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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

The Hon. JOHN RopoMoNT SOVEREIGN
has resumed his accustomed place upon the in.
tellectual throne. lie has devised o new means
Of boosting tho cause Of 10 to 1. He has
founded q necessarily important organization.
which no describes rs Secret politico-labor."
Its aim lie " to prevent the coercion and intimi-
dalton of the working man at elections" and
It 10 to have qualifications in every State"
This nlustrious thinker wouldn't have any
thing to do with anything that wasn't laden
with ramihcations. He 10 q whole forest
himself. His secret politicolabor" concern
will be worthy Of Its founder, but 1t will
not keep him secret. No other man can utter
40 much "politco-labor" sound as he can, but
secrecy is not for him. He knows that an ad-
miring country cannot afford to lose him even
for O week.
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Not TO BE Dodged.

The Rochester Union and Advertiser is
one OF the Democratic papers that are
anxious to keep national politics out OF the
fall election in this State. Wherefore It
| controls It's sense OF the ridiculous sufi-
GENTLY to say the New York election win
be q purely State election, and the Demo-
Gratis will force the contest on State issues,
while the Republicans will try to run away
from State issues and try to divert atten.
tion from them by play upon Federal
finance" and so forth.
There are no State issues to run away
from. There are national ssuesf from which
It will be impossible to run away. Does
New York still stand by the gold standardf
That IL the question to DO settled by the
fall election in this State. That Is the one
issue. 1t A an issue which will be voted
upon by every voter who casts his ballot for
q candidate for the House Of Representa-
tives, for a candidate for State Senator, for
o candidate for Assemblyman. 1t will be
voted upon to exactly the same extent by
every man who casts his ballot for o candi-
date for Governor. New York will not sup
port MCKINLEY and the gold standard elm.
ply by sending to the House Of Representa-
tives Q delegation with q Republican ma
jority. She should sendto tho State Senate
and tho Assembly o Republican majority,
SO that q Republican will be elected next
January to succeed EDWARD MURPHY as a
Senator In Congress. She should elect the
Republican State ticket, so that there may
be no room for doubt as to her continuing
%faithfulness to the policy of financial honor
and safety.
For encouragement and use to the repu-
diationists In 1900 the possession of the
State Government, and the prestige and in
ftuence which that possession would give
them among the weakened, would be
enormous.
The party that carries New York next
November will win a great national victory.
The Democrats know that perfectly well.
but as an Offset to their indefensible ma
tional issue they hope for further favors
from the Republican f%actionists who gave
them the State and this city last fall. But
It will be impossible to wriggle out. The
national issue will dwarf every other.
Municipal non-partisanship was a breath Of
Bedlam. State non-partisanship is beyond
belief.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
The Town Elections.

Fifty-six of the sixty counties of New
York hold what have come to be known as
"spring elections" for the choice of Super
visors having control OF the county affairs
In each. In New York county, elections
for Supervisors were done away with TWEEN
ty-eight years ago; in Kings Of late years
there have been elections for Supervisors
only In the county towns, but as these have
been consolidated with the city Of Brook
lyn, such elections have ceased. Section
1879 Of the New York charter abolishes
the township divisions of Richmond coun-
ty, which formerly chose Supervisors on
the second Tuesday in February, and Sec
tion 1851 wipes out like distinctions In so
much Of the county Of Queens as Is now
included in NeB York. In the other
counties, elections for Supervisors continue
to be held on different Tuesdays, beginning
on the second Tuesday Of February and con-
tinuing until the last Tuesday in April,
when they are held in Lewis county.
On Tuesday last there were township
elections in seventeen counties, mostly in
the interior of the State, and they showed
almost uniformly a continuance Of Repub-
lican control, though by diminished MAORI
ties compared with the elections Of a year
ago. In only one of these counties did the
Democrats get a majority Of the Board of
Supervisors, yet in many towns heretofore
strongly Republican the rural Democrats
made gains, though with corresponding
losses in the larger towns.
We have commented, heretofore, upon
what in some places Is described as a politi-
cal phenomenon, or something very like 1t,
namely, the increase of the Democratic
vote in many interior townships before
overwhelmingly Republican. 1t is, how
natural outcome of the Bryanite silverite
campaign Of 1896, in which the Demo-
cratic party of New York has made an
incendiary appeal to the discontinued ele-
ments of the population in large cities, and
also to the dissatisfied and unsuccessful
residents of the farming regions of the
State. Many Populists, many former
Prohibitionists, and many radical and
generally dissatisfied voters found in Bry-
anism an outlet for their discomfort,
and SO long as the Democratic Senator in
Washington continues to vote as q silver
lite for the cause of silver, and the
party's Representatives continue to take
a like course, Democratic gains in town
ship elections in the interior districts
need occasion no surprise. In its practical
effect upon the politics of the State this
change, however, is without consequence.
Whatever may have been gained by the
Organized Democrats in the interior they
have lost in the large cities.
The Republicans are stronger in the
great cities because of their advocacy of
honest finance and the preservation of the
public credit than ever before, and desul-
tory losses in some county towns accord
ingly are not of significance. Moreover. on
Tuesday twice as many Republican as
Democratic Supervisors were chosen.
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Prohlbluo., ana neer slnnr.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir: You publish
letters more or less adverse to prohibition. Perhaps
you also publish those on the other side, but II YOU
do I don't happen to see them. l Will tell your
readers something l know OF this matter. live for
eight or nine months every year near u New York
village OF a population Of say 5000. The other four
months / live near q New England village OF about
the same size. In the New York village there are
twenty'odds saloons or bars; In the New England vii.
lage no saloons or bars. In this same New England
village the savings bank has Sl.lo0. 900 on dc.
posit. II has a public library OF 5000 volumes,
spiendidly housed. as is its public reading room. II
has a pSid Fire Department, concreted streets and
sidewalks, two large and elegant hotels In which, II
any OF your readers can md q bar or other eyideuceI
OF liquor selling. they are smarter than the wealthy
and public'spirited citizens who are SO known and
determined in their support OF the prohibitory law
that nobody dares'r run the risk of an attempted viola.
tion. This village has its high school In one OF tho
finest buildings in the country; its intermediate
school in another elegant edirce. and its primary
schoo! and kindergarten beautifully housed. 1t picks
up in a carriage the smaller children and conveys
them to ana from school at the public expense.
The New York village with It's twenty odd saloons
has no public library or reading room. no paid Fro
Department. no concerted streets or sidewaiks, ono
public school building. / drove In my own opcn
carriage last fall from this New England village l75
miles through New Hampshire aud Vermont (Which
have prohibItory laws) and along the road never
saw even a beer cast. much less a saloon sign. l
travelled several days. stopping at hotels which
were without bars or any evidence OF liquor selling.
But soon aftor crossing into the State of New York
the saloon signs. &c., Logan TO appear. What eriIed
and oStraniIed these casks and these signs, II not the
law? DO liquor sellers put up signs for fun? DO
they not do It 10 attract custom2 No one pretends
that pruhiOitoryl laws or any other laws arc always
obeyed and never violated. but II they do no more
than drive out signs and beer barrels, they do much
70 diminish intemperance. E, uISps
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sions in further India, and II would not be
surprising II she also occupied the island OF
Hai.nan, which lies not far from Tonquin.
The gist of the recent changes In the
Chinese situation IL that China would
rather see Japan fastened on her flank than
borrow any moro money In Europe on The
unpleasant terms imposed. 1t is also
manifest, now that the assertion of Japanese
sovereignty over Wei-hsi;W Wei has followed
the German occupation of 1slao Chou and
tho Russian occupation OF Port Arthur,
that, whatever attempts may be made to
veil the fact in euphemistic words, the
partition of China has begun.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

To THE EDITOR OF TIE sus-sfr: In considering
. site for the Soldiers and Sailors Monument the
thought will present itself that such q monument
must be a. representative OF the heroic efforts of the
sailor as OF the noble deeds OF the soldier: and with
this thought ever present II does seem that this mon.
ument should be upon the water front, where the
sailor ns well as the soldier can see Il equally we'll
and thus ever draw from Its fountain OF sacred mem.
cries an ever liVing Inspiration of patriotism.
To place II at the point suggested, near Gen. Grants
tomb. ! fear would be a sad mistake. for one monu.
ment must oonnict with tho 6ther. to the detTlment
street. would meet the claim OF ointment. and the
width OF that grand street would open a vista Of
beauty In approaching the monument at that point,
but at seventy. second street the amount OF park
space is too limited, while the New York Central
Objectionable and disastrous TO the view from the
river.
SO let US have Il At dear old Mount Tom, where ma.
ture prepared Is waiting for this GROWING glory and
where nature and art Will Join In one sweet harmony,
NAV YORK, Feb. Z. ". WALLACE BRowEE.
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delegates would now DO engaged in an un-
seemiy struggle to nominate him had he not
rebuked their enthusiasm. His voice tremblcs as
he speaks Of his willingness TO mako the fight
in the uneven battle against power intrenched."
and you can hear as we'll rs 500 the sublime
smile that welters over his face as he remarks
mystioally, but beautifully, that no desires,
above all things, the success Of the Democratic
party, which this year must and will stand for
good government and clean politics. without
regard for tho advancement Of any candidate"
Not q word about silver. Not q syllable about
the Chicago platform. Tho Hon. jim GUFFEy
will have to come out OF tho woods II ho means
to DO the Democratic candidate for Governor Of
PENNSYLVANIA.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

One of the discoveries made at Nippur by
Prof. HIIPREcHr of the University Of Penn
sylvania consists of q number Of tablets
on which q firm of money changers and
plutocrats called MURAsHU & Sous car
ried on It's nefArious business. Mortgages.
leases, contracts. and tho rest Of the docu-
ments used by these representatives of the
Nippur money power have been dug up. Where
10 that money power nowi Are MURAsHU 6
Sons depressing tho producing classes I" of Nip
pur at PRESENT. Tho foes of the money power
in tho United States should DO encouraged
by the knowledge of the fact that the
money lords Of Nippur were finally forced out
Of business. Patience. pstiencei 1t is not Goo
much to hope that among the treasures found
by the University Of Pennsylvania Babylonian
expedition may be o petrined octopus.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
GamblIug ON n Death.
From the IN nadsiphia Timc,.

from me HlIddfIphId TIMES,
Bob" Hamilton is dead. The news q. no
policy kings death travelled rapidly. II w.,
known in a few minutes by the frcgueu'cr, ~
all the policy shops. Those who hang aruih4
his old haunts were grieved. Many wer" TIC
kind words spoken of the man who for years a'i
taken in the small bets OF the players pad HHl
had been rich and poor by turns. HIS t"li
qualities wero remembered; his bad ones .oT'
gotten.
True to the superstitions of the policy plnY"r'i
they Tried to benefit by his death. They !
rows suggested by his death.
or course the dead row" was played, at
OF course. 1t did not come out" or win. ~
had made a winning tho day after his vii" cd
The police row." another OF Hamilton. 9F'
lite combinations, WAS a winner yeStCrGly morn
ing, but few OF tho players knew of his removal
70 the hospital in time for that fact TO sli-tG'D
y 70 them. Bob often played the gate ROW i
l7-19.2l-And that was q faVoriIo in last nighL1
drawing. But 1t did NOT win. 1
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

The runfor goes that Mr.. BRYAN IL coming
Rast to show HIS continued confidence in the Hon.
GEORGE fREp WILLIAMS Press.
Tho rumor has no legs to 60 on and no wings
to fly with. There may be qualities of q great
silver statesman which tho immortal WILLIAMS
lacks, although It will puzzle any student Of the
species to say what they are. At any rate, con-
fdence 10 not one Of them. Tho immortal WI
LIAMs doesn't need to import anybody from
Nebraska to show confidence In tho immortal
WmLIAMs, He has confidence to burn already.
A meeting between him and the 10 to 1 peri
patetic would DO O confidence trust.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

In order to maintain itself, the proposed cot
ton trust would have to make the best grade OF cot
ton at the lowest possible cost.-Richmond Times.
Such q trust would belong to the very worst
member of a wicked kind. All trusts, not of
farmers or lsborers. are nefarious, but a trust
that has the insolence to reduce the price of an
article of common consumption is incredibly
infamous, and is 90 classified by the experts.
Tho trust that makes things cheaper is tho
trust that causes the biggest ~gurgling and boil
ing in the waters Of Buncombia.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
Caaaan's seoond Thought.


FTOHI The CIacInnuW Enquirer.
ANDERSON. Ind. Feb, s.-Lon CaanAn of Alexandria
cape TO this city to-day and took out q marriage
license. Ho started out the door and then stoDped
and began TO study. with the result OF turning back
to the clerk aud asking that the license be torn I'M
and no record made, He said thar tbis marriage bust.
meas had Just struck him as being q most serious
thing. and he guessed he would postpone IL. The lady
TO whom he was Engaged Is one OF the most highly re-
spectsd young women In the county.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

The Baltimore American should investi.
gate and report upon tho person signing herself
ROSE KAPRAuN, Howard county. Nd, who puts
over her signature in the american the poem,
1--WE Are Seven" reduced from seventeen verses
to ten, and q little garbled.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
Tho Bliss or AnnthiIatiou.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sfr: II death means
oblivion. It means rest. eternal rest. for the weary
body, the racked mind. What man fears q sound,
peaceful sieepr But. oh. how many OF us dread the
awakening with its uncertainties. its trials. its labors,
and Its painsi For my part. I do not know whether
there be Q future life or not, but I Am inclined to
think there must be. and I dread that awful leap in
tho darkness. with NO knowledge where ] may land.
BEACON FALLS. Conn, Feb. 10. X. j. b.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sfr: Let me ask
whether eternal rest and slumber. free from all cares
and grisfs, is not worthy of the name OF heaven and
p~aradiSep IdSoRAMUs.
NEW YORK, Feb. 0.
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In announcing himself u candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Governor of
Pennsylvania. Col. jim GUFFEY declares proud
ly that he must not be required 10 engage
In any unSeemly struggle TO secure delsgatos."
As the s~ituAtion seems 70 paint itsslf upon
the mental retlAA Of Gel JA GUEE4Xs H.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
Conclusive I-Isassa.

From the Boston TrdrsIIsr.
Tsscher-why should We not be proud OF wsalt
an~1,power3
-J(pnals 0hsms-sssaass We haysa,, 60. any.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
A KIadIy rroyislon or

From The Afchison Daily Globe.
When q woman looks Al a man he never knows
whether she is RdmIEiDg hin or thinking how homsly
hsh.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-25
THE ELKs.

MA o. EE = A
Tomorrow evening the Elks will have a
grandstime. A committee left here, this
morning, ito meet the incmoing visitors
at Ration. Arrangements are b. ling made
that ~salutes shall be fired at Ration, Sprin-
ger and Las Vegas, as the train goes by.
When the train reaches here, the visitors
will be received by the committee'o of ar
engagements and conducted to the Depot
hotel, whers-Rn elaborate dinner will be
served, Mayor:F. e. Olney presiding, and
the Las Vegas Military band discoursing
sweet smusie.
At 6:15 the guests will be seated Ia car
liages, aud escorted by the local Tlks in
rocessionfa along the principal streets Of
the city, amidst the display of fireworks
especially ordered for the occasion. The
installation OF officers will follow the pro-
~cession, and the occasion win conclude
with a ~ssocial session" at Rosenthal's hall
at II p. M, when the Elks and their guests
will be served with the best the season
affords. 81 90 -
80
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-25
The .Jswist rair.

The coming grandest event of the season,
the Jewish fair, will take place on Feb
ruary 14th, aud not in January, as many
people seem to think.
Although the Jewish fair was planned in
July Ct last year., to take place before the
holidays, the promoters upon learning
that there was to be q bazaar Of the
Masuns, for the purpose of putting Q new
fence around the Masonic cemetery, grace.
fully abandoned the idea of holding their
fair before the holidays, and gave the
Masonic fraternity the preference, fully
realizing that they would have uphill
work to give their fair later in the season.
To their credit be it said, they adhered
to their determination, notwithstanding
THE many obstacles which would thereby.
be thrown In their way. Hence, it is not
only right but obligatory that not the
Masons alone should ~patronize them in the
struggle to secure funds for the poor, bat
every one having a dear relative resting
10 the cemetery, the bsanty of which
Masonic and other Lab RS will so greatly
enhance. Z
The remainder OF our citizens, %independ-
ent Of religious creed, can but admire,
and show their appreciation of the un-
selishness which gave others the preferIl
ence, when they might have reaped ting
frst fruits OF the harvest. ~
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-25
RAILROAD RuMRLIMGs.

W.. w. Hagor, agent Of the Santa Fe at
MestIa park, IL III.
Col. Hugh Hudo'd aud party went hunts
ing, to-day They gos-back.
w. ID. Hitchcock Is now assistant fore
man at the San Marcial shops, succeeding
Harry Ray, who departed for Galveston.
Engineer Gus Peterson, Of Raton has
been confined TO his room the past week,
suffering with a severe cold, but is improv-
Ing hat, now.
s. B. Grimshaw, OF Denver, supsrinteud-
emit of telegraphy on the d. & Il. g.. and
James Murphy OF Alamosa, connected
with the same department, were in Santa
Fe over Sunday. g.sN
The El Paso s. Northeastern railroad lie
established about four miles below La Luz
and - making steady progress. All indi-
cations are that the railroad will run
through tina. town and will be there about
April L.
T%heJunior Order Of American Mechanics
has-gotten 10 be one OF the best fraternnl
orders of to- day. For ordinary vocations
the sick or accident benefits are $I2 per
week. For brakemen, iremen, conductors
and engineers, both freight and passenger,
the weekly benefits are $40, with 1926
funeral benefits, protected by the national
organization.
j.. e. Hurley, division surorintendent,
has issued record bulletin No. 90: Re-
Gently a conductor on this division failed
to leave all the way bills Tor his train at
the terminal points scausing delay, to
another train. He gave as an excuse
that he failed to get allthe way bills out
of his overcoat pocket 1t is necessary
that conductors should-vbe careful in the
handling OF way bills. Conductor ia this
ease has been suspended ten days.
E.oRGANIzATIoN.
The reorganization Of the Santa Fe en-
cheering department became effective
Saturday, and the official circular was as
follows;
G. A. Morse, resident engineer at Fort
Madison, Ia; in charge Of the Chicago
division. H ~
J. M,, Meade, resident engineer at Tope.
ka; In charge of the eastern and part Of
the middle division.
M, N Wells, resident engineer at New
ton, Kansas; in charge Of the Oklahoma
division. Z,
w. H. Earl, resident engineer at Pueblo,
Colo; Ia charge Of a part Of the middle
division and the western division,
e. W. Grant, resident engineer at Las
Vegas; il charge Of the New Me xico and
Rio Grande dfVisons.
Mr.. Nudge and Mr.. Grant were promoted
from assistant resident engineers, and Mr..
Meade transferred from Pueblo to Topeka.
The other changes made by the re-organ-
~ization are in assignment Of territory. The
Reorganization was made necessary by the
large amount of improvements now under
way and contemplated by the Santa Fe
| company.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-25
Personal PIcK-uPs.

a
Lige Weeks OF Mora, is in the city.
Johnny Whltemofeli IS up from GallIpas
Springs.
2. !. Bloom INDUCED himself In a drive
dpSto Watrous. wv M
H. n: Corrigan was In from Wright's
ranch, yesterday.
Rev' J. J. GIlchrist has returned from a.
trip to Golondrinas. Z
Fl. e Byers and @. A. Eckerson are in
the city'from Watrous.
L. e. Kress, Of Las Vegas, was in Santa
Fe and registered a t3hs Claire. 81 ~
Pasqual Baca, Of Anton Chico, has been
! y the city purchasing supplies.
]. L.. Laub,to OF Las Vegas, was in Santa
Re looking after his lamber intetests.
Harry Friedman. a st. Louis, in the
clothing line, leaves for the cas-, in the
morning.
J. A. Carruth, nominated as postmaster
for East Las Vegas, retlrned from Santa
Fe, on the early morning train.
Jose Albino Baca and dlugbter, Mrs.
Simon Baca, Pablo and ..Anicsto Baca
boarded the noon train- for BsrnaIillo.
Fl. q. Byers, e. Martinez and Vicente
Mares, Wagon. Mound; and J. II. Arm
strongest. Louis, register. at the Plaza
hotel.
Myer Friedman iefsfor st. Louis, whers
his wife WIN join him and together they
will go to Nav York and othgf eastern
tcitfes.
Jose Miguel Medran came In from his
ranch, some twelve miles out, and returned
with a heavy load of supplies He will
begin dipping his sheeppabout the first OF
February. Fs'
Miss Hattie flames, a popular Las Vegas
young lady, who has been spending some
months with relatives in Wisconsin,4ex x
pects to resurnstp her much loved home,
III a few days9is- sss
Harry j. Friedman, ST, Louis; l.. B.
Wilson, Kansas City; Henry Deshent, San
francisco; James H. Armstrong, ST. Louis;
Chas. J.Kuhn, Indianapolis, are agueots at
the Depot hotel.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-25

There seems to be considerable com
pIaint about the delay Of eastern and
northern mail in reaching Bland and the
Cochitl district generally. THE OPTIc
learns that the Bland mail reach s Thorn
Ton at 600 p. M, that it remains in the
Thornton postoffice until 8 O'Clock the next
day, when it starts for Bland. 1t would
seem to an outsider that the government
might see to 1t that the mani should leave
Thornton for Bland The same day Of ar.
riy al,