The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-16

lican conspiracy because he was en-
deayoring in a lawful way to become
governor of Kentucky. Colonel RooSe-
welt knows all these things, and yet he
had the effrontery to utter wholesale
SANDER against one-half his country
men, thereby disgracing the high posi-
| ton to which he aspires.
OF course l am not intimating that
all Republicans are thieves, like ex-
Governor Moses, or murderers, like
Taylor and Powers. Far from it. Most
! Of them, like most Democrats, are hon
est and patriotic men. / am simply
demonstrating to Colonel Roosevelt
| that he might become strenuous in do
| ing n little reform work in his own
party and not consign all Democrats
| to the deuce at once.
Hanna Growing Profane.
Even at this early day in the canvass
Mark Hanna is so wrought up that he
runs counter to the command, "Thou
shalt not swear" What Mark will do
before the great event in November
lands him and his protege William the
Warbler outside the breastworks re-
mains to be seen. So in these dog
days, with the thermometer registering
100 degrees in the shade and with ev-
erybody reeking with perspiration,
Mark makes it still hotter by cussing!
What will the holy brethren who re-
Gently Kissed me at Lakeside for tax
ing his name in vain think of his pro-
family? | pause for reply.
l have a valuable contribution to
| make to current history which may or
may not explain several things, and
| that is that Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw
| of Iowa has - toes In the rotunda
of the capitol at Washington in the
historical painting, 1.-THE Baptism Of
Pocahontas," there is a buck Indian
with II toes. l have never known
whether that was the license or the ig-
norance Of the artist, but here we
have a governor with II toes hesitat-
ing for six weeks about appointing a
senator with ten toes-that is, l as
sumo that Dolliver has ten toes
never counted them, but l guess that
Jonathan has the usual number. What
made Shaw hesitate so long? Was he
looking for Il candidate with II toes ?
Maybe he was and maybe he was not.
What he was really looking for was q
plug candidate who would help Gov
ernor Shaw go to the senate himself.
That he failed to carry out that idea is
owing to public sentiment, and Dolli-
yer went, who is an honor to the state.
Maryland Democratic.
"My Maryland! My Maryland" She
is going Democratic this time and no
mistake. Senator George l.. yelling
ton is stumpng the state for Bryan.
Arthur Pue German is active in man
aging the Democratic campaign. John
Walter Smith, governor of the ancient
commonwealth, is hotfoot after the
| senatorial seat of Judge McComas.
| So all things work well together for
| those who love the Lord and keep his
| commandments, and there is weeping
! and gnashing of teeth among the Phil
| istines. God grant that the grand old
state of Maryland may be redeemed
! from Republicanism.
Quite recently | was up there lectur-
ing at the Mountain Lake Park. Chau-
taUqua, and. while the Chautauquas
are not political meetings, a good deal
of politics is talked nevertheless, and
the universal belief appeared to be
that nothing short of miracle could
keep Maryland from returning to the
Democratic column. If Maryland
comes, Delaware will come and West
| Virginia. So that instead of Bryan be-
ing elected by the skin of his teeth the
chances are that he will have 80 votes
| to spare in the electoral college. You
| hear my horn.
Twelve months ago two Of the most
distinguished Republicans in the Unit
! ed States were named Henderson. Now
| the Republican party is minus one of
| the Hendersons-namel John B., late
| of Missouri and now Of Washington.
| General Henderson was a brigadier
! general in The Union army. He helped
create the Republican party in Mis-
! souri,, very hazardous performance
| in that day. He was for eight years a
| Republican senator, presided over the
also over the Pan-American congress.
For 30 years he has been recognized as
one of the greatest living lawyers and
the only man living or dead who ever
refused a seat on the supreme bench
of Missouri. With this splendid rec
ord behind him this illustrious patriot
could not stomach Mckinley imperial
ism and has come out sQuarely for
Bryan.
70 Longer n Republic.
Recently he wrote to DR.. W. A Croft
fut as follows:
Our government is rapidly changing its form
The United States is no longer republic Two
wars being wased by the president without
any constitutional sanction. The Russian en-
peror claims greater power than that which is
exercised. almost without protest, by American
president. The war with the Philippines is worse
than useless. The islands cannot be occupied by
Americans, and American law, equally with Amer
lean prejudice already forbidS American citizen
ship to their Inhabitants, and this reduces them
to slavery and ourselves to forms of despotism.
In the case Of China. American troops. without
pretense OF law, to be placed under the COM
mand of the German emperor. On the successful
entry OF the allies into Picking will begin the
struggle Of beasts over the prey, and if