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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-06
The Packers Palaver.

The puzzle in the packers case is to
find out what all the row is over. The
packers are claiming that Commission
er Garfield came to Chicago and wormed
his way into their confidence and their
bookkeeping department under pledge
not to reveal any of their secrets. Those
secrets afterwards came out to some
extent and the packers were indicted
by a. federal grand jury. They have
come into court and set up the claim
that they cannot be punished even if
guilty, since they told on themselves
under promise Of immunity.
They have spent week testifying to
the promises made by Mr.. Garfield, but
there has not been a scintilla of evil
dence introduced to show that Mr.. Gar
field broke any promise he may have
made. The packers appear to assume
that the cat having gotten out Of the
bag, Mr.. Garfield must have let it out.
Attorney General Moody says his de-
partment got no information from Mr.:
Garfield nor from the: department. Of
commerce and labor, nor from the pres
ident Of the United States. It got it's
own information in it's own way. There
fore he believes the packers must stand
or fall on their Innocence or guilt, ire.
spectiye of what Mr.. Garfield may have
secured in the way of information. II
The doctrine set up by the packers
is good deal like that of the man who
tells you dark secret and then adds
- - Now, if il this ever comes out I shall
know who told it.. This has ten
dency to make you feel queer. The
packers evidently intended to make Mr..
Garfield feel queer. They told him a
lot of stuff. none Of which appears to
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Senator Patterson's Dilemma.

The question raised by Senator Pat
terson of Colorado whether the demo-
cratic caucus. can control his vote on the
Santo Domingo treaty is interesting,
but it is difficult to see how the senate
can settle it for him. He went into the
democratic caucus at the beginning Of
his term and accepted potluck with the
democrats on committee appointments.
On all party questions it was assumed
that he would vote with his colleagues
to uphold democratic principles. Now
the caucus has decided that opposition
to the San Domingo treaty is a demo-
cratic principle and it demands Sena-
tor Patterson s vote. The senator hap
pens to disagree from that conclusion.
He wants to vote for the treaty. There
is nothing in the situation. to prevent
his voting for it. The only thing he
could lose by it would be standing in
the democratic caucus, and even there
it is question whether the caucus
would attempt to punish him for giving
a fair, square vote according to his
convictions
On the question whether the demo
cratic caucus has stated party principle,
MI. Patterson has good case, There
is nothing in any democratic platform
which exactly covers the matter. The
last national platform declared for the
maintenance of the Monroe doctrine
| in its full integrity This was very
vague phrase and one about which Sen
ator Patterson reserves the right Of
construction for himself. Senator Ray
ner. has delivered a speech saying the
Santo Domingo treaty seeks to enforce
a Roosevelt doctrine, but he is not the
| democratic party.
| The question whether there is a vic.
lation Of the Monroe doctrine in the
pending treaty is not a party question
at all. The. senatorial caucus has nc
right to attempt to control any sena.
tors vote on that question. It is one
of foreign policy in which there is in
volved no question which has ever di
vided the republican and democratic
parties. The fact of the matter is that
the treaty requiring a two-thipds vote
| IN Cne senate, IL IS an aLCfacC1Ve pro
gram for the democratic minority te
beat it and then claim a victory over
the administration.
Senator Patterson finds himself in
danger*ofa being coerced into giving 6
vote which goes against his conscience
merely to give his party an empty vic
Etory.: He does not like the. situation
mo man with an ounce of brains Or {
spark Of manhood would. y
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prevents tinkering with the army by
subordinate secretaries. This commit
tee has worked hard to bring the army
up to a state Of efficiency, but it is
compelled to admit today that it has
but one army corps out of six which it
can safely say is ready to proceed at
once to the field.
1t is scarcely remarkable that Japan
should know what all Europe knows OF
that she should be interested to learn
what her noble ally is going to do
about it. She reasonably expects Eng
land to give as much attention to army
development as Japan is giving to
naval extension. y
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AudItorlum-"The Heart Of Maryland

1.-THE Heart Of Maryland is the Sec
ond Of the Belasco plays which Mime
apolis theatergoers are privileged to see
this winter. It Is many a year since
Maryland Calvert first swung out from
the belfry of the old southern church to
save the life Of her lover, but her story
still holds strong heart interest. Bel
asco has been prodigal with the emotions
in 1t for the love of a man for a woman,
father for son, sistersfor brother, loyalty,
ambition, revenge are all spun into the
tangled web that shows here and there
Belasco touch to lift It out of the rank
of war dramas, for the story Is only the
old, old tale of the struggle between a
girls loyalty and love. The climaxes are
almost strained in their intensity, but life
moved at a fearful pace in Maryland
during the civil war, and each day had
it's shadow as well as it's sunshine.
The Maryland Calvert of Miss Odette
| Tyler is strongly reminiscent of Mrs.
/ Leslie Carter. Miss Tyler has not the
warm, vivid personality of Mrs. Carter,
but she gave an attractive picture Of the
southern girl who was ready to sacrifice
| her lover for her country, and then
| turned traitor to her country to save her
lover. Her defense of her brother who
was shot as a spy, her horror and re-
| morseful fear when she learns that she
! has failed to clear his name and has i'm
| plicated in his guilt the man she loves
rang truer thru Miss Tyler's art than did
| the great scene in the old church when
she would have killed the man who con-
demned her lover to be hung as a spy,
aids the lover to escape and then darts
away to muffle, with her body, the great
bell whose peal sends warning to all the
country side Of the escape Of a union
| prisoner.
I cY,tn Iror
| ing of Colonel Thorpe, the man who is
| false to both armies.s The hard, selfish
! ambition. the INSCRIPTIONS, heartless
bending of everything to crafty malig-
| nant revenge were portrayed in man
| ner that was forceful thru it's restraint
The General Kendrick of r. D. MacLean.
the father who condemns his son to an
ignominious death, was an excellent piece
of work, and Orrin Johnson made of
Allan Kendrick, the union officer, a
very pleasing hero, whose love for Mary
| land Calvert entangled him in a net
/ quickly woven by the resourceful Thorpe.
| Wallace Eddinger as Lieutenant Telfair,
was the typical southerner, courteous and
I brave. while his sweetheart Nancy Nc
Nair, was most impetuous young wom-
] an, according to Miss Inez Plummer
Regain Hughston presented two widely
different pictures, and did them both well,
| that of Llody Calvert, in the secret SER
! vice, and the old sexton of the old church.
! The others in the cast were quite salts
4 factory, and the stage settings were
charming. The orchestra added to the
war time atmosphere with a program of
war songs 4ss--F. r. 81. y
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Hats Off to the Hat.
70 the Editor Of The Journal,

To the Editor Of The Journal =s
Having been a constant reader Of
your paper for the last few years. T
have of late noticed several times
when you have made mention of
Medicine Hat as the place where the
cold weather originates. Statements Of
that kind do us. a great injustice as,
with the exception of the southern
states, we have the balmiest weather
on the American continent. am in
ing bali GO game e for F e:e 3, 1 Whieh
think speaks for itself. This game
was played before an audience Of about
1000 people, some Of whom were in
their shirtsleeves, and only about half
OF whom wore overcoats, and light ones
at that. Hoping that in your future
thoughts of the Hat you may think
Of our having played baseball on Feb.
e. 9. .Brougham.
Medicine Hat, Feb. 8.
The Journal presents it's COM
ephments and apologies. On Feb. 2 the
temperature at the Hat was 48, on the
Sd it was Sc above, remember, above
zero. : This shows that the game was
not only begun in summer weather but
that like all closely contested ball
games, it tended to raise the temper.
allure. -. -,
We understand that Eskimo Bill
clad in streamer of gauze with a CIR
die Of orange blossoms about his waist
put some hot ones over the plate. Lem.
onade was served at third base to all
players who reached there in an ex.
hausted and overheated condition. The
fan butcher did driving business in
the grandstand and sun umbrellas
were used SO freely in the bleachers
that the thing became scandal tc
those in the back seats. Old Medicine
Hat himself umpired the game, and his
decisions were fair, except once wher
he called three strikes on Circle City
Pete. This was attributed to the per
SEPARATION getting in the old man s eyes
| The Nome Pet was on the slab fol
Leth bridge, and the curves that he sho1
over the plate caused the atmosphere
to fairly exude heat. It was no fault
| Oh the Pet that Lethbridge did not
win the game. Their defeat is directly
attributable to two cases Of sunstrokt
in the outfeld, which removed thei
heaviest hitters from the game. Thu
Chicago Nationals are trying to secur,
the Hat grounds for their spring prac
tice.
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fciMeciiAlccJ JNSi:FIJ=

Chicago ha has ahno 9fhh1eeFq referendum M com
ing. This one in April. It concerns the
old subject which, has been so often set
tied in Ch1cago-the manipulating of
the street railways. This one is to be a
vote on issuing $75,o00,00 Mueller Ger,
.tiicates to buy the roads. 1t will prob.
ably be supported by a majority and then
the question will be whether the city can
sell the certificates. This will entail lit
'igation as to their constitutionality, and
after that the question whether the trac-
ton companies are obliged to take them
In exchange for their property will
come up. .
]. H. Wilbur, recently appointed to the
New York school board by Mayor Nc
Clellan, is opposed to all fads. He wants
German and French removed from the
curriculum and music and manual train
ing are anathema.z Mr.. Wilbur and an
other neutrality-suspicious. member, DR..
Mcdonald, will work, actively to depose
Superintendent MaNwell.i $3.50 ~. e
. :, Williston, N. D., will vote on the Goth
insts on proposition to issue bonds; for
the installation of a waterworks system.
The district attorney having. reported
that the city of Boston has paid extrava-
CANT sums for work that was never done
on the :Fenway sewer, experts come for
ward and testify that the sewer should
never have been undertaken. Boston is
now even with Chicago, which lost
$5,000.000 on contract work on water
tunnels. IL +. ~ v>..-- @~-r
Los Angeles is about to undertake. a
stupendous engineering task in adding to
its water supply the Owens river. The
Owens river happens to be 300 miles dis
tant from the city, but this; makes no diff
ference, as the city proposes to capture
its waters and carry them in conduits
thru mountains and across plains. The
work will take eight years and cost
| $50, 600, 900.
st. Louis has installed a complete light
| ing plant in the basement Of the city hall
| to light that building and several others
| It claims now that this plant manufac-
lures light at a cost of 1.56 cents pei
| kilowatt hour, against 13 cents which the
/ private plant formerly charged and IN
/ cents offered after the city threatened te
4 build. The plant cost 900 and is up
4 to-date.
Chicago is still warning over the Dial.
/ rymple report. No sooner had major
ity of the aldermen passed resolution
4 asking him to send it to them, since the
mayor would not publish it, than one o.
4 the aldermen wrote scorching letter tt
Dalrymple asking him not to send it. II
his letter Alderman Edgar made many
serious charges against his colleagues
which they are going to ask the grant
jury to investigate Among other inter.
esting items in his letter was this classi
! fcation of the Chicago aldermen:
Notorious corruptionists (railroads)... l.
Honest opponents of municipal owner
snip ..s.'....f....F. ~ :. II
i Corporation agents. lawyers and hire
Renegades pledged to municipal own
ership, but traitors ........... ...5... l:
Consistent municipal ownership advo-s &
Gates ............... 2
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Japan's Naval Progress.

Aside from the moral effects of her
victory japan appears to have gained
appreciably in sea power by the conflict.
Statistics are now at hand from which
the gain may be calculated. The Jap
anese government has given particulars
of the success of the operations in rails
ING Russian war vessels which were
sunk at Port Arthur and elsewhere
from which it appears that the island
empire has added over 100000 tons to
her naval weight at the direct expense
Of her late antagonist. The ships
raised and repaired represent quick and
cheaper building for the Japanese navy.
At Port Arthur alone, the Japanese
raised no fewer than four big battle
ships which they had sunk by the arti-
fee Of throwing heavy shot upon them
over a range Of hills. These vessels
were sunk close to shore and in compar
atively shallow water and were readily
raised and easily repaired. At Chem
ulpo the Japanese raised the cruiser
Variag, the American-built Russian
ship, which was the first victim Of the
war. They captured, without sinking,
in the Sea of Japan, two battleships.
But the Japanese did not get out Of the
war unscathed. Their navy lost twelve
ships and the captures from the Rus
slams balance the account with 10000
tons to spare.
But Japan is not content with this
gain and with the fact that the Russian
navy was practically destroyed. She has
entered upon liberal building pro.
gram. She is building in English dock
yards two of the more formidable war
ships afioat, and at home is turning out
swarms of torpedo boats and destroyers.
the New York Tribune estimates that
by the end of 1906 the Japanese navy
will contain lis modern ships with a
weight Of nearly 100000 tons These
additions to her navy will make her a
competitor with Germany and America
for third rank in the naval powers.
Evidently Japan is looking upon the
English alliance as reserve force. She
expects to be prepared to meet any foe
without calling OH her ally at the first
This is rather prouder attitude than
that adopted by England where it is
openly boosted that the Japanese army
makes India safe for ten years. The
British press affects to be shocked by
9 the report from Toxic that a minister
OF state when interpellated on the sub
Ject Of England's army replied that
the mikado's government had not vet
made any representa- tions to the ally or
the subject, but would soon do so. The
British army is admittedly in a bac
state. 1t has been under investigatio,
practically since the Boer war and /;
royal commission; reported in. favor 0,
changing the whole system. In order T.
get the army out Of the clutches of noli
tics committee of defense was formed
{ ana this body has become the buffer no
tween the army and cabinet MANAGE
ment. The premier is member Of III,
committee and would have the directio,
OF the forces in case Of war, but in tim,
OF peace it is believed the COMMITTEE,
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Minnesota Politics
Many Familiar Faces, Might Well Hs
Lett at Home from Conventions State
Should Pay Part d, Delegates Ex-
penses- Office Of Clerk Of the Supreme
Court Not Such Gold Mine as Repre-.
scented.

j /. i y :. <
The Browns Valley Tribune thinks the
popular subscription campaign fund woulu
he good thing. even II it resulted in
some of the familiar faces" being LEFT
at home from the state convention.
There Is no doubt about it. and when
the observation was made in this column
1T was not made as an objection. 1t
goes without saying that convention
would be better and more representative
with political sponges and grafters elm
mated
THE men who are willing to defray
their own expenses says the Tribune.
land, II need be-. contribute a little from
their means to help along a good move
for cleaner politics and better govern
ment, are the kind that are needed in
the coming state convention, even tho
some of the familiar faces remain a.
home T#a
But aren't d good many men of the
right sort kept away from state conven-
lions by the expense? No delegate should
be beholden to any candidate or any cor
porat1on with an ak to grind, but if we
had state law granting six cents a
mile for railway fare to every, state con-
vention delegate, wouldn't we have a
more thoroly representative convention?
Tales about the vast revenue derived
court are misleading, according to the
information on file. Instead Of an in
| come OF $4,000 a year or more, the
clerk only gets $4,000 to $4,000 a year
over the expenses of the office. The
sworn statement of Oar F. Reese cover
ing the years, 1896 to 1898 inclusive
| showed his net receipts averaged just
! $4,604,64 during the fouryear period. A
year eago the lower. house of the legis-
lature appointed a committee to investi-
gate fee offices, and c. A. Pidgeon made
full statement before that committee.
It showed net receipts for the year 1903
amounting to. $4,594.55 and for 1904 they
were $4,561. 49,. The net revenue from
regular office fees in 1903 was $4,162.1O
In addition, s648.67 was received from
\ the West Publishing company for copies,
land this was, divided the clerk getting
1.-TWO thirds and his, deputy one-third. In
1904 the net receipts from the office were
$4,154.S6, and the receipts for copies, as
stated, were $4,000, divided in the same
way. :lS.r-.,.. H.. II - -
t. The Thief River Falls Press says:
1t begins to look as tho the political situation
in this end of the state might shape itself SO As
I to put Senator A. D. Stephens Of Crookston into
the field gubernatorial candidate There is
no more popular man in the state than Andy
iStephens, and should he decide to heed the voice
OF the people who are clamoring for his candi-
Edacy, he will certainly go to the state conven-
Joel P. Heatwole Is knocking jacobson
hard in the st. Paul letter to the North
field News. Must be getting ready to
manage Jacobson's pre- convention cam
paign. Charles B. Cheney,
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Mr.. Dalzell Of Pennsylvania rather,
of the Pennsylvania-does not like the
other day. This will teach Mr.. Dalzell
not to sleep at the switch when he has
important railroad interests intrusted to
his care. -..,= @.-~' =
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! AT PRAYERS

likes t. go t. prayers
An hear. UNI sing an pray
Bout waitin' ones an golden stairs =
Not very far away.
/ likes t go t prayers
In the little corner church,
An see their faces as they squares
With God-an' Satan in the lurch.
An onct when rs boy
went up front t kneel,
Fer my girl come with joy :
In her face, an didn't feel
"a Like takin' no chances
Holdin' back, an men, gum,
The preacher KEEP, me on my launches
Vile Pink" Smith seen her hum.
Will Chamberlain In vermillion Republican.
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The Chicago ecord-Herald reports a
scientist saying the sun is shrinking.
Congress should Immediately pass "a law
prohibiting the sun from shrinking be-
tween Nov. 1 and March 80. During
the other months it might be as we'll to
let him retire bit now :and4then. 81 !
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The first falling out between Spooner
and La Toilette was not about a little
thing like the constitution Of the United
States, but about a great big office at
Oconomowoc or Hurley ,- ~
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The affairs Of the famous 500 per cent
Franklin syndicate, for which a man
named Miller did time in Sing Sing, have
just been closed up legally, creditors get
ting % cents on the dollar. This was to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-06

New York's stock transfer law has pro-
duced revenue Of s4,1a2,ooo in eight
months, about double the estimated value
of the law Yet stocks are being trans
ferred and the predicted wholesale de-
sertion of New York as a gambling cen
ter has not happened. -
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The Chicago Tribune suggests stretcn-
ing chains across the boulevards to dis
courage chauffeurs Festooning chains
around the chauffeurs is good also.
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General Nogi says that he alone is re-
sponsible for the failure of his fanking
movement at Mukden.2 Where is that
subordinate" who misunderstands orders
when great, movements fail? .l=,.'
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The New York supreme court has de-
cided that he does not have to answer
in New York until it is first decided
whether he must answer in Missouri.
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be as near the point as the evidence the
government produced before the grand
jury, and then told him, IF this gets
out we shall know you told it, and will
claim immunity from prosecution It
would be q good thing if every law
breaker could fortify himself against
prosecution by telling somebody in con-
fdence about his crimes and then claim
Immunity on the ground; that he told it
himself first.
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Ida Tarbell has made enough money
out Of her knowledge of Standard Oil to
buy farm in Connecticut. Possibly
Mr.. Rockefeller is visiting there.
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The last Of the San DOMINICAN rebel.
chiefs has surrendered. The new crop of
rebels will not ripen before March or
April. $It4
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The See America First convention
came off as advertised. Have you seen
the Minnesota statehouse.
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EXCLUDED

Into the Charnel Hall of Fame
The Dead alone should go;
Then write not, there the Living n4ms
3 OF Edgar Allen Poe.
Father. Tabb.
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Mr.. Yerkes' death did not seem to
weigh any heavier on the late Mrs.
Yerkes, now Mrs. Miner. than it did on
the public,
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The United States senate may soon be
struggling with question as to whether
or no the democratic party is constitu-
tional.
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One of the ways to observe Lincoln
day, Feb II, should be to read the Get
tysburg address, the noblest Grafton ever
spoken on this continent
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Overparticular New Workers, wish tt
remove Judge Deuel. Of Town Topics from
the bench. Why not getsa newsbench? l
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Hyde" that has good points. Hanson antg
Drew have an extra number in a skit
called "The Village Bill Poster
The moving pictures are Of the usual
excellence
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Is The McCleary bill provided fort a dual
tariff, and Germany says bring on your
duel. s. !. Is.