Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-14
HEARD I'm PASSING

5GNGA uuLuIGu SullS are TpCOFunu
against the New York Rapid Transit
90. Out Of so many Some suits ought
to prove fit.-Morning Telegram and
Union.
Colonel Watterson insists that the
mint must be neither smashed nor
bruised. All wings of the democracy
can unite on this platform. New Ha-
ven Union.
How is it that the American free
traders have not tried to explain the
defeats of the Russians as due to the
fact that they have a protective tar
if New York Press.
The republican candidate for gov
ernor of Vermont earned his first
penny by building the fire in the little
red schoolhouse, after milking 10
cows and walking mile and half
to school So we guess he'll be elect
ed.-Boston Herald.
The republicans may lose the 30
electoral votes Of New York and still
be. able to elect their presidential
ticket; IL the democrats fail to secure
these 80 votes they will fail to elect
their presidential Observation-Disclosures
phia Public Ledger.
Each side in the present great war
accuses the other of cruelty to the
wounded of it's foe and the chances
are that both have some ground fol.
complaint. In truth the war at best
Is just what General Sherman called
it, and passions rage as at no other
time.Boston Journal.
The gayety of the nation during the
approaching campaign has suffered a
distinct eclipse in the failure Of the
prohibitionists to make General
Miles their candidate. His impress
sive presence ut the head of that tick
ct would have been an unceasing joy
to all beholders.-N York Globe.
Those who have been visitors to the
Massachusetts building at the st
Louis fair will ont take any stock i'll
the complaints of some of the return
ed delegates from the republican con-
vention that they didn't get proper
welcome there. There is no better
managed state building on the
grounds.-Boston Globe
A nervous contemporary wants to
know how Mr. Knox can afford to
give up a $4,000 income as lawyer
to accept $4,000 as a cabinet officer,
and then take senatorship at $4,000,
We violate no confidence in stating
that his credit is still good at the
grocery store, and that he economies
by dining out good deal.-W Washing
ton Post.
The prohibition vote may be treat
eel as negative quantity In the cam.
pa1gn Four years ago it amounted to
20S,914 in the entire country. It is
more likely to fall below that figure
| this year than to go above it. 1T does
not follow that temperance sentiment
| is losing ground. But the prohibition
vote never has been a measure OF
| temperance Boston Jour
nal.
| AS the loss of only 10 districts
would take from the republicans theil
majority in the house 1T is hardly con
ceivable that an overturn big enough
/ to cast Mr. Roosevelt out of the white
4 house would be too small to give the
\ democrats at least q nominal MAORI
ty in the house. Speculation along
that line may, of course, better be de
ferred till the st Louis convention has
! COMPLETED its work. But even If thai
body falls short of the hopes of the
! hest party leaders the republicans
cannot safely assume that their con
troll of the house. is assured.-Provi
dence, r. l.. Journal.
/ The school board of Louisville, Ky
has instructed the high school com
mittee to inform four Filipino stu
dents, who applied for admission tt
the Dupont manual training higl
school that their color debars then
from the LZiVileges OF public schools
When the request that the Filipino
BOYS be allowed free admittance tt
the school was presented to the boart
DR. r.. r.. Calvin inquired If the Fiji
pinos were not negroes. Professo
Mark said he investigated the law Al
to the separation of races in tn
schools and found that the word ''col
ored' applied to all except whit
children-negroes, Indians and thos
of the brown races.-New Havel
Journal and Courier.