Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1904 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1904.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, APRIL 29. 19C4.

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It .was a famous American admiral who : said:,' "Damn the mines go ahead!" It seems a pity that Russia should take the advice so literally. In the councils of the Democratic party Mr. Bryan appears to be assuming by decrees the appearance and importance of a cipher with the rim off. It Is the turn of Japan to meet with disaster on the seas. But it has the satisfaction of knowing that its men who went down were heroic to the last. An exchange says the Parker boom is "unduly" Inflated." Of course. D. B. Hill , would not have chosen it as a political life preserver if he hadn't thought so. The present Congress will go down In history as the "Panama Canal Congress." And there Is another session coming in which mor fame may be sained. Special war correspondents continue to keep the United States informed as to everything that happens in Japan. However, nothing does happen in Japan. Out of Andrew Carnegie's once comfortable fortune he has now only eSS5.000.000 lefL If he lives through a couple of centuries more of th!s prodigal philanthropy he will Indeed die poor. The candidates for state offices are said to have spent a great deal of money in sending circular letters to delegates. It would have been cheaper and just as ef fective; to advertise in the papers. Mr. Gorman, too. is rolling up hU eyes In horror over the appropriations of the Fiftyeighth XTongt ess. Like other Democrats, he would like to convey the impression that his party could run the government for next to nothing a day if it only had a chance. Judge Parker continues to keep silence as to his political views, but perhaps he could be persuaded to tell how It feels to be talked of for an office which he has no more chance of reaching than he has of spending the summer in Mars. Mr. Bryan declines to nanie a man who would suit him as presidential candidate but let any Democrat suspected of aspiring to the office rut his head above the surface and see how quick Mr. Bryan will hit it with his club. The New York city Federation of Women's Clubs met the other .day and elected a new board of directors, thirteen In number. Deciding that this was un lucky, they toted to reduce the number to twelve. Advanced woman seems not to have advanced as much as she has wished us to believe. Mr. Weil, official bandmaster of the world's fair, made an effort to provide first class music for the fair, but has been com pelled by the local union to employ on ly St. Louis musicians. To be consistent th ey should play only St. Louis music. When visitors to the exposition are greeted weird and harrowing sounds they will know what the matter is. The coming visit of Prince Iu Lun will give business men of Indianapolis an op rortunlty'to display the Industrial prod ucts of the city to the advantage of all concerned. According to the letter of M Wong Kai Kah one of the purposes of the prince's visit is to acquaint himself with the work of thfe factories and with the commercial resources of the country with a view to the encouragement of future . traffic between America and China. Indiana manufacturers produce a variety of goods that might interest Prince Lun's people, and they will doubtless be glad to have a share of the trade that must soon pass ' through China's "open door." The prince'a tlcrczt is thtra netten and la our edi-

cational system, which he says is likely to be adopted by his country, 4s evidence that he has in view the eventual Americanization of China. The open door Is admitting more things than merchandise. Tim iji:fkati:d. That the friends of Mr. Taylor. Mr. Say re and Mr. Pentield arc greatly disappointed over the failure of their respective candidates to win the nomination for Governor on Wednesday is a matter ut course. Each of these gentlemen had a large following and an ardent support. 1 1 a1 any one of the three been nominated he would have been satisfactory to the i.eople at large and when elected would, without doubt, have made an able and popular executive officer. Iu Indianapolis regret is especially marked in regard to Mr. Taylor, his long residence here and his great popularity having brought about a universal local Interest in the outcome of the convention. His friends made hi3 cause their own, and their disappointment on his account

had a personal quality. A similar feeling. of course, exists In the home towns of Mr. Penfield and Mr. Sayre, and wherever n the State the supporters of the three candidates are found. Partisanlsm is an American characterstic; it is an outgrowth of the American temperament and of a democratic form of government. Every man who becomes a supporter of a particular candidate for office Is, if sincere, an adherent so earnest that he cannot take a detached and impersonal view of events, but i3 cast down or elated according as his political desires are fulfilled or not. But he goes into the contest knowing that the outcome may be contrary to his wishes; he takes the chance and abides by the consequences. The natural soreness of defeat soon passes; he re flects that it is one of the fortunes of poU' itlcs that some one must suffer disappoint ment. Presently, because he is a born par tisan, and because, after nil, his adherence to party Is stronger than his loyalty to the individual, he takes up the cause of the winning candidate and helps to elect him. So it will be in the present case. The friends of the three unsuccessful gentlemen will add their strength to that already pos sessed by Mr. Hanly and will make his election sure. It i3 the way, and the very commendable way, of American politics. ARCHITECTS COMPETITIONS. The New York Home for Engineers, toward whose erection Andrew Carnegie has contributed $1.500,000, is to "consist of two buildings, one for club purposes, the other for a workshop, the two to be connected by a bridge. The committee having the matter in charge has selected Professor W. R. Ware, occupant of the chair of ar chitecture at Columbia University, as pro fessional adviser. Acting upon his suggestion, six firms of architects have been especially invited to compete for the two buildings. The competition is to be open to other architects, however, and the com mittee expresses the ingenuous wish that all architects in all parts of the world shall compete. The chances are that no firstclass architect will enter such a one-sided contest. Preference will undoubtedly be given to the plans of the six firms especially Invited, If they shall all decide to accept the invitation; which Is doubtful; and presumably, those of this number whose' designs are not accepted will be paid for the time and labor spent on the work. The architects outside will receive nothing for their trouble. To get up a set of plans for such buildings as those in question involves much time and expense, and very few archi tects of stauding care to undertake such work on a remote possibility of acceptance. The best architects, in fact, are opposed to engaging in competitions of any sort, believ ing them to be beneath the dignity of their profession, and unsatisfactory in many ways. It would be much better In the case of the engineers' home, as with all other buildings, for the managers or owners to select one firm of architects of high repute and put the work In their hands. Results are likely to be far better. A WORD AIIOLT "NATURE STUDY." That there is a great deal of humbug and fol-de-rol about the "nature study" which takes up so much time in the public schools rnauy persons have long believed. It is well enough for city children to know something about the way plants grow and about their habits and characteristics; well enough for them to know something of geology and natural history; but a little of this instruction is sufficient until the youngster is old enough to pursue such studies intelligently and for special purpose. A nature-lover is not necessarily made of one who is given a smattering of botany or is encouraged to make a collection of butterflies. Real love for nature ccmes in a very different way and cannot be taught In .schools. On the contrary, there is danger of making vandals of the young students of .plant life. Their chief Idea of the beauties of nature is of something they may destroy. A Washington paper complains that the children of the public schools at the national capital are studying nature with such energy that they are in a fair way to exterminate the wild flowers that have hitherto grown in abundance and variety about that city. They go to the woods and fields in troops and bring in loads of blooms and branches of flowering shrubs far in excess of school needs. Something of the same methods are practiced in this and other cities, and an effort shouldUe made to discourage such proceedings. Through unavoidable causes. the cultivation of the fields, the cutting down of forests, etc., many beautiful and valuable native plants have become rare, One lesson belonging to the very rudiments of nature love is thatsuch plants should be protected and their growth encouraged rather than that they should be sought for eagerly with the sole desire to tear them from the ground. WOMEN TEACHERS WIX. If a woman wants to marry sho will marry and no one need hope to prevent. This truth was settled long ago, and now it has been further demonstrated that if A woman engaged in a lucrative calling desires to marry and thereafter continue in that calling it is not for domineering man to say her nay. For many years school boards have endeavored to bar the doors against married teachers that is, married female teachers. Whenever a woman who happened to possess a husband expressed a desire to teach the young- idea in return for a salary she was frowned upon and given to understand that her presumption was little less than criminal. No good reason was ever advanced for this course, and the only conclusion possible is that the

traditional masculine Instinct against allowing a wife to occupy herself with anything else than . housework was stronger in the school directors than common sense. But by degrees women are getting their own way even In face of this stubborn opposition. One by one school boards reluctantly give way and cease to discourage matrimony. New York city has, however, sternly refused to tolerate the female teacher who dared to marry. Once in possession of a husband she must resign her scnool. If a woman, however excellent a teacher, had a husband who was ill or disabled; or if she preferred to earn money with which to hire a cook, or a dishwasher rather than do cooking or dishwashing herself; or, if she simply wished to teach for undisclosed reasons, she had no chance in New York. But, though rebuffed, the female teacher was not conquered. Marry she would, and demand to be allowed to go on teaching she would. At last her importunities have prevailed. Test case3 have brought the decision from the Court of Appeals that the by-law of the School Board forbidding thccmployment of married teachers is in conflict with the charter of the city. And now the .superintendent and committee on employment, making a virtue of necessity, acknowledge that they are tired of fighting teachers on this question and aver that th?y are glad the matter Is settled. They may, in time, reach the point of acknowledging that It la none of their business, anyway, whether a woman has a husband or not, so long as she is a good teacher. Representative Miers says the Fiftyeighth Congress was extravagant. It did spend a good deal of money, to be sure, but spending money is not necessarily extravagance. It takes an increasingly large sum to pay the expenses of a country that, because of Republican policy and legislation, is getting bigger and of more consequence in the world. The American family is large and need3 more money

every year. When Representative Hemenway i3 pleased with the work of a session of Congress, especially with its expenditures and appropriations, it is safe for the public gen erally to regard that session as businesslike and economical. Mr. Hemenway thinks well of the Congress Just closed, and the member from the First district is thoroughly Informed as to public needs much better informed than Mr. Miers. MINOR TOPICS. The Washington Times says: "Mr. Howells may be right about its being Im possible to write a great American novel, but he docs not come from Indianapolis." That is the one thing Mr. Howeüs lacks that prevents him from writing it himself. If you're waking,' call me early call" me early, mother dear; lay out my muff and furs and things, and bring my arctics here. And fill the furnace up with coal and close the doors to-day; for I'm to be queen o' the May, motherI'm to be queen o the May! A postal card mailed on April 16, 1S72. has just reached its destination, having taken thirty-two years to travel just oue mile. Anyone who has traveled on Southern railroads will quite believe this story when told that it, happened in Tennessee. After he has broken up everything else into junk, will Admiral Togo please turn his attention to the Russian language? A few skillfully placed mines might break it up into more easily managed lengths. The Russian army 13 coughing and sneezing over an epidemic of Influenza. They conceal it pretty well, however; outsiders think they are merely carrying on a conversation In their mother tongue. Eastern physicians are discussing the question of whether a man can tell when he is hungry. What are those scientists, anyway bloated millionaires? We know how to tell in Indiana. A football game at the Crystal Palace, London, last Saturday, was attended by 100,000 persons. That makes the crowds at our great games look like a Patti concert audience. A St. Louis Judge has handed down an opinion that 11 o'clock at night is long enough for a young man to stay with hi3 sweetheart. Are you guilty of contempt of court? Russia will accept mediation "as soon as she wins an overwhelming victory." This will be a disappointment to those who hoped to live to see the end of this war. It appears that Mormons are in the habit of occasionally going through the marriage ceremony with dead women. That is taking unfair advantage of the helpless. A Pennsylvania man has Just married his eleventh wife at the age of ninety-one. Another oue of those poljgami3ts on the installment plan. The Brooklyn ball team has a new name "The Sabbath Breakers." Sunday ball is a flew thing in the City of Churches. A well-known scientist has discovered a fish that can talk. It isn't hard to guess what kind of bait he had in his jug. Several Rhode Islanders have been in dieted for attempting to bribe city officials. They call it tempting Providence. The latest political news indicates that all the deaf mutes in the country are lining up for Parker. St.' Louis thinks she is about ready to "show" Buffalo and Chicago. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD. Worth It. Booker T. Washington is telling thla atory of an old negro carpenter he met who had con tracted to erect a cottage, and who cleared ex actly 10 cents on the Job. "When I asked him if- he was not greatly disappointed ovef the outcome, he replied: " 'So, sah; not the least bit; it's wuth 10 cents to boss dese here white men. " New York Times. Madame Pnttl' Experience. Mme. Patti is telling stories of her experiences during her concert tour In this country. In Hot Springs. Ark., wnlle she was singing "Home, Sweet Home." an engine at the railway "de pot" close by was sounding its whistle loudly. "We were not in the same key," said Mme Patti, "andvlt was a trial to drown that loco motive. For all that the audience was pleased. They shot a negro in the leg. Foor fellow! How they do dUlike negroes down there. This negro had climbed a tree to look In at a window while I was singing." Philadelphia Ledger. Preferred Brevity. At the D. A. It. Congress the other day the State regents were Invited 'to boll down their an nual reports to three-minute talks. The Regent of Massachusetts had a good deal to say for hr State, and realizing the futility of attempting it in the time limit Imposed, she contented her self with telling a stcry. "Thl reminds rat," sho said, "of the society woman who went out to dinner on the arm of a young scholar. 'X hear, sir.' saa taU to him

in her blandest tnd most encouraging tones, that you have evolved a new theory a to the creation or the world. Tell me in two words what it is' New York Wcrld.

Disappointment for the Girl. A man who said he came from Troy, N. Y., hurried into one of the busiest police stations in town the other night and complained excitedly that he had been robbed. "What were the circumstances end when did it happen r asked the imperturbable desk sergeant. "Why, I went into a restaurant with a girl, and gave her my rocketbook. and told her to spend all he wanted to get a good dinner," said the man. "Then he went out of the restaurant and said that she would be back la a minute, and the never came back." "How much money was there in the purser1 the sergeant asked wearily. "Two dollars and a half." said the man. "It must have been a great disappointment to the girl," observed the sergeant. And that was all the satisfaction that Trey, N. Y., got. New York Sun. Xo Jo!o Jut n Lie. A fisherman stopping at the farm house of a well-to-do and educated German, referred to the inability of the average German to appreciate an African joke. Yet the American was quick to catch on to any Jokes given out in the "Fliegende Blatter" and other German comic publication. Tn German disputed this statement and raid: "Germans were Just as quick to understand a Joke as anybody else." "Well," said the fisherman, "here's one: We had down in our country a farmer with such bis fret that when he went to bed nights he had to go out into the forks of the road and use It for a bootjack to pull off his boots." The German never cracked a rmile. "I told you so." said the fisherman. "Valt a minute, Just." ald the German, "so I see vedder I you unutjftand correctly. You say dot you know a man vat makes a bootjack already of de forks of Ue road to pull mit his boots off, he such big feet got." "Yes," said the fisherman. . . . "You mean by de forks of de road vere da road, one goes dis way, and de odder dat vay. a fork making?" "Yes." "And he go out dere and his boots he must pull off like a bootjack he use? "Yes." "Veil. I understand, don't I? Vat?" "Yes." "Oh, den dat no joke vaa; dat was chust a lie." Forest and Stream. THE HUMORISTS. He Had Been Three Weeks iu the Houae. Landlady It is usual for my lodger to pay as they go. New Boarder Oh. that's all right! I'm not going for a long time. Illustrated Bits. L'lljllMt. "All a man cares for is a good dinner," said the cynical woman. "That's very unjust," said the mild-mannered one. "My husband will miss his dinner any day for the sake of looking at a baseball game." Washington Star. The Mover's Rnliniynt. I think the Spare Room has no Room to Spare; I'd hate to ask a, Guest to sleep in there. As to the Dining Room there's none at all, And I can't find the Farlor anywhere. Chicago Journal. Xntnrnl Explanation. The Housewife It seems strange that all that new maple sugar you sold me has such an old flavor. The Grocer Indeed. Well, I a'pose that's easily explained by the fact that it's made from the same old trees. Cleveland Flaln Dealer. Hard. I can forgive my enemies. If hard I try, I know; And may I eke forgive the friends To whom I favors owe. And may I never put In words The wicked rage which rends me. When friend, to friendship prove, recounts How often she defends me. Washington Post. My Neighbor and I. The pain that I for myself must bear Is the worst I ever have known Far better a boll on another man's neck Than a boll on the back of my own. The trouble that burdens my neighbor's mind Adds not so much to my care The flood that made of his crops a wreck I find that I am able to bear. Sunset Magazine. How She Remembered. Binks I don't see how you can remember the birthdays of all the children. Mrs. Binks It's very easy. The first was born on August 17. I remember it because on that day yott gave me a pearl necklace with my name and the date on the claep. The second was born July 20. On that day you gave me a 5 3 cent book with my name and the date on the leaf. The third was born May 6. On that x day you got mad at a rallllnery bill which had Just been sent In. and It isn't paid yet. New York Weekly. i State Ownership In France. In Franco the government is "it." It owns the steam railroads and the city street railways; It monopolies the sale of tobacco and operates the telegraph and the telephone. When the fascinating actress. Mile. Syhiac, lost her temper at tho telephone the other day and called the girls in attendance "cows," "she donkys," and many other opprobrious epithets, the manager interfered and remonstrated. Whereupon Mile. Sylvlac berated the manager so violently that the authorities took away the lady's telephone. Mile. Sylvlac issued a writ against the postmaster general for abuse of authority In suppressing the telephone of a French cltlxen who duly pays the subscription for the same. The thirty-two Parisian newspapers are discussing the case editorially, and declare that the telephone administration is a modern Castile to be stormed and torn down. You see, municipal and state ownership Is not a panacea and not a Joy forever. The private company has a stronger Incentive to audy the convenience and comfort of its patrons than has the company, manned by public officials, which depends upon the public treasury to make good any deficit. Buffalo Commercial. The Amateur Gardener. Those old jokes, some of them founded on facts undoubtedly, which once circulated concerning the foolish housewife who compounded her own preserves when she cruld buy from her grocer the same sort and save money, are being made over this spring, we observe, to fit the amateur gardener. And they all seem to convey the Idea that the said amateur gardener believes he is practicing economy In having his own kitchen garden from which to draw, when the fact of the matter is the raiser of vegetables for his own use knows full well they cost him several times more than If bought from the provisioner. But he also knows how much more he enjoys eating those he has watched from their tender, green days to the ripening time than he does those which grew without his knowledge, and he Is quite willing to pay the difference. The man who realizes what it is to have green peas on his table in an hour from the time they are gathered and weet corn served to him while it really Is sweet is quite ready to pay for the accommodation. Boston Transcript. Piirker Disclosed. The interrogation point is no longer proper after Parker. The fierce calcium light that beats upon a presidential possibility has found him. and the story of his past life Is revealed, while his present existence is "headed up" so that all who run may read. We now know what he has for breakfast, lunch and dinner; that he takes his coffee without susar and his tea ."without milk or sugar." His thoroughgoing Americanism is affirmed by the fact that he cats pic for lunch and dinner preferably custard and pumpkin. As to Judge Parker's personal appearance, no one needs longer have any doubt on that score he would grace the part. Ills nose is "aquiline" and "hi hlgu. broad forehead slopes back without a bump." Parker's brow, moreover, like the late Spea-

cer's, is wholly unfurrowed. "indicating a man who can concentrate his mind without the great ffort which contracts the facial muscles." Nothing' remains to be told: nothing is left to the Imagination. The period should now be placed after Parker. New York Globe. Impreanlon and Kdltfona. In these days of boasted large circulations we read of a book attaining a second, third or tenth "edition" even before its publication. It would be Just as well if such words were used with some regard for accuracy. What is commonly called an "edition" is. more correctly, an "Impression." The London Publishers' Association defines an "impression" as "a number of copies printed at any one time." When a book is reprinted without change, continues this authority, it should be called a new Impression. An "edition" is "an impression in which the matter has undergone some change or for which the typ has been reset." A further definition Is that of "reprint." which Is "a republication at a different price or in different form of rart of aa Impression which has already been placed on the market." If these rational distinctions were generally observed much confusion would be avoided. Philadelphia Ledger. Consumption of Playing Card. Internal revenue receipts show a large decrease In the consumption of t playing cards, with a correspondingly large Increase in the consumption of liquor during the last eight months. Compared with the same period a year aso, the number of packs of playing cards used by the people of the United States was reduced eight millions. On the other hand, the consumption of Miiisky was enough larger to result In adding $.500,000 more to the revenues of the treasury. The "cigarette fiend" also Increased his allowance, for the revenue from that source went up $7ä0.0CO. These changes are fortuitous for the most part. Changed methods of the trade often account for an increase or decrease in the outStanding stocks, aside from the movements of popular demand. New York Post. The Vice Presidency. The power and responsibilities of the presidency increase constantly with the power, wealth and population of the country, and it is becomIrg of greater importance that the occupant of that office shall measure up to the highest standard of statesmanship. The power that President Roosevelt wields and the responsibilities that rest on him are ten-fold greater than those which existed when Washington. Adams and Jefferson filled the same office; and this fact cannot be emphasized too strongly on the members of the forthcoming Republican and Democratic national conventions in nominating candidates for contingent President In other words, for Vice President. New York Commercial. Strictly Bulnes. "Yes, sir," said Colonel Rednose. relating his trip to a Northern city, "they were certainly the most commercial people I ever saw; couldn't get them to talk about anything else except business. And they had the price of everything from real estate to an alderman down fine, I tell you. One dny I saw a funeral going by, and as we take a lively interest in mortuary statistics down in Kentucky, It occurred to me to ask a citizen what the death rate in his town was. I expected the average death rate to be at 2 per cent, annually, but what do you reckon his answer was? He made a minute's calculation and replied: 'Fifty-six dollars and seventyfive cents, including medical attendance and coffin !' "New Orleans Times-Democrat.

Important if True. . Piebald horses are coming Into fashion again, and several have been seen harnessed to the new T carts which are being driven up and down Fifth avenue. The mania for driving this spring has become the fashion of the hour. Central Park Is crowded with very smart traps. There are also many coaches. Goadby Leow has brought out one with black horses. Alfred Vanderbllt, Robert Gerry, James Henry Smith and James H. Hyde drive every day up and down Fifth avenue. New York Letter. Convalescence. Once more the smell of earth and rich, warm wood With rain and air and sunshine, as of yore,' Wayfaring in the hand of God, where all is good. Once more. William Griffith. Uinta on Pronunciation. If the place i3 on the Chinese coast, remember the number of your laundry ticket, multiply by six. subtract what is left, and find the puzzle. If a Russian name, add three portions, sneeze, cross your fingers and forget it. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Makaroff, Skrydloff and Togo, Makaroff was known as the "Cossack of the Sea," while Skrydloff, his uccessor. Is known as the "Bulldog of the Navy." Togo is known to the Japs as the "Whole Works of the Oceans." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . His Love. "My love for you." he said, "Is as everlasting as time, as wide as the sky and as deep as the sea." "Yes," she answered, "and I guess it's as soft aa mush." Chicago Record-Herald. Time for Miracle Worker. Perhaps when Admiral Skrydloff arrives at Port Arthur with the pictures of the sainted miracle workers he will be able o get the Russian fleet out of the harbor without running Into a mine. Louisville Courier-Journal. Ilea for Leniency. St. Louis politics is too strenuous. The mere fact of being a Folk supporter ought not to -be regarded as a capital offense. New York World. The Truth Dolled Down. The man who puts his riches in trusts appears to be worse off than the one who puts his trust in riches. Detroit Free Press. SLOW DOWN THE PACE. Earnest Appeal 3Iude for a Detter Standard of Living;. Elkhart (Ind.) Review. Recent events have brought this city somewhat into financial disrepute. Credit has suffered. Business men along Main street find it more difficult than formerly to make credits, and find their creditors more exacting. These things have a depressing influence" upon the enterprising spirit of the average business man, and the city is in danger cf a diminution of that enterprise and energy which have to some extent in the past made good the lack of capital. Growing out of. the conditions which have existed here in certain quarters is another menace to the prosperity of the city. False theories of living, false social standards, have grown out of the conduct of some whose careers have been ended, and whose business has been sacrificed. Men of moderate business success have been led to ape" the amusements and expenditures of some who were supposed to be wealthy, but who were either spending tho sum total of a large and fictitious income or were spending other people's money. Society in certain phases, and not by any means limited to what is called the aristocracy, has tried to copy the customs of the wealthy, or of those who appeared to be wealthy; young men Just starting in business spend as much time in leisure as do those whose successes have been assured, whose large business is well organized and in the hands of competent agents, and those whom real prosperity has crowned with success. This false standard of living, this feverish pace of society, this readiness to take unearned leisure, this willingness to sacrifice duty to pleasure will add to the financial instability and will unnecessarily and unwisely jeopardise personal credit a3 well as public credit. It Is not necessary to practice nenurlousness, to sacrifice all plure, to abandon society and its enjoyments, to work unceasingly, nor to forego all reasonable pleasures, but it is necessary to bring these conditions down to a basis warranted by income, safety to business and good business sense. Let income overreach outgo always, and be sure that play Ood uot usurp the place of sensible duty.

THE DRIFT

Now that the Republican state ticket has : been named, the Democrats are beginning to sit up and take interest in tho question of what men they shall put up in Indiana, j this year. Up to date there ,has uot. appeared a siugle avowed candidate for a ! Democratic state nomination, nor have any 1 booms been started that have gained such , proportions as to receive serious ronsideration. Several men have been mentioned as probable candidates for Governor, but no decided movement has been started by the j friends of any one of them. Three causes are given for this somewhat unusual situation. First, no one is very anxious for a place on the Democratic, ticket in Indiana, for it is regarded as at best an empty and expensive honor. Second, the light between th Parker ai:d Hearst forces has been such as to leave some doubt as to which element would be in control of the state convention and to make it almost certain that the party will be split wide open, reducing the chances of Democratic success at the polls to nil. Third, as a matter of parly policy the leaders have discouraged all movements to bring out candidates. The leaders decided that they should wait until after the Republicans had selected their ticket before starting to cull over their own gubernatorial timber, aad also that thtir nominations should be made without a contest if it were at all possible to bring suclt a thing about. However, they are now about ready for action, although if they do not take steps to do the thing themselves in the way they want it done the rank and file of the party may take it out of their hands by making certain men candidates and starting vigorous contests for the nominations. The men in the ranks are hungering- for the excitement and other things that come with contests within the party. The leaders recognize this and are setting about the task of getting together on a few candidates, particularly upon the rnan they want for the head of the ticket. Among those who have been considered as available for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination are John W. Kern, of this city, who was the candidate four years ago; S. M. Ralston, of Lebanon; Major G. V. Menzics, of Mount Vernon; John E. Lamb, of Terre Haute; Warder W. Stevens, of Salem; Mayor John W. Holtzman, of Indianapolis; Mayor Edward J. Fogarty. of South Bend: Ben F. Shively, of South Bend; Hugh Dougherty, of Bluffton, and Dan V. Simms, of Lafayette. It was learned yesterday that a' quiet movement had been started in the interests of the last-named. Mr. Simms was formerly a member of the Democratic state committee and has been an active party worker for years. The strong points in his favor are that he told the Hearst tempters to get them behind him when they approached him with a proposition to nominate him for Governor and give him an enormous campaign fund if he would lend his name and influence to their campaign for the Indiana delegates to the national convention; that he came out vigorously for Parker, and that he is a cood campaigner. Further, it is suggested that Mr. Simms would make a good man for the Democratic nomination for Governor because his home is at Lafayette, where he is a neighbor of J. Frank Hanly, the Republican nominee, and he might hope to cut in on the Republican majority In Tippecanoe county and the Tenth district. It is claimed, too. that as a speaker and campaigner Mr. Simms would come nearer measuring up to Mr. Hanly than any man the Democrat could name. The Democrats realize that Mr. Hanly will set a great pace In the coming campaign. They know his strength with the people, his power as an orator and his abil ity as a "mixer." Consequently they want a man ror their candidate of the same general type, if they can find him. and friends of Mr. Simms say he is the man. For this reason, too, the Democratic leaders are in clined to throw cold water on the suggestion that Hugh Dougherty, of Bluffton, Is the man to head their ticket. Mr. Dougherty is a banker and business man, stands high in the councils of the party and Is popular, but he is not the man to head a fight against Mr. Hanly, they say. He would not be able to hold his own on the stump, for he makes no pretensions as a speaker. N There are those among the Democrats who insist that their candidate for Governor this year should be a farmer, and they are urging Warder W. Stevens, of Salem, as the man of all others for the nomination. Mr. Stevens, it is said, is not averse to the idea of making the race for Governor, and It is known thatfhe has been doing some figuring on the proCable cost of a campaign. Mayor Fogarty, of South Bend, may bo relied upon to be the first avowed candi date for the Democratic gubernatorial nora ination, provided he succeeds in being re elected mayor next week. He has said re peatedly that he believes he can be elect ed Governor If any Democrat can, and has intimated that he was only deferring the announcement of his candidacy until he had received a re-election as mayor. If he snouia be defeated for mayor he will prob ably decide not to venture into state pol itics, x ogarty poses as a laboring man and argues that he would be stronger than any other man the Democrats could put at the head of their ticket because he would have the suport of organized labor throughout the State. The party leaders do not take kindly to the Fogarty suggestion and, in fact, do not regard his gubernatorial aspi rations very seriously. The convention at which the Democrats will name their slate ticket will be held July 20, in Tomlinson Hall. The conven tion to be held May 12 will do nothing aside from the naming of the delegates to the national convention. The managers of Hearst's campaign In Indiana are keeping unusually quiet at present, so far as outward efforts to capture delegates to the state convention are concerned. It is generally believed that they realize that they have lost their fight and cannot hope to control the convention on a straight out and out contest, and that they are now beginning on a new line a plan to bolt the convention, or to make such a bluff at bolting that the Parker forces will be frightened into recognizing them and giv ing them a fair share of the votes Indiana will have in the St. Louis convention. No open threats of bolting have been made by Hearst's managers, as yet, but the Hearstltes bolted the Vigo County Democratic convention which was controlled by Parker people, and the tip has been given out that the course followed in Vigo county is to be followed in the State convention, if This "if" is very suggestive. The followers NEWSPAPER HEADLINES MISLEADING, HE SAYS Bishop Lawrence Probably Refers to Some of the Yellow Journals. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April 23. At to-day's session of the conference for education in the South, President Robert C. Ogden, of New York, m was unanimously re-elected. The old board also was re-elected. Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts, received a great ovation when he detailed his impressions oCthe South. He said that Northern newspapers' headlines were misleading; that men in the North were taught to believe that the South was lawless and loved lynching. He declared that he had found the Southern peop!e were as zealous in the enforcement of the law as the Northern people and liked the negro aa well. If not better. He said that if the education of the whites was emphasized more they could better educate the negroes. TWO ITALIANS KILLED BY LIVE FALLEN WIRE COLUMBUS. O.. April 2S. Two Italians were electrocuted at the quarries of the Columbus Stone Compuy to-day as the result of a telephone wire falling across a highly charged feed wro. The mm, James Delchil and Friend Amlcou. were passing a point where the wire rested ujon a fence and lifted it up to go under. Ths former was kided first and the latter suffered the same fate in attempting -to give cssirtance. John A. Poolo was severely shocked ud narrowly escaped death.

OF POLITICS

of Hearst Justify thir po'.Jry by bolting by the position i:.-yan took in hi recent fik-ocii at Chicago. Hearst's Chicago American, which has Nun giving .pHi.il attention to th" Inoiana Democratic situation, jesterday threatened indirectly that the Har?t Democrats in thK State will vot the Repub lican ticket this fall unless Tacsrart radi cally changes his attitude. In a "screamer head across the top of the rane the Ameri can sayn "Tap gart driv-s voters out of the party, and in the article on which the head is basod the statement was mad that Unless Tagcart adopts diffcrert methods and ceases his efforts to crral the Indiana Democracy for Parker, and unless tho Democratic state convention shall adopt a platform containing a plank declaring aeaiiii-t snap primaries and snap conven tions, thousands of Democrats will support the Republican ticket next November. It further stated that the course followed by Tapart was driving hundreds of Democrats out of the party. An amusing feature of the article was the statement that in the Republican statt convention on . Wednesday, when the platform waa adopted, every person la the audience had risen to his feet and applauded and cheered until he was hoarse when the plank referring to snap primaries and conventions was read, the audience knowing that the plank was directed at Taggart, the Democratic boss. There's nothing in particular the matter with this statement, except that it is all false. No one arose to applf ud and cheer the platform. The platform was enthusiastically applauded, but the delegate and visitors kept their soa?3 and saved their voices to "roof for their favorite! among the candidates. At the same time not a person in the convention hall had a thought of Mr. Taggart or any other Democrat at that moment. For the production of Interesting political fiction the Hearst organ is making a noteworthy record. Third district Democrats will hold a convention next Friday at New Albany that will be unusually interesting, because it will be the occasion for a bout between two "gemmen wid a grudge." It will be the finish of the lively and acrimonious contest between Judge W. T. Zenor, of Corydon, and Judge W. E. Cox, of Jasper, for the congressional nomination. The Zenor people claim that they have Cox whipped to a standstill and that their candidate will be renominated by an overwhelming majority of the delegate vote. The Cox cohorts are saying nothing and it is Inferred that they are too busy "sawing wood." No matter how loudly the Zenorites shriek out their confidence they cannot provoke an answering yell from their opponent, and they are beginning to worry In the primaries It waa generally conceded that Zenor had the better of it, but Cox put up a great fight and never conceded anything claimed by the other side. He has continued his work after all the delegates have been selected and It is altogether probable that ho has made some headway in the Zenor camp. Cox has the district organization with him and will control the machinery of the convention. That is a strong point in his favor. If he can secure the committee on credentials he may be able to seat a sufficient number of his contesting delegates to give him a majority In the convention and win the coveted nomination. He has enough contesting delegates to turn the trick, for in every county where Zenor won In the primaries, or was alleged to have won, there are Cox delegates prepared .to contest for the seats In the convention. In the convention that gave Cox control of the district organization It was recognized that he won because he had the machinery with him, and his friends say he can repeat th trick. If he does the Zenor faction will probably bolt the convention. On Tuesday following the New Albany convention the Fourth district Democrats will hold a convention at Rising Sun that will be a model of harmony the kind of harmony that comes when one man Is in absolute control and the district is run per his orders. The Fourth Is Democratio State Chairman O'Brien's district and thoso who know the inner working of Mr. O'Brien's machine say that it makes the ordinary personal machine look like old Junk. Representative Francis Marion Griffifth "voluntarily" retires from Congress with this term Mr. O'Brien wanted the Job for his good friend Lincoln Dixon, of North Vernon, who has earned it by his rervlces as district' chairman. Dixon will be nominated as Griffith's successor without a show of opposition. No better illustration of the effectiveness of the O'Brien machine could be given. There were half a dozen Democrats in the district who were eager to enter a camp2'gn for the nomination, but Mr. O'Brien said that Dixon was to be the man, and Dixon It will be. The other prospective candidates have taken eeats in the back row to wait until their names are called. Indianapolis was remarkably quiet, politically, yesterday. The crowds that had been here for the Republican state convention had disappeared, and with but a few exceptions there was not a politician in sight. Mr. Hanly was here. He spent most of the day quietly at his hotel, receiving a few friends, but in the afternoon he went over to the Statehouse and called on the men who are on the ticket with him. f Hugh Miller came up from Columbus in the afternoon to look after some business matters. Last evening the candidate for Lieutenant Governor said that he could scarcely realize that the convention was over. "The reaction has left me a little bit dazed, and I hardly know what to do with myself." he raid. "I had been going under such high pressure for the. last few weeks of the campaign that I can scarcely stop now, and I find myself almost involuntarily planning the convention llht and how I can get some votes in this or that county." Mr. Miller yesterday received a card from Booth Tarkington. mailed ten days ago In Germany, with a message in which "Tark" assured his former colleague in the Legislature that his best wishes were with him in the lieutenant governorship contest. 4Republican state headquarters on the second floor of the Hotel English were lonely yesterday. Senator C. C. Lyon had th? place all to himself, save for a stray iKor or two. Chairman Goodrich 1. at his home in Winchester, while Secretary Sims has "dropped off the earth" for a few days until he can recover from the effects df the strain under which he labored the first three days of the week. A. M. Willouqhby, editor of the Grern3burg Review, was at the English yesterday. 4 Lon K. Mull, of Manilla, Rush county.was at the Grand last night. He was formerly a member of the State Senate. DRIVEN TO DEATH BY PRANKS OP COMRADES Soldier Who Shot Himself Because He Feared Cotirt-Mar-tial Dies of Wound. ST. PAUL. Minn.. April IS. Private John Schneider. Company E. Twenty-first Infantry, who. fearing he was to tie, courtmartialed and executed for overstaying leave of absence, shot himself in the head Sunday, April 17. Is dead at the Fort Sntlling Post 'Hospital. Schneider's suicide was. it is said, due to terror of military discipline inspired by prankish comrades, who told him stories of rigid rules, the infraction of which Incurred cxtnine punishment or death. G. A. R. TO ERECT A LINCOLN MONUMENT SPRINGFIELD, 111.. April .-Robert Mann Woods, of Jolitt. was to-day unanimously elected Illinois department commander of the G. A. P. Resolutions were adopted asking for a conference between the department commander and the commanners i: chief cf the G. A. R. and the Innl LRlon. with a view to erecting In Washington. D. C. a marble or bronze monument to Uucoin-Cii the KXHh aunlvcrsarv of Lincoln's birthday. The Woman's Relief Corps elected Mr. Nellie IS. McGowau. of Chicago, as state presi Jent. The Ladies of the G. A. It. elected Mr. John I). McUurc. of Peoria, as Ute president.

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