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and enjoys the excitement of politics,
but as he cannot reasonably hope to
defeat General Francis Marion Cock
rell for the senate he may not unnat-
urally conclude that the game is not
worth the candle and may jump it al
together and forever. Nobody would
blame him if he did for he has been
leading forlorn hope for, 10, these
many years. Missouri is Democratic
and will be until men lose the power of
memory. For years-in fact, ever since
Chauncey Ives Filley was laid on the
shelf-Colonel Kerens has led the Re
publican van in every battle in Mis-
souri, and he has on the whole, perhaps,
led it as we'll as anybody could have
led it, He has been such conspicuous
figure and his fine figure has become so
familiar to the eyes of Missourians
that his white plume will be missed in
the coming battle. Democrats will
miss his plume and Republicans win
miss his barrel. Vale, M. lie Colonel
Desirable Expansion.
Republican editors and spellbinders
assert that Democrats are opposed to
expansion. OF course the assertion is
untrue. The greatest American expan-
sionist was Thomas Jefferson, who was
not only the greatest Democratic
statesman, but was also the greatest
statesman, that ever lived Most Dem
ocrats are expansionists if permitted
to pick the place to expand, but a man
does not have to be an idiot in order
to be an eXpansionist; consequently
neither Democrat nor any other citi-
zen of good sense is in favor of indis
criminate expansion. I am an expan-
sionist. l am in favor of anneXing ey-
cry foot of the North American British
possessions clear to the frozen ocean.
We ought to have had them from the
beginning. If General Richard Mont
gomery had not been killed in front of
Quebec and if General Benedict Ar
nold's leg had not been shot to pieces
we would have captured them during
the Revolutionary war The outrage
committed the other day by the Cana
dian boat Petrol upon the American
boat Silver Spray is the latest evidence
that we should be the sole owners
we cannot be so long as the British hold
on to their possessions north of the
great lakes. Every American admins
tration should keep steadily in view the
desirability of our possessing all the
land betwiXt our northern boundary
and the north pole. So long as we are
only joint owners and masters of the
great lakes friction will exist and such
unpleasant incidents as that referred
to are likely to occur. 1t is said that
American boat owners on the great
lakes are arming their craft in order
to be in position to retaliate. They no
doubt have the right of the quarrel
but the present status is incipient war
1t is disagreeable, not to say hazard
Gus, situation.
The G. A. r. on General Miles.
The administration has been sitting
on General Nelson A. Miles for several
years with great regularity and pom
derosity Because he openly expressed
an opinion indorsing Admiral Deweys
views as to the battle of Santiago Har-
Dor, which rendered Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley immortal Miles was taken
severely to task, lectured, reprimanded
and curtly ordered to keep his mouth
shut. Now, it goes without saying that
any landlubber is on perfectly safe
ground in indorsing anything said by
Admiral Dewey as to sea fighting, for
he is one of the foremost sea fighters
that ever lived. AS a witness in such
matters he must be taken and accepted
as competent The chances are that
General Miles would have been repri-
manded sooner or later for something
or other, as he is persona non grata to
the powers that be, but he is having his
inning now. On his trip TO San Fran
cisco he was everywhere greeted and
acclaimed as a popular hero and the
G. A. r. passed the following resolu-
ton, which will set certain persons to
thinking:
Resolved, That we congratulate that
splendid soldier, exemplary commander
and patriotic citizen, General Nelson A.
Miles, upon his attainment of dis
tinguished and honorable retirement after
a matchless record as a soldier of over
forty-two years service without just
criticism of his official conduct, which be-
gan as lieutenant in the Twenty y-second
Massachusetts infantry, progressing by
the brightest grade of heroic patriotism
from Manassas to Appomattox during
the greatest of all civil wars, from 1861
to 1865, and Illuminating this record by
his great military achievements as sue
cessful Indian fighter and again as a
great and judicial military disciplinarian
and organizer.
This resolution was adopted with
shout which must have warmed the
cookies of the generals heart and it
is In glaring contrast with the few
cold words in which Mr.. Secretary Of
War Elihu Root retired the greatest
living American soldier.
Currency Reform.
Senator Aldrich and other currency
doctors had better go little slow In
currency tinkering Otherwise they
are liable to feel the stinger of the
Omaha Bee, edited by Hon. Edward
Rosewater, whose name bellies his
words and acts, which frequently are
decidedly vitriolic. A recent issue of
the Bee contains this terse and sugges-
tive editorial paragraph: when it
comes to showdown Uncle Sans
present currency system will hold its
own against that of any other nation
which would seem to be enough Of a
good thing.
On the same page of the Bee appears
this hint to Bre'r Aldrich and his band
of reformers: Senator Platt of New
York sees no need for currency legisla |
ton. There are others, too, who Will
have to be shown" By the use of that
last phrase Colonel Rosewater shows
signs Of becoming Missourlan Among
the ''others" whom he had in his
minds eye and who need showing" is
Uncle Joe Cannon, who will be the
next speaker of the house.
Ahead of Time.
Evidently one of my lecture mates, /
General Charles Henry Grosvenor of /
Athens, o.. believes it proper to take
JOHN j.