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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-16

MILWAUKEE, FLOUR AND GRAIN Dec. 1e.
nor6ern 1Gs heheS Wheat ae higher No.
May, $1,11A @1.11as asked. Rye dull; No /,
1Sc. Barley weaker; No: 2. SIC; sample, S5@
Ac higher; No. 5, 43@44c; May, 45Ac bid.
Wheat-Puts, $1.1OR @1.1O% asked; calls
S1.11s @1.12 asked. -. -
Corn-Plts 45A @45Sc asked: calls 45H IN
45Mc bid.
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THE DAYS REPORTS
CLOSING CASH PRICES

On hard 81 % 81 OK;
orn,3 No 2rye,711 baley.S to 44c -
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ST. LOUIS GRAIN, Dec. 1e.-Close: Wheat
higher; No: 2 red cash elevator, 81; track,
$3.50; No. 2 hard, 81 .1o@1.12. Corn higher;
No. cash, 42c; track, 43@431ac; December,
42bc; May 48h @44Ac. Oats irrmer; No. 2
cash, 3Oc; track 3O1a D3O2c; December, 29%c;
Nav No. white 32c =, II T.
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SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK, Dec. 1e.-Keceipts
Cattle, 800; nogss,, 5000. % oro ~,
s4ss: eS. 27s lbs, 40; 80. $50 lbs. $3.50:
Cattle-Unchanged. Sales: Is beeyes, LAS
1853 lbs. $4.25; 16 COWS and heifers GIG lbs.
$225 10 COWS and be hsifs s eS G rs sI1o
and feeders, 7e1 lbs. s29s: 4e stockers and
feeders, 9s6 lbs, $3.50; q stockers and feeders
1,12O lbs, $3.32h; 4 yearlings, 1927 lbs. SOD
II yeariings, 542 lbs, $3.50: 4 yearlings, 6s7
lbs, So. ....s~
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ST. LOUIS LIVESTOCK, Dec 1e-Cattle--
Receipts $500; market steady; beef steers, $S@
$50: extra fancy $7@S; cows and heifers, .25
@465, with strictly fancy heifers up to $500:
Hogs-Receipts. 1900; market steady; pigs
and lights, ss.75@4.bo; butchers and best heavy
sheep-Receipts, $500; market steady; ma
tives, $3.75@5.75.
NEW YORK OIL, Dec 16.-Petroleum. quiet;
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NEW YORK PRODUCE, Dec. 1e.-Butter easy
and unchanged; receipts, 8,763 pkgs. Cheese
steady and unchanged; receipts, 79e boxes Eggs
quiet and unchanged; receipts, 1916 pkgs. -;
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LIVERPOOL GkAIN, Dec. 16-Wheat, spot,
nominal: futures, easy; December nominal an
! American mixed, As 1oAd futures, quiet; Janu-
airy, IS AID; March, IS 3Md.
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PUTS AND CALLS.
Puts-May wheat, $1.12M.
C0lls-May wheat, S1.13%.
Curh-MaY wheat 81 12.
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NEW YORK SUGAR AND COFFEE, Dec.
16-Sugar raw steady; fair refining, 4Ssc; cen
trifugal 96-test, 4Bc; molasses sugar, AZ; re-
fined firm; crushed, 35c; powdered, 5.75c; gran
ulated, $3.50. Coffee steady; No. Rio, sAc.
Molasses steady; New Orleans, 30@37c.
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CHICAGO COARSE GRAIN AND SEEDS, Dec
16.-Rye, December, 73c; May. TIC. Flax, cash,
northwestern, 81 Pay; southwestern, Sligo;
December $1.16M; May, s1.241a: Ii notify,
So 80; March, $685. Glover, December, $12.75.
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NEW YORK METALS, Dec. 16.--Lead and
copper quiet and unchanged.
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receipts at the Pf Union today caete
1875; calves so; hogs, 5000; sheep, $500; horses
21; cars, SO.
The following table shows the receipts from
Jan. /, 1904 to date, as compared with the same
period in 1908:
Year. Cattle. Calves. Hogs. Sheep. Cars.
1904. 345, 131 36,950 S36,071 1874, $40 e, 922
1907. 255,91 2,344 699,190 S4S,S73 "a, 81
Inc.... S9,221 $500. 136, 9S1 ....... 4,108
Dec.... ....... 1894 ...... 1928 .....
The following table shows the receipts thus far
in December, as compared with the same period
in 1908:
Year. Cattle Calves Hogs Sheep. Cars.
1904. 1927 1,4O2 81, 935 25,24S LAG
1903.... 6,254 0s3 40.913 86,576 1,03e
Inc. -. II 1858 419 1922 ...... 44O
Dec $50. 800 1888 49,.
OfRcfe1 raoeint~ FOR tho Dort ara fol.
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II Stocks Hight Low Bid. Bid.
~ o., est. est. Dec. 16 Dec 10
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NO STdue Wutdl. q "a
No grade wheat, /
No grade wheat. 1 C,
No grade wheat, l {
No grade wheat, bin
No grade wheat, fros
No grade wheat, fros
No grade wheat. fros
No. 3 yellow corn, 1
No. 3 yellow corn. !
No. 8 yellow corn, 1
No. 4 corn, 1, car ;.
No grade corn, l car
No grade corn, 1 cal
No. 3 white oats. 6
No. 3 white oats, 1 C
No. 8 white oats, 1 c
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Victim Paid the cnbby,. Fine.

NEW YORK, April 7.-Robert NJ.
Galloway, president Of the Merchants
National bank. at 42' Wall street, is
nursing wounded knees as a result Of
having been run down by a careless
cab driver He was angry at first and
had the reckless son OF Nimshi arrest
ed, but relented in the Jefferson mar
ket police court when he learned that
the man could not pay the so fine i'm
posed. Il didn't wish to see him locked
up for ten days" said Mr.. Galloway,
land so | offered to pay the fine my
self"
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CAUGHT WHILE ASLEEP.
six Lives Were Lost In Mount YER
non Fire.

SIX LIVES were Lost IN mount Ner-
non Fire.
MOUNT VERNON, n. Y, April T.
Six lives We're lost in a fire which de-
stroyed Columbia hall, metal sheath
ed frame structure here The dead
comprised a whole family and its serv-
ant Twenty persons were rescued
from great peril by the quick work of
firemen and volunteers.
The dead are Nathan Frey, sixty-six
years old, shoe dealer; Mrs. Fanny
Frey, lsadore Frey, eleven years old;
Helen Frey, eight years old; Henry
Frey, three years old, and Gussie
Dohring, domestic.
The entire Frey family and their
servant We're caught while asleep. Mr.,
Frey and his eleven-year-old son were
dead when Detective Alwell reached
their room. The other four were alive,
but unconscious.
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MANCHESTER CENTRE

Miss Mary March has returned after
spending several weeks with relatives
in Westheld, Mass.
Misses Carrie E. Amidon and Edith
Wright, trained nurses in the Boothley
surgical hospital, Boston are at their
homes in this village for short vaca-
ton.
John Dimond of Wrentham, Mass,
was the guest of Mrs E. G. Colvin last
Sunday.
Charles Moulton was with friends in
North Bennington over Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs L. E. Collins and daugh-
ter who have been spending some time
with friends and relatives in New
York city arrived home Monday.
Mrs Charles Brunster who has been
seriously i'll with the grip is gaining
slowly
Mr. and Mrs Emerson Estabrook of
Bennington passed a few days with
Mr. and Mrs 7. J. Hoyt,
Messrs Joseph Mcbride and Daniel
Daley Of Dorset were in town on bust
ness.
Frank Wyman of the University of
Vermont is at home for Easter vaca-
ton.
J. H. Watson was in Bennington on
business, Monday.
Miss Stella Provan returned to the
North Adams normal school Monday
after spending several days with rela
tives in town
George Sessions Jr., is one of the
latest victims of the grip.
Master Cornie White has returned
from a weeks visit in Granville.
Miss Alice Sessions and Mabel Nc
CURE recently visited friends in Ben
nington and Troy.
The members of the Burr and Bur-
ton Dramatic Club are rehearsing for
three one act comedies to be given
the opera house Wednesday evening
April 20, for the benefit of the ball
team. The students have secured the
services of c. S. Robinson as coach
and general manager of the affair
which, under his supervision, prom
Uses to be great success. A full or
chestra will furnish music for dancing
after the play.
The spring term of the Center school
began Monday with the following teach
ers:-Primary, Miss Marshall, inter-
mediate, Miss Marden, grammar,
Miss Mylott, high, Miss Williams.
w. c. Prentice of Brooklyn was at
+. G. Bryants over Sunday.
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BOney Boy Got the steepIechase.

WASHINGTON, April 7.-Honors
went TO three favorites at the Bennings
track, the remaining prizes being taken
by n second choice and by outsiders.
Paul Clifford won his fourth race of
the meeting. In the twO-year-old sell
ing event the resulS was very unsatis.
factory owing to the erratic running
in the stretch of Metallic, who inter
fered with three or four horses and
after finishing second was disqualified
for fouling Illyria, the favorite, who
took the race. The second race went to
l.. a. Lite, Allen Avon, the favorite,
running a good race and finishing sec.
ond. Paul Clifford, the favorlte took
the seven furlong event by seven
lengths, leaving the field badly strung
out. Boney Boy an outsider, won one
of the best contested steeplechase races
of the meeting, outrunning Manilian
and Gum Honey, the favorite, who fin
ished third
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handkerchief found in the yard be-
meath Mabel's window is not hers, as
was thought, but the property of one
or her intimate woman friends.
Another piece of evidence which
strongly points to a certain person as
the slayer was found in the Page
house by John A. Bruce, who was
called to embalm the body. Bruce and
the state detectives will not reveal the
nature of this evidence, but it is said
to be certain blood marks lately found
Bruce makes the startling statement
that he discovered Mabel Page had
been murdered ut II O'Clock at night
and so informed her father and broth
er hours after Medical Examiner
Mead had viewed the body and decid-
ed the case one of suicide
There was motive, and a rational
one, for the murder Bruce declares.
1T was not the insane freak of mad
man or woman. Mabel Page was
killed for the purpose of removing her
from some ones path"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-04-07

CLEVELAND, o., April IA move
ment has been started to erect a monu-
ment to the memory of the late Sena-
tor Marcus A. Hanna in Cleveland,
and TO carry out this purpose the Han
ma Memorial association has been or,
ganized, of which Samuel Mather Is
chairman and James II. Hoyt secre-
tary. The designing and execution Of
the monument has been offered to Au-
gustus St Gaudens. Ten thousand
letters of appeal for contributions have
been sent out to nearly every promi-
nent city in the United States as far
as Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba, Mexico and
other countries. Organized labor will
be appealed to through John Mitchell
and Samuel Gompers.
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For years it has been customary for
many persons to 90 fishing down the
river below the village during the
month of April. They go ostensibly
for suckers but it is not infrequent for
them to catch trout and so far as
known the trout never find their way
back into the stream. 1t is strictly
against the state law to fish in waters
inhabited by trout at any time when
trout fishing is forbidden. Some of
the best trout caught in this section
are taken from this part of the river
and the attention of the state fish and
game commissioners is to be called to
the illegal fishing during the month of
April and an effort will be made to
have it stopped.
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CRANE OR sANDsH
National Tennis Championship Now
Between Two Players.

National Tennis Championship Now
Between Two Players.
NEW YORK, April THE contest
for the national tennis championship
has progressed so far that II practically
narrows down to a duel between
Joshua Crane, Jr., of Boston and G, S,
Sands of this city. Both Of these men
are clean opponents of the game, but
each Of them has TO meet men of minor
caliber in the semifnals. The work OF
the winners was enough to show that
either was capable for championship
contest
In the first game G. S. Sands of the
local club defeated his club mate by
the score of three sets to two. In the
first two sets Sands was clearly at
fault with service and playing for open.
ings, but In the next three sets he won
out in brilliant style.
The two Boston men, Joshua Crane,
Jr., and Austin Potter faced each 9th.
er, but the present champion, Crane,
always held his own and by his par.
ticularly good service and forehand
yolleying, together with good fiooI
play, maintained his superiority Judg.
ing from his general work and bril-.
liant side wall play, Crane should re-
peat his championship work of year
ago.
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FLOUR-Dull and featureless; Minneso-
Ia patents, S.2Gu6i5; winter straights, S4.95
45l5; winter extras, $685. winter pat
WHEAT Opened weak and lower on
easier cables favorable weather news and
weakness in Minneapolis, due to the -four
situation; later the market rallied slightly
on covering, but was irregular; May, 942l
use; July 9O9saH Lice.
CORN-Barely steady on weather news
and with wheat; May, 5S%c.; July SIC.
BUTTER-Steady; extra fresh creamery,
23i4c; creamery, common to choice, $50
&c; state dairy, 13QIc.
fancy, small, colored. September 12c.: late
made, 1OAc small, white, September, l2c.;
late made, lO%c.; large, colored, Septem-
Der l2c,; late made, lOBc: large, white.
September l2c.; late made, 10Ac.
PORK-Dull; family, SIS; short clear,
HA75al6; mess. Sl475ql5.3
EGGS-State, Pennsylvania and nearby
fancy selected white, 20G2lc.; average fin
est, 1916; firsts, lSc. dirties, lie. checks,
Ice; duck eggs ga 2Sc, goose eggs, 4005Oo.
POTATOES Firm Long Island &4a4 Is /;
Jersey, S3.b0Q4; state and western In sacks,
S.25q35O; Jersey sweets, Sl5Og45O.
CABBAGEs---steady; Florida, per Dbl.
. HAY~steady; shipping, 6714a7Oc,; good
LIVE POULTRY-st Steady; fair demand;
fowls l5dl5lAc.; old ROSTERS, 91haloc.;
ducks, 15G16c.
HOPS-steady: state, common to choice,
1908, Na36c; 1902, 23q27c.; olds, 9Gl4c.; Pa
olfc coast, 1903, 24QSlc.; 1902. 23a27c:; olds,
9Gl4c
WOoI.-Firm: domestic fleece. 2Sa32c
BEEF-Quiet; family, $105Odl1.5 so; mess
$S,5Oa9; beef hams, $2O5Oq22; packet, $3.50
QlD50.
DRESSED POULTRY - Firmer; good
demand; fowls, choice, fresh killed. 1lIkGD
15c. do, fair to good l3a13l5c; old roost-
ers, 9RGl0c; nearby chickens choice,
fresh killed, 16d17c.; western do fancy,
l5i2q16c.; choice. 14l4al5c.; do. fair to
good. 13IHd14c.; turkeys, western, choice,
1Sql9c.; do. fair to good, 16d17c.
DRESSED MEATS-Dressed beef steady
at 6lkdSIhc. per pound for native sides
city dressed veals 7allhc. country dress
ed, Gagl2c., with few choice heavy SELL
ing up to 10c; dressed mutton, GaSlkc.;
dressed lambs S1ad10c-: country dressed
spring lambs steady at $4G7 per carcass;
country dressed hogs steady at 5ISc per
pound for heavy to light weights.
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PUTNAM, Conn, April T. When
Edward ]. Cutler drove into his barn
at the rear of his house in Grove street
he found the body Of his wife hanging
from a beam there. Mrs. Cutler had
committed suicide, using pieces of a
sheet in hanging herself. She was
fifty-two years old and had been in
poor health for years. The suicides
husband is the senior member of the
clothing firm of Cutler & Mackachnie
and is one Of the leading citizens OF
this town.
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Icicle Ran Away with Lipscomb.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 7.-Witful,
the favOrite in the fourth race here,
was caught in the barrier at the start.
Jockey Fuller was pulled from the sad,
die, and the Hildreth FLY was left at
the post. With Witful out Of the race,
it was an easy triumph for Martimas.
The Country club cup, competed for
by gentlemen riders, was won by Mr..
Cleaver on Justice, 10 to 1 shot.
Icicle, ridden by Mr.. Lipscomb, sup
piled much excitement and amusement
by running twice around the course
after the race had been decided and
battling all efforts of his rider, race
track officials, trainers and stable boys
to stop him.
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Brown Lost onenIng Gnme.

PROVIDENCE, X. l., April THE
new Brown team, composed of six
freshmen and three former members
of class teams, lost to Trinity here in
the opening baseball game of the year
by the score of TO 4. Both teams
played slow ball and were weak in
batting. Trinity gained her lead in the
seventh on timely two Dagger by Al
len, followed by single by Hlne.
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BOSTON, April IA petition for a
writ of habeas corpus has been brought
in the supreme court by Mrs. Agnes
Hendricks of Brooklyn, wife of DR..
Charles Hendricks, against Brother
Jude Of the House Of the Angel Guar
dian, with view to securing the Gus
tody Of her son, Thomas Hendricks.
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.Gnnd of English "A Good Country

VI - Npou
BERLIN, April IA Herero writing
to relatives in German Southwest AZ
RIGA from Banksdrift, near Kimberley,
in the Transvaal, said; The land of
the English is good country. There
are no mistreatments here, and the
whites and the blacks stand upon the
same footing. If white man beats
you or otherwise breaks the law he is
punished Here there is much work
and money" The missionary who
translated the letter ventured the opin-
ion that any one of the 700 Hereros
employed In British Africa could make
the same contrast.
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WIZ Cruise ut Discretion.

WASHINGTON, April 7. - The fol-
lowing bulletin has been posted at the
navy department: 1.-THE restriction of
the battleship squadron OF the Philip
pines has been withdrawn and the
commander in chief authorized to per-
NIT his squadron to cruise at discre-
ton, not going north Of Fuchau. on the
AsiAtie coast"
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PAGE MURDER.
Alleged New CIews In Weston Mys-
terry.

Alleged New CIevs In Weston Mys-
terry.
WESTON, Mass, April The Mas
sachusetts state police have subjected
Edward Page, the aged father of the
murdered Mabel Page; her brother
Harold and Amy Roberts, servant in
the Page household, to a third degree
examination and then interviewed
Miss Susie Cutter, a neighbor and
friend of the murdered girl
e II is now minated by the police
that the note supposedly written by
Mabel Page was in reality forged by
her slayer. This is the most promising
Clew so far discovered by the police
Again, it is said that the blood stained
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-04-07

MALONE, n. Y, April Luther
Aubrey, a lineman employed by the
Malone Electric Light company, was
killed here while at work on pole by
his thumb coming in contact with a
live wire. When discovered his life
less and rigid body was strapped to
the pole thirty feet from the ground.
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We hope Mr. Clement isn't letting
his good roads movement go to sleep
Just because somebody has accused
him of being most interested in the
road from Rutland to Montpelier.
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Live stock Markets.

CATTLE-S Supply light; market steady;
mon. S2aS.S0; roughs, SSSOG4; Veal calves,
$6d650
HOGs-Receipts 20 double decks; mar
lSet slow and prices l5d20c. lower; prime
Workers. s5.4Oq5. IS; pigs, 5.20d5.3O roughs,
50 50d475.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Supply light,
market steady; prime wethers 3. e0dIb 40;
good mixed, $4S5d5.10; common, t260ae rs !;
choice lambs, S6106620 t'a'
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Gu. RuhIin Won n Tame Eight.

PHILADELPHIA, April L Gus
Rubin had the better of the six round
fight with Jim Jeffords last night at
the National Athletic club. The bout
was Il tame affair.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-04-07

Another awful battle has been fought
in Korea. Five japanese are reported
killed and three Russians injured.
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FRANK E. HOWE, Editor and Publisher

Marconigram from Corporal Jap to
Sergeant Russ: "We'll be Win on
the Yalu. barre Times.
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204 New Spring Goods 1904
~AT ~


New, stylish and uptO-date in every detail, COM
pete stock to choose from, and above ALL we are of
fering them at prices beyond all competition A mob.
by Spring Jacket, Custom Tailor Suit Walking
or Dress Skirt, Silk or Cotton Waist a Trimmed or
Walking Hat, etc. bought at our store leaves no
doubt to correctness of fashion, besides sure saving
of at least Is per cent on the price.
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FARM FOR SALE

Don't buy farm until you see this one which
is lOcatedl less than two miles from South Shafts
bury depot, on main road 200 acres of land di-
Yided as follows: 80 acres OF pasture well wat
cred, with two trout streams running through
II; 30 acres OF tillable land and meadow which
cuts more than 40 tons of hay each year; 20 acres
condition with Z good rooms Large COW barn
it'll 20 stalls and stanchels good horse barn
with four stalls wagon house, corn barn, car
buildings also other buildings, like hen houses
etc, all OF which could not be duplicated for
twice price asked for whole farm. Two apple
orchards, both now bearinI; plenty of other
fruit for family use. Can work all the tillable
land by machinery, Price $1,000.
JOHN NASH
TeI.l2l>2 Bennington, VI.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-19

three supreme justices, and his ap.
pointments might bar the way to re-
lief for ten or fifteen years. Can the
party afford to take such a chance?
Judge Parker has been before the
in all that time he has never expressed
himself upon a single public question
or indicated his views on single is
sue. Can we afford to nominate
question mark? If so, we need not be
surprised If the voters indulge in ex-
carnations.
Democracy's contest with plutocracy
is not sham battle or make believe
fight 1t is terribly earnest struggle,
and the decision in the merger case
has pointed out with great distinct
ness the possible result of mistake
in the selection of candidate. There
are hundreds of Democrats whose SYM
pathies are with the masses OF the peo-
pie and whose opinions are known
men who have had more experience in
political life than Judge Parker, and
who would poll more votes on election
day. Some of these men have been
mentioned; others have not. Surely
among those who have been proposed
or might be proposed it is possible to
find someone who will give voice TO
the Democratic conscience, and lead
a charge against the cohorts of organ
lied and predatory wealth.
If Mr.. Parker were a man with a
record, if his convictions were known
and his position on public issues clear
ly defined, Mr.. Hills championship OF
his cause might not be sufficient to en-
tirely destroy his availability, but with
his opinions unknown and his aspira-
lions in the hands of Mr. Hill, it is not
unfair to regard Mr.. Hill as the keep
er of his conscience, and who Is SO
poorly qualified to keep anyone's con-
science? The fact that Mr.. Parker is
an enigma ought to remove him from
consideration, and the situation is
made still worse by the blight of Mr..
Hills support When to this is added
the overshadowing danger which the
merger decision has pointed out. is it
not time that the honest, earnest, loyal
Democrats awake from their lethargy
lay aside the thought of compromise,
and begin an aggressive campaign to
save the Democratic party from the
menace of corporate control?
If Mr.. Parker is nominated it must
not be as a harmony candidate"-it
must be with the knowledge that he
represents the same element, the same
influence and the same methods which
during Nr. Cleveland's second admin
| istratiOn led the Democratic party
! through the valley of the shadow OF
DEATH