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f?ask°uu)tOß J-hutted oi.vni'l%, WASH. \m\\ EVENING mum 12.1902. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. Representatives, C. <». YOI'NG, Olympia. J. C. CONINE. Yelin. County Commissioners, l irst District JOHN BYRNE, Olym pia. Third District —G. K. BROWN, BucoJa. Prosecuting Attorney, P. M. TROY, Olympia. Sheriff, W. SCOTT SHASER, Olympia. Clerk, J. T. OTIS, Olympia. Auditor, A. L. CALLOW, Olympia. Superintendent of Schools, . N. I'LAMONDON, Tumwater. Treasurer, J. F. CANNON, Tenino. Assessor, ROBT. A. AYER. Coroner, DR. N. J. REDPATII. Surveyor, AMES W. FRAZIER, Olympia. Wreckmaster. EUGENE MONROE, Justices of the Peace, JAMES G. RADCLIFFE, FRED SCHOMBER. Constables, CHARLES HAYTON, G. W. HUSK. Has It the Least Significance? From the reception given thus far to President Roosevelt at the South, one might infer that the fool killer had been at work on the people who burst into flame over the dinner to Booker Wash ington.— P.-I. Hasn't our ponderous neighbor yet learned that the American people are the most emotional on earth—not ex cepting the generally accepted mer curial Frenchman? It matters very little what the occasion may be, so that its central figure, for the nonce, overspreads the popular eye. Li Hung Chang, when be visited this country a few years ago, secured an ovation from the people everywhere, but it could not be construed into a manifes tation of either reverence or love. Even the goat, that was landed from a U. S. war vessel at Tacoma, a few years ago, according to Gov. Sogers' state ment, made the people fairly "go wild," with enthusiasm, although the brute's attributes were based upon a no higher claim than the imaginary merits of a mascot The visit of roy alty many years ago, and lately of the German prince, led -to extravagant manifestations of welcome that meant nothing more than an exuberanee of spirit which the excitement of num bers sometimes produces. Tbe visit of an American duchess, at tbe present time, is fairly making society people stand on tbeir beads, al though nobody seriously entertains an idea that our political or social forms are threatened thereby. No, Teddy is jnst the kind of man to excite the rabble, who glory in fire cracker display, and of women who worship heroism, whether in the field of battle, or in tbe jangle of the forest, real or imaginary, truly great exploits, or acts magnified by the vivid word-pic turing in which such stories are gener ally enshrined. For the time, the Booker Washing ton incident is either forgotten, or its memory seems to but brighten tbe points of tbe paper crown worn at the coronation of Strennosity, as exempli* fied in - the acts of the President. It required courage—or shall we call it pure egotism?—to so openly manifest a contempt for public opinion, as he did in the Booker-Washington matter. To use a strenuous and we think, therefore pardonsble simile, we confi dently affirm that had Tracy, tbe out law, appeared, while alive, before the same people, it is quite probable that there would have been the same greeting (so far, at least, as numbers are concerned) at each stopping-place. Tracy dead thronged the railroad plat forms, on his way to the grave, and the hair of his head was carried away in tufts and his dirty clothing torn in shreds for keepsakes of tbe desperado. They were not, however, love tokens, and we hold that the shouts of ac claim to the President may have been prompted as much by a spirit of blus ter and bravado as of heart-felt wel come. IT is now thought that the island of Martinique is doomed to total de struction. Tl-e burning mouth of Pelee grows in size, and is now of enormous proportions. Clouds hang no more over the crest, the heat seems to drive tbem away, and fixed columns of flame rear directly into space until their tops are lost in the sky. At night it has the appearance of a stream of molten iron, standing silent, mo tionless and awe-inspiring, between heaven and earth. SEVERAL Eastern railroads have raised the rate on lumber. The St. Paul, Chicago, Milwaukee, Racine and Manitowoc lines will make a raise on the 22d of this month, on cedar from 11.60 to 92.60 per thousand, and on other lumber 91.60 to 92 per thousand. This is the largest raise in lumber that affects shipments from the west which has yet been made. " TOM." Johnson, of Ohio, is spring ing into prominence as a Presidential possibility in the Democratic Conven tion of 1904. The St. LOU:B Boodlers. A sensation has been produced in St. Louis by the voluntary confession of J. K. Murrell, a former member of the municipal House of Delegates, in which he implicates eighteen former and present members, in receiving bribes from the Suburban Street Rail way, in return for their franchise and favorable legislation. The amount ex pended, he alleges, was placed in his keeping, and he was familiar wiih its method of distribution. It amounted to JfTu.OUO. Murrell's connection with the ntlair was discovered and his in dictment by the Grand Jury soon fol lowed. He lied to Mexico la«t Spring, but conscience made him miserable, and lie determined no longer to sutler for being a cat's-paw for others. His confession was read to the Grand Jury and led to the indictment of the gang, and their ancst is now in progress. About half the bloodlers have been secured and placed under $.10,000 bonds each, and it is thought that all will be apprehended without difficulty. To show the thorough and desperate means for organization adopted by the the gang, we have only to quote a clause from the iron clad oath taken by each member. It reads: " I do solemnly swear that in case I should reveal the fact that any person in this combine has received money, I here by permit and authorize other members of this combine to take the forfeit of my life in any manner they may deem pro per, and that my throat may be cut, my tongue torn out "and my body cast into the Mississippi river." The only explanation or extcuuatiou made by Morrell, of his crime is, that he was led into it by the low tone of popular sentiment regarding official bribery. He says that the practice in the assembly of taking bribes was so frequent as to scarcely excite com ment. The investigation in his own case led him to see the enormity of the act in all its hideous nature, and lie resolved to turn State's evidence to clear himself and punish others. It would be an interesting study to follow out the workings of that same conscience and determine whether be trayal of liis companions in crime is morally a less crime than to accept a bribe. The adage, " Honor among thieves," meets with universal appro bation, notwithstanding its ignoble or igin. -UNDER a new ruling of the Postal Department Postmasters may contrib ute to campaign funds but not to campaign " wind." In other words while they may turn on the spigot or even knock in the hesd of a " bar'l" to promote party success at the polls, they must not do what Teddy is doing, spout party platitudes from the plat form. It happens, however, that to cough up dollars is about the last thing a truly Bepublican " Nasby" wants so do. He can risk stretch of mouth with far more composure than strain npon tbe pocket. He finds it much easier and more in accord with bis in clinations to uncork his aliamentary orifice than to unlimber his wallet. DREAD OF DISEASE LED A DOCTOR TO SUICIDE.— Dr. Max. Hoffman, a noted physician of Chicago, who lately came to this country from Germany, com mitted suicide on the 28th nit., by stabbing himself with the blade of a a pair of scissors. He had become ill a few days before, diagnosing his dis ease as typhoid, he lacked tbe courage to pass tbe ordeal of the prostrating disease. It seems that he had taken the long slender blades apart, and from his knowledge of anatomy had no difficulty in locating the precise position of the heart, which was pene trated by the blade. IT is said that the Quaker doctors lately diddled the people of Ballard oat of considerable money by tbe promise that they would fulfill their contracts for treatment at their office in Seattle. Many patients paid their SSO fee with this understanding, but when they try to locate the office in Seattle discover that tbey have been buncoed. The Ballard Newt advises the dupes to " take their medicine philosophically," but that is just what they are unable to do from the fact that the doctors hold the bottle and seem to have pushed in the cork. IT is said that the lucky ones in the President's cabinet are men who cannot make a speech, two men who it is acknowledged would do more harm than good in any attempt to "stamp" for Teddy's cause. Tbe oth ers are simply ordered out and most obey or resign. The President would like to supplant the mutes with sound, robust diapason notes, but to make the change at this time would be to expoee tbe object of the overture he is playing. MINISTERS PELTED WITH EGGS.— The attack of revivalists at Water town, Wis., on the 30th tilt., upon the local saloon men led to a riot in which rotten eggs constituted the principal weapon for assault. It seems that the Mayor, in consequence of the violent and inflammatory methods of attack of the clergy, had ordered street meetings discontinued, for a time at least, and it was the intensity of the revivalists that led to the counter as sault. JOHN Larson, a professional bicycle rider, in attempting to " Loop the Loop," at the Elks' Carnival, in Port land, Saturday night, fell thirty feet into a dense crowd of people, badly in juring three men, who were struck by the falling bicycle, which weighed ninety-five pounds. Larson, strange to relate, was not injured. OREGON has paid the reward for cap ture of Tracy to the five men at Cres ton, in this State, who wounded him while on the run to the wheat field on the Eddy ranch, where his dead body was found by them the next morning. Fitzslmmons* Prayer Fitzsimmons, the prize-fighter, it is said, prayed to win his last fight, which was a defeat; the prayer, as arc many such, being unanswered. The mere fact of a prayer under such cir cumstances Ims led a brother scribe to inquire: "Why it should be anymore incon gruous for a prize-fighter to prav with sporting zeal for divine strength to • slug' his adversary, than for a clergy man to pray with patriotic fervor for military victories? Is it so much more religious to kill than to 'slug.'?" Well, we think we can see a slight shade of difference. The clergyman may be influenced by patriotism, but the pugilist never by anything except his pocket and plaudits to self-esteem. Recogniziug the fallibility of human judgment, we deprecate public prayers on matters of complex importance, or when the petition is made by the bigot who advises Omnipotence as to the course He should pursue. The query, as propounded, " Is it so much more religious to 'kill' than to •slug,' is disingenuous, to say the least. The necessity to kill, in self defense, is a natural individual as well as a moral right of nttions which sel dom comes in conflict, in these days of enlightened warfare, except to main tain principles, dear as life itself, and many times only after provocation that fully justifies the plea of self defense. The prize-fighter's cause has to support it only bruto glory and " the root of all evil"—the love of riches. IT is said that in the game of peek a-boo, in which the navy was lately engaged by executive order, an im portant move was suspended to accord a social reception on the flagship to tbe Americau wife of an English duke, against the protest, however, of subordinate naval officers, who re fused to take part in the snobbish per formance. It is now broadly hinted that tbe aquatic maneuvers, supple mented enough by the land forces to afford an excuse for their existence, is but a scheme to afford diversion to those who can afford to spend their summers at Seaside resorts. A DOZEN men, moat of them mem bers of the Taylor Methodist church, in Kansas City, Kan., made a descent upon a saloon in that city Saturday night, and tried to serve a warrant is sued by a Justice of the Peace for its owner. He resisted, and bystanders tried to put the church people out. A free fight ensued, and in the fray sev eral combatants were placed hort de combat. Other members of the church went to the rescue but were barred out while several of the church party were held as prisoners of war, in the " hell hole," as temperance reformers delight to call the saloon. DEMAND SUMPTUARY LEGISLATION.— Courtland county, New York, Probi bitiouists propose to make it rather hot for those who tarry long at the wine, by requiring that each person partaking of intoxicating beverages be required to pay an annual license of $5, and that his name be published in the official newspaper of the county. They propose to do this through legislation, but seem to be oblivious of the fact that courts have been instituted to protect the people against sumptuary and other damphool legislation. IT ia Secretaries Hitchcock and Payne, the beada of the Poatal and the Interior Departments, who cannot make speeches (or the President. They are to have charge of a literary bureau to furnish bombast for boom ing Administration wants and wishes. Those " little fellows" referred to by Qreeley, " whom God, in his inscru table wisdom allows to edit the major ity of Republican newspapers," will be the gainers by it, and we will coon be reading the grists ground out by these well-fed pencil-pushers. THK Taconta AVICS says that the Democrats of Pierce county are sure of winning at tho polls this year, and this confidence has brought out many can didates and of men amply qualified to fill with credit the several positions. The County Convention is called for the 15th, a day before the State Con vention. Under ilie call, there will be 609 delegates, a larger assemblage than the State Convention, and should surely be a representative body. A TERRIBLE thunder storm passed over New Ulm, Minn., on the 30th ult., in which three houses were de molished by lightning, a girl was knocked iusensible, a barn was set on fire and seven calves were burned to death and all the bay consumed, and a new barn was piled up into kindling wood without being set on fire. Grain fields were literally soaked by the rain pour which accompanied the thunder storm. THE Washington and Oregon Bail way, a strip of road 28 miles long, be tween Kalaraa and Vancouver, has passed under the management of the Northern Pacific, which road has really owned and built it. Just as soon as the new bridge across Lewis river is completed passenger trains between Vancouver and Kslatna will be operat ed. This will be done by October, and connection made with the main line. WHILE Thomas B. Reed (once the Czar of the House) is not saying any thing of political import just now, it is said by his friends that he is " keeping up a devil of a thinking," and is likely to gush like Pelee at any time, with or without any apparent cause, another peculiarity of the monarch of Marti nique. Tom Reed, when he speaks will be heard and any interruption will be ruled out of order. NEWB comes from Japan to the ef fect that in the near future the Japan ese mails will be carried in American automobiles, The State Republican Convention. "The Kinj: of France went up the hill With twenty thousand men: The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up auaiu." While this may not be the fate of the Falknor forces which sallied forth Monday with banners flying and loud acclaim, and returned yesterday with cordons tattered and bowed head, it cannot be said they returned without honor. They at least stood faithful to their party's bond to the moneyed pow er, which made success in 1896 possi ble and assured success in 1900. They were true, likewise, to local interests, no matter front what cause. It may have flown, as claimed, from pure affec tion for the people—of the Ahou Ben Adham brand; hut it is hsrdly likely. It is much more probably that it is a little bee buzzing 111 Somebody's bon net, that induced this casting of bread uyon the waters, a vocation in which some of our neighbors engage as per sistently as Charles Dickens' Uncle Dick en gaged in making kites. Any way, we do not feel disposed to count the teeth of a gift horse which " died a bornin'." They may have been few or many, rudimentary or developed, the profession seemed hearty enough to be sincere. It is thought that if Mr. Falknor had received the nomina tion, and thereafter been so fortunate as to have been elected to Congress, he would have had his hands full in at tending to the wants of the people of the great State of Washington, so far at least as to constitute an excuse for doing little or nothing for our county or city. Then it is specially necessary for little men to stand on lip-tee the first term to secure recognition amid so much robustness. Our delegation were accorded the slight " honor," however, of having their man chose for temporary chair man. It afforded him an opportunity to unbottle his ginger pop. He said he " felt like the fellow who was invited to tire wedding where the other fellow ,got the girl." Heassured theconvert- tion that he had no " kick" coming; that that was one of the traits of the Democratic mule." 11 may be readily observed that, through on association of ideas, the stalwart kick he had just received from the Republican jackass suggested the mule as an appropriate similitude for the regulatiou " boun cer" of the Democratic party. The Convention certainly devel oped Machiavelian tactica when they found themselves hopelessly split on the railroad question. They adopted the Governor'a ultimatum of an ap pointive Commission, while enough was said and the contest prolonged a sufficient time to assure the railroads that, while expediency compelled a re treat, it was in the line of expediency and care would be taken that corpor ate interests do not suffer by the con cession to a movement so strong that it threatened permanent disruption. Corporations, while not altogether pleased, will, of course, accept the al ternative, rather than to skip from the frying-pan into the fire, although it is sizzling hot. That the platform was considered a matter of so little importance, with the understanding with the trusts and corporations, the convention had no hesitancy in naming the ticket before the platform waa reduced to writing. The first intimation that it would be made to tickle (he Governor's ear was the selection of his nominee for Per manent Chairman—John H. Powell, of King—which of course carried with it appointment of a Committee on Resolutions favorable to the Gover nor'a pet hobby. Then matters went a-rush. Ex-Gov. McGraw moved the nomination of Francis W. Cuehman, Wesley L. Jonca and Will E. Humphrey, for Represen tative* in Congress. The endorsement went with a whirl, notwithstanding attention was called to the fact that the nominees had no platform to stand upon. A motion to nominate by ac clamation received an almost unani mous vote, when again tho objector (Harry Fairchild of Whatcom) called attention to the fact that the rules of order were being ruthlessly violated. The chair then " tumbled," aod re- served announcement of the vote till later on and after the platform had been adopted. A motion to strike all reference to railway commission fvom the platform waa lost by almost 50 votes. One to adopt the minority report for an elec tive commission waa lost, but by a less majority. Then the motion to adopt the platform, which had cost so much time and labor was adopted by practi cally a unanimous vote. Ellis Morrison, of Seattle, Speaker of the House in 1895, was chosen for chairman of the State committee. 8. A. Madge is the committeeman from thia county. THE American steamer Cottage City went aground at 10:20 Sunday night on Etelin Island, Stickeen straits, 20 miles south of Fort Wrangel. Fifty feet of her keel are gone and her fore foot is dry at low water. It is thought that ahe can be floated. Her pas sengers, 150 in number, were trans ferred to the company's steamer Spo kane, which came along three hours afterwards, and took them aboard for Skagwoy. PRESIDENT Roosevelt is pursuing the most strenuous methods to get up next to the grimy knights of toil. He has been elected an honorary mem ber of the locomotive firemen at Chat tanooga. It is said that his first achievement will be, in his spectacular exhibit, to ride on the cow-catcher of a locomotive. Come Opper, "catch the shadow ere the substance fade." MOUNT Vesuvius, it seems, has begun to look after her laurels, and is now belching forth flame, lava and ashes. She has much to do, however, to out glow the record of Pelee. The Perverseness of Language. It simply knocks the hreatli out of the Democrats who have Iteen shouting so bravelv about the " trusts owning the Republican party'' whon Theodore Roosevelt, the head of the party and the chief of the nation, discusses the subject nowadays— Netr York l'ret». Oh, no; that is not a fair way of stating the proposition. Teddy is fairly knocking the breath out of the trusts, though his temerity iu recog nizing them as a great evil, which like some other evils may, by a great stretch of philanthropy, be regarded as a necessary evil, and should so much the more necessarily be placed under control. The President, it will be borne in mind, does not blame his party because they have made trusts possible by tariff protection and finan cial favoritism, even though the legiti mate result of such policies was plain ly foretold, but now that they have become so firmly entrenched that they have produced internal dissension that has impelled riot and produced a des titution almost resulting in famine among the wage-earners, he, Roosevelt, sees the handwriting of Futurity plain enough to " discuss" the subject and sound the note of alarm. It is eminently proper that " the head of the party and chief of the na tion" should be the herald to shout the note of alarm. He asks that laws bo passed to aid him in guarding the rights of the people front the selfish ness and greed of the trusts. It is not the " ownership" or origin of the trusts that engages the attention of President Roosevelt, but their power for harm, an acknowledgment of a re sult that has been so plainly forecast by the ever-faithful Democracy. Black Friday. Never before in the life of the aver age inhabitant has midnight darkness enveloped the earth at noonday, and various are the explanations of the phenomenon. The probable cause is, however, dense clouds of smoke at a high elevation which completely ob struct the rays of the sun. The sky has presented to-day the lurid glare of fire illumination, at times, and at others, an eulire absence of light, in volving absolute darkness. This view is corroborated by the fact that it is local in nature, extending no further than Napavine on the south and Ta coma on the north. The remark very generally made, that if differs from the usual obstruction by smoke is due to iU high altitude. Smoke has been in years past so dense as to completely obscure objects across the street, but to-day the electric lights could be plainly seen several blocks distant while the sun, moon and stars were ahining behind the cloud that for the time was overshadowing ua. There is, however, no special signifi cance or harm to be apprehended from our local " Black Friday." It is not of the nature of the financial " Black Friday," of Sept. 24, 1869, or Sept.-18th, 1873, in which Wall atreet sustained a panic that tested the nerves of the great kings of finance. At the hour of going to press, 5 p. M., the darkness is still on. THE eleventh annual concatiuation of the Hoo-Hoos, met in Milwaukee, Wis., Tuesday morning, the ninth day of tho month at nine minutes past nine, and were called to order by A. H. Weir, of Lincoln, Neb., the Grand Snark of the Universe. This order is peculiarly a lumbermen and timber mena' order, none others beiog quali fied except newspaper men. The cat has been selected as the symbol of the order, probably on account of his being able to withstand rough usage and come up smiling, and the ever-present outspoken hilarity of the feline race at night time. The reports of the offi cers of the order show it to be in a flourishing condition. It is one of the younger orders and its growth has been phenomenal. FIERCE COUNTY'S SECOND WOOLEN MILL. The announcement of the erection of a woolen mill on Cham bers creek, Pierce county, revives the memory that in 1861, a well equipped woolen factory was completed on that historic stream, back of Steilaeoom, and waa absolutely ready for opera tion, the machiney all set, and con nected with the turbines, when some trouble arose over payment for it and an attachment was levied before a wheel had turned. It was sold and the manufacturers became owners of the machinery and moved it away be fore a yard had been woven or even a ■tracd spun. Let us hope that the effort now being made—4l years after ward—will be attended with more gratifying reaulta. POISONED BY ARSENICAL POISON.— A queer fatality from a natural cause was reported at Mokimi, Mexico, last Saturday. It soems that a spring strongly impregnated with arsenic broke out from the hillside and flowed into the reservoir, unknown to the inhabitants. The poisoning of many people at first created great consterna tion, but the symptoms and intensity of the affliction near the mountain led to an investigation and early discovery of its source, the water that was trick ling from tho hillside. The sad effects were followed up by a water famine, from the primitive methods of carry ing it from other places. Thirty peo ple died from the poison and others were at last accounts fatally ill. THE Ballard New says that James Ham. Lewis lately addressed the De mocracy of that city. We are glad that he is at last "located." Next time be gets lost in a crowd, we sug gest that he stand upon a chair. THE little daily deficit in the United States Treasury constitutes the largest cloud on the Republican political hori zon. THE CAMPAIGN BOOK MASTERLY EXPOSITION OF METH ODS AND PRINCIPLES. Is the Democraric Handbook, Just Issued—lt Shows That We Have Enough Law Now to Curb the Trusts Tariff the Parent of Trusts Their Vigor Depends llpon the ■ Maternal Fount What McKinley Thought | of Forcible Annexation of the Philippines— Other_Topics Ablo Handled—Evidence That Trusts Bow to the Demands of the g. o. p. and It Is Responsible for the Prolonged Coal Strike—Roosevelt's Prospects Are Wobbly." (From our regular corrvepondeut.) '.WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 1903. The Democratic Campaign Book was issued yesterday and is replete with interesting and, in many in stances. startling facts. It Is doubful It the longest search would have re vealed a better motto or one more in accordance with the Democratic ideals than that chosen to ornament the front cover of the book. It reads, "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." While space will not permit a comprehensive review, here, it may be said that the handling of the trust question is of the utmost importance and reveals a condition of affairs which calls for prompt and positive remedies. While a constitutional amendment may. in time, be necessary to meet the exigencies of the situation, nothing of the kind is practical nor necessary at this time. As is clearly shown by the figures given in the Hand Book, the trusts are the chil dren of the tariff from which they draw their nourishment and a curtail ment of that nourishment along the lines of the bill offered in the House of Representatives by Chairman Bab cock. before he became seduced by Congressional favor, would promptly and effectively remedy existing con ditions. Were the tariff reduced, or in some instances removed, from trust made articles, a free and open competi tion would compel the sale of Ameri can manufactured articles at, at least, as reasonable prices as the trusts are now asking the foreigners for the same goods. Such tariff revision, It is evi dent, would not destroy the trusts, which would still be able to do busi ness on a basis which would enable them to pay a handsome profit on the capital actually invested and there is no reson why they should be unable to charge the consumers prices which permit of their paying large dividends on immense quantities of "water." The Philippine situation is exten sively canvassed in the Hand Book and President McKinley is effectively quoted as saying "I speak not of forcible annexation, for that is not to be though of. That, under our code of morals, would be criminal aggres sion." Senator Spooner's words are also quoted on the subject as follows: "I shrink from the notion that the interests of this country will be sub served by making permanently a part of our land, territory thousands of miles away." What has become of the high ideals of these exponents of Republican doctrine, the authors of the Text Book do not attempt to say. Due consideration is paid to the nefarious Ship Subsidy bill which, ac cording to the Republican programme, will be enacted during the next ses sion of Congress. The utter abuse of any excuse for such palpable class legislation )s clearly shown and it is further demonstrated that the only beneficiaries will be certain capitalists who are already far beyond the need of Government charity. The close control exercised over legislation by a Republican Congress by the vested interests and the trusts, despite the earnest protests of the President, is clearly set forth in the handling of the subject of Cuban reciprocity. New evidence is furnished of the close intimacy which exists between the Republican leaders and the trusts by the confident statements of Sena tors Piatt of New York, and Quay of Pennsylvania, to the effect that the coal strike wilt be brought to an end within the coming week. These very confident statements might be re garded as somewhat in the nature of a bluff, were it not for the fact that the word of Senators has gone forth on Wail Street and on the strength of their representation stocks have shown a material advance. Had it not been for the serious rumors of the President's accident, prices would have soared yesterday and even as it was they advanced along many lines. It may be asked, if these Senators can so surely predict the action of the railway presidents why have they not already interceded to prevent the hardship which has been worked on the miners by the already prolonged strike, but the answer should be plain. They have not interfered for the same reason that the President has not Interfered, viz.: for the reason that their friends were too deeply Inter ested in the crushing of the miners union and that only party exigencies would move them to ask any sacri fice from the mine operators. There is some indication that the Republican leaders mean to repudiate I'resident Roosevelt. Senator Piatt, whose antipathy to the President has long been known, has stated to a representative of a New York paper that the New York Republican plat form will not advocate Mr. Roose velt's nomination in 1904 and that it is probable that the platform will not endorse his views on the trust ques tion. It has long been recognized that Mr. Roosevelt had few friends among the capitalistic class, which is popu larly referred to as "Wall Street," but it was not supposed that so shrewd a politician would give so plain an evidence of his antagonism to the party's leader. When Mr. Roosevelt was persuaded to sidetrack the tariff reform movement, so dear to the members of his party In the West, by the advocacy of trust control by a constitutional amendment, it was supposed that his sacrifice of principle would insure for him the cordial sup port of Piatt and his ilk, but such appears not to have been the case. Under the circumstances, the Presi dent seems to be much in the position of the man who has fallen between two stools. He has forfeited the re spect of the Western Republicans in his effort to secure the support of the Eastern capitalists and now they give indications of rejecting him. DRAMATIC CATASTROPHE AT WILLA PA. —The Sound Bend Pilot says that the Leonder " Uncle Tom" company burst up in that town, Wednesday night, and that part of the organiza tion passed on to Bay Center, and "Uncle Tom" his wife and "Eva," the Oades child who joined them in Olympia, were left behind. Mr. Leon der, the Pilot says, left her with G. Meisner, and gave him money for two day's board *Dd a ticket to this city, where her parents reside. It further says lhat " the donkey and the blood hounds were the only members of the party who appeard entirely care-free when their scow drifted down the river Thursday morning. CA.STOHTA. B«anth* Kind You Have Always BowM f_~ 1 CASTOR IA GESHES I For Infants and Children. r astoria f The Kind Y ° u Have r j Always Bought AVcgctable Preparalionfor As- 9 similatinglhcFoodandßegula- 9 _ . g ling llie Slomachs andßowols of jgj JjGQXS til 6 g 1 " I Signature /%$ Promotes Digestion.Cheerful- § g _/ ness and Rest.Contains neither Jh r / JP • g Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. j| OX Not "NARCOTIC. 9 flilir Hun/Jan Seal' 9 ■ Bt A /tlx Senna ♦ W L#W _ KakMeSJm- S JU _ E einiee See* * H A |T* % fsl fl f\ ill* 111 i/kjf, y g p Aperfecl Remedy forConstipa- II ■ IV Ww u Hon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea |i I lAy Worms .(Convulsions .Feverish fl I IT ft., _ M ness and Loss OF SLEEP. 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