The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-17
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The First Ozark Horse"-story OF His
Nomination Told In Joseph 3. Bishops
"our Political Drama" a Book That
Appeals to All Interested in Politics
Man Who Wrote Thousand Novels Is
Dead-PoWer Of the Germ ls Cues
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with political conventions nowadays. The
young men of today have heard it so Of
ten that for the most part they suppose
that dark horses have figured in conven-
tons from time immemorial. But Joseph
Bucklin Bishop, in Our Political Drama,
tells Of The First Dark Horse" and 1t
was only 60 years ago that this dark
horse" ran his winning race. The author
tells Of the incident thus:
The democratic convention of 1914 is memora-
pie Tor several reasons. 1t was the first conyen-
tlon TO develop a dark horse the first to
bring about a nomination by means Of a stanl-
pede," and the first to have Its proceedings re-
ported by telegraph. Van Buren,, who had been
president and who had been defeated in 1910
by Harrison. was the leading candidate, and had
a majority of twenty-six In the convention. An
attempt TO defeat the two-thirds rule failed and
from that moment Van Buren's prospects became
hopeless. Eight ballots were taken without
result, and a great deal of bad feeling was
springlng up between the supporters of Van Bu=
rem and his chief competitor, General Cass. On
the eighth ballot forty -four votes were cast for
James ~ Polk, who had been mentioned mod
estly up. to that time as possible candidate for
vice president.
James K. Polk was the clark horse.'
A Pennsylvanian started the tide his way,
closing statement1of his position with
the assertion that he cast his vote for
James < Polk, '.the: bosom friend Of
General Jackson, and pure whole hogged
q iua1X ina i'm
mediately following, but Polk landed.
Mr.. Bishops book is not large one but
1t contains much very absorbing reading
and numerous reproductions of historic
cartoons for those interested in the his
tory of the politics of the country.
Colonel Prentiss Ingraham of Chicago,
said to be the author OF more than 1000
novels Is dead at Beauvoir, Miss, aged 60
years, says a Chicago dispatch. Colonel
lngraham was born at Natchez, Tenn,
theson OF Rev. Joseph Ingraham, who was
the author OF "A Prince of the House of
David. -, The young man served in tho
Confederate army as colonel and after
the war, began writing stories which were
published in various weekly papers and in
book form. For years he turned out a
novel every, few weeks His best book is
Land of Legendary Lore"
Mr.. Albert Bigelow Paine's biography
| of Thomas Mast, T" who has been called
| sthe Father of the American cartoon, y
Will be one Of the most interesting of the
autumn biographies. The Macmillan
company announce 1t for publication early
! in October, illustrated with reproductions
| of about 400 Of Mr.. Nast's, best cartoons
! The bug that gets into mans lungs
or some other part of his anatomy is not
! to hold undisputed the glory Of being the
1 only promoter of the ills that human
1 flesh is heir to. The recent and vocif
1 erous claims he has made to honor as
deaths executioner are being questioned
by Professor DR.. O.. Rosenbach Of Berlin
i in book, Physician versus BacterioIo.
gist, translated by DR. Achilles Rose The
author attacks the conclusions of soma
psychologists, at least, that all infec-
4 t1ous diseases are caused by bacteria and
that all diseases in which so-called specific
4 bacteria are found are infectious diseases
He accuses psychologists of being over
i Jealous in their advocacy of their theories
!. and says that the doctrines of orthodox
I bacteriology, far from solving even one
/ OF the enigmas of medicine, on the con.
i trary render the comprehension of elm
! ical processes more difficult, and, above
all, are fraught with, serious dangers ir
4 a social as well as, in an ethical aspect ,
Dr. RosenPeaShssss style lis q athers involved
4 but he has WRITTEN a. book to rob the bug
4 Of some Of it's terrors for humankind al
least The book 9is one to attract atten-
ton, especially among medical men. Il
/ deals with problems Of vital interest tt
them, and is likely to be- widely read.
4 "reminiscences Of Sir Henry Stanley
4 by A. ]. Mounteney Jephson the last sur.
4 viving officer Of those who crossed Africs
I with him, will appear in the Septembe1
Z scribner's. The sister -in-law of Lad,
Stanley contributes sEto the Septembe
scribner's also poem Of protest agains
i the action Of the English authorities ii
& not consenting to the burial Of Sir Henry
Stanley in Westminster Abbey by the sid
: of Livingstone. A picture rof Pirbrigh
4 church, where Stanley is buried, will an
4 pear with the poem.
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