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The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

was IN accordance Wit kk< Demand Of
ene people, as expressed by their votes.
lhey the people, have just as firmly
expressed their preference for protec-
tion. Neither currency nor tariff legis-
iation Is so firmly enacted that the laws
could not be changed by Congress if the
people demanded their revision, and the
only reason that the Democratic party
IN attempting to make the tariff an is
sue III this campaign is that they hope
the people have forgotten their sad ex-
perience under the Wilson German Dem
ocratlc tariff bill. After the votes are
counted i'll November, the Democrats
VIII md that the people who by their
votes rule this country consider the pro-
tective policy as we'll as the gold stand
ara firmly and irrevocably established
as cardinal principles.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
Democratic Contraction.

Contractionist would be a better name
than Democrat for the party that favors
anti-expansion. Favoring free silver,
which meant the contraction of money
and it's purchasing power; the hauling
down of the stars and stripes in Hawaii,
the Philippines and other acquired ter
ritory is contraction of territory adyO-
eating curtailment of appropriations by
Congress means, if carried out, the con-
traction of the rural free mail delivery.
and of all other internal works and i'm
provements. The revision of the tariff
as favored by the Democratic platform
means contraction of markets. at he me
and abroad, contraction Of the demand
for la Dor, contraction of money in circu-
lation. contraction of our bank accounts,
contraction of values, and contraction of
our belts to make our stomachs TIT the
contracted supply Of foodstuffs which ex'
perience has taught We must get along
with under contracted Democratic ad
ministrations.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
Parker vs., Cleveland.

Cleyeland's second administration was
disastrous to the prosperity of the coun-
try. nevertheless, history will give much
credit to Cleveland because OF MS Cd
stinate defense of the gold standard
against the assaults of his own party in
Congress. and because of his Venezuela
message. -,
Rut while Cleveland was doing his
best to preserve the gold standard. Park
or was voting for free silver. And when
cleveland wrote his Venezuela message
did he have the moral support OF the
candidate who in his recent speech OF
acceptance condemned as extravagant
and uniustifed the Republican policy OF
g.ttins the nation in readiness for war!
Had it not been for this very policy
~ pursued by preceding Republican ad-
ministrations. President Cleveland's fam
ous Venezuela message would have been
an empty bluff.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
DEMOCRACY'S PLIGHT.

Bill Bryan said he'd help them; he said
that he would talk;
He said that he would fix things so
they'd win in walk;
He went to Colorado--they know they've
lost the State
Because Bill Bryan acted like he's the
candidate.
They sent Bill home,
No more to roam,
For he couldn't find a DENNY
with a fine-tooth comb.
Bill Sheehan said he'd do it; he said
he had a scheme;
He woke up at Esopus-he found twas
all a dream;
He boasted that his tactics had bottled
up New York
They found the other fellows had come
and pulled the cork.
They sent Bill home
No more to roam,
For he couldn't catch the voters
with tine-tooth comb.
thing up right,
He fretted and he figured with all his
main and might.
And when he'd led his trump card some
body covered it
They whispered then to David: eve
think you'd better quit"
They sent Dave home
No more to roam
For he couldn't find the voters
with 6ne-tooth comb.
Tom Taggart had his innings-he
brought out all his guile,
His finger-pinching handshake, his oily,
spreading smile.
But up came Mr.. Parker his morning
sleep to break
With: 'Who has chloroformed you
And what is this--a wake?"
They sent Tom home
No more to roam
For he couldn't find voter with
a fne-tooth comb
Then Arthur Pussy German, as slick as
slippery elm.
Went on the deck as Captain, with nc
one at the helm.
Democracy went drifting as far as fal
could be,
And now the craft is sinking somewhere
upon the sea.
They've all gone home
No more to roam
For they couldn't catch a vote
with fine-tooth comb.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

posts in the nation. In neither of them
did he ever do an executive act that has
turned out disastrously for the country?
Where does the unsafeness come in?
The pretended alarm of Democrats on
this score is really a great compliment
to Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t is equivalent to
saying that he is an energetic Pres-
dent. We Americans are an energetic
people, accustomed to doing things in
stead of sitting down and dreaming about
them, and why should not we have that
kind of a President? Mr.. Roosevelt's
energy is of the healthy American kind,
and it has had wholesome effect upon
our own people and in other countries.
A President who has spent his life doing
things is greatly preferable to one who
has spent his life writing judicial opin-
ions.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
TARIFF AND MONEY.
IL One Standard 10 Established, Why
Not the Other?

Why should not the protective tariff
eolicy be as firmly and irrevocably
established" as the Democratic party and
IT. candidate for the Presidency con-
cedes the gold standard to be!
The gold standard was advocated by
the Republican party, and on this issue
the country went Republican by an over
shelming majority. The question Of
tariff or free trade, and tariff reform
and revision. has been the issue in sew
eral national campaigns, and the people
by their votes decided finally that the
protective tariff principle should prevail
and that this country should be rccog-
niEed as favoring AMI supporting pro-
lection and not free trade. The Demo
cratic party was placed in power ana
given the opportunity of demonstrating
the fallacy of its free trade or tarlt Tor
reyenue-Only policy. and the result was
So distastro that the people gladly re-
turned to protection at the FIRST oppor,
tinity, and refused to EHPERlM r.,
WITH FREE SILVER. The lesisia,
ton By Congress fixing the gold standard
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
SOMETHING GROTESQUE.
HiiIs Impudent Attack Upon Presi.
dent Roosevelt.

dent Roosevelt.
In letter to Ferdinand Ziegel, Presi-
dent Of the Commercial Travellers
League, David Bennett h.L assaults the
President in language which, to say the
least, is impertinent from the point of
view of gentlemen. He accuses the Pres
ident of 'brag and buster and refers
to the "dignitied and conservative gen
tleman the Democrats have nominated"
This comes well from the New York
Democrat. generally admitted to be the
fOxiest politician and the one most lack
ing in broad craftsmanship in the Uni
ted States. There is certain breezi-
ness and impudence exhibited when he
compares his own creature and appointee
to the bench with man like Theodore
Roosevelt, which commands attention,
if, at the same time, the very opposite
of respect This one thing may be, at
least, said of David Bennett Hill, who
is now the entire Democratic party in
the United States and whose creature is
the partys candidate that he has ever
the brazenness of his non-convictiOnS.
He has certain clever wordiness, too.
But facts are facts, and facts are
stubborn things. David Bennett Hill Is
practically directing the course Of the
Democratic party. His own henchman,
his political manager in New York, AL
ton B. Parker, is the man installed by
him as the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, passable jurist, possibly,
shrewd political manager; certainly. a
man unheard Of generally until his own
err nominated him as the candidate for
the Presidency of decadent party.
But to talk of him as President is
absurd David Bennett Hill is certainly
"plunger" with his vassals in politics.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

"There IL, sir, in our past nistorS NO
basi. for the intimation thatthe party
in power Is predisposed to increase or
in any manner unduiy 10 extend the
bonds of the Government. o""er the
standardization of that party we nave
witnessed the reduction on the inter-
..t-bearing public debt from *~'oeo''
O33,3I5 at the close OF the civil war TO
s5s5,O37. 100 at the close OF hsrrr
.on's Ad I'm m istratfon' ana with the re-
auction of the principal has gone
reduction of the interest upon wnas
remained" -senator FAiroaak' In the sen
ate March 5, 1900
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

"There IL a very broad distinctio
bet wee the unlimited Issue Of silver
"a a currency and its limited use, q
distinction which the advocates of I'M
limited coinage in their extraordinary
zeal see m tn fail to perceive. The re-
,ult, sir, which would flow from the
two policies of limited and unlimited
coinage would be quite divergent."-
Senator Fairbanks in the Senate, Mar ii ), 1906.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
PARKER FOryetfuI.

Judge Parker is either TOO partisan.
too ignorant or too forgetful to be ac-
curate in his statements. In abiding
to the BLESSINGS of the Cleveland ad-
ministration he neglected to say that
the exports of the fiscal year 1896, when
Cleveland was President, were only
$500, 300 S7. while last year, under
Roosevelt, they reached the enormous
total of 81 Ago, S6S, 1S5.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
Anent the Democratic desil

Anent the Democratic desire to haul
down the flag in the Philippines, it may
be said the Stars and Stripes has never
been lowered where it has been raised
a. an emblem of sovereignty, except in
Hawaii, where it was hauled down BY
Grover Cleveland, a Democrat. The
Philadelphia Press says the proposal to
lower the flag in the Philippines is the
first proposal Of the kind that any Amer
lean party has ever dared to make.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

IT is said in New York that if Judge
Herrick is elected governor this fall t here
will be nothing voluntary about the re-
t,remeut of David Il. Hill from active
participation in State politics on Jan.
I. 1865. There is no room on the same
mountain top at the same time for two
such organizers as Herrick and Hill.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

There is an army of over 100000
railway employees in the United States
who are not dependent on any system
of campaign statistics to tell them they
are better off in these years of Republi-
can fairness than during the lean years
that followed President Cleveland's Sec
Jnd inauguration.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
A Raseleas Charge.

The charge that Mr.. Roosevelt Is IAN
unsafe man" is disprOved by history. He
was Governor of New York for full
term and has been President three years.
These are the two highest executive
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

There is no Republican apathy, for we
are exceedingly earnest this autumn. bnt
we must not be too blithesome i'll adj
vance. 1t will be necessary to do some
thing in November. 1t will be peces'
sary to turn out and vote.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13

West Virginia may turn out to be the
,;ttle ioker of the campaign. Wait and
see who plays her to win IN November
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-14
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
ITRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.I

tFROM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU
Washington, Feb. 13-Mrs. 3. II. Warder gave
a dinner tonight when her guests were Mrs.
Slater. Mrs. Gammen. Miss Alice Roosevelt. Mr..
and Mrs. ". w Rockhin. the Minister from
Switzerland. the Minister from the Netherlands.
General Crozier and Representative LOngworth-
Miss Alice Warder Is about to go TO New-York for
a visit Of days.
The former Ambassador TO Italy and Mrs. Draper
gave dinner tonight Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. George A Draper. Of Boston; Speaker and
Miss Cannon Senator and Mrs. WetmOre, Surgeon
General and Mrs. Rixey the Rev. DIR. and Mrs.
Roland Cotton Smith. Mr. and Mrs Henley Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Legare. Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Legare. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert wadsworth.
John f. Rodgers and Representative GiIlett. OF
Massachusetts.
Mrs. Robert b. Armstrong gave a tea this az
ternoon In honor Of Miss Shaw. daughter OF the
Secretary Of the Treasury. Mrs. Leupp. Miss
Clark. daughter OF tho Senator from Wyoming, and
Miss Virginia Bartle, Of New-York. were among
the assistants.
Mrs WESTINGHOUSE returned 70 Lenox from New
York late in January and has been entertaining
small house parties at Erskine Park for sleighing
She does not expect to remain In Lerox much long
er. however. but viii probably open her Washing
ton house little later in the season Mr.. Westing-
house. who made business trip 70 Europe last
month. expects to remain abroad six weeks or
more.
Mr. and Mrs John r Mclean gave small
dance this evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison enter-
talned a dinner company tonight
AS usual the winter gayetss will close with the
Assembly Ball. Owing 10 the Illness OF Senator
Hanna however It viii not be given at the
Arlington Mrs. Leonard Wood viii receive for
the board OF governors. Of which Secretary Hay Is
president and George Howard viii lead the eotl-
Ion
Edwin V. Morgan started to-day FOR San Fran
CISCO on his way 20 Dalny. Manchuria having been
anuofuted commercial agent n that point. He
accompanied in an unofncal capacity BY Edward
Bowditch OF Albany a nephew OF General oliver
the Assistant Secretary OF War and by Barrett
Wendell Both young men graduates OF the
Harvard Law School, and wers studying law IN
Boston when they decided 70 60 to the seat OF war
Theodore Hansen. first secretary OF the Russian
Embassy will start IN a few days for ST. Peters
burg II was said at the embassy this morning
that he Is going home leave OF absence and that
his departure has nothing to do with the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-14
WHERE THE BATTLES ARE FOUGHT.

WHERE THE BATTLES ARE FOUGHT.
There may be two backgrounds in this war
Indeed there already are. For the war was
begun by the Russians in Ccrea they firing the
first shots at the japanese at Chemulpho. while
a few hours later the japanese began their at
tack upon the Russians in China At Port Ar
thur. AT the present moment however. inter
est centres chiefly upon the latter point and
upon the immediately adjacent region, and it
seems probable that there viii be some OF the
most important conflicts in the war Port Ar
thur came clearly into notice IN lS94-'95, when
Japan took il from China, and then was COM
PEELED by the Russo-Franco-German alliance -
relInqUish g. We may probably take present
note OF some facts concerning il.
Between the Gulf Of Lea0-Tong which IS the
northern part Of the Gulf Of Pe-Chi-Li and the
Gulf or Bay Of Corea, which is The northern
end OF the Yellow Sea, there juts southwest
ward from the Manchurian mainland wedge
shaped arm Of land known as the Leao-Tong
Peninsula, or, IN Chinese nomenclature, The
Regents Sword" The Chinese have long called
Il so because. like a drawn sword, It seems TO
guard the way 10 Picking. From New-Chwang,
at the mouth Of the Leao-T0ng River. at the
west to the mouth Of the Yalu River and the
Corean frontier at the east, the base Of the
wedge Is q hundred and fifty miles wide. while
from that base line TO Port Arthur at the apex
is just about the same distance. From the apex
across the Strait OF Pe-Chi-Ii to Teng-Chow on
the Shan-Tung shore is sixty miles. But most
Of that strait is choked with the Miao-Tao Isl
ands. and the main Lao-I hie-Shan Channel runs
close to the tip OF the Regents Sword, so that
all commerce and travel by sea 10 and from
Picking, TIen-Tsin, New-Chwang, Moukden. and
all places on or near the Gulf Of Pe-Chi-IL
must pass almost literally under the guns Of the
forts at Port Arthur. Any strong power hold
ing Port Arthur could almost as surely com
mand the passage 10 and from the Gulf Of Pc
Chill as the power at Gibraltar could COM
mand the passage OF that strait
Port Arthur is the eastern end Of Russla's
trans-Asian railroad. The next station. thirty
miles NJ, is Dalny. There Ta-Lien-Wan Bay
on one side and Kin-Chow Bay on the other
cut into the wedge SO as 10 leave a neck OF land
only two or three miles wide. Then the wedge
suddenly widens again. But from Helen Bay
almost to New-Chwang the railroad runs along
the west side OF the wedge, for fifty miles
never more than Eve and often not more than
two, miles from the shore. Obviously that IS
an uncommonly vulnerable stretch OF road. A
hostile feet in the Gulf OF Leao-Tong might at
tack Il by making q landing under the guns
OF the ships al almost any point; or II might at
more than one point destroy It by gunlre from
the ships without a landing. O. course, such
breaking Of the road would put Port Arthur
IN desperate plight. SO We may pretty con-
fldently expect that. whatever may happen else
where, there VIII before long be some interest
iug operations somewhere along the blade OF
the Regents Sword.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-14
JERSEY STGNBOARDS.

The interest Of Governor Murphy Of New
Jersey in the abatement Of the sgnboard nui-
sance IS an indication Of progress in civiliza-
ton. For some years there have been voices cry
ing in the wilderness for 4 regulation Of poster
advertising, but the criers have for the most
part been considered impracticable idealists.
The Tribune has long been urging a tax on ad-
vertising signs 10 limit their exaggerated size
and save our cities ana countryside from an
aniction Of ugliness demoralizing 10 public
taste and in the end commercially injurious for
beauty has a commercial value. When the war
taxes were imposed IN 1888 we suggested that
a stamp tax on posters such as is imposed in
France Belgium and Italy would bring in
good revenue without trouble, and at the same
time discourage ugllness. Two years ago a bill
was introduced I'm the Assembly OF this State
placing n small tax on posters, but neither the
members Of the legislature nor the people of
Ncw-Norll were educated up TO the desirabiiity
OF such q measure. Governor Murphy, we be
nere, is, the first State Executive to appreciate
the extent Of the sign evil and to use his OIL
cial influence for its abatement
Governor Murphy's proposal Of a tax Of 50
n square foot on al signs erected elsewhere
than on the premises Of the advertiser would
be entirely prohibitive Of the signs that dis
the less for that but the friends Of scenic
preservation could be content with something
less. Poster advertising IN itself may be
legitimate business. II conducted with decency
and moderation il may even serve a useful pur-
pose. But II certainly does need regulation
The progress made by the Belgians offers an
example which may well be initiated here Not
only Is the poster so taxed as TO discourage the
mons trosities 50 frequently seen here but en-
enlargement is given 10 the production Of artis-
tic business signs in harmony with tie build
incs TO which they are attached, and ordinary
advertising posters are placed on specially de-
signed boards and made an ornament rather
than an offence.
date passage OF the measure recommended by
Governor Murphy. but & means a great deal q
have the subject brought 10 public attention
with the weight OF his authority. Undoubtedly
tn long lanes OF signs through which passen-
gers between New-York and Philadelphia are
forced 10 travel Is an injury 70 New-Jersey. It
gives an unpleasant impression Of the country.
IL must discourage woulG-be settlers from buy
ing homes which can only be Apr ached by
running q gantlet OF ugliness. The abolition OF
such things must surely come with the progress
OF civilization We would be glad II Nevv-Yorlz
might be the pioneer in America OF this reform.
which ether countries long ago Adopt - D.
out any injury 10 their commcrc, -.t-f
q Jersey VIII lead the way with law &C., -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-14

There appears to be an interesting concord OF
opinion between Russia and Japan upon one
Of the chief points at issue in the present war
q point so important, in fact, that but for 1t
there would probably have been no war. That
is the point relating 10 the sovereignty OF Man
churia or NJ least Of Shing King, which is by
far the most important part OF Manchuria from
in international point OF view.
Nine years ago Russia declared that for
foreign power TO hold Smuggling and especial
liz the peninsula Of the Regents Sword, would
lmpern Chinese sovereignty az Picking. make
Corcan independence ilius0ry. and menace the
peace Of the Far East. Therefore she drove
Japan out OF Port Arthur.
To-day Japan declares. in her Empcror's own
words. that RussIa's possession Of Manchuria-
Of which Shng- King Is the most important
part-"would render il impossible 70 maintain
"the integrity OF China, and would compel tho
abandonment Of all hope Of peace IN the Far
Last" Therefore she is trying 10 drive Russia
out Of Port Arthur
Between the Russian contention Of 1885 and
she japanese Of 1904 there IS no essential dif-
ference. nor is there between the Russian att-
tude toward Japan and the japanese attitude
toward Russia Each Of the two powers has
enunciated substantially the same policy, or
doctrine concerning Tint part Of China. Theo-
reticalIy, on the face Of their own declarations.
they are in exact agreement But the trouble IS
that Japan now prescribes for Russia some
thing which she herself objected TO, and took
only under compulsion, nine years ago; and
Russia objects TO taking now the thing which
she forced upon Japan nine years ago. So IN
practice they are fighting over the very thing
upon which in theory they are agreed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-14
TIE ARMY AND NAVY.

IFRoM TIE TRIBUNE BUREAU
Washington. Feb. 13.-Ths Secretary OF War viii
be the guest OF honor az a dinner 20 be given IN
Cincinnati on February @ The AFFAIR viii be IN
the nature OF a welcome home.
Lieutenant Commander Marry NJ Hodges, who
has been on duty az the navy yard IN New-York
has been detailed 20 Washington. and. with Mrs
Hodges. has taken apartments here.
Mrs Gulfoyle. wife OF Major John F. GufIfoyIs.
has bean compelled 70 give up her social engage
ments because Of the Illness OF her little daughter
Mrs. Audenred. widow II Colonel Audenried. gave
a luncheon to-day IN honor OF Mrs Fuller wife OF
the Chief Justice At her dinner last night the
honors OF the evening divided between the
Russian Ambassador and Mrs. Hobart widow OF
the Vice-Presldent
Mrs Miles. wife OF General Nelson A. Niles who
has been seriously I'll all winter. was somewhat
better this morning.
At the tea given yesterday BY Captain and Mrs.
Lewis Merriam. they were assisted in receiving BY
Mrs. Prindle. wife Of Rear Admiral Priadle
Secretary Moody present at the dance given
Thursday at Navy Yard Hall by the crew Of the
Dolphin. under the auspices Of the officers Of that
boat. Lieutenant Commander J. H Gibbons, Can
tain E Q. Pendleton. Lieutenant Newton A Nc
Gully. Lieutenant Harris Lanning Ensign Benia-
min BarthaIow and Ensign AdoIphus Andrews