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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
Grating on Candidates.

The matter of grating on candidates
has been taken up in St. Paul, where
it is being vigorously discussed in
the Pioneer Press and in letters writ
ten by candidates. One of the most
interesting of these communications is
by Louis Nash, who declares him
self against blackmailers and advo-
Gates a meeting of candidates ire
spective of politics to protect them
selves against the inroads of the pests.
A meeting of candidates of opposing
politics to take measures to protect
themselves against graft would be in
teresting, but it is very doubtful
whether it can be brought about. None
of the candidates wants to put him.
self in the position of being a
"grouch,' fearing that this reputation
would lose him votes. None of them
wants to take the initiative in a
movement which travels out Of his
sphere as a candidate. Yet a great deal
of good could be accomplished if the
candidates would get together and
appoint committee to pass upon the
merits Of various organizations. - AS
the Pioneer Press suggests it would be
found that some of the worst offenders
in politics are the churches. It gives
an instance of certain church which
lined up all the candidates for office and
coolly informed them that d 'co11tribu-
tion of $40 a head toward wiping out
the church debt was what was wanted
and wanted right off. Churches and
other societies have been known to
resort to the popular voting contest
to separate candidates from their
money. The popular voting contest has
nothing to do with popularity. It is
entirely a matter of cash. Its success
depends on getting the, rival candi-
dates for one Of the well-paid Offices
to allow their names to be used and
rivalry does the rest.
Fairs, programs, excursions, enter
tainments are multiplied for the benefit
of men who are seeking office, and
the wiles used to separate each from a
little money are various.
1t is not to be understood that all
invitations to candidates are black
mailing attempts. Where candidate
is invited to a church supper or a
social meeting which he is able to at
tend, and where he pays just what
other. people pay for the privilege, it
is decided advantage to him. He
meets more people who are not in the
ordinary run Of political citizens than
he could otherwise, and has the oppor-
tunity, of enlarging his acquaintance.
This is a positive aid under the pri-
mary system Of nominations. The vice
of the matter is that legitimate occa-
sions of this kind are made the excuse
for fake gatherings. Candidates are
called upon to buy blocks Of tickets
for this, that and the other, and there
is always the implied threat that if
they do not purchase something dire
will happen. The timid candidate is
kept in a state of perpetual scare.
The problem is. difficult one to
solve. Probably the best that can be
done is to build up a public sentiment
against this kind Of grating which
will strengthen candidates to turn the
grafters down.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
New-Fashioned Banking.

The refusal of the clearing house as
y sociation Of Chicago to handle the bust
q ness of the newly organized day and
II night bank of that city puts snag in
3 the way Of the progress of the new idea
in banking and may check the present
b tendency to go in for extremes. Every
period of prosperity brings it's new ideas
with reference to finance, not only with
regard to those who would change sys-
4 tens and standards, but in the field of
a practical finance as we'll. The world
i grows and makes it's progress from the
r new idea; nevertheless the banking
business is as old as time-experience
Il has been piled up thru the centuries.
Banking practice may vary but funda-
& mentals are largely the same the world
3 over. Something of conservatism is es-
Il sential in any bank.
In New York the idea originated that
an all-night bank would be profitable
Wealthy men backed the enterprise
apparently it has been a success. There
are some lines of business that find
a@such an institution a convenience. 1t
offers facilities to depositors not af.
sforded by other banks, which close in
I the early afternoon. A bank, however
makes it's money in some other way
than in cashing checks for night-owls
5ss In Chicago the day and night bank
3 Is sort of adjunct to real estate bust
I ness, which takes it even farther away
ssfrom the old-fashioned idea.
s Another modern idea is that of bank
ling by mail. This has proved highly
successful in some cases. A Pittsbure
savings institution has built up it's de.
8zposit account materially in this way.
f The mail order houses, institutions
that sell direct to the consumer in the
! country, thus cutting out the retailer
ssare now taking up banking. A farmer
who can get or per cent from his
home bank for money deposited may
receive per cent by depositing it with
The mail-order house. Probably there
is no money in it for the house directly
9sbut with credit lying there the de,
spositor is likely to purchase more free
ny, hence more business.
ts None OF these things seems in accord
ssance with the true principles of bank
ing. The day and night bank of New
York is legitimate institution There
is no reason why such radical depart
sures should not be tried on in particu
Tar cases. They may succeed. But if the
general effect is to be to start day an6
sssnight banks thru the country to cater
ito the class of people who want to dc
their banking at such hours, and if the
8mail-order houses are going to become
bankers, then the older, long established
banking institutions have all the more
reason for conservatism and caution
spending the test Of these new-fashionet
schemes, which have yet to show tina
sthey are for the general good.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
Railroads
BAGGAGE MEN WERE BUSY
PASSENGER STATIONS REPORT
ENORMOUS INCREASE IN LUG
GAGE RECEIPTS FOR GRAND
ARMY WEEK.

twenty-five thousand pieces Of bag
gage were handled at the union station
in Grand Army week, an increase of
$4,000 pieces over the average. Sixty
six men were employed in the baggage
department.. Last August the station
handled $4,000 pieces Of baggage, and
this year 44,728 have been handled al
ready, with business still brisk. At the
Milwaukee station the record was
broken for any one month. One day
alone $500 pieces of baggage were
handled from the six sections Of the
was quadrupled. The Great Western
and ST. Louis stations report CORE
spending increases in their baggage
business for the ten days Of the en-
camDment
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
ALASKA Is APPRECIATIVE
Testimony to the Diligence and Useful
ness Of Our Senior Senator.

TIL Journal is in receipt of a let
ter from Nome, Alaska, containing
copy Of resolutions adopted at meet
ing of prospectors and miners held there
on Aug. 8. John Frawley, secretary,
says it was the largest gathering of
men ever held on Seward peninsula,
that the resolutions were unanimously
adopted and express the sentiment Of
the people on that peninsula.
The resolutions recite that "The min
ers and prospectors of Nome and the
surrounding country have watched with
increasing interest and admiration the
untiring and undaunted labors of Sena
tor Knute Nelson of Minnesota at
Washington on behalf Of the people of
Alaska, and that,
"Whereas Senator Nelson has de-
voted his splendid energy and ability to
keeping himself informed as to Alaska .
needs and wishes and has been the ever
ready friend and chief standby of the
district, inasmuch as these labors have
been nobly unselfish. having been rem
dered to community wholly incapable
of affording him any political or other
reward OF returning favors in any way,
and in view of the fact that his con-
scientious effort on behalf of Alaska has
often called down upon him the bitter
opposition Of those who either misun-
derstood our conditions or did wilfully
iniure majority of our people for the
benefit of a few favored ones.
cit is resolved that the miners and
prospectors in mass meeting assembled,
express their heartfelt thanks to Sena-
tor Nelson for his able, energetic, fear
less and unselfsh labors on behalf Of
the people of Alaska and express the
sincere hope that the people Of Mime
sofa may sufficiently. appreciate his
sterling worth as statesman and a
citizen to see to it that he is continued
in the service of the public.''
This testimonial to Senator Nelson g
services to the people Of Alaska is well
deserved Senator Nelson is one of the
few men in congress who know Alaska:
He spent the summer there three years
ago, made an extensive tour thru the
heart Of the country and a diligent
study Of the needs of the country so far
as they can be supplied by national leg
islation. Anyone who is acquainted
with Senator Nelson's habit of thoro
investigation of every subject which en-
cages his attention will understand
that the two months spent in the far
north supplied him with the information
necessary to legislate intelligently. and
will readily understand the confidence
the people of that great district place
in him. Indeed, Senator Nelson's ac-
quaintance with Alaskan affairs has en-
abled the people of Alaska to feel for
the first time that they are represented
| in congress.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
DOG DAYS.

Old Sol, this is surely Sirius, .
Dealing darts so deleterious,
Causing such condensed caloric
Heretofore most prehistoric) he:
To permeate our weakening wits,
Inducing such queer, quaffy fits
That we become distraught, dogmatic,
And say things strangely cratic;
So 'twould take a boss prize winner
TO distinguish saint from sinner.
Now, we're wondering what you are,
,Banefully burning, bright, dog-star;
You used to show your little light
Iwinkling every wintery night;
Then you shone from simple duty
And were quite thing Of beauty;
But If with daylight you must fool,
And with the sun you're bound to pool,
Well to the lakes and stake the fight,
Just watch the sun and--Fahrenheit.
We ken whose mettle; will diminish;
September fifth will see your finish.
M. L. s., 2756 Aldrch avenue S
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
Our Sisterly, Twin.

T, the Editor Of The Journal.
In your editorial on Twin City Frater
nifty" you neglected to speak of one re-
cent and particularly interesting exhibit
of brotherly love on the part of the Pho
neer Press in that papers wonderful &C
count of the G. A. r. parade the morning
after. 1t was really an amusing and most
interesting article. in describing an event
as in one place when it happened to have
taken place in another. No one outside
of the residents Of the two cities could
have possibly imagined from your article
that it took place anywhere else than in
the city of st. Paul. There was no men
ton Of Minneapolis at all.
Yet this same Pioneer Press once in so
often rises to remark on the beauties and
blessings of twin city combinations-wh
it sees only gain for it's, own burg. But
neapolis or it's interests only or locally,
and the shoe is on the other foot and the
Pioneer Press at once shows its real feel
ings, forgetting in its excitement to re-
place the mask. ~
In the face of all this, however, there
are still left some Of our own people who
listen to these kind propositions of the P.
p. for unity, etc, and fail to see how
beautifully left the large town would be
were these loving suggestions ever acted
on. .''E T.. r.. :
And it was ever thus. Some of us have
the faith of babes-lovely to look upon
but dangerous when there are wolves in
the woods so near. us. - H H. R.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23

John D. Rockefeller is now out with
a $40 100000 offer for natural head
of hair. Every little while John runs
across something quite desirable which
money will not buy. It is at these
moments that he is overcome with the
injustice of envying him his wealth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
Rain Prevented NlqhtInee.

Instead of keeping open until after
midnight and entertaining the actors and
actresses from the different theaters last
night Wonderland closed it's gates at 10
o'clock, owing to the heavy rain, which
drove all the visitors from the grounds.
The nlght1nee was postponed until to-
night, and in event Of more Indictment
weather will be again postponed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
ROAD PUSHES WESTWARD
North Western Lays Track West from
Fort Pierre

Pierre, S. D., Aug. 23.-The North
Western line west from this city has
rail laid twenty miles from Fort Pierre,
and there is only small amount Of
grading work to complete to allow the
laying of another twenty miles, While
it is not likely that the road will get
to Midland by Sept. l, it will prob
ably make it before October. The new
track is being ballasted with gravel as
fast as possible, and the work is pro-
crossing at the rate Of about a mile
a day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
The Cuban Patriots.

The Cuban revolution is the real
thing Regular battles are fought and
s the contendinq rarties retreat and re-
form just as they used to in the insur-
/. rection against Spain. F. Hen roosts are
robbed and sugar planters are held up
for breakfasts for the insurgents. The
entire revolutionary army is formed OF
generals, colonies and majors who eft
mitt Weyler.' The only obstacle to
the complete overthrow of Palma is the
lack of privates.. Only one has shown
up in the rebel camp to date -. 9.
The insurgents are apparently fierce
ly against the administration because
they are not in office. 1t is a yearn-
ing which is not confined to Cuba.
Military heroes ever made the best al
I dermen, sherifs and county commits
/ sioners-in their own estimation. The
/ Palma government tried to satisfy the
! patriots with distributions of money,
! but the millions voted by the Cuban
congress have long ago gone up IN
. cigaret smoke and the generals, colonies
and majors are face to face with the
problem Of going to work it they can
mot scare the government into doing
something more for them.
The government ought to establish a
/ workhouse and give the generals from
sixty to ninety days each. They never
were soldiers. Against Spaniards
they made quite a showing because the
/ Spaniards were more afraid of being
l shot from behind than in front. They
were experts in the art of levying on
! the country but of real patriotism they
: were devoid.
! The government is fair, comparative
ly clean. The country is peaceful.
Trade fourishes and industries are be-
! ing built up. Everybody in Cuba is
/ content except the unconquerable hosts
, of Gomez vino see their occupation of
chicken stealing and midnight ma.
rauding going. Their instruction is a
1 protest against the enervating effects
of civilization. A bath and the work.
house would cure it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
An ApprecIatIve Guest.

To the Editor of Tho Journal.
To say that Minneapolis did her
self proud at the encampment expresses
but half the truth-and the least half at
that. She set the pace for the future
for all great civic denonstrat ions of this
nature. And what a splendid city she Is
when her citizens get together for "busi-
ness!
The writer used the courtesy of T g
o u n a | to find other sanitary COM
missioners. He found the Red Cross a
splendid relief organization, and he found
Miss Barton. He found, too, noble
bunch of old army nurses--the real thing.
1t was your Red Cross and the volunteer
guides that moved him most. From the
latter, as test, he several times asked
assistance he did not need just to see and
feel the eager response. These boys
dipped deep into beauty of service those
days and found it's great reward. Sit
ting by courtesy of friends we'll down
town at windows commanding perfectly
the line of march, even deeper than his
sympathy for the old boys in the line,
from whom he had parted at the grand
reviews in Washington in 1865, was his
interest in the Red Cross relief auto
ambulance organization, flying in obedi-
ence to emergency calls. Upon the faces
of some of these young fellows was the
expression of the man going into action.
On the foot-rail of one of these ambu
lances I saw one young fellow several
times whose career I'd like to follow.
Cool, instant, intent, master Of himself
and the situation, he forgot himself in his
keen lookout for danger. Would he by and
by put battery into action? God forbid!
But if he does he will know the joy of it.
The writer, for the first time on any
field, put the Geneva" cross of 1864 upon
the Base Hospital Relief corps of the
United States Sanitary Commission Of the
Army of the Potomac. Nobody knew
what it meant. Today Clara Barton looks
out upon it borne on the ambulance Or
CARNATIONS of all civilized peoples.
The sanitary commission contributed its
quota to Libby and Andersonville. AT
Gettysburg the writer's comrade was
picked up by Stuart's cavalry and held
for two days, escaping a journey across
Virginia thru the friendly Interference OF
a Confederate officer acting on his own
responsibility Today the Red Cross is
the one tie that makes all nations akin
At Scutari Florence Nightingale smashed
British red tape with the butts of her SOL
diers' muskets to get supplies and feed
and clothe starving, sick and wounded
men,, Today we, swamp a great city in
it's affection with the treasures we roll
in upon it,, It is a good world "a good
time to live and a good time to die. Sure
that it's going to be better "all along
the line by and by. .e,~
S An Old tSan. Conn.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
AUGUST e..

AUGUST 23.
1s83-compietion Of the Northern
z Pacific railroad to the Pacific coast.
18s6-Presldent Cleveland opened
the Minneapolis Industrial exposition
by telegraph.
18e0-Ericsson's remains removed
from New York to- Sweden with
great honors. y
1se2-MarshaI D. de Fonseca. first
I president Of Brazil, died.
1s94-Japanese minister to corea
assasslnated.
1s95-BrItish battIeship Prince
George launched.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Good Poetry.
o the Editor Of The Journal. !.

~ LILO cuACUI VI Luz UOuTuHls
Permit me to call attention to one inter-
esting and characteristic fact in connec-
ton with Professor William Hubert Car
ruth's fine, lovable poem, Each in His
Own Tongue" which you print today.
That poem was2sent by its author to ev-
cry leading magazine in the east and
by every one was rejected till finally ac-
copied and published. by the New Eng
land Magazine. Nothing could illustra te
more truthfully the degree of luminous
Indebtedness that presides over the
destinies of poetical contributions to
the Standard magazines They
reject genuine poetry like Professor
Carruth's product and give space
to rhythmic inanity that would disgrace
the greasy slate Of a 10-year-old school
boy. Will the time ever come when the
publishers of standard magazines learn
that the 'po try editor requires some
thing more than the intellectual equip
ment Of nutcracker?
-...s .-.... John Talman.
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug 20, 1906.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
The Lincoln Car.

To the Editor Of The Journal.
Now that we have got the Lincoln car
inside the city limits could not you hit
upon a plan by which this sacred relic
would be forever secured for the state Of
Minnesota. Altho 7 am a Norwegian,
your history is we'll known to me, and
consider Lincoln the greatest man the
United States has produced.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
Substitute for G.. A.. r.. Parade.

To the Editor of The Journal.
I see there is a strong sentiment In
favor of abolishing the parade. at our
annual national encampment I for one
am heartily in favor of such move
on the part of the G. A. R., but the ques-
ton arises, what. will we substitute in
place of the parade? I have heard Of no
suggestion from anyone as to what would
be best to take the place of the annual
march. would suggest that the order
be reversed; that the encampment city
make the parade-civic societies, police
department, fire department, state troops,
government troops that may be avail
able, and Sons and Daughters Of Vet
Grams. Let the, veterans be the specta-
tors Arrange for reviewing stands along
the line Of march for the comfort Of the
"old boys . -. W. S. Jordan.
Clarinda Iowa. e.. '"-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23

rs A Toronto paper sent out reporter
ITO test the question whether he could
'Sride at 2 cents mile on the sub
urban railway. He couldn't. Gould he
sget put off the car9 He could. The
Reporter fastened back to the. Office and
turned in his copy. The papers law
yer called up Mandamus on central and, !
Sin which to plant a damage suit on
the reporters behalf. In three days
the railway came off its eminence,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23

Japan has entered upon an era of
high prices and soon cold Subscriber
will be mourning the days before the
war. Meanwhile Japan will have
learned that prosperity consists not in
what you get but in what you do not
let go of.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
Fover Chat

Florence Stones Camille is artistic
and irresistible and it was accorded an
enthusiastic reception at the Metropoli-
tan operahouse this afternoon. The
great Dumas stage story will be the bill
tomorrow afternoon and evening and
"Gismonda,' that has already proved its
local popularity, will be played tonight
and Saturday afternoon and evening.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23

Biologists are wisely telling us that
the Rocky and Andes mountains are of
comparatively recent origin. We do
not know anything about the Andes,
but the Rockies were here when most
of us camo west. e.. p
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
FREE ADVICE TO c,eARET DUDES
Saltwater Gazette.

Saltwater Gazette.
A word to YOU. sonny-you little II or
13-year-old boy smoking cigarets on the
sly What do you want to be when you
grow up-a stalwart healthy, vigorous
broad shouldered man, or q little, puny,
measly, no-account, weakminded dude?
IF you want to be a man, strong like a
man, with hair on your face, brains in
your head and muscles in your limbs, you
just let those cigarets alone. If you want
to be thing pitied by your folks, de-
spised by the girls. and held contempt
by the fellows, keep right on smoking.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23

Four hundred years ago less thirty,
Juan de Saavedra founded the city of
Valparaiso on the only important har-
Dor on the Chilean coast. If you doubt
this, lock it up in the encyclopedia
Yourself
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
PRAISE FROM WISCONSIN
Headquarters, Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army
Of the Republic.

i Waupun
Editor o. The Journal: >~1@ - = ~
The department Wisconsin express
valuable
citizens Of Minneapolis for their reception
the odd Boys
have been anticipated in the ample provisions made
splendid
convention city,
BY order Of
c. A. Pettbone, john
Assistant AdJutant General of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23

Hank Gassaway Davis, aged 81. has
just opened his campaign for congress
in West Virginia, while William Pink
ney White, etat 81, is touring Mary
land for the senatorship. Boys will be
hOYS
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-23
A Week on Lake sunerior for SOB

From Minneanolis Via Dniutb q- fslo
Royale, Houghton and Sault Ste. Marie
to Mackinac Island and return.
Tickets on sale Sundays and Thurs
days during August via the Great
Northern Railway to Duluth and the
Booth line steamers 'Easton;' and
500 City, including meals on steam.
ers, for $25 for the round trip. City
Ticket Office, corner Third and Nicol-
let, Minneapolis, MINI.