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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-15

The national convention spent the
morning hours Friday in waiting for
the report of the committee on reso-
lutions. A committee was appointed
by Chairman Champ Clark to call on
the resolutions committee and learn
when the platform would be submit
ted to the convention. Just before
the noon hour the conventions ennis
:saries announced that the resolutions
committee would require until p. m.
to prepare its report but that the
action of the committee would be
unanimous.
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson
was then called upon and he was en-
Enthusiastically cheered. He spoke
principally in relation to the disfran-
'chisement plank of the republican
platform and made an appeal to the
north and the west to support the
south in the position the democratic
party of that section has assumed be-
tween whites and blacks. The con-
vention then took a recess until s
O'Clock.
The crush of visitors around the
doors and inside the convention hall
at 8, o'clock. the time set for the
opening of the convention, was great
er than at any previous session. 1t
was something rarely paralleled at
any national convention.
A series of energetic thumps on the
presiding officers table were given
by Chairman Clark at S:03 o'clock in
;an endeavor to call the convention to
order. The reading clerk ordered the
floor officers to clear the aisles. AS
Mr.. Clark stood at the desk Senator
Daniel, of Virginia, chairman of the
resolutions committee, made his way
TO his side with a copy of the plat
form in his hand.
Without delay 1t was announced
that the report of the committee
would be received.
Becoming impatient at the delay
Senator Daniel began reading in the
midst of the uproar.
SYNOPSIS OF PLATFORM.
Devotion to the Essential princi-
pies of the democratic faith" is de-
clared.
These principles are said to be the
foundation of local self-government
and national unity and prosperity,
and 1t is asserted that they have un-
derlaid the independence of the
country and it's growth by every
democratic extension from Louisi-
ana to California and Texas"
The principles of the democracy
ARE recommended as the cure for
present administrative methods which
are said to "pervade the public mind
with dread, distrust, perturbation"
National peace, safety, and pro
gress, it is asserted, and the funda-
mental rights and privileges of citi-
zenship rest on democratic success
in the application of democratic prin-
ciples to problems of the day.
Equal rights for capital and labor
are approved, and legislation to thai
end is advised.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-15

CONGRESSMAN CHAMP CLARK.
When the result of the contest was
announced the report of the COM
mittee on permanent organization
was made. Representative Champ
Clark, who was chosen permanent
chairman, addressed the convention.
He had prepared and furnished to the
press speech of great length. The
hour was so late when he gained the
platform, however, that he spoke
about 800 words and left his audience
to read the remainder
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-15
Uncle Sam Wins a Lawsuit.

Washington, July S.-The district
supreme court yesterday decided in
favor of the government the case of
Anna Bowes and others against the
secretary of the interior. The effect
of the decision is to stop cattle COM
panies from the misuse of the sol
dier's homestead right belonging to
widows SO as to secure large bodies
of land without compliance with the
law by the entrywomen.
Gen. r. 3. Howard Dead.
Washington, July Seen. Thomas
b. Howard, of the Confederate army,
died here Thursday.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
Spots On Fur of Animals.

Although we are told that the leopard can not change his spots it is certain that the markings on the fur of some animals do change Especl- ally is this true where the animal has q distinctive winter coat. This change has been studied by Barrett Hamilton, a, British naturalist, who is of the opinion that whitening of the fur gene rally accompanies development of fat ty tissue, which is a manifestation of insufficient oxidation, and hence Of atrophy, which shows itself in a whitening Of the hair. In some anil mals-man, for instance,-this atro- phy is manifested by badness. That fat men are often bald is thus some thing more than coincidence.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
NOISE OF A MOVING TRAIN.
Locomotive Engineers Are Not Dis turbed by the Rattle of Cars
 Over the Rails.

The locomotive engineer was talking about his run, says the Pittsburg Dis patch. He maintained that, with the roar and rumble of the engine directly beneath him and of the train thunder ing behind, he had no trouble in hear ing what his fireman on the other side of the cab said to him. and the fireman could understand and answer. The noise of the train seems to be some thing extra, according to him, to which he has become so accustomed that it does not interfere in any way with his ordinary faculties. It appeared, from his remarks, to be like a dull chatter of numerous typewriters in 8 big office, which never interferes with speech or thought once a person has become ac- customed to the noise. He asserted that he knew of engineers who had become stone deaf when they were not in the cab, and their friends had to yell to them to make themselves under stood But as soon as the veterans stepped into the engine and got the rattle of the train in their ears they could hear the ordinary conversational voice, despite the thunder of the ma chinery and the wheels. As soon as the train stopped they were deaf again for that interval, only to be right as soon as the pandemonium of the wheels shook up their aural openings.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
RICH ELK TOOTH BLANKET.
Relic of an Old Indian Chief Becomes the Property of Kansas
 Editor.

The famous elk tooth robe that be- longed to a daughter of Old Crow a Cheyenne chief, has been purchased by the proprietors of the Thomas Trl- bune. This is the robe that attracted so much favorable attention in the metropolitan dailies and magazines last year. Old Crows household was 10th to part with the relic that had been the pride of the Cheyenne and Sioux Indians for several generations The 72S teeth represent 364 bull elk, as there are only two good teeth in the head of each animal
 According to the account of the Tri- bune, when the robe changed hands "Old Crows entire family of about 15 aborigines was present to see that the deal was pulled off according to the latest rules of commerce. When the money was handed over there was a grand rush for the 'wo-haW' (meat} market and the chuck that was hauled to Old Crows tepee that even- ing was sufficient to feed a company of soldiers. The Indian is free spender He believes in the admonition to teat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye may die.'" e P
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
NEXT SUNDAYS WORLD.

We have never known much of the real beauties among the women of Japan, our acquaintance having Peen with photographs of the Geishas, For practically the first time the American public will have a chance to see how the ladies of the higher classes, the princesses and noblewomen look, i'll a page of pictures of the Japanese fight ing princes and their brides. Another interesting feature of next Sunday S World will be all account of the great $5,OOO,OOO auto parade that will soon start for the St Louis exposition. It will be wonderful thing, this parade, and we'll worth reading about. The continuation Of B. Fletcher Robinson's thrilling detective story, '"The Peril ill the Snow an article by a Barnard college girl on Life at Barnard. an ac- count Of How Hearts Are Really Bro- ken, and the weekly theatrical feature page will be among the good things to be found in next Sundays World mag azine. i-r
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
LAPS ARE BUSINESS LIKE.
Scene of Battalion Leaving Tokio for the Front-Military Precision
 from the First.

This is picture of battalion leav- ing Tokio in the Chinese war at the railway station: Suddenly the public are instructed to wait little and the turnstiles are locked. At last the great iron gates at the end of the platform are opened and the head of the battal- ion appears. It marches straight on till the leading company arrives at the front carriage.
 The battalion is halted. turns toward the train; in a moment the train is packed as full as it can hold The guard whistles, the train moves off There are no friends on the platform no women-no band playing '"The Girl Left Behind Me" ''All is quiet, all is great" everything betokens order and quiet determination. Now the train has gone, the great gates are shut, the turnstiles are opened, the next ordinary passengers train is ready to depart Ion time" This is as far as can remember the exact description of 8 Japanese battalion leaving for the front in the Chinese war Who can re- sist such nation as this?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
BANK-RoBRERs FLAG0ED.
A War Map of Their Operations Kept by Detectives During Their
 Busy Season.

A visitor to the New York headquaru ters of a detective agency noticed large map of the United States profusely dec- orated with little flags, few of them red, but most of them white, says the Sun.
 Looks like war map commented the visitor. And most of the fighting seems to be in the middle west"
 That's our bank robbery map" ex- plained the head of that particular de- pertinent. "It's little scheme of my own.
 'The red flags mark robheries In banks belonging to the association that retains us. The white flags represent robberies in banks that are not members of this association. Each flag is inscribed with the details of the robbery it represents.
 The map is corrected from day to day, and it gives us a pretty fair idea of the general situation at a glance. We keep It hanging on the wall there throughout the bank robbery season"
 "The bank robbery season?"
 "Yes. That begins about September l, when the nights begin to get long. There's comparatively little safe crack ing out of season, when the nights are short. A job of that kind takes time.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
CHINESE FOR PHoNOGRAPH.
Latest of the Foreign Tongues on the Records-songs of All Nations,

Chinese is the latest language to be added to the long list of photograph records to be had of songs in foreign tongues. This list now includes vocal solos in Flemish, French, German, He brew, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Rus sian, Spanish and Swedish.
 Many of these records in foreign tongues are made in this country, says the New York Sun, from the voices of foreign singers. Others are taken in the native lands of the singers.
 Besides operatic selections and church music, these, records include songs of all sorts peculiar to their several coun- tries and localities. They also include records of the music of great foreign bands, and so on. ~A
 The Chinese dwellers in New York are as good buyers of photographs, in proportion to their numbers. as the people of any other nationality
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26

eral Miles to exert himself running. condition to walk crack in the floor, or in the platform.-Kansas City Jour- nal.
 The czar has commanded General Kurepatkin not to return until he has unfurled the Russian flag over the mikado's palace. This is the first inti- nation that General Kuropatkin may never return to St Petersburg. New York Tribune.
 A young telegraph operator in Mil waukee, Wis, gives what is described as a marvellous exhibition of control of mind over matter by attracting money to himself. Coins being placed on a table. the operator has a kind of fit, whereupon the shekels hustle over to him. Heard that money talked, but never that it walked As to the fit, most of Us would have a spasm if we saw money coming our way.--NeW York Telegram.
 It is claimed by somebody that American gunners on Japanese war ships are responsible for the deadly marksmanship off Port Arthur: Ill view of the unreliability of information from the far east it might be we'll to let felicitation wait. We know that American gunners can turn the trick, but we need all our own men here at home to man the great navy, now building. Officers and men are neces- sary for our warships. even in times of peace-Portland Express.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26

farms and making them pay. Do you mean to tell me that the average IrishmAn is not able to conduct q farm? He is, and what he wants to do is not be anxious to remain in the factory or about the center. There is a good field for him in the rural districts and I think he would make no mistake if he would step into 1t and try his luck with the hoe. 1t is only within the, past few years that foreigners amounted to anything in the small towns of this state. Do you know that last February was the first time the sacrifice of the mass was celebrated in Middlehury, old as 1t is !! I circulated the petition to rent the town hall for that purpose and While making my rounds one of my neigh bors remarked that if I attempted such a thing twenty-five or thirty years ago I'd be mobbed. Well. we got it, and at the first service about forty persons were present and now we have our Sunday service right along.
 '"The reason for the change of sen timent in Midd1ebury is due to the fact that the residents found it neces- sary to make provision for Sunday service as a matter of accommodation for their servants. Farm hands and housework girls, including Polanders, Germans, Irish and French, couldn't be prevailed upon to remain there un- less they could go to- church, and just as soon as this became known every
 body who was in position to remove the objection they had to the place lent a hand, so that at the present time a housework girl in Middleibury who is member of the Catholic church can attend divine service Sundays without being obliged to tramp miles to q church in some neighboring town. 1 mention this to show that there is really no end to the possibilities that are open to the thrifty Irishman and faithful Irish girl. They are in bigger demand to-day than ever according as the right ones come along, and if the condition of this has changed so in Ireland that common laborer. can do
 better there than here. I'm glad to hear, but I'm very much afraid that such is not the case.
 ''I don't think there is any danger Of all the Irish leaving their native country. I believe the place is better off with a population of 100000 than it could with S.0OO.0OO. Let as
 many of the people as can do well al
 home remain there. but the surplus population cannot find a better place to locate permanently and perpetuate themselves than in the United States
 and thereis room for thousands Of them on the farms in this state. I want tc say in conclusion that the Irish boys | and girls who come over this spring | bringing with them the natural char acteristics of their fathers and mothers l. | a little patience and the courage ! necessary to buoy them up under mod 1 est conditions for. a time. have better l opportunities than their brothers and ! sisters had who came here years ago and made commendable headway il 1 spite of obstacles that have long since 1 been removed"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
THE QUESTION OF
 IRISH EMIGRATION.
Baker Kelly Thinks There is Room in This Country
 for All Who Want to Come-Prospects Are Bet
 ter and He Advises More of His Countrymen to Secure Farms and Make Their Homes Them

The attitude Of prominent Irishmen at home and the world over regarding emigration from that country has oc- casioned much curiosity and prompted many questions. When such men as Cardinal Gibbons, John Redmond, Douglas Hyde and others tell the Irish that under existing conditions they can do better at home than elsewhere, it would seem that there must be something wrong ill the United States and other parts of the world where Irish people in common with others made more headway than they ever could have done at home, or condi< tions have changed wonderfully in re- cent years.
 The subject is being discussed in Waterbury, and while some claim that q great many come to this country from Ireland who could do better at home all are agreed that in a general way ones opportunities are far better here than on the other side Thomas Kelly, a citizen who speaks from ex- perience, said to-day that he thought MT, Redmond showed his countryme the dark side of the situation in America when he drew his picture of the man leaving a con1forta ble farm in the old country and coming here to eke out an existence on a small days pay in a rolling mill. MT Kelly be- lieves that even the man in the mill has a brighter future than the fellow living as a cottier in Ireland and try ing to maintain a family on a few shillings a week.
 ! T think" said MT Kelly, "that hax fol l. a about the reports. read of what Cardinal Gibbons and MT Redmond said on this question. I know these men mean we'll and it does not seem clear how they could take the ground that sober, industrious Irishmen, who have nothing but their labor to depend upon, can do as well in their own country as here I'm aware that a comforta b1e farmer or prosperous storekeeper is foolish to sell out and come to America. but if were begin ming life again and found myself a poor boy in Ireland with nothing to look 'to but two hands and little cour- age, I'd dig out mighty quick. I'd do exactly what I did when | was there People will tell you that this country is not as good now as it was at that time. Why, it is better. There are more openings for bright young men and women. so that if you don't want to do one thing you can take up something else. When l came to this town it was out of the ques- tion for 1aboring man to get hold Of good farm. Now you can get one for less than half what it cost to build the houses on it. Why don't the Irish people come here and get hold of some of these nice farms all over Connecticut that have been pra actically abandoned for years. not because they could not be made to pay, but rather on account of the families who owned them dying out or their children pre- fer1.ing to live in the cities. The Germans, Polanders, Swedes, Italians and French are locating upon these
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26

The collapse of the powerful manipu- lation in cotton, while disastrous to those closely connected, will be bene- ficial when the aftermath is over. says Banker Henry Clews, inasmuch as this great staple will be ruled once more by natural and not artificial influences which seriously injured both mill own CTS and operatives in all parts of the world. The south would have inevita.- ply secured good prices for cotton this year without the aid of these danger ous speculative operations, simply be- cause the worlds demands were over taking supplies, which, so far as the American crop was concerned, were strictly moderate. By policy of ex
 aggeration and excessive speculation prices were carried to dizzy height, the effect of which will be an unusual increase in acreage and less profitable prices to growers for next crop than they would have received under the ordinary sway of supply and demand. The south would have enjoyed a great CT, more permanent and more even ly distributed prosperity without the cotton corner of 19034, which has pro- duced nothing except forcible de rangement, the effects of which will be worldwide, not to speak of the i'm
 nense stimulus given to developing other cotton regions as competitors with America. ;"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26

f What does Attorney General Knox mean to do with his victory over the two big railroad companies? asks an exchange. He calls attention to the fact that, in prosecuting the case be. Tore the supreme court, he kept strict " to the case in hand, without invok- ing any decision that would involve further action; and he declares that the government does not mean ''to run amuck' against the railroad corpora tions on account of this decision, That is to say, 1t is to be left to individuals and commonwealths, which think themselves agrieved by the combina- ton of competing railroads, to press their own grievances upon the atten- ton of the courts, while the law officers of the government look on! The at torney-general knows that the law as defined by the highest authority has been broken. He and his superiors in office took paths to ''enforce the laws Of the United States but they will not enforce them, and Mir Knox tells the counery as much. If private indi- viduals or single states choose to do what MT Roosevelt and Mrs Knox have sworn to do, but will not do,ts why, let them. This is the point we have reached.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26

Denver boasts the unique distinction of having the only hunt club in this country composed exclusively of wo- men, says writer in a sporting jour nal. This Arraya hunt has roster of forty accomplished riders, with Miss May Cordes as mistress of the hounds The two whippers-in, who have charge of the pack of fifteen hounds, are the only men connected in any way with the organization. Not only are all the offices of the club, from president to historian, filled by women, but. they make the various arrangements for their meets and attend to all their own matters of finance. The most interest every woman rides astride. In their experience 1t has been demonstrated that more security to the rider and comfort to the mount are insured by the use of the mans saddle. If all things go as arranged, this western club is to have Its counterpart in New York. There aresa score of women ill and about New York who have hearti- ly entered into the project of forming an organization patterned on like lines. The names of Mrs Thomas Hitchcock, IT. and Miss Marion Holloway have been suggested for mistress of the hunt. Hardly less well known than Mrs Hitchcock, Jr, as an admirable rider is Miss Holloway, who owns a stock farm and whose knowledge of horses is extensive. Hunting the coyote is much more exciting sport than following the hounds after foxes will have to content themselves with the last named, as the coyote is not 8 native of these parts.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-26
POLICEMAN AND HIS CLUB.
Used It Too Vigorously-After Being Reprimanded Did Not Use
 It Enough. s-

:, Apropos of MT. Ierome's Chicago speech in which he advocated strenuous treatment of thugs by the poplice,' said Lawyer Frank Moss, according to the New York Times, "when was police commissioner I had little experience of the philosophy of the club versus moral suasion.
 One day a fine young policeman, of but few months standing on the force, was brought before me charged with brutally clubbing a prisoner. He was perfectly frank in admitting that he had administered the beating Sure was beating into his hide the consciousness of his crine,' he commented defensively
 Of course I advised the exercise of more geptleness in the future and dis missed the youth with reprimand. had completely forgotten the incident until three months later, when the same young policeman was presented again, this time charged with allowing prisoner to escape. In his defense he exclaimed:
 It's all because didn't give him the stick. l was going to remind him of his sins with few taps, when I remembered what you said to me, Mr. Commissioner. Ther I grabs him firmly but gintly and starts to lead him off. While walking along I began to talk to him about his crime and the consequences. I got so eloquent and pleased with my flow of words that loosened my grip, when he broke away, hit me behind the ear, and knocked me into an area way
 Here was stickler that I reserved for several days to mediate over."