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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
Campaign Issues This Year.

The Brooklyn Eagle is giving
some sensible advice to the Demo
Gratis, apropos of the fiery out
bursts of rhetoric in the house of
representatives from Bourke Cock
ran and others. The Eagle is one
of the strongest of Democratic pa
pers, and highly esteemed in the
East; but of course the Bryanites
hate it because it possessed 700
much common sense to follow them
in their childish, makebelieve free
silver fallacy.
1t tells the Democrats that in the
coming Presidential campaign it
is not what Mr.. Roosevelt said or
did OF wrote before he became
President that counts; that neither
his acts nor his words when he was
assemblyman, police commission
cr, civil service commissioner, as
sistant secretary of the navy, or
Vice President, are of the slightest
value in this campaign; but that
the things that count are those
which pertain to his course since
| he became President of the United
States. They must find something
he has done or something he has
omitted to do, as President, that
can be criticised legitimately. 1t
further warns them against fight,
ing against accomplished facts
| which, it says, the Dcmocra'f
would be glad to claim the credit
for, had they been in power.
! Judging from the splurginq
Democratic oratory in the house OF
representatives, the Eagles advice
is not to be followed. There has
been vast deal of gabble III the
way of carping and faulttindine
which has TO weight with an intel
ligent voter. 1t may please hide.
bound Democrats, but it makes &c
Republican converts; and she Dem
ocratic party cannot hope to wiz
unless it can bring over Il good ar
ray of moderate Republicans to its
support.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
All Around the State
With Pen and Scissors.

peeting to get cent Of it back
The stockholders must still be
heard from on this point, however
At Richards, in Vernon County,
on May Goth, DR.. j. D. Tood shot
and killed r. D. Wall, one of the
wealthiest citizens in the county.
An old grudge between the men
was the cause Of the shooting. DR..
Todd claims he shot Wall in self
defense.
On May 2 a man giving his name
as William Turner died in a char
ity hospital in st. Louis and was
buried in potters field a friendIess
pauper. Investigation Of his
clothes after his death disclosed
cash and bonds to the value of
$4,000 sewed in the Innings.
Ex-speaker of the house of re.
prescntatives James H. Whitecot-
ton has been found guilty of mu-
tilating the court records of an ap-
peal case to the supreme court
from Monroe county in the inter-
est of client. He will probably
be disbarred from practicing in the
supreme court.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

The Bell Telephone Co of Mis-
souri, has increased it's capital stock
from 81, ,000,0 900 to S1O,OOo,0oo.
A dividend of two cents on the
dollar is all that the subscribers to
the f. j. Arnold get-rich- quick
scheme get for their money.
The postohce at Westboro was
entered on the night of the 18th
inst. and robbed of S1s3 in cash
and 1896 in stamps. The safe was
blown with nitro -glycerine.
Amanda Reamer of St. Louis
wants a divorce from VIM. p.
Reamer. She alleges among other
thing that Reamer bought her only
one pair Of shoes in the four years
of their married life.
A terrific hail storm swept over
Rolla and surrounding section on
the 18th inst. Hail half the size
of hen egg fell to the depth OF
three inches. Crops and fruit trees
were greatly damaged.
President Francis of the st.
Louis Worlds Fair says the peo.
pleof that city subscribed 80, ,Ooo,-
900 to that enterprise without ex-
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

without Republican aid, and the
result of the election will be some
thing like it should be, the election
of the Republican ticket by Re-
publicans. For the past eight
years the Democrats have only
won the Offices they have held by
the aid of Republican votes, and
they got these votes through the
friendly interest of Republicans
who have had small or perhaps no
return for these political fayors.
The rewards of Office in this county
properly belong to the Republicans
and the only reason why they do
not enjoy them to the fullest ex-
tent is because, in their power,
they have for some inscrutable
reason seen fit to bestow them up
on the Democrats. Let there be
an end to this uncalled for and un-
deserved magnanimity.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

The Cleveland Leader. discuss
ing this matter, enumerates the
principal events of President
RooseveIt's official course, which
are lsgitimately issues in the cam
paign, as follows:
President Rooseyelt's administra-
tion and its accomplished facts
the course followed in the Philip
pines, the reduction of the army,
the autonomy of China, the pro-
gressive increase of the navy, the
reorganization of the military sys-
tenn, the complete independence of
i Cuba, the Inauguration of an irri-
CATION system by which millions Of
acres are to be added to our pro-
ducing territory, and, finally, the
recognition of the Panama republic
and the acquisition of a canal zone
and the first steps towards making
the Trans-Isthmian Canal q realty
Are open to such criticism as
they deserve. II is bound to be
friendly, the people being the crit
les, and we need not fear the arbi-
trament Of the ballot. 1t is bound
to be unfriendIy, opposing politi-
clans being the critics, and we need
not fear the outcome of such fault
finding.
The majority of these things are
accomplished facts; that is, were
the Democratic party to elect its
President, they could not be un-
done. They must stand us they
are. The general issue in the cam
paign then is, are these things
worthy of endorsement, which can
only be given by Roosevelt's cleo
ton; or is he to be condemned for
doing them ?-Tolcdo Blade.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

About the only issue on which
the Democrats seem to be able to
agree is, that the Republican party
should be turned out of power and
the Democrats given the the Offices
to save the country from going to
the demnition bow-woWs again.
Each faction, however, proposes
that its own method of procedure
is the only one by which this result
can be obtained. AS saviors of
the country the Democratic party
has already given a number of
"warm" examples, the last one not
being so remote that the incidents
surrounding the redemption have
become obscured to the public
vision. The tramp of the march
ing hosts of the Coke army still
re-echoes family in the distance.
and the people will continue to pay
interest on the bonds issued by the
last Cleveland administration tc
keep the government from going
bankrupt for long time to come
In view of the party's record the
Democrats certainly do not lack
nerve when they talk of haying to
come to the front again to saye the
country when the country does moi
need any saving and most certain.
" not after the Democratic style
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary upon the estate OF Jen.
ME A. Stocking, deceased, have been
granted to me by the Probate Court
of Washington County, bearing date
the 1st day of March, 1904. All per-
sons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them to me fol-
allowance, within one year from the
date of said letters, or they may be
precluded from any benefit OF such es'
tate; and il said claim be not exhibit.
ed within two years from the date OF
said letters, they will be forever bar
red CHARLES A. STOCKING,
Executor Of Jennie A. Stocking, de-
ceased.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

President Roosevelt has been at
the head of the national admins
tration now for nearly three years,
and during this period the Ameri,
can people have continued on the
top wave Of prosperity, and the
government has grown in influence
and prestige in the affairs of the
world. In domestic affairs the
President has shown q determine
ton that only honesty and compe-
tence in public service shall be the
rule and that the enroachments of
monopolies upon the right Of the
people shall be halted. All his
acts breathe with manly and pa
triotic zeal for the welfare and
progress of his country and the
success of his administration.
There is no clond upon the na-
tional horizon to cause the slight
est apprehension of any calamity
to the American people; there
is no abuse of public confidence
that the head of the admins
tration does not hasten to take his
stand for its correction. His
''precepitancy" is never so reckless
that it is not tempered with tho
necessary caution to protect the
common safeguards of the country
and the material interests of the
people. Yet, in the light of all
this, the Democrats talk of Presi-
dent Roosevelt as an unsafe"
man to leave at the head of the ma
tional government. The great
dangers and trials through which
this country has passed have in
variably been the result Of Demo
cratic rule and no Presidents ever
came nearer to wrecking the coun :
try than Buchanan and Cleveland,
the last two men that party has
had in the presidential chair.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
Facts Worth Knowing About the
Panama Canal.

Estimated cost of the Panama
Canal, s20o,0O0, 900.
Amount paid French Company
for the title, $40 900, 900.
Amount paid Panama Govern
ment for perpetual lease of canal
lands, $lO,OoO,0oO.
Length of canal, IS miles.
Canal width varies from $50 to
500 feet ct the top, the bottom
width being $50 feet.
There will be five twin locks of
concrete masonry, each lock 738
feet long and 50 feet wide, with a
lifting capacity Of 80 to 80 feet.
Lake Bohio (artiiciaD covers 81
square miles.
Alhajuela Lake (artiiieiaD covers
$500 acres, and will furnish mo-
tive po ower for operating the locks
and lighting the canal from ocean
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

If boodlipg is an issue in the
state, let it not escape the voters
that those who laid the foundation
to build this issue upon arc the
Democrats, who have controlled
the state government uninterrnpt-
edly for more than thirty years.
The responsibility for its being lies
with the party in power and the
surest remedy lies in a complete
change of government.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

The Democrats cannot kick
BRYAN to the rear without admit
ting that they have been on the
wrong track for the past eight
years. Bryan represents 'God
given issues" that twill never be
settled until they are settled right. -
He is the ''pecrless leader, of the
'true Democracy" The words in
quotation may seem strange to the
present day Democrat, yet only a
short time ago they were the COM
mon phrases of the party.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

The Republicans of this county,
the men whose influence really has
weight in the party's affairs, should
make u determined effort to bring
the rank and file back into some
thing like IN effective organization.
They should make demonstrative
display of interest in the party's
welfare by coming out and work
ing actively for the success of the
party. Nominate tirss-class tick
ct and put the ''communl:y of IN
teresl" policy in The background
for II while by letting the Demo
Gratis lpke care Of their own affairs
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
CONFESSIONS OF A PRIEST

Rev. Jno. S. Cox, Of Wake, Ark.
writes, For II years l suffered from
Yellow Jaundice. | consulted num-
Der of physicians and tried all sorts of
medicines, but got no relief. Then |
began the use OF Electric Bitters and
leei that l am now cured of ii disease
that had me in its grasp for twelve
years. II you want a reliable medi-
cine for Liver and Kidney, stomach
disorder or general debility, get Elec-
trio Bitters. Only soc. Satisfaction
guaranteed by by IT. X. Teasdale,
Druggist.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
THE JOURNAL JOB
PRINTING is THE BEST

BROKE INTO HIS HOUSE,
S. LIE Quinn of Cavcndish, Vt. was
robbed OF his customary health by the
invasioni Of Chronic Constipation.
When Dr.. Kings New Life Pills broke
into his house, his trouble was arrest
ed and now he's entirely cured. Only
2oc. Guaranteed by F. X. Teasdale.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

MIR. Folk has so far made nc
statement as to what he would do
about locating that S11, ,00O,0 900
discrepancy in the states finances
in case he is elected Governor. A
Republican governor would order
an investigation Instanter.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

The Folk enthusiasm among the
Democrats in this county fails to
show any warmth. They evi-
IDENTIFY cannot snuggle up to a Dem
ocrat who questions the official
conduct of men elected by Demo
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

The tax-dodging corporations
are in favor of retaining Sam Cook
and Alber, O. Allen on the state
board of equalization.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

A Democratic reform ticket with
Sam Cook On it for secretary of
state would be like serving q bad
egg under a fresh looking she'll.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

A head-on coi'ision between north.
bound passenger train and a south
bound freight took place at Piedmont
on the morning of May 10Th. Both
engines, a mail car and four freight
cars were wrecked. NJ. Keith, engi-
neer Of the freight train, was killed.
The wreck was caused by misunder-
standing OF orders.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

The Republicans cannot be shak-
On from the safe ground of tariff
for the protection of American la
Dor.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

TO CURE COLDIN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets All druggists refund the money
if it falls to cure. f. w. Groves sig
nature is on each box. 25c.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25

Standing pat for the eountry's
continued prosperity is pretty
good issue to 90 before the people
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
Bonrbonism, booze and Doodle
are the dominant characteristics Of
the ringsters.
Missouri should shake her skirts
free from Bourbonism and the
nastiness Of ring rule.

The ''Iowa idea" refuses to in
enbate into rupture of Republi-
cans on the tariff question.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1904-05-25
WORLDS FAIR RATES.

The Iron Mountain R'y will sell
round-trip tickets from PotOsi to St.
Louis at the following rates: Round
trip season tickets, good until Dec. Is
1904, $500; round-trip ticket, sixty
days limit, s2.75 round-trip, ten days
limit, $500; ten-ride ticket, good one
year, $1,000
B. F. KENDALL, Age Mt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23

Meantime a hundred men have been
lost in this engagement, a thousand in
that two thousand in another, and the
armies have been constantly on the move,
entailing hard work to the point of ex
haustion on the men in the ranks
Making due allowance for the dis
patches sent out from st. Petersburg and
Toxic to mask a movement, to deceive
the enemy, to create alarm on this side
or that, it can truly be said that we are
as yet only at the beginning Of a stu
pendous war.
Battles like that near Kaichow settle
nothing. Engagements in the mountains
or in the mountain gaps signify little.
The moving of heavy columns to the
front one week and their withdrawal the
next week are not indications of great
battle All the maneuvers up to this
time show that the war is not to be
fought on plans laid down by the Jap
anese nor on plans favored by the Rus
SLAMS.
1t is to be fought as other wars have
been fought by two parties to a con-
flict, and while re-eaforcements are COM
ing to the front daily the attrition incl
dent to armed conflict is reducing the
strength of the divisions in front. As
the weeks pass both armies are growing
stronger and weaker-stronger in num-
bers and in better discipline and weaker
under the stress of unfavorable weather
and conditions.
If decisive battle should be fought
! tomorrow it would result in the loss of
10000 or 10000 men. If decisive bat
tie is not fought for six months, nearly
as many men will be lost. All that has
happened so far in the campaign goes to
show that war to-day is not very differ
ent from war forty years ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23
Good Health RuIes.

Keep your vitality above the mega
tive condition, and you will never
know disease CT any kind.
No disease can exist where there is
an abundance of pure blood. To -.
the necessary amount eat nutritious
foods: to circulate it perfectly take
proper exercise; to purify /. get fresh
air and sunlight
If a perfectly healthy condition OF
the skin exists and an even tempera-
tura of the surface Of fhe body is
maintained it is impossible to catch
cold. Cold water baths taken every
day will do much toward producing
the former: proper food and exercise
the latter.
Nature gives you an alarm in the
first chilly feeling Heed it at once
or pay the penalty Take a brisk
walk or run, breathe deeply and keep
the mouth closed. If you are so sit
mated that you can do neither, as in
church. lecture room or street car.
breathe deeply. rapidly and noiseless-
IS until you are satisfied that your
boIy has passed from negative to
I positive condition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23
un Mont Blanc By RaII.
Two rival railways up Mont B

Two rival railways up Mont Blanc
one going to the very summit, the
other to within 500 feet, are project
ed. The original company has pre-
pared plans for road fourteen miles
long. with a round trip schedule Of
four hours and a half, fare $40. The
other reduces the fare by $3.50 and
the time by two hours.
The route of the latter road is from
Chamounix. with a first station at the
ton of the eros Bechand, at a height
of S.41O feet, from which Inagnifi-
cent view of the neighboring glaciers
win be obtained. The second station
will be at height Of nearly $1,000
teet. Just below the summit OF the
Dome d.. Coulter and in the heart of
tbe ice region and the starting point
of four glaciers which reach down 10
the valley of Chamounix, along pre-
cipitious slopes Around this point
many fearful tragedies have occurred
and numbers of lives have been lost.
The third station will be situated at
an altitude of 14,3OO feet, near the
Vallot Observatory, and a tunnel un-
der the solid ice will lead 10 the ter
minus at 1870 feet above sea level
The remaining SO feet to the summit
Of Mount Blanc proper can easily be
done on foot through covered path
way which brings the tourist to the
roof of Europe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23
PRESENT POSITIONS OF OPPOSING ARMIES.

the eastern defenscS of the fortress.
These defenses. being situated sew
eral hundred feet below Takushan,
would be subjected to p.unging fire
directed down upon them from the
batteries on that hill.
on Tuesday night the Russians. by
a stealthily daring effort. retook Taku-
shan. The news was brought by the
commander of the Ryeshitelni, who
left the besieged place with the Rus
sian fleet.
Little news has come of the Lao
yang situation. The laps are using
the Lao River and the Sinmlnting
railway to get force TO the west
ward of Liaoyang This. If accom-
pllshed. would near.y complete the ctr
,.le around it, But apparently the lap
anese have not advanced from the
south or east since the LIST of August.
The Russians have had two weeks 10
retreat nOrthward along the railroad
10 NIukden or Hardin. The railroad
has not vet been iuierfered with III
the Russians have tried to get away.
they must have succeeded
1t is a mystery why the Japanese,
having the trap for Kuropat6in all set,
failed to spring il. ON Aug. J, TWO
days more work would have encircied
his army and forced its surrendes.
With the exception of the operations
around Port Arthur. the campaign
would be over for the year II is inn
possible TO say what caused the delay.
The Japanese commanders who en-
tered the neutral Chinese port of Che
the diSmantlsd Russian torpedo boat
destroyer RyeShitelni. which had taken
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23

refuge there. doubtless thought they
were aiding Japan. They were guilty
of an infraction of the sovereignty of
China which the Japanese government
hardly can condone.
When similar cases have occurred in
our history we have always returned
the ships so acquired. In 1864 Com
mander Collins of the Wachusett
caught the Confederate cruiser Florida
in the port of Bahia Disregardful of
the fact that it was in neutral waters,
Collins captured it and brought it to
Norfolk The Brazilian government
at once demanded PREPARATION for this
Illegal act. The American government
disayowed and regretted the act Of
Commander Collins. 1t suspended him
end ordered him before court mar
tial The officers of the Florida were
released. Collins thought he was doing
right, as Wilkes did when he took
Mason and Slidell off the Trent, but
both were in the wrong and the gov
eminent had to apologize for them
Russia has already protested formal
ly to Japan, and if China does not de
mand reparation imemidately Russia
may take the position that Chinese
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23
MAY BE BICYCLING REVIVAL.
Many Former Riders Would Like to
lake up Exercise Again.

axe up Exercise again.
Among many former riders of the
bicycle who were amateurs in all
senses of the word and had nothing
to do with the racing or century-run
features of the craze there is an idea
in which, indeed, the wish is father
to the thought-that the pastime may
become popular again. They contend
that bicycle riding is just as delight
full as il ever was and just as worthy
Of permanent survival as tennis, and
they declare that they would be glad
TO put their wheels in commission
again if others would do likewise.
That's the whole trouble" said a
former large dealer to whom the
question was referred. know by
the inquiries receive that many peo-
pie who used to ride are anxious for
chance to ride again, but those who
have tried it tell discouraging stories.
Once you could go anywhere, sure of
finding a puup at the first place you
stepped i'll case your tire had lost its
air, or tape to mend puncture, or oil
to fill your lamp.
Every stopping place had all sorts
of accommodations for the bicyclisJ
and he was everywhere taken care
Of. Now ne isn't catered to at all.
Even the racks have been taken away
and a few Of the roads are kept as
smooth as they used TO be. If one
ventures far from his own tools he
finds himself in fix should anything
happen. Others who want TO ride
again and have trisd il tell me they
have given up after one or two trials
from sheer loneliness ald the feeling
that they were conspicuous. | feel
sure that if all who wanted to ride
could start in at once. at the. same
time. it would be a go again; but, as
much as / would Ike it TO happen. !
hardly expect TO see il. You may be
sure if there be any way of starting
the pastime again the makers and
dealers will be about il.
1t is worth noting in this connec-
ton that In England cycling is nearly,
If not quite as popular As ever. and
the English papers continue TO pub
hsh wheeling routes ard a column OF
gossip for amateur riders Philadsi-
phia Record.