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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
+" DODGE AND sTRADDLE.n

The Democrats of New Jersey are not
at all pleased with the meeting of the
State Committee held in Atlantic City
last week. As one of the old time leaders
tersely put it (: st was between dodge
and a straddle and just like the other
blunders the new leaders have made for
us recently" 1t looks as if either Sena.
tor DAILY or Mayor Seymour of Newark
might receive the gubernatorial nominal
ton, although the friends of General
Donneley, and they are numerous and
influential, say the Mercer candidate is a
much stronger vote getter than either, to
which the friends of the two former re-
tort: "But General Donneley lodged
the Chicago platform
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
From The FRONT.

John Dempsey of Company G., Second
N. J. ", writes that ''the papers and
books recently received were very
acceptable; time passes very quickly
when ones mind isoccupied. The books
are passed around and greatly appre-
ciated by ALL We have regular priest
now attached to our regiment whom we
all like-the Rev. G.. A. EMS, a member
of the Order of ST. Dominic There is
always pleasant breeze from the ocean,
but some of the worst showers I ever
saw; we are well protected, however,
and keep extra clothing for change when
caught out. 1t looks as if we might be
sent to Cuba, but the probabilities are a
trip homeward by October will be nearer
the truth. The picket line extends 10
miles in circle round the city and it
can't be passed without a regular
permit"
Dempsey writes later, from Camp
Wells: Il have just paid visit to the
Morristown boys in Company NJ at Jack
sonville. The box of books, papers and
pads sent by the Morristown ladies were
SO welcome. Ireceived mine on Sunday.
Many of the magazines have the donors
names on them and we feel that we are
not forgotten. We have good food and
every one gets plenty"
Under date of the 91st, Mr.. Dempsey
writes: II saw the Morristown boys to-
day. All are well excepting Letcher,
Hayes and Babcock, who are doing
nicely, though still in the hospital.
There have been four deaths this week
in the Jersey regiment, but they were
men who were not rugged and who did
not report sick until too late. If we
only have headache we are supposed
to report to the doctors who make the
rounds of the companies every morning.
1t looks from present reports as if we
would be sent to Havana; we have
been measured for our tropical uniforms,
which are made of canvas and great
deal cooler than those we are now
wearing"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

COMPLAINT has been made by the
State Dairy Commissioner that a milk
preventative is being used by dairymen
which is injurious to health. The Com
missioner says: 'Some dairymen in the
northern part of the State are using the
compound quite extensively. They pro-
cure certificates once a month from
physicians showing that their milk is
pure and use these certificates in dispos-
ing of their milk, most of which is
shipped to the summer resorts along the
coast. This milk has succeeded in prac-
tieally driving out the pure milk of local
dealers, who have complained to the
Dairy Commissioner. Their complaints
led to the investigation. By the use of
the preservative milk is kept twenty
days without the use of ice"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
WILL REMAIN AT HIS POST.

The report that President Mckinley
and Vice-P President Hobart and Attorney
General Griggs would spend some time
at Lake Hopatcong during the latter
part of the month has been emphatically
denied by Mr.. Hobart. In a letter
received by friend from the Vice Pres
ident, he says. president Mckinley
would not leave the capital even for the
purpose of reviewing the troops at Chick
amauga, and that being the case it is not
reasonable to assume that he would go to
the Hopatcong Club for pleasure"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

SENATOR JIM SMITHS Democratic
Daily Advertiser added to the trouble al
ready existing in the Democratic camp
when it sought to enlist the opposition of
the Federated Labor Unions against
Senator DAILY. When it was discovered
that the principal agitator was one Gott-
lob, an employe of the Senator's masked
Newark newspaper organ, the situation
changed. although it is perfectly safe to
say Daily does not love Mr.. Smith more
than he did aforetime.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

HERE are two naval gems: To the fat
witted German Admiral Won Diederichs,
whose contemplate methods at Manila
annoyed Admiral Dewey. the latter sent
this center-shot:
ssIf there is war want to know it. If
there is peace want yon to change your
course. The way to make war is TO clear
up ship and go at it.
That settled it.
Admiral Schley said last Sunday, while
i'll at relatives home:
The victory was due altogether to the
work of my men. They are the bravest
set of fellows that ever went aboard
ship. The honor that comes to me is the
honor of having been the commander of
such men,"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THE glory of the war and the gladness
of peace both continue to be marred by
the dyspeptic generality of complainings
and cynicisms that inject themselves into
every possible aperture of the period. If
there be royalty repugnant nature it is
that of the jovial kicker. who is persona
non grata everywhere and present every
where. This war has fortified him into
an Upas plague whose pollen is poison
at its source and pain to all on whom it
descends.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THE Homecoming interval that sue
ceeds the summer exodus as does the
night the day, is upon us, and the rehux
stream of summer tourists and resort
habitues, released from fictitious joys and
genuine burdens, has in prospect a real
happiness at home. Many of Morristown
who thought it pleasanter and healthier
abroad will here recuperate their bodily
and other conditions, while still others
will here find full convalescence from a
malady of infatuation that makes some
believe there is better place to spend
the summer than in Morristown.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
WORTHY AND WELL QUALIFIED.

There appears to be no opposition to
the nomination of Daniel S. voorhees, for
the County Clerkship by the Republicans.
This is as it should be. Mr.. Voorhees,
has held and efficiently discharged the
duties of Deputy County Clerk since his
appointment in 1876, and his familiarity
with the duties of the Office, which are
necessarily responsible and complicated
are appreciated by all who have bust
ness at the Morris County Clerks Office
to-day recognized as one of the best reg
ulated in New Jersey,
Mr.. VOORHEES, has always been hard
working Republican and is especially
well qualified to fill the Office to which
he aspires, and to which we confidently
predict his election by tremendous ma
jority.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

TREASURY statistics show that our
imports of coffee for the present fiscal
year reached s7O,514.215 pounds, and
that the annual coffee bill for the coun-
try for the past ten years has averaged
$87, 100000. By the acquisition of Porto
Rico and Cuba we have secured sufficient
coffee-growing territory to supply our
own wants in this direction and also to
supply Spain and France, who were
large purchasers from the West India
islands.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
"THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG. =

The New York Journal the other day
said:
DAY before yesterday that gallant sail
or, Captain John w. Phillip, was made
Commodore.
lover his ship, the Texas, which did
such glorious work, was hoisted com
modore's flag, blue with single star.
I'VE wonder how many people re-
membered that the State flag of Texas,
borne in many fratricidal strife in the
dark and bloody sixtiss, was blue with
single star?
s'There is new meaning now to the
song of the Old South.
GA nation hoists the Bonnie Blue Flag
that bears single start"
The Journal is SO generally unques-
tionable in its treatment Of historical sub
jects that we shall confidently bespeak
its assistance in setting itself right as to
the Bonnie Blue Flag.
The State flag of Texas, adopted before
admission to the Union, was identical
with the flag of the United States, save
that the field of blue contained one star,
instead of thirty-one.
The colonial flag of South Carolina. a
blue flag with crescent and single star,
was adopted by the Patriots at the incep-
ton of hostilities against Great Britain in
the American Revolutions became the
flag of the State on her assumption of
Statehood, and the same is the State flag
of South Carolina today.
Under this flag more than a year ante
rior to the birth of the Stars and Stripes
Moultrie repulsed the attack of Sir Peter
Parker's feet on Fort Sullivan in the
harbor of Charleston, June %, 1776-six
days before the Declaration of Independ-
ence- and under it, again, from precisely
the same point but then known as Fort
Moultrie the State troops of South Caro-
lima assailed Major Anderson's garrison
of Fort Sumter, April II, 1861. All the
surrounding batteries, flying exactly SIM
liar colors, participated in this lombard
ment, which, as we all know, eliminated
after thirty-four hours in Fort Sumter's
capitulation.
That event inspired war song, writ
ten By an actor in New Orleans named
Harry Mccarthy, called the Bonnie Blue
Flag. It was then first so named This
very commonplace composition leaped
into immediate popularity because of the
state of feeling at the beginning OF the
war, and began thus:
First came South Car'Iina
And nobly took a stand,
And then came Louisiana
And took her by the hand.
The refrain ran:
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears single star.
Texas had no conflicts under her State
flag in the sixties. When the fighting Of
the war began at Bull Run, on July 81,
1851, the Confederacy had superseded all
State flags in the army by adopting
two red and one white stripes, a field of
blue with seven stars, and all the area
proportions of the United States flag.
Thus the Bonnie Blue Flag, SO called,
was and is the State flag of South Caro-
lima.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THE meeting of the Republican State
Committee held in Trenton on Tuesday
was well attended, Notwithstanding the
heat. The proceedings throughout were
full of interest, and the opinion was very
generally expressed by those present that
the outlook for Republican success in
November was never brighter. A
special committee drafted the convention
call, which will be found at the head of
our editorial columns.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

Ar the meeting of the Democratic
State Committee recently held in Atlantic
City, after lengthy and painful dis
cussion of party matters, it was decided
to hold the State convention late in Sep
TENDER or early in October. This will
afford, SO the leaders thought, ample
time in which to unite the silver and
sound money wings Of the party. at
present 50 widely apart.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
Republican State Convention.
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN
STATE COMMITTEE,
mnnn-nnnr NJ aupusf % 1904

The Republican voters of New Jersey are
reouested to select delegates to State con-
vention to be held in Taylor Opera House in
the City of Trenton, at II o'clock M. on
Thursday. the I'D day of September, 1898, for
the purpose of nominating candidate for
Governor to be supported at the ensuing
election.
The basis of representation from each coun-
ty under this call will be one delegate for each
200 Republican votes cast at the last guberna-
torial election in such county. and one for
each fraction of the same over one hundred
The county committees of the several counties
shall decide the method of apportioning and
shall apportion the delegates within their
respective counties.
The number of delegates to which each
county will be entitled under this call is as
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THE New Jersey Herald, commenting
on an important meeting of the newspaper
editors and proprietors which is to be
held in Phillipsburg tomorrow, aptly
remarks:
THE editors of the leading papers of
the Fourth Congressional District will
hold meeting at Phillipsburg Saturday
Of this week, for the purpose of effecting
an organization looking toward their
mutual benefit. AS before stated, we
are in perfect harmony with this move
ment; believing that it is step in the
right direction. The lawmakers at Tren-
ton for the past three years have appar-
emily been deadset against the interests
of the printers, and have evidently lost
no steps whereby they could curtail the
revenue of the newspaper Office. A little
unsion of action upon the part of the
editors we believe will bring to our law
makers the realizing sense that when
they attempt to injure the press they
are doing harm to one of the most valu-
able and useful institutions in the State. :"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
CAMP CUBA LIBRE, !
Jacksonville, Aug. %. {
EDITOR CHRONICLE:
wearing

ED1TOh OdhONlCLE.
The Second New Jersey boys still hold
the honors for athletics in the Seventh
Army Corps Reports as to what will
be done with US are numerous. Some
think we will be assigned to garrison
duty in Cuba, while others are of the
opinion that we will soon be mustered
out. Now that the war is over many of
the boys want to get back to work.
Robert Trowbridge has been detailed
from Company NJ as a nurse. Charles
Letcher, Will Hayes and James Babcock
are still in the hospital, but improving
fast. We now drill once day, have
daily dress parade and brigade review
weekly. Yours truly,
CHARLES w. BoDINE.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

How quickly the public interest now
turns to lighter themesl The maiden
hand that deftly knitted socks and night
caps for the troops, knowing just when
and where to drop stitch, has suddenly
dropped all the stitches and taken up less
exacting duties. But the habit of accu-
rate counting is clinging to her and she
can tell you in jiffy how many golf
links go to bicycle chain.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

GOVERNOR VOORHEES, in naming
ex-Assemblyman Charles F. Hopkins of
Boonton chairman of the commission to
erect suitable monument at Anderson
vile in honor of the New Jersey soldiers
who died there, certainly appointed the
right person. Mr.. Hopkins was a pris-
oner at Andersonville for many weary
months.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

PENNSYLVANIA will justly be proud of
her new battleship, which will be con-
structed under recent act of Congress.
She will be built at Cramps shipyard,
Philadelphia, armored with plate from
Pittsburg, and armed with guns from
Bethlehem. She will be all Pennsylvania
from the keel up.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

IT is to be said of the late Confederate
General Wheeler, now known affection
ately as Fighting Joe," and who com
manded cavalry division of Americans
at Santiago, that he has emerged from
the heat and burden of the war beloved
for skill and bravery by the whole army
and admired as soldier and gentleman
by the country at large.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
PEACE.

Come. Peace. not like mourner bowed
For honor lost and dear ones wasted,
But proud, to meet people proud.
With eyes that tell of triumph tasted.
Come. with hand gripping on the hilt.
And step that proves you Victory $ daughter
And bring fair wages for brave men,
A nation saved, race delivered.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
The NAVAL PAGEANT.

The return of the conquering warships
fresh from unparalleled triumphs on last
Saturday and their immediate formation
and parade for review by the assembled
millions who cheered their progress forth
and back from the riverside of two great
States marked an event of such wondrous
significance as to have left it without a
precedent in our national history and with
little probability of eclipse by similar
incident hidden in the unfathomable fu-
ture.
The spectacle of passing warships, even
few in number, varied in structure and
sombre IN aspect, will always excite the
public interest because of mysterious
fascination that people feel for product
of militant science majestic to view and
awful in power, but when is added to this
singular charm the halo of victorious
achievements that seem to make their
number legion, their hulls magnificent
and their aspect sublimely luminous and
unspeakably grand, then none need mar
vel that as many millions as could posi-
bly, reach the scene were there on Satur-
day nor that the mulitiples of millions of
Americans who could not go were wont
to grieve.
For it was the occasion of life time.
To the younger in that crushing mass of
humanity the passage of those victorious
warships presented an object lesson Of
national greatness and an appeal to patri-
otto pride and loyalty that no curriculum
of cold heroics can hope to implant; and
to the older an opportunity the like of
which they can hardly ever hope to wit
ness. 1t was much more than feast for
the eyes. Those ships typifed something
more and deeper and higher than par
ade of returning war craft. They SYM
bolized new and wondrous national tri-
umph, an understandable expansion of ma
tional possession, power and influence,
and the magical widening of the domain
of modern civilization and of human free
dom; and it was sight to inspire in the
heart of hearts of every American spon-
taneous gratitude for his unimpeachable
birthright.
Of the ships themselves, their officers
and crews, the world that day saw Gid
ing by in serene and confident superiority
the only storm-torn veteran battleships
in Christendom, and they were part of a
war winning navy that has no equal on
the seas. Every man on them was fire.
tested and an equal hero From the man
on the bridge to the man at the furnace,
from the rear admiral to the unrecorded
oiler under the matches, all were inter-
changeably great and gallant and each
had stood at his post prepared to perish
for his ship and his country.
And there are others of this navy, but
none of any other. We have cheered the
New York, the Brooklyn, the Iowa, the
Indiana, the Massachusetts,, the Oregon
and the Texas; there are yet to come the
sturdy steelclads of Dewey's invincible
squadron and dozen or two unprotected
war craft that cut their way into glory
through the genius of gunnery. They
in their turn will receive the peoples ap-
plause and homage. There is no noise
too thunderous for message of pride,
appreciation and gratitude to the Ameri-
can navy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

.dF the trolley franchise from Eliza
beth to Plainfeld is worth s25o,0OO,
what are the trolley franchises that grid
iron Middlesex county WORTH" queries
the New Brunswick Fredossian. They
are worth mighty sight more than the
people Of Middlesex county imagine.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

IT is not SO astonishing that drowning
man catches at straws when it is consid-
cred that Dentist Kennedy's life probably
hangs on the finding of a certain hat con-
trived from that material. AT the same
time, if drowning man at Coney Island
should catch at straws some of the women
bathers would go ashore bareheaded.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
"sTRAWs SHOW"

1t is understood that the Second Dis
trict Democrats will nominate in opposi-
ton to Congressman Gardner, Theodore
Budd of Burlington, who was about the
craziest silver Democrat in South Jersey
during the Bryan campaign.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

The Thirty-fifth Regiment of New
Jersey Volunteers will hold its annual
reunion in the zouave Armory. Eliza
beth, September ! Labor Day., and a
committee has been appointed to make
the necessary arrangements for giving a
fitting reception to the men who
marched with Sherman from Atlanta
to the sea.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

The country is now assembling its at
tentions on the States that are to hold
elections in November; and Jersey is 60
ing to have campaign that will keep
'em awake.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
AMERICA.

Let music swell the breeze
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom g song.
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

History will do the right thing by the
pajama. No other army than ours in
Cuba ever appeared in battle array tuck
ed out in pajamas. The Chinese fought
with bamboo parasols, and lost; and yet
four centuries of Castilian civilization
fed the West Indies before an army that
appeared in pajamas.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

BIDS were opened by the Navy De-
partment at Washington on Tuesday for
sixteen torpedo boat destroyers and
twelve torpedo boats, to have speed of
from 26 to 40 miles per hour, and whose
cost will aggregate Sc, e0O, 900, as pro-
vided by the recent naval appropriation
act.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

A NEW York paper is now advocating
smokeless powder for the army, smoke
less tobacco for men. and less powder for
the women.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

The 96th birthday of the Hon. John I
Blair was celebrated at Blairstown on
Monday. Many neighbors and friends
called on the venerable philanthropist,
who is enjoying good health for one
almost century old
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26
YES. INDEED.

The platform on which Mckinley was
elected, with war amendments, will still
be found good enough for New Jersey
Republicans. Nescark Neses.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THERE was something of a breeze" re-
Gently over the naming of household
poodle, several pet titles being commended
for. Matters were made yet more breezy
BY naming the dear thing Fam
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

CONGRESSMAN PITNEY and Judge
Huston of Newton are announced as the
principal speakers at the farmers picnic
which will be held near stanhope on
Wednesday next.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

A POLICEMAN snatched up small boy
from the crossing. "Do you want to get
run overl" he Numbered. s'No," blub-
bered the boy; 81 wanted to run over
mvself.''
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

81 WAS in Lees Army in the sixties, !"
said the Johnnie Reb. "And I'm there
in the ninetiesl' retorted the man of M
Company, Second New Jersey Volun-
+aera
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THE Language of flowers" is quite apt
for the flowers that speak. But some of
them don't. We have always found the
chrysanthe- mum
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THERE hasn't been new and worthy
song evolved from the war. and very few
even of those that are pitiably horrible.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

A BYsrANDER said: ssSee how those
boats crowd the Iowa? Well, Bob Evans
is cussin'. and they're taking it in"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-26

THE cheerful kicker has had his word,
though not altogether his way, in every
thing connected with this war.