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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1904-04-01
Ssrifultnral.
Alfalfa in Orchards.

A number Of correspondents Who are
interested 10 alfalfa have asked If it
would not be valuable crop for the
orchard. The experience of the winter
has been limited 10 this direction, but,
30 far as it goes, it is 10 accord With
that of others who have tried il and is
decidedly against the use Of alfalfa in
the orchard. Two things about alfalfa
should be remembered First, it roots
deeply and its roots would be likely to
rob the soil Of fertility needed BY the
trees.
Second, as tho roots would not afford
any food for the tree until plOSed un-
der. the deep blowing would Of neces-
sity injure the tree roots Try alfala
By ell means, bat try it 10 the open
Geld. preparing the seed bed early and
-aughly and sowing eight quarts Of
acre. Sometimes nurse crop
with usually timoshy-sud
: done the seeding Of timo-
ct more than one
quarts 10 the acre.
be light tbe FRS, year =,
.se.--Indianapolis News.
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G. W. OFFUTT. ]. CLINTON TRIBBY.
SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS
G. W. OFFUTT.
In Diamonds, Watches, JeweIry SiIvcrware, Clocks

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only way at all GER
scab 10 the potato crop
.ne seed tubers used, and this
Ways be done regardless Of
ssea comes from. You may
using seed that you feel
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&c = sfrom the germ Of the scsb,
bat d. III be safer to treat the seed
Buy some commercial formalin, and
to each one-hslf pint Of it add fifteen
gallons Of water. Then soak the seed
tubers 10 the mixture for two or even
three hours DO this before planting
and you will be reasonably sure Of hav-
ing the crop tree from scab Exchange
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09

TEXT OF THE PLATFORM ADOPTED
BY THE DEMOCRATS AT ST. LOUIS

legislation by which certain interests have been per-
mitted through Congressional favor, to draw heavy
tribute from the American people. This monstrous
perverson of those equal opportunities which
political institutions established to has
caused what may have been infant industries
become the greatest combinations of capital that
the world has known. These special favorites
of the Government have, through trust methods been
converted into monopolies, thus bringing to end
domestic competition, which the only alleged
upon the extravagant profits made possible by
the protective system. These industrial combina-
TONS by the financial assistance they give,
control policy of the Republican party.
We denounce protection robbery of the many
to enrich the few and favor a tariff limited to
the necessities of the Government economically ad
mnstered and so levied not to discriminate against
any industry, class section TO the that the
burden of taxation shall be distributed equally
possible.
We favor a revision and gradual reduction of the
tariff by the friends of the and for the
mon veal and not by the friends of it's abuses, its
eXtortions and its determinations keeping in view
the ultimate ends of equality of burdens" and
equality of opportunities" the sole purpose of
raising by taxation, wit, the support of
the Federal Government in all its integrity and vir
ity but in simplicity.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09
RESULT A COMPROMISE
ACCEPTABLE TO ALL AND
ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY
Bryan Gains Several Points During Con-
trOverSy and Succeeds in Having
Gold Plank Withdrawn
Completely

ST. LOUIS. July s.-After a continu-
Gus session Of sixteen hours the com
nittee on resolutions perfected the
platform and adjourned just before
noon. instructing its subcommittee TO
arrange the draft for submission to the
general committee at o'clock, to be
reported to the convention two hours
later.
The platform is a compromise ac-
ceptable TO all of the interests involved
and was adopted unanimously by the
committee 1t may be said in a general
way TO have been a concession TO the
Bryan wing of the party without in
any way sitting the declarations of the
conservatives. The absence of any pro-
rouncement on the financial question
is most significant and discloses the
utter impossibility of finding any decla-
ration upon this subject acceptable to
all
The committee spent the entire night
on the platform, and at $50 o'clock
considered the last resolutions which
had been made by the sub-com-
mittee. But this did not mean that the
platform was finished and ready for
the convention. The struggle cOntin-
Ued, and at 10 o'clock il was clear that
an agreement on the document as
whole could not be reached immediate
y. During the watch Of the long night
in the committee there were many dra-
matte scenes, not the least striking Of
which was the verbal encounter be
tween Senator Hill and Bryan. 1t Oc-
CURED while Bryan was engaged in
making one Of his many attacks upon
the gold standard plank as framed by
the subcommittee. He was wrought
up 90 a high tension when, approach
ing the New York leader and shaking
his finger dangerously close 20 the nose
of that gentleman, he exclaimed:
You ought TO have a gold platform
10 60 with the gold candidate you are
forcing upon the country
Hill replied that he knew nothing as
10 Parl1er's monetary views.
DO you mean TO say" demanded the
Nebraskan. that you don't know
Judge Parker's financial views?'
I mean just that responded Hill.
You have no knowledge on that sub
jectg'
None"
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09
NEVER ASKED FARMER.

i have not. have never sought TO
secure an expression of his views, and
he never sought TO convey them to me-
! only know that he is a Democrat and
q high-minded and patriotic man, and
] believe that he can be trusted implic-
itly on this as upon other matters Of
public policy"
Bryan then demanded to know when
the gold plank had been decided upon
and why il had not been Incorporated
in the New York platform.
Hill replied that the matter had first
been discussed at the meeting Of the
delegates about ten days ago and that
the declaration was the result of insist
ence by other members Of the delega-
tion than himself.
At z:40 this morning the committee
voted the gold standard plank out of
the Democratic platform by a vote of
35 TO Is. This was the third victory
for William J. Bryan during the all
night session of the committee. He
had made two successful efforts early
in the evening and secured modifica-
tions Of the tariff plank on two separ-
ate votes.
An effort was made to secure a re-
cess after the vote on the gold plank.
but IL was voted down and the COM
mittee continued with its work on
other features Of the platform.
The contest was one of the most in
teresting features of the convention.
The main night was upon a proposed
income tax providing for an amend
ment to the constitution to meet the
adverse decision Of the Supreme Court
upon the Wilson law. It was upon this
amendment and the gold plank. the
two propositions having been brought
in conjunction. that Bryan made his
strong fight. Williams of Mississipni
first offered the income tax amend
ment and it was immediately antag-
onized by former Senator Hill. who
stated that with such plank in the
platform New York could not be car
RED FOR the Democratic nominees. He
urged the adoption of a platform
which will enable the Democrats to
win in doubtful States and elect their
candidates Williams withdrew his
amendment, saying that he, with many
others. was seeking harmony and an
adjustment of all difficulties. with a
view Of succeeding upon a Democratic
platform.
INCOME TAX AMENDMENT.
Bryan made an income tax amend
ment He asserted that while votes
might be lost among the very rich. the
Democratic party ought to consider
he great mass Of the people, who bear
the burdens of taxation and the ex-
penses Of the Government
Senator Daniel replied to Bryan and
was very vigorous in his denunciation
of the course the Nebraska man was
pursuing He said that he wanted to
win, and desired a platform which
would bring TO the Democratic party
the voters who had left it when pur-
suing course which Tryan had
shaped and advocated. He was tired
of being forever in the minority and
insisted that it would be absurd for
Democrats, facing victor, to take any
action which would mean defeat. To
lose New York meant defeat.
Senator Bailey and Senator TilInan.
while believing in an income tax. said
that in view of the statement of the
New York member of the committee.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09

August Belmont said he was satisfied
that the platform was one on which
Judge Parker could stand. He said: Il
have always been quiteNwilling to have
a platform without any financial plank
in 1t. 1 believe the people have finally
settled the matter. and it is superfiuOus
for any party TO merely reiterate."
Governor Thomas of Colorado said;
''I succeeded in securing the incorpora-
tion of the greater part Of my labor
declaration. and. on the whole, 1 am
satisfied with the platform.
John Sharp Williams. who made the
original draft OF the platform, said: Il
am delighted with it,"
The anti-Parker people were jubilant
over the matter when they heard of the
disposition of the financial plank.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09
HILL HAS HOT VERBAL
ENCOUNTER WITH BRYAN,
WHOM DANIEL ATTACKS
New York Senator and NebraSkan Bury
the HatChet, However, and Leave
the Conference Chamber
Arm in Arm.

Bryan said that If his desired amend
ment to the trust plank should be
adopted he would not press the plank
favoring the imposition Of an income
tax. Senator Tillman, noting a smile
upon the faces of both Bryan and Hill.
remarked TO Bryan that "since you and
Hill seem to have become so chummy.
think we had better look further into
the trust plank
The National tribune., 1904-07-07
MONUMENT TO GEN. MERCER.

Congress. in fulilment of an agreement
made more than century ago, appropriate
Ell $25, 900 in 1892 for a monument to Gen.
Hugh Mercer, of the Revolutionary army,
and a contract has just been let for it's
erection at fredericksburg, Va. Gen. Mer-
GER was born in Scotland in 1920. educated
as a physician, and served as Surgeon
in the army of the young Pretender" at
Culloden. Consequently, after the defeat,
Scotland became unpleasant quarters for
him. and he settled in Virginia. where he
took part in the Indian wars and in Brad
docks defeat. He was wounded there, and
had a perilous and painful time in making
his way back to Fort Cumberland. AT the
outbreak of the Revolution he was COM
missioned Colonel of Virginia regiment.
and Gen. Washington had him promoted to
Brigadier-General. He was an excellent
soldier. and rendered great service at
Trenton. In the battle of Princston he
led the vanguard, composed principally of
militia, who recoied before the attack of
the British soldiers. and in attempting to
rally them he was knocked down by a
musket in the hands of an English soldier.
He partly rose, defended himself with his
sword, refused quarters, and was bayoneted
and left for dead ON the field. He recov-
cred sufficiently to be taken to house in
their neighborhood and died two weeks
later. His corpse was followed to the
grave in Philadelphia by upwards of 3O.OOG
people. Congress made provision for the
education of his youngest son.
The monument will bear the following
inscription:
"Sacred to the memory of Hugh Mercer.
Brigadier-General in the Army of the
United States. :, He died on the 10Th of
January, 1777, of the wounds he received
on the Sd of the same month, near Prince
ton, in New Jersey, brayely defending the
liberties Of America, The Congress of the
United States. in testimony Of his virtues
and their ratit,ide, have caused this monu-
ment to be erected"
Gen. Mercer's son served brief term
in the army during the War of 1912, and
his grandson, Hugh Weldon Mercer, was
a cadet at West Point. graduating third
in the class of 1928. He was assigned to
the artillery. and resigned in 1885 to be-
come cashier Of bank in Savannah. He
was a Brigadier4ieneral in the Confed-
crate army, and died in 1871 = Sc
The National tribune., 1904-07-07
WASHINGTON g. THURSDAY JULY T. 1904
GRAND ROUNDS OF THE coMMANDER-IN-
CHIEY

N0Ahks
Gen. John G. Black. Chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic, has
returned to Washington from a very sue
cessful tour. during which he visited the
Department Encampments Of New York.
at Rochester: Indiana, at Winona Mich
igan, at Battle Creek; Pennsylvania, at
Gettysburg; besides meeting thousands of
comrades at other points, particularly Chi
cago. At every place he was greeted with
marked enthusiasm, and made speeches
which. we know, met the happiest accept
ance and greatly encouraged the comrades.
Gen. Black has in rare degree the faculty
of getting in touch with his audience, and
awakening in them ~thoughts responsive to
his own. He urgently admonished the COM
rades as to their duties to themselves and
to one another. and to build up the Order
to an even higher degree of usefulness.
This is the last tour of the Commander
in-Chief, as the last Department Encamp-
ment has now been held. and everything
centers upon the coming National Encamp-
ment at Boston in August. 1t is expected
that the attendance there will be very
great, as the comrades everywhere manifest
a deep interest in the matter, and express
their intention to be present.
The National tribune., 1904-07-07

IT is pretty early yet to be giving out
exact information, but. the Republicans Of
the National Committee announce that the
main fighting will be in New Jersey and
West Virginia in the East, in Illinois and
Wisconsin in the interior, and in the West
in Idaho and Utah. because Of the uncer-
tainty of the Mormon vote, and in Colo
RADIO, on account Of the labor troubles.
There is also some little insecurity about
Indiana, which can not get over the habit
of being a pivotal State, although it has
steadily gone Republican by big ma jorities
for a number of years. Attention will be
paid to Nebraska, in order to block Mr..
Bryan's attempt to break into the Senate.
The campaign in New York will be con-
Quoted by Gov. Odell, as he did four years
ago. He has, as he then had, a perfect
organization, and it is felt that the re-
suit is not at all uncertain. This is all
very well for the present, but Presidential
are full Of surprises, and there
Is no telling what day may bring forth.
The National tribune., 1904-07-07

A LONDON alleged scientist solemnly pro-
claims that the Japanese are not Asiatics,
but in all probability descendants of the
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. II the Lost
Tribes of Israel Gsre not Asiatics, what
were they? He g6# on to point out how
many religious4 ceremonies and other GUS
toms of the Japanese are evidently of Jew
ish origin, and Similar to those mentioned
in the Bible. nbf't Course it had to come
to this. The Japanese can not escape it.
The Ten Lost Aribes of Israel have been
saddled onto every people on the earth. A
vast amount of1'wfitins and alleged schol-
arship has been. expended in proving that
one after another of.the Indian tribes were
those vanished Jews. A very strong case
was made out f9r ,tbe Sioux of North Da-
kota, and an equally strong one for the
Zunis. There Is no doubt in the minds of
those who hold that theory that the Aleu-
tians OF Alaska are those wandering Israel
ties. A few years ago many books were
written to demonstrate that the English
are the lost tribes. The Japanese have
simply had to take their turn, that is all.
1t has been some time coming to them, but
it was sure to come.
The National tribune., 1904-07-07

with the contempt of his class for every
undisciplined voluntairs shpoil such cattle
as that. You stand around and take their
slack as if they were somebody. We take
sharp reef in their galumphing around
the post here. One very fresh one gave me
entoirely too much Of av his lip wan day.
about getting off some ardnance Supplies
Nhin he started TO go out av port Oi put
64-pound shot through his whale house
for not having his flag set. Thin Oi wint
to him In boat, and toud him he ought to
get down on his maze and thank me for
not having sunk him at vance. as he de-
served. and Old do the next tonne These
beggars must be made to understand that
the United States own the the earth. and
that they only live and do business by our
permission. 80 they ought"
Il guess the Captain begins to feel that"
laughed ST. 1.-THE way he has been top
lofting over those Generals has been funny
| was surprised that they stood it,
There was difficulty in carrying on a
conversation.
After the manner Of their kind the slum-
graduates who constituted the crew were
Strengthening up the deck i'm a way as if
now was a chance to get even for all the
injuries they had ever suffered. They would
take it out Of the passengers standing
about the deck.
They would send the barrels of sand.
they were shifting to trim ship. bowling
across the deck, with complete contempt
Of whoever might be in the way. If pas
sengers did not want their legs or arms
broken. they must look out for themselves.
and look out very lively. They must have
The National tribune., 1904-07-07
RUSSIA IN WAR TIMES.

The Hon. Andrew ID. White, late Embas-
sador to Germany, and veteran publicist,
was an attache of the United States Lega-
ton at st. Petersburg during the Crimean
War, and gives some eminently interesting
"reminiscences of Russia at that time. He
saw the breakdown Of the severe old auto
crat, Nicholas 1, who had thought that he
could reform Russia and infuse a spirit of
honesty and capacity into its public service
by rigid sternness. The collapse of Rus
sia before the little armies of Great Brit
ain. France, Sardinia and Turkey showed
him how futile his hopes were. 1t broke
his heart and undoubtedly hastened his
death.
Mr.. White says that one of the curses of
Russia is the raw corn whskey. vodka, to
which they are all addicted, and from which
habit nothing can break them.
The people were allowed to know as lit.
tie as possible of the progress Of events
in the Crimean War. Foreign journals
were suppressed, and page after page of
such papers as could get into the empire
were blotted out by the censors, yet some
how the people found out that defeat had
followed defeat, and that Sevastopol was
gone and the Russian feet DESTROYED. They
also found out that the Commissary De.
partment had utterly collapsed, and that
its collapse was due to scoundrelism in
high places. Money which should have
gone to feed the soldiers had been sauan.
dered at the gambling tables at Hombure
and Paris. The result Of all this was the
conviction borne in upon Mr.. White that
Russia, powerful as she seems when viewed
from the outside, is very weak when seen
from the inside.
The autocracy has thousand evident
weaknesses, beginning with the theory that
any one man, and not very high class
man eitheE, can do the thinking for 8
hundred million of people. Yet there is nc
sign of real uprising against this condi
ton of things, because there is no middle
class. There are many noble characters
in Russia, who feel acutely the degradation
of their country, but they are a small and
very sad minority. The lower class is kep,
in besotted ignorance, from which there
seems no present escape.
The National tribune., 1904-07-07

UNPLEASANT as may be the thought, it
ID nevertheless certain that we must in the
near future take charge of Haiti and Santo
Domingo. Not that We want to, but be-
cause We will have to. The continued out
rageous performances of those semibar-
barians, their utter disregard of interna-
tional decency, will not be tolerated much
longer, and we shall have to put firm
correcting hand upon them, or permit some
European power to do SO. This, of course,
under the Monroe Doctrine, we would not
tolerate, and so the duty will devolve upon
us. To-day Haiti and Santo Domingo are
more unsafe than any other portion of
the globe. There is no far-away island
or remote coast in the world where pass
Ing ships and strangers who may enter the
country are not safer than in Haiti and
Santo Domingo. That there should be such
plaguespot right along the main highway
pf the world is not to be endured, and the
lisagreeable necessity will come Of apply
ing the remedy. There is such thing at
National responsibility, and we must ac-
sept for ourselves the same rule that the
European nations are now applying to
France with regard to Morocco.
The National tribune., 1904-07-07

Or COURSE, ants will kill the boil weevil,
if there are enough of them, and therefore
there is hope for the success of the Agri-
cultural Department experiments. Ants
are the most voracious creatures in the
whole animal kingdom, and anything liv-
ing in their vicinity will be killed if they
can kill it. They attack insects and even
small animals with regular armies, appar-
emily disciplined and moving at the word
of command. One of the finest exhibi-
tions of strategy is said TO be the attack of
an army of ants upon a grasshopper. If
the ants are sufficient in numbers they
will Immediately destroy all other insects
living about them, as those of US will re-
member who, during the war, had the good
fortune to come upon an anthill when our
garments were "crumby." 1t was one of
the joys of army life to see the wicked
little ants collar and drag OF to furnish
their meat houses the vicious fellows who
had been giving US SO much discomfort. II
any cotton grower can get enough of these
ants into his field, he can be sure that
there will be no boil weevils left or any
thing else that can not run faster than an
ant