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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23
PERSONAL POINTS.

Harry NJ. Schriver has returned from
Peoria.
J. F. Murphy will spend Christmas at
his old home at Chebanse, Ill.
MIR. and Mrs. o. l.. Benway, of Ora,
Miss. are here to spend the Christmas
holidays.
Mrs. Julia Rosenfield has returned
from a visit with her daughter in New
York City. =
Charles Rosenfield is home from
school in the east to spend the Christ
mas vacation.
Miss Mae Stambaugh has departed
days with relatives.
John Beecher is home from st.
Mary's college. Kansas, for the
Christmas holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. William III. Anderson
departed last evening 10 spend few
weeks with relatives at Aurora.
Miss Fannie Divers has departed for
South Bend, Ind, to spend the holi-
days with her mother and brother.
H. G. Thackett and daughter Mamie
departed last evening for a months
NlSli III Soioi auo anu III
Miss Florence Chamberlin is ex.
pected home this evening from Yer
million, S. d., to spend the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. B. ID. Connolly depart
this evening to spend the holidays
with relatives at Missouri Valley, Ia
F. A. Hart has arrived home from
New Mexico, where he attended the
meeting of the National Association of
Passenger Agents.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Reede have re-
turned to their home at Burlington
Iowa, after a two weeks visit with
Rock Island relatives.
Albert n. Mueller, who is a student
at the College of Physicians and Sur
geons, in Chicago. has come home fol
the Christmas holidays.
Frank Cressy and John Imhof. OF
Wayland. Iowa. are in the city II
spend Christmas at the home of Mrs
Henry Kramer. who is Mr.. Cressy's
sister.
F.. NJ. Sinnet. of this city, and Mr..
and Mrs. f. G. Spaulding, of Daven-
port, attic ldc.i the funeral of Martin
Kingman at Peoria yesterday after
noon. Mrs. Kingman and Mrs Sinnet
were cousins.
Friends of Allyn Fleming, formerly
reporter on The Argus will be pleased
to learn that he has been appointed to
the rank of first lieutenant of the Gal
weston coast artillery. Gov. S. w. T..
Lanham, of Texas, mailing the appoint
ment.
Leon. Robert and Fred Mitchell re
turned this morning 10 spend the holt
day vacation with their parents in
this city. ArdO Mitchell who with
Leon and Fred is attending school at
Williams college, returned last even
ing. Robert Mitchell is a student at
Lawrenceville.
Robert ReXdale. supreme secretary
of the Fraternal Tribunes, arrived
home last evening from business
trip to Virginia and West Virginia.
Public meetings in the interest of the
order were held at Parkersburg, w.
Va. and Petersburg, Va. Mr.. Rexdale
received a warm welcome at the hands
of his southern friends, but says ii
showed almost every day he was in the
sunny SOUTH" just the same.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23
]. w. Herbert Injured.

John W. Herbert, employed in re-
pairing machinery at the Rock Island
Lumber company's mill this afternoon.
was injured by being struck in the alb
domen by flying pulley He was re-
moved to his home on Seventh avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23
WALKER FARM FOR S21,1OO
e. c. Donahoo Bids in 359-Acre Tract
in Upper End of County.

The Hiram Walker farm of 35S
acres, located two miles northwest Of
Joslin, was sold on an order of the
court in a suit for partition. by Mas
ter in Chancery F. II. Kelly yesterday.
T.. c. Donahoo was the purchaser. His
bid was $21, 100
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23

The fire department was called a
1:10 this afternoon to extinguish
small blaze in a shed at the rear O
David Don's hardware store on Ser
ond avenue. The fire was extinguist
ed with chemicals before any damag
had resulted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23
Low Holiday Rates.

On Dec. "a. %. &c. 81. Jan. 1 and 2
the Rock Island will sell round trip
tickets TO any point on their line at
rate of fare and one third. Good for
return up TO and including Jan. 4.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23
SPECIAL SALE

Of Nice Ripe Bananas at Campana,
Pusateri & Co., 1914 Second Avenue.
We have a carload Of fancy bananas,
which we will sell at 80 cents bunch
and up. Z or s dozen to the bunch.
Also nice bananas at 10 cents per doZ-
en-. 2 dozen for Is cents and dozen
for 25 cents. Order left for bananas
by the bunch delivered promptly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23
Attention. W. r. c.

All members of w. r. c. No. &c are
requested to meet at Memorial hall at
1870 tomorrow TO attend the funeral
of Sister Esther Kale. BY order of the
president, ALICE ROGERS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-12-23
Rock Island Chapter, No. 2ee, o. e.

Members are urgently requested to
meet at Masonic temple Saturday at
ternoon at lis p. m. to attend the
funeral of Sister Esther Kale, to be
held at her late residence, 1873
Fourth avenue.
MARY F. KREIS, w. NJ.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
AS OUTSIDERS SEE IT.

The plank of the Vermont Republic
can platform dealing with the disfran-
chisement of the Southern negroes
suggests the oldtime Republicsnism
1t reads:
Vermont, the then independent
commonwealth that in 1777 adopted
the first written constitution prohibit
ing slavery, and one of whose judges
in early times declared that title to a
human chattel could only be shown by
bill of sale from God Almighty, can
not now look with Indifference upon
the attempts recently made in certain
States to deprive the colofed race OF
the elective franchise, and we, there
fore, emphatically indorse the plank
of the national Republican party that
calls for congressional Investigation
of this subject, and if such discrmi-
nationg legislation be found unconsti-
tutional, we urge our delegation in
Congress to use their best endeavors to
secure the enactment of Legislation
proportionally reducing the represent
aion of such States in the United
States Congress and in the electoral
college"
Evidently the Vermont kind of Re
publicanism holds that principle is al
important to party as expediency,
though both are against the perpetuity
of system by which few hundred
men in Southern State have as larg'
a representation in Congress as man,
thousands in a Northern common
wealth possess. -Bssoon Transcript.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

ready to accept better labor condi-
tions, are not anxious to strike. In
fact. they would not think of doing
SO if it were ont for outside influence.
While the marble worker of New York
city and many other localities COM
mands a S. day wage, work is not
continuous. Two years ago when 10
or more Rutland marble workers went
to New York, at the solicitation of
members of the New York unions, on
So day wage, it did not take them
two months to discover that the loss
of working time, during which they
were laid off, more than neutralized
the comparatively large pay they were
getting, and consequently they did
not get as much money at the end of
the month as they had received for
years in Rutland county.
Our local marble companies have
long been laboring under peculiar dis
advantages, in the nature OF the RI
valry which they meet outside. Not
Rutland can be handled by contractors
in New York city and many other
| places. Our companies are compelled
to deal direct with the architect, and
they frequently are forced to make
contracts for all the decorative mate
rial of building, including slate,
granite and the like, In order to get
their marble product placed in con-
| tract. 1t has been the custom of our
local companies when business is
slack to work up marble and keep it
in stock, thus anticipating trade in
order TO keep. the men at work. This
is. generally speaking, a good business
proposition, but it is not so consid-
cred by the marble competitors of
Rutland county in other States.
One feature of the marble situation
is this: Many marble concerns doing
business where they pay the So day
wage have carried their competition
with Rutland county to the point of
urging upon the unions the advisable
ity of forcing the rate of wages up.
They claim that they are at disadvan-
tage in bidding for contracts ON account
of what they claim is the low rate of
wages at Rutland. How far the in
flucnce of such employers has affected
the action of the International associ-
alton it is not for us to say, but we
do feel that both employers and en-
ployed should think twice before they
precipitate wage war in this country
and run the risk of closing down ouI
marble mills for year or more. ---Rut.
land Herald
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

about it. 1t is substantially the plat
form on which we won two great VIC
tories in the name of Mckinley, and
/ is still sound and serviceable. Its
principles have been tested by eight
years of splendid success, and have re-
ceived the approval Of the country.
1t is in line with all our platforms Of
the past except where prophecy and
promise in those days have become
history in these. We stand by the an
cient ways which have proved good.
ave could desire no better fortune,
in the campaign upon which we are
entering, than that the other side
should persist in their announced in.
tention to make the issue upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt. What a godsend to
our orators 1t takes some study,
some research, to talk about Roose-
welt 1t is an easy thing to sing the
glory of the Graeme. OF gentle
birth and breeding, yet a man of the
people in the best sense; with the
training of scholar and the breezy
accessibility of a rancbman; a man of
the library and man of the world;
an athlete and thinker soldier and
a statesman reader, a writer, and
maker of history with tine sensibil-
ity of poet and the steel nerve of
rough rider; one who never did, and
never could, turn his back on friend
or an enemy. A man whose merits
are SO great that he could win on his
merits alone; whose personality is 80
engaging that you lose sight of his
merits Make their fight ON man
like that What irreverent caricatur-
list was it that called them the Stupid
party?
SIN our candidate for vice presi-
dency we have gone back to the old
and commendable custom of the repub-
lie, and have nominated man in
every way fit for the highest place in
the nation, who will bring to the
presidency of the Senate an ability and
experience rarely equaled in its his
tory"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

State of Vermont that it is never nee
essary to put forth effort to keep her
in the Republican column. Her
claim to have brought the Republican
party into being is older than either
that OF Jackson or Flushing or Of
Maine. And as the Vermonters
elected the Governor they nominated
as the result of that June meeting,
and as they nominated and elected
him under the new name Republican,
they could make out fine case OF
priority. But they would find diff
Guilty in securing the presence of
Republican President or Cabinet off,
Ger in presidential year, so the Yer
monters have taken no steps for a
celebration. If their State were rs
doubtful as New Hampshire has some
times been, the whole country would
be ringing with Vermont as the cradle
of the Republican party.
Meanwhile, more pertinent
question than the date or place of the
birth of the Republican party is how
long the organization is going to last.
Born of agitation over the slavery
question alone, it cannot in the nature
of things expect to maintain any such
permanenoe as Democracy has already
attained. In time the guardianship
OF the doctrine of centralized power
and of strong government must pass
on to some other party organized to
meet some special situation, as the
Republican party was organized in
1854. The Republicans then took
over the central idea of the Wings
whom they superseded and they will
in time pass that idea along to some
successor. With slavery buried and
the negro question settled by evolu-
tion, it will be difficult if not i'm
possible to hold the voters around the
name associated chiefly with aboli-
tiOn, ~
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
A MARBLE CRISIS.

The Herald has an intimation that
the International Association of Mar
BILE Workers of the United States and
Canada has ordered out the men in it's
organization now employed in the
marble mills of Rutland county. We
trust that our informant has made a
mistake A strike of this magnitude
would be very serious affair for this
section as it would probably continue
for many months. 1t would stop short
a monthly roll of about $140. 900 as
we'll as disbursements Of 500, 900 a
month extra for coal, lumber and 9th.
er supplies.
Our impression is that tbs marble
workers of this vicinity. while always
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
VERMONT ITS MOTHER.

A hundred cities claimed the honor
of Homer's birth. Nearly as many
towns in these United States are
claiming the honor of the locality
and incidents of the Republican
party's birth half century ago.
Apropos of this mooted question the
Brooklyn Eagle says;
Those are good partisan campaign
speeches of Secretary Hays and Sena-
tor Fairbanks at the Republican
birthday celebration at jackson,
Michigan. They serve to call atten-
ton to the multifsriousness of the
birth of that party, which the Eagle
has heretofore pointed out. This
year the party will throw its empha
sis ON Michigan, unless, indeed, the
people of Flushing shall succeed in
getting President Roosevelt to attend
their celebration this month and give
his sanction to the claim that the
only true cradle OF Republicanism
was rocked by the waves of Long
island Sound. A few years ago,
when Blaine was running for Pres
ident and it was important to make
Maine prominent, the Republican,
organized celebration of the party
birth ON August Z, at Strong in tina
State. On that occasion Mr.. Blain,
spoke and one of the Republican lead
ers from Michigan was on hand t.
proclaim that the organization a
jackson, which Secretary Hay nov
glorifies, was not q birthday at all
but merely premonitory warning
Now the Republican leaders forget al
about Maine and the claims of Stron
and lend distinction to the Jaokso
holiday. It is great pity for tn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

If Hon. E. P. Walton were in the
body, the claim to priority of date of
the use of the word Republican, in
1854. by the organization which fol-
lowed the breaking up of the Wing
party, the semi centennial of which
was celebrated at Jackson, Mich, on
Wednesday, would be strenuously dis
puted. Mr.. Walton would prove from
the records that the Republican party
was born in Vermont, a mass con.
vention in this State. IN 1854, having
adopted the title some weeks prior to
the meeting at Jackson.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
A BANDITS REFORM.

The bandit said, This life I'll cease
I'll be different man,
l know better way to fleece
The rich American.
4 shall not shoot him through the
leg,
Nor club him with gun,
Nor SINCE his feet to make him beg
Relief from Washington.
1t is a shame to treat him so;
He's gentle and he's good;
And if his cash he will let 60
Without such measures rude.
Some simple fixtures l will get,
Such as are used in games;
And let him play things called 'rou-
lette
And other fancy names.
"I'll have his cash without the strife.
These bandits, coarse and rude,
Who say, Your money or your life,
Are very. very crude"
Washington Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
DEMOCK4TIC LATFORM.

The platform of the Democracy in
convention assembled sets forth the
long familiar issues: A demand for
economy in administration enforce
ment of honesty in public service; re-
vision of tariff reciprocity with for
eign nations, maintenance of the Mon.
roe doctrine, with reservations oppo-
sition to unnecessary bond issues,
liberal appropriations to public works,
reduction of the army and expendi-
lures Herewith, with liberal policy
toward the navy. 1t favors the mer-
chant marine, but wants no bounties
given; just rights to capital and la
Dor Statehood for the territories; and
call for due honor to Schley and
Dewey. There is also an expression
of disapproval of any attempt to
Africanize any State or community
within the bounds of the American
Republic, and demand that the safe
ty of American citizens abroad shall
be assured. 1t sets forth further the
Panama Canal issues and the inten-
ton of the party, when in power, to
attend to the speedy construction of
said canal. The other prominent
planks are: Independence for the
Filipinos; the execution, without ex-
ecutive construction. of Interstate com.
MERGE and antitrust laws. The mon
ey plank is left to the committee on
resolutions, of the convention, to deal
with
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

The Chicago Tribune gives the
number of deaths resulting from the
4th of July as 90 and the reported in
juries as 300 The figures in each
case are slightly smaller than those Of
last year. The reported fire loss was
$50, 600 less. So far so good, but there
is plenty of chance for improvement.
There is no need of having any such
roll of killed and wounded following
the great national holiday. Care.
lessness is responsible for nearly every
injury.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

Charles j. Bell is either a much
shrewder politician than he has been
givsn credit for or a remarkably lucky
guesser. When in the Times office
two weeks before the convention he
said that unless the unforeseen hap
pened he should have from 30 to 40
majority on the first ballot. His
actual majority was 29.-Bellows
Falls Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
BRYAN's METEORIC CAREER.

With the loss of control of the Demo.
cratic party by William j. Bryan
comes the political downfall Of man
whose career has been the most re-
markable of any in public life in re-
cent years. In the meteoric swiftness
of his rise and fall no man can equal
him.
Eight years ago comparatively few
people had heard of him. He attend
ed the Democratic national convention
at Chicago in 1896, plain man in a
plain black alpaca coat, at the head Of
the contesting delegation from Ne
braska. His delegation was seated
and later in the convention he burst
suddenly into prominence in his fam
GUS speech in which he referred to
labor, the crown of thorns and
cross of gold. BY the power of his
denly the idol OF the convention and
out of his obsculity was nominated
for President.
Mr.. Bryan became suddenly strik-
ing figure in national politics. His
speech making tours from the At
lantic to the Pacific coast, on which
he was heard and seen by thousands
and millions, was famous exhibition
of oratorical powers. He became the
most popular man in the Democratic
party. He was not merely respected
and admired for his brilliancy, but he
possessed a power of personal mag
netism that for time drew men to
him and made them wild for him.
They were his slaves and he was alb
solute in bis party. Even his politi-
cal opponents admired his marvellous
powers.
Now, twice defeated for President,
Bryan has been in attendance at a
third convention. His influence was
gone with all but a small number of
the Democratic delegates. Everybody
knew him but few seemed to care
about him. His oratory, now famll-
lar to all, was again used to swing
the convention, in the matter of the
Illinois delegates, but his oratory and
wishes were alike disregarded. In the
matter of platform his opinions were
disregarded, although he was respect.
fully heard and in one or two cases
the committee agreed with him-but
not because of him.
Bryan has fallen-and why? Be.
cause of his own blindness. Because
after two conspicuous defeats in cam
paigns in which the chief issue was
the free coinage of silver in the ratio
of 16 to /, he refused to recognize the
fact that the issue was dead and that
the party must take to other ques
tions for campaign material. Hat
Bryan been willing to drop the silver
issue and take up such new PROPOSE
tions as the times suggest-pool
though they may be-he might still
have been powerful factor in Demo
cratic politics. His peculiar qualitie
might have insured his continued
prominence in politics had he no
shown himself so politically blind
His life might have been, and SHOULD
have been, one of service to his coun
try.
1t is as leading Democratic pape
has said about Bryan: brilliant tai
ents have been thrown away, a might
prestige ruined, and an influence dis
sipsted that might have acoomplishe
great things for the national welfar
had it been exercised intelligently
But Mr.. Bryan has shown no taller
for building up. He could only del
troy and in the end he has succeede
in destroying himself.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

Great disasters on sea and land are
coming very close together this year.
The sinking of the Norge, with loss
of about 600 lives, following the terri
BILE disaster to the General Slocum, in
which more than thousand lives
were offered up, comes as a shock to
travellers. The Rockall, upon an
outlying and submerged reef of which
the Norge was wrecked, is a lone rocky
island about 300 miles west from the
nearest point Of the north Scottish
coast 1t is hardly hundred yards
in circumference but is surrounded
with shoals. No light or bell or other
warning signal marks it's position,
though it is not far from the course
of certain Of the transatlantic steam
ers, those going direct between Amer
lea and Scandinavian ports in particu-
lar. The location of the island is
we'll known, however, and this is the
second accident known to have ever
happened there, the other having &C.
Cured in 1886. 1t is supposed that
the Norge left her course owing to the
tog in which she was steaming, though
the captain insists the ship was eigh-
teen miles away from the island when
the submerged rock was struck.
Either he is in error or the carefully
made charts need remodelling.
Gen. Rafael Reyes was DECLARED
elected President of Colombia Oh
July 4. 1t is expected that this will
have the effect of bringing Colombo,
and the United States into better rela
tions once again, as General Reyes i
far less radical in his opposition t.
the United States than most of tn,
prominent men of his country, ant
from his knowledge of conditions il
this country it is reasonable to expeo
that he will see that it is for Colon
bias interests to be friendly. Diplo
matte relations may be resumed sool
by the receiving OF the America
minister, W. W. Russell.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

The promoters of the Northern
League should feel very we'll satisfied
with the attendance at the games up
to date. II the crowds continue to be
as large throughout the season there
should be no excuse for financial
troubles with any team in the league.
II the various arrangements are
honest, instead of calls upon the stock
holders to make up deficits at the end
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

The despatch from st. Petersburg
stating that an imperial ukase has
been issued announcing that All,
300 men who are liable fol military
service will be conscripted at once in
dioates that Russia is beginning to
realize that she has some prett- seri-
GUS business on her hands.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14

The Populists have decided to go
it alone" this year and pay no atten-
tion to what the Democrats do. They
propose to elect Watson it possible on
Populist ticket. A leading Populist
said the other day that if Bryan
should bolt the Democratic ticket
Populism would live Anything pol
itical that depends for life on Bryan
ought to die