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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-02-17

Forty.hve years ago, says the
Spok esman. Review, Oregon was sd.
mittsd into the Union as state. In
l84S Oregon had been made terri.
tory, aud included within it's limits
what has since become the state Of
Washington. When Joseph Lane,
the tirst governor Of the territory,
arrived and organized the territorial
administration the population was
less than 5000. For many years
afterwsrd the growth was slow. The
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-02-17

This appropriation Of $1,000 over
the grant Of the preceding year,
until the amount to be paid there
after to each state and territory he.
com 81 100000.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20

classes; TINT the army and navy are too
big; that the nation has been run extrav-
agantly and that the expenditures for the
army, navy, pension list, Panama canal,
rural free delivery service, irrigation
schemes and other grand purposes Of ma
tional development must be reduced; that
"the beneficent despotsm" of the Re-
publican party tabished and maintain
ell by the people must give way to that
Democracy of which he is the leader, and
which proposes to stand the country on
its head as a beginning OF the reform.
The judge would have hard row to
hoe If he began to talk in public and
tell the Westerner he must do as the
Fastener does, and to assure the laborer
in shop and field that reformatory legis-
latiOn must at first be for the relief of
the wealthy.
He recognizes his weakness in these
matters-knows that he could not speci-
fy as TO his accusations, could not con-
vince as to his proposed reforms; could
not successfully defend the revolutions
which his party proposes to inaugurate
in public affairs.
He is wise to recognize thus early in
the campaign that silence is golden"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
DEMOCRATS WITH THE TRUSTS.
The Showing Made When a Vote Was
Taken In the House.

The present laws which place whole
some restrictions on the trusts were put
on the statutes by the Republican party
and not by the Democratic party. Loud
ly as the Democrats have always talked
against the trusts, and seriously as they
have from time to time awakened appre-
hension in all business circles by their
threats that they would destroy all large
corporations whether good or bad, yet
never once have the Democrats accom-
plished or even aided in the accomplish
ment of any salutary effort to control
the trusts along lines of public safety.
The rulings of the Supreme Court hav-
ing shown that as the constitution now
stands, Congress can only regulate trusts
engaged in interstate commerce, the fol-
lowing amendment was introduced in
the House of Representatives and press
ed to a vote on June l, 1900:
Section ]. All powers conferred by this
article shall extend to the several States,
the territories, the District of Columbia,
and all territory under the sovereignty and
subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States.
Section 2. Congress shall have power
to define, regulate, control, prohibit, or dis
solve trusts, monopolies or combinations,
whether existing in the form of combna-
ton or otherwise The several States may
continue W eAerCise SUN power Ill any man
ner not In conflict with the laws of the
United States.
Section 3. Congress shall have power to
enforce the provisions Of this article by
appropriate legislation.
The clause saving all rights of States
was inserted in the hope of inducing
| State-rights Democrats to support the
| amendment. Nevertheless, the vote stood
| 14S Republicans for and 100 Democrats
against, and the measure failed of the
necessary twO-thirds ma jority.
| LOUDLY AS THE DEMOCRATS
| TALKED, WHEN 1T CAME TO A
| VOTE THEY WERE FOR THE
| TRUSTS, NOT AGAINST THEM.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20

n conservative estimate of tbs Synount
that will accrue to this fund et,nn the
sale of public lands during e.-A next
twenty-five years is based at 1stween
$GO0OO,O0O and $75,000,000.
Father of National Irrigation.
Under the caption, Roosevelt Is It."
the Garland Guard, published at Gar
land. Big Horn County, Wyoming among
other things says:
although Mr. Mondell, Senator War
rem and Senator Newlands and others de-
serve credit for what they did in Con-
gress, all their efforts in behalf of the
National Irrigation Act would have
failed had it not been for the fact that
President Roosevelt championed legisla-
ton of this kind for the benefit of the
arid region. He recommended in his
first message to Congress the enactment
of such a law, and it was his indorse-
ment more than anything else which Sc
cured approval for it among the SEN
atOrs and Representatives from the East.
"What chance can any Democrat think
this measure would have had if Mr..
Cleveland, instead of President Roose-
velt had been in the White House at
the time it was pending in Congress? 1t
was Mr.. Cleveland who spoke of some
of the Far Western States as undesirable
communities, and it is well known that
with this part of the country he had no
sympathy 1t was the influence of Pres
ident Roosevelt, who lived in the West
and knew its needs that secured fa
vorable hearing for the proposition and
resulted at last in the passage of the bill
under which national reclamation work
is now progressing. Therefore President
Roosevelt is the father of the National
Irrigation Law"
1rrigation's Part in Civilization.
In some parts of the country politi-
clans have stated to the people that the
question of irrigation is comparatively
new. This statement is wholly untrue.
Irrigation is as old as the human race.
Agriculture is the most ancient art Of
which we have any record. 1t was the
beginning of civilization. The first agri-
culture was accomplished through irriga-
ton. 1t was commenced, according to
scientists who have sought the records
of primitive man, under conditions of
great aridity, and the civilized cities of
the ancients were either on the edge of,
or in, the desert. The earliest civiliza-
ton of America has indelibly stamped
its impress on Arizona and New Next
co, where to-day are to be found the
remains of the cities and great irrigation
works which fourished thousands of
years before Columbus discovered Amer
lea. Almost all the ancient civilizations
which history records were based upon
irrigation and irrigation is to-day prac-
ticed by more than half the people in the
world. Under the workings of the Ma
tional Irrigation Act it is estimated that
what is now the arid West can be made
to support S0,OO0,000 of people
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
The Work. of Democracy,

by their works shall ye know them"
BY what single work are the American
people to know that the Democratic
party can be safely intrusted with pow
err? There is not single distinctive
policy of the party that, put to the test,
ever worked without creating damage.
The Democratic party has favored slav-
cry, free silver and free trade, but never
single principle has it ever favored that
meant greater happiness and prosperity
for the American people. The Republi.
can party freed the slaves it has stood
and still stands for sound money and
protection to American industries. 1t is
the party of construction, not the party
OF destruction.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
Ex-President cleve1and's Failure.

Ex-President Cleveland is an unimag-
NATIVE man. and for this, and other good
reasons, his recent magazine article en-
titled why a Young Man Should Vote
the Democratic Ticket" is short, point
less and unconvincing.
1t takes Il good deal Of fervid fancy,
and knack for invention, to construct
an argument upon theme like that. Mr..
Cleveland was evidently i'll at ease with
his subject. Probably few young men
will read the article, anyway, and no one
will be influenced by it.
The young men of America live in the
present and hope for the future. They
do not care to be even holding post
mortems on dead issues, nor to spend
their days holding back the wheels of ac-
ton and progress.
The young men of the United States
are alive. And they will vote the Repub
lican ticket this fall.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
WAS DEMOCRACY INSANE ?
If So, Bryan Was n Lunatic, According
TO Mr.. Cleveland,

Democracy ''has returned to sanity"
said Grover Cleveland recently, in an in
terview.
This statement made with all the SOL
emn ponderosity of which Mr.. Cleveland
is capable, would imply that the Demo-
cratic party has been insane and its lead
ers a set of lunatics. In previous inter-
views Mr.. Cleveland contented himself
with merely saying that Democracy had
strayed from the right path after
strange gods" when it embraced Bryan
ism, but since the defeat of the Bryan
faction at st. Louis he has been secretly
rejoicing over the apparent downfall Of
his most bitter political enemy, and on
Oct. 2, at Buzzard's Bay, he virtually
declared that Mr.. Bryan was a mailman.
How do the friends of Mr.. Bryan in
Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska and other
States relish having their leader called
a lunatic? Insanity is lunacy, or mad
ness, and if the Democratic party has
returned to sanity" it must first have
been insane, and, by the same reasoning,
il the party was insane because Bryan
was its leader, Mr.. Bryan himself must
have been the chief lunatc.
Candidate Parker is generally admitted
" NC "a hOhChlitS III patty bVob VI
Hill, Sheehan and others-and what he
says counts for little, but it is different
when Mr.. Cleveland talks. He is the
oracle of the Eastern Democracy, and
if he says Bryan is insane it is certain
he voices the sentiments of sane" Dem
ocracy.
How can the Bryanites indorse such a
SANDER on their leader by supporting
Parker? Mr.. Cleveland declined to vote
| for Bryan ON the ground that the Ne
braskan was insane, but he will vote for
Parker, because he leads the sane"
Democracy ticket.
An important point seems to have been
! forgotten by Mr.. Cleveland. Parker vot-
| ed twice for the Nebraska ''lunatic" and
| was therefore one of the host of madmen
| who composed "insane" Democracy. Does
| Mr.. Cleveland improve his position by
now supporting one of the madmen who
voted for the leader of insane" Dem
ocracy?
Mr.. Cleveland's thrust at Bryan was
uncalled for, and will, no doubt, be re-
scented at the polls, for the friends of Mr..
Bryan do not think he should be put
in the strait jacket class
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20

"If eur opponents come into power
they can revoke this order Pension
order No. 7Sl and announce that they
will treat the veterans of sixty-two to
seventy as presumably in full bodily
vigor and not entitled to pensions.
VIII they now authoritatively state
that they intend TO do this? If so, we
accept the issue. IL not, then we have
the right TO ask why they raise an
Issue which, when raised, they do not
venture to meet."-Roosevelts letter OF &C.
| nrnfn
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
PARKER'S SILENCE.
If He Speaks, Uupieasant Questions
Might he Asked.


1t is announced, presumably by author
ity, that the Democratic candidate for
President will make no speeches. but re-
strict his oratorical eXplosiveness to the
compilation of forecasts as TO what he
will do if elected. He will save him
self an incalculable amount OF trouble by
this turtle-like reserve. Were he 10 take
the stump he would be compelled to make
specific the general charges he has writ
ten against the Republicans. He would
have to show to be true his utterances
that his opponents have assumed unlaw-
full authority; that the President, fired
with the lust of power" is usurping ma
tional strength with the view of becom-
ing DICTATOR that Imperialism is the ten
dency of Republicanism; that the tariff
which lifted business out OF the slough
of despond is crushing the working
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
In Full EruDtiou.

Mont Pelee is again in full eruption,
and so is Senator Tillman Of South Caro-
lima.
And the world goes round and round
And the sun sinks into the sea-"
And whether Mont Pelee, or Tllman,
bursts,
1t matters little to me!
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
The Melancholy DAYS,

The melancholy days have come, the
saddest of the year,
When ID. b. Hills machinery is sadly out
of gear,
When Parker finds that Esopus is where
he'll have to stay
And when no longer they will let Une
Henry Gassaway.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
"Swing Low.v

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Swing
low over New York and New Jersey and
Rhode Island. We know you will swing
low enough to brush the clover blossoms,
but we want just to remind you that it
is your business-for the good of the
United States and for the good of the
world-that you swing low enough to in
sure a Republican success in the States
just named: Swing low, Sweet Chariot"
And we know you will swing!
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
outposts Around Mukden.

They are getting close in New York.
There is no question about that, and on
which ever side the outposts are, they
have got in, politically. That's all right.
They are past the underbrush and they
are close together. The political grapple
will be a fierce one, but it can go but
one way. The vote on Manhattan Island
cannot overcome the vote of the farm
ers and thinkers upstate. New York
will go Republican.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
ceptance.

Having "monkeyed" with Roosevelt
ism" until they found the buzz saw, the
Democrats are now tempting the fool
killer by reyiving the cry that "Protec-
ton is robbery" Eight years ago the
workingmen of this country decided that
protection is blessing, and they have
not changed their minds.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20

If there is a citizen OF the Uated
States anywhere who has too much bust
ness and too much employment, and
longs for the stagnation that prevailed
from 1898 to 1896, he can contribute to
that end by voting the Democratic ticket
this year.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20

A Democratic national victory is in
variably followed by distrust and con-
fusion in business, and by policies that
cripple the great industries Oh which
workingmen depend for support. No
such party should be entrusted with
power.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20

1t looks as if the croakers who are
foreteling ruin to the Republican ticket
in New York State were badly scared
without being able to tell what scared
them. New York will go for Roosevelt,
and with no uncertainty will it's verdict
be given. Roosevelt is New York's "fav-
orite SON."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09

The Smithfield Herald says Johnston
county is full Of blockade stills and that
the moonshiners are terrorizing the
people with threats to kill and to burn
if they are informed on. The Herald
pitches int the revenue officers for not
doing their duty. 1t says they do not
attempt to put a stop to illegal distil-
ling. Whereupon The Lumberton Ar
gus asks The Herald why it does not
pay its respects to the county officials,
whose duty it is, under the Watts law.
to break up these stills. Does not The
Argus know that it is considered trea-
son to the party for a member to criti-
else a democratic official or to censure
his conduct? We are surprised at The
Argus giving The Herald any such
advice.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09
Tuesday August 9, 1904.
ANOTHER FOR PARKER.

The acquisitions to the Parker
continue unabated.. The fact has been
noted tina most of the big New York
dailies. who supported Mckinley IN
the last campaign are now for the
New York Judge. deeming| it best for
the country hat there should be a
rest from excessive strenuosity and
that Parker is the man hat a lead
The conservative forces most adm1ra-
bly,. Not only papers. but individuals
of great influence and reputation are
turning to the support of the late
chief justice. One of The most nota-
BILE of these additions and n which
the New York World says will ere
ate little short of a sensation is that
nenI lawyer of the metropolis and A
law partner of Frank IL. Platt. son OF
Senator Platt. Mr.. Boardman de-
clines to make any statement Tor pub
Iication, but IL is announced that his
views will be made public. over his
own signature, in a few days. Mr..
Boardman. it is said came to the con-
cluSiOn that ne WOulQ ID
because of President R~oosevelt's total
disregard of the constitution. and he
has expressed himself strongly to per-
sonaI friends that no lawyer who
holds the constitution in respect and
desires to see executive officers keep
within the letter of the law could
endorse President Roosevelt. Mr.
Boardman is one of the foremost
members of the New York bar, and
such expressions from him will have
great weight in The minds OF thinking
men. = ! 3! Il
Other New York lawyers of promi-
nence now supporting Parker are
Wheeler II. Peckham. Edward M,
Shepard. William B.. Hornblowel.
John G. Carlisle. James C. Carter.
John G.. Milburn. Roger A. Pryor
Fredric P. Condert. De Lancey Nicoll
William F. Curtis. John Dewitt War
ner and Francis Ly1de Stetson.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09

are reasons why Governor Aycock
would rather that the troops assemble
at another place Ina the committee
recommends. then he should give
those reasons. BY his present action.
he is very unjust to the committee
and to himself II his minds was pre-
yiously made up why Jhe expense of
A committee meeting in Raleigh to
hear the arguments concerning the
advantage of each place. and h
further expense of a trip to both
camp sites? Nothing at all was TO
be gained by this procedure.
AS TO the prominence that has been
given the differences. that is entirely
the Governors fault. Several times
in private letters The report was asked
for-generally the letters were not an
severed, and finally to n came the
reply that the report would no be
made public. If Governor Avcock
had sent a copy of the committee's
report to the chamber. with his rea-
sons for declining to abide by their
recommendations, as We TAKE it for
granted That he did. then the matter
would probably have ended.
In the entire treatment of h mat
ter the Governor has acted arbitrary
and dictatorial.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09

There are a great many hungry hearted
women who would attend a baby sale If
babies were ever offered for sale, because
there are a great many wives who love
children and have been told BY physi-
clans that they can never hope to nurse
a child Of their own.
Some OF these women who have used
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for the
cure of wornanly ills nave been made
happy mothers as a result of the cure OF
womanly disease and the building up OF
the general health.
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription
makes weak women strong and sick
women we'll. II establishes regularity,
dries weakening drains, heals infamma-
ton and liberation and cures female
weakness.
luI wrote to you some time ago to get informa.
airy, Of Dryde1. Va. 81 was troubled with
female weakness and pains. Received answer
from you, advising me to take Doctor .Picrcr's
Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Dis
covery. took two bottles of 'Favorite Pre-
s~cripfion and found it did me good. had
been married four years and had no children
now l can say that our house Is blessed with a
little baby boy, born July 10th, by the help Of
God and your medicine. / praise your medicine
highly.
"You can publish this letter if you wish"
FREE. Or. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt
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Send Fl one-cent stamps for the book in
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09

Bear, the a The Kind You Have hlWays Bought
S's, .. : &z%

Still the meat strike goes on. and
there are no indications that any sort
of settlement is pending. The pack
ers say they are thoroughly satisfied
with the way things are running and
that the output of their packing
houses is increasing day by day. until
before long they will not feel any
embarrassment at all on account of
the strike. On the other hand. the
strikers claim thai the packers are
suffering greatly and that soon they
viii be ready to concede the terms
demanded by their former employees.
The great pity of ii all is the suffer
ing that always follows in the wake
Of such disagreemenrs. The families
of many of the strikers are reported
as suffering great hardships, and re-
fusing to ccep aid even when it was
offered-all on account of pride and
the desire to make the impression that
all is we'll with them
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09

Republicans claim that the Demo-
Gratis are not fighting fair. in making
the paramount issue of the campaign
Roosevelt, instead Of the tariff, impe-i
rialism or some other subject that they
could more successfully handle. But
Roosevelt is not kicking. He likes to
be in the public eye and he has con-
ceit enough to believe that the public
likes to gaze at him, and that his record
car stand publicity. The tide against
Rooseveltism is strong though, and un-
less there is a turn, he will o be a
private citizen Of some New York coun-
ty, for the first time since he last ac-
cepted a public office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09
AGAIN THE -ENCAMPMENT.

Peace loving citizens must implore
The prominence that has been given
tho matters of difference between
Governor Aycock and the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce. 1t seems
that the governor was c1early within
his rights in declining to give his rea-
sons for choosing a camping ground
for the state guard. and it appeaSr
that ths point is conceded. In that
view of The matter it would seem to
have been necessary to multiply
words. 1t is impossible to see what
good can come of the correspondence.
The above from the Raleigh Post
of yesterday would be entirely proper
if it did not contain one grossly mac
curate statement This paper de-
plores, as do all the citizens of Will
mington. the unfortunate controversy
that has arisen between the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce and the
Governor of the state 1t is possibly
unfortunate that so much prominence
has been given to t matters of
difference" but the Chamber Of Conn.,
merce acjing as it always does. for the
best interests of the city and believ-
ing that a great injustice had been
done a Wilmington resort. considered
it wise TO take the action it has taken
In this step they are backed by all
the citizens of Wilmington.
But the point in The Posts article
that The Messenger wisheS to call
attention to is. 1T seems THAT the
Governdr was clearly within his
rights. and it appear that
the point is conceded The point is
not conceded-xcept by the Governor
himself.
1t is admitted that the Governor
mas h right to order state troops
to any camp of his choosing. But
when he called a committee of State
Guard officers together. who were
addressed by advocates of Wrights-
vile and Morehead City. and then
were appointed by the Governor to
inspect the camp sites offered. and
report to him. does it not seem that
he r~ehnquished his power in the mat
ter. and that he should have accepted
the recommendations made by the
committee?
At any rate. their report should
be given TO the public. and if there