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Once Won Championship.

Although the old Nationals gradually died
out. the name remained beloved and hon
ored by all the old-time Washingtonians
Mike Scanlon revived the Nationals
around about 1877 or 1STS-anyhow. in 1870
they won the championship of some league
L think II was the American Association
They had Charley Snyder catching for
chem. and he was the first player to orig
mate sign. He had it down fine. too. and
many is the game the Nationals won by
reason of Snyder's inside business" Jack
Lynch. the old Met pitched for the Ma
tionals around that time
II was In 1852 that the Nationals did
more 10 revive base ball in New York than
any other club. Jim Mutrie had organ
old Polo Grounds, al 10th street and Effth
avenue. The Athletics of Philadelphia. and
the Nationals of Washington, were about
the only two clubs of any reputation Nutria
could ind TO play with
Inc Polo Grounds were advertised 10 he
opened Tor the first time for base han with
the Nationals. The game was as dead as
a door nai mere then and had been so since
me Mutuals went wrong The CITY us
hungry for base ball, as there had been no
games Of any Importance for several years
There was a big crowd out to the Polo
Grounds for the Nationals were considered
the real article at that time. But ~ to
clock the Nationals had not appeared
Mutrie was IN quandary. He knew that
III ne put IN "Scrtch" team against the
Nets, the sport that he was trying to
revive. and under difficulties that womb
have disheartened a less energetic man.
would have been killed then and there ana
Tor years But fortunately just as the spec
tatCrs were becoming impatient shouting
Fake" and denouncing the management
the Nationals appeared, having been de-
layed by railroad accident and rs il
most fortunately happened. the Nets
beat out the Nationals that day about to
o. and from that time base ball has en-
JOyed boom that has been sensational and
historical.
If the Nationals had not appeared as they
DID there would not have been the Giants
here the following season, for with the
money Mutrie and John b Day made thai
season of 1882 they were enabled to buy out
the Troy Club and obtain a franchise i'm
the National League in 1888. together with
the famous Buck Ewing. Roger Common.
Mickey WEIGH. Pete" GilIespie Frank
HaHkinson and others. who helped TO make
the Giants and base ball in this city or
the players purchased from the Troy Club.
Tim keefe. Billy Holbert and Jimmy Rose
man were assigned to the Nets
From 1852 however. the Nationals grad
ua!ly went out of sight until they eventually
disappeared altogether. only to be revived
this season, and the name Nationals" they
have adopted seems 10 have brought them
good luck. May it continue. | knew the
old crowd. and you couldn't beat them as
players or good fellows.
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Ready for Games.

The Aquinas Catholic Association has or
sanized a base ball team including some of
the strongest amateur material in the city
The team made very creditable showing
Ia practice game with the Library Thurs
day. winning the contest by good stick
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TwobaS hits-Ynn Zant. Hickman and Sudhoff.
Sacrifice hits-Koshler. Rockenfeld. Cooley and Me
Intyre. Double piays-koehler to Weaver; koeher
to Jones: Stone II Eockenfeld. Stolen bases
o'Leary t2D. Drill. Wallace. Jones and Rockenfieid
Hit with ball-Coughlin. Bases on balls-Of Sud
hoN 3: off Mullin .. Struck out-Py SudhOf };
by Mullin ). Left bases-St. Louis. 4; Detroit.
s. Umpire-Mr. Sheridan. Time OF game hour
and 30 minutes
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CLERKS PLAY BALL.
Palais Royal Boys Too Much for Col
denberg'S

The Palais Royal defeated Goldenbergs
yesterday by score of 16 to 6. The fea-
ures of the game were McDermott's pitch
ing and the almost perfect fielding of the
victors. The following was the lineup:
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AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES.
Cleveland Shut Out Chicago.

Rhodes shut out the White SOx with ease
at Chicago yesterday. Comiskey's men being
all at sea In front of his delivery. Owen
pitched a good game, but was outpitched.
the Cleveland hits coming just where they
were needed to send in runs. The score:
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The body of C. c. Rogers. who had been
missing mysterious1y from Toledo. Ohio,
since February 26 last, was found yester-
day floating in the river there at the foot
of Locust street. Rogers was sixty years
old, and Is reported to have been heir to
an estate valued at $4,000 left by his faith
er, who died recently in Rochester, N. Y.
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work. The Aquinas is scheduled to play
mers grounds 14th and East Capitol
streets. Frank Mccormick has been elected
captain of the Aquinas, and w. S. Riley. 209
I'd street southeast, who has undertaken the
management OF the team, will be glad to ar
range games with teams of Washington.
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Young Played Before the War.

Both Mick and "Dicky' were base ball
fans" at that time Nick, in fact, had
played before the war and during it. Any
how. they organized the Olympics, and
Senator German of Maryland was a char
ter member. The Olympics took a trip
through the country and We're so successful
that the reputation of the club and team
became national. There was friction of
some kind after a while, and those who
were dissatisfied with the existing condi-
items broke away from their old assoca-
lions and formed the Nationals" of which
Nick" Young was one of the original men,
bers, together with Glover.
About that time the Cincinnati Reds
came into prominence. with Harry and
George Wright as the most prominent play
ers. and Harry as manager. The latter
the time by paying them salaries some
thing heretofore unknown In base ball, and
from that time, which was about 1867 or
1853. soon after the war, anyhow, profess
Sional base ball dates.
Davy Force was the first PLAYER the
Nationals secured from out of town But
as there was some objection raised by GER
tain OF the members to a professional"
Force was not paid a regular salary but
was appointed to some minor position in
the Treasury Department Little Davy'
added such strength to the team that other
professionals were secured and given
governmental department sinecures
Doug Allison and other prominent play
ers were hired" so that before long the
Nationals of Washington were nearly as
games between them attracted attention al
the country
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Three Straight for st. Louis.

The st. Louis Americans again defeated
Detroit at ST. Louis yesterday, making 1t
three straight. Three double plays nipped
the only chances the Tigers had of win
ming the game. The score:
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The splendid playing of the Nationals has
attracted attention all over the country.
and the papers of the different cities are
giving columns of comment on the situa
ton. The following article is from the pen
OF Sam Crane, the well-known expert of
the New York Journal: With the Wash
ington club a factor in the American
League race. the chase for the pennant in
that young and progressive organization
first and the first shall be last" is a Bib
1icai saying the truth of which has been
beautifully illustrated during the last
week. The Washingtons were on top and
the champion Bostons absolutely last.
L ponder for a minute to wander if there
Is anything in a name. BY a popular vote
ia Washington this spring the name ma
tionals'' was adopted for the Washngtons
in place of the Senator'S" by which latter
cognomen they have been known for sew
eral seasons.
Importance any Washington team or club
has ever made has been under the name of
Nationals If | remember rightly. Mick"
Young. also of glorious memory and pres
ent slorification. was one of the organizers
of the original Nationals " The Olymp-
les" of Washington, Nick. l know, started
Immediately after the civil war when he
entered some government department as.
a clerk. "Dicky' Glover is my informant,
New Jersey. the famous war executive of
that state, and also held some prominent
position in some department connected with
his state, with offices in Washington
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a healthy growth in the several districts.
The reports were submitted by ]. Z. Jeni-
fer, Baltimore district; d. p Seaton.
Potomac district: C. H. Young. Hagers-
town district; William r. Arnold, EastoR
district.
Bishop Gaines preached at Metropolitan
Church yesterday, and ordained the fol-
lowing: Elders, Edward Hughes Hunt II,
Edward Ernest Tyler, both of Washington:
deacons, James Edward Jackson. Forest
HILL Md; David Johnson, Worton, Md
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Left on bases-Chicago. 5: Cleveland. S. Two
base hits-Flck l2l and Bemis Sacrifice hits
Green. Donohue. Owen and Carr. Struck Out-By
Owen. ); by Rhodes I. Bases on bal1s-Oh Owen.
4: OF Rhodes, B. Umpires-Messrs. Kelly and Nc
Cartby. Time of game hour and 52 minutes.
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SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Nationals Lucky Title Sup
posed to Be Helping Locals.
OLD TIME REVIEW
AMERICAN LEAGUES BATTING
AND FIELDING AVERAGES.
Mill Leading Washington Team With
Stick-Cranford's Fine Whist Rec
ord-Base Ball Notes.
American League Clubs Standing.
National League Clubs Standing.

American League Games Today.
Philadelphia at Washington.
Chicago at Cleveland.
New York Boston.
National League Games Today.
Brooklyn at PHILADELPHIA
Cincinnati Pittsburg
Boston mt New York.
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Yesterdays National League Games.

Brooklyn. I: Philadelphia 2
Pittsbury. 4: Cincinnati. g.
Chicago, 3; St Louis, o.
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Club Fielding,

Double pays-Athletics, s; Boston. .; Chica 90
8; Cleveland, 4; Detroit. g. New York, II; st
Louis, 9; Washington, II.
Triple play-Washington 1.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
GERMANY is ELATED.
Nation Feels It Has Achieved a Great
Diplomatic Victory in Moroccan
SduabbIe.

Berlin, July 12,-While the agreement
between France and Germany on the
subject of Morocco which will be made
public in both Paris and Berlin cannot
but be regarded here as a diplomatic
success of the first Importance over
both Great Britain and France, it is
expressed in terms of great moderation,
the agreement being referred TO as an
ACCORD based OF full appreciation and
recognition of each governments rights
and aims.
Yet officially the issue is regarded as
a triumph for Emperor william and
Prince Won Buelow hat will strengthen
Germany's' diplomatic standing every
where on the continent.
The attitude of the American govern
ment toward the Moroccan controversy
was altogether satisfactory to Ger
Many. Precisely what part Roosevelt
took in forwarding the settlement is
made public in Berlin but it is APP
preciated that the influences he exerted
at Paris and London contributed to-
wards the settlement.
France and Germany agree to recall
their legations at Tangier as soon as
the conference meets at Fee and to
jointly advise the Sultan to prepare q
program to be laid before the internal
lfonal conference in accordance with
principles set forth in letters exchanged
which fully recognize special interest OF
France in Morocco.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
"GET RID OF THAT MAN.
Message Sent to Standard Oil Crowd
REGARDING Lawson,

Boston. Mass, July 12.-Now that
Thomas w. Lawson has come out and
told What he is going to do to John
d. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, it will
interest his hearers to know what
John D. Rockefeller has just said about
Lawson. which Standard Oil people
say is the only time Rockefeller has
ever mentioned the "Frenzied FL
nance" orator. There are just six words
in the sentence, which. as o message.
was sent to Rogers n Others at 26
Broadway, and they are:
You must get rid of that man"
Accordingly. while Lawson is going
about the middle west advising the
to sell stock to Rockefeller and
bankrupt him, plans are quietly maxi
Ing by the S"system" to smash Lawson
and bankrupt him. if need be, in the
stock market. Some of his bear as
sociates have turned to the bull side.
eaVing Lawson to shift for himself
While Lawson undoubtedly put his af-
fairs in good shape before starting
west. 1t is known that he has large
outstanding short commitments. and
he and his followers will be caught in
a squat next week when stocks take
a few more bitches.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
When an Icebura Turns Turtle.

Leslie's Magazines: Think Of sections
bigger han Rhode Island being torn
from a glacier and swept off into the
ocean,, to be ferried 5000 miles on the
bosom of the Labrador current until
the heated waters Of the gulf stream
cause them to vanish from human ken!
Then a one form some idea Of the
immensely Of the ice area discharged
from the Greenland seas each year.
thousands of miles Of valley are con-
stantly emptying their contents into the
bays and fords of the north waters.
whence the tides hurry the detach
ments southwark to cumber the wide
Atlantic.
The disposition of icebergs to turn
turtle is one of their most dangerous
p~ropensities. 1t arises from several
causes When they start out from,
Greenland their bottoms are heavy with
the detritus gathered in their glacial
period, and this drops off at inter-
walls as they move south, causing their
center of gravity to change and the
berg to assurne new positions. The
scientific theory Of the formation of the
vast submarine plateaus which extend
from Labrador to Fundy and are COM
monty known as the Grand Banks OF
Newfoundland Is that they are the pro-
ducts of the deposits of bergs during
the countless ages.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
Small CONS Newer and Brighter.

Philadelphia Record: Have you
noticed the improved quality of thei
coins now in circulation" asked the
trolley car conductor as he pulled a.;
handful of bright pennies, llickels and,
dimes from his pocket for inspection.
It's due to an effort on the part Of,
the government to put better money!
into circulation by recalling the worn,
and shiny pieces from which the inn
preston has become effaced. I've no.
ticed for the past two years a steady.
improvement in this respect. All thei
banking institutions now throw aside
the coins that show decided traces of
wear, and the treasury department re-
deems them with new ones. In Eng,
Ian a soiled bank note is unknown.
The paper money is always new and
crisp. being recalled before it becomes,
worn. It's getting to be that way in
this country with u small coins"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
SPOILS And LOOT IN
our PUBLIC OFFICES
Attorney General Bonaparte
Makes Startling Charges in
Baltimore Address.
REFORM BADLY NEEDED
Office serners Should Be Patriots In.
stead of Grafters Who Make
1t q Business to Prey on the
Public Treasury.

Baltimore, Md, July 12.-Secretary
Bonaparte, in a speech here this aft
ernoon, said the underlying evil in
the administration of our public af-
fairs was dishonesty. "Our public Of
fees" he said, ''are too often held by
dishonest men, gained by dishonest
means and used for dishonest ends. OF
course / do not mean that the majority
of our officials take public moneys or
fraudulently waste public property or
i'll any way cause the penitentiaries to
yawn for them. The great bulk of
Americans in the public employ wish
and intend to do their duty, but grave
and m~ischievous, though very common,
confusion of ideas as to h is their
duty makes the best of them sometimes
fail to do it and permits them often to
neglect it with impunity."
Public Office as Loot.
lie said the doctrine that every of
flee is created, either by constitution
or law and that public trust was
treated for public benefit was being
contradicted every day in all parts of
the United States and for seventy-five
years we have permitted our public Of
fees to be treated as mere loot and i'm
political warfare, not as a trust belongs
10 the people, but as the ''spoils" be-
longs TO the victors. A typical Amer
lean politician, as Developed by the
spoils system Of politics, earns his liv-
ing by holding, when he a get it. a
public Office in return for past Or ex-
pecled party work, to get rid of him,
and his work we must thoroughly
eradicate from QUIZ own minds, and
those of u fellowcitizens the absurd
and wicked notion that offices are
'spoils." This must be our first step
If we would purify our politics, and so
long a step thai it will go far to rem
der needless any further steps in the
work Of publication.
Must Have Good Citizens.
TIC have a good, popular govern
inent we must, first of all and before all
else, have good citizens. We cannot
too steadily remember that, as Burke
said, There never was long a corrupt
government Of %virtuous people, When
I'VE find any self-governing community
afflicted with misgovernment we can
safely and fairly believe that it does
not deserve a better fate, because we
cannot expect a perfect government I'M
til the people governed are also per-
feet, Which is not likely to happen. The
conclusion is not ~infrequently drawn
that in the meantime any Improvement
is hopeless; but this is a grave mis-
take. The true lesson is that the ques-
ton of good government in America is
essentially moral and only incidental
~ a political one; this is indeed true of
all governments, but more clearly and
'emphatically of a popular government
than Of any other"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
CATHOLICS WIN OUT.
Papal Party in Rome -nd Principa
Cities Assured of Choice of Mayor
and Councillors.

Rome, July 12.-The success OBJ
tanned by the Catholics in Rome anG
the principal cities of italy at the
municipal elections held las Sunday
was m 1t is greater than any
within the last thirty-five years, and
will assure the Catholics control of a
majority Of the municipal councillors
and the selection of the new mayor of
Rome. It. has convinced every one of
the extraordinary ability Of the pres
eht pope in handling election issues.
As soon as the impending election
was officially announced Plus x. called
together the leaders of the Roman
union, the most powerful organization
Of Catholic voters In Rome, numbering
nearly 10000 members, and ordered
that the Catholic forces should join
issues with the conservatives and Sc
cure the largest number of seats pos
sible in the municipal council.
The leaders Immediately gathered
the voters in the several districts and
Impressed upon them the necessity of
strict obedience to the pope's orders,
lending as they did to exclude absolute
ly from the nominations all socialists
and members of the extremist parties.
At the expressed wish of the pope
even those socialists who called them
selves Christian democrats, and as
such claim to be dutiful members of
IiiC iiNlSi I'LL -SASluuSu
from the advantages of the Catholic
vote, united as it was with the con
servatives. Several attempts made by
them to force their own cooperation
with the Roman union received no
encouragement from the Catholic lead
erS.
The victory Of the Catholics and con
s%ervatives was simply overwhelming,
inficting as they did a crushing de-
feat on the socialists and republicans,
who lost many of the seats they for
inerly held.
This victory, coming so soon after
the issuance OF the recent encyclical
which allows Italian Catholics flor the
first time since the occupation Of Rome
by the Italian government to take part
in the political elections of their coun-
try, has persuaded every one that Plus
x. intends to form a Catholic center
padty in Italy, modelled after that of
Germany and Belgium, and that his
we'll known experience in election mat
tiers will undoubtedly assure the sue
cess of his plan.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
MEET AT NAVY YARD.
Plenipo:entiaries of Japan and Russia
Will Hold Session at
Portsmouth

Washington, July 12.-Assistant Sec
rotary Pierce today announced that the
plenipotentiaries OF Russia and Japan
had agreed upon Portsmouth, N. H,
as a meeting place for the sessions of
the peace conference to be held outside
of Washington. The sessions will be
held in the new building at the gov
eminent navy yard.
Assistant Secretary Pierce has been
specially commissioned by the presi-
dent to make all arrangements for the
meeting of the plenipotentiaries at
Portsmouth, and is preparing t. leave
for that place to confer with the COM
mandant of h navy yard.
The selection of Portsmouth was
mutually acceptable to the peace en-
10Y of the belligerents. Besides be-
ing a cool m comfortable place for
this season of the year, it has the ad-
vantage of offering a building on gov
eminent soil, which is regarded as an
important considerations.
This government, it is stated, did
not in any wise dictate as to the Sc
lection. While the sessions will be held
in the navy yard, the plenipotentiaries
n their staffs will live in nearby
hotels.
Eebels Sink Their Warship.
kustenjl, July 10.-The announce
men. that the battleship Kniaz Potem-
kline sailed with Admiral Krueger's
squadron yesterday evening is incor-
rect. Before leaving the Potemkine.
the mutineers opened the seacocks and
flooded her hold. She is lying at the
bottom but is expected to be refoated
in time to leave for Sebastopol July II.
Capture Russian Guns.
London, July 10.-A dispatch to the
Japanese legation from Toxic an
nounces that the japanese force on the
island of Sakhalin which is pursuing
the Russian troops has captured -four
uns and a quantity of ammunition.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
PRIEST ISLANDERS HIM.
w. P. Burke, a Farmer, Wants Rev. j
w. Mccarthy to Pay $4,000.

Chicago, July 12.-Farlning by prac-
tice and by theory are said to come
in conflict at st. Mary's training school
for boys at F~'eehanville recently, with
the result that William P. Burke, a
practical farmer, has lost his job and
Rev. j.. H. Mccarthy, manager of the
school has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages. The action against the priest
was begun in the circuit court by
Burke, who charges SANDER.
They disagreed IN the question of
the status of young calves. The priest
is said to have considered them as
classed among the young stock"
while Burke regarded them simply as
calves.
You are a scoundrel and the lowest
man I ever had any dealings with
are the words attributed to the priest
by Burke's lawyer. 1t is said Burke's
acquaintance heard the words OF the
priest. SO that Burke considers him
self slandered.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-13
USE CONTRACT LABOR
Government Decides to Import Chinese,
Japanese and Italian Laborers to
Build Canal.

Washington, July 12.-In order to
test the capacity for work of Italians,
Chinese and Japanese, and also the
contract method of securing and han
mission has decided to import 1000
men of each nationality for a 500 day
contract, subject to renewal.
Proposals for furnishing these la
borers soon will be issued. It is the
object of the commission to reduce the
amount OF this sort of labor as much
as possible by the introduction of mod
ern machinery. but it will be necessary
to secure several thousand additional
workmen.