The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-28

didate for the Office Of president of
the United States. There is no string
on this statement 2 mean ito This
is clear and emphatic and is merely q
reiteration of his declaration the night
of the election. u will cause Q Rteas-
ant kalpitation &c hears ander mans
waistcoats wors by Republican states
men and SO divers and sundry pc
sons 10 initiating ho0ns ana hoomlees,
q layne wires. setting up rins. swim.
Ing gpun che eir(ls. and 90 doln" I'll
Chose Nl:,!@> whicA are supposed o.
nrepale Gle way e ae," white ii use.
1he zeal flipnt; o. a. 'cs .t!"lS lto>Se-
vcN will feel Ike eol.-r;i: ,:l;,ting 1im
! On d. u.8rr,:l;l:tti"a % irt W"A enough
alone. 80 Try for ;;lutNrr errln WualI
un,Uo~ t;rn;i:.!.T deprive. hin: o.: lAasll "t
luis popularity and H!igst easily en-! IN
his drfc;ia for Ult domination o. 1T tn"
nyll~. either Of Which would be Il b:
mIia.;n@ enl Of q plaBomrllal career.
Every tine We Env" bad Il popular pr;-
Svlng>' III IKE lr'>ideAtinl a'hnie tllrr"
~, Leon tN!A ct a shira Germ, Co. in
Cnn>p .;WinGrT- and Sy'CiH!lAnts. like
Che Vo;e, we Gave always Bith US, but
fortunately che only men vine eoud
havw been elected al ehird Tmc-NaSh-
ington. Lpficr,oa and yackSon-put
away Gle great temlaation. Some OF
flp rest could achieve CHS unusual
honor, and il viii be a dong ene be
fore Nle I'VE tenn rule is broken. ~
wisdom prevails II will be maintained
all the end of Cine
The other aetiremem siA bring JOY
70 another class Of ambitious mea.
James +. Jeffries announces ais inten-
ton to quit both the ring and the stage.
IN SO doing ne is acting as wisely as
Colonel Roosevelt. The ptchee taken
to the fountain once too often IA sure
to be broken Truth TO tell, the cham
pion bruiser has played in as great luck
as the president. 1t was his good for
tune to impinge upon the public vision
at period when all the great fighters
Of dozen years ago had passed their
prime and when no new ones of any
consequence were in sight and they are
not in sight yet. Consequently the re
nowned boilermaker has had a soft
snap walloping has beens and second
raters. That he could have thrashed
the Sullivan who defeated Paddy Ry-
an or the Corbett who beat Sullivan
or the Fitzsimmons who trOunced Cor
bett will be doubted But there is no
one in his class, and he does we'll 70
rest on his lauTels and upon the repu-
tation of being invincible.
Coming events cast their shadows,
before" sang the Poet Campbell. The
most important commercial fact now
casting it's shadow before is that the
scepter in our export trade will sOoll
pass from New York and other north
ern cities and 90 to the gulf ports.
1t is astonishing the way that New
Orleans anc Galveston have grown If
this regard n the last ten years. The
secret is the dovnhill pull-a vast nat
ural advantage which cannot be over
come.
Now that Captain Richmond Pearson
Hobson is busy with arrangements for
his impending marriage Admiral Mel
vile, retired. s~agitating for the big
gest navy >ver. Nothing short of six
hundred millions invested in ships. to-
pedo boats, torpedo boat destroyerc
and SO on AM: SO on will satisfy the pal
plating patriotism Of the good gray
admiral. He does not inform us how
many more millions it will require to
support his navy. With growing def
icit, which causes Mr. Secretary Shaw
to sweat coniously, the admiral fails t.
vOuchsafe to an anxious world any in
formation as to where we are to find
all these millions He is derelict In
this.
Tariff rulings, like woman. are Won
slab from a royal palace in Nineveh,
on which We're certain hieroglyphcs
was brought into the port of New
York. The collector, evidently a mal
Of common sense, classed it as lime
stone. on which there is an all valorem
ed that it was manuscript and there
fore free from duty. On appeal the
board of appraisers sustained the col-
tentiOn that it is a manuscript. If
that's true. then foreign tombstone and
monument makers can do a rushing
business. This decision of the apprais-
ers is about as wise as that of Mr. Sec
rotary of the Treasury Shaw declaring
frog legs to be dressed poultry.
If Colonel William J. Bryan reads
the Youths Companion for May II.
he will realize that he is beginning
to be recognized by that journal
Without giving his name it refers to
him as "a we'll known political orator"
and then proceeds to "borrow" one of
his best anecdotes. The editor evident
~ liked the anecdote more than lie
does Bryan. but didn't have acumen
enough to know that to say that an an
ecdote told by the great Nebraskan
would attract more attention. have
greater carrying power, than the same
anecdote fathered by an anonymous
well known political orator" The
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