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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Tuesday, June 21, 1904.v
EDITORIAL
CURRENT EVENTS: THE DRIFT OF THINGS AS
WE SEE IT.
The reader wi!l observe that we are now en
' deavoring to present in this department of The
Progressive Farn.er a connected, orderly and com
prehensive view ox the week's events, and that we
have abandoned the bid plan of attempting to give
the news in miscellaneous scraps from newspapers
and press dispatches. Under the old system it was
impossible to give each item its proper setting to
portray events in their proper relation one to
another; there was, confusion and disorder. Here
after therefore we shall abandon the plan of print
ing a full page of scraps of General News and
another page of scraps of State News; in this de
partment we shall endeavor to give a general sur
vey of the field, with only a column or two each of
State and General News on another page to re
inforce this editorial review.
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Colorado's Contempt for Human Rights.
Press and people last week gave more attention
to the labor troubles in Colorado than to anything
else. And the people; have now come to see the
gross inaccuracy of the earlier reports, which
practically threw all the blame on the union la
borers. The present trouble is only the culmina
tion of a long contest waged, on one hand, by
unscrupulous capitalists determined to prevent the
enforcement of just labor laws and, on the other
hand, the enraged laborers resolved to obtain and
' hold the privileges won by their ballots. Nowhere
in such small space has a better review of the af
fair been given than in the condensed McClure's
Magazine article printed on page 11.
And now Governor Peabody, "General" Bell,
and the "Citizens' Alliance," with a contempi-fo?
human rights such as would bring shfnneeven to
a Russian czar, are banishing all labor union sym-
. pathizers from the StaJeneH guilty of nothing
.more serious than-abelief m the right of labor to
oianize andefend itself are taken from the
homes v-ave builded and : summarily dumped
into Kansas, away from friends or means of sup
port. .Nor are these men ignorant Italians or
Poles. Mr. Hoy Stannard Baker is a man who
speaks with authority, and he writes that they are
largely men of American birth, voters, tax-payers
and owners of homes. The guilty should be pun-
( ished at all hazards, but this wholesale and indis
criminate persecution of union miners is nothing
more nor less than a disgrace to our American
civilization.
The Confederate Reunion and Some War Statistics.
ville, Tenn., last week was a great success, but
there was an unusually pathetic note in most of
the utterances reported in the press dispatches,
due perhaps not only to the usual thinning of the
ranks year after year, but to the recent death of
the beloved leader, Gen. John B. Gordon.. Gor
don's successor is General. Stephen D. Lee, of
Alabama, who has been acting commander since
the Georgian's death. Louisville, Ky., was chosen
as the next place of meeting.
It is interesting to note that just as the Reunion
was meeting, Mr. Cassanove G. Lee, a recognized
Northern authority on Civil War statistics, "gave
out through the press the result of his investiga
tions as to the great disparity in the strength
of the two opposing armies and as to the com
position of the Northern forces. He shows that
the total enlistments in the Northern army were
2,77S,304, as against 600,000 in the Confederate
army. The foreigners. and negroes in the North
ern army aggregated 680,917, or 80,917 more than
the total strength of the Confederate army. There
were also 316,424 men of Southern birth in the
Northern army. Mr. Lee's figures in full are. as
follows: '
; NORTHERN ARMY.
Whites from the North ...2.272.333
Whites from the South. 316,424
.Negroes 186,017
.inaians 3,530
Total ....2,778,304
Southern army . ... 600,000
North's numerical superiority. 2,178,304
In the Northern army there were:
Germans 176,800
Irish 144,200
British Americans 53,500
English 45,500
"aT A? .
vainer naiionanties 74,900
Negroes .'. 186,017
Total 680,917
Total of Southern soldiers 600,000
Southern men in Northern army. 316,424
Foreigners , 494,900
Negroes 186,017
Total 998,613
ARMIES AT THE WAR'S END.
Aggregate Federal army May 1, 1865. .. .1,000,516
Aggregate Confederate army May 1,
1865 .......... 133,433
Number in battle. Confederates. Federals.
Seven days' fight. 80,835 115,249
Antietam 35,255 87,164
Chancellorsville ... ... 57,212 131,661
Fredericksburg 78,110 110,000
Gettysburg 62,000 95,000
Chickamauga 44,000 65,000
Wilderness . 63,987 141,160
Federal prisoners in Confederate prisons. .270,000
Confederate prisoners m Federal prisons. .220,000
Confederates died in Federal prisons 26,436
Federals died in Confederate prisons 22,570
The Warews.
The siege of ortLrirmtinii6s,- .ath pres
ent indications pointing to a long struggle. The
only event to relieve the monotony last week was
the effort of the Russians Wednesday to attack
General Oku of the besieging army. And after
the ball was over, this is how the Russian general
had to report the affair, to his commander, and
through himto the Czar:
"Yesterday I had intended to attack the enemy's
right flank, but just as our troops had been as
signed for the purpose and were beginning suc
cessfully to envelop the enemy's right flank, the
Japanese in their turn attacked my right flank
with superior forces, and I was compelled to re
treat by three roads to the north. Our losses are
heavy, but they are not yet completely known.
During the engagement the third and fourth bat
teries of the first artillery brigade were literally
cut to pieces by the Japanese shells. Of sixteen
guns, thirteen were rendered completely useless
and were abandoned."
The Republican National Convention.
Everything is now in readiness for the meeting
of the Republican National Convention in Chi
cago to-day. The national committee has been
in session there the past week and has passed on
the contests from the several States. Addicks, the
notorious millionaire boodler from Delaware who
has for several years sought to buy a. seat in the
United States Senate, has secured a favorable re
port on his delegation as opposed to that sent by
the anti-Addicks fatcion. The contest from Ala
bama Has been decided against the "lily white"
delegation. The split of the Wisconsin Republi
cans is also to be aired in the convention, there
being two Republican tickets now before the peo
ple of that State one headed by the anti-corpora
tion Governor, La Follette, who is seeking a third
term, and the other under the management of
Senator Spooner, an able manbut believed to be
in league with the trusts and generally out of
harmony with the progressive element of his
party. The committee will recommend that the
Spooner faction be recognized.
As to the platform, that is expected to be about
as tame as that recently adopted by the New York
Democrats. "Stand pat" is the Republican watch
word this year, and the platform makers will prob
ably "point with pride" to the present prosperity,
follow with the usual charge that the success of
the other party would send the country to the
demnition bow-wows, and top off with the requisite
quantity of ponderous but harmless platitudes.
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Does Roosevelt Want an Eleven Year Term?
As to who will be named for Vice-President,
no one can yet say with any degree of certainty.
The New York Outlook, of the 18th inst., sums up
the situation in this fashion : "At this writing
the nomination of Vice-President is still very un
certain. The only names prominently mentioned
are those of Speaker Cannon, of Illinois, who has
many supporters, despite his daily threat to de
cline; Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, who has
occupied an attitude of not caring for the honor,
but has really been regarded as a 'receptive can
didate ;' and Representative Hitt, of Illinois, who
mis iranKiy saia irom tne nrst mention 01 ms
name that he would like the nomination and would
be glad to accept. Many think Mr. Cannon will
be forced to take the nomination just as Mr.
Roosevelt was in Philadelphia, and he is wanted
because of his peculiar qualities, of popularity
which havevmade him liked everywhere, and espe
cially in the West. The Republican Senators are
in favor of Mr.. Fairbanks, almost to a man."
This Senator Fairbanks, it is said, wouldn't at
all object to being named for Vice-President this
year if Roosevelt would signify an intention not
to run for the Presidency in 1908. But Fairbanks
would himself like to have first place then, while
it is now generally believed that the President
has an ambition to make a new record in 'Ameri
can history by serving as Chief Magistrate eleven
years. This, his friends point out, would not vio
late the Washingtonian precedent against a third
term, inasmuch as the promotion by MeKinley's
death doesn't count as a term at all. To the un
biased observer, however, all this looks like trou
ble for nothing, for while the chances favor Mr.
Roosevelt's election this year, it is almost certain
that the tide will turn in favor of an opposition
party before the next Presidential election.
The National Democratic Convention.
We think we had our Presidential figures right,
inlast week's Progressive Farmer 202 votes in
structed for Judge Parker and 143 for Hearst.
Since these were printed Mr. Hearst has climbed
un 54 votes (having won the entire delegation
from Illinois), while Judge Parker obtained in
structed delegations from Mississippi and Arkan
sas with a total of 38 votes. Now therefore the
two leading candidates stand as follows: Parker
240, Hearst 197. This does not accurately indi
cate their relative strength, however, for Parker
is favored by a very much larger proportion of
the uninstructed delegation than is Mr. Hearst.
How far either one is from a nomination may be
judged from the fact that the Convention is com
posed of 1,000 delegates and a two-thirds vote
(667) is necessary to nominate unless the Con
vention should see fit to abandon this sixty-year-old
regulation and adopt the Republican plan re
quiring only a majority vote to nominate.
North Carolina Politics.
We reviewed the North Carolina political situa
tion in this department last week, and there has
been practically no change since that review was
written. A full Democratic State Convention
1 J 1- 3 C -t ct4f J 1 x net a - .
WOUIU ue uuixiuuseu 01 x.4o ueietra tes. vzx votes
being necessary to nominate a Governor. The
Glenn managers and Stedman managers each de
clare their candidate in the lead, the Glenn men