Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1903 — Page 2

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A NEW MOSES. A new Moses has arisen from the returns of Tuesday’s state and mu- i nicipal elections that may lead the democrats to greater victories. We refer to George Britton McClellan, who as the democratic candidate, won a signal and glorious victory in Greater New York, being elected mayor of that great me- i tropolis by from 70 000 to 100,000. It is seldom that muncipal elections are safe criterions when it comes to measuring standard bearer for a national conflict, hut we believe this exception is perfectly justified. The victory accorded the democratic candidates was truly a democratic victory. It means that Greater New York is, as it always has been, a democratic city and that the democrats are getting back to their proper moorings. We beleive the result is cherished more as a democratic victory than as a personal triumph of the candidates. This being true it is reasonable to beleive that the democratic party- is preparing for greater things and that next year with George Britton McClellan as a candidate for president, New York and the nation will accord him a more distinct victory and greater honors. He is a -clean, high minded man with a sufficient record to justify his nomination. Born in 1865, a graduate of Princeton university. in 1886 a journalist in New York City, in 1889 appointed treasurere of New York, admitted to the liar in 1892, president of the New ( York broad of adderman in 1893-94, , elected to congress in 1895, in which national body he is still a distin- ( guished and leading member. He , is a son of Major General George , B. McClellan who in 1864 was the i democratic candidate for president. < We expect much to be said about . the mayor-elect in connection with ' the presidency, and it would be no ( surprise or disappointment to see i him thus honored, and the democratic party successful in the year ( of our Lord nineteen hundred and . four. 1 Kentucky's going democratic again , means that several former residents of that state who hare been staying in Indiana for some time will continue to abide with us indefinitely. Muncie Star. ! According to Senator Coats’ tale of ( woe. Congressman Cromer is already . on the “yump,” ami will never reach cover before the flood. Knowing Senator Coats and knowing also his usual conservation upon matters of business or politics, we are surprised : at his frankness. He believes his statesments made, and he will endeavor to make them good. This will cause Editor Rohrer to shed another < copious assortment of briney tears.

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MUCH COMFORT. The democrats are taking much comfort from the returns of Tuesday’s elections they having carried Greater New York, Maryland, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Virginia and 11 Mississippi. The republicans were successful in* Massachusetts, Nebraska, Ohio and lowa. The, Maryland’victory will retire Senator McComas who will likely be succeeded by Isaac N. Raynour the brillant Baltimore lawyer, whose defense of Admiral Schley before a packed board’of inquiry, won him national fame. The result there also will materially advance the presidential boom of Senator Gorman, to whom pesonal credit will be given for the Maryland victory. In Massachusetts Hon. Richard Olney looms up in a unmistakable way, as to him is given credit for a reunion of the democratic forces. Three years ago Massachusetts gave McKinley 100,- i 000’majority, while at this election the republican candidate for governor won by an estimate pluraltiy of i 10,000. In New York Tammany’s success is a crushing blow to Presi-

• f ELECTION RESULTS. Greater New York, democratic, 70,000. Maryland, safely democratic. Mississippi, democratic; no opposition. Colorado, close; both sides claiming victory. lowa, republican 60,000. Massachusetts, republican, 10,000. Ohio, republican, 125,000. Kentucky, democratic, 15,000. Rhode Island, democratic, 5,000. Pennsylvania, republican, 150,000. Nebraska, close; probably republican. Virginia, overwhelmingly democratic. New Jersey, both sides claiming victory. * , iE i mil —ii. mini

dent Roosevelt, who is responsible for an indorsement of Low by the Platt machine, and the crushing defeat of Low. is sufficient to cause the president great worry. Governor Garvin of Rhode island, was also suecessfu 1 despite the efforts of the Standard Oil Company to save the state to the republicans. The figures in lowa also show a decrease in the majority for the administration party. About the best crumb of comfort to them is in Ohio, but all this has been foreshadowed for weeks, and in fact is not sufficient to cause rejoicing. To the democrats there, it is even of more value, as it w ill forever relegate such political monstrosities as Tom Johnson, and give the conservative and rational elements of democrats a chance to be seen and heard. In all, there is much to comfort and nothing to discourage the democrats. The victories achieved demonstrate that the democratic party is again becoming a lively factor in national poitics, and that a victory next year is not impossible. Cheer up. r — The advance agent for the play entitled “At Cripple Creek" is in the city.

LOOKS EASY. Congressman Cromer is Again Defeated. Senator Coats, of Winchester, Sees the Finish of the Eighth District Congressman. State Sentator S. D. Coats, of Winchester, who was here says, the Republicans of Randolph county are determined to defeat Representative jGeorge W. Cromer,of Muncie, for the [conrgessional nomination next year, and that they expect to accomplish that end by nominating Theo. Schockney, of Union City. ‘ We’re going to beat Cromer,’ said the Senator. “I beleive that as firmly as I beleive anything. There is unquestionably a strong sentiment in the Eighth district that Cromer

■ has heen in congress long enough, . and that sentiment has resulted in , the bringing out a candidate against him in every county in the district. Mr. Sehockney, Randolph county's candidate, stands an excellent * I chance of securing the nomination, ; | if the opposition unites on the most , | available man, but I beleive the opposition is such that it will defeat the Muncie man even if it does not center on our man. “Senator ’ Coats was asked about the probable • candancy of Union B. Hunt, his fel--1 low townsman, for governor. “I think you will hear from Mr Hunt himself within the near future," he replied. “I am inclined to ’ think he will tie a candidate. His ! friends are urigng him to make the race , and they ;ye urging him . to announce his candidacy at an 1 early date, so that they can go to work in earnest for him. In justice to his friends, Mr. Hunt will 1 make known his decision soon, for > if he is going to be in the race his , friends want to be in a position to I take a hand for some of the other ‘ candidates.” i Mrs. J. 8. Bowers returned this morning from a business trip at , Portland. ■ James W. Parks of Marshall, Missouri, arrived today and will assist ■ in the auctioneering at the short i horn cattle sale today at Steeles Park.

BATHING AT OSTEND. — The Contrast Between Belgian and j American Beach CustoniM. How differently from ourselves Europeans do some things is shown by the marked contrast between the bathing customs and methods at the typical American beach and those at a leading seaside resort abroad, such, for instance, at Ostend. Belgium. The American way is too familiar to our readers to need description. At Ostend bathing, which is the most striking thing about the city, is .carried on in accordance with continental Ideas of propriety most shocking to the average American. Instead of the ordinary dressing rooms. Ostend was the first place to use the little individual houses on wheels, into which the intending bather goes to disrobe and don his or her bathing suit. The house is then I wheeled out in the water by a horse driven by a man employed for that purpose. The steps are let down from the little house, and the bather enters the water without having to promenade over the sand. At the end of the bath the bather mounts the steps into bis little house and. calling the driver again, has bis dressing room hauled up high and dry on the shore, where, having dressed at his leisure, he leaves the key with an attendant and goes on his way. The bathing costumes seen j at Ostend are noted for their scantiness. the striking peculiarity of which, however, lies in the fact that the suits | worn by the women rarely, if ever, have any skirts attached to them, ev- I erybody men, women and children alike—wearing tight fitting suits, the suits furnished by most of the public bath houses being Identically the same for both men and women. The scene on the beach Is one of i great animation, and when the bathers engage, as they frequently do. in a game resembling basket ball, played with a large inflated rubber ball, the mingling of varicolored bathing suits and the darting hither and thither of the bathers at play, now on the beach and again in the water, is a sight nev er to be forgotten.—Leslie's Weekly.

HERE HE IS AGAIN! Once more the Romoc man expounds the Theories of Health. This | \yy( is What He Says: £ Jls / I QEE here, good people, I have only a few words I f J /I to say in making my appearance again this year. If II / I you need my advice, you probably need it badly, and it is S* simply this: start in with Romoc, the sooner the better, and W fortify yourself against the ills that are bound to ccme % during the next few months. B I Remember that Romoc is the medicine made from a rock. There is nothing in this whole, wide world that I have ever found in my travels, or that any of you have ever seen or II heard of, that will so effectually cure Rheumatism, Indiges- I W tion, Nervousness,and all Blood Troubles, and besides rwr/wf I gl these ills, that will absolutely make you well of any of the Mi | many derangements that are a result of such affections. /Ml 11 < rwx A in l( ■ JY v* ' l \ I want to remind you of anI V ' other fact relating to Romoc, an( l that is, Romoc is Nature’s own remedy. It combines all the virtues found in every one of the great mineral springs of the world. There is not . a a single drop of alcohol in Romoc, nor are there any poisons or other deleterious substances, that you find the S . , . , . ingenuity of man adds to many so-called health-giving modig cines to their detriment, and the danger of the people'who use them. ix- >. f° r ROWOC LAXATIVE TABLETS —SURE CURE FOR CONSTIPATION. * a,,ib V tfl ' Komoc man

GUMMING the stamps. Precaution- Taken to In.nre Inlfoimlty I- the Work. The precautions taken to insuie bin formitv in the gumming of postage stamps are the most interesting part O s the work. Each morning when the workmen report for duty tl’O series of blanks, which they are to till outdaring the day as their work progrosses. The government keeps a most careful account of every ounce of gum given them and every sheet of stamps they handle. The system is an absolute check on the stamp sheets but was designed to insure the use of the proper quantity of gum in proportion to the stamp sheets. When they start work in the morning. each of the men is charged with lout) sheets of stamps and twenty-six pounds of gum. He must spread that amount of gum over the given number of sheets. Exhaustive experiments and exact scientific calculations have determined the proportion of gum and paper Rigid and continuous inspection nnd the keeping of a running account with each operator in the gumming room make it almdst Impossible to neglect any sheet or to dispose of the gum except by spreading It with absolute uniformity over the sheets. The little vats which hang over the rollers contain delicate instruments which show the temperature at which the gum is kept and its specific gravity. From time to time the superintendent of the gumming room Inspects these instruments. He requires an absolute temperature of 80 degrees and a specific gravity of 29.-New York Tribune. How Work Kills Music. Did you ever hepr of a telegrapher who could play the piano? If so. how many? Not bow many pianos, of course, but bow many telegraphers. Telegraph operators find that after they have worked at a key for several years their forearms and their fingers lose that flexibility that is essential to musieianly work on the piano. As many of the men are fond of music and have nianos of their own they find it hard

to be ent off from the enjoyment of the music they could make for them selves if it were not for the strained conditions of the muscles. There are few other lines of work that incapacitate a man for picking out the sharps and flats, but the telegra. ' pliers say that they know few men i u their ranks who cun use a piano with 1 any effect. When they sit down before one : their first move is the old impulse that 1 operating the key gives them. They 1 want to use that finger that they nse in sending messages, and they tbid it difficult even after they struggle for ;l ' long time to make themselves players 1 of more than ordinary attalnments.Chicago Tribune. Etiquette by Precedent. For example of bow men may |j ve and act according to precedent there can be no better reference than to the 1 lord chamberlain's office in London ' There in quiet rooms day after da--1 men learned in state etiquette, court 1 dress and royal functions reach down heavy volumes to see what was d one 1 on such nnd such an occasion. Beautiful pictures showing with minute vx 1 nctness the details of the court costume “ under various circumstances are ready ’ to their hands. Is the shah of Persia coming? i 9 the kaiser soon to arrive? Is the king go. 1 Ing to receive the monarch of Siam? 1 Is one of the royal princesses to be ‘ married? When any of these events happens, the officials at the lord chamberlain's office know exactly what to ’ do. And if some point should crop up which has not been raised for a century or more they have the faithful official records as to what was done on the last like occasion. Bad Attack of Paralyaln. Gentleman—Y'ou can’t work on account of paralysis! Nonsense! You i look as strong as I do. Tramp—Well, ye see, boss, it’s pa. ralysls of de will dat I’m troubled wit —Exchange. There is no place quite as dry as that where a river used to be.