Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1904 — Page 4

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We would better keep still about these things as long as we allow our women to work in factories, mills and sweatshops. The European women have at least the advantage of the fresh air. Who started the silly report that American officers were on board the Japanese ships during the early engagements of the war?" asks an afternoon contemporary with some warmth. Nobody started it; the excellent way in which the ships were bandied caused the world to believe there ust have been some Americans there. Still another of Dowie's meetings in Australia has been broken up by an angry mob. Elijah himself was chased all over Melbourne, and is unable to obtain lodgings in the best hotels. Here in America he was merely treated as a big joke, but the Australian sense of humor is not so highly developed that they can laugh at such epithets as "stink pots," "yellow cura" and the like. It is reported that former President Xruger. of the Boer Republic, is slowly dying, mind and body, an exile at Meutone, France. The loss of his country, his wife and his son have proved too much even for his sturdy constitution, and it is when men enme to such a pass as this that they are said to be dying of broken hearts. Poor old "Oom Paul" is one of the most pathetic figures of present-day history. There may be a deeper reason than American sympathy for the Japanese at the bottom of the hostility of the Russian press. Perhaps Russia to remembering that but for the United States Japan might yet be a nation asleep and uncivilized. It was America that first opened the eyes of Japan to the desirability of western civilization. Had this not happened there would have been uobody to protest at Russia's advance. When the news reached St. Petersburg that the Russians had sunk four Japanbattleships the Czar felt so good that he ordered a Te Deum to be sung in the churches. But he crowed too soon; later advices showed that nothing but stone boats had been sunk and nobody had been killed. go the Te Deum was call. off. The Czar vident.y doesn't propose to praise the Lord unless enough people have been slaughtered to make it worth while. Figures from the city of Chicago show that since antitoxin has been used th- re the mortality in diphtheria cases has decreased 47 per cent., while the population has Increased 52 per cent. This makes the decrease in deaths, considering the population, practically 63 per cent. There is a world of meaning in these figures, and whoever first discovered the virtue of antitoxin should have a monument beside that of the man who dlsrmrsred racdnatlon. A writer in a Western paper rails bitterly against the railroads of this country, and points out Kngland as a model, asserting that ' there is not a grade crossing in all England." That is rery true, and yet the American railroads are scarcely to be blamed. England is. comparatively, a small country, where all the railroads needed could be built in a short time, leaving all the rest of eternity ror Improvements. America, on the contrary, has such an immense territory and needs so many miles St track that she has not yet had time to add all the frills of railway construction. We are barely through Hying tracks; the other things are coming, but, as a matter of course, slowly. There ia one noble man whose name ia Intimately connected with the beginning of American history, and yet whose birthday And death have never been observed or even noticed in any part of th- country. Perhaps It is because he newr America; yet It is to his courage and persistence that the New England colonies owed their existence

which made the Mayflower possible. John Robinson was the Moses of his people he led them to the promised land, but could not enter it himself. But under his guidance the little flock escaped the bondage of Egypt. When he was bowed with years they sailed for the new world, leaving him behind on the docks at Leyden. Holland. And in Leyden he died on March 1, two hur red and seventy-nine years ago to-day. WHY OT COMPROMISE f The first day's session of the adjourned conference of -miners and operators did not bring any developments indicative of a compromising spirit on either side. It is to be regretted that both parties cannot see that, whatever their individual interests in maintaining a particular contention maybe, those of the public in a settlement are much greater. The case is clearly one (or arbitration or compromise, and the parties are not so far apart in their contentions as to make this difficult. The spirit that would reject every suggestion of compromise is that of the railroad magnate who said "The public be damned!" The anthracite coal strike of 1902 produced a great crop of suggestions regarding government ownership and operation of the mines, and gave a distinct impetus to the socialistic spirit which demands government ownership of all public utilities. The leaders in the present movement should not overlook the fact that a strike of the bituminous coal miners would be far more disastrous to the manufacturing industries of the country than was the anthracite coal strike and would cause another crop of suggestions relative to government ownership of the mines. If they wish to promote that movement they could not do so more certainly than by pursuing a deadlock policy that will result in

a strike. They should remember also that they will share in the losses they will Inflict on the public, and that a strike, no mattor how prolonged, will almost certainly end in a compromise. Neither party ever gets at the end of a strike what it demands at the beginning. The anthracite miners demanded an increase of 20 per cent, in wages, and at the end of the strike they got 10 per cent, increase. They got some other concessions which the operators had refused, but not all. The finding of the commission was a compromise. The commission estimated that the strikers lost in wages a total of about i25.O00.000 and the coal-carrying railroads about $28,000,000. In other words, the parties to the controversy paid $53,000,000 for a strike which ended in a compromise. It would have been much better to have compromised at the beginning. As it is impossible for both parties to the present contention to get all they .are claiming, why should they not recognize the inevitable and accept a compromise, thus conserving their own interests and giving some consideration to the much larger interests of the public? RUSSIA HAS NO GROUND OP COMPLAINT. Dispatches from St. Petersburg are becoming tiresome in their Iteration of Russian complaints of American unfriendliness and alleged violations of neutrality. One day we are told that large Russian orders for American goods are being countermanded, then that Russians are refusing to shake hands with Americans whom they meet socially, then that the Russian papers are unanimous in condemning the "unfriendly attitude" of the United States, etc. It is doubtful if this feeling exists in Russia to the extent that is represented. There are indications that it is greatly exaggerated in ordtr to affect public opinion in this country and perhaps scare Americans into a more friendly attitude. But if the feeling does exist to any great extent Russians will soon discover. If they are permitted to discover the truth about anything, that there is no ground for it and that they have made fools of themselves. There is no government In the world that knows better what strict neutrality means than the United States, nor any that observes its obligations in this regard more carefully. The Russian grounds of complaint are, first, that the captain of the Vicksburg did not join with those of the other foreign ships at Chemulpo in protesting against violation of the neutrality laws by the Japanese; second, that he refused to take drowning Russian sailors aboard his ship, and, third, that it was an unfriendly act for the United States to allow the Japanese to lay a submarine cable from the Island of Guam to Japan. There is nothing in any of these charges. Commander Marshall has reported that, so far from refusing to rescue Russian sailors, he was the first to extend relief and did it in an effective manner. As to Joining with the captains of the other ships in maintaining the neutrality of the Korean port against the Japanese, that was not Commander Marshall's business nor was it theirs. When the truth is known it will probably appear that the other officers did not do anything of the kind. If they did they exceeded the requirements of international law. If Commander Marshall had Joined in such action he would probably have been reprimanded. It is enough for the United States to maintain its own neutrality without sending ships to maintain that of Korea. The Russian contention in this regard shows an entire misapprehension of international law. The proposed cable from Guam to Japan is a commercial enterprise. The application to lay it was made by the Commercial Cable Company, which had the contract with the United States government for laying the cable from San Francisco to the Philippines. If laid the cable would be useful to Japan and the United States in a commercial way, but it is not perceived that it could be useful In a military way. However, the application to lay it has not been granted yet. and if it is it will be accompanied by conditions that will prevent it from becoming a violation of neutrality. The incident furnishes the United 8tates an opportunity of showing its scrupulous regard for the obligations of neutrality which it will be pretty sure to utilize. Thus it will be seen that, as far as the government of the United States or any of its officials are concerned, there is no ground whatever for the feeling that is said to prevail in Russia. As for popular sentiment in this country, the government is not responsible for that. It should be enough for the Russian government and people if the United States maintains an attitude of strict neutrality as the term is defined by the law of nations. Popular sentiment is another matter. All the laws

In the world could not make the American people sympathise with Russia in her present campaign of aggression and conquest against a weaker nation that is fighting for its life and that represents liberalism and progress against medlaevalism and oppression.

THE ISLE OP PHES. The Isle of Pines, which has been the subject of more discussion during the last few years than its value warrants, is, figuratively speaking, up in the air again. It is not exactly "no man's land." but Its ownership is again in dispute. The island, as perhaps most persons know, lies about forty miles off the south coast of Cuba. It contains 1,214 square miles, partly tillable, some mineral deposits and good pasturage for cattle. The dispute regarding its ownership grows out of the construction of a clause In the treaty with Spain at the close of the late war. Th- treaty provided that "Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba," and in the following section that "Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies." Under these two provisions the question arose whether the Isle of Pines went with Cuba or whether title to it passed to the United States under the clause "other islands now under Spanish sovereignty In ne West Indies." The Piatt amendment, which was incorporated In the Constitution of Cuba, provided that "the Isle of Pines shall be omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries of Cuba, the title thereto being left to future adjustment by treaty." To provide for this adjustment the United States and Cuba appointed commissioners to negotiate a treaty, by which the United States relinquished in favor of Cuba "all claim to the title to the- Island of Pines which has been or may be made in virtue of the treaty of peace between the United 8tates and Spain." Provision was made for protecting the property rights of Americans who had settled on the island, and it was further provided that the treaty should be ratified by both parties and the ratifications exchanged within seven months from the date of its signing. The treaty was dated July 2, 1903, and the seven months expired on last Feb. 2. The treaty having thus expired by time limitation the Isle of Pines reverts to the situation it was in when the Piatt amendment provided that the question of its ownership should be left to future adjustment by treaty. It is still a question as to the construction of the peace treaty with Spain. If the Isle of Pines was a part of Cuba its status followed that of Cuba when the latter became independent; otherwise It camo under the head of "other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies," and was ceded to the United States. If it waa tnus ceded it may be a question whether the United States has a right to relinquish Its title to the island or cede it to Cuba by treaty. The Constitution does not provide for disposing of territory once acquired in that way. As the whole question turns on the construction and meaning of the treaty with Spain it might appropriately be referred to arbitrators. Of the five American commissioners who negotiated the treaty all but one or two are still living. Former Senator Cushman K. Davis is dead, but Judges DaV and Gray, Senator Frye and Hon. Whitelaw Reid are living, as are four of the five Spanish commissioners. Both the United States and Cuba ought to be willing to leave the construction of the treaty to a commission composed of these gentlemen. The Isle of Pines Is not a valuable possession, but the question of its ownership involves a principle, and neither of the claimants should wish to hold it by a clouded title. MINOR TOPICS. By keeping close account of the number of troops reported at various times to have been landed by Japan in Korea, the Journal is able to announce that up to March 1 11.972.824 Japanese soldiers and several mules are now in the Land of Morning Calm. It is a simple matter of addition. By the same process it will be found that about six millions of Russians have arrived from Moscow, via the Siberian Railway. "S. R. O." signs are displayed in Manchuria and Koiea. What a ferocious man this Captain Mahan is, to be sure! He expresses his astonishment not at what Japanese torpedoes have accomplished, but at the fact that they did not do more damage. Mahan evidently wanted a knockout in the first round; but perhaps the Japs had let the biograph privileges to somebody and were in duty bound not to let this happen. Poet Laureate Austin and Rex Eduardus Septimus both have the gout. Alfred probably has it because Edward has it, but Edward himself probably came by it honestlycontracted it during that protracted wait for his mother to come in out of the reign. At any rate it is easy to see that gout will be all the rage this spring. A Connecticut man has asked the police to find his former sweetheart, who has disappeared, taking her lover's wooden lag with her as a memento. Probably she wanted it as conclusive evidence that he was false; but he himself thinks that another man is in his shoes. On account of the approaching six hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Petrarch, it has been suggested that everyone who ever wrote a sonnet shall contribute to a Petrarch monument. Well, that should raise a large sum and it would be a good punishment, too. Chemists declare that a large proportion of the whisky sold In cheap saloons is made of prune Juice, vegetable spirits, brown sugar and tobacco. What does it matter what the stuff is made of? It appears to do the business just quick as the other kind. The Emperor of Korea has advertised for a dentist, and he is willing to pay $300 a month for a good man. Don't all speak at once remember that the Emperor's head is not any too safe, and with a headless Emperor what would a dentist be able to do? The Ohio food and dairy commissioner wiU make a tasting test of the various brands of breakfast foods. He will have to get an expert not one man in a thousand can discover any difference except in the labels on the packages. Americans have no right to laugh at the uncouth and formidable names of Japanese and Russian people, places and ships, as long as we have a congressional delegate named Jonah Kuhlo Kalanianaole. When the English laureate lectured on 'The Growing Distaste for the Higher Kinds of Poetry." he evidently spoke of Kngland alone, and not of America. His

remarks would be particularly inappropriate in Indiana; which Austin would have admitted had he seen the audience that recently greeted James B. Elmore in In-

A successful novelist announces that he has attained a speed" on his typewriter of 7,000 words an hour. He needn't have boasted of it it is only necessary to read one of his "successes" to guess at his speed. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson is now gaining fame and lucre as a special newspaper war strategist. It is no compliment to him to say that his work is up to the average in this line, therefore comment is omitted. Another reason why the Japanese are so bitter against the Russians is that the Japs have never been able to raise beautiful whiskers like those which adorn the countenances of their Muscovite enemies. A medical authority now asserts that whisky is good for consumption. The statement is not strikingly original whisky is intended for consumption, otherwise it would not be made. Why should Russia promulgate rules of war? So far as the game has been played Japan is much the better authority. THE HUMORISTS. The Policeman's Fault. Magistrate (sternly) Didn't I tell you the last time you were here I never wanted you to come before me again?" Prisoner Yes, sir; but I couldn't make the policeman believe it. New Yorker. Awfully Mean. "Pop?" "Yes. my son." "What is mean temperature?" "Mean temperature, my bov. Is what we have had this winter." Yonkers Statesman. Not Duzzled. "You have allowed yourself to be dazzled by money." "That," said Senator Sorghum, "is untrue. In any matter where money was concerned I have invariably been coldly practical." Washington Star. It Was Sixteen Once. "These deceitful women are so ridiculous." said Miss I 'assay. "As for me, I was never afraid to tell what my age was." "No woman," replied Miss Wise, "is ever afraid to tell what her age was." Philadelphia Press. Defined. "Dad," said little Reginald, "what Is a bucket shop?" "A bucket shop, my son." said the father, feelingly, "a bucket shop is a modern cooperage establishment to which a man takes a barrel and brings back the buns-hole." Town Topics. Fan for the Fishes. T see that a brewery firm in New York recently dumped 12.000 barrels of beer into the river rather than pay the revenue tax." "Great treat for the fishes." "Yes, I s'pose most of 'em got a gill or two of it." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Mitigating Circumstance. Jean Valjean had stolen the candlesticks. "I couldn't help it," he faltered, "the gai Is so bad in my house I had to have something to see with." Thus we can easily understand why the bishops so readily forgave him. New York Sun. It Worku Sometimes. "Your grandfather is nearly a hundred years old. Bow has he managed to live so long?" "Pure contrariness." "Contrariness? How's that?" "You know there are rules prescribed for people wr!o want to live to be old. Well, he never follows any of them." Chicago Tribune. SCIENCE AND INVENTION. Consumption Vaccine. Dr. Marmorek's anti-tuberculosis serum is now being tested in England by Dr. Arthur Latham at the Brompton Hospital for Consumptives. Dr. Marmorrk made the first injections at the hospital early In December, and will come over from Paris every month to examine the cases. Cases at George's Hospital are also being treated with the new serum. London Times. An Air Pnriner. M. Desgrer. in the Bulletin of the French Physical Society. No. 185. describes a new apparatus for maintaining a supply of pure breathable air in a small closed space. It consists of a distributer which, by the action of clockwork, drops sodium perozide Into water at regular intervals, a cubical steel box and a ventilating fan. The sodium ierozlde is decomposed by the water with liberation of oxygen, absorption of carbon dioxide, and destruction of the other toxic products of respi atlon. A refrigerator is also supplied to counteract the beating efTects of the chemical reactions. The complete apparatus weighs about twenty-six pounds. Paris Figaro. Water Hat for Firemen. That a falling sheet of water is one of the most effective protections against fire Is well known. Many theaters are provided with "water curtains." and some buildings are so arranged that a cascade can be made to descend from the eaves on all sides when fire threatens from without. This principles Is applied to individual firemen in a new invention that has recently been experimented upon by the Berlin Are brigade. On an ordinary fireman's helmet is placed a circular "rose" that sprays water downward in all directions at an angle of fortyfive degrees. The fireman has thus pure air to breathe, even when he is surrounded by the thickest smoke, as the sheet of spray acts as a filter. Besides this the water keeps the fireman cool and prevents his clothing from taking fire. The user must, of course, be clad in waterproof material, although even this would not be absolutely necessary In summer. Scientific American. Llfc-Snvinur Mask. Although the use of life-saving belts, as In accidents to ships, rough s?ea passages and the like, declares a German inventor, sustain the wearer above water, experience has shown that, notwithstanding this fact, the number of cases of drowning is still extraordinarily high. The cause Is asserted to be found in the fact that the waves breaking upon the wearer forces salt water in the mouth and nose, resulting often fatally to the victim. It is accordingly proposed to guard against this danger by providing a face mask, preferably made of some elastic material, as. for instance, rubber, shaped to conform to the modeling of the face. In the lower portion of the mask are openings covered with wire netting to reduce the water pressure and prevent its ready entrance into the interior of the mask. Short tubes Inside cover these oridces and are provided with a hollow ball valve adapted to automatically close the orifices against the entrance of water, without restricting the freedom of breathing. A whistle is provided to enable the wearer to signal when desired. London Globe. Plate Glass Carrier. Patents have recently been obtained by Oscar Dewellen and John H. Schuch. of Kokomo. Ind , on an invention to lift and transport plate glas.s in factories. It is estimated that in the plate glass factories of this country twenty-five men are killed and upward of a hundred are injured every year by falling plans. Vnder the present conditions the huge plntes as they leave the casting hall are lifted and carried by gangs of men. Often there is a defect in the plate, and it breaks in pieces during its conveyance, the resuit being that it crashes down uon the men, killing or Injuring some of them. This new apparatus Is worked automatically and can lift and carry the plates from the casting hall to the packing room. It is worked by means of a suction process. On the bottom of the machine are large hollow rubber tubes: three are connected with pumps, which may be stationed at any convenient part of the factory. The inventors claim thac the suction can be made

great enough to lift and carry the largest plate made. Many machines, similar in character to this one, have been made, but none of them has ever proved practicable Washington Times.

Odorless Automobile Fuel. A new odorless automobile fuel, which is said to be of 80 per cent, greater energy than gasoline, will be placed on the market In a short time under the name of energine. They hope to bring about the solution of the problem of obtaining a high power fuel without any objectionable odor. The new company Is about to erect a factory in Cleveland, in which it will refine from the crude petroleum a product to be known as energine. This has already been tested by a number of automobile manufacturers, and. It Is said, was found to bear out to the fullest extent the claim of the originators as an odorless fuel. It is claimed that one gallon of this new fuel will carry a heavy touring car eighteen miles, while the same quantity of gasoline will carry the same car only ten miles. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Scleuce Brevities. It is practically impossible to cause an electric spark of high electromotive force to leap from one surface of a liquid to another. For this reason it is rare that lightning strikes the surface of water. Professor Markwald, a German scientist, has discovered an extremely active substance, which he has named radio-errurlum. In pitchblende. It is in minute quantities, far smaller than the quantities of radium, in pitchblende, and contains tellurium. The New York Medical Journal is Informed that Doctors Brinckerhok and Tyner. associates of Professor Councllmann, who discovered the life history of the smallpox germ through his investigations at Harvard, have been sent to the Philippine islands to carry on their studies of this germ. Friends of Harvard have raised a purse to defray their expenses. The United States bureau of ethnology recently has completed an investigation into the magic of the Indians and has been baffled by feats performed by their wizards which are fully as wonderful as those of the Oriental fakirs. Missionaties and other reliable authorities have told of plots of grass and century' plants made to spring from the bare ground in a few moments, and other equally mystifying acts of sorcery. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. New Restaurant Slang. "I can stand a good deal, but I have some feelings." said the busy man, "and those feelings were harrowed up pretty considerable yesterday'. I was In a great hurry, and I went in to get lunch at a small, unfashionable and Inexpensive restaurant. I told the waiter I wanted sausages with gravy on them. He went off behind a screen, and in a minute I heard him call my order to the cook. " 'One litter drowned,' was what he said. Washington Post. Congressman's Poor Cigars. A certain congressman from Ohio is noted by his colleagues for smoking the most villainous brand of stogies it has ever been their hard luck to smell. One day last week he made a singularly dry speech, discussing the duty on Philippine hemp. After he had talked half an hour a bored member in one of the near seats said disgustedly: "What the dickens does he know about hemp?" "Knows all about it," growled the equally disgusted man addressed, "that's what he smokes." Washington Times. Labored in Vain. v William Morris once neard one of his poems read by a famous elocutionist, says W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet. The reader was carefully obliterating all the original rhythm in order to give what he conceived to be the proper expression. Mr. Morris sat in uneasy silence for some moments, but at last he could stand it no longer. "Young man," he exclaimed, "it cost me a great deal of trouble to put that into verse! I wish you would read it as It Is written." Detroit Journal. Knew Her Rights. The white compartment of the car was crowded, and quite a crowd of gentlemen standing. In the colored compartment there was only one passenger, Miss Mr rtha Scroggins, of color, and eight or ten of the gentlemen walked Into the colored ward and found comfortable seats. When the conductor came along, Miss Scroggins said: "Mr. Conductor, it's a poor rule that won't work both ways; the white folks won't let niggers ride in their car, and I don't want the white folks to ride in my car, so you can Just put them out of here, or stop the car and I will get oft." The rule worked, for the conductor said: "Gentlemen, you will have to go back into the white compartment." The whites marched out of the "Jim Crow" compartment. Several were compelled to ride on the platform, and came near freezing, while the dusky damsel was comfortably occupying half of a car by er lono self. Ilourbon tKy.) Newa. Her I ii I'm m i I in r Feature. "I am sorry, madam." said the bank cashier, "but it will be necessary for you to be identified by somebody we know before we can cash the check." "I have been here often," she said. 'I don't doubt that, in the least, but we can't vary from our rules. Is there anybody connected with the bank who knows you?" "Yes, sir; Mr. Iirownson knows me." Mr. Rrownson was sent for, and came to the cashier's window. "There Is something about your face that is familiar, ma'am." he said, on being asked if he could Identify her; "but I can't quite locate you. She turned her face away, and a moment later faced him again, red and mortified. "Do you know me now?" she asked. "To be sure I do," said Mr. Brownson. "You're Mrs. Bendigs. It's all right." She had removed her beautiful new teeth. Chicago Tribune. Carnegie Dialect. Though Andrew Carnegie's English is singularly elegant and pure, he has at his command a weird Scottish dialect. Mr. Carnegie is a student of Scotch words and idioms. He likes to point out the oddities and freaks of his native tongue. Recently, at a dinner party in New York, he said to a young woman : "So you think you can understand Scots, eh? Well, then, what do we mean in Scotland when we say a person Is just flnsh?" "I don't know. What de we mean?" the young woman asked. "We mean he is a bit of a weed harum-scarum." said Mr. Carnegie. "A weed harum-scarum? What Is that?" "It is the same as wowf." "But what is wowf?" "Wowf is nook, or sal. That is to say. a bit by the east. Havers, lassie, ha'e ye no Scots at all?" Then Mr. Carnegie laughed and explained that a weed harum-scarum, and fiqsh. and wowf, and nook, and sal, and by the east all signified the one thing, "crazy." Minneapolis Tribune. The Yellow Peril. "As I figure it out, the 'yellow peril is not altogether a delusion," remarked Capt. S. M. Maye. . of San Francisco. "The outcome of tlie war in the East may well be watched with the keenest Interest by Americans, for in the event of a decisive Japanese victory we might as well make up our minds that only a few years will go by ere we will be challenged to combat by the little Easterners. "Ever since the war with China. Japan has been perambulating around with a chip on her shoulder, or. rather, a handful of chips. Should he lick the Russians, she will fancy herself unconquerable, and there will not be wanting some pretext for a fight with Uncle Sam. If no other excuse offer, there is Hawaii, where a lot of Japanese already have found lodgment, and on whose account the mother country will make some kino of demand that. If refused, will let loose the dogs of war. I am In no wise prejudiced, but as a student of national movements, it seems to me inevitable that sooner or later the United States will have to perform a Job that Russia does not give a brillant promise of fulfilling." Washington Post. Direct Vpplient Ion. "Santo" means "holy." In ths Dominicans case it refers to the show they are making of themselves. New York Mail and Expit

THE DRIFT

Walter B. Graham, of New York, who is a guest at the English, says that Judge Parker will be the choice of New York Democrats for President this yar. Mr Graham is In a position to know whereof he speaks, for he is not only a Democrat, but Is a Tammany Democrat, and is a prominent oificer in the Tammany organization. "Ths New York delegation to the Democratic national convention will in all probability be uninstructed." said Mr. Graham last evening, "but the reason for that is that there is a plau to give Mayor George Ii. McClellan a complimentary vote. The delegation will really be for Parker and will do everything possible to bring about his nomination. Tammany is for Parker. There can be no question about that, although 1 know there have been -e ports to the contrary. Many of the leaders in Tammany Hall would really prefer Cleveland, strange as that may seem when It is r -membered that Tammany ha.- always fought Cleveland in the past, but they all realize that Cleveland is not the man to head the ticket this year. He could carry New York, but he would be knifed in the South and in the West and could not be el.- t.-d. Park, r is r- agnized as tht l0gkS,l candidate. McClellan is being saved for the governorship. He is young and would make a stronger candidate for President after he has served as mayor and Governor." Mr. Graham was asked if Hearst would receive any support in New York. "Not a single vote." he replied. "Tammany does not like Hears: and he has no following that can deliver delegates. There are Hearst clubs all over the city and State and a lot of Hearst talk is heard, but it will amount to nothing when the time eom.-s for selecting delegates. Hearst is spending a lot of money as a candidate, lie's paying a man in my district $10,000 a year to do nothing but organize these Hearst clubs." Mr. Graham gives an Interesting statement as to the system of the Tammany or ganization. There is the leader, Murphy, at this time, who has ubsolute charge of the organization. Then there Is a leader for each of the thirty-seven assembly districts in the city, each district leader has from ten to twenty captains, and each captain has eight or ten lieutenants. When the boss wants anything done he passes the word to the district leaders, who in turn notify the captains, and they, through their lieutenants, "deliver the goods." The leaders, captains and lieutenants are rewarded with patronage, each receiving an amount commensurate with the importance of his position. The great source of power for the machine is its ability to find employment for the rank and rile. Mr. Graham says that in fact the district headquarters of Tammany are nothing less than employment agencies. Any man who wants a job can go there and get one. He is not asked if he is a Democrat or a Republican, but is impressed with the fact that he Is under obligations to Tammany for his position, and when the time comes is expected to repay that obligation with his vote. Tammany secures these jobs from Individuals, companies and corporations that want the machine's political influence. The discipline of Tammany is perfect, and orders sent out from Tammany Hall on Fourteenth ttreef must be obeyed to the letter. Mr. Graham told a little incident that illustrated the discipline of Tammany. "You will remember hen Sheppard was our candidate for mayor?" he said. "Well, that year the rank and file of Tammany and the people in general wanted Coler, but Croker. who was then the leader, had picked Sheppard, and Sheppard it had to be. In the convention there was an uproar of shouts for Coler from the moment it was opened. You couldu't hear anything but Coler. When the roll was called the delegates continued to shout for Coler, but they voted for Sheppard, and Sheppard was the nominee." Jesse Parmenter, of Wabash, who was at the Denison yesterday, is one of the leaders who are rallying around Representative Frederick Landis, of Logansport, in his candidacy for renomination, which is contested by Major George W. Steele, of Marion. He was asked his opinion of the situation in the Eleventh, and in reply predicted the renomination of Mr. Landis. "I believe this," he said, "because, first, I can see where he will get the votes to nominate him; and second, because he ought to be renominated. It is an unwritten law that all two-year officers shall repeat themselves, unless there a cogent reason why they ought not to, and there is no such reason In this case. Landis is in the beginning of his first term in Congress, and while he has been one of the most successful campaigners for his party in Indiana, he has yet had no opportunity for the development of his ability in Congress, and to turn him down now would be a gross injustice to himself and his friends and a violation of all precedent." In giving his figures on the respective strength which the two candidates will have in the convention, Mr. Parmenter said: "Landis will beat the major in the four counties of the district which have no candidates, by between thirteen and twenty vot s, but must have a majority of sixteen outside Cass and Grant to secure the nomination. Wabash, according to my figures, will give fourteen votes for Landis aid six for Steele; Huntington, fourteen for Landis and five for Steele; Blackford, five for Landis and four for Steele, with Miami an uncertain quantity. Landis must have forty-one votes outside his own county to be nominated; Stetle must have twenty-six. If Landis can secure eight votes in Miami county he will be nominated. and his friends are claiming ton or more there." Mr. Parmenter bases his objections to Major Steele principally upon the major's long tenure of public office, stating that the major has been in office practically ever since-the war, including the ten years he served in the regular army. In conclusion Mr. Parmenter said: "There is just one more point I desire to state, which interests the Republican party of the whole State, and that is, the defeat of Landis moang the loss of one and perhaps three Republican members of the next Legislature." f An error was made yesterday in the statement that the Republicans of the Fourth district would nominate a candidate for Congress at to-day's convention at Columbus. The convention to-day will only select the delegates and alternates to the Republican national convention and choose the presidential elector for the district. Several candidates for state offices were in the city last night en route to Columbus, and there is rf indication that the convention will be largely attended. LeroV B. Nash, of Tipton, who wants the nomination for reporter of the Supreme Court, was one of the candidates here. He mingl d with the crowd in the lobby of the English and discussed the weather, crops. RussoJapanese war and such other topers as candidates are prone to dwell upon at this time. Charles P. Benedict last evening authorized the announcement that he will be a I candidate for the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney of this circuit. Mr. Benedict's friends have known for several months that he would be in the race, and, in fact, he has been dofng some aggressive campaigning, but he has not until now formally launched his candidacy. Mr. Ben-dict is at present the chief deputy in the prowcuttttg attorney's office under Mr. Buckels ha us. "I am making my campaign upon two points," said Mr. Benedict last evening. "They are, precedent and experience. It has been the custom to nominate th.deputy in the prosecutor's office, and I believe that the experience I have had as deputy has qualified me to fill the office acceptably." t Fred C. Gardner, of E. C. Atkins & Co.. yesterday announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for treasurer of Marion county. He makes his announcement on the theory that the law extending the terms of certain county and Judicial offices, which included the office of treasurer in this county, will be held unconstitutional and that an election must be held this year. Oliver P. Ensley. the pr.-s.-nt treasurer who assumed the duties of office the first of the year, will b a candidate for renomination in event the law ia declared invalid, although he has as yet made no formal announcement to that effect. T Col. Harry B. Smith, the newly elected chairman of the Republicau couuty commit

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tee, in assuming charge of the organization announces that his first act will be to Appoint art. -executive committee and a board of primary oommlslomrs. Th executive committee will then be called together to agree upon a date for the county conrentioa, and as soon as the date is fixed it will be announced to the public. At leaat thirty days' notice of the convention will be given. and when the prlmariee are to be held to select delegates to the convention a week's or ten days' notice of the voting places and election boards will be given. "In making up my executive committee." sai.l Coi.uiel Smith yesterday. "I shall recognize all elements in the party, and shall appoint men that will do effective work," T. Taggart came up from French Lik yesterday and was iu evidence among the Democratic stalwarts who make the Grand their headquarters. By the way, Mr. Graham, the New York, member of Tammany, who Is in the city, says that Mr. Taggart stands high in the regard of Tammany leaders. They look upon him. said Mr. Graham, as an excellent man for the chairmanship of the Democratic national committee. "I want no Cleveland In mine. 1 would not vote for Cleveland to save his life or mine. That sounds j i.ttv strong, but mjr feeling is strong upon that point. I am a party man and I have no use for a man who would work for the defeat of the party that had honored him as the Democratic party has honored Cleveland." It was Capt. D. F. Allen, or Frankfort, who made this vigorous statement last evening at the Grand. Captain Allen is a Democrat, but nt a Bryan lernocr t. although it might well be inferred that only a Bryan Democrat could r would expresa such hostility to the sage of Buzzard Bay. Captain Allen as a party man supported Bryan, but he could not indorse all that Bryau stood for. For instance, while the captain was in the Philippines assist ing in putting down the Filipino insurrection, fighting as an officer in the United States army, the natives, whom be classes as the sorriest lot of beggars, cut-throats and heathens It has ever been his opportunity to know. Bryan was traversing this country extolling these tame Filipinos aa patriots fit to rank with George Washington and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. At the same time Captain Allen was being run as the Demo. rati, candidate for Congress in the Ninth district. "A man never occupied a more peculiar position than I did at that time,' said Captain Allen. "I offered my services to the government and went to the Philippines, believing that the islands had come into .the --!'-ti f this country bj the nr.. xpected fortune of war. that the natives should be pacified and made to recognize the authority of this country and that then the question as to what should be done with the islands should be taken up. In my absence I was nominated for Congress, but the platform, unfortunately, war directly opposed to the course 1 believed in and was following. It's a wonder I wasn't defeated by two or three times the majority given my opponent. Bryan made a speech In my town during that campaign, but he made no reference to me except to say that if the Democrats were put in power there would be no occasion for sending troops outside this country." Captain Allen picks Judge Parker, of N. w York, as bis candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, and John B. Stoll. of South Bend, to head the Democratic state ticket. Incidentally he declares that he will not be the Democratic nomln. for Congress in the Ninth this year not if he knows himself, and he thinks he does. In an illustrated song at the Empire Theater yesterday afternoon pictures of a number of men prominent, now and in the past, in public life were thrown upon a canvas. The plctnre of W. J. Bryan received perfunctory applause. The picture of Roosevelt was cheered x- the cho and received a demonstration second only to that accorded the picture of the late President McKinley. The picture of William Randolph Hearst and it had to be labeled to be recognized was applauded by thrie or four men in the balcony and greet 1 with a volley of hisses from the rest of the audience. George Lilly, of Anderson, member of the Republican State committee from the Eighth district, called at State headquarters yesterday. "W. H. Whittaker, superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, is at the Columbia Club. Hancock county Republicans selected their delegates to the State convention Saturday and E. E. Stoner. of Greenfield, who Was at the Columbia Club last evening, pays J. Frang Hanly will get practically all the votes in the governorship contest. "The delegates were not instructed." said Mr. Stoner, "and some of them may change their minds before the convention rolls around, but the way the delegation lines up now is nine votes for Hanly and one for Judge Penfield." L. V. Buskirk. of Bloomlngton. who was in the city last evening, says Monroe county Republicans have not yet selected their delegates to the state convention. "1 don't know how our delegation Will stand." he said, when asked where the vote of the county would go in the gubernatorial race. "As we will have a candidate for state treasurer I suppose our delegates will have to play politics, mC or less. How. v. r. there is a strong sajtflmen' for v L. Taylor among the RjofcUaa-ns of our county. Bloomlngton has a sort of claim on Taylor, you know, for he is a graduate of the State University." "We're ready for the convention and expect a big crowd," said John J. Wlngate, e.lltor of the Shelbyville Republican, last evening in speaking of the Sixth district congressional convention, which will be held Thursday In his city. Mr. Wlngate has been sqioken of as a candidate for delegate to the national convention, but he says he is in no sense an active canuiaaw. BIG MACHINE PLANT WILL BE ERECTED Valuable Site for New Factory Purchased Last Week for $15,000. The F. W. Spacke Machine Company. Incorporated, has purchased from Nicholas McCarty the vacant ground opposite the Manual Training High 8chool on Madison avenue, running through to Pennsylvania street, comprising 150 feet on Pennsylvania street, for $15,000. and will shortly erecf a large steel structure on this site In order to take care of its rapidly increasing business. The Aetna Cabinet Company has purchased the buildings heretofore occupied by it. Nos. 323. 3Ä and 327 West Maryland street, for $16.000. The buildings of tha company will be immediately extended from Maryland to Chesapeake street. Five years ago the Aetna Cabinet Company began business at this location in s small way, and has now grown to large proporTh. Palmyra flats on East Market street. a three-story' flat building, aas purchased l Loul H. Lvey from Henry L. Dollman for $21.000' Mr. Levey transferred to Mr Iollman his residence on North slerfdian ' rnar Seventeenth, for a conMi ration of $13.000. AH of the above transfers were conducted through the A. Metsger Agency. The new buildings to be erected by the Aetna Cabinet Company recall a number of new buildings to be erected ou West Marvland III set this spring, mainly ths Urge warehouse of the Van Camp Hardw.tr. i'onipaiiy at t be southwest ixrner of Missouri and Maryland streets, and the .s use of Schnull A Co. at the south east corner of Maryland and Missouri streets, both of these last named buildings having railroad facilities; also the new Board of Trade building at the southeast er of Capitol avenue and Maryland street and the new Perry Theater, which will extend from Ma: land street to Kentucky avenue.