The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-06
THE MAGAZINES

No Dramatic Candidate for Governor in
Empire State.-Along with feast Of
other good reading in the North Ameri-
can Review for Oct. 49, is a discussion
Of the intensely interesting political sit
uation in New York, by Mr.. Harvey. the
editor, which is decidedly to the point
It contains this:
When the vulture was substituted for the
eagle as party emblem at Buffalo, the demo-
cratic party ceased for the time being to exist
| IN the commonwealth OF New York An exact
denn1tion OF the present situation would make a
direct issue unnistakable between conserv tism,
represented by the republican organization, and
| radicalism, as portrayed by the Hearst force.
Neither the one nor the other comprises an OBJ
v1ous majority of voters The determining ele-
nent Is a group Of men who have been accus-
toned to vote the democratic ticket from what
they regarded as principle except at times when
the leading candidate seemed to have repudlated
essential tenets OF their faith 1t is evident
therefore, that If the state Is to be saved from
| the odium which would attach to the elevation
Of q political adventurer to its highest public
| position, these are the citizens who must be
awakened to the necessity, not Of negative in
action, but Of positive and earnest endeavor to
| avert minatory calamity. The truth should
there Is no democratic candidate for governor,
| and that there should be 40 democratic emblem
upon the ballots.
New Serial by Meredith Nicholson
Meredith Nicholson has written a new
story, which begins in The Readers No
vember number under the title of "The
Port of Missing Men, The first in
stallment contains the elements that
should make up charming story. There
are other good things about the Novem-
Der Reader as WELL Albert Hale's sec
ond article on the South American sit
uation treaties of 1.-THE United States of
Brazil" Herbert Quick writes graphical
ly Of "Cummins of Iowa. the article be-
ing given the subtitle "A Rapid-F
Sketch of the Governor Who Is Both a
Good" Fellow and a Good Fighter" A
statistical exposition of ''Why Our Lives
Are Growing Shorter is by Dr. John v.
Shoemaker, president of the faculty Of
the Medico- Chirurgical college of Phila
delphia 1t breaches an eloquent sermon
on the text, Don't Worry"
Race Problem Magazine3 - Following
close upon the Atlanta race riot, perhaps
as it's literary aftermath, unique month
ly magazine will begin publica ton in
Atlanta in November under the title of
The Race Question and Southern Sympo-
SUM. This magazine, its publishers an
nounce, will be monographs in char
acter, handling the negro problem from
the standpoint of sociology, ethnology
and political economy. It will in no wise
be an organ of incendiary agitation, but
will discuss the race issue dispassion-
ately from the viewpoint of the southern
white man, and be a reflex of Caucasian
sentiment. Each issue will contain spe-
cial articles by leading public men and
thinkers, who have made the negro a
study, and large part of the magazine
will be devoted to a free-fOr-all svnno-
! SUM of popular ideas On the race ques-
ton and subjects thereto related, as the
south's labor problem, foreign immigra-
ton, cotton production, etc. The editor
| is R. W. McAdam, for the past five years
an editorial writer Of the Atlanta Con-
stitution, and literary editor of the
Sunny South. The publishers are the
Southern Symposium Publishing COM
| pany, Atlanta, Ca.