Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-10-13

before the fall Of Sumter statesmen
were deluding themselves with the be-
| lief that there would be no war We
may not be on the verge of any imme,
! date danger; but no country, no PEG
| pie, can be safe who have given them
selves over to an organized body of eX-
pert, self-confident and more or less
corrupt. public men, destroying all
! healthful opposition and opening the
way for the agitator and the mob.
No, gentlemen, men of business, you
! cannot afford ito let well enough
alone" with such things hanging in
the womb of time!-Louisville Courier
Journal.
What the Maine Result Does Not Show.
| In the eXuberance of his joy at the
Republicans having carried Maine-as
| they have done year after year with
mOnOtOnous regularity and as every
one knew they would do this year as
usual-Congressma Burleigh tele-
graphed President Roosevelt cOngratu-
| latiOnS upon the complete and sweep
| ing victory which, he told the Presi-
dent, is splendid omen of victory in
November" The particulars given the
| President in the same dispatch indicate
| that the victory was not quite so com
plete and sweeping" as the Congress
man would have the President under
stand it to be.
He says the returns indicate a Re
publican plurality of 10000" Assam
ing Congressman 3urleigh's claim to
be about the correct figure there has
been a falling off from the plurality in
the September election four years ago
of about 1000. The Republican plu-
rality on the vote for Governor in that
year was 81, 132 Maine this year has
been thoroughly stirred up for the pur.
pose of getting out every Republican
vote possible. The effort was so far
successful that large gains have been
made upon the vote of four years ago,
but the Democratic gains were still
larger and if it were at all likely that
the respective gains would be in the
same proportion in other States it
would be anything but a splendid
omen for a Roosevelt victory in No
vember.
Mr.. Burleigh says: Eve have car,
ried fourteen and possibly fifteen OF
the sixteen counties" There is no
complete and sweeping" victory in
that At the best it is a mere holding
what had been their own right along,
while the dispatch indicates a loss.
The Republicans carried fifteen out of
the sixteen counties in 1902 and 1900
and the whole sixteen in 1898 and 1896.
The county carried by the Democrats
in 1900 was by so small margin that
it hardly counted. If the Republicans
have now carried only fourteen coun-
ties, which is all Mr.. Burleigh makes
positive claim to- there is Republican
loss.
The Republicans, Mr. Burleigh told
the President, have elected an over
whelming majority Of the Legislature"
No one doubts that. but Mr.. Burleigh
unfortunately neglected to furnish par
ticulars. The Republican majority in
the Maine Legislature has been cover
whelming" for many year. In the
election of 1896 it was 10, there being
but six Democrats in the Legislature
then elected. In 1898 it was 1872; in
1900 it was 142; in 1902 it was 139. So
far as returns have been received they
indicate a gain for the Democrats in
both branches. There will still be an
Overwhelming" Republican majority,
but an ''ominous'' diminution of its !
size The Maine election cannot be re-
garded as a safe indication Of the drift
Of the popular current on the presiden-
tial question. Neither that nor the
Vermont election was ominous of the
November result-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Sculptor's Roosevelt Joke. 4
There came into the rooms of the Re
publican State Committee at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, says the New York