Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 August 1904 — Page 2

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Eat&bliahed Octobet 10, 1901. O .ly Republican Newspaper In the County. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. OFrICE Blssell Building, Corner LaPorte and Center Streets. Telephone No. 27. ÜBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, in advance. 11.50; Six Months. 75 cents; Thre Months, 40 cents, dellrered at any postofflee ADVERTISING RATS made known On application. Entered at the postofflce at Plymouth, Indiana, as second-class mall matter. Plymouth. Ind., August IK 1904. DEMOGRATS CANNOT WIN. Senator N. B. Scott, uf West Virginia. after an extended Western tour, says of the political situation: "The democrats may cirry New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, as they claim they will, and still they won't have nearly enough votes to elect Par&er and Davis. I am sure these three states are solidly republican, but even conceding them for the sake of argumeat, they have do chance.' West Virginia is good for between 30.000 and 35,000 majority Mr. Davis is a very fine man and a splendM citizen, but he won't get over 1,000 complimentary votes in the .whole state. The people of West Virginia know what is good lor them, and tney are going to support the republican ticket from top to bottom. "Indiana is not a doubtful state. It is as safe as Pennsylvania and the returns will justify my prediction. In the West where I have been, sentiment is solid for Roosevelt, and Parker will not get a state. 1 can't figure out how the democrats can win or on what they base their bops. I have been busy., with the electoral table, and I can see nothing but certain republican victorv ahead." Parfeer on the tariff may be as surprising as Parker on the monetary standard. Did Parker vote-twice for Bryan for regularity's sake, or because he believed in free silver? Toil Taggart 's denial that be plays p ker may be sincere. He may te one of the men who only think they can play, and has just found U out? John W. Kern was nominated for governor by acclamation in the democratic convention at Indianapolis as predicted by this paper before the convention met. Nobody expectirg anything to -come from it, it was the proper but unusual thing to nominate everybody by acclamation, and to have barmony m chunks at the democratic state convention. Tom Watson, the Pcpulist candidate for president lives in Georgia, but a great many Marshall county Indiana democrats say that is no reason why he should not be elected president of the United States. So far as the citizen who is not "In politics" can observe there is no wild excitement in the community over the political events of the week. The affairs of life are going on pretty much iis usual. Governor Hogg, of Texas, created a commotion in the state democratic convention by eulogizing the honesty of purposeof President Roosevelt. Did the Texans expect to eulogize the honesty of purpose of David Bennett Hill? The regular work "of the campaign m this state on the part of the repub licans will not begin before Sept. l, Speaker Cannon has promised to devote much of his time to this stat-5. He knows just what to say to the Hoosiers as he was one'of them while a young man. Justus S. Stearns came surprisingly Dear capturing the democratic nomin-. atlon for governor, of Michigan. But for the influence exerted by Daniel J. Campau, Stearns would doubtless 'have been nominated. Ten days ago Stearns declared that he was still a ' ' v republican and therefore could not ask for a democratic nomination. '" - The democrats who controlled St. Joseph county in the state convention told Frank Ilering that if be allowed bis name to go before the convention as a candidate for lieutenant governor he shou.d not have a vote from the county, that they would en- j force the unit rule and would not allow him to cast his own vote. They did it. Hering was a 'delects in ths convention, but ths vote of his county Ti3 cist solid for Stsvecs. v All other candid tea vrsra ncraiitcdby acclaiitlcn. T3 Tr-iTt rlcj dcc3cmtcJ thailt til cc-r-hte ' centre!.

Like a democratic victory, the fall of Port Arthur seems to be a calamity that is reserved for the future

The remark bf Ms. Taggart that the storm center of politics will be iu Indiana this vear is a pointer to Tom to keep in close touch with the cyclone cellar. The silence habit of Judge Parker will makelt easier for him to keep cool and quiet after N reading the returns on the first Wednesday after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Charles R. Crane, a leading Chicago democrat, visited Judge Parker Thursday and told him and other leading democrats tha t was useless for the party to attempt to carry Illinois, because the repui lean party is united and will roll up a big majority for Roosevelt. When democrats go to the poils to vote for president they should remem ber that if Judge Parker is elected and dies during his term of office, Vice President Davis will become president and a man over 83 years old has neither the strength nor the ability to fill that position. Charles Schull, former democratic trustee in Scipio township, Allen county, in an interview announces that be will support Roosevelt and the republican congressional candidate and says he kuows 25 democratic farmers who think the. party was trictced at St. Louis by stock gamblers of Wall street. The annual murder rate In Ffance has been computed to be one to eery hundred thousand of population; In northern Italy it is four; in central Italy twenty-four, and in southern Italy, the home of vengeance socleties, it is.t-iirty. The Chicago rate, calculated by the Times-Herald, Is about six times higher than that of France. There were a lot of democrats in the hands of their friends at the democratic state convention, but their friends could not get hold of the slate pencil. Taggart & Co. made all the nominations. No delegates were needed. Democratic delegates chosen in Marshall county read the Plymouth Tribune. They understood the situation and very few of them attended the convention. . He who drifts into journalism seldom leaves it. He still plods on in !be dally toil which for him has a rare fascination. Often there is no fame for him. The cleverest newspaper man may be utterly unknown and not forgotten, only because he has never been remembered, ' Ills heart, however, is stout at any rate, and come complacency or lack of it, come the highest or the lowest position, he still toils with Irrepressible cheerfulness and hopes when all is. over with him on this earth that his associates who survive him will be reasonably sorry or solemn at his funeral. Exchange. If any one besides a lawyer is competent to fill the office of reporter of the Supreme Court of courseit would be a newspaper man. Both republicans and democrats have nominated newspaper men, for tbi$ office. " Mr. Self, nominated by the republicans, has the better of the argument in that while owning a newspaper he is, and has been for many years, also a practicing lawyer. This office, by the way, has been .filled by many distinguished '-' members of the bar such men, for instance, as General Harrison, Jonathan W. Gordon, John W. Kern and John L. Griffiths. Indianapolis News. The worst treatment ever accorded any. man in a state convention was that given to Prof. Frank E.' Herring of South Bend at Indianapolis Wednesday. Prof. Hering h?.d made an active Canvass for lieutenant governor and had been assured support in almost every county In the state, but the slate managers decided that he was not the man for the place and they gave the nomination to Warder Stevens, of Salem, who was not a candidate,' but the climax .was capped when St. Joseph county, Bering's own county, cast its vote solid for Ste vens. . Hering would have been nominated if he hid not been betrayed by the leidlc j democrats of his own county4 who went to Indianapolis to prevent hla nacre from gcw;j pa the tlc'-et. But Hering was lucliy. No c-ndidata cn thsTc-gart t!cl :t will cczisvrlthla votc3'.cfh tl: -- . - . - , '

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Senator Gorman's silence is simply because he is studying how to convey to the democratic party the fact that be "told them so" without using harsh phrases. The crooked and indefensible means by'which tie St. Louis ticket was nominated continue to be the fundamental belief of Mr, Bryan and the source of much trouble to Mr. Taggart. In bis letter accepting the socialist party's nomination for, governor of Missouri, Mr. E. II. Behrens says: "To the oppressed toilers of the earth socialism brings a new message of hope; to the dismayed hordes of capitalists it speaks not in words of flattery, but in tones of thunder, and to their political henchmen it says In the language of the immortal bard of Avon: "Lay on, MacDuff, and damned be hz who first cries 'Hold '.Enough!'" This ought to be framed. ' The last thing on earth a laboring man should do would be voting for the democratic party to better his condition. In the south, where democracy dominates, the laborer Is not only allowed no social privileges but his political rights are denied him as well. ' All that there is of democracy is the solid south with its aristocratic domination of the negro and its contempt for the poor "white trash," as those who work with their hands for a living are termed by those same self-estimated, "blue-blooded" chivalric democrats. They care no more for a white laborer than the one whose skin is dark, and if they could have their way (and they- would with permanent ascendency of .democracy) they would demand separate cars for the "greasy white mechanics" as they now do for the colored ones. Democratic Comment on Parker. The Bee can say of Theodore Roose velt that the trusts do not want him, while they do want Parker, And it can say of the republican platform that whenever there was any thing to be said on any public is&ue, it said it. It did not hesitate, and stammer and stutter and finally put out a long farrago of -words, saying much and meaning nothing; nor did it smother the question altogether, on the ground that there were no votes to bo got out by injuring anybody's feelings on either side. .The republican platform stands out in the open and says: "Here I am. You can either take me or leave mp." Id this world men cannot get all they want, nor half they desire. They must make a choice between what is set before them: And the Bee chooses Theodore Roosevelt in preference to 'Alton Brocks Parker. It chooses Roosevelt because, with all his faults, he stands self-reliant in his American manhood, independent, courageous, plucky, conscientious, un trammeled and unpurchaseable: shackled to no syndicate or corporation; the thrall of no criminal coterie wax ing fat upon illegal profits; .the auto matic mouthpiece of no predatory monetary combination evadiDg just laws now on the statute books and murdering honest measures in the womb of legislation. It opposes Alton Brooks Parker because be is not a free agent; because he is but as clay in the hands of the potter, and that potter August Bel mont; because he is merely the graphophone of Wall street, and what little the people have heard through the machine has unmistakably revealed the voice of his master; ' because te is today but the -instrument which the trusts hope to use in disciplining The odore Roosevelt for daring to place the slightest barrier in their way. It chooses Theodore Roosevelt be cause it considers the president should be a man who can be dealt with di rectly. It opposes Alton Brooks Parker be cause it does not believe the people of this great nation should elect as presi denta Man Friday to any Robinson Crusoe. It choose Theödore Roosevelt because one great issue this time is the man, änd Iloosevelt represents that in allots courage and all its Amerl canism. It opposes Alton Brooks Parker be cause he is merely the automatic rep resentative of, the machine. Sacra mento, Cal. Bee,, (dem.) Broke Typewriting eccrd. The speediest operators on typewriting machines in the government's service are found in the patent office, and one of these holds the j record of the world foj rapid work. The champion is Mary E. Pretty, a Pennsylvania, and her claim to the world's championship has rested on the copyinor zo.öuu words in one day of eight hours. That was exceeded by 21 tea Pretty, who copied in seven hours 22,000 words. ' ' j l Tcll ycur ncljhccrs trxut Uid rood qcilitln ct Tns Thuirs.

The Whipping Post. The Logansport police captain who expresses the belief that a city whipping post would be the means of greatly diminishing drunkeness and minor crimes speaks the opinions of many persons who perhaps hesitate to utter them so openly. Font is not popular to approve of the whipping post. Theorists and sentimentalists so govern the day that anything like force in correcting the faults of young or old i frowned upon. They say it is brutal and degrading and really shocking to the finer in stincts of humanity. Nevertheless, there Is reason to suspect that there are few pareuts, even among the professed believers in moral suasion, who do not in cases of emergency soundly trounce their own" offending offspring and find the youngsters all the better for the discipline. In sch'iols whipping is not allowed, except under most rigid restrictions, yet teachers almost iuvariably usert that it would be greatly to the advantage of certain pupils if the rod were occasionally applied. Why should not persistent offenders against the law have a touch of this discipline? Some of them, wife beaters for example, could notbe more brutalized by it than they are already. The fear of such disgrace would act as a deterrent with many, as the Logan-, sport captain says, and the results of suc!i an institution might be genuinely corrective. Indianapolis Star. Mr. Davis Politics. Political consistency does not seem to be obser.ed in the case of the venerable Henry Gassaway Davis, of

West Virginia, nominee of the democratic party for the vice-presidency. He served 12 years as Uuited States senator 1 rum that state, and was a strong protectionist. He has not changed his views on this question. He is the father-in-law of Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, now senator from the same state. Mr. Elkins. as every one knows, is a republican leader, aud a stanch protectionist. Between Mr. Elkins' work in his own party, and Mr. Davis' influence in the same direction among the democrats, the state of West Virginia is today as strongly protectionist as is Ohio. But Mr. Davis was Lominated on a platform which denounces protection as robbery of the many to enrich the few. The old gentleman does not appear to mind the inconsistency at all. He does not regard dissent from one of his party's cardinal tenents as in the least interfering with, his full enjoyment of the nomination for second place; Possibly be thinks, "What is a party "platform between friends?" as Tim Sullivan; a notable Tammany politician once said concerning the constitution of the United States. Toledo Blade. Cty and Country Chaps. "Let me see your tan," says the city chap. - His friend rolls up bis sleeve. , "That's bully!" says the city chap. "L'jok here, I'm gettin' one, too. How's that?" he adds proudly, rolling up his sleeve. "Why, that's great! But I never saw you out at the Riverside liuks. When do you play?" Why, I've got me a canoe," be says.j . And that's the way these city fellows are, now. They all hunger for a tan. They stand in the blazing sun for hours on tbe golf links or allow their canoes to drift through the sunnv places. They forget the benefit of tbe exercise. They forget everything but th )i i They are as proud of the tan as they are of the hue of their meerschaum pipes. And all the while, the country boy. who has a . chance for a tan that would surpass all that the city fellow could get in seven years, wears a hat that is as broad as an umbrella. Made "J. N." Pay His Pare.. It is said that Conductor Jack Shell, who runs a passenger train out of Bu cyrus, on the Ohio Central, is one of the few men who have ever collected railroad fare from the "Immortal J. N." Mr. Shell had "J. N." for a passaner Monday, "and touched him for the regular fare. "J.. N." fum bled in his pockets and then told the conductor to go on and work bis train as he wasn't quite sure as to how far he wanted to go. Mr. Shell said be would wait until he had made up Ms mind, and he stood patiently by the side of the seat. Einaliy "J. N.V found his bluff wouldn't work, and be paid his fare sayinsr: "If I, didn't keep tbe pressure off you you would die right now-, but I!ll report you to your wife, and that will be worse yet." " : ' i hire at Donaldson. Russell's store on the south side of the railroad at Donaldson was com pletely wiped out, by fire about 4 - A o'clock this morning. The stock of goods was entirely destroyed and Mrs. Itussell and children who were sleep ing ip-stalrs saved very little of their clothing. -The fire seemed to have bssn caused by sparks from a pacing engine. The goods vrere partially in sured, and there was some Insurance ca the tulidmg which was owned by J. Ö, Piclicrl. 1

; Soldiers Return Home. The camp of . instruction for the Indiana National Guards at Fort Benjamin Harrison ended Friday after ten days of mimic warfare which has given the boys an insight into army life which is very valuable to them. On Thursday morning the SecondRegiment, commanded by Col. Harry B. Smith, assaulted the camp, intending to captu-e it, but they were unsuccessful, the Third regiment, of which Company I, of this city, belongs, repulsings -it quickly. The battle jü Thursday morning commenced at 4:10 and lasted for an hour. The artillery Are was highly exciting, the tire from the guns on the defence being the best. One company of the brown brigade failed to see a companv hidden behind a haystack and the entire company was captured. Another company got lost in the woods and did not get to the scene of the battle until all was quiet. It was a great spectacle while it lasted, but it was too short for the country people, who were coming to the scene of the battle in buggies and wagons. About, the time the battle closed the roads were so full of vehicles that General McKee could scarcely get his staff back to camp. .

Payne lakes Kuponsibility. Postmaster General Payne takes al the responsibility upon himself lor re fusing to name a postofflce In Missls sippl after Gov. Vardaman. He gives as a reason that the governor had made disrespectful remarks abjut President Roosevelt's mother, and 'further explains that the president Iknew nothing about the incident whatever, not being consulted in such matters of naming postoffices, It was not what Vardaman said about the president personally, but the ex ceedingly vile language be used when referring to the president's mother, which ought to forever bar him out of respectable society, the postmaster general says, as it was an insult to womanhood in general. "I would not recognize a man as having any claim to respectability, much less per petuating his name in a public post office or town, who would use such lang uage as he did regarding any woman." The case is quite clear that Varda man deserves the snub given him by the department Worst Feature ot Gambling, People may be divided in their opinions respecting the evils due to gambling, but there ought to be no difference of opinion about the ad visa bility of maintaining a semblance of respect for the law. Opposed to the admittedly strong antl-gam!ling sen timent, there is a large and influen tial element in the community which opposes the enforcement of the law with respect to gaming. It is large enough and influential enough to have obstructed the operation of the law. The vicious feature of the situation is the deadening of the popular con science by tbe spectacle of laws open ly violated. When the enforcement of tbe law becomes a matter of mere casual whim the condition is discour aging. The above is from the Chicago Chronicle, and refers to the conditions in that city. If it applies to any other locality, "make the most of it.?' Parker, the Politician. Collier's Weekly speaks .disrespect fully o! Judge Parker as "a shrewd old politician." and is much amused over the idea so industriously circu lated by his friends that he is so in dustriously circulated by, his friends that be i.s so absorbed in bis profession and the higher things of life that he is innocent of practical politics. Which seems reasonable, in view of the fact that he was chairman of tbe executive committe of the New York democratic state committee in 1894, when a good many smooth political tricks were worked. It is not impossible that he may be able to teach Chairman Taggart a few things in tbe way of running machines. Indianapolis Star. Many Poisoned at a Picnic Ptomaine poison in pressed chicken, eaten at a Sunday school picnic, is supposed to be the cause of the illness of 15 persons in the .families of S. B. Ford, W. H. Paul, Jacob Cloud and Samuei Keplar, all prominent .residents J-jf Beaver township, Pulaski county. The list Includes nearly all of those who composed a. dinner partv atlhe picnic. During the afternoon those ot the party who had eaten the pressed chicken were taken, sick, and some of them are m a serious condition. - The afflicted ; persons say they noticed nothing unusual about the taste or looks of the chicken or anything else at dinner. The Pert Paragraph. Will Stay. Editor Watterson's plea for the abandonment of the "pert paragraph" Is not seconded by leaders of the press. They like their philosophy condensed seasoned with humor, and pointed with wit, or sharpened to a point with wisdom. After all, the pert para graph is to the .editorial page what the story Is to the elective oratcr, the" symbol to the fact and the illustra tion to the instructor, Elkhart P3Vl2V7.

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MORTUARY Elizabeth Hunt. Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt died at the home of her daughter Mrs. George Medbourn at Culver, Thursday morning, August 4, 1904 aged 81 years and 24 days. Four sons and one daughter survive her---Wilson of Culver, Marion of Idaville, Milton of this city, Lindy and Anna of this county. Funeral services were held at the Burr Oak U. B. church at 10 o'clock Saturday morning and the remains were interred in the Stringer cemetery. Chicago Fifty-six Years Ago. Some of our very old citizens remember that when the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad was planned the main object was to reach the two growing towns north of us. No one paid any attention to Chicago at that time, and it was not deemed worth while to even glance at the swampy town beside Michigan Lake. Great through trunk lines, North aud South and East and West, were not up for discussion, though Easterners in the neighborhood i f Baltimore dreamed of a line which would tap the Ohio River in the neighborhood of Wheeling and iti this way reach the rich trade of Cincinnati. Cincinnati! Commercial. A Narrow Escape From Death. Melvin Hoff, who resides east of Inwood, was crossiug the Pennsylvania railroad at the Stephenson crossing east of the poor farm about four o'clock this morning when his buggy was struck by freight train No. 7328 and utterly demolished. Mr. Hoff was thrown into the air and alighted on the pilot beam to which he clung until the train was stopped. He was taken to the home of Mr. Stephenson near where the accident occurred. Dr. Aspinall was called and found that his right shoulder, side and chest were considerably bruised but no bones broken The horse was not hurt. Hegewisch Becomes Vegetarian Town The entire population of the staunch union town of Hegewisch, having refused to eat any meat out of sympathy for tbe striking butcher workmeu. the three butcher snops there have closed indefinitely for lack of customers. Hegewisch is a manufacturing town numoering about 1,500 inhabitants. Union sentiment rules completely the organized employes of the three car factories. Another Trolley Line. The Mentone paper of recent date contained the following: A trolley line from Fort Wayne to Chicago, via Churübusco, Winona, Warsaw, Mentone. Argos. Lake Maxinkuckee, North Judson, Kouts, Crown Point and Hammond, is the latest vision to appear upon the electric railway hori zon. It is proposed as an extension of the Lima, Van Wert & Fort Wayne line, now under construction. May Close 100 Theaters Unless the orders of State Factorv m Inspector McA.bee are obeyed there may be 100 theatres in Indiana closed at the beginning of the Season this fall. The inspector says that the managers should take warning from the Chicago theatre horror without any orders, but that he proposes to see that the proper precautions are taken or the playhouses must close. Murderer's Mind Comes Back. After eight years in the insane ward of thi Anamosa Iowa penitentiary, whee he had been committed forth murder of Frank Kahler, John W. Stone has been released, having regained his reason. Stone entered the store of Kahler and shot him. When arrested be was a total physical and mental wreck. lie is now well balanced mentally and otherwise. Cyclone Didn't Materialize. "Cyclone" HImes, who was to make the slide for life Monday,- flunked in the presence of hundreds of people and sneaked out of town. Tbe fellow was to have received S25 for the performance of the feat and came here with two men and the necessary para phernalia, but at the last minute his nerve went back on him.- Niles Star. - $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleas ed to learn that .there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that ie Catarrh. . Hall's Catarrh Cure is the onlv positive cure npw known to the medical fraternity, " Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a consti tutiocal treatment, Hall e Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ol' the system, thereby destroying the foundation of tbe diseases, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and aesistiog nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curativa powers, that they offer one Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send fcr list of tectitnonixia. '. - F. J, CmaiET & Co., Toledo, O.1 Sold by Drci-ta, 75c. Taka Htll'a Fanily Pills for constipa tion - .

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rum I cl rio At a meeting of the Republican editors of the Filth district the other day there was unanimous agreement among all those present that so far as Senator Fairbanks' successor in the United States senate is concerned, the most pressing present duty of the Republicans of Indiana is the election of a. legislature that will make certain the choice of two Republican senators. Pending the election, it was agreed, Republican newspapers especially should abstain trora eitber writing up or writing down the various gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in connection with the caucus nomination. In other words thero will be plenty of time alter the election in November to thresh out the differences existing among Republicans as to tue comparative claims of sundry statesmen cn an honor that will not be attainable for any of them until after a' Republican majority in the legislature nas'beea secured. It wasagreed, too, tnat the Republican press of the state should deprecate contention among the friends of rival aspirants such as is likely to create a divisipn of interests, especially in close legislative districts, and thus endanger, the success v of the many candidates. Feeling has already been aroused in some communities, if reports received at the meeting in ques-, tlon are well founded, where ardent friends of this or that man have declared their unwillingness to support their legislative candidates unless they were committed to support some candidate or oppose another. That sort of thing has progressed well along toward ihe danger point, and no good Republican will contribute to it. Immediately after ther frost is on the pumpkin of Democratic hopes in Indiana those who are anxious to rend their garments on the senatorial subject will have ample opportunity to give vent to their feelings in such manner as may suit them best. Meanwhile harmony is an essential preparation for victory, and In a campaign where so much is at stake it ought to be no sacrifice for any Republican to place his personal preferences in the matter of individual ambitions temporarily in cold storage. $ "s z The Indianapolis News suggests that if it were not for the negro vote the Republican plurality in Indiana' would be reduced 18,186, or' the number of negro votes in this state. Supposing that every negro voter actually voted, and that in every case he voted the Republican ticket, which is a violent supposition even for the News, this statement would have to be accepted as substantially correct. What of it? What is the point to this discussion of the possibility that the negro vote might be eliminated, both the intelligent and the ignorant negro vote, while thousands of white men less fit for suffrage than an honest and intelligent black man, and many of them no better qualified for citizenship than the Ignorant and the criminal among the negro race, are still permitted to exercise the right of suffrage. If Indiana Is to have no negrophobilic legislation, of what significance is this array of figures as to the total of the negro vote? The Indianapolis Sentinfl suggests that the negro ought to be hunted out of Indiana before the next election. One of the leading Democrats of Indiana suggests that the Fifteenth amendment to the constitution should be repealed. Presumably the News has something of this sort in mind. If not, and its figures on the negro vote are not intended as a contribution to the ammunition of the Mississippi branch of statesmanShip, it might give us the figures on the red-headed, the cross-eyed and the bow-legged vote, with weighty conclusions as to what might happen if all the above named classes should conclude to vote the Democratic ticket. $ Under date of March 8 ,1904, one W. J. Bryan wrote to every subscriber of "The Commoner" a letter, in which he-said: "I am opposed to a surrender of the Democratic party to organized and predatory wealth. The Kansas City platform is a clear and concise statement of Democratic principles, and failure to reaffirm it at our next national convention will be equivalent, to a return to corporation rule." The same gentleman was a member of the resolutions committee at St. Louis and submitted to the ignoring of the Kansas City platform. What are .followers, to think about a leader who thus openly advocates his own surrender to "predatory wealth." S 4 "The Democratic party," according to the St. Louis platform, "has ever protested against the continuance of illegal combinations of capital." And has always contented Itself with simply protesting, even during the on period in the history of this country since the war .when Democratic leadership was charged with responsibility for national legislation and administration. The Democratic national platform declares that our tariff system has caused our Infant Industries "to become the greatest combinations of capital the world has evef known." And this growth of American Industries Is a grievance to Democratic leadership! " 3 The answer to Democratic profession as set forth in the St Louis platform is Democratic performance under the same leadership Which wrote that platform-when It was in control of national affairs from March, 1893, to March, 1897: Speci&l Fares to Winona LaXe. Via Pennsylvania lines Aug. 10th, account Creatore Baud concerts. Round trip fare from Plymouth will be 75 cents. Special train returning will, leave Winona Lake after each evening's concert. Holllster's". Rocky Mountain Tea cures all summer disorders in children, makes them eat, sleep and grow; makes them strong, healthy and robust. Z5 cents, tta or tablets. Ths. Pccpla '3 Drc t Store.