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The National tribune., 1906-10-25

Apropos of the death of Sam Jones.
the evangelist, there comes the memory
of how the power of the Word, backed
UP by strong physique and a knowl-
edge OF fistics, wrought a political and
moral revolution in Palestine, Tex. On
A iait to that place Jones found it nee
essary to severely score the Mayor and
the municipal administration. Doubt
less all he said was well deserved, and
therefore hurt the more. The Mayor
could think of no better way of getting
even than by thrashing the evangelist.
This showed the Mayor to be as foolish
as he was bad. He waited for Jones at
the depot. and without any further pre-
liminaries than ann ouncing his name
and purpose sailed in. Jones was at
first at a disadvantage, but breaking
the Mayors clinch, he began doing
some slugging that even Texans had to
admire. Before the train pulled out
the Mayor needed nothing more than
the ambulance to take him to the hos
pitai When Jones visited Palestine a
years later he found that the beesom
of reform had made a clean sweep, and
that there was a Mayor In office who
was enforcing the laws.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
A HOT OLD KEYSTONE.

None Of the goose-bone prophets and
corn-husk seers gave the least hint of
the holiness of the present campaign in
Pennsylvania Senator Emery, the In
dependent candidate for Governor,
charges that in 1901. when United
States Senator Quay was a candidate
for reelection, Senator McNichol bought
the five necessary votes for him from
the Democrats at $4,000 apiece. Me-
Nichol fiercely denies this, and threat
ems a libel suit. Pennsylvania stands
aghast that Democratic legislators
should bring $4,000 apiece The anti
Republican papers are screaming over
the graft in the construction of Penn
sylvania's magnificent new Capitol,
which cost $13,000.O0O. They allege,
among other things. that what appears
to bo elaborate hand carving of ma
hogaHy and oak is merely cheap imita-
are I20, brackets, which If carved in
oak would cost $40, but in plaster cost
only 50. Gov. Pennypacker replies
stoutly to- his assailants:
what if we did spend $9,G00.000 in
decorating and furnishing a 100000
building? 1t is a large sum, but this
is Wealthy State. We did not aim at
econofny,i but at the acme of beauty.
and I'VE have achieved it. The people
of Pennsylvania are entitled to the best
and they have it. The Capitol is the
most magnificent public building in the
world. In every detail the costliest ma
terials have been used. Even at s13,-
100000 the taxpayers have received
their moneys worth
The Republican orators say that while
| they do not accuse Emery of perjury
his statement of his campaign expenses
is sadly at variance with well-known
facts Emery has found 1t necessary to
publish certificate of good character
| and habits from his neighbors Of Brad
ford.
And the thermometer seems rising
every day
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

The Incarceration Of Ex-senator Bur-
ton in County Jail In Missouri points
to moral and adorns tale. Burton
was always a brilliant young fellow in
school, in society and in law, but he
had the fatal defect of lack of princi-
pie. He thought that there was a smart
way of doing things which was better
than the right way, and this character
ized all Of his transactions, so that his
end is logical and legitimate. Josh
Billings says pithily. when a man
starts out to be knave he had better
examine himself little more clusly,
and see If he amt better fitted for a
fool" There is a world OF strongest
common sense in this. Any man who
does wrong is primarily a fool. A man
who thinks he can win success by
wrongful methods deceives himself
worse than others. Eventually he il
going to come to grief, and in all prob
ability have an old age of misery and
poverty. There is a moral law independ.
ent of religion, which is as unerring a,
grayitation, and as certain to bring
about punishment for its violation.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
Refused to Issue Whisky.

B. T. Martin, Glendale. n. D., was
unable to attend the National Encamp-'
ment at Minneapolis because his wife
lay ill upon her deathbed. He expresses
his compliments to The National IT'D
une for the stand it has taken on tha
liuu or question, and is strongly opposed
to the canteen in the Army or at tne
Soldiers Homes. During the war ne
was Commissary Sergeant of his COM
pany, and at Kenesaw Mountain MS
Lieutenant came along tugging jug OF
whisky and ordered him to issue TO the
men one-half gill apiece. Comrade Mar
tin refused to obey the order. saying
that he did not enlist for any such pur-
nose. The Lieutenant threatened to ar
rest him, but nothing was ever done,
and he and the Lieutenant renamed a.
,,ood friends as ever. He is certain that
the charge did not suffer in his 'front.'
at least, on account of the lack of whis'
ky
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
"PHn kEARNY AT SEVEN PINES. =
One of the Creates. of the War Poems.

One of the Greatest of the War Poems.
Editor National Tribune: In an IL
sue of your paper I find the inquiry Of
Comrade Frank L. Tibbitts. Post 81,
G. a. r., West Epping. ". H. about a
poem written about some battle of the
civil war in which 1t read. Its good
fighting anywhere along the whole
line"
Edmund Clarence Stedman wrote the
poem in question. Mr.. Stedman has
made himself famous as a poet critic
and journalist; he has written volumes.
but / select only the sketch:
PHIL KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES.
So that soldiery legend is still on its
journey
That story of Kearny who knew not I.
to yield?
Twas the day when. with Jameson.
fierce Berry and Birney.
Against twenty thousand he rallied
the field
Where the red vollsys poured, where
the clamor rose highest,
Where the dead lay in cIumps
through the dwarf-oak and pine:
Where the aim from the thicket was
surest and highest
No charge like Phil Kearny's along
the whole line.
When the battle went ILL., and tha.
bravest were solemn,
Near the dark Seven Pines where we
still held our ground.
He rode down the length of the wither-
ing column,
And his heart at our war-cry leaped
up with bound;
He snuffed. like his charger, the wind
of the p,wder,
His sword waved us on, and We an
swered the sign;
Loud our cheers as We rushed, but his
laugh rung the louder
There's the DEVILS own fun. boys,
along the whole line"
How he 'strode his brown steed, How
the sun his blade brighten
In the one hand still left-and the
reins in his teeth,
He laughed like boy when the holi-
days heighten,
I But a soldiers glance shot from his
| visor beneath,
Up came the reserves to the medley in
fernal,
Asking where to go in-through the
clearing or pine?
"Oh. anywhere, Forward, 'Tis all the
same, Colonel:
| You'll find lovely fighting along the
whole line!''
o, evil the black shroud Of night at
| Chantilly
| That hid him from sight of his brave
men and tried,
Foul. foul sped the bullet that clipped
the white lily,
The flower of our Knighthood, the
whole army's pride,
Yet we dream that he still in that
! shadowy region.
| Where the dead form their ranks at
the wan drummer's sign,
Rides on as of old, down the length OF
his legion,
And the word still is-"Forward,"
along the whole line.
Albert NJ Mckay. Adjutant Philo
/ Buckman Post, Sprague, Wash.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.

over the divide" Tom Taggart was the
life and soul of the Democracy in In
diana, and when he had to finally sue
sumb to the relations about his high
rolling gambling place at French Lick
his mantle did not fall upon a more
capable leader. The party was toe
badly rent by the convulsive struggle
he made te avoid 81 fall, and though
Bryan is booked for three days ia the
State, 1t seems unlikely that he will be
able to arouse any enthusiasm. Tens
of thousands of Democrats in Indiana
are reported to vote the Republican
ticket, and others will stay at home, oil
else put the knife into Tom Taggart'.
lieutenants, who are striving to carry
on campaign in the oldtime spirit.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

1t is significant Of the exceeding diff
Guilty Of governing the Slav race that
members of that race in this country
are SO frequently in trouble with their
priests, whom they have beaten and
even killed. Last Sunday Rev. Father
Przybolksi, Rector of the Polish Catho-
lie Church, at Westfield, Mass, was
beaten almost to death and would have
been killed by the members of his con-
gregation. The Polish, Hungarians and
Bohemians are all Slavs, and these out
RACES upon priests. with burning of
churches and similar senseless crimes,
are surprisingly common among those
peoples. The significance of this is a
Slavic contempt for all authority and
order. Such a thing as an assault upon
a priest or the burning of a church is
unknown among the Irish, German and
French Catholics Of this country Those
nationailties seem to have a respect for
religion and authority which is entirely
absent from the more ignorant and
more stupid Slavs.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

Commissary-Gene Sharpe makes
an admirable suggestion in his annual
lished at all the camps of instruction.
This country cannot have too much
education in the science of cooking. The
education should be civil as we'll as
military. Bad cooking is responsible
for host of evils, including intemper-
ance and disease. WretchedIy-prepared
ences in driving a man to drink, and
the women of this country have heavy
responsibility for the drunkenness in it.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

William C. Mcmillan, son of the late
Senator Mcmillan, of Michigan, and a
leading candidate for Gen. Alger's seat
in the Senate, seems to be strangely ILL
advised. One of his strongest competi-
tors Is Congressman Townsend, who re-
Gently went to Ecorse, suburb of De-
troit, to hold political meeting, and
was attended by a number of friends
and prominent politicians. A consid-
cradle audience had gathered to hear
him speak, but under orders from Mr..
Mcmillan, his bookkeeper prevented
Mr.. Townsend from entering the yards
and holding meeting. Looking at the
matter from this distance, we should
say that Mr.. Mcmillan has knocked
himself out very completely. ,a
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

John B. Moran, of Massachusetts,,
must certainly be credited with COM
prehensive aspirations and a delightful
frankness in confiding them to the pub
lie. After hard struggle he recently
secured the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Massachusetts, and in his
campaign he says he is not only run
ming for Governcr, but also for the
Democratic nomination for President
He does not propose to play second
fiddle" to Mr.. Bryan or Mr.. Hearst, but
will enter the convention on equal terms
with them as competitor. There is
nothing like having a good opinion of
ones self.
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JUST THINK OF 1T.

What is the matter with the Iroquois
Club, of Chicago? For 10 these many
wears it has been Democracy's gem OF
ard by which Democracy was judged
and it's fiat made and unmade candl-
dates. Its anniversary dinners have
been political epochs. from which the
party took fresh inspiration and hlsher
faith. The 25th of these functions took
place at the club room Oct. 19, and was
a general slugfest for Bryan and Gov
crnment and municipal ownership.
Lambert Tree said the Democratic
Party possessed an extensive museum
of eccentric statesmen.
Arthur ]. Eddy said:
Bryan? Bryan is a hopeless case.
He had only tail hold on the banG
wagon, and that inflated his head. He
is clear off now. We hoped that our
great leader would gain some IDEA %
the relative sizes of his own mead ana
the world on his trip abroad. but no
sooner did he land than he put the rat
in the fire in promulgating theories tha'
startled the whole country
Rryan's railroad ownership theory Is
ONLY the local municipal ownership
fancy seen through magnifylns glass
Municipal ownership is as monStrouS Il
delusiun, only of a lesser degree InesS
notions are diametrically opposed To
the fundamental principles of the Dem
ocratic Party as laid down by Jeher-
SON.
This was the temper of all tn'
speeches, and the guest who mos
thoroly enjoyed them was Roger Sui
liran.
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Seeding Slave States.

Editor National Tribune: Will you
please inform me through your valuable
paper If Delaware was slave state
when the war of the rebellion proKe
,nt and how many slave States did not
secede.-J. C. Rouss, Co. G, 26th Mich,
Middleville.
Delaware was a slave State at the
beginning Of the rebellion. having 1.7ss
slaves to 1899 free colorsd and 9o.bss
white. The slave States which did not
secede were Delaware, Maryland. Ken
lucky and Missourt.-Editor NatioaE
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

A wild rumor throbs the tense al
that William j. Bryan and Senator L.
Toilette are about to start a new party
tie greater part Of the principles o
which will be supplied by Presiden
Roosevelt's acts and utterances. Prob
ably this is the wisest thing that NJ
Bryan can do. He has been so unfor
tunate in formulating opinions an,
principles of his own that it is muc'
wiser in every way for him to take
some other mans, which have stoo,
the test of publicity.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
The LIQUOR Question.

Editor National Tribune: I want to
ay that / agree with H. S. Brown, of
quincy. H., and others that your able
nd truthful articles on beer and whis-
" were fine, and I was glad to see the
hing voted down at the q. A. X En-
:ampment I, for one, would feel very
nuch humiliated to know of our noble
order upholding it and cavorting
round our not getting whisky enough
j. j. Bowen, Winona, Mo.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
A pAp WEEK FOR THE TRUSTS.


Last week was q decidedly blue one
for the trusts. The courts seemed to
be getting down to their work in fine
shape, and giving the railroads and the
great corporations much reason to
pause and reflect II 1t is not much bet
ter to carefully read the statutes of the
United States and diligently obey them.
The Standard Oil Company has been
tried at Findlay, o., before "a jury
drawn from the body of the County,;
that is, Of plain American citizens. up
on an Indictment charging conspiracy
against trade, in violation of the VAL
entine law.
The Standard Oil seems to nave real
lied the gravity of the occasion, and
sent to Findlay its ablest lawyers. who
were confronted by the County Prose-
cutor and the Attorney-General of the
State. After 80 hours of deliberation
the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
which mulcts the Standard Oil Com
pany for the sum of $4,000. the high
est penalty under the law. The amount
is not so important. however, as $15.-
900 will not cut much of figure in the
Standard OILS cash account. 1t is OF
the greatest gravity in making be-
ginning. and showing the Standard OIL
Company what it may expect if it con-
tinues to disregard the law. The Oil
Company has given notice of appeal,
based upon the questions of the juris-
diction of the court. Of the relevancy
of testimony, of the suf1iciency of the
charge and the Judges construction OF
the law.
The County and State Attorneys.
however, are entirely confident that the
higher courts will sustain the decision
of the lower one. Mr.. Rockefeller kept
in close touch with the trial. and is not
Understanding the significance of the
result.
In New York. Oct 10, Judge Holt. OF
| the United States Circuit Court, fined
the New York Central Railroad Com
pany and its general traffic manager,
Frederic H. Pomeroy, $114.000 for CIV
ing the sum of $4,000 in sugar rebates
to the American Refining Company in
1904 This was a case under the Ell
liins law, and the Company was found
guilty of six counts out of II. 1t was
fined $4,000 on each. with s6,enn ad-
ditional fine upon the traffic manager
In pronouncing the sentence Judge Holt
reprimanded the Company severely
and said the only extenuating circum-
stances which he could discover were
| that the defense's counsel had short
ened the trial by the introduction o'
documentary evidence, and had not in
terposed any unnecessary obstruction
to the course of justice.
This case has also been appealed, bu'
it is regarded as likely that the appea
will meet with confirmation of the SEN
| tence by the higher courts.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

The burning question in Pennsylva-
MIA Is whether there is any sort of jus,
tification in spending $9,000,000 in
furnishing and decorating" a $4,000
900 State House. Is it a sufficient an
swer to this that Pennsylvania has 1.-The
most magnificent Capitol in the world"
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
Axainxf Saratoga.

Editor National Tribune: Fight
gainst Saratoga as place for the G..
r. Encampment There is nothing
o see there and hard to get to by rail-
oad.-Grove II. Dutton, Owego, N. Y.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

Admiral Dewey seems to have known
what he was talking about when he
said that the Filipinos were as fit for
as the Cubans
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

The Pennsylvania Congress of Moth
ers showed itself sane and sensible 1t
would have none of the prurient An
thony Comstock.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
HON. JOHN NJ. REYNOLDS.
An Experienced and Able Public Servant
and = Tried and UnfailinH Friend Of
the Veterans.

John NJ. Reyn dds was born in Lam
caster County. Pa. and graduated from
the First Pennsylvania State Normal
School at Millersville. He began his
career in Bedford as principal of the
public schools and as an instructor of
teachers in the Normal School. then the
leading educational institution in the
County.
He was admitted to the Bedford Bar
Feb. Is, 1870, and subsequently to
practice in the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania and OF the United States.
He represented the district of Bed
ford and Fulton Counties in the State
Legislature during the sessions of 1873
1874 as the youngest member of that
body. and took an active part in franz
ing much of the legislation necessary to
put in force the new Constitution adopt
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
ONCE. s1s Thirteenth Street N. w.

announce that he is q Democrat even
this year.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
AN OPEN LETTER.
To All Es-sosd.e-s, Sailors and Marines:

In
The that with citizens
of RenenatiyeS Even we M admit the strenuous contention Of u the Demo
entitled
overwhelming
preference thoeo facta
panics Immediately
the election of Democratic conssh last time the people
a
Republican Immediately
public revival of bust
augmented by the Re-
Therefore would seem folly of the nature to invite return to the
n hs shoua dread % fire. 'a
growh Capital
tmd With control of seeking
@ @ $ every f p % , mas s e h the % utmost @ f S & % thu tine s.n 1r n has s n
certain of at good the business has been able to make
business with the certainty
All this a
Senee ana security W will rve wav t n doub es anH % % is
not merely that new and ued will be placed deck at most critical
most feature No matter what individual of them pretend
economic hy which alarms thoughtful people Their mental activities
preachers among them It is M, so much what hav o do or h
doing Here where public confidence
killing frost of strust will settle down night boomers
yet no prudent man feels safe with one near him.
forward to the coming with of hope confidence he
tn na @ CONGRESS sa Is and IN na t hama on men n nave f % been @ elected $ solely @ upon Appeals
family paying aecuuatons his first amn and looking
of an arrest Of the activity which WHY him
The farmer will be in the same because when the furnace fires
off drop to the nus eve, 1892 and the farmer
Now special
All ana ene OF veterans have been hoping for the paase OF
as the passage o OF
has made SO much progress that large majority of the
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the National % Of the Grand Army the Republic in session
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The National tribune., 1906-10-25

John Sharp Williams. the Democrat''
leader of the House of Representatives
is saying things nowadays at grea
rate. and he manages to attract atten
ton wherever he goes. His last speech
was at Cambridge. Md, last week, am
he addressed the people that the coun
try was on the verge of a break OF DIG
party alinements. and that two nev
parties were to be formed, one of which
is to be paternaiistic and composed o
men who have lost faith in the capacit,
of the people to do anything for them
selves. and will look for some stronl
man to lead them. The other will b
made of those who adhere to the oil.
American idea of individual ability an,
infative
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
SARATOGA
a Citizen of the Town Rises Up In Its
Defense.

s. B. Archer, a prominent citizen Of
Saratoga. N. Y, replying to some stric-
lures of a veteran. says:
If he had taken the pains t. look
up the census he would have found the
population Of his little village was
12,400 in 1900. instead of 1,500. Then.
as to what we could do with 5000 Wis
itors, let me inform him that he have a
single hotel that can accommodate his
entire 5000 visitors and still be ready
to receive another installment without
unpacking their cots"
The National tribune., 1906-10-25

E,ro,,, the first we said that Mayor
Weaver. of Philadelphia, was might!
unDromising stuff out of which to MAKE
reformer. His finish now seems II
sight. He has shaken hands and saic
eood-bv to the advisory committee o.
prominent citizens who formed nj:
cabinet at the time of the political revo-
lution in the city. One after another
the public-spirited men who were IN
vited TO take charge of operations II
the interest of reform have been forced
ont The only remaining one is Ma
Cassius Gillette, formerly of the En-
rineer Corps and who came into promi
ncnce by his success in prosecutin;
CAPT. Carter, one of the swindling con
tractors at Savannah. The Filtrat1oi
Plant in Philadelphia was a fruitful
fountain of graft, and needed m ore tina
any other department of the publ
business n strong, honest man at th'
head Therefore, Maj. Gillette was no
tilted to take the position, and in orde
to do so had to resign his commlssloi
in the Engineers. Some public-splrite'
citizens entered into an agreement L
nav him $4,000 year for four year
in compensation therefor. Mayor WeaV-
er is now trying to get rid of him.
The National tribune., 1906-10-25
whole village for G. A. n.

Then another point to take into con-
sideration is that next year the En-
campment is to be held the first week.
in September instead of during August.
and that the Saratoga season closes
Sept. 1 and there is general exodusH
at that time, and when the old veteran
arrives the following week he Will ma
the whole village" given over to his
personal comfort and entertainment
In the next place, your G. A. Il. man
states that Saratoga is provided with
only "two small single-track roads,. It
is a fact that we have only two roads,
but those roads are especially equipped
for handling crowds and have become
thoroly experienced in that line OF busi-
ness They have on several occasions
in the past not only brought crowd
of 10000 people to the village In the
morning, but returned them to theirs
homes again the same night, and tnae
during this same week of the year that
they will handle the G. A. R. next ) ear.
and have done 1t without single accl-
dent, and what they have done before
they can do again.
Let the veterans come on and they
will be entertained as they have never
been before, and at the same time spend
a week in the greatest watering place
On earth.