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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
A Standard Measurement.

There's no doubt about it," said the
man with large diamond on his neck
tie; that man is a genuine patriot"
''Hcw do you known
"Why, he can get up as much enthu-
siasm over an election as he does over
a prize fight."-New York Evening
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15

Genius begins great works; labor
alone finishes them.-Joubert.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15

The miss guided youth does every
thing his sweetheart tells him to.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15

A bankers interest in his fellow-man
is a noteworthy matter.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15

Frankfort, KY, Feb. IL. The au.
thorities expect to obtain important
evidence regarding the assassin of
Coy. Goebel from .Silas Jones, who
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
Hay mt Pretoria.

Hay received cablegram from Abel.
bert Hay. United States consul at Pre-
toria, stating that he had received his
exeaNatur Wednesday, and that mat
tiers were very satisfactory. This ef-
fectually disposes of the apprehension
that existed in some quarters that the
Boer government might decline to re-
ceive Mr.. Hay because Of the failure
of Col O'Bierne TO receive recognition
from our government as diplomatic
representative from the Trausvaal.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
Bryan VIII Carry Maryland.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.


Senator George l.. Wellington, Of Mary
land, whose ab~jurgation of McKinleyism
and espousal of the Democratic cause has
not yet ceased to be a matter of comment,
is in the city tonight. He says hat Mary
and will go. Democratic by $4,000 plurality;
that the German-Americans, of whom he
accounts himself one, are for Bryan heart
and soul, and that they will vote, as they
nave vowed. against criminal military ag-
erosion. Senator Wellington confidently
predicts Mr.. Bryan's election.
TIL Westbote, the most prominent Ger
man Democratic paper in Central Ohio,
came out to-day in an editorial affirming
it's support of the Democratic ticket from
top to bottom and all the principles of the
Democratic platform. In 1896 this paper
supported Mckinley, and undoubtedly ex-
erted an enormou influence among the
German-American voters, as 1t has long
possessed considerable prestige among
them. 1t has been n~oncommittal in the
campaign heretofore. and its strong stand
for Bryan and Stevenson is hailed with
joy by the managers of the Democratic
campaign and consequent disappointment
by the Republicans.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
III TRUSTS.

There are no trusts."-Mark Hanna.
"A good trust is a good thing. "-Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
The Democratic party is responsible for
the trusts. Secretary Lyman j. Gage.
The Republican party alone is compe-
tent to handle the trust question. Eight
tenths of the business Of this country is
done by corporations. Any legislation or
action against corporations would throw
eight-tenths of the skilled labor out of en-
ployment.'-Senator Chauncev M. Depew.
The Republican party has evidently
handled" the trusts in a most efficient
and satisfactory manner during the
past few weeks, as is evidenced by the
corruption fund which Mark Hanna
succeeded in raising. AS a handler
Mr.. Hanna must be awarded the gold
medal. His success in handling" Is
considered the best evidence Of the
truth of Governor Roosevelt's assertion
that good trusts" are good things"
and the trusts have been REAL good
things for the Republican party.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
ARISING.

The Philadelphia Press, a stalwart
Republican organ, has worked itself up
into a fine frenzy over a recent re-
mark by Mr.. Bryan that the Republican
managers will buy every vote ina. can
be bought and coerce every vote that
can be coerced," and accuses the Dem
ocratic candidate of thereby insulting
the people of the nation, and asserts
that "the fact that Mr.. Bryan has
stopped to tell the free voters of this
country that they can be bribed will
be the last and convincing proof of his
unftness for the Presidency"
Now, that sounds well. And yet this
very Philadelphia Press, Republican
organ and supporter of the admins
tration at Washington, has daily. for
months past, told its readers, under
scare headlines and In leading editorials
that the elections In the city in which
it is published, and which has been
under unrestricted Republican control
flor many years, have been scandulous-
ily corrupt, and that bribery, ballot box
crooked counting, and every
sother conceivable sort OF fraud have
fiourished to . degree not longer to be
endured.
4 VII at<ika mnst psopla thai In
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
AN ECONOMIC sCIOLIST.

Philadelphia North American.
Charles R. Flint, of New York, who is
addicted to the u~ttering of sonorous twad-
die on economics and mistaking 1t for
profund reasoning. told the Illinois Man
Association last Tuesday that
trusts not only do exist. Notwithstanding
the inability of Senator's Hanna and Frye
to discover them, but are benefcent insti-
buttons and vitality necessary to the COM
mercial safety of the United States.
Here is a sample of Mr.. Flint's logic con-
densed: China has ne trusts; China is
non-progressive; therefore China's nom
progressiveness Is due to the absence Of
trusts. , America is progressive; America
has trusts: therefore American progress
is promoted by trusts.
Logic of the Flint brand is capable OF
indefinite expansion and application. For
example: THE Chinese do not wear tall
hats; China's army is inefficient: there
fore's China's failure to defend Pekin was
due to the >high-hatless condition of her
people. Americans wear high hats; Amer
leans can fight; therefore high hats are
promoters of military power
Or again: MIR. Flint can't think: Mr..
Flint believes in the beniicence of trusts:
therefore Mr.. Flint believes in the benifi-
cence of trusts because he can't think"
Additional examples of the sort of logic
that confounds co-existence with cause
and effect will be furnished to Mr.. Flint
upon application TO the nearest primary
school.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
Most Useful Man.

uckhannon Banner.
Judge w. G. ennet has occupied the
circuit bench In this district since January
l, 1855, and has been most fortunate In
giving satisfaction both to the bar and 10
litigants. SO general has been the com
mendation at all times that his friends
and supporters at the polls do not seem to
be confined to those of any party. Where
he Is the best known he is looked upon
and spoken of as the most available and
useful man In the State for our Supreme
Court of Appeals. He is tn the prime of
life. has the courage of his convictions.
has extensive knowledge of the law and
is a born Judge. 1t is more to the peoples
interest than Judge Benefits that he
should be elevated to the Supreme Court
of Appeals for the coming term. Dur only
regret is that we will lose him from our
circuit bench, but the State Is greater
thar the county or district
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

A staff correspondent of a Pittsburg
Republican paper, writing from Char
lesion, confesses that the late visit Of
Senator Elkins to the State capital in
the hope and expectation of squelching
the Republican revolt in Kanawha
county, was a fiat failure, yet the writer
asserts that about ten days before the
election Mr.. Elkins will return and
will take such measures as will bring
about harmony and ensure the carry
ing of the county for the Republican
ticket. There is no doubt but that FL
kins will return to Kanawha county,
but that he can buy, bull-doze or weedle
the anti-ring Republicans into doing
that which their conscience forbids, no.
body believes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
McMechen's street Railway.

ClarkSburg Mall.
The street railway men had a meeting
with the paving contractor and street
COMMISSIONS at the mayors office Thurs
day afternoon, the object of the meeting
being to canvass the possibility Of putting
down the car track along with the street
paving, which is now under way. Presi-
dent b. X. hcMechen and Chief Engineer
Bert Hazlett, of Wheeling. were present
on behalf of the car line. and insisted that
they could not get ties in time to begin
the work OF track laying for several weeks
yet, but stated that the rails would begin
TO arrive next week, and that they would
be ready to lay track by the time the paw
ers reached Pike street. The car line is
now an assured fact. the contract for
same having been let to the reliable con-
tracing firm OF Wade. Stone & Co.. Of
Baltimore.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
MIR. 5. GEORGES CANDIDACY.
Elsewhere in &ahic }ccs,a of $6o Pa0fs.

MR.. s. GEORGES CANDIDACY.
Elsewhere in this issue Of the Regis
ter, appears. from a Wellsburg CORES
pondent, a copy of a notice recently
posted In the work of the Standard
Glass Company, controlled by Mr.. S.
George, the Republican nominee for
State Senate, by virtue Of which a
number of workmen have lost their po-
sitions.
MI. George lately proclaimed himself
to be a friend of labor, and yet, almost
upon the eve Of the election, and with
his pledge to be fair still echoing
through the district, he demands in
creased exactions from his employees.
His anxiety for the welfare Of the
~wage-earner, and his promise to give
fair treatment in the future to union
labor ere only born of his ambition TO
secure Office, and no workingman,
either union or non-union, takes any
stock in his eleventh hour protesta-
lions.
The unqualified endorsement Of the
Trades Assembly, yesterday, OF Mr..
John Kunkle, a workingman himself
and the friend of labor, shows how the
wind is setting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

of the hot period, 1t I time when the
most serious and important interna-
tional negotiations we're id progress.
Postmaster General Smith has been
making political speeches out West, be-
ing assisted by his Fourth Assistant,
while his Third Assistant has been
campaigning in the Northwest. Secre-
tary of the Treasury Gage has been
talking in favor Of the trusts in New
England, and Attorney General Griggs
has been advising the people OF New
Jersey as to how they ought to vote,
while Solicitor General Richards is
stumping Ohio, Assistant Secretary of
Wal Meiklejohn has gone to Nebraska,
and Commissioner of Pensions Evans
has been and will continue to speak in
the Middle West.
Coming down to minor offices and
smaller men, the neglect of official du-
ties is beyond parallel. Governor
Roosevelt, Of New York, for instance,
has not attended to his official duties
for four months, but he draws his sal
airy just the same, and the Republican
Governors of many other States are
following his example. Going still
lower, we find that in many States, as
in West Virginia, heads of State de-
partments are neglecting their duties
for campaign purposes, and ever United
States Marshals, District Attornies and
their Assistants, and officers of the
Courts are absent from duty in aid Of
their party while religiously drawing
their salaries from the people, just as
though they were giving some service
in return.
When a man leaves a public office
for private or political purposes his
salary ought to stop, and if he persists
in the practice his tenur OF office ought
to end. Public servants ought to per-
form their duties or be made to step
aside.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
UNANSWERED

Why is IT the tenderest feet must tread the
roughestr oad2
Why is 1t the weakest back must carry
the heaviest load2
While the feet that are surest and nrnest
have the smoothest paths TO GOT
And the back that IS ~straightest and
strongest has never a burden TO
why is It the brightest eyes are the ones
soon dim with tears2
why Ia it the iightest heart must ache
and ache for years.
While the eyes that are hardest and cold
est shed never a bitter tear
And the heart that Is smallest and mean
est has never an ache to fear?
why IS 10 that those who are saddest have
always the gayest aug
Why is Il those who need not have always
the biggest half"
While those who have never a sorrow
have never a smile to give.
And those who want Just q little must
struggle and strive TO liver
Why Is ii the noblest houghts are the
ones that are never expressedz
Why is 1t the %grandest deeds are the ones
thai are never confessed,
While the thoughts that are like all others
are the ones we always ten.
And the deeds worth little praise are the
ones that are published weli7
Why r. IL the sweetest smile has for It's
sister a sigh
why IL IL the strongest love Is the Iowa
we always pass by,
While the smile hat IL cofd and indlner-
ent IL the smile for which we pray,
And the love we kneeI 10 n worship 10
only omm0n clny2
why Is IL the friends we trust are the
ones who always befray7
Why lie II the lips we wish 10 kiss are the
lips so far away.
While close by our side. II we knew ft. II
a friend who loyal would be,
And the lips We might q kissed ara
the lips We never sea2
Why Is II the things we can have are tho
things we always refuse7
Why = e mono Of us 1--we the lives, II Ne
could, we'd chooses
The things that we all can have are tia
thinE1 Ne always hate.
Ana me seems never complsts. no mo1<oe
q Ne wait
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
PLANS roR A LARGE ARMY.

The Republican administration at
Washington no longer attempts to dis
guise its hope of increasing the mill
tary establishment of the government
to one hundred thousand regular troops.
1t has been settled that this will be
done, in the event Of the reelection of
Mr.. Mckinley, and in accordance with
this intention the War Department has
prepared estimates for the fiscal years
1901 and 1902 upon that basis, and
from S125, 900, 900 to $3.50, 600, 900 will
be asked for each year. The larger sum
will probably be exceeded in the event
that there is a Republican Congress as
well as a renewal of the Republican
administration.
= Two plans for the reorganization and
increase of the army have been pre-
pared, one by Secretary Root, repre-
senting the ideas of the President. and
the other by General Miles. Secretary
Roots plan calls for a rmane mill
itary establishment OF one hundred
thousand men, in place of the present
army of $4,000 regulars and 35. 900
volunteers. General Miles proposes
a permanent force of $4,000. divid-
ed into thirty-six regiments of infant
ry, fifteen regiments of cavalry and
twenty field batteries, and in addition
$4,000 men for the garrisoning of coast
defenses, making an aggregate of 9s.-
600, not taking into account engineers.
etc. The two plans, therefore. are prac-
tically identical as to the numbers. and
each has in view the recall
OF the $4,000 volunteers whose
terms expire pext June, and who
must be brought home and must
cred out Of the service. AS the terms
OF many men in the regular service
VIII expire about the same time. It IS
altogether probable, If this scheme is
carried out through a popular endorse
ment OF the administration at the polls
on the 9Th day Of November, that from
fifty to sixty thousand recruits will ne
needed. and that many young men
Will De asked to enlist, most 81 whom
Nr ~F+A4
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

The people should remember that the
annual cost of a large army for pay and
maintenance is not the only cost, by
any means. Many soldiers mean many
new pensions, extending over long
years, to be paid for by the people. The
drain is practically an endless one, and
tends to increase rather than diminish
as the years go by. Isn't it time to
call a halt?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

The new telephone company is plant
ing many poles along the streets Of the
Island, interfering with shade trees
and grass plots and rendering the
streets unsightly. There is surely
enough Of poles in the streets of Wheel
ing. Why shouldn't the new company
be compelled to keep to the alleys?
Property owners ought to make a Wig
kick about this matter, and have
the poles removed to the by-ways in
stead of allowing them to be placed on
the highways.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

The Martins Ferry Mark Hanna club
and the local colored club saved Sat-
urday's field day Republican parade
from total failure. Three of the local
clubs in the aggregate dia not number
as many men as the Martins Ferry
club alone. and the Eighth ward turned
out but four sets of tours and the off,
GERS. After a ten days boost In the
lntelligencer, 1t was a dismal failure.
so far as the public turnout was con-
cerned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

The Parkersburg State Journal says
the only way Kentucky can be made
respectable in the eyes of the world Is
for the people to elect a Republican
Governor, who will pardon Howard and
Powers. How's that for a law-abid-
ing. sentiment? It comes pretty close
to a declaration that assassination for
political purposes is all right, and
should go unpublished.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

These days lists of vice presidents
of Republican meetings are copied at
random from the city directory. No
mar thought to be a Republican es-
capes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
A telegram from Pekin SAYS:

"The Americans are making a search
of the Forbidden City for the imperial
porcelain collection, not for loot. but
merely for the purpose OF examining
the collection"
Not for loot; merely for examina-
toni" Probably. possibly. maybe. GER
tainly.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

The Intelligencer's account Of the
Ryan meeting, in Washington district,
Friday evening, was about the most
humorous thing that ever came down
the political pike.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
THE ITCH FOR OFFICE.

Theodore Roosevelt has it, if a man
yer had. He started in early to OBJ
tain public place, and he is keeping it
up, upon the idea that the public owes
him a fat salary as long as he is on
earth. First he was a member of the
Assembly of the State of New York,
an Office not without honor and not de-
void of compensation and opportunity.
Then he had an idea that he would
like to be Mayor of New York City,
but missed the prize through the per-
verseness of a majority of the people.
Then he succeeded in being made a
Civil Service Commissioner under Pres
ident Harrison and was continued I'M
der President Cleveland. Once more,
after the expiration of his term, he
doomed up as the President of the
Police Board of New York City, and
then he gracefully and willingly slid
into the high Office of Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy. This was doing
pretty well, but not well enough for
Mr.. Roosevelt. He felt that other
honors, positions and salaries were due
him, and taking advantage of the
Spanish war, he next appeared upon
the scene as Lieutenant Colonel of the
Rough Riders, and in Cuba achieved
distinction and a reputation for brav-
cry and soldiery qualities by shooting
a fleeing and unarmed Spanish soldier
in the back, and Dragging about it
afterward in a magazine article penned
by himself. This ought to have been
glory enough-but it wasn't. Teddy
was nominated as the Republican can
didate for Governor Of New York, a
State which had given Mckinley prac-
tically a quarter Of a million majority.
He only pulled through, however, by the
scratch majority of seventeen thousand,
possibly because the periodical to
which he had contributed his war
"reminiscences had a large circulation
in his State. He is still drawing his
salary as Governor, but is neglecting
his duties while charging back and
forth across the b~oundless West as the
Vice Presidential candidate, shouting
invictives at his fellow citizens who
cannot agree with his peculiar views,
and denouncing the volunteer army as
a whole, save and except his own Or
~ganization, equal to any regulars"
This is a summary of Roosevelt,
aside from his literary career, which
has some merit, and his ranch expert
ences, which are not undressing.
AS the proprietor of a ranch he would
have found congenial occupation; as q
writer he might have achieved fame;
as a politician he simply has notoriety.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
Why the Tru.ts Laugh.

Philadelphia Record.
Chairman Hanna says hat in the eye OF
the law there are no trusts. senator De-
pew says that the Republican antitrust
law OF 1890 has destroyed these m~onopoiies.
According to Attorney General Griggs this
law cannot reach existing trusts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

The car workers at Huntington have
struck against a reduction OF wages.
This is another evidence of overpower-
ing and all-prevading prosperity, we
suppose.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
what II $.

Atlanta Constitution.
The success of Mr.. Mckinley means a
military establishment which Will more
than consume all the profits from enlarged
Every cent made by manufac-
tories or agricultural production will be
expended in epaulets and powder.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15
THE DREAM of EMPIRE.

Last Friday evening Senator George
F. Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, made an
address at Concord, in that State, and
in the course Of his remarks reverted
to the administration policy in the
Philippines, from which he emphatic
ally d~issents. We have not the full
text of his address before us, but the
Boston Herald says of it,.
Senator Hoar explained that he would
have the United States do in the Phil
ippines as is being done in Cuba. Had
this been the announced policy Of the
administration from the first, he be-
lieved the Republicans would have had
a very easy time of 1t during this cam
paign. But some of them had been
misled by dreams of empire and by a
false conception of glory.
And the Globe quotes
But they tell you that a great mis-
take has been made in the matter Of
the Philippine Islands. l think SO, too.
My opinion is we'll known. The policy
which seemed to me best for the coun-
try seemed to me also best for the
Republican party. II that course had
been pursued we should, in my opin-
ion, have had the Presidential election
almost without a struggle"
Il think the right of self-government,
as the fathers said in the Declaration
of Independence, is a thing they are
entitled to by the laws of nature and
of natures God"
This Philippine dose is a bitter one
for Mr.. Hoar to swallow, but he has
to gulp it down or lose his job. If his
Senatorial term did not expire until
1902 or 1903 how he would pour hot
shot into the Mckinley camp. As it
Is, he has to straddle the fence. Mr..
Hoar presents the lamentable spectacle
Of a man who believes one thing and
has to say another.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

1t is given out, privately and conf
dentially, from Republican State head
quarters that they expect to carry West
Virginia by $500. Only a week or two
ago the figures were 10000. There will
be a further shrinkage In another week.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

Republicans say West Virginia is GER
tain to go their way. That they may
believe this is attested by their fran
tic endeavors t. save something out of
the impending wreck.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

Down in Kentucky the grand juries
are indicting people for attempted de-
bauchment of the ballot box. Here is
another chance for the Republicans to
roast Kentucky Courts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

The recent affidavit of Mr.. Keeney,
OF Kanawha county, appears to be a
proper matter for investigation by a
Federal grand jury, under the recent
charge by Judge j. ]. Jackson.