for hemp,
corn and rice are uniformly bright.
A party of geologists of the Asso
ciation for Advancement of Science
started from Denver, on the 16th, on
a ten days’ tour of the state of Colo
rado. They go first to the quarries
near Canyon City; thence to Aspen,
Salida and other points of geologic,
interest. Trot. C. It. Van Hise, pro
fessor of geology in the University
of Wisconsin, is leader of the party.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
16th, showed: Available cash bal
ance, $175,407,072; gold, $103,439,687.
On the 16th, State Duilding and
Loan Inspector Mauck, of Ohio, swore
out a warrant for the arrest of J. A.
ltlodt, late secretary of the Guaran
tee Savings and Loan association,
of Cleveland, upon the charge of em
bezzling funds from, the latter insti
tution. ltlodt recently resigned Ids
positon with the bank as the result
of an investigation by state officials.
On the 16th detectives arrested
Gerhart Terlinden, alias Theodore
Grafe, at a boarding house in Milwau
kee. He. in charged with embezzling
1,500,000 marks from a large manu
facturing concern in Germany which
is capitalized at 12,000,000 marks. Ter
linden, it is alleged, duplicated the
concern’s stock, had it stamped and
sealed, and sold it.
i
“American coal has ousted British
coal from the Swiss market,” says a
dispatch to the London Doily Mail
from Geneva, “and the American syn
dicate is confident of eventually ob
taining a monopoly of the entire
Swiss coal market.”
On the 16th It. (J. Dun & Co., of
New York reported: “Failures for
the week numbered ICS in the United
States, against 101 last year, and 19
in Canada, against 24 last year.”
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The Mexican government has d«.
cided to wage war on all gambling
houses, and Minister of War Keyes
will issue a circular order to all army
officers notifying them that if they
are found in any gambling establish
ment they will be dismissed from the
service and turned over to the civil
authorities. All the public employes
are to be warned that gambling will
involve their dismissal. Merchants
and bankers sustain this move heart
ily.
An explosion of ten tons of molten
metal in the blast furnace depart
ment at the Ohio plant of the Nation
al Steel Co., at Youngstown, on the
18th, resulted in the death of three
workmen and the injury of 11 others
The machinery which controlled the
ladle containing the molten mass
broke and allowed the metal to droj
into a vat containing water.
Secretary Hay has appointed Dr. J
J. Rodriguez, of Washington city, as
secretary of the delegation to the In
ternational Conference of American
States to be held in the City of Mex
ico next October. Mr. Rodriguez is
a lawyer and served as a special coun
sel to the American peace commis
sioners in Paris.
A great forest fire is raging or
North I’ine and l'ish creeks, near
Baker City, Ore., and the destruetioi
of a vast amount of timber is threat
ened. The weather is so dry an<
warm in the mountains that it wil
be impossible to stop the tire, whirl
is likely to prove destructive to mucl
ranch property.
The Echo de 1’aris, on the 18th, pub
lishod an alleged interview with Conn
Von Waldersee in which lie high!;
praised the Trench soldiers and ex
pressed a belief that war bctweei
France and Germany was an irnpossi
bility.
Over two thousand carriage work
ers were notified by seven shops ix
Cincinnati, on the 17th, that theii
services were needed no longer, ant
that the places would be opened Sep
tember 3 as non-union shops.
James McCue, connected with Bar
ney Selireiber’s racing stable, of St
Louis, was fatally injured at tin
Saratoga (X. Y.) race track on tin
18th.
The Winona Bible conferenct
opened its seventh annual meeting ui
Winona Lake, Ind., on the 18th.
While at target practice, on the
10th, <it Fort Kiley reservation, ill
Kansas, a seven-inch, 107-pound shell
exploded as it was being placed in the
breech of the third section gun ol
siege battery (), Seventh artillery,
commanded by ('apt. Van Dusen, kill
ing Private Watson, and fatally in
juring three others. Several met
were less seriously injured.
Little Wonder, the celebrated hack
ney stallion, owned by A. J. Cassatt,
of Philadelphia, and imported by him
in 1882, died, on the ltlth, from peri
tonitis. Little Wonder was the first
hackney stallion imported to this
country. lie had been exhibited at
all the principal horse shows in the
country, winning many first firizes.
The steamer Islander, sailing from
Skagway, when nearing the south
west end of Douglas island, at 2 p. m
n f t Bn oml vnnnincr ■»+ •full citoiwl
struck a floating iceberg, and in less
than 20 minutes went to the bottom:
of the deep channel. From 00 to 7f
persons and much treasure went
down with the vessel.
A monument to commemorate the
fifty-fifth anniversary of the peaceful
annexation of New Mexico to the
United States, was unveiled, on the
19th, on the plaza at Santa Fe, in the
presence of a vast concourse. The
monument was erected by Sunshine
Chapter of the Daughters of the
American revolution.
It was reported in Glasgow, on the
19th, that J. lb Kllerman, of the Ley
land line, had purchased the old-es
tablished City line of 14 steamers, on
j gaged in the Hast India trade, the
price being nearly one million pounds
sterling. Mr. Kllerman, according to
rumor, acted for J. Pierpont Morgan
and his associates.
The Korean government has forbid
den the exportation of rice, on ad
count of the short crop. The Japan
ese government has instructed its
minister at Seoul to inquire whether
the measure is justifiable. Japan has
an agreement with Corea forbidding
such action except in case of dire ne
cessity.
Adam Rest and Joseph Engine, two
of the workmen who were trapped in
the Cleveland (O.) waterworks tunnel
200 feet below the surface of Lake
Erie by the burning of Crib No. 2 re
cently, were rescued from their dan
gerous position, on the 19th, after
five days’ imprisonment.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Sharp Burglar at Fort Smith.
A burglar has bqen operating in
Fort Smith for the last two months,
lie duties the police, refusing to walk
into tHiier well-laid traps for his cap
ture. Toe other night he broke into
the residence of J. E. Morgan, an Iron
Mountain conductor, and secured $30
in cash, a gold watch and a suit ol
clothes. The total value of the arti
cles he has stolen this- summer
amounts into the thousands. The po
lice are completely baffled and say .hu
is the most intelligent cuook that evet
operated in Fort Smith.
Pine Bill IT Bui'Klnr Captured.
William Brown, colored, was ar
rested, at Pine Biutf, on a charge oi
burglary, committed in Tawer &
Bell’s grocery. Brown was captured
only after he had been chased into
the middle of the city and had shot
his pistol empty, lie was finally cap
tured at. his home. He teas surprised
while sleeping in bed with a shotgun.
Brown is thought, to have committed
tho large number of burglaries which
have occurred at Bine Bluff during
the summer.
Slain by 111* Brother.
Monroe Roberts shot, and killed
Dave Roberts, his brother, at Al
theimer, east of Bine Bluff Monroe
surrendered to officers and was taken
to Bine Bluff and jailed. The killing
was the result, of a lawsuit and quar
rel over the family estate. The only
witness to the killing was Monroe’s
son, .who says the killing- was done
in self-defense. Monroe killed a ne
gro several years ago.
Killed by a Woman.
Mrs. Lucinda Bennett, wife of B. A.
Bennett, shot and killed John Seitz,
at Beach Orchard, near Corning, be
cause, she siays, he threatened to kill
hot' and hen children. At the time of
the shooting' Seitz was running' the
children with an ax. Mrs. Bennett
got a shotgun and shot Seitz in th*
head, hilling him instantly.
Honorary <'nmiuiftnioner*.
The following citizens of Batesvillc
j have been appointed honorary com
’ missions otf the St. Louis World’s fair
• by Gov. I Levis: Dr. Wooclyard, Francis
i Martin, Dr. II. G. Logan. James Darr.
■ W. K. Strickland. It'. S. Williams, W. U.
Dennison, Albert Kaneaster, C. M.
Engles, A. J. Craig and M. C. Weaver.
De Queen l . C. V. Reunion.
The third annual reunion of U. C.
V., of Sevier county, closed a three
days’ scission at De Queen, which was
a grand success from start, to finish.
Gov. Davis, Congressman Little, Hon.
Otis Witig'o, Senator Berry, Hon.
Miner Wallace and other prominent
1 speakers njade addresses.
Pine III<■ fV Cotton Movement.
The report of Secretary K. D. Bus
sell, of the Pine Bluff commercial
league, on the Pine Bluff coton move
ment, during the season of 1900-1901.
is as.follows: Xumber bales on hand.
2,529; receipts, including 169 bales on
hand September 1, 86,674; shipments
during season, 64,145.
Contract for Hondliol Let.
At a meeting of the board of di
rectors of the Southern Misouri and
Arkansas railroad, at Little Bock, J
If. McCarthy was given the contract
to build 51 miles of railroad, begin
ning at the state line in Clay county,
and extending to Pocahontas, Ban
dolpli county.
Arknnsn»' First Cotton Dale.
Arkansas first cotton bale of the
season sold for 20 cents per pound, at
Pine Bluff. The cotton was grown by
Aicuonnci tv 10., lnercnam planters 01
Altheimer, twenty miles east of Pine
Bluff.
Must Ilcdnce Asylum Force.
Under an order made by the state
board of charitable institutions,there
must be a wholesale discharge of em
ployes at the Little Rock insane asy
lum within the next three months.
Infant Probably Murdered.
The body of a mulatto baby was
found on a sandbar, below the iron
Mountain bridge, at Little Rock. The
coroner's verdict was that death was
caused by unknown persons.
Vehicle Tin l phcld.
Chancellor John M. Elliott, in the
ease of Frank ,T. Murray and others,
at Pine Bluff, declared valid the ve
hicle lax which was recently made
local law by city ordinance.
A llarbecne at Redlleld.
One of the most elaborate barbe
cues of the season was given at Red
field. Mayor Angus F. McNeil was
master of ceremonies. Prominent
speakers were present.
Killed by Dynamite.
William Pinkston, of Forest City
was killed at Stuart, I. T., by a pre
mature explosion of 500 pounds of
dynamite, with which he was blast
ing rock.
Bad Prairie FIre» In Prairie County.
A destructive prairie fire raged in
Prairie county, a few days ago. Thn
damagd is placed at $50,000. Ten thou
sand acres were burned over.
THE STEAMER TURNED OVER.
ilxteeu Person* Drownod by the C»|>alzlng
of the Steamer City of Golconda
In a Squall.
Elizabethtown, 111., Aug. 20.—Tin
steamer City of Golconda, plying be
tween this city and Paducah, Ivy., was
struck by a squall in the storm about
seven o’clock last night as she was en
route to Paducah, and turned over in
ten feet of water, six miles above Pie
city as she was going into Crowell’s
landing. Sixteen persons are report
ed drowned.
The disaster occurred as supper was
seived, and many of the 75 passergers
were in the cabin. The 'wind stmffr
the boat without warning, and there
was no time for those on the inside
to escape.
Capt. Jesse Bauer and Pilot E. E,
Peck were the last to leave the boat
and swim ashore. They saved those
who were struggling in the water,
left the survivors in a house near the
bank, and came to this city. Capt.
Bauer, who arrived here two hours
after the catastrophe, said:
“The boat was getting to land when
the squall struck her and she listed.
Several passengers who were inside
jumped overboard and were caught
by the boat. The ladies, all of whom
were in the cabin, could not be
reached. The boat settled down in
ten feet of w'ater at a reef, aud two
of the men who were in the cabin'
ll. E. Wooden end N. S. Quartermouse,
of Hampton—broke through the
glass and were saved.
“Two colored deck hands saved a
woman and child, and I think she was
the only woman saved. A yawl that
had broken loose was caught by some
of those struggling in the water and
taken to the bank. We returned to
the boat in this, but could find no
bi^ur- ui me, uuu u'liwucu iu amm-.
The boat was valued at about two
thousand five hundred dollars, and
had been in the trade for several
years, being- owned by Capt. Otto
Bauer, of Golconda, 111. There is no
way to determine the number or
names of dead until the boat's books
are found. Capt. Peck places the
number at 16. The Mary N. left soon
nfter the survivors reached the city
for the scene.
Among those believed to be lost
are:
Miss Luev Barnett, of Smithland.
Miss Lizzie Graham, of Greenville.
Miss Trixie Adams, of Greenville.
Mrs. David Adams, of Smithland.
Watts TIavis, a prominent farmer of
Livingston county.
Clarence Slayton, of Lola, Ky.
Three colored deck hands.
AN AWFUL ACCIDENT.
One Man Killed nnil Many Wounded
by Explosion of a Seven-Incli
Shell During: Practice.
Junction City, Kas., Aug. 20.—While
at target practice about nine o'clock
yesterday, at Fort Riley reservation,
half a mile north of this city, a sev
en-inch, 107-pouud shell exploded as
it was being placed in the breech of
the third section gun of siege battery
O, Seventh artillery, commanded by
Capt. Van I)usen.
The big siege battery of four guns
had been ou the target range, four
miles north of this city- since last
week. Yesterday morning the usual
practice was in progress. The 107
pound shell had been put into the
third section gun, and Private Matson
was in the act of ramming the shell
home when there was a terrific ex
plosion, and the headless body of
Watson was seen standing perfectly
erect for alomst. 15 seconds, when it
Ttin\-o<l nc if i a cion mill til Oil "foil
alighting on his back, with shoulders
toward the gun. Watson has a father
in Texas and a brother and sister in
South Carolina, and enlisted in Sa
vannah, tia.
Private Joe King had both arms
torn off and lost both eyes, lie is
from New Jersey.
Private Murray Sykes had a portion
of the skull torn off and right eye
badly injured.
, Charles Duncan was badly bruised
nbout the head and blinded in both
eyes. He is from near Wichita.
Henry Logsdon, of London, Ivy.,
Is badly hurt, and may go blind from
powder burns.
j Sergeant Dennis Mahoney, a native
of Boston, was hit in the mouth with
a fragment of shell, and lost several
teeth.
Kecruit Lloyd, who recently joined
the battery from Jackson, Tenn., had
his left forearm blown off and right
eye badly burned.
< The wounded men were at once
taken to the post hospital, where the
proper medical attention could be
given.
Shot 'While Tryinpr to kaenpe.
Peoria, 111., Aug. 20.—Joseph IV.
Walker, of Milwaukee, was arrested
yesterday by Officer John Davidson on
the charge of flooding the north end
of the city with spurious dollars.
Walker broke from the officers and
ran when the latter fired several shots
at him, one of which inflicted a seri
ous and probably fatal wound in his
left side.
DILEMMA OF REPUBLICANS.
Enormouu Growth of Trust* and
' Monopolios Under Protection ,
StHBRors Them.
Tlie unexpected often happens in
politics. When the republicans enact
ed the Dingley tariff bill they said it
settled the tariff question and that the
policy of protection would not again
be disturbed. They claim that pros
perity is dependent upon the main
taining of the protection wall they
have so carefully erected. But sud
denly some of the most pronounced
friends of protection express their
purpose of making a breach in the
wall, and the whole tariff matter is
■ saga'^ij brought up for discussion by the
very men who said it was settled for all
time. The enormous growth of trusts
and monopolies under the protection
granted them by the republicans was
foretold by the democrats when the
Dingley bill was enacted, and now the
people are being aroused by the fact
that the foreigners are buying trust
productions for less titan they are,
the allies of the trusts in congress are
in a dilemma. They must cut off pro
tection from the trusts or 1 he prospect
of defeat stares them in the face. But
to acknowledge they are wrong and
that their theory of protection is at
fault is another predicament, and the
great majority of the republicans, un
der the leadership of Hanna and the
president, have determined to evade
the strait they are in by the unconsti
tutional and roundabout way of reci
procity.
But reciprocity will not accomplish
what the people are. demanding, that
protection be withdrawn from the
trusts. There is another danger
looming up to disarrange the protec
tion theory, and the only way that
can be averted is by giving up the
colonies that have been acquired by
the expenditure of such vast sums
and the sacrifice of so mnnv lives.
This the Nashville American dis
cusses when it says: “After a delay
for which there was no defense, free
trade has been established with
Porto Rico. The country has finally
periormcd its “plain duty” as point
ed out by President McKinley be
fore he signed the Porto Rico tariff
bill. Free trade between all Ameri
can possessions is a policy which no
party can afford to ignore or defy.
When the republican party, through
force of circumstances which no
party could control, accepted and
adopted the old democratic policy of
territorial expansion, it entered upon
a policy which is the enemy of a tar
iff policy. Expansion and free trade
go together. A severe blow was
struck the republican policy of a pro
tective tariff when Dewey’s guns in
Manila bay gave to this country the
Philippine archipelago, and when the
war with Spain gave us Porto Rico
and paved the way for the ultimate
annexation of Cuba. Free trade has
been established with Porto Rico,
and free trade with the Philippines
must follow. It is inevitable. Ex
pansion is an entering wedge which
must eventually drive asunder the
tariff wall erected by republican leg
islation. The tobacco and cane and
beet sugar and rice and fruit grow
ers may succeed in delaying free
trade with the Philippines, as they
have delayed for a time free trade
with Porto Rico, but the time is not
far away when trade will be as free
between the Philippines and the
United States as it is between the
states of the American union. And
the time is coming when there will be
free trade with Cuba also. The logic
I of events will force free trade in oth
' er directions.”
The only way the people will ever
get any renet irom if o tarm Tax ana
the extortion of the protected trusts
is by revising- the tariff on tne demo
cratic principle of a tariff for revenue
only large enough to produce what
money the government requires
economically administered. Protec
tion is the mother of trusts and must
go the way of all monopolies.
-The principal aim now is to reach
the trusts, and no more effective way
suggests itself than by depriving them
of tariff protection. This protection
gives them complete control of the
American market, and consequently
outrageous profits on what they sell
at home, while at the same time it
leaves them in a position to sell their
surplus products at reduced profits in
foreign markets — thus figuratively
killing two birds with one stone. In all
of this the American consumers who
are outside the pale of trust protection
are the ones upon whom the burden of
the injustice chiefly falls. These con
stitute a vast majority of the people,
and if they choose to apply a remedy
they have it. in their power to do so.—
Washington Post.
-The republican leaders know
that they have good cause to fear the
resentment of organized labor. They
cannot point to one instance in which
their party has stood on the side of or
ganized labor as against the exactions
and oppressions of the trusts. The
steel strike is logically injurious to
, the republican party. It is so because
organized labor is fighting the trusts
in that conflict, and the republican
' party is the creator and defender- of
j the trusts.—St. Louis Republic, j
FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRACY,
Must Always Include In Its Platform
Reforms That the Peoi^e Are
Crying For.
A vast deal of space has been given,
by republican newspapers to their
proposed reorganization of ihe demo
cratic party. Of course the talk of re
organization is all rubbish; the party
is as well or better organized to-day
than it was in 1875 before Samuel J.
Tilden was elected or in the year pre
ceding the election of Cleveland.
There is hardly a township in the Unit
ed States that lias not its committee of
democrats who are ready and willing
to undertake another fight with the
party of trusts and plutocracy. The
trouble with these republican newspa
pers and some that pretend to sail un
der the democratic banner is that they
wish to disrupt the party of the peo
ple. They decry Mr. Bryan as a popu
list, they caricature and distort the
other democratic leaders so as to
lessen their influence, that the people
may be led where they would not.
It is not the money question that
they fear except they want to continue
the system they have set up and pre
serve the millions they have wrung
from the people, democrats and re
publicans alike, by controlling legisla
tures, state and national, to pass laws
that have allowed them monopolies
and privileges over and above their fel
lows. They see that if the people rule
their days are numbered and the re
distribution of wealth will begin and
go forward with a rapid pace, almost
amounting to a revolution. The reor
ganization talk is from those who hope
to see the democratic party controlled
by the same noxious influences that
have the republican party by the
throat, the trusts, the corporations
and the monopolies. This will not be.
Democracy is anti-monopoly and can
not be otherwise; it has always been
so, unless when once or twice it has
been betrayed, and then how quickly
it reorganized, and would do so again.
The democratic party cannot become
less radical to suit a small minority;
indeed, to be vigorous it must include
in its platform the reforms that the
people are crying for or it would not
be democracy.
The crusade of Tom Johnson in Ohio
for equal taxation expresses one of the
fundamental principles of the party --
equality of all under the law, that The
railroads, the corporations and the
rich and powerful must pay their share
of taxation, which under the long
reign of the republicans they have
been allowed to dodge, thus adding to
the burdens of the great majority of
the people. Plutocracy, aristocracy,
imperialism and militarism cannot ex
ist where democracy is in power.
All the signs of the times point to
a great reaction towards democracy,
because the people are waking up to
the fact that the democratic party is
sincere and earnest in the reforms that
must prevail, or the rule of the people
would be a sham, as it is fast becom
ing under republicans with imperial
ism, strong central government and
organized wealth. The signs of their
decadence are multiplying, the unrest
of labor, the scandals and rascality in
all departments of the government,
the breakdown of protection, all show
tnat this republican .orgy has reached
its climax and the day of the people
draweth near.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
-If Hanna is elected president the
monogram-initials of the L nited States
will more fitly than ever constitute the
dollar mark.—St. Louis Republic.
-A i erre name mau is. pru^eui
iiig- two follow workmen for provoke.
They called liim Mark Hanna. The ^ ____
plaintiff ought to make out his case."
—Indianapolis News (Ind.).
-The kind of reciprocity the farm
ers and manufacturers need iS some
thing real and practical. They are
tired of paper promises and orator
ical fustian and bombast.—Philadel
phia Times.
_“Coin” Harvey does not like the
w av things are going in the democrat
ic party pretty well. Things are com
ing our way, all right, all right. It
may be now the kingdom’s coming
and the year of jubilee!—Albany Ar
gus. i
-Within the republican organiza
tion and acting as a strict partisan, no
man can strike a really effective blow
at. the trusts, which have the support
of the administration, of nearly all
the recognized leaders of the party |
and of perhaps not less than 90 per
cent, of all the republicans in public
life. On the other hand, the demo
cratic party is practically a unit in
opposition to the trusts.—Washington
Times.
-So long as the political complex
ion of the senate remains as it is now
it will be a perfectly safe proposition ..-<j
for the high protectionists to have reci
procity dangled before the eyes of
the people. Commissioner Kasson was
so disgusted with the transparent
fraud in the reciprocity game that he
threw up his job in disgust. Reciproci- ' |
tv has proven to be a harren make
shift, and this Is why Congressman l,:
Babcock and a number of republican
leaders and newspapers are pnflbjng
tariff reform to the front,—Kansas
City Times.