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Elect n Republican House.

Nearly every American c%itizea who
will vote for President in the coming cleo
ton will also vote for a Representative
in Congress. 1t is to be hoped that no
Republican will fail to vote for the Re-
publican candidate for Congress in his
district. While the national honor and
the public welfare demand the election Of
President Roosevelt, and while the rea-
sons for his election are overwhelming
and unanswerable, those for the election
of n Republican House of Representa-
tives are equally so. With a Democratic
House Mr.. Roosevelt would be almost
helpless to carry out the great Repnbli-
can policies to which he is committed.
No Republican should be induced by any
consideration not to vote for che Re-
publican candidate for Congress in mis-
district
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farmer can do the labor of seventy
Cinnamon. AS these conditions change,
i'll obedience to economic laws. the Chi
slcse farmer becomes our competitor.
The land value will regulate the price
OF the product, and no competitor. the
world over, can enter the market against
our western prairie. We can place our
foodstnffs in the Oriental market at
prices which will prove less than the
cost OF producing them in Asia, and
right here comes the question: With
this future before it, what are the pos
sibilities of the arid West? An untold
treasure house. the products of which
will, in one year, exceed in value. all the
gold coin Since the world began.
Another great advantage for the farm
Ell is, that unlike the manufacturer who
must educate the Orient in the use of
ms products, there are no prejudices to
overcome III the case of foodstutfs. The
ofientals know their value, and the
market is already made and waiting. 1t
is one that cannot be taken from us.
Our Personal Duty.
The twentieth century opens for the
United States with its industrial ma
chinery adjusted to the production of
wealth on a scale of unprecedented mag
nitude. In land. in labor. supplemented
by best inventive skill; in wealth-the
three great agents of production, this
country easily leads the world.
The reclamation of the arid West and
the extension of our Oriental trade are
patriotic questions in which ON. ma
flonal honor, pride and profit are at
stake. whatsoever commands the sea
man the trade; whatsoever com
mands the trade of the world commands
ihe riches of the world, and consequent
ly the World itself.
his country has too much at stake to
Jeopardize such vast interests and pos
slbllities. Every one knows what Roose-
welt has done for the West and where he
stands on the questions of Oriental trade.
What has Parker ever done for the
West? Does lie know that such a coun-
try exists?
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RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
Republicans Alone Deserve Credit for
lnauguratinx the Service.

SAAS
When Democrats assert that their
party is the Gather of rural free de-
livery, they willfully misstate the facts.
1t is charity to call their assertion a
plain falsehood, for it is n deliberate lie,
uttered with the intention to deceive
many persons. Rural free delivery had
its origin under the Harrison admins
tration, and Postmaster General Wana-
maker was its father He proposed
and established the first experimental
route. When the Democrats came into
power, under President Cleveland. they
did everything possible to kill the rural
free delivery; in fact, they absolutely
refused to eXpend any of the $4,000
congressional appropriation for its nour-
ishment, and both Postmasters General
Bissell and Wilson, in their ANNUAL re-
ports, did their utmost to discredit it.
President Cleveland also threw colo
water on it in a hostile message to Con-
gress. When Mckinley became Presi-
dent, rural free delivery was pushed to
the front as a Republican policy. This
policy has been continued under Presi-
dent Roosevelt, until now there are
about 27,50O routes in operation. No
farmer need be deceived by Democracy's
false claims, for the record shows that to
Republicans alone belongs the credit of
inaugurating and fostering a mail SER
vice that is of i~ncalculable benefit to
rural communities.
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MUNICIPAL CREDITS.
They Have strengthened and Inn
proved Under Republican Policfcs.

proved Under Republican Policies.
The same Republican policies which
have strengthened the credit of the Uni
ted States government and caused its
bonds TO rise steadily in value nave also
promoted the credit of States, municipal
tiles, school districts, etc, which can
now issue bonds to far greater advant-
age than eight years ago. thus resulting
III great saving to taxpayers. Owing to
the increase in the general prosperity,
savings have steadily accumulated and
have become invested largely in bonds
issued by municipalities in furtherance
of public Improvements.
Eight years ago. in Democratic times.
municipalities and States found it even
more difficult than the general govern
ment TO sell bonds except at great sacri-
nee. owing 10 the extreme depression in
Tie investment markets. Public inn
proNements. therefore. had to wait in
definitely since the money for them could
not be obtained, except by excessive in
crease in taxation.
The change. however, within the last
el2ht NeHrs from bad to good. as regards
the credit OF these local governments and
Their ability to borrow money for needed
improvements. is an evil thing from the
Democratic standpoint.
In his speech To the Democratic edi-
tors al RoSemount on September S. Al
ton b. Parker bewailed the ''eNtravn-
Sance in Federal. State and municipal
governments. and dolefully noted: The
Indebtedness of the municipal govern
ments is steadily piliilg up. BOND is
SuES ARE INCREASINGLY FIRE
QUENT. and the people nave not the
satisfaction. in many Instances. of a full
equivalent in Improvements for the
money expended"
The appended table shows how in
seven typical cities OF the United States,
about evenly distributed geographically.
municipal credits have risen during the
last eight years of Republican prosperity.
and have made ii possible for public i'm
provements To be accomplished with dim
lnlshlng burden TO taxpayers. The table
compares the basis on which these bonds
were sold in 1895 and 1896 with the
basis on which they have been sold this
year. tOf course the lower the basis
the greater the advantage to the NUM-
cipalities in placing new issues and the
greater the advantage TO investors who
hold the original ~issues.1 Here are the
figures:
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Inc foregoing table Is furnished through
the courtesy of Mason, Lewis a. Co. bank
ers and bond dealers. of Chicago and Bos-
ton.
Mr.. Parker is probably right in think
ing that if there was a return to Demo-
cratic policies municipalities would is
sue less bonds. They probably could
not, if they would. The reason is sim
pie. Democratic victory wsuld again
create depression in the investment mar
lets, prices of municipal bonds would
go to pieces, municipalities could not
issue such bonds except at exceptional
cost to taxpayers, and they would be fore
ed to the alternative either of not spend
ing money in furtherance of improve
mcnts commensurate with their growth,
or they would have to enormously in
crease taxes. and so let present taxpay-
ers pay the entire bill for benefits which
poSterity would enjoy.
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Knows It. owu chi,d-

In discussing the irrigation law at
Billings. Mont, Sept. %, Senator Fair
banks said: After a Republican Con
gross enacted the irrigation measure
upon the recommendation of a Repub-
lican President, a Democratic conyen-
ton has the %effrontery deliberately to
claim that Democracy is the author OF
the great irrigation policy"
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Presidents Letter to Irrigation Con-
Srees.


The North Dakota Irrigation Congress.
IN session at Mandan, Sept 27, received
the following letter from President
Roosevelt:
Me- oy Stir, Bay, \. Y, Sept. 1a..My Dear
Ter OF the 10Th inst. inviting me TO be
present AT the North Dakota State Irriga-
,lon congress on the 9th inst. and ] wish
~ were possible for me to be present. but ]
regret to say 1t is not. During the time of
my presidency there has been no measure
N winch l have taken Il keener interest
tnah mat which started the policy Of ma
tlonal aid to the cause of irrigation.
L nave felt that the use Of the rivers and
smaller streams of the States of the great
plains and Rocky Mountains for irrigation
was even more important to the future of
THIS country than the Improvement of the
course of these same rivers, lower down. as
an aid to navigation. and when / became
President one Of the FIRST things to which /
turned my attention was the effort to Sc
cure the passage of the law which inauc1l-
rated this system.
! congratulate the people of North Da-
kota.indeed, ] congratulate the people of
all the United States-upon the facr that
this york has begun. 1t will be of meal
culabie benefit to the people of the semi
arid regions, and therefore to the people of
the whole country, for in this country
whatever benefits part of 1t benefits all.
With best wishes, believe me, sincerely
yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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Democratic legislation has never erect
ed a factory, or given a workingman a
job, or increased his wages. On the
contrary, it has put out factory fires
that Republican legislation had lighted.
it has closed mills that Republican legis-
lation had opened. and it has taken Jobs
from thousands of wor]Singmen to whom
Republican legislation had given employ
ment. No American w~orkingman owes
anything to the Democratic party.
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ono other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

mo other Administration In orr his
tory, no other government in the
world, has more consistently stood for
the broadest spirit of brotherhood in
our common humanity, or has held a
more resolute attitude of protest
against every wrong that outraged
h civilization of age, ut home or
abroad.,-Rooseeelt,s letter Of acceptance.
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Everybody cheerful. Everybody busy.
Business booming. Crops selling for big
prices. The nation at peace, and on good
terms with the whole world. WHAT'S
THE MATTER2-
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Parker is a strict constitutionalist and
Herrick is m of those party bosses
who wants to know what's the constitn-
ton got to do with the natural right
of the citizen with the longest judicial
pull to knock the persimmon.
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"The Republican party ho. not be.r

"The Republican party has not been
the nerve1ess party of expcdiency. It
has stood for the right and CHALLENGED
all con1ers. 1t has met every emer-
gcncy which has arisen upon the high
level of duty and honor. Above mere
party trium PHI, 1t has pnt the welfare
of the people.''-Senator Fairbanks at Sara
foOa.
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sPe9N141s u tHe 0atTUHaI Ifflgatlon Act,
said:
THAT Theodore Roosevelt was one Of the
foremost to appreciate the benefits and that
society in its finally successful appeal to
Congress, is not the least of his claims to
the support of the Republican people. The
setting apart OF the proceeds of public lands
of irrigation works-a fund which comes
back TO the government through The sale
OF the irrigated lands at advanced prices as
the work progresses-has in the minds Of
many given the final impetus needed to
carry the dreams Of the early irrieationists
to q final consummation."
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And Parker thinks the army and nayy
are too expensive. But nothing can
frighten those national defenders.
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Will Benefit Farmer. Most.

The American farmer will be the
chief, the prominent gamer by the open-
ing up of this vast section to trade and
commerce. For there are limitations to
Oriental agricultural resources. AS the
Asiatics become learned in scientific
agriculture, adopt modern methods and
increase the working efficiency of the in
dividual, the discrepancy in the price
of labor will diminish. At present, under
the method employed, n American
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14

Our friends the farmers of the East
were somewhat alarmed as to what the
result migth be when the tide wt4 west
ward and settling up the eastern por-
tion of the Mississippi Valley, but the
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Why West Should Vote for Him.

The st. Paul Pioneer Press, Sept. 81,
speaking of the National Irrigation Act,
said.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12
If WORLD IS AT PEACE
Naval Display at the jamestown Ex-
position May Be Large.

Naval Display at the jamestown Ex-
position May Be Large.
Washington, April 1.-THE success
of the Jamestown Exposition, from a
naval point of view, will depend en-
tirely on the peaceful condition of the
world in 1907. This was the expressed
opinion of Secretary Moody before the
House Committee on Industrial Arts
and EXposotions to-day in a hearing
before the committee bearing upon an
appropriation for this exposition. For
this reason, he said, it was impossible
to foretell the extent to which the navy
of the United States and the navies
of foreign countries would be able to
participate in the exposition.
Secretary Moody objected to the fea-
ture OF the bill providing for a detail
of naval officers for duty at the ex-
position. 1t was HIS policy to keep
naval officers as much In martial duty
as possible.
Chairman Tawney outlined a tenta-
tive plan which would make Admiral
Dewey and Rear Admiral Schley Gre
tired) national commissioners for the
jamestown Exposition. The Secretary
said the duties connected with such
an assignment might be considered
too great by the officers named, but
he expressed no opinion either way on
the project.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12
JAMAICA NEGRO IS
HELD FOR MURDER.
Represented Himself ms white ana
Married a White Woman.

Represented Himself ms white and
Married a White Woman.
Philadelphia, April 1.-THE mystery
surrounding the murder of John
Thomas, the aged night watchman at
the Houston Club Of the University Of
Pennsylvania last evening, was cleared
up to-day by the arrest and confession
of Lawrence Gibson, alias John Oak
ley, who was for number of years
employed as utility man at Houston
Hail.
Gibson is a West Indian negro and
says he is a native of Jamaica. Self
defense is his plea. Gibson says he
went to Houston Hall to call on Thorn
as The watchman, Gibson says, evil
IDENTIFY mistook BIZ for a thief and at
tackled him. I.S ne struggle he un-
Intentionally 'l1ln5d the old man.
The police do not believe the story
Superintendent of Police Quirk is Of
opinion that revenge for being dis
missed from Houston Hall was the
motive of the murder although he has
not entirely discarded the theory of
robbery. Gibson, whose complexion Is
so light that he easily passed as a
white man, misrepresented himself
as a student at the university and
married young white woman three
weeks ago. When the deception was
discovered he was dismissed from
Houston Hall.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12
BANKHEAD RUNS
HOBSON CLOSE
THE RESULT is IN DOUBT.
FROM RETURNS so FAR RECEIVED
BANKHEAD LEADS.

Contest Bitterly FOught-vOte Close
All the other Alabama Congress-
men VIII BE Returned II. b.
Conner President of the Railroad
COmmissiOn-He Swept the state.
Delegates Go Uninstructed.
Birmingham, Ala, April 1.-THE
first general primary election ever held
in the state of Alabama brought out
the largest Democratic vote ever poll
ed in the state. AS there were no
conventions and every candidate for
every Office in the state had to be voted
for individually, it will probably be
twenty-four hours before the vote can
be counted.
Early indications are that B. e.
Conner has swept the state, and will
be nominated for president of the Rail-
road Commission by an overwhelming
majority over John v. Smith, the pres
ent incumbent This is the first time
this office has been filled by a vote of
the people. Heretofore it was appoint
i've. The campaign for president of
! the Railroad Commission was bitterly
contested, the question of freight rates
being the issue.
1t is probable that Congressman
John L. Burnett will be nominated in
the Seventh district. and that A. A.
Wiley will succeed himself in the Sec
ond district.
The contest between Congressman
John H. Bankhead and Capt. Rich
mond p. Hobson in the Sixth district
has been bitterly fought, and it is i'm
possible to make forecast as to the
probable result. The vote will be very
close. From the meager returns so
far received Bankhead is slightly in
the lead.
All of the other Alabama congress-
men will be returned.
Thomas N. Mcclellan will be elected
chief justice of the Supreme Court
without opposition. Six associate jus
tices will be elected, but it is impossi-
BILE to ascertain the probable result at
this hour.
The weather was all that could be
desired, and an unusually heavy vote
was po1led. From the action of coun-
ties on delegates to the state couven-
tion, it is likely that Alabama Will
send an uninstructed delegation to St.
Louis.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12
SHOT FROM A CHURCH.
Prominent Man i'm Texas Was Killed
by Negroes.


by Negroes.
houston, Tex, April 11.-News from
waller county, sixty miles north of
Here indicates that race feeling is very
Nish' owing to the murder near Hemp
ssead' Of Tucker Pinckney, brother of
Congressman John NJ. Pinckney of the
Houston district
II appears that Pinckney and a COM
pa1i'on were riding by a negro church
r"eA they were fired upon. While the
80. osau mans body lay in front of the
hnurch a negro with a shotgun rode
~; ana Informed the crowd that he
49, the shooting, after which he dis
osSspedred. ~ This negro had a finger shot
biI "hlch Indicates that Pinckney and
L companion, whose name is not
lmo"h' returned the fire.
,,Cg Seorge Goss was with Pinckney
,,,a neh ne was Killed. Goss says they
or hunting cattle and rode to a ne
fb church for drink of water, when
W. were fired upon by the negroes,
81 c-o were concealed behind the door.
seven revolver shots entered Pinck-
Gus. a19 hiisIdii'9ile-
re 9oss said he has had trouble with
Gsdsoes a. and thinks they mistook the
U,dd man for him.
oc, yer lOO armed whites are In the field
'iSer the negroes.
ressnan Pinckney wired that he
:, 9uid leave Washington to-day and
a. an arrive at home Wednesday. The
T{u au man was one of the leading
''4'eers and stockmen of this section
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12

ST. Petersburg, April 11.-Exception-
ally reliable information regarding the
Russian military plans confirms the
repeated announcements made by the
Associated Press that these plans will
not mature until late in the summer.
They are of far greater magnitude than
is generally believed abroad and take
into account all possible contingencies.
Cen Kuropatkin, remembering the
experience of Russia during her war
with Turkey, when the Russian army
of 100000 placed in the field at the be-
ginning had to be more than doubled,
has insisted that the men and guns to
be placed at his disposal shall cover
the extreme limit required to settle the
fate of the campaign.
The Russian plans are predicated
upon Napoleon's dictum that God
fights on the side of the heaviest bat
talions," and they are being worked
out and timed so as to apply to a SUI
periority of numbers on land and sea
simultaneously. The army is designed
to attain the enormous total of half a
million at the time scheduled for the
reinforcements of Vice Admiral Maka-
rofr's fleet with the Baltic squadron.
The Seventeenth and Tenth Army
Corps now drafting are expected to
reach Manchuria by the middle Of June.
The mobilization of four other corps,
at least two of which will be from the
volga, will be announced by the mid
die of next month, and will start east
ward "a month later, reaching their
destination at the end of August.
The Baltic Fleet.
Rear Admiral Rojestrensky will
hoist his flag as commander of the
formidable Baltic squadron early in
July and will sail Immediately for
Port Arthur with the following YES
sells: the battleships Slava, Borodino,
Orel. Kniaz Souvaroff, Alexander III,
and Osliabia, the last named being
now en- route here from Cherbourg;
the cruisers Aurora, Dmitri Donskoi,
Svietland, Almaz. Jemtchug and Izum-
rud, and the transports Kamtschatka
and Ocean, each carrying 1000 tons of
coal. The conveyers ordered in the
United States are expected soon, and
they will enable the squadron to coal
at sea.
The last possible difficulty regarding
the passage of the Suez canal disap-
peared last week with the signing of
the Anglo French colonial treaty in
which Great Britain adheres to the
convention of 1888 concerning the free
massage of the canal.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12
IN THE FAR EAST.

Russians are determined that
they shall have a tremendous force
in Manchuria before they under
take aggressive action against the
Japanese.
It is expected that the Baltic
fleet will sail early in July for Port
Arthur, to effect a juncture with
the Russian fleet at that place.
Japan's first army, consisting of
four corps. has now been landed
in Korea, and the movement of the
second army to that country is
about to start.
Gen. Kuropatkin, commander-in-
chief of the Russians, is inspecting
the outposts along the Yalu river.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12
.FILIPINOS WERE
DEFEATED AGAIN
TROOPS SENT AGAINST THEM
SUSTAINED A LOSS OF TWO KILLED
AND THREE WOUNDED.

No Report Is Made of iIG losses
That Were Doubtless InHicted
Upon the Moros-Wood Says His
Forces Were Attacked First-Noth-
ing Then Save for Him TO Return
the Fire-searching for Two
Chiefs in Hiding.
Washington. April 1.-THE following
bulletin was posted at the War De-
partment to-day:
Gen. Wood reports that he invited
Sultan Taraca to meet him at Wears
on March 81 for consultation and that
the Sultan refused to come, and in
stead made extensive hostile prepara-
tions.
Marching columns from Marahui
and Wears left on April 2 to assemble
Taraca valley. The Wears column was
fired into all night ten miles from
Wears and one enlisted man seriously
wounded. The Marahui column was
strongly resisted at the mouth of the
Taraca river, although every effort
was made to accomplish a peaceful
landing; two enlisted men were Sc
riously wounded. The combined
forces assembled in the valley on
April and large number hostile for
tihed Cottas occupied were destroyed
from April TO Z. The troops then re-
turned to their proper stations.
"Newcomb, Company X, Seventeenth
Infantry, and Wampler, Company d,
Twenty-third Infantry, were killed.
Every effort was made to bring the
Moros to terms peacefully, but in
each instance our troops were attack
ed before firing a shot and force was
only used when all peaceful methods
failed and the enemy attacked us. The
two chiefs, who have been at the bot
tom of all the trouble on the east side
of Lanao for two years, are now in
hiding and they will be arrested If
possible.
Gen. Wade, to whom Gen. Woods
report was made, and who transmitted
it to the department. adds that the
conditions in the Taraca valley for the
last three months have been such as
to render the above action absolutely
necessary"