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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

OUR Canadian friends will vote on the
following question on September 80
care you in favor of the passing of an act
prohibiting the Importation, manufac-
ture Or sale of spirits, wine, ale, beer,
cider and all other alcoholic liquors
used as beverages Z" All Canadians
qualified to vote at provisional elections
will be entitled to vote on this subject.
To defray the expense of the plebiscite
the sum Of $25O.oO0 was appropriated at
the last session Of Parliament.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
WASHINGTON SPECIAL.
FLAGSHIP OLYMPIA. OFF CAvITE, |

WASHINGTON, August 12.-The lamen-
table conditions prevailing at Santiago
have nightly stirred up the practitioners
in all the newer schools of medicine.
They are in high state of excitement
and are already beginning to present
grievances to the President and the Secre-
taries of the War and Navy Depart
ments. They claim to have been dis
eliminated against, and assert that had
they been given fair show things would
be in far better shape at the front.
These statements and charges are the fore
runners of a general fierce array against
the medical branch of the military es-
Enlistment, and when doctors get to
fighting it may be put down as certain
that the fur will fly. The new school
doctors allege that thousands of their
number, representing the best talent in
the land, were prevented from contribut-
ing their services to their country be-
cause of the jealousies animating the old
school doctors who were in charge of af-
fairs. They are preparing for an ugly
campaign, and the journals devoted to the
promotion of the interests of the several
schools of medicine are already boiling
over. 1t has become painfully evident
that conditions at Santiago and at some
of the great camps in which our volun-
teer soldiers are gathered are due to
considerable extent to the inefficiency
and the small number of physicians and
surgeons on the scene. Without doubt,
Congress will be asked to locate the
blame, although it is more than probable
that the Secretary of War and Secretary
of the Navy will anticipate such move
ment by making thorough investigation
on their own account.
Major Fred. Bracket, who is slated
for Secretary of the American Exhibit to
the Paris Exposition, represented the
government in capacity of grave re-
sponsibility and trust at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago and has been identified
in some degree with nearly every great
show from the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
position in 1885 down to date. Major
Bracket hailed originally from Mime
sofa, but of late years has claimed Mary
land as his home. Major Bracket is
tall handsome man of rather striking ap-
pearance. He has happy knack of
transacting a large amount of business
with apparent ease and in manner cal
culated to give satisfaction to everybody
who meets him.
General Miles is in high favor in
Washington at this writing The good
fortune which has attended every step
of his invasion of Porto Rice is exceed
ingly pleasing to the Administration. 1t
is the brightest spot in the present situa-
ton. Considerable amusement has been
occasioned by his enthusiastic demands
for American flags for distribution among
the Porto Ricans, but there is no DISPOSE
tion to cut him off in his patriotic en-
deavors TO educate our new wards. There
would have been no surprise if he had
included in his acquisitions on the War
Department ship load of fireworks.
That is the only thing which appears to
be lacking to make grand Fourth of
July celebration.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
PITNEY APPRECIATED.

The Washington Star, the leading
paper of Washington, in an article on
Retiring Congressman. remarks that
"three prominent members of the House
Committee on Appropriations will give
up their seats in the next Congress to
strive for gubernatorial honors. They
are Mr.. Sayers of Texas, Mr.. Dockery of
Missouri and Mr.. Pitney of New Jersey.
'tMr. Pitney is prominently mentioned
for the governorship and has announced
his withdrawal from the Congressional
campaign, as heretofore published in the
Star. He is expected to make strong
race for the nomination. He is young,
exceedingly ambitious, man of great
energy and has many influential friends.
sMr. Pitney is one of Chairman Can
mons lieutenants among the Republic
cans. He is a hard worker and scruti-
nizes the estimates of the executive
officers with great care. Being vigor-
GUS and intelligent talker, he is often
called upon to lead the fights which the
majority of the committee might be con-
Quoting.
sThe District of Columbia is concerned
in the withdrawal of Mr.. Dockery and
Mr.. Pitney, for both are on the subcom-
mittee having charge of the District APP
preparation bill. Of course, they will
be here next December to prepare the
bill which is passed in the short session,
their terms not expiring until March 4
next"
! The name of Congressman Pitney as a
candidate for the Republican guberna-
torial nomination is generally favorably
received throughout the State. AS yet
the Congressman has not expressed an
opinion whether or not he would be a
candidate for the governorship If he
should decide to let his name come be-
fore the convention, it will be found that
he has hosts of friends who have care
fully watched his brilliant course in
Congress. The CHRONICLE quotes few
of the many press notices which have
appeared concerning Mr.. Pitney.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

np CORRESPONDENTS. where it is pos
sible TO do so, will please post their letters
SO that they will reach this Office by Wednes-
day a. m.
ADVERTISERS are requested to hand in
their favors each week as early as possible.
~ Changes in Advertisements cannot
be made later than IL m. on Wednesdays.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
AN uNwIsE WAR MINISTER.

A round-robin is defined by Webster
as meaning
A written petition, memorial, remon-
STRANGE, protest, ETC., the signatures to
which are made in a circle, SO as not to
indicate who signed first.
If Secretary of War Alger had possess
ed anything like ordinary horse sense he
would have been far too wise and much
too precious of himself to LET such doc
ument get into print.
And these general observations apply
with special relevancy to Colonel Roose-
velt's private letter to the Secretary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

WHEN the war began the United States
had IA battleships and cruisers, 10 mont
tors, only of which were modern; 16
unarmored steel vessels. 10 gunboats and
% torpedo boats. We have now 80 bat
tleships and cruisers. 81 unarmored steel
vessels, % gunboats, s5 torpedo boats
and As special craft. We have not
lost ship in battle and have destroy
ed two squadrons.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

A LAW passed in the interest of the
city of Bayonne, providing that the au-
thorities of any city, without regard to
classification by population, should
be empowered to issue 100000 bonds
for school construction, helps Newark
out of considerable trouble in regard
to increasing the school accommodation
in that city.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

and equitable taxing system as to these
corporations. At present they escape
almost altogether, and it is.yearIy becom-
ing harder, as they wax numerous and
powerful, to impose a fair share of the
burdens of taxation upon them
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

sMr. Pitney's home paper favors Mr..
Hunt. SUSSEX Independent, August 8.
In case Mr.. Hunt receives the Repub-
lican Congressional nomination the
CHRONICLE will heartily support him,
but. to be frank about the matter, we did
not have that gentleman in mind when
we wrote 'snow that Mr.. Pitney does
not care to enter the race, we know a
bright young Republican. from an adjoin-
ing county who would make spirited
canvass and be elected by rousing
majority. And he would also be candi-
date for whom no apologies need be made,
and when elected would continue the able
represention at the Capital that the
Fourth District has had at the hands
of Mahlon Pitney"
1.-THE bright young Republican, to
whom reference was made, is, however,
a resident of Sussex and Editor Stanton
located him in the proper county.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THERE are .many regrets" expressed
in many places by many persons over the
many tcontroversies" that have grown
out Of many curious happenings during
the present war. Why, bless you, the
palladium of the hope and perpetuity OF
these boosted institutions abides in the
individual privilege TO puncture public
matters with butter sampler the mo-
ment they smell rancid.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

WILLIAM B. GouRLEY of Paterson,
whose name has been prominently men
toned as a probable Democratic candi-
date for Congress in the 9Th District, says
he will not under any circumstances al
low his name to be used.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

SECRETARY of War Alger, having
rum the War Department to his own
satisfaction, and not to the satisfaction
Of any one else, is now meddIing with the
Navy Department. Secretary AIger is
about the only blot on McKinley's otter
wise clean and wise administration
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

SOME step should be taken to commem-
crate class of persons whose losses in
this war far exceeded all others. We al
lude to the calamity howlers. That first
gun in this conflict must have carried a
thirteen-inch cartridge of bird shot. Not
solitary bowler was left to howl the tale
after it went off.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

IT looks little as if ssBoss" Platt was
making cats-paw of Secretary of War
Alger in his frantic endeavor to stifle
Colonel Teddy" Roosevelt's guberna-
torial boom. There are just few things
in this world about which the people pro-
pose to have their say, and we believe, if
the New York Republicans desire to have
Colonel Roosevelt nominated as their
standard bearer, it will be done, and
he will be elected, too.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

July 81, if you please, was Sunday
not that there are not lots of Sundays
bat we would again impress that the first
infantry battle in the Philippines, like
the first naval victory of the war, took
effect on Sunday.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

To the author of the Star Spangled
Banner monument was this week I'M
yelled. What if he could have risen and
viewed the flag that is tangled up at the
masthead in the park
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THE type of yellow fever among the
troops in Cuba has been very mild. The
epidemic period seldom sets in before the
early part Of September, but unacclimat-
ed troops herded anywhere on the globe
will beget infectious maladies of virulent
form.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

OUR English expert cousins are telling
us we hit the Spanish ships because we
shot like their fathers. But if they don't
shoot better than their fathers they won't
hit anything.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

We get about {, oOO,Ooo new population
by the war, many of them desirable and
some hundreds of thousands unnamably
undesirable. There are among these men
who, if handed a paper ballot, would
bolt it like a goat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THE American volunteer has shown
himself in this war, as in all our wars,
to be an innate patriot, quick and will
ling soldier and an incompatible fighter.
When trained he is inyincible against
any regular troops in the world. And il
does not matter what State he comes
from.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

CAPTAIN MAHAN, in reviewing our ma
val actions, continually appeals to the
English Admiral Nelson for precedents.
That is equivalent to employing tallow-
dip to illustrate the Roentgen ray. Mel
son is dead. He did well with the mate
rial he had and handled his spit-ball sea
barrels with precision when he could get
them to explode. A broadside charge OF
an American battleship would have sunk
his flag barge if laid on its deck, and if
fired at him it would have lifted his Nile
fleet higher than the moon.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
DEwEYs PATRIOTIC LETTER.
Congressman Livingston of Georgia
has received the following letter from
Admiral Dewey:


has received the following letter from
Admiral Dewey:
FLAGSHIP OLYMPIA. OFF CAyITE,
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, JUNE II.
Ny DEAR SRI have just learned
from the last papers that l am indebted
to you for the introduction in the House
of Representatives of the resolutions ex-
tending to me the thanks of Congress for
the naval engagement of Manila Bay
May 1.
| need hardly tell you that am most
sincerely grateful to you as the author
of that resolution, bringing, as it does,
the highest honor that can come to an
American naval officer in his professional
career. But if is a great pleasure to
acknowledge my debt of gratitude and
to thank you in unstinted measure for
the part you took in obtaining for me
that greatest distinction.
1t is source of additional pleasure to
me, Vermonter, that the mover of the
resolution was not a man from the
North, but one from the far South.
This is one of the good signs of the times.
In the hour of danger there is no South,
no North, but one united country. May
we never hear of sectionalism again.
There are no lines drawn in the navy.
l need not say it may interest You to
know that my flag lieutenant. Lieutenant
Brumby, is Georgian by birth and
appointment.
Again, thanking you most cordially,
remain very gratefully and sincerely.
GEORGE DEWEY.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

AMAIDEN fell many steps on meeting
..bicycle face on the staOre, and another
swooned at seeing a ''bicycle hump on
the ''stoop"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

IT requires nothing in the nature of
divination or storm prophecy to foretell
that the next session of Congress is to be
a record breaker in high temperature
whether said session be regular or extra.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

FROM 'sround-robin' we derive 'sring
leader meaning the first who signed.
In feudal countries of former times if he
was detected and caught This name was
Dennis
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

IT is not true that real estate men are
more tinctured with heroics than others,
though it is true that their ''deeds' do
sometimes live after them.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
A HIGH STANDARD.


The following advice from an esteemed
contemporary, the New Brunswick FIRE
donfan, is well timed, and we sincerely
hope it will prevail in every Republican
conventions:
"Our strenuous advice to the Republi-
cans OF New Jersey is to make one con-
sideration the prime test in the selection
of legislative candidates that of fitness.
Apply the Jeffersonian standard is he
honest? Is he capable? Is he fit? If
he does not possess these qualifications
put him aside, and find a man who does.
The questions to be considered are
Would this candidate make good
Senator or Assemblyman Would he
be competent to maintain himself and
these bodies with ability? Would he
win distinction for himself and his con
stltuents? Would he perform the duties
with which he is charged with efficiency
and fidelitys Would he keep ever in
mind. as entitled to his first and most
loyal fealty, the rights and interests of
the people and of the State? Would he
be 1ncorruptible
Messrs. Poole and Welsh were faith
full and able representatives in the lower
House from Morris county, and as such
they will undoubtedly be renominated
and reelected by handsome majorities.
1t would seem that the Republican
leaders in the counties where there is a
large representation in the Assembly
from the cities should be especially care
full in nominating men, not simply
creatures who are purchasable and a
discredit alike to their districts and to
the State.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

WE are longing for the return of local
summer tourists Just to tell them how
much more delightful it is in Morristown
than out of it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

Ir's all very nice in the morning to set
out attired in duck; but not half so fine
and white when you bring your canvas
back.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

A TRAMP, picking his teeth at hotel
doorside and being asked what he had
eaten, replied, Nothing, toothpick of. "
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

AT some of the resorts this season the
liquid in the thermometer rose SO rapidly
that it elevated the lemonade schedule.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THE war with Spain is finished, but the
merry muss between the sea commanders
and the generals and the war authorities
and the medical department and among
no end of official smaller fry, growing
out of and because of it, is assurance to an
Unlocking and critical world that though
the war is ended the fighting is but just
begun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

ROOSEVELT is name of Knickerbocker
origin and means "rose field
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

CERTAINLY it is hot. You're not look
ing for snowslides in August!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

The authorities nagged Shafter for war
dispatches: and now he is getting rats
for. sending them.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
CHRONICLE cARAMELs.

30 say can you see?" Then take
look at the Park flag!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THEODORE Triton is in Paris. ''living
on friends That may be called export
ing ones long habit.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

WE hope Uncle Sam is not going to get
Philippinaed in the East.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

A MAN without enemies must be a mos
pitiably forlorn and useless wight.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THE end of the war compels, under the
Constitution, an Immediate disbandment
of the volunteer army.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
THERE have been generals in battle and

THERE have been generals in battle and
generals in camp in this brief, small war.
Not all the heroes have fought, and very
few heroes have been hit. The soldier
who stood equipped and ready tostep into
action, but who was not ordered there
into, is just as certainly hero as he who
fought, and as he who bled and died, for
with the latter it was mischance that
every man was just as willing to accept.
And among commanders, on land or sea,
whether the one got into battle while an
other did not, they are to be reckoned as
equally valorous., But the figure pre-
eminent in the late disturbance, and the
figure that will stand always statuesque,
is that of the patient, accomplishing Of
ficer who, amid multitude of vexatious
besetments, heroically held his tongue.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

IT is said on pretty good authority that
Mr.. Pitney will positively decline re-
nomination for Congress, but that he is
not averse to receiving the nomination
for Governor. Few can help regretting
Mr.. Pitney's retirement from Congress,
even if it be to take still higher posi-
ton. No one doubts that he would make
an excellent Governor; hut his dis
tinguished services in Congress make it
seem that he should be kept there, if
his own interests would only permit.
Whether it be as Governor or Congress
man, Mahlon Pitney will continue to be
marked man. Hunterdon Republican,
Remington.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THE procrastiuaror halts the hand on
the dial. but time and the world go on.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THE Sussex Register, we are inclined
to think, has also sized up the s'cullad
gemman" in the woodpile, Judging from
the following in this weeks issue:
There seems to be very close telephone
connection between the offices of the
Deckertown Independent and the Hack
ettstown Gazette. with ground wire
running into the NeaU Jersey Herald
Office. Some politicians when they be-
gin business endeavor to cover up their
tracks, but the cloven hoof is SO plain in
the above case that the innocent man
who follows is quite certain to find him.
self in strange company, where two
souls having single thought, are dream
ing in blissfuI ignorance of the trouble
that may be created through a premature
boom in the midsummer season.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

BArrLEsHIPs are named for the States.
That means forty-five.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

DoN'r, for the world, fail to see that
flag
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

THE taxpayers of the county of Morris
will be losers by the adoption of the
amendment offered by Freeholder Gill
len that manifest" weight be allowed
on coal purchased for county buildings.
Major Dalrymple knew exactly what he
was talking about when he said, sit is
not safe to buy by manifest weight
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
WOULD BE a COINCIDENCE.

OF the three prominent members of
the House Appropriation Committee
who decline denomination to Congress
Mr.. Sayers of Texas has been nominated
for Governor of his State, Mr.. Dockery
of Missouri is not unlikely to run for
that office in his commonwealth, and
Mr.. Pitney of New Jersey OF
course the people of this State do not
need to have suggested to them that it
would be great coincidence. etc.
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