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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
CALLED FROM EARTH.
ThOs. Edwards Died at His II ONE in
Lancaster Wednesday Eve.

Death came Wednesday evening
to relieve the sufferings of Thos
Edwards, a victim of paralysis,
who had been an invalid for a num-
of years.
Deceased was born at Hazel Green
Apr. 81, 1916, and was reared
there, where he followed the trade
of carriagemaker for long term
of years. Afterwards he resided
at Sitter, Cobb and Madison, and
two years ago came to Lancaster.
While at Madison he held a clerk
ship in the secretary of states office,
which he was obliged to relinquish
OH account of i'll health.
He resided at Hazel Green at
time Of the disastrous tornado that
visited the village and his wife,
son, mother, half brother and half
sister were killed in the awful
catastrophe.
On Sept. Is, 1891, deceased was
united IN marriage 10 MISS AHud
Carter at Sitter and she, with one
daughter, Elizabeth, mourns his
loss. A brother, James Edwards,
postmaster at Hazel Green, and a
half-sister, Mrs. Oates of California,
also survive.
Deceased was honored with many
positions of trust during his life
time and set duty before every
thing. For thirteen years he was
a trusted member of the county
board and an able representative.
Funeral services will be held at
the family residence in the third
ward at 2 p. IN. Friday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
CAUSE OF THE HORROR.
Electric Light Arc Placed Too Close to the
Borders of Scenery.

Electric Light Arc Placed Too Close to the
Borders of Scenery.
Among many of the theatrical men
employed in the other Chicago theaters,
the responsibility for the fire was as
cribed to the careless placing OF cleo
trio arc\ light apparatus too close to
one of the hanging borders Of the
scenery. The electrician of a leading
Chicago theater expressed great sur
prise on hearing that this was con-
sidered possible cause of the fire.
The failure Of the expected fire pro
lection is attributed by insurance men
TO trouble with the asbestos curtain,
which refused to descend when the
fire broke out. The stage always is
decognized as the danger point in a
theater and the desire is to have it cut
off from the auditorium as thoroughly
clare that the curtain at the Iropuois
never had worked perfectly and that
the mechanism had not been repaired.
E. r. Wetmore of the insurance firm
which placed the insurance on the Iro-
duis theater declared that the loss
would not exceed $4,000 He also as
serted that the spread of the flames to
the auditorium was due to the failure
Of the asbestos curtain to work prop
erly.
Manager Will Davis says, in his
written explanation, that the draught
caused a bellying of the drop curtain
and a blocking of the rollers. He
leaves the imLtess. oil ,AaI the draught
came from the exits opened on the
audience side of the footlights, but 9TH
ers are emphatic that the draught
which caused the betting of the curtain
came from exits first opened in the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
Desert ptions of Unidentified Dead Read to
Grief Stricken People.


Chief of Police O'Neill supervised
the work of helping friends and rela-
tives to recoverer their dead. Hun
dreds of persons, grief and anxiety
written i'll their faces, thronged about
Chief O'Neill's office, seeking informa-
ton. The pressure grew so strong
that Secretary Markham, mounting a
chair, read off descriptions to the null
titude, who listened with strained ears
Frequently persons in the crowd rec
ognized the descriptions read by the
secretary, and started in horror for the
paticular morgue named as the words
fell from the secretary's lips.
At the morgues the inadqacy of the
means of inspecting the bodies was
evident. Only a few persons at time
were allowed to pass before the bodies,
and places in the line of admission
were as eagerly sought and fought for
as means of escape were when the
theater was burning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02

exits.
Tie Randolph street exit was open
and through this all the people on the
first floor seem to have escaped. Most
OF them were uninjured But the
fortunate on the first floor held this
exit long enough to hold life from the
hundreds in the balconies above.
Crowded, fighting, shrieking, and pray
ing the crowds from the galleries
packed down upon the living stream
from the first floor Death came be-
fore the hundreds on the first floor
were through the Randolph street main
exit.
Then in mob of death, the bal
cony crowds filled this exit. Some saw
the white light of Randolph street,
but fell trampled under the mad ones
behind. In the space of a second over
200 bodies were piled in this exit. They
extended from the first landing, within
twenty feet of Randolph street, back
to the exit stairway. Not as men fall
in battle, but twisted, entangled,
trample, jammed, and held fast, one
with the other, the unfortunate chill
dren, women and men filled the pas
sage way, lying six and seven feet
deep. When the police came later
they could not bulge the bodies until
they climbed up and lifted down first
those on top.
Many in the balcony never reached
the death lane leading to Randolph
street. These sought other exits. The
lights died out and darkness added to
the horror of the fire, the smoke, the
shrieks, curses, and prayers. Some
sought the alley exits, but in vain.
Others hurled themselves from the
balconies. Pocketbooks, jewels, and
costly clothing were thrown away in
the mad flight.
Scores and scores died in the bal
comics far from the exits. Women and
children, fearful of the rush and de-
Gliding to trust to their seats in the
hope the fire would not reach them,
met death when it was too late to es
cape. They died in the aisles and amid
the wreck, Of the seats.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
CARRYING OUT THE DEAD.
Tables in Thompson's Restaurant Piled
with Victims-Ghouls at Work.

Tables in ThompsOn's Restaurant Piled
with victims-Ghouls at Work.
A few minutes after the iremen
and policemen were able to enter the
theater. Then began the CHASTITY work
Of carrying out the bodies-the dead
who packed the west alley exit the
corpses piled in the Randolph street
runway of death, the unfortunates
who fell at other exits and persisted
in the body Of the house. Through
1.-THE smoke and blackened timhers the
lanterns of the hremen gave dim.
ghoulish light In the shadows and
above the ruins the gay trappinGs Of
the house dedicated to merriment made
an ironical background for death.
Ghouls rushed in and filled their
arms with pocketbooks. jewels, and
clothing Some We're arrested; others
escaped.
The tables in Thompson's restaurant
were piled with the dead. Hose carts,
meat wagons, express wagons were
pressed into service with ambulances
~ ICDlONc tlIc NSdOt. OCCCSlODl1ly tnC
breath of life was detected as body
was being borne toward the vehicle. In
these few cases physicians aid was Sc
cured quickly.
Crowds of distracted persons gath
cred about the ruined theater search
ing wildly for dear ones. The dead
wagons rumbled over the granite
blocks the seemingly endless stream
of police and firemen, carrying blanket
ed forms, came from the theater; weep
ing men and women rushed to and
fro; and night fell Oh the saddest day
in all ChicagO's history.
In a saloon near the theater is being
guarded a hugh pile of garments and
furs gathered up in the theater after
the fire. Five bushel baskets were
filled with the purses, gloves and hand
kerchieves of the fleeing mob of terror
stricken, women. Two barrels were
needed to hold the overshoes and shoes
found.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
nah. ILL.,. and Cassville.

nah, Ill.,, and Cassville.
John Dechow and Walter Frost
of Lancaster were in town Tuesday
Chas. Stratton, the telephone
manager, was in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Carey went to Dubuque
Wednesday, to visit her daughter,
Mrs. John OFT, who has little
daughter.
The whist club met with Mrs.
Glasier Wednesday evening. E. B.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
PRESIDENT Expressed sympathy.

Chicago, Jan. 1.-The following
message has been received: Wash
ington, Dec. 31:-To Hon. Carter HI.
Harrison, mayor, Chicago: IL common
witY all our peeps throughout this
land, 1 extend to you, to the people
of Chicago, my deepest sympathy in
the terrible catastrophe which has be-
fallen them Theodore Roosevelt"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
Death List of Visitors.

Following are the identified who do
not reside in Chicago:
Adaneck, Mrs. John, Bartlett, Ill.
Austrian, Walter d., LaPOrte, Ind.
Austrian, Joseph D., LaPorte, Ind.
Bartlett, Mrs. G. D.. Bartlett, Ill.
Betsford, Mrs. Mabel, Racine, Wis.
Bird, Miss, Eola, Ill.
Bliss, Harry f., Racine, Wis.
Butler, Mrs. L., ROsehill. LII.
Cooper, Charles. Kenosha. Wis.
Christopher, Miss L., Decorah, La.
Cooper, Willis, W., Kenosha, Wis
Diffendarf, Leander, Lincoln, Ill.
Oodd, Mrs. J. f., Delaware, Ohio.
Duvall. Sarah, South GAINESVILLE, ..
Edwards, Majorie, Clinton, la.
Fox, Emil, Winnetka, ILL.,
Fox, Gearge Sydney, Winnetka, LII.
Flanagan, Thomas, j., Indianapolis
Geron, Mabel, Winnetka, Ill.
Heron, Bessie, L., Hammond, Ind.
Holland, Lillian, Des Moines Ia.
LEVINE, DR.. Emery, Petersburg, Ind.
Hooper, w. w. KenOsha, Wis.
Horton, Edith, Ontonagon,, Mich.
u Ia.
Hoax, Lena, Watertown Wis.
Hewmes, Mrs. L., Petersburg, Ind.
Higginson, Mrs. George, Winnetka, Ill.
Hutchins, III. L., Ripon, Wis.
James, G. D., Davenport, la.
Kaufman, Alice, Hammond, Ind.
Kelley, Harvey, st. Louis, Mo.
Kranz, Mrs. Sarah, Racine, Wis.
Laffman, Susan, LaoPrte, Ind.
Long, Katherine, Geneva, Ill.
Love, Magaret, Woodstock, Ill.
Morton, Edwin w. st. Louis, Mo.
Meade, Lillian Berwyn, Ill.
Mendel, Mrs. A. n, Nicola. la.
McGill Elizabeth, Pittsburg, Pa.
Martin, Miss Edith, Ontanagon, Mich.
McClurg, Ray, Austin, ILL.,
Maloney, Alice, Ottawa, Ill.
Mitchell, Dora, Lockport, Ill.
MiStork, Mrs. n. NJ, Des. Moines. Ia.
Muir, Mamie, Peoria, Ill.
Norton, Edith, Evanston, ILL.,
Norton, Edward W., ST. Louis, Mo.
Owens, Mrs. Murray, Wheaton, Ill.
Pierce. Mrs, L. E., Plainwell, Mich.
Pottlitzer, Jack, Lafayette, Ind.
Peterson, Miss Anoinette, Fargo, n. D.
Rankin, Louise South GAINESVILLE, ..
Roberts, Theorode, Woodford, 0.
Stoddard, Zabella. Minonk. Ill.
Stoddard. Mrs. Della NJ. Minonk, III.
Sedill, Warner, Kankakee, Ill.
Sylvester Electa, Plainville, Me.
Slender, Mrs. j. H, Lowell. Ind.
Tayson, Ruth. Oak Park, Ill.
Tobias, Florence, Wilmette, Ill.
Trask, Mrs. r. III. Ottawa, ILL.,
Vanzegen, Edward T., Kenosha, Wis.
Van Ingen, John, Kenosha, Wis.
Van Ingen, Mary, Kenosha, ILL.,
Van Ingen. Grace, Kenosha, Wis.
Van Ingen, Bette, Kenosha, Wis.
Van Ingen, Edward L., Kenosha, Wis.
Veit, Miss, LenoX, Mass.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02

A Madison preacher criticised
the members of his choir because
they chewed candy during services,
and now tits so quiet in the choir
seats on Sunday that the preacher
cannot even hear a gumdrop. For
the singers have gone out on a
strike.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
IN A MOB OF DEATH.
Eodies Twisted, Entangled, Trampled,
damned and Held Fast.

There were thirty exits-surely
enough to have emptied the house in
safety, but it can not be denied that
nearly all were closed fast, at least
in the beginning of the fire. Some had
to be beaten open. Precious seconds,
seconds which counted human life
with each tick. were lest in forcing the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02

HSL naV1ns
ed are from Chicago
j Lang, Hortense
Linden, Ellen
Lang, Agnes
Livingston, Mrs.
Levinson, Rose
Leaton, Fred w.
Loettker, Ed.
Mallory, Mrs. j.
It Martin, j.
Martin, W.
Martin, Harold
McCaughan, III.
Mcclellan, Joseph
McClelland, James
Martin, Earl
Mead, Lucille
Merriel, Mrs.
Merrien, Mildred
Moses, Espre
Muir, f. A.
Morehouse, HI. P.
McHalt, Mrs. Ed.
Mendell, III.
Miller, Will.
Muir, Mrs. A. S.
a Mueller, S. A.
Mailer, Edith
Moak, Miss Anna
Marks, Miss May
McCristy, Anna
McKenna, Mrs. j.
Moore, II. p.
McKenna, Bernard
McMilland, Mabel
Merimran, Mrs. III.
Murray, Charles
Middleton, Kate
Newman, Mrs. M.
Newsby,
O'Donnell, Mrs. p.
Olson, Augusta
Olinger, Mrs. B.
Olson, Mrs. Oscar
.Oxman, Florence
Owen, w. M.
Owens, Mrs. f. 0.
Owens, Amy
Oakley, Marion
Peterson, Foynetta
Poults, r. E.
Phacker, Walter
Philipson, Adele
Page, Charles L.
Patton, Lillian
Page, Harold
Pease. Grace. e.
Pridmore, Edith
Power, Miss Lilly
Peck, Willis w.
..Paulman. William
PLAT, Josephine
Persinger, Mrs. +.
Reidy. Miss Nellie
Rattey, William
Boyce, Mrs. w. +.
Boyce, w. e.
Rattey. J.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02

Reiter, Mrs. G. 0.
Regensberg, Hazel
Rankin, Mrs. M.
IReiter, Mrs. NJ. S.
Rise, Mrs. w.
Regansberg, Miss
Regensberg, B.
Reed, w.
Richardson, Rev.
Rogers, Rose E.
Ross,
Remington, T.
Robertson, Minnie
RelSS, Efnd
Reidy, Anna
Reidy, aMry
Sawyer,
Smithbarry, Wilma
Sheppard, Lola
Scott, Burr
Shabbard, Myrtle
Shabbard, Lulu
SherT,
, Sprang, w. n.
SchreineT, Arlene
Suetsch, Mrs. w. J.
Stern, Mrs.
Sutton, Harry P.
Steimmetz, Mrs.
Saville, Warren
Smith, Miss
Slender, Burdith
Spring, Mrs. w.
Stoddard, Donald
Squier, Olive
Saville, Arthur
Spring, Winthrop
,Scmidt, Rosa
Seymour, A. D.
Seiser, Mrs. Harry
Spray. \. w.
Smith, Maud
Smith, Marie
String, e. *.
Stafford, Miss r.
Thompson, Clyde
Thacker, Walter
Torney, Edna
Turner, Mrs. S.
Turbush, G. w.
Taylor, Ream
Thatcher, w.
Teastor, +. w.
Herman, Mrs. S.
Taylor, Irene
Tease, Mrs. Grace
Valley, Miss B.
Valley, Mrs. J. Il.
Van Ingen, Martha
Wunderlich, Helen
Waldman, S.
Woltmann, DITTO
Williams, II.
Wells, Donald
Windes, Paul
Wolff, Harriet
Wachs, Mrs. e.
Weiskopf, Emma
We hin gton, Miss
Weinder, Paul
White, Mrs. w. *.
Weber, Mrs. John
Wymer, Mrs. L.
White, Miss e. 0.
Wire, Eva
White, Miss f.
ZeisleI, Welter B.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
CHICAGOiS
DEATH ROLL
Grand Total of The Killed
And Wounded is 1,131.
566 OF WHICH ARE DEAD
385 Are Missing and 1870 Injured
Distress Of the Bereaved Ones.
List of the Victims.

Chicago, Jan. With grand total
of victims of the Iroquois fire number
ing 1,131--566 dead, $50 injured and
3S5 miss;ng-the confusion and dis
treSs of those who had not found miss
ing relatives became so frightful that
plans were revived to remove all the
unidentified dead to one central point
downtown All day long hundreds and
even thousands travelled from one
mOrgue TO another. Mothers and ia
theirs, brothers and sisters, husbands
and wives and sweethearts went from
one place to another all day, unable to
find the slightest trace of their miss
ing ones.
All Chicago will Mourn,
All Chicago will mourn on Saturday
with the hundreds Of darkened homes
made desolate by the fire disaster in
the new IroQuois theater. Mayor Har'
rison, who returned to the city, an
nounced he would issue a proclamation
asking that that day be observed in
memorial Of the catastrophe. All bust
ness houses, theaters and public build
ings are to be closed.
No Rejoicing on New Year.
Thousands of mourners will follow
]oyed ones to the grave Saturday and
the citys executive deemed it fitting
time for all to respect the bereave-
ment caused. Not to have the usual
hilarity with the opening of the New
Year be a mockery he also issued, a
proclamation asking that the morefort-
un9te citizens refrain from the customs
airy noisy demonstrations. Orders
were sent out by him prohibiting the
vending of tin horns and sQueaking
cOntrivances on street corners. This
latter order was enforced by the police.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02

no dullIcSS dlldSA
and it's suburbs:
Barker, Miss Etht
Barnheiser, G. r.
Beutell, w. G.
Bryersloth, Helen
Bissinger, w. B.
Birndsley, Mrs.
Bodice, n. w.
Brinckley, Emma
Buchanan, Mar'gt
Bymfurth, Ruth
Bradwell, Miss
Bufie, Rebecca
Botttcher, Mrs. G.
Dryden, Taylor
Dryden, Mrs. John
RickfOrd. Helen
Bloom, Mrs. Rose
Butler, Mrs. S. T.
Bowman, Lucien
Boein, Paul
Boyer, Alexander
Brewster Julia
Brennan, Paul
Brown, Miss
Boice, w. w.
Barry, Miss Wilm
Beckford, Glen
Cooper, G. L.
Chaplin, Agnes
Cummings, Miss
Cudelman, Sofia
Cooper, w. w.
Croker, Mrs. M.
Contell. Thomas
Cooper, Helen
coulter, P. M.
Curran, May
Cohn, Mrs. Jacob
Clayton, Vinton
yantwell Mrs.
Caldwell, Roy A.
Gopher, Lola
Donaldson, n.
Donaldson, Miss A
Dickbout, Mrs. M.
Donaldson, Mrs. G
Dee, William r.
Dunegal, Miss NJ.
Dallely, Mrs. ]. L.
Dolan, Margaret
DOWSC, MIS-. CndS
Dyrenforth, Helen
Dyndorth, Ruth
Delmer, Violet
Dolan, AIicheal
Dow, Florence
Dawson, Mrs.
Engel, Maurice
Eigenstead, III.
Eckerstein, Mrs. j
Eldridgt, Mort
Espen, Miss
Engels, Minnie
Eberstein, Frank
Eisendrath, N.
Erlind, Elma
Tort, Miss Irene
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02

EalkenSte1n. Miss
gibbons. Anna
Folkenstein. Miss
Frady, Mrs. lillian
Fra dy. Leon.
Foley. Ii.
FolZ. Helen
Folke. Ada
t'itzgibbons, John
Fitzgerald, Miss
Fort, Miss z. /.
Foltz, Mrs. c. 0.
Feiser. Mary.
Carly. Mary
Gartz, Barbara
Ora dy, Leon
Gerry, Miss.
Gerry Miss Wilma
Gohan, ].
Gould, B. NJ.
earn, Frank
earn, Willis
GoldSby, Vera
Greney, Mrs. Belle
Gustavson, Alma
Gage, l. n.
Gudeheff, Sophie
Gestren, Alma
Graves, Mrs. G.
Hall, Enperly
Haviland, Miss Lee
Harba ugh, Mrs.
Holland, John
Howard, Mrs. Mary
Hart, E. ID.
Henning,
Henry. Mrs. w. A.
Higinson, Roger +,
Hoist, Allen
Hoist, Gertrude
Howard, Helen
Holland, Leigh
Howard, Ray E.
Higginson, Jean.
Harbraugh, Mary
Hickman, Mrs.
Henessy, William
Holmes, Mrs.
Haviland, Leigh
Hrody. Mrs. Anna
Henning, Edward
Hart, Miss E.
Henning, Eddie
Hayde, Frank
HiEZ. Eva
Hemming, w. G. =
Jones, Ethel
Jones, Mrs. Anna
Johnson, J. G.
Jackson, Miss, V.
James, G. o.
Kelly, Otto
Kochens, J. A.
Kohl, Charles e.
Kisnel', Louis
Kochens, Mrs. f.
Kline, Alice
Kuebler, Lola
Kisl1er. Mrs.
Kennedy, Agnes.
Kennedy, Frances
Kohl. Mrs. Chas.
Ketcham, Mrs.
Kerenls. Mrs. L.
Lake, Mrs. Lena
Lake, Mrs. A.
Lang. Irene
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-02
LIST OF THE KNOWN DEAD
Revised and Corrected Up to the Latest
Official Report.

Those in the following list having
no address attached are from Chicago
and its suburbs:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Death of James c. Lear.

James c. Lear, o native of Shabby,
Nova Scotia, and for over seventy
years resident Of St. James parish.
died at his home near Lauderdale at
LAO O'Clock Thursday morning, aged
81 years, Z months and IL days. His
remains were laid to rest in the Epis-
copal cemetery at Donaldsonville at
80 O'Clock u. m. yesterday, after
services at the church conducted by
Rev. q. P. Bowden. MIR. Lear's par
ents were natives of England and re-
turned to that country after short
residence in Nova Scotia, later COM
ing to America and making their
home in St. James parish, this state.
Mr.sLear followed the occupation of
mechanical engineer up to the time
that the approach of old age COM
PEELED him TO desist from his labors,
when he settled down on his farm near
Lauderdale and engaged in agricult-
ure. He is survived by five children,
two of whom are girls and three boys.
The daughters are Miss Maggie Lear,
OF ST. James, and Mrs. l. q. Vim, of
New Orleans, and the sons are Henry
w. and George NJ. Lear, OF Donald
sonville, and James A Lear, of ST.
James. The Chief Joined Mr.. Lear IS
large circle of friends in extending
deepest sympathy to the bereaved fam
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
Proposed Inland Waterway.

The people of this section will be
greatly interested in bill introduced
into congress by Representative Bur-
CESS, Of Texas, and particularly il
th at portion of the document ia which
an estimate is requested for the con-
struction of locks at Donaldsonvi1le.
MIR. Burgess bill provides for sur
vey Of an inland waterway from the
Gulf OF Mexico TO Donaldsonville, and
carries an appropriation of s25, 900.
The secretary OF war is directed to
cause the survey TO be made ia four
sections, as follows: The first section
will include that portion of the pro-
posed route between the Rio Grand
river and Arkansas pass; the second
section is from Arkansas Pass to the
mouth of the Brazos river, and the
cost of constructing the canal for
ight-draught navigation in this por-
ton OF the route Is also to be shown;
the third section extends from the
mouth of the Brazos TO Sabine Pass.
and the fourth section from Sabine
Pass to Donaldsonville, via Bayou
Lafourche. The bill requests that the
engineers prepare an estimate of the
cost of constructing locks at the head
OF Bayou Lafourehe, and if it carries
a long step will have been taken to-
wards redeeming the bayou from its
present condition and rendering it
once more fit for navigation,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
A Refreshing Contrast.

In marked and refreshing contrast
to the peculiar contention Of small
calibre Democratic organs that the
members of their party in congress
ought to flight to fnish'' every
measure proposed by Republicans
and particularly the enactment OF such
a salutary law as that recommended
by President Roosevelt, 'sdirected
against bribery and corruption in
federal elections ARE the counter
declarations of such broad-gauge
vehicles of patriotic and honorable
Democratic sentiment as the New
York World and the leader of the
Democratic minority in the house of
representatives. Vide the following
paragraph clipped from The World s
issue of the 4th instant:
John Sharp Williams declares that if Mr..
Roosevelt attempts TO reduce the tariff. promote
Canadian reciprocity and cnrb the trusts he
will support the president and influence other
Democrats to do the same. This is common
sense and wise Craftsmanship. The Cuban
treaty blnnder proved conclusively that the
Democrats in congress can make no political
capital for their party by opposing Republican
measures that embody sound Democratic
cfrin
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17

Roosevelt's statement chat he would not
again become a candidate fills one With dreaa
He said once that he would continue McKin-
leys policy. His remarks usually so by con-
traries.-West eliciana True-Democrat.
We beg leave to file a peremptory
exception to these innuendoes or allie
cations, whichever they may be termed,
and to banter the alligator to produce
any evidence that will support them.
Even President Roosevelt's bitterest
opponents admit his candor and truth
fitness, and if the True Democrat
really doubts the sincerity of his dec
laration that he will not be candi-
date for re-election-nay, more, that
he will under no circumstances accept
another nation - our skeptical
contemporary stands alone ia that
distrust. The policy OF Mckinley has
been continued under Roosevelt and
the contrary cannot be shown. Neither
can it be demonstrated that the presi-
dent has violated any promise or given
any false or misleading assurance,
Come, friend I'D, the proof or
ratr action
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-17
A Case of Misdirected Sympathy,

Brother Bentley's appeal to the voters of the
sixth district was certainly heart breaking.
Yes the returns show that the voters in Brother
Bentey's neck of the woods had feeling fol
him. Assumption Pioneer
Our Assumption friend, evidently got
two Ascension documents confused In
his powerful mind. It wasn't Brother
Bentley's modest address to the sixth
district voters that made such an i'm
preston upon The Pioneers tender
and vibrant heartstrings, but Brother
Nick Sims's grandiloquent and pa
thetic supplication to the voters Of
this parish not TO turn down Governor
Nevis million-dollar bond scheme.
Thsre was nerve-tearing and
gizzard-splitting ssappeal'' for YOU!
But the unfeeling voters had no more
regard for the fearful petition Of
Brothers Newt and Nick than for the
purely incidental suggestions III
Brother Bentley. The only 'tfeelingf,
they manifested was for club III
knock all three out with. And We
happen TO know that Brother Bentley
can stand it as well as either of the
others can.