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THE "PUSH" AT BAY
There Is reason for every decent mem
ber of the Democratic party to felicitate
himself on the general turning down of
the "push" element in the recent county
convention. A considerable number of
the crowd who on former occasions!have
cut a prominent figure ln the party
councils and who have regularly bar
tered away the best interests and most
sacred principles of Democracy for their
selfish gain, were notable for their ab
sence from the convention, and the party
stands before the public in a much
Stronger attitude by reason thereof.
Still, It is no time for self-compla
cency or the relaxing of that eternal
Vigilance which Is necessary to complete
gind confirm the good work. The reform
is not yet accomplished; it is only begun.
The "push" element is as strong and
as crafty as ever, and, since it has been
placed on Its mettle, It Is more active
stnd defiant than before. Driven from
many of its former strongholds ln the
elty by the recent primaries, it rallied
on the center and sent a delegation to
the convention from the Second ward
that justified all of Its old traditions.
It was this coterie of railroad servitors
under the leadership of Bosses McCaf
fery and Casey, which practically dom
inated the separate action of the Third
supervisorial district. It was this clique [
Working as one man, under a carefully
prepared program, that succeeded in
placing a sprinkling of their kind on
the county central committee and on
the delegation to the state convention.
It Is to this set that we are indebted
for the presence In both of those posi
tions of Ygnacio Bilderrain, a member
of the notorious Poker Davis gang of
confidence sharps—a fellow who has
been before the courts numerous times
to answer for his crooked transactions.
He is a fair representative of the mate
rial that the "push" works with when it
finds occasion.
These men are not to be trusted at
any stage of the game. While loudly
protesting their fealty to party and their
willingness to support Maguire and fu
sion, they will go to Sacramento under
the unquestioning control of their boss.
If word comes from railroad headquar
ters that Maguire is to be knifed and
the best interests of the party thrown
down, they will obey those instructions
to the letter. They are not in that dele
gation for their health or for the health
of sound Democracy. Their presence
means mischief.
We happen to know that these fellows
were engaged yesterday in a most stren
uous effort to gather in proxies from other
delegates to the state convention. As
the railroad "push" will all have their
hats chalked, they can go to Sacramento
In force, and, if they succeed in gather
ing in a moderate number of proxies
and a few of the other representatives
fail to attend, the "push" may be able
to swing the delegation.
While not desiring to pose as an alarm
ist. The Herald feels Impelled to sound
this warning and to urge upon the re
form members of the party the utmost
circumspection and vigilance. It is ex
tremely desirable that there be a full
attendance of the delegation at Sacra
mento, fffaa expense will not be very
great, and the occasion certainly justi
ces some personal sacrifice. If any dele
gate is unable to attend, let him select
his proxy with the utmost care. We
suggest that all who want to make sure
of carrying out the good work inaugu
rated in this county ar.d who cannot go
to Sacramento, send their proxies to Dr.
R. W. Hill. They may thus be sure that
their votes are placed in safe hands.
EVOLUTION OF ISSUES
The question of territorial expansion
and colonization is one upon which Re
publicans and Democrats honestly differ.
Able and staunch Democrats favor the
doctrine. As staunch and able Demo
crats oppose it. Mr. Bailey, Democratic
leader ln the house, sought to have his
negative views incorporated in the plat
form of the party in his own state, but
was defeated, and a middle course pur
sued. On the other hand. Governor
Stone, in the Missouri Democratic state
convention, was unsuccessful ln his ef
forts to place the party In that state
on record as favoring expansion, and a
resolution drawn and supported by Con
gressman Bland, was adopted, declar
ing against the acquisition of any terri
tory In the eastern hemisphere.
A number of influential Democratic
journals are pronounced in favor of re
taining the Philippines, among them the
New York Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer,
Louisville Courier-Journal, Galveston
and Dallas News, Atlanta Constitution,
New Orleans Picayune, Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal,* Florida Times-Union,
San Francisco Examiner and New York
Times. On the other hand, a number of
equally influential Republican newspa
pers oppose the acquisition of Insular
territory in either the Atlantic or the
Pacific. Prominent among these are the
New York Evening Post in the east and
the Omaha Bee in the west.
There are not lacking indications of
a divergence of opinion among the news
papers and public men of our own state,
Democrats and Republicans being found
on both sides of the question. Thus, does
Governor Budd favor and Senator White
oppose the retention and colonization
of the Philippines.
Conspicuous among Republicans of
national prominence who have set their
faces against the temptation to turn a
war for humanity into a war of con
quest, against the solemn warnings ot
President McKlnley'S Inaugural address,
are the venerable Senator Edmunds and
the thoughtful Justice Brewer. In a
Fourth of July oration ln old Independ
ence hall, Philadelphia—the cradle of
American liberty—the patriarchal Re
publican leader of Vermont uttered a
most solemn warning against the perils
which the country is inviting. After
exhaustive reasoning against the impe
rialistic doctrine, Senator Edmunds
said:
Hut whether Integral equal political
parts of our republic or not, the posses
sion of distinct teritory continually in
volves, as all nations have found, the
maintenance of great standing armies
and navies, with the enormous ex
penses and other evils attending their
existence. The termination of war
must, of course, be followed by Indem
nity to the victor, but the victor should
be very careful to see that the supposed
Indemnity does not prove an Injury
rather than a satisfaction.
David J. Brewer, one of the ablest
members of the supreme court of the
T'nited States, who was appointed to the
position by President Harrison, spoke
earnestly against territorial acquisition,
at Burlington yesterday. The evacu
ation of Cuba, he declared, would bring
to us as a nation grave responsibility,
and the aftermath may prove much more
troublesome than the war itself. He
thought the people of Porto Rico unfit
for self-government, and the coloniza
tion idea a violation of our ideas of self
government. Touching the proposed ac
quisition of territory in the far east, he
said:
So far as the Philippines are con
cerned, some men high in authority tell
us we must have at least a coaling sta
tion there. Beyond that, I think we
should be relieved from responsibility
as soon as we can fairly. lam di
rectly opposed to the introduction of
the colonial system in that portion of
the world. It Is not. a matter of terri
tory or distance. We took Alaska, but
its population was small, and their
coming ln did not affect us. But to
bring In from one country from ydx to
ten million savages Is, to my mind,
freighted with untold dangers. If we
can get rid of the responsibility and do
justice to the people there, I hope to do
so. I believe In following the advice
of George Washington, to avoid«ll en
tangling alliances, and the Monroe doc
trine.
We already have Hawaii, and we shall
soon have Porto Rico. Temporarily, at
least, we shall also have Cuba. From
the plea of military necessity in the case
of the one and the logical results of the
war in the other, there is no appeal.
All three are fixed and determined facts,
beyond change. The step has been taken
and the responsibility assumed. The
bridges have been burned behind us.
We shall have to face the perils that
are menaced, whether we will or no.
Only time will determine the wisdom of
the departure. But as to the Philippines,
only a tentative agreement has been
made. Their final disposition is to be
determined lat?r. A Joint commission is
to decide, subject to ratification by the
national congress of the two powers.
What form of government shall be es
tablished In Hawaii is an open ques
tion, and may be made a political Issue.
What shall be done with Porto Rico is
an open question, and may be made a
political issue. What shall be done with
Cuba has already been decided, and is
no longer an open question, and may
not' be made a political issue, ex
cept in the contingency of an offer by
the people of the island, substantially
unanimous, to make of it an integral
part of the United States. Then will
arise the question of acceptance, and
on what terms, as ln the case of Ha
waii.
The Important and pressing question
relates to the Philippines, and should the
Joint commission meet and Dromstlr de
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12.
clde upon a treaty, and should that
treaty be promptly ratified by both
powers before another national election
transpires, the people will have naught
to say. On the other hand, and ln the
event treaty-making should lag, the po
litical parties will make the Issue prom
inent in their platforms. The greatest
danger to be apprehended Is that lead
ers of each organization will be Influ
enced more by the promise of political
advantage In taking the one course or
the other than by the effect upon the
national life and the destiny of the re
public.
A SPRINKLING OF HEELERISM
The Times felicitates itself that "the
peerless city of Los Angeles will not
be wholly misrepresented ln thei councils
of the Republican party."
Well, that is something. But why
should it be misrepresented at all? The
Republican party of Los Angeles Is made
up of good men and true. The vicious
element w-ithln Its ranks should not be
large. It Is doubtless small. It Is prob
ably infinltesslmal, compared with the
whole mass. The decent element ln each
assembly district, and ln each voting
precinct, largely outnumbers the rounder
element, which can always be shut out
from active participation In the direction
of the party's affairs.
How comes It, then, that there is In
the delegation to the Republican state
convention from the peerless city of Los
Angeles "a leaven of heelerlsm" that
would, according to the Times, "better
have been left a long distance from Sac
ramento when the business of putting a
ticket in the field" is to be undertaken.
What is "leaven," anyway? Ferment
ing dough 1 Bread made with leaven
has a distinctively sour taste, and It
is no longer used for that purpose. Is
the Republican party ln need of ferment
ing dough? When once introduced In
the composition can anything prevent
the natural chemical action of the leaven
upon the whole mass?
The fact is. and the Times may not
successfully deny It, that the party is
In the clutches of the heeler element,
and apparently helpless. Had the Times,
immediately upon the promulgation of
the late call for primaries, courageously
characterized It as a miserable heeler
scheme, designed to disfranchise the de
cent element of the party living ln the
country, a wholesome public sentiment
might have been aroused against the
outrage, and the central committee
forced to 'correct the frontiers" of some
of the gerrymandered precincts along
rational and common sense lines. There
Is no profit for itself or the party In
moralizing after the fact.
LOOKING NORTHWARD
The Visalla Times invites Los Ange
les capital to build a line of railway
connecting with the Valley road at Ba
kersfleld. It assumes that it is obviously
not the intention of either that company
or of the Santa Fe to close up the gap,
and it advances some reasons—more ap
parent than real, we fear—why the peo
ple of this city should move in the mat
ter. It says:
With such a line of road ln operation
the thousands of people who leave this
valley each summer for cooler cli
mates would flock to Los Angeles, Pas
adena, and the many other delightful
resorts In that section. They would
then obtain some of the business of this
great valley, so that the wholesale
houses of Los Angeles would be com
pelled to enlarge their tiuarters and
there would be such a revival of busi
ness that her people would realize that
the boom days of ISSS-6 had come again.
Obvious as would be the advantage to
Los Angeles of securing a direct outlet
to the rich section lying beyond the
range, we fear it would be more than
minimized by the helplessness of an in
dependent line to Bakersfleld. The local
traffic that might be built up would not
alone sustain it, and it would be wholly
at the mercy of competing roads for
through traffic. The Valley road would
doubtless be disposed to make a liberal
traffic arrangement with it, but at both
terminals, ln the north and the south,
it would meet with strong competitors
in the Southern Pacific and the Santa
Fe, each jealous of the long haul, neither
willing to accord to it a full share in
the division of earnings, a share com
mensurate with distance, excessive first
cost of construction or larger operating
expenses, It Is not safe to assume, at
one and the same time, that a direct line
from Bakersfleld to Los Angeles will pay
and that the Valley road will never build
it. Its entire feasibility conceded. It will
in time be built by the Valley company.
That enterprise cannot afford to stop at
Bakersfleld. It must eventually build an
independent line to Los Angeles or to
a connection with the Santa Fe. It is
more likely the latter road will build
north. The company, under reorganiza
tion, is growing stronger. With the re
turn of confidence and a revival of in
dustry, it will have little trouble in se
curing funds for an undertaking of such
importance to it in securing an outlet
to a northern port.
Mark Hanna is gradually paying off his
debts, and will soon be on his feet again.
He employs two kinds of currency In
the discharge of his obligations—coin
of the realm and offices of the realm.
Rufus Lane of Cincinnati has just been
appointed consul to Smyrna. Had all of
the members of the Ohio legislature kept
the pledges made to the people, Hanna
would not be senator and Lane would
still be pulling teeth for a living—»l a
pull, "didn't hurt a bit." He Is the
adaptable duffer, elected on an anti-
Hanna ticket, who made the letter's elec
tion possible. We hope he will stay In
Smyrna, though we wish the people of
that burg no harm.
The New York Times wants to know
if there Is one military officer in the
United States, whose opinion commands
any weight, who Is willing to put hie
name to an assertion that Alger has
been a good, or decent, or even tolerable,
secretary of war. Echo answers not one
willing to so stultify himself;
The president yesterday did a most
graceful act ln appointing; the father
I a* UiutuutHabioD noatmutex of tha
Alabama town In which he lives. The
appointment will meet with the approval
of everybody ln the country except the
pie-eaters of the Greensboro push, who
may not be expected to approve of the'
selection of a Democrat for official po
sition in these hard times.
Schley can read his title clear. It is
in the hearts of the people of the land
he loves so much. No promotion which
the president can confer upon him will
add to his laurels. He is as much en
titled to the honor for having destroyed
Cervera's fleet and brought the war to
an end as was Nelson for the achieve
ment at Copenhagen. Both were sec
ond ln command.
When gamblers fall out—well, races
become quite uninteresting. Hnok-mak-,
ing and ptiol-selling at the Hawthorne
track were yesterday again enjoined by
the circuit court, and the odd feature,
of It is that the injunction was at the
instance of two of the owners of the
property.
A 96-pound gold nugget ts said to have
been discovered in Australia the other,
day. Its value must approximate $30,
--000. But all of the people rushing into
the new fields will not come away with
pebbles of that size.
Spain refuses to redeem her pawns,
and so Cervera and all of the other naval
prisoners will be detained in this coun
try until the war Is ended. They will
perhaps not seriously grieve.
British peers who sell their influence
to shares traffickers thereby contribute
much toward dissipating caste in Eng
land. The shopkeepers have a right to
protest.
Uncle Sam wants no more islands than
are stipulated ln the bond. Sagasta
should not be allowed to slip In any on
the deed when he is not looking.
Andrew Carnegie, the latest distin
guished bolter from imperialism, de
clares that "Americans cannot be grown
In the Philippines."
The revolution in Guatemala was sup
pressed yesterday, it began the day
before. Another isn't looked for till to
morrow.
England was pretty badly turned down
ln China yesterday. But she may be
relied on to speedily right herself.
England and Russia are on the verge
of war over a right of way which should
belong to neither.
The demand for Alger's resignation
Is neither political nor sectional. It is
only unanimous.
A fundamental fault ln the Spanish
soldier Is that he doesn't care to fight
between meals.
The one-sided war in the United States
of Porto Rico is progressing very satis
factorily.
Prices of trust commodities continue
to ascend. The reason for it is not ap
parent.
No political range-finder has been able
for two months to locate Arthur Mc-
Ewen.
Wheat has little regard for Republican
Interests in the fall elections.
History repeats itself, and "the school
boy whips his taxed top."
The O'Hlggins will live to fight an
other day.
Alger acts as if he hated peace.
THE ABSENT BOY
They miss him In the orchard where the
fruit is sunning over.
And In the meadow" where the air is
sweet with new-mown hay,
And all about the old farm which knew
him for a lover,
From the early seedtime onward till the
crops were pileel away.
They miss him in the village, where nothing
went without him.
Where today the young folks' parties are
diull and Incomplete,
They cannot Just explain It, there was such
a charm about him.
The drop of cheer he always brought
made common daylight sweet.
And now he's gone to Cuba, he's fighting
for the nation,
He's charging with the others, a lad
ln army blue.
His name is little known yet, but at the
upland station,
They all are sure you'll hear it before the
war Is through.
And when you talk of battles, and scan the
printed column.
His regiment's the one they seek, his
neighbors think and care;
The more they e'.o not speak of It, their
look grows grave and solemn.
For somewhere in the thick of strife,
they know their boy is there.
—Margaret E. Sangsterln Collier's Weekly.
No Impertinence
"You make me tired!"
And this to a major general of the army!
Yet there was no unseemly demonstra
tion; no arrest for Insubordination; not
even a reprimand.
It was only Shaffer's horse thinking
aloud.—Cleveland Leader.
One Explanation
"New York seems very lonely and desert
ed on Sunday." said one Chicago man.
"Yes." answered the otner. "You know
profanity Is under the ban and people who
want to talk about the weather have to go
out of town."—Chicago Record.
Unlucky Thirteen
"Isn't a thlrteen-tnch gun considered un
lucky?" Inquired the superstitious man.
"It all depends," replied- his matter-of
fact acquaintance, "on whether you're an
American or a Spaniard."—Washington
Star.
A Silly Boy
"He is the silliest boy you ever heard of
He writes me twice a day."
• "How absolutely foolish, Nell! What
does he do the rest of the day?"
"He says he spends It in reading the let
ters I write him."—Harper's Bazar.
How It Was Done
"Next!" cried the president.
And Hawaii was 'nexed.—Philadelphia
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POLITICAL PARTIES
AND "EXPANSION"
ENOCH KNIGHT
It does not take long nowadays for the
average politician to proceed to square
himself on every new Issue that comes up;
and Just now this Is being done on a large
scale ln the presence of the pressing ques
tion of national expansion or "Imperial
ism."
Let us look at the facts of history. Most
of the taking In of new territory by our
government has been done by the Demo
crats. Indeed It was mostly done before
the Republican party came into being,
and when the Federalist or Whig party
was the opposition party, and its leaders
were generally lound ln antagonism to the
Democrats on these lines.
It was Jefferson, the Btrict construction
ist, who added seven hundred thousand
square miles to our territory, with small
warrant of constitutional authority, as his
opponents said. Monroe's administration
acquired Florida, while Texas, too, came in
through Democratic policy. Of the indi
vidual statesmen of the period foremost of
all were Benton and Cass, to whose per
sonal influence the saving of Oregon to the
Union was largely due.
Think, then, of the vast territory that
came to us through Polk's administration,
the completion of our western boundary
with Its unequaled wealth. The opposition
of the Whigs to all the Mexican war meas
ures was of the bitterest sort. 'Tls true
this was partly due to the anti-slavery
sentiment then about to become a power
ln the nation, which sentiment was
opposed to all new territory because It was
feared slavery might go there and thus
insure an Increase of the slave power ln pol
itics. But the main opposition came of
the natural conservatism of the Whigs,
as the opposition party of the country.
This contest against Polk and all that his
administration implied, extended even to
belittling the fruits of the Mexican war ln
a way entirely apart from the question ot
slavery. Mr. Webster in the senate de
clared that no good could ever come to the
country from this acquired territory. He
put New Mexico entirely out of account,
and as to California, expressed his belief
that "the people of that portion of the
country could never have any Interest In
or sympathy with the government of the
fnited States." So poor is the political pre
diction of even the soundest of party men
And political history abounds ln such con
flicts when partisanship has played any
part ln the matter, although there has
never been added to our domain a mile of
territory that was not an evidence of the
highest wisdom, and very soon admitted to
have been, even by the opposition.
One more Democratio act ln this line re
mains to be mentioned, what ts known as
the "Gadsden purchase," accomplished un
der Franklin Pierce, the hard-headed New
Englander.
Thus It apeors that the half century of
power by the Democracy of the country
gave to us an area of territory compared
to which the original states were only a
little patch on the Atlantic.
And what did all this half century of
nation-building mean? Did It meen that
the Democracy had a monopoly of the ex
pansion Idea? Not at all. The growth of
a nation by Increase of area Is always
favored; Is always popular. The Demo
crats were ln power when the greatest of
our possessions were acquired, and deserve
a Just measure of praise for the credit of
securing them, for they were all creditable.
It was so-called "Democratio doctrine,"
too, that foreshadowed the wresting of
Cuba from Spaln-a quarter of a century
ago, when the most picturesque figures In
political life Issued the famous "Ostend
manifesto."
But It must be remembered that Individ
uals of all parties have been favorable to
expansion and also advocates of "manifest
destiny." More than one scheme has been
planned for the purchase of Cuba, and
twenty years ago Senator Carpenter of
Wisconsin, in a remarkable speech in the
•enate, advocated forcible measures to
break Spanish rule In the West Indies and
to possess ourselves of territory that ought
to belong to us, as a nlncldent of our Inter
ference. Something akin to this has often
been in the minds of many of our leading
statesmen, as in the case of President
Grant, who advocated ln a special message
the acquirement of San Domingo.
So It appears that, even ln the cases of
doubtful propriety, like the acquirement ol
territory not contiguous, there has not only
heen no open disagreement among the peo
ple of the country, but there has been sub
stantial accord. Indeed, It may he sal.,
that all our relations to the West Indies
have been on well understood and care,
fully laid lines. When affairs appeared to
be ripening for action in President Cleve
land's last term, he pointed out the issue
upon which we must soon Interfere, the
disturbance of our peace through the losse-s
and cruelties occurring under our very
and warned Spain that these must
cease within a reasonable time. His suc
cessor used almost this Identical language
In stating our attitude as to Interference,
and emphasized It by his action In retain
ing Consul General Lee and the other rep
resentatives of the government.
The blowing up of the Maine intensified
public feeling and hastened the end, but
neither ln executive policy nor in the senti
ment among the masses of the people has
there been any etlvlding lines of party be
lief as to the propriety of Cuban interfer
ence. Either party, If in power, would be
lmpelled to do. in any given ease, practi
cally what the other would. A"nd this'ap
plies to all things done, and all things to
he done, ln the way cf acquirement of ter
ritory that would be of real advantage to
us, and at the same time honorable to the
nation.
Parties, then, should) not feel called upon
to make especial claims to the champion
ship of territorial expansion on the one
hand, or of opposition on the other; for
the plain history of the country shows that
this would be false and fraudulent, as well
as futile. There are things upon which
parties may and do divide, for the people
divide on certain Issues, and these make
parties; but up to the present time there
has been no dlvlElon on the question of ter
ritorial expansion. Every administration
throughout the whole period of the gov
ernment would have done what the one in
power at the time did do, so far as one
can Judge from the policy of the govern
ment and the temper of the people. Why
not admit this and act upon It? Can any
thing ever be preferred above the truth
even ln political?
What has been done, up to the present
time, by all administrations and by all par
ties, has been according to the real belief
and purpose of the people, and according
to our traditions. And every acquirement
of territory has made for our highest In
terests end destiny In completing the au
tonomy of the country, and thus assuring
power and peace. The outcome of the
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Cuban conflict will oarry us somewhat out
side of old bounds, but great events always
make new lines, as freshets make new river
beds and banks. What we have resolved
to do as to Cuba and Porto Rico Is as Just
as tt was Inevitable, and nobody will ever
queetlon our rights to these as allied to
us ln destiny. Up to this moment no
party can make political capital over ex
pansion, for no really questionable strain
upon the doctrine has occurred. But what
lies beyond this line of policy, the taking of
territory that neither touches us nor
threatens our peace, Is another matter, and
must be treated separately.
BOSS BURNS
Will Pick the Republican Candidate
for Governor —Gage's Chances
Now the question arises, who is the col
onel's candidate for governor? George
Knight, Attorney General Fitzgerald, Dr.
Pardee, W. R. Davis, Henry T. Gage,
Thomas Flint, Jr., Secretary of State
Brown and others are out ln the open
where the lightning may strike them.
Some of these gentlemen may not approve
of Colonel Burns or his system of conduct
ing politics, but they do not despise his
votes, and all are anxiously hoping that
his favor may light on them.
From neither the colonel nor his trusted
friends have any of the candidates been
able to obtain a declaration as to his pre
ference. The best that any Inquirer has
secured Is the statement that the colonel
freely makes to the effect that he will sup
port the man who seems most capable of
defeating Magulre.
There Is the strongest kind of a rumor out
that Henry T. Gage, the man from Los
Angeles. Is the favorite in the Burns han
dicap. It is the kind of a rumor that car
ries conviction with It. Everybody takes
It for granted thnt It Is true. There are
two straws that point in that direction. One
of them is the statement that originated
nobody knows where, to the effect that Col.
Burns once said that Gage was the only
Republican who stood a ghost of a show
against Maguire. The other is that on the
colonel's recent trip to Los Angeles he en
tered Into a deal that resulted ln assur
ances being given Gage that he would re
ceive Burns' support.—San Francisco Ex
aminer.
The Push and the Main Guy
On the day before his departure for Ma
nila, Brigadier General Harrison G. Otis
had occasion to visit the headquarters
of the Seventh California regiment.
Now it should, be understood, for
the better appreciation of this story,
that the Seventh halls from South
ern California, and that Los Angeles of
that section also has the distinction of br
ing the home of General Otis. It should
also be understood that the general is
recognized down there as a—well, his
friends refer 1 to him as a statesman, while
his enemies allude to him as a politician.
These facts being understood, the story
may go right on Just as if nothing nad
happened.
General Otis, clad ln that military splen
dor of costume which Solomon and his
lilies knew not, approached the guard and
the guard knew him. Now It was the duty
of the sentry ln a case where the camp
was l thus honored to announce the fact in
the following words:
"General officer! Turn out the guard."
But General Otis still was a little distance
away, and the sentry thought he could
safely vary the form of the words a little.
He did so:
"Here comes the main guy. Turn out
the push!"
That was what he said, and that was
what the general heard. But the latter
was equal to the occasion.
"Never mind the push," he said, "the
main guy says nit."
But, Just the same, the push turned out to
greet the main guy.—San Francisco Ex
aminer.
A Hot Touch for Papa
It takes money to negotiate peace as well
as to wage war. Miss Jessie Schley, who
went to Madrid to bring about an end to
hostilities, has cabled home for funds to
get back to Paris.—Baltimore News.
The Bald Head's Advance
"And when are you going; to the front?"
When the vaudeville season opens."—
Indianapolis Journal.
SIDEWALK TALKS
"What do you think about the Philippine,
annexation talk? Opposed to it? So am
I. The directors of
General Forman: the chamber of com
merce voted on it.
and I believe we stood fifteen against and
two for. I think the body of the cham
ber would stand against it, though there
ts a considerable sentiment in favor of the
retention of the Islands. It Is, anyway, a
subject that we should go slow about de
ciding, for it means very many changes In
our government and the maintenance of
a big army and navy. It Is a case of using
Davy Crockett's advice before wo ga
ahead."
o o o
"What about General Fitzgerald's candi
dacy for the governorship? Why, I don't
believe the general
Henry Carter, Dap- naß made the first
uty Att'v General: . , _
* J move to bring hlm>
self forward ln the matter, nor do I believe
that he will do so. He is in his place, at
tending to his business all the time, and
there you will find him till the close of his
term. I really don't know much about his
political affairs, but It does not seem to
me that he has any intention of starting]
what Is called a 'campaign' for the nomi
nation. He is a man that such things have
to come to."
o o o
"There are so many crazy people here to
be examined every day that I sometimes
fear that my own
Under Sheriff wheels may take a
Clements: . ,
notion to go back*
ward. The new law about Insane people
seems to work all right. There are a few,
details that might be Improved, but there
is very little to criticise in the working of
the provisions, now that they have been
Studied and comprehended by the officers.
The abolition of sending insane people to
the county jail, as was formerly the case,
is one of the most humane advances made
ln recent years."
o o o
"The new bankruptcy federal law has
not been tested enough as yet to enable one
to express a verJ!
cK.^\ D &t|" te °»
It, but the petitions
come ln very rapidly. The supreme court*
you know, has not as yet issued forms and
rules for procedure under the act and what
has been done has perforce been somewhat
impromptu, but the machinery of the law*
seems to be well adapted for the work ex»
pected from It, for so far there has been
no difficulty at all. The advantages of an
effective federal law of such a kind would)
seem to be obvious." THE RECEIVER.
An Apropos Error
The printer In mixing up the type tot!
yesterday's edition spoke of our glorious
Union as the "Untied States of America."*
He bullded better than he knew. Since we
broke loose from the Monroe doctrine
there Is on doubt we are untied and also
astray. We shall shortly be in the position
of Sut Lovlnggood when harnessed with
the runaway oalfl "Darn our fool souls!
Head us, somebody!"— Mobile Register.
Something That He Will Discover
When Lieut. Peary gets back from the
Eskimo country he will discover his own Is
crowded with new and unexplored region*.
—St. Louis Republic.
FUGITIVE VERSICLES
"Old Glory" ripples grandly free.
First In the world beyond a doubt
Beneath It now, we'd like to see
A cold-wave banner flaunted out.
—Washington Stat^.
The soldier of the legion
Was much rejoiced to find
That the Bed Cross nurse he'd heard about
Was really pink and white and kind.
—Detroit Journal,
Could we see ourselves as others see us)
How pride would have a fall!
For we'd find out, I have no doubt, ,V
Ws wert not seen at all. '
5 •>f ■ » —Cincinnati EnqulreK