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CHAIRMAM PEOPLES
CONVENTION SPEECH
At Congressional Gonven.
tion in Ghillicotho.
ISTr. Peoples in ntldrcsRtnjj thp
oonvontlon said !
Some wooIcb ago your cnmtnlttoc
mot at Athonn mid Holeoted tills
80th day of August tin tlio date
and this historian! old town of
Chilllnotlio tlio iionio of Allen O.
Tliurinan, the nnbloBt Human of
them all, old Bill Allou and the
late liiinontoil L'irry Neal, mh the
place where the DcmncrntH Hhould
meet to uatuo the next Congress
man from the Eleventh Congress
ional district of Ohio.
At the same time your uommittec
very wisely soleoted that eloquent
and gifted son of Fairfield county,
Hon, M. A. Daugherty as chairman
of tlio convention but he is uotublo
to bo present, owing to other on
gagoinentsand I have boon drafted
as his substitute. For this distin
guished honor I thank the dele
gates here assembled, but desire it
distinctly understood that I dis
claim all intontion to try to fill the
shoes of Mr. Daughcrty. Why,
gontlemon of the convention, if I
ware to attempt to fill the shoes of
Mike Daugherty, the noise that
would result would scarcely be
equalled by that which will be
beard in this district, next Novem
ber, if by the grace of the voters,
the nominee of the Lancaster con
vention is permitted to don the
shoes of his distinguished prede
cessor. I have suid that we have met
here today to nominate the next
Congressman from the Eleventh
Congressional district of Ohio.
This declaration is not intended
as and idle boimt. I am not un
mindful of the fact that since the
organization of the district, as now
constituted, the normal Republi
can majority has been from three
to four thousand. Nor of the fact
thac in 1004 the majority of Gen
eral Grosvenor waB more than ton
thousand. Nor of the further fact
that in the same year of 1904 the
Republican majority in the state of
'Ohio reached the unprecedented
figures of more than two hundred
and fifty-three thousand. Nor am
I unmindful of tlio still further
and more plecsing fact, to Demo
crats that in the following year of
1005, under the guiding hand of
that trusted, brave and fearless
leader, John M. Pattison, that He
publican majority of more thau a
quarter of a million was wiped out
and a Democratic majority of al
most fifty thousand registered in
its place a victory over the grow
ing infamy of bossism and graft
within the ranks of tlio Ilenubli-
onn party.
Death robbed the people of Ohio
of the fruits of that victory. And
the next morning aftor the wiin
racked emaoiatod form of the la
mented Pattison had been laid to
its eternal rest benoath the whis
pering leaves of the Htatelv trees
,,t Promont, the advance guard of
itho Cox.Diok-Herrick gang woro
'discovered oampine on the state
i.uubu oiojja nb viJiuuiuiia. x Hoy
iare clamoring for the few places
trom winch the no it on earth-
iiiukes of 1005 had jarred them
oose and under the influence of
he doughty Colonol Dick nearly
11 of them got hold again.
It thereforo follows that if the
forms that tens of thousands of
epublioaus as well as nearly all
omoorats voted for last year aro
come totho people of Ohio, those
nilllllnniia wlin an rynllnnflir n
Of.IV ..w-w b....wy u-
Co Jmded to the clarion call of John
.. M UiittiHon. must, this veur. vote
t Qeuiooratiu candidates.
f course aware of a dis
J JgHthering, a few wooks
Oyster Hay, attended by
W iatt rm rancm S li ti m Fl'liinilnt.i
TTMBtg - flBUIIHUCD blJlWI X MUULIUI U
of tk ) ProBldent of United
MUM Johcle Joo Cannon, Speaker
gpaahj Jntional House of Itepre-
s ' hi r8 nm otuor8 nt which
trkiT W the policy of the Ilepub-
vQ lunlzation. in the fmniliic
United !
was considered, After
ef tho L
qutitloal Jf
0ttoa jn
eliborution, it was agreed
bliahed to tho world, that
raauur i
7, Btl
efflc, thl
one chief,
algn slogan of the Ilepub-
s year is "Stand by Roo-
This not very compre-
UHHH Hi.
9t OMo.U,
ampaign siilbbqloth has a
Joum r
ut it that sounds like it
rct t
MrvlcsT
h twin brother of that
9. Who
what tru
jjan still n use, 'stand
it fact the two are so situ
ttutlal U
JO. WkJ
it suggests the idea that
this latest ono mny have been
stolen from the priceless collection
of campaign slogans, loft as a
legacy, to tlio Republican party,
by Mark Ilnnnit.
Thoro Is uo donying tho fact
that catchy campaign phraBos have
been Instrumental, in the past, in
luring victory to pnrohon tho ban
nor of the party adopting them.
In that in o mora bio campaign of
I R00 Republican campaign orators
lulled tho public concionco to sloop
by ringing tho changes on tlio
campaign slogan "Prosorvos tho
National Honor," Yet as a mat
ter of history an Investigating
committee, appointed by the Leg
islature of the stato of Now York,
last year developed the astounding
fact that the managers of the
great life insurance companies of
the nation's metropolis, and who
were tho loudest howlors for tho
preservation of the national honor
woro ac that very time stealing the
funds entrusted to their onro for
tho protection of tho widows and
orphans of their policy holders and
contributing hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to tho campaign
funds of tho National Republican
committee, by whom it was being
used to corrupt the electorate of
tho Uuitod States and defeat the
will of tho common people.
The patriot saint of the Repub
lican party, but who, if living to
day, would not recognize tho party
of his founding, snid something to
the effect that all the people can
not be fooled all the time. It is
altogether possible that the "stren
uous ono" and our sly Uncle Joo
may learn later that the voters of
this nation will refuse longer to be
put to sleep on allopathic doses of
stand patism while the "captains
of industry" are stealing their
patrimony.
Richard L Metcalf of Commoner
and one of the brightost editors in
this nation, has rendered the poo-
pie a great service by carefully
analyzing the latest campaign
Shibboleth "Stand by Roosevelt."
'If we aro to stand by Roosevelt'
asks Mr. Metcalf, "1)3' which Roo
sevelt shall we stand."
By the Roosevelt who called tho
trust magnates captains of indus
try to whom the American poeple
owe a debt of gratitude? Or the
Roosevelt who likened them to
masters of cunning whose disposi
tion toward wrong-doing inust be
"shackled," as in the past we
have shackled force?
liy the one who called the Demo
cratic platform adopted at Chicago
"anarchy" because of its criticism
of the courts? Or the ono who
publicly reprimanded Federal
Judge Ilumphroy for his decision
in tho Beef trust caeca, and ex
pressed the hope that his example
would nob be imitated by other
occupants of tho bench?
By tho one who insisted, as in
the Beef trust cases, that the men
of llesii and blood, rather than the
Houlloss corporation, bo held auie
nablo to the law? Or tho one who,
in tho Paul Morton case, laid down
the doctrine that the corporation,
rather than tho individual, should
be held?
By the ono who said: "Political
economists have protty generally
agreed that protection is vicious
in principle and harmful in con
siderable part of the rank and tlio
of his party demand that the
tiirill' bo revised in order that the
Blioltor the trusts Hud therein, may
bo destroyed?
Uy the ono who permitted it to
be understood that he endorsed
Secretary Tuft's order that the
Panama Canal supplies he pur
chased abroad, if such a course
were necessary to protect tho
government from oxtortiou? Or
the one who bought for tho canal
service two American ships of 5700
tons each for ijil, 00,000 when ho
was oll'erod two foroigu ships of
0000 tons eaoli for $750,000.
By the. ono who in his message
to Congress said that it was im
portant to have laws prohibiting
corporations from contributing to
campaign funds and for providing
publicity with respect to the re
ceipt and expomlituro of suoh
funds? Or tho one who, at the
time when ho was protending to
exercise jealous oareovor every bit
of pending legislation, permitted
bills relating to those reforms to
die, even though his attention and
that of other leaders of tho party
was repeatedly called to thoso
measures?
The foregoing aro but u few of
the counts of the Indictment pre
pared by the distinguished, editor
named, but enough to alio sv the
dupllolty of tho man who prates
about a ,,Bqunro dal" and" in nn
exhibition of vanity, unparalleled
actually assists in tho ondoavor to
substitute his own personality)
through tho nvonuo of a campaign
slogan, for a platform of prinolplos
sotting forth tho tonots of the
party of which, by vlrtuo of his
ofllco, ho Is tho head.
MoBt of tho moil who will voto
this year worn votorsin 1800. They
heard tho cry of "anarchy" ralBod
against tlio Chicago platform.
Thoy hoard tho eloquent, able
and fearless leader of Democracy
in that campaign, vilified, slander
ed and abused as no Presidential
candidate had been since tho days
of Abraham Lincoln. They saw
that matchless young champion of
tho oanse of the common people go
down to what seemed ignominious
defeat. They heard the exultant
shnutB of tho purse proud, alleged
defenders of tho 'national honor,'
proclaim that victory of mammon
over men. They have seen that
champion of tho rights of tho
common pcoplo arise from tho
ruins of political defeat and with
logic unanswearable, maintain,
witli tongue and pen, tho princi
ples sot forth in that Chicago plat
form, called "anarchy" by Theo
dore Roosevelt, in 1800. They have
learned that that platform was
really only a third reiteration of
the principles of the Declaration
of American Independence, the
second having been made in the
platform on which the martyred
Lincoln rode to victory in 1800. In
short the voters of Amorica haye
seen and heard and are no longer
afraid.
The campaign this fall is but
the skirmish before the great po
litical battle of 1008. The popu
larity that has come to President
Roosevelt has oome because of his
advocacy of the principles and
policy set fortli mi the Chicago
platform. Even though he be sin
cere since in his attempts to bring
relief from the encroachments of
organized corporate greed, it is
plain that he will be unable to do
so because handi capped by the
deals of his own party in both
branches of the national Congress.
In the atrugglo over the railway
rate bill, in the last session of Con
gress, defeat would have been as
sured had the appeal of the Presi
dent, to the leaders of the Demo
cratic minority in the United
States Senate, fallen on deaf ears,
Kvery intelligent reader is familiar
with the story of the unselfish
services of Senators Tillman,
Bailey and Daniels, in their sup
port of the position of the Presi
dent. Without tho aid of these
patriots railway rate legislation,
tiie pet measure of the President,
even in its present emasculated
form, would have been impossible.
As the Democratic leaders in
1800, bowed to the dictation of
tho Southern slave owner, so the
Republican leaders of the year
1000, bow to the dictates of organ
ized corporate greed.
In all great crisises in our na
tion's history the occasion has
raised up a leader to guido the
noople. Tho American revolution
gavo us a Washington. In the
dark days of the groat Rebellion,
a Lincoln arose to blot the black
spot of African slavery from the
fair escutcheon of American libor
ty. And is it too much to believe
that in the struggle now waging
between the masses of our popula
tion and corporate greed, that an
other great commoner shall come
out of tho West to lead the peo
plo to victory.
Ono of the suhlimest pageants in
Americun history is, at this hour
in progress in tho metropolis of
tho nation. From each of the
forty-six statoB of tho Union,
thousands of American citizens,
regardless of party aflllllutions,
have this day congregated in the
city of New York to welcome homo
after a year's absenoo in foreign
lands not a warrior; not a titled
foroigu potentate; not an high of
ficial of our own laud, hut u plain
private citizen, known and honored
the world over as tho ablest, living
champion of humun llhorty.
As has been said of another 'ex
ulting millions rejoioe in' that
liomo-comiug; and their long, loud
transporting shouts, like tho
mingling of many winds, roll on
undying, to freedoms farthest
mountain!. A congregated nation
comes round him, Old men bless,
and children reverence him. The
lovely come out to look upo'u him,
the learned deck their halls to
greet him, Tho rulors of tho land,
the common people, rise up this
day to greet the groatest of Jiving
Americans, William Jennings
Bryan,
rvTTrsssrsx 'Jrr'-asacsisa
THE o
PINK KIMONO
By IZOLA FORRESTER
Copyright, lire, by Hntiy I)ouula
It lny on the massive settee In the
hull, nil Innocent looking iiairel, Hut
niut somewhat sipuire. Tlnee of War
wick's letter lay on lop of II, neatly,
as the hull boy hail placed (hum, ill ho
bis weekly paper from home.
Wnrwiek Klauocil at tin letters,
again at the clock, tossed olT Mh hut,
cont and gloves nud carried ths whole
lot, parcel, letters utid paper, Into the
comfortable study uud dropped Into u
deep chair.
There was nn hour before the crowd
would arrive. Everything was ready.
The spread would he sent up at 8:110
sharp. He hoped Stanton would he
ahlu to get away. He liked Stantou.
The hoy needed a good friendly grip
Just now. He knew himself what It
was to he In New York a stranger.
Money could not give one the puss
word that admitted one to the Inside of
things, (he "getting next to ihe Itness
of nil," ns Stanton snhl. And If tho
right pnth did not open, and one hap
pened to ho lonely, there were others
wide and welcoming. Warwick knew.
The hoy was young nud clover. The
only thing that ailed him was loo
much money, and the confidence he
had therein. He wns a hit handy with
it all tho whirl mid the swing and the
chance for big success. Warwick had
kept an eye on him for weeks, measur
ing and judging him, and now he was
satisfied. All the hoy needed was di
rection and a cool hand chocking him
now and then, und he would win out.
Warwick opened the weekly paper
from home and smiled to himself ut
the familiar heading, tho Weekly Vis
itor. Ever since he could remember
tho Weekly Visitor hud vlnlled reg
ularly at the iulet, big gray house that
crowned Warwick's hill, up hi Hills
boro, X. II. And SUtnlmi was from
the country, too, some place out west,
out In Nebraska, lie wondered If he
hud a weekly paper, too, to Keep him
In touch with the old world, and the
ethics und standards of something be
sides New York.
The letters were unimportant. Ho
took up the parcel and slipped off the
cord. Laundry probably. He hud not
ordered anything.
The paper tell to the floor and he
sat staring at the thing In ills hands.
It was a pluk, delicate, shimmering,
silken thing. He stood up and shook
It out to Its full length. It leached to
the floor. It was not a hath robe. It
could not possibly be a smoking jacket.
It was a woman's garment, uiimls
tnkably. The texture was the softest Japa
nese crape, the silk Interwoven around
tUo sleeves and neck in a border of
golden butterflies. There was no mark
pn It nor on the paper. Warwick
looked carefully.
The door bell buzzed Imperatively,
onco, twice and n long one. That was
Billy Tralnor's ring. Warwick hesi
tated, cast tho pluk silk thing behind
htm on the chair and opened the door.
Billy stepped In smilingly, Interroga
tively looked about the room and spied
the pink silk thing.
"Iter," he suid reproachfully; "why,
Hex!"
"It wns left here by mistake," said
Warwick hastily. "The hull bov did
It. What Is It?"
Billy lifted It by tho shoulders nnd
beamed with the appreciative eye of a
connoisseur.
"It's a kimono, the real Imported ar
ticle. No bargain sale. Who's the
lucky lady?"
The door bell buzzed ngnln. War
wick took tho kimono with deliberate
forethought, went to the wnrdrohe In
his dressing room and concealed It
therein.
"It's Stanton," Hilly announced, "nnd
the rest."
Warwick played the host with more
Inner discomfort than ever before In
his life. It was not the mere fact of
the mistake that troubled him, nor that
he minded the boy knowing of It, but
he didn't want to see that particular
whnt hud Hilly culled It? kimono?
handled and laughed about uud specu
lated over, Somuwhore there must bo
the girl who wnntod that kimono. He
hoped she was a brtmetto. lMidc was
hst for brunettes. Not too much of a
brunette, perhaps with blue eyes, or
gray yos, gray a grsy eye or so.
Billy was pushing back tho chairs
and tnborets for tho spread. Stan
ton wus sluglug at the piano. Out In
the kitchenette Yates and lingers and
the Dauforths were rummaging for
dlshos and knives uud forks, lllg Ue
Veau was up on tht divan with Its rod
Turkish cover draped picturesquely
about him, reciting some original
poetry.
"Bex, don't you own a decent table
cloth, you beggar?" culled Yates,
Warwick smoked without replying.
Through the hnzo he saw the brunette
girl with the pink kimono about her
smiling dollclously like a geisha uo, he
didn't want her to he a geisha smiling,
well, Just ns a girl should smile when
she hud the right one to smile at,
Stantou left the piano uud enme over,
"Say, you're a prince to get me here
tonight," ho suid, "I didn't know you
hud a place like this. Bunts hotels,
doesn't It? Whut do you call It?"
"Studio apaitnient," suid Warwick,
az)y, "Half den, half homo, not con
fined to huihelors, I Ilko It. When a
fellow's hud u home, It always sticks to
)dm a bit. There's a Jup conies In and
tleuns UP for pie, um If J wuiit a meal,
I can have It."
"I I qtn golpg to housekeeping too,"
beifun Stantun awkwardly,
"Iloneyinoon?" Warwick's eyw light
ed with Amusement. He had not
dreamed the hoy had gone so far,
"No, not ua bad as that," Stantou
heiltated, glancing at the joyous, riot
ous crowd about the piano, it's my
slator, Mother's sent her ou to take
care of mo until "tin on come herself,
I guess they didn't get very good
accounts of their little hoy In Manhat
tan. But 1 wrote home uud told thoni
about you uud whut sort of a chap
you were and how you hud taken me
under your wing, and I promised to
cut out the hotel and well, a whole
lot tff ttiliir mother dfou't like the
flavor of. and today'' -
"Whoopee!" yelled Yates from the
dressing room. "I've found Warry'a
tablecloth. It's a dream!"
Warwick sat up and dropped IiIr
clgnrette. Waltzing dizzily, radiantly,
wickedly out from the dressing room
entile Yates, ntrn.U'd In the pink nllk
kimono. There wiir a silence, then a
long drawn howl of delight from Ihe
crowd. They caught Yules In their
ni'iiis, und swept him up on the center
table. They handed him a Hamoiui
fan of dyed plumes and a Mexican
peaked hat. Trainer at the piano
crashed Into the "Hun Toy" overture.
And suddenly Warwick stood up,
white and mnd, mad clear through
that they should dure even In jest to
touch anything that belonged to the
dear, unknown girl, the brunette with
tho gruy eyes.
"Take that off 1" he said.
The music stopped short, hut not
from his words. Kvery face In the
crowd was turned toward the door of
the hall, uud Yates looked helpless and
miserable. Warwick turned, too, and
held his breath. She stood In the
doorway, one hand lifting aside the
heavy drapery. Behind her was
George, the colored hull boy. Her
face looked sturtled, nud yet there
was amusement, too, In the wide gray
oyes, us they glanced from face to
furo nud lluully rested ou Yates.
"There Is some mistake, I think,"
she said gently. "Oeorgu tells me a
parcel of mine was left here toulght.
I have only moved here today, and
he made a mistake. I think that,
gentleman has ou my kimono."
Wretched, limp uud apologetic, Yates
was assisted Irom the table, and di
vested of the pink silk gown.
"I urn sorry to spoil your amuse
ment" she stopped, and turned her
head toward Warwick as the host,
when all ut once her eyes met Stan
ton's. "Murjorle!" he gasped. "Murjorle,
you blessed kid!"
Silently and discreetly the crowd
averted Its composite face while Stuu
ton kissed Murjorle ecstatically. War
wick looked unhappy.
"Boys," cried Stanton, "this Is my
sister, all tho way from Nebraska to
Manhattan to take cure of her little
brother."
"Mother Is here, too," Murjorle ex
plained, blushing at the effusive wel
come accorded her. "We hud the ad
dress of these apartments and you
wrote that they were very nice, you
know, and that Mr. Warwick lived
here"
"That's Warwick," Interposed Stan
tou. "He's a bully fellow."
Warwick bowed. Suddenly he felt a
great, supreme gladness steal over him.
She had gray eyes, Stanton's sister
from Nebraska.
"So we came right here from the de
pot, and mother wanted to surprise
you by having everything ready. I
bought my kimono nn the way here,
because our trunks haven't come yet,
and the boy made a mistake delivering
It. We have the apartment Just ncruss
the hall."
"Boys," cried Stanton, "come on ta
the apartment across the hall and be
introduced. You've got to make ns
welcome, because we've come to stay,"
Pecorously and quietly the crowd
crossed to the apartment next door.
With dignity and beautiful grace they
wore Introduced to Stanton's mother
and to Stanton's homo, and Stantou
knew he was accepted and admitted
forever to the "ltness of things."
But Warwick sat In a corner wateh
Ing Marjorle make tea, toa from his
teupot, which the Jup servant hud
brought over, and over the back of her
chair hung the pink silk kimono. He
was wondering how she would look In
It.
"Sugar?" she asked. "One or two.
Mr. Warwick?"
"Two," snld Warwick, with a half
suppressed sigh. "Say, do you know
Mar Miss Stanton, I'm awfully glad
you're a brunette, with gray eyes."
"Why?" MnrJorle's head bent lower
over the teapot. Tea making does re
quire so much careful attention.
"Because," said Warwick, "pink Is so
becoming to that type."
"And to Mr. Yates' type, too," laugh
ed Murjorle, but her face was flushed
ns she slipped the pluk kimono around
her, over her gray traveling suit, nnd
poured the ten a la Japanese for the
crowd, nnd for Warwick.
(jrimalioiiiier (Unrlcr,
One of tho small glnclers In Montana
Is of spoclul Interest on account of the
fact that In the muss of Ice there are
Imbedded two strata of grasshoppers,
ench about u foot thick. There ure lit
erally tons of grnhshoppors In the ice,
und the question nnturnlly arises as to
whero they came from. The most ob
vious explanation Is that centuries ago
two enormous swarms In course of mi
gration Wf.'e caught In a snowstorm,
chilled and hurled In the miow, where
they have ramulued till now In a per
fect state of preservation. In thu ac
counts of the enrly western explorers
a few lubtauces are related of meeting
large swarms of lociibts on the moun
tain tops In thu Kockles. It U a very
fortunate clrcumstuuco that the great
extension of agriculture In the west
has broken up the breeding grounds of
these Insects St. Louis Bepuhllc.
Girl Tako Rough on Rats.
Wooater, ()., Sept. l.-Mlm Estella
Graven, 20, committed sulcldo with
rough ou rats ut the horns of her pur
eat near Shrero, Wayne county, Th
girl's puioats objected to hur keeping
company with young mn. Thu slr
declared If ho could not keep com.
pany she would take her life, nud
jtopt her word,
Would Succeed Pgln,
Cincinnati, 0 Sopt. , Kdltor A. D.
Alderman of Marietta, is an avowed
candidate for Uuitod States marshal
for the southern Ohio district, to suc
ceed Vivian J, Faglu. Mr, Alderraau
was some time ago appointed United
States maiahal (or Porto Hlco, hut be
cause of busluosi connections dcl!uod
tho place,
Hit by Train,
Wooater, O..8opt. 4. Qeors Faber,
60, was killed by a freight train on
the Baltimore and Ohio road at HlU
man, O. Fabar, who waa quite deaf,
had just purchased a plug of tobacco
und was engaged lu taking off a tat:
when be walked right lu front of the
trulu, Tha body was terribly uuugled.
&.
How to
struct
Popular
By HAKKY WILLIAM, Author of
"In the 3lmd of the Old
Appl Tr," Etc.
$
I" N writing a "popular song" tho budding author would do
well to be guided by a few easily remembered rules. In tho
first place, he must use the mo3t simple words and tlio mo3t
ordinary phrases. Anything which has the appearance of
being involved will fail. One must be sure to have some
little love theme running through the story, because the popular music
business to a great extent is kept alive BY THE YOUNG WOMEN"
from fifteen to twenty-fire years of age.
Make the verse and chorus, particularly the choru?, a3 short as
possible. Be mo3t careful to have the melody and the arrangement
set down in tho simplest manner, so that any one with even a limited
knowledge of music can play it. ONE DIFFICULT STRAIN in
a song is very apt to spoil the -whole.
In tho arrangement of the music the author of a popular song
must restrict himself to not more than one octave and one note. This
is for the benefit of the singer who is to render it on the stage. In the
writing of instrumental music, marches, waltzes and the like, a com
poser may go as far as two octaves. Having in mind the limitations of
the ordinary singer in vaudeville, the going beyond the octave and one
note is dangerous.
It is to the performer who sings the song from the stage and the
young girl who hears it played over by the ''demonstrator" in the de
partment storo that the author must look for the success of his effort.
The young girl aids the sale of the song because the romanticism of
her nature is touched by tho sentiment. If there is no sentiment in
tho song she is not moved, AND SHE DOESN'T BUY. This is
tho reason the trmder ballads are infinitely more successful as sellers
than tho comic aongs which raise a laugh in a theater.
NO ONE cRn tell from tho mere reading over of a song whether
or not it is destined to be a hit. Jf any one could, he could make
$1,000 an hour by simply picking out the wheat from the chaff, turn
ing the accepted product over to a music publisher and then watching
the effect on the public. The song has to be published and tried out
before the great audience of the public before a verdict can be ren
dered. In this respect the popular song is on a par with the theatrical
production. If managers at rehearsal could tell what would please,
no failures would ?er be recorded.
Song market conditions have to be studied as closely as the condi
tions of any other market, and the author must put out his product
AT TIIE PSYCHOl.OOTOAL MOMENT. For example, it would
be an error of judgment to try out the ordinary "coon song" at a
period when tho BALLAD was at the height of its popularity. Feel
the tendency, and then take advantage of it. The first success made
by my partner, Mr. Van Alst'ne, and myself was with "Navaho."
This was at a time when the Indian song was in demand. There were
three others to show the drift, "niawatha," "Anona" and "Laughintr
Water."
As to tho most rewardful songs, the ballad always has been and
ALWAYS WILL BE a prime favorite. The coon song is not nearly
so popular now as formerly.
THE "FEATURE SONG," LIKE "BEDELIA" AND "CHEYENNE,"
HAS A LARGE FOLLOWING, BUT ALWAYS THE BALLAD WILL AP
PEAL, FOR IT IS FOUNDED ON THE OLDEST AND M03T ENDUR
ING THEME IN THE WORLD, THE PURE LOVE OF MAN FOR WOMAN.
Reformers Must "Get Busy"
And "Bo Things" Sometimes
By Proftnor CHARLES ZUEBLIN of the University at Chicago
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HE people of the middle ages so far outclassed tho modern
globe dwellers that comparisons are not only odious but very
disgraceful to those who are unfortunate enough to be on
earth at the present time. And the reason for all this hid
eousness is that tho "reformers" are living IN THE CLOUDS OF
POESY and reading "new thought" when they ought to be fixing up
their back yards and otherwise contributing to the beauty of the land
scape, municipal and otherwise.
Most of us live in tho midst of ugliness. Everything ubout us is
so ugly that when we get a little bit of beauty we herald it all over the
country. There aro plenty of people doing reseurch work in our uni
versities, but they are all "literary" and don't caro for manual training
or anything like that, SO THINGS CAN GO ON BEING UGLY.
All courthouses have to have domes. People seem to think that a
courthouse would not be a courthouso without a dome. They have im
bibed this idea probably from the fact that the old courthouso at home
had a domo. It is tho same way with soldiers' monuments. At one
time the country was flooded with inartistic soldiers' monuments, and
now wo can't get rid of them.
We in America are suffering from a now disease which is not suffi
ciently appreciated by its victims. It is THE NATIONAL DIS
EASE OF PROSPERITY, and it leads us to a failure to appreciate
material things. Rich men sometimes get hobbies and overdo all
propriety by loading up with old masters and first editions. jVery few
show any VERSATILITY in art.
IF THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF CHICAGO SHOULD VISIT THE
ART GALLERY ONCE A WEEK THEY WOULD NOT BE MAKING
THE CITY ANY MORE BEAUTIFUL. THE PEOPLE MUST COME
DOWN FROM THE CLOUDS TO A CONSIDERATION OF MATERIAL
THINGS,
Pilgrim Fathers "Grafted" as
Much as Men of Today
By JOHN O. LONG, rornur Secretary of the Navy
CHE aainta in Plymouth colony can be counted on tho fiugors.
Some of the very elect wore false to thoir trust aud USED
THEIR POSITIONS TO FEATHER THEIR OWN
NESTS falser to the trust than any president of a modem
insurance company. Within tlio first decade social vices infested the
community, Drunkenness, bickering, slander, licentiousness and even
crimes against nature wero common. All this took place in a commu
nity of VERY LIMITED NUMBERS.
NO NEW ENQLAND VILLAQE OF TODAY NEED FEAR COM.
PARISON WITH THE EARLY PLYMOUTH COLONY. -tfc...
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