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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22
CANDIDATES COMPARED.
Why Theodore Roosevelt Is More Popu-
lar than Alton b. Parker.

Why Theodore Roosevelt Is More Popu-
lar than Alton b. Parker.
The New York Sunday Democrat, a
newspaper that recently bolted Parker
and came out for Roosevelt in giving
the reasons why the Parker campaign
is languishing and the Roosevelt cam
paign is booming, says:
Judge Parker has few of the attri-
butes of popularity; Theodore Roose-
welt has them all.
Parker is timid; Roosevelt is brave.
Parker is controlled by friends and
patrons; Roosevelt is independent
Parker represents no policy and has
no political record; Roosevelt is one of
the acknowledged progressive states
men of the century and his record is
the record Of the sunshine years of
militant and advancing Americanism
''As there is practically no one to
vigorously oppose there is no one to
actively defend Judge Parker as polit-
ical standard-bearer. Theodore Roose-
Welt invites the fire of partisan enemies
and attracts to his support thousands
of patriotic and earnest admirers.
Judge Parker is weak candidate,
an unwise candidate, an unfortunate
candidate for the Presidency. A life
of judicial monotony and exclusion
from political affairs does not appeal
to the allegiance of partisans. Theo-
dore Roosevelt is a strong, a vigorous,
an invincible candidate for the Presi-
dency. He is man of action nOmi-
mated for an electorate of Astounding
energy, force and progress. He is, es-
pecially, the idol of the young men of
the country.
''It is, therefore, not at all surpris-
ing that as the voters contrast these
two candidates they should be ire
sistibly drawn to One-to Roosevelt
and should be repealed from or become
Indifferent to his antagonist, Parker.
Such is the present trend of the cam
paign and it is decidedly favorable to
President Roosevelt. No reasonable
doubt for his election exists or is en-
tertained by anyone familiar with pol
itics, Democrat or Republican"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22
THE BIG STICK" LIE
Nonpartisan Testimony That Roosevelt Is
Leader of Peace Movement,

Nonpartisan Testimony That Roosevelt Is
Leader Of Peace Movement,
Apropos of the silly Democratic
charge that Mr.. Roosevelt is a war
lord" it is interesting to note how the
Interparliamentary Union views the
president. The union is composed of
some of the leading parliamentarians
of Europe, who visited this country
in the interest of international arbitra-
ton and peace. The visitors were en-
tertained at luncheon by the Nation
al Civic Federation of New York re-
Gently. Here is what Thomas Tough,
an Irish member of the union, in pro-
United States, said, as reported by the
New York World, newspaper that
has been picturing Mr. Roosevelt as
yeritable god of war:
We, who are visitors here, after a few
days regard him as a ruler of one of the
mightieSt powers on the earth, who
has taken a more distinct step in the
interest of peace than perhaps any
other power has taken. He is not only
a great ruler himself, but is worthy
representative of a great line of rulers
who have done much for the liberties
of mankind.
w. Randall-Cremer, a noted mem
Der Of the British parliament also
praised the president The sovereigns
of Europe, he declared, were ready to
listen to peace propositions, always
with a but" He then said:
Not so your young president; no, but,
but, but, with him in any of his utter
ances. He talked in a clear, manly
tone, straight from the shoulder noble
words-and we all rejoice in his state
ment of Saturday and in his assurance
that the great United States will sign
what we failed eighteen years ago to
get.
Others spoke in the same strain, CIV
ing nonpartisan testimony that Pres
ident Roosevelt has done more to aid
the universal peace movement than
any other president.
The ''big stick" bugaboo is not wor-
rying anybody but those Democrats
who are foolish enough to think they
can beguile the voters by mutilating
the presidents speeches and twisting
their meaning into the opposite of
what he said. Democracy has never
yet been able to conduct an honest
campaign. Hypocrisy, deception and
forgery are the chief tenets of it's
creed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22
LILY OF THE
BY A. S. RICHARDSON
Copyright, 1904, bD T. C. Mcclure

Norah Fogarty knelt in the dim
church and prayed-not for absolution,
but for a new gown.
1t was the Wednesday before Easter.
Tim McCarthys invitation to the an
nual ball Of the Order of the Golden
Fleece on Easter Monday night lay
tear stained and crumpled on the cush-
ion behind her, and Norah, like her
predecessor in woe, Flora McFlimsey,
had nothing to wear-that is, nothing
worthy of the annual ball of the afore-
mentioned association. To be sure, the
other girls who worked at Reisenberg's
flower factory envied the "air'' with
which Norah wore her short skirt of
gray homespun. her bargain counter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22
"SWinp LOW"
creed.

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Swing
low over New York and New Jersey
and Rhode Island. We know you will
swing low enough to brush the clover
blossoms, but we want just to remind
you that it is your business-for the
good of the world-that you swing
low enough to insure Republican sue
cess in the states just named; Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot" And we know
you will swing!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22
WAS DEMOCRACY INSANE?
If So, Bryan Was a Lunatic, According to
Mr.. Cleveland,

If So, Bryan Was Lunatic, According to
Mr.. Cleveland.
Democracy "haS returned to SAN
ity," said Grover Cleveland recently.
in an interview.
This statement, made with all the
solemn ponderosity Of which Mr.. Cleve-
land is capable, would imply that the
Democrat tic party has been insane and
its leaders a set of lunatics. In pre-
vious interviews Mr.. Cleveland con-
tented himself with merely saying that
Democracy had strayed from the right
path after strange gods' when it en-
braced Organism, but since the defeat
of the Bryan faction at st. Louis he
has been secretly rejoicing over the
apparent downfall Of his most bitter
political enemy, and on Oct. 2, at Buzz
Yards Bay, he virtually declared that
MT. Bryan was a mailman
How do the friends of Mr.. Bryan in
Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska and other
states relish having their leader called
lunatic? Insanity is lunacy, or mad
ness, and if the Democratic party s'has
returned to sanity it must first have
been insane, and, by the same reason
ing, if the party was insane because
Mr.. Bryan was its leader Mr.. Bryan
himself must have been the chief lu-
matte.
Candidate Parker is generally adj
mitted to be nonentity in his party
tool of Hill, Sheehan and others
and what he says counts for little, but
it is different when Mr.. Cleveland
talks. He is the oracle of the Eastern
Democracy, and if he says Bryan is in
sane it is certain he voices the senti-
ments of ''sane" Democracy.
How can the Bryanites indorse such
a SANDER on their leader by supporting
Parker? Mr.. Cleveland declined to
vote for Mr.. Bryan on the ground that
the Nebraskan was insane, but he will
vote for Parker because he leads the
sane Democracy ticket
An important point seems to have
been forgotten by Mr.. Cleveland. Par
ker voted twice for the Nebraska Gu
matte" and was therefore one of the
host of madmen who composed Gin
sane" Democracy. Does Mr. Cleveland
improve his position by now support
ing one of the madmen who voted for
the leader of insane" Democracy?
Mr.. Cleveland's thrust at Bryan was
uncalled for, and will, no doubt, be re-
sented at the polls, for the friends of
Mn Bryan do not think he should be
put in the straitjacket class.
N
Popular Chorus.
While David Bennett Hill
Prepares to make his bow,
The peOple with a will
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22

The Railway Employees Twentieth
Century Club of Illinois is up to date.
1t adopted a resolution indorsing Pres
ident Roosevelt and denouncing the
Democratic national platform as de
void of sincerity" It's hard to fool
good railroad man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22

Until our opponents as a /
! party explicitly adopt the views
! which we hold and upon which !
: we have acted and are acting, in
+ the matter of a sound currency.
! the only real way to keep the
7 question from becoming unset
! tied is to keep the Republican ]
7 party in power."- Roosevelt's
! Letter Of Acceptance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22

ITO say that action against :
trusts and monopolies should be .
. limited to the application of the :
common law is equivalent to say
i. ing that the national government :
should take no action whatever :
i. to regulate them. "-ROOsevelt's :
Letter of Acceptance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22
OutpostS Around Mukden.

They are getting close in New York.
There is no question about that, and
on whichever side the outposts are,
they have got in, politically. That's
all right They are past the under
brush and they are close together.
The political grapple will be a fierce
one, but it can go but one way. The
vote on Manhattan Island cannot over
come the vote Of the farmers and
thinkers upstate. New York will go
Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22

Oh, / wish the war were over!
Would the cruel work was done!
Would the party were united,
And the many cranks as one!
"A. B. P.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22

1t is freely predicted by those who
ought to know that Ulster county, New
York, Judge Parker's home county,
will give Roosevelt a good majority.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-22
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Popular Chorus.

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Popular Chorus.
While David Bennett Hill
Prepares to make his bow,
The people with a will,
Shout; You can quit
right
nOW!"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
BRYAN FOR HEARST.

civilian J. Bryan is for Hearst. -
This declaration was made yesterday by
one of the best informed democrats in
Chicago and member of the faction
that will do battle with the Hearst forces
in Illinois. The statement comes at a
time when the Hearst followers are pro-
claiming that the Nebraskan is on their
side, when the speech of Clarence s.
barrow, appealing to the masses ''who
followed the leadership of William J..
Bryan" is fresh in the recollection of the
democrats who attended the Wsdnesday
meeting of theState committee and while
the organization of the Hearst forces in
Nebraska is underway without any ap-
parent opposition from the orator of the
Platte.
Bryan is with Hearst" said this
leader. THAT will be the lineup in
the national convention. But that ele-
ment will rot control. The democratic
party is going back to sane counsels.
The voyage up the Platte is over"
In his speech before the committeeman
Mr.. Darrow had the applause Of a crowd
of men who are said by the Hopkins
Harrison men to have been drilled for
shoutingat the proper time by lieutenants
of Hearst When the attorney wound
up one period of his Grafton with bis
reference to Bryan wild demonstration
broke out in the Hearst ranks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
Virginia News.

Rev. G. w. Petit, minister OF the
Methodist denomination, wealthy aud
successful business man and former
mayor of Norfolk, died last night aged
81 years.
Mrs. Champ Jameson, wife of Philip
L. Jameson, died at Culpeper yesterday
after lingering illness of heart disease
She was daughter of the late DIR. VIII
liam NJ. Thompson.
The republicans of LOudoun county
will hold a convention at Purcellyille,
on February 20 at 2 o'clock. The con-
vention is called TO elect eight delegates
and eight alternates to the district con-
vention at Alexandria on February Is,
and to the State convention 10 be held at
Norfolk on March 3.
After having been on the force nearly
40 years Chief OF Police Is. F. Howard,
of Richmond, last night resigned, bis
resignation to become effective July /.
He will be assigned to a sergeancy, and
Inspector Shihberger will probably be
made chief. This change grows out Of
a general demand for Chief Towards, re-
tirement because of charges brought by
him against Policeman w. Ii. Wyatt,
the terror of gamblers, which the Chief
failed to sustain. There was also de-
mand for younger man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
News Of the Day.

Byan eruption ofthe volcano OF Merapl
on the Island of Java, II persons we're
burned to death and. 20 severely in
jured.
Crown Prince Frederick William of
Germany was thrown from his horse yes
terday while riding at the head of his
company of guards at Potsdam, but was
not injured.
The Appellate Division Of the Su-
preme Court of New York Yesterday
decided that the provision forbidding the
use of the American flag as trade mark
was unconstitutional.
A rumor that new $50, 900, 900 loan
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is to be used in part for the purchase OF
the Western Maryland railroad is en-
phatically denied, and finds no credence.
Mr.. Cullom, in executive session OF
the Senate yeterday, urged the demo-
Gratis to permit the Panama canal treaty
to come to vote at an early date. This
in effect was agreed TO by the demo-
Gratis, but they would not bind them
selves to any date. Few Senators now
wish to be heard and all think that with
in ten days vote may be reached with
out the formality of binding the Senate
to any specific date.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
Terrible Accident.

Pittsburg, Feb. 6.-Louis Thomas,
rougher at the Schoenburge mills, at
Fifteenth street, met horrible death
shortly after O'Clock this morning. He
fell directly in front of large roll while
at work and before his fellow workmen
could rescue him be was drawn through
the rolls and crushed almost to pulp.
There was only two-inch space between
the rolls, and every bone in his body
was crushed as a result. The remains
were taken from the rolls with consider
able difficulty and the body was removed
to the morgue. The only portions Of
the body that were not entirely crushed,
were a piece of the skull and one foot.
Thomas was a married man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
FOREIGN NEWS.

A fire which started in a bazaar in the
town of Angora, Asia Minor, today, did
considerable damage. Fifty shops, a
Catholic school, and the British and
French consulates were destroyed.
The police of Nice have discovered
in the luggage of Ireland, the American
held as an international crook, dice
loaded with quicksilver, rings fitted with
tiny mirrors, and other card sharping
paraphernalia. They also found letters
from continental crooks.
The Rome correspondent of Dalziel's
news agency wires that it is reported on
the authority Of parsonage having
constant access to the Vatican. that the
Pope is practically blind. His sight has
been failing ever since his accession to
the papacy owing to the extremely damp
air of the Vatican. Two oculists, Drs.
Baccinelli and Socellingo, who are at
tending His Holiness, have urged that
he abstain totally from reading. A dis
patch from Rome, however, says that
the Vatican officials deny the report that
the Pope is losing his sight The pom
tiff is passably well, but is still suffering
somewhat from govt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
SUICIDE OF CAPT. FAUNTLERoY

Capt. r. Powell Fauntleroy, United
States marine corps, retired, was found
dead in room at the City Hotel, in
Frederic, Nd, yesterday afternoon,
with the gas turned on. Justice j.
Francis Smith, after viewing the remains
and making inquiry, decided that death
was due to suicide and that an inquest
was not necessary.
Capt. Fauntleroy was about town YES
terday morning, and to a number of
friends complained of feeling sick. About
$50 O'Clock he secured room at the
City Hotel and said he would lie down.
A friend went with him TO the room and
left him there. About 2:30 O. clock yes
terday afternoon the friend, learning
that Capt. Fauntleroy had not yet come
down to the hotel Office, went up to the
room. Finding the door locked and
smelling gas, he secured key from the
Office and, with an employe OF the hotel,
entered the room. They found Captain
Fauntleroy lying across the bed dead.
Captain Fauntleroy was native of
Leesburg, and was 46 years of age. He
was retired from the Marine Corps sew
eral years ago on account of i'll health
developed during service in the Philip
pines and which incapacitated him for
service. A little over year ago he
went with his family to Frederick. He
leaves a widow, two son, anda daughter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
SENATOR RAYNER.

Former Governor John Lee Carroll,
of Maryland, who is in New York, said
yesterday that Isador Rayner, who has
been selected to succeed Louis NcComas.
as United States Senator from Maryland,
owes his selection in large part of his
conduct of the defense of Admiral Schley
before the naval court of inquiry. Ray
ner was chief counsel for Schley in the
inquiry. Said Mr.. CARROLL: "The
choosing of Rayner by the caucus was
the result of a popular movement. His
conduct of the Schley case was such a
factor in this that his name is scarcely
ever mentioned without the name of
Schley being brought up. | believe the
selection is the best thing possible for
the democracy of Maryland. :" "Does not
the prestige of Senator German suffer con-
siderably by the selection of the man he
so strenuously opposed? 81 do not think
so. On the contrary, anything which
tends to unite the Maryland democracy
is favorable to German because in the
democratic ranks there is no question
of his leadership"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
Lansburgh & Bro,
42O to 426 Seventh Street,
WASHINGTON. DC.
CONGRESSIONAL.

The political debate in the Senate on
the proposed loan of 81, 600, 600 to the
st. Louis Exposition, which has been in
progress on point of order for the past
three days, came to a close yesterday
through vote, which failed to sustain
the point of order, and which had the
effect of leaving the provision in the
urgent deficiency appropriation bill,
which was passed.
After the vote on the deficiency bill
the Panama canal question was taken
up and speeches in support of the canal
treaty we're made by Mr. Mallory, of
Florida, and Mr.. Hepburn, of Idaho.
Several bills were passed before the
Senate adjourned till Monday.
In the House Mr.. Sheppard, of Texas,
one of the youngest members of the
House, made determined effort TO
bring about a reform in the matter of the
distribution of seeds by the government
He contended that the present system is
bad. His first move was to have struck
from the agricultural appropriation bill
certain sections providing the machinery
for the distribution of the seeds au-
thorized to be purchased under the bill.
In this he was successful, his point of
order being sustained by the chair, but
by an overwhelming vote the House
promptly added the sections to the bill
by way of amendment. Only three
members voted in opposition to the
restoration.
Mr.. Sheppard's further effort was to
secure an amendment to the restored
sections which would provide for the
purchase of rare and untried seeds, but
despite his earnest appeal for this
amendment it failed, and the bill was
left just as the committee brought it into
the House, so far as seeds for free
distribution we're concerned.
This was the only item in the bill that
aroused serious discussion, aud with %
few minor amendments it was passed by
the House without division. The House
adjourned until Monday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
Mr.. Hanna's Condition.

Washington, d. c., February e.
Senator Hanna's condition, it was re
ported at the Arlington at s o'clock thii
morning, had undergone no marked
change during the night. Drs. Rixey
and Magruder held their usual
consultation during the forenoon. DR.
E. B. Behrend the expert who made
the examination of the Senator's BLOOD
that proved the presence of typhoid
fever, will probably make another test
in a few days.
Senator Hanna rested well. Tenn
perature, 10l pulse 49,"
Such is the wording Of the bulletin
given by DR.. Rixey to Elmer Dover
Senator Hanna's private secretary, thi:
morning.
The developments during the nigh
we're unexciting. The only grave symp-
tom evident is the rise in the Senator s
temperature, which is one half degree
above that for the same time yesterday.
DR.. Rixey says that this is an indication
that the disease is nearing its climax.
The crisis in typhoid fever is usually
reached in Fl days. Senator Hanna
has been sick three weeks.
DR.. Rixey is now in full charge Of the
patient. Dr. Osler has returned to
Baltimore and will not come again unless
summoned.
Summarizing the developments of the
last twelve hours, DR.. RixeY says that
there is nothing Of either an especially
favorable or unfavorable character to
mention. The situation is practically
unchanged.
H. NJ. Hanna, of Townsville, Ga,
brother of Senator Hanna, was today
wired to come at once to Washington.
This action is taken at the request of
Mrs. Hanna, who is far from well and
who desires to have the Senator's brother
with her to give advice in the man.
agement of her husbands affairs.
Mr.. Dover had conversation over the
long distance telephone with Senator
Hsnna's son in Cleveland at noon and
told him that there was no need of his
coming to Washington at this time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
New York stock Market.

New York, Feb. 6.-The stock market
this morning continued to be most I'M
settled and disturbed by the threatening
aspect of the situation in the far East.
Foreign markets by their declines indi-
Gated the growing apprehension that war
was considered inevitable. AS a rule,
however, the losses in the general list
were not severe and toward the close of
the first hour prices steadied considerably.
The market after the first hour was less
active than in the early dealings and
speculative sentiment continues to show
irregulartty and unsettlement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Henry w Oliver, one of the most
widely known of Pittsburg's steel manu-
features, is critically i'll at his home, in
Allegheny.
Col. Edward Butler was acquitted
this morning by jury of bribery in
connection with the passage of the light
ing bill in the st Louis House of Dele
gates.
1t is understood in Havana that the
American sugar trust has secured an
option on the Cuban $50, 100000 loan
at eighty, despite the fact that the Roth
schilds offered to underwrite the loan al
par.
Corbett Lee was the first man in Della
ware who was logged at post for wife
beating. In the presonce-ef many specta-
tors, Warden Meseave, Of the Newcastle
county workhouse, piled the ten lashes
on Lees bare back today.
A daughter and granddaughter will be
married on the fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary of the mother and grandmother, at
Watertown, Wis, next Friday, and five
generations of the family will be present
to witness the triple celebration.
The Red Star liner Switzerland re-
turned to Southampton today with her
tunnels damaged and bridge gone.
She had heen struck by a tidal wave,
of Sicily. She is not badly damaged,
and will be able to proceed to Phila
delphia on Monday.
The frat session of the recently
formed boil weevil commission of
Louisiana was held at Baton Rouge
yesterday and for the first time it was
officially admitted there are large num-
bers of weeyil in that State. Rules for
combating the pests were adopted.
At the point of a revolver, President
Erwin, of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
way, and his secretary, W. r. Sullivan,
we're robbed of their clothes and valu-
ables by a negro bandit about 8 O'Clock
yesterday morning The robbery was
committed on Mr.. Erwin's private car,
which was attached to a Central Rail-
way train, en- route to Savannah.