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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-07-24
One WAY Of Looking At II.

"Look at this, will your" exclaimed
the reel estate and house renting opti-
mist. I'm this paper there Is record
Of 81 marriage licenses issued yester-
day"
"well. what Of IT," said his partner,
the pessimist Of the firm, who was
leaning back In chair with his hat
pulled down over his eyes.
what OF itT echoed the other.
"Can't you see? Those 81 marriage IL
censes mean 81 marriages. The 81
marriages will lead to 81 inquiries for
houses, fats or at least eligible apart
ments. It's bound to stimulate busi-
ness In our line. and well get our
share"
THAT doesn't follow at all. Those
81 licenses represent ia persons, don't
theyT'
The sun., 1900-10-31
Our Title and Bryan's.

To read through BRYAN's speeches ia TO
| become bewildered at the succession OF
Misrepresentation. Here Ia a couple picked
out OF his address at Brooklyn:
The Republicans 60 on the theory that the Consti-
tuition cannot stretch beyond the limits OF the United
States but that the President spread all the
world. Beware Of President who is larger than the
| Constitution which created him"
BRYAN knows that the Constitutions rela-
! ton to the flag. the essence of the anti
imperialist issue, Is before the Supreme
| Court for decision to-day. and he also
knows that whatever authority the Presi-
dent can exercise beyond the Constitutions
inherited boundaries will be what IL first
delegated to him by the national legsla-
ture. the Senate and House Of Representa-
tives, the Congress.
Here is another:
"a Republican would not buy a horss without ex-
smining the utle. but he will buy millions Of human
beings at $3.50 Apiece. and not inquire into the
title"
We obtained the title 10 the Philippine
archipelago through the treaty of peace
with Spain. which BRYAN worked for II
any one questions. in AGUINALDos name,
the validity of SPANS title. we refer him to
the treaty of Biac-na-bato which A6UI-
NALDo entered into with the Spanish few
months before America began war
Don EMILIO AGUINALpo in his quality a., su-
preme leader Of those n>the island OF Luton now
wagng open hoSillues against their legitimate Gov
ernment. and Don BALpoMERo AoUISALDo and
Don MARIANA LLANERA are to cease their hostile
attitude and are to surrender 10 the legitimate author
tiles claiming their rights as Spanish Filipino citi.
lens which they desire 70 preserve"
The American title to the Philippines Is
az clear as ia Mr.. BRYAN's title to his house
in Lincoln.
The sun., 1900-10-31

In his rank, we presume that the measure
will be carried. although 1t Ia offensive TO
The extremists on both sizes
II IL a mistake, however, to take lor
granted that the Dreyfus incident can thus
be closed. On grounds said 70 be legally SUI
cient an application is to be- made 10 the 'our
de Cessation TO set aside the Judgment rem
dered by the Rennes court-martia' ana 70
pronounce DREYPUs innocent OF the crime
laid TO his charge, and, consequently en-
titled to complete military rehabilitation
1t is to be feared that such decision on
the part Of the highest court of appeas
win revive the animosity with when the
present Republican regime was regarh'n
by a large majority of French Generals
and officers year and a half age. Al the
same time. nobody can blame DREYfus
and his friends for demanding justice,
OF which he has, "a yet, received only an
instaIlment.
VI. MIILERANr the Socialist Minister
Of Commerce. has been lately on the stump
through the provinces, and although MS
speeches have been frankly Socalistic,
he has ventured to repudlate the fanatioal
features Of revolutionary socialism, ard
even to declare that strikes are not an
unmixed good Evidently he has been
encouraged by the fact that majority
OF the International Socialist Congress
justified his acceptance Of office in bour'
geois Government lie has been adyo-
eating an idea put forward by NJ. JAuRfs,
and adopted by a Socialist congress Ut
Monceaux lee Mines, the idea, namely,
that IL should be impossible for a strike
10 be declared unless majority OF the
workingfnsn interested should decide by
secret ballot on n cessation Of work. Tie
added, however, that the strike should
then become obligatory, a proposal en-
tirely opposed to the well known views
of VI WALuECK-RorssfAt who last June,
in reply to an Interpolation in the Chamber.
vigorously defended the individual liberty
Of worlmen He declared that the right
of a workman, even though he should stand
alone. 20 work, is equal To the right of all
the Others not 10 work. We are reproaChed
for an act Of tyranny In having sent twenty
gendarmes to protect two workmen who
wished 10 return TO work. ! affirm that
we only did our duty in safeguarding the
liberty Of labor
For >ocialist to accept Office under a
Premier avowng such opinions was de
nounced as an act Of treaohery by large
minority in the last International Socialist
Congress. II was this minority which
enabled the Nationalist party 10 capture
the Paris Municipal Council. and which
may prove formidable factor in any
attempt to bring about a revolution.
The sun., 1900-10-31
Phila delphia and Fame.

In an article in the Independent on the
Temple of Fame, Mrs REBEcCA HARDING
DAVIS AYERS that several of the thirty
chosen Templars are already almost
forgotten outside Of their own clientele"
and she makes the puzzling assertion that
in the best dictionaries and Lives of the
Century-books used in most schools and
newspaper ofilces-l find no mention what
ever of GILBERT STUART, HORACE MANN.
ELI WHITNEY. ELIAS HOWE. WILLIAM
MORRIS HUNT or ASA GRAY"
Philadelphia is in secluded dell. apart
from the great currents Of the world There
the city sits, nursing its ingenious spirit
and dreaming of BlDDLES and BISGHAMs,
RUsHEs and RrTTESHoUsEs. 1t has an
art and a literature and a cookery OF its
own, and 1t is reasonably fun Of characters
and geniuses whom it venerates and who
live concealed from the sight Of less happy
mortals The dictionaries OF biography
that are used in the schools Of community
so self-centred and so devoted 70 its in
dgenous, ideals must be remarkable Still.
II il haEd for the barbarians 70 believe
that the inventor of the cotton gin. the
man who may be said to have prolonged
the existence of slavery for two genera
tions and to have established King Cotton
on the throne, Is banished from the bio
graphical dictionaries used in Pfiladel-
pha Possibly nobody who has not been
dead a hundred years IL admitted 20 bio
graphical honors in Philadelphia If he be
not q Phindelphian born
Naturally the inventor Of tie sewing
machine is not favorte In Philadelphia
where spinning and weaving are still dill.
igontly pursued, and homespuns the only
wear, But HOWE is in the Extra-Phila.
delphian biography books. SO are stuart
ed Hunt and Prof. GRAY and HORACE
The sun., 1900-10-31

To THE EDITOR OF THE SCN-Sir: I have
Just returned from ten weeks business trip
10 the West and send you report OF the politi-
cal conditions OF the States | visited as found
them also the political sentiments OF the
florists. the business l represent. and my
views on Bryanism.
have called on about four hundred florists in
eeven States since Aug % last, and found
only fourteen for Bryan, while two OF these
were women. This shows beyond doubt that
the florists are almost unanimous for Mckinley.
Florists realize the necessity OF continuing the
present business pro, ,perity as their business is
sort Of luxury. and they would be tho first
ones 20 feel the effects OF the hard times which
would be inevitable II Bryan should win Four
years ago my orders were 20 per cant. less and
delinquent bills rs per cent more than at the
present time. The Democrats say there IL no
prosperity Four years ago. during the first
Bryan campaign. made the same trip subStan-
italy as have this fall. | made few predic-
tons then. all OF which came true. and venture
a few this time based on personal observation
as before
Kansas is all right, "a safely for Mckinley as
New York Missouri will probably elect Flory
the Republican candidate for Governor. and
give reduced majority for Bryan. Nebraska
is close. chances fsvoring Mckinley. In Wichita.
Kan, tne Deltln2 W as de lOllONs. hAU'hS y 10 l
on Mckinley; Nebraska. even; Missouri, 10 !
on Bryan. even money on Fory; Illinois Is safe
for NJ cKinlsy. although Chicago may go Demo-
cratic on account OF the builders strike and the
machine politics Of Harrison and Bath House
john Iowu, Wisconsin. Minnesota. Michigan
and Ohio safe n. G braltar, although ckinley's
STATE may give reduced plurality from four
years ago on aocouut Of the Jones adherents
and the spread of socialism; Kentucky-wcl
therc in that Goebpl law to contend with. With
a fair and honest election VI kinley will capture
the State. diana Is debatable ground. but
judging 10y the magnificent fight tho Repubi-
cans are IutJing up. | can see II only one way
Put Indiana IN Nick nley's column. New York?
Well. II Croker and his gang can overcome the
landslide'for Mckinley and Roosevelt that viii
be brought down q the Bronx. will dof my
hat to him-if you know Of any Bryanite who II
anxious TO buy Z cd hat on the result OF New
York, how him 10 me.
AZ Covington. Ky after Roosevelts 9 speech
there heard one man say, We'll | am con-
vinCed now. II never was before. Mckinley
gets my vote " At lRcrosse. Wis, after the
Bryan meeting. the hoNel was crowded with
guests, n nd only one announced himself a Bryan
man. Rs th"v were mostly commerCi II travellers
Lat Saturday. q week the 'cket agent At Fre-
mont, Ohio. took a poll o! the travelling men
passing through the town IN two days with this
result: Mckinley, 81; Bryan, 10.
NEW YORK. Oct. 20, {. s. FORD, Jr.
The sun., 1900-10-31

MANN. II may be owned that HoHACE's
halo Is Of the dimmest nor were his ser
vices as Whig and Free Soiler or rs an
educator Of such brilliancy or enduring
result az to give him an undisputed title
TO one undivided hun dredth Of tho Temple
Of Fnme Yet the conditions of the seleo.
tion must be considered An educator was
TO be tempted and the educators on the jury
ought 10 be trusted to pick their man.
The fame Of WILLIAM HCAT may be
confined for the most part TO artists and
amateurs Of art, but the same Ia true OF
all but tho very heaven-sCaling painters
and the mere fashionable llmncrs who
have their day of popularity. lohbt'ts
HuNr is more honored in Boston than in
Philadelphia but that is his misfortune
or Philadephias. On the other hand
GILBERT stuart by his portrayal Of the
features, somewhat wooden TO later gen
eratiOns, Of the Father OF his country
has some popular renown. lie may not
be great enough to force his way into the
austere biographical dictionaries in which
our esteemed Philadelphia contemporaries
get the strong meat Of knowledge, but he
representative of the earlier race Of Amer
lean artists, following their profession
In days when the country had to give moro
thought to the applied science of bread
and butter than to the arts
Theirs the nrst opening buds, the maiden nowers Of
fame"
The long. patient and memorable ser.
vices Of ASA GRAY to science must be known
20 most people. outside OF Philadelphia,
who can read and write and cipher, but
against him. too, are the calf or sheep
skin covers Of the Brotherly Love diction-
aries closed with a bang What names
are splendid enough 10 make their way
into those charmed retreats If WATT
and ARKwRIGHT should be proposed, would
tho blackballs fsll like hail?
The sun., 1900-10-31
BRIDGE BONDS put THROUGH
by the Council, Under the whip, and a Lot
of Other Bonds, Too.

The Council got together yesterday and in
two hours transacted more business than II
had done at any other meeting this year. When
the meeting began there were twenty-three
members present The resolution authoriz-
ing "A 100000 bond issue for the erection
Of the new East River Bridge was called up
and beaten. having only 10 votes and need
ing 22 President GuRgenheimer sent out
messengers, found three more Councilmen
and got the resolution passed. Before the
Council adjourned the following bond issues
had been authorized. Fifteen thousand dollars
for improving Hudson Park, t6O. 600 for regrad-
ing Riverside Drive, s38, $50 for improvements
to the West Thirtieth street police station, S2s.
900 for Willard Parker Hospital $4,000 for
a pumping engine at Miburn. s24. 3Du for new
water mains In Brooklyn, S5OO,Q00 for improve
ments to the Croton watershed, t650O for
improving the sea wall at East River Park,
and $4,000 for new wells at Tottenvile. Staten
Island
When the Aldermen met John T. Mccall,
the Tammany leader. accused the Republi-
can members OF blocking business by refus-
ing To attend the sessions. He said that the
Republicans are opposed to the resolution
authorizing the erection OF the Blackwelfs
Island Bridge. and for that reason remained
away from the meetings. Alderman Demer.
the only Republican present. resented Alder
man McCalls remark.
Il am opposed TO the resolution" he said.
but believe that my associate members
are In favor Of it,"
The sun., 1900-10-31
Native Filipino Troops In Our Army

Applications for permission to raise bat
talions Of natives in various parts Of the
Philippines have been made to the War
Department by many officers now serving
in the is ands Almost all Of the appl-
cations have included the plans on which
the proposed battalions were to be raised:
natives were to he commissioned Second
Lieutensnts, enlisted men Of our army TO
be made Iieutenants. and Second I.ieuten-
ants Of our army to be Captains The
Department has decided that the appli-
cations shall be refused, and no more native
troops be raised. although II recognizes
that the Macabebe scouts have been Of
value, and that the tribal system Of the
Philippines affords means of raising
such battalions.
Many reasons doubtless operate TO lead
the Department to this decision. One
reason probably il that the plans necesstate
still further drafts on the commissioned
strength Of the army, alpady weakened
seriously another may be the purely ten
porary nature OF our present army sys-
TEN. all the volunteer organizations of
which must be disbandcd in a little more
than eight months, Native battalons raised
ns indicated would have little more than six
months of possible service
Our experience with native hattahons
since the Spanish war has been better
than that with any other native troops
ever mustered into our army. We have
in the Philippines one squadron OF native
cavalry and two bodies of organized
The sun., 1900-10-31
Priest yindicated After Five Years.
From the 81. Louis Republic


LOUISVILLE. Ky, Oct 20 After FIVE years
the Rev. James j Commit h . been restored to
the pastorate OF the Church Of Our Lady at
Thirty-third street aud Rudd avenue. The case
is an unusual one. In that time the case has
been through the civil and ecclesiastical courts
and even TO Rome. II Is a long story.
Five wears ago Mary Fagenturg was organist
at the Church OF Our Lady. She gave birth to
a baby boy She took IT TO the cathedral and
had it chri-tened James j. Connin Fiagenburg
after its father. she said Ri hop NJ, loskey
believed her and removed Father Conniff fro m
the parish. The rl'- parents would not be-
VI Renburg sued out a maternity warrant. hut
the Ci went against her Seduction charges
we're preferred before three Grand Juries, but
thsv failed to return an Indictment.
Bisho p Met loskey refused to hear the case.
II was appealed to- Archbishop + der in Gin
Cnnau Father COMMIT refused n settlement
on the basis OF a monetary nsideration. The
case went to Washington, VIII re Mgr. MarNinelN
viudiCatsd the y lest. Ihi, decision was sano-
toned bv the AUTHORITIES In Rome
For two wears Father COnnitf suffered under
the acD usation. one day n letter came from a
young man N Chicago, whose name the priest
wihhulds II wa from the father Of the child
and declared o lad abandoned any intention
Of msrryiur Miss FlaSenburg. The letter was
cas- ly shown TO be genuine. ard the girls
parents and the faithful parishiopers, ALWAYS
confident OF the priests innocence, were con-
vnced. II was the old ory- that of the shieid-
ing OF the guilty even To the extreme OF ac0is-
ing auo her. since some one must be accused.
Mn would have nothing else-ho has he n sta
TONED AT IS Mary and Elizabeth Hospital.
Father Conntf Cgl brated his trSt mass In the
Church OF Our Lady this morning.
The sun., 1900-10-31
IL Ministerial Crisis at Hand In
France?

The French Chamber NJ Deputies ls
about to reassemhle, and we shall soon 500
whether the prediction that the Ides Of
Novembe~ would be fatal 10 the Wal
deck Rousseau Cabinet will be fulfilled
For obvious reasons the Premier himself
and his colleague VI. MIILERASp. the Minis
ter OF Commerce. profess TO take an op-
timistic view of the situation. The Paris
correspondent of the London Times. also. *
presses the opinion that their confidence
IS not i'll founded There ia good deal
to be said on the other side however, and
II Is certain that the Nationalist and pro-
early victory.
W. WALpECK-R Rousseau. speaking at
Toulouse, described the recent Mayoral
demonstration in Paris "a the most striking
conservation any regime had ever had
He seemed to regard the acceptance Of an
invitation 10 n banquet in the capital dur
ing the Exposition by the Mayors Of almost
all the Communes in France AZ n species Of
pleblscite In favor Of the Ministers The
Nationalists who AZ the last municipal
election acquired n majority of the Paris
MuUlClDdl Ountll, TetOTI nv comparing
the banquet "CFsAR's pageant shorn
Of BRUrUs's bust" II is true enough that
a French Ministry is in jeopardy so long
as the public opinion Of he capital is ar
rayed against it. This was made evident
when Gen. BOULANoER swept the De-
partment of he Seine hy an immense
majority unde the scrutin De iis,e. At
that time. however, the civil power had
the huge standing army under much Armer
control than j. IN case to-day, alth ugh
the Prim Minister said az Toulouse that
he ad endeavored TO bring the army back
TO its national mission and to cause il TO ig-
more the divisions which had enfeebiedit it.
The Premier also announced that i'm
mediately on the meeting Of Parliament
the Government would undertake 10 carry
through TIE Chamber Of Deputies the
General Amnesty bill. which was passed by
the Senate at the last session. This is n
measure intended TO wipe out AZ one stroke
the Zola, Reinach and Picquart cases
on the one hand, and. on the other, the
Judgments pronounced by the Senate
sitting as High Court of Justice should
the hill become a law, II would permi, the
tho return of NJ DfRoULtDE. NJ MARCEL
HAnERT and the other Royalist cxlcs The
bill says nothing about DREYFUs. and
unless the Ministers are forced in the course
OF the debate to disclose their intentions
respecting the reinstatement Of that officer
The sun., 1900-10-31

The bottom Il the BRYAN canvass has been al
most react cd Early predictions Of victory were
succeeded by the stale charge that the Repub-
lIcans would win 10y the size OF their corruption
fund. Violence is following the more prom-
nent orators Now the " Prophet Of tTammany."
and hence Of Bryanism, Mr. RICHARD CROKER,
calls on his followers to knock down and drag
out the officials who. in their own judgment.
are miscountinC their votes.
The last act In this uninvting play will be
BRYAN's post-electon ackno wledGment Of de-
feat. Let it be made so overwhelming that the
acknowledgment will come with the newspaper
OF the day after election day.
The sun., 1900-10-31
Don't be coward! Vote for McKIS1EYl

The Hon. GEORGE FRIsr1E hoAR calls the
Hon WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON "a well-rnean-
ing man. who has sent me advice in respectable
prose and very bad poetry" This Gibe at Mr..
GAERIso'j's poetry Is the most unkindest cut
of oil ,aboriously he makes sonnets laudinG
tho Hor EMrIIo'A GUINALDO and the rest Of the
Tagalog hushwhack feroeious sonnets, tom
ahawks In rhyme, a sheaf OF fourteen battle
axes. They are fu Of soul and gall, thoee Gar
risonisn verse;, and Mr.. HoAR Is more cruel
than We could have believed him 10 be. Very
bad poetry Now that Mr.. GARRIsoN's heart
burns with the insult 70 his verses he will fling
himself into song with new violence and build
poetry so much worse than his present worst
that Mr.. HoAR will regret that he ever trod
upon a poets's toes,
The sun., 1900-10-31
WANT SPEECH FROM HARRISON.
Parties OF Railroad Men and Republicans Call
on the Ex-President.

INDIANAPOLIS. Oct SO.-Two delegations OF
Republicans visited Gen. Harrison to-day
for the purpose Of inviting him to speak to his
home people on the issues Of the campaign.
but the ex-President was very guarded in his
expressions. and whenever the subject of poll
tics was mentioned he adroitly turned the con-
versaton into other channels.
The first delegation was composed Of rail-
road men. and they informed Gen. Harrison
that they had called TO express the friendly
sentiments that railroad men feel toward him.
as well as the hope that he would find IL con-
venient IN tho near future 10 address them,
He replied that his time was so fully occur led
that such a thing would be Impossible Just
now, but he would be glad 20 do so at some
time In the future.
Soon after the railroad men left. Representa-
tive Lands Of the Ninth district and another
party called They were rcCe we'd in the library,
but did not reach the point of asBin Gen Har-
rison 10 speak He forestalled the request by
referring to the engagements that were taking
up his time almost wholly 70 the exclusion 81
social intercourse with friends and neighbors.
The sun., 1900-10-31
OUR MINISTER TO COLOMBIA HOME.
SAYS Liberal RevoIutionists VIII Lose-De-
fends En.Nice g Consnl g eneral ZaIamea.

Charles Bnrdctt Hart. United States Minister
to Colombia. is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
with Mrs Hart, on his way home to Wheeling,
W. Va. on a three-months' leave Of absence.
Minister Hart intended 10 come home two
months ago IN order to make a stumping tour
in his state for Mckinley, but o1lCial duties
prevented. He is delighted. however. to have
arrived in time 10 vote. and may address the
wholesals Dry Goods Republican Club to-day or
tomorrow.
Minister Hart speaks highly Of the character
Of the Liberal revulutionSts In Colombia, but
believes that the Government will be victorious
in the near future. lie SAid IL is not true. how
ever, that Dr. SanCemente who WAS denosed
by President Mnrroqun, has rcnounced his
claims 10 the Presidency
Minister Hart also said that the charges
against United States Nice-Consul-General
HAlamen, who was recently declared non
gratuS bv tho Marronun government, Of using
his official positionSo aid the insurgents ere
upfoundcd. With twenty-five wears Of peace
Mr.. Hart Thought Colombia could become
the greatest country in South America.