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THURSDAY. JUNE 25, IMS.
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THE XEVTS TIT IS MOBVIVO.
FOREIONV-The situation in TeJwnin has ,
sflJwTwnrW.: t^htln« W«- rented, the rovolu ,
Sonisu usink bombs, and man* .how** were
Suaged; for«icners are said to be in l^'J n :
\'u .;L;.v.-' Cleveland"* Intesrtty and desire to
2rr* Ac brt«f«sts of the United States == ;
Th" thanksgiving sen-ice of the Pan-Anglican
Congress was hold at St. Paul's, where offerings
of Ji Mfl wore laid on the altar. == A^woea
revived in Paris say that the ****»****?%£
have ri«n against the French and that two
columns of troops have been wiped out — — -
H D Rv.ereti. « aasjUlinirtU forester, and T. K.
WaktK a teacher, a graduate of the University
of Chicago, iv^re BBimoV-rea by tribesmen in
Vecros =~= The Russian Senate has decided
That the. members of the Constitutional Demo
cats and other unrecognized parties cannot hold
offices in the auuaUua or municipal councils.
- The schoolship Nautilus. the first Spanish
•war vessel to visit Havana since the BpanJsh-
American War. arrived in that harbor and was
warmly welcomed. = The will of Benjamin
Hart, a wealthy American livincr in Paris, will
be contested by his adopted daughter, whom he
disinherited.
DOMESTIC. — Grover Cleveland. ex-President
-•"■ United States, di<*<i suddenly at Prince
ton X.l * - The action of this government
in breaking off diplomatic relation? with Ven
ezuela was paid in Washineton to be th- result
of a plan carefully considered by the State De
partment. = The condition of Representative
James S. Sherman. Republican candidate for
Vice-President, was reported in Cleveland to be
much improved. = The Harvard commenep
ment took place at Cambridge, Mass.; Theodore
Roopev*-h. jr.. was graduated. -—— Major Don
Fortino M Pavila. military attache of the Mexi
can Embassy at WashinEtnn. arrived at Pine
Camp N T.. where he was received by General
Grant. — The Rev. Dr. John II Thomas, of
Orange. X. J. was inaugurated as president of
Middlebnxy ("oiietre, In Vermont. . ■ An aeent
of the Department of Commerce and Labor was
s=ent to Los Angers to make an Inquiry into the
rama-frling of Chinese wwer the Mexican border
by an alleged organized band. = Seven per
sons were illed by 'lie excessive heat in Pitts
burg; an <•■•! urnk wagon exploded in the street.
: A tornado near Mountain Lakf>. Minn.,
killed one child, injured a score of persons and
destroyed many horses and cows.
- Stocks were dull and firm ■ Yale
Vniversity conferred the degree of Doctor of
Law? on J. Plerpant Morgan. == The Board
of Education passed a resolution calling for an
investigation with a B*ew to reorganizing the
«-ntire public school system. Rudolph Dolgf.
[wm consular agent at Caracas, said Ven
ezuela was not surprised at the withdrawal of
United States r«-presentatlves. . ■ Six |<ersons
iv«?re hurt in a crash between two cars on the
WlUlamfeburg Bridge. === A colleague of ex-
Ald<=Tman Petrrs testified that he thought Peters
pave orders to vote for Cowing. — :—: — The suc
cess of ■ plan of reorganization of the AVesting
house Electric and Manufacturing Company be
came assured. ■ ■ The Clyde Line freight
t=t earner Chippewa went ashore on Long Island
in a fog.
THE "WEATHER. — Indications for to-day:
Fair and cooler. The .temperature yesterday:
Highest. 93 degrees; lowest, 68.
PROFITS AT SUEZ.
Su»'Z Canal roport^ <ontiuue to jrive tlie lie
to the prrdieUons of failure or of linaiicial un
pnSiaMeneai which were so numerously and
m confidentlj: made oonconiing that enterprise
at its inception and. indeed, pretty persistently
until it l>e^an practically to disprove them.
The history of the canal since its openinpr to
commerce lans l.»een an lnspirin^ly monotonous
record of continuous progress. Each year has
*een it« patronagre and profits Increase, and
at intervals of a few years it has been neces
fcary to make successive and considerable re
ductions of tolls in order arbitrarily to de
crease the receipts and to prevent the profits
from exceeding the maximum permitted by the
charter. And still the process continues.
In IMS the hi?h--vvater mark in tonnnpe,
down to that time, was reached, and there were
those who expected a slight decrease in the
next year, or at least looked for no further in
crease. The transport of Russian troops was
a considerable Item in IMS which 1&07 did not
enjoy, and tbere was some financial depression
in the latter year, with a consequent Blackening
of travel and trade. Yet it now appears that
the total receipts in 1907 were $24,029,104,
which was Sl/J25.879 more than in 1900. The
total expenses were 55.725.409, or only $272,605
more than in EMM. The profits were, therefore,
fl&300.O05, or more than (J3 per cent of the
gross receipts. Incidentally it may be re
marked that there were last year larjie in
creases in the aaaalMr of ships passing through
the canal, In the average tonnage of them and,
of course, in the aggregate tonnage.
There may still be those who regard such
progress with surprise. It so. thai is probably
l«H-aus«- they fail to take account of two Im-
Itortaut fa<-ts. One is the growth of th*» world
Itself. In numbers and also fa those features
«if civilization which Increase the needs of men
ami I b<"wf<n-e -compel Hi lana»*ae of the mean*
for snjiplying theai. T!i<» world i-^ more popn
]ous Jo-<lny thaa mr before In Its btotory, and
it is st<-:idily and rapidly Increasing la pojiu-
Satkm. Thai alone would prescribe an Increase
«f tmv«-l jiikl transportation. lint also a
trcr.iiT proportion of it« Inhabitants are <-Jvil
l»sl thnu ever before, and their civilization la
of .i lIijJUT type, and tliexefore l!.«Te if a
gr»-«ter demand than ever l»eforp for those
things which industry nad commerce supply.
The uncivilized bonnttics or continents could
get along with little lataw»aia* t but civilized
lauds cannot and the higher their civilization
baoaanea the _nwaiar must Ik- the volume of in
tcn»nt»e.
JT» other fact is the v/ell known principle
that ;:•-:'.-■• of facilities increases use. We
Lav.- bad that fctrikiugiy csenipllfied in this
ci:y. The more Itttea of transportation there
.in" in operation, the more people want to
travel. The opening of the Suez route. >„
much slK.rt«T and quicker than that by way
of the Cape, of Good Hope, prompted llwu
sands of penple to travel who never would
have done so under the old conditions, and to
ship vast quantities of merchandise which
never would have been shipped if it had Lad
to go around the Cape. Both of these co'«sid
.•rations, as well as the general example of
great profits at .Suez, mjay be conunended to
those who are ,-ifraid that Uie Panama Canal
will never pay. The world is still growing in
numbers and civilization, and we are not sure
that any parts of it are growing faster than
thoae directly tributary to the Panama route.
and the opening of that canal will afford an
even creator improvement in transportation
facilities than did that at Suez. The torebod-
Ittga of uuprofitabloness at Panama have been
commensurate with those at Suez. So. too, we
nay confidently expect will be their refuta
tion.
QttOVER CLEVELAND.
As the only Democratic President elected
since the Civil War. Grover Cleveland was I
lout: an exceptional and notable fipure in pub- |
lie life. Nominated three times In BBCceaaion
for the Presidency and twice elevated to that
office, he will be accepted by history as the
dominating force in Democratic politics in the
period from IST4 to ISH4. when the Democratic
party recovered for a time its lost vitality and j
prestige. With him as its leader the Democ
racy caaae again into control in a majority of
the" states and in th*» nation as well, although
the proundwork of that success had Iwen laid
under Samuel .T. Tllden.
In the discharge of his duties as President
Mr. Cleveland lived up to the best traditions
of the office. He never failed to respect the
trust imposed \ipon him. He exhibited in the.
White House a high dejrree of courage, firm
ness and dignity. He undoubtedly did much
to enlarpp the powers of the Executive and to
free it from the appearance of subserviency
to the leaders In Coujrress. Mr. Cleveland had
never mastered the arts of the politician. Be
was impatient of restraint and resolutely de
termined to assert his own Individuality. In
fact, he owed little to the politicians. A Re
publican schism in this state in 1882 elected
him Governor, and his promotion to the Presi
dency in MM was also due lareelyi to the co
operation of disaffected Republicans. Ab (Gov
ernor be fought Tammany Hall and as Presi
dent he treated the spoils hunting element in
the Democratic party cavalierly. He wns re-
DomlnatPd in 1892 over the head of the Demo
cratic machine leaders in this state, not get
ting a vote from New York in the national
convention. He worked consistently for the
extension of the merit system of appoint
ments in the Civil Service, and his personal in
clinations were all toward clean politics and
dean administration. He did the nation a
great service In resisting the efforts of Demo
cratic politicians to fore- a return to the spoils
system, and ho did it another great servi<-e In
defending the national credit against the as
nulte of agitators for cheap money and the
establishment of the silver standard. The
country, though it may have disapproved many
of his "political policies, never lost faith in his
conscientioußness, his integrity and his deep
grounded patriotism.
"As President Mr. Cleveland left a record
which does him great personal credit. As a
political leader, however, he was far less fortu
nate He was the foremost Democrat of his
day Yet even before he left the Presidency
be had lost the support of his party and had
seen it fall a prey to hitter factional strife. He
was no Jefferson and no Jackson He had
grown up in a period of Democratic decadence.
From Jackson's administration on. the Demo
cratic organization fell more and more into tlie
hands of the Southern slave owners, and from
being a party of popular rights and radical
progress it became the defender of the most
obnoxious of special Interesta— the institution
of slavery. During the war and in the period
following the war the Democratic party had
no tixed ideas beyond opposition to whatever
v..is Republican. It was hardly to bo ex
pected that such conditions would produce a
: leader Qualified to bring the party again In
' touch with the programme of Jefferson and
: Jackson. Mr. Cleveland was certainly little
of ■ J.ffersonian or a Jacksonian. Ilis first
! sMhnintst ration was negative and colorless.
, when be was forced in the second admlnhrtra-
I ti'ii to attempt constructive legislation be broke
the party organization into flinders.
\s :i political lender Mr. Cleveland"* limitation
waV largely that he did not fully understand the
f.-p-es with which he dealt. He yielded In
1888 to 'he South'* demand that the protec
tive term" should be greatly lowered for its
j benefit. But he never realized when he Joined
I Lands with the Southern leaders to try to re
store antebellum Industrial conditions what a
radical and destructive spirit had come over
the Southern and Western Democracy. His
election in 1882 unloosed that spirit and he
could then no longer control it. With Bepub
] lican aid 1^ fought off free silver coinage and
i stopped purchases of silver bullion. But the
South and West turned on him thereafter as
nn enemy and supplanted him as leader with
William J. Kryau.
After his retirement to private Mf**- In l«0..
Mr. rieveland gave little attention to politics.
: lie made his influence felt, however, in advo
ca.cy of movements of an educational and
charitable order and bore himself on all oeea
■ skrtis in which he appeared in public with
i serenity and dignity. He retained the respect
lof the' country, and its good wishes have al
1 ways been with him. His death will be _mi
i cerely mourned. He will be remembered, if
not a< a great political leader, certainly as a
' worthy and forceful President and as a thor
| ougbly representative American.
Ay OVERWORKED CANDIDATE.
Did any candidate for President ever before
regard it as incumbent upon him to issue a
serial analysis of the opposing party* plat
form, as Mr. Bryan has just done? Haven't
candidates always felt that there were others
in the party to attend to such humble details?
Has Mr. Bryan no confidence in the Demo
cratic: press that be may trust it to point out
all the flaws in the Republican platform, and
must be examine publicly every plank, bow
ever unimportant?
Could not Mr. Bryan trust that somewhere
in what is left of the Democratic party would
1... found some editorial writer, running empty
ings, to whom gods laboriously smart efforts to
score as the following would occur?
'•In no other period since the clays of Lincoln."
according to the platform, 'has th.-re been such
mlKhly progress in those Ideals of government
which make for justice, equality and fair dealing
among "nu*n."
Without asking why the Republican party ims
held office and divided the official salaries among
its partisan!! so long without giving us a Presi
dent who represented "the best aims and worth
iest purposes of the people"; without asking why
no other Republican President in recent days
•has lifted American manhood to a noble sense
<if duty ami obligation." we may ask why it is
that the Republican convention spends M much
time praising •»!■• President ami gives so little
attention to the specific Indorsement of the
things ho lias advocated. But the President
ii ir*i f eel tlial he la the only Republican deserv
tin? of praise. The recent Congresses, according
to the platform, have been full <-€ patriots and
the Republican legislators hare been keeping
"step iii th<- forward march to better govern
mint." What does the President think of being
bracketed with Republican Senators and mem
bers Of Congress in this Indlscriiriii.ate praise?
What is the Democratic party for anyway, if
Mr. Brian must attend personally to the ut
tcfance of such stuff us that? Is there no one
but the candidate to perform the menial Intel
leriual Labors of the campaign? 1- there no
one whose intellectual reputation will not Buf
fer upon whom such duties may devolve? Or
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NEW-YORK IVaIIA TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, JuflE
must even the bperOßC inejitlturles of the < n:n
pi;if;:i be "otßcinl"".'
rEyEZVELAX BELATIOXS.
It was an interesting coincidence that Amer
ican diplomatic relations with .Venezuela should
have been severed while Grovef Cleveland liy
on his deathbed, and. Indeed* only a few hours
'.i lore his death: Little more than :i dozen
years ago he risked in Venezuela's behalf a rupt
ure of relations with the most formidable of
European powers and thus saved that republic
from being sunnu'irily shorn of a large part of
its territory. Probably neither Mr. Cleveland
nor the American people who so cordially sup
ported him expected any marked degree of grat
itude from Venezuela or from its ruler. If so.
they have not been disappointed. The story of
our relations with that country for moat of the
time since that intervention has been a record
of annoyance and vexation.
The controversy between the United States
and Venezuela which has now culminated in the
departure of all American diplomatic repre
sentatives from that country has been the theme
of much discussion, which need not be rehearsed
at this time. The agents of the Venezuelan gov
ernment in this country, the representatives of
some commercial interests which are closely
bound up with Mr. Castro and a few Americans
whose rule seems to be that their own country
should always be assumed to be in the wrong have
been profusely wordy in their championship of
the Venezuelan side. Our own government has
maintained a dignified confidence in the right
eousness of its contentions, and therein has en
joyed the loyal support of the nation. We may
add without hesitation that it has also had the
sympathetic consideration of most of the world
— of all those countries which have themselves
had a taste of Venezuelan or Castronlan ohstrep
erousness.
For it will not escape observation that Amer
ica is by no means alone in the matter. Other
nations :ilpo find it impossible to pet on amicably
or satisfactorily with Mr. Castro. France and
Colombia have practically no dealings with Ven
ezuela. Italy has had serious difficulties with it.
and Great Britain and Holland are on the i>oint
of suspending diplomatic rel;:ti<ms. These things
do not necessarily prove Venezuela to be in the
wrong, but they do constitute ground for a strong
presumption to that effect. The man who quar
rels with all or most of his neighbors while they
are at peace and in friendship among themselves
may pretty safely be suspected of being in the
wrong. Sometimes there is an Athanasfus con
tra mutulum who is in the right. But that sort
of Athanastaa does not appear to be indigenous
to Venezuela.
Till! HALF LOAF ISSUE.
"The Bpringfield Republican" comments upon
the report of the University Settlement's in
vestigation of poverty and unemployment on
the East Side and calls attention to tlie fact
that these conditions exist under a Republi
can administration and when Republican poli
cies have prevailed for years. "Under these
circumstances," it says, "one might suppose a
"decent respect for facts known to all the peo
"plo would compel a retirement of the old
"full-loaf Republican, half-loaf Democratic
"campaign cry."
Whether they should compel the retirement
of thp I'iiiupaitrn cry or n<>t, they will not stop
Intelligent people from asking under which
party a return of prosperity, plenty and regu
lar employment will soonest come. To assume
that every one who is out of work will rote
a<:;iinst the Republican party simply because the
financial crisis occurred in a Republican ad
ministration is to assume a general jiublio
willingness to bite off the nose to spite the
face.
It is all very well to punish the Republican,
party In a Mind, insensate way for misfortunes
that are beyond the control of parties, but
this d"sir- will seem a luxury if Its indulgence
means a check in the return of normal finan
cial condition's: People who are now out of
employment are not going deliberately to vote
for a continuance of that condition. They will
vote intelligeatly for the party whose posses
sion of office will have the best effect upon
business. In such conditions Mr. Bryan, with
his socialistic policies, will look like a dan
gerous experiment. Present conditions ought
to be less favorable to Mr. Bryan than the
days of our prosperity would have been. These
are times of widespread and universal cau
tion. Two years apo Georgia went in cheer
fully for Hoke Smith. To-day it feels safer
with "Joe" Brown. That is symptomatic.
RUSSIA V CONTRA STS.
Some current news from Russia creates, it
must be confessed, unpleasant impressions. We
bear of frequent and summary aerations of
political offenders, sometimes by dozens or
scores, and there are reports of drastic acts of
repression against free speech and other liber
ties, suggesting the days of Alexander in and
Pobiedonostseff rather than those of Nicholas
II and St'ilvpin. At the same time the trials <>f
the ravishers and slaughterers of Bialystok end
in a few light sentences and many acquittals,
and the **Novoe Yremya" semi-officially and dou
bly cynically argues that tlie killing <<t Jews is
not to be regarded as murder.
Still, ihe Douma continues to exist, to exercise
its functions and to show itself a power in the
state which tlie bureaucracy, the ministers and
the Council of State must reckon with and must
respect, and it is even In a fair way to have the
salaries of Its members increased. So. while
racial and religious hatreds still prevail in mucb
of the old savagery, to shock and disgust the
world, we must recognize that progress also pre
vails and that the nation is steadily moving
toward ordered liberty and enlightened constitu
tionalism.
Resides, we have no doubt that occasional do-
Ings in this country, such as the race conflict and
massacre Of a few days ago in Texas, create un
pleasant impressions in other hinds, even per
haps in Russia.
.4.V ALASKAN REMINDER.
Tlie statement appears in a current govern
ment report at Washington that more than
$7.«mnMmmi worth of precious metals is taken
every year from the mines of Seward I'eniit-
Kiila. Alaska. Seward Peninsula is the region
lying between Norton and Kotzebue sounds.
Including Cape Prince of Wales and Norne — a
very small part of Alaska and only one of
many centres of profitable mining and other
industries in that territory.
There are lots of people slill living w'i>>
well remember when Alaska was called "Sew
sird'H Folly." "Sewards Iceberg," "Our Arctic
Province" and i'" 1 like, and William Henry
Reward was ridiculed, lampooned and con
demned with die Bhadanianthine austerity of
an iinli-imperiiilist 011 the throne of judgment
for paying $7,200,000 of good American money
for what was described as a worthless expanse
of spaders, totem poles and polar bears.
Seward — <<r the United States at bis in
stance -paid $74200,000 for Alaska. And now
..in of an Insignificant fraction of thai terri
tory that entire purchase price is being taken
every year In precious metals, besides the far
greater sums which are yearly realized from
similar and other resources In other parts of
tliat vast domain. We are inclined to think
it a >afe estimate that the net annual profits
of Alaska for il"' forty years «rf our posses
sion of tho country have averaged considerably
ij,uu- than the entire purchase price.
it was an uncommonly good piece of busi
ness, that purchase of Alaska, and time's splen
did vindication of it suggasta that attar judg
menti concerning other things may prove to
l>e no wiser than were the onslaughts upon
toward. "All things are po.^ihl^-^en that
S Wlnslow and Moorfield Storey may
on" time acknowledge the wisdom of our ac
quisition of. the I'hilil-l'iiic^. Vj : -
The Hon. Norman E. Mack. Democratic Na
tion il Commit teeman from this state, is n -
B cXd as an "ardent Bryan man." apparent y
because he believes that -if Bryan n» again
an<l fails of election he will have no excuse for
asking the party to support him once «£
This is affection of the sort which sa>s. Give
him a rope and he will hang himself.
ciatlons.
tended to accomplish.
Speaking of Mr. Bryan's probable lack of news
paper support in this city and state, and con
trasting it with the much greater support given
to Judge Parker in ll*U. "The Springfield Re
publican" says: "Yet Parker lost New York
"State by a larger plurality than Bryan ever
"did." This is unjust to berth Parker arid Bryan.
The plurality against Parker in 1904 was
175£52. The plurality against Bryan in W"
was 143,600, but that against him in ttM was
265,4<;0. It looks like a dead heat between two
eminent losers.
The Georgia Democratic State Conventi-m
unkindly turned down "The Atlanta Constitu
tion's" suggestion that Georgia indorse Thomas
E. "Watson as Bryan's running mate on t
Democratic national ticket Mr. Watson 1 ? services
in electing Brown over Smith were great, and
the Brown managers might have been apprecia
tive enough to reward them by a Vlce-Pr<■sM'-n
tial indorsement. Bryan and Watson ran on
the same ticket in 189& Why not revive the
memories of that stirring campaign?
Asked whether he would be the Democratic
candidate for tho Vice-Presidency. Mr. L*wis
Nixon replied: "Such honors are attractive In
"prospect, b«t I hare to wok fur a living: and
"I'm not seeking office." This is an evasion.
If Mr. Nixon should be Mr. Bryan's running
mate he would Ftill have to work for a living;
and nobody couid accuse him of yeeking office.
The honor would be attractive in prospect only;
and if Mr. >»'lxon is not worrying over the ret
rospect or the introspect his oracular state
ment may be construed as a cxnteseion cf can
didacy.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
In connection with the death of Grover Cleveland.
It is interesting to note that only twice before in
the history of the nation has the United States
been without a living ex-President. George Wash
ington died in 1799, when John Adams, the second
President, -was in office. Andrew Johnson, at the
time the only surviving ex-Chief Executive, passed
away in 1875. two years before General Grant re
tired to private life.
"Some of our hardest battles are fought out of
court."
"How can that be?"
"For instance," explained the lawyer, In case
the heirs to an estate want to come to an agree
ment." — Louisville Courier- Journal.
Edmond Rostand is. writing a drama which will
be put on the stage early next season in which
moving pictures will play a prominent part. The
name of the play has not been determined upon,
but it will be an admixture of mythology and up
to-date mechanics. In the first scene Diana and
a large following are disturbed at play by the ar
rival of a large touring car. They scamper into
the woods and see a young man and a young wom
an alight. Morpheus comes and puts them to
sleep, so that Vulcan may examine the machine.
He takes it apart, but cannot restore the dismem
bered automobile. The Morpheus spell is removed
and the man quickly repairs the machine, and with
Eros as chauffeur speeds away toward the horizon.
While all this is represented in moving pictures
the poem is being recited by the various charac
ters. Gabricle d'Annunzio Is engaged on a similar
work.
•'I hear that your new school superintendent is
rather radical."
"Ho 1;; that." responded Farmer Haw. "He's rut
out the higher beadwork and the perforated tat
ting, and lies advising teachers to handle the chil
dren accordin' to thfl rules of common sense. Oh.
yes! 'Mir new superintendent is radical, all right.''
■ Louisville Courier-Journal.
A tablet to the memory oi John Benjamin, a
Maine soldier 1n the Revolution, was dedicated last
Friday in the Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley
Forge, on the ir. r >th anniversary of the evacuation
of Valley Forge by the American army. The chapel
and i's surrounding buildings are a memorial to
Georg* Washington. The tablet is the gift of Mrs.
William Henry T'e,;r=on. of Boston. The tablet
rea*ds: "With thanksgiving unt>> Almighty God anil
in loving memory of John Benjamin, of Massachu
setts, born February 5, 1758, died Pecemher 2. 1814.
artillerist in the Continental Army, giving to his
beloved country a service of seven years and shar
ing the privations of Valley Forge, this tablet in
trl'.'UiH to his honor, his valor and his faithful life
is erected by his granddaughter, Nancy Delia Ben
jamin Penrson."
RHYME AND REASON FOR TAPT.
The man most surely must be daft.
Who thought it could be aught but Taft.
A statesman wise, and foe to graft
Is what is said of William Taft.
He's frank, and ne'er beguiled, With craft.
So cast your votes for brilliant Taft.
The grand old party's platform draft.
Tho' made by Roosevelt, just fits Taft.
All those who have both scoffed and laughed.
In the White House will find Taft.
j'n flowing bumpers nrayly quaffed.
We'll hail you President, noble Taft.
Let's then throughout the Union waft
The news, the people's choice is Taft.
B. B. VALLEXTINE.
According to a report in the "Xeue Frele
Presse," Vienna, J. Plerpont Morgan was a busy
sightseer in that city on his recent vieit. With
Mrs. Douglas and her daughter he visited all the
great art collections "and on Sunday called at
Kreutzensteln Castle, where he was received by
the Countess Kinsky. He was deeply intereste.l
in what he saw in the restored castle and listened
with devotion when his hostess played on the
chapel organ." The report nlso speaks of Mr. Mor
gan's visit to the I^alnzer Zoo, where he showed
the greatest Interest In the boars, "us be had
never before seen one.'
Mr. Cadd Can 1 see that burglar who was
arrested lor breaking into my bouse last night?
Inspector (hesitatingly)— Well 1 don't know.
What do you want to see him for?
Mr. Cadd Oh! there's nothing secret about It.
I just wanted to find out how he managed to pel
int.. the house without waking my wife — Illus
trated Hits.
AS BETWEEN TAFT AND BRYAN.
From The Boston Transcript
The Indications now M*m to point unmistak
ably to the nomination of Mr Bryan nt Denver.
The Issue before the people will i..- between the
progressive conservatism i>t' the Republicans and
the radicalism which the country rejected in tst»6
and again in l!' 1 1" Between tho two parties and
the two Issues the American people should not
hesitate for .1 moment. It is of more than his
torli*nl significance thai Mr. Tnft, who will repre
sent Republicanism in this contest aninsi Hry
anlKm. ha« been Identified with both the adminis
trations of President MeKinley and of President
Roosevelt Originally he entered the higher pub
lic life at the persuasion of the former. Of Preai
rient McKinley he was the, friend and admirar.
and in Mr. Tnffn Judgment President McKJnley
had creat confidence., which was amply Justified
by the event. Mr Tatt'n election will conserve
those principles which were twice affirmed In the
triumph of Mr. McKlnloy and. twice awsalled hv
Mr Bryan, are now about to become the object
or bis third assault.
About People and Social Incident*,
; NEW YORK SOCIETY.
j. P,rpont Moii; . J*j °%£
toM from Europe "•";„„. to tne Be> v. Wffl
niece. Miss Ursula Juliet^Morw a ' and tl> „.
l.m Fit, Sin.™ at Tu^^^ J on Mm ye 3.
celve the. honorary fl^reeconjer
terday by Yale University, w ! » » n^ rfM rtepart ure
rope on board Lv the
is due to the necessity of his *"JJ ce P narMr h « m «
opening by largely
in London, which he hn» bull B of
at her instigation, for the °,n, n . whlcn sh e is
elon fund for them, to which Mr. -.10-gan
the most generous subscribers.
New London 1., the Mecca to-** •'» «f *S to
portion of Ne W York society. L^^"S
?he ccene by mil. by boat gJEg|ffiSSS SS
ness the annual bont race b«»v^n liarva
Yale The port of New London !» alre^y s?^
wUh pleasure craft, every boat with a ga^ rty on
board, an.l to-night they will all be »™%™
Illuminated before dispersing *>*~?~JZ
port. Bar Harbor and other summer r * sort ;- whe.e
fhi. season will begin in real earnest with their
arrival.
Mi« Caroline M. Wllmerdln* will be married at
noon to-day to John P. Tre^-or at the home of MT
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius K. Wllmerrtln, in
Fast 77th itreet. Miss Caroline Drayton and IUH
Jail. Colgate will ha her only attendants Robert
Walton Goclet will be Mr. Trevor's test man. TH-re
will be no ushers.
Mrs Arthur Mason Jones and her son. Arthur
Bteaaa Jones, will sail for Europe to-day to spend
tiie summer abroad.
Mr and Mrs. W. Goadby Lcew will go to their
summer home at Monmouth Beach. N. J-. la-day.
The Rev and Mrs. William Fits Simon, who were
married at Tuxedo on Tuesday, will sail for Europe
to-day. They will visit Mr. Fitz Simons parents In
Ireland. . ■ ,
Mrs John H. Bradford will spend the summer at
New London. Conn., where she has taken a house
for the season.
Mr. and Mrs. August Belmont. Jr.. will sail for
Europe in August.
Profes^r and In H. Falrfield Osborn have re
turned from their trip abroad and are at their
country Place at Garrison-on-the-Hudson for the
Eiimmer.
Mr and Mrs. W. Storrs Wells sailed from Eng
land for New York yesterday. On their arrival
here they will go at once to Newport, waste they
will spend the summer. Their son-in-law - and
daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Peters, will be
their guests for the Newport season.
Mr and Mrs. VT. Scott CwrH wfll oeenpy The
Moorings, their place at Southampton. Long Island,
this summer.
Mr and Mrs. Lucius K. Wilrr.erdln? will W.ve
within the next few days for Tuxedo, where they
will spend a fear weeks.
Mr and Mr?. S. W. Rrldgham and Mr. and Mrs.
John Innes Kane have opened their cottages at
B<-.- Harbor for the summer.
Mrs Richard H. Tnwnsenii and Miss Matilda
Townsend of Washineton. who have been spending
a few days at the Plaza, left town yesterday for
WORK FOR THEODORE, JR.
An Explanatory Statement Issued
by Secretary Loeb.
fnr T'-I'nrrar'i to >rv '* Tribune.]
Oyster Bay. June 24.— The efforts of Theodore
Roosevelt. Jr.. to make a ltvintr in a manly Ameri
can way are- being sadly hampered by a number of
sensational statements coupling his name with tha
Steel Trust. According to th*>s<* stories, to which
wide publicity was given yesterday, he is to enter
th*> employ of the big corporation trader the per
sonal guidance of Captain "Jack" Greenway. an
oldtime friend of the family, -who. it was said, is
managing one of the Steel Corporation's mines In
Michigan. Captain Greenwny was in the Presi
dent's Rough Rider regiment in Cuba and has
been a frequent visitor at the White House. The
story -was evidently written with the intention of
making the transaction appear "off color." for it
hinted that the young man was to have a fine
place made for him because he was the «on of his.
father. As a matter of fact, this is wide of the
truth. The young man is anxious to learn the
mining business from the ground up. and is will
ing to begin at the bottom of the ladder. His
school life has been embittered a great many times
because of the fact that his father was President
of the United States, and now that he is making an
earnest, honest effort to besln_ a career of his own
and show what is in him the "same unfriendly, un
fair spirit is found working against him.
•'Young Theodore Roosevelt has had a hard
enough time of it up to date, without giving him
this black eye." said an official to-day. "It would
seem that It is about time for the American spirit
of fair play to assert itself in his behalf." Refer
ring to the unkind stories printed about the Presi
dent's son, Secretary Loeb to-day made public the
following statement:
The story as regards its Implication Is a pure
falsehood. John Greenway. who was in the Presi
dent's regiment, has told young Roosevelt that he
will try him on a job simply as one of the ordinary
miners and exactly as he tries hundreds of other
men every year and is trying hundreds thi3 year.
Young Roosevelt Is at this moment off seeing if
there was a chance at another job where he was
told he might get employment, having given up
going on the Mayflower to the boat race, for the
purpose of looking up this particular place, which
is in connection with a well known manufacturing
concern. He will probably not decide for two or
three months which particular pi ice he will try.
Except for the publication in the newspapers,
neither the President nor young Roosevelt knows
that the company for which <lre>MivM Is superin
tendent has any connection, either directly or in
directly, with 'he steel corporation. If it has, it
will, of course, make no difference. Young Roose
velt, if he goes into it. will be hired as a laborer
and stand or fall strictly on his own merits. The
President does not know whether Mr. Oreenway's
company has any connection with the steel trust.
but he knows Mr. Greenway well, and he knows
that not all the officials of the steel trust could per
suade him to put en or keep off a 'Single man unless
it met with his approval, and this offer was purely
of Mr. Oreenway's own volition, and the President
does not believe a human being '*>!■.•• ted with
the steel trust knew any thins: about it. The state
ment that young Roosevelt accompanied several
officials of the steel corporation on an inspection
of the works tost summer la false. He went out
to visit Mr. Grsenway. and it was at that time
that Mr. Oreenway offered to tike him on and try
him as a laborer, Just as any one else Is tried
EMPEROR WILLIAM AT KIEL.
Kiel, June 24.— The Hohenzollern. with Emperor
William on board, steamed Into Kiel Bay this af
ternoon to be present at the yacht races. The
HonensoQern made her was between fourteen hat<
Meshlpa and twelve cruisers anchored in doable
column. She was saluted by the forts nn,l the
warships, the ... v of the totter .-h.^rinK as she
went by. All the yachts In the harbor were deco
rated with nag* and m.my thousands of persona
crowded the hillside overlooking the aaraat
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND GIVES $10,000.
, CMcaso. .„„„. **. John liars Hamnioni , has
Riven $10,000 toward the sustention fund of *25 -
Utire of the O*org« Waahtogto,, Lnlvcrrtlj move
'",•;' »- nitotng fo, the e»«r^m«i( „f uJ n. w
AMERICAN HORSES WIN PRIZES
J.^.i-n. To, M ~ The Am - " trotting horse
nevi tm U \ (y y mVia - lUiS mm ° ml "X WW the hack-
Ihree ,™* ™ ° UtCot ™ »» ™* *f the
three former ocean m» when they have been pitted
SfZ » S S< " " V " r ■">'• ""t -V „d,:,
Mteen hands, cxhibit.,l in <»,>»,,,,, carVlag^f
R P McGrann-. Newsboy took nr.se , 1JU .> ,„ ., tln ..
; :.r M-ir- r v, •- • ■■ , -. --.- ,
the summer. ' rr * 1
Mr. and Mrs. George Gordon King saUed f. s
Europe for New York v»«t<»rds»y, and on the<- '**
rival will go to Newport for the neosoa. ""
"Mr. and Mr«. John D. Rockefeller, jr., have Uk.
possession of the Sears villa at Bar Harbor v;**?
they will spend the * iinra»r. * * *
Mrs. John J. McCook and the Ulsaea jj c c c •
sailed for Europe yesterday on board the XaJaMtf
They will spend the »umm«r abroad. '
Mrr. W Payne Thssnsaas, aria had been » - teom
for several months, has returned, and will sand
the summer it Newport. " *'" "
Mrs. C. H. Strong, of Erie. Perm.. :3: 3 expected __,
arrive at th* P!az» to-day. ■*
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[From Th» Tribune Bureau.)
Washington. June >♦ -Miss Winifred JXat:i«'
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sarnu»l L. Matting
was married at St. John"a Church at S:3o o>l<Jk
this afternoon to Major David D Porter C i
M. C. the Rev. Edward S. Dunlap oftVmin*
Fully two hundred invited grues: 3 witnessed »»
ceremony and attended the reception at the
of the bride's uncle. William F. Matt!n?lv, a >;.
MM H street, which followed. The bridegroom*
who is the grandson of the late Re« Admiral Por
ter; Colonel Littleton. W. T. Walt-r. best marl anj
the ushers. Lieutenant Colonel Charles 3. MeCaw
ley, Colonel Frank L. Denny. Colonel Charles _,
I>auchelmer. Captain Richard S. Hooker. Urn*.
tenant Comrr<*r.der Cle'.and Davis. Captain Phm^
S. Brown, all of the Marine Corps, and Major
Andre Brewster. •'• S. A., were all In full _ reaß
uniform, while Clary Ray, also an usher, Tt-ora
citizen's attire. Mrs. BUM earl L. D. Breciteo
ridee. wife of Captain Breckenridge. V. 3. A.. Taj
the bride's only attendant. The bridal robe wa3 a
white satin princess, cut with a square train tw©
yards in length, and with rose point lace «leeve3
and yoke. A lons sash of white satin ribbon wa
fastened to the left front as the bodice and hung t»
the hem of the skirt. She wore a tulle v*ii wttft
orange blossoms and carried white orchids and
lllies-of-the-valley. Him Breckenndge wore a
gown of white French lawn trimmed with a pro
fusion of lace, a white hat with Ion? pink pluses
and carried pink flowers. A number of -v»*!!nf
gifts were made to the bride, many of them of his
toric value. The latter class included a lar?e sil
ver vase presented to the bridegroom's grand
father, the late Rear Admiral Porter, whlca bore
the autographs of a aumber of his intimates cf
days long past, that of Henry Clay heading th«
list. The out-of-town guests included Mrs. John
Morton, daughter-in-law of the late Governor 0.
P Morton, of Indiana, an aunt of the "cride, whes»
home Is in Palo Alto. Cal.. and Mr. and lira.
Richard Pays-.n. of Portland. Me.
Another Interesting wed-lins here to-day, that cf.
Miss Vivian Ursula Cameron, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore Rowland Cameron, of this city, and
Hubert Burnham. of Chicago, was solemnized in
Ml Souls' Unitarian Church at I p. ns. The Rev.
U i; B. Pierce officiated. The wedding party naa
a" large one. Including HIM Beatrice Casern,
maid of honor: Miss Elizabeth Steenrod. uf TThwl
irnr W Va - Miss Louise McCally, of Philadelphia;
Miss Ida Bowie, of Washington: Mis* Cath«rtn»
Gassaway Granville. of Laurel. Mi; »• *-•
E Thomson and Miss Claire Price, «| PMar
delphia. bridesmaid.. Daniel H. Burnham. of
Chicago brother of the bridezroom. was lest m?n.
2d the ushers were Ensign Alvaa B. tort;
l- S N • Edmund Carrington and Fletcher sW^
iors' of '"Washington, and Reginald Hard*. BfcS
aS Prenti^ast and Seymour Wheeler, all of CM
caro. _____—.
MR. SHERXAX IMPROVES.
Speedy Becovery Looked For—
Undergo Operation Later.
Cleveland. June W._ltep«s«tai*raJaiia»«.
Sherman. Republican candidate ior J^^'
dent, who was taken 111 here ******* 7^
a passage of gall stones while on bis way b«na
from the Chicago convention, r^ted ■»«"""
MA* to-day. Prs. Edward P.
P. Allen and C. W. Stone were much pl<w- ■ ■
the progress he made and are of the oplm " O*.
the necessity for an Immediate
passed. They advised Mr. Sh«m*Jj
?o have the cause of the troub^"
soon as he regains his normal al f.
man's condition wastes: indicated *££*
perature. which showed a general lowerin* ot
2* degrees since last nigh:. __,
" Dr. Carter said at 10 p. m. that Mr. Shermans
general condition was very favorable. he «■
sleeping soundly.
Mrs. Sherman was in much better *££
day She had almost recovered from the ex
haustion following the journey fee re.
It is not expected that Mr. Sherman win *
able to leave the hospital before S«^»
attended to his correspondence *>£*
the afternoon sent a telegram of <^ dol *°*V
Mrs. Grover Cleveland. While BJ <*«•"£
hourly grows better and there is ejer, «£
to expect a speedy recovery, his illness
such a nature that there may be a cnt! :cai^
at any time. Dr. Carter said ta-day: I *«^
anticipate a sudden change. The V^'
under constant watch. At a conference »#» #
Mr. Sherman Dr. Allen. Dr. Stone and Bjsw
could see no necessity for an Immediate JJ»-"
tion. but we advised that an operation
formed in the near future Wht .e ** cerfW
to-day does not warrant this tom«flJ»» «^»
cannot predict what to-morrow may as* _
forth." „__, *-«_••-
In his waking noun, the patient taUed C«v.
with those at his bedside. He suffered no ►paw-
In the afternoon he sent the follows? c«sas*
to- Mrs. Cleveland: ♦•r^fs'-d
The news of the death of your
husband was a great shock to me. Toun*~
sincere sympathy. ( (
The following message from Vice-1 — ■Jjjj^
Fairbanks was received by «x-Go*€rnor B«
rick:
I am sorry to learn of Mr ShmragJ
Give htm my very kindest regards. Fieasc
vise me of his condition. -^
Mr. Sherman's temperature did not *°*?°£
100 during the day. although it was as cis ,
102.4 at 4 o'clock a. m. The pulse was i 9<M^
o'clock a. m. and went down to TS from 1 ° rf
to 4 o'clock p. m. The respiration drop>£
from 32 at 7 o'clock a. m. to 24 at 11 oclow : *
Th- official bulletin at I o'clock to- ntgnt s»
temperature as lOl.S; pul*e. S3: respiration. 3*- _
New Haven. June 24— Late this "JJ^tS
Secretary Taft directed the postponement «^
meeting of the sub-committee of the I^ cl-tr .
Xational Committee to select a national l _ t g 1
man from July I to July I on account ot v~
ness of Representative Sherman. ,_
"Mr. Sherman." said Mr. Taft. "i» • asto £ e £
ha present at the conference, and it "*""*
now that ho will not be physically ■**/^[^
In Washington next Wednesday. It 1» °*"^T
therefore, that the conference be postpone
PRINCE HELIES MARRIAGE P IAN9 *
I mm in. June =1.-Prtnce ■■» *' 9Mt^L_S > !a-
Ing to a statement made by one of W» me
day. has decided to make his residency » ~7a____j
for fifteen days and then to marry i^me.
in «i church under an ordinary llcensew
MME. MELBA'S ANNIVERSARY. -
London. June 2«.-Mme. Mel*a c *'*_**_*?J!ia?
th#> s«attsta unniversiary of her first vv , _
-at Covent Garden by alaaasar at • ■ ■ — m cf
benefit of hospitals. She arpe^ ■ Ktn*
"Madame Butterfly' and -La Tray , rirden «**
and Queen were present, and *""*"**"
filled with persona prominent in society-