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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
Is This What Williams Means?

One theory Of police efficiency in
cities is that the existence of gam
bling houses should be tolerated be-
cause thieves and criminals resort to
them between jobs, and may there be
"spotted.'
J The gamblers who are interested in
only one skin game claim that where
they are allowed to run they become
valuable assistants to the police in in
forming them of the whereabouts Of
noted crooks. So firmly fixed is this
idea in the mind Of the gambler, and
SO legitimate an argument does he con-
slider it for the permission of his trade,
ito Mr.. Jones when he was an ad in
term mayor some years ago, that if
he would allow public gambling to
run, they, the gamblers, would clear
the town of crooks; otherwise they
would make him much trouble. It is
unnecessary to state that this kindly
offer of cooperation was rejected.
The same sort of arguments are bob
bling up in the present city campaign.
At Williams meeting at 2950 Nicol-
let avenue last night, speaker, ap-
parently in the interest of DR., Will
iams, made the statement (reported in
the Tribune) that under the Jones adj
ministration the police department was
greatly Handicapped by. being unable
to get on a friendly footing with the
lower elements, and so obtaining infor-
, nation at times which would be Of
value in tracing down criminals.
If this is an objection to the Jones
administra ton, presumably it is weak
ness which would be corrected by the
DIR. Williams administration. Presuma-
bly,, if the argument made in this state
ment is true representation of the
attitude Of the opposition to Mayor
Jones, should that opposition triumph,
the police would be placed on a
"friendly footing with the lower ele-
ments.'' The way specifically pointed
out to Mayor Jones was the permission
of public gambling. Is this what the
opposition means7 Is this the thing
the people want9
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
Mr.. Bryan and MIR. Sullivan.

AS to Roger Sullivan Mr.. Bryan did
not beware of entrance into quarrel but
being in he proposes to so bear it that
the opposed may beware of him. At Chi
cago yesterday he threw down the gaunt-
let anew, and if the battle does not do
Mr.. Bryan any good it surely will do
Mr.. Roger Sullivan great deal Of harm
politically.
Mr.. Bryan, answering the objection
to his attitude as an attempt to control
the politics Of a state, said he was but
trying to assert a principle which he
believed should be universal, that no
man who is the agent or director or
owner Of a public franchise company
which is applying for favors to the
public should have leading place in
the counsels Of a political party. Such
a man he believed could not serve two
masters, the people and the corpora
tion.
The democratic leader might be &C.
cused here Of pushing pure politics to an
extreme, but is he? Is not his position
but an extension Of the civil service
regulations against public official be-
ing too intimately interested in the ma
chinery of political party and of the
legal prohibitions against public Off
GERS being directly or Indirectly inter
ested in contracts in which their sworn
duty is to first represent the people
Neither laws nor regulations can limit
the political activities of the manager
Of a gas works or the president of a
railroad, but public opinion can. Mr..
Bryan frankly avows that his purpose
in attacking Mr.. Sullivan is to help
create such public sentiment. It is a
good sentiment and we'll worthy of be-
ing created in both parties. =
One cause Of complaint against the
senate of the United States has been
that it contained many members who
were sent there not by the people but
by the corporations. This feeling is
the backbone Of the demand for the
popular election of senators. It is a
sentiment to which many Of the states
have already yielded in laws providing
for the popular election Of senator's. It
matters not that these laws are extra
constitutional and can neither take from
nor add to the power of the legislatures
to choose senators. The important fact
is that in many states they are being
obeyed. -. !.
In the cities Of this country we have
too many examples of the fragrant
"pushing' of public service corpora.
tions in elections. They have their
agents out to secure the return of
friendly aldermen, mayors and attor-
neys. They claim to be only protecting
themselves against the return: Of men
who would blackmail them, but it is
noticeable that it is the corporations
which are getting something over and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
A NOTABLE TRIBUTE

Interview in Saturday Evening Post.
For man." said Judge Gaynor, "fitly
to fill a public office his intelligence
should should be affirmative, his honesty
aggressive his vigilance sleepless, his
courage without a flaw. In brief''-this
with a smile that lighted up the grave
face like torch-"he should be Roose-
Welt"
'You deem highly OF President Roose-
velt?"
II cannot conceive Of better man for
the place he occupies. His enemies call
him cratic. I find him steadfast to the
pole of his purposes-as changeless as the
north star. He grasps his hour. He sees
wrongs and remedies them; he meets diff
hculties, and conquers them. When both
parties fell back frightened before the
frown Of the railroads, he alone was not
afraid. Single-handed he took up arms
against secret rebates. In the face of the
mightiest money influences he proceeded.
cannot tell too strongly my admiration
of President Roosevelt. He is filed with
the genius of Bunker Hill. No age ap-
preciates its own great men. The pres
ent would be struck with wonder were it
to gain a glimpse Of those heights to
which posterity will lift up the name Of
Roosevelt"
And you think he holds the confidence
of the public?' -. -....-. .-~... D..
His popularity grows. No one since
the days of Washington-note even Lincoln
was more in possession Of the loyal con-
fdence of the common people,
And yet one hears criticism"
Eyes; one hears criticism. You should
not forget, however, in measuring such
criticism that one strident grasshopper
in the angle of the fence makes more
noise than the noble herd near by"
do you know the president intimate
ly?"
II never met him in my life" said Judge
Gaynor simply. II know only of what he
does''
And you are not even Of the sana
school of politics.
There is nothing in name, not tho
it be a party name. I am of something
better than the Roosevelt school Of poll
tics. I am of the Roosevelt school OF
Americanism.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
Wednesday Evening,

state convention would appear to have
been a good place to say it.
There is no denying the proposition
that Governor ] ohnson has much stiff
er problem to solve than he had two
years ago. Republican factionalism has
disappeared The republican nominee has
message for the people. He stands for
something positive and beneficial. His
candidacy appeals to the calmer judg.
ment Of the voters and it encounters
neither political hatred nor party ca
bal. The democratic party must make
as sound an appeal as his and it must
fire the imagination of the public in
addition. We do not see that it has be-
gun firing. unless the Hearst attempt to
"fire' Chairman Day be taken, in that
sense.
John A. johnson will be judged this
year by his record as governor. He will
not have the advantage of wicked and
furious assaults upon his personality.
Sympathy cannot be political asset Of
q gentleman who has for two years sat
in luxurious office and greatly en-
joyed it. The people will be apt to ask
what he has done. If Governor Johnson
has done any things worthy of record he
should have told the delegates to his
state convention what they were.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

DR.. Williams platform advocates must
either be very obtuse themselves or else
they are inclined to attribute that defect
to their auditors. Otherwise how can
they hope to make any progress in vote
getting by accusing Mayor Jones of not
being a strict party man, supporting
every candidate regardless of his fitness,
While predicting his defeat at the gen.
erai election when his own party is SO
largely in the ascendancy in this city.
If he is defeated it must be by assertions
from his own party. Those who favor
his nomination are not going to desert
him In November. Who, then, are going
to be unfa1thful except the Williams
bunch? 1t may be good politics to re-
peatedly call attention to the fact that
the Williams men are not to be relied
upon to support the republican candidate
but 1t doesn't look good 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

capacity attendance at the Metropolitan
this week. The second matinee perform
ance of the engagement will be given
today
1.-THE Sign of the Cross Wilson Bar
rett's world renowned drama, will be the
attraction at the Metropolitan for the half
week opening next Sunday evening. The
seats for this engagement will be placed
on sale tomorrow morning at popular
prices.
One of the most marvellous trained ami
NAL acts ever presented to Orpheum the
alter audiences is that by Macarts dogs
and monkeys each afternoon and evening
Of this week. The dogs are the most in
telligent of their kind, while the monkeys
and their baboon cousins give a course in
comedy. A baboon barber shop with
monkey shines, lady and gentleman
monkeys gravely Waiting to the music
of the theater orchestra simian cyclists
and a host Of other features Of the Ma
cart performance stamp it as one Of the
best in the trained animal class.
Emily Waits songs are going straight
to the heart of audiences at the Unique
family theater this week. The greatest
crowds in the history of the house are
enjoying the big vaudeville bill.
The big "applause'' attraction Of
"Sherlock Holiness is making great
hit with state fair crowds at the Lyceum.
1.-THE Frawleys," the quick name of T.
Daniel Frawley's fine stock organization,
have already established themselves in
public esteem, and Mr.. Frawley is being
deluged with congratulations from prom
inent friends in the profession now play
ing in all parts of the country.
An audience that completely filed the
spacious Bijou witnessed the perform
ance last night of I'm Old Kentucky"
and indications point to a record break
ing week for this remarkable play The
pickaninnies in their singing, dancing
and performing on musical instruments
always receive an ovation, and the ex-
citing horserace never fails" to. arouse I'M
limited enthusiasm. Commencing Sun
day afternoon Charles E. Blaney will
present his interesting and exciting mill
tary play. ACROSS the Pacific at the
Bijou.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
WE ARE MOVING RAPIDLY
Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal
Modern commerce. carried on by banks
and corporations, has indeed developed
new modern sins of a type not known to
our forefathers.s But, how marvelously
sensitive has become the modern con-
science to those new sins, how quick the
disclosure, how swift the condemnation
by public opinion!
If ever you are overwhelmed in pessi-
mism by the muck rake revelations, open
the books Of history and biography.
Study the conditions existing when your
father and his father, and fathers father,
lived. Take note Of how much better off
you are than your ancestors, and then
do your part to make the world still bet
ter for those who come after you. Re-
nowadays. The thousand years that
are as one day. have become as even one
hour. 3Is
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

"CAMPPFIRE" IN PRINT.-Brevet
Major General Newton Martin Curtis, of
the Sixteenth New York infantry has
given the story of his regiment and many
lively personal "reminiscences in his book,
From Bull Run to Charlottesville. Gen.
eral Curtis was not only soldier but a
man Of broad and deep sympathies. Con-
sequently he has been able in his book
not only to tell of campaigns and battles
as soldier should, but to put into his
narrative those sympathetic touches that
make it take hold of tho feelings as we'll
as of the mind. This is more than most
books of the kind do.
But General Curtis does more than re-
late incidents of campaigns and tell the
stories of battles. He gives opinions, al
ways cogently supported, as to credit or
discredit attaching to successful or un-
successful operations of the largest sort
These opinions are decidedly worth at
tention on the part Of the historian and
the student of history. They are given
not in the spirit Of the controversional-
list, but of the man who believes he
knows the truth and is not afraid to tell
it clearly and simply for the truths
sake. 49,.
Besides giving the narrative of the
Sixteenth New York; and the events Of
which it was a part General Curtis has
much to say of other organizations from
northern New York.
Discussing, as it does, not only the big
things Of the civil war, but the things of
everyday camp and campaign life, and
in a calm and impartial manner, the
book has the merit of being a dignif1ed
and serious campfire" in print, a camp
fire presided over and ruled by one ia
miliar with the business and with the
whole field under discussion.
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
WHATS THE USE?"

Stories are nothing but clusters of words;
Reading is nothing but looking at print;
Money is nothing-folks throw it Mt birds;
Pictures are nothing but color and tint.
Dinners are nothing but something to eat;
Walking is nothing but moving the feet
What's the use? /
Dancing is nothing but prancing in tune,
Riding is nothing but moving along;
Sleeping is nothing but waking too soon; i
Singing is nothing hut talking songi !
Playing is nothing but fooling around
Boxing is nothing but learning to pound
What's the use? J.
Working is nothing but earning your pay;
Loafng is nothing-and harder to do;
Silence is nothing. with nothing to say; g
Dressing is nothing but garment and shoe;
Smiling is nothing but twisting your face;
Moving is nothing but changing your base
What's the use?
What is the use of It? What is the usef
Smoking is pumping stun into your lungs;
Having your way is to kick like the deuce;
Fame is a ladder with grease on the rings
What is the sense of It ali anyway? s.
What is the-Why is the-Hang 1t all;
Say
What's the use? s.
Chicago Post.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
SEPT 5

q.
1654-cromwell's first parliament
assembled at Westminster.
1655-Peter Stuyvesant, governor
Of New York, headed an expedition
against the Swedish colonies on the
Delaware river.
1H4-First Continental congress
assembled in Carpenters hall, Phil
adeIphia. Z
1781-NavaI engagement off the
Virginia capes between the British
and French fleets.
1813-Unlted States brig Enter
prise captured British brig Boxer off
Seguin. Both commanders killed.
1S62-Confederate army crossed
Potomac river and entered Maryland.
1905-Japanese and Russian en-
voys signed treaty Of peace at Ports
mouth, N. n.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

James T. White & Co., 800 Fifth ave-
nue., New. York, have in press "a Con-
spectus ofnAmerican, Biography, which
will be published IN the early fall. The
work is an exhaustive analysis of the
entire subject of American biography.
and presents for the first time in tabu-
lated and easily accessible form the
names and terms, Of office of the highest
o. 'icials in every department Of. Arneri-
can history and, American society-the
government, the law, the church, the
arts and the sciences.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

The Journal Cadets this afternoon
from the grand stand at the state fair.
With. the Journal Newsboys' band they
marched and counter marched on the
race track, and then drawing up in line
went thru the manual Of arms. The
spectacle Of 400 boys so we'll drilled
and uniformed made an attractive feat
ure, and the spectators were enthusiast
tic.
The regiment s camp near the Smell
ing avenue gate, is we'll worth a visit.
1t is as well ordered as if the cadets
were veterans, with careful regard for
all regulations and the camp discipline
usually enforced. Picket duty is car
ried out thruout the day and night The
morning = gun is at $50; reveille at
$3.50; first mess at T; inspection of
quarters at s.. drill from to 10, and
recreation until noon.
In the afternoon the cadets have per-
mission to leave the camp and yester-
day they went in body to the Pike,
where they saw the shows as the guests
OF the Parker Amusement company. A
banner at the head of the regiment read
" - We re going to hit the Pike, and hit
1t hard,' and they certainly did.
Cadets on Parade.
Guard mount is held at $3.50; dress
parade at 6 clock and visitors are in
vlted. The picture presented Of the
regiment passi ng in review, and the
lowering Of the colors at sunset is
very pretty one, with a background of
green sward, dotted with the white
tents.
The cadets mess in a large tent, and
the women Of the Sunshine society have
served them rations that are we'll liked,
Judging by the amount of consumption.
ment, asks grace, and ip Gives t the bows
short talk after first mess, and in the
evening as they sit around the camp
fire talks to them again. Rev. G.. L.
Morrill, yesterday visited the camp and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED
From the publisher.

From the publishers:
Power Lot. By Sarah P. Mclean Greene,
author of. ''Cape Cod Folks,'' etc. New York !:
The Baker & Taylor company.
From Bull Run to Charlottesville. The story
Of the Sixteenth New York infantry, together
with personal "reminiscences By Newton Mar
tin Curtis, LID, brevet major general U. S.
volunteers. New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
The Rosary and Other Poems. BY Robert Cam
eron Rogers. New York: John Lane company.
Many Moods and Many Minds. book Of
poems. By Louis James Block. New York: John
Lane company.
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town. By W. Clark
Russell, author of 1.-THE Romance Of a Mid
shipman,'' etc. New York: George w. Jacobs
& Co.
The Balance of Power. novel. By Arthur
Goodrich. Illustrated. New York: The Outing
Publishing company. 81 so.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
ADJUSTMENTS
Wonderland.

The state fair visitors certainly have
Wonderland park on their sightseeing list.
Yesterdays attendance was very large,
both afternoon and evening. In addition
to the fifty-seven varieties of recreation
and amusement features there is strong
program Of acrobatic and aerial acts.
The park Is open this week at II o'clock
in the morning with all attractions in
continuous operation until midnight.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

stay in the guard tents. In this way
discipline has been gradually enforced
and improvement in department has
been noticeable from the first hour Of
the encampment. Relatives of the
cadets who have visited the camp have
expressed themselves as highly pleased
with what they have seen, o.
The health Of the boys has been care
fully looked after by Red Cross
corps, and DR.. Archa E. Wilcox, surgeon
Of the regiment, has carried out simple
sanitary and hygienic rules. No cases
of serious ailments or accidents have
been reported up to date. There are
two hospital tents with a trained nurse
i'll charge night and day.
The regiment will break camp tomor-
row morning and in the afternoon will
be brought back to the city.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
b q O K s
BY w. p. K. I,

ftftss Gt%& ny W. H. .f2..tFsa +
LOVE FoRsWoRN TO SAVE ANoTH.
En's soUL.-That, in a word, is the
Key 10 Marah ELLIS Ryan's For the Soul
OF Haraei, a tale of southern California
IN the latter days Of the Spanish arts
tocracy The chief interest Of the story
ceIters In three characters-Rafael Ar
teaga, wealthy Spanish youth; Raquel
IsteVan, Whom Rafael weds; Keith Bry-
ton, nigh souled American, who loves,
ana is loved by, Raquel. The mother Of
ha1ael at her death makes Raquel, then
unmarried, swear, to save the soul Of Ra-
1ael, whose chief danger at the time Is
an American widow whose god is gold
and jewels" Soon after the oath ia
taken Raquel discovers in Keith Bryton
one Whom She had learned to love in
Mexico oefore she was pledged to Rafael,
ana who, she had been told, was dead.
How she Kept her vow to Rafaels moth
er' aided by the heroic conduct Of Bry-
ton' IS story we'll worth reading. It is
1ull OF the atmosphere of the old mission
days of southern California, and It's pic
ture OF the life of those days and the
spirit OF the people with whom it has to
60 seems altogether real It shows a
thoro familiarity on the part of the au-
thor with the history Of the time and the
environments Of the people, and is told
with exceptional force and beauty.
The illustrations are worthy Of notice
as an attempt at Photographic ilustra-
ton. The attempt, however, is only par
TALLY successful The imagination of an
artist is better than camera at such
work. The camera is able to give the
scenes, but does not, catch the spirit of
the story as does the mind of a true art
list. With Illustrations and border dec
orations In Spanish and Aztec designs,
however. the book is one to attract the
eye and tempt to a reading of the text
A. G. McClurg & Co., Chicago. $3.50.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

The Pioneer Press very carefully
worked over the entire democratic, sta te
convention without mentioning that 1T
was held in Minneapolis. Yet we, will
magnanimously concede that; the capitol
building is In st. Paul. ..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

''The first message bring is a message
of peace said Mr. Bryan at Madison
Square Garden, "but," he might have
added, II will delay it until have side
swiped Roger Sullivan"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
LIKE THE swooDEN-LEeeED MAN
He eazed upon the mercury

He gazed upon the mercury
As toward the top 1T sailed.
Gee whiz." he cried "it's awful hot!'
His woes he loudly walled. a..
- 49,
Next day the mercury went down,
The man was sad and grim.
He'd lost shis chance to kick, you see;
No gratitude from him
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

None OF the railroads appear to have
realized their predictions that the rate
law would ruin them. The railroads are
being ruined by lack of cars to haul away
the stuff.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

DR.. Reid, speaking for DR.. Williams.
attacked Mayor Jones last night on the
ground that he is in favor of civil serv-
ice in the police department. Do it again
doctor. y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

made a short address at the second
mess, ;>'-- IL
At 9 o'clock, after prayers, comes
tattoo and the march to quarters. The
cadets roll up in their blankets and
pun punk on on stray, in the hua 9 Iegula'
At 1920 an inspection is made by the
officer Of the day and lights are out,
And then quiet reigns, at least it did
last night to fair degree, but the first
night Of the camp the Youngsters could
not 60 to sleep, excited by the novelty
Of their surroundings.
Guard Restores Quiet. :
The guard routed the nocturnal con-
made them drill round and round the
"bull ring clean up the grounds or
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

Stensland admits that Herring forged
the notes. Herring admits that Stensland
used the proceeds. Well, there is room
Flor both Of them in Joliet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

The oldest newspaper in Holland is 25O
years of age. 1t is doubtless familiar
with the charge that it is but a tool Of
the corporations. 3.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05

Upton Sinclair has accepted the social
list nomination for congress from the
Trenton, N. j., district. 1t will not in
terfere with his literary work.