The independent., 1903-03-19
News Of the Week

There is a large crowd of polite
fans in Washington, many OF the
members of the house still being
there and likely to remain until the
close of the extra session of the SEN
ate This crowd amuses itself by dis
cussing the probability of who will be
the candidate of the democratic party
for president. The names most fire.
quently mentioned are Judge Parker
of New York, Olney of Massachusetts,,
German of Maryland, Tom Johnson OF
Ohio, and ID. r. Francis of Missouri.
1t is said, however, that during the
last few days new name has been
suggested and at the mention OF it
the old stagers stand aghast. 1t is
that of John Mitchell, president of the
miners union. The claim made for
him is that he can be elected, and
that none of the others stand ghost
of a chance. The objections to him
are that he would be class candi-
date and that he is too young. The
reply made is that he can no more be
called class candidate than any 9TH
er man with known occupation and
that his defense of the miners is as
an advocate or lawyer pleading their
cause 1t is generally conceded that
no man has a possibility Of being
elected that Bryan would antagonize
and on the other hand the candidate
that Bryan would favor would be an
tagonized by the Hill-Cleveland wing
of the party. The Bryan men reply
that that faction is SO few in num-
zbers, Notwithstanding the great hull
labaloo that they keep up in the daily
papers, that they would cut but a
small figure in the fight. John Mitch
ellis ability to rule, his friends say,
was demonstrated when he kept un-
der control for months 100000 Slavs,
Italians, Hungarians and other ma
tionalities and made them endure in
peace and quiet the sufferings caused
by the strike. No man was ever able
to do that sort of thing before.
Carter Harrison is to be the demo-
cratic candidate for mayor of Chicago
for the fourth time. That city has be-
come "populized'' to such an extent
that there is now no opposition there
to public ownership Of the city's pub
lie utilities, even the republicans ad-
vocating it. Harrison has long been
an advocate of it.
1t is announced that the president
will make an extended hunting trip
covering all the western states and
that he will be absent from Wash
ington for at least two months. He
will not hunt bear on this trip, but
presidential nomination.
Governor Cummins still sticks to
the Iowa idea" and declares that |
there must be a revision of the tariff. |
He who expects to accomplish such a |
feat while the republican party is in
power is one of those things that no
pop can find out.
A gentleman in Chicago says he
wants The Independent to take cog |
nizance of the following facts: ar |
mour ran corner On corn. Recent
ly he closed it out. The lowest esti- |
mate of his winnings is sS00,000. The |
general opinion is that he cleared con-
siderably over million. While Ar
mour was holding up the shorts, no
cars were to be had anywhere in the
west to ship corn to Chicago. Since it
was closed out, the side tracks all |
over the west are filled with empty |
cars and corn is away down again"
The agitation against child labor is |
still continued as the horrible condi- |
tions and inhuman cruelties connect
ed with it become more and more |
known. Miss Jane Adams declared |
last week in Chicago that it was
making cripples for life out of un-
counted numbers of little ones. The
truth is, since the worship of Nam
mon became general in the United
States, many thousand more children
have been sacrificed to this modern
god than ever were offered to Moloch
The Ammonites were a tender-heart-
ed and righteous people in comparison
with our captains Of industry"
The Chicago hoard Of health in jts