Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — THE STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State— DANIEL E. STORMB. llLudltor of State— DAVID E. SHERRICK. ffreasurer of State— NAT U. HILL. Attorney General— CHARLES W. MILLER. Ulerk Supreme Court — ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction— F. A. COTTON. State Statistician — BENJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist— W. S. BLATCHLEY. Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District— JOHN H. GILLETT. Judges Appellate Court— FRANK R. ROBY. U. Z. WILEY. W. J. HENLEY. JAMES R. BLACK. D. W. COMSTOCK. W. E - ROBINSON. DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress, EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER. For Judge mth Judicial Circuit CHARLES \Y. HANLEY. ’ For Prosecuting Att’y. 30th Judicial Circuit JOHN D. SINK. Per loint Representative, JESSE E WILSON COUNTY TICKET. For Auditor, JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. For Treasurer, SAMUEL R. NICHOLS For Sheriff. ABRAHAM HARDY. Fur Surveyor, MYRT 15. PRICE. For Coroner, W. J. WRIGHT. For Commissioner Ist District, ABRAHAM G. HALLECK For Commissioner 2nd District FREDERICK WAYMIRE. Por Commissioner 3rd District CHARI.ES T. DENHAM, hor County Councilmen, *st district JOHN HAHN 2nd district HARVEY E PARKTSON 3rd district JOHN MARTIN DALE 4th district WALTER Y. PORTER . T ( El) T. BIGGS At Large- ..ERHARDT WEURTHNER ( ANDREW J HICKS A STATEMENT of Admiral Dewey’s has been as a beacon light and a refuge to the anti imperialists, in which he said that t lie Filipinos were more capable ol self government than the Cubans, has been rudely denuded of its sweet potency . In his testimony the other day the Admiral stated that he did not consider either the Filipinos or the Cubans at all fit for self government. One by one, the jssueletsf •!!

Both Carrie Nation and Hon. W. J. Bryan are to be among the attractions at the South Dakota Chautauqua this summer. The management is to be congratulated.

The steel trust has advanced the wages of Its great army of employees ten per cent., which will add about $4,000,000 to its annual pay-roll. This is a just but politic move, as it will forestall a like demand from the employees. They have been working full time at full wages, which were considered entirely satisfactory two or three years ago. Since that time, however, the price of Jiving has materially increased, the steel corporation is making greater profits, and it is but fair that the wages should be raised.

It is perfectly natural that when evidences of prosperity are all about with f; ctories busy and orders profit able, the workman should want an in crease in bis wages—a share of that prosperity. One of the most difficult problems comes, however, when times become less prosperous or even hard. A rate of wages has been established under prosperous conditions which the workman comes to consider as a standard—his worth, his right—and when it comes necessary to reduce wages then comes bitterness and cries against extortion of corporations The difference between strikes against the reduction of wages and those made to secure an increase in wages is the difference between hard times and prosperity.

The War Department has ordered 100 bolos as a trial substitute for the army bayonet. The bolo is a cut lass something like the Cuban machete, and is an eminently better weapon than the bavonet, at least for guerrila warfare. For such a purpose the bayonet is as poor a means of offence or defence as the army saber was found to be in Indian fighting, where the bowie knife was the standard. A bolo which serves all the purposes of a good hatchet about camp, but in time of war can be used either as a broad sword or attached to a rifle as a sharp-edged bayonet, will be an improvement over the present army weapon. Its adoption by the government, however, may be looked upon as the signal for an anti-imperialistic outbreak against our evolution into an Oriental military despotism.