Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1904 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAL, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1901.

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THE INDIAV4POMS .DM ISN VI, Car he found at the following places: CHICAeJO Palmer House, Auditorium Annex Hotel. Dearborn Station Newa Stand. CINCINNATI J. Grand Hotel. R. Haw ley & Co.. Arcade, COLCMRUS. O.-Viaduct News Stand. 3S0 H!gh street. DAYTON. O. street. V. Wilkie. 39 South Jefferson DENVER. Col Lout bain & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, and A. Smith, 1&7 Champa strtet. DES MniNES, la Mose Jacobs. Fifth street. LOS ANGELES. Cal. Harry Drapkin. LOl'ISVIl.LK O. T. iX'erinsr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Bluefeld ., 9m West Market street. N E"V YORK Aator House. ST. LOOI8 Union News Company. Union Depot. FT. JOSEPH. Mo F. B. Carrlel. Station D. WASHINGTON'. D. C.-Rlggs House. Ebbitt House. Fairfax Hotel. Wlllard Hotel. "The duty of this party," says a Brooklyn Democrat, "is merely to nominate a decent Democrat." Merely is good has such a confident sound. The rations of the Japanese soldiers consist of rice, salted fish, dried seaweed and pickled plums. The Russian soldiers eat what they can get and are mighty glad to et iL Japan says she gave Russia due notice of the opening of hostilities. Sent a big shell right over into Port Arthur, and if that Isn't s. hint that the fun has started, what is? It has never been definitely decided whether the Colombian army of Invasion disbanded or not, and it probably never will be until he applies to his home government for a pension. Richard Mansfield is appearing in "Ivan the Terrible." A description of the drama leads to the suspicion that Richard is employed by the Japanese government to show up Russia in its worst light. The State commission appointed in Ohio to raise 120.000 for the purchase of a silver service to be given to the battleship Ohio has resigned. All it could scrape together was 3,0O). The name of the boat ought to be changed. A Missouri paper recommends a candidste on the ground that "he has held office and never been indicted." They are so careless about those things in Missouri. If ha has never been indicted he has never been vindicated, and there you are. Many of the senators are criticising the President s private office, saying that it is not fit for a second-class lawyer. Nevertheless there are a lot of third-class senators who would give big money to be able to occupy it. Boris Sora f off has broken loose again. He Is the Macedonian leader who gets up an Insurrection every few weeks, on which occasion he generally dies exclaiming: "I die for freedom's cause!" or words to that effect. This Is his grand farewell martyrdom tour. According to Mr. Gilbert, of Kentucky, President Roosevelt and Bookor Washington "ate out of the same dish and supped out of the same bowl." If that is Gilbert's Idea, It will be suspected that Kentucky table etiquette has progressed about as far as Korean ditto. The Russian dispatch announcing the Japanese naval attack on Vladivostok gave prominence to the fact that the attack must have cost the Japanese $100.000 in ammunition. The Russians cannot be charged with having wasted much money In naval attacks. An Evansville girl did an heroic thing; he arose Irorn a sick bed and made a tedious journey to Denver, where her evidence wss needed to establish the innocence of a man accused of murder. She knew that the trip was suicidal, but she took it and the fatal consequences. She died, a latter-day heroine. Mr. Ilowells believes that foreign sympathy does not count for much in case Of war. Both the Boers and the Greeks will agree with him; but as for Japan, she isn't asking for sympathy. She only re quests, as the bear hunter in the ancient tale asked of the Lord, that the rest of us stand aside and watch a good tight. All the writers who have attacked the Mormon religion combined have not done as much to make it odious and repulsive as PreM.i. nt Smith h as .n his testimony before the Senate committee. If Mr. Smoot Is de nled a seat in the Senate It wl'.l be due to an irresistible pressure of public opinion caused by Smith's testimony. Preliminary work towards the organiza tion of the National Technical Institut seems to be muk . - ,;..,,d t .pigrvaa. it is gratifying to learn fr. in Mr. George W Brown, who Is canvassing for the institu is a a . st . . nons equipment lunu. mat nearly twice as much has bet u subscribed towards the maintenance and tuition guarantee fundi as was raised for the purchase of the site

This indicates efficient work and shows that the foundation of the institution is being laid on broad lines.

ATTEMPTED EM' SKXSATION Fll. The attempt to create a new sensation out of the Bristow report on the postefflce investigation has failed. It Is another illustration of the mountain laboring and bringing forth a mouse. The original report, which made specific charges against certain officials in the department, on which some of them have sinoe been convicted, made references to o rtain postoffices in different States where it was claimed that Beavers, the indicted chief of the salaries and allowances division, had been guilty of undue activity in making Increased allowances for salaries, clerk hire, etc. If not directly charged it was clearly implied that certain members of Congress, senators as well as representatives, had urged the increases. No names were mentioned, but it was easy to infer from the location of the cities in whose districts they were located. On the strength of these statements in the Bristow report rumors were started that many members of Congress had been connected with transactions which could nt bear the light of day, that they were now on the anxious seat, that sensational disclosures were likely to be made, etc. A Democratic member of the House committee on postofllces and postroads Introduced a resolution providing for the appointment of a special committee to investigate the subject, intimating that the majority of the committee were trying to suppress the facts. The majority called on the Postoffice Department for the facts in the case, and a supplemental repo.-t was prepared, which was yesterday file 1 in the House. The facts do not sustain the rumors and charges of improper conduct by members of Congress. They show, as the records of the department have shown for many years past under all administrations and botii parties, that senators and representatives have sometimes indorsed or personally urged the requests of postmasters for better facilities, to be obtained only by increased rental allowance, and for increased salaries for clerks or additional clerks. One of the most disagreeable duties of a member of Congress is to present such claims as these to the department, but their constituents expect and demand it, and it has become established usage. The member cannot always have personal information as to the necessity or justice of the claims, but he is justified in acting on the information and request of the postmaster, which is often backed by the request of other constituents. The postmaster has no other means of bringing his needs directly to the attention of the department except through his representative, or sometimes a senator, and he feels free to enlist their good offices in his behalf. A member of Congress who should refuse to present such claims and use his influence to get them allowed would lose friends and become unpopular. As they receive no compensation for such services they may fairly be re garded as part of the member's official duties. Whatever applications a postmaster may make for increased allowances fir rent. clerk hire and salaries, and however earn estly a representative or senator may ndor&e his application or press it before the department, the responsibility for Its allow ance rests with department officials. It Is their business to know whether the claim is reasonable and proper or not. With the records and data of all the postofflces in the country at their command they should know whether the application of any particular postmaster for increased allow ances is reasonable or not. If they are unduly influenced by the recommendation of a member of Congress that is their fault. In presenting the claim the member only does his duty by his constituents. Democratic members of the House have been fomenting this alleged "scandal" in the hope of smirching the Republicans. As most of the postmasters for several years past have been Republicans it is natural that iinder a Republican administration Republican members should have a good deal of this sort of work to do in the department. There is nothing improper about it, and it looks as if Mr. Bristow had quite overstepped the limits of fairness in reflecting on mt ruber.- of Congress for doing it. OIR I.ITTI.E AVY. "During the last six years," proclaimed an impassioned speaker in Congress the other da "we have added more to our fleet than have either France or Germany." The speaker went on to say that since the country has less reason than any other to fear war, we should not increase our navy faster than other countries do. This argument is about as logical as any which are made by the advocates of a little navy for the United States. , The speaker's conclusion does not follow his premises: but, even if it did, it would be invalid, because the premises themselves are utterly false. During the last six years our navy has been exceeded in additions by Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Japan. We exceeded some of these countries last year, but even that did not bring up the average. The additions were published In the Washington Times the other day, as follows: Great Britain has added 641.000 tons to her fleet since 1898; France, 218.000 tons; Russia, 160,000 tons; Japan. 153.000 tons, and the United States, 117,000 tons. Last year's increase was made because it was absolutely necessary to keep up with the procession and for that It was not large enough. But all this is aside from the question. The United States needs a navy just strong enough to defend Herself from attack. Is it strong enough to repulse the attack of a first-class power? Certainly, no other power would dare attempt itSpain has showed the little nations what would happen to them in such a case. To .. fend tho United States means to defend an immense line of seacoast, a mighty commerce and far-lying insular possessions. The advocates of the little navy do not wish even that much of a fleet. They make fiery speeches about spending the people's money on empty demonstrations of pomp and glory as If it were for show that an adequate navy Is dtrired. It is not argued that this country roust keep pace with others in naval construction merely ss a matter of pride in comparison of figures; but we certainly must keep pace with others as a matter of protection. The same persons who indulgo in th's oratory against "empty show" are the ones who on other occasions bid this country beware of entangling ulllances. In this latter plea they are right, but inconsistent. There is ouv a-ay, and only one. to keep

clear of entangling alliances, and that is to possess such power on sea and shoreas to be able to be indepeniont. When this country has such a navy and such a coast defense that it need not be afraid of any power that may come against it, then it is out of danger forever of making any alliance for the sake of protection which might prove embarrassing in the end. Only the strong can stand alone.

THE REFEREMH M. In discussing the prospective coal strike yesterday the Journal pointed out that there was still a chance and some hope of averting the strike which the rejection by the miners of the compromise offered by the operators seemed designed to precipitate. It said: "If the committee should decide to leave the question to a referendum vote, the local unions, or a majority of them, might see the matter in the same light in which it appears to the leaders and wisest heads of the organization." The committee has done that, accompanied with a recommendation that the compromise be accepted. There is strong reason to believe that this action will result in the acceptance of the compromise which was rejected on Saturday. The referendum itself is an appeal from a comparatively few delegates who had been living for several days in an atmosphere of excitement and many of whom were under instructions to "stand pat" and vote against any compromise, to t.ie great body of miners. These will approach the subject from a new point of view and with perhaps a better grasp of the points involved than the delegates at the conference. .They will be In a more judicial frame of mind and better able to weigh the disastrous consequences of a strike based on co small a difference. It is believed they will be more disposed to heed the advice of their leaders than the delegates were. The interval before the vote will give the leaders time in Impress their views and advice on the miners, and they will improve it. Finally, there are indications that many of those who voted to reject the compromise are frightened by the possible consequences of their action and would undo It If they conld. The referendum Is a true democratic and American way of settling the question. The miners in their individual capacity are higher authority than their delegates, and ought to be possessed of more wisdom. The Journal is of opinion that the committee made a great mistake in rejecting the compromise and hopes that the referendum will result in a reversal of this action. DEMOCRACY OR POPlLISMf As far as the Democratic party is concerned the political situation is rapidly crystallizing into the alternative of democracy or populism. In the last two presidential campaigns tho Democratic party was, to all intents and purposes, the old Populist party revived and acting under a false label. William J. t;ryan was always more of a Populist than he was a Democrat, though more of a demagogue than either. The Democratic national convention of 1896 was sufficiently permeated with populism to Make it an easy mark for a leader who knew how to strike when tho iron was hot, and Mr. Bryan knew. No political speech was ever more artfully timed, phrased and delivered than his cross-of-gold and crown-of-thorns speech that made him the nominee of the populized Democratic party. The populistic debauch continued long enough to enable him to control the convention of 1900, which did the surprisingly stultifying act of nominating him again by acclamation. Now, masquerading behind William R. Hearst. Mr. Bryan is trying for a third time to subordinate the Democratic party to populism. The combination is doubly remarkable. One hardly knows whether to be most surprised that Bryan should take up such a man as Hearst, or that Hearst should be willing to be groomed and patronized by such a man as Bryan. But blood is thicker than water, and the kinship of common political heresies brings together the two most arrant demagogues and dangerous political leaders of the times. Hearst is, if possible, a more dangerous political agitator than Bryan because he represents the most up-to-date elements of discontent, class hatred and socialism, and has great wealth with which to push his propaganda. He also owns or controls several newspapers while Bryan only has one. But if Hearst has more money than Bryan, Bryan has more brains than Hearst, and he has also the unconquerable will and spirit of revenge begotten by two defeats. It would have been difficult to make a stronger combination to perpetuate the populistia debauch of tho Democratic party than that of Bryan and Hearst, and they both seem to have recognised the fact instinctively. Will it succeed? Will the advance agent of populized democracy, tho framer of the Kansas City platform with all its heresies, and the new apostle of socialism and millionaire preacher of discontent among the mas3es be able to prostitute the Democratic party again to the degrading service of populism and the latest heresies of Socialism? Their plans are shrewdly laid. By consultation with the Populist leaders they were able to have the date of the Populist national convention fixed at Springfield, 111., on July 4, while the Democratic convention meets at St. Louis on July 6. The two conventions will be practically at the same time and not far apart. It is understood that after adopting their platform the Populists will await the platform and nominations of the Democratic convention, with a conveyed threat that if they are not satisfactory the Bryan-HVarst element will bolt the ticket. The latter, it is understood, will not support any candidate of the "Eastern reorganizers" for the presidency or a plat form in opposition to the Chicago and Kansas City platforms. They will demand the nomination by the Democratic convention of some man of their class either Hearst or a Hearst-Bryan man or they will have him nominated by the Populist convention. Of course, this is a rule or ruin policy. It is a "hold-up" game on the part of the Bryan-Hearst combination, which proposes to say to the Democratic convention, "Do as we say or we will make Democratic success impossible." As far as Bryan is concerned that has been his position in the last two campaigns, and as for Hearst he has no political convictions or principles. He is simply for Hearst as an end without regard to the means of attaining it. To secure his election as President he would be perfectly willing to run on a platform making Mormoni.m the established re. liglon in the United States or requinng every land-grant college to include a course

of anarchism in its curriculum. His only principle is anything for Hearst. It remains to be seen whether they will be able to control the St. Louis convention.

MINOR TOPICS. Santos Dumont's autobiography Is to b published simultaneously in Paris. London and New York this year. The distinguished aeronaut contemplates other and more ambitious flights and he realises the wisdom of telling his story while yet there is time. A Massachusetts man seeks a divorce because his wife habitually grabs the morning paper before he has a chance to look at it. There is one way out of that: let him take an evening paper, and then she won't care whether she sees it or not. A Hoboken man insured his life in favor of his landlady and then committed suicide. No doubt about a verdict of temporary insanity there. If she was a bad landlady, why the insurance? If she was a good landlady, why the suicide? An Englishman recently arrived on American shores has announced his intention of living 400 years. As he has selected Philadelphia as his home no one cau say he hasn't started right. New Jersey will abolish her oyster commission. At this distance it is difficult to say what the commission was for, but from newspaper reports it appears to be merely another official shell game. "The latest remedy for tuberculosis," says a medical Journal, "is known as Flor do St. Cyr.' ". This will be good news to the men who have always held that cigars were wholesome. Having failed to make a respectable exhibition on the Yellow sea. Russia has changed her mind and will exhibit at St. Louis after all. That is the only way she gets any show. Corbett says that singing should form a part of the training of every pugilist. That is a step beyond the talking that has heretofore been popular. The manly art is progressing rapidly. The Episcopal bishop of Pittsburg has put a ban on grand opera during Hly Week. His flock will have to extract what little amusement they cau out of burlesque and vaudeville. Statistics show that Italy makes $.000.000 a year put of foreign visitors. The country will do considerably better than that this year, however. Booth Tarkington is there yet. Fifty-seven newspaper correspondents will accompany the Japanese army by official permission, so we can expect to get all the varieties of news there are. The St. Louis exposition will not borrow the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia. This will attract thousands who had about decided not to go this summer. Grand Duke Boris, who drank champagne out of a chorus girl's slipper in Chicago, is now where he is glad to get a nip of vodka out of a tin can. A St. Louis girl caused a sensation in a public building by kissing the bust of Thomas Jefferson. The bust is said to have come through it nobly. The only reason for Mr. Schwab's return to Monte Carlo appears to be that he wants a loeman worthy of his steel (common). Nothing has been heard of Professor Triggs lately, so It may be taken that he is busy on his book. Of course there will be a book. A Boston paper says that the slush on the pavements is "augle deep." Now, watch the Boston dames Institute libel suits. Even Willie Hearst may be looked upon as in a certain sense an advance agent of prosperity. He carries his barrel with him. Russia has her back up, and is seriously thinking of boycotting American meat. All right, then a bas les caviare sandwiches! Uneasy lies the head that wears the British crown there's a bad cold in it. THE SMOOT CASE. The intent by the organisation of the Mormon helrarchy to form an oath-bound conspiracy which could be used to nullify federal statutes on polygamy is clear. Whether this Intent is actually carried out and whether It includes Mr. Reed Smoot is not yet established. Philadelphia Press. And it is altogether likely that Mr. Smoot will have much difficulty la convincing the committee that he cannot be heid in any way personally responsible for the beliefs, practices and teachings of the church to which he still belongs and of which he is a directing official. Chicago Post. It is fortunate that the Constitution lodges in both houses of Congress plenary power with respect to judging the qualifications of members, and that thereby the federal authority has left in its quiver one kind of arrow which it may discharge against polygamous and otherwise obnoxious Mormonism New York Globe. ft it can be established that allegiance to the Mormon Church is inconsistent with allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, or even that Senator Smoot, like former Representativeelect Roberts, is a polygamlst. the Senate has full authority to serve notice upon the Mormon Church that no such individual will e permitted to hold a seat in that body. Providence Journal. If a Mormon has to obtain the "consent" of the church before he goes to Washington as senator Jo represent the State, will not he .speak and vote In the Senate as the church directs him to? It comes to this, that there are forty -four States represented by senators at Washingtonand the Mormon Church. How can Utah be called the forty-fifth State? New York Evening- Sun. THE HUMORISTS. The Truth of It. "So Jagsby has absconded. Another good man gone wrong." "Nonsense. It's merely a bad man who has been fuund out." Philadelphia Ledger. t limutic Desperation. First It snows and then It thaws. And thvn a rain is biewing. And then the doctor has you and Yau don't tare what it's doir.g. Washington Star. Km miliar Instnnce. "Tommy." asked the teacher, "what do you understand by the wcrd 'create? "To make out of nothing." "Give me an example." "My sister creates a pompadour every morning." Chicago Tribune. Almost Fraternal. "Now." said the shade of Munchausen, "thera goes Washington. Do you know. I have almost a brotherly feeling for that shade?" "But I thought you and he represented entirely different ideals." commented the listener. "So we did; but oe demonstrated that it is possible to become famous without stealing another man's thunder." Judge. All He üa. The Judge And did you see the prisoner commit an ovi rt act? I The iiacs-No sir, I didn't. AU I seen him

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uu w as iu ojsi a coupie o irvni winam smash Patsry Breen over th' head with a bung starter Cleveland Plain-Dealer. iju. "Are you wid us or ain us?" Of Korea asks Japan. "We re Wlju." says Korea. We're Wlju to a man." "That's very filendly of you." Says Japan, with smiling face: "And, since the mattt-r Is settled, "We ll take Wlju for a base." Toronto Star. I p in the Air. There was once a Jap in Chefoo Who knew what other Japs knew; So It happened that when A Cossack dropped In The Jap said: "1 11 hand him a few In order to make 'em beivare." He was as good at bis word, 11 swear; The whole thing was loaded. The Cossack exploded. And simply wont up In th'j air. New rleans Times-Democrat. SCIENCE AND INVENTION. The Transvaal's Great Grnsses. Grasses form the most conspicuous feature of the egetation of the high veld in the Transvaal. There are few trees or shrubs, according to Mr. J. B. Davy, who has recently made a botanical excursion across the Transvaal, but the glasses are tall and thick, recalling the appearance of our Western prairies. In most plaees Mr. Davy found some specie of grass from eight to ten faet in height. Patches of diminutive woodland are occasionally seen, usually in the vicinity of water. A Itadiuni Indnslry. It is reported to the- Department of Commerce and Labor that already an industry has sprung up in France and Germany in the production of radium tor commercial distribution. Many tons of pitcnblende ore are required to furnish a bingle gram of radium, so that the price of such a gram is necessarily high, nearly $2.000. This, however, is a great reduction from the price of JG.tOO per gram, estimated a year or so ago by Professor Curie, the discoverer of radium. The demand for medical use, it Is said, . m -eds the supply. About a thousandth of a gram of radium enclosed In a glass tuba produces better effects than the radiation from an expensive X-ray apparatus. Improvement! iu I'eat-Maklng. Peat has heretofore been made Into coal or coke for fuel by a slow and tedious process based upon air-drying. But the steadily Increasing demand for fuel led, a few years ago, to the invention of retort ovens for drying peat, which ordinarily contains SO jer cent, of water. The ovens ore heated by the burning of tha gases given off by the peat itself. Within a short time a new step has been taken in England through the invention of a combined mechanical and electrical process of drying and carbonizing. The fresh pect is placed in rotating cylinders, where the centrifugal force, aided by an interior beating device, expels nearly all the water. Electrodes connected with a dynamo are then Inserted in the cylinders, and the curr nt caibonizes the materia, which is afterward pressed into briquets. Acouatiea and Heat. At prei-ent the phenomena of physics are, as It were, divided into two camps: acoustics and heat, which are explained from the laws of mechanics; and electricity, with Its subdivision, light, which bas not been satisfactorily thus explained. For half a cenutry we have tried to explain electricity mechanically, and may be raid to have failed; let us now try to explain mechanics electrically, and see where that will lead us. Perhaps it is a mere matter of words, whether we say that all matter Is electrically charged or that all matter is modified electricity. But it may load to the most far-reaching conclusions if, In explaining phenomena, the laws of electricity chould bo taken as the premises from which we start Instead of, as hitherto, the inertia of matter. And, Inasmuch as the more nearly any explanation approaches tho truth, the better does It point the way to fresh knowledge, the fact that so radical a cliange may be about to take place la one of the reasons why there is a feeling of expectancy In the air. It is hoped that light may be thrown upon unveisal gravitation and other obscure problems, and it Is suspected that science is trembling on the verge of something great. Nineteenth Century. Klectrieity DIreet from Coal. In a recent issue of Electricity there appeared an article taken from one of the daily papers describing an invention for generating eiectriciity direct from fuel. The inventor, a resident of Newark, N. J., is elated, as he deems his Invention perfected. This problem of obtaining power direct from coal and doing away with expensive and cumbrous machinery, is one that inentors and scientists the world over have been for years endeavoring, to solve. Whoever accomplishes It successfully and designs an apparatus that is practical will be the means of revolutionising the existing methods of generating motive power. But unless this Newark genius has Onally hit upon the proper combination uf elements the problem is far from solved. Thermopiles have been brought out in the past, for which great things were hoped and which to all appearences accomplished striking results In a small way. When, however, more was required of them than the operation of an electric fan or a doorbell, fatal defects made their appearance. The Internal resistance was too great and the alleys made usa of became oxidized. The Nevark inventor claims that the efficiency of his apparatus, which he calls a dynelectron. Is 45 per cent, as compared to 8Va per cenL when electric current Is generated by means of the steam engine. It is to be hoped that the dynelectron will be able to accomplish what the steam engine and dynamo now does not, but until such Is actually proven to be the case we art inclined to be rather skeptical of tho ability of this new device. Omaha Bee. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. ot in the Oil Business. George A. Castor was sworn in as representative from the Third Pennsylvania district a days ago, to All a vacancy. Shortly after the oath of office was administered one of Mr. Castor's Philadelphia colleagues presented him to a number of members cn the Republican side, and among these was a Western man, who inquired when the name Castor was mentioned: "Are you in the oil business, Mr. Castor?" The new member declared he was not in that business, in a tone that showed he did not relish what was intended as a pleasantry. New York Times. Dlel He Get Off The famous Lidded, who, with Scott, compiled Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, was dean of Christ-church College, Oxford. It was whispered in regard to the Irxicon that Liddell provided the money and S.ott the brains. A young undergraduate was haled before the dean for some misdemeanor. "I hear, Mr. . that you have a pretty wit for impromptu verse," said the dean. If you will write one on the lexicon I will let you off." The young man thought a moment and then said: "Tbere's a lexicon written by Liddell and Scott, Some of it's g 1 and some of it's not. Th? part that is good was written by Scott, Tht part that was written by Liddell is rot." London News. Heavy Font Work. CMfton Bingham, the author of "In Old Mad rid." has written 2.r.00 songs, of which 1,250 have been published and the other half rejected. Mr. Binghem is not hims.if a musician, but he is an excelknt musical critic His ear Is deli cato and sensitive, and nothing annoys him more than to hear bad singing or bad playing. He was visiting. .at month, a cousin of his in London, and this cousin has a son. a boy of twelve or thirteen, who practices on the piano ev ry moraing. The muscular lad. banging false notes frcm the Instrument with tremendous vigor, tried Mr. Bingham not a little. "What on earth are you playing there. Jim my the song filler eaiiea rrom in nxt room one morning. "An exercise from 4Firt Steps in Music,' the boy answered. "I knew you were playing with your feet." said Mr tttnghum. but would you mind stepping a Uttlc lighter on the keys:" Denver Times.

THE DRIFT

Three weeks from to-day the liveliest concessional contest of the year in Indiana will be settled at Peru. With each day the struggle between the Landis and Steele forces grows warmer, and if the rc.-ult cannot be predicted reliably at this time one thing at least is a foregone conclusion the attendance at the convention will be larger and the interest In the fight will be more intense than at any congressional convention the Republicans of this S' have held in years. A large crowd attended the Wabash convention two years ago and Interest was at a fever heat th n but that affair was not a marker to the one on the bill for Peru on March 29. No one anticipated the close ami long-drawn-out struggle at Wabash and the pre-con-ventlon fight was comparatively tame. This year, however, the fight has been on for months and In the curtain-raiser the district chairmanship contest it wes found that the contending forces were so evenly matched that the i.-sue might turn on thfraction of a vote. Consequently, every Republican in the Eleventh district, and many outsiders as well, are keely Interested and would not miss the convention under any circumstances. Hotel accommodations at Peru for the 2Sth and 2th are already at a premium and the crowd will assuredly be a record-breaker. Elam H. Neal, the Eleventh district Republican chairman, who was in the city yesterday, threw up his hands when asked about the congressional situation. "I don't know a thing about It." he declared, "but I understand there Is a con test on. The rumors tu that effect are numerous and reliable." As district chairman Mr. Neal carefully abstains from expressions of opinion as to the contest between Representative Landis and Major Steele, and Says he is endeavoring to conduct himself just as he would if there were no flg'nt on. Naturally his position, is a trying one. for no matt r how carefully he steers for the middle of the road he is certain to be charged with deviation?. Indeed, the contest has become such that it is virtually impossible for anyone to assume and maintain a r.eutral position. One ma in the district who tried this course it was not Mr. Neal, by the waywas "Jumped on" one day recently by a friend of Major Steele and accused of working in the interests of Mr. Landis; within twenty-four hours he was just as vigorously assailed by a Landis adherent and charged with favoring Major Steele. The attitude of Dr. Charles H. Good, of Warren. Huntington county, in the congressional contest is one that is proving a source of concern to friends of both Representative Landis and Major Steel -. There is a well-defined rumor and a general impression that Dr. Good will be a dark horse in the convention. It Is said that the Huntington county delegates to the Peru convention will be first of all Good men, and that the doctor from Warren will be in a position to step In the moment it is apparent that either Landis or Steele cannot be nominated, and by a combination with the routed forces snatch the nomination for himself. It is pointed out that if either Landis or Steele should find himself within a few votes of the nomination und unable to secure the nomination for himself he might throw the prise to Dr. Good and bring about the defeat of his opponent as a salve to his own feelings. Such a situation is entirely ssible and such a result altogether plausible. As a consequence the Landis people are whispering about that Steele has already taken steps to effect an alliance with Good that will bring about Landls's defeat by one or the other, while the Steele adherents are hinting on the other hand that the portentlous coalition has been effected by Landis and Good. Whatever the true Inwardness of the situation may be it Is apparent that Dr. Good is conducting himself for the present with a degree of astuteness that entitles him to consideration as very much of a factor In Eleventh district congressional affairs. The doctor wants to go to Congress and there are indications that he will ultimately attain his ambition. Whether that will come about this yetir, or two. four or six years h- iue is a horse of another color the doctor Is now the dark horse. Put. as a matter of fact, the situation in the Eleventh district is one that admits of endless speculation. The strength of the Landis and Steele forces at Feru and the early developments in the struggle may be such as to bring about the nomination of any one of six or eight men. There is an abundance of congressional timber in the district and at the critical moment Wabash, Miami, Huntington or Blackford county might be able to put forward a man who could muster the necessary sixty-one votes and secure the nomination. The call for the Republican state convention was not issued yesterday because State Chairman Goodrich was ill at his home in Winchester and unable to be here to take the necessary steps. The call may be issued to-day. Will R. Wood, of Lafayette, the holdover senator from Tippecanoe county, was at the English last night, en route home from a trip down into Kentucky. Tippecanoe Republicans held a lively convention Saturday ana one of the Lafayette papers in its account of the affair referred to Senator Wood as one of the central figures who was taking an active hand in the proceedings. But the senator says he knows nothing of the convention beyond what he has learned from the dispatches in the Indianapolis papers. "As I have not been at home for over a, week it is scarcely probable that I was present at the convention," he said. Senator Wood is an enthusiastic supporter of J. Frank Hanly in his gubernatorial race, ami he lost no opportunity lust evening to speak of the strength Mr. Hanly is showing in the southern part of the State. "Mr. Uaiily'g candidacy is being well received down there," he said, "and he will have a good share of the delegates from that part of the State." In speaking of polities in Kentucky Senator Wood said he had heard little but the Democratiq end of the game while in that State. The Democrats there are stirred up over the presidential yuestion. and the senator says there is good foundation for the reports that Hearst stands more than an even chance of securing the Kentucky delegation to the 8t. Louis convention. "HearBt seems to have been making great headway," said the senator. "and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he got every delegat from Kentucky. "By the way." he continued, "the Tav-lor-Goebel affair is still a live issue in Kentucky, of course, but I was impressed by the fact that all Kentucky Democrats are not crying for Taylor's blood. I talked with at least a dozen conservative, fair-mimle-d Democrats who said that Governor Mount and Govern i- Durbin had done exactly right la refusing to permit the extradition of Taylor. They concede that such a thine as a fair trial for Taylor, or any of the other men charged with complicity in tnassassination of Goebel, would be an utter impossibility in Kentuckv now or in the near futnure, and that the trial of any of POLISH PEOPLE IX SYMPATHY WITH JAPAN Adopt Resolutions Praying that Brave Efforts of Japanese May Be Successful. CHICAGO. March 7.-The first official expression of the Polish people of America on the attitude of the Polish nation throughout the world in the Russo-Japanese conflict was made to-day In an address issued by officials of the large Polish organizations and the editors of the various Polish newspapers of Chicago. The organizations which stand sponsors for the resolutions embody the largest portion of all the polish organizations in the l uited States. The resolutions express "Hearty sympathy and admiration for the great and knightly Japanese uatlon." and continued: "We hereby express "our sincere and hearty wishes snd prayers that the br.i. efforts of the Japan- nation may at the earliest possible time be crowned with complete and lasting victory and success." The resolutions are signed by the nation il officers of the following organizations: The Polish Roman Catholic Federation of America, the Polish Natioual Alliance, aud the polish Rurr-un Catholic Union.

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these men. to be followed Inevitably br conviction, would be a travesty on justice." -f John B. Stoll. of South Bend, says of tha use of his name ss a prospective candidate for the Dem cratic gubernatorial nomination: Years ago the recipient of tnfcl highly appreciated compliment stated that while actively engaged In newspaper work a Candida v for public offl e would with him b out of the question. Thia resolution la to bo unalterably adhered to. Instead of aeoking additional burdens the unloading of sonv of those being borne is now uppermost In his mind. To be a candidate is therefore imperatively forbidden." R. Harry Miller, of Fairmount. former president of the Indiana Lincoln League, received his reward for active party aervices Saturdaj when the P. pubii. an o.;-,tr committee of Grant county placed, him on Um county ticket as the candidate for recorder. The Grant county nominations were made this year before the new law extending the terms of certain county and Judicial offices whs attacked and as candidates for recorder and prosecutor were not named It 1 voiced on the county committee to tVI the ticket in pursuance of th i "mmendations of the state committee. Mr. Miller had six oppon nts for the nomination for recorder and it required seven ballots to nominate. Senator Albert J. Beveridge. who has been in the city since Saturday looking sfter pome personal affairs, will leave to-day lor Washington. State Senator T. Edwin Bell, of Hammond, was a caller st Republican state headquarters. O. P. Lewis of Covington, whe represented Fountain county In the lower branch nf the General Assembly last year, waa at tho Enliirh yest.nlay. Mr. Lewis has been figuring on becoming n candidate for tha Republb ;in nomination for Joint senator from the district composed of Fountain. irren and Vermilion counties under the new apportionment, but the defeat of the apportionment act will necessitate a change in his plans. The newly appointed Democratic county executive committee held a meeting last night at the temporary headquarters In the Thorpe block and discussed party matters for two hours. Every member of the committee but one was present a rour of no little satisfaction to Chairman Charles B. Clarke. The committee decided to k ep headquarters open from now on with Secretary Petti John in charge, and entertained favorably a proposition to establish th. permanent headquarters on the second door of the Grand Opera House block. The question of a date for the cainty convention was discussed at length and whlla ne "definite action was taken Is wss agree! that the convention should be held within a week or ten days after the Republican convention, the date for which has not v.-t U.i announced. It was ajpp th "uo of the committee that the nominations should be made by delegaVe convention, instesd of by direct primary. Repulican County Chairman Harry B. Smith said last evening that it would be some little time before he would be ablo to announce his executive committee. "I must get these townt-hlp primaries off my hands before I can give my attention Ua anything else." he said. "I shall, however, make up the committee and announce it as soon as I can take the matter up." A. M. Sweeney is one of the prominent Indiana Democrats who has had enough of Grover Cleveland and who sees nothing in the current Cleveland talk but trouble for his party. "The nomination of Cleveland would bo party suicide," he said last evening at th.i Grand. "It is not a question of Cleveland's ability, hut one of hhj availability. His nomination would arouse such antagonisms and crtaie such defections that, in my opinion, there could be no hone of hi l. etion. and certainly no hope of carrying Indiana. "Judae Parker, of New York, is my choice, and I believe he will be the nomlneo of the St. Louis convention. We hear a good deal of talk to th effect that no ono knows any thing about Parker or where ho stands on any public question, but I am frank enough to admit that I regard that as an element of his strength. When James K. Polk was nominated for the presidency the opposition Immediately raised the cry of 'Who in the h Pi Polk?' and that question was shouted all through the campaign, but Polk was elected, and the people had abundant opportunity to learn who he was." Capt. D. F. Allen, of Frankfort, was at the Grand yesterday. The Lafayette Journal puts an end to tho story that J. Frank Hanly is to bo reckoned with as a factor in the senatorial situation in event he should be nominated and elected Governor. It says: "The Morning Journal is expressly authorized to say that In event of Mr. Hanly a nomination and election to he governorship he will under no circumstances be a candidate for the United States Senate. If he becomes Governor he will serve out his term In that office and will stand in no man s way for the high honor of United States senator." The battle royal between Representative Zonor and Judge W. E. Cos for the Democratic congressional nomination in the Third district goes merrily on. with both sides claiming everything in sight. Delsgates were selected in Seott county Saturday and both the Zenor and Cox pclaim to have won out. Zenor says he will get all six uf the delegates. District Chairman ThomsJe Hanlon says Cox wrtll have at least 3V of the 8cott county votes. As the dispute must finally be settled by the credentials committee in the convention, which Cox will control. It Is probable that Cog will get at least all he claims. On the district line-up at present Zenor claims tho following strength, which puts him within three and one-half votes of the nomination: Floyd. nineteen; Harrison. fourteen; Washington, thirteen; Scott, six. ant Orange, three and one-half; total, fifty-five and oi.e-h.tlf. The Clark county primary will be held next Friday and the Zenor people claim they will win easily and that the twenty votes of Clark will nominate Zenor with sixteen votes to spare. Qo claims sixteen votes In Dubois and five and one-he If In Orange, which are not disputed: five in Washington, six in Harrison and three and one-half in Scott, whrch are not conceded by the nontes, making a total f thirty-six. dark. Crawford and Perry counties have not held their primaries, and to win Cox must carry Cbirk a id Cl aw feed or Cirrk and Perry, conceding the disputed votes to him. Crawford has nine delegsts VOteS and Perry eleven votes. Zenor claims he will capture delegate votes In each of these counties, besides the twenty votes of Clark county. BRITISH NAVY SIGNAL BOOK IS MISSING , Disappeared from the Prince George, of the Channel Fleet Arrests Follow. NKW YORK. March 7. It is reported that one of the most important signal books carried by the British navy has been discovered to be missing from the Prince Oeorge, one of the ships of the chsnnel fleet, says a London dispatch to the World. One lieutenant, one warrant officer and two seamen have been placed under arrest. With the exception of the secret war code the lost book is the most lmTMrtant supplied to the navy. This is the third disappearance of an Important naval document in the past few years. Major riiumliui' Sentence. WASHINGTON. March T.-Major Walur A. Thurston. Twenty-ninth Infantry, whe was tried before a court-martial at Camp Jossman. Guimaras, P. I., for drunkenness on duty, was sentenced to be conSned to the limits of hu post where his regimes may b i , for five; mouths and to foTfeit half of his pay for the same period.

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