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influence, which will prevent him from
obtaining Justice in the State Court,
he has got four orders removing as many
cases from the Superior to the United
States Circuit Court.
Angered by these nefarious proceed
ings, the Tar Heel Constitutionalist asks
darkly:
:" Is there no remedy Is this State pr0vinee''
We suggest respectfully to the emf
nent champion of the Constitution that
there are remedies, although the appli-
cation OF them may seem little distant
at present The Federal Courts may be
abolished. Non-Democratio corpora
tions and plutocrats may be abolished
or outlawed Simpler step than this,
Federal Judges may be elected by popu-
lar vote in their respective circuits.
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The Slocum Disaster Report.

Unfortunately for the local Board OF
Steamboat Inspectors, its report certi-
flying to it's own good character comes
too late. The special inspection of steam
boats held last summer after the Slocum
disaster revealed the fact that improp-
erly equipped steamboats, had been
allowed to navigate the waters about
New York city after having been Eek
amined' and passed by the local board
The testimony of an Asbury Park life
saver that cork life belt may retain its
virtues after twenty years of use does
not dispose Of the piles of worthless life
belts that we're accepted by the local
board only to be thrown out upon re-
inspection.
The unpreparedness of the Gen.
Slocum's crew to fight and extinguish
a fire needed no demonstration at the
hands Of JAMES A. DUMoNT and THOMAS
II. BARRETT. 1t was known at noon on
June Is, 1904.
But it may be well for the steamboat
inspectors to certify that they are all
right. If tbev did not, who would?
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Pretty Close II Indiana.

From he Dayton Evening Herald.
Col. Henry Hall Of PittsbuTg. the veteran %.
ltio,l observer. was out In Indiana during one Of
McKnleys campaigns.
While he was waiting for train al Junction he
talked with a farmer who was lounging there.
"How's politicsf- Hau asked.
"Middlin'." the farmer replied.
Anything doing In this countyf"
The farmer became interested. why. stranger. -
he said. we've got EN- beat this time. Got EN-
skun. Say, they licked Us by one vote las, fail,
but this time we've got EN-"
Have some Of the other side chsngedf"
Changed" said the tanner CONTEMPORARY.
People In Indiana dom change their politics but
there's three new fsmles moved In, and they're
all Republicans, and there amt airy one OF our
fellows sick
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An Awful Warning.

In one of his rare incursions into print
Col, HENRY WATTERsoN, the great Louis
vile publicist, appeals to the North to
elect Judge PARKER. II is right that the
North should consider with due atten-
ton advice coming from those lips 80
seldom opened and that too iidolent
pen. In his judicious, almost judicial,
manner, Col. WATTERsoN sketches Mr.
RoosEvELT's character:
a sinister, cynical egotist like CoskL1so, II not
wicked at heart yet vengcful and intolerant
so corroded by ambition and pride-as 70 be equal
to any act deemed essential to the qualification OF
his prevailing desire"
In language the more effective for its
characteristic moderation, Col WAITER
son proceeds TO read the man as he is
Never CLEAN OF mag nanimity. never thought
of self placement: never gentle word for totter-
Ing age. never helping hand TO the iowly and the
poor: everywhere the eager seeker for power.
everywhere the aggressive cgotis,, everywhere
the War lord, impacable."
Such is ROOSEVELT. What will be
the result should he be elected? The
venerated Seer and Sage tells us in calm
but awful words:
If he is elected President the act will be . GER
tain though In many cases the unconscious. signal
for q war OF races. runous alike 70 the North and
the South. Why should the good people Of the
North put this scourse upon u.s. What have We
done 20 deserv. ~ Why should they invoke II for
theTnselves1 Have not ali OF had trouble
enouyh' Is not tho race question. unvexed by .
man like THEODORE RoosHvELr-whother he be
.eaot or demagogue--not dlfacuit enough even
when left TO normal conditions DO the conserva-
tive people OF the North want 10 give this bellir
erent carte blanche to open PANpoRAs box in the
South and let forth all the furies OF racial passion
Ignorance. barbarism and brutality-mereiy to
glut his unnatural hatred OF the white men and
bltlon'"
The North has fair notice. II must
elect PARKER or cause a war Of races
so that ROOSEVELT may glut his I'M
natural hatred OF the white men and
women of the South. We trust that the
Democratic speakers in the North will
dwell upon Col WArTERsoN's warning.
Indeed, it would be the part of wisdom
to exhibit the Sage in the North. AS yet
the master minds in the Hoffman House
show small disposition to avail them
selves of the inspiring battle cry: PAR
KER or race war!' Perhaps they feel,
with the Colonel, have not all Of US had
trouble enough?"
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The Wrath of Josephus

The Hon. JosEpBUs DANIELS OF Ra-
leigh, who recently rallied the Demo-
cratic editors to eat for the Constitution
at 50 a plate, is aghast at the insolenoe
of corporations and plutocrats and the
Federal Courts. His News and o.
server grits Its teeth because the South
ern Railway Company gave notice last
Wednesday that 4it couldn't get justice
in the State courts in a certain suit,
and would therefore take its case to the
Federal Courts" 1T feels" says the
champion Of PARKER and the Constitu-
ton, that having had big influence in
naming certain Federal Judges, ii will
stand better chance to annul the laws
of North Carolina in that Court
After this afectionate tribute to the
purity of the Federal Courts, the Nehs
and Observer records the wickednees of
Mr.. GEORGE W. VANDERBILT. HOn the
ground Of existing prejudice and local
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Movements or Naval vessels.

WARRINGTON. Sept 2a.-The battleship
Kearsarge has arrived at the New York
Navy Yard. the Lake cruiser Michigan at
Cleveland, the destroyer Perry at San
Diego. the training cruiser Columbia and
the training gunboat Prairie at Hampton
Roads.
The collier Marcelme has sailed from
Lambert Point for Menemsha Blight, the
destroyer Morris from Newport Tor Sag
Harbor, the destroyer Paul Jones from
San Diego for Magdalena Bay, the collier
Nanshan from Chefoo for Chemupo, the
battleship Texas and the. gunboat Scorpion
from Menemsha Blight for Tompkinsville.
and the training cruiser Minneapolis from
The training ship Hartford has been do
tachcd from the coast squadron and assigned
to the Atlantic training squadron.
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The campaign Of 1904 in the great football
war game will soon begin, and in all the
camps hard and constant drills arc in order.
ELI YALE sends out his usual groans, be-
waiting the recurrence OF his chronic rheu-
matism; but the knowing ones, who have
year after year watched him hobble through
early conflicts only to throw aside his
orutohes and become dangerously active
at the seasons end. receive with sardonio
smile his story of hard luck and the oer-
tainty Of impending disaster. JOHN HAIR
WARD astutely begins with excuses. In
case Of reverses to the Crimson the cause
will not be far to seek: the new coaching
system must bear the blame. From Prince
ton comes no growl as yet, but the Tiger is
not asleep and his followers hope TO retain
their lead Columbia, Pennsylvania and
Cornell are In battle array, and the smaller
fry are ready to begin their guerrilla war
fare. At present there is only the crack
Of musk etry fire on the skirmish line, but it
will not be long before the heavy guns are
brought into action.
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IL the School Problem Solved?

Superintendent c. B. j. SNYDER OF the
Department of Education's building
bureau has con6ded to the Neu York
Times these statistics of the public
schools Of New York city:
Number Of sittings In schools. 57s.sS7
Number Of pupils enrolled Ss2s2
Average daily attendance. ......,,-...... 4st $50
OF the 494, 800 pupils who attend school
daily, 81 3lS are in part time classes, for
the reason, apparently, that the school
buildings in the immediate neighbor-
hoods of their homes are not large enough
to meet the demands upon them. That
is, the number of pupils in part time
classes is 5000 less than the number OF
vacant seats in the schools each day.
Dealing with these physical conditions,
the Board Of Education acting under the
Bowling law, should be able TO provide
seat for every child for every hour OF
the school day. The Bowling law au-
thorizes the Department of Education
to contract with the railway corpora
tons for the transportation Of pupils
to and from the school buildings. By
the consolidation of the higher classes
and the transfer of the older pupils from
oongested schools to those having room
to receive them, the number Of the
younger pupils compelled to attend
schools at a distance from their homes
would be reduced to the minimum. II it
turned out that some of the youngsters
had to be carried a considerable distance,
the hardship would not be serious.
Mayor MCCLELLAN may yet find it
possible to provide seat for every child
in some school
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DIRECT APPEAL FROM A PRESF.
DENTAL CANDIDATE.
DIR. Swallow Puts in Few words, which
We Print With pleaGure.

We Print With Pleasure.
TO TIE EDITOR OF The SuN-.Sir' Not
knowing the address Of our friend BerRgren,
I enclose this letter. thinking IL possible ana
even probable that the lulninary that Shines
for oil" will make 1t see daylight
Yours for better world here and now,
SILAs C.. SWALLOW
ALBANY N Y. Sept, y.
Ar, &. ". Ber0DrsR, President STedsh he
publican Club OF New York Cttg.
Mr. DEAR Sil: l notice In this mornin
Sun your statement that your oounuymen
ARE considering a great deal Of ticketsphtting
at the coming election" Permit mo to sue-
gest that while your people the country over,
as have found them, are sober. honest. In
dustrious and economical, and possibly need
less OF protection from the government
profit sharing liquor tralflc than most other
nationalities, yet they owe II to their adopted
country and to the nationallties which from
heredity and environment are less fortunate
as touching the drink traffic. to cast their
ballots looking towurd government which
In the language Of Gladstone will make 1t
easy Tor It's citizens to do right and hard for
them to do wrong"
BY the use of more than 81 400 900 900 worth
of liquid poison last year. which as beverage
never helped one human being, but on the
other hand has hurt millions Of people, lees
than one-fourth of our eighty millions OF
people saddle upon the other three-fourths
an enormous taxation, In caring for the court
trials. constabulary and police forces, full
prisons. almshouses and insane hospitals.
the product OF the government protected
traffic in intoxicants.
Inasmuch as our Republican and Demo-
cratic friends are practically unit this year
on tari,. money, the Filipinos and cvery-
thing else except the division OF the loaves
and fishes. would 1t not be we'll for your peo
pie In splitting their tickets to remember our
cause, even II they forget our candidates?
SILAs C. SWALLOW,
Prohibition candidate for the Presidency.
ALBANY. y. Y, Sept. 90.
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A swiss PASTORS Midnight Cali.

70 THE EpIroA OF TEE SuN-Sir: c. j.
Rave, N. D.. In his Psychology Applied to
the Solution OF Occult Psychic Phenomena
quotes. among other apparently we'll au-
thenticated instances Of exceeding interest,
the experience OF Pastor Renaud OF Berne:
There lived certain Daniel kiefer at Bsrne
who had consumption. / used to visit him
two or three times every week. Once / was
prevented from seeing him for several days.
when voice like HE woke rue out OF sleep
lit the candle. but as It appeared to me rather
odd to visit church membor about midnight.
sssdn One hol5 Later the
fully. / got up and went 70 The patient. AZ
Please walk In. ] am calling you these two
hours His nurse had left him for twelve
hours and he was. very hungry and thirsty"
CRANRoRp. n. j., Sept u. ALoYsIA.
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Mind Resd,n. by m Omce BOY.

To THE EpIron OF TIE sus-sI. Having
90 recently read the letters In THE Sun on the
subject Of telepathy, was startled by an in
cident with which was connected to-day.
] wished to see . Mr.. Dandy. whoee ONCE
is In q Broadway ONCE building. and went
there for that purpose and stepped into an
elevator, and CHANGED to be the only pas.
senser ] announced the floor wanted to
alisht at and the lift was stopped accord
ingly. As l stepped out, the elevator youth
is years old, I judsed--asked me II wanted
TO see Mr. DANNY" The question startled
me. as nc, person on earth knew that ! was
ing on Mr.. Dandy, and promptly asked him
how be cane to aSk me IT, thst QUESTION Hs
o thought you wanted to see Mr. Dandy
There are twenty offices on that floor and
probably 100 tenants-.an average OF Ave each.
Yet that youth named the one out of the hun
dred that had come there to see / think
4 quite remarkable. How can it be reT-
NEW YORK Sept. 20.
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part Of public servants and a Legitimate
exhibition Of that deep interest in pub
lie questions which an unemasculated
intellect must feel The difficulty OF
discrimination does not justify, how
ever, an indiscriminate disfranchise-
ment. Such remedy would prove
worse than the disease, even If we could
take for granted that the loss of the
suffrage would render an officeholder
immune against the temptations offered
by bride givers.
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SHE ENGAGES A NATURALIST.
Miss Gould Pays Isaac W. Brown . Salary
70 Address Public schools and Farmers.

Wlt8 SOulu FuyB isaac W. brown salary
70 Address Public schools and Farmers.
MIpDLETowN, n. Y. Sept. 23--Isaao
W. Brown, sthe Hoosier bird and bee man.
Of Rochester, Ind, who was a guest at
Roxbury Of Miss Helen Miller Gould and 70
impressed her with his knowledge Of nature
that abe sent him to Texas to study the
habits OF the boil weevn, il in this city.
Mr.. Brown did not remain long In the South
A short investigation Of tho boil weevil
question convinced him that In order to
become at all conversant with the habits
Of that pest one would have to remain
at the side Of the newly laid eggs and watch
their development until tho time when they
begin, as full grown insects, their devasta-
ton on the cotton boil, and he 40 reported
to Miss Gould. She evidently agreed with
the report and dstsrmtned 10 let the matter
Of the bon weevn drop.
Believing, however, that Mr.. Browns
infinite knowledge of birds and beee.
gsins,d by fifty years study, would be
Invaluable to the people Of this part OF the
country, II he were allowed to impart it.
Miss Gould engaged him at q stated salary
and has given him q letter to school prin-
cipals and presidents Of farmers institutes
in New York and New Jersey.
Mr.. Brown intends to seek quarters with
some Of the hospitable farmers 10 this
neighborhood and familiarize himself with
the birds Of this locality. He has adj
dressed tho high school students and pupils
Of several primary grades. His addresses
were listened TO with interest by both
teachers and pu pills
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TIE PRESIDENT AT WORK.
Senators Knox and Proctor and Lieut.
Gen. Charee IRE Early CaIlerx

WARRINGTON, Sept 23.-President Roose-
welt celebrated his return to the White
House to-day by doing hard days work.
He went to his ONCE ut an hour when the
thousands Of clerks In the executive depart
ments were just settling down to their
morning labors and he had time to go over
several matters OF routine business before
the earliest visitors began TO arrive shortly
after 10 o'clock.
Senator Knox OF Pennsylvania, for
merly Attorney General, came early and
had talk with the President In his privats
Office. One Of the subjects under dis
cussion was the speech which Senator
Knox will deliver before the Manufactur
ers' Club in Philadelphia on Oct /. As this
speech is expected to be one of the most
significant expressions OF Administration
opinion and policy during the campaign,
Mr.. Knox wished to 60 over the chief points
O. 1t with the President in advance, The
Senator will not take an active part in the
spellbinding campaign, probably combining
his work In this direction TO two public
addresses.
After Senator Knox had gone, the Presi-
dent received call from Senator Proctor
OF Vermont and Was again congratulated
on the result Of the election in the Green
Mountain State. Mr.. Proctor said there
was no manner OF doubt that the result in
Vermont was forerunner Of the election
throughout the country in November. He
s.,Ils that in no year had the country
shown majority OF more than 25,O coo for the
Republican State ticket The Vermont
majority this year was about $1,000
Lieut.. Gen. Chaffee, Chief OF STAFF, was
one OF the Presidents earlier callers. and
then came James r. Garfield, chief of the
Bllraan nf Cprnprafinna IF fhA
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Eighteen persons sat down, as reported
by the Public Ledger Of Philadelphia, at a
dinner which cost the Hon. CHARLEMAdEK
Tower 500 a cover. This was the menu
'simplicity ITSELF as described by the
Ledger: Oysters, chicken soup, mutton,
lettuce. But, simple as they were, 'the
materials had been chosen with q disorim-
ination and assembled with patience and
pains that can scarcely be sufficiently ad-
mired." The Blue Points came from q
special bed the mutton had been espe-
cially nurtured for the occasion; the musi-
rooms were particularly timed; the ex-
periments Of years were present in the
flavor Of melon; the divinest essences OF
Oriental gardens had been expressed for
q sauce; the salad was In its very sim
plicity, the conception Of a genius.
We observe the absence Of sorapple, cat
fish, pepper pot, wafIles mead and birch
beer. the six special Philadelphia delicacies.
But, on the other hand, TO facilitate the
transportation OF those who had been bid
den, a special elevator was reserved, and
into its sacred white precincts no one was
allowed to enter save the guests The
new idea-new apparently to Philadelphia
of expressive simplicity In the menu Is thus
sedately approved by the Ledger:
The day Is pas, when the socially elect put their
education Of taste into evidence ,hrough the novelty
and elaboration OF the viends they consume. To
ofer guests q dinner which natters them 10 the
length and noration OF Its procession OF dishes 10
now Adays acknowledged as vulgar Entertainers
and guests discern that a moro impressive proof
OF the possession OF an educated taste can be made
In the use OF simple articles ct,food, if,ed by In
mite care that follows them from the soil or the 81.
to the table. TO ne perfection Of flavor and the
acme OF costliness."
But the plan Of reporting the ooet per
head OF private dinner Ia not a mark cd
departure from vuigarity In the direction
OF refinement.
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The Sound Of the splitting Ticket.

Oh. merry arc the many sounds
That MI the autumn air;
The bracing atmosphere resounds
With music everywhere.
There's music In the apples drop:
The chestnuts hum and Groom;
And where. the brawny woodsmen chop.
The axe has Ger It's tune.
a season made for singing 'tis,
In forest. held and thicket,
But sweetest OF all music IN
The sharply splitting Ticket.
Hark Hark. 4 sound We cans mistake
Is that which now we hear
Both night and day. asleep. awake.
II crackles on the ear.
From Battery Park TO Buffalo,
From Troy 10 Olean,
You're sure 10 md. where'er you 20,
The ticket splitting man.
An iron tool he doesn't swing,
Nor steel. Indeed It's said
He never uscs anything
Bot pencils and his head.
Now. II you'd really seek the $40,
Where concentrates tie sound.
Proceed. with all the tpeed youy We rot
To Orange county ground
For there. extremely strange 10 say.
Is heard the ioudest din
a constant chatter all the day,
Like shingles eavins 10;
And old observers by tie score
Lean o'sr their garden pio,ets
Ana swear they never heard before
So many splitting tiekets.
Aurnua u. yawxA.
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The most hopeful. loving and believing
Of all parties seems to be the Peoples party
whereof the Hon. THOMAS TIBBLEs, its
candidate for Vioe-President, writes
The sdherents OF tho Peoples party come from
ell classes. wherever man Is found who loves man
kind and believes that Governments are Instituted
among men. not for the purpose Of enabling few
to gather gold and pile It up mountain high. but for
the purpose OF advancing the human race. bring
ing gndness to the hearts OF all the people, enah-
them through the development Of the mind enjoy
the delights OF the intellectual world aud lay VT
treasures that all the cycles Of time canrot corrode
The Hon. THOMAS WATsoN's love for
mankind doesn't include Judge FARMER
and the Parkerians, at present.
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should omceholders votep

No reader of the American Common
wealth will deny that he author Of that
work, the Right Hcn. JAMES BRYCE,
n. p, liz emicsntly qualified to disotiss
the political institutions Of the United
States. 1t does not follow that many
Of US are likely to approve OF proposal
made by him on Thursday in St. Louis,
the proposal namely, that for the pur-
pose of making the administration of
public affairs less corrupt officeholders
should be disfranchised
The precise words with which Mr..
BRYCE is credited are: "No public
officer, or member of an Administration,
or of public service, should be permitted
the right of suffrage, but every such
person should be excluded absolutely
and entirely from participation in the
ballot In the course Of the same ad-
dress he said: Forbid the public SER
want to canvass, or to speak, or to write,
on any political subject. Teach him to
regard himself as a servant OF the nation
and not of a particular political party"
1t is not perfectly clear whether Mr.
BRYCE would disfranchise only Federal
officeholders or would withhold the suf-
frage also from the occupants of all
offices, whether remunerated or hon.
orary, in States, counties, municipali-
ties and towns. II the widest posi-
bic significance be given to his words,
it is obvious that he would exclude
from participation in the ballot a con-
siderable fraction Of our adult male
population. We are, nevertheless, in
clined to think that he contemplates a
no less sweeping disfranchisement, for
he was speaking in st. Louis, where, as
he knows, the crusade prosecuted by
District Attorney FOLK was aimed at
state and municipal officials.
II is plain that the proposal is an
academic one, for the adoption Of it in
even one State, and in the most restricted
form, would require an amendment Of
that States Constitution. Moreover, a
State Constitution which should forbid
either Federal or State or municipal or
town officials to vote in that State would
violate the Fourteenth Amendment Of
the Federal Constitution, and would
render the State liable to reduction in
the number of its Representatives in
Congress and of its Presidential electors
proportionate to the numerical import
ance OF the DISTINGUISHED class.
II would be found that, as matter Of
. fact, the thing advocated by Mr.. BRYCE
could not be done. The question re-
mains whether it ought to be done. Be-
cause he has accepted public Office, q
man does not lose his belief in the sound
ness and importance Of the political prin-
ciples embodied in the programme Of a
particular party; and is it not his duty
as patriot to promote the triumph Of
those principles? Does Mr.. BRYCE think
that Mr.. GLADSTONE whenever he was in
ONCE should have been barred from the
ballot box? Should Mr. BRYCE himself
have been disfranchised and forbidden
TO speak or to write on any political
subject when he held high post in the
last Liberal Government? The question
seems TO answer itself.
II is sometimes difficult, no doubt.
todraw the line between what Mr.. CIHvn-
\ LAND called "pernicious activity" on the