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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
Mr.. DAVIS CONTRIBUTION
Democratic Vice Presidential Candi-
date Draws the Line at $4,000.

uate IRA VS. the Line at POO,OOOs
A press telegram dated Cumberland,
Nd, Sept. Z, says:
at is stated on reliable authority from
Elkins that the campaign contribution
of Henry G.. Davis will not be anything
like the amount the Democratic manag
ers had expected. He has fixed the
amount for all purposes at $4,000 and
his brother. Col. Thomas b. Davis of
Keyser, w. Va, gave a similar amount.
Mrs. Elkins and Mrs. Arthur Lee
daughters OF Mr.. Davis, are known to
have objected to their father contribut-
ing large sums. and his son, John I.
Davis. is said to have done likewise
-Four years ago John T. Davis spent
large sum in four counties when his
Uncle Tom was a candidate for Con
gress, but no results were obtained. Col
Davis being defeated by large vote
Since then the Davises have little faith
in politicians judiciously expanding
money"
There's some sense in the Davis fam
lily, it appears. The ex-senator himself
has always succeeded in hanging on to
his dollars.
How much better il will be to use
some OF papa's money to buy pretty bon
nets and gowns WITH than to throw them
to the mockng- birds of the Democratic
campaign committee!
And all for nothing, too!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

David B. Hill, the sponsor of the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
said at st. Louis that he did not know
how Parker stood on the money ques-
ton" For thirty years Hill and Park
er have been intimately associated, So
cially and politically. IL the statement
made by Hill is to be believed, then
Parker is too secretive a man to elect
to the Presidency; il false. then it was
evidently made for the purpose of mis-
leading the people; and il the people are
to be deceived in one thing why not in
all the acts of the Democratic leaders?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
PENSION ORDER, NO. rs.
President Rooseve1t's Action Is In
Line with Law and Precedent.

Line with Law and Precedent.
The groundless character of the charge
that President Roosevelt has exceeded
his constitutional powers is shown clear
ly BY examination of the facts and the
laws concerned in the executive action
known as the "age pension order" issued
last March by direction OF the President.
Anyone who will take the trouble to
read the act OF June 81, 1890, as amend
ed May 8, 1900. will find clear basis
to begin with. 1t directs who shall have
pensions. and how the amount OF the
pension. in each case, snail be determin-
ed, as follows:
All persons who served 30 days or more
In the military or naval service Of the
United States during the late war of the
rebellion and who have been honorably dis
charged therefrom, and who are now or
who may hereafter he suffering from q
mental or physical disability Of a perma-
nent character, not the result of their own
vicious habits, which incapacitates them
from the performance Of manual labor in
such a degree as to render them unable to
earn a support, shall, upon making due
proof of the fact according to such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of the
Interior may provide. be placed upon the
list OF invalid pensioners of the United
States and be entitled TO receive a pen
sion not exceeding So per month. and not
degree of inability 10 earn a support and
In determining such inability each and ev-
cry disability shall be duly considered, and
the aggregate of the disabilities shown shall
be rated.
Thus. as plain as words can make it,
is authority given to the Secretary of the
Interior to determine what pension shall
be paid to any applicant for pension who
served ninety days in the War of Re-
bellion. was honorsbly discharged, and
who is disabled for the performance OF
manual labor by any cause other than
the results OF his own vicious habits
The Supreme Court has decided that
upon the point of establishing the rate Of
pension to be paid, within the limits pre-
scribed by the law the Secretary of the
Interior has entire control. The only
check or supervision upon him is from
the President of the United States, whom
the general laws specifically direct shall
have control OF the Commissioner of Pen
sons aud the administration of the pen
sion system.
Therefore. it was directly in line with
the duties imposed upon him according
to section All. u. s. Revised Statutes,
that President Roosevelt gave the cele-
brated order which has been called an
evidence of ''usurpstion," imperialism
"a desire to override the constitution"
footing of the treasury" and other
hard names. by excitable Democrats. The
section of the Revised Statutes referred
to reads as follows:
1.-THE Commissioner OF Pensions shall
perform, under the direction of the Sec
rotary OF the Interior, such duties in the
execution of the various pension and
bounty-land laws as may be prescribed
by the President"
President Roosevelt, in his pension or
der, did no more than his plain duty, act
ing strictly within the powers conferred
upon him by the Congress of the United
States.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
TAMMANY "TAR WATER. "
Will 1t Prove an Acce ptable Beverage
to Respectable Democrats?

Judge Parker's ''admonition,' adj
dressed to his waning supporters in his
speech to the visiting editors. has in it,.
for all it's rhodomontade, shadow or
the pathetic.
Ii is little wonder that there are dis
sensions in the Democratic camp, as
staid gentlemen from the South, East
and West. men who have certain tradi.
tons of responsibility to reckon with.
find that their candidate IS and always
has been cheek by jowl with David
Bennett Hill and hand in glove with
Tammany.
Judge Parker, recognizing the dangers
of his position, but una BILE to shake off
the political associates and methods by
which he has risen. pleads fervently for
1.-THE elimination of personal. factional
and unimportant differences involving no
surrender OF principle" Such elimina-
ton, he declares, lis essential TO sue
cess"
But will the Democrats drink the
Tammany "tar waterI"
There is something to be said-or
there wash favor, even. of "tar
water" Bishop Berkeley in his famous
eulogy upon that old-fashioned but I'M
pleasant mixture declared: at is OF
A NATURE so MILD AND BENIGN
AND PROPOR1YONED TO THE
HUMAN CONSTITUTION AS TO
WARM WITHOUT HEATING. TO
CHEER BUT NOT INEBRIATE."
Still, tar water went out of fashion.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
"MuD-sllNGlNc."


New York Tribnne.l
To charge that the President Of the
United States is so reckless and un-
scrupulous that he means, il elected. to
grasp Mexico, the West Indies. Central
America and South America, and con-
solidate all in one huge American EN-
pire--that is moderate and proper polit-
ical discussion. 'srhe candidate is the
issue"
TO recite, with scrupulous moderation,
the historic facts concerning the entry
into public life Of the opposing candi-
date-facts that no man disputes or
dare dispute--that is 'mud-throwing!"
TO mention that his first political
friends and creators were the ballot-box
suffers OF Stony Hollow and Jockey
Hill; that his debut as a political man
ager was, while a surrogate judge, as
the State chairman for and personal
representative Of David b. Hill, who in
gratitude made him Supreme Court
Justice; and that, when he needed a
close friend to intrust with his bid to
Bryanites for the Chief Judgeship of
the Court of Appeals on the ground that
he had voted for Bryan, he chose as
such confidential representative the cleo
ton thief Danforth--to mention these
undisputed and indisputable facts, it
seems according to the Mortified Demo
cratic organs, is "mud-slinging.
Well, shivering souls, IL those facts
imply mud" then that is the sort Of
mud your candidate lives in. You in
woke in vain a cast-off judicial robe to
hide 1t. "The candidate is the issue"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

When the great iron and steel indus
try of the United States thrives, other
American industries thrive. The Dem
ocratic party could not legislate TO de-
stroy the protection to the iron and steel
industry without legislatiag to destroy
the prosperity of the United States.
The millions of additional profit and
wages that have come to the iron and
steel industry under Republican rule
would have been earned. il at all. by
foreign nations. had Democratic policies
prevailed during the last eight years
The gigantic rise of this industry dur
ing the last eight years added enormous
ly to the wealth of the United States,
and every branch of American industry
and agriculture has been stimulated by
it. Prosperity at home and prestige
abroad has indeed been intimately con-
nected with the increasing Imperialism Of
steel, which once was Pauper but now
is King.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
THE WORkINGMAN'S FRIEND.
Railway Firemen Pay Notable Trib-
ute 10 President Roosevelt.

No President ever received more
notable tribute from la Dor organiza-
ton than Theodore Roosevelt did at the
convention of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemeu held in Buffalo. A pub
lie meeting was held on the night OF
Sept 10 Fully 5000 persons were in
attendance
Grand Master Hannahan, in conclud-
ing an address, called attention to the
fact that a New York newspaper had
criticised the President because he had
accepted an honorary membership in the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
Let me say" said Mr. Hannahan that
IL the President of the United States or
any other of its citizens does nothing
worse than accept membership in this
organization he will neither merit the i'll
will nor deserve the ceusure of any Of
his fellow-men. (Cheers.)
II the rest OF the public, and particu-
larry those who are intrusted with the
direction OF our government and the
management of the nations greatest en-
terprises would do as the President and
meet us upon a common level there
would be fewer strikes and less strife
and more OF peace and goodwill in the
industrial world
What has the President done for
your shouted an intoxicated man, who
stood near the stage door on the right.
What has the President done?" re-
peated Grand Master Hannahan. 'The
President has proven to the organized
workingmen of this country that he has
an interest in their welfare by accepting
an honorary membership in an organiza-
ton of men whose faces are begrimed
by smoke and dust, and who daily and
hourly face the gravest dangers
The monster audience burst into
deafening cheers The tumut rolled
from wall to wall and back again. Men
stood up on the benches, wildly waving
their hats and cheering for the Pres-
dent. The demonstration was spon-
taneous and was general all over the hall.
Finally it died down and some one in
the audience shouted:
'Hurrah for Theodore Roosevelt
And again the crowds burst into
cheers and when the second demonstra-
ton died out the intoxicated man was
nowhere to be seen.
During the demonstration the men on
the stage sat silent and made no effort
able ovation which the President had re-
ceived. The Brotherhood does not per-
NIT politics to influence its action, but
its members, regardless of party, enter
tain a high opinion of President Roose-
welt and will stand by him as firmly as
he stands by them.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

The truth IS. there is now more dis
affection 10 the Democratic party than
there was when Bryan WAS nominated
the first time. Neither Bryan Demo
Gratis nor friends Of w. r. Hearst will
support Parker. In New York Stare the
Bryanites have put State Pvpunst
ticket in the field and will vote for Wat
son, the Populist nominee for the Presi-
dency. In New Jersey the Hearstites
have organized the Peoples Demo
cratic party" and will fight the regular
organization. In Indiana and other
States the free silver and Bryan Demo
Gratis are in arrps and will worry the
Parker party.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
Pnrker's Electisn Would Unsettis
Business-

Eugene A. Merrill. president of the
Minnesota Loan and Trust Company OF
Minneapolis, in an interview in the Com
mercial West of Minneapolis says;
much ha. been said concerning the in
significance of the coming election so far
as II relates TO business. II has been urged
that the maintenance of the gold stand
ard is assured, etc, but, while the theory
OF the case Is excellent. yet as a matter
OF fact the man with money to invest does
not want to be monetarily involved in
unsettlng Of conditions through change
of administration. The policy of the party
In power is pretty we'll known and its con-
tinuance in ONCE will precipitate no diff
cuties The policy of the opposition may
be ever so clearly conjectured, but its ae-
cesson to control would, / think, cause
some contraction in business and financial
enterprises, at least temporarily until the
safety and conservatism now talked OF
should be more substantially demonstrat-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
"AS MAINE GOES.

In each campaign
They look TO Maine
To make the future outcome plain.
For each one knows
That as Maine goes
The tide of public judgment flows.
One time Maine went
bent for Kent,
And every one knew what that meant.
This year the State
Has struck a gait
That sets Republicans elate.
At Esopus
There is a fuss.
Because the votes are going thus;
And Gassaway,
So blithe and gay.
Must write checks till election day.
The Texans shout
And jeer and fout
Because their State is not in doubt;
But ID. B. Hill
Has had a chill
And thinks that be had best keep still.
Much pain is felt
Beneath the belt
OF those opposed to Roosevelt;
They have the blues
At this great news
They know that Roosevelt can't lose.
The record shows
That as Maine goes
The tide Of public judgment flows
The fight is vain.
For all explain
That they will have to vote with
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
Wnulh IL Re Wi..n

not on record on the tariff question. This
being the case, would it not be unwise
To trust tariff revision to the party op-
posed to the principle of protection, the
result being practically free trade, bring
ing industrial depression. hard times and
the inevitable lowering of prices on farm
products?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
raurart La Fascinated.

Tom Taggart is so fascinated by the
inscrutable mystery behind Judge Par
ker's speech of acceptance that he can
not lay it aside long enough to take his
meals. He pores over it from morn till
dewy eve. He reads it in his bath at
reading it in bed. He declares that the
elusive mystery Of what it all means
becomes clearer with every perusal, and
that by the close Of the campaign he con-
fidently expects that it win be as clear
as the water of his own Pluto spring.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
Republican va. Democratic POLICY.

Organization does much to maintain
the wages of labor, but organization of
wage-earners does not provide consum-
ers. Consumption of coal is always
greatest when mills and factories are run
ming full time. II is the policy of the
Republican party to protect all indus
tries by wise and benefcent laws. while
it has been the policy of the Democratic
party, as evidenced by the last Cleveland
administration, to provide as much work
as possible for the artisans of other coun.
tries by removing the protection the tar
if affords American workingmen.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
Handicapped.

Marshall r. Wilder's most successful
joke of the season has a political tang
to it that is calculated to make even
a Democrat with any sense of its eternal
aptness laugh. He tells of a teacher who
asks class OF boys whether they would
like to be President of the United
States. Observing that amid the gen
eral enthusiasm of assent one boy was
silent aud disconsolate, she said:
whats the matter, Willie? Don't
you wish to be President?'
"Yes'm, but can't" replied the boy.
How do you know you can'tT she
asked.
Because I'm Democrat"
That let him out.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

Tom Watson acknowledges that the
condition of American workingmen is
now vastly improved. and that in their
homes they enjoy conveniences OF life
which king could not command some
hundred years ago. If the Democracy
had it's way we would reverse the wheels
Of progress so that the workingmen
might enjoy the privations of life that
were the common lot in the grand old
days of Jeffersonian scarcity of bath
tubs
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
Prosperity at Home, Prestige Abroad.

prosperity at Home and Prestige
Abroad"-was campaign phrase that
appealed with great force TO the Amer
lean people in 1900. 1t should appeal
to them with still greater force in 1904.
for during the last four years Of fur
Their Republican rule there have been
still further great gains in the prosper
ity of the United States, and still fur
ther great increase in the respect enter
tanned for the United States by all the
nations Of the world.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30
A sura sign.

Now we know that David B. Hill in
tends to quit politics next January, for
he has disclaimed calling President
Roosevelt "a fraud" That a little in
nocuous fling like that when he has ex-
hausted the vocabulary Of vituperation
upon the Republican half OF the Ameri-
can people for nigh on 40 years" is
surely a sign that David IS setting his
house in order and wants II depart po-
litical life at peace with alN men.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

The heIpfulness of the Germans to-
ward each other has been one of the
splendid lessons they have Taught.
Fidelity Is always an ad m ir BILE trait.
The fidelity of Germans toward each
other has been to me always one of
their striking and adj m ira BILE charac-
teristics. Senator Fairbanks az indianapolis,
September g. 1890
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

The Democratic party has been fatally
wrong on every phase of the money ques-
ton from the resumption of specie pay
ments after the war TO the establish
ment Of the gold standard, both of which
it opposed. 1t is constitutionally unfit
to deal with financial questions.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

China and India are "cheap" countries.
Human labor is held very low in these
lands and the result is that the masses
are constantly STEPPED in poverty and
menaced by starvation. In spite OF the
so-called cheapness the people do not get
things.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

A man who 10 weak enough TO put his
candidacy in their (Hiirs and Bel
mont'sl hands before the convention
would not be stronG enough to resist
their Influence after eiection, If he
were by any possibility successful.-
William j. Bryan.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

The story of the struggle on the edge
of the arid belts is a record of heart
breaking disappointments and OF failure
for causes utterly beyond individual con-
troll Under national irrigation these
will occur happily no more.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

Forty years of practical control of tho
government by the Republican party
covers the whole period of modern prog
ress. The only intervals of resc-
ton or failure to progress were when
the Democratic party was in power.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

History shows that Democratic
tariff has always been followed by bust
ness adversely and a Republican tariff
by business prosperity. Why not &C
cept the verdict of history?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

Under the Republican policy of pro-
lection our home market affords our
manufacturers and producers the best
market in the world, even If we did not
sell any of our products abroad But
protection has also made us the greatest
exporting nation in the world.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

Tho Democratic party is like the man
who was in favor of prohibition but
"agin" the enforcement. 1t favors
Panama Canal, but opposes the measures
necessary to obtain it.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

The Democratic campaign managers
are trying to hoodwink the mass of the
party by saying all Democrats are work
ing earnestly for the election Of Parker
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-30

and asking support under false repre-
sensations, and the farmer never fayors
or supports insincerity or fraud.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-12
DOLORES

una encrucijads de castsnos. en-
donde con frecuencia SO habfa
septado en- companla de Luis.
Lady Nelson L. sigui6 Y Il acer :
czrse Ia vio de rodjlias, con el
roatro cubierto con las msnos.
Sc halI&ba an uno de esos scce-
COS de desesperaci6n que va Ia
eran insvitEbles y hablaba 4 su
esposo como 81 estuviera Gllf
presente pxrS escucharls.
Lady Nelson SO detuvo pa
Ida y sterrads. como sintiendo
IL proximidad de un cstaclis-
mo.
i Lnis! Luis !: te Iiamo Y
no me respondes! iEstis ciego
para mis- lagrimas sordo a mis-
clsmores? iC6mo puoiste de-
jArme sola con este terrible So
creto? iPor que no tienes pie
dad de mi tPor que no ten
des los brszos y me llev&s q tu
lsdoi
Dolores Sc ettremeci6 81
sentir que una msno carjf1osa So
posaba sobre su hombro y Gre
20 que az plegaria hsbfa sido
c1ds, pero al volver la cabeza
vi6 q Lady Nelson, que sc incli-
nAba para abrazsrIs.
-Lola, hija mia, tqr6 sig
mica esto' pregunt6 Ii damA
con dolorosx emoci6n Sin que
rerlo he oido tus dltimas pals
bras. 40 e qgieren decir 7 Sem
pre- ha sldo IA Eej0r amiga:
Dor qre no me reveals X c&usA
90 tu do.ors
iOjsl1 pudieral iOialk
me foeta dsdo abrir Z listed nj
cors26n ! Pero tengo mie8o, M
miedo horrible y creo qaa nun
CD me strevere { htcarlo.
Al or ests gGlGbras
Nelson 81 10 rimlIsele
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-08-12

cusnto he podido, pero "a no
puedo mas.
A Juana le .terrabA L. idea
del medico; pero no pudo menos
que contestar:
Tai vez ESQ serfs 10 ma-
jor.
Lady Nclson &c crefa muy
desgrsciEjs: professbs & So 90
brina ell sfs cto de una madre,
estaba orguNo'a de su educaci6n
Y de So car&cter y habfa funda-
do grsudes esperanzas en- su
bellezA. Y de pronto, sin So
ber por que. Is vida de Dolores
lie perecfa arruinads para STEM
pre-. Era ircrefble que gus des-
grsciados amorfos hubiersr eau
sado tai estrsgo, por mas que
hubiers SmsGo cen todA SD aims
ell capitsn Simon. va habfAn
pssado muchss semanSs desde el
6is de la citsstrofe, Y no sc le
vefs recobrar 10 perdido. Pa
Ida silercioss y distrSids, no Sc
interessbs por NADIA de cuapto 10
rcdcaba. No sslfa nj sceptaba
invitaci6n slguna Y cuEndo al
gun amigo Ilegaba q Belmonte,
siempre invents BIZ IN pretexto
pars no dejsrge yer.
Una tsrtle del mes de octu-
bre, ls ansiedad de Lady Nelson
LEGO & IN cClmo. Lola sbando-
no ell salon y en- vez de dirigirse
& 81 cuGrto. como do cosiGm-
bre, sc encamino 6 al prado cont
quo al jxrdfn. Lsdy Nelson la
vic Iassr.
-lQo6 tendra esa cri2tura2
sc pregunt6: hoy me parece mss
mel&ncolicE que nuncs y temo
que sus dfAs cst6n coutados. hi
bella Lola no es "a pi sombrA
dc 10 qla f.6.
La iayen Sc dirigi6 h,cia