The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-03
THE MAGAZINES

Shifting Party Lines.-David Graham
Phillips has been bordering the meaning
of the recent elections results. lie tens
the results of his cogitations In The Heaa-
er Magazine for January, number Whlcn
is another proof that the west can pro-
duce and does produce every INC nlo'i 80
'strictly high class" article of the mag
azine kind Among Mr.. Phillips conclu-
sions is this:
Mr.. Roosevelt,s stupendous popular majority Is
not the measure of a democratic disaster put
the measure Of the Impotence and anger OF tne
conditions brought about by the concentration
Of industrial power and the application of that
power to the control of. the public adm1nlstra-
ton. - y 1t was a demonstration tnat
henceforth, with increasing certainty, pubic
person who succeeds in inpressing the peopse
with his courage and independence VIII succeeo
not because of or with the ASSISTANCE OF, Su. ~
spite of his party label. whatever that label may
be. This is the real significance OF the electlon'
taken as whole. -
The same magazine contains the clos
ing chapter of Hector Fuller's expert
ences as the only newspaper correspond
ent who broke into Port Arthur. tie tclls
/ of his meeting with Stoessel, saying:
! Tn varied career it. had been the correspond
emit g privilege to meet many men who have been
| connted great II = But the world over no
nifty and power of sheer ability and logged de-
| termination as did General Stoessel ~
|
! A Doctor Who Was "Sassy'' to Kings
in his article in Harper's Magazine 10Y
January, Edmund Gosse gives a vivid pic,
ture of Radcliffe, the famous physician OF
Queen Annes day, who bullied royalty, re
fused a title, and died worth nail h, ~.
| lion Here are some instances or M:
| manner toward his royal patients. Rad
clife had Just refused to- visit queer
Mary. >. s.. ..-
"This was not courtly," says Mr.. Gosse
i stand still less obsequious was Radcil1fe u
the Princess Anne, who sent for MN, onl!
to be told that your highness, dlstempe
is, nothing but the vapors, and you are II
as good a. state Of health as any woman
breathing Anne immediately, dismissed
him. and sent for the hated rival Nurse
i Gibbons nor when she came to the tnron
did she forget the affront. William -
however learned to value :RadchHes skill
and to forgive his surly tongue; ana Wh se
he cured the Earl Of Albemarle IN 1896
tha fling offered to make him a baronet
radcliffe enthusiastically, but not gra
cio,sly. replied that a baronet's paten
was Iikely to be Of no use to him. TX
ira ordinary were the liberties Wh1ch RAD
!, cliffe took with William Ill, VINO cam
. at last to depend upon him impilcitly. ~, ~
the doctors tongue went too Tar at 4as
for early in 100 the king, being In d1s
i :
b his ankles, and say what ne thougn mt, 6
them. The doctor roughly replied; WV q.
: truly. would not have your two legs &c
YOUR three Kingdoms. This was TOO niue
! and Radcliffe was banished from cour
! A he went, by way of an agreeable CON N
nliment. he predicted the date OF %
kings speedy death, and he predicted
Is correctly" u.
An outburst Of Speculation. There a.
indications Of an outburst OF specuiatio,
saws the financial writer in the Worlo
Work (January). And what wonoe1
me Intangible thing called commences
asserted itself on election day IN vel
remarkable fashion. Of course ' shat ~ w y
lconfidence in the president and MS par
and its policies. But it is an easy tla I,
8 ition IN feeling, if not in exact .tnousi
Z. from confidence in the ADMINISTRATOR OIL.
Il confidence in business conditions. Wn
Il confidence In business conditions y = :
Il most powerful force in the business M1 -
u ! blind confidence in business condil .Ivo
u breeds the specula tlve; spar1t--ls lhe spe
\ ulatiye spirit in fact.
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