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The Evening Statesman Published by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO Office No. 9, Third SL, Near Main. Telephone Main 123. One year (delivered by mail)... in advance g Six months 6 ° One month by carrier JJ One week by carrier - 10 Subscribers who do not get their papers will favor us by reporting at the office. The complete telegraphic news ser vice printed in these columns daily is furnished by SCRIPPS-M'RAE and Is by far the best report pub lished in "Walla Walla. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. ..Copy of change of advertisement must be delivered to the business of fice by the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. to Inaure Insertion in the issue of even tfate. WEATHER. Tonight and Thursday showers and thunder storms, cooler. BOARD ADMITS WARRANTS ARE ILLEGAL. The board of education of School District No. 1 has confessed that it has issued illegal warrants to the amount of $63,729.69 by calling a spe cial election for June 30th for the pur pose of validating said legal indebted, ness and authorizing the issuance of bonds in lieu thereof. This is a com plete vindication of the position taken j by the Statesman .n its contention that the Washington school was illeg ally built and that the directors were exceeding their authority in attempt ing to pay for the site of a high school building and to erect a building there on by the issuance of warrants with out a voi • of the people. If the p.-ople shall vote for the vali dation of the outstanding warrant in debtedness it will not be an indorse ment of the board's course In going ahead, with the construction of the high school without a vote of the peo ple. The board had no right to pur chase the sit- for the building with out authority from two-thirds of the voters expressed at a special election, and they will have no right to issue warrants for the completion of the high school without express authority from the peoph . The validation of il legal indebtedness incurred in the building of the Washington school and in other way- will not give the board any authority to issue more il legal warrants, trusting to the peo ple to validate them also some time in the future. The bonding of old warrant indebt edness doe.- not take it out of the on ! and a half per cent constitutional limit. This point was decided by the supreme court of the state in the case of Hunt vs. Fawcett et al, 36 Pacific, 818. The $25,000 bond issue of 1891 was authorized to refund outstanding war rant indebtedness and the bond Issue of 1898 was issued for the same pur pose; therefore the total of $55,000 must be taken into account as coming under the one and a half per cent limit. The $63,000 issue which the board now asks authority to float will also come under this constitutional limit, and we -hall then have a total of $115,000. One and, a half per cent of the as sessed valuation of the property in School District No. 1 is a little less that; $60,000. Making due allowance for all assets, the indebtedness of the district will be far above the limit beyond which the hoard is forbidden to go without a vote of the people. It would be well, therefore, for the directors while they are about it to include in their call for a special elec tion authority to issue bonds for the building of the high school. Otherwise they will not escape from the legal complications that have threatened them. As the First National Bank seems to be very much concerned in the out come of the high school question, and as it has induced some of its patrons to agree to take specified amounts et the warrants to be issued if they should be declared illegal by the Silver Bracelets Secret Lockets Hat Pins, etc. at court p. it might be well for the board to make an appeal to the bank to withdraw its contention made in Judge Hanford's court that the five-mi!! school tax was illegally assessed and that it is therefore null and void, it this contention be upheld it would seriously affect the validity of the warrants to be issued and would cause the directors serious embarrassment. Other taxpayers might follow the example of the bank in refusing to pay a cent of school tax and. if the courts should decide in their favor, the district would be left in a most deplorable financial condition. The board should lay the ease before Sen ator Ankeny as president of the bank and endeavor to induce him to waive the question of the legality of the school tax even if It does cost him a few hundred dollars. His patriotic impulses should lead him to make this sacrifice for the sake of upholding the public school system of his home city. Tiie maintenance of our public schools is even more important than the retention of the rural delivery routes, but they cannot survive if all taxpayers follow the example of Mr. Ankeny's hank in refusing to pay their share of the five-mill school tax. The directors should call upon Mr. Ank eny and present the case to him in all its aspects, and the Statesman is con fident that he will agree to withdraw his bank's suit to enjoin the county treasurer from collecting any taxes on its stock. Till: NORTH NO BETTER Altogether too little regard is paid by many persons in the South for the life of the negroes. One can hardly pick up a newspaper these days but there is an account of a hanging, burning or shooting of a negro crim inal. It is disregard of law to inflict punishment without first giving the courts an opportunity to pass upon the case. — Union. What the Union .-ays is true, but it should not confine its censure for dis regard of the law to the people of the South. The only reason there are not more negro lynchings in the North is because there are comparatively few negroes. In Kansas and Colorado negroes have been burned at the stake, and horrible lynchings of. negro mur derers or ravishers have occurred in other Northern states. At Belleville. Illinois, last Saturday. W. T. Wyatt. a negro school teacher, was burned by a frenzied mob for shooting and mortally wounding County School Su perintendent Charle s Hertel. Wyatt had been arrested and taken to jail. What occurred afterwards was thus told in the dispatches: "Two hours later a mob stormed the jail, secured the negro and despite the appeals of the mayor and other offi cials he was hanged. Hertel was re moved to tiie hospital, where the phy sician probed for the bullet, but he state there is no hope for his recovery. A young man named Fielder was in the office when the shooting occurred. He grappled with Wyatt. but the negr 0 beat him off with the butt of his re volver, inflicting a severe wound. Be fore he was hanged Wyatt asserted the shooting was the result of a polit ical grudge. "Tiie mem hanged Wyatt to a tele phone pole iti the public square. Even while his body was in the throes of strangulation, members of the mob began building a fire at the foot of the pole. The flames flared up and licked at the feet of the victim, but this did not satisfy the mob. and an other ami larger fire was started. When it had been burning briskly the negro, still half alive, was cut down and after being covered with coal oil he was thrust into the fire. Moans of pain were heard from the half dead victim of the mob. and these served to further infuriate his torturers. They fell upon him with clubs and knives and cut and beat the burning body almost to pieces, and not until every sign of life had departed did the y desist and permit the flames to devour the body. As the fire lighted up the scene the members of the mob stood around the fire hurling fagots into the flames and denouncing the negro for the shooting.'' And yet we talk of Russian cruelty to the Jews. RISING ABOVE PARTY. When the democratic mayor of Dwight. 111., said ir introducing Pres ident Roosevelt to a local audience the other day that he regarded the president as the ideal American citi zen and intended to supoprt him for the presidency next year. Mr. Roose velt was much pleased. In responding to this enthusiastic introduction, however, the president committed himself to an endorsement of nonpartisanship, which was rather an amenity than his sincere convic tion. "Perhaps I prize your kind words especially. Mr. Mayor." he said, "coming from one who i s not of my Martin Jewelry Co. THE EVENING STATESMAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1903. party. But the whole thing is. my friends, that if we are all good Ameri cans that is enough platform for all of us to stand on.' Now it is safe to say that only In the case of democrats who purpose to vote the republican ticket Is Mr, Roosevelt thus partial to the idea ol a man abandoning bis partj Should he hear of a republican who has made up his mind to vote the democratic ticket next year, the president's scorn and indignation would be v«?rj much in evidence. For Mr. Roosevelt is es sentially and temperamentally a par tisan. One cannot conceive of his supporting a democrat against a re pub lican. or as condoning the act on the part of any othc ■ member of his party. In his warm appreciation of the sup port of the democratic- mayor ot Dwight. however, the president amus ingly illustrates the wordly wisdom of the old saying to the effect that it makes a lot Of difference whoso ox is gored. It's a case of "Come one. come all!" with the strenuous Mr. Roosevelt, in the event of alleged dem ocrats desiring to vote for him foi president. But what a shout of rage would issue from his stentorian lungs should a republican pref r to vote the democratic ticket! That would be terrible —and the president would doubtless openly express his contempt for turncoats, diplomatic as he was in concealing this contempt in the east of the mayor of Dwight who intends to vote for him next year. Gamblers and macquereux are plac ed under the ban at midnight tonight. It remains to be seen whether or not any attention will be paid to the new laws in Walla Walla or whether there will simply be a vacation until after the city election. It is rumored that gambling will be resumed in certain pseudo-residences near Main street in a short time. LINCOLN AND BEBC HER. Outlook. We may lie very sure thai neither Mr. Beecher nor Mr. Lincoln would, if they could, impose universal suffrage in the southern states today. Mr. Lincoln would not. because tie did not believe in universal suffrage. Mr. Beecher would not. because he did not believe in imposing his own beliefs on a community which did not accept them. In 1563, though tiie war was not ended, Mr. Lincoln would have trusted the people in the southern states to deal justly with the nice problem. In 1865, when the war was at an c nd. Mr. Beecher would have trusted the people of the southern states to deal justly with the race problem. In 1885, when experiment had shown the evil results of placing southern states under negro domina tion. Mr. Beecher would have trust ed the southern states to deal justly with the race problem. It is certain that in 1903, when the southern state.-" have shown their desire for the edu cation and the welfare of the col ared people by the money which they have paid in taxes for a public school system providing alike for negroes and for whites, by selling them thou sands of a< res of land, by encourag ing them in industry, by maintaining with them friendly personal relations, in spite of political complications, both Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Beecher would tie found witli those who advocate a policy of mutual confidence and re spect between south and north, and of mutual confidence and respect between black and white, as the only possible method of putting an end to the race war in tiie south and sectional war in the nation. DEMOCRA( Y'S TEST. In the eye of the world the demo cratic party must inevitably suffer if it fails of response to the demands which ate laid upon it. It is the party of capacity, the repository of strength; potentially it is supreme, suited by organic principle to the development of all those principles which are dis tinctly American. A great occasion lies before it. The time is ripe for an exercise of its power. The sins and errors of the republi can stewardship are written with a pen of iron ami tiie point of a dia mond; graven upon the people's talt let s beside the people's altars. And louder than any jeremiad are the threats of the republican party in its announced trust-tariff policy; a policy to be executed unless that party is de throned. The people fear the contin ued rule of privileged interests and look to democracy for deliverance — not to a democracy which is an aggre gate jarring of factions, but to a dem ocracy solidly united upon the deeper purposes of the nation. A revolt from republican rule will promise nothing unless there is a democracy to which the nation may turn with understand ing. Necessity, which, as the bard.- de fine it. is the best peacemaker and the surest prompter of invention, unites with opportunity to inspire peace and union and strength and force. Even tually the democratic party must either prove itself the great instru mentality of the people or resign that title before the world. It must even tually either secure a restoration o; the people's principles to government al functions or relinquish its claim upon the people's allegiance. To live and endure, a party must demonstrate l its usefulness. As merely symbolic of principles, however virtuous, it has no permanent guaranty of life: its prin ciples can survive only by application and test. The body of voters which repre sents political potency stands ready and waiting to employ a democracy conformed and adapted to the coun try's demands. The demands are plain, determinable, measureable. REPLY OF TULLOCH TO THE DEFENSE Made by Postmaster Merrill and Oth er Postoffice Officials Under Suspicion. Washington, D. C—Seymour W. Tulloch. formerly cashier of the Washington City postoffice, under date of June 3 has written a letter to Post master-General Payne in response to replies received from Postmaster Mer ritt of the Washington postoffice and others to the charges of maladminis tration made by Mr. Tulloch against the management of the Washington postoffice. A large part of Mr. Tulloch's letter is in defense of counter charges made by Mr. Mci ritt against Mr. Tulloch. Mr. Tulloch says that the charge that under his regime as cashier of the Washington postoffice quarterly pay rolls were required to be signed in blank, even if true, would only "pro duce a smile in Washington, where probably the greater portion of govern mental employes sign payrolls in blank." The charge that "a false voucher" had been put in while Mr. Tulloch was cashier, he .-ays. was only an attempt to discredit him, and even Mr. Mi rritt admits that the transact ion was directed by the postmaster, recognized by the assistant postmas ter and the money retained was paid to persons duly designated." Served Without Pay. The tacts, he says, are that substi tutes named by the civil service com mission served the postoffice without pay except when they filled temporari. ly the places of clerks and received their pay. As some c lerks tailed to pay their substitutes, the postmaster directed that previously to payment of clerks who had been absent the signed receipts in full of the substitute should be put in the clerk's pay en velope and paid to the substitute by his division superintendent. The particular instance cited by Postmaster Merritt. he says. was where an employe, after a drunken spree, was fined rather than dismiss ed, and the money divided by his su perintendent among subs for services rendered the postmaster by written order directing the cashier to do this. Mr. Tulloch declares that while in of fice he did report regularly to his immediate superiors and the inspec tors. He denies the charge that he was mercenary with the late Postmaster Willett, and .-ays Mr. Wilb-tt himself suggested payment to the writer for settling his accounts, and that Tul loch offered to do it for Mr. Wi'ilett personally for nothing, but later it was arranged that some of the clerks should do the work, which related chiefly to Puerto Rico. Mr. Tullo.h's letter the n continues: Irregular Payments. •in (dosing I may state that it lias not been shown to the contrary in any of the replies you have published that irregular payments were made from local funds instead of by the proper disbursing officer of the department, that an attempt was made to cause all employes to bond under a single blank a bond with some of vie favored companies: that the regulations of the department were violated in forcing a letter box in which prominent offi cials were said to lie interested upon the public even to the unauthorized use of the postmaster's authority and against his protest; that payments were directed for articles not deliver ed; thai persons were paid two or three salaries and performed little or no service; that a physician was illegally appointed whose position was a sinecure. I have been told that a $:'»o(i operating table was purchased for private use and charged to the department as postal supplies: that promotions were suggested upon the proviso of division with high officials in the department; that persons were appointed from whom no service was required upon a complimentary roll; that arrears in Puerto Rico were not fully discovered; that useless junkets were frequent to Puerto Rico and Cu ba; that persons paid from the mili tary postal service had their salaries continued for months after ceasing all service, and that salaries were also continued after service had ceased to take up irregular expenses." As to the reply of former First As sistant Postmaster-General Heath. .Mr. Tulloch says: "All that is necessary is to compare my specific charges with his general denial.'' He then reaffirms that his represent ations remain in all essential particu lars true and not disapproved, and closes with a denial that there is any office within the gift of the post office department, that he would ac cept, or that he ever authorized bis friends to seek his reinstatement. CUMMINS IS SUITED. Revisionists Were Not Hard Hit, He Says. By Ohio Platform. Ues Moines. lowa. —Governor Cum mins is not dissatisfied with the Ohio platform and he regards the declara tions in regard to the tariff as suffi ciently two-sided to indicate the '•stand-patters" had to give way in a considerable measure to the demands of the revisionists. The expression "Changing condi tions and the possible benefits of re ciprocity may call for timely readjust ment of schedules." the governor re gards as a clear indication that a straddle was attempted. When asked for an interview on the subject, he merely said: "I prefer not to be in terviewed on the Ohio platform. My views on this subject are so well known and I have expressed them so often that it is hardly necessary for me to indicate them now. I have not changed them." This statement of the governor is a sufficient indication in the minds of bis friends here that he has in no sense abandoned his adherence to the "lowa idea." and that while he may consent to a compromise in so far as "the shelter to monopoly" plank of the platform is concerned, he will still declare for tariff revision and re ciprocity on the stump in this year's campaign. Hearst's Man in lowa. Charles E. Russell of Chicago, pub lisher of the American and right hand man for Hearst in a po.-.ieal way. h been in Dcs Moines and other parts of the state this w<ek promoting the Hearst boom for the presidency. Mr. .aissei] is keeping a ctose eye on the coming democratic state convention and is looking to lowa to send a dele gation to the democratic national con vention next year that will he for Hearst. He said in an interview here that if nominated, Hearst could carry Xew York. New Jersey. California and some of the mountain states, in addi tion to the solid south. He said Hearst would also stand a good show in Indi an t. Mr. Russell expects the nomination of Van Wagenen for governor in this state, but was not prepared to say the lowa democrats would take up with government ownership. He declared the time was ripe in Illinois for gov ernment ownership to ho engrafted into the democratic state platform. Spring Suits ;is sold at my store arc sure t«i give satisfac tion. Suppose you buy of me this Spring. 6. E. KELLOUGH. Exclusive Men's Furnisher, 201 Ham St, Cor. Fourth. A Meat Market That sells you the meat you prefer to eat GrTJS HARRAS Junes BUI. Alder st. Phone Main 75. Mineral Lemonade Quenches the Thirst and is Delicious SERVED RIGHT AT LUTCHER'S Phone White Ml 128 Main Street. TO OUR PATRONS. As we will be absent from the city for several weeks our Pre scription books will be left with Geo. E. Hedger. 21 Main St. MR. and MRS. H. C. CURRY, of the Curry Optical Co. J? Superior Meats sold at the t Alder E Harket % V Try this market for a change. <•» j C. H. ricKINNEY, Proprietor | 4t Phone Main 36. X NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 3 TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAINS 3 DAILY. ELECTRIC LIGHTS. STEAM HEAT. ELEGANT NEW DIN I NT; C ARS PULLMAN AND TOURIST SLEEPERS. Through Tickets to A!! Points. Call on any agent for man* tfm* cards, folders, etc.. or address A. D. CHARLTON, A- C. p. \ 255 Morrison St Portland Or* S. B. CALDERHEAD G. P. A.. W. & C R Ry Walla Walla. Wasl M|p Short ls*e amd Union Pacific Only line EAST via Salt Lake and Denver Two trains daily Time Schedule— Walla Walla: 1 Xo. 7 Arrives from Spo kane 4:00 p E and departs for Pendleton and the I east 4:00 p m I Xo. 8 Arrives from Pen dleton and the east and departs 10; oo a m for S;>okane and the Palouse country ...10:00 am ; Xo. 43 Leaves for Portland and Spokane via Wallula 10:15 p ■ Xo. 44 Arrives from Port- I land and Spokane via Wallula 2:55 a in ! Xo. 41 Leaves for Pendle ton (except Sunday) 10:00 a ■ j Xo. 42 Arrives from Pen dleton (except Sun day) 9:15 p a j Xo. 55 Arrives from Dayton 6:00 p aa j Xo. 56 Leaves for Dayton.. 7:30 a m I Xo. 45 Leaves for Wallula. 3:00 p m ! Xo. 46 Arrives from Wallu la 6:30 p m STEAMER LINES. j San Francisco-Portland route. i Steamer sails from Portland S p. m. | every 5 days. Daily Boat Service between Port -1 land. Astoria. Oregon City. Dayton, ; Saiem. Independence. Corvallis and j ail Columbia and Willamette River I points. SNAKE RIVER BOATS. Leave Riparia Sundays, Tuesdays j and Thursdays. Leave Lewiston Mondays. WeJTOS i days and Saturdays. R. BURNS, Gen. Agent, Walla Walla. Wash. Wash. & Col. River Ry. In Connection with the >^ciO< Through Sleepers, Dining and* Ch«'' Cars. LEAVE WALLA WALLA DAILY No 2. Passenger for Pasco, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Spokane and East 11:00 p. ft No. 6 Mixed for Pasco and all N. P. points 8:00 P °- No. 1 Passenger leaves for Dayton. Waitsburg and way points at. .11 ■' 1 a -^ No. 5 Mixed for Dixie, Waitsburg and Day ton 4:30 p.* No. 8 Mixed (Sundays only) for Eureka Flat points 7:45 a.* ARRIVE AT WALLA WALLA No. 1 Passenger from Pas co, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Spokane and East 10:45 a.* No. 2 Passenger from Day ton. Waitsburg and way stations 10:30 p.» No. 5 Mixed from Pasco and Northern Pacific points 11:15 a. » No. 6 Mixed from Dayton Waitsburg and way points - No. 7 Mixed (Sundayß only) from Eureka Flat points 4: b• T. • Trains Nos. 1 and 2, between Pm* 0 and Walla Walla are straight pas'** ger trains and carry first cla* sleeper.