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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09
PoLITIcAL NOTES.

Albert Grafjef Has fled for the republican nom
The Fourth Ward Republican club met last
evening at the clubs hall Western avenue.
Plans for the campaign were discussed.
The Seventh Ward Democratic club met last
night and arranged details for the dedication.
Aug. 25, of the clubs building, Sixteenth
avenue and Lake street.
Mayor Haynes and other democratic leaders
addressed the Ninth Ward Democratic club in
the club hall last night.
The Fifth Ward Republican club will hold
candidates ''smoke social Wednesday evening
at the clubs new hall, $40 Eleventh street S.
Members Of the Roosevelt club will furnish
music.
will hold meeting tonight at Weingarts hall,
Thirteenth avenue NE and Main street.
The Tomahawk Republican club met last even
ing in it's hall in the eleventh ward and admitted
more than hundred new members Addresses
were made by W. r. Coe, Edwin Allen, Charles
Nickels, A. A. Kelley Colonel G. A. Johnson
and Hugh Scott.
NJ. N. Rogers, president of the Carpenters
union and candidate for mayor of the public
ownership party, will give address at Solder
grens hail. corner of Twenty fifth and Central
avenues, Wednesday evening, Aug. TO- His sub
ject will be, tShall We Have Business Adj
5ministration, or a Just Administration of the
Affairs of Government ~
The Ninth Ward Roosevelt-Dunn Republican
club will meet tomorrow evening at 300 Third
avenue NE. The meeting will be open to listen
to the pleas Of all republicans desiring nomina-
ton for office.
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Robert Grier Cooke of New York,
publisher and advertising expert on
special lines, occupies a unique posi-
ton in the field of advertising-of a
specialized character, is very indi-
vidual, and the campaign which he
is conducting for the New York Times
and the National City bank of New
York, has been attracting widespread
attention.
Mr.. Cookies experience as an adver-
tiser has been acquired in a way es-
pecially calculated to develop his
ideas along lines that appeal and show
results. With the trained experience
Of a newspaper reporter, as well as
editor, he went to the house of
Harper & Brothers, to create an ad-
vertising department. He was there
a press agent in its broadest sense
involving everything which would
contribute to promote the publicity Of
the output Of that tremendous house.
Mr.. Cooke went. there as a novice in
said many times that he thought it
was an advantage that he did go there
in that way His mind was more
susceptible to cultivation and adapta-
ton to- the conditions as they de-
veloped. He also developed con-
4ditions. He gradually revolutionized
the methods Of advertising at that
house and would have accomplished
muchmore had he been content to re-
main there. He resigned to accept
a more remunerative position with P.
F. Collier & Sons, where he devoted
his time to circulation work, as we'll
as advertising-all these things work
ing in together, and he was always
making a study of the results of any
special lines of work-also always
talking to people upon whom the eff
feet was to be created.
After: remaining with P. F. Collier
& Sons, he spent a year with D. APP
pleton & Company.
Mr.. Cooke has been building UP his
own bu siness and has observed very
| few c;,cdinal principles as being
necessary to insure success One Of
! these was to do as he said he would
do-no matter how small the thing
might be. The second has been te
make whatever he makes distinctive
and Individual. The third has beer
to overcome difficulties, and, by do
!! ing so, place his business above the
4 heads of the general crowd who sue.
/ cumb in the face of troubles.
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WHAT OTHRR PEOPLE THINK
The Essence Of the saloon question.

/. 4. - (. @
II The Essence OF the Saloon Question.
To the Editor Of The Journal.
In your editorial on "The Bishop and
the Saloon you say, there must be a
cnange in proprietorship. The old dive
keepers must get out and men Of better
instincts must take their places"
&, You will pardon me If say / think you
miss the mark in this statement. You do
not reach the real solution of the saloon
problem by a change in proprietorship
such reform would be simply superficial
and so would not reach the root Of the
evil DR.. Howard Crosby, who was far
from being radical in his temperance
views, summed up his opinion of the sa-
loon In this language: "The saloon is evil,
only evil, and that continually" Such a
social monster cannot be made harmless
and respectable by a change in proprietor
ship
The attitude of the opponent to the sa-
loon is largely misunderstood. We oppose
1t as a system, a system damaging to our
social, political, commercial and moral
life. 1t is not the Llen that are engaged
in the business SO much as the business
ITSELF that menaces the life of the COM
munity.
Let me state it this way: do not hate
the saloonkeeper as a man. desire his
uplift and salvation. believe my Master
died for him, but I do hate his business
and believe it to be inimical to all good,
menace to society and the chief obstruc-
ton to moral and religious progress. AS a
good citizen believe 1t to be my bounden
duty to oppose such thing in pulpit, on
platform and at the ballot box.
Your respectable proprietor and his at
tractive saloon is far the most dangerous
class Two years ago, past midnight on
Sabbath morning, in company with Rev
M. D. Harding and G. M. Stocking as a
committee of the ministers association OF
this town, / visited a so-called respectable
saloon on Nicollet avenue, and found in
the neighborhood of 200 young men
crowded in the place, many of whom were
students, looking at the most abhorren,
pictures in slot machines, drinking and
smoking and carousing. Such places are
death traps to the most respectable class
Of our young men and SO most dangerous
to our homes. / agree with DIR. Mont
gomery that the gilded saloon is our most
dangerous foe.
To me it seems a shameful thing r
these enlightened days for churchmar
of high or low degree to associate himself
| with the saloon. On the contrary I be-
| lieve it the duty of every Christian to pu
himself distinctly on the side of opposition
I to this nefariOus business.
1 In conclusion, If space allowed, I Nigh
! call attention to few notorious crime
that have been committed in our "highl,
| respectable drinking places in Minneapo
| lis, but your memory will serve you wei
| at this point.
! Stanley B. Roberts.
Aug 9, 1904
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Taggart' S Capitalistic Coterie.

Now that Chairman Taggart has
named as executive committee to
manage the democratic national cam
paign coterie of capitalistic gentle
men whose affiliation with Wall
street and the trusts is notorious, it is
interesting to recall an editorial utter
ance in the New York Journal soon
after Mr.. Taggart's selection as ma
tional chairman. The Journal noted
the fact that the powerhad been given
Taggart to select his executive COM
ton would depend the success or fail
ure of the democratic campaign, add
ing: IF Mr.. Taggart gathers about
him good party men who have not
trained with selfish and sordid inter-
ests, he will have done much toward
making victory certain. There is
no place in the democratic party for
trust agents, professional lobbyists
and political grafters. Perhaps not,
and yet Mr. Sheehan, the chairman of
the executive committee, is all three,
and so are Messrs. Belmont, Mclean,
Colonel Guffey and James Smith, Jr.
Taggart himself belongs to the same
class
The New York Times, which is sup
porting Judge Parker, paid it's re-
spects to Mr.. Sheehan in plain style
| in 1893, when he was lieutenant gov
ernor of New York, and snapped"
thru the legislature a bill aimed at
the liberties of Buffalo. The Times
said:
"The act of Sheehan is such bold
and brazen trick, SO utterly devoid Of
scruple and decency, that no organlza-
ton can accept responsibility for 1t
and hope to live. He has shown him
self such an unconscionable political
blackleg that any claim upon public
confidence on his part hereafter can
only excite derision." vi
The appointment of this democratic
executive committee smacks strongly
Of Encouragement. The national
committee met to organize, and Tag
CART was elected chairman. Sheehan
was present, holding the proxy OF
some willing friend on the committee
and it was he who made the motion
| which was agreed to, that the national
committee abdicate it's rights and per-
nit the newly elected chairman tc
/ name the executive committee. Wher
this committee was announced, Shee.
han was found to be it's chairman
He has since hired a cottage on the
Hudson near Rosemount, and Is tt
be the real manager Of the Parker
campaign. Taggart's principal field
of usefulness will be in his own state
Indiana.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09
The Uses of Wealth.

The sons Of rich men in this coun-
try are not all possessed Of the idea
that idleness and frivolity are synony-
nous with gentility. The Atlanta
Constitution brings forward list OF
names of rich mems sons, which is
a promise of great significance for the
future. This list includes John Jacob
Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. Pier
pont Morgan, Jr., George and Howard
Gould, Peter Cooper Hewitt, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., Harry Payne Whit
ney, John D. Spreckels, Clarence
Mackay, George Croker, John r.
Drexel and several others, all Of
whom have demonstrated their right
to the good opinion Of their fellow
men by lives of intelligent philan-
thropy and useful industry. The list
while not long one, undoubtedly
shows a drift of sentiment among
the better classes of wealthy, which IN
time may be expected to work a
change much to be desired.
1t is not so much the concentration
of great wealth in this country that
has sown the seeds of socialism and
the other isms Of unrest among the
masses as it is the uses to which this
wealth has been put. Rev. DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills thinks the time will
come when the mere possession OF
wealth will be disgrace to the pos
sessor. Such a prophecy is doubtless
millenial and utopian. Wealth has
| functions of the highest Importance.
1t is when not discharging these func-
tons that wealth is reprehensible
The idle rich are the offenders. That
| class is still greatly in the majority
among the wealthy, notwithstanding
the names presented by the Constitu-
ton and it will always be So But
dustrious rich helps.
Among the rich the idle squander.
ing of vast inheritance is no Longer
regarded with as much favor as for.
merly, and the drone is coming to be
| looked on askance in society. 1t Il
4 noteworthy that in the majority O.
rich homes in the east the young som
are trained for lives Of usefulness, ant
4 not of idleness, as heretofore. Th'
i next generation of the very rich will
1 undoubtedly stand on higher grount
! than this one occupies. More ant
1 more wealth will find it's proper place
1 in the American system. 1t will
! stand for larger opportunities for un
i selfish and disinterested service, am
thus become q blessing both to tn
possessor and to those with whom h,
comes in contact.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09
NAMES HIS CoMMuTTEEA1EN
Chairman Girling Selects Aides in {
o. p Campaien


The republican county committee
met last evening in it's rooms in the
Boston block and listened to the an
nouncements of committees named by
Chairman Thomas Girling, as follows:
{ Halls and Entertainments-John Good
speed, chairman; Charles Cork. Harry
Smith.
Speakers-Jam Houghton, chairman;
James Nash e. "A. 81 Chandler
Printing and Distribution-F. L. Smith,
chairman; Andrew Duresen, John Good
speed.
Ways and Means-James Nash, chair
man: Samuel Gladding, Fred L. Smith, A.
c. Finney, A. M. Kidder, Arne Field
Headquarters-Erick Rhode, chairman;
Arne Field, A. Sanders.
Election Day-E. H. Chandler, chair
man. Charles Cork, Joseph Guy
Auditing-Joseph Guy, chairman; An
drew Duresen, Erick Rhode.
Press-A c. Finney, chairman; Harry
Smith, Samuel Gladding.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09
A Practical Suggestion.

Why shouldn't the Bar Of Hennepin
county declare its choice for the dis
trict bench? It is only fair and rea-
sonable to give the legal profession
a large share in naming the four men
who are to be elected to judgeships
this fall. Laying aside all the
prejudices that laymen sometimes
feel it must be admitted that attor-
neys are the men most directly con-
cerned in having a clean, able judi
ciary. It must also be admitted that
the men whose daily business brings
them before the court are the men
best fitted to pass on the qualifications
of candidates for such q high honor.
Since the law will not permit Of a
nonpartizan judiciary, the next best
thing to do is to pick out the four best
men from the long list Of republican
candidates. When 1t comes to this,
the average voter is all at sea. He
is lucky if he knows all of the candi-
dates by sight, and what can he tell
about their fitness for such a high and
responsible. office? He knows So-and-
So as good fellaW," and is likely
to vote for him OH that account; ahav-
Ing no better reason for voting 9th
erWise. ~
It would be unfortunate to leave the
selection Of our district bench to such
a haphazard choice, and the plan for
a STRAW vote" expression from the
lawyers ought to be accepted as a
happy solution. Such choice would
not, of course, be binding upon any
one, and there is no thought on the
part of the promoters of the plan OF
debating nominations. The vote
would be taken for the purpose OF
throwing a much-needed light on the
field of candidates, and to determine
which ones stand highest with theil
colleagues. It is matter Of grea
concern to all practicing attorneys, tt
have their causes decided by impartia
i Judges of adequate training and at
I tainments. For that reason thi
secret vote proposed would b
an honest expression, PRACTICAL!
4 cal bias. While 4 it might no
determine the result of the primar.
\ election, it would furnish the voters o
the county an invaluable guide. Tn
candidates themselves ought to b.
more than willing to. abide by the re
suit OF such a poll. e.
The Journal hopes that tn
proposed plan will be heartily agree
to by the bar and carried thru. It
, essential, of course, that the vote b
|, a secret ballot, and that it should b
|, taken with all the safeguards of y
/ be of no value.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09

tute more than ORD -haM Of all our
exports to the continent of Asia, and
are greater than our total trade with
Austria Hungary, Italy, Sweden and
Norway, Greece or Turkey. They are.
three times as great as our exports
to all Central America and one-half
as much as those to the whole of
South America.
Save where goods are contraband,
or an effective blockade is maintained,
they should go as freely to Japan as
to any other country in the world,
and Russia has no authority Of law
for the American seizures she has
made. In the end these seizures must
be relinquished, but the effect Of them
has been to paralyze our Pacific trade
with the orient to large degree. The
Pacific Mail company has refused to
carry any more freight from San
Francisco to Japan, and other Pacific
lines are contemplating similar ac-
ton.
We are glad, therefore, that Secre-
tary Hay has spoken as he has regard
ing fuel and raw cotton. He might
have gone farther and still have been
we'll within the law Of nations.
AS for Turkey, it will yield to our
Just demands. and there will be no
trouble. AS to Russia, something has
been gained, but the situation is still
far from satisfactory to American
commerce.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09
JELLEY COMES IN
Files His Affidavit of Candidacy for
the County Attorneyship.

c. S. Jelley, first assistant under
County Attorney F. II. Boardman, has
filed his affidavit of candidacy for the
republican nomination of county at
torney. Mr.. Jelley's candidacy has
been known for some time and he and
his friends are making a strong bid
for the office against Al J. Smith, his
principal competitor.
Albert GRADER filed this morning
for the republican nomination of
county surveyor and Willis G.. Calder
wood, the first prohibitionist to shy
his castor into the ring, filed for rep
resentative from the thirty-ninth dis
tricf
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z tuesday, Evening

been made with some promising re-
suits, a few old sea captains .testifying
that they have known seasons when
the strait was navigable nearly three
months, and they are of the opinion
that a modern ice-crushing boat could
keep navigation open for longer
period, as is done in the Baltic and
other waters. Open water for three
months would be real gain to ship
pers Of wheat and other food stuffs,
and Fort Churchill, York Factory,
Fort Albany, Moose Factory and other
ports with water facilities from the
interior country. would become I'M
portant shipping points. Lieutenant
Gordon's expedition some fifteen years
ago extended thru two seasons, but
he reported that the open season at
the strait was too brief and navigation
too precarious to warrant the building
of a railway from Winnipeg to the
bay for the expectation of wheat from
the Canadian Northwest.
Nevertheless, there are Canadian
statesmen who believe that the diff
culties of this natural outlet
NAV be overcome by modern science
and ingenuity. They are UNI
willing to wait on the slow process of
the procession Of the equinoxes, which
once in many cycles Of time changes
the position Of the zones Of the earth,
alternately reducing the volume OF the
arctic and antartic ice caps.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09

In the death Of Mark H Dunnen, Min
nesota has lost a useful citizen, one
whom she had frequently honored with
high position, and who in turn honored
the state by the character of the service
which he performed. To the younger
generation he may not be well known. but
those Of the older time will recall that he
was prominent figure in the life of the
state and nation for many years follow
ing the civil war, and that his public rec
ord and his private life were above re-
preach.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09

1t all depends on the point Of view.
sportsmen will rejoice at the news that
deer are so plentiful in Pine county that
they are eating the farmers sugar beets,
But how about the farmers? The tres
passers are protected by the state game
law until Nov. 10, when the twenty days
open season begins. Until that time the
farmer has no right to kill a deer, even
when trespassing on his own land. We
shall not be surprised, however, to hear
of the accidental death Of many ven
turesome buck this fall. The law must
be obeyed, but the careless farmer could
not be blamed much for such an accident.
And then, too, the butchers strike is
still on.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09

Minister Bowen reports to Washington
that he has filed a strong protest with
President Castro against the seizure by
Venezuela Of the asphalt property belong
ing to Americans. After all we have done
for Venezuela, for Castro to jump in and
seize our property is at least unkind. I'm
less we greatly err, the Venezuelan exec
utive ought to get thirty days at some
Pan-American rock pile.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Republican State Committee Opens Head
quarters-Hltch Over Appointment of
Executive Committee.

The republican state committee has
opened headquarters for the campaign at
room 21S, Manhattan building, corner of
Fifth and Robert streets, ST. Paul. w e.
Verify, secretary of the committee, is in
charge. Condo Hamlin, chairman of the
committee, left last evening for Chicago to
confer with Congressman Tawney with
reference to the assignment of speakers
by the national committee.
There has been considerable speculation
over the delay in naming the executive
committee Of the republican state central
committee. Chairman Hamlin had expect
ed to give it out a week ago, but it is
still hung up. Candidate Dunn came down
one day last week for conference, but
even this did, not determine the makeup
of the inner circle. 1t is reported that
the hitch comes over the fourth district.
Chairman Hanlin presumably acting on
advice from Mr.. Dunn, objects to naming
Eli Warner and wants to put Sullivan of
Saltwater on, pleading that Ramsey is not
entitled to two places. Warmers friends
insist that it has been promised that he
would be appointed
Charles B. Cheney.
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MARCHBANK A CANDIDATE
He Seeks Republican Nomination for
Controller.

Hugh B. Marchbank has entered
the race for republican nomination
for city controller. Mr.. Marchbank,
who is native of Scotland, is now
clerk of the board of education, which
position he has felled for thirteen
years. Previously, for four years, he
was deputy auditor.
He announces as a platform the
favoring Of a reduction in taxation,
business methods in all city depart
ments, and refundments of tax re-
bates without expense to the tax
payers.
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are buying them in and operating them as
feeders This plan was first thought
out by President Mellen Of Northern
Pacific fame. and seems to be working
we'll. The trolley Is certain to have q
large future. either Independently or UNI
der the wing of the railroads.
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w. L. Hathaway,
Dist. Pass. Agent.
non1eseekers, Excursions.

Aug. 9Th and Esd, and Sept. 18th
and 9th The Rock Island System will
sell round trip tickets to principal
points in Texas, all points in Okla
homa and Arkansas at rate Of s27.75.
Aug. 18th, and Sept. 9Th and Goth
one fare plus $500 for the round trip
to Arizona IDAHO Indian Territory
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. For
particulars and literature apply at
city ticket office, 322 Nicollet avenue,
Minneapolis, MINI.
A. L. Steece, City Pass. Agent.
w. L. Hathaway. Dist. Pass. Agent.
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LOCAL POLITICS
WILL SUPPORT scHLENER

Captain Barrows Decides Not to Run
for Mayor.
F. G. Barrows informed a reporter
for T h e. j ourn a, this morning
that he had decided not to enter the
race for republican nomination for
mayor.
Il have thus decided because of my
friend John Schlener," said Captain
Barrows. He seems to feel that I
should not compete against him for
the place, and as I am very friendly
to him, have decided to respect his
wishes, in spite of the requests of my
friends to enter the field.
You may state for me that I shall
support the candidacy of John Schle-
ner."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09

A vainglorious newspaper man at Dew
lis Lake wires famboyalntly to his paper
that he filed first, having held his position
in the line at the point of gun. Seeking
the bubble, reputation, at the cannon's
mouth as 1t were.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-09

The Chicago trade organizations, 3oo'ooo
strong, are now back Of the clearinghouse
strike, and will assess themselves weekly
for the benefit of the strikers President
Donnelly says the strike lis the greatest
educator in socialism the west ever has
experienced" Perhaps. We shall miss
our guess if 1t doesn't have an educa-
tional value in other directions, also All
the people will not all the time tamefy
submit to being made the victims OF the
policies which are in control of the Chi
cago situation.
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S1s to st. Louis and Return.

Coach excursion tickets on sale
every Monday via Minneapolis & ST.
Louis Railroad, the only line running
direct to the gates Of the Worlds
Fair For further information call at
424 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, J.
G.. Rickel, City Ticket Agent.