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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03
R00sEVELTS COURAGE.
Its Quality Is Such that 1t Commands Re
spect and Admiration.

ats Quality LIS Such that 1t Commands Re.
spect and Admiration.
This presidential campaign has re-
solved itself into study of President
Roosevelt and the three years of his
administration. Beginning with much
confidence and good will, the public
has learned, from an extended exam,
nation of the Presidents public acts
and utterances, fresh respect for the
mann on the bridge of the ship of state.
And the study of events and how
they were met has revealed how much
is needed in the makeup of the Amer
lean chief executive the quality Of
courage Not physical courage, mere
", but that enduring, steadfast hold
ing to duty without fear of present
or future personal consequences which
nerves men Of strong moral and men
tai fibre
1t takes the strongest kind of moral
courage to meet the questions which
confront the American people of our
day. The President, as representing
the whole people of the country, must
meet these questions as best he can.
He must be eyes, ears, hands and feet
for the tremendous interests confded
to his care. In short, he is the execu-
tive head of the nation.
TO this great Office President Roose-
welt brought a highly organized brain,
an educated understanding. culti-
waited personality. OF ardent temper
ament, he easily secured public affec-
ton and admiration. But, along with
his charming good fellowship and
broad humanity he had the supreme
quality of courage. Very soon this
possession was called out in a manner
both unexpected and unprecedented,
and the people began fully to know
their President.
The first record breaker was the TAX
ing UP by President Roosevelt Of the
coal strike, and its happy settlement.
Let no one under-rate the firmness OF
purpose, the sense of duty, and the
high appreciation of public accounta-
biiity with which this step was taken.
No one Of President Roosevelt's friends
advised him to attempt what every
one believed would be a failure. But
the commission was appointed, its
work was carefully laid out for 1t, and,
backed as 1t was by President Roose-
yelt's personality and position, 1t won
peace from the gripped hand OF greed
and millions of men, women and chill
dren were, in consequence, warmed
and fed and sheltered from the storms
OF winter.
In this life OF ours the first gift to
all the sons OF men is courage. And
then coura gle, and again courage!
Again, when the people began to de-
spair under the heavy tread of the
overpowering trust monopolies. Presi-
dent Roosevelt took the initiative to-
ward regulation by law Of the illegal
combinations which threaten the
smaller corporations as well as indi-
viduaIs. Now, again, there were dis
couragers Of action. Again there were
nAny who, seeing the DANGER. Htill
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03
PARKER REBUKED
Democratic Newspaper Raps the sBIath.
erskites'' of Its Party.

~AsaAAS0c "a ASo
The hardest slap yet administered
To- Parker was from the hand of an
ultra-Democratic editor There is in
the southland no more rabidly Demo
cratic newspaper than the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, yet an editorial
leader in that paper reads:
Those distinguished blatherskftes
who have been ablathering about Fill
Pine independence and corollary imam
ties claim to be helping to elect Judge
Parker.
Governor Wright, who is on the
ground and who knows, Informed this
government that all these declarations
We're being translated and published in
Tagal newspapers and that they were
having a deluding and deleterious eff
feet on the natives.
Now comes the report that the old
agitators and professional patriots who
have been in enforced retirement and
whose henchmen are the head hunters
and bandits from the mountains, and
the bolo men from the bamboo thickets
IN the valley have come forth and pur-
pose holding public independence
meetings iii Manila.
If these fiery exhorters arouse their
half-tamed fellows to disorder and
rapine by their perfervid utterances,
and IL the task Of governing the ISL
ands is rendered more difficult and ex-
pensive, our home-bred Tagal-Ameri-
cans viii find that they are support
ing Judge Parker with a knife.
This country is engaged in the solu-
ton Of one Of the most difficult prob
lens that ever confronted a civilized
people and it Is bending every energy
to solve it wisely. Every word uttered
calculated to embarrass it will be re-
scented by the spirit Of the nation
which stands for right or wrong, our
country.
I'm the Democratic platform and In
Parker's letter of acceptance will be
found that tablathering about Filipino
independence and coroIlary inanities, =
OF which the Memphis Appeal COM
plains. Mr.. Parker emphasized his de-
sire to have 1t known that he demands
the giving of an immediate promise Of
independence to the Filipinos.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03
PARKER's SURE WARNING
OF the New Yorker Falls to
Interest Voters.

Personality OF the New Yorker Falls tC
Interest Voters.
The weakness of the Democratic
cause Is illustrated anew with every
| passing day. The presidential candi.
date is as backboneless, as void of in
terest, as the platform constructed by
process of elimination at SIT. Louis
q process carried SO far as to make the
standing place OF a national party look
like a frail floating raft, all stringers
and no flooring.
The people never took to- Judge
Parker. From the first they were I'M
able to get into sympathy with the ju-
dic1al fgure-head erected by David
Bennett Hill to attract votes. AS the
campaign progressed the candidates
few and infelicitous utterances COM
pletaly subdued any rising tide of par
tisan zeal such as nearly always car
ries the hosts of party into some
thing like an enthusiastic contest. How
could anybody get up enthusiasm for
the bland, self-satisfied, managing pol.
iticlan whose every utteance shows
the contracted sphere of bis interests
and influence?
Even the hope of rehabiitating the
party and getting it into line some
where near the advancing forces Of the
rest OF the world has not been able to
enlist the rank and file OF the Demo-
Gratis for Parker. There are armies of
them who will vote for Roosevelt, bril-
gades, regiments and squads of them
who will vote for Watson, for Debs,
for any candidate but Parker.
Hills candidate lacks all the ele-
ments Of popularity. He has not
aroused the imagination Of the people.
He has not compelled their respect, he
has not aroused their confidence. As
young college man said the other day:
Parker has no go in him.
On the other hand, the Republican
candidate is a figure to draw to him
every generous soul in the country.
Lot the croakers say what they may,
every gallant youngster ready with his
iirst vote, every one of them In this
land Of game fellows adores Theodore
Roosevelt. Every mature man Of ac-
ton, OF reserve force and that power
for work which revolutionizes the
world. admires Theodore Roosevelt.
Every voter, young. Iniddle-aged or old.
who believes in work, I'm going ahead
and making things go ahead. takes
stock In Theodore Roosevelt. Party
lines are not going to hold such men,
especially when they have ait the head
OF their own ticket, Il they are Demo
Gratis, an uncertain. unknown, score
tive man like Alton B. Parker.
All through the golden days Of Octo-
Der. as the leaves falI through the hazy
air. the hearts and minds OF the mass
Of voters are turning to Roosevelt. and
when the chill November day arrives,
the day OF the national e1ecfi0nt there
Will be such rush of enthusiasts to
the polls as has never been seen In the
land before, enthusiasts OF oil ages, de-
groes conditions, colors, religions and
political affiliations, and these will
storm the boxes with ballots Tor Theo-
dora Rooseyelt for president Of the
United States.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03
Tcopyright, iaos by r. 6. Mcciure.I

tGOpyklghk ASVA py y. y. McClure,I
ssH SUPPOSE you are surprised to
see me at this time Of the day."
observed Mr.. Bowser as he re-
turned home the other afternoon
Two hours ahead OF bis usual time, "but
che fact q I'm acting on the advice Of
the doctor"
DO you mean that you are mr. ask
ed Mrs. Boweer.
no, not exactly III, and hope not
20 be. Sit down till talk to you d
moment
But what doctor advised you to
rome home, and what are you going to
40 now you've got hereY'
The best doctor in town, and now
don't you remember that had rheu-
matism IN my right hip about three
gears ago2'
Not In particular. You,haye had SO
many things all your hips and knees
and ankles and backbone that / can't
keep track Of them. What about your
rheumatism three years ago?''
1T threatened to render me Ehelpless,
40 q loving wife would plainly remem-
Der, but after paying out hundreds Of
dollars for this and that and finding
40 relief effected d compIetescure In
two weeks by horseback riding. Can't
YOU remember MI about 1t now?*
YES, 4 do. | remember that you
hired 4 horse and got man 10 boost
you Oh ID its back, ana you hadn't
been riding i've minutes when the
beast threw you over It's mead into an
ash box. 10 you want some more. Of
itg''
Woman, have you lostiyour Senses?,
demanded Mr.. Bowser ns he pointed a
finger &C her. II never was boosted.
1 never was thrown. / never LANDED
n an ash box. You ure- probably think
ing Of the redheax1ed man who lives
across the alley. Nothing whateycr
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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03

q SUPPOSE you are surprised to
see me ut this time Of the day"
observed Mr.. Bowser as he re-
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03
Hla Morning Haange.

When morning dawns. the next day
after
Then Parker viii with chilly shIver
Dive where ne Wiz not hear oanr laugh
ter
fzesn take his swim In old salt River.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03
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q ''The two industries farming !
4 and manufactured have be-
Z come, under the economic policy !
Y Of our government, SO closely In
= te-woyen, so mutually interde- !
\ pendent, that neither can hope
q to maintain itself at the high /
4 water mark Of progress without ]
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4 to the advantage of the other. - !
\ Rooseyelt's Letter of Acceptance. ]
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03
The Two Bands.

The band at Washington, D. c..
In cadences that sweep and swing
And wake the weIkin merrilv,
Hail to the Chief is practicing.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-11-03

The little hand at Esonus
Knows that II Will not have to roam
And 80 with every little fuss
1t practices ON Home. Sweet Home. i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE

Employees of the Southern California in
Los Angeles having access to passes have
selling them to Mexicans travelling east.
Arrests are expected.
1t is announced at the Santa Fe general
offices that Mr.. E. r. Cracroft has been
appointed freight and passenger agent for
that road at Wellsvflle, Kan Mr.. Ora
croft succeeds Mr.. 0. E. Osborne, trans
ferred.
1t is reported that the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific will build its own line
a distance star 1o Of 81 miles. At present the
Rock Island is using the tracks OF the
Southern Pacific between those points.
Herbert Burning began work the first
of the week as a clerk in the office of w.
]. Healy, freight auditor for the Santa
F'e. Mr.. Burning was employed In this
here to accept better position with the
Union Depot company at Atchison-
l. NJ. Allen, general passenger agent Of
the Rock Island, with headquarters In
Chicago, and J.. A. Stewart, general agent
for the same road at Kansas City, passed
through Topeka Wednesday afternoon on
Mr. Stewart are on their way to Olzlaho-
ma, where they. Will make tour or the
companys line IN that state
D. L. Boyes, an employee of the office Of
W. J. Healy, freight auditor for the Santa
F'e, has resigned h is position in that of
the next month for Boone City, Ia, where
he will make his home. Mr.. Boyes is a
signed the position Of assistant secre-
tary of the local Railroad Y: M. c. A in
favor of a better position with the asso-
citation at Boone City.
Local officials of the Rock Island state
that the service on the FL Paso and the
Northwestern has been fully restored and
that all of the striking employees of that
road have returned to work. According to
the reports received here the trainmaster,
chief clerk to the superintendent and
chief clerk to the general manager have
been discharged, according to the de-
stood by the company during the strike
and will probably be taken care of. The
officials state that the passenger service
on the lines of the Northwestern has been
restored, but that it will be some time be
fore the road will be in a condition to
handle freight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
AToH1soN Is SUPPLIED.
It's Rails for California Lines Have
Been Bought.

Missouri Pacific must use during the
next Is months over 20. 900 tons of rails
between Memphis and New Orleans
and probably over 10000 on the other
new lines southeast. The latter are in
hand, but current orders cover the ton
mage required for the Iron Mountain
River division, which is to be built by
Missouri Pacific and used by this sys-
tenn and Frisco.
st. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
will use about Co., 900 tons of rails in all
during the next Is months. This is not
a Frisco or Rock Island order, though
Mr.. Yoakum is president.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, Atchi-
son, Southern Pacific and the other
Gould lines seem to have supplied
themselves with what rails they need
for current purposes, and Atchison has
already placed it's orders for the new
California lines.
The biggest factor in the consump-
ton of rails this year is the Missouri
Pacific. The Rock Island and the
Frisco have not been placing heavy Or
ders for steel rails and they are not
likely to do so.
Rails for the building of the Texas,
Oklahoma and Missouri lines were or
dered some time ago, and are mostly
on hand. Frisco has orders for current
needs on the books. but Rock Island
has none. Neither has either of these
roads the least intention of building
further great extensions that will re-
Quire a heavy tonnage of rails.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
RAILROAD NEWS.
HOmeseeker Movement to West
ern Kansas Expected.
Railroads Look for a Rush This
Spring.
RAPID LAND SELLING.
Extensive Improvement Work
Being Done by Railroads.
High Price of Grain Has Effect
Oh Immigration.

That western Kansas will be alive
with home seekers this spring is the
unqualified opinion of the railway ex-
cursion people and the real estate men.
There are several good reasons for
the enormous immigration promised to
Kansas" says Seymour Sleeper of
Larned. 1.-The high price of wheat and
corn the unsatisfactory promise of
Wall street stocks to give a return to
investors; the facts regarding Kansas
and published in the Saturday Evening
Post by Clarence Matson of the To-
peka State Journal have all led to an
activity in real estate sales and in
quiries from the east that will add
thousands to the population of the
counties from Pawnee to Hamilton"
This statement is corroborated by all,
and Frank Luther of Cimarron offers
instances of buyers of land, paying for
it from the first crop and having a
healthy surplus of cash left from the
crop.
Raw lands are selling at from IS to
$40 an acre through Pawnee, Edwards,
Ford, Finney and Gray counties.
The railroads will use an enormous
amount of money and labor this sea-
son in improvements in Kansas. The
Rock Island is already at work relay
ing it's track from Harrington to Wich-
tia with new steel and ballast.
Lantry Bros will put two crushers
in operation at Strong City March L.
the output to be used on the tracks OF
the Santa Fe west of Emporia. The
road is hiring men to relay the entire
distance from Dodge City to La Junta
with IS pound steel at once.
The recent Kansas article by Mr..
Matson is to be printed in pamphlet
form by the Union Pacific railway for
circulation as an advertisement of Kan
sas land The Union Pacific secured
the consent of the Saturday Evening
Post for this republication of the ar
ticle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
IGNORED BY RUSSIA.
Japan-Korea Treaty Will Not
Be Recognized.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Russia will ig-
more Japan's newly negotiated treaty
with Korea guaranteeing the independ-
ence and integrity of the Hermit king
dom and has so informed the United
States. Japan it may be stated, as
sumes practically the same attitude of
indifference toward Russia's protest to
the powers, which, on high authority it
is declared, will be ignored by the
Toxic government. In diplomatic cir :
cles Secretary Hays announcement of
the negotiation of Japanese-Korea
treaty created a sensation While the
treaty, it is said. opens possibilities for
new international complications in the
far eastern war the diplomatic corps
here continues firm in the belief there
is no ground for apprehension at pres
ent that the war will extend beyond the
two belligerents and Korea
1t will not surprise diplomats con-
versant with Japan's plans to see an
early announcement from Toxic de-
claring that practically all Korean
ports will be opened eventually to the
commerce of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
POPULIST CALL.
National Convention at Spring
field, ILL.,, July 4.

st. Louis, Feb. 25-The joint commit
tees of the Fusionists and the Middle
of-the-Road Populists representing the
Peoples party of the United States
have issued the official call for a ma
ttonal convention to meet in Springfield
Ill, on July 4, 1904, at Il o'clock noon,
for the purpose of nominating candi-
dates for president and vice president
of the United States and for the form
ulation of a national platform.
The basis of representation will be
one delegate from each congressional
district in each state, with an addition
al delegate at large for each state for
each two thousand or majority fraction
thereof cast for General James. B.
weaver for president in 1892; the In
dian Territory and Oklahoma territory
five delegates each and three delegates
from each of the other territories.
The declaration of principle for the
Peoples party formulated and issued
by the national committee in Joint SEES
sion reiterates oft-repeated declarations
and adds
In both of the great political par
ties of the nation are to be found two
irreconcilable factions, one in favor of
governmental usurpation, tending to
the establishment of a new feudalism
and the other standing for Industrial
and political liberty.
In the Peoples party of the nation
lies the only hope of the perpetuation
OF popular institutions. We ratify and
reaffirm the fundamental principle of
the platform of the Peoples party
adopted at its national convention in
Omaha in 1892.
We invite the wealth producers to
take part in the primaries that shall
choose delegates to our convention, guar
anteeing that the influence of this
party shall be given to advance the in
terests of organized labor by the recog-
milton of the union label on Inanufac-
tuFed products as we'll as in legislation
which at last is the only hope of Just
conditions for labor.
We criticise as unfair, illegal and
unjust those decisions of the courts de-
claring labor laws unconstitutional and
we demand a constitutional amend
ment authorizing the legislation requir-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
READY FOR THE WORST.
Northern Securities Company Prepar-
ing for Adverse Decision.

While railroad financiers in New York
and Chicago do not generally belleVe
that the United States supreme court
will render its decision in the Northern
Securities case Immediately upon recon
vening those connected with the big
holding company have been exceedingly
active preparing for any emergency that
might arise.
James ]. Hill, president of the Securi-
ties company, has been actively engaged
of late in comforting with the various
bankers interested, and it is now said a
tentative plan has been agreed upon for
use in case the supreme court decides
adversely to the company. Mr. Hil
has refused to discuss the subject In
any way but one of the bankers asso-
ciated in the enterprise is quoted as
saying:
1--WE do not, in the slightest, fear for
the fate of the Northern Securities com
pany, no matter what the findings OF
the supreme court. The two properties,
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific roads, will in no event pass out
of the hands which now control them.
How this end will be achieved / am not
at liberty to state, but it will be ac-
complished nevertheless. If the supreme
court finds the present manner of hold
ing the securities of the two roads to
be illegal, it will indicate what shall
constitute a legal manner of holding
them, and that manner of retaining
them will be pursued.
IF the decree OF the lower court
should be affirmed in all particulars
there would be trouble to some other
roads, but not so much to Northern Sc
curities, which has been preparing to
meet the outcome.
In a general way, it is understood that
in the event of an adverse decision and
a sweeping decree the Northern Securi-
ties company will turn over the control
of Northern Pacific stock to other inter-
ests, either to a railroad corporation in
no way associated with the merger
roads or to a voting trusteeship. The
Joint guaranty of the Burlington bonds
by the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific will not be disturbed. 1t is pre-
sumed that this plan contemplates the
reduction of Northern Securities stock
by the equivalent of the amount issued
for Northern Pacific stock.