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The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15
A STRONG CANDIDATE.
Chicago Record -Herald.) }

Chicago Record-Herald.)
Judge Alton B. Parker, the Dem
ocratic candidate for President,
deserves the respect of his coun-
trymen for the very dignified and
proper course that he has pursued
since his candidacy was first advo-
Gated.
Humorous references to his un-
Welding silence were to be eXpec-
ted from the national genius for
discerning the humorous aspects
of every subject, but any serions
criticism of his conduct would be
irrational. Even If he had not been
on the bench there would have
been nothing in. the situation to
call for proclamation Of his opin-
ions from the housetops. How
could he speak without assuming
too much as to the Importance OF
the Parker movement or betraying
too great a desire for the nomina
ton? And since he was on the
bench there was all the more rea-
son for his reserve, which com
mends him to the people in one
respect, at least, as a man Of very
sound judgement.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15

The Democratic party goes into
the contest for the Presidency as
dumb as the tomb on the subject
of money standard. The people
are more interested in knowing
where the party stands on this
subject and what may be expected
Of it in any possible contingency
than knowing where it stands on
any other subject. and it is silent!
Four years ago and eight years
ago it spoke not only plainly but
with great emphasis. 1t proclaim
ed aloud it's purpose it intrusted
with power to pursue a course
which would lower the money
standard one-half, cut down every
mans insurance policy and savings
bank account to the same, rob ev-
cry creditor of half his dues, and
disgrace the country in the eyes
of the world. Now it refuses to say
whst it will do il intrusted with
power.
The people refused t" trust it
because Of it's attitude on this
question. They would like to know
and they have right to know
where it stands now when it is
again seeking their confdences,
but it has nothing to say.
Its silence is that of the moral
coward who is afraid and ashamed
to confess his error and equally
afraid, If uot ashamed, to persist
in his error
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15
"BE JUST AND FEAR NOT"


We always pay the freight or
express when your order is for
SIS. 90 worth or m ore. Our Mail
Order Department makes buying
by mail as pleasant as though you
came III person.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15
The Candidate And The Ticket.

Following are a few editorial ex-
pressions On Judge Parker and the
Democratic platform. An attempt
has been made to give comments
from all sections of the country,
and from both party and indepen-
dent papers:
CALLS PLATFORM
COWARDLY.
(Chicago Chronicle
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15
"a n0NEY On Improved Farm Lands,
AAM To 8per cent interest. to 10 Years.
sWm nun, For further information apply to
W. LUAN' @. K. GARY, Tupelo, Miss.
Wood w anted.

want 125 cords Of good, 4 foot
oord wood to be delivered at my
hrIck ward by the lst day of July.
will pay 50. 25 per cord as fast as
delivered.
JOHN TRIPLETT.
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EFFECT ON THE TICKE /.
(Minneapolis Times.)

TO some Judge Parker's Tele-
gram may have seemed unneces-
sary, but none will call him olsen
genuous. AS to It's political rf-
fect-surely it can do the Dem"c-
racy no harm in the East, whence
the candidate is expected to de-
rive his chief strength no harm
III New York, which State he
must carry if he is elected.
It was IA remarkable procted,
iu., but it served to clear the
atmosphere and placed Jndge
Parker in favorable light as Il
man of will force aud franknes@.
If anything was needed to diSabuse
the public mind of the belief that
he is a negative character, this
should suffice.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15
NUMBER l6.
AN AMERICAN PLATFORM.

Chicago Inter Ocean, Rep.
The Democratic convei on at
st Louis has nominated for Pres
ident a fine type of American.
Judge Alton b. Parker holds high
rank among men Of ability and
character. He knows public ques-
tons and, besides intelligence. he
has common sense.
He goes before the people on
platform as notable for its omis-
sions as for it's positive declaIa-
tions, but withal a platform that
is not revolutionary. not destrHc-
tive, not incendiary. 1t is q plat
form which, in our opinion, oppo-
see Republican policies that have
benefited and are benefting The
whole country, but it is not plat
form which opposes American
principles or American common
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
oUAKER REFLECTIoNs

LF'rom the Philadelphia RecordJ
The feet are some peoples most promi-
nent features.
The puppy that drinks milk is not neces-
sarily a lap dog.
Bread may be the staff of life, but mon
ey Is a pretty good substitute as dough.
A girl feels that her education is vast
ed II her graduating gown isn't a perfect
It is always best to get on the right
side Of man, especially if he is deaf in
his left ear.
Any hobo will tell you that being pinch
ed by poverty isn't in it with being pinch
ed by cop.
The spring poet doesn't seem to realize
that there is always room for one more
in the waste basket.
The seamstress may be pardoned for
using unseemly language when she has
to do her work all over again.
The man who doesn't have his name on
his umbrella often finds that he hasn't
an umbrella to his name.
The man who makes hay while the sun
shines is in position to lend money to
the fellow who writes poetry about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

Wedding bells are still ringing" at
Conway
The usual number of cyclones have
visited Barton county this spring.
It costs $3.50 to be caught jumping
a moving train in the Enporia yards.
Fort Scott had "milkmaids' con-
vention.' The only thing missing was
a COW.
A roller skating rink. with ball
bearing instruments. has slipped into
Goodland.
The Great Bend fruit that man
aged TO escape the frost was caught
A clay Center 'city farmer gets
rid of the pesky dandelion by fertiliz-
ing it to death
l1I Dorado has about concluded to
stay at home from the worlds fair
and celebrate July 4.
portion of the duties of the Nc
Pherson marshal is to kill stray cats.
And he is superstitious, too
The latest census gives Goodland a
population of 1000. The assessor
cheerrully announces, I'VE are all in
it."
Fort Scott has forty women who
want to vote. They have organized
themselves into an equal suffrage as
ISOLATION.
system of street cleaning has begun
and the Salvation Army is to build a
new hall.
Winfield has Jack the Bower .
He is old enough to know better, and
probably will, now that he has spent
a night in Jail.
The first death from a rattIesnake
bite in Sherman county has happened.
The victim was a little girl at play
among the flowers last Friday.
Arkansas City is to have a new
pleasure park, at a cost of about 500
600. It will consist of eighteen acres,
and will be known as Mckinley park.
Out at Brewster a very fresh COW
walked into a well. 1t is thought that
the 24-hour merger of milk and water
win make her regulation dairy COW.
Emporia druggists have Joined in a
union. They tried it in Topeka, but
a few outlaws insisted on breaking
the bylaws by selling beer for 20
cents per quart.
An Arkansas City hack. driver ran
against a live electric wire with a load
of travelling men and never shocked
them. This only carries out the theory
that it takes a good deal to shock a
travelling man.
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ton. but that the company would only
load vessels chartered to- foreign
port, and that the charter would be
an essential part of the contract The
object of that was to head off any at
tempt to use the rails at home instead
of abroad.
Quite possibly steel rails cannot be
made SO cheapIy now as in 1899, when
Charles NJ. Schwab. a good authority,
said they could be made at the Carne-
gle works for less than S12 a ton,
while the Englishmen could not make
them for less than SO. There is
every reason to believe that today the
cost of production of rails IN the best
equipped American mills does not ex-
coed SIS a ton. yet by agreement
conspiracy, rather-the price of rails
to the home consumer is maintained
at s2S.
1t is understood that the Republican
national platform will promise a re-
vision by the next congress, if Repub-
lican. of any tariff schedules which
may need revision. The iron and steel
schedule certainly does.
Why should there be a duty of $7S4
on steel rails when the American
manufacturers can underseH their
foreign rivals in every neutral mar
ket? All the duty does is to enable
the manufacturers to exact an unfair
price from the domestic consumer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
WEATHER WARM AND WINDY.
That Would Be a Concise Description
of Situation Today.

In accordance with the story told
by Ed Howe about Lysander John
Appelton of AtchisoR after thinking
twice it can be said that this has been
a warm windy day.
In his lecture Ed Howe told of the
one man he hates. He says he is
Lysander John Appelton and that he
has long silky whiskers and that he
thinks twice before he speaks. Howe
says he hates him because when, fol-
lowing his duties as reporter on the
AtchisOn Globe, Howe meets him on
a rainy day on the street and says,
whats new?'' Lysander John Appel
ton looks at the sky, strokes his long
silky whiskers twice, thinks twice be-
fore he speakes and then says, This
is a rainy day" Howe says that when
he quits the newspaper business he
will club Lysander John Appaton
into insensibility and then set fire to
his Whiskers.
The wind today would blow Ly-
sanders whiskers a good many ways
and the warmth would be apt to wilt
his standing collar. Otherwise, not
counting the wind and the dust, the
day has been warm and pleasant
Today's corn and wheat region bull
letin issued by Director Jennings says:
Partly cloudy and warmer weather
prevailed over. Kansas this morning.
except cloudy weather in the south
western counties The weather was
still clear over western Missouri The
temperature has risen in all districts
west of the Mississippi river"
The maximum and minimum tenn
peratures for the "a hours ending
this morning at Z o'clock were as fol-
lows: Baker, 1854; Concordia, 1868;
Dodge City. S4-62; Fort Scott, 1852;
Hays City, SO-42; Macksville S0-52;
Mcpherson, 1856: Manhattan, SO-54;
Usage City, 1880; Sedan. 1854; To-
peka, 1855; Toronto, 1916; Wichita
1850.
The forecast for Kansas sent out
today was Fair tonight and Thurs
day; cooler" The wind at noon was
southwest, blowing "a miles an hour
The hourly temperatures recorded to-
day by the government thermometer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.

Some cooks make a fish appear as
if it were rubber.
If you want to get up rival
heaven. drive out to see the peach
orchards.
The ordinary man will give up
more money for fish than he will for
salvation.
If a man has any sense at all in his
love affairs, he loses it when he
scents a rival.
Say what you please, it is the snug
fitting shoe that causes you trouble
Wear EN- loose.
There is something else to do, girls.
than walking through the meadows
with an armful of flowers.
When a man has his picture taken
with his family, he shows on his pho
tographic face that he was forced
into it.
When we talk to a school teacher,
we feel as if our remarks are being
diagramed, parsed, analysed, and she
is wondering whether we should get a
red or a blue card
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11

One of the humors of the day except
for a lurking suspicion of high art in
campaign management, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch, is that Burton of Kan
sas-who is still Senator Burton-is
telling the Kansas people of the COM
ing doom of Roosevelt. He does not
predict the presidents defeat this year.
But two years hence che will be the
most unpopular man who ever sat in
the presidential chair His unpopu-
larity will attain its maximum in Kan
sas because people there will be say
ing, THAT is the man who accomplish
ed Burton's downfall7 This is the
most alluring indictment of Roosevelt
yet invented. The idea of Roosevelt
two years hence calling on the noun
tains to hide him because he accom-
plished Burton's downfall has an orig
inality that is really worth while. At
present, however. the indictment is so
much in the line of recommendation
for Roosevelt as to provoke a mild
wonder whether some brilliant cam
paign maneuver has not artfully set
Burton to talking, with the obvious re-
suit of helping Roosevelt along this
year, whatever his doom in 1906
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11

At Indian Harbor went aboard the
schooner Jolly Crew. It was a raw,
foggy day. with a fresh northeast gale
blowing and a high sea running out
side the harbor. They were splitting
fish on the deck; the skiff was just in
from the trap-she was still wet with
spray
Il sails with me sons an gran sons,
zur." said the skipper, smiling Sure,
I be a old feller L be down the Labra-
dor, isn't I, zur?"
He did not mean that He was
proud of his age and strength-glad
that he was still able ct be at the
ishin'."
" lis a wonder you've lived through
it ALL" said 1.
He laughed "An' why. zur?" he
asked
"Many's the ship wrecked on this
coast" I answered.
"Oh, no. zur," said he; mot so
many, EUR, as you might think. Down
this way, EUR, we knows how L sail"
That was a sucCinct explanation of
very much that had puzzled me.
''Ah. we'll" said I. " It's a hard life"
Hard ?" he asked. doubtful1y.
Yes" answered; It's a, hard life
the fishin'.''
ooh no, EUR" said he, quietly, look
ing up from his work. 'Tis just
just HfeH-Harper's Magazine for
May.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
SUCCESSOR TO ARTHUR
Hot Campaign Is on at B. of L. e.
Convention.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 1.-THE sixth
biennial of the international Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers assem-
bled in this city today with between
800 and 700 delegates in attendance.
Turner hall, fittingly decorated with
flowers and bunting and Temodeled to
suit the requirements of the conven-
ton, was the place of meeting. At the
same hour the ladies' auxiliary of the
order assembled in blanchard hall.
The work of the greatest Importance
before the present convention is the
selection of a grand chief engineer to
fill the place made vacant by the death
of P. M. Arthur last July. The present
chief w. S. Stone, who was chosen to
fill out Mr.. Arthur's unexpired term
will be a candidate to Succeed himself.
Other candidates who will have strong
following are J. c. Currie, second
grand assistant engineer, and T. S.
Ingraham, first grand engineer. In
the auxiliary Mrs. w. A. Murdoch,
founder of the order and its president
during the entire Is years of existence,
will succeed herself. The convention
will continue in session until June 2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
THE Steel TRUSTS TARIFFS.
IFrom the Chicago Tribune. l

lFrom the Chicago Tribune
The United States Steel corporation
sold several thousand tons of steel
rail this week at S2S a ton. That con-
Germ and others keep up the domestic
price of rails, although the cost of
production has gone down in the last
three years and the home demand has
fallen off. The American roads are
not buying now except when they feel
obliged to.
When foreigners want steel rails
the mills are ready to make conces-
sions to them. They cut the home
price without compunetion. Several
months ago the Pennsylvania Steel
company. competing with the United
States Steel corporation and with
English and German manufacturers.
made sales to some foreign railways
at about SIS a ton, and did not lose
money by the transaction
The general manager of a Georgia
railroad says, in letter to Senator
Bacon Of that state, that the best bid
he could get last February on $500
tons of rail was S2e a ton delivered at
Savannah. The generarl manager
said to the representative of the com
pany whose bid was accepted that he
had friends who We're interested in a
railroad project in Honduras and
would like to know at what price they
could get rails delivered at tide water
for shipment. He was told at $50 a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
PARKER HAS INDIANA.
State Committee Decides Contests in
Advance of Convention.

Indianapolis. Ind. May 1.-THE Dem
Ocratic state committee decided today
that at the district caucuses tonight to
select 26 delegates to the national con-
vention tickets should be issued to del
egates having prima facie evidence Of
election where there are contests. This
will seat the Parker delegates from
Vanderburg, Vigo, Tippecanoe and Ben
ton counties, numbering about 125.
This means that the Parker following
will control the convention organiza-
ton. 1t has been decided that at the
state convention tomorrow to select
four delegates at large, the Indiana del
egation to the national convention win
be instructed for Judge Parker and will
vote under the unit rule Just how far
these instructions shall go has not We
been determined, but IT is understood
that the instructions viii not read
that Indiana shall support Parker
first last and all the time"
Parker will be Endorsed, but the dei-
egates viii be free to decide how long
they shall give the support of Indiana
to Parker"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
is POSTPONED
Judge MoOre's Nomination Contro-
versy to Be Heard May 26.

The contest against the nomination of
Judge o. L. Moore as Republican nominee
for judge in the Eighth judicial district,
came up today before the state election
board, but, at the request of the contest
ors, it was postponed until Thursday,
May 26.
Thomas Dever of Junction City, one of
the six men who signed the protest
against Moores nomination. withdrew
his name from the protest today and he
said he also represented two other Geary
county signers of the protest. D. ".
Wheeler of Marion, chairman of the old
judicial committee. represented those
who are still cortesting Moore,s nomina-
ton. The signature Of Wheeler, c. G.
Moore of Morris county and w. T. David
son of Abilene still remain on the pro-
test.
Dever was a candidate for appoint ent
as Judge upon the resignation and with
dra wal of Judge Dickerson, but when
Gov. Bailey concluded to appoint r. l..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
Awful Suffering Of a Boy
from an itching
Hun0uF.
CURED BY CUTICURA
Not One Square Inch Of Skin on
His Whole Body Was
Unaffected.

My little son, boy of five, broke
out with an itching rash. Three doc
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try q certain medical college, but
its treatment did not do any good. At
the time was induced to try Cuticura
Remedies he was so bad that had to
cut his hair of and put the Cuticura
Ointment on him on bandages, as it was
impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was not
affected. He was one mass of sores.
The bandages used to stick to his skin
and in removing them it used to take
the skin OF with them, and the screams
from the poor child were hcart-break-
ing. began to think that he would
never get well, but after the second
application of Cuticura Ointment
began to see signs of Improvement,
and with the third and fourth Rpplica-
tons the sores commenced to dry up
His skin peeled on twenty times, but it
finally yielded to the treatment. / used
the Cuticura Resolvent for his blood,
and now 1 can say that he is entirely
cured, and stronger and healthier boy
you never saw than he is to-day"
ROBERT WATTAM,
1922 Center Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, Dec.
80, 1897.
No return in six years, Mr.. wattaD
writes, Feb. rs, 1908.
Your letter of the 21st in regard to
the case of my little boy at hand. I am
truly thsnkful to say that the cure
effected by the Cuticura Remedies has
been most thorough and successful
cure to date F"
sold throg=hn1t the xossd cu.ssura Resoaysnt sse-
I'm Of Shoeo1zta Cn1e1 F1s 5e- per vial o. cd,
6fz1. IL Dep l.ondoo, 81 Charter
h0ess Rq.s Esr1A Rae q Il Rss BssloA. 81 Columbus
Ave Potter DrcR SD C1a1- lsssP- aoir rropsasors.
ng- Sand fse .sE1sv 70 cuEs Esazy humou-.s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
SMALLPOX AT PARSONS
DR.. Lowry Takes steps to Check the
Epidemic.

An epidemic of smallpox has broken
out at Parsons. It threatened to
spread considerably for time, owing
to imperfect quarantine regulations,
but Dr. Charles Lowry, secretary of
the state board of health, who was
called to Parsons a few days ago to
look after the matter and iron out
some local difficulties, says that all
cases are now under a rigid quaran-
tine and 1t is believed that the dis
ease will be checked. There are now
eight or ten cases of the disease, one
or two of them very severe ones
The disease started in an extra
work tang on the M, K. & T. rail-
road. The gang contained about thir-
~ men, who were quartered in a car
on a sf1etrack just inside the city
limits. Two of the gang were taken
with smallpox and the car was
placarded. The car stood near a ma
chine shop, and theworkmen in the
SHOP objected to the proximity OF the
disease, so the car was pushed along
a short distance to where it was just
outside the city limits.
Then the city authorities refused to
take charge of the cases and bear the
expenses of feeding and quarantining
the thirty men. T. n. Sedgwick, gen
eral attorney for the railroad COM
pany, referred the matter to DIR. ]. H.
Henson, the county health officer of
Labette county, but he urged that the
expense of the quarantine ought not
to fall on the city. Both county and
city officials thought the railroad
company ought to take care of the
workmen, but the company claimed it
was not responsible for them when
they got sick.
In the meantime there was prac-
ftically no quarantine and a number of
other cases of the disease developed in
various parts of the city. The city
authorities concluded they would have
to do something in self-defense, and
DIR. Charles Lowry, secretary Of the
state board of health. was sent for.
AS a result of his visit the railroad
company has furnished two cars for
the work gang, one in which the sick
men are confined, and the other for
the detention of the workmen who
have been exposed but who have not
yet come down with the disease. As
the entire gang had slept in the car
with the smallpox patients, all had be-
come infected and had to be quaran-
tined The city is bearing the expense
of feeding and guarding the gang, and
a rigid quarantine has also been estab-
lished over the other cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11

Lawrence, Kan, May lin the
district court here Strauss Knight,
who was arrested charged with selling
intoxicants. was convicted on two
counts. There We're ten counts in all
and he at first pleaded not guilty in
the hearing that was given him.
Judge Smart required a bond of
$1,000 for his appearance. He had
a consultation with his attorneys and
decided to plead guilty to two of, the
counts. one for selling liquor and one
for maintaining liquor nuisance. The
other counts were dismissed His
sentence consisted of thirty days and
800 for each count making a total
of sixty days and 5000, and the costs
of the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-11
STANLEY SEES BAILEY.
Ex-Governor Asks the Present Cover
nor for a Pardon.

w. f. Stanley. former governor of
Kansas. was in Topeka for a short
time this morning. He came up from
Wichita to see Governor Bailey about
a pardon.
Governor Stanley said he was glad
to get out of official life and back to
his law practice. He said he is now
out of politics and is devoting his time
to practicing law.
J. r. Crawford of Sharon. Harper
county, accompanied Governor Stan
ley and 1t was concerning a pardon
for CraWford's son. Oscar, that he
came to Topeka He called on Cover
nor Bailey this morning and presented
the case to him.