The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-26

from all these states. They would
make the political Rome howl and no
mistake.
The Shell City Mo) News prints the
following poem, which makes up in
emphasis whatever it lacks in elegance:
SAME OLD THING.
Same old Mack, same old Mark,
Same old dog with same old bark.
Same old frauds, same old gush,
Same old Hanna with same old sush.
Same old combines, same old trusts,
Same old boss to say ''You must"
). Same old fight as in ninety-six,
But this time, Mark, we're on to your
tricks
Speaking of poetry, here is a quat-
rain by some unknown genius which
every stump speaker should fasten in
his memory:
Almighty dollar thy shining face
Bespeaks thy wondrous power.
MY pocket make thy resting place; +,
! need thee every hour.
The Trouble With Connolly.
1t seems that / am in no sort Of
danger of falling into that class of
persons to whom the Saviour said, "Be-
ware when all men speak well of you"
NY memory has been refreshed on this
subject by an editorial published in
the Memphis Copmercial-Appeal and
presumably written by a brilliant, er-
ratio gentleman named J. NJ. Connolly.
The trouble with Brother Connolly is
that he mistakes epithets for argu-
ments. He jumped on to me with both
feet about my Boulder (Colo) speech.
The part of that speech which seems
to have stirred Brother Connelly's bile
to overlooking is the following:
am this day in favor of annexng every foot Of
the North American British possessions clear to
the frozen ocean. 1t is contiguous territory, in
habited by much the same sort of people that we
are and who would become good citizens but l
am ecrnally opposed to holding Asiatic territory,
10000 miles away, more thckly inhabited than
any state in the Union, inhabited by people alien
to US in color, race, thought and habit. would
keep only such places in Asia need for
coaling and naval stations. | ain opposed to ex-
panding territory in Asia because it is dan
gerous to institutions and would inevitably
involve us in endless complications, quarres and
wars We cannot afford to jeopardize own
liberty in any such wild, reckless and wicked
manner.
Now, that is very rational state
ment, Notwithstanding Colonel Connel-
ly's structures Oh it, | undertake to
say that it is a great deal easier to call
me names because of the above than to
show me wherein lies what he is pleas
ed to call its "hlatant idiocy." The
colonel also seems angered because
said, Il don't care a bauble about
Aguinaldo and the Filipinos." Now,
what the deuce is the matter with the
colonel l can't tell.
A Wolf In Disguise.
The real thing sticking in the craw
of The Commercially is that
am a Democrat and it is not, though
it claims to be. Colonel Connolly is Il
very able man, but if he is a Democrat
he ought to quit editing that paper; if
he is a Republican, he ought to quit
calling the sheet Il Democratic news
paper. Perhaps Il liver regulator would
do him good. Another thirg-he
should rub up on his geography, as he
seems sadly deficient. Somehow he
has got it into his noddle that live in
the Ozark mountains. While that is a
delightful place to live, and while |
am firmly persuaded that the capitol
of the United States should be moved to
the OZarks. | do not reside within 200
miles of them, but live in the great
Mesopotamian country between the
Mississippi and the Missouri and rep
resent perhaps the finest agricultural
region on the face of the earth.
l wish to suggest as gently as may
be to The Commercial-Appeal that gen
Gine Democrats don't care n copper
what it thinks about any subject under
the shining sun BY calling itself n
Democratic paper it is playing the wolf
in sleeps clothing and could be con-
victed in any court of justice as a
rank fraud | class it with other Re
publican papers and consider its abuse
as positive praise. \ paper which
drove Ed Carmack from its editorial
chair because he was honest and a
silver man surely cannot have much
influence with Democrats down south.
Germans For Bryan.
The two most illustriouS Germans in
America are Carl SchurZ and Dr.. Emil
Preetorius of the Westliche Post.
Schurz is openly supporting Bryan and
DR.. Preetorius is saying things which
are helping him greatly. For instance,
not long since he said editorially:
Any one who has even a superficial knowledge
of history knows the menatng danger (drohende
Gefahr) which miiitarism carries to the free in
situations of country, especially of a republic.
France OF today should serve as a horrible ex-
ample (abschreckendes BeispieD.
If anybody has ever had a good word
to say about Colonel Teddy's asinine.
outrageous and libelcus speech at St.
Paul, | have not heard of it. SO far as
| have been able to observe it has been
received by the public press with sui
len silence, defensive remarks or open
denunciation. 1t perhaps did the Re
publicanS more harm than anything
else that has happened this summer.
John Peter Altgeld, once Missouri
an and later governor of Illinois, jump
ed on Teddy at Toledo and danced a
war jig on him. John Peter grew sar-
castle and alliterative and said. Re