The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

Ths Democrats ~ ths as~cnd Iadlaea
Congress distetgt, IN their epnventieh heid :
few days eco. Indofs~d both W. ran att
Roosevelt. rhla facalla the fart that the
Nsw Yops city bemocfatlo convention vhirh
fenomi0ated Osorse n Mcclellan for Naynr
adopted enthusiastically feaoiu'l0ha 'ndofalus
President Roosevelt.
sinos the lIoensa fss was advanced fe-
Gently n o. .0oo o year $50 ealocna In Chlcaso
have gone out Of business.
Gen. James a. GARRISON, Surveyor ~ the
Port ~ New York, n writing q history OF
the Underground Tunnel Of Iowa, . ~Nsk
which IL 10 tell of The methods used befors
the civil wat In passing runa way slaves on tn
Canada. Gen. Clafhson. a. q boy on his
fathers iowa farm, helped many . ala . TO
get TO free soil. For many years there have
been few white men In pubic life 70 whom
tho negroes have been more devotedly st
tached than Gen. GARRISON.
The news Of the sudden and dangerous III
ness Of men high In public life 10 often ettenu-
ously kept from the public. Many Of the
political correspondents lsarn the facts only
under the pledge Of secrecy. and In order to
be prepared for the worst, For instance:
President Mckinley In the sumner OF 1900.
when the national campaign was at lie height.
was stricken In tho White House with acute
Indigestion. the malady which resulted 80
quickly In the untimely death OF Roswell p.
Flower.
Mr.. Cleveland. during his second term
as President. was similarly brought low In the
White House, and only In December last Mr..
Cleveland was again attacked by this sudden
and dreaded. and very frequently fatal dis
order.
Nevada n. stranahan, Collector Of the
Port Of New York. has been seriously I'll for
nearly a year. He is suffering from a nervous
trouble. tho result OF strenuous attention to
his duties.
He is now slowly but surely picking up.
He has been in especially improved condi-
ton since he put himself In tho hands Of a
Syracuse specialist.
President Roosevelt in announcing TO a
group in the White House q short time ago
that Mr.. Stranahan was to succeed himself
as New Works collector affectionately slapped
MIR. Stranahan on the back and said:
Gentlemen. this is my New York collector
for the next four years unless I AN impeached
In the meantime
Il suppose said q friend to President
Roosevelt several evenings after the Presi-
dents overwhelming victory In November.
1904, that you are now the most popular
man In the country II not In the world"
That's all right" replied the President.
but with the things / have In my noddle at
the moment, the things l contemplate doing.
I'll probably be the most unpopular man in
the civilized world within two years.
Railroad Commissioner George W. Aldridge
of Rochester, one. OF Gov. Higgins COUNSEL
lors, tells his New York city friends that the
Governor Is not q candidate for renomina-
: ion"
rari Sohurz VIVA first AalaQafA NJ larOs for
Wisconsin in the Republican national oonven-
ton at Chicago In 1850. and on ell three bal
lots for President Wisconsin's ten votes were
cast for William H. Seward OF New York.
On the third ballot Lincoln had 2Si1S votes
and Seward $50. Ohio then changed four
votes from Salmon p. Chase TO Lincoln. Civ
ing Lincoln the requisite number to nominate
him for President.
Many conflicting reports have been printed
concerning the total vote received by william
r. Hearst for the Presidential nomination In
the Democratic national convention at st.
Louis In 1904. The ofnclal proceedings Of the
convention give Mr.. Hearst's total vote at
1871. as follows: California, 20; Colorado. 5;
Florida, a. Illinois. 81; Iowa. 20; Kansas. 10;
Maine, /; Minnesota. o; Nebraska. 4: Nevada,
4; Oregon, 2: Rhode Island. o: South Dakota,
8: West Virginia. 1; Wyoming, Q: Arizona. @:
Indian Territory. l: Haw all. o; New Mexico. 9,
and Oklahoma, 2.
The Territories having no votes in the
Elect oral College, It may be In order to recall
that In the foregoing States which gave the
whole or a part of their nominating votes to
Mr.. Hearst the result was as follows:
Roosevelt's pluralities. California, 1l5. s22:
Colorado, 1852; Illinois. 3o5. o99. Iowa. 1885,
7ee. Kansas, l2e, o9s: Maine. Sc. 7ei: Minnesota,
lel. 4e4. Nebraska, go, $50: Nevada. 2,s85: Ore
Ron, a, esI; Rhode Island. lo.7e8: South Da-
kota, so, IA, and West Virginia. 81 .7eS.
Florida. which gave Hearst four nominating
votes IN the convention. was carried by Alton
B. Parker by 1872, which was below the
normal Democratic plurality. Cleveland In
1892 having carried the State by $500 and
Bryan In 1896 by 81 .4<< and In 1900 by 2o.ee3.
william J. Brya n. when. speaking In the
Democratic national convention OF 1904 to the
nomination Of Alton q. Parker. did not mention
Judge Parker's name. This style of political
oratory was introduced. II Ia said. by Conk-
ling In the Garfield campaign and followed
by Hill In the second Cleveland campaign.
1t is a preventive OF too much crow-eating IN
public.
when you must eat crow Senator Thomas
C. Plat Of New York used to say make II the
most delicious dish you ever tasted"
In the German Reichstae a bill has been
introduced requiring reckless automobiles
to pay life %annuities to the pedestrians they
main and perennial life insurance to the de-
pendents OF those they slay.
Game Dogs Don't Eat Game.
From The Eeu orleans Times-Dtmoerat.
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