Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1904 — Page 4

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Japan has a boodle scandal in the DieLThis Is her last step toward qualifying as a completely modern and Jiighly civilized nation. The city of Moscow is now saving war money by cutting down school expenses which is about the poorest economy imaginable in the long run. Senator Carmack. of Tennessee, says: "If Hearst is nominated all is lost, including honor." If he is not the party may save its honor as a consolation. The murderer of an American missionary la reported to be hiding on Mount Ararat. This is the second time that place has been used as a refuge in time of danger. m WaHSaSBBBMSMSBSB1SBSHHSaBHA - The Cunard liners are to be equipped with turbines. That is as Important a step forward from screw propellers as, was the change to the latter from side-wheels. General Kuropatkin's first report to the Czar told of a Japanese victory. The general is evidently conservative enough not to wish to start in by breaking a long established precedent. . f ,' If the Shantung rioters are not very carej . ful they will learn Just what Secretary Hay " meant by "administrative entity" and how far It goes. Germany will bite oft a large piece of Chinese territory for every mls- . fionary harmed. The existing treaty with China expires in ., December and a pew one will be negoti- ; : kted at that time. It may be that more liberal provisions will be made for the admission of the Chinese. But there will be no politics in it; the election will be over. - Thirty-four hits out of a possible thirtyfive at a distance of one mile is the record established by the gunners of the Kear- . sarge. Whenever auch a record I made the - possibility of war becomes smaller. No nation cares to furnish the targets for such ' marksmanship. New York physicians have discovered a microbe which burrows into the palm of the hand, producing Intense irritation. The itching palm has been noticed for many years and is not confined to New York; but It Is a relief to find Its cause. An antidote will be a distinct gafn to morality. The Deweys are now up in the Federal Court to answer a charge of fencing government land in Kansas. They were acquitted of the charge of murdering three theepmen and other little Irregularities of a similar nature, but they must not expect to commit such outrages as this and go scot free. . The city authorities will have 1200.000 '.from the bond Issue to expend in repairs I wade necessary by the recent flood and will probably use it ell. The estimates prepared by the city engineer aggregate I15S.90S and the work is more likely to exceed the estimates than to fall below. The sum is a large one to expend at one time, and it should be handled with care. The estimates include rebuilding or repairing more than a - dozen bridges besides other important work. Come of the bridges will lie small, but the same care should be used to see that they jare the best of their kind as in larger ones. Public sentiment is strongly In favor of permanent municipal improvements and the present is a good time to establish a high . standard. There should be no shoddy work , anywhere. Yesterday's dispatches contained an account of what General Kuropatkln in his official report called "an Important engagement," and which some papers styled "the first great land battle of the war." A headline In a St. Louis paper had It. "Japan wins Cnt Infantry battle of the war." The ln- ... fantry battle was fought by mounted men. Besides culling It "an important engagement" General Kuropatkln reports that:

"The Russians occupied a commanding position;" "the Russians were defeated, retiring in perfect order;" "the Japanese fought gallantly, but owing to their heavy looses were unable to occupy the position abandoned by the Russians." The facts about this important engagement are that six companies of Cossacks attacked four squadrons of Japanese cavalry near the town of Chong-Ju and had the best of the fighting until the Japanese were reinforced by three squadrons of cavalry. This turned the tables, when the Russian general retired, "doing so without embarrassment." The account shows there could not have been more than 1.2u0 to 1,505 men engaged on both sides, perhaps not so many. Our civil war veterans will smile at the idea of calling that a battle.

E.V. 3IILKS FORESEES DIME TIIIXGS. While he was commander of the army General Miles gave more than one evidence that a soldier with a good fightiug record might mar it by a disposition to meddle in matters that did not belong to him, amounting almost to a spirit of insubordination. Since his retirement he evinces a desire to keep himself before the public by posing as a paragon of good citizenship and watch dog of, American liberty. His recent letter to the national Prohibition committee assumed a tone of fatherly advice and political wisdom quite disproportionate to his experience in such matters, and his more recent letter to a Democratic club in Michigan indicates that he is deeply concerned over what he regards as the decline of patriotism among the American people and. their indifference to the dangers which he more than intimates threaten the Republic. General Miles had been invited to speak on the subject of patriotism, and his letter gave him an opportunity to say that "It is especially fitting to give the subject serious consideration at this time, when we are menaced by serious evils when we are approaching an important crisis in our political history, and the weal or woe of this Republic will depend upon the intelligence and patriotism of the sovereign voters." Continuing in this solemnly pessimistic vein he says: "The perpetuity of our democratic government depends not upon the presence of great armies, the will of a despot or the dictation of any ruler, but entirely upon the patriotism of our citizens." This profound platitude has been embodied In mapy a school essay, but General Miles tries to make it fit an actual situation. "Patriotism cannot reign within a selfish heart or depraved soul," he adds with an apparent implication that the people with se'.fish hearts and depraved souls are running things. Finally he concludes: The opportunity and responsibility of the Democratic citizens of Michigan and of the whole Union are now greater than they have been at any former period of our history. There are many vexed questions and problems in which there may be an honest difference of opinion but there is cne transcendent principle, far above all other questions, whether of economics or individuals, and that is whether the spirit of the Declaration or independence and of our Constitution shall prevail or perish. The change from oppression to liberty is wrought by violence, but the change from democracy to despotism is quiet, insidious, subtle and fatal. From this we gather that It is the Re publicans of selfish hearts and depraved souls who are driving the country to de struction, and that the Democratic citizens of Michigan and of the w hole Union are the ones who are to save it. The closing sen tence. Indicates the method by which the party in power is trying to change the gov ernment from democracy to despotism. It is by quiet. Insidious and subtle methods. Forewarned is forearmed, and the Demo crats of Michigan and the rest . of the Union can now measure the work that is before them. The spirit of this letter is contemptible. It seems to Imply that when General Miles retired from the army he took with him all the patriotism it contained and that he still has a corner on the genuine article. There Is one phase of the subject, however. that does not seem to have occurred to him, namely, that It Is a very poor sort of patriotism that leads a retired officer of the army to inform the world that a large part of his countrymen are devoid of patriotism and that the government Is In danger of being converted from a republic into a despotism. THE BRYAX-BEWETT WILL CASE. Whatever may be the outcome of the Bennett will case, now on trial at New Haven, Conn., its continued exploitation puts William J. Bryan In a bad light before the public. The case might not Inappropriately be entitled "William J. Bryan vs. the widow and children of Philo S. Rennett. deceased." In realltv this la what it is, for Mr. Bryan is trying to have established a will which would give him a bequest of $30,000 at the expense of the widow and children of the decedent. To a further understanding of the case it must be remembered that Mr. Bennett, the testator. was1 only an ordinary acquaintance of Mr. Bryan's, thatthc will was drawn by Bryan himself in his own house and witnessed by his wife, and that the bequest to him was made In a sealed letter which was not to be opened until after the testator's death, when it was to be made a part of the will. Although the circumstances under which the will was made are suggestive of undue Influence, the case is likely to turn on whether the sealed letter shall be admitted to probate as part of the will or not. The Probate Court admitted the will to probate, but declined to admit the letter, on the ground that it was not attested by three witnesses, as the law of Connecticut requires. From this decision Mr. Bryan appealed to the Superior Court, and that is the point now before the higher court. The case began on Tuesday and was continued yesterday. . A dispatch in yesterday's Journal said: "Former Judge Stoddard, who appears as senior counsel for Mrs. Bennett and the other heirs, fought every Inch of the ground over which the appellants moved In their efforts to Introduce evidence, and at times he directed bitter invectives and sarcasm against the opposing side." The extraordinary circumstances of the case furnish a good opportunity for the use of such weapons. The dispatch paid: In the cross-examination Judge Stoddard. of counsel for . heirs, asked Mr. Bryan: "You desired to present the 'sealed letter to be probated?" "I did present It." "Answer my question." "I was indifferent about the matter. wholly." "Didn't you want me to go to New York to get the letter with you? "Yen." "And you couldn't get it without mcT "No." The witness waa then excused. Mr. Bryan Is a hard man to corner in a discussion, and perhaps was never known

before to give a direct answer to a question he wished to dodge. In this caso he was compelled to. This statement that he was "wholly indifferent" about presenting the sealed letter was shown by counsel for the heirs to be untrue, as he had requested counsel to accompany him to New York to get the letter. From this distance it looks very much as If the decision of the Probate Court would be sustained by the Superior Court. As the statute of Connecticut requires a will or codicil to be signed by three witnesses in the . presence of the testator, it is difficult to see how a sealed letter, signed by the testator contemporaneously with the will, can be admitted to rebate as a part of the will without being attested by three witnesses. If Mr. Bryan does not get his bequest he will stand in the position of a lawyer who, by disreputable practice, tried to bag $30,000 out of an estate on which he had no claim. If he

does get it he will have paid dearly for it by the exposure of his methods. THREATENED INJUSTICE. A local item in yesterday's Journal de scribed a case in which there seems a possibility Uiat grave injustice may be done. The case arises under a law passed in 1SS3, which says: "Aliens not residing In the State may take and hold lands by devise at any time within five years thereafter and no longer, and all land so left and remain ing unconveyed at the end of five years shall escheat to the State." Several years ago one John Lehman died possessed of real estate in this city, which, as he left no will, passed to his legal heirs living in Switzerland. For some years past the property has been managed in their interest and they have received the rents. Now, the statutory five years during which a nonresident alien may hold real estate In Indiana having expired, proceedings were instituted in a local court and a receiver was appointed for the property with a view of having it declared escheated to the State. The proceeding savors too much of snap judgment to be equitable. Whatever may have been the object of the act of 1SS3 it could hardly have been intended to enable the State, without warning or notice, to dispossess nonresident aliens of property honestly acquired. The taxes on this prop erty must have been paid regularly or It would have been reported delinquent and sold. It is safe to assume that its owner or owners in Switzerland have never been informed of the State law referred to. If they had been they could have converted the property into cash before the expiration of the time limit. The State should not put itself in the position of confiscating the property of foreigners simply because they are foreigners. Some friend of the court or some friend of Justice should intervene to prevent the confiscation of this property without due notice to the heirs and an opportunity afforded to protect their in terests. w MINOR TOPICS. The editor of the World's Work, in com menting on a complaint of Mr. William Watson, the English poet, who, writing lu the Fortnightly Review, said that the English were lacking in appreciation of literature and especially poetry, thus con troverts the charge that poets are neglect- I ed In the United States by this generation: It would, in fact, be hard to prove that tho poets are less read In the United States than they were a generation ago. Certainly more volumes of poetry are sold; but per haps some of them are bought as furniture. It must be remembered that men do not parade a knowledge of poetry as they did nity years ago; it is, m a sense, now taken for granted In polite society. And the demands of cultivated society are surely more exacting than they used to be. It is inconceivable that an N. P. Willis could now become a. fashion. The most popular living poet In the United States Is perhaps Mr. James Whitcomb Riley. To what ex tent his popularity Is due to the sheer homely quality of many of his subjects, and to what extent to his poetic gifts it would be hard to say; but whatever the reason. vast multitudes of persons read his writ ings with much pleasure. Mr. Watson himself, pole-wide from Mr. Riley, has a" very considerable audience among us, in spite of the melancholy tone of his poems. The lawns around tne monument are green once more, but the greenness reveals the fact that, for the first time since the monument was finished, paths have been worn across the grass. A little more watchfulness on the part of the custodian during the winter would have prevented this. Pedestrians have never been allowed to "cut across before, but thi3 winter all barriers seem to have been removed. The otherwise beautiful appearance of the lawns is sadly marred; more care should be exercised in the future. The former husband of Mme. Nordica wrote to her for tickets to her last con cert, and she kindly sent them by return mall. What a beautiful thing it is for a recently divorced couple to dwell on such terms of amity even of warm friendship! Too often docs a divorce result in a certain coldness which must be unpleasant. At a bankrupt undertaker's sale In De catur, Ala., one man bought enough coffins to accommodate his entire family, which is a large one. With the natural perver sity of the human animal, they will prob ably all remain healthy for many years. thus defeating all the poor man's plans for economy. The Kaiser told the captain of his steam er that many rich Americans would in the future be glad to pay large sums to occupy the cabins once used by his Majesty. That sounds egotistical and Wilhelmesque; but tis true, 'tis pity; and pity 'tis, 'tis true. Dr. Parkhurst Is preaching a series of sermons on the mistakes of Moses. New York must be terribly quiet now to force the parson to fall back on the Old Testament for subjects for vituperation. A toy pistol factory in Chicago has been wrecked by au explosion. No lives were lost; on the contrary, it Is probable that several hundred lives will be saved as a result of the accldeuL Sincp they have been "expurglng," why does not some enterprising publisher get out an unexpurgatcd edition of the Con gressional Record? There should be money pn It. On their way to the exposition, the Fili pinos threw their clothes out of the car windows. The St. Louis gang will find poor pickings with that crowd now. Sir rhilip Burne-Jones says that he can not see why such a place as Chicago should exist. Sir rhilip evidently overlooked the customary visit to the stockyards. The Czar said that he should feel relieved when Kuropatkln took command. He is also understood to have Intimated that Alcxleff, too, would be "relieved." A Philadelphia surgeon has discovered a process of nerve grafting. If reports from the Quaker City are true, he ought to do a big business right at home. The Sultan of Sum has accepted the abrogation of the Bates treaty. This Is

very kind of the Sultan, but nobody was losing any sleep over whether he would or wouldn't.

It has been discovered that the "blues" are only a form of splanckinic neurasthenia, due to Intra-abdominal venous congestion. Cheer up it may not be true! . THE HUMORISTS. The Thrifty l'nlron. "I'd like to exchange this book." paid th4 man who had made the purchase two days be fore. "Why?" asked the bookseller. "Because I've finished reading iL" Chicago TosL Great Call. Stubb Now, that's what I call gall. The idea of that doctor making calls in an automobile. Penn Gall? Why, I think it la very enter prising for a doctor to use an automobile. Stubb But he'a a horse doctor. Chicago News. Cellar and Cellalnr. Now, Mr. Ramble," said the professor, "you may tell us the difference between the cellar and the cellular forms of life." Mr. Ramble thought for a moment. "One lives In a house," he ventured, "and the other lives in a flat." Judge. ClltltiotlN. "We would like to name a cigar after you," said the manufacturer to the prominent citizen. 'Have you any objection?" "Well, I would like to smoke one of the cigars first," was the reply. "I wouldn't care to be Identified with any confidence game." Wash ington Post. Fate if Genius. In his dingy attic Edgar A. Toe sat, looking over the proofs of one of h!s "Tales of Mys tery" and marking a few changes and correc tions. These will soon be forgotten," he said. "Nevertheless." he added, his lip curling with scorn, "fifty or sixty years from now everybody will be reading a lot of clumsy imitations known as the Sherlock Holmes stories and hailing them as something new and original in the way of de tective yarns!" Hastily brushing his suit o faded black he went out to see if he couldn't borrow a quarter from somebody. Chicago Trib une. A Wnr Ballad. Take, oh. take away the map. Let me hear familiar names; Speak not of the foreign chap Who new martial glory claims. Tomsk and Omsk and Irkutsk, too. What care I what there may hap? When these Orient troubles brew. Take, oh. take away the map. Tell me not of the Yalu; Sounds familiar let me hear. Like "Oshkosh" or "Kalamazoo," Which fall sweetly on the ear. Hence with those barbaric nouns; Do not rouse me from my nap. Let me hear of homelike towns: Take, oh, take away the map. Washington Star. President' Ilaslifnl Aelvlsers. A bevy of pretty girls sat in the "Little White House" office anteroom just before the laßt meeting of tha Cabinet and watched the President's ministers 111 in. The girls were chaperoned by one of the newspaper correspondents who is as signed to the War. State and Navy building. and, as he is on especially good terms with several of the Cabinet members, he expected that they would bow and speak to him aa they passed in, but they did not. All passed him by with cold, set expressions on their faces, and when they had disappeared the young man realized keenly that he had been snubbed. "Oh. I thought you were acquainted with all the Cabinet," remarked one of the women, with a scornful look. and the guide was totally crushed. The next Jay he happened to be in Secretary Moody's of flce and tol(1 the head of the Navy Department I how his coldness had brought humiliation upon him. "I think you might have given me at least just a little nod," said the newspaper man, re proachfully. "Well. I owe you an apology," said Secretary Moody, "but the truth of the matter Is that when I go into the White House on Cabinet days I feel very much embarrassed, especially when there is a crowd of young women there. I guess all the Cabinet feel the same way. That feeling causes us either to keep our eyes on the floor or straight ahead, and plants a haughty expression on our faces. But we don't feel that way at all." New York Tribune, Stone and Hrynn. The Hon. William J. Stone. ex-Governor of I Missouri and United States senator, and Colonel Phelps, after a long politic il friendship, quarreled once, and Stone called Phelps a lobbyist. "Oh," said Fhelps, "we both suck eggs. Stone and I, but Stone, he hides the shells." But I do not believe that Stone handles bribes. He Is that other type, the orator of the people whose stock in trade Is his Influence; "an embezzler of power" Folk called him once. This anti-trust orator was hired by the trust to bring action under the trust's "or alum" law against his fe'low-cltizf ns and thus install the foreign trust In the field of a general local industry. 'Ah, but he acted as a lawyer." Io you know who said that? None other than William J. Bryan. arch-Democrat, arch-friend of the people, arch-foe of the trust, and that does excuse this political treason in law and In bus lness. Lincoln Steffens, in April McClure'a. Graft In Not Partisan. There Is nothing partisan about graft. Only the people are loyal to party. The "hated" trusts. all big grafters, go with the majority. In Demo cratic Missouri, the Democracy Is the party of "capital." The Democratic political leaders, cry ing down the trusts, corner the voters like wheat, form a political trust, and sell out the sover eignty of the people to the corporation lobby. And the lobby runs the State, not only in the interest of its principals, but against the Interest of the people. Once, when an election bill was up the bill to turn over the cities to the Democrats citizens of Kansas City, Democrats among them, had to hire a lobbyist to fight It. and when this lobbyist found that the interest of his corporations required the passage of the bill, he sent back his fee with an explanation. And this story was told me as an example of the honesty of that lobbyist! Lincoln Steffens, In April McClure's. General Pensions. The pension ruling that gives all old soldiers pensions may cost the government some more money, and probably will; but there will be recompenses. The howl about republics being ungrateful will be no more heard in the land, and pension agents will have to hunt other but not such good Jobs. And the pension examiners will not be required to do any more examining, because when an old soldier Is sixty-two his pension will be so much; and when he Is older than that it will be so much more; and pension etamlrers will not be neded to determine how old the old soldiers are. They can tell that themselves. Milwaukee Free Iress. Determined to He Pleased. A sign of persistent satisfaction on the Russian side is presented in the fact that, whereas. Ad miral Makaroff's assumption of command at Port Arthur was accompanied by sanguine predictions of his going out and wiping up the Yellow sea with Togo, he is now commended for taking the opposite course and keeping his ships in safety. Certainly the determination to be satisfied either way is one wnlch the Russians may profitably cultivate or any other nation, for that matter. Pittsburg Dispatch. Luck Wuh with Them. At Denver. Col., twenty Haptlst ministers and some of their parishioners, failing to get carpenters to work on a new school building, took off their coats and worked at It themselves. It is lucky the labor union did not come down on them for working without a label. Washington Times. Flrat Irmicladn. It Is an Interesting coincidence that the first of modern ironclads was used by the French in the Crimean war, just some fifty years ago, John Stevens U usually claimed as the originator of the idea of ironclad vessels In 1SI2. but

the first ship of the kind actually laid down was the Stevens battery, designed by his son for the United States government in 1S12. One authority, however, claims for ironclads an antiquity of centuries. The story roe that a certain Vlkin of 1.500 years ago had a great war ship made, which he called Iron Rem. and all of this ship which stood out of the water was of iron. Coming from fiction, or, rather legend, to something like fact, many historians on this subject say that the Dutch at Antwerp. In 15ST. when that city was besieged by the Spaniards, built an enormous fiat-bottomed vessel, armored it with heavy iron plates, and thus constructed what they regarded as an Impregnable battery, so that they named their contrivance Finis Belli. Unfortunately this vessel got aground before fairly in action and fell Into Ihe hands of the enemy. It waa never employed by either side again in any subsequent encounter. Liverpool Tost. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.

Dr. Hale' Pictnre am n Tester. An Oregon newspaper man in Washington is telling a good story about Dr. Hale. He says he was once traveling in the back country of Oegon. and. going to a little inn for lodging, was surprised to see a large picture of Dr. Hale on the wall. The woman of the house explained it thus: "Well, you see, a good many strangers come here and want me to keep 'em. and I don't know anything about 'em. but if they know Ed ward Everett Hale's picture I know they re good for something, and I let 'em stay." Bos ton Advertiser. Mr. Smoot'R Kind of 1-KK. Reed Smoot. the Mormon senator, has a friend who is a vegetarian and who lectures Smoot for his meat-eating habits on all occasions. He met Smoot the other day and began: "You should not eat meat. Indeed, I go further and say you should not eat eggs." "Pshaw!" said Smoot, "you are getting fool ish. What's the harm in eating eggs?" "Why. man," exclaimed the vegetarian, "eggs hatch into meat and, therefore, are meat!" "Not the kind of eggs I eat." asserted Smoot. "Why not?" asked the vegetarian. "Because." said Smoot. as he moved away, "I eat them cooked." Pittsburg Dispatch. The Counter Charge. Daniel J. Sully, on the day of his admission to the Chicago Board of Trade, lunched at the Chicago Club. During luncheon he illustrated aptly the value of the counter charge In argu ment. "There was a man." he said, "who should have been at home one night for dinner, but he did not arrive till 3 o'clock In the morning. "He entered the house quietly, and he ascended the stairs on tiptoe. His watchful wife, however, heard him, and in a severe tone she called: " 'Henry, is that you?' "He replied, with a note of surprise and reproach in his voice: " 'Why, m my d dear, who elshe did you expect? "New York Tribune. Told hy Lord Brougham. A man who recently complained to a New York editor that he was incorrectly quoted by a reporter was told the following story, which Lord Brougham told the House of Lords fifty years ago: "A friend of mine was represented in a newspaper as having said at a public meeting in the city that he would not go In procession to that 'd cold church, meaning some particular church in the city of London. He felt much annoyed at the circumstance and wrote a letter to the editor, in which he stated that his actual words were that he could not go to that 'damp, cold church.' But the editor declared that he believed his reporter and stood by the profane version." Lord Brougham's moral was that It was foolish to quarrel with a newspaper. "A good moral," said the New York editor. New York Globe. Train Knew the Difference. George Francis Train was no respecter of persons. Once he was to give a lecture for the benefit of a Sunday school. A hall had been engaged and decorated for the occasion, and the floor of the platform was covered with a. handsome rug furnished by one of the city- shops. The lecturer, who was a little late, walked down the aisle and stepped over the footlights to the platform, where a number of the Sunday-school children, dressed in their Sunday clothes, were waiting to receive him. "First let us eat," he said. Then throwing off his overcoat and ordering the janitor to bring on a number of hampers he had had sent on ahead, he showered the astonished children with peanuts and grapes. An undignified scramble followed. The rug sustained Irreparable Injuries. The committee later had to pay the bill of $00. To have an orderly assemblage of children turned into rioting hoodlums was bad enough, but the fruit stains proved to be the last straw. The Sunday-school superintendent remonstrated without avail. The minister, reduced to an unministerial state of wrath, demanded finally: "Mr. Train, do you know the difference between a crank and a fool?" Tlte lecturer drew himself up with dignity: "Sir," he said, "I am George Francis Train, the crank, but I did not catch your name." New York Times. Ware's Unpleasant Job. Tension Commissioner Ware is paying the usual penalty of his position. The place Is, perhaps, one of the most undesirable and unpleasant in the government service. No matter what action the commissioner takes, he Is sure to excite criticism In some circles. Mr. Ware has been enduring the ordeal of his dfnee with considerable philosophy, but now has run away for a few days' vacation to forget, if he can, the daily annoyances. Before he left he said he expected to see the usual dally announcement of his resignation. He had scarcely taken hii place at the head of the bureau before the resignation rumors began. In reply to a friend who commiserated with him on his lot the other day Mr. Ware dropped into poetry to explain why he excepted the situation in a philosophical mood. It Is in his "Ironquill" vein and reads: "The President put me here. It's Improper to repine. It's disloyal for me to die. Insubordinate to resign." Washington Letter. Make Your Choice. Mr. Hearst may be a very undesirable presidential possibility, but his prospects compel one of two things to be conceded either that the Democratic voter is a very easily purchased article or that Mr. Hearst has abilities as a camIaigner which are far above the ordinary Either & "bar'l" is a very itotent qualification in Democratic eyes or the young editor is showing the older politicians of his party tricks with which they are not familiar. Minneapolis Journal. Will of C. M. Strnder. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. Much prominence is given in the Journal this morning about the will of "Col." C. M. Strader, stating that he was a retired army officer and a graduate of West Toint. ills name is not to be found In the army register nor In the list cf West Point graduates. Any connection he may have had with the army was probably as a clerk In one of the departments. JOHN P. HAWKINS. Indianapolis. March 23. United States Army. nooevcIt' Hard Ilenrt. The idea that the ear of President Roosevelt Is open to every distress Is subject to modification and excretions. For example, he remained most offensively idle when an Emporia woman wrote to him demanding the removal of the mayor because tho mayor had refused to buy her a bill of groceries. Kansas City Journal. Qnlte Unfair. George Fred Williams has declared for Hearst. It seems like an unfair advantage to take of a boom that in other respects was doing quite well. Washington Post. Correction. The report that the oldest man In the United States Is dead Is not true. We are Informed that the oldest man In the United States is alive. Punch. When ta Man's Snfc. A man feels much safer with a wife and five children than with a wife and none. New York I'ress.

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The conservative wing, the Parkerites, or the reorganizers. or whatever they should be termed, made their first open move in their campaign against Hearst when the Democratic state committee, which they control absolutely, decided that there should be two Democratic state conventions this year in Indiana and that the state ticket should not be selected until after the national convention at St. Loul?. Chairman O'Brien, Mr. Taggart :nd their friends declare in this that Hearst shall be" the one and only Issue in the -fight and that there shall be no deals wlureby Hearst might trade his support to candidates for state offices in return for their support for his slate of delegates to the national convention. Furthermore, they did not make the mistake of calling a snap convention, which, while it might have aided them materially, would unquestionably have given the Hearst people a strong argument to use in thlr campaign. The managers of Hearst's campaign have set up the claim that the reorganizers were afraid of Hearst. The Indiana reorganizers have shown that they are not afraid of the cheek and checkbook candidate, and that, on the contrary, they believe that if they give Hearst plenty of time he will put himtlf out of the running. They proceed on the theory that Hearst will hang himself, If given enough rope. The reorganizers concede that Hearst will develop some strength in Indiana and that he will have delegates in the state convention. They admit at least some of them do that he may capture three or four delegates to the national convention, but they rely on the unit rule to euchre Hearst out of any votes from this State next July at St. Iiouis. The more optimistic of the reorganizers say that Hearst will never bo able to command sufficient followers In any one district to capture the delegates from th district to the national convention. They say that Hearst may get two or three counties in several of the districts, but that the districts will all have substantial majorities against him when the caucuses are held on the eve of the state convention. Mr. Taggart, in his usual adroit manner. will not admit that the state organization is being used against Hearst, or that he and his friends are working in the interests of Judge Parker. "The state committee simply wants to see that the delegates to St. Louis will represent the sentiment of a majority of the Democrats of Indiana," said Mr. Taggart last evening. "If we had wanted to euchre Mr. Hearst the convention would have been called for the middle of April instead of the middle of May. Instead Mr. Hearst's friends will have plenty of time to do all they can do In Indiana in the interest of their candidate." The members of the Democratic state committee here for the meeting yesterday were: Second district, Gilbert H. Hendreu; Third, Thomas Hanlon; Fourth, George Pleasants; Fifth, J. G. McNutt; Sixth, J. D. Megee; Eighth, J. A. M. Adair; Ninth. A. B. Livengood; Tenth. J. B. Faulkner: Eleventh, J. Fred France; Twelfth, A. A. Adams; Thirteenth, James Fletcher. E. P. Richardson, of the First district, sent word that he was flood-bound and could not reach the eit3 J. T. Fanning, of the Seventh, is out of the city, but he was represented by County Chairman Charles B. Clarke. In the afternoon the members of the committee and well-known Democrats from all parts of the State held an informal love-feast at the Grand. There were between sixty and seventy present, and it was somewhat significant that there was not a Hearst advocate in the crowd. Parker and McClellau men made up the gathering, and there was little or no rivalry between the followers of either of the New Yorkers who are considered as presidential possibilities, so that the meeting was as much of a love-feast as any gathering of that number of Indiana Democrats could be. The supporters of Parker say they can easilv become reconciled to the nomination of McCIellan, and vice versa. The recent announcement of Senator Gorman that he favors the nomination of Parker has placed practically all the Gorman Democrats In Indiana in the Parker camp. Prominent among those at the love-feast were Ben F. Shively, of South Bend; Judge J. M. Hlnch, of Fort Wayne; Judge E. W. Felt, of arcenfleld: Aaron Waltz, of Hartford Citv; Hugh Wickens. of Greensburg; C. W. Welman, of Muncie; Hugh Dougherty, of Bluff ton; U. S. Jackson, Of Greenfield; W. J. O'Neill, of Mishawaka. and A. G. Smith, M. A. Ryan, City Controller J. P. Duuu aud City Clerk Fogarty of this city. . Mr. Shivelv. who has a considerable following in his party, has not yet declared his position on the presidential question, but a statement from him, similar to those Issued by John W. Kern and S. M. Ralston, is expected within the near future. It will come at the opportune time, it is understood, to act as a potent counter-irritant to Hearstophobia. When asked his position on the presidential question Mr. Shively confined himself to a declaration that he was not for Hearst. "I am not prepared to say as yet whom I favor for the presidential nomination." he said, "but I do not favor Hearst. That is all I care to say." Mr. Shively Is another of the leaders cited by the Hearst managers when they first started their campaign in this State as men thev counted upon to support their candidate. John W. Kern and S. M. Ralston were two others and they have both issued statements that offered no encouragement to Hearst. The reorganizers refer with something akin to derision to the Hearst campaign in this State and ask: "Name us a single leader, a man of standing and influence in the party, who U with Hearst?" The Hearst people return this answer, hot from the bat: "What do leaders amount to without a following? We have the people with us and we'll make new loaders." f Much has been heard of the large following Hearst commands in the ranks of organized labor and that the labor unions, as organizations, would work In the Interests of his candidacy. O. P. Smith, of Logansport, state organizer of the American Federation of Labor, has given out a statement In which he declares that he is not supporting Hearst and will not support him. "I have no Intention of taking any part in the coming campaign." he says. "I am engaged in labor work and intend to confine my efforts to that field. I will not support Hearst nor any other candidate. When the time comes I will cast my ballot and that will be the extent of my political work." . Mr. Smith has intimated in addition that he does not consider it witnin tne province of labor unions to take a hand, as organizations, in politics. Joseph I. Irwin, the well-known banker of Columbus, was a member of the first Republican state convention In Indiana In 1S5C. A dispatch to the Journal from Co lumbus says: "Josenh I. Irwin, of this city. Is one of the survivors of the first Republican state conveution held in this State and is entitled to one of the invitations bing sent out by State Chairman James P. Good rich to the survivors of the convention. It is believed that there are only about twenty men in the State who attended th first convention. Mr. Irwin took an active nart in politics here at that time and at tended a convention hold at Indianapolis in 1SS4. when the advisability of organizing a new nolltical party to be known as the Republican party was discussed. Two years later he attended the first state convention nd was a delegate from this city. The convention was r mss meeting of the Re publicans of tho State and all delegates were self-appointed. If a man decided to co to the convention h decided that he was a delegate and went. If there were more delegates from any one county than the county had votes the delegates held a conference and then cast the votes of the county as the majority of the dele crates agreed. There were no organizations in those days and tho men who wore inter ested In polities met and talked thlncs over without any attempt to enect a permanent organization in the different cities or in the counties. Mr. Irwin was also in at tendance at the conventions held In and IS. For a number of years lie was one of tho most conspicuous figures in the Republican ranks In this county." Recent changes in the interior arrangements of Tumlinson Hall have decreased the seating capacity of the hall to such an extent that both the Republican and Democratic state committees are concerned as to how the crowds that usually attend the ttate conventions will be handled. Secre

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tary Sims, of the Republican state committee, said yesterday that Chairman Goodrich and he were "up in the air" over tho situation. " have just' been over at the hsll." he said, "and I found that at the outside we cannot oxnoct to get more than 2.5) people In the hall at the convention. The crowd. Including delegates and alternates. usul'y numbers twice that. There will N delegates and a like number of alteroite. all of whom are entitled to sents. which will leave but 5ö0 or f seats for visitors. Of course, all the alternates will not be here, but there will b plenty of applications or their seats. Even the seating capacity of the stage has been reduced." The tickets to tho state convention will be apportioned among the several districts in proportion to the number of delegates from each district. The Republican state committee has been notitlcd that county conventions nill b hold In Dearborn county on April 2, In Switzerland on April 1, and In Brown an4 Washington on April 9. Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash, was in th city last evening en route to Terre Haute, He was at the Engl'sh Hotel long enough to receive tho congratulations of a number oT bis friends on the send-off given bis gubernatorial candidacy at the Eleventh district convention at Peru. Judge Willam L. Penfield. of Auburn, the Twelfth district candidate for Governor, held a conference with a number of his friends last night at Fort Wayne. Prominent members of the Indiana Editorial Association, including representatives of almost all the congressional districts, were In the city yesterday in conference with State Chairman Goodrich ami Secretary Sims. George B. I.ockwood, who has charge of tho press bureau maintained by the state committee, was present at the meeting. Tho editors hero included Walter S. Montgomery. Greenfield; R. S. Truitt. Nnblesville; Frank T. Sineleton. Martinsville; J. A. Kautz, Kokomo; Charles R. La no. Ft. Wayne: W. G. Thurman. New Albany; Ed Hancock. Hushvllle; C. W. Riddick, Winamac; W. II. Sanders. Marlon; Charles E. Wilson, Lafayette, and J. A. Sibley, Columbus. The organization of the Republican edi torial forces of Indiana for the coming campaign was the chief topic under dis cussion. News of the death of S. A. Chonowoth, of Shoals, chairman of the Martin county Republican central committee, was received at state headquarters yesterday. Adam L Beck, of Huntington, former member of the Republican state committee, was in the city yesterday for the first time fcr several weeks. Mr. Beck now finds time for a breathing spell after th strenuous contest for the Eleventh district congressional nomination, in which he fig ured as one of the most active supporters of Representative Frederick Landis. After his defeat for re-election as district chairman he went into the congressional fight with redoubled energy, and is "feeling pretty good, thank you," over the result. W. L. Taylor, the Indianapolis member or the Republican gubernatorial quartet, was at the Columbia Club last evening In conference with a number of his friends. 4Frank T. Singleton, editor of the Mar tinsville Reporter, says that In all probability Morgan county will not have a candidate for the Fifth district Republican congressional nomination. "I am not authorized to speak for Mr. Sedwick, whose friends have been urging him to get Into the race, but I understand he has indicated that he will not be a candidate," said Mr. Singleton. "If we have no candidate Morgan county's veto at the convention at Terre Haute will probably be divided, as our county will ask that Judge Grubbs be sent to the national convention as one of tho district's dolegates. It seems to be the general underBtaioing over the district that Judge Grubbs is to be one of the delegates." The Fifth district convention will t? held May 17 at Teire Haute. The candidates for the congressional nomination at present are Representative Holliday, of Brazil, and Otis E. Gulley, of Danville. Gilbert H. Henderson, of BloomCeld, member of the Democratic state committee for the Second district, announced yesterday that the Second district Democratic! congressional convention will be held April 14 at Spencer. Representative Miers will probably be renominated by acclamation, as he has no avowed opposition. A feature of the gathering of the large number of Democrats in the city yesterday was the decided impetus given the gubernatorial boom of Hugh Dougherty, of Bluffton. Mr. Dougherty has manifested a desire to discourage his friends who urge him as the best man to head the Democratic state ticket, but his friends refuse to bo silenced, and insist that he Is the man to be nominated. However, the selection cf the Democratic candidate for Governor will depend largely. If not entirely, on the action of the national convention. Aside from tho play against Hearst there was another motive for deferring the state convention for the nomination of candidates for state offices until after the national convention. If tho St. Louis convention should be. character! re I by harmony a remote possibility and Judge Parker or some other Eastern man who may be classed as conservative should bo nominated for President upon a conservative platform, then the Indiana reorganizers believe they would stand soma chance of carrying the State, and consequently will, in that event, want to select the strongest possible state ticket. They pay Mr. Dougherty the compliment of saying that no stronger man could be selected by them to make the race for Governor. If the St. Louis convention should prove a cat and dog affair and if Hearst should tm nominated for President, the reorganizers will not care who carries off the gubernatorial nomination, and they will permit the Hearst forces to take everything in sight and nominate Charles F. S. Neal. of Lebanon, or any one else they may select. Ixcal Democrats are beginning to Fit un and take Interest In the question of selecting a candidate for Congress in this district, and there is a rumor current that their convention will be called vr a date along about the middle of April. The possible entries in the congressional contest. If there is to be a contest, are receiving some attention, and among tho men mentioned are Mayor John W. Holtsman. City Controller Dunn, who has had the experience of leading the forlorn hope in this district, Alor.zo Greene Smith. Ii 1. Harlan. Evans Woollen and Harry Hooker. Someone has even started a mild boom for Democratic City Chairman James L. Keaeh. but no one has In-eii so unkind ns to insinuate that Mr. Keach sanctions the boom. Mr. Harlan Is tipped as the man who Is the choice of th? coterie of Democrats now in control of the county and district rarty machinery. Tho Seventh district Republican congressional convention next Saturday afternoon will be held In the Criminal Court room at the courthouse instead of in Masonic Hal as indicated in tho official call. The change was necessitated rcause It was found that Masonic Hall cVtuld not I secured for that date. Representative Jesse Overstnet will leave Washington this afternoon and will be In the city to-morrow evening. The convention will also reject delegates and alternates to tho national convention and a presidential elector. John B. Cockrum and William Kothe will In all probability bo named as the delegates to the national convention. Routine of Chinese School. Everybody's Magazine. Each Chinese schoolloy must furnish h! own stool and table for school work and the "four precious articles." which are the Ink slab, a cake of India Ink, a brush for writing and par er. With these ho begins his weary task of learning to write and read tho thousands of Chinese characters. These are to orcn the way to the Chinese classics and a knowltdtse of this ancient literature and wisdom means education to the Chinese-. At the owning of a Chinese school a paper on which is written the name of Confucius is pasted on the wall. Before this hcoored name the pupils and teachers burn paper money and joss sticks and bow their hoads three tlmert to th? floor. The teacher the n tells Confucius the day. the month and the year when tha school Is opened and Ikkt for his favor. Every morning when the pupils arrive they must bow twice, once for the teacher and oace for Confucius.