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THE COST OF CONQUEST.

Paul Kruger, at the beginning of the
war in South Africa, said that the
price England would have to pay,
would stagger humanity. Since Lord
Roberts declared the war over one
year ago, it has cost England three
hundred and fifty million dollars in
money. eight thousand lives and TWEEN
ty-seven thousand other casualties.
The third year of the war is on, and
burghers are still in the field, defying
attempts to corner or capture them.
Great Britain is perhaps still able to
crush out all opposition, but at what
tremendous sacrifice! 1t will re.
quire force sufficient to run down
and capture all the Boer commanders;
the country will have to be laid waste
and the women and children subjected
to starvation. 1t will cost the British
empire sum sufficient to purchase
the entire territory in dispute. Mean
while during the struggle, Great Brit
ain will have lost much of it's COM
mercial supremacy in all the great
markets Of the world 1t may gain
possession of the veldts and bare
kopjes Of the African republics, but
the cost, the cost.
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SPEcULATIoNs AS TO THE DEM.
OCRATIC PARTY.

The democratic party will not be in
a condition to make any kind of re.
spectacle fight in Iowa for many years;
the party organization is in disrepute;
its best and most sagacious leaders
have retired in disgust. A prominent
local democrat gave expression to the
following somewhat bitter arraignment
of the party leaders, on scanning elec-
ton returns last Wednesday,:
During the past three or four cam.
paigns the party has been led by in
competents to say nothing of mediocre
men who have sought only notoriety
and the few loaves and fishes that are
to be picked up in the towns and cities.
The time was, when the democratic
party in Iowa had intrepid leaders as
we'll as brainy ones; they had men of
honor who could overlook defeat and
in the next campaign go to work again
but all the time animated by high prin-
ciples and convictions Of duty. That
time has passed and there has come to
the democratic party in Iowa defeats
that are worse than destruction
1t can not be gainsaid that many of
the best men of the parry have with
drawn in disgust from the organiza,
ton as at present constituted. This,
however, does not relieve us from the
apprehension that the democratic party
| will revive. We We're able to whiI
them apparently to death in 1872 but
they swarmed like Egyptian flies in
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PEOPLES PULPIT.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Wanted-A New Policy.

Editor Courier:-The result of the
recent elections is bewildering to dem
ocrats who can scarcely see in the re-
suit anything that points out to them
what they should do in order to avoid
the defeats that annually come upon
them. A republican majority in Iowa
was anticipated, but who expected it
to run up to near the one hundred
thousand mark? There was a bare
possibility that Tammany would be de-
feated in New York, but who expected
the defeat would be so crushing? Who
anticipated that the college professor,
Seth Low, would be SO triumphantly
elected over Shepard, the Tammany
champion? The result cannot be
claimed strictly as republican vic
tory, but it is defeat of Tammany
through a fusion of anti-Tammany
forces. On the other hand, fusion of
the anti-republican forces in Pennsyl-
vania resulted in a republican victory.
In Ohio, Massa chusetts, Nebraska the
republicans bear triumphant banners.
In Iowa the democrats are democrat
lied by the colossal majority against
them; there seems to be nothing left
to the Iowa democrat except to escape
W IiiC Woouo. lSCCuI ySdl tuG
party in Iowa has been led by incom-
petents and the local leaders have
been discouraged. The democrats of
Iowa, however, are generally good peo-
pie; there is nothing the matter with
them as citizens except that they are
deceived and humbugged by incompe-
tent leaders. At the present time they
are in dense fog, bewildered and dis
couraged. They will remain quiet un-
til the republicans arouse them by i'll
advised acts of radicalism; they are
now receptive and in condition, as it
We're, that may lead to better under
standing between them and the domi-
nant party.
The democrats, however, have been
driven from one position to the other
until they are now in the open field.
They cannot fight any longer behind
the free silver breastworks; the tariff
question is eliminated by the march of
events; they have themselves surren-
dered their distinctive principles in
the national platforms adopted at Chi
cago and Kansas City. There is there
fore wanted, new policy by the demo-
cratic party and it must be provided
quick, in order to be of value to the adj
vertiser. A. Democrat.
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FIRE AS A MODE OF PUNISHMENT

The burning of negroes at the stake
in the south is getting to be very Sc
rious not only because the law is held
in contempt, but the habit of burning
grows and seems to be very fascinat-
ing to the southerner. Therefore the
ready arrived, when the burning will
take place first and an investigation
afterward. The last and recent exam
pie was at Gulfport, Mississippi, and
the dispatch says the negro confessed
the crime of rape, after being identi-
fed by the woman. There is bare
possibility that the confession may
have come from a hope of pardon or
rescue. The torch applied to the hui
man skin is a terrible thing. The guer-
rillas in Arkansas, federal and confed-
crate, had a way of holding the bare
feet of prisoners in blaze or over
hot embers in order to compel them to
yield up their concealed treasure Fire
was the element that our forefathers
used to convert the heather or subdue
the refractory. 1t is recorded that
fire well applied is one of the most
powerful arguments that has ever op-
ened the eyes of dull men and women
to questions of deep theology. So it
is that the southerner is going back to
primitive methods in dealing with the
colored race. We do not hear that
they burn any white men but they
may arrive at that stage of develop
ment in the near future and then we
may look out for a kicking up of the
chunks. White men are not going to
be burned alive without kicking.
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other wurruld like tn kind they have
be amy Crow Hivin | wondher how
they keep UP race supremacy. May
be they get on without it. Anyhow
l wasn't world about Booker T l
have me own share iv race prejudice,
Hinnissey. Meier man an brother
has darkened this threshold since I've
had it or will but tn whitewasher. But
l don't mind sayin' that I'd rather ate
with a coon thin have wan wait on
me. I'd sooner he'd handle his own
food thin mine. FIR me, if amy
thumb must be in tn gravy, lave it be
white if ye please. But this wasn't
my dinner an it wasn't my house an
l hardly give it q thought.
But it hit TIL Sunny Southland. No
part iv tn country can be more
gloomy whin it thries thin tn Sunny
Southland an this here ivint stint a
thrill iv horror through ivry newspa-
per firm Pattymack to tn Sugar Belt.
Firm time immemoryal, says wan pa
per l read, TIL sacred rule at tn
White House has been, whin it comes
to dinner, please pass tn dark meat.
1t was wise rule an founded on
thrue principles. TIL supremacy iv
tn white depinds on socyal supeery-
GRITTY an socyal superiority depinds
on maxim tn coon alto in tn back iv
tn house. He raises our food
FIR us, cooks it, sets tn table
an brings in tn platter. We are lib
eral an we make no attimpt to sup,
plant him with more intelligent an
wage labor. We encourage his indus,
thry because we know that FIR low
ordher iv intelligence, labor is tn on'y
panacee. 1t is no good FIR a thought.
full man. We threat him right. He
has plenty to do an nawthin' to both
er him an if he isn't satisfied he be
hanged. We are slowly givin' him an
idjacation. Ivry year wan or more
naygurs is given good idjacation an
put on north bound freight with a
warnin'. But whin it comes to havin
him set down at tn table with us, we
dhraw tn color line an tn six shoot
er. TIL black has many fine qualities
He is joyous, light-hearted an aisily
lynched. But as fellow bong vivant
not be amy means. We have tn
highest rayspict FIR Booker T. Wash'n
ton. He's an idjacated coon. He is
said to understand Latin an Greek
We do not know. But We know that
to feed him at tn White House was
an insult to ivry honest man an fail
woman is tn Sunny Southland an &
blow at white supremacy. That mus
be avinged. TIL las enthrinchmint i,
socyal superiority in tn South is tn
dinin' room an there we will defind il
with our sacred honor We will moi
only defnd cur own dinin' room but
ivry other mans, so that in time, if tn
prisidint iv tn United States wants tt
ate with naygur, he'll have to put
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BOOKER WASHINGTON AND THE
SOUTH.
(From Gunton's Magazine for Novem-
har

I1Ou1 oulIOh 4hoSelNALS 1Si ANoNSuh-
Der.
The excitement in the south because
Mr. Booker T. Washington dined with
the President is an unfortunate eXhi-
bition of ill-breeding. What right has
the south, or anybody for that matter,
to dictate to the President who he
shall invite to dinner? In all that
goes to make man Mr.. Booker T..
Washington is the peer of any and the
superior of most of those who have
shown the small spirit and bad man
ners to abuse the President for adj
hitting him to the White House. Nor
is this narrow fanaticism confined to
loudmouthed politicians. The presi-
dent of Hampden-Sidney college in Vir-
ginia, says:
eff Roosevelt, or any other kind of
welt, wishes to live with niggers, l
cannot help it; if he is built that way,
he cannot help it, but he has got no
business as President to be guilty of
any such criminal folly. 1t is an out
rage on official decency; it is con-
temptible. If he prefers niggers, moth
ing | could say could help him; am a
white man, you know"
Such statement is disgrace to
any educational institution in this
country. Mr.. Booker 7. Washington
is as much whittier than the author of
that as civilization is superior to bar
barism. But Mr.. Roosevelt is not the
man to be coerced by such snobbery.
The south may burn negroes at the
stake and take pieces of charred re-
mains as trophies of their brutality,
but it cannot coerce President Roose.
welt from the duty of recognizing the
equal rights of all American citizens,
and every attempt to do so will react
on themselves.
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in wiping Spain from the West Indies
in order to do justice to the Cubans.
Turkey realizing the strong position
she occupies in being neutralized has
insolently or rather stubbornly refus-
ed to better the condition of Turkish
Christians. There is however, a con-
dition of things that is being brought
about that will soon tend to com
plete reformation of the Turkish ques-
ton. Among those nations that have
been outraged through Turkish insol-
ence or stubbornness is the republic
of France and dispatches have been
received at Paris announcing that Ad-
miral Caillards division of the French
Mediterranean squadron has arrived
at Smyrna, and seized the customs in
order to compel the payment of GER
tain delayed indemnities. In ordin-
airy times this would have been unim-
portant as England and other Euro.
pean nations aside from Russia)
would have promptly interferred to
protect the Turk but now there is a
busy time among the nations that have
all they can do 70 take care of them
selves. Great Britain dare not turn
aside from the South African war in
order to help the Porte out of it's trou-
bles with France. Russia will certain.
ly do nothing else than to stand by its
ally, the French republic, and the 9th
err nations will be disposed to stand
aloof at this juncture and let the sick
man of Europe work out his own sal
walton with more or less fear and
trembling.
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coon to dinner at tn White House?"
asked Mr.. Hennessy.
He's a larned man." said Mr.. Dool-
ey.
Hes coon,' said Mr.. Hennessy.
well, anyhow" said Mr.. Dooley,
its goin' to be tn roonation iv Prisi-
dint Tiddy's chances in tn South.
THOUSANDS iv men who wudden't have
voter f'r him undher amy circum-
stances has declared that under no
circumstances wud they now vote FIR
him. He's lost nearly ivry state in tn
South. TIL gran OIL commonwealth iv
Texas has deserted tn banner iv tn
Republican party an Mississippi will
cast her unanimous counted vote again
him. Onless he can get support firm
Massachusetts or some other state
where tn people don't care anything
about tn nagur EXCEPT to dislike him,
he'll be beat sure.
Il don't suppose he thought iv it
whln he asst me cultured but swarthy
frind, Booker T. They'd been talllin'
over TIL race problem an tn Cuban
war an tn prospects iv tn race an tn
Cuban war an tn future iv tn naygro
an tn Cuban war, an findin' Booker
I. was interested in important public
subjects like the Cuban war tn prisi-
dint asst him to come up to tn White
House an ate dinner an have a good
long talk about tn Cuban war. Yell
not be tn first Wash 'nton that's ct
here he says. 'Th' other was no rili.
tive or at laste,' says Booker t., he'd
hardly own me- he says. He might,
says tn president, if ye'd been in TIL
neighborhood iv Mt. Vernon in his
time he says. Anyhow, he says,
come up. I'm goin' to thry an expert,
| ment,' he says. L want to see will all
tn pitchers iv tn prisidints befure
Lincoln fall out iv tn frames when we
come in he says. An Booker wint
So wud l. So wud annywan. I'd &c
if | had to black up.
Il didn't hear that tn guest done an.
nything wrong at tn table. Firm all
can larn, he hung his hat on tn rack
an used proper discrimination be-
tween tn knife an tn fork an asst fl
nawthin' that had to be stint out fl
They was no mark on tn table cloth
where his hands rested an an irwin
tory iv tn spoons afther his departure
showed that he had used gintlemanly
restraint. At tn conclusion iv tn
festivities he wint away, lawn his
ilusthrees frind standin' in tn top iI
San Joon hill an thought no more
about it. TIL ghost iv TIL other Wash
'nton didn't appear to break soor
tureen over his head. P'raps where
George is he has to ASSOCIATE with
NANNY Numbers iv TIL Booker branch
on terms of akequality. / don't sup
pose they have partitions up in tn
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With a reasonable state platform
and good state ticket to help them,
the democrats of Scott county would
certainly have won. But admirable
as the local democratic ticket was it.
was heavily, fatally handicapped. To
overcome such a burden was impossi-
BILE. Under theb circumstances the
Scott county democracy has no reason
to feel discouraged.
In New York the lines were not
squarely drawn between the two par
ties. 1t was fusion against Tammany
and fusion of all the more respectable
forces has made Mr.. Low mayor. He
thousands of democratic votes.
Elsewhere the states went the nor
NAL way.-Davenport Democrat.
o.
Iowa Solid and PotentiaI.-When it
came to passing upon two United
States senatorships, the voters of To-
echo all over the republic. Allison
their commissions renewed by an
tential at Washington, and it proposes
W IGlldlu SOilu dlu
lington Hawk-Eye.
Dark for Mr.. Bryan.-The result of
the election will be noted throughout
the country with special interest. The
state has gone republican by a major
ity greater than that of last year. 1t
is remembered that republican work
ers within the state were apprehensive.
There was much on which to base es-
Inmates. In the Presidential election
of last year there was unusual inter-
est. The machinery of the national
organizations was employed at its full
strength, the stake being considered
large, as it is the home state of Will
| liam J. Bryan. Party workers on eth
er side this year had little help from
the outside. Little apparent interest
was exhibited by the voters of the
state. There was only judge of the
supreme court and two regents to the
state university to elect. What did it
matter?
1t mattered much to Mr.. Bryan how
the home election went this year. The
election of the fusion ticket-for it
was still fusion in Nebraska-would
nave SLOOu lOr uOlue luuOISS-
ment; such Endorsement might
have been made to stsnd in support of
assertion that the expression of last
year was not fair expression, and it
might have stood, also, as support for
additional effort in behalf of the crumb-
ling fortunes of the leader of national
democratic party IN the two last presi-
dental campaigns. The coutcome in
Nebraska was a matter OF nervous
anxiety to Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan led in the fighting for the
fusion ticket in his state, and his
prominence made his leadership con
spicuous. The republicans had no
heavyweight to pit against him. The
state committee was handicapped in
every way. Information outside the
state was confined to the fact that Mr..
Bryan was making hard fight. What
the republicans were doing not many
knew, and out of such a situation the
impression grew that Nebraska was to
be put down as doubtful.
| Next to Nebraska Mr.. Bryan was so.
licitous about Iowa. The democrats
of this state, in convention assembled
after hard tussle, had reaffirmed the
Kansas City platform, necessarily an
Endorsement of Mr.. Bryan. 1t was
lcreditable to him that he desired to
assist his friends, and it was not un
natural that he should desire that nc
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
2IOWA PRESS COMMENT
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

OOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOO
Mr.. Cummins' Great Achievement
To be elected governor of Iowa is no
small honor to any man. To be
elected, however, governor of Iowa
by the largest plurality ever given
to any man is an achievement that
must carry with it feeling of great
pleasure and pride. 1t remained for
Mr.. Cummins, elected governor of
Iowa on Tuesday by plurality of
$4,000 to be made the recipient of the
distinction ofhaving broken all plurali-
ties in this state. In 1887 Gear re-
ceived plurality of 42,012 and in
1889 his plurality went as high as 72,-
043 William Larrabee's plurality in
his second term was only 1889.
Jackson's plurality in 1893 was 80 ,165;
F. M. brakes plurality in 1895 was So
$50, while Governor Shaw's plurality
in 1897 was 29,276 and in 1899 it was
56,153. In the face of the plurality
accomplishment of Mr.. Cummins
Tuesday was remarkable one in ev-
cry way. In Mr.. Cummins Iowa will
have a governor who will be credit
to the state, to the republican party
and to himself when careful estimates
will, in future years, have been made
of his term of oftice.-Davenport
Times.
The Burden Was Too Heavy
There is not the least surprise in
what the voters of Iowa have done
this year. They have entered their
protest against Mr.. Phillips. the Bry-
an candidate for governor, in much
stronger terms than they did against
Mr.. White, the same sort OF candi-
date two years ago. With the head of
the ticket buried, the rest of it has
gone the same way by majorities larg.
err than ever before rolled up in Iowa
at a purely state election. This is
nothing against the candidates of the
minority party personally, but it is an
open and unqualified reputation OF
est cause. Whether the men who
made the platform this year have
learned anything remains to be seen
Judging from their past course there
is room to doubt whether they are
capable of knowing when they have
been beaten out of shape.
Mr. Cummins may take to himself
some credit for the great majority or
the comparatively small vote; but it is
probable that another candidate Of
fair record would have done almost as
well. The electors of the state voted
their convictions, and almost any re
spectacle set of candidates represent
ing there convictions would have tri
lumphed by large majority.
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TURKEY AGAIN IN DANGER.

During all the years that have trans
pired since Turkey was given the Gus
tody of Palestine by the Christian ESQ
called) nations, there has been astrife
among the powers of Europe as to
which one of them should have the
custody of Turkey. There are strong
reasons why the ambitious European
nations should have longing for con-
troll of Turkey and all that it contains.
Long years ago-many centuries ago
when the modern Greek empire was
established with Constanitnople as the
capital-it was recognized that any
monarch who aspired to universal do
minion could not select capital for
his great enterprise better than the
beautiful city on the Bosphorous. Con-
stantinople is indeed q point of great
strategy; if it were not the capital of
Turkey, a country that exists only
through the sufferance of the world s
great nations, it would be the scene of
constant struggles. 1t is required in
that wonderful system of the world s
diplomacy, known as 'the balance of
power" that Turkey shall exist and
that Constantinople shall be the CAPT
tai of that neutraliZed nation. The
reasons are apparent when the geo.
graphical positions of Turkey and
Constantinople are considered.
The European wars during the
past three hundred years have
been more or less Influenced by the
Turkish situation; there could have
been no rational explanation of the al
lance between Turkey, England,
France and the Sandman principalities
and all these against Russia during
the Crimean war except that the allied
nations recognized that Russia must
/. be held in check and that Turkey
should be preserved in order that the
proper balance of power in Europe be
maintained. Had Russia been free to
carry out her will during the Crimean
war, Turkey would have been dismem-
bered and Constantinople occupied by
the Cossacks. Russia would have
then made long stride toward uni
versal dominion. Nearly the same
conditions prevailed few years ago
when the war broke out between Rus
STA and Turkey. The battle of Plevna
was fine demonstration Of Turkish
yalor but Russia had the heaviest can
non and the largest battalions: the
Russians pushed forward until the
minarets and domes of Constantinople
were in view and England rushed for.
ward to prevent the catastrophe. A
special treaty dictated by Great Brit
ain gave the Russians some incense
quential concessions but the treaty
was a victory for Turkey and secured
her long lease of life.
Despite the civilized worlds pro
tests Turkey has continued a system
of prosecutions against the Armenian
that is disgrace to the day and age
in which we live. The United States
refused to permit the atrocities II
Cuba and expended millions of dollars
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One Of the greatest of floating docks
was that at Havana; it was
known to be in that harbor Immediate
ly before the war but the public lost
track of it. What became of that
great floating dock which was landed
in Havana harbor only about year
before the Maine was destroyed. What
disposition of it was made by treaty
or otherwise?
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WILL MARRY WITHOUT VOWS.
Miss Heron Says She Believes Earth.
ly Forms Are Vain.

New York, Nov. 9.-Miss Margaret
Evelyn Heron, sister of Professor
George d. Heron, the socialistic agi-
tator, has announced her engagement
to marry DR.. Henri Werner Berghall of
Manistee, Mich, and the wedding will
be conducted on the same plan which
made sensational the marriage of Pro-
fessor Heron to Miss Carrie Rand,
"his disciple and affinity"
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ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
Senator Fairbanks and Speaker Hen
derson Will Respond to Toasts,

Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 9.-The
Army of the Tennessee will meet here
next week. At the banquet Thursday
night Senator Fairbanks will respond
to the toast "The President" and Col
onel D. B. Henderson of Iowa, speaker
of the national house of representa-
tives, on 1.-THE Army of the Tennes-
see"