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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10

The triumph of Quay and his APP
pointment by Gov. Stone to the long
fought for Senatorship is but another
instance Of Republican dedication of all
that Is Ubiquitous In public life. Their
theory seems TO be that everything
done outside of prison walls goes"
so long as it is successful, regardless Of
its merits or moral aspect Character
seems TO count for naught In the Re-
publican ranks where all men are vel
come who can get there" by hook or
by crook.
Quay is Il man of pleasing person
ality and considerable magnetism. He
is loyal to those friends who assist him
in political crookedness and Il bitter
enemy to those who oppose him. So
long us he is allowed to have possession
of the plum tree, he is willing to shake
it literally for his friends, who are al
lowed to pick up enough plums to slim
ulate their appetite for another shake.
Quay is the most audacious politician
in America. and appears to have been
born without moral bias. He stands
boldly up for all that Is iniquitous in
public life. He is national shame,
and yet the Republican party hail with
pride man who has hopelcssly de-
bauched the politics of the great State
of Pennsylvania, and who regards
Legislatures and Governors us so much
merchandise.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
Truth About the Philippine ;.

The American people do not gener-
ally realize the extent of the operations
In which the United States is engaged
in the Philippines. 1t has been com
pared to one of our Indian wars In our
Western territories, but there is no
comparison except what may be found
in the fuct that the Filipinos are not
highly civilized and that their tactics
of warfare are elusive like those of the
American Indians. 1t Is really ire
mendous war into which President Me-
Kinley has plunged the country, and
the people are just beginning to see
what they will be obliged to expend in
men and money in order to satisfy the
notions of destiny which the ad-
ministration holds.-Boston Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10

census of 1900 at least 5000 clerks will
be needed. This force prepares all
schedules and blanks, devises methods
of accounts, and gets ready for actual
work in the field
The whole country is then divided
into 300 great districts, called super
vlsors' districts. These supervisors
are appointed by the President and
must be confirmed by the Senate. I'm
der the law of 1889 each supervisor re-
ceives a sum of $125, in addition to
which he gets 81 per thousand of popu-
lation enumerated in thickly populated
and $1.4O per thousand i'll thlnly popu-
lated districts. This gives n sliding
scale of remuneration, but no super
visor is to get less than $500. The first
duty of the supervisors is to divide
their supervisorss' districts into emu
meration districts and report these di-
visions to the superintendent. The SUI
pervisors then select an enumerator
for each of the smaller districts. In
thickly settled communities the popu-
lation Of an enumerators' district
should not exceed 1900, An enumera-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
WHAT DEMOCRACY MAY 90.

By its bold defiance of public opinion
the Republican party is rapidly paving
the way for Democratic success In the
next Presidential election. 1t Is gener-
ally conceded by the shrewdest observ-
ers of political events that II success
or to Mckinley had to be chosen now
the Democratic candidate. no matter
what financial plank lie stood on. would
win.
There may be change of opinion in
favor of the Republicans within the
next fifteen months. of course, but II
there Is not the man who will get the
nomination of the next regular Demo
cratic national convention will be elect
ed to tho Presidency. The drift of pop
ular feelings Is uli that way. The PEG
pie are alarmed at the rapid growth OF
the trusts, they are Disguised with Al
gerism, with Imperialism and with the
various other isms that Republicanism
has fostered.
With this advantage, however, on
their side, Democrats ought to be care
full about both their candidates and
their platform, and 1t is not too early
to call attention to the necessity of har-
monious action. fractional differences
certainly should disappear, and Will
lam ]. Bryans remarks at Buffalo
ought to be seriously studied all over
the country. He struck the right note
when he said that he regarded it us
urgent that every Democrat of New
York should rally to the party and give
assurance of his support to the next ma
tional platform, whether it will be that
of 1896, pure and simple, or whether 1t
will be that of 1896, modified or added
to-"
The Republican party to-day stands,
as Mr.. Bryan further explained in this
same speech, for all the monOpolistic
tendencies of the times, concentrated
wealth and un-American expansion. to
all of which Democracy is opposed.
There should. consequently. be no ditfi-
Guilty whatever for the party which be-
lieves in government by the masses and
not by the selfish classes to present a
united. unbroken front ut the next
Presidential election and achieve de-
cidcd victory.
AS matters are to-day, only petty
rivalries and squabbles can prevent the
election of Democratic President in
1900. Let the disturbers of party har-
mony be notified now that they are not
wanted and let them be cast out. We
shall be stronger without them than
with thcm.-New York News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10

some Frcnchmen who are planning
Lieutenant Gabes, with two balloon ex-
pcrts, Leo Dey and Captain Dides,
hopes to sail by the aid of northwest
winds from the Gulf of Gabes to the
middle Niger.
Besides the Andre search expedition
under Stadling, Mr.. Peary Is working
north with the good ship Windward
and company of Newfoundland seal
ers used to travelling Ice fields. Captain
Sverdup, Nansen's friend, has been
battling in the same direction with
that tight little craft, the Fran. Mr..
Edward Bay. young Dane of wealth
and much enthusiasm for science, who
was with Captain Ryder's Greenland
expedition, is wintcrlng on Melville
Bay with friend and party of Eski-
mos from the northeastern Danish col
onfes. and will soon be striking further
north.
Sir George Newnes, the proprietor of
the Strand Magazine, has sent an expe-
dition on the Southern Cross, which
has been making Its way south during
the past five months. Borchgrcvlnk is
in charge. With him are Louis Ber-
nacchi, the famous magnetlcian, and
the biologists, II. Hanse and Hugh
EvG1s So late us Nov. 90, 1898, they
reported "all well' to the British
steamer Ruahine. The Belgian Gov
eminent has sent Captain Gerlach
south for the same purpose-to find the
south pole. This party is on steamer
that is to put in each winter at Austria
lila to recoup, and then to start out
again as soon as the ice begins to
break. A German committee on Antarc-
tic research proposes sending DIR. L.
Won Doygaltski to work along the
meridian of Kerguelens Land. on the
west side of Victoria Land. This point
of attack, owing to its relative position
with regard 10 the observatories ut
Melbourne and at Mauritius, will, 1t Is
thought, advantage magnetic investi-
cations.
Africa, besides having balloonists
sailing over It's great desert, has a
good number of explorers at work map
ping her rivers, lakes and mountains.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
T e RUBY Mines Of Ceylon.

Ceylons great ruby mines are world
famous. For n substantial considera-
ton the obliging Singalese merchant
will take a ripe European out to his
precious sand heaps and dig up super
ior specimens for his special benefit
The foreigner is always deeply i'm
pressed and is delighted with his cost
ly purchase until he finds out about
the man in birmingham, England, who
runs Il precious stone factory in con-
nection with his glass plant. This
man makes bushels of rubies of col
orcd glass and ships them to Ceylon.
There the clever natives bury them in
the tabled sand mines. to be dug out
under the eyes of the first foreign sim
pleton who comes along. Truly, there
are tricks in all trades.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10

tor In such commu stiles should COM
plete this work in two weeks. In thin
ly populated districts and In the coun-
try thirty days are allowed by law
In 1880 the number of cnumerators
was about $1,000. In 1900 there will
be many more.
Each cnumcratOr must be resident
of his district and preference is given
to men honorably discharged from the
army or navy of the United States.
The law of 1889 allows two cents for
each name entered on the enumera-
tors schedule. except in sparsely set
tied communities, where two and one.
half cents may be paid. For each
name relating to soldiers or sailors
window he gets five cents and for the
facts about each death two cents. For
securing the facts about each farm 10
cents is the pay and for each factory
70 cents. Where the enumerators are
paid by the day SO is the maximum.
or course, the gathering of the names
Is Il small part of the work of the
Census bureau. Special agents are
sent out to collect data on n grent num-
Der of important subjects and an
enormous amount of detail informn-
tion Is poured into the Census bureau
at Washington. where it is classified
and prepared for publication.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
THE CLOCK.

Hear the music of the clock,
Softly ticking time;
AZ TIE water wears the rock,
SO In rhythmic rhyme
Does the ticking of the clock
Seem to wear out time.
In the hustle of the day
1t Is scarcely heard;
Still 1t ticks and ticks away,
Blithe as any bird,
Careless that the sounds of day
Make its voice unheard.
But at night it speaks aloud
In the stiffness deep.
When the day-timc's weary crowd
Drops to realms of sleep;
Then its voice. cxulting loud.
Wakes the stiffness deep.
And the wakeful listener hears
Strange and serious things;
Hears the stream of flowing years
AS 1t flows and sings
Surgings of the future hears,
And clash of coming things.
James Raymond Perry in Worth.
Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
SOME or THE UNEXPLoREp REGIONS on THE MORBID

which has made us hopeful concerning
one we have lost; that Mr. Swinburne
swims when not composing, which is
pleasing in view of the poets occa,
slonal need Of cooling; that Mr.. Black.
more goes in for the growing of flowers
and fruit; and that Mr.. Hardy's recrea.
lions are chiefly confined to "arboricul.
ture. architecture and cycling"
What Hall Caine does in his Off hours
we are not told, though we should very
much like to know. We suspect, how.
ever, that when not actually engaged In
writing, In collecting materials or In
interviewing himself, Mr.. Game gets
his recreation from the popular but not
wholly exciting game Of solitaire.
There Is Il genial glow about the game
of solitaire that suggests Mr.. Game in
one of his most companionable moods
Literature.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
rR1EL RgQplGS$
eN@NlY{Gs

WILLIAM Fowler of London writes: \.
leave fof the moment the Indian aspect
of the scheme proposed by the Indian
Government, and the money murder"
involved In 1t, ana the strange indiifer-
erce shown by Government to the in
terests OF the multitude of holders of
silver IN India, and to the agonies of
the money markets there. l desire to
call attention to the Importance of the
scheme to all English investors. The
proposal involves handing over the con-
troll of about two-thirds of our gold re-
serve at the bank to body of officials
In Calcutta, and to this I object most
strongly. AT first they ask for f5 $780,
600, but they ask for power to draw
f15,OOO,000 more when required-to say
nothing of even further demands. The
export of f5,000,00O at this moment
might have very serious consequences.
1t seems to be forgotten that the pur-
chase of the wheat which we require
this year may cost us from f20,O0O,O0
to f3O,000,000 more than the same i'm
port would have cost us two years ago.
Thus, whether we will or not, we are
face to face with an enormous addi-
tional claim on our resources. and one
which will give increased power over
our gold to our cousins across the At
lantic, whose needs may be greatly en-
BANGED by the war on which they have
entered. Moreover, the tendency to
higher prices is not confined to corn,
and business at home makes greater
demands on our resources. On every
side there are political complications
and uncertainties, and our relations
with nations all over the world are so
Intimate that special demands may
arise at almost any moment. AS write
Japan holds very large deposit at the
bank which helps to swell the figures
of the last return, and any day she may
require money, and may take 1t in gold.
mention this merely us an illustration
which shows how necessary 1t is to re-
tain our hold on our gold, and not to
give power over 1t to others. Already
per cent has depressed the values of
the best securities, and this fall must
continue, II We are to have perma-
nent advance III the bank rate and in
exchange. It seems to me, therefore,
that every holder of securities is inter-
ested in avoiding any engagement
which must seriously affect our gold
reserve, not in the regular course of
business. but as certain consequence
of mere experiment, the results Of
which are extremely uncertain, and are,
in the opinion of many experts, more
likely to injure than to help the people
Of India. Taking the whole situation
into view, am confident that the great
est care is required in order to avoid
alarm and panic In our own country.
The action of the Government Of India
In 1898 has caused something like a
panic there, and it behooves us to take
care that we are not led away by off,
cial theories into the adoption of any
scheme which may result in repeating
in the center of the empire disturb
ance which has caused so serious trou-
Bile in Calcutta and Bombay.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10

In 1S46 the rates of pay In the Ameri.
can Army, including the money value
of combinations allowed, were as fol
lows, the amounts given being for the
month: MajorGeneral. $3OS; Brigadier
General, $2G2.50; Colonel, $174; Lieuten.
ant Colonel, $145; Major, $129; Captain,
$3.50; First Lieutenant, $G9.5O; Second
Lieutenant, S61.50. This was the pny
of infantry and artillery. The pay of
officers of cavalry and staff officers was
as follows: Colonel, 500; Lieutenant
Colonel, $40; Major. $149; Captain,
S1l4.50; First Lieutenant, $50. SO; Sec.
ond Lieutenant, $S0.S3. 1t will be OBJ.
served that there has been an increase
of so per cent. in the average pay of
officers.
The life Of a cloak model is trying
one.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
Case of the Minncsotnns.

The point has now been reached
when appeal must he made, not to any
disposition on the part of the admins
tration ut Washington to avoid the con-
sequences of its violation of tn" terms
of the Thirteenth Minnesotas enlist
ment nor TO any disposition on its part
to do voluntarily what it has so long
delayed and avoided doing, but to the
absolute constitutional principle that
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
Major Gibbons is ON the Upper zam

Major G1bbons Is on the Upper Fam
bezi; Lieutenant Lemaire and Bel
gian and eight other Europeans, includ-
Ing DR.. Holub, are to make Lake MI
veru by the Nyasa route; DR.. Passarge
is in the Nagami Lake region; Captain
Chatlin is taking some Belgians up to
the headwaters Of the Nile, and Sir
John Kirk, DIR. P. L. Sclater and others
are Mt work in Central Africa.
Prof. Paladini has gone to Lake Ur-
mia from Tabriz to study the reported
rise in the level of that body of water
which the Archbishop of Phllippopolis
says threatens the whole surrounding
country, having already submerged
villages that five years ago were ten
miles from Its borders.
All these expeditions are working to
increase the worlds knowledge of
geography, mineralogy and sociology,
and there are fields still open for other
adventurous spirits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
McKinley's Trying Position.

If ''iniluence" overshudowed Alger
and Eagan when giving out army con-
tracts, the influence found its energiz-
ing force not far from the White House.
and back of it all was Mcllinley's am
btion for another term. No one sup
poses that the President even so much
as thought of financial gain for him
self. but whatever it was that made
him stick to Alger and Eagan is known
to them and they are not likely to sub
nit to having themselves showed under
Il cloud of disgrace and keep silent 1t
certainly is true that the President
finds himself in IL very awkward and
very trying position.-Kansas City
Times
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
UNEMPLOYED LANDS.
PARTS OF THE WORLD OF WHICH
LITTLE is KNOWN.
Striving to Increase Man.
knowledge of Thcm-ln the Ameri-
cas-, Asia, as Well as in Africa, Are
Fields for Geographical Research.

There is more geography every day.
Governments, societies, committees
ind private individuals are busy max
Ing 1t to the satisfaction of themselves
and the general public, school children
excepted. The principal regions that
as yet are uneXplorcd are distributed
pretty evenly outside of the United
States and Europe. There are several
In Canada. one just to the east and an
other Just TO the west of Hudson Bay,
and also considerable areas up to the
east and north of the Klondike coun-
try. In South America there are five
large areas In the vast forest region
drained by the tributaries of the ANA
zon, besides considerable territory In
Patagonia. There are large areas of
the desert of Sahara. where, as Sir
Richard Burton says, "the hand of man
has never set foot" and also along the
upper Nile, but the rest of the CONT
nent, some nine-tcnths of the whole, is
no longer dark" The unexplored
part of Australia Is hardly one per cent.
OF the whole. Greenland is pretty well
known. Southern Arabia has n large
piece of untraveledterrit Thibet still
holds out against all attacks by white
men, and In northern and In eastern 81
IBERIA there are broad expanses about
which one may still imagine things.
The north pole and the south pole are
as unknown us can be, but assaults on
them are multiplying.
The poles are particularly seductive
to explorers. Their location is so def
ilite. To get TO either one means to go
to the limit, an achievement that can
not be outdone. 1t would win more
enduring fame probably than any other
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
Al Era of Exneriment..

Ii is evident that great changes are
taking place in the minds of the people
of large cities and it looks very much
as ii the majority of the voters In sew
eral big centers of trade and industry
had decided to go into the trust busi-
ness. so to speak in behalf of the whole
body polite instead of II few promo
tiers and capitalists. There may be re-
actions, of course, but the Indications
are that the country will see some sur
prising object lessons and experiments
within the next few ycars.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10

New Jersey does not send forth able
belied men authorized to harass and
despoll the people of other States in the
Union, but she does what Is quite as
offensive and much more effective. She
Incorporated bodies to do an
illegal business beyond her own borders
and makes such authorization Il source
of large profit to her treasury. New
Jersey is thus making name for her
self which must bring the blush Of
shame to every high-minded citizen of
that State.-Philadelphi Record.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
Roosevelt refore and After

Like many others. Governor Roose-
welt hurled academic bombs ut the cor
porations. but when the actual test
came between them and the people and
there was an opportunity to do some
thing practical he failed to place him
self on the side of the people. 1t is
easy TO score great. grasping corporate
combinations in an after-dinner speech
or an ante-election address. 1t is an
other thing TO be firm and true when
there comes Il crisis that compels men
to reveal their real characters by com
polling them to take action. AS Gov
ernor Mr.. Roosevelt has not fulfilled
eXprctatiOns.-Denv News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
A Rock Ahead of MCKINLEY.

Sooner or later the attempt to hold
and rule the Philippines us subju-
gated colony must and will be given up,
for time and events are sure to demon
strate to the American people its utter
folly and enormous cost both in blood
and treasure. The sooner President
Mckinley begins to study the problem
of how to unload his Philippine policy
the better it will be for him. For I'M
less he shall get rid of it betimes it is
sure TO break his political neck.-Grund
Rapids Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10


We consider the silver standard a
blessing for this country, and we do
not prefer the gold standard for Next
CO. We do, however, prefer 1t for the
United States. for the reason that our
interests and our welfare are now
bound up in this republic, and 1t is to
the interests of Mexico that the United
States continue on Its present basis.
The advantage which otherwise might
accrue to that country now is com
mencing to come to this. While the
one is standing still. or retrogressing,
the other is forging ahead at most
tremendous pace; and that progress.
though 1t might not be altogether stop
ped, would receive Il serious check were
the United States to make a change in
Its monetary system. We formed our
faith upon what appears to us to be
substantial reasons. We consider the
silver standard blessing for Mexico
because:
1t is furnishing currency which is
not constantly appreciating in value.
to the detriment of all other forms of
wealth.
1t is furnishing a currency which
cannot be cornered. manipulated and
controlled by the few to the injury of
the many.
1t is enabling the producing classes
of the republic to realize from their
products more than the cost OF pro-
ductlon.
1t is setting in motion the wheels of
progress, and attracting to this coun-
try, by reason of the immense adyan-
tage afforded by the difference in ex-
change, the idle capital Of the gold
standard countries.
1t Is the main and paramount cause
In "The Awakening of the Nation;"
In enabling her to take on new life and
activity; in overcoming the effects Of
ages of oppression. strife and turmoil:
In taking her stand ON an equality
with the nations Of the modern world:
In short, 1t is the handspring which is
setting in motion the other workings.
And there are other reasons.-The Two
Republics (Mexican).
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10
bringing Courts Into contcmpt.

The Quay jury returned verdict Of
not guilty, and yet there was probably
not man on the jury who was not
convinced in his own mind that Quay
was guilty. This is another of those
cases which tend to weaken respect for
our judicial system. The people see
the defendant go free, believing him
guilty beyond question. They know he
can command money and influence to
an almost unlimited extent. They put
this and that together. And who can
blame ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sentinel.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-10

a very pleasant personal item that
comes from across the sea states that
DR.. Doyle Is the most all-round repre-
sentative sportsman among modern
writers, though it Is to cricket that he
devotes most of his time. This is very
true. DR.. Doyle's stock in trade is
visor. 1t is the continuous current OF
fresh air that runs through his work
which more than any other quality has
made 1t appeal to his readers every
where; and while he is no mean adver-
sary at billiards, or with the gloves, 1t
Is in the open that he comes into his
own most conspicuously. The item
goes on to say that Mr.. Barrie is fair
crlcketer, which we must all be glad to
henr; that Mr.. Lang COLTS and fishes
which we have long suspected; that
Bret Harte's one amusement is golfing