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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14
THE AMERICAN COURSE.
a Policy that Works to the Advantage
of Commercial Interests.

We are what we have become, and we
propose to hold our interests as "a world
power for the benefit of the American
people. This is the Republican program.
Hence the recent Shanghai incident.
China is an enormous nation occupying
am enormous country, just now in 81 state
OF dissolution or reconstruction one
can tell which. The various nations with
various interests look upon its territory
with longing eyes, but it does not seem
best. with the interests of all considered,
that it should he dismembered. 1t APP
pears to be best for the interests of all
the other nations of the world that it
should be aided rather than divided.
This course has been decided upon by the
leading nations of the world, following
the suggestion and with the assistance of
the present Republican administration of
this country. This attitude is certainly
right morally, and, in the long run, must
be right as to material interests particu-
larry for the people of the United States.
Russia and Japan are at wan. There
has arisen an Incident whichl rs some
what an anomaly in international affairs.
Warships have fled into a neutral port of
China and other. warships have pursued
lucIu. y uueT ule laws OIL UdTlOnS no
battle may OCCUR in q neutral port, such
as thGns Of Shanghai. The United States,
taking the initiative, has promptly inter-
vened to see tfGns no violation Off the laws
Of nations may occur, and has done this
because Of the heiplessness of CHINA, vast
as the empire iss to enforce alT proper in
ternational Obligations in it's own har-
bors
This is but fn keeping with the tone of
what the United States under the pres
ent administration has done Before. 1t
suggested and induced an agreement be-
tween the great nations THAT China
should not be dismembered. Having tax
en- the initiative in this respect, it was
but right and proper that we should take
the initiative in seeing to it that what
was suggested and built UP by us should
be enforced. This has been done.
That is the way the present admins
tration Of the government is doing things.
That is the way it wifi continue to do
things. The doing Of this is for the
greatest good for all the commercial in
terests and other interests of all the
world The doing of this implies and in
wolves immediate executive action by the
administration Of the United States. 1t
is for the good Of the world
Imagine such prompt, sensible and
forceful action under the administration
of a man like Parker, admitting for a
moment the possibility Of his election
Well, we can't imagine it!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14
TARIFF TRIMMING.
Why the Work Should Be Entrusted
to Republicans.

This is but an allusion to a phase of
what the Republican party, as it exists,
is doing and is going to do, particular
phase to which reference is made. casu-
ally, as to the regulation of the tariff in
the future. Those who make things
know best what to do with the things
they have made. The Republican party
having made the tariff, which has made
this country the most prosperous of all
the countries of all the world is the
only party which can readjust the tariff
as occasion may demand.
Naturally, and very properly, from
their point Of view, the opponents of the
Republican party concede nothing AS a
preliminary, they claim the tariff is a
monster of some sort; that it is bad and
has been ever bad. Nevertheless, under
certain existent circumstances it seems
to have worked WELL and our great trade
adventures and our manufacturers and
our farmers and our Woramen fatten IN
der this same tariff.
SO goes the present situation Where
has been exhibited intelligence should not
intelligence be exhibited in the future:
The party which has made the tariff is
the party which will revise the tariff
under the suggestions of common sense
as occasion may demand.
So potent have been the results Of the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14
ROOSEVELT AND FARMERS.
Why the President Is Admired by
AGricu1turists.
(San Francisco Call.)

| L
| Through the many expressions of Pres
ldent Roosevelt runs a hearty note Of
appreciation for the homely and simple
features Of life as found in the country
and on the farm. He said to the rugged
people of Maine in 1902: 1.-The man on
the farm, more than any of our citizens
to-day, is called upon continually to ex-
| ercise the qualities which we like to
think of as typical of the United States
throughout its history-the qualities of
rugged independence, masterful resolu-
ton and individual energy and resource
fulness. He works hard for which no
man is to be pitied, and often he lives
hard, which may not be pleasant, but his
life is passed in healthy surroundings,
which tend to develop a fine type Of citi-
zenshlp. In the country, moreover, the
conditions are such as to allow a closer
touch between man and man than is
often found the case in the city Men
feel more wildly the underlying sense of
brotherhood and community of interest"
And again: THE man who tills his
own farm, whether on the prairies or in
the woodland, the man who grows what
we eat and the raw material of what we
wear, still exists more nearly under the
Sohu4tiolS WHICH ODCdlnod when the en-
battled farmers OF 1776 made this coun-
try nation than is true of any others
of our people. In a country like ours it
IS fundamentally true that the well-being
of the tiller Of the soil and Of the wage
worker IS the well-being of the State
Rcosevelts vital touch with things is
always responsive to q contact with the
natural conditions that characterize life
on the farm. In an allied vocation he
resorted 10 the wilderness to rid himself
of the serious handicap of a frail ply
sique, and emerged from that rugged ex-
perience physically q type of the Ameri-
can man, firm. broad-shouldered deep
chested and with endurance equal to the
performance of the hardest tasks. His
contacts with the people have inspired
his philosophy, expressed in this: AN
American who is to make his way in
America should be brought up among
his fellow Americans" That is true, for
what can be expected of man. expat-
rated in his childhood, educated and
reared abroad. with no knowledge of his
country and his countrymen?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14
Senator Stewart Of Nevada See. the
Great Light.

Senator Stewart of Nevada, the last
of the Silverites, has seen the great
white light. His visions are those Of
Joseph and the seven fat years. His talk
is of minerals and Nevada. and the bless
ngs Of the Dingley tariff ON borax and
wool. He said:
president Roosevelt is very popular
in the mountain States of the West.
Through his influence the irrigation law
was passed. The Dingley tariff is a
great blessing to the far West Tie
tariff on lead, borax, wool and hides is
especially beneficial to the interior noun
tain States The people Of Nevada are
beginning to realize that the silver ques-
ton has been relegated to the rear as a
result of the enormous output Of gold
during the last eight years. Those voters
who left the party ON account of the
silver issue are returning and, with the
Democrats who desire practical good, are
uniting N support OF the administration.
My information is that Nevada will go
Republican"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14
A. TIMING WELL DON &.
A Record that Recommends. Roosevelt
to the Voters.

to the Voters.
The relations between capital andf
labor In the. United States. are the ex-
istent conditions which affect the welfare.
Of many millions Of people, The rela-
tons between any administration anR
the adjustment of these. questions must
necessarily be careful and most delicate
What bias happened in this relation un--
der the adnMnistra tom of PresidenE
RoosewG{ta What happemed and what
made, THE ultimate result in the gigantic
miners strike in Pennsylvania? Who
was i'd who devised, ia plain, common
sense American way, q solution of the
problem which affected the welfare OF
hundreds of thousandS2 OF course that
is AFT, BOW, relatively, an old story. The
man who did this with his common-
sense was the present candidate of tho
Republican party for the Presidency.
He ventures upon things. and he does
them well from a straig htforwarsf, pa
trlotie point Of view.
Is it not a good thing to bear in
mind that the record of what Theodore
Roosevelt did in connection with the
Pennsylvania abor troubles is one OF
the greatest recommendations for his
election to the Presidency? There was
a delicate situa tion-it was even 9ues-
ton whether the President should inter-
yenc or not. He did intervene, with
wholesome manliness, and the result
was for the good of great mass of the
people, Could there be a better cam
paign document than the plain story OF
what this man did in Strengthening out
the relations between Capital and Labor
i'll Pennsylvania.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

"We each and all owe n duty to the
community and to the State. 1t IN Il
positive duty, and TINT is to aid in Sc
curing good Iawa and their faithful
enforcement. We are not Mcnaced by
foreign foes. We have no fear of alien
attack. We have nothing within to
dread except the Indifference OF the
intelligent citizen to the discharge of
his civic obliSations.' Hon. c. w. Fair
tanks at Freeho d, n. j., June 81, 1907
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

Carefully prepared statistics show that
the number of business failures in 1892,
the last year under President Harrison
was 1854, while in 1898, the first year
Of his Democratic successor, they were
1922 A party whose success always
alarms capital and causes an Increase in
the number of business failures is not
ore for patriotic Americans to support
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

The cry that President Roosevelt, if
reelected, will pick quarrel and plunge
the country in war is raised by the Dem
ocrats for the purpose Of soaring the
farmers. who are peace loving. The eff
fort will be in vain, as the farmer, as
does everyone else, knows that President
Roosevelt, while urging that the country
at all times be prepared to defend itself
and maintain its policies, is for peace
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14
SECOND TERM QUESTION.
Rooseye1t's Claim to the Presidency
Stronger than Any Other Mans.
(NanSns City Times Indanandont(

Rooseve1t's Claim TO the Presidency
Stronger than Any Other Mans.
Ckansas City Times, independently
If President Roosevelt had been elect
ed to the office he now occupies. Judge
Parker's declaration that, if chosen Pres
ident, he would not be a candidate for
reelection, might have some special
weight in the present canvass among
those who are believers in the one-term
principle. But President Roosevelt came
into Office by accident. He was made
Vice President against his personal
wishes and political judgment lie was
duty bound and he voluntarily pledged
himself to carry out, SO far as possible
the policies of his predecessor. If be
has done we'll, he is especially entitled
to the votes of the people. Under the
circumstances his claim to the presidency
is stronger than that of any ordinary
candidate could be- for if he has faith
fully fulfilled the office to which he was
called by accident, he should be honored
with the same office by election His
present incumbency Of the presidential
post should at least serve as a reliable
probationary service. 1t is for the peo-
pie to answer to his administration, for
if it has been equal to or above the aver
age, or satisfactory generally, he has
stronger claims than any other man
could have, for he asks an Endorsement
where another would ask for a trust
And this is the way the country is likely
to look at the situation. President Roose-
welt has made himself tremendously
strong with the masses. He has CON
vinced the nation of his honesty, courage
and capacity. He has pleased vastly
more Democrats than he has offended Re-
publcians. And both the admiration he
has aroused on the one hand and the en-
nifty he has engendered on the other are
tributes to his virtue and motives
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

tariff III the past that it appears almost
impossible that it's effects should be
brought up as an issue in the present
campaign, but yet the trimming of sails
is always a vital issue in all sailing. The
Republican party will trim it's own sails,
and it VIII be extraordinary should the
American people delegate the task to any
one else
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

"Distrust whoever pretends to offer
you a patent cure-all for every i'll of
the body polite, just as you would a
man who offers medicine which
would cure every evil of your individ-
ual body. A medicine that is recon-
m ended to cure both asthma and a
broken leg is not good for either" :
From Roosevelt's Speech at Providence, r. l.,
August 3d. 1902,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

Joseph Chamberlain, the great English
statesman, in a recent speech to English
men declared that free trade was n sui
cidal course. If you proceed in the pres
ent policy your workmen must either
take lower wages or lose their work
The Democratic party would have us
take up the policy which England is GET
ting ready to discard.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

The suspicious and momentous fact
is that never before in the history Of the
world has comfort been enjoyed, educa-
ton acquired and independence secured
by so large proportion of the total
population of the world in the United
States Of America that has occurred
under protection.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

Here is veritable Roosevelt family
E. r. Conley, a farmer, who lives at
Westfeld, H., has six sons, six grand
sons and three sons-in-law. All, includ-
ing Mr.. Conley himself, will vote for
Roosevelt in November.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

In the government printing Office at
Manila there are 240 hilipinos employed
and only SO Americans. che natives are
being educated in the printing art-a step
toward self-goyernnlent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

Democrats may abuse President
Roosevelt personally and misrepresent
the Republican party. but they dare not
tell the truth about his official acts or
the record Of the party, and then con-
denim it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14
Farm and Factory Reciprocity.

Protectionist sentiment is growing in
Canada, and appeals are made to the
farmers to support that policy on the
theory Of the mutual helpfulness Of fac
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

Compare the ruin and disaster during
the last Democratic administration with
the prosperity everywhere seen to-day.
The contrast is an unanswerabfe arga-
ment in favor Of Republican rule.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02
EDITOR ENDS HIS
LIFE In A HOTEL
GRANT RIGGLE,s BODY FOUND AT
THE GOLDEN WEST.
Madelia Man Took 100 Grains Of Nor
phine Which a Bell Boy Purchased
for Him Yesterday-Was Formerly
superintendent Of Schools at Big
Stone, S. D.

While crowds Of fair visitors were
going in and out Of the Golden West
hotel, Washington and Second avenue
S, today, Grant Riiggle, editor of the
Madelia, Mimi, Tribune, lay dead in
his room on one Of the upper floors.
Riggle came to the city several days
ago and registered at the Golden West
hotel. Yesterday he called a bellboy
and gave him a prescription to which
he had signed the name of DR.. G. p
Bissell. The prescription called for 100
quarter-grain morphine tablets and
when the boy returned, Riggle took all
the morphine. His ifeless body was
found this morning by a chambermaid
Riggle was about 35 and leaves q
wife and two children at Madelia. He
was formerly principal Of schools at
Big Stone, S. d., and purchased the Ma
della Times-M essenger about two years
ago. This year he sold it and started
the Tribune. He had not been in gooC
health for several months, and is sale
to have had sleeping spells from which
it was hard to rouse him.
Deputy Coroner II. G.. Irving pro
nounced it suicide and no inquest viii
be held. The relatives have been mott
fed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02

dispatches was thrown into confusion
and greatly hampered.
In the light of the knowledge that
the main positions of the Russians
are on the. north banks Of the river,
the dispatch becomes Ineligible. The
artillery fight during the day makes it
evident that a screen of Russian guns
were used to cover the movement across
the river. The guns on the north bank
doubtless were also employed for this
purpose. being placed so as to protect
the railroad bridge spanning the
Tai-tse.
The review of the Third Siberian
corps mentioned in the dispatch prob.
ABLY refers to march past Of the
troops while crossing the river, it being
impossible to suppose that a. forma
review occurred while the battle was il
progress.
At 1880 O'Clock this afternoon the
war office said it was entirely without
news of today's fighting, but. added
that the railroad between Liao-yane
and Mukden was open. No press dis
patches from the front had arrived w
| to the same hour.
The suspense in st. Petersburg is in
tense, and the town is filed with al
kinds Of rnmors, ranging from com
plete victory for General Kuropatki1
to a disastrous defeat Of the Russians.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02
EDITOR LOST At
SEA FROM LINER.
I
Magazine Man Either Fell or
Jumped Overheard from
Steamer.

London, Sept. &C. B. spahr Of
KIingsbridge,, y: W editor Of Current
Literature of New York, either fell or
jumped overheard from the steamer
Prince Albert, midway between Ostend
and Dover, at about o'clock in the
evening of Aug. 80. His mysterious dis
appearance was recalled on the arrival
of the steamer at Dover to the .Ameri-
can consul, Mr.. Prescott, by E. w. Ord
way of Brooklyn, in whose company Mr..
Spahr was making tour of, Europe for
the benefit of his health. a.
Mr.. Ordway made the following state
ment: s 5sss
We took the steamer Prince Albert for
Dover. We had obtained some New York
papers and while crossing the channel Mr..
Spahr discussed in a natural manner the
news contained In them. Occasionally he
would leave us for a minute or Ntwo and
then return
We missed him soon after we passed the
lightship, not far from Dover, and in1ne-
diately instituted search. We informed
! the captain when we arrived at Dover
| and he began a thoro search for Mr.. Spain
but found no trace of him. A sailor report.
| ed that he had seen Mr.. Spain standing
at the stern at just about the time W.
came to the lightship, but subsequently
he rejoined Mrs. Ordway and myself. The
sailor said he ordered Mr.. Spahr from the
stern three times. No person saw hin
after he left us the last time. Mrs. Ord
way and myself saw nothing unusual II
| his demeanor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02
CORRESPONDENTS FAR AWAY
Davis and Fox Could Get No Closer tt
~"."~ -. Battle than Four Miles. -s

Chi-fu, Sept. 2.-Richard Harding
as aea s9sn do AMERICAN sTs rvo
from the headquarters of the Second
Japanese army, and will leave for the
United States Sept. g. They say that
the foreign attaches and newspaper
correspondents witnessed the battle of
Aug. 26 from a distance of eight miles,
and that this was so unsatisfactory that
they united in a round robin - to the
cause Of this restriction their usefulness
was at an end.
General. Oku replied that in future
they would be permitted to witness en-
gagements from a distance of four
miles, whereupon Davis and Fox, with
Melton Prior and George Lynch, Brit.
ish correspondents, left. Lynch will
try to reach >Dalny. ~ >>r = =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02
DASHED THRU AN
OPEN SWITCH
Five Killed in Wreck of a Trans.
continental Express in West
ern Canada.

Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 2.-Five- per-
sons were killed on the west bound Inn
perial limited, at Sintalau, last night.
The only identified dead is Mrs. Dissett
The injured are Mrs. J.. Brett and
Ma Mas lq MIS- w MsT on On ta Se Way
Shanghai; Ira Ross, bound to Victoria,
and the porter, l.. P. Hart.
The switch was left open by train
crew which had just left the town and
the transcontinental express dashed in
upon freight train.
Owing to the fact that the dead were
in their night clothes and the porter un-
conscious, it has been impossible to
learn the names Of other, victims.
and p psfty.: We're on the train. but
escaped uniniured.
injuries whatever. All of the injured
were in the first car, which was a tour:
list sleeper. The line was cleared and
the regal party. proceeded at o'clock
this morning. Many doctors were soon
at the scene and citizens Of Sintaluta
for the passengers.
General Superintendent Berry, accom-
panied by Superintendents Brownlee
and Skully. left Winnipeg this morning
at 2 o'clock on special train for the
scene.
Sintaluta is small station on the
main line of the Canadian Pacific roac
near Indian Head.
Three Identified. >.....E
Three bodies have been identified
| They are those Of Mrs. Dossett; Mrs
Warren of Sand Point, and Agnes M
Shirley of Ottawa.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02
LAWSON WARS ON
! STOCK EXCHANGE
Opens Hostilities Against Boston
. Institution and Makes Sensa-
tional Charges.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
, Boston, Sept. 2.-Thomas w. Lawson,
in an open letter. declares war upon the
Boston stock exchange because it's gov
erning board issued an order that his
name be dropped from his old firm of
Lawson, Arnold & Co.
He also charges the members of the
association Of being guilty of fraud.
He says:
"Beginning today I will do a gen
eral banking and brokerage business
under the firm name of Lawson, Arnold
& Co., at the old stand, and I will pro:
tect myself from the unfair and illegal
action of your exchange in endeavor'
ing to deprive the firm name of Lawson
Arnold & Co. of things Of value
Later, when L have perfected contem
plated arrangements, l will do such
business as member of the Boston
and New York stock exchange.
sin addition to frauds which in
fringed the moral laws and the rules
and regulations of your exchange
which I notified you were being, com
mitted by your members, I would ado
that some of your members, and al
Least one of them, member Of youl
governing committee, is habitually
guilty of crime against the laws by de
frauding customers by means of fake
purchases and sales and false entries
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02
STARVING WOMAN
IN GOTHAM PARK
Penniless stenographer Lives for
Three Weeks on Picnic
49,. Scraps.

New York, Sept. 2.-The arrest Of
Harriet Barnes in Central Park has de-
veloped peculiar case Of restitution.
The woman is 33 years old, a stem
ographer, and says her parents reside in
Toledo, Ohio. Three weeks ago she ran
out Of funds and since then had lived in
the park, subsisting on scraps thrown
away by picnickers. When arrested
for vagrancy she was almost famished
and slightly out of her mind from ex-
posture.
Miss Barnes said she came here year
ago and worked steadily until April,
when she lost her position. Unable to
procure another, her furniture was soon
seized for debt, and finally she found
herself homeless and penniless. Too
proud to seek the assistance Of friends,
she wandered about Central park, and
finally was driven by hunger to pick up
remnants Of lunches from the ground.
During the three weeks she spent in
this manner the woman slept in out-of-
the way places and washed her clothing
in the lakes at night. The mosquitoes
bit her in a frightful manner and when
she was received at the hospital the
doctors said the insects had caused her
serious injury by their poison.
AS soon as her plight became known
friends came to her aid.