Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 December 1903 — Page 3

Weeklu Courier. C DOAMK. PiblUkrr. 9ASPEJL l I i I JLND1ANA.

Their Last i I Trail J By William Buckley t

IF IT ia true that cutting off the hands of a Baxter street clothier deprives him of all power of speech, what argument can a cowboy be expected to enforce if you take away his arms' The 'ahort. sharp bark' of his pistol, always at hand. qui k. faithf'il and vicious as a watch-dog, is the colleague of his disputation. It is the Mallet, th ex. tarnation point, the conclusion of his syllogistic premises, and the um;ire of his debate. This, at least, is the case with the very newest and roughest western act t lernen is Rapid City (the "citjr" bein the 'ar a whl h the townspeople aimed, rather than an Index of population) -Rapid City was an extreme example of these picturcs-pi" iut unwholesome communities The alarming death rate, indeed, managed to see tire the town a certain amount of fr advertlsinc. hut even this was of a sort that tended to in-: :. m Immigration than emigration The realization of this latter tin-1 poetic truth compelled the local mar.shal to Issue a reluctant edict forbid- I iine man. .woman, '-hlld or broncho

to "park a Knf In the vam!" limits of the rity He was not blind to the heroic poetry of staking a lifo on a tiny bulbt. or the drama' ic justice of an appeal to arms: hot he was there primarily to servo the municipal advantage. So he nailed up hN manifestowith the revolutionär)' effect of Lethert thesis. Now. the present Incumbent of th marshalry of Rapid City had won his exs'ted position solely because no on could recall a time when he had been either dilatory for a fatal moment, or iMeevrate for an effei -tive halr'sbrad'h In his manipulation of that product of the American desire for iul k results. So ;he cow-punchers took out tier rvenge in onth? and threats acain1 the next SitctleCl, and from the very day after the edict the place of the pastel knew it no more. Men had a half - lad look and a j naked, defense ss feeling without their customary armament. Many a nand went back to an MmepOMtrc bep. and nu.irrela went tame- and all unsatisfactory. How was a ft-an to prove Ms ownership of sn overboiling "jiek-pot" with only empty hands ;o verify his claim? How set th tenIerfoot to hopping In Trrp- ' ri hotfJU terror? How avenge the lie direct without artillery? For fists are nrdlgnified weapons op. the fmn'lcr. and for u? only In unlm- . portanf squabbles, nnd as an introduc

tion to the hiRher court procedure of

the revolver.

Rapid City had managed to survive abtust a week of this um-omfortaHe. negative virtue, when Jesse R,lanie. Esq . rode into town at about four of the afternoon He had been on his ranch all week, and as he Mead B1 the unmirrorcc'. bar of "Kno Jim's Plac" he listened to the new State of affairs with many an oath of incredulous amaze At his right side, hammer to the front, swung his far-farr.ed 14 extra-long revolver To demand it of him would he railing on Hector to yield up his lane- and count himself tam 1 So Holende stood, lounging in relaxed might acmes th grin v ütt'e bejr and throwing Into his un bared throat Klasfuls of liquid Cm -that unconcealed lava of a western dis'illery-vol- , cano SudeVnly those at the window heu an to cvinc genuine excitement, a thing unusual in the more than socially blase cow-pun I er.s. whom a mortal combat hardly galvanizes. One of them blurted out. smacking his hps Valkrle-wie in anticipation of a magnificent battle: "Watch out. 1 Rolande, the marshal's coniln' " Bolamle shrugged his huge frame In contemptuous indifference. Quick upon ' this heralding rame the marshal's au- ' trust self. He paused just Inside the 1 door and blir.ke his eyes, in In'rodu tion to the dusk of the low browed room. In the twilight he did not Im- ; pose an heroic figure His rolossslly : Impressive power saluted you only j when the full day hrourht you a gltoii e of a Jaw that was not square and phlegmatic, but et gaunt and nervo isly firm; of eyes that did not wtte their ferocious steel in a set fierceness, and yet pae a uint of lurklag demons The marshal was hardly above me-iium h itrht md rather helow mettlum welnhf His light lor.

were wrapped with s'ee wire rah r than with ponderous mu-.dc U I bulk .s tu. .r own chief hindrance. The marshal wore a pistol at his side, exofficio. His dtttv demanded it. and no man feared its abuse in the dove-like gentbness of his nnoffenslve noodt The marshal aul lb lande Wife old friends Tney had 04 . Blotted on a ragged elaltT. uon I h m inntahsf together: tn. had st. beck to hick In skinulshet, with yelling savages in a howhr. w.iderness. Anl n vw their youthful mistress. Adventure, had lout ebarm for them and they had drawn

Into the she.! that a man in his forties will prote. i with his life from any encroachment, th ucn he has M dewire to make it the base of excursions Info other iiia's ptrserve.. nut Rolande and Lht marshal were tili v d frienris. bondaged with the pol.b i link ef OMHfMl reminiscence. vV'hin the marshal enured the mom,

he did not at first see B lande'a rw-

rolver, and there was an inresfrslmd

cordiality ia the -How!" with which he -reeled him. while the warmth of H' ! ind- ' , answ.r Mioe with a ptulflc.uory iitu amn'.s.s When finally the glint of Bolandens dingy weapon struggled through the

smoke of the ro,m to the marshal's eye. he aald quietly, that others might not hear: "Jessse, stick your gun bhln.i the bar till you're leaving town. !'nr let roe tote your gun In this man's town new " I'crliaps there was too much of fhe

ity marshal and too little of the friend in his tone, but Rolande'a look took on a hint of rigor, .ind there was a tWftSf of defiant in his tone as he trted to laugh out bis "Owning this place now, are you. marshal1' There was too little Bubtility in Bo landen intonation to deceive the mar shal in its portent, and he flung back a siiaro reply: "Any skin off vou, if I do?" And Bolande calmed before the other's frar.i; resentment and ibruggiBf hlmslf again murmund- "Nope Bui thar'll be m me off the man tnat tries

to take my gun away." AInost pleddiiu'ly the qulesrent mnrshal answered: "Jetee I'll che

you till fix to put up your gun. or poll your freight out .if this " Still more unassumingly, but still more firmly. Rolande a;, trered: "Tonil And me riqht here at .six. Rrins: ;our ner.e with ron, marshal. Hare a HrinL t"

"Don't mind If I do. Jesse. Here's bow!" ?n they drained the esartyrdom with unflinching gustr . Tber, ,e marshal turned to leave, and Rolaedt sang out, with no whit of banter in his voice: "So long. marshM! Six o'clock g It?"

"Six. Jesse. " he answered, with an much oftenier ap.xal in his voice as

was pos.iide in the throat made bris. Mth the raw western air. and a b.-art -rown flinty with years of concealed, repressed, and thereby Uttte-kBOWl emotion "Better think it m i Jesse ." Eolande only answered half anoloisretfcaHy: 'im not 1 ravy on the think," and retrieved himself from, tenderness with a blunt, "but I'll he here, six foot two in my socks " The ttr day had swallo.vcd the marshal. The cynosure of all the eyes ambushed behind heavy eyebrows and low-brimmed hats was Rolande, who was afaln at the bar. rigid and erect as a tower One hand played a tattoo with his half-emptied glass, the ether hovred at the butt of his pso? He was stolid, alert, grim, deadly. The whizz and boom of the striking clock startled everyone in the almost dieedew ro.m. The fights of frontl4BMrl are cenerally the sudden prompt incs of an iinfiweeeei rase Formal, punctual duello is rare. Kven Bolande was a little nervous, and gulped not infrequ-ntly stimulants to whet his nerves and anger to the ejeetjf of I razor. With knowledge born of lifelong: experience, he had q u a 1 1 y refraJaed from drinking !iim.-ef pa the! hesr form The marshal evidently thought It

only risht to give his old friend three

minutes of crace. for it was a little!

after the hour when his step was 1 ird on the board walk outside. Hit lean. Btfoag figure was clad In his b broad loth he would flqht Iii e a gen-' icm.au. ready for fivre or ItiuBiph. That his readjMBe le suit was much tot) loose hardly marred the nntheafrlej sublimfty of his ereid, stern. stublorn.

Angio-gaxon eoomge In rerr modesty he pulled his broad-brimmed hat over the pan'her tdaze of his nthleM chre When the marshal entered the sabvin. Boleade waited alnily for his eyes to learn the denser twilight of h rDOSD. His hand drew a little ner.rer his revolver, but forcbore to drew it or even clutch its handle

As the marshal s scan hing look rr.dr out Bolande's form, and h inting itirtb-r. found his pistol undetlironed, his teeth set hard upon the last plea of friendshio. and with n perfe, tly level voice he said, inquisitorially ! alm: "You're still here. I see " "I'm here." came an answer of equal j phlegm And though (here was a cry of imnv ! in his voice, yet it was quiet, as the marshal declared war thus- "Then, by j God. look out for yourself!" With epic equality and speed the w.apons baped into position. The pecUkton, knowing no shots would be! wasted, kept only from the Immediate' , neighborhood of the fight Two semlrirrles of faint clamour marked the I path of the revolvers as they flashed from hip to aim. A spitting of quick J t fire two sharp sc.acks of noise, so

twined that neither eye nor ear could name the earlier, and the revolver! had Rpoken Neither In vain. Botende foughl Write his arm swinging free, his whole bouy exposed The marshal's first bullet hit him in the depth of his chest and whirled him odpletety around. The next s'iot lunged Into his unwonnded tide and threat deea tkrcwga Mm. The marshal, a little cooler, a little readier for battle, had crooked h's left nrm into a shield for his heart and lunrs. and In its elbow rested his busy revolver Rolanle's first shot went high and telfBg on his chin, carried irvay the fieBfl of half his jaw. The second miss-ed. Hung: low an I nipped nt his ritht elbow, shattering the Joint and shaking the six-shooter from his

grasp As he bent in fierce haste to seize It with hla left hand, Rolande shot him throuvh the top of the shoulder, breaking his spine anil ptalvzing the lowr part of him Rut even ns he quivered to the floor he grasped hla revitlver. and. agonllng Into a quick aim. fired again at nolande The bullet fastened on Rolande'a left leg, end brought the giant thundcruuely down. And now the dee-

perate marshal in crying In rabid Ua-

poience "Kal.se me ,, gome qf vau' Raise me up, and give me anoth. r try at the 1" Rut Rolande had gathere.1 himself Into sujM.rh I) it ion prone on the floor. In the old fashion ot Indian fighting.

nih pistol roven-d his frenzl-d adversary, and he said, with a paternal qmetvde of victory: "Marslal. l think wee hit om la if trail. Neitb. r of us Is worth any more Med. Ia It quits?" Then the bjtt of killlne died out of each heart, out of the heart Of one

in bis honorable failure to sustain tha sovereignty of the law. out of th earl Of the other in his failure to surriee trespass on his personal monarchy And when the savage strength of reeolee that support, d their erreeked and shattered hulks died out. it left them swooning and unconscious at fainting women So they died, stern In wrath, stern In love, with no puny cry of contrition, no wild appeal for mercy be-

onn tr.e ttretery; each content, rather than proud, that he and his friend had died came They were Americans. With all their faults and all their virtues, both necessary to the uprlshteous wrenching of a continent awav

from Itt mi worthy owners. Of such were the builders of the west. Overland Monthly

THF; CITY OF SOFIA.

A Briirhl nail Hualllss Town That Mn Hritri la Mnriubla I'srli.

PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. Lk of l'r i.lon Which Might R PetitotM ' I ndrr Ortaln Tfrwtea teaeee. A vice president was created to take the llae of the president in eBt of

the latter s death, resignation or disability, and in the event of the death ir dleaMllty or both the president and rice pre ideat, congress was empowered to settle the succession by law, writes Senator H (' Lodge, in Sr ribner s nut in the . ase. by no means an impossible one. of the death or disability of the piv.sid.-nt el t. or of both the president and vice president-elect, after the adjournment of the el.ctoral eoUegee and before March 4. no provision Whatever was made for the cutcession or for the continuance of the executive tabaeqiKmi to March . This was the way the matter was left by the framers of the original constitution In the twelfth amendment, adopted In ISO, and regulating the manner of choosing a pretldeet by the house, la the case of a failure to elect hv the

I people, it Is said that If the house does BO) elect before Man h 4. the riot president "shall act as president, as in tho case of the ieath r other (Constitutional disability of the president." Thus the amendment by implication provides for the possibility of the death of he president-elect, but the case of the death of both the president and vice president-elect remains as the constitution Itself originally left it. wholly uncovered. Should this contineercy lust mentioned ever occur, at it well might, some way out of the grave situation thus created would no doubt be found, but it would have to le cv r.-.-c. institutional and through an assumntion of power by congress. In the essential duty of maintaining the existence of the government without lapse or break this is a serious, if not perlloua, omlesloa. There is no such oversight, no euch Instance of neglect to be found In the constitutional arrangements guaranteeing the perpetuity and unchanging character of the senate. THE RUSSIAN AS A SOLDIER. lie la Slow. Poxard and a FatnlUt la F.ery mHM ot tiir armed.

A wide, tinning valley, ami, far b)ud, the ttut-p incline uf an endiete luouutaiu lame the Vi tote h chain, ttill MOV -capped whui we taw it. nays a fiter Ig Pall Mall Gazette, agalatt a bright blue bky w hile nearer the earth was lad with cloak of the toft tt verdure, a lush green heeming to round the contours uf outline here and there. Such wan the first impression of the panorama betting within which we

found oMfertatd Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, at bright and mdTn looking t little town ah. say IJaden-Hadcn. and.

indeed, more reminiscent of torn inall

Orman "residenz stadt" in style and structure than anything one generally

Delates mentally with the near east.

two days are, of cuur.se, not much in which to judge of any place. It is

ereljr the obvious then that strikes

me visitors eye and is retained ujxm bis mental retina, and therefore to ur mind the name of Sofia is lastingly associated with sundry broad ami shady streets, boulevards beneath which we watched with untiring ii.terest the constant flow of traffic, the coming and going of soldiers, mondaines. peasantry and curious semi-oriental figures, very evidently dwellers beyond that tow. ring mountain ratine, w hom a desire to barter, or who knows? possibly v. n the i ver-preaeut miasma of intrigue in these Ualkan principalities had brought hither. It was late spring and the sun'n heat had something of the coming tUOV

ail r in it, yet these stolid, slowly moving Biuret wore their fur caps and long

skin coats, of which the sheep's wool turned inward forms the lining, without apparently the least discomfort. Most of them kd their oxoB, hsnteeoed to cumbrous carts, while again near these the 'smart electric trams rhtsxed by a strange and incongruous mixture of the east and west The most pictureeque element in the street traffic was the peasant women, many of the girls being quite beautiful, their garments gay with red and blue embroideries, and their persons loaded with barbaric looking silver ornaments, silver colas even glinting b re and there amid their long, thick rav. n plaits Am-ther touch of color was given to this BCOBt by the numerous different uniformt Which distinguish. 1 le militaire, the general SppearSBce Of which reminds one of the Russian military dress, although the men seemed of better physique, generally sp.aking. Toward evening this picture became even more

I nr.. mated, for the inhabitants of Sofia j love the open air; the caf s and restaurj ants then assume the aspect of some less.r Paris, pr.ttv faces, elecant

toilets, music and laughter dominatinc.

I me si-ene in the smartest town quarter

neyond this actual enter of life tt retch rows of villa residences, half buried, at that time of year, aaild leafy

's w "tie tb- i . a.-, . -s muh: of birds here, there and everywhere seemed to

attest a scarcity of cats in Sofia's suburban districts, and certainly stamped It as a veritable paradise for the feathered creation. The royal palace, row as "correct" a rcsid. m e as any prince could desire, was, we were in., not alWajn so; In fact, at the time of Prince Alexander's advent it was with lotnt difficult that two water-tight rooms could be found for the accommodation of his highness, while the unmade roads w.re then still dimly IllumlneC with lanterns, making darkness visible Binee those days, howettr, the little Unitarian capital has certainly g me ahead, and at all ev nts brushed its. if up" externally.

BLUFF OF REPUBLICANS ftrrfas to Dlude fh oiara Into the Bell! That fciarrfcotr .

"The Russian soldier, as I saw him during th.- Boxer campaign, Impressed me as being a fatalist of a very practicaJ sort, ' writes () K. Davis, in Kverybdy's. ' .f it it his time to loso hh life he will Jene it. and there It little use In trying lo tare it. Me might as Well BO to ottS plae- as another and It makes no difference whether he get Into a fight or keeps out r? if He trav

els the line of lcApt resistance, and

. 's,

SUPERSTITIONS OF INDIA. Uriliira.lHV I Iteicnriir! n nn I nfor. tatWtt ln l t he Mohnmtaedatie.

The republnant have fjoled the eople so often and so long, or at least

mey mink tiiey have done so, in regard tfj prosperity and itt causes, that they Ihink the people will believe whataver the republicans tell them. ThU la having a demoralizing effect upon the republicans and is making them even more reckless of fa ta than formerly. If the republican leaden in ni:resa assert that black ia white they fully pect a majority of the people to belitve it, at least on election day. The republicans have but one cause

ror proeperity- the Dingley tariff act and continued republban administration. Good crops in this country with high prices, occasioned by the scarcity abroad, cuts no ice. in their plan of J talvation. for all of these things will be reversed if the wicked democrats should get control of the government; gf least so the republicans unhtsitat- j ingly tell us. for haven't we had ex- ; perience in the past? Now that we are in the midst of a BS- 1

vere depression and that hundreds of thousands are out of employment entirely, while millions are working at reduced wages, the republicans continue to prattle about "republican pros

perity and to assert that we are more prosperous than ever before. When the Hm J. G. Cannon was nominated for speaker of the house, he said, in a speech to the republican caucus: "Th people never were so well and perfectly employed as now " In a speech in the houseon Decemberl, Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa, unblushingly stated; "To-day every man In the United States who wants to work finds compensating wages in the creat labor

fields of (he 1'nited States, and at a compensating wages. What hat there been a time when the distribution of wealth was as great at it is now. tnd when the humblest and the poorest had so large a share of the accumulations of each year as now? There never has been a time." Of coursA the democrats quickly accept such challenges as to the pr- sent ondition of industry and business. They are having long lists of wage reIsetiogM and closed mills printed m the Congressional Record. They are lso printing numerous statements 'roni leading republican papers and 'rnt'i trade journals which freely and frankly declare that we are now at the beginning of what appear? to be a

pn.xi ,t depression and are dlsettssdag the probability of the extent of this period. Hut what do the republicans rare for these facts when they are eon fldem that they can delude the voters

ItttO believing that everybody is prosperous? Are the people really hypnotized n election day by th.se lending republ least? vm the people ever npen their eyes and see the facts for themselves? When thev do there will

be a big and varied collection of republican statesmen out of jobs. Times will then surely get bad right away; very very bad.

HANN A BACKS OUT. ewe Hnowrtlt with m Hat Job Hla Maada au! Mlaiaclf VrM to Aot.

It looks very much as if Mr Haunt re leaviuft Mr Roosevelt with the

nag to bold. la the bag Mr. Rouse velt in holding is a big national vcaa dal and several other detrimental facte

j peculiarly associated with hit ad-tain- ; istratlon. They bevome the more pui liarly hit own political property when the great party boss, Marvua A. Hunts, declines to have anything to do with, th.'in. sayt the St. Louis Republic. By cuftlag himself off from Mr. H.x.sevelt aad ail things Rexwev. ltlan, Mr Ha run leaves himself fr to follow his own political fancy in his own Political wavy. Mr. Hanna ctuld go before the republican national aonvention unincumbered, from the convention 'S point cat view. He could go before the onveation with a clean promise of provicilag a radically different quality of adjainistration and federal ervlce. and a promise r ndtcsUlttg his party's re-ord. if rtrtoeilllg his party and rehabilitating it in the people's respect, by contrast, his ompetitor, Mr. Roosevelt, could not make m h promises; at least could not give such promises: a political value so that

tney would pass enrrent in exchange for thf pople's votes. Mr. KoosevelJ is estopped by the administration's record. Mr Hanna'e declaration that he will not occupy the chairmanship as of old .inclusively demons rates thafboodle' possess, s a tremendous pditi. al significance in republican circles: in fa t the declaration almost establishes "boodle" as an issue, were a de-iaration required to establish w hat ie established already. Certainly a clear distinction, based in good part upoa the fa. t of the national .scandals, would contrast Mr. Manna's candidacy from Mr R oeevelt's, with the difference altogether in favor of the former. Mr Hanna's declaration places him in a semi-receptive attitude. If republicans want him. they may have him. His de laration clearly attests that Mr. R.M.sevelt. so far from being a sure hing, is regarded as a dangerous proposition by a big faction in his party. W ith Mr Hanna's declaration, republican politics shows Its first spark of lifo and interest.

FAULT FOUND WITH MESSAGE. Itepnhllcan alSSQ) trrninruniW I the I'liMiin Vbnut Treat Im.

DRIFT OF OPINION.

, from this develops "a blind, but ,'ten

Unintelligent obedience. That sort of man makes a dangerous fighting Baa j chine "With all these good qualities however, there are others not so attractive. Big, strong, patient of toll and hardship, he Is also clumsy, stupid and very slow i serious fault In fighting men There was a good exhibition of the Russian la k of speed the day the Pekln relief column marched from Mahto to Chang-chia-wan. For that morning it had been arranged that a Russian battery and battalion of Infantry should form part of the advance guard With the Japanese, whom the regular formation of the column placed In the leal. The Japanese were doing their full share, hut the Russians could not or would not keep the pace After repeated attempts lo get them to lo so. Japan was obliged to ask Russia to Withdraw its men and give room to

the Japanese so that tho required speed could be made The Rusdans halted c.r-d formed beside the road, while the Japanes, infantry went by them on the double, ami the battery at a trot. Prom that time until the day's distance had been made, there was n more trouble about the failure of the advance guard

to maintain contact Wlft the enemy." The Itejrrtett SJaea. Miss Wunder It must make you awfully tired to be thinking up funny things all the time. Joe Krlter (the humorlstl rC.vt at alL That would he quite refreshing What maka me tired is to be thinking tip things that are nt as funny as 1 think thty are .- Philadelphia Public Ledger. Gen. Miles denies owning anv ofl wells In Texas Perhtps he Is one of the many who thought they bad oil wells, but found no oil.

Mohammedans of In!ia are very sup.rstitious. according to the Montreal Herald. No Mohammenan will take a bath on Sunday or Tuesday flut if one bathes on Wednesday nil Isfort ones and n.? ry that are In afore for him till the next Wednesday will be everted As a rule, all Mohamm. dans bj I h on Fridays before g-dng to perform the Jumma prayers. For donning new clothes. Saturday ittttdS and Tu-sday arc regarded at bad days. If anyone dons a newdrrfg or puts on s new cloth or allows b8 tailor to cut a piece of new cloth on .hese days, he will live a miserable life till that dress or cloth cet., torn r is thrown away. If a shirt Is tori and If the wearer wants to stitch it it n....t

be taken off. for If it Is stitched whil It Is on the body the person will soon die A Mohammedan will never allow a barber to come near him on Tu sdavs. for Tuesday and also Saturdays and Sundays are bad days for shaving purpose?. If absolutely eoteoaTy, he will Ret himself shaved on Saturday or Sunday, but never on Tuesday. If one receives money ,r some valuable thing It Is taken with th. right hand f.r if It is taken with the 1 ft the person receiving It is said to forpet all about it very toon or to mislay It. a . rout Mohammedan w ill not start on a Jotrney on Wednesday, for it Is bettered be will nerer return honsessdV r if he does so. And It Is said tha I

evn a snake nrvr cntures out of R? hole on this day.

II eh la Lttr WIIder"v hat Is the trouble between th- Webeteraf Wohld s- Why. haven't you h.ard that Webster met his wife In a dark passape of a friend's tmuse tnd kitted b r. and instead of screaming, she kissed him back? "She knew him, then?" "Thai's Just It. Webster swears the

thought it was fomebody elte." j

iou Traue :rgc

-The old superstition of "knocking Wood" is very common at the capital lust now N. V World. The "really ought to be stopped"

tenor of President Roosevelt's com

ments on the Hristow scandal repo t SUglta that he really QVghf todosome-

' hing Indianapolis Sentinel.

The wisdom of acauirinc ihe

Philippine i.-iat ds cannot be doubled

now. What a OOttVenleal place tosend m. ii about to undergo one of those official investigations! Indianapolis Sen-

inel.

It is hard to understand the mysterious wart Of prosperity. ThedioooTery of new oil fields throughout the

country has bad the effect to IscretUM rather than redact the price Of the illuminating nuid.- si. lxmis (;iohe-Deas-h rat (Rep ). Two republican administrations have placed us on a business basis. In Hi braaka a federal grand jury is inm mating the sale of postmasterships by the republican party, while in Washington they ar investigating the sale of the government by the iixtimbents. St. Louis Republic. Twenty-thne of the democratic

members of the 1'nited States senate are quoted as favoring the nomination of Judge Alton H Parker for the presidency. They represent many widely separated constituent ies. and that almost all the democratic senators recog-

! nie the distinctlished New York inriaf

ts the logical candidate is distinctly ImpressiveBuffalo Courier.

The republhan leaders in NewYork have been having a merry time of late One of the party organs now says: "The governor's victory was complete. There really was not hlnR left for Piatt to do except to acquirse." It adls that the governor "laid down the

aw to Senator Piatt and Col Dunn in no mic ertain way." and now all Is sweetness and light and harmony Everybody knows what that kind of compulsory harmony is worth, especially where Tom Piatt it the person who is said lobe in the strait -Jacket . Chicago Chronicle. The "Stand-patters" for a worse than war tariff that shelters monexdiee have by their profligate expenditure done their best to stop the public demand for a reduction of taxation. N. Y World. The republican organisation in thu state is Just now a seething cauldron of animosities, passions, n s ntments. unbitions and unsatisfied desires. The material for a conflagration is at hand, and even with all the preoautions taken

lo gutrri agtinst such a calamity on the eve eif a atste and nadonal convention, ibe catastrophe Is nt far off BfBSJ yn atixeu.

Tho more Pr. lidettt R.msvelfs ms-

.ge is analrsad the snore fault repub

lican senators are fin. lit. with it

, Thty have discovered, says a Washj ington telegram, that, among other r t liings obJeUot)able, it contains loBg rfiernas lOSM Cf the Chinese and Panama ; canal treaties, which are not only OOSV jtrary to usage, but a dlsthsef violation of one of the unwritten laws which oeMral the mutual relations of the executive power and the senate in regard

to foreign treaties. Treaties are supposed fo be held a secret until they have been submitted to the senate. I nder the rules of tüat body they are maintained as eonfldenMal executive business until such timt as the senate by a majority Tote agree to their publication. Heretofore presidents in transmitting treaties to the senate have merely indi-ated theii character. President RaoOWTelt. however, is no slave to precedent or anybo.ly's rules. He deals extensively Wttl

(the subject matter of both treaties, sc

j mat their contents are familiar tc I every American citizen who took the I pains to read 'be president a message. Senators regard this at a dlruef breath of good faith and are angry. They say that the president ought to , have known better He will probably I hear from it hereafter w hen the treat i Ies are taken up for ratification Then j the Senat- will not let such an opportunity slip by without reminding the president of the necessity for greater

prudence. It is nly a question of time when ih. i' will be a public disagreement between the president and the M mite. 1'ntil mw r.-pufclican senators have refraine! from expressing open criticism ef the president's conduct only because they have not been sure of their ground Tmey have b en afraid that the public would side with the president Now. however, they are convinced that the president is losing his popularity and rney will take the first occasion that presents itself to e press their condemnation at his stren uoslty. Senator Scett. of West Virginia In still for Hanna fur president. Look as if he had soaneüdng he wanted to trade. Los Angeles Herald

Speaker Cannon has a ver.- w eak voice, but that i& not so serious a dufect as the poor eyesight com m tin to presiding oAeera whew the wrong man is trying to address nbe ehair Albaay Argus Secretary Shtw bases his plea for a ship subsidy un the argument tbat the marine 'ntersts of the count nr are the

only oil's which are not protivted. It ie a ghastly shtme that th. it should be tny it i s. rim i net ion In pasit; around, the "graft." Detroit Free Press The anast noteworthy trait of tha president's COstasttgllSthsa to t gii:rae It its lack uf canelor ThU !s a isttal the eountry did not xi et in a piblic dcKuimtnt freim Mr. Roosevelt, who. whatever his faults, has been bellend to paggggf the coiirag, of bis eonvetiont. The unfortunate treilltament tn which the temperament, of the exe irtfee pla ea

him tn relation to recent events at tin isthmus of Pais ma has le.' mm. douH. lese unconsiuily. Into tup.iresalati sntne of the escseatlala of hit emit so tserein and ir.lo pcrv ,.rtlng ascertainable truths toanected with It Chicago Cbronicla