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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Within His Riahts.

"That's the sort of fellow Grab
bet is" the caller was saying. 81
don't believe there's stingier man
in the world."
"Oh, don't know" said Nagget.
''Now, there's my father-in-law, he's
the
'See here" broke in Mrs. Nagget,
''you're forever saying mean things
about your father-in-law, and /
won't stand itw
"Why shouldn't / if he's miner
haven't said anything about yours,
have I?' retorted Nagget.--Phila-
delphia Press.
Poor relations are often convenient
to have about the house when you
can't afford hired girl.
Love is a subject in the consideration
of which two heads are million times
better than ore.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Hearken to Samuel.

My old friend Hon. Samuel Com
pers, president of the Federation of La
Dor, Is waking up to the intention Of
Republican tariff barons to food the
country with Chinese cheap labor. MI.
Gompers has issued statement In
which he says:
There seems to be we'll defined policy
OF interested parties to induce congress
at its forthcoming session to let down the
bars to hordes of Chinese coolie laborers
SO that they may come into the United
States and it's possessions. Some minis
ters of the gospel also are consciously OF
unconsciously giving their services to this
penal project. If consciously, they appear
to be more concerned in the welfare of
the Chinese than of the American people.
Il unconsciously, they should study the
facts and the history of Chinese immi-
grafton into the United States and other
countries. The Chinese and the Cau-
casans cannot live prosper and progress
side by side in the same country. The
whole history of Chinese immigration to
any country on the face of the globe in
appreciable numbers has demonstrated
this time and time again.
They have dominated wherever they
have entered unless they have been driv-
en- out by the force of arms or excluded
before their numbers were permitted to
attain an overwhelming influence. Their
domination is not because of higher at
tainments, but because OF their subtlety,
their lack of wants. interests or desires;
because they are cheap laborers and
cheap merchants and thus industrially
and economically freeze out their COM
petitors. the American workman and
even the American business men. The Geo.
nomic. social, religious and political life
of our entire people is at stake upon this
question, and they will not tamely sub
nit to false sentlmentality TO please the
few sordd profit mongers who, for a
slight monetary gain, would endanger the
future of our republic. The bars must
not and win not be let down for the Chi
nese.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

lay the fiatterlng unctlOn to their
souls that they have a perpetual
lease ON federal power and who
poohpooh the results of the November
elections as mere bagateles would do
well to study the situation in Great
Britain, which almost exactly parallels
our own. Many years ago the Liberals,
under Gladstone, split into two warning
factions on the Irish question, and the
Tories, under Disraell. came into pow
er, sweeping everything before them
and reducing the Liberals to n feeble
and desplsed minority, just as the Dem
ocrats split in 1893 ON the money ques.
tion, thereby permitting the Republic
ans to regain the ascendency, reducing
the Democrats to u feeble and despised
minority. The Tories lorded 1t over
Great Britain just as the Republicans
lorded 1t over the Americans. No
doubt the Tories thought they could
hold their country up by the tail for
ever, just as the Republicans think
they can hold our country up by the
tail forever
But day came when the victorious
and scornful Tories split on the tariff
question. just as our Republican jim
goes are splitting on it. Last week the
Tory premier and his cabinet stepped
down and out, just as the Republicans
will do in little more than three years
Current British history Is decidedly
pleasant reading to Americans who be-
lieve that n change of politics in our
administration would be good for the
country and fills them with hope that
such change is impending.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
i;s Is "a ss s..l 81 =: q

the rovernorship and made himself
popular by advocating free raw ma-
terials. Whitney, Democratic candi-
date for lieutenant governor this year,
came near winning on the same line
of argument. In the Republican con-
ventlon which nominated Governor
Curtis Guild, Eugene Foss led a hot
fight in favor Of square toed declara-
tion in the platform in favor of tariff
revision and Canadian reciprocity. His
faction constituted about one-thlrd Of
the convention. While they were de-
feated by the stand patters under the
lead of Senator Cabot Lodge, they
forced quasi declaration into the plat
form, which was probably all that
saved the Republican ticket from over
whelming defeat. So badly scared
were the Republicans that no sooner
was Governor Guild elected than he
made an effort TO induce President
Roosevelt to incorporate q free raw
material recommendation into his mes
sage, thereby attempting to steal the
thunder of Governor Douglas and his
school of political economy. so IT
seems that Governor Douglas, Demo.
crat and Governor Guild, Republican,
are smuggling up to each other in the
same bed. The necessities Of New Eng
land have driven them to it.
OF course it would be strange to see
New England lead crusade for tariff
revision, but stranger things have hap
pened. New England wants cheaper
raw materials; others want cheaper
manufactured articles. New England
Is now attempting to hold all that helps
her without helping anybody else, but
that game will not work. The thing
must be mutual. Free hides must
mean reduction of the tariff on boots,
shoes, harness-everything made of
leather. See?
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
A Conscientious Tenant.

Wanted, cockroaches in large
numbers" is unknown as an adver-
tisement in American papers, but
1t is said to be not unfamiliar in
England. Its mysterious meaning
was mado evident in an advertise
ment in Wimbledon paper:
Wanted. 10000 cockroaches by
tenant who agreed to leave his
present residence in the same condi-
tion as it was when he took it,"
The tenant was a stickler for the
literal fulfllment of his contract.
His Handicap.
"He is thinking of running for Office"
ut would be waste or time. He
doesn't know single barkeeper in
town"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Not a Happy Family.

Mr.. Speaker Cannon was interview
ed the other day in Washington as to
the prospects Of tariff revision at the
ensuing session of congress. He is
dead against it. In vocing his opinion
he used this original sentence: II do
not propose for the country to be hung
up by the tail if can help it." Where
upon the Washington Post, high tariff
shouter, but not stand patter, says
that as the stand patters have been
holding the country up by the throat
for several years it might enjoy the
sensation of being held up by the tail.
The high tariff gang is not exactly
happy family.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
A Curious Lake.

Bridger lake, in northwest Wy
oming, has a queer characteristic
and one which cannot be claimed
for any other body of water in
America. 1t has this popularity:
1t discharges its waters into both
the Pacific ocean and the gulf of
Mexico. During the average sea-
sons the waters of Bridger lake flow
out through small river which is
a tributary to the Yellowstone, and
the water thus discharged finally
reaches the gulf by way Of the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi rivers. Dur
ing rainy seasons the level of the
lake becomes so high that the waters
empty through another opening
also. The waters which are discharg-
ed through this second chasm flow
into Snake river and thence to the
Pacific ocean through the Colum-
bia.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Well Done.

The Democrats of Boston did nota.
bly, good thing Cor themselves and that
historic city when they nominated Hon.
John f. Fitzgerald for mayor. He is
certain of election-another rattling
good thing. Mr.. Fitzgerald Is still a
young man, in the very flower of his
years, in the prime of his powers He
served three terms in congress, and
all who served with him. without any
reference to political affiliations, will
cheerfully bear testimony to his worth
both as a man and as legislator.
Transferred to q high executive Office,
his old congressional confreres will c.
pect him to discharge his duties with
satisfaction to himself and his constltu-
ents. He possesses capacity, energy
and integrity. He is public spirited
and ambitious of an honorable fame.
These qualities constitute the surest
and soundest Foundation for useful
public service. II Is feather in his
cap to be mayor OF such city as Bos-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Leze Majesty.


Hon. Samuel w. Mccall, Repub-
lican who represents the Harvard dis
trict of Massachusetts in the house of
representatives ut Washington, is one
of the most amiable as well as one of
the most scholarly men in public life,
but nevertheless, Notwithstanding, he is
liable to be harnessed up on charge
Of leze maiesty-that is, he would be
liable if we had a law ON that subject
At any rate, if he keeps on at his pres
ent gait lie will render himself persona
non grata at the White House. Here is
decidedly sensational dispatch copied
verbatim from the Washington Star, q
stanch Republican paper:
Boston, Mass, Nov. 1S.-Representative
Mccall. DR.. Samuel Everett and Gamaliel
Bradford caused a sensation today at the
meeting OF the Massachusetts Reform
club when they joined in declaring thar
President Roosevelts power must be
curbed and that his disposition is identical
with that of Louis Napoleon at the close
of the French revolution of 1S4S. Mr.. Nc
Cali scored the present attitude of legis-
lative bodies toward the president. He
said: ~ don't believe in the concentration
of power that has been going on in this
country for the last few years. Despotism
follows anarchy and that is why the
whole country falls down and worships
Roosevelt. The people are simply tired
of anarchy and are ready to worship a
man who will do something. The real
danger in Roosevelt is his disregard of
law and constitutional limitations. What
he thinks is right is right with him. A
member of congress can have no better
title for reelection than to have it said
he fought usurpation of power"
Now, remember that that was said
not by Tom Watson or any of his dis
ciples, not by William ]. Bryan or any
of his followers, but by high priest in
the temple of republicanism. o tenn
pora! o mOres!
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
A Ruokeua Democrat.

Mr.. Chairman CARRIER of the Ohio
Democratic state committee, who is
also the only Buckeye Democrat In
congress, is being complimented on
every hand for the splendid victory
which the Democrats of his state
achieved at the November election un-
der his leadership. There is much talk
of making him chairman of the Demo-
cratic congressional campaign commit
tee, which would be an honor most
worthily bestowed. CARRIER Is a bright
and capable young man. Should he be
elected to that position and should a
Democratic house be elected next year
Ia thing highly probable-his stock
would soar skyward, and there would
be nothing too good for CARRIER Wheth-
er he is elected to that place or not, his
political future seems assured.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Downfall of Chamberlain.

1t is am interesting fact that Hon. 10.
seph Chamberlain, "Brummagin joe"
as he is sometimes called in England,
and who married. an American, has
been unwittingly the cause of the
downfall of his party. He it was who
in conjunction with Cecil Rhodes drag
ged his country into the Boer war. one
of the greatest and costliest crimes in
all history. Then he took into his am
bilious head to re-establish in modified
form the tariff system which Richard
Golden, John Bright and Sir Robert
Peel overthrow in 1916. The result Is
not only that Joseph Chamberlain is
down and out, but that his party is
also down and out. Many widow
and orphan in South Africa will re-
joice and be exceeding glad when they
learn that he who forced the cruel and
unjust war which deprived them of
husbands and fathers has at last been
cast out. That he might have feath-
er to wear in his cap he deliberately
consigned the brave little republics of
South Africa to fire and sword. He
has his reward, and such a reward as
all oppressors Of the feeble deserve to
have. Friends of human freedom ev-
erywhere will be happy in the knowl-
edge that he has reached the end of
his tether, and it will forever remain
a stain upon our record that the Wash
ington administration stood by con.
senting while he butchered three tiny
republics even as Saul stood by con.
senting at the stoning of Stephen. It's
sad and disgraceful chapter in our
annals There is no use to set it out
In full here. The world knows it by
heart. The American people sympa.
thiZed with the Beers. but the admin
istration was hand in glove with the
English
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Two sprlahtlx Veterans.


The civil war actually closed in April,
1865, although not officially ended for
a year or so thereafter. Nevertheless,
Ohio has two men in her delegation
who rose to the rank of general in that
awful conflict. General Charles III.
Grosvenor and General J. Warren
Kefer. The former was brigadier
and the latter major general. Two
sprier or better preserved septuage-
narians could not be found within the
confines of the republic. Twenty-four
years ago General Keifer was elected
speaker of the house. Now, after twen-
ty-two years retirement, he returns
In the meantime he was a major gen
eral in the Spanish-American war
Hale and hearty, he is peculiar only In
the fact that he wears a dress suit
habitually
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

PERT, PARAGRAPHS.

Style is something you can't quite
define, but you get the bill for it just
the same
Women are of two kinds-tbose who,
won't so there, and those who will any.
how.
Most of us think we deserve oil we,
get and what the other fellow has also.
There are three kinds of powder that.
does deadly execution-gun POWDER.
giant powder and face powder.
One way a failure may be success,
is by lecturing on how not to do 1t.
Some men don't care to such an ex.-
tent that there's no fun In it,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

Necessity is the mother of inven.
tion" and Politics makes strange bed
fellows" are two old sayings appllca-
BILE to the present condition of affairs
IN Massachusetts. Governor Douglas,
tho outgoing Democratic governor, won
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

President Roosevelt has more tact
than he is usually credited with. That
Is not generally recognized as his
strong suit, but nevertheless it was by
most tactful act that he pleased the
people of Alabama. Their chief hero
is Admiral Semnes. He has statue
of heroic size in a Mobile park. When
passing it on his late progress through
the south, the president reverently un-
coveted; hence the warmth with which
he was received and the enthusiasm
with which he is remembered.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Prince Louis.

1t seems that too much Importance
is being attached to the remarks of
Prince Louis of Battenberg as to the
facility with which New York city
could be shellcd and destroyed. In the
first place, there is no record of the
princes having bombarded any city
whatsoever; secondly, il he uttered
the words attributed to him, he evident
ly was forgetful of the fact that at
very small expense New York harbor
could be so completely mined that no
foreign ship could get within the range
Of the longest gunshot Of the city.
Bats belfry appears to be full Of bats.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
A New Enaland Demand.

- N0W EU9idUu beHlaHOs
Now the American Reciprocal Tariff
league has sent memorial to congress
setting forth its ideas as TO tariff re.
form. Is this batch of "harebrained
free traders?" Not on your life On
the contrary, their memorial is headed
up with handsome portrait of McISin-
ley. On each side of the portrait are
quotations from his last, his farewell,
message to his followers, his speech at
Buffalo. President Mckinley had be-
gun to see the signs of trouble ahead
of us IL the protective wall were built
too high and so maintained Here Is
one of the quotations from that speech:
We must not repose in fancied security
that we can forever sell everything and
buy little or nothing. What we produce
beyond our domestic consumption must
have a vent abroad.
Here is the other:
In these times of marvellous business en-
ergy and gain we ought TO be looking 10
the future strengthening the weak places
in our Industrial and commercial systems,
that we may be ready to meet any stor m
or strain.
The New England manufacturers as
well as many others are finding their
markets taken from them by the re.
taliatory action of various European
governments, notably Germany, and
even South American governments,
such as the Argentine Republic. Even
China slants her eyes at us and boy.
colts our goods. To meet this condl.
tion the manufacturers want cheaper
raw materials, on the plea of being
able to produce the finished article
cheaper. and reciprocity treaties with
these European and South American
countries which will enable them to
send their wares TO Germany and Ar.
gentina and there compete in the mar.
kets with the wares of England and
France.
These former high tariff advocates,
now memorialzing congress for reci-
procity and lower tariff schedules on
free raw materials, will ultimately get
what they want, but, if mistake not,
the south and the west will demand
another sort of reciprocity of them.
The south and west will say, 'If you
oAN " SCI a iONGl uuty OH our TuW
materials we demand lower duty
on your manufactured articles-low
enough to put your trusts out of busi-
ness"
The memorial mentioned above Is one
Of the first results of the Chicago con-
ference of last August. Among the in
fiuential names of leading Republicans
who signed this memorial none carry
more significance than those of Alvin
H. Sanders and Harry G. Wallace.
Who are theyi Briefly, they represent
the two greatest agricultural journals
in America-the Breeders Gazette of
Chicago and Wallace's Farmer of Des
Moines. No one can estimate the senti-
ment which will be created by the edi-
torial utterances on this subject by
these two publications, with their thou
sands of readers on the farms of the
north and middle west. and they are
out fiatfooted for tariff, revision and
reciprocity.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Not Dipestibls.

She told the tramp 1t was absurd
That he the begging game should try.
There was food for reflection in her word,
But the food that he wanted was pie
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

office. The people of Massachusetts
have the excellent habit of promoting
faithful officials. and from the Bos-
ton mayoralty Mayor Fitzgerald may
achieve higher hcnors.
Res AdjddIoats.
The cat is out of the bag, the rat is
out of the meal bag, the Senegambian
has been pulled out of the wood pile,
and the status Of the reformer has
been "irrevocably and firmly establish
ed" as Judge Alton Il. Parker unfortu.
nately and inopportunely remarked on
celebrated occasion rs to the gold
standard Colonel Watterson has spo.
ken eX cathedra on the subject, and
whatever his opinion lacks in elegance
it makes up in energy. Marse, Henry
tersely and lnconically says, "All re-
formers are dashed hypocrltes." Tam
many will indorse Marse Henrys brief
but exhaustive declaration. SO will
the late George B. Cox of Cincinnati
and the late General Senator Charles
Dick of Ohio. The late Is Durham
of Philadelphia and the late Senator
and Boss Boies Penrose OF Pennsylva.
mia will be of one accord OIL that prop
osition. Out in imperial Missouri there
are divers and sundry persons who
will eXclaim, "Well done, Marse Hen
ry!" But the voices will not all be at
tuned to concert pitch Messrs. Will
liam Hearst, John Weaver, Treasurer
Berry of Pennsylvania, Governor Elect
Pattison of Ohio, Tom Johnson of
Cleveland and Joseph Folk, with their
followers will say: NAY, nay, Marse
Henry! You are too sweeping in your
declaration. You have drawn your con-
clusion from too few instances"
The chances are ten to one that when
Marse Henry so pronounced he was
provoked by some bogus pinchbeck re-
former who had assumed the livery of
heaven to serve the devil, for in ev-
cry great reform movement some evil
minded, self serving rascals will creep
into the company. In the greatest and
most enduring reform movement Of all
the ages there was Judas Iscarlot In
the second greatest reform movement
there was Benedict Arnold and so ii
will be to the end. But, notwithstand-
ing Judas, Christianity triumphed, and,
Notwithstanding Arnold, our Revolu
tionary fathers prevailed. Genuine re-
form won, and it will win again.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

"This russian situation is interest
ing to watch"
''Yes, through a telescope"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

Democrats have before them many
years Of victory.
OF course 1t is known to all readers
of history that all parties in New York
have indulged greatly in the feud habit
from the very beginning In that re-
gard they seem to be incorrigble II
has kept several New Workers out Of
the White House and has wrecked the
fortunes of divers of statesmen.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

Appearances indicate that Senator
Joseph Benson Foraker is to be pressed
by the railroad interests as their par
ticular favorite for the Republican
presidential nomination. He and Sec
retary Taft will fight it out in Ohio.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Lucky Warner.

Major Wil.iam Warner OF Missouri is
another Illustration of the fact that 1t
is better to be born lucky than RICH
He is the first Republican senator Mis-
souri, has had in thirty years, and in all
human probability lie is the last she
will have until three decades more
have rolled away. He ought to pick
Oup an eligible site for monument to-
Judge Alton b. Parker for sending that
telegram to the st. Louis convention
Had the judge not been lured into that
fatal performance Major Warner in.
stead of being n full fledged senator of.
the United States would still be Unit
ed States district attorney at Kansas
City. Personally Major Warner is a.
most amlable man and intellectually
will do credit to the state. All good
Missourians will wish him pleasant
stay in Washington for six years and
no more. That's the length Of his lease
on u curule chair.
Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks is
the tallest man ever vice president of
the United States, standing about six
lceL lOuI lnCutS. AS lc lS very SiellueE
he seems much taller. Next to him in
altitude was Thomas Jefferson, who
was six feet two and a half inches. If
Mr.. Fairbanks should become as fat
as some folks he would be whopper,
indeed-larger even than David Davis
Vt Illinois, once president pro tempore
of the senate, who was so large that
chair had to be made especially for
him. Fairbanks will undoubtedly be-
the tallest man in the presidential race
IN 1905 Should he be elected he Wilt
be next to Lincoln in height He was,
full six feet four. The next tallest:
presidents were Washington and JEFF.
ferson, who each measured six feet two,
and half. Cleveland is still the hefiv-,
lest, though IL Secretary Taft shounl be
Aected he will probably take, the belt
rom Grover.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28

ton, especially at the early age at
which Brother Fitzgerald will ill the
office. The people Of Massachusetts
have the excellent habit of promoting
faithful officials. and from the Bos-
ton mayoralty Mayor Fitzgerald may
achieve h CHER hcnors.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-12-28
Lhnmb
Letter o
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Especial Washington Letter.]
NHIS is written In sight Of the
shlmmering waters of Mobile
bay, 4 delightful place to be