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TO Extend Branch From Manila.

The cabied statement from Manila that
the Philippine commission has passed an
act establishing the right OF eminent do
main for railroads in the Philippines is ex-
planned at the insular bureau here by
pointing to the factsthat the Manila Dagu-
pan railroad has projected a branch line
from Manila twenty miles eastward % An
Considerable .dffacuNy has b1eu e,tpef3hnced
IN obtaining right Of way for this branch
line, and the Phtljppine cnnmissinp has
finally been Obliged to adopt the United
states law pFoviding for cendeAnnatfon OF
lndlsanuai pr0perty wl,fch stands In the
way Of public impreyemer1u.
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New Mail Service to Havana.

A new and improved man service is an
nounced by the Post Office Department be-
tween Mobile, Ala, and Havana, Cuba. Ala
mails which can be expedited in transit by
transmission by that route are ordered SO
sent. They will go by a new vessel OF the
Munson Steamship Company. which leaves
Mobile on Tuesdays at 2 pm. and arrives
in Havana on Thursday mornings. about
forty-two hours being the estimated time
of passage. 1t Is expected that much mail
ed by other routes will now take this more
direct and ahorter nna.
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IGNORANT OF SIGNAL CODE.
Trawler Incident May Have Resulted
From misunderstanding.

ST. PETERSBURG. November Al pm
The possibility that there may have been
some MISUNDERSTANDING of signals during
the trawler incident In the North sea is
suggested by n fact made public in an
order of the day issued by Vice Admiral
Chouknin. commander of the Black sea
feet. which records the fact that officers
of the latter feet are SO unfamiliar with
She rev code system adopted BY the ad-
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DEMOCRATS ALERT.
Every Election District in York State
to Be Watched.

NEW YORK, November 4.-Every cleo
ton district in the state will be watched
by personal representatives of the execu-
tive committee of the democratic state
committee at next Tuesdays election, ac-
cording to formal statement issued from
the democratic state headquarters today
The statement says that the committee
has resolved to take such steps as NAV be
necessary to punish all violations of the
election law that may be brought to it's at
tention and that it will follow up all such
cases, whatever the result Of the election
may be.
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Cortelyou's Statement.

Up to a late hour this afternoon Chairman
Cortelyou had not decided whether he would
reply or not to Judge Parker's structures.
There is a division of opinion among re-
publicans of prominence as to his replying,
but it is more than likely that he will de-
eide to issue statement tonight. He is be-
ing urged to at least take notice of the
charge of Judge Parker that the cabinet
position he held was prostituted to political
ends for the benefit of the republican party.
NJ o, NJ
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At Disposition Of Congress.

But although the bureau has not entered
upon the taking of testimony except in re-
lation to the beef trust, which it has done
in compliance with a resolution of Con-
gress, it has not been idle. 1t has had its
force -of experts engaged on the collection
OF all matters of interest in this con-
nection and these experts have been classi-
flying that information. All that informa
tion can be had by Congress If 1t is thought
proper to pass a resolution directing that
1t be furnished. Any democrat could Of
fer such a resolution, and according to the
custom that has prevailed resolutions call
ing for information are practically always
adopted without regard to any party con-
sideration But no such resolution could
secure any more secrets than are con-
tanned in the printed volumes that consti-
tute the library of the bureau, because 1t
has no other secrets.
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Japanese Confident of Success.

CHEFOO. November 4.-Chinese who left
Dalny yesterday evening report that
patches of wounded were passing through
DalEy They report also that during the
recent battle fresh Japanese troops were
col stantly going to the front
There are persistent runners that the
Japanese have occupied the forts of Rih-
lung mountain and certain forts of the
Keekwan mountain group. but well inform
ed Japanese here consider these rumors as
premature. These Japanese, however are
confident that the end of the Russian occu-
patton of Port Arthur is fast approaching
They admit that they have been disappoint-
ed heretofore. but say that their previous
he pes never had such fact-based founda-
ton as those they at present entertain
The fact that General Nogi, commander
of the third Japanese army before Port Ar
thur. has allowed the Associated Press dis
patches to leave the front of the base of
his operations is looked upon as strongly
indicating the confident spirit of the be-
siegers.
are awaited here with an intensity of in
terest greater than any displayed since the
beginning of the war.
1t Is reported that the Japanese killed
or wounded in front of Port Arthur during
the last three months approximate 10000
Northeastern Positions Captured.
SHANGHAI, November 4-The British
steamer Victoria, which succeeded in run
ming the Port Arthur blockade with a full
cargo of beef and has returned here, con-
captured all the main northeastern posi-
tions of the fortress.
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appearance, and the band with about fifty
Of the faithful escorted the aged candidate
to the Music Hall without any enthusiasm,
and 1t is conceded that there was a heavy
frost. Much disappointment was expressed
by Mr.. Davis friends
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GREATEST LIBERAL VICTORY.
Returns of Canadian Election Show Big
Support for Government.

s TORONTO. Ont, November with six
more elections to be held the result OF yes.
terday's contest shows the liberals re-
turned to power with a greater majority
than ever. The Globe claims majority Of
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Notice to Advertisers.

To insure proper inser-
ton and classification ad-
vertisers are requested to
send their announcements
for Saturdays Star either
to the main office or
branch Offices as early as
possible Saturday morning.
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DOZEN SPEECHES TODAY.
Candidate Davis is Greeted by Large
Crowds at Stops.

HAMBLETON, w. Va, November A.
Henry G. Davis, democratic vice presiden-
tial candidate, will make an even dozen
speeches today concluding with rally in
his home town of Elkins. The senator left
the town of Davis at 8 o'clock today. The
first meeting was held at Hendricks, where
the school children of the place constituted
feature of the reception to the candidate.
An unusually large crowd greeted Mr.. Davis
at this place. Meetings are arranged for
the day at Parsons, Pulp Mill, Moore, Mon
trose, Kerens, Beverly, Valley Bend, Mill
Creek, Huttonsville and Elkns.
Views on Panama
PARSONS. w. Va, November 4-Speak-
ing to an audience which filled the town
hall, Mr.. Davis gave his views on the Pan
anna incident.
During the civil war the United States, he
said, had been in the attitude of imploring
foreign nations not to recognize the seces-
sion of the southern states Yet within
forty-eight hours after the revolution at
Panama had been decided on at a town
meeting President Roosevelt recognized
the new government of Panama, and sent
warships to keep Columbia from coming
within fifty miles of the isthmus This. Mr
Davis said, was inconsistent with our past
attitude. F
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the forts to the northwest of the city, and
Is now preparing to retire to Liaetishan and
Tigers Tail peninsula with 10000 soldiers
and seamen. Even Golden Hill fortress will
be abandoned.
OF the warships, only the Pobieda is
afloat. The Sevastopol and Peresviet' s
decks are two feet above water, but the
rest have been sunk The Retvizana was
burned with several wounded who were
aboard
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
DOUBTFUL TEDDY.

"When we take up the great ques-
ton of the tariff, we are at once con-
fronted by the doubt as to whether
our opponents do not mean what they
say"
Against that profound observation
of President Roosevelt may be placed
the declaration in the Democratic plat
form and that of John Sharp Williams,
the leader Of the Democrats in the
House. on the subject about which Mr..
Roosevelt ~arrogates supreme authority.
williams thus defined the Democratic
idea on the tariff, which Judge Parker
approved;
.The Democratic tariff idea, like ey-
erything else Democratic, is founded
MS nearly as possible upon the princl,
ple of equality of opportunities ana
equality Of burdens This same prln-
cInle extended to other matters of an
tlcIpated legislation will give you what
Democracy means, or ought TO mean,
with regard to them. 1t stands Tor
equality of charges by railroads ana
transportation companies with destrue-
tion of the power of secret rebate or
omen discrimination, whether against
cornorations or localities. Neither
Goveinment nor Government created
generations ought to be permitted TO
encourage or continue in q course OF
fayorltism to any individual, any III
terest or any locality
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
PROTECTION ARGUMENTS NET.
Trusts, Combined, Defeat the Very
Object of the Protection Theory.

"The sole economic argument for a
protective tariff" said Colonel A. II.
Bacon, Of Brooklyn, in his recent
speech to the Travellers Club, lis the
ultimate benefit to the consumer by
means of lower prices through domes-
tic competition. The gigantic trusts
have combined domestic plants so as to
defeat the very object of the tariff
under which they thrive. Prices are
increased until a shipbuilder on the
Clyde can buy American steel plate
$40 a ton cheaper than a shlpbuilder
on the Kennebec, who row asks the
general Government for a subsidy
equal to $40 a ton to make up the diff
ference.
".But,' says a Republican President,
"a reduction of the tariff would de-
stroy the small manufacturers who
are still infants and wLo bask in the
shadow of the giant trusts This ar
gument is too simple for children even.
The tariff is TO protect against the
foreign competitor, but the foreign
competitor must first destroy the larg-
est domestic manufactures before he
can get at the infants. The battle
must be waged between the giants,
for the foreign giant could not occupy
the home field without first defeating
the domestic giant; and, under this re-
cent argument, any man by investing
a thousand dollars in a steel plant,
fifty years from now could defeat the
reduction Of the tariff, even though the
American Steel Trust was furnishing
its product at every capital of the
world. No, the moment one domestic
firm becomes a giant, its very life de-
ponds upon its fighting every foreign
foe, and it thus protects every infant
that coddles under its shelter.
But again say the orators: Amer
lean laborers must not be reduced to
the level of the pauper labor of
Europe We are reminded of the
traveller and his dog lost in the des-
ert. Starvation stared them in the
face. The traveller cut off the dogs
tail, roasted it, ate the meat and
threw back the bone TO the dog. This
represents the share Of labor in the
tariff problem"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
FRIEND ADDICKS.
How Mr.. Roosevelt Has Stopped 0p'
position TO The Delaware Boodler.

Thomas W. Lawson, who has always
been regarded as a shining light Of
Repubicanism and a liberal contrib
utor TO the Doodle funds of his party,
continues his story entitled 'FrenZied
Finance" in the October number of
Everybody's Magazine.
Much of this installment Is devoted
to a scathlng arraignment of Roose-
yelts friend and trusted adviser. j.
Edward Addicks, Of Delaware. The
incidents leading to Addicks' entrance
into the Boston gas field are fully mar
rated. The gas mans" alleged finan-
cial croOkedness and his known polit-
ical rascality are shown up in a light
that must bring joy and peace to the
soul of Theodore R~oosevelt-in a horn.
An entire chapter Is given to a mar
ration of the story of Addicks' cap
ture" OF the Bay State Gas Company
and the alleged corrupt methods by
which lie protited to the extent of ST.
600, 900.
This man Addicks Is one of the most
notorious political .corruptionlsts in
the country.
Roosevelt, while Civil Service Com
missioner. Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy and Governor of New York,
went out Of his way to condemn him
and expressed contempt for any one
who would have political relations
with him.
r During the first two years of his in
cumbency of the Presidential office
Roosevelt continued his opposition TO
Addicks and Addicksism, and used his
influence to bring about his overthrow.
He Joined hands with the honest and
decent Republicans Of Delaware and
helped them to "down" Addicks and
a Y the honor of their State and
party.
But how is II now? Does Roosevelt
still support the reputable wing of his
party in Delaware? Not at all. He Is
hand in glove with the corrupt Ad-
dicks, has turned over to him and his
henchmen the Delaware patronage and
is apparently proud of Addlcks as a
political lieutenant and confidential adj
wiser. In the opinion of the best men
in the Republican ranks in Delaware.
Roosevelt, in the hope CT getting the
electoral votes here, has sold his soul
to the devil.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
FOSTERS RANK TREASON.
Former Diplomat and Republican
Leader Against . War Policy.

Leader Against . War Policy.
John w. Foster, al eminent Repub-
lican and accomplished diplomat, in an
address before the American Bar Asso-
citation a few days ago said:
1T has been reported in the press
that the Secretary of the Navy has an
nounced himself i'll favor Of a navy
equal to the greatest in the world. l
trust he has been misquoted. Our
Government should be ready to enter
into an engagement for international
disarmament, and not one looking to
further increase of the navy. This
country shJuld hold itself to other and
far mere peaceful pursuits in the set
Element of strife than to the making
of implements of destruction and
death"
This is rank heresy; in fact, it is
treason 10 Roosevelt. 1t is likewise
evidence that Mr.. Foster is not looking
to the Administration for any more
jobs as arbitrator of international diff
ferences or negotiator of treaties be-
tween this and other countries.
OF course Mr.. Foster is well aware
that the Secretary Of the Navy has not
been misquoted. He is on record as
saying that he favors the construction
of q battleshlp of 10000 tons displace-
ment, one that will "knock the spots
off" anything in this line yet launched
abroad. The Secretary of the Navy is
the Presidents "Me, Too" so it is safe
TO predict that the gentleman with the
big Stick" will not be satisfied with
the size and destructive capacity of the
battleship Connecticut just launched
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He wants
a ship one-ffth larger than the Con-
necticut. 1t IS doubtful if he will be
contented with the navy until he has a
battleship as large as the biggest Brit
ish and the biggest German battleship
combined. A battleshlp powerful
enough, without assistance from other
ships, to make any South American re-
public behave itself with %decency,"
'be orderly" and "be prosperous"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
PARTY PROMISES.
Fair and Definite Are the Democratsj
Absurdly Vague the Republicans.

"a - hb1t -
Colonel Alexander s. Bacon, the
well-known Brooklyn lawyer, in closing
his excellent speech to thu Commercial
Travellers Club, said in conclusion:
"The Democratic party says: we
promise, now, topassa resolution similar
to that which granted independence to
the Cubans, who have thriyed so much
better under their own than under
our military government. We do this
because it is admitted that the better
class of Filipinos, who would do the
ruling, are far superior TO the Cubans.'
"The Republicans say: we do now
solemnly promise that at some time in
the future we will mediate seriously
upon the propriety of meditating
again.
Democracy says: we believe in
expansion, but not in Imperialism. We
believe that the Constitution should
follow the flag, and that we should
have no territory that we do not ex-
pect at some time TO adopt into the
family of States Expansion adopts
children. Imperialism buys slaves. Re-
publican Imperialism would conCr~r.
rule and bully the world, through brute
force. Democratic expansion would
take in only contiguous and homogene-
Gus peoples. 1t would extend the Mon
roe Doctrine to republics everywhere
until all peoples are homogeneous re-
publics, despots remembered only as
a faint memory, and all the world at
peace, ruled by love, under the pro-
tecting arm of the great republic"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
SHALL SEE THE DEVIL.
IL Pcacemalrers Shall See God, What
is to Become of Warmakers?

In a speech made II Boston Octo-
Der 4th, introducing Secretary Hay to
the International Peace Congress,
Mayor Collins. of the Hrb, said that
If he were TO paraphrase 4 Bible text
to suit the occasion 1t would be this:
Blessed are the peacemaker5. for they
shall Gee God; damned be the war;
makers, for they shall see the DEVIL"
This utterance from Mayor Collins
II the presence OF the Secretary of
State, while not directed at President
Roosevelt, is at least an excorlation of
the President when con3idered in con-
nection with C. speech h made before
the Republican Cluj of New York,
Febru..ry 18th, 1899. when he said:
IF we ever crow to regard peace
as n permanent condition, and feel
that we can afford to let the keen,
fearless, virile qualities Of heart and
mind and body sink into disu-e, we
will prepare the way for inevitable
and shameful disaster in the future.
-. The peace which breeds timid-
ity ami sloth is a curse and not q
blessing"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
BRYAN ANSWERS ROOSEVELT.
Presidents Charge Against Wilson
Tarif Act Proved UDfounded and
Absurd,

William ]. Bryan, in the Commoner,
quotes from Mr., Rooscvelt's lettcr of
acceptance as follows:
at is but ten years since the last at
tempt was made by means Of lowering
the tariff to prevent some people from
prospecting too much. The attempt
was entirely successful. The tariff Of
that year $500 was among the causes
which in that year and for some Tine
afterwards effectually prevented any
body from prospecting too much ana
labor from prospecting at all"
This statement is in line with the
declaration in the Republican National
platform for 1901 that "a Democratic
tariff has always been followed by
business adversely; a Republican tarlt
by business prosperity"
Mr.. Bryan then proceeds to sh0W
that neither the statement OF Mr..
Roosevelt. nor the declaration in the
Republican platform is justified by
history. AS a matter of fact" says
Mr.. Bryan, " every panic during the
last thirty years originated under Ite-
publican rule and developed under ke-
publican legislation.
'The gold panics which gave history
black Friday occurred during the
month of September, 1869, when the
Republican party was in lower.
''The great panic marked by the fail
ure of Jay Cook & Co. occurred in Sep
tember, 1873. Then the Republican
party was in power and eleven months
prior to the time of that panic the
Republican party had been reelected to
power.
at is true the Wilson bill was passed
ten years ago. That was in 1894. But
that panic did rot originate in 1891;
IL did not originate in 1898: it began
long prior to the Presidential election
of 1892. That panic originated and
reached its worst under that famous
tariff law known as the Mckinley
bill"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
SELF.CONyICTION OF ODELL.
MS Perversion of Peoples Money
Very Like Republican Practice al
Washington,

In his attempts TO make satisfactory
answer to the charges of peryersion
OF the public moneys, made by the
democratic Attorney-Gene of New
York, Governor Chairman Odell not
only handicaps the man whom he has
put up to be his successor, but con-
victs himself.
The New York Sun is not the only
Republican newspaper to bear out this
statement. The Pittsburg Dispatch,
not a New York journal, it is true, but
one of the most powerful of the Re-
publican organs of Pennsylvania, is
amazed at the weakness and shame
facedness Of the Governor hairman's
answer.
THE controversy" says the Dispatch,
has resulted in betraying the Gov
ernor himself into the highest official
endorsement Of irregular methods in
dealing with public funds ever made.
1t also includes the peculiar political
quality of an astuto political manager
committing an action which identifies
his leading State candidate with the
fragrant irregularlty endorsed by the
Governor.
"The Governor-C Chairman, in his re-
ply to Mr.. Cunneen's charge that the
Canal Board, acting under the Cover
nor-C hairman's direction, had pervert-
ed $4,000 of the peoples money, by
allowing the payment of that sum to
favored contractors for work falsely
alleged TO have been done by them,
makes no denial of the payment, but
says:
THAT certain money was due for
losses which had occurred by reason
Of the failure of the State to permit
the contractor to continue his work.
This is often done in business matters,
and it certainly was not improper for
the Canal Board to view 1t from this
standpoint"
Such a confession rs that has shocked
even a Pennsylvania Republican or
gan. "The feature of this ayowal,"
says the Dispatch, that will impress
itself most forcibly on thoughtful
minds, is the remarkable principle as
serted by an eminent public mar con-
corning the transaction Of public busi-
ness. On account Of indefinite, I'M
specified and improved claims on the
part Of 4 contractor it is proper for a
public board to vote him money on a
separate claim proved TO be fictitious
and fraudulent! And the public man
declaring this method to be not i'm
proper is the Governor of the most
populous and wealthiest State Of the
UniOn."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
Uncle Joe Cannon's Rare Humor.

"Uncle" Joe Cannon, in all of his
speeches in localities where gold Dem
ocrats are numerous, reminds his hear
ers that Judge Parker voted for Bryan,
and then asks, Can you trust such
a man to uphold the gold standardg"
This is rich. "Uncle' Joe's silver rec
ord is as follows;
In 1873 voted 10 pass the Bland free
silver bill over the veto of a Republic
can President.
In 1890 voted voted for the Sherman
silver purchase law.
Later he was one of a few Republic
cans who voted against the repeal OF
that law, which was urged by Grove
Clevell MI.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
Colored and white Republicans Row

APATHY" has been dlspelled in
Grant County, Indiana, and there the
first blood of the campaign has been
spilled. The trouble grew out of rival
ry between white and colored Repub-
leans at Landesville and ended in a
riot. One man had his collar bone
broken and another was badly
bruised about the legs and arms. Sew
eral arrests were made for rloting
and assault with intent to kill
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
PRAISE FROM SIR HUBERT.
Judge Parker's Public Character
Eloquently Extolled by tho New
YORK Tribune.

NCr-I
Judge Alton B. Parker's refusal to
stand for the Presidency on q plat
form which ignores the money ques-
ton and leaves in binding force as
Democratic doctrine the free silver
coinage planks of 1896 and 1900 does
signal credit TO the frmness and cour-
age Of his public character.
Judge Parker is widely respected In
this State for the conspicuous ability
he has shown in politics and on the
bench, and for the purity and integrity
of his private life.
Every man who knows him esteems
him.
The Republicans of New York have
nothing but good words to say about
him in his private raDacity and in his
judicial activlties.-New York Tribune,
July ~ 1904.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20

Iess Uuuusanus Ieweu the HONS UnaU
had devoured the entire band and the
show began reaping the harvest of a
testers joke.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
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