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Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
The Summer Without a Song.

This third quarter of the year l9O2 A. D. is queer in many ways. It will De remembered for other things beside volcanoes and tidal waves. 1t marks not only year without a summer, but a summer without a song. Whether il be the fault of the composers or of the thermometer gives a chance for a pretty argument. The fact remains that for the first time since Jim Crow jumped his inaugural jump there is no melody that everybody is singing, whistling or playing.
 It is an unusual note of silence-a disqu:eting rest in the symphony of the citys noise. The street boys are con roisseurs too experienced to whistle what was last summers melodic prop erty. But listening from their gallery perches in the theater no new tune has caught their fancy sufficiently to re- ceive the much-desired mark of their whistled approval. The organ grinders twist out the "FlorOdora" sextet. rag time of very ancient state of ragged ness, and forlornly fall back on Mas cagni's intermeZZo for lack of nov city to set the feet of New IUrk's un- equaled pavement dancers skipping. There is no special bit of music to be found on every piano in every apart
 eat house and on the programme of every hotel orchestra every evening. It is a condition without precedent.
 From White Wings" and 'Ta-ra-r -ra- boom-deay' on through the coon-sonG plague and down to the tattered sex tette aforesaid, there has been each season a song that we sighed or Swore at. according to the sex or the wearied nearer. But all the time we liked it and the rhythm tinkled always in our ears, though we were ashamed to con- fess it to our musician friends.
 There is no such thing now. At least three musical pieces have fared well through the summer in Broadway play houses. But the songs of these and others, whose stay was shorter, have just failed to make the desired hit '' in spite of well drilled corps of whist 1ers to take up the chorus and other skillful advertising devices.
 There Is no reason why this should be so. The songs have been neither bet ter nor worse than in past seasons. But not even the we'll sung tale of the woes of the rural youth who "came down to spend a week or two in town" in re- sponse to the invitation of a guileful girl, can fairly be classed as the sue cessor of the successes of the past If 1902 is to have a champion among the "tum-te- tum" troubadours he must make his appearance in one of the fall productions. The summer has giv- en to the populace no pet sonE-Ncw York Express.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

stitution is to remain in the hands of friends, instead of too ready critics, until it is put in full operation, thus giving it square chance to demon- strate its value and influence. If yes terdays vote could be fully analysed 1t would doubtless be found that this desire on the part of the democratic masses was a basic impulse.
 The fact that the new constitution is to have four years of favorable trial means in turn long season of rest in this state from political turmoil and scheming and contention. Governor Jelks has no ambition beyond good ser vice as the states chief executive. He will build no machine; like the lament ed Stanford. he despises machine build ing, and the state will have four quiet years, politically speaking, in which business enterprises and material af- fairs can be pushed to the utmost. Not until 1906 will there be another impor- tant election in this state. By an i'm portant election we mean a contested election. The federal election of 1904 will be altogether one-sided under the new registration. The legislature will not meet again until 1907. Alabama in the historic primary of yesterday won, therefore, rest from politics, and that means peace and progress, and that is glory enough in one day.-Birmingham Age Herald.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
- - So Very Imprudent."

We notice signs of nervousness in some quarters, and suggestions that the president is talking too much, on too many subjects, and q great deal too unrestrainedly. It is intimated that such flood of speech must have danger in it both for MT. Roosevelt himself. in respect of that nomination in 1904, and for the republican party. It is elementary prudence in politics, one expert says. to keep your mouth shut whenever and as long as you can. Least said. soonest mended.
 view. Years before his accession to the great trusteeship held by President Roosevelt, he wrote: Whenever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government. Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their Cthe people's) notice. they may be relied on to set them to rights" Years after his retirement to private life he wrote: 'I have not been in the habit of mysterious reserve on any subject nor of buttoning up my opinions within my own doublet. On the contrary. when on public service especially. thought the public entitled to frankness and intimately to know whom they employed"
 Jefferson's successor in the year 1902 accepts this view as correct, and is en- ergetically putting it in practice. He. tco. believes that the people. when we'll informed. will decide rightly he is sup plying them with information. Some things-the Cuban reciprocity matter, for instance-need setting to rights; he is calling the peoples notice to them. He has not buttoned up his opinions. Employed on the peoples service, he frankly explains to them what has been done and what he hopes to do: the doublet Cto recur to Jefferson's phrase) is wide open. If by this time the Amer ican- electorate is not pretty well ac- quainted with the present American
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPT. 4, 19o
Republican Prospects

Republican,sm seems to be in the air all over the territory. There has never before been a time when the party was confronted with such tiatterlng pros pects of success. In almost every county there is popular dissatisfaction with the management of affairs during inc last two years, and there are not wanting signs that the people are So- ing to insist upon a change at the election in November. It is not to De understood that there is a split Tn the democratic party. If there were that would signify nothing, for democrats when they divide on an issue, however vital it may be, have a way of com promising on election day, though they may have spent all tho previous days fighting.
 It is, on the contrary, good sign that the democratic leaders are united on one thing, wish 10 control the or fees for another two years. It is better sign. though. that there is feeling of unrest among all those who are not politicians, democrats and re- publicans, those who have nothing to gain by the occupancy of the office by any particular clique. The people who pay the taxes are dissatisfied.
 The republican party throughout the territory is solid. and it is backed by the people. not only of its own party. but by the people of both parties who are in favor of a good and economica! government. For this reason we believe that majority of the counties will go republican. and we believe that the whole territory will put itself in ac- cord with the administration hy the election of a republican delegate tc congress.
 The last democratic legislature, in which the republicans had only five representatives in both houses, has contributed greatly to the republican prospect of success. Nobody wants to see history repeat itself in a delibera- tive body of that kind. If there were no other reason why such legislature should not be elected again. the so- called code would be an argument aaginst it SO long as there is a copy of it in existence.
 It is essential, though. that the re- publicans put forward only their best men for the offices. Every county can didate named should be the most eff cient to be found in his county. bad or incompetent republican is no better than democrat of the same class, and it will not take the people two years to find that out. It is barely possible that they might make that discovery before the opening of the
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

The famous Dutch marine painter, Mesdag, whose paintings at the world S fair are we'll remembered. denies the lengthy dispatch reporting his death. MT. Mesdag insists that he Is still alive and expects to be for some years to come. Many of the leading metropoli- tan papers of the world contained fine tributes to his life work which will be such agreeable reading to him that MT. Mesdag will probably be glad he didn't die, as reported.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

hem very thoroughly before discussion eases. and, if they are baneful in their influence. ways will be found to curtail heir power. Besides. beef cattle and other animals can be raised and killed in the old way in the older parts of the country. But meat is likely to be high, If not as high as at present until the 9roduction and the demand are in more larmonious accord.
 Meantime, the best efforts of the clever people who try to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before will be continued. There will oo oil-cake-fattened cattle, distillery-
 ed cattle, and baby stall-fed beef. Il may be that some of these make as good beef as that of finely bred cattle fattened on succulent grass and corn, but any meat is much to be preferred to none at all. Certainly none of them it present commands the very highest prices in the best markets; that is. if the retail butchers know what they are buying.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

president, 1t is no fault of his. He couldn't maintain a mysterious re- serve" if he tried. He is not that sort.
 In the case of an insincere man, or of a sincere man not fortunate enough to have won the public confidence, such a round of daily speech making would have been fraught, no doubt, with deadly political peril. But Theodore Roosevelt is in no such precarious case. He is sincere, and he has won the pub lie confidence. The people believe in him; like him, and like to hear him talk. They listen with a conviction that they are getting the honest thought of an honest man. and they are going to think it all over for them- selves at their leisure. The result Is not likely, in our judgment, to be un- favorable to the president himself or to the republican party.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

The country was nearly plunged into grief yesterday for the second time within year. President Roosevelt was saved from the same death which struck down a man beside him by the good fortune which has attended him through his active career. There is joy throughout the country at his escape. He has not only endeared himself to the great mass of the people by his honesty and his earnestness in the discharge of his duties, but he has undertaken great work which it may be doubted any one else could carry on so well.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
MEAT MAY CONTINUE HIGH.

There is another important element that seems to indicate that the price of meat will continue to be higher for long time-there is Q falling off in the production of cattle. In the United States, on January 1, 1900, the oxen and other cattle numbered 27.610.054. At a corresponding time, four years earlier, the oxen and other cattle numbered 52,0S4. .4C9. There is a falling off of something like fourteen and one-half ger cent, during a period when the population increased something like ten Der cent. Here are conditions which were not brought into existence by the beef trust, nor yet by the prede- cessors of the beef trust.
 Is the beef trust preparing to take ad- vantage of these conditions? That seems very likely, for the men who have combined to form this trust have waited until now to do it, waited until l time when the eyes of the whole country are turned upon them to form combination more intimately con- neCted with the life and the happiness of the people than any of the other great cnterprises-the steel the sugar. and the oil trusts, for instance. Is their purpose sinister? That can hard ly be. unless it is sinister to employ large aggregations of capital in a large way; for. after all, the only security that the future hclds out to them is good service to the people. The people are just beginning to look into this matter of trusts. They will understand
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
CURRENT COMMENT
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 Beef Demand and Simply.

No matter whether or not there is in the United States a beef trust" or q beef combine or beef barons or any thing else with beef prefix, it is plain enough that one leading cause of the present high price of beef Is an in- creased demand and decreased sup ply.
 A statistician of the bureau of labor in Washington shows that our popuIa- tion in this country increased over 20 per cent between 1890 and 1900 In the city and semi-urban population the in crease was over B per cent, but in the country areas there was an increase of only 9 per cent. This discloses that there are now about one-third more people to eat meat at those points where 1t is more generally consumed than there were in 1890, while among the population that raises cattle there are only about a tenth more. There were only 2.1 per cent more cattle slaughtered in the five years ending with 1901 than were killed in the pre- ceding five years. and the last year the average weight was lower. And the census reports show that there was an actual decline of per cent in the number of cattle from 1890 to 1900.
 With these conditions of demand and supply existing, not to mention the short corn crop of 1901, is 1t d cause for surprise that beef is higher than it was q year ago?-New York Com nercial
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
Alabamas Primary Election.

The nomination of William Dorsey Jelks by the rank and file of the demo- cratic party is a personal triumph of much significance. It means that q man who does his duty in office will be supported by the people. Governor Jelks has gone ahead meeting every demand of public business with cour- age and rare good sense. and such ser vice has been appreciated by the thou sands and tens of thousands who went to the polls. and the verdict of yester- day will become the verdict of Novem- Der.
 But yesterdays victory was much more than a personal matter, for in it was bound up the full execution of the new constitution. The ballot of yesterday decided that the new con-
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

Colonel Wilson may now sing: "Only One More River Fer to Cross" He has done nothing else all summer but cross rivers and some of them have been pretty turbulent, but they have been mere. rivulets beside the strong broad stands and casts a wistful eye toward the seat in congress which he warmed at one time
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
GROUP.

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Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

Ut looks," says an eastern exchange, ''as if Sam Smalls usefulness as pro
 hibition advocate is gone" As we un- derstand it, when he was speaking for temperance the other day it was against prohibition, not in favor of it. Sam Small was engaged by the license side against the prohibition side. His use fulness as a temperance orator IS gone.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
INDICATIVE OF PROSPERITY

The Iron Age hears that an order for about 30,000 tons of steel rails for de- livery to the Pacific coast, has gone to German manufacturer. Further more. that two of the western railway systems need 100000 tons, which the American makers cannot deliver as fast as needed notwithstanding their large facilities.
 Transactions like this will figure in the years commercial reports as show ing decline in exports and an increase in imports. with a corresponding di- intuition os the balance of trade in our favor; but instead Of proving that. pros perity has reached its zenith and is on the decline, it will mean the exact op- posite. All the facts should be before the commentator who draws conclu- sions from the huctuating annual bal
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
ance Of trade.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
AUTOMOBILE CASUALTIES.

Automobile accidents have con- spicuous place among the news of the day as newspaper readers well know. On Tuesday al Long Branch, N. J., an automobile crashed through the side of bridge and fell 35 feet, killing two persons and injuring two others. At Bloomfield, N. J., on Monday night an automobile running at a high rate of speed struck q priest who, only by mil racle escaped death. On Long Island Sunday night, two doctors were thrown from an automobile when the driver swerved it from the road to avoid a col .ision with surrey. The horses draw ing the surrey became frightened and ran away. At Oxford, Conn, on Sun day q horse was frightened to death oy an automobile. These were among the automobile items of Tuesdays newspapers.-W Worcester Spy.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

They do some things differently in England. For instance, the Westminster Gazette publishes the following story:
 At the time of the kings recent op- eration, according to M A. P, the nurse who had been present to assist eft the room on his recovering con- sciousness. but not before the king had caught sight of her face. Directly after he asked one of his physicians who she was, for he had seen her somewhere. and quite lately. The doctor admitted that this was so. for but a short tine before his majesty had presented this same nurse with a medal for her work in South Africa. That gift has been rendered doubly precious to it's recipi- ent, for the king asked for the nurse, shook hands with her, saying at the same time: I have proved for myself how well you deserved that medal.
 Now that nurse keeps right on nurs- ing. Tn this country she would lecture or go on the stage.-Chicago Record Herald.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

"Is the automobile passing" inquiries the Globe Democrat. If there is a smell of sulphur mixed with oil and some other objectionable ingredients, it probably is.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

If Gas reported) an official person education at Manila is interfering with and bothering Superintendent Atkin- son, the sooner Governor Taft reduces that person to innocuousness. or fires him out, the better for the Philippin" schools and the civil government
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04
ANNOUNCEMENT
Telephone 39i

 l hereby announce myself as oandi- date for the office of constable subject to the action of the republican conven- tion. n. r. KYLE.
 1 hereby announce myself as can didate for the office of district attorney of Maricopa county. subject to the ac- tion of the republican county conven- ton. ARTHUR S. EDWARDS. hereby announce myself candidate for the office of district attorney of Maricopa county. subject to the action of the republican county convention.
 H. E. WILKINSON. O~-~-~O~O00N0~-~~>--~-o~-L~> >-~~>~-~A~.O~0~~ l hereby announce myself as can didate for the noriiha;ion for probate judge of MariCop1 county, subject 10 the action of the republican county con vention.
 WILLIAM p. RICHARDSON.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

A great many people in this world would be better than they are if any body could make it as interesting to them as not being as bad as they might be.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

The absence of democrats from the streets of Phoenix need occasion no alarm. They are in the country seeing about the primaries next week
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

MT. Bryan is going to confine his speechmaking to Nebraska this fall. Now lock out for a republican land slide in Nebraska
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

No need to fear sudden attacks of cholera infantum, dysentery, diarrhoea, summer complaint of any sort if you nave pr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry in the medicine chest.
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

The Lancaster literary society de- cided at a recent meeting that seven men out of ten are boTes,
Arizona republican., 1902-09-04

All kinds Of printing, railing, book and magazine binding and book repair ing done satisfactorily and quickly at The RepublicS1 office.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-03
QUEER LUCK OF BETToRs.
Some Mistakes In the Backing of Horses
That Paid Well.

Inbt Iaiu VOL.
Men who go racing suffer from
quaint Authorizations, and at times
with beneficial results, says the Lon
don Sketch. At Goodwood this year
a well-known writer came across a
man who professed to have backed the
winner in the Stewards cup. When
asked why, he calmly referred his
questioner to the good race O'Donovan
Rosa had won at Newmarket a week
or two previously. A book" was
produced and the race hunted up, but
the winner was O'Donoghue, and the
Stewards cup winner did not run in
that race. Last Cambridgeshire day,
after the race so beautifully won by
Sloan on Encombe, l asked an ac-
quaintance what sort Of race he
had had. 1t turned out to be sat
isfactory one. He proceeded to in
form me that he had received wire
from somebody Gin the know" at
Stanton advising him to back the
good thing and that Wadlow had Just
got the horse to his liking. Added to
which he gave me many other details
concerning the animal and its owner.
Pardon me-" l ventured to say, you
have mixed things up little" l took
his race card and showed him that
he had backed Echelon. But he had
not. Through some mistake he had
backed Encombe for Echelon, and,
what is more, he backed a winner
Chicago Tribune.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-03
Fishes of Nile.

w. s. Loaf, the superintendent of the
survey of the fishes of the Nile. has
returned to Egypt to continue his work
1t is proposed during the ensuing sea-
son to explore the Blue Nile from its
junction with the White Nile to Ro-
saires, and ever farther IL the steamer
can ascend the river. On completion
of this river Mr.. Loat's instructions are
to ascend the White Nile from Fa-
shoda to Gondokoro. in Uganda, es-
tablishing fishing stations on his way
un