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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-19
Feat of Gen. Davis.

Maj. Gen. George w. Davis, who has
ust been retired for age, has a splendid
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-19
To Succeed Davis.

Davis successor in the Philippines
will be James F. Wade, now q major
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-19

Treasury Building Crumbling.
The pillars of the United States treas
Try are crumbling. That is not so start
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-19
A Good Time.

Mr.. Bensonhurst- Willie, did you
have a good time the week you spent
at your grandfather's?
Little Willie Rather! He let me go
out to play without calling me back
every time and saying: willie, have
you got clean handkerchief?'-
Brooklyn Citizen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-19

a Sont an Dinner with thought of him as
an American and
yet he was born in Lowell, Mass, was
o cadet for time at West Point and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-08-19
in Washington.

There is an old house at the corner
of Twelfth and E streets, the lower
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
Generals Of the Civil War.

William E. Curtis, writing to the
Record Herald, has the following In.
teresting bit of history connected with
the generals of our civil war:
"The recent death of General "Bal.
dy" Smith. General William B. Frank.
lin and General Schuyler Hamilton re.
duced the number of survivors of the
1872 major-generals commanded by
President Lincoln during the civil wal
to Il. General Miles is the only one
now in active service. The following
are upon the retired list CT the army
John NJ. SchOfield. Daniel E. Sickles
Alexander McCook. Thomas j. Wood
Francis Fessenden, Wesley Merritt
Oliver o, Howard. James H. Wilson
Benjamin II. Grierson. Napoleon j
T. Danner. The following returned
to civil life at the close of the war
Cassius. M. Clay, Carl Schurz, Peter ]
OSterhaus. Granville NJ. Dodge, Lew
Wallace and julius Stahl.''
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
The Political Sick List.

One OF the oldest features of Amer
lean party life is the existence of what
may be called an Invalid corps in each
political army which. it is understood,
is to be nursed along by perennial Of
fice-hOlding. There are certain men
in this state and in other states and
there are certain men in the national
arena, who have apparently pre-
scriptive right to Office. Whatever
happens, these men are to be taken
care Of. The pathos of an electoral
overturn, the thing that moves rude,
strong men almost to tears, is the re-
Fiction that the political sick list will
be turned out of its comfortable
haunts into a world where men must
work in order to live.-New' York
Mail and Express.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

Emulating the example OF the Ar
mOurs and SwiftS, Nelson Morris &
Co. have gone into the poultry and
egg business on an extensive scale.
The frm has purchaser out right
more than sixty branch packing
houses OF the Arthur Jordan Company
Of Indianapolis, located 10 Indiana, H.
linois and New jersey, and all the
eastern branch markets, including
those in New York, Boston and Brook
Ign. The deal includes the transfer
Of twenty-five pieces OF real estate.
Thus Morris & Co. have done at n
single bound what Armour g. Co. and
Swift & Co. have taken several years
TO accomplish. The two latter firms
established their own agencies over
the country developmentally, while
Morris & Co. by this deal have become
competitors on equal terms by the
mere closing OF the negotiations with
the Arthur Jordan Company, which
did an immense business. The In
dianapolis plant remains in the hands
Of the Jordaa Company.
The new concern will control the
larger part Of Indiana and central and
southern Illinois, the best poultry pro-
ducing section of the West.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

Senator Dausman, of Elkhart
county, says If he is returned to the
state senate he will offer resolution
calling for state constitutional con-
vention, at which the present state
constitution, which is fifty years old
may be radically amended. He says:
; 1.-The state of Indiana should make
the same provisions in regard to the
legislature, that Ohio, Illinois and
other states make. The legislators
should be paid an annual salary and
the. sessions should be held until all
the business before the legislature is
disposed Of. Legislators who have
private business interests will not pro-
long the session unnecessarily. They
would have no incentive to do 50. On
the contrary, they would be interested
in getting through in the least posi-
bic time, but we would not then have
the rush OF business that comes 10 the
last two or three weeks of the session
under the present law. / think a
change in the constitution in this re-
gard would result in great good to the
state" - .,.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02


Senator Allison thinks it is unfair
to criticise the senate for It's failure to
complete the reciprocity arrangement
with Cuba. while we did not &C
complish all that we desired and in
tended in that directicn," he said,
i've accomplished as much as was pos
sible under the circumstances, and ia
the discussion Of the subject all the
conditions must be taken into consid-
GRAFTON. At no time since the Cuba
reciprocity project has been before
congress haye we had two-thirds ma
jOrity in It's favor in the senate, and
we were prevented from passing the
bill that came to US ia the first session
OF the Fifty seventh congress, as we
were prevented from ratifying the
treaty in its original form. beca :se of
opposition that could not be overcome.
This opposition was SO strong that we
were compelled to abandon the bill
and to modify and amend the treaty,
but / repeat that SO far as human wis
dom and foresight could guide US we
carried out the policy of the admins
tration and the republican party and
attempted to fulfill their pledges to
Cuba and to the people of the United
States in good faith.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
RoraI Delivery Highway Law.

The governor has signed a bill to
require ali highways on United States
rural free delivery mail routes estab-
lished to be kept in repair and passa-
BILE condition, and providing penalties
for the violation thereof. 1t shall be
the duty Of boards of commissioners,
township trustees and road supervi-
sors to keep in repair and in passable
condition all highways in their respec-
tive districts or Jurisdictions along or
on which rural free delivery mail
routes have been or may hereafter be
established, and the township trustees
shall set aside at least five per cent of
the road fund received by them each
Tear as an emergency fund to be used
10 carrying out the provisions of this
act. 1t shall also be the duty of such
officers to see that such highways are
properly drained, are kept free from
obstruction of every kind and nature,
including snowdrifts, and are at all
times in such condition as to be read
lily paSSable to ordinary travel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
A Field for Corrupt Combination.

Washington dispatches Indicate that
certain officials of the poStOffice de-
partment have been carrying on a sys
tenn Of peculation that may reach con.
siderable proportions. The officials
said to be implicated are the heads OF
the divisions of postoffice supplies, OF
rural free delivery and of salaries and
allowances. All of these divisions are
attached to the Office OF the first as
sistant postmaster general. The di.
vision of postoffice Supplies furnishes
the necessary books and blanks fol
postal business. marking and rating
stamps, canceling ink and ink pads,
letter balances and scales, wrapping
paper and twine to all offices of which
the gross receipts are 500 year and
upward. The division of salaries and
allowances regulates the allowances
to postoffi ces for rent. fuel and light,
clerk hire and miscellaneous expendi
lures. The rural free delivery divi.
sion has to do with establishing and
extending that branch Of the service,
though it does not furnish supplies.
These three offices furnish field for
a corrupt combination in the purchase
of supplies and for utilizing political
influence to cover up such transac-
lions il the heads of the divisions are
dishonest. That remains to be seen.
The charges call for thorough investi-
cation, and it is said the president
has already ordered it.-Indianapolis
Journal.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

The indianapolis Sentinel's Wa-h-
ington correspondent writing of Gen.
eral Tyner's dismissal from the post
Office department says several names
have been presented for the office, but
none from Indiana. Indiana candi-
dates are not wanted. From the
time of the star route frauds, when E.
W. Brady of Indiana was second assis-
tant postmaster-general, until the
present nearly all Of the big postoffice
department scandals have occurred in
branches of the service that were un-
der the control OF Indiana men, and
now the Indiana man who ventures to
apply for Gen. Tyner's place will be
turned down in Snort order.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
Unprepared to Fight Gfe's Battle.

Time spent in the school room to
impress upon the minds of the boys
that no man scores success in life,
whatever his calling, except at the. ex-
penSe of concentrated and continued
effort, would not be wasted. This
rinciple should be taught early-at a
time when the boy looks ahead to the
time when he shall become a man.
Too many of our boys come upon the
stage of action to fight life's battles
wholly unprepared to put their ener-
gies into the work which they choose.
For this reason there is vast army
OF young men 'drifting" like the
sands of desert until half life pas
ses before they lodge against this OBJ
struction-the principle which should
be inculcated early in life. -Nappanee
News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
MARRIED
Steele.Weeks.

Mr.. Oscar c. Steele and Miss Laura
j. Weeks were married Tuesday eve
ming, March "a, at the home of the
officiating clergyman, Rev. Martin
Luther Peter, Lapaz. The groom is
the son Of Mr.. JOSIAH Steele, of Union
township, st. Joe county and the
bride one of the most highly respected
young ladies Of North township, Mar
shall county. Mr.. Oliver P. Bondur-
ant and Miss Frances M. Mishler
acted as groomsman and bridesmaid.
The young couple will 60 TO house
keeping on the Daniel Steele farm
south of North Liberty.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
The Deciding Vote.

Did you ever think what a large re-
sponsibility may rest on thai small
section of society which holds the
"balance Of power" In this country,
where numbers alone are supposed to
count, the change of only very few
votes may ovefturn long standing pol
icieS.
In the presidential election of 1880
Garfield had popular plurality of
only 7,O18 over Hancock in a total
vote of over 10000, 900. In other
words the margin was only l in about
400. Half a century ago Vermont
adopted prohibition by majority Of
less than 1900. Recently the state
overturned this verdict and declared
in favor Of local option by an official
majority of only 729 votes. By the
change of only 2lO0 people the policy
Of the whole state has been changed.
The staid, stolid voters who vote
their party ticket In season and out
are like pawns on a chessboard: the
one side merely offsets the other and
none of them count much except in
the way Of neutralizing an equal force
on the other side. 1t is the floating
vote, the restless, changeable element
in society, that turns the scale.
The advantage OF this is that any
good movement has only to convert
this very small changeable element in
order to gain the balance OF power and
win. The disad vantages of it is that
bad men and bad measures may like
wise win merely by the manipulation
OF this balance Of power.
We say then that the responsibility
of that portion Of society whose views
are unsettled is very great. They cast
the deciding vote. The political man.
ayers understand this principle thor
oughly, for they always do their most
active campaigning In the close dis
tricts Presidential candidates are
regularly chosen from the states or
sectionsswhere the vote is close. The
states which are lrrey0cably either
democratic or republican are thought
little Of. They are like the sheep that
are safe in the fold; it is the wander
ers that a-e worried about.
Not only in politics but in every
thing else do the independent think
ers hold unusual power either for good
or for evil. The skirmiSh lines de-
cides the fortune Of battle. If it is
given to thee to see things somewhat
more clearly than thy neighbor, then
is thy duty so much the greater. II
is the discriminating few that con-
vertS minorities into majoritiss. In
significant reinforcements have turned
the tide of many battle.-Patb-
finder
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

When Senator Tillman held up the
senate in order to get his bogus claim
for over SAT 900 into an appropriation
bill it was generally assumed that the
SAT 900 was the amount obtained.
Such is not the case. The Tiilman
amendment provides for 4 per cent.
interest since the date of the claim
years ago-so many years ago that the
interest amounts TO over S41 900.
Thus Tillman gets for his state, by
senatorial courtesy, more than SS8,.
600 for a claim which board that ad-
justed similar claims OF other states
said amounted to "a cents.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

A peculiar case of quickened con-
science is revealed in a remittance OF
SO just received by Mrs. Mary Will
Jams of Kewanna, from the Rev. L.
o. Herrold, pastor Of the Chistian
church at San jose, Cal. The minis
ter wrote to Mrs. Williams that at the
close of his service a week ago last
Sunday young man approached the
pulpit and handed him SO, remark
ing that the sermon had SO appealed
to him that he was moved to make
amends for a wrong done to Mrs. Will
Jams many years ago, when he was
clerk in a store at Kewanna. Mrs.
Williams was a customer, and in max
ing change he defrauded her Of IS.
He wished to pay the money thus
taken with interest for the entire per-
iod, and the pastor consented to send
the cash to Mrs. Williams. She has
no recollection of the occurrence, but
gladly accepted the money. s. -
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
Warn Roosevelt to Beware.

President Roosevelt is receiving a.
good many warnings from persons of
supposed anarchistic tendencies who
represent to him that his life will be
endangered during his coming trip in
the west. AS the time of his depar-
ture grows nearer the communications.
of this character increase in number.
The president treats them with the
utmost indifference. His secret SER
vice attendants, however, are giving
these warnings the closest attention
and all the letters received are care
fully preserved.
A most interesting communication
Of this character was telegram re-
ceived by Secretary of War Root Fri
day. 1t is quite lengthy and the Sec
rotary was left to pay the charges. 1t
was from a crank at Los Angeles, CAL,
who wired that the president will be
in dlnger of ''explosion. railroad acct
dent, fire arms and elevators on three
days, especially, west of Washington,
caused by eclipse of sun and Mars In
their equinoxes. +"
The days referred TO are March %,
20 and 80, which are not included ia
the presidents itinerary. The presi-
dent will not leave the white house
until April 1. The telegram was
signed Professor Pfuel, (which is in
terpreted at the war department to
mean pain STOOL" H
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

The constitutionality of the inde-
terminate sentence law Of Indiana is
to be tested at Knox in a case that
will be carried to the Indiana supreme
court this week. In the brief it is
contended that board Of prison
managers is not clothed by law with
the power to sit in Judgment and pass
on cases where an inmate is held be-
yond the minimum term because Of
any infnction of the rules of the In
stitution. 80 =.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
Fowler Chase Found in Paris,

Moses Fowler Chase, the grandson
of Moses Fowler, leading capitalist
of Indiana, after whom the city OF
Fowler is named, has been the center
of a celebrated lawsuit in the courts of
Ohio and Indiana. He was supposed
to be insane and four years ago his
father lost track of him, and all efforts
of detectives to find him have been. in
vain. t4arsa ~ o. ss~ssts fog
wednesday Consul General Gowdy
found him in private sanitar;um in
Paris, and physicians pronounce him
hopelessly insane. The institution
has handed Chase over to Mr.. Gowdy's
care. ~ piA e<s fae
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

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Mrs. Burdick is woman of slight
figure. like her mother, with the large
eyes of her daughter, with a long
nose, full lips and mouth. pufed
cheeks, a receding chin and a los
forehead-in a word, homely. She is
az years Of age. Pennell was "a and
and Burdick AZ. She was as pale as
parchment, but usually calm and al
WAYS resourceful. There were times
Under the stress Of District Attorney
Coatsworth s examination when her
voice died away 50 even be could only
catch a few of her words. Il
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

Bishop Spalding, who has Just re-
turned TO MS home In Peoria, H.,
from his labors on the anthracite
strike commission, gives 1T as bis
opinion that the period of strikes in
the United States has passed forever
and that arbitration will be adopted
TO settle all labor difficulties in the
future. The bishop thinks the pre-.
cedent established by the commission
will 60 much TO bring about this state
of affairs. 1t will be found much
less expensive means of solution by
both sides to a controversy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

Prof. Dallas L. Sharp, of Boston
University, at the First Methodist
church, Sunday, said:
mo woman who wears seagull OF
a sorg bird IN her hat can eyer get to
heaven. If you need an Easter bon
net, get it. Wear it to church. 1t
is an honor to God and.a benediotiop
to the soul to have and see Easter
bonnets. Get the bonnets, however,
without robbin9 and killing. Those
who take the lives Of the song bird
and the bird OF beautiful plumage can
not hope for heaven 'a
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

tsOld men in the public service at
Washington must co." is an edict
that has issued from the white house.
Hardly a week goes by without some
veteran office-holder in a responsible
place losing his position. In nine
cases out of ten the gray-beard is sue
ceeded by a young man. This policy
has been inaugurated in all of the
ramifcations of the treasury depart
ment and it is gradually extending to
all of the departments. 1t is the
presidents idea that old men who are
no longer capable of attending prop
erly to their duties shall be succeeded
by active. virile young men.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

Americans Of all classes are rapidly
awakening to the industrial possibili-
ties of Canada, fact that is well
illustrated in one field by the 40, 900
American farmers who emigrated to
the Northwest territories last year.
Nevertheless it is with recurrent sur
prise that one receives the reports and
statistics that show the extent Of
these possibilities.
In an article on aCanada and Its
Trade Routes" in the Fortnightly Re-
view, Colonel G. E. Church gives some
of these striking facts concerning the
wheat lands of Canada: The area
available for raising wheatin the Cam
adam Northwest is 400, 900 square
miles, or four times the area on which
the United States wheat crop is
grown. The average product of an
acre in Canada is double the average
product in the United States. Al
though only per cent of the Cana
dian wheat territory is under culti,a-
ton, the yield is already one-tenth
that of the United States.
1.-THE Northwest, territories, Colonel
Church holds, will provide Great
Britain's future food supply, both in
times of peace snd Of war, and he says
that the region sls worth more to the
empire than half dozen South ART
can gold fields. - :, -. -. ..'.. =. -
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

Senator Teller, Of Colorado, was
one of five senators who voted against
ratifying the Panama canal treaty,
and his main reason was that nature
never intended TO connect the two
oceans ON the line of the isthmus. Ii
modern progress had not attempted To
do ANYTHING that nature left undone
il would have made little Roadway.
1t is also quite likely that Mr.. Teller
could not 60 to his seat in the senate
In Washington by railroad had ma
ture alone been consulted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

Mr.. Wyndham, chief secretary for
Ireland, estimates that the new Iris
land scheme will involve $500, 600, 600
and possibly $3.50, 100000. This will
not be gift, the assisted tenants pay
ing st per cent. per annum on the
loans from the government, but ii
will be much the most liberal and
stupendous scheme of the kind ever
inaugurated by any government.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
The fifty eighth congress will hav

The fifty-eighth congress will have
3S6 members in the house or % more
than in the fifty-seyenth. No third
party will be represented in the next
congress. This is the first time 10
fourteen years that the third party
has not had representative in the
house. The republicans will have a
majority Of 30. OF the $50 members,
127 are new men while 259 were re-
elected. The territories of New Mex
leo, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Hawaii
each have delegate, but they are not
counted as they have no vote.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
The Poet Is Ever With Us.

To the gray and weary elders there
is solace in the thought that the
young poets are forever renewing the
race. Faithfully the peach tree bios
SONS and the birds come back and
shake the boughs with song; spring is
green with hope, amid the dead leaves
OF a lingering winter, and not till
these fail at their appointed season
need we fear that poetry will perish in
the hearts Of men. New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
Tyner in Bad Health.

Jane, N. Tyner, assistant attorney
general for the postoffice department,
has resigned, to take effect on the ap-
pointment of his successor, who has
not yet been named. Mr.. Tyner is in
serious physical condition and owing
to that fact and his advanced age he
has not been able to discharge the
duties of his office for a long time,
and he will not again visit the post
Office department officially. as
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

The Indianapolis Journal is right
when it declares that it is time to re-
store to the precinct committeeman
his prerogatives. 1t might have added
that 1T is time also that he be made to
feel more fully his personal obligation
to the party, and that the party
stands above its servants no matter In
what capacity the latter act.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02

The Chicago Chronicle, the demo-
c a,ic organ of Chicago. is making a
strong fight for tie election OF Mr..
Stewart, the republican nominee for
mayor who is opposed by Carter Har-
rison. There is after all very little
politics in Chicago elections. The
Harrison ring regardless Of politics,
will vote for Harrison, while those op-
posed to the Harrison regime Will
vote for Stewart.