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1u1t DuSter, ana therefore, they wanted
him out of the attorney generals office,
or that his trust crusade has been q
political bunko game from the begin
ming and that they desired to reward
him for favors rendered to the trusts
while attorney general and to be rem
dsrsd to them hereafter in the senate.
1nasmuch as the first proposition is
pesposterous-that is, that nobody can
DO the trusts 80 much harm as Mr..
Knox IN the attorney generals Office,
for scores Of as able prosecutors can
be found without trouble-people can
not be blamed II they conclude that the
trust crusade, SO called, which has been
waged with such vigor u by Mr..
Knox was make believe performance
not intended to hurt the trusts, but de-
vised for the purpose Of humbugging
the people.
Posthumous Honors.
In his time Hazen s. Pingree, twice
governor Of Michigan and four times
mayor Of Detroit, was the plague Of the
politicians Of his state, who denounced
him as all sorts Of a demagogue,
mountebank and fraud. But the plain
people, whom Abraham Lincoln loved
30 well, saw In Pingree friend, and
they stuck to him to the last. Political
~ he was good deal of a bull in the
china shop and broke up much fine
crockery, but the plain people loved
h nN %h4
scheme whereby the poor were enabled
to have gardens Of their own on va
cant lots in Detroit held for rise In
price through the energy, industry and
enterprise of the adjoining landown-
ers. For this remarkable achievement
tato" Pingree in derision, and he was
butt for all the wits in the country.
Perhaps there were a dozen big bore
statesmen in Michigan, contemporaries
Of Pingree, who deemed themselves
more worthy Of a bronze statue than
he and who would have split their
sides with laughter had any one sug-
gested that the errattc mayor and gov
ernor would receive such postum
nous honor. Yet such is the truth of his
tory. Most Of them are forgotten,
the rest soon will be, but on Memorial
day Potato" Pingree's effigy in bronze
was unveiled by his loving survivors
to show to coming generations that
gratitude must still be ranked among
the human virtues. This man, reviled
while living, went about doing good"
in imitation of the Master, and he hath
his reward. But 1t would have made
him happier man could he have
known that his efforts to ameliorate
the condition of the multitude were SO
highly appreciated. The old saying, de
mortuis nil nisi bonum" Speak nothing
Of the dead except that which is good'D,
should be broadened in it's scope SO as
to read, Concerning neither the living
nor the dead say nothing except that
which Is good" Statesmen, politicians,
philosophers, multimillionaires- fact,
all classes-should learn q lesson from
Pingree's statue, and that is to strive
to do good.
Good News From West Virginia.
It is high time for Republican spell
binders to revise their speeches as to
Republican harmony and Democratic
dtssensions. In very old book we are
admonished to remove the beam from
our own eye before we undertake to
perform surgical operation on our
neighbours optic to remove mote.
That admonition is peculiarly applica-
BILE to Republicans. The Republican
split in Wisconsin and the stubborn
deadlock in Illinois have passed into
history. For something like year now
the Republican factions have been at
each others throat in West Virginia.
The revolver, the shotgun, the rifle, tho
knife and the bludgeon have been ia
vorite campaign arguments among the
strenuous Republicans Of the Mountain
State. The Washington Post, independ-
ent, but with strong Republican lean
lngs, thus sums up the situation:
West Virginia is giving the Republic
ans much uneasiness. II the factions
were at peace there would be no sense
in discussing prospects Of Demo
cratic majority there. But the factions
are not at peace, and their troubles are
deep rooted. Unless some compromise
Is reached there is danger that the
state, with Its seven electoral votes, will
be lost to Roosevelt. The Republican
leaders are apprehensive Of bolt
when the state convention meets ut
Wheeling July ~. That would be al
most as disastrous to the party as the
bolt in Wisconsin promises to be. It
would assure the election Of a Demo-
cratic governor ana put the state in
doubt on the presidential ticket.
Strong pressure is being put upon
the two candidates for governor-AIr.
W. M. o. Dawson and Mr. @. r. Teter-
to withdraw and permit some other
man to be named. 1t is said on good
authority that Mr.. Teter will accede
to such programme, but Mr.. Dawson
now appears to have majority Of the
delegates to the state convention and
naturally is unwilling to yield the ad-
vantage he has gained.
Normally West Yirginia's Republic
an plurality Ia over 10000. 1t gave
Mckinley 21,O22 In 1900, and four years
previous to that 1t gave him 11,4S7.
The depression in bituminous coal min
Ing and the discharge Of many railroad
employees will hurt the party to con-
siderable extent this year. The Balti-
more and Ohio, which penetrates the
state. has just laid off 1000 men. The
country banks in West Virginia, all
linked with the industrial development,
are not altogether in as tlourishing con-