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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

ingalls, In his speech at Indianapo-
lis Friday night, says the gold demo-
Gratis at great personal sacrifice and
risk to themselves bolstered up the re-
publicans in 1895 and by voting for
Mckinley saved the country from
ruin. Now these democrats are in
control of the democratic party and
ought to have the support Of all true
patriots and sound money men. He
says the moral courage that these men
evinced in refusing to support Bryan
and free silver ought to be rewarded.
If there are any democrats who still
believe they were right four years ago,
they will prove themselves destitute
of moral courage, principle and pa
triotism If they vote for Parker, ac-
cording to the speeches of ingalls,,
Carlisle and Hill who are coming to
Indiana to tell them how to vote.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

One of the issues on which the de-
mocracy is basing its hope is the op-
position of certain moneyed men and
great railroad interests TO the Panama
canal. They hope at the last moment
that Rockefeller and Hill and Rogers
will pass out the money to defeat
Roosevelt in the vain hope of at least
delaying the building of that great
canal. But il the people, especially
of the west and middle west, find out
that such is their purpose they should
forget party In the Endorsement of the
acts of the present administration of
the canal matter.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Governor Durbin "gets back" very
cleverly at the democrats for the
charge in their state platform con-
demning the recent legislatures fol-
trying to foist railroad consolidation
laws on the state. The governor
shows that the only effort in this d.
rectiO1 which really amoonted to any.
thing was in the legislature OF 1901,
and that of the f0rty-fOur democrats
in the house and senate. twenty-five
voted for the bill, while he "a repub-
lIcan governoD put the bill out of
commission by the first veto he ever
signed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Mr.. ingalls, says it was the gold
democrats and not the republicans
that saved the country 10 1896 and 10
1900. Well, no doubt the good demo-
Gratis will do it again. They will vote
the republican ticket. They know
better than to place the power in the
hands of such men as Hill and Bel
mont, Taggart and Davis by support
ing Parker. as the New York jurist
would be but a tool in the hands of
these old politicians and schemers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Lincoln at a critical period of the
war when a change of commanders
was proposed said it was not good
time to swap horses when crossing a
stream. The story does not apyly ex.
cept by suggestion to the present cam
paign. 1t does suggest the question
Is it good time to change engineman
when the train is running smoothly,
is making good time, and when the
proposed new engineman has had no
experience and the crew he brings
with him does not inspire confidence?
That, it strikes us, is fair question
at this time and one worthy Of serious
consideration.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
John w. Kern the democratic ca

John w. Kern, the democratic can
didate for governor, is going through
Indiana making the assertion that
the people of the state are losing pa
triOtiSm and have not INDUCED in an
old fashioned Fourth of July celebra-
tion for many years. This may be
true where Mr.. Kern and Tom Tag
CART reside, but it will not 60 in
Marshall county where we have about
two such celebrations every year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

IL is generally agreed that the ex.
traordinary reduction Of wages order
ed at the Joliet plant of the United
States steel corporation was for pc.
iitical effect. Several prominent mill
men, who claim they are in possession
Of the information to back up what
they say, declare that the action was
ordered from New York, andthat it is
a plot on the part of the Morgan and
Rockefeller interests, which now dom.
mate the steel corporation. to ipjure
President Roosevelt. "Ever since
Roosevelt became involved in the coal
strike" said one, "the eastern rail-
road and steel mill men have been
quietly at work perfecting a plan
whereby the president could be lpjur-
ed in the present campaign.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Populist Candidate Tim Watso

Populist Candidate Tnm Watson
tells the exact truth when he says,
'Roosevelt's letter rings with manly
resolution. He's not playing with
loaded dice. He plays square: he
dOeSn t Straddle. He points out the
yoke IS 1t is and says he's for it. He S
In the open. Then as to Parker:
HE has never been identified with
one great speech; he has never been
identified with one great measure; he
has never been identified with one
great decision-and he is judge at
that. He is discovery regular
find. Made by August Belmont and
David B. Hill In the somnambulism Of
political necessity"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

1t is rumored that the democrats
propose TO change their still hunt tao
tics in Indiana to a veritable whirl-
wind spell near the close Of the cam
paign. For this purpose they are to
be provided with an abundance of
money by the national committee
and also with plenty Of spell-binding
talent. In this way they hope to de-
ceiye the voters of the Hoosier
state again and induce them
to support the calamity ticket, for Ca
lamity always has been the result Of a
democratic victory.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Let the reorganizers say what they
NAV about the administration or state
affairs In Indiana. yet everybody
knows that the pith OF the difference
between the republican administra-
lions and democratic administrations
is the difference between paying the
debt OF the state on the one hand and
piling up debt on the other hand.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Hoke Smith, secretary of the inter
iOr under Cleveland, delivered speech
In North Carolina, in the course of
which he demonstrated that 1t was
Thomas Jefferson, and not the repub-
lican party, that established the gold
standard. Hoke thinks Parker Is a
better gold man than Roosevelt and
the democratic party is the only real
gold standard party.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

w. j. Bryan is coming to Indiana
and we will have opportunity to judge
whether John B. Stoll of South Bend
was right IN his article for The H.
dianapolis Star s debate when he said
that Mr.. Bryan's purrose, If Judge
Parker is defeated, is to seize the
party again for a socialist reorganiza-
ton
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
view, is more important.

In his speech at South Omaha few
days ago Mr.. Bryan said: II shall not
tell you that l was delighted with the
nomination at St. Louis. l opposed
the nomination of Parker because be
did not stand for what we had been
fighting for in Nebraska for eight
years. stand today for every doc
trine / have advocated. l have not
recanted and have not withdrawn from
where | stood.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Harry S. News attitude toward the
Senatorship has become kno11. II
the situation .'looks good" to him az
ter the election he will be a candi-
date, but be will not devote a minute s
time toit until after the national elec-
tion and it is known whether or not
the republicans are to have a major
ity on joint ballot in the state legis-
lature
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Once more has the International
Peace Congress called on the nations
Of the world to disarm; and once
more. it is feared, the nations Of the
world will be too busy drilling their
armies and building their warships to
hear the call.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Tom Watson predicts that after the
election new party will be formed o.
the Bryan democrats, the Hearst
democrats and the Watson populists.
Here is text for Bryan's next series
of speeches in Indiana.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

There is no Inconsistency in Judge
Parker inviting only reorganizers from
Indiana to confer with him at Esepus.
He has nothing in common with the
3l5, 200 other democrats OF Indiana ex-
cept that he wants their votes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

When a voter registers in Kentucky
be has to state what party he affiliates
with. The Kentucky registration law
is admirably designed for the purchase
of the purchasable vote, and for max
ng it difficult for the nonpurchasa-
BILE vote to be cast.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

The national republican committee
has decided to recognize the LaFol.
lette ticket in Wisconsin, the supreme
court having virtually declared in its
favor, and 1t is probable that the
stalwart ticket will be withdrawn.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Alton B. Parker. If defeated, is said
to hold the promise of August Belmont
of $50. 900 position to care for the
latter's interests, and will engage in
the practice of law with d. e. Hill
and w. f. Sheehan as partners.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Mr.. Bryan predicts that the repub.
lican national ticket will be success.
full in Nebraska. but he thinks that
the Fusionists will probably elect the
St ate officers, including the legisla-
ture, which, no doubt, from his point
of view. is more important.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Mr.. Watson, who has accepted the
populist nomination for president says
he did so because it seemed absolute ly
necessary that some one should erect
the standard Of Jeffersonian democ-
racy this year.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

David B. Hill and Henry q. Davis
are touring Maryland and West Vir-
ginia In q palace car. 1t is reported
that Hill lets "Grandpa" do most OF
the talking.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13
Plymouth. Ind. October Is. 1904.

Secretary of the Navy Morton has
returned to Washington from the
west and predicts record breaking
tlurality for President Roosevelt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Mrs. Jacob Rhoades has gone to
South Bend to nurse her mother, Mrs.
Watkins, who is down with amalarial
fever. She is SO years old.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Mrs. Samuel Lincto and sons have
returned to their home at Harbor
Springs, Mich, after a visit of several
days with relatives here.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-13

Observation-Disclosures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
Christmas Shonnina.

There is hustle everywhere. The streets are full of rapidly-moving, happy-faced people. The trains are equally full. The trolley cars are crowded with bundle-bearing mothers. Preparations for a great festival are going on in all places and in every walk of life.
 The merchants have perhaps never known better Christmas season, and that season will last up to late hours of next Saturday night. All sorts of articles intended to gratify all sorts of desires, are purchased from piano to a pincushion. Nothing is wholly neg lected, and our merchants stand ready to supply all demands.
 There is no rule in giving. All lixe to be remembered, and if gift con. veys sentiment the giver may be sure it will be cherished. What a gift means is more than what 1t costs. Neither gifts of high or low intrinsic value are unacceptable if they carry Q message. That's the rub, and that is what all should consider.
 The postoffices and the express offices will be overtaxed this week, and men will work in them as men do not customarily work, for they know they are handling heart tokens .The country is prosperous. This dis trict fully shares in that prosperity and when the merchants and the car riers foot up next week their Christ. mas work no doubt they will ascertain that all records have been broken. Let us at least hope that will be their final ascertainment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21

hold that without 1t the President had not been inaugurated. But as he IS already in office, swinging Big Stick. the issue raised is not material. It Is a principle of law that all officials hold over until their successors are appointed. Some may say MT. Fair. banks is entitled to an inning, but the point is too thin and elongated for serious consideration.
 The two houses of congress should get together The congressional IL brary is very fine, and it should not be profaned. The pension office ss brimful of records that concern a mil lion pensioners at least. The capitol building is too democratic, and good objections lie against the other places that have been named. The Age-Her- aid begs. to suggest that Buffalo Bill and his big tent be sent for. If there is anything in this world that is fully and thoroughly American it is Buffalo Bill and his tent, and Bills moustache' He can solve the inaugural riddle. Put 1t in his tent, and ask the Hon. Mir. Cody to bring on enough of his men to preserve order, and enough Of his Indians to set the dancing pace. In that way ball could be held that would be American to the backbone and that would be much better than aping the antics of royalty as has been the custom heretofore. Let there De a new departure on American lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
Rhodes Scholarships.

Forty-three young Americans went into residence at Oxford last fall, and they are giving a good account of tnems elves. They were well received, for the student world of Oxford !s democratic, as students generally are elsewhere. Snobbishness and conven- tionalities are aftergrowths.
 At Oxford every state is represented except Nevada and Florida. Alabama's representative is James Holtsclaw Kirkpatrick of Montgomery. The forty three each receive from the estate of the late Cecil Rhodes fifteen hundred dollars a year for the three years they are to stay at Oxford, and the Ameri- can contingent is to be reinforced next year by forty-five more young men, or one from each state. The selections will be made soon after the first of the year. although the new appointees will  not go fin residence at Oxford until next October.
 The new appointees. like those of last year, are expected to be young. athletic and bright. They are ex- pected to have moral force of charac- ter and leadership qualities, and must have spent at least two years at some degree-granting college in this coun- try. The young men from this coun- try at Oxford have created a good i'm pression. They are scattered among the forty colleges at Oxford. no one of them having as many as half a dozen. The new scholars must be selected be- tore the end of next March, and the Alabama boys who propose to com pete for a Rhodes scholarship should begin to hustle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
HAIR TONIC FOR SENATORS.

Washington Correspondence of Pitts
 burg Gazette.
 A statement of the goods held in store by the sergeant-at-arms of the United States senate shows some interesting ar ticles one would scarcely expect to find among the necessities for running the national legislature. The public may in- dulge its imagination to the limit Here Is the list:
 Thlrty-three bottles of cologne, seven teen Ice picks, sixty-nine funeral rega- Has, seventeen bath brushes. three gall Ions alcohol two cakes shaving soap, seven nail brushes, twelve bottles hair tonic one funnel, one half gallon copper measure eight lemon squeezers and one hundred and eighty-slx glasses. There are many other things equally as odd,
 Glancing at the senate in session from the galleries it requires no stretch of im- agination to guess the need of hair tonic. The cologne. the nail brushes and the bath brushes are accounted for by the official barbershop in the capitol, but the lemon squeezers, the ice picks, the fun nel and the one hundred and eighty-six glasses are open to slight suspicion at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
A GENTLEMAN ADvENTuRER.

From the London Chronicle.
 Jim Roche, who has suddenly stepped into notoriety for sweeping off the tor pedo destroyer into the service of Rus sia, was the most likely man in the world to do it. He has done almost every other thing there was to be done. He has led q revolution in Southern America, he has a tombstone erected to him some where in the northern part of Europe, he married one of the most beautiful and attractive women the United States ever produced.
 The promiscuous Irishman wandering in foreign parts does many curious things. and Jim Roche is the most pro- miscuous. Company promoting has not been exempt from his efforts. At one time he was allied with Mr. Lawson, who, with MT. Hooley, has recently been giving copy for our papers. He also stood as model for the late Sir John Miliais for the picture of 'SThe Huguenot," and after a series of pyrotechnic financial ventures he really and concretely struck oil and made quite a lot of money In pe- troleum in the southern states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
Canture of Kekwan Forts.

Kekwan lies just back of the city of Port Arthur and Golden Hill, and it dominates a portion of the harbor not readily reached from 203-Metre hill. A small bay lies between Kekwan and 203-Metre hill. The possession of the two forts renders Port Arthur practi- cally valueless, and, when big guns are mounted, perhaps untenable. It is at any rate the beginning of the end.
 The taking of Kekwan was as ab- rupt as it was unexpected to the Rus sians. They had not anticipated it, because no preparatory bombardment had taken place. The fort was mined, and blown up with dynamite. A rush and lot of hard fighting completed the movement. The Russians are not strong enough in Port Arthur to retake anything.
 Port Arthur is of little value, how ever to the Japanese, and a leisurely siege may ensue. The capture of the city is certain in the course of a few weeks and the Japanese generals will not reclllessly waste valuable lives. When the ships were sunk by Japan csc guns the place lost it's chief Japan csc value. It is no more now than any other disputed town in Manchuria no more to the Japanese than Muk. den or Harbin.
 The interest of the next few weeks will be centered on tho Baltic fleet, which should be within fighting dis tance, and 1t is pretty clear that the fighting will begin before the fleet is abreast of Formosa, which is now port of the Japanese empire. The de- struction of the Baltic fleet would end the war, for all chance of defeating the Japanese would then disappear,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
Children of the Poor.

The day approaches when the anni versary of the Child of Bethlehem the Child that has revolutionized and softened and bettered the world-is tc be celebrated. That Child became the ideal man of the world, the only man ever born into it who lived an abso lutely unselfsh life. But in the ap preaching festival 1t is the Child we celebrate. the babe born in a manager at Bethlehem.
 Do we, good friends, celebrate that event when we let the stockings of the little ones born of poverty, to even hunger, to sufferings and priyations untold-do we keep the festival in it's full spirit if we let the stockings of such little ones go unified?
 There will be empty stockings on Christmas morn in Birmingham unless we go out into the highways and by ways to see where the little ones are who. still believing in Santa Claus, have hung up a ragged little stocking. Those little ones cannot understand the perplexities and the inconsistent cies of modern life. They have dreams. They have wishes. They are but chil- dren. Shall they rise on Christmas morn to find that Santa Claus has brought them not even a cheap toy or a few candies?
 Christmas is primarily the childrens' day, and just so surely as we let one little child go neglected on Christmas morning just so surely we have not caught and do not possess the Christ mas spirit. Unless we bestir ourselves there will be in this prosperous town many household in which there will be no Santa Claus for the little chill dren comprised in it. The swapping of gifts by adults does not deserve consideration, but the man or woman who lets a little child hug and cry over on Christmas morning an empty stocking does not know the meaning of Christmas charity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
THE COLISEUM AND THE GLAD.
 IATOR.
By Lord Byron.

By Lord Byron. Arches on archesl as 1t were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome,
 Her Coliseum stands; the moonbeams
 shine As 'twere its natural torches. for divine Should be the light which streams here. to illume This long explored but still exhaustless mine or an Italian night where the deep
 skies assume Hues which have words. and speak to ye of heaven,
 Float o'er this vast and wondrous monument And shadow forth its glory. There is
 given
 Unto the things of earth, which Time
 hath bent. A spirits feeling. and where he hath
 leant
 His hand, but broke hls scythe, there
 Is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present
 hour Must yield Its pomp and wait till ages
 are us dOWer. see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand-his manly Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his dropped head sinks gradually low And through his side the last drops. ebb-
 ing slow
 From the red gash fall heavy. one by one. Like the first of thunder-shower; and The arena swims around him-he is
 gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which
 hailed the wretch who won. He heard it. but he needed not--his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far
 away; He rocked not of the life he lost nor
 prize,
 But where his rude hut by the Danube There were his young barbarians all at
 play.
 There was their Dacian mother-he,
 their sire. Butchered to make Roman holiday All this rushed with his blood-Shall he
 expire. And unavenged?-Arise! ye Goths, and
 glut your ire. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall
 stand:
 When falls the Coliseum. Rome shall
 fall: And when Rome falls-the World" From
 our own land
 Thus spake the pilgrims OCT this
 mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to Ancient: and these three mortal things are still On their foundations. and unaltered all: Rome and her Ruin past Redemption's s skill. The world-the same wide den-of thieves. or what ye will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21

the traffic this year is fully 50 per cent larger than last year, and the merchants must be reaplng a harvest.
 "In Birmingham the stores are all packed with people, and I am gratifed to see them so prosperous"
 -
 About Persons.
 s. A. Jordan of Five Points, is at the Morris.
 c. H. White of Gadsden is at the Nor ris.
 A. M. Howell of Atlanta, is at the Morris.
 F. E. Brooks of Nashville. is at the Morris. W. M. Monahan of Savannah. is at the St. Nicholas.
 W. H. Miller of Atlanta Is at the St. Nicholas.
 c. B. Hunter of Cincinnati, is at the St. Nicholas. G. W. Green of Blunt Springs. is regis tered at the Colonial. J. A. Sanders of New York, is at the Colonial. C. E. Morris of Tuscaloosa, is at the Metropolitan Dr. Charles Thompson of Columbia, l Miss, is at the Metropolitan
 Edward oNeai of Florence, is at the | Hillman. G. J. Long of Louisville is at the Hill man. G. J. J. Thomas of Decatur, is at the I TIflIrnan