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journey lo Columbus, o., and asl,
Governor Harris what he thinks
of that proposition. He is in posi-
tion to answer, for he is a fine
illustration of the old saying,
"Better be born lucky than rich"
He is now threescore and ten. The
chances are that If he ever enter
tanned any ambition to be govern
or of the Buckeyes he had relin'
quished it; otherwise, unless he is
endowed with prophetic ken of the
highest order, he would not have
accepted "a nomination for lieuten-
ant governor on the ticket with
Myron T Herrick. Unless he is a
genuine prophet he could not
know the three things which
caused him to inherit the govern
orshlp-tirst, that Herrick would
be defeated by Democrat for
governor; second, that, though
Governor Herrick would be defeat
ed by a Democrat, he (Harris)
would be elected lieutenant gov
ernor; third, that the Democratic
governor would die before he had
served six months of his three
year term. All things worked to-
gether for good to Governor Har-
ris. Though filling only part of
a term, assuming that he will not
be reelected, he will nevertheless
serve longer than any other one
term governor, for Governor Pat
tison, whom he succeeds, was the
only Ohioan ever elected for
three year term. They have al
ways been elected for two years
and will be so elected hereafter.
The term for which Pattison was
elected was extended by the legis-
lature to three years to get rid of
the odd year election. Here,
again, Harris plays in luck. Or
ainarily his fragment of a term
would have been only one and one
half years; now it is two and one
half years.
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BRYAN AND REID
Hot Shots and Keen Re-
torts.

London, July 5.-The central
figure at the annual Independence
, day dinner of the American society
at the Hotel Cecil last night was
William Jennings Bryan. Nearly
500 members and guests were
present.
Mr.. Reid, is responding to Sir
w. b. Richmond's graceful propos-
al of his health, said, with refer
ence to Mr.. Bryan:
CAT home, as citizen, / have
openly and squarely opposed him
at every stage of his conspicuous
career. l am reasonably sure that
when | return home 1 shall con-
tinue to do the same. / believe he
is tonight as well satisfied as | am,
tho by different reasoning, that
the country we both love and try
to serve has not been ruined by its
gold abroad. AS the official rep
resentative of the An erican people,
without distinction as to party, l
am glad to welcome him here as a
typical American, whose whole life
has been lived in the daylight, and
one whom such a great host of my
countrymen have long trusted and
honored."
Mr.. Bryan, rising amid laughter
and cheers, said:
"The temptation to make po-
litical speech is strong within me.
/ have not had chance to do so
for ten months. However, / will
restrain myself. With reference
to the ambassadors remarks on
gold, / wish to say that when | see
the progress my country has made
walking on one leg, l wonder what
it would have done walking on two
legs. 1t is pleasing to testify that
the ambassador not only has
fought me, but that he has done it
we'll. No American rejoices more
than | that he is three thousand
miles from his base. While abroad |
1 have met many good Republicans
office-and / only wish
there were enough offices abroad
to take all the Republicans out of
my country"
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"In Old kaintuek." !"

Another Richmond has appeared In
the Kentucky senatorial field to conf
pete with Senator James Bennett Me-
Creary and Governor Beckham for the
greatly coveted toga. The newcomer
is Colonel John B. Thompson of Har-
rodsburg, twin brother of Colonel Phil
B. Thompson, Jr., of Washington and
New York, commonly called young
Phil" son of Hon. Phil B. Thompson.
Sr., popularly known as "Old Phil" one
OF the greatest criminal lawyers that
even Kentucky ever produced, which
ia saying great deal. During the civil
war "Old PhiP' and his twin boys serv-
ed in MOrgan's cavalry-the very flow
er Of Kentucky chivalry. The father
was so careful Of his boys that he made
one of them march with the front OF
the column and the other with the rear
so as to reduce the chances of both be-
ing killed at once to the minimum.
'Old PhlP' is still practicing his pro-
fsssion at Harrodsburg at the ripe old
age of eighty-six. young Phil' was
commemorative attorney for two terms
and representative In congress for
three terms. Colonel John b. Thomp-
son, Sr., "Old Jack" as everybody
named him, brother to "Old Phil"
was a representative and senator In
congress and was universally acknowl-
edged to be one of the most brilliant
men of his day. II Young John b."
should defeat Beekham and McCreary
and come 10 the senate he will have
one great advantage over all the rest
OF the conserlpt fathers. When he tires
of his senatorial duties and desires q
vacation he can call young Phil' In to
fake his place, for they are SO much
alike that nobody can tell tother from
which. He would have NO sort OF trou-
BILE to work young Phil" as a senate
rial ringer"
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II tt It It 1: It -
Clark's :.
Congress Like EAbied Crss,hoppsr.
Change In Date Of Ei.s.:ah Sus. -
sestsd-Goed Work Of Democrats. ~
Kentucky Politics


| gave the Russians would have taught
the latter some sense 1t would also
appear that the internal troubles which
have afflicted the cars vast empire in
the last year would have led him and
| his advisers into line of conduct
which would cause other peoples to en-
| tertain a friendly feeling toward Rus
sia. But neither of these things has
happened; quite the contrary. They go
on butcherlng inoffensive Jews-men.
women and chiidren-just as they did
before the Japanese war and before
her domestic troubles brought so much
worry to Russia. The thing would be
incredible were it not established by
proof positive and-everwhelming There
is no use to claim that the czar and his
government are not responsible for the
unspeakabie horrors of the Jewish mas
sacres. One positive word uttered by
Nicholas would stop them injtanter
and forever, but it seems that this lat
Great has neither sense nor courage to
speak that word.
A few days ago the congress of the
United States, voicing the thought of
the American people without regard to
political affiliations, passed resolutions
of sympathy for the Russian Jews who
are being so ferociously prosecuted,
but, Judging the future by the past, it
may be assumed that those resolutions,
which do honor to the hearts of the
men who passed them, will have about
tho same effect at st. Petersburg as
whistling would have upon cyclone.
The hatred of the Russians for the
Jews is unexplainable ON any grounds
of reason, 1t is relic of the dark ages
and shows how race prejudice survives
every other feeling and how systemat-
ic lying may bring lasting disgrace up
on great nation. As rule. the Jews
are an Industrious, inoffensive and peace
loving people. They possess in an ex-
traordinary degree the domestic vir-
tues. AS parents, children, brothers
and sisters their affection has become
proverbial. They are frugal, but not
parsimoniOus, as is so often asserted.
They work hard, economize. live well
and spend literally. According to num-
bers there are fewer of them in the
almshouses of the world than of any
other nationality. Their appearances
in the criminal courts are rare so rare
as to be remarked by all students of |
sociology. They are thrifty folk and |
are valuable asset to any country, II |
the cZar would give them square deal
his Jewish subjects would be among |
the strongest props of his throne,
among the stanchest supporters of his
dynasty Why this idea has never pen.
etrated his dull mind is profound
mystery. His present policy of perse-
cution il raising him up enemies all
over the world.
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Can't Improve.

The proposition is being made
in some quarters to Improve
"The Star Spangled Banner" by
additions which will somewhat
modernize it. There is just about
as much reason of trying to Sim
prove" the Lords Prayer. The
Star Spangled was composed at a
time and under circumstances
which made it fllly expressive of
the sentiment that animated its
author and inspired the people,
and no latter day additions will
be received with fayor.-standard
Journal.
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Addicks of Delaware.

It was sincerely hoped by all lovers
of the republic and of representative
government that the election of Du
Pont to the senate from Delaware
meant the permanent retirement of
Hon. Gas Addicks from the limelight
and from public activity. There was
no such good luck, however, for the au-
dacious gas man bobs up serenely and
notifies all mankind in general and the
Blue Hens Chickens in particular
that Du Points election means that he
(Addicks) will be the next United States
senator from Delaware. But, while
that news is well calculated to pertnrb
the public, the declaration of Charles
M, Schwab that he will not even try
to purchase u seat in the United States
senate from Nevada is of the sort
which makes us all feel as though we
We're close kin to Mark Tapley,
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EnsIand's Common Sense Plan.

England's Common Sense Plan.
Not long since l clipped the follow
ing paragraph out of some metropoli-
tan newspaper:
Great Britain has a new sort of reve-
nue. problem on its hands, but not the
sort that the United States has been wor-
ried about for years. The British budget
shows surplus: revenues have been
greater than estimated and expenditures
have been less. 1t is proposed by the
government at once to reduce some of
the taxes and give the people the benefit
Of the improved condition. There's moth
Ing sacred about taxes in England they
actually reduce them when by so doing
they can promote the welfare of the conf
munity and when conditions warrant.
That seems to be the essence of com.
mon sense. In this country, unfortu-
nately, tax appears to be a sacred
thing, fetch. For instance, we still
maintain an exorbitant system of tar
if taxation because such system was
considered necessary in order to raise
funds to carry the awful burden of the
civil war. When adopted it was de.
clared over and over again by such
stanch prOtectionists as Senator Nor
Fill of Vermont, father of the Morrill,
bill, that they were mere temporary
expedients and would be repealed so
soon as the circumstances would per-
NIT after the war was over, but greed
of the benefciaries fastened them on
the people permanently.
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Captain Locke Resigns
Lancaster Gazette.)

Frank Locke has given up the
captalncy and bench management
of the local team. 1t is said the
cause of his resignation is the in
terference with his control of the
team. The blow came immedia te-
ly after Mondays game. Locke
will retain the captaincy during
the prese mt trip, but will then step
down but not out. He will remain
on the team. 1t is said that the
berth of bench manager has been
offered to Umpire Same Wise and
that he may accept.
In the event that he does it is
to be hoped that he is allowed to
manage tle team and that the
dozen or so of 'street' or "curb
stone" managers who have no
money invested in the club will be
gagged and relegated to the woods
where they belong. There is
always about dozen wise guys
who can do every thing from
editing paper to managing a ball
team better than anyone else.
They can if you listen to their line
of talk but asa matter of fact they
are public nuisances and ought to
be abated.
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To Corner the Potato Crop.
(Up-to- Date Farmingl =


Under this head the American
CulUivator attempts to show the
helplessness of American farmers
in any attempt they may make to
control the prices and marketing
of their products. The American
farmer has too long been influenced
in his actions by this idea of his
own helplessness, and it is unfor-
tunate that teachers of farmers,
molders of farmers opinions, and
builders of farmers characters,
are so narrow as to continue to
teach agricultural helplessness,
when they ought to be doing their
best to strengthen, build up and
ennoble the agricultural character.
1t is, too, significant fact, and
one not easily accounted for in
the natural order of things, that
these papers teach agricultural
weakness only when farmers pro-
pose to control their own business.
In all things else such papers ad-
init farmers are strong-strong in
the army, strong IN the church (if
they contribute liberally), strong
in politics (if they vote the party
ticket), strong in all but manag-
ing and marketing their own pro-
ducts. They are too weak, in the
estimation of these peculiarly one.
sided publications to undertake
a anything of that kind.
Speaking of the effort now be-
ing made by the producers of po-
tatoes, fruit and other perishable
and semi-perishable products to
so manage the marketing of these
crops as to get remuneratiye prices
for them, the American Cultivator
says:
"The result of Withdrawing the
commercial crop of the United !
States would be simply to afford
most excellent market for the po-
tato growers of Germany, Great
Britain, Belgium, Canada, etc.
After these outside growers have
taken the cream of the market,
5he starch factories might come n
md offer To take the American re-
'erye at about one-fourth prices,
otherwise it would be hard to
guess who would buy II"
or course IL has never been pro-
'osed TO Withdraw" any crop
rom the market, but to constant
y supply the market with all pro-
Iucts at fair and equitable price,
ast as other commodities aud pro-
iuets are supplied, a. needed for
ctual use and consumption. Thslt
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COMMITTEE
STIRRING.
The Fall Campaign is Shap-
ing Up.

Columbus, Ohio, July 5.--Chair.
MN Frank Harper, of the Demo.
cratic State Central Committee,
wired from his home at Mt. Vernon
tonight that he had not yet decid-
ed when to call meeting of that
body for the purpose of considering
the call for the state convention.
In his telegram he said that it
would probably be week after next
before he issued the summons to
his fellow members. 1t is quite
certain that 1T will not be until
after July IS, for that day ends
the mourning period for Governor
PattisOn, who died June 10. Chair
man Harper was in thorough SYM
pathy with the Pattison organiza-
tion at the time of the last state
convention, and it is likely that
this friendliness has continued.
He would therefore be in accord
with the plans Of that organiza-
ton, although he has during his
career been remarkably free from
factional alliance.
The committee, it is believed
will be dominated by sheer strength
of votes by the administration men
and this means that the temporary
organization will be to their liking.
There has as yet been little talk
concerning the temporary Chair
manship, although speculation has
it that one of the many Democrat
ic Mayors in the state will be Sc
lected. This does not include
Mayor Tom L. johnson, of Cleve-
land. 1t is not believed that Con-
gresham CARRIER aspires to the
post, as he is averse to public
speaking. There is lots of mater
ial from the Democrats in the
General Assembly. The Capital
City can furnish any kind OF
Chairman upon five minutes no.
tlce. So can Cincinnati. Yet it /
is quite likely that neither will be
asked.
To might Chairman Orrin B.
Gould, of the Republican State
Central Committee, who is at his
home in Wellston, wired that no
date had yet been agreed upon for
the meeting of that body. 1t is
expected that it will be gathered
together within a fortnight, as
matters are shaping up so that
there will be no friction over the
of the temporary con.
r. H. McCloud, of London, a
of the Republican Com
mittee from the Seventh District,
to-day said that he favored an
early convention, the date to be in
August. He was willing that
former Governor Herrlck should
be made Chairman as it appeared
to be agreeable to both the Unite d
States Senators.
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Use Printers Ink.

A few days ago while talking
with man who is interested in
business affairs, we heard the
state ment made that money invest
ed in advertising was so much
"money thrown away" We have
great respect for this man and
neighbor, and yet what II marked
difference between his views and
thousands who have won fortunes
simply by properly using the adj
yertising columns of legitimate
newspaper and in other flans OF
advertising. His views are SO
radically different, too, from the
opinions of such distinguished
dead statesmen and philosophers
as Benjamin Franklin who once
said "When you pay more for
the rent of your business house
than for advertising your business,
you are pursuing false policy. If
you can do business let 1t be known
But then the great Franklin may
be now considered only as "has
been" In this day and age Of the
world the people are, as We have
been led to believe, still greater
readers and more progressive than
'yer before, in the history OF the
world. But this may bs all mis-
,aka
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only change proposed is to 20
market as to prevent floods and
gluts which depress prices in that
part Of the year when the pro-
ducers are selling--depress prices
and destroy producers profits, but
pave the way for higher and ex-
orbitant prices in the hands of
speculative buyers. But we can
not expect these one-sided papers
to be fair even to their own read
ers and patrons.
The idea us taught by the Guilt
vator is, that, il potato grow ers
attempt to regulate the price and
marketing of their product, foreign
countries will food America with
potatoes and ruin both the potato
grower and his business.
This scare.crow is very familiar.
It was set up by this same class of
people, in the cotton plantations
of the South, in the tobacco fields
of Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia, and on the great wheat
farms of the Northwest, but the
producers did not scare at it, but
went ahead and secured their price.
This thing is too familiar to be at
all frightful.
But let's see. What did the
manufacturers do when they con-
cluded they could not maintain the
prices they had made Or wished to
make on their manufactured arti-
cles because of foreign COMPETE
tion? They informed the United
States government of the fact, and
the United States government said,
''this foreign cheap labor shall
not compete with you (here at
home we will put SO high tariff
on such articles as you make that
foreign manufacturers cannot
make them, ship them to this
country, pay the tariff and sell
them below the prices you wish to
charge our own people,
And it was done even to the ex-
tent of enabling American manu-
facturers to charge their own peo-
pie price so much above an
price that they can man
ufacture the very same goods and
send them across the
seas, and sell them for less money
than they compel Americans to
pay!
Does not the Cultiyator believe
that, should any branch of Ameri-
can farming be threatened by
''forelgn cheap labor" f" the govern
ment would be as kind to it's far
mers as it is to it's manufacturers2
If the dire calamity should come
which the Cultivator predicts,
does it not believe the government
would come to the aid of it's pota-
10 growers as it came to the aid of
It's clothing and implement makers
even before any calamity had come
to them2 Does not the American
know that there is al
'eady tariff of % cents on every
bushel of foreign grown potatoes,
which must be paid before it can
De placed on sale in any United
States market2 And does it not
Know further that this 25 cents
advantage and the cos, of impor-
alton will protect American grow
rs in an equitable price? Does it
lot know still further that the re-
'orts, not very long ago, of heavy
mportations of foreign potatoes
nto this country was almost en-
irely myth, story concocted
~ spectators to firighten Ameri-
AN farmers into dumping their ,
'otatoes upon an Improbable
narket2 1t is amazing that such
'apers as the American Cultivator |
iill aid and abet such schemes
gainst their own people.
VT1n nuINk4 4o1o TaIx
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he nad served SIX months of hfs three
year term. All things worked together
for good to Governor Harris. Though
filling only part of term, assuming
that he will not be reelected. he will
nevertheless serve longer than any 9th
er one term governor for Governor Pat
tison, whom he succeeds, was the only
Ohioan ever elected for three year
term. They have always been elected
for two years and will be so elected
hereafter. The term for which Patti
son was elected was extended by the
legislature to three years to get rid Of
the odd year election. Here, again.
Harris plays in luck. Ordinarily his
fragment of term would have been
only one and one-half years; now II Is
two and one-half years.
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Luck.


Some people assume to ridIcule the
idea OF luck. All such should journey
to Columbus, o.. and ask Governor
Harris what he thinks of that PROPOSE.
tion. He ID In position to answer, for
he is fine illustration OF the old say.
Ing, 'Better be born lucky than rich. T"
He N now threescore and ten. The
chances are that If he ever entertained
any ambition to be governor of the
Buckeyes he had relinqulshed It: other
wise. unless he Is endowed with pro.
phetic ken of the highest order, he
would not have accepted nomination
for lieutenant governor on the ticket
with MyFon 4. Herrick. Unless he is
genuine prophet he could not know the
three things which caused him 10 in-
herlt the goysrnorship first, that Her
rick would be defeated by a Democrat
for governor: second, that. though Gov
ern0r Herrlek would be defeated by
Democrat he (Idarrisl would be elect.
81 lieutenant governor; third, that the
Democratic governor would die before
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Some people assume to ridieule
the idea OF luck. All such should
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II would appear to most people that
he awful drubbins which the JaDs
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YHEN was boy read some
NV sort of comparison between
the ant and the grasshopper
very much tn Pho cradit of
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The New State.

The first election in the great and
gorgeous new state of Oklahoma will
be worth a journey across the conti-
nent to witness. Two United States
senators, five representatives In con-
gress and n full complement of state,
district and county officers are the i'm,
mediate stakes to be played for. Per.
manent control of the state Is tho great
stake. AS soon as Oklahoma proper
became territory she became ambI.
tious for statehood. That was In 1889.
She has been struggling for 1t for sew.
enteen years; the Indian Territory not
so long. Just how many aspiring men
have settled In those two territories to
promote their political prospects can
never be known, but it is safe to say
that there are hundreds of them. 1t
Is equally safe to say that there are
dozens of men In the new state who
would grace the senate of the United
States and scores who would hoe their
own rows in the house of representa-.
tives. The fight will be fierce and the
fighters numerous for these positions
and for the big state offices. Nobody
knows whether the state Is Democratic
or Republican. Let us fervently hope
that 1t will be Democratic by big ma
jority.