Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1904 — Page 4

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Conference at .Chicago for the election of President Rooseelt will be answered favorably. When wild and woolly capitalists from . Kansa, City come East they should leave their revolvers at home. Such foolish things v are not at all persuasive in this part of the country. The general unanimity of the demand for . ' Jtoosevelt's nomination goes on without a break, Kentucky being the latest to add her voice. There will be mighty few uncertainteahout the next Republican national convention. It i3 evident that luck is not altogether against the Russians. The escape of the Vladivostok squadron through the fog, when itwas practically surrounded by Japanese warships, was one of the luckiest things imaginable'. Another fool election bettor is starting out to push a wheelbarrow across the continent. If such people would only engage .to Jump into the middle of a lake or something of that sort when they lose, their bets would not seem so altogether foolish and useless. These minute descriptions of how the Russians fell back on Whang-Ho and the Japanese first crossed to Gin-Chow and then pushed on to Hang-Up-High would probably prove mighty Interesting reading. If only the dispatches used the same geographical names as are used on the maps ! at hand. i Count Cassini, Russian ambassador to the .United States, sets forth in the North ' American Review the advantages that will accrue to this country In a commercial way through the trade It will have with Manchuria after the Czar's soldiers have driven the Japanese out. The count is very plausible, but as matters look now Russians will not be able to deliver the goods. ,It was' hardly necessary for the Associated New York School Hoards to go to the trouble of disputing the Mosely commission's assertion that American boys are - being feminized because they are too much under the control of womem The facts peak for themselves. American men have aiwaj's been under the domination of women, and not even the Mosely commission Will dare to say that anything in their past record or present conduct Indicates effeminacy. Information from St. Petersburg all along , has been to the effect that the Russians would Ifre the Japanese into Manchuria, then fall upon and destroy them. , And now they are going to court-martial Zassulltch because, after the Japs had been lured, he endeavored to carry out the second part of the programme. He seems not to have understood that no destroying is to be done until Kuropatkln gets 300.000 more troops. The Russians ought somehow to reach a common understanding. 'Among the recent Babylonian discoveries Is a set of tablets on which are engraved the liquor licensing laws of King Khammurabi. who reigned about 2250 11. c. It is provided that delinquents in license payments "shall be -thrown Into the river," and if a publican 'Permits riotous, drunken conduct" in the establishment ho "shall be put to death." How Indiana publicans should rJolcc that they were not Babylonian liquor sellers! These laws make the Nicholson statute look like' the proverbial thirty cents. . Mr. McDonald, of Muncie, reported In the dispatches as having been injured by a train, says he saw his danger but could not resist an Impulse which seemed to force him to step in front of the engine. A good xnany people who have no sort of wish to commit suicide can nevertheless understand the impulse described though they may not be able to account for it. It has ouie to them, possibly, in a sudden thought

of Jumping off a high place where they may i

chance to be. It Is no uncommon thing for persons with otherwise steady nerves to be thus affected., and though they are commonly sufficiently self-controlled Ho retreat from the place of danger. It Is not improbable that fome of the fatal falls fmm roofs and oth'r heights recorded in the papers from time to time may have come about In this way and with no serious suicidal Intent. It is a queer freak of the brain that leads to such things, however. YESTERDAY'S ELECTIONS. Municipal elections, like all other elections In Indiana, are interesting if for no other reason than that the voters participate in them with an energy and Intensity out of all proportion, usually, to the Importance of the Issues involved. The ordinarily calm and dispassionate citizen loses his equanimity, gets tremendously excited and "worked up" and engages In the contest in a way that might well lead Inexperienced observers to believe that his personal welfare and his whole future dePonded estlrely on the outcome. Those who understand the situation know that when election day is over and the steam, so to speak, has blown off, the lately Inflamed citizen quietly resumes his customary occupation, forgets, apparently, that anything out of the common has happened, and is at peace with the world and his neighbors. The pre-election activities and emotional outbreaks are merely manifestations of the American self-governing idea, made the. more lively by what may be called the Indiana political temperament. Municipal elections were held in many Indiana towns yesterday, and In some of them excitement ran high, but the issues in nearly every case were entirely local and had no relation, whatever, to state or national pontics. Even where' the divisions were originally made rn party lines the matters in dispute were not party questions and the divisions were not closely adhered to. The results, therefore, have no general significance and are hardly worth considering as forecasts of later elections. This is quite as true where, as In the majority of cases. Republicans have taken the lead, as where the seeming victory is with the Democrats. The state and national campaign will develop other Issues and party feeling will be intense. Local questions will cut no figure, 'and voters who were violently opposing each other yesterday will be in accord. Each year municipal elections are becoming more independent of party politics. This is as It should be. It is what the wisest statesmen have long, advised as best for both local and national Interests. The change has not come about, however, through any'efforts of reformers, but through the natural tendency of the American citizen to adopt eventually the best methods of conducting public affairs, Professional political prophets of both parties will solemnly cogitate over the results of yesterday's elections and base sounding predictions on them, but wiser citizens will npt concern themselves, knowing that ti e contest to come Is quite apart from these little struggles and must be fought out on its own ground. THE NEW LIQUOR LICENSE. The Journal sees many points of excellence in the new liquor license ordinance passed by the City Council on Monday evening, and few, if any, grounds for complaint. It is known of all men that a very considerable number of corner druggists and grocers dispense liquor by the dram. These people do not undertake to operate without a government license, and there is no reason why they should not pay a city license. Nor is there any reason why a club should have special privileges that make liquor selling more profitable to it than to a saloon keeper. But, above and beyond 'evening up the inequalities that have existedin the liquorselling privileges, is the fact that this ordinance makes the privilege much more expenslve than it was for dispensers of all classes, and, by the same token, it means a lessening of the number of saloons; and it is likely that the worst class will be the-first to go. If the winerooms and their plain violators of the State law be eliminated, undoubtedly the most harmful kind of saloon left Is the iittle grog shop existing in the factory districts and those sections of the city occupied by the homes of workmen. Here the young laborer finds associates of an evening and puts In his time and spends his wages between a rickety pool table "and the bar. Here the older workman of weak character drops in on pay day, and usually he does not get out until his week's pay is absorbed by the bar and the extempore poker game got up for his benefit. Here the child of poverty slips In at the side door with a bucket and a nickel, and hears and sees things childish ears and eyes should never hear and see. The patronage of these places, though plentiful. Is poor, and the total volume of sales in money Is not large. Nearly all of them are maintained in one way or another by the brewing companies and the profit is not large enough, in many of them, to stand the additional burden of this tax. Therefore, if It is rigidly enforced, the net result will be that a considerable number of the saloons of this class will be closed and those that remain, having heavier bur dens to bear, will be conducted in more circumspect fashion. SALE OF INJURIOUS DRUGS. The continued use of cocaine destroys the mental faculties and is likely to make the victim a burden on the community. Investigation of the case of a young negro by tho police surgeon on Sunday developed the fact that he had been taking 23 cents worth of cocaine a day for months. The habit Is said by physicians and others to be extending rapidly, especially among col ored people, and hardly a week passes, as shown by Indianapolis police records, but that a case of insanity develops In consequence. What is true of the use of cocaine is true of morphine, according to all accounts, the demand for the latter increasing each year. The effect of these two drugs upon the consumer is not precisely the same, but each leads to physical and moral degeneration, and their indiscriminate use, therefore, becomes a public evil. An Indiana statute recognizes this fact and undertakes to regulate the sale of such drugs by specifying that no druggist shall sell cocaine, opium Or morphine except on a written prescription from a licensed physician.. Failure to comply with this law is a misdemeanor and Involves a fine of not less than $10 for each sale irregularly made. Apparently no attention Is paid to the statute by a majority of druggists and no effort made by authorities to enforce it. since the most irresponsible

Person who wants "10 cents worth" has seemingly no difficulty in making the purchase. It cannot be thought for a moment, of course, thit any licensed physician will accommodatingly prescribe the drugs for those who want them, and it is doubtless true that some druggists obey the law. Enough do not, however, to make the growth of the evil easy, and it Is time a stern check were put upon their methods. A good many people in this community are engaged in one way and another In the work of reforming the victims of vice. A more direct way, so far as the drug evil is concerned, is to begin with the man who sells the drugs, not the feeble creatures who use them. Proof of illegal" sale is, perhaps, not easy to obtain, but it can be had, and a few sharp enforcements pf the law would undoubtedly have a salutary effect.

One cannot but have the deepest sympathy for James N. Tyner, the aged Indianian now on trial for traud in Washington, and nobody familiar with his long and honorable official record can believe that he was wittingly guilty of the offenses charged, his greatest crime being the confidence he reposed In those whom he per mitted to conduct the affairs of the office he nominally held. But what shall be thought of those that abused this con fidence? What punishment will fit the crime they have committed in thus humbling their aged benefactor in the dust? The United Christian party stands "for union in His name for the fulfillment of God's law through direct legislation of the people governed by the golden rule, regardless of sex, creed or color." It also favors legislation providing for an equal standard of morals for both sexes. There Is nothing Incendiary about this platform. Almost any good citizen could find a foot hold on It. A good many people. Including not a few lawyers of high standing, were disposed to criticise the decision of the United States Court for the district of Indiana In the Lynchehaun case, but, now that the United States Supreme Court has sustained the ruling, the critics can only conclude that it is the law which is an ass. . ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. An ancient vase In a Roman museum representing Homer's heroes of the Trojan war shows one of the young fellows as busy with a "punching bag" hung at the limb of a tree. Henry Norman, the well-known Journulist. has met the Czar, and eays that instead of having found him a weakling in mind and body, as frequently described, he Is obviously in the best of health and presents the situation in the far East in a sane, elear and strong manner. Since the war began In the Orient and eo much has been printed about torpedoes many people have asked in amazement why these Implements should cost so much. A good torpedo made to order comes as high as $3,000. Even ready-made torpedoes are by no means cheap, as thty cost $2,500 apiece at wholesale rates.. Miss Helen M. Gould has enlarged and improved Woody Crest, the home for crippled children which she has maintained for eight years near, her mansion at Irvington-on-the-Hudson. During the coming summer double the number of children will be accommodated. Competent teachers and nurses will be provided. Judge Sherman, of Boston, has just given one of the briefest of charges to the Jury In a damage suit against a street railway. "Well, gentlemen." he said, "you have heard the evidence. If you believe the plaintiff's story, he has a case; if you don't believe it, he has no case, is not entitled to recover, and you may return a verdict for the defendant." The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant company. A law has been "published" in Spain making Sunday a day of rest and prohibiting manual labor on that day. Consul R. M. Bartleman, of Cadiz, who furnishes this Information in the Daily Consular Reports (Washington, April 19) goes on to say: "Work on Sunday will be permitted only when absolutely necessary, the hours to conform to the regulations. On no account are women or persons under eighteen 'yeara of age to be employed on said day. The law will be' put in force within six months." t A little anecdote which Miss Jane Addams told In a recent speech in Boston on trade unionism throws a world of light upon what It means to be the daughter of a reformer and a fcelebrlty. She said that when she visited Tolstoi she was placed at supper beside his second daughter. This girl had been working in the 'fields all 'day in the place of a peasant woman who had hurt her toe. 'Are you tired?" Miss Addams asked her. The young woman turned upon her almost fiercely. "Tired? Do you know what it Is to work In the fields from 5 o'clock In the morning till 5 o'clock at night?" Miss Addams told that as an illustration of what hard wek for a woman really is. THE HUMORISTS. It Certainly Is. "Why did he choose literature aa a profession?" "Because It's so easy." "Easy!" "Yes; easy to choose." Houston Post. Measured by Feet. "What makes Brown so haughty these days?" "Why, his secret benevolent association has elected him to an office that has a title seven feet . longer than any title there Is In Smith's secret society." Chicago Post. Probably Nothing. A man tried to get a rink fuchsia To grow in St. Petersburg, Ruchsla, But always In vain. Till he cried. In much pain: "Will nothing. O fuchsia, lnduchsia?" -Puck. nnd Mtuntion. Ethel So Bob and Edith are engaged? Can he support her In the style to which she Is accustomed? Jack Support her? Why, he can't even support himself any longer In the style to which she haa been accustomed to seeing him while courting her. Judge. He Woudered. ' "William Jennln's Bryan " slowly said the Old Codger, in the midst of the Sit and Argue Club. "William Jennln's Bryan " Well, what about him?" asked Hi Spry. ' Oh. I was Just sorter wonderin." replied the veteran, "when he was goln to begin suln the Democratic party for nonsupport." Puck. No Excuse. "Is that your mule?" asked the man who was going fishing. "Yassir," said the colored man, who was sitting on a log by the road. Does he kick?" 1 " 'Deed, niistuh. he ain't got no cause to kick. He's glttin his own way right along. I'm de one dafs havln' de worry an difficulty." Washington Star. Nttpolcoii of Finance. A schoolboy who was always behind with his lessons was aked by his teacher, who was endeavoring to explain a question In arithmetic to him: "Suppose you had $100 and was to give away $S how would you ascertain how much you had remaining?" "Why, I'd count It!" he exclaimed, with a smile, as Jhe happy inspiration came to his relief. Philadelphia Ledger. A Theory as to the Japs. When it is remembered that the "Japs" arc an Insular people, while the Russians are distinctly a land race, the successes of the Japanese navy are hardly surprising. "Whether the "Japs" will U able to do as well on laai re

mains to be seen. It will be recalled that It took only a few hours for Lord Nelson to wipe out the allied fleets of France and Spain at Trafalgar, but that England found she was up a?alnst an entirely different proposition when she tried to defeat France'a forces on land. In the war of 1S12 the United States rut up a good fight on sea. but. with the exception of Jackson's vlctoy at New Orleans, we cut a vrindifferent figure on land. Surrenacy on sea does not imply supremacy on land, an-1 it is uii land that the final tet will come lwtween Russia and Japan. New York Commercial. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.

Morgan 3Iet (I I'niqne Person. An unsalted specimen of the genus American, who was Introduced to J. Pierpont Morgan recently, facetiously Inquired: "Did you ever see a genuine monopolist, Mr. Morgan?" The banker hesitated a moment and then replied: "Yes. I did. I once met a man who minded hi3 own business." New York Times. Smoothing Trouble nt Sen. Harry Lehr and John Jacob Astor visited Philadelphia recently In a motor car. They stayed overnight In Philadelphia, and during the evening a number of young men called on them. ,Mr. Lehr was In tcood spirits. His conversation was amusing. The talk happened to turn on sea voyaging, and he said: "Once, crossing the Atlantic, a tremendous row arose among the sailors. They fought down in the forecastle like a pack of wild beasts. Luncheon was going on at the time, and the first officer left the table to see If he could quell the disturbance. He had only been gone a little while when the hubbub began to die down. Everything was . julet when he returned. The captain called across the saloon to him. In an approving tcne: " 'Things seem tb be smoother now.' " 'Yes,' returned the first officer, we have ironed the sailors, sir.' " New York Tribune. The Milliner's Mistake. One of the richest and most prominent society women caught an unexpected glimpse of the reverse side of a Fifth-avenue tradeswoman's manners the other day. The society woman in question Is very quiet and unostentatious In, her dress, and It Is only the appointment of her equipage that betrays the fact that she Is wealthy. She stopped her carriage outside the establishment of a fashionable milliner, entered and addressed the proprietress. "I see you have in your window a sign, 'Apprentice Wanted. " she began. The milliner eyed her contemptuously from the crown of her modest bonnet to the tip of her common-sense shoe. "You would not do at all," she said. "I want a ladylike person who can wait on customers." "I wished to place one of my maids with some one from whom she could learn millinery while I am abroad." continued the visitor quietly, "but I'm afraid you would not do." As the footman opened the carriage door for his mistress the horror-stricken milliner recognized too late the livery of one of the "first families" of New York. New York Press. The Shrewd Mnlne Man. The other night a man In Kennebec county went on a spree, end late at night found himself In Gardiner, three miles from his home and with no way of g-ettlng there except by walking, which he was both unable and unwilling to dd. He had but $2, and $4 was the least for which any stable keeper would agree to transport him. The Inebriate scratched his head and grinned. He went to the house of a physician and rapped loudly, saying that there was a serious case on the Litchfield road and that the doctor must come with him at once. The doctor said that he would charge double fce, or $2, to go three miles at that time of night. This was satisfactory, and away they went. Arriving at the inebriate's home the doctor inquired for the patient. "Tha'sh me," replied the rural sport, with a deep chuckle, handing out the $2. . He declared that he had won a bet of $10 also, some one having wagered him that much that he couldn't get home for less than $4. New York Sun. . TARGET PRACTICE. General Kuropatkln arrived Just In time to "regret to report." Chicago Chronicle. If reports are true Russia is about as near ready on land as she was on sea. Pittsburg Gazette. It was not exactly a battle on the Yalu. The Russians simply got In the way and were stepped on. Buffalo Express. Having been licked on sea and now on land, perhaps Russia. would ask a suspension of Judgment until it tries a fight in the air. Pittsburg Dispatch. The Japanese use of the torpedo may be opening the eyes of the world, but It haa succeeded in closing the optics of a good many Russians. Detroit Free Press. Whether he likes It or not.. the white man will hereafter havs to acknowledge that both on land and sea the Jap Is his equal, man for man, whebi It comes to fighting. Chicago Tribune. ' When a Russian admiral loses a jhlp the Czar cries and kisses him. If one of the bunch should happen to capture a ship he would probably be booted. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The Japanese have been utterly obliterated in the fights on the Yalu, and are still driving everything before - them, slaughtering the enemy by the thousands, according to the latest war bulletins. Washington Post. It is reported that the Russian troops will make a determined stand at Fengwangcheng. This shows excellent Judgment on the part of the Russian commander, as the name will be all the barricade that Is necessary. Rochester PostExpress. Japanese women have been cutting off their hair and selling it to raise money for their government. Russian peasants are reported to be shaving their heads and faces for the moral benefit of their government. It is not hard to guess which action will do the most good. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Russians claim their defeats on the Yalu merely constitute a regular part of the war programme which they have mapped out. Perhaps they think they have so many soldiers to be killed oft that they can. in time, make the Japs give up, exhausted by the work of burying their victims. Chicago Record-Herald. What "We liny from Jnpan. The exports of Japan to the X'nited States are chiefly of articles which are not produced in this country, and in a majority of cases are those required by our manufacturers. Of the 80.232.H05 yen In value exported to the United States in 1902, the value of .784,720 yen consisted of raw silk, 8,921.935 yen manufactures of silk, 9.124.0S5 yen of tea, 6.2S1.733 yen matting fir floors, 577.SSS yen rice, 1.515,401 yen chemicals, drugs, etc.. while manufactures of bamboo, lacquered ware and other products peculiar to the Japanese have also figured largely In the list. Exports of raw silk from Japan to the United States have steadily grown, especially since the development of the silk-manufacturing Industry in this country. In 1S33 the value of her raw-silk exports to the United States was 11.07S.74S yen; In 1SD4. 22.457,343 yen; in 1S93, 27.826.24. yen; in ISM. 14.CS0.9S1 yen; In 1897, 32.2C2.JXV) yen: in W. 20.710. CM yen. and in 1902. 45.7S4.72') yen. Of raw silk from Japan the total exportations exceed SO.Oi'rt.OOQ yen annually, of which the United States Is the largest purchaser. France Is the next laigest customer in this line, her purchases of raw slik from Japan in 1902 amounting to 14.CS2.S15 yen In value, against 4C.7S4.720 yen by the United States. Harper's Weekly. Kiiirillncn Among IHrdn. A correspondent sends me this Interesting note: "I am sure you would like to har of a generous woodpecker I saw this summer. I was on a farm In Somerset county. Pennsylvania, and out in the orchard I. saw this red head perched on a pot of the worm fence with a grub In his mouth. The world was full of young bluebirds Just then, and a little flock was dancing on this same fence. Presently one of them sidled up to the woodpecker and opened his mouth, whereupon the obliging red head gave him the grub. I would hardly have believed that If I had read it. but seeing Is believing." I have known a similar case myself. I have seen a little chirping sparrow make a business of feeding some balf-fltdi ed robins. She watched

for her opportunity, and whenever both parent robins were away from the nest, she rushed In with her morsel. The robins resented her offlclousness and hustled her out of the tree whenever they caught her there. I hare heard of a wren that fed a brood of young robins in a similar way, and of a male bluebird that fed some young birds that were in a nest near its own. I dd not suppose that these acts of kindness among the birds spring from any a'.truistic feeling, but that they are 6lmply the overflowing of the paternal instinct. John Burrougs. in Outing.

MAKING INDIANA SAFE. A Spellbinder' Peril Dnrlnis the Campalgn of 1SSO. Private Dalzell. in Washington Post. One night in 1SS0 I spoke at Sycamore, Ind. We had a big crowd In a wood, and log heaps were burning all about to make light. As I rose to speak a lot of rough fellows rushed forward gesticulating wildly, and I noticed ithey had clubs in their hands, as they howled out. "There you. black Abolition ; no more of that: you can't speak here." I got down off the platform, walked toward them, and. mounting the stump of a tree, with out a moment to think, cried out. at the top of my voice, "Three cheers for General Hancock." They were given with a will. The ruffians stopped, stood still and wondered. The few Republicans present were disgusted. "Now.: said I, "gentlemen, I could not Join you in that cheer, but I now propose one in which I can cheer as loudly as any of you. 'Here's three cheers to General Hancock, who hanged Mrs. Burratt. " Not a' cheer but my own. The silence was broken by a big burly Irishman rushing at me, extending his hand, and laughing out: "You're the broth of a bl. I'll bet you are an Irishman." "No. my friend." I replied, as kindly as possible. "I was born In Pittsburg, but my father and mother were born In Ireland,'.' whereupon the whole crowd cheered, and I resumed my speech and was not again Interrupted except by applause. When I got back to Indianapolls I said to John C. New: "Colonel, why in thunder did you send me to Sycamore when you knew I would be mobbed?" "Oh." he quietly replied. "Dalzell. If they had killed you it would have made Indiana safe for Garfield." "Well," I replied, "that may be so, but I don't care to save your Infernal State that way." An April Dible. An antique missal sere with agt. This old world opens at the page Where, wrought In exquisite design. Illuminated scriptures shine.' A lyric from the heart of God Is penciled on the emerald sod . A shepherd psalm of waters still, Gold-lettered by a daffodil. j Upon a forest leaf apart, ' The sweet outbreathings of the heart In symbol fair are lifted tip From Incense-filled arbutus cup. Beneath the corner folded down, Hepaticas on leaves of brown ' Are syllabling in accents dim An older than a Vedlc hymn. Along the margins, butterflies Attest the truth. "We shall arise;" And birds are tuning vernal airs To this sweet strain, "Our Father cares," O sacred month of all the year! Its genesis a smile, 'a tear; Its Revelation rainbow spanned. And glorified by God's own hand. From death to life, its gospel brief Writ large on every veining leaf;. Through life to love. Its blessed word Sung clear by every happy bird. Ella Gilbert Ives, in the Congregationalism Pulllnir Hearst's Lejr. It seems to be an understood thing, loo, that Hearst boomers have to pay more for everything than anybody else. An example of this was afforded at Albany. Hill had the banquet hall of the Hotel Ten Eyck for his headquarters and paid a slight advance on the ordinary rental of the room. Hearst had the dining room facing State street, and this Is the way his bill was made up: First, the regular rental of the room, then s the estimated profit the hotel management would have made If meäls had been served In the room while ' the v convention was in Albany. The appalling significance of the second item can be appreciated only by those who have bought meals in an Albany hotel on convention days, go wide Is Hearst's present reputation for generosity that, whenever an unusually lropecunions politician shows any sljn- of prosperity, even to the extent of a new hat, he is pretty sure to be greeted with the question:: "Havs you been pulling Hearst's leg? If he asks a crowd to come up to the bar. It is regarded as positive proof that he has been engaged in that diversion. New York Letter, in Boston Transcript.' Telephone Impudence. The impoliteness of the age is beautifully illustrated on the telephone. Here is an every-day sample of good breeding: My bell rings long and loud. "Hello," I say. After the usual exhibition of Imbecility at Central a voice asks. "Who are you?" "Whom do you want?" I Inquire. "Well, who are you?" "Whom did you call?" "I want to know who you are." "That's none of your business. Y'ou rang me up." "I want 5684. G. Who are your "I! am not 56S4 G." "Well, who are you? "None of your business, if you are afraid to tell whom you want." - "I want 56S4 G." "Well, ring off.'' A gentleman or lady, In ringing up any one, should Immediately say something like this: "Hello. Is this 0000 John? Yes. I am So-and-So. and should like to speak with Mr. Charles Gunyon on a matter of business. Kindly ask him to come to the 'phone." There Is a lot of most offensive blackguardism over the 'phone. A common fellow at the end of a five-mile wire feels that his cowardly carcass Is safe. New York .Press. A Thrilling Air Ship Experience. In the May World's Work the following thrill ing experience in one of his air ships is related by Santos Dumont: Once when I was flying over Taris, a rope running from the long frame of the "engine room," suspended, got caught in the pulley, fortunately In the long frame, not In the "engine room." I walked along the frame, which Is about three Inches wide, sideways, leaned down, fixed the pulley and got back to ray seat In four or five n-.inutes. How high was I then? Oh! about a thousand feet, but I held on to the braces. If anything happens to my engine, I am a balloonist, and. therefore, in a similar predicament to a sea captain whose ship has' lost Its propellors, or broken Its engines. He must hoist the sails or be at the mercy of the elements. The valves at the end of the balloon regulate the effect of the temperature upon the gas. If I have difficulty in rising quickly, I throw over some ballast, or let out water from the "engine room." A Lament. One morn, one beauteous morn, I rose from sleep. I knew full well what I would do that day. Lie in the grass and give -my fancy play. Then write such lines one could not choose but weep. The air, the birds, the clouds that seemed to creep. The spangled grass (it was the month of May) Chimed with my mood and bid me not delay: Nor to myself my vagrom fancies keep. To what base uses are our lines applied! The lines I wrote to move the peopled earth And bring down Immortality on me, The lines I wrote with love, and Joy, and pride Moved the dull editor to senseless mirtu "Your sonnet fills a gap upon page three." Charles Battell Lonmis. In the Metropolitan. Ilrllltnnt Feat Dimmed. The brilliant feat of an English railway train on Saturday evening in carrying the American mall from Plymouth to London. 247 miles, in 227 minutes, was somewhat dimmed by the fact that, under English postal rules, that mall must He In the postoffice until this morning before being distributed. Philadelphia Inquirer. Collece Woman's) Mistake. "Only the cooks and the maids go walking on moonlight nights with their gentleman friends." declares Miss Marion Talbot, dean of the woman's department of Chicago University. Doubtlees she now regrets that she never learned to cook St. Louis Republic y

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The municipal elections throughout the State resulted in the expected number of surprises and "reversals of form," so far as the party showings were concerned, and on the face of the early returns it would require a more astute person than a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out whether on the whole the Republicans or Democrats have won a significant victory. It appears that In most instances, while the candul.ites were classed on the tickets as Republicans or Democrats, they were not running as party men on partisan issues. Perhaps the greatest surprise cf the day was at Warsaw, where the Democrats elected the mayor in the face of an apparently overwhelming Republican majority. Not even the more sanguine Demo crats will point to this as in indication that Kosciusko county will po Democratic next November. Again, in Terre Haute, where it was thought that Mayor Steeg was firmly intrenched and could not bo defeated for re-election, the Republican candidate, Ed ward Bldaman. was comparatively an easy winner. The election of a Democrat as mayor cf Lafayette was another surprise, and so it went in all parts of the State a Democrat elected here in a normally Kepublican city, and a Republican elected there where the Democrats are usually in the majority. Perhaps the most interesting political contest of the day was the fight between the Tarker and Hearst forces in Vanderburg county over the selection of delegates to the state convention. The mass convention held in Evansville was such a turbu-. lent affair as to make the recent Republican convention there appear as quiet as a pink tea in comparison. Thera were rough-and-tumble fights In the hall, and the net result of the wrantrling was two sets of delegates, one instructed for Tarker and the other instructed for Hearst. Kacn siae claims that the other did the bolting and that its is the only genuine, blown in the bottle delegation. It will be up to the cre dentials committee of the state convention next week to settle the controversy, with the approval of the convention, and as the Parker forces will probably control the convention it is regarded as reasonably certain that the Parker delegates from Vanderburg will be seated. At Hearst headquarters last night it was stated that advices from three different sources in Evansville showed that tne Hearst forces had been in an overwhelming maioritv in the mass convention, had captured the convention, desplfes the efforts of the Parker people, wno contronea me organization machinery, afd had elected thirty-six delegates regularly and instructed them for Hearst. On the other hand. National Committeeman Taggart was notified that the Parker forces had controlled the convention by a vote of three to one, had elected their slate regularly and instructed the delegates for Parker., while the Hearst people had bolted when they saw thej- were outnumbered. The Parker delegates will have the credentials f the county committee when they come to the state convention, so it will be necessiry for the Hearst delegates to appears as contestors. , A dispatch to the Journal from Washington says: "The opponents of Judge Parker in the Democratic ranks of the East are probing Into the history of the careers of the Judge and his Immediate supporters to prove that Mr. Bryan Is right in asserting that no trusts need to. fear the New York Democrats as represented by Judge Parker and his supporters. The claim is circulated here that the records show that the sugar trust has cordial friends and active supporters in Cord Meyer, the new charrraan of the Democratic committee in-New York, and that McCarren, the active Parker leader, is in the same boat. The question is propounded here whether the trust organizations in New York are not actively supporting Judge Parker in the hope of escaping from the strenuous hostility which President Itoosevelt has exhibited towards unlawful combines. Proof of the relations of the Parker crowd to trusts is said to be furnished by the fact that Meyer sold out his sugar interests to the trust, and that the investigation by the New York Lexow committee, two years ago, showed that McCarren was one of the most Industrious of the advocates of trust interests in the State. The Hearst supporters, and all those who are unfriendly to the Tarker movement are engaged in circulating this Information regarding the trust sympathizers behind the Parker boom." James Leroy Keach, the man who directed the campaign' that resulted In the election of John W. Holtzman as , mayor and then failed to gfct the credit for the work, has stirred local Democratic circles by giving out a statement of his attitude in the present situation, in the course of which he denounces Taggart and Taggart machine methods, and at the same time takes a rap at the devoted head of the mayor. Mr. Keach has not been figuring in local Democratic affairs recently. After the city eler ion he made an effort to defeat Joseph T. Fanning: for re-election as district chairman and to put Taggart down and out of politics for alLtime, as he put it, but falling In that, the city chairman dropped out of sight politically, and the politicians have been wont to say of him that he was devoting his, attention exclusively to the business In which he earned fjor himself the title of the "Potato King." However, it seems that Mr. Keach i3 neither dead nor sleeping. His interview indicates that he is very much alive and will be construed by some as proof positive that he is "sore" and has been devoting his time to sharpening a long, twoedged knife that he purposes to insert in the political anatomies of Taggart, Holtzman and others, and then twist wickedly. Mr. Keach opens fire by stating that Holtzman was elected mayor as the result of an effort to get away from Tom Taggart and Tag-gartlsm and hinting that the mayor would do well to confine his energies to directing municipal affairs instead of setting himself up as a trustee to take care of the political welfare of his party.- Then he hands Mayor Holtzman this liner: "I do not believe that Jf Mr. Holtzman were sent to the national convention he would really represent anybody but -Mr. Holtzman." Turning directly to Taggart, he says: "I am against Mr. Taggart for national chairman because I am opposed to Taggartlsm and I think that his local methods would be carried into any channel in which he might find himself. I am opposed lo bosses and bossism." In defining his position on national questions Mr. Keach says that he is opposed to the nomination of W. R. Hearst for President and is in favor of the nomination of Judge Parker. At the same time he thinks Hearst is entitled to fair treatment because "he proved himself a Iemocrat In the dark days of the party." Then Mr. Keach says: "I am for Judge Parker and opposed to corrupt primaries, .and have never seen anything more corrupt than the snap primaries held In this county." "In conclusion." says Mr. Keach, "I desire to state that there is not a sore spot on me. I am a Democrat. I intend to support the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be. whether Bryan or Hearst or Parker or Cleveland. I intend to support the Democratic platform, no matter what It may contain. I am a regular Democrat, without any axes to grind, but I would like to witness a return of the good old days when fair methods governed Democratic primaries and conventions." All in all. Mr. Keach's statement Is one of the. most interesting contributions with which Indianapolis politicians have been regaled In many months. Inasmuch as he has scored Mayor Holtzman and the city administration, pounded Taggart and all his friends, declared that he has no use for Hearst and criticised the methods by which the Parker forces have conducted thelf campaign, it is apparent that Mr. Keach Is in complete harmony only with Mr. Keach. He says that Mr. Holtzman would represent no one but Mr. Holtzman as a delegate to the Democratic national convention. Now. the question is not amiss, whom would Mr. Keach represent if -he were sent to St. Louis? Would he represent the Democratic bolters of IMtf and 1M? From a dispassionate point of view, it appears that Mr. Keach's real grievance against Mr. Taggart Is that Mr. Taggart has ben more successrui as a boss than he (Keach) has been. All of which leads naturally to the questions. - "What Is a machine?" and "What is a boss?" and the answers, "The other fellow's organization" and The other fellow." Mr. Keach's Interview was widely commented upon yesterday. Almost every one Interested in politics had something to say about It, save, Mr. Taggart. When the "wilv boss" was i.-ked last evening what he 'thought of it he laughed heartily and said he had nothing to say. Then he changed hl mind. "Just say for me," he said, "that I don't care what Keach h&a to say. about me.

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or any one or anything else, just so he lives up to his promise that. i:i the future, he will support the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be." And it should hr added that Mr. Tacgirt laid unusual stress on the words "In the future." Mayor Holtzman was not making any comments for publication on the Keach interview, but it was reliably reported that privately the mayor said some things about Mr. Kach that were couched in vigorous English. It has long been understood that Mr. Holtzman cherished an ambition to go to the Democratic national convention as one of the delegates at larpe from Indiana, and to have the man who had been his most intimate political associate say that If he were sent to St. Louis he would represent nobody but himself is certainly "the most unkindest cut of all." 4At Hearst headquarters in the Claypool Hotel the Keach Interview created nothing but alloyed joy.. Anyone who takes a Hing at Tagcart and Taggart's methods in lining up Indiana for Parker, scores a tremendous hit with the Hearst pople, and it was stated last evening that steps had already been taken to put Keach's name on the Hearst slate for delegate at large to the national convention, provided Keach will forget that he ever said he was opposed lo Hearst and favored Parker. f Crawford Fairbanks, the Terre Haute brewer , and Democratic iolitIcIan, was at the Grand last evening. He had nothing to say on politics, but was interested In receiving the returns from the municipal election In Terre Haute. He proved himself of prophetic insight by saying he feared Mayor Steeg would be defeated fcr re-election. 4The formal call for the Democratic state convention, to be held Thursday, May 12. in Tomlinson Hall, was issued yesterday by the ttate committee. State Chairman W. H. O'Rrien, of Iawrenceburg. arrived in the city last night and will be here now until the convention is over. f Politicians who are disinterested observers of the strenuous contest between the Parker and Hearst forces are deriving no little amusement from the Inconsistencies shown by the Hearst people. In Indiana the Hearst people have shouted themselves hoarse with denunciations of the unit rule by which they fear Taggart will euchre them out of any votes from this State in the national convention. At tha same time in Illinois the Hearst people are boldly declaring that they will give Hearst a solid delegation from that State by the application of the unit rule. The Chicago American in referring to the Cook county primaries said: "The result of the primary elections in Chicago and Cook county settles the question of the state delegation at a ratio of about two to one for Hearst, assuring a solid delegation to the national convention of iifty-four votes for William Randolph Hearst under the unit rule from the State of Illinois." Again, when the delegates from Posey county to the state convention were named by the county committee and instructed for Parker the Hearst people could scarcely find vigorous enough language to express their indignation at the outrage, but now that the mass convention In Benton county has selected Parker delegates the county committee there, which is dominated by Hearst, has named a set of delegates and will bring a contest before the credentials committee of the state convention. 4Henry A. Barnhart, of the Rochester Sentinel, who was one of the prominent Indiana Democrats to come out early for Hearst, has given out an extended statement regarding his position, in the course of which. he says: "In my section of the State we are concerned first, as to the importance of frank Democracy in our platform, and, second, a to the sturdy and reliable Democracy of the nominee. We would much prefer Hearst, or any other Democrat whom we believe would be a Democrat after election, to a candidate surrounded by influences that, if effective, would make the future of our party as uncertain as it was under Cleveland, when he hearkened to nothing but the roar and rabble of Eastern clamor. The Democratic party owes something more to the people than temporary ascendancy to power. It owes them relief from legislative and administrative liaison with corporation greed and from Republican-practice that 'might makes right.' I fully agree with the eversensible and loyal John IV. Kern that Democrats should keep cool.- And they should do more than that. They should avoid straying away after false gods and, win or lose, continue to champion the cause of private liberty and public weal as against all temptations to abandon the gospel of 'equal and exact Justice to all men and special privileges to none.' " 4- 4Giles W. Smith, of Peru, who has rounded out almost four-score years and still takes an active part in the Republican politics of Miami county, was in the city yesterday. Senator Charles W. Fairbanks left yesterday afternoon fcr Springfield, 0.,.wnence he will proce-ed to New York to attend the meeting of the McKinley. Memorial Association on May 3. 4- . The decision of the Supreme Court on the legislative apportionment law . will probably be handed down this week, it' ia understood. 4- " Col. Charifs E- Wilson, of Lafayette, former secretary to the Governor, was in the city last evening. Iu speaking of the reception accorded J. Frank Hanly and Secretary of State Storms by Lafayette people la6t Saturday. Colonel Wilson said that-It was a large and enthusiastic affair. "The published reports of the magnitude ' and enthusiasm of the demonstration were by no means exaggerations," he said. "It was a great affair and a nice feature of it was that the Democrats did. the graceful thiDg and showed that they appreciated the honor that had come to Lafayette through the nomination of Mr. Hanly for Governor and the renomination tf Mr. Storms. Dan W. Simms, one of the leading Lemocr-ts of the city, made oue of the happiest speeches on the programme, and there was a ring of sincerity in what he said." The Democratic state convention next week will mark the reappearance In state politics of "Eb" Henderson, of Morgan county, who was for years one of the leaders of Indiana Democracy. Mr. Henderson is coming to the convention as a delegate, and as a Parker delegate at that. Mr. Henderson was formerly auditor of state and Just twenty years aga' he was chairman 9f the Democratic state committee when Cleveland was first elected President. For years no Democratic state gathering was complete without him. and then after suffering business reverws he dropped out of politics. Next week he will come out under the lime light again. anJ as he is getting well along in years; it will probably be his last appearance as an active participant in political affairs. J. M. Mcintosh, of Connersville, national bank examiner, is in the city, having Just returnc-d from a trip down Into Kentucky that took him away from Indiana Just in time for him to miss the Republican state convention. Prohibition State Chairman Charles B. Newlin returned yesterday from Jay county, where, on Monday night at . Redkey, he opened the campaign for his party. "It was my first campaign speech this year." he said, "and 1 only hope that I shall have as large and as enthusiastic audiences everywhere I speak between now and November as I had there." 4-4-Senator Beveridge was notified yesterday that E. C. Rankin, of the Indianapolis postoffice, had been reinstated as a railway mall clerk and would probably be given a run between this city and Louisville. The senator also received notice yesterday from the St. Iuls exposition officials that Clyde T. Amick. of North Vernon. D. O. Kearby, of Orleans, and Charles E. Lucas had been appointed guards at the exposition. 4 A telegram receded yesterday from Washington by Senator Beveridge indicated that the order transferring W. E. Ogden from the quartermaster's depot at JeffersonvJlle will not be reeclnded by the Quartermaster general

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