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The Demoralized Support of a
Demoralizer.
he utter demoralization of the
democratic party is splendidly dem
onstrated by the way in which W. R.
Hearst Is oapturing the delegates
from states which ought to know bet
ter. In our own part of the country
Hearst now has Illinois, Iowa, South
Dakota, Nebraska and a strong claim
to Minnesota. It is certain that Hearst
will have many more delegates in the
democratic national convention than
the political experts thought possible
a few months ago. he experts then
assumed that notwithstanding its
erratic oscillations of recent years
there was still some stability in the
democratic party, but the premise
seems to have been an erroneous one
so far as the northern democracy is
ccr.oerned.
The cool-headed minority, which
has gone down before the Hearst
boom in states like Illinois and Iowa,
must be totally discouraged regard
ing the future of the party. What
hope is there, anyway, for a national
party that will take up a man who
has no claims to national honors, other
than those that can be based on the
ownership of a number of highly sen
sational and unreliable newspapers
that are doing more than any other
instrument of publicity in the United
States to deprave the public taste
and inflame revolutionary passion and
class prejudice?
1 .art*e, heavy ladies should take cour
ap" Mrs. Ada Powers of Brooklyn, who
ighs over 200 pounds, fell out of her
peioiul story window with a loud, shrill
si'iviun. The fall was twenty feet. Neigh
bors who saw her hurtling thru the air
rushed tu pick up the body, but she was
fimiirl on her feet, brushing her clothes,
entirely unhurt. A thin person would have
broken something.
A Lost Opportunity.
It is to be regretted that the zeal
for advertising the state and encour
aging Immigration shown by the im
migration convention now in session
Jn St. Pa ul was not awakened some
what earlier. The world's fair at St.
Louis affords the best opportunity for
advertising and encouraging imm i
gration that will be presented in
many years, but Minnesota as not
taken advantage of it. In several de
partments our exhibits are excellent,
but as a rule they are completely
overshadowed by those of states that
appropriated more money and have
had the wisdom to take advantage of
the fair as an advertising medium.
Minnesota ought to have spent about
$200,000 on its building and exhibits
at St. Louis. Every Minnesotan who
visits the fair regrets that such a sum
was not spent. So much better have
many other states done that we might
almost say that, as an advertising
medium, the Minnesota exhibits at St.
Louis are useless.
A great many of those who attend
such a fair as that of St. Louis go for
the very purpose of informing them
selves about other regions than those
in which they live. A careful in
spection of the various state exhibits
tends to give the sightseer a good idea
of what state or territory is likely to
suit him best for a future home. Min
nesota as such a variety of products
of farm, forest, mine, waters and fac
tories that it should be able to present
exhibits that would compete with the
best of other states. People prefer to
see things rather than read about
them. The man who inspects the dif
ferent exhibits at St. Louis sees what
the different states that are bidding
for settlers actually do. Naturally
the state that presents the most
varied, extensive and interesting col
lection of Its products is the one that
makes the best impression on the in
formation seeker.
There can be no doubt that Minne
sota will suffer because its legislature
did not see fit to spend more money
on exhibits at St. Louis. The western,
southwestern and far northwestern
Btates have made exhibits that are
bound to have a profound and lasting
'effect on immigration to those states.
Canada, too, has made a convincing
popular demonstration of what can be
done agriculturally in western Can
ada. Thus the effect of the fair on
Immigration will be to send population
away from Minnesota to the south,
southwest and northwest.
This state of affairs has been largely
brought about by the apathy of our
people, who, in the first place, did
not insist upon a larger appropriation
from the legislature, and in the second
place have shown little or no inter
est in the state's exhibits at St. Louis
and have given the commissioners
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neither moral nor material support in Lehman, two of the St. Louis boodlers,
11.
Lee Spangler, a Tork, Pa., merchant who
Is called the "Last of the Prophets" be
cause he predicted the Baltimore fire and
the death of Mark Hanna, is.out with a
prediction of a serious fire in Philadelphia
this summer in which many lives will be
lost. An easier job than this, he also pre
dicts the election of Roosevelt. Now
watch Philadelphia-
Mr. Grover's Advice.
M. D. Grover, general counsel for
the Great Northern railroad, and one
of the attorneys in the merger liti
gation, volunteered a novel bit of ad
vice in his address to the state im
migration convention yesterday. "If
other states create corporations that
you think are too powerful," he said,
"keep them out. They can't get into
this state unless you let them."
The trouble is that corporations
like the Northern Securities company
exercise their influence on Minnesota
without ever legally entering the
state. In a strict sense, this corpora
tion confined its business to New Jer
sey and New York, but the fact that
it held the stock of the three roads
created the communi ty of interest,
declared by the supreme court to be
in restraint of trade.
Counsel for the state would have
been glad to see the Northe rn Securi
ties compa ny enter this state, so that
it could be sued in the state courts.
It Is all very well to talk of keeping
out dangerous corporations but state
lines are too intangible to bar out the
influence of a trust. The "situs" of
a corporation is very much of a legal
Action in this present day.
"If nothing happens" the northwest is
going to have a bumper crop. Even the
"hot wind" artists are discouraged.
Significant Silence.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
It is a question whether General
Bell has constitutional authority for
the deportation of the labor union
men in the disturbed mining regions
of Colorado who have been connected
with the appalling series of outrages
that has marked the progress of the
great labor struggle in that state.
There is great danger that a man en
trusted with almost unlimited author
ity in such an emergency will go too
far.
Doubtless, in any ordinary state of
affairs there would be a chorus of in
dignant protests from all parts of the
country at General Bell's high-handed
course. The fact that there have
been few such protests is significant
and should be noted by those labor
leaders who are advocating programs
that almost Inevitably lead to violence
and disorder. It shows that the peo
ple of the United States have become
so impatient with violent methods
on the part of strikers, that they will
tolerate almost any method of pro
cedure on the part of officers that
seems to promise the suppression of
violence and the restoration of law
and order.
When a communi ty as been terror
ized and overrun with assassins and
dynamiters, as certain parte of Colo
rado have been for many months,
there is no disposition on the part of
the public to examine too closely into
the methods used to exterminate the
enemies of the public peace and re
store the reign of law.
"The Mistakes of Robert or, How My
Candidate Beat Himself," is a coming se
rial, to begin in a Northfleld paper early
in July.
The Public Pays the Bills.
The strike on the Great Lakes is
ended by the surrender of the masters
and pilots to the Lake Carriers' asso
ciation, and there will be general re
joicing at the resumption of traffic.
The extent of the tie-up may be ap
preciated by comparing the May ton
nage thru the canals at the Soo, which
was only 449,8S8 tons, against 6,839,-
856 tons for the same month last year.
This little difference over wages
created a situation that has hung like
a pall over many lines of commerce,
throwing 100,000 men out of work,
and creating uneasiness in the busi
ness world. W are promised that
an abundant supply of coal will be
brought up the lakes, and a famine
need not be feared, but weeks have
been lost that can never be regained.
The "innocent bystander," as usual,
has suffered severely. The iron mines
of northern Minnesota have been
practically idle, and the income of the
range towns has been almost shut off.
The stagnation of the shipping bsi
ness has made many idle men at Du
luth and the other lake ports.
The state of Minnesota is one of the
'"innocent bystanders" harmed in a
business way by the strike. The
mines being worked on state land,
which pay a royalty of 25 cents for
every ton shipped, have been idle, be
cause there were no vessels to carry
the ore out, and the docks were full.
Then the business of the three ore
carrying railroads has been almuost
suspended, and the immense falling
off in their gross earnings will be felt
when the state comes to collect the
gross earnings tax at the end of th_e
year.
The lake carriers have lost money,
and the striking employees have suf
fered, but in this as in every transpor
tation tie-up, the public in the end
pays the piper. One is almost forced
to the conclusion that the only way to
protect the interests of the people ef
fectively is by compulsory arbitration.
This program is feared by both sides
in labor controversies, and a
fair and effective scheme has yet to be
worked out. It is a problem that
must be solved, and every year makes
plainer the necessity for some prac
tical way by which the people of the
United States as intervenors may take
a hand in the pertunial case of Em
ployee vs. Employer.
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their work. I will be interesting to and has sentenced them to seven and six
see whether the immigration conven
tion can overcome the existing apathy
in regard to advertising, publishing
and emphasizing the state's resources
and attractions.
That is good news from Jefferson City
that the supreme court of Missouri has
sustained the convictions in the cases of
Councilman M. L. Hartman and Julius
years respectively in the penitentiary.
The supreme court of Missouri is improv
ing nobody would have suspected that it
would be a party to the consignment of
any kind of a boodler to state's prison.
The court showed, however, that it does
not purpose to go back entirely on its
record, by giving Robert M. Snyder, pro
moter and bribe-giver, another chance for
liberty on the ground that the statute of
limitations had put him beyond the reach
of the courts. Genuine reform is always a
slow process, and It could hardly be ex
pected that the Missouri supreme court
would regenerate itself all at once.
Excited cablegrams from London state
that Mrs. John Jacob Astor is creating a
furore of excitement in London society
circles with her perfect Worth costumes,
the priceless ropes of pearls and diamonds
entwining her beautiful neck and shoul
ders, and her "magnificent back," "bared
to the waist line," by said Worth costume
or lack of it. Most people would prefer
to keep their "magnificent backs" out of
the papersbut you can't tell.
Professor Washington calls attention to
the pregnant fact that cotton planters
can not expect to lynch the negro In the
winter and have him make cotton in the
summer. Thousands of negroes have left
Mississippi.
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Insurance Commissioner Dearth Quits the
Dunn Camp, and Mr. Dunn Sees a Van
Sant Boom In ItCollins Men Form
Strong Organization at Redwood Fair's
Hearst Men and Antis Still Making
Rival Claims.
R. C. Dunn's persistent attacks on Gov
ernor Van Sant have alienated consider
able support from him. and one of the
results appears in the announcement of
Elmer H. Dearth, insurance commis
sioner, that he can no longer support Mr.
Dunn. He does not say that he will op
pose Dunn, but that he will cease to work
for him. He gives his reason as follows:
"I was a Dunn man, and I still have
a kindly feeling toward him, but he has
made mistakes, and one of them is his
antagonistic attitude toward Governor
Van Sant. He appointed me, and I would
be an ingrate did I not resent uncalled
for attacks on my superior. Mr. Dunn's
attacks on Governor Van Sant have been
persistent and unwarranted."
Mr. Dunn, who is "seeing things" with
considerable frequency of late, sees in
this interview an announcement of Gov
ernor Van Sant's candidacy for a third
term. He "takes it to mean" that Gov
ernor Van Sant has decided that it is
best to "throw the judge overboard."
The governor had nothing whatever to
do with Dearth's announcement, and the
Collins men say that it only means that
the insurance commissioner has seen the
handwriting on the wall and does not care
to be identified with a losing cause any
longer.
"That is just another hypodermic dose
of the saline solution that they are tak
ing every three hours or so to keep them
alive," said one of the Collins managers
to-day, referring to the Dunn interview.
"They are losing ground so fast lately
that they have to have something new
to talk about every day to keep them
going. We all know that the governor
meant what he said when he declared he
would not be a candidate again.
"Mr. Dunn must be joking when he says
he has not attacked Governor Van Sant.
He has gone after him in public and
private for months, with every variety
of epithet known to his extensive vocab
ulary."
Redwood Falls has been advertised as
one of the solid Dunn towns, but the
showing made there Monday nights puts
a different face on things. A meeting
was called to organize a Collins club, and
the roll was signed by 106 voters of the
village. Judge A. R. A. Loudon was
elected president and S. G. Peterson secre
tary. It is confidently predicted that the
city will be carried for Collins, and three
out of the five commissioner districts in
the county are expected to elect Collins
delegates.
A. T. Stebblns of Rochester, candidate
for railroad and warehouse commission
er, was in the city to-day looking over
the local situation. Mr. Stebbins is in
dustriously hoeing his own row, and what
ever he hears about other things he is
carefully keeping to himself. He shares
the general opinion that one nominee for
the railroad and warehouse commission
will come from the northern part of the
state, and one from the southern. He
expects to have a majority of the first
district delegates, and to fight it out for
the southern Minnesota nomination with
W. E. Young, or whoever is agreed on by
the second district.
The Minnesota anti-Hearst leaders held
a conference yesterday in St. Paul, after
which L. A. Rosing gave out a lengthy
statement showing why the delegation
from this state should go uninstructed.
He said that the democrats opposed to
Hearst instructions are not "reorganizers,"
and are conservative only in the sense
that they are opposed to advocating un
known men and unknown policies. For
himself, he was willing to stand on Mr.
Bryan's Nebraska platform for a state
ment of principles.
Mr. Rosing said from the reports re
ceived he felt confident that a majority
of the convention would be against in
structions.
On the other hand, the Hearst leaders
express the same confidence in the out
come, and say that many uninstructed
delegates that have been counted against
Hearst will be with them when it comes
to a vote. In addition to the counties
counted in their column in The r
a 1 yesterday, they claim Clearwater,
Fillmore, Le Sueur, McLeod, Meeker!
Mille Lacs. Redwood. Stevens and Wa
dena, and part of Brown county's dele
gation. Charles B. Cheney.
AT THE THEATERS
Foyer Chat.
The Four Cohans and their clever com
pany of comedians will give their final
performance of "Running for Office" at
the Metropolitan to-night.
Richard Mansfield will begin his en
gagement at the Metropolitan to-morrow
night with "Ivan the Terrible," the play
In which he scored a great success In
New York. For Friday night and the
Saturday matinee "Old Heidelberg," an
other play new to this city, will be given.
"Beau Brummel" is the closing bill on
Saturday evening.
"The James Boys in Missouri" is draw
ing well at the Bijou this week.
Two large audiences saw the Ferris
Stock company present "The Lottery of
Love" at the Lyceum yesterday. The sec
ond matinee will be given to-morrow.
Next week the company will be seen In
Tom Carter's famous nautical comedy
drama, "The Stowaway."
QUAY WOULD HAVE HIS SON SE N-
ATOR
The talk in Pennsylvania is that Sena
tor* Quay desired and planned to have his
son, Richard R. Quay, succeed him in the
senate of the United States, after the
fashion set when Don Cameron followed
General Cameron in the service at Wash
ington. The outside world has yet to
make the acquaintance of "Dick" Quay,
but the full introduction may come in
time.
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL,
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
The Extraordinary Love Affair of a Wid-
owA Novel Which Goes to Prove That
When a Woman Will She Won't and
When She Won't She WillA Book to
Encourage the Faint-Hearted Suitor,
Especially If He Is Suing for a Widow's
Hand.
An affair of a widow's heart, that is the
sum and substance of Anne Warner's
(Mrs. C. E. French's) A Woman's Will.
Of course ho two affairs of the kind are
just alike, so this one is different from any
other, except in results. If the author had
set out to show that the saying, that
When a woman will, she will, and you may de
pend on't
And when she won't, she won't, and there's an
end on't,
was utterly baseless and the mere fiction
of some rhymster, she could hardly have
done better. Indeed, that seems to have
been her purpose as regards Rosina, the
widow of the tale, for Rosina, like a
burnt child, does not purpose to get
burnt again so she is "never" going to
marry again. She decides she will take a
trip to Europe. She has not been there
more than a few days, I almost said hours,
before she meets himvon Ibn, a great
violinist, and very promptly a lover, and
something unusual in that line, too. You
will have to admit that fact from this
proposal.
Rosina, from her past matrimonial ex
perience informs von Ibn:
I don't believe In men. I don't believe in
anything that they say not In anything that
they promise. And I don't believe one bit in
love.
"That is sad," he said, digging Into the grav
el with his cane, "not to believe in love, or in
the truth of a man and you are a woman,
too. Then there is no more truth and love for
you."
Rosina felt disheartened. A ready acquies
cence in her views is always discouraging to a
woman. What is the use of having views if
they are Just tamely agreed to at once?
"I am an atheist," said her companion, rising
abruptly from his seat.
"I tell you Just now that I am an atheist,
and that Is very true. Now I will make you a
proposal, and you shall see how serious I mean.
I will change myself and believe in God, if
you will change yourself and believe once more
in men."
But Rosina still thinks she will "never"
marry again. So she evades the point and
directs the conversation along parallel but
different lines.
Later she is talking to a cousin. "Jack"
is his name, of course.
"Oh, Jack, you ought to hear him talk. He
said yesterday that we must go somewhere early
before the cool grew too hot."
Jack regarded her sympathetically.
"I'd certainly arry Mm," he said with de
cision. "If he can say things like that off
hand, only think what he'd be to live with day
after day."
Besides being primarily the story of
the love of a widow for an odd and
fierce enough lover, the book has other un
usual features. It is a novel in three
languages, English, French and German
all entering into the conversation which
make up most of the tale. Then there
is the explosiveness of the German. I
think it is about page 32 that he tells
Rosina that she has lied, using no euphem
ism in doing so, either. The reader will
find amusement, too, in the words of "wis
dom" like the following:
Men who fall in love with college girls are
nearly always widow proof.
The best cosmetic In the wide world is the
knowledge that the right person is waiting
downstairs.
It's a terrible thing to have been married.
Beside you've been married you're so ready to be
married to any one,- and after you've been
married you don't care to marry any one.
The book is good summer reading de
spite the fact that Rosina is not satisfac
tory. Her almost coarse references to her
first marriage jar on one and do not har
monize with the character in other re
spects. But the author has written a story
that few having begun will leave until
they have read thru the closing chapters
with their surpris,e_s.. ,',u
The "Uneasy Chair.
MY HEART HATH TALKED OF THEE.
My heart hath talked of thee
All the soft hours of the slumbrous day,
As thru the arch of tree and tree.
'Mid springtime's wooing volubility,
One fuller,- more insistent note,
From unseen, love-pained throat,
Comes down the leafy way.
Here, hour by heedless- hour,
Upon the moss-stained fence I lean.
And wonder at the sudden shower
Of blossoms on the rippling green,
And watch the hand of God unfold
The poppy and the marigold.
The rose is lovely, and the fleur-de-lis,
And apple-blossoms, dear to thee and me,
But now I choose those richer-colored flowers,
Lifting gold faces to the golden hours.
My fancy is robust as they one sweet, warm
kiss
Befits a day like this.
Herbert Muller Hopkins, in The Bookman
for June.
THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER
Why Not "Auto" Ice Wagons?The
Automobile of June 11 contains a picture
of an automobile sprinkling cart in use
in Paris. One expects to see the next
application of motor car principles made
to the wagons of the ice barons. Then
will come the "auto" binder, and what
would be the matter with cowboys round
ing up a herd of steers in runabouts?
The number of The Automobile in hand
contains a full account of recent racing
in France.
An American Buddhist Temple.There
is one, and from all accounts a very
elaborate one, at the University of Penn
sylvania, in Philadelphia. It was set up,
says The Scientific American of June 11,
by the late Professor Somerville, and Is
an exact reproduction of the temples of
Japan in all essential details. It is
stocked with a full quotas of gods, little
and big. In this curious temple Japanese
residents of the quaker city gather at
times in these days of war in the far
east to pray for the success of Japan
ese arms.
An article in the same number of the
paper, of interest to engineers especially,
relates to the completion of the New
York rapid transit subway.
The Practical Photographer.The mag
azine bearing that name is one from
which the amateur as well as the profes
sional may get many valuable hints. The
June number, just issued, besides much
instructive reading, contains a large
number of fine reproductions. The maga
zine is published in Boston.
A New Religion.It is Babism. Some
account of it is to be found in The Open
Court for June. Other articles in the
same number are "Adolf Bastian," by W.
H. Carruth "Marriage and the Roman
Catholic Church," by J. Clark Murray
"Our Postal Service," by the editor "The
Supreme Court and the Post Office," by
the editor "The Japanese Floral Calen
dar" (illustrated), VI., "The Iris," by
Ernest W. Clement, M. A.
Something for Literary Collectors.The
following is the table of contents of The
Literary Collector for May: "Facsimile
of a Van Buren-Jackson Manuscript
"Some Manuscripts of Early Presidents,"
by C. H. Lincoln "William Harrison Ains
worth," by A. H. Joline (to be concluded)
"My Tortoise-Shell Paper Knife from
Capri." by Arthur Upson book reviews,
and "Collector's Guide to the Magazines."
The Sanitarian Merged.The Sanitarian
ceases with its June issue. Beginning
with the July issue, it will be consoli
dated with The Popular Science Monthly.
BOOKS RECEIVED
A WOMAN'S "WILL. By Anne Warner (Mra. a
E. French of St. Paul, formerly of Minneapo
lis). Illustrated by H. Callga. Bostou:
Little, Brown & Co.AJ.Price $1.50.
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THE NONPAREIL IAN
Hold Our Coat, Somebody, While We Try
to Hand Out the Mouldy Old Fourth
of July Oration, Full of Canned Patriot
ism and Verbal Formaldehyde, a Good,
Swift Kick.
A man "from Kandiyohi, Crow Creek
or Yellow. .Medicine was in town the other
day looking for a crack Fourth of July
orator. His town was planning on a very
noisy celebration of the country's natal
day, and the people could not feel to be
happy without an expert in noise charged
with some kind of canned oration full
of formaldehyde and tail-twisting of the
1776 order.
Have you ever noticed how absurd and
superfluous this habit of making set
speeches is? Thank fortune it is, to some
extent, going out of vogue! You want
to be comfortable and happy and to have
a good time, and lo! some orator arises
and proceeds to thunder forth antique
chestnuts that had moss on them in 1834.
What do you really think of it? Be hon
est, and confess that it gives you a
strong pain in the midriff. To go out in
the woods and watch a pair of robins
hustling for worms for a nestful of open
faced young birds, all bill and organized
appetite, has some human feeling in it.
The proceeding has an air of reality and
comfort about it that appeals to the mind.
But that artificial holler over dead issues
nay, 'tis too painful. A good rattling
game of baseball played in the empty lot
for fun, not for money, between the Young
Finnegins and the Western Avenue In
dians, Is a scene of joy and gladness.
There is nothing official or dusty about
it. It is right there. You see lively,
breathing emotions in the concrete. But
to listen to a man paid $8 and his car
fare to make the welkin ringwell, we'd
prefer to take the hour off and hold the
hand of somebody's maiden aunt.
The Atchison Globe says that John Rus
kin's letters, now being printed in the
Atlantic Monthly, show that the great
man was commonplace, conceited and
dull. Say, there, Globe, you can't tell
the truth like that right out openly in the
paper! It won't do.
An old lady in Holt county, Missouri,
whose life is made up of the careful cul
ture of several diseases, says it always
makes her feel worse to feel better, be
cause she knows that she will be so much
worse later on.
They are trying to make out that
Charley Towne is a democratic dark
horse. The baleful shadow of Wall street
is thrown on Mr. Towne's stable.
A mean farmer claims that there used
to be a fine echo on his farm that at
tracted numerous summer boarders, but
one day his wife got into a controversy
with it, and in its struggles to have the
last word the poor echo strained itself so
badly that it lost its voice entirely. It is
a mean man that would make up this
joke.
People are said to get "the telephone
ear." Too much listening on the party
line, perhaps.
Kate Portland of Pottsville, Pa., in
trusted |280 of her money to her fiance,
Albin Norville, to buy her wedding trous
seau. The possession of such a large sum
proved too much for Norville, who fled
the country and spent the cash. Believing
that she would forgive him, Norville came
back repentant a few weeks later, but
got the surprise of his life when she
told him that she had married a rival.
John Sherwood. Then Kate's husband
gave him another by turning him over
to the police for theft.
Mrs. W. T. Leopold of Savannah, Ga.,
has been suffering greatly from inflamma
tory rheumatism for several years. Last
Sunday in a severe thunder storm light
ning struck the chimney of her house.
She felt the shock quite perceptibly. Since
then the rheumatism has left Mrs. Leo
pold and is looking for a victim who does
not get in front of thunder.
After inspecting the battlefields around
Fredericksburg and at Spottsylvania
Court House, Captain William F. Camp
bell of Lewisburg, Pa., when he entered
the national cemetery, was paralyzed with
astonishment when a slab confronted him
Inscribed as sacred to the memory of
"William F. Campbell, who fell in the
battle of Spottsylvania Court House." He
was captured at this engagement and an
other man was buried for him. To read
one's own epitaph is a pleasure denied
to most men.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri made a
bid for the democratic nomination by get
ting himself run down by a boy on a
bicycle. The boy was not much hurt.
The democratic party must split,
try to prevent it?
JUNE 16, 1904.
Why
St. Petersburg, May 5.(Special)Ma-
jor Sptzikoff will rejoin his regiment in
Manchuria at once. The major has been
engaged at the Winter Palace endeavoring
to ascertain who put paris green in the
czarina's chocolate.
General Halbentski has been detailed on
the Nevski outrage in an endeavor to dis
cover the parties who sent the heir appar
ent a bunch of cigarettes with maximit9
in them.
The czar is investigating the rubber
beefsteak now sold at the market.
Eighteen butchers went to Siberia yes
terday.
General Popemoff will go to the front
as soon as it it found who put the pack
age of smokeless powder in the stove over
at the palace.
Five young Jews tried to start a riot at
Kozhakazov last week. One hundred and
twenty of the inhabitants were killed.
Late news from Liao-tung says that two
Japanese armies have been wiped out.
Admiral Togo is sick.
Carrier pigeons from Port Arthur say
that trade has not been interfered with
by the siege. Four Japanese battleships
were sunk by mines yesterday.
Chinese coolies report that the Japanese
are suffering for food.
The news from Berlin that other na
tions are interested in this war is not well
received here. Russia intends to seize
Tokio and dictate terms of peace there.
The Baltic fleet is now thinking of going
east. A. J. R.
"DUNN'S CAMPAIGN
AGAINST DUNN"
Preston RepublicanWe should think
that Dunn's friends would feel proud of
their candidate since what occurred in
the public streets of St. Paul last Sat
urday.
Glenwood HeraldIt does seem that
some of these republican people are be
coming too particular for any use when
they see fit to object to a man being
nominated for governor who can, will and
does swear in the most systematic and
authentic manner, with or without provo
cation. Should this kind of talk and
racket be kept up until convention time,
the chances are Mr. Dunn will become a
thru passenger on the swearing train,
with no stop-over privileges.
Thief River Falls NewsSome time ago
Verity announced that he would "do the
talking" for Bob. Now perhaps he will
also do the fighting.
Henderson IndependentThe people do
not want a governor who is liable to
make a spectacle of himself upon the least
provocation.
Wadena Pioneer JournalA man who
cannot govern himself surely can't govern
the state of Minnesota very satisfactorily.
Sleepy Eye DispatchAnd yet this Dunn
is the man who has been held up as the
strong, resolute leader of men, who was
far above the influence of political ma
chines. Can a man who cannot control
himself control other men?
Browns Valley Interlake TribuneDunn
has made many bad breaks since he began
his very strenuous campaign, but this is
considered about the worst. This Till
manesque method of settling political dif
ferences will not, we trust, become popu-
-4
lar in this state. If it does, what rip-'-
roaring old times we will have.
Fairfax StandardAfter the affair of
Saturday Mr. Dunn should withdraw from
the contest and not further Insult the
citizens of the state by posing as a can
didateifor governor.
Crookston JournalIt certainly is up
to the people of Minnesota to decide this
question, and from present appearances
the hurrah-boys campaign of Mr. Dunn
has received a killing body blow by his
own folly, 'while the campaign of Judge
Collins is growing strongly in favor.
Kasson RepublicanIf we believe any
thing we believe that Dunn has done
Dunn.
Warren SheafDoes the great bread
and butter state want for its executive
a man who gets into a street brawl be
cause some one criticizes, him, and who
cannot hold his temper when the most
trivial things disturb him?
New Richland North StarMr. Dunn's
latest prize ring stunt ought to land him
a job on the police force, if it doesn't
increase his chances for the governorship.
Wykoff MessengerThe office requires
a conservative man, with great diplomacy
and self controlqualifications which Mr.
Dunn does not possess. The people will
hardly trust themselves to be governed
by a man who cannot govern himself.
Mankato Free PressNow that Mr
Dunn himself has injected into the cam
paign a new and disreputable phase, it is
within the province of a newspaper that
has a high regard for the office of gov
ernor to declare that it considers Mr. Dunn
personally unfit for the place. It is not
too much to say that the governor's chair
should not be demeaned by having as Its
occupant a man of the Dunn type.
Granite Falls JournalThis was bad
business for a man who aspires to be gov
ernor of the great commonwealth.
Anoka UnionBob Dunn should never
be governor. Any man who forgets him
self, in such a manner, is not deserving
of the suffrages of the voters, and is not
a fit person for the high office of gov
ernor.
Albert Lea TribuneThis episode will
not strengthen the ex-state auditor in the
least, for most people desire to see a gen
tleman chosen as chief executive of the
state, and this outburst proves Mr. Dunn
can scarcely lay claim to that honor. The
Dunn managers have put a padlock on
their candidate's mouth, and now if they
will keep him in a cage their embarrass
ments may be reduced to a minimum, but
as long as he is permitted to be at large
he will be a menace to their plans and his
own ambition.
Waterville AdvanceThere is an old
saying in effect that he who is unable to
govern himself is unfit to govern others.
Bob's lack of control of his temper and
tongue has long been self-evident. Judge
Collins did up all his fighting In the early
sixties.
Austin HeraldA man who can't gov
ern his own temper is hardly a fit man
to'govern the state.
Austin TranscriptFrom the newspaper
accounts, the attack was wholly unwar
ranted. It was certainly ungentlemanlv.
How nice it would be to have a man with
such a disposition elected governor. There
is no defense for such conduct.
Winona IndependentA great state like
Minnesota can by no means afford to have
In its executive office a man who has
been accused of irregularities in office, and
yet offers no proof to the contrary who
engages in street fights of his own pro
voking who is by his own conviction
guilty of an infraction of the laws of com
mon decency. Mr. Dunn's political star
has fallen.
Pipestone StarFrom a regular reading
of a 1's political columns the
Star is unable to see wherein the expres
sions of that paper furnished any ade
quate grounds for Mr. Dunn's act.
St. Cloud Journal PressWhile The
Journal is opposing Dunn, it is doing
it in a dignified and gentlemanly if vig
orous, manner. Should a man who can
not govern himself be made ruler over
a great commonwealth?
Cannon Falls BeaconWe would ask the
friends of Mr. Dunn what further insult
do you wish to offer the intelligence of
the republicans of Minnesota? God save
the state of Minnesota when the vaulting
ambition of such a man can receive suf
ficient recognition to gain him a hearing
before the people on such a preposterous
proposition as his being made governor
of the state.
SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISERS
DR. V. MOTT PIERCE,
Advertising Manager of World's Dispen
sary Medical Association.
V. Mott Pierce, M. D., secretary
and general manager of the World's
Dispensary Medical association, has
grown up in the business of his father
and is well fitted to conduct this large
and prosperous business. He is a
graduate of Harvard university and
the medical department of the Buf
falo universtiy. He early took an in
terest in- the business, and has studied
and worked in each department be
fore becoming general manager. He
also writes those display advertise
ments of Dr. Pierce's medicines which
have received favorable comment
from the advertising fraternity for
their timely interest and sound and
logical argument, giving many phys
iological and medical facts that the
people can understand without the
technicalities so frequently used by
medical men.
Dr. Pierce is vice president of the
American Association of Advertisers
and a member of the International
Federation of Advertising Interests.
He is interested in all movements
taken up for the advancement of ad
vertising in general.
BANK BOOK HIS DEFENSE
Man Charged with Vagrancy Shows $1,200
Credit.
John Lambert, arrested in St. Paul on
a charge of vagrancy because he was
loitering about the railroads, easily proved
that he was no vagrant when he was ar
raigned in police court yesterday morning.
Being asked to show that he was not a
vagrant, he handed the court a bank book
showing $1,200 to his credit in a St. Pa\l
bank. He said he went to the railroad
yards to look for a runaway horse.
DR. BRACKEN HONORED
Made a Secretary of Congress of Arts and
Sciences.
Dr. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the
state board of health, has been appointed
secretary of the public health section of
the International Congress of Arts and
Sciences, which will be held at St. Louis
this summer.
The doctor returned yesterday from the
east, where he has spent three weeks
studying sanitary problems and visiting
various institutions for the cure of tuber
culosis.
LOCAL POLITICS
WANT TO HELP
I NAME "TEDDY"
DELEGATES FROM PHILIPPINES
ASK SEATS AT CHICAGO.
Judge Willard of Minneapolis Is on the
Delegation, and Minnesota Member
Will Help Them Before Committee
Delegation From This State Or*
ganizes Monday Evening.
Jud ge C. A. Willard of this city,
late of the supreme bench of the Phil
ippine islands, who resigned and re
turned to Minneapolis to practice law,
is one of the six delegates from the.
Philippines to the republican national
convention. There is some question as
to whether these delegates will ba
seated, and their cause will be cham
pioned by T. E. Byrnes, who left
last evening for Chicago to attend the
national committee meeting, holding
the proxy of Thomas H. Shevlin. If
necessary, Jud ge Willard will go down
himself to present the case of the com
mittee.
The call did not include the Philip
pines or Porto Rico, but both hava
elected delegates and will ask for ad
mission. The republican party of tha
Philippines held its convention March
31 at Manila, and elected as delegates
Judges John, T. McDonough, Chas. A.
Willard and Grant T. Trent of the su
preme court, and Messrs. John S.
Stanley, J. M. Switzer and C. Mc
Cullough. All have come to attend
the convention.
Mr. Byrnes has issued a call for the
organization caucus of the Minnesota
delegates Monday evening at the
Sherman house, Chicago. The places
to be filled by this caucus are as fol
lows:
Chairman and secretary of the dele
gation.
Honorary vice president of the con*
vention.
Member of the national committee.
Member of committee on perma
nent organization.
Member of the committee on rules.
Member of the committee on reso
lutions.
Member of the committee to notify
the candidate for president.
Member of the committee to notify
the candidate for vice president.
There is not likely to be contest
for any of these places, unless it is
for national committeeman. Frank R.
Kellogg, of St. Paul, is an avowed
candidate,, but there is some feeling
in favor of Thomas Lowry, of Minne
apolis. Senator Nelson will be a mem
ber of the committee on resolutions
if he desires it. W. W. Heffelflnger,
of this city, and C. H. Marsh, of
Litchfield, are mentioned for the com
mittee to notify President Roosevelt.
Mr. Byrnes says there will be more
difficulty in getting admission seats
than at previous conventions. There
are only 8,500 seats and of these there
will be nearly 1,000 for actual dele
gates, and the same number for alter
nates. Delegates will only be allowed
one extra ticket each. There will be
1,000 or more given to "distinguished
guests," and the local committee will
have about 2,000 to give Chicagoans.
Working newspaper men will occupv
about 600 seats. This will leave less
than 2,000 seats to be distributed by
the committee, of which Minnesota's
share will be small.
SPEECHES FOR DUNN
Crowd In Swedish Republican Hall
Listens to Several.
There was a Dunn meeting at the
Swedish republican hall, Lake street
and Nicollet avenue, last night. H.
W. Childs, former attorney general,
maintained that no man in the state
had labored more faithfully for the
people than Mr. Dunn that during his
state auditorship he had time and
again opposed the corporations, and
that he was the man who should be
awarded the next governorship. T. J.
Caton, who several years ago was a
"po p" and democratic fusion candidate
for congress, spoke of a statement
that F. N. Nye had made that James
J. Hill had contributed $20,000 for
Dunn's campaign in Hennepin county.
"If this were true," he said, "we
would have all the criminal lawyers
in Hennepin county on our side." R.
C. Dunn said he had nothing to apol
ogize for and that he was not afraid
to stand upon his own record.
BLUE RIBBON GIRLS
They Entertain Dewey Patrons with Many
Novelties.
It is seldom, even on the vaudeville
stage, that the theatergoer is allowed to
enjoy an old-fashioned black-face min
strel show, numerous specialties, includ
ing a novel "loop the loop" and an "up-
to-date fantastical extravaganza," all for
the price of one admission. Such, how
ever, is the offering of Jack Singer's Blue
Ribbon Girls, playing at the Dewey this
week, and as such it is enthusiastically
received.
Much might be said about the good
things In the show, and more about those
that might be eliminated without loss.
It is enough to say. however, that the
good things predominate and that the
show has made a hit, several of the num
bers receiving repeated encores.
The opening chorus is aung by senior
college girls in caps and gowns, who, with
startling rapidity and "in full view of
the audience," black up and in forty-two
seconds are metamorphosed into black min
strel performers. A circle is formed and
end "men" proceed to go thru a not un
interesting burlesque on the old-fashioned
"first part." There are one or two new
jokes and some catchy songs.
The olio consists of some especially good
numbers and some not nearly so good.
Among the former are Le Roy and La
Vanion in a comical horizontal bar per
formance. Frank Orth and Harry Fern in
a clever musical trifle, and the good-look
ing Banvard family in an unusually good
casting act.
The second part of the performance
consists of an extravaganza, which 1s in
deed fantastical, and with the exception
of one or two oases is a desert of un
amusing foolishness. The chorus, tho
small, is made up of more than ordinary
comely members and is well costumed.
PICNIC OF Y. M. 0. A.
That Organization and Y. W. C. A.
Hold Joint Outing at Night.
A moonlight picnic is being planned by
the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. for
June 24. This is the fourth annual ex
cursion under their auspices, and prom
ises to be the most successful one yet
held. Special trains will leave the union
station at 6:26 p. m. and will take the
excursionists to Spring Park. There A
basket lunch will be eaten. Immediately
afterward the steamer Puritan will taka
them for a tour of the lake.
The train back to the city will be caught
at Wayzata. Music will be furnished by
the Victoria orchestra. Any one not wish
ing to furnish his own lunch can tele
phone.to the Y. W. C. A., where a basket
lunch will be put up at a nominal cost
to
HONORS MRS. HOWE.
Medford, Mass., June 15.Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe received the honorary degree
of LL. D. from Tufts college at the forty
eighth annual commencement. William
H. Moody, secretary of the navy, received
the same honor from the college.