Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1903 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1903,

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933. .

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Col. Louthaln & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, and A. smith, Chwnpa street. DAYTON. O.-J. V. Wilki 13 South Jefferson street COLUMBUS. O. VUduct News Stand. SSO High street. The Mosely educational commission, of England, left Boston on Saturday for a visit 'to 'the schools of Pittsburg, Cleveland and Chicago. If they wish to see a mode! public school system and the best manual training high school In the United States they should com to this city. Since .the heavy steel cars are so much safer the business of filling out-of-date wooden shells with people for excursion purpose should be Interdicted by law. The special excursion train, running as it does In conflict with the regular schedules, should have every possible precaution thrown about it. The Roman Catholic propaganda against socialism was begun long before Tom Johnion was thought of for a candidate for Governor of Ohio. It has been in active operation since shortly after Pope Leo XIII. issued his famous rescript against it. 'If Johnson and his wild followers have bumped up .against It in Ohio It is their own fault. Mr. Chamberlain's campaign of education has made such progress that British free-traders are anxious to postpone a general election as long as possible In the hope that there may be a reaction. On the other hand, Mr. Chamberlain Is confident that the longer the election is postponed the stronger his cause will be. The new issue caeras to be destroying old party lines in Great Britain. It Is not for the Journal to judge as to the motives behind the raiding the Toomey poolroom, though there is much reason to believe they were largely personal and political, but the manner of the raid is open to criticism. It is very rare that the police have to be criticised for the manner in which they perform a public duty, but somo features' of their action In this case aru , , . , , clearly censurable. There was no occasion 1 for the wholesale arrest of every person around or xrear the . place, including strangers who had not ever, been inside the poolroom, nor was there any necessity for making a show of clubs and telling people to "keep their mouths shut." These actions must have been prompted by peremptory orders given in a vindictive spirit. The place could have been closed without introducing these features and the persons legally under arrest could have been taken to police headquarters without calling in the services of tho patrol wagon. The whole affair savors of a desire to create a sensation by playing to the galleries. Whatever Investigation may show as to the responsibility for the terrible catastrophe of Saturday there can be no doubt but the fast running of the pasnger train within tho city limits was a contributory cause. The distance from Lafayette to Indianapolis is sixty-four miles and the train left Lafayette at 8 o'clock a. m., with order to reach here at 9:47. To do thl3 it must have run at the rate of about thirtyfive miles an hour without stops. The conductor says the train was ten minutes late at th city limits and thinks that after belng slowed down somewhat it may have been running twenty miles an hour. Even that would be greatly in excess of the legal limit of speed; but if the train was ten minutes late it was probably running considerably faster than twer.ty miles an hour.' The legal rate of speed within the city limits, fixed by an ordinance of 18C2, Is five nine has been violated every day for many years Goes not auer tne tact mat it U still the law. If the Ill-fated train had slowed down at the city limits to five miles an hour the accident probably would not aava occurred. Other causes, as falln to deliver or obey train dispatcher's orders, may have contributed to the accident, but the high rate of speed at which the trala usi running was a mala factor in its fatal rasDlta. The decision of United States Commissions? Moores on the Lynchehaun extradition is that the offense fox which Lynchehaun was tried and convicted under British law was a political offense, and therefore is not an extraditable one under tht treaty. This sets the defendant free sa far as the commissioner has power to do . The question as to what con5tinstaa a political offense within the meaning of the extradition treaty has been considered by lawyers a close one, and proved to t the turn lüg point in the case. The JemroeJ has bn and is still of opinion that la international parlance a political Sense means an offense against a nation, a government or the head of a government, tri not merely a comxaon-law crime grow-

lng out of a social or political agitation. It requires considerable stretch of construction to make an asault by a tenant on a landlord a political offense within the sense which must have been entertained by the framers of the extradition treaty. Under this construction a moonshine distiller who should kill a United States revenue officer and flee to England could resist surrender to the American authorities on the ground that his offense was a political one within the meaning of the extradition treaty. However, the language of the treaty Is susceptible of the construction given it by the commissioner, and this view was supported by ingenious argument. The British government Is very ierslstent in enforcing the claims of Justice, and It is by no means certain that this decision will end the case.

AIMED AT SOCIALISM AXD HIT T03I JOHNSON. A curious feature of the closing days of the Ohio campaign Is the dragging of the Catholic Church into politics. It appears that a short time ago the Ohio Federation of Catholic Societies Issued a propaganda against socialism In that State. The propaganda was general in Its views, directed against a principle or cult and without any personal application, but as Tom Johnson. Democratic candidate for Governor, is advocating some socialistic Ideas it was construed by his friends as an attack on him. So much was being made of the matter that the church enthusiasts in Ohio have deemed it worth while to state that the interpretation of the original statement above referred to Is unfounded. They add: The paragraph against socialism was written first at the request of a priest in Toledo, in whose parish the Socialists are most active and who has reason to know that the same pernicious propaganda is being carried on all over the State. Secondly, the whole statement was first submitted to the consideration of the archbishop and bishops of Ohio before It was published, and they surely would not have sanctioned any mere partisan politics if such had been intended. Thirdly, the federation accepted as timely the suggestion of the Toledo priest to sound a note of warning to Catholic citizens against socialism, especially since a strong propaganda has been made by the Socialist field in favor of their doctrines, advocated I a s a j. l 4 t w 4 1 ! or several ex-p.nesis, a aocirine uirccny opposed by the Catholic Church This has more than local Interest because It touches the relation of the Catholic Church to socialism and to partisan politics. As to the first point there Is no room for doubt The church has been Inflexibly opposed to socialism in all Its forms from the very beginning of that movement in j Europe. The Catholic Church is pre-eminently conservative. It stands for legitimate government, for the powers that be, for all persons in authority, for vested property rights and for established Institutions generally. In 1879 Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical against the doctrines advocated by Socialists, Communists and Nihilists as being aimed at all human authority and all rights of property, and urged the bishops and clergy everywhere to labor to instill into the young respect for parental and state authority. There has been no change in the attitude of the church since, and it stands unalterably opposed to socialism in all its forms and to all movements aiming at the subversion of property rights. It follows, of course, that the propaganda issued by the church authorities in Ohio was la strict accordance with standing Instructions from Rome and with the attitude of the church everywhere. That Tom Johnson's friends should have construed it as an attack on him shows first that they do not know the attitude of the church on the subject, and, second, that they regard him as open to the charge of advocating socialistic views. If this were not the case a propaganda against socialism in general could not have hurt him. It was not an appeal to any person to vote tor or against any candidate or ticket, but simply a reminder to Catholics that socialism Is contrary to the tenets and authority or the church. The statement above quoted says that church authorities would not have sane j tioned any attempt to meddle In mere partisan politics. There is no reason to doubt the absolute sincerity of this statement. There was a time when many persons believed that the church did meddle In politics, and perhaps there are still some prejudiced persons who think so, but there Is no ground for the belief. Many of its members meddle In politics, as do a considerable number of Protestants, but the church Itself deals only with moral qu-is-tions and general principles, and its clergy are no more open to the charge of meddling in politics than are those of the Protestant churches, if as much. It is the misfortune of Tom Johnson that he stood where he was liable to be hit by a weapon aimed at socialism. INTERESTING ELECTIONS. While there are various other elections to be held to-morrow, the eyes of the people throughout the country are fixed mainly on the State elections in Ohio and Maryland and the municipal contest in New York, all of which contain elements of national interest. The proximity of Ohio and the nature of the contest going th flr,t mtt oo V . Viivt W msj v va w awu home to the people of Indiana than any of the others. If the Democratic party had any national character or national issues at present. It might be fairer to say that Tom Johnson and his socialistic propaganda do not represent it, but since the party has no generally acknowledged tenets it is reasonable to suppose that Johnson represents it as nearly as anything or anybody. His platform as expressed in his speeches is a mixture of Dry an Ism and Henry George theories, with even a stronger tendency toward socialism than was shown by the author of "Progress and Poverty." A strong effort was made by the Zimmerman following in Ohio to bring the Democratic party back to the old-line footing, but it failed utterly, and the socialism of Johnson is in full control. Undoubtedly the policies of the Democratic party in the Nation hinge very closely on the result. It Is a minority party in Ohio. If it should fall the "reorganizing" element in the party at large would be somewhat encouraged, but if it should succeed nothing could prevent the party from taking a still further plunge along the line of socialism, and one Tom Johnson would be the most prominent aspirant for the presidential nomination. In Maryland Interest is given to the contest by the fact that the prestige of Arthur Pue Gorman is somewhat at stake. The Democratic "reorganizes" naturally look to Gorman for leadership, and, if things go well with him in bis own State, he will be the head and front of the fight against Johnson and Bryan within the party. But, If he should fall, the effort to brine th

party back to where it stood when Cleveland was elected would, in all probability, flatten out. For these reasons the results In Ohio and Maryland will be read and interpreted together, as determining the lines of battle and leadership of the Democratic party In 190 i. In New York city the fight is the old one of good citizenship of all parties against the Tammany machine. The only party Interest in the matter lies in the possibility that Tammany may return to power, when It would immediately become more of a power in the national councils of the Democracy than It has ever been in the past. This Is a bad time to discuss the annexation or acquisition of Canada, Just after thf Alaskan boundary decision has gone against them, but two Americans have recently expressed views on the subject. Mr. Carnegie says identity of language makes identity of peoples, and that Canada ought to Join the United States somewhat as Scotland did England. This probably hints at a kind o forced marriage. The other American who has expressed himself on the subject is Mr. Algernon Sartoris, late captain in the United States army and a grandson of Gen. U. S. Grant. Up in Ontario a few days ago he took the risk of courting a mob by declaring in a communication to a local paper that Canada is by right, and always has been, a part of the United States, and ought to be annexed Immediately. In an interview reiterating and defending his view he said. It is a matter of history that Gen. U. S. Grant, my grandfather, thought the same thing. When he was President Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Senate, suggested to my grandfather that he order Great Britain to remove her flag from the American continent, as was done in the case of the French empire. lie replied: "That would mrua war, and I want peace." If the foregoing is a matter of history It has been kept very quiet.' Senator Sumner

was not regarded as a filibuster, nor much of a Jingolst, and considering his determined opposition to President Grant's plan for ac- j : c? t 1.1 a. in i ' quiring; San Domingo, it is not very likely j we suggested the seizure of Canada. Young Mr. Sartoris failed to cite any authorlt- foP lh(. erl m-ttor of hktnrv and the probability is it was 'a case of talking too much. The acquisition of Canada has been a favorite topic of discussion among American jingoists for a long time, but the consummation does not seem any nearer now than it was a hundred years a&0- u win never corae to Pass until three important parties come to an agreement on the subject the United States, Great Britain and Canada and the likelihood of such agreement Is very remote. Of course, It is a dreadful thing to take one's first ride in a patrol wagon through crowded streets and all that, but a gambling establishment or other unlawful resort is a mighty poor place to be found "looking for a friend." Surely it cannot be true that the good Mr. Keach Intimated to Tron that there would be privileges for him if he should support Holtzman. Perish the thought! The festival of flowers promises to be bigger and better this year than ever before, and Indiana has given some very famous flower shows in the past. THE HUMORISTS. Up to Date. New York Times. De Style What a peculiar vaccination mark you nave on your arm! Gunbusta Vaccination nothing! You see, I'm a self-made man, and what you're looking at Is the union labeL Make a. Good Broker. SL Louis Post-Dispatch. "Mrs. Van Tassel Is going to dabble In stocks." "Well, sho should make an Ideal broker." "Why so?" "Because she Is married, and none of the other brokers would dare squeeze her." Possible Explanation. Chicago New. Tomdix They tell me that Bluffklns hasn't a dollar to his name. Hojax That accounts for it. Tomdix Accounts for what? Hojax Ills inability to get any girl to accept It. Explained It All. Philadelphia , Press. "Sr," began the youth, "I have come to ask for your daughter's hand in" "No, sir!" snorted her father. "You can't have her! What could possibly have prompted you to ask" "Why-er she did, sir!" "Oh, that's different. Also, that settles iL" Ills Preference. Washington Star. "That man Is a great thinker," I was the adV miring comment. "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, despairingly, "but I have noticed that these very studious people aren't successful In business. What you want to be nowadays Is not a great thinker, but a good guesser." Time Flies. Goldn Penny. Two young ladles on the promenade of a seaside resort had been watching the vessels pass through a telescope lent them by an "ancient mariner." on handing the glass back one of tbern remarked that it was a very good one. I "Ye, miss." said the old tar. "that 'ere tele scope was given me by Lord Nelson." "Good gracious! Why, Nelson has been dead nearly one hundred years." "Well. I'm bio wed," replied the salty one, quite unabashed, " 'ow the time do fly!" Leonlna Socletas. A Reader of the Hour Met tho Writer of the Week. t Where Critics of the Minute Formed an Influential clique; 'He has style," they said, "and power; And his treatment is unique." So the Reader of the Hour Bought the Novel of the Week, And he made his friends begin It; And he still delights to speak Of "The Hovel" That great Novel! (Which the very drug stores sell!) And he likewise likes to tell That he knows the author well. "He has style, and native power," Says the Reader of the Hour, "And his treatment is unique." -Life. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Suppress the gambling rooms by all means, but let the Job be thorough. Don't ray that some rooms may operate and that others may not. Muncie Times. Visitors In Indianapolis don't seem to notice much difference in the atmosphere since the recent election, and yet what a change there was to be. Marlon Chronicle. If Perry Heath wijl not be the secretary of the national Republican committee, the man for the p!ace is Captain Harry S. New, now the committeeman from this State. Fort Wayne News. Ex-Governor Pattison is on record as believing the Democrats will carry Pennsylvania at the next election. If he cannot make a better guess than that he would do hjrrmpir more credit by devoting his time

to trying to find out the age of Mary's sister Ann. Shelbyvlll Republican. There seems to be a misunderstanding as to whether the Connecticut Judge called Mr. Bryan a liar or a lawyer. In either instance, however, the Judge, being human, may have been mistaken. Lafayette Courier. The pastor of the First Baptist Church says he will soon begin a series of sermons on Isms in religion, and will inaugurate the series with one on "Elijah III. or Baalam II?" Humor In the pulpit is not all dead. Fort Wayne News. The Ohio Republicans will by their votes next Tuesday make certain the return of Senator Hanna to the United States Senate. The Indiana Republicans next year will confer a like honor upon Senator Beverldge Mlddletown News. Democratic leaders in this district are smacking their lips in anticipation of a royal rumpus in the Republican district convention. There will be a tussel. but no rumpus; plenty of sparring, but no body blows or sore spots. Starke County Republican. The co-eds- of Butler University of this State are learning bad manners. They participated in a class riot Thursday. These riots are bad enough among boys, but when girls participate it takes a certain degree of bloom off the whole sex. Elkhart Review. The Republicans of Kentucky are enthusiastic over the prospect of carrying the State at the election next month. However, it will be easier to get the necessary votes in the box to carry it than it will be to get thern counted after they are in. Lafayette Journal. Some of the Republican papers of this district are making a mistake in accepting as reliable the political paragraphs of Demcratlc exchanges. It might be well to free themselves of the habit before the campaign opens, or their readers are likely to absorb a great deal of misinformation which will result in mischief. Huntington Herald. The reported candidacy of , William Randolph Hearst for the supreme office in the land may be regarded, as a "grapevine." No doubt it would become very popular if the said Hearst could buy up all the newspapers in America and convert them into "yellows." Even then the sovereign people might fall to take the matter seriously. Madison Courier. Br'er Dowio in a burst of candor admits that he holds the balance of political power in Chicago and thatv ejections there go

as he bids the pendulum swing. Hereafter E11Jah m shouid bring his prophetic vis ion to a little finer focus on the future and jm a , I f . - aiscover wnat Kina oi an aamimsirauuu he ,3 golng t0 shake out of tne before he does lt. Fort Wayne Sentinel. Yellow Willie Hearst has given the country to understand that he will get busy during his first term In Congress. He Is going to accomplish things. It may be, however, that after the lad has gone against Speaker Cannon's heavy line for a few times without perceptible gain he will not be so blissfully confident of his ability to make a touchdown. Terre Haute Tribune. INDIANA FARM NOTES. Orange County Corn. Orleans Progress-Examiner. Ben F. Turley, proprietor of Chevy Chase farm, reports the best yield of corn this year we have heard of in Orange county. On fifteen acres he raised 850 bushels of fine corn, an average of about fifty-seven bushels to the acre. 31 en Wanted. Bloomfield News. Every farmer Is very anxious for corn huskers; coal mines want more men; carpenters are scarce; gravel roads call for more men and teams. Anyone can get a Job. Verily the man who puts his hands into his pockets and does not find money is to blame himself. Wolves In Drown County. Orleans Herald. James Helms, a farmer of Brown county, i reports wolves are causing much trouble to farmers in his vicinity and that frequently the animals can be heard howling. Recently they attacked sheep on his farm, killing two and so widespread Is the fear because of their depredations that children, whose paths lie close to the woods frequented by the animals, are accompanied to school by male relatives to prevent attack. Century Plants from Notre Dame. Flymouth Tribune. The century plants which were planted in Notre Dame gardens thirty years ago are to be placed on exhibition at the St. Louis exposition and 200 plants are now being prepared for shipment by Brother Philip, the university florist. The plants, which are the finest in America, are being crated in the cars on the Notre Dame private railroad and it will not be necessary to handle them until they are inside the exposition grounds at SL Louis. Blsr Puff Ball. Warren Review. Chauncey Musselman, carrier on rural route No. 1, brought to town Monday the largest fungus . we have ever seen. It is a puff ball," of the same variety, apparently, as those that are usually found about the size of a person's fist. This one, however, la "big as a pumpkin." It measures three feet in circumference and weight six pounds. Chauncey would like to make believe it is a Kansas mushroom and that they grow there big as a wash tub, but his potato story about Kansas has put the boys on their guard and none of them have applied for slices out of this mushroom. GLEANINGS FROM STATE PRESS. Distinguished Guest. Rochester Republican. J. C. God Heaven, was the name of a religious fanatic, who registered at the Majestic Saturday. Slightly Personal. Macy Monitor. Our new railroad agent would be a cracker Jack if he was about six or eight inches taller co he could reach the seal of the car. Mysterious Statement Valparaiso Vidette. The Ohio Valley mills did not run Satur- ; uay on account ui iuc uutiur reiusing to i . au. -3 A f . work. It will be repaired this week and resume operations. Glenwood Item. 1 Rushville American. We are expecting a wedding in the near future at this place, as Robert May says he is not going to pay car fare to Hamilton, i O., much longer. Robby says Just to think I of the furniture he could have had with . that money, besides having a housekeeper ' also. Joy be with you, Robert. I Canse for Sadness. Macy Monitor. I Fred Oliver Is sad. He has reason to I be. He has lost his sauer kraut cutter, ' and he can't make his kraut. Some one ; borrowed it last fall and has therefore ! failed to return it. He asks us to say that j If the person will return it, he will be' ! happy again and very thankful for the favor. Warning to Giddy Youths. Valparaiso Vidette. The young people who have been putting tick-tacks on unspecting people's doors and scaring them out of a year's growth are having the care free time of their youth, but remember there is a day coming when you will be old and perhaps hop out of bed and have the life frightened out of you by some young people as care free as you are now. Maiden Happening. Valparaiso Vidette. As a young gentleman was going home from seeing his girl Sunday evening, he feel asleep and when he awoke was entirely lost, turning around," going back about two miles, and then he found he was on his right road and then concluded ha would turn around again and not en ) to sleep but go home.

THE DRIFT OF POLITICS Supreme Judges Alexander Dowllng- and John V. Hadley, of the Second and Third Judicial districts, respectively, will be candidates for renomination before the next Republican State convention, according to the New Albany Tribune. The Tribune announces Judgo Dowllng's candidacy and in the same staement indicates that Judge Hadley'a name will also go before the convention. The announcements are not exactly formal. In the usual acceptance of that term that Is, they do not come from the judges themselves but the Tribune claims to speak with authority in saying that their names will be submitted to the convention by their friends. The Tribune's statement is as follows: "It is the policy of the Republican party to maintain a Supreme Court in Indiana equal in learning and dignity to that of any other State. It is not the policy of the party to put men on this exalted bench as mere reward for partisan service. And so when men are once found who distingruish themselves as great Jurists on the Supreme Bench it is the custom in this State to keep them there as long as they are willing to remain. Judge Elliott is a noble example. Under this rule at the last State convention Judges Monks and Jordan were renominated. At the next convention Judges Dowllng and Hadley should be renominated without any contest or dissent. "It does not comport with the duty of a Judge of the Supreme Court to announce a candidacy and canvass for delegates. His time and talents are necessarily devoted exclusively to the discharge of his high duties. It Is for . this reason that the friends of Judges Dowllng and Hadley desire it to be

known that their names will be submitted to the mext State convention for renomination. "It is not known whether there will be any other candidates offered against them, but it is hoped that they will each receive the unanimous vote of the entire body of delegates. They are each Justly entitled to this indorsement We trust it is generally known throughout the State that it is the widely expressed opinion of the lawyers that hardly ever has the Supreme Court been better organized than now. The people, it is believed without regard to party politics, have the highest and unquestioned confidence in the entire membership of the bench and every reason exists for the continuance of the court as it now exists." xxx No one has formally announced his candidacy against either Judge Dowllng or Judge Hadley, but It Is understood that Oscar II. Montgomery, of Seymour, will contest with Judge Dowling for the Second district nomination. Mr. Montgomery, who is the present member of the Republican State committee from the Fourth congressional district, was a candidate for the Supreme Court when Judge Dowling was nominated.- He has said he will not be & candidate for re-election as State committeeman, and it has been generally inferred that he was preparing to enter the Judicial lists again. His friends are insistent that he become a candidate. XXX ' Representative Charles B. Landls, of Delphi, who spent last week campaigning in Ohio, predicts that the Buckeye State will maintain its standing as a Republican stronghold by going Republican by at least 100,000 at to-morrow's election. Mr. Landls was at the Columbia Club yesterday, having returned from Ohio late Saturday nighL "Col. Myron T. Herrick, the Republican candidate for Governor, and the rest of the Republican ticket will be elected by fully 100,000 plurality," said he, "and the Legislature elected will be largely Republican, insuring the re-election of Senator Hanna. I base my prediction on the conditions I observed and the sentiments I heard in the parts of the State where I spent last week. Chairman Dick and the other Republican leaders are equally sanguine and their confidence Is well founded. They have conducted a great campaign and when the votes have been counted Tuesday night it will be found that the people of Ohio have decided overwhelmingly to give Tom Johnson an abundance of leisure In which to exploit his 'Single tax and three-cent fare theories." XXX James R. Pro, of English, chairman of the Republican organization of Crawford county, finds the Democratic situation in the Third district more interesting than Republican affairs in his part of the State at present, and from his observation is led to believe that the finish of Representative Zenor, of Corydon, is at hand. "From a Democratlo standpoint the political situation In the Third is becoming very Interesting, and it is even Interesting to the Republicans," says Mr. Pro. "There is but little question now of the candidacy of James W. Fortune, of Clarke county, for congressional honors, and with W. E. Cox, of Dubois, and Smith Askren, of Harrison, also in the running. Congressman Zenor'8 chances of renomination go glimmering. The sentiment in our county against Mr. Zenor sems to be growing stronger and more pronounced and it now looks as If he would lose the county. Crawford county has stood by Mr. Zenor for the past twenty-six years against all comers, but the knowing ones in the Democratlo party are now predicting that Mr. Cox will carry the county in the primaries. With Fortune in the race he will get the delegate xote of Clark and Scott and will, no doubt, divided the vote with Zenor In Floyd and Washington. Askren will divide honors with Zenor in his home county Harrison. It is conceded that Cox will carry Perry and with his own county Dubois and possibly Orange at his back the race Is going to be both an Interesting and an exciting one. It seems to be the field against Zenor and I am inclined to believe they will suc ceed m retiring the -Corydon statesman.". XXX Frank Martin, former deputy auditor of state, is being mentioned as a probable candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination in the joint district composed, under the new apportionment, of Marion, Hendricks and Boone counties. Mr. Martin is identified with the Indiana Trust Company, of this city, but retains his legal residence in Boone county, where he was born and grew to manhood, consequently he would be considered a Boone county candidate If he should enter the race. In eight years of service as deputy auditor of state under Auditors A. C. Dally and W. Ii. Hart Mr. Martin acquired a knowledge of state affairs which, his friends point out, should make him a valuable member of the Legislature. Mr. Martin, it will be recellad, was a candidate for the nomination for auditor before the last Republican state convention and made an excellent showing. XX The Anderson Bulletin refers to State Oil Inspector Sid Conger as "Old Uncle Sid" in an article apparently intended to be complimentary in every respect, but Mr. Conger's friends are anticipating Interesting events when he and the author of that appellation meet once more. Mr. Conger might stand for "Uncle Sid," but even his perennial good humor will not stand for the strain of "Old Uncle Sid." Mr. Conger has recently identified himself with Anderson in a measure by the purchase of 'a farm near the city, but that does not warrant such liberties on the part of the Bulletin. xxx Will Cunningham, superintendent of the Claypool Hotel, goes to Cincinnati to-day to be on hand for the opening of the polls to-morrow. "I'm going down to help roll up that 100,000 plurality for the Republican State ticket that we've been hearing so much about," he said last night. Mr. Cunningham is one of the proprietors of the Hotel Rand in Cincinnati, and holds his legal residence in that city. xxx - Lieutenant Governor Newton W. Gilbert is the logical candidate for the Republican congressional nomination in the Twelfth district, according to the Ligonler Banner, and can have the nomination if he wants it. In a recent issue the Banner says of the congressional question: "The political situation in this congressional district is getting somewhat Interesting. The announcement of the candidacy of Hon. Orvllle Carver, of Angola, for the congressional nomination and the hint that Giihams will demand a renomination, puts new life into matters political. Carver is a strong man. end It is Bald will have the support of the Steuben county delegation unless Lleutenaut Governor Gilbert should listen to the Importunities of his friends and be also a candidate before the convention. Gilbert is the logical candidate and if he will accept will doubtless be nominated. If conditions do not change materially It Is pretty safe to predict that the opposing candidates will be Gilbert and Robinson." XXX The gathsrlng of the immense crowd in Greencastle last Thursday on the occasion

of the laying of the cornerstone of the new Putnam county courthouse was by no means overlooked by the politicians of the Fifth district. Prominent inen in both parties were there to make the most of the opportunities for a little quiet log rolling and there were numerous conferences before, during and after the ceremonies. Among the Republicans largely In evidence were Representative E. S. Holliday, of Brazil; Senator James S. Barcus, of Terre Haute; Howard Maxwell, of Rockville, and Julian L. llogate. of Danville, member of the State committee from that district. As Greencastle is the home of Ben F. Corwin, one of the candidates for the Republican nomination for reporter of the Supreme Court, of course, he, too, availed himself of the chance and did a little work for Corwin.' Representative Holliday wants to be renominated next year and there seems to be a disposition on the part of many Republicans of the. district to give him tho nomination without a contest He has had to make two hard fights to secure the nomination and several have expressed the opinion that he ought to be given one nomination without a struggle. After that, they say, let the field be an open one again. Senator Barcus, , who has been one of Mr. Holliday's opponents In the past. Is suspected of harboring aspirations for next year, but he has not indicated publicly whether he will be a candidate. It is had on reliable authority that If Senator Barcus enters the fight Howard Maxwell, of Parke county, will also be a candidate, and the contest will be a repetition of the lively affair of last year. If Barcus stays out Maxwell will also give Holliday a clear field. xxx Julian Hogate, the district committeeman, is also a candidate for re-election and it is not probable that he will have opposition. No one has been suggested as a candidate against him and, indeed, there has been no intimation that anyone would like to see

him retired. FIGHT OF HIS LIFE. Gorman's Effort to Capture Demo1 cratle Nomination. Boston Journal. Gorman is making the fight of his life In Maryland. His Issues are "Down with the nigger" and "up with the trusts." Gorman stood In with the trusts when he made the Gorman-Wilson tariff, and he has been standing for the trusts ever since. He wishes to cut out Cleveland as a friend of the trusts and he means to do it, and he knows that by standing for "a white man's government" he will have the solid South. No doubt among the political Democrats Gorman stands much higher than Cleveland. Gorman's recent bitter attack upon President Roosevelt, on account of the colored race, is intended to make the South solid for Gorman. Gorman hates Cleveland and is bound to have the trust builders with him. Cleveland a few months ago was regarded as the choice of the speculative elements in Wall street Gorman notes that Cleveland did not say anything against Roosevelt's handling of the coal strike and the trust question. Gorman made a bid for the Wall-street support Gorman remarked that the President was "imprudent in interfering with matters which did not properly belong to his office and that, therefore, he had unsettled business." He was standing- in with Baer and standing against reference. The ice is pretty thin along there. This attack of Gorman on Roosevelt is received with amusement In Washington; for it discloses the hypocrisy of the antitrust professions of the Democrats. When Roosevelt ordered that the law which President Cleveland did not enforce must be enforced to regulate trusts betraying the people, it is really funny to find the leading Democratic candidate for the presidency declaring that "Roosevelt Is imprudent and is unsettling business" imprudent because he enforces a law enacted for that purpose! The negro-phobia and pro-trust platform of the Democracy, accordingly, is the high bid which Gorman makes for the leadership of the Democratic party next year. And four years ago the Democrats claimed to be the only simon-pure antitrust party! Including Maryland, the old Southern States run by race hatred will have 2S2 votes in the next Democratic national convention. To this vote may be added the vote of Missouri, making 318 in all. In the north the trust proposition will be made prominent but the nullification of the fifteenth amendment is for Southern votes. Gorman hopes, by opposing the administration's trust regulation policy, to get the Democratic delegates from the New England States, from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, Thus Gorman would have more than a majority of the votes of the convention, and that would be a good start for the , necessary twothirds. But Democratic papers in the North warn Gorman that he is playing with fire that the North will resent a race But a factor to be reckoned with is Tom Johnsonism and Bryanlsm. While Gorman has drawn up a plan which seems to him to read well, he must reckon with those Bryanized forces in the Democratic party which In 1Ö00 and in 1SD6 dominated the party. It is not to be supposed that the forces which were in majority in two national Republican battles, will be silent or unimportant In 1904. The Republicans do not disguise their satisfaction with Gormanism as an Issue. In 1896 Gormanism was an issue from the tariff point of view and the Republicans elected McKinley with a rush. In lau4 if Gorman ism is brought forward again, not rnly in the matter of tariff, but in the matters of wind water in trusts and negrophobla, the Republicans will have another walk-over. The Republicans will unhesitatingly indorse the part which the President took in settling the anthracite coal strike and in enforcing the law regulating the great corporations. The Republicans will stand solidly for the protection of capital against promoters and of labor against exploiters. What will become of the Bryanite contingent if such men as Gorman are nominated? Unquestionably there will be a Socialist ticket which will largely divide the Democratic vote. THE PRESIDENT'S PROSPECTS. A Democratic View of the Political Situation. Philadelphia Record. The Washington experts In national politics are observing that the President has lost a good deal of strength In the South, partly for reasons highly creditable to him; he has consulted with a good many new men and less than they would like with the old professional Republican politicians, white and black, of that section, who never have to "deliver the goods," because of the invincible Democratic majorities and who, therefore, have no sense of responsibility and who maintain themselves In great measure by the trade in convention delegates. Th Southern delegates will constitute nearly a third of the national convention and they are believed to be very much under the control of Senator Hanna, who would certainly prefer some one else to Mr. Roosevelt, but may not use his strength against him. The indorsements of the President thus far have little value, though they have nome. The election of delegates has not taken place yet and it is the delegates and not the resolutions of the year before that count Some cf the senators who are none too friendly to the President will not run the risk of antagonizing his supporters till they shall have been re-elected, so that it will be the latter jirt of the winter before open opposition to Mr. Roosevelt could be looked for. In the absence of any other prominent and popular Republican the probability is very strong that Mr. Roosevelt will be nom!natcd. A man of anything like Mr. Blaine's personal popularity would make Mr. Roosevelt's nomination hnpoKslble, Jut as Mr. Blaine made the nomination of Mr. Arthur, a really suonge: , though less noisy man, impossible. No such man has appeared. This is to. the advantage of the Democratic party, in spite of the fact that Mr. Blaine was not elected in 1M1. Mr. Roosevelt Is the strongest candidate for the nomination on account of the weakness of others. But after his nomination he will be far from the strongest candidate for election that the party might have named. Men who do not evoke the applause of the crowd as the President does command the public confidence much more Tully, and if the Republican party shall nominate for th first time a man who reached the White Hou5e through the death of his predecessor, the Democratic party ought not to find It very difficult to maintain an unbroken tradition in our politics.

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The New Standard Dictionary. A new edition of the Funk & WagnaT.t "Standard Dictionary of the Engli.h Language" has been hsfcued. making the fifth since the first one issued thirteen years ago. All readers and students must have remarked the steady Increase of nw words in recent ytars. If proof weic needed that language Is a living, growing organIsm It la am.ly offered by the two imposing volumes of this great dictionary. Comparison of this dictionary with any of the earlier ons issued would show that the process of word making and word defining has kept even pace with the progrtfa of the world in other respects. Dr. Samuel Johnson's "New Dictionary of the English A-anguage." published moro than a hundred years ago, is worthless now, except as a literary curiosity. It geve Johnson great literary ceUbrity, but the publication of such a dictionary of the English language now would make Its author ridiculous. Since Johnson's time tha language has grown as much as the world has advanced In other respects. The present edition cf the "Standard Dictionary" is not only an improvement on the earlier editions, but on all other dictionaries of the English language extant it is not only the latest dictionary of the English language publisned, but is likely to be generally recognized as the most practical, comprehensive and authoritative. It U claimed that the present revision and enlargement of the work have necessitated an expenditure of more than HötU-uo, making the cost of the entire work more than JLIOO.OUO. This Immense cost is due to the large amount of hig-h-rriced work put upon it executive, administrative, intellectual, operative and mechanical. The first edition of the work was considered a model of its kind, but In the present one the entire text has been carefully revised and the appendix has been wholly rewritten and reset. The enlargement apd Improvement of the appendix, of SjO pages, which brings the work up to date, makes the appendix alone contain about 17,0"0 new iniiortant vocabulary terms and definitions, all used frequently in living literature, some brought into use by recent developments in literature, science, the arts and handicrafts! some Introduced into the language during the Boer war and tha Chinese difficulties, and through the Spanish-American war and resulting difficulties. These additions, of course, represent tlmply the growth of the language, the roots and main body of which have remained unchanged, but which have never been as clearly developed as they are ii this work. The editors of the "Standard Dictionary" wisely concluded that it is the business of a dictionary to record usage, not to make a language. The makers ot a language are not literary critics, but the people who speak It. It Is no: for a dictionary to say what words should be used or should not be used, but it should answer questions concerning words that are used questions relating to their spelling, pronunciation and meaning, and this the "Standard Dictionary" does. To undertake to dictate what words the people should use would be an Impertinence. The people make the language; the language is broad, based on th people's wilL In so far as a dictionary omits to record words widely used by the people, It Is faulty; for it should be the chief object of a dictionary to help those who consult it to understand the sense of what they hear and read. This edition of the "Standard Dictionary does not omit or exclude words like boycott, chests', graft, etc., but according to the Judgment of the editors It stigmatizes them as "vulgar," "slang," "colloquial." etc. or. if they are falling Into disuse, as "ancient, "obsolescent" "obsolete," etc. The plan of defining by definitive statement rather than by synonym which was so extensively .Mlowed in the first edition of the Standard, has been even more fully adopted in treating the words in the addenda to this edition. The dennitions are exact, terse and clear cut brief when few words are sufficient, but by no means d'scardlng encyclopedic treatment when sucn treatment is Important to the correct understanding of a word. How fully the latest additions to general literature are recorded in this new edition may be seen from the inclusion of such terms as automobile, remarkably well Illustrated with three types of horseless carriage showing the different p trts of each; bogey, a term in golf, bordereau, briquet, chauffeur, expansionist, escalator, illustrated with a diagram in outline showing the mechanism and propelling power of a moving stairway, etherion, immune, laverlck, manywhere, okapl, open door. osteopathlst, ping-pong. popovcr, labium, rag-time, roof-garden, roughrider, two-step, Zionism, etc .Msny important new scientific terms arj here presented for the first in any dictionary Among these terms are notices in aeranautics, aerodome, aerophysics, vl&tascope, etc; in biology, astrosphere, benthon. centrosphere, mltosome, etc; In chemistry, aristol, betol, creolin, heroin, formaldehyde, listerlne, trional, etc; in electricity, alternator, groundwire, kilampere, linkage, third-rail. Roentgen rays, illustrated with four full-page plates showing the apparatus and fifteen skiagraphs, one of which shows the superlmposition of eight' distinct features; and, in wireless telegraphy, coherer, decohesion. electric wave, marconIgram, syntony. Great care has been exercised in the application of rules relating to spelling, pronunciation, etc, and tho work is a safe authority. In these respe:t. as in others. An appendix includes a masi of new and valuable Information on a variety of subjects and the work closes wltn an atlas of the world containing nearly 10J maps printed In colors. All of this work has been done by a large corps of trained editors, statisticians and specialists, soljcted with special reference to their equipment, and it has been done with the greatest fidelity and care. The result is a work which will long maintain its place in the foremost rank of distlonarles and standard guides fo tho use of our mother togue. The mechanical part of the work is in the highest style of the book-making art and well maintains the Funk & Wagnalls standard. The Forest Hearth. In this story Mr. Charles Major, author . of "When Knighthood Was in Flower" and "Dorothy Vernon," departs from the scene of his earlier tales. He turns from royal courts to th simple life of plODoera on Blue river when Indiana was young. The tale might be called the annals of a neighborhood, for though It deals chiefly with the fortunes of one family, many of the events have to do with other people of the vicinity, and .the reader Is afforded glimpses of the ocupations, customs and amusements of the old-time rural community. The family to which chW attention is given Is described as coming from North Carolina in ths twenties and settling upon a quarter wction of government lan-L It consisted of four p-rons, to the r, mother, son and daughter. The father 1 a well-meaning man of weak character and little ability; the mother an ncgr.lve, commanding person known to the nl ?hbors as "the chief Ju?tlc": the son 1 a degenerate creature, humored and ?pol!ei by his mother, who Is, on the other h.nd, stern and even cruel to her daughter. This young person I. represented cs a parajen of beauty, amiability and virtue. She j only seventeen, and has had no scho 1 training worth mentioning, but somehow she i;as gain'd enough education to surprise a visiting "Harvard man" by hr cleverness. As a matter of course, such a girl must have lovers, and she has two very ardent ones. One 13 a son of the so'.I, handsome, manly and highly pleasing to the youthful feminine fancy; the other is rich, but a rarcal. With the first man another girl of th neighborhood, who morals are not of the strictest, is deeply In love. Out of the elements the author has constructed a love story of a variety of Incident and considerable warmth. One of the episodes Is cf a ort similar to that upon which James Iane Allen's 'latent story turns. In this case the truly good lover of the heroine, whose goodnevs lapses for an Interval, tells his sweetheart that he will have to marry the "other girl." The heroine, after a few hurs of Indignation, and after learning that thj other girl has run off with another mr.n. forgives her recreant lover willingly at;4 gladly. This outcome and certain accompanying comments show thit the author takes a different view from Mr. Alien of the seriousness of such marulluo offense rnd of the attitude of women in regard them. Any one who has read "When Knlnhthood Was in Flower" wouM recognize this, by its literary style, as bing by the same author. The fashion of indulging in philosophical cctmnt, for Instance, which Is characteristic f th first book. Is continued in this; the moralizing, in fact. Degins on the first paqe. Some of it. indeed, might bo ipensed with to th improvement of th tale. Fastidious readers, too, may possibly demur at the Insistence upon the physical charms cf the young woman of th story and at the realistic dttail. of omo of tne love-making. However, Mr. Major has a tory to tell and tells It in his own way, which, as It is a way that pleases a great number of people, should not be criticised severely. Thla story, rlnce it deals with a period which has not been overworked by fiction writers, c huul 1 please an additional class of r-ader, ani Its local color should especially commend It to Indiana admirers of Mr. Major's worlu