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Democratic National Ticket
For President
WOO a) ROW WILSON
of New Jersey
For Vice President
THOMAS R. MARSHALL
of Indiana
A STRING OF BEDE S
From the speech delivered in ,
San Francisco the other night by
Hon. J. Adam Bede of Minnesota,
the Call evolved a "string of
Bede's that is worth reproduction,
i isten:
"The democrats look gocd to
me this year because I'm an
optimist. A harber told me the
other day that it isn't half as hard
to shave a democrat this year as it :
used to be."
"I believe in two strong parties, |
one in power and the other watch
ing it: and the reason I've always
been a republican is because I think
the democrats make the best
watchers."
I've nothing particularly against
the Boll Moose party, but we have
a dehorning committee just the
same, and it's open season for bull
moose, partciulaly along in Novrm
ber."
'"Theodore Roosevelt wasn't
within gunshot of San Juan hill
when the battle was on, and he
hasn't been that near to a fact
since. We've been electing him on
things that didn't happen."
"Talk about the high cost of
living ! I saw a sign in the New
York subway calling attention to a
fine for $500 for spitting on street
cars ar.d we used to spit for
nothing."
"Most Americans toda> think
that if they buy an automobile the
government ought to make the re
pairs. There's many an Ameri.an
pays more for gasoline than his
grandfather did for groceries."
Don't ask for civilization on the
halfshell and then complain of the
cost. If we find there is hitrh c >st
for living just remember we are
living high."
"I organized a company of boy ]
scouts bark in Minnesota urd the
first thing I did was to proviile
them witn a gymn.isium with wrest
ling mats and boxing gloves and
everything that goes with the
presidency."
"Theodore yells for us to have
big families, and then the first
thing he does is to bring on a panic
so they ran't be clothrd or fed."
"News these days consists of
things that never ought to happen
? the unusual things such as
wreck*, divorces, scandals, mine
diasters, murders and democratic
victories."
"I've always thought of the
Philippines as I do of triplets
they are somethidg yoo can't ad
vocate and can't give away
The EIko Dancing flub will give
their first public dance of the
season at the Opera House on F ? i
day evening, October 1th. Music
by the Elko orchi stra of four
pieces. Admission fl; ladies fre?\
Everybody cordially invited.
If Charles Parker will call nt
this office and pay for this notice,
he can get a package, containing a
new pair of gloves an<i other
articles, that he left in the Club
?aloon several weeks ago. The
articles are worth much more than
the enst of this notice. *
WHY OR. PETERS
IS FOR WILSON
Rev. Madison C. Peters, who is a j
personal friend of both Taft and
Roosevelt. has Riven up his J
church in Brooklyn until after
election, that he may devote all his
time to discussing the high cost of
living
Dr. Peters is sheduled to m ike
democratic tariff speeches in 'he
principal citics of the country.
Or. Peters gained nationwide
fane by carrying on a t-*ries of
m&rkeis in Brooklyn whereby he
endeavored to reduce the cost of
food sapolies.
"I am in tnis election because I
believe it my Christian duty" de
clared Dr. Peters.
"If .Mr. Taft has refused to sign
the Pa^ne-Aldrich Bill and if he
an?* signed the bills pas<?d by the
democrats and some republicans re
vising schedules downwards, he
would be or.e of the most popular
men in public life today, but un
fortunately he cot into bad com
pany. No man can last in politics
today who trains with the politcial
gang that serves not the recple.
but the protected interests.
"There is nothing we eat or
wear on which we do not pay tariff
trioute to the trusts. From the
time the baby first pu's the bottle- |
nipple to his lips, until he is buried
in advanced age, he pa>s a 50 per
cent tax on everything. The dead
man's coffin is made by a protect
ed trust, and on his tombstone he
pays a 50 per cent tariff exaction
to the marble trust.
"The high tariff wall enables the
Beef Trust to sell meat here in
New York 10 and 15 cents a pound
higher than American beef sells
for abroad. Ameri.*an bacon, for
which we pay 2* cents a pound,
sells for ' 1 cents n Ireland. We
could buy our sugar nearly 2 cents
a pound cheaper if it was not for
the tariff of SI. 90 a hundred
weight.
A Broadway jeweler imports
American watches and sells them
[ more cheaply, after importing them
than he can buy them from the
I manufacturer lure. These tre
| instances of tariff extortion."
BIGGEST FERRYBOAT
IN WORLD
I
The second of four inammcth
castings for the ferry steamer
Contra Costa which is tn be plac
ed on the Beniria-Por Costa servire
; alternating with trie Solano, was
i turned out at the Sacramento shops
! of the Southern Pacific company a
j couple of weeks ago. The casting
was a 12,000-prund cylinder, four
of which are to be installed in this
huge steamer. In order to n.aUe
i this casting a crew of men was kept
j busy for two months in preparing
f the mould. Oniy twenty minutes
were necessary to make the rasting.
I however
The Contra Ccsta will he the
I largest ferry-boat in the world,
| 'aki.'g the title from tne Solano by
a few feet in both length and
width. The newer boat being con
structed with engines in the center
instead of the side, will hare a
greater car carryng capacity.
The hull of this vessel is now being
constructed in the Oakland ship
yards > t the Southern Pacific. All
of the machinery is being built at
Sacramento. A third of these
cylinders will be cast in about 40
davs.
A CAMPAIGN STORY
A story is being circulated the
effect that if George W. Cotant is
elected constable, Constable
Ouderkirk will be hi 4 deputy and
run the office to suit himself. In
an interview this morning, Con
stable Ouderkirk denied the storv
and said that he would rot serve
another teim ns constable und? r
any conditions and would not have
anything to do with the office if
Mr. Cotant is elcctrd. unless It
would be (?> assist him in case of
an emergency. Mr. Cotant is mak*
in the fight for himself and is
under obligation? or promises
to anyone.
A campaign ball will he given nt
Deeth Friday night, October
2r?th.. ?
SET RIO OF THE PHILLIPINES
The Observer has always con
tended that the Untied States does
not need the Phillipires? as lor g
as there is waste land subject to '
homestead entry in this fine
country there is no necessity of
caring for or controlling land
eight thousand miles away. The
Phillipine question should not be
forgotten in the present campaign.
The retention of these islands i? a
very heavy burden upon the people .
of the United States and the ta>?r?
imposed of necessity, add to the
cost of living in every family.
Ten years ago Senator Hoar sti'ed
on the door uf the senate that up
to that time the cost had been
$600,000,000 a^ the statement
wa: never denied. Since then we
have kept in those islands an
average of 12,277 troops. It is
estimated that it cost the govern
ment $1,500 annually to maintain
each soldier in the foreign service.
Computed upon this basis the cost
alone of inrnintaining the military
forces in the Philippine Islands
last year was over $26,000,000 It
would be difficult to even estimatr
*hat part of the naval expenses of
the United States should properl*
be cnargable tj this account. It is
probably safe to affirm that the (
sum which would be ar.nuallv sit
ed, under the conditions of p?ac?
and tranquiiity which now prevail,
were the United States to relin
quish sovereignity over the Philip
pine islands, would not fall rr.uct
short, if any. of $50,000,000.
The total trade with the islands. :
exports and imp'>rts, last year
amounted to $31,866,672. This is
far less lhan the amount of taxa i
tion impos d on the American)
people to retain them.
It has been recently announced
as the opinion of military expert
that it would not be expedient, ir.
the event of war with anv strong!
naval power, for the United StV.? s \
to attempt to defend the Philip-!
pines and besides that the holding
of colonies subject to the United
States against their a ill, is in
d rect violation of our very theory
of government, and is a wrung
against which every true American
revolts.
The bill introduced by Congress
man Jones of the house committee
on insular atTairs which will come
tip at the next session, provides fo,
declaring the inde pendence of the
Philippines on the Fourth ot July,
1921. and to that policy the demo
cratic party is pie Iged. ? St Joseph
Observer
WHAT WILSON BELIEVES
Nobody need worrv about Wo id
row Wilson, who will be found
abundantly able to take care of
himsel, says an Eastern writer.
But if honest .folks care to know
how the nemocratic candidate for
president interprets the popular
will at this time, they will let h i n
state the case for himself. He be
lieves that the deep purpo.se of the
people at this juncture is "to clear
their government for action by
making it free, and then, when it
is free, they will let him state the
case fcr himself. He believes
that the deep purpose of the people
at this juncture is "to clear their
government for action by making
it free, and then, when it is free,
they wish to use i\ not to serve
any class or any party, but to serve
civilization and the human rare."
In other words they desire a
leadership that vsill be first of all
in their interest and free to serve
them and all the higher interests.
For such leadership Woodrow
Wilson is the man who can be
trusted. He not only preaches
well, but he has practired to the
letter of the popular text. As
governor of New Jersey he freed
the people from the domination of
the bosses of his own and of the
republican party as well.
As the days approach electi'W
the odds on Wilson goes climbing
When the campaign opened tbp 1
Wall street men pos ed even money
on Wilson or Taft. As soon ?s
Roosevelt entered th?* game it went
two to one on Wilson and a late
disp tch is as follows. The betting
odds in favor of Governor Wilson is
Wr.ll street has gone up another
point. While their has been plenty
of two to one money in sight, the
Wilson backers have raised the
.tdds to four to one and s'ill the
Taft and t'.lrc term supp 'tters are
holding off.
WOOL TRUST
BO ARRESTED
\
Further evidence of how the
multi-millionaire woolen trust
magnates "prctect" their employes
in return for sufficient protection
to allow them to overcharge 90,
OOO.OOo. American consumers on
everv article of clething they buy, '
is revealed in the at rest ?t
Lawrence. Mass., of William M. I
Wood, head of the wool tru?t.
Mr. Wood is charged with plac- j
ing dynamite in the home* of his .
55. S6 and 5" a week foreign mill
workers in an attempt to discredit
their cause while they were on a
strike last winter as a protest- J
against :t reduction of their wages. ,
Mr. Wood's arret is worthy of
the attention of every man, woman
and child in the country who wears
woolens. Because of the fact that
Mr. Wood and his fellow woolen
trust magnates contribute heavily I
to republican campaign funds, con
gress has been in the habit of plac
ing the fariff high enough on
woolens to keep out all competi- j
tion, so that the wooen t-*jst could i
be free to charge any price they
desired, up to the ability of the
people to pay.
The lesult is that Americans are
paving from thirty to one hundred !
per cent more for woclen clothing j
and bl -tnkets than the residents of
Great Britian pays.
The story of the carter of Mr.
Wood provides a curious parodox. i
He is the oppressor of 150,000 i
miserable New England textile j
workers; a few years ago he was
one of them. In his youth he felt
the sting of hunger himself, but
now he is pitiless in his thoughts
of his employees. He has growr.
enormously rich, hut declares that
from j 1 to $9 a week is enough for
those who labor in his mills.
It is said of many captains cf
industry >hat they are ignorant of
the conditions of the workmen who
make thier fortunes for them; that
jif they knew the distress of their
j employees they would s^ek to
. remedy it. Their distress he sees.
I heir cries he hears.
Wood's father was a Portugese
?Jew imigrant. Belabored in a
I cotton mill and died of tuber
culosis. a disease common to cotton
and wool spinners. The father's
name is believed to have been
Alfonso I.eHair or LeV ir.
When the woolen mill employees
; which are composed of 42 different
nationalities, most of whom cannot
speak English, went on a stiike the
? fathers and mothers decided to
>end their babies and children away
j to friends in other "ities in order
I that they might not suffer fro n
[hunger du-ing the strike. Mr.
: Wood's agents beat the women and
? ore the little ones from their
j mother's arms when the children
j were about to be placed on trains.
Thus did Mr. Wood "protect" his
j employees.
j Are the American people willing
, to continue to contribute to Mr
j Wood by paying more for shoddy
than good woolen clothing sells for
|in England?
Or do they wont the tariff on
woolens reduced? There is oi.lv
one day every two years when the
consumers have an opportunity to
express themselves on tf is sbject.
That day this year comes on
November 5.? Exchange.
COTTON^ TARIFF
Robert Kennett McLea, formerly
consulting expert of tne recent
tariff board, discusses tie cotton
schedule of the Payne- Aldrich
?ariff law in trie Ne* V?rk World
to Show how the few ? re favored at
.the expen.se of the many. The
j tnr;ff board according to Mr. Mae
,Iea. took ninety-five samples of
cotton fabric a? the basis of its in
!vp?tigatlon*. On not a single ore
of them was an act.,,,1 reduction of
duty in the Payne-Adrlch law On
! forty-seven of ,h. nlnety-flve
fabrics there wru an increase of 3
;>"r ren?. And the highest of the?e
increase* wan on the nine special
weaves which are the product of
??? "Uppitt-MeCall" interests
Here the increase amounted to r.f,
oer cent. I'rior to (he passage of
'he presint tariff the interests
have through manipulation raised
the actual rates imposed by the
Dingley bill. The average duty to j
begin with wjs 36 per cent. By
"interprctation"this was raised to I
60 per cent The present duty i* 1
60 per cent.
THEN UNO NOW
f
When the republican party pro
posed to nominate General Grant
for a third term, the Chicago Tri
bune bitter!y opposed the move
ment. After the republican con
vention had refused General Grant
a third term nomination, medals
were struck for the 306 delegates
who voted for General Grant on
thirty-six consecutive ballots. The
Chicago Tribune at that time
ridiculed the "Old Guard" and its
nudals and again denounced the
third term movement and the e*Tort
which was male to confer an
honor upon General Grant which
had been denied to all of his prede- !
cessors. Now, the Chicago Tribune
is advocating the election of Theo-j
dore Roosevelt as president for a1
third term. When the Chicago)
Tribune was opposed to the third
term movement and when it
ridiculed the 306 medal-wearers it
printed the following editorial
under date of July, 1882:
THE THIRD-TERM MEDALS.
"Titles and decorations have
never been regarded with favor by
the people of the United States.
The prejudice against baubles of '
this description was so decided in
the early davs of the republic that :
the framers of the constitution in
serted in that instrument the pro
vision that 'ro title of noblitv shall
be granted by the United States,1
and also that 'no person holdirg
any ofFce of profit or trust shall,
without the consent of congress,
accept any present emolument,
office or title of any kind whatever
from any King, J'rince or foreign
state." As a result of this rule
! and the practice of the people
which it has influenced, the number
of uersor.s is xceedinlgy limited
who go about with ribbons in their
buttonholes and medals hanging t.n
j the lapels of their coats. There
! are some decorations which were
| earned by gallant service in th?
j cause of the Union to which the
possessors nay point with pride
ar,d which they. may wear without
I ostenation. There are others
J which denote fenign appreciation
; of the American inventive faculty.
;ir.d testify to good service in the
common cause of progress and for
the common benefit of mankind.
To these rare and valuable speci
men of decoration hHve now been
(added the 306 medals which lave
! t,p<,n distributed amor.g the 'old
guard which stool out solidly for
I Grant in the Chicago convention.
F resident Arthur will probably
we.tr bis medal on state occasions
only and noon ti e same principle
the Rev. Mr. Hicks may have
donned his for the first time yester
day in assisting at the execution of
Guitteau.
The notion of celebrating the
defeat of the third-term movement
by the distribution of medals
among tho e who sustained it was
not altogether happy, though
nappier for the American people
than if the aforesaid medals cele
brated the success of that move
men!. Just how the possessors of
these medals are going to take any
Pride in them is not easy to under
stand. They represent an idea
which was condemned bv the
Americna people, viz: the proposed
invasion of the solemn precedent
against a third term in the presi
dential ofT.ce. Further than this,
?bey represent nn element in
American politics which has been
visited with equal popular con
demnation ? the el ment of hoasism.
The success of the third-term movri
ment depends upon the manipula
tion and contr;! of the convention*
of three ? rrat states? N,.w York
Pennsylvania and lllinoi,. The
respective bosses did their work
thoroughly and marshalled their
delegates in the Chicago convcn
? ion under irencl-d instructions.
There they encountered a force
stronger than the politic machin
ery under their control. |, wa!, thp |
e of the popular will exerted
partly through the representatives
of the people and partly through
the various channels which public
sentiment uses to reach anypaj1
1 1 cula r object. The convention of 'j
the po .p|c said to the New York' I
and Pennsylvania delegate. that <
they had ?he right to v?,0 ,h |l
pleased according to the pr-f,.r.
en -es of their constituents ,nd the ?
-to of their own consciences i
?0<J t opened the door to tho <
'lino,, district delegates whom the '
boM system Would have excluded. 1
Thus the third tormi,m was beaten
I
ind all that is left of it nnw is tie
trass medal which denotes its
ailure.
If these 306 medals were design
ed to mark any distingushed
service to the country or in any
*ay to memorialize General Grant's
eminent claim upon the American
people they would command
universal respect. But they are
calculated and we fear designed .to
prolong the bitterness of a
factional struggle, and on that ac
count they are not and can never
be an honor to those who parade
them. For the rest they are
puerile tokens of spleen and spite
fulness. and will never rise tu the
dignity of a place in the numis
matic collections."
THE BEAUTY OF DEMOCRACY
Monday night Governor Wilson
spoke to a large crowd at Scran
ton. Pennsylvania. In the course
of his speech, re said:
"The question of the day is not
the division of respor sibility, but
the measure of the liberty of the
people. I am not interested in
Dersons. I do not want to say any
thing about them and ! do not
care what they say about me. 1
simply want to say to them at
every point: 'Very well, it may
go so, let us grant all that and r?'
| turn to the business. What are
y^u proposing, to put more mone>
'into the envelope of the working
;m?n? What are ycu proposing to
'do to break up the lines of mon^
I poly in the United States, to set
the people free and give them
l direct access to their government?
"Mr. Roosevelt himsef has
spoken of the profits the corpora
tions get as prize money and his
I objection is that not enough of the
prize money cets into the pay en
j .-doves. And I quite agree with
| him.
"Hut 1 want to know how he
I pmpot-es to get it there. I search
ed his program from top to bottom
land the only proposal I can find is
1 that there shall be an industrial
'commission charged with the fui
jervision of the great monop listif
combinations which have been
! formed under th protection of
the tariff and that the government
of the United States shall see to it
that these gentlemen * ho have con
iquered labor, shall be kind to
I labor.
"I say then the proposition is
this, that there shall be two
j masters? the great corporations
anil over them the government of
the United States. And I a.-<k who
| is going to be master >'f 'he gov
jernment of the United Stales I
don't care how benevolent th'1
! master is going to be, I will not
live under a master, lhat was not
what America was crew ted for. 1
| feel proud that no rule of blood no
privilege of money picked me out
I to be a candidate.
'It may be a mistake, but you
can't blr-ie the system for it, be
cause it is a fine system, where
some remote, academic school
master may become president of
the United States He is not con
nected at least with the powers
that have been, and he has even on
occasions set himself ag<iint.t the
powers that are. Men speculate
as to what he mi^ht be ignorant
or audacious enough to do. hut all
of that is of the excitement of tin
democratic game.
We are sports We are not going
to tie up to a particular family or
cla?s; we the going to s?y: 'We
have played this game long enough
to he perfectly serene about it and
take a chan.e in the game. Ti nt
is the hrauty of democracy.' "
HOW'S THIS
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any c tse of catarrh that
.?annot he cured by Hall's Catarrrh
Cure. F. J. Cheney ft Co.
Toledo, ().
We, the under signed, have
known F. ,1. Cheney fur the la?t lf>
yenra. anil believe him pe.feclly
honorable in all business transac
tions and financially able to carry
?tit any oblivions made by his i
irm Waldinn, Kinnan ft Marvin.
Wholsalc Druggists, Toledo o!
Hall's Cntarrh Cure is taxen
nlernallv, acting directly upon the
dood and mucous surfaces of the '
jystem. Testimonials sent free
rice 7r?e. per bottle. Sold by nli r
I'ruggist*
lake Hall's Kamily pj||g for
Minstipatmn. T
1m- ??< CATCHER
With tne plague at our door?
the ancient if not specitdv honored
profession of the rat-catcher mj
come again into vogue. at |east
until science and invention hate
solved the problem of eliminating
the rat altogether. In the cor,,
gi-sted and insanitary cities of
centuries ago it is easy to iniajrir.e
the utility of such a functionary.
The profession still exists in most
of t-ur larger cities, its ri pre?n.
taiive? a sort of non-crirmnal
member of the underworld -
claiming special skill or mysterioui
professional secrets ir his way of
working. It is not to be doubted
that such individuals are better
acquainted than the rest of the
community with the ways of the
pestilent rodent, and the surcrtsof
some has pssed into tradition at
little short of marvelous. The
usefulness of the pr <fession should
make more respectable at this tin*
than it has been ct.ncidered in the
past. Boards of health and sar.i
tary authorities might well
utilize this class of workers at a
temporary means of waniinu off a
threatening crisis like the impend,
intr epidemic of plague. Catching
the rat. to be sure, like twatting
the fly is. a lame and unsatisfartorv
expedient, says The Journal of the
American Medical Associtien, enm
pared with the method .if huildit;
and starving both out of existence;
but so long as such an anachronic
as the rat exists, there is nn inccr
sistency |in fighting it with i
medieval institution like the :it.
catcher.
THE GIG NOISE
This is the story they told in
Washington during the tirre when
Colonel Kooeevelt was swerpitg
things before him in th? populir
primaries in various state?:
The colonel approached the Kate
of heaven, anil was met In St.
Peter, who welcomed him with
alacrity. Hardly had the e<.|on?i
stepped through the portals when
be heard 'be sound of singing.
"What's that" he usked.
"Those arc the choristers in
that building across the strrrt"
explained the saint "We wanted
to welcomi you in style, and ?e
have in there 2500 sinuers."
"That's not eno> gh" ojbected
the colonel. "We ought to have i
big choir. Can you get 50,000
tenors"?
St Pen r thought it .*ould hj
done. "And 50.000, contralto- V
pursued the new arrival
"And 50, <100 aopranos?"
'Yes," answered St Peter, "hut
who will sing baas?"
"Oh" said Roosevelt; lightly. 'Til
sing bass." Popular Maga/in.'.
GOVERNOR MARSHALL'S
Govern. ir Thomas Marshall,
democratic candidate for vice
president, is and always has been
in line with the progressive mm of
the day. At his instigation there
were plared on the statute bo??k'
of Indiana mere laws for the
bent fit of the muss of the people of
Hint state than during the tt nr. of
any other governor. During thf
1911 session of the legislature,
Governor Marshall recommended
and brought about the pas-nitr of
laws:
To curtail child labor;
To regulate the sale of cold
storage products;
To require hygienic shoolhousf*
and to permit medical examination
of school children ;
To prevent blindness at birth:
To regulate the sale of cocnin*
and other drugs;
To provide free treatment for
hydrophobia;
To establish public play groundl!
To strer.gthen the pure food flftl
To protect against loan shark*!
To provide police court matron*;
To establish uniform weight!
'fid measures;
To prevent traffic in whIM
'laves;
To permit night schools in
?ities;
To investigate Industrial i>n('
igricultural education ;
To require medical supplies
'"ft of a train equipment, etc.