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now passes into the oblivion from
which he came. Governor F'rantz. gov
ernor by grace of Roosevelt, will soon
retire from office. He retires upon the
urgent request of the voters of Okla
homa, a request that was backed UP
by majority Of some 10000 votes. 1t
was the first chance the people had had
at Frantz, who headed the Republican
ticket, and they took the fullest posi-
bic advantage of it.
A special census just finished in Ok
lahoma shows the population of the
new state to be upwards of 400 900.
This is a greater total than any terri
tory has had at the time OF its admis-
sion TO the Union. Oklahoma starts
with five members of the lower house
of congress. Montana, Wyoming, Ne
vada, Idaho. Utah have only one each.
So Oklahoma starts off with as many
as those five states combined.
oklahoma has more population than
Montana. New Mexico. Arizona Della
ware. Alaska, Idaho, Nevada and Wy
oming combined. This tremendous
showing serves to call attention to the
injustice of keeping Oklahoma out as
long as it was kept out The census Of
1900 gave Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory a population of T)9.011. and the
special census shows an IN .rease that
is phenomenal.
Thus for years after it was really en-
titled to admission Oklahoma, then sep
arate from Indian Territory, was given
only one represt NATIVE il congrc and
that representative was elsgate with
the right to speak, bu' n 1t 20 vote. In
dian Territory had another The pOpu-
lation is dense, too, for the area of Ok
lahoma is considerably less than tkat
of Kansas or Nebraska, North Dakota,
Texas or a number of other states that
might be mentioned.
And there IS no doubt that the pcpu-
lstion will Continue In'5rase rapidly,
for Oklahoma. is a state of me- gnificent-
ly fertile farming lands. II is capable
of suppo- ing gIany times IT'S present
population, and will DOUBT. s be doing
that very long before twenty years
have passed
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ARE THE cHURcEs CORDIAL?

An old, old question has been investi-
gated and discussed in an interesting
way by Miss Laura A. Smith. who re-
ports her experiences in the Ladies'
Home Journal. Dressed in the costume
of the average young woman without
means" Miss Smith visited the larger
churches of New York Brooklyn and
Boston. OF thirty-seven churches Wis
tied in the two first-named cities, only
two pastors sought her out and spoke
to her voluntarily and one other was
brought to speak to her. In five church.
es thirteen members spoke to her. In
thirty-two churches she was absolutely
ignored by the members. In Boston she
went to twenty-four churches and one
pastor spoke to her In four churches,
four members showed a friendly inter
est in the visitor. In nineteen churches
she had no word of greeting. Later
she visited western cities and will re-
port her experiences there.
To people who have had occasion to
change residence and move to strange
cities, Miss Smiths observations bring
nothing new. But such experiences af-
ford no view of the real attitude of the
churches or of their members. Wheth-
er person is well dressed or poorly
dressed, whether he bears the evidence
of means and culture or of poverty, he
could expect no other treatment in the
majority of churches provided he at
tended in the spirit which Miss Smith
manifested.
1t is probably true that the majority
of church members are careless as to
the attention that ought to be shown
to strangers; but it is even more GER
tain that most visitors or newcomers
who attend strange churches are large
ly responsible for the attitude of the
members. If a stranger who has come
to the city to live is not enough con-
cerned about his church relations to
seek acquaintance in his chosen con-
gregatiOn. he can scarcely blame the
pastor and members for failure TO well
come him. One does not wait to make
social acquaintance by chance under
such circumstances, but introduces
himself to the people he wishes to
know. A new resident in Salt Lake
who is really interested in church work
is obligated by his own needs to form
a church connection, get acquainted
with the pastor, take his place in
church activities. If he shows that
much interest he will have no difficult
ty in getting a welcome from every
body in the church; and If he does not
show that interest he ought not to
complain of the lack of cordially" in
the churches.
Naturally those churches prosper
most which are best organized to seek
out visitors, make them feel at home
and impress them with the cordial re-
ception they receive. But it is a mighty
poor sort of Christian who has to be
''jollied' into doing his share of the
meeting which precedes acquaintance
and liking in church connections. Miss
Smiths impressions are of value chief
ly as confirming the mistake in her
method of investigation
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CHAUFFEUR AND THE JUDGE,
cleveland Plain Deale

Berlin motorists are moving to give the
judges weekly rides in the machines to
teach them the delights of motoring and
soften their attitude toward cases brought
into court.
VIII you step into my auto?" said the
chauffeur to the Judge;
You'll find it rather better than upon the
pave to trudge;
I'd really like to show you how the engine
is controlled
The judge got in the auto and along the
way they rolled.
The chauffeur showed his honor how the
levers changed the speed,
he let him hold the steering wheel and
guide the chugging steed;
And then he slyly grasped the clutch and
freshened up the pace;
His honQr gasped and grabbed his hat a
smile upon his face
They whiZzed about the corners and they
whistled down the pike;
The chauffeur showed his honor what a
racing car was like
And presently the judge exclaimed, For
speeding, / opine
I'll fine you 10000 marks-and then remit
the finer
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OKLAHOMA TO COME IN.

A dispatch from Washington says
President Roosevelt has announced
that he will approve the Oklahoma
constitution. The executive said that
the question of his approval should not
be based upon his personal opinion. but
on the point as to whether or not Ok
lahoma had complied with the require
ments of the enabling act. This, &C
cording to the attorney general, had
been done. The proclamation an
nOuncing the admission of Oklahoma
and the addition of the forty-sixth star
to the constellation will be made later.
President RoOsevelt's personal opin-
ion of the constitution-which is not
particularly important-is said by that
distinguished gentleman to be unfit
for publication" The important thing
is that Oklahoma is to be a state in
full fellowship with the other states
that go to make up the nation. The
people have complied with every re-
quirement. The constitution, in spite
Of Secretary Taft's talk against it, or
perhaps because of it, was adopted by
a large majority. A Democratic gov
ernor and other Democratic state Off
Gals have been elected.
Four of the five members of the
lower house of congress are Demo-
Gratis. and the legislature, which is
overwhelmingly Democratic. will elect
two United States senators Of that DO
litical faith. Perhaps these are some
of the reasons why Mr.. Roosevelt hesi-
tated about approving the constitution.
Certainly the foreknowledge that Ok
lahoma would be a Democratic state
had a great deal to do with keeping it
from admission for years after it was
entitled to statehood.
Nor does Oklahoma owe the presi-
dent any gratitude It would have
been an unheard of proceeding if he
had refused to approve the constitu-
ton merely because it did not measure
up to his personal ideas on the sub
jet of constitutions. The effect of his
would have been to nulIi-
fy an act of congress, the act that
opened to Oklahoma the path to state
hood. Mr.. Roosevelt has been guilty
of many usurpations of authority. and
it would not have been surprising if
he had given another instance of his
high-handed methods in this case. The
fact that he did not shows that there
are times when even Roosevelt hest
tates about overriding the popular will
as expressed by congress.
Another interesting feature is that
one Of Roosevelt's cowpuncher friends
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BATTLE NAMES FOR HUMANS,
Kansas City Journal.

NhdnSaS City JOuTnal)
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands is said
to have been named in commemoration
Of the battle in which his father was
wounded. As that engagement occurred
in 1854, and Judge Lands was born in
1866. his peculiar name cannot have been
bestowed on the spur of the moment A
similar instance of peculiar paternal
choice in naming a child is exhibited in
the case of Captain Malvern Hill Barnum
of the regular army His father must have
had some reason akin to that of the elder
Lands, for while the battle was fought
in 1852, Captain Barnum was not born un-
til fourteen months afterward. Possibly
there are military associations which
civilians cannot understand that make
certain events of peculiar significance in
the lives OF veterans. This suppOsition Is
strengthened by the fact that a few wears
ago there lived In Boston two negroes.
prothers, sons of veteran, who bore, re-
spectively, the given names OF Army of
the Potomac and Sixth Corps"
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for this generation II Mr.. ChanIer
will take the kindly counsel of the
west, he will turn his press agents
over TO a CIRCUS or some theatrical or
ganization where the returns will justi-
fy the expense. He has as much show
of being the Democratic nominee next
year as he has of succeeding the car
of Russia on his throne.
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OF course, the average American cit
izen will take mighty little interest in
politics until after the American
League baseball championship is de-
cided. The Detroit Tigers look good
at this stage of the game.
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Will someone kindly name the dis
ease with which the Standard Oil mag
mates become afflicted when wanted as
witnesses? It's getting to be cpl
demic.
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Secretary Taft having arrived at Yo-
kOhama, the wires will hum once more
with his comings and goings. Really,
the matter is likely to be overdone be-
fore the presidential campaign is fair
ly on.
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Even before Thomas B. Reed left the
speakers chair Hepburn had the au-
dacity to denounce the rules of the
house that lodges in the chair all the
legislative power of that body He has
several times demanded that the right
or elaboration be restored to the rep
resentatives of the people He frets
over the dominion of the committee on
rules, which is dominated by the sneak
er. He declares that the house ought
to have the right to enact what the
majority favors; but he talked to
deaf ears. The oligarchy is in the sad
die. What the speaker says goes. What
the majority says does not go unless
the speaker approves. 1 think it worth
trying-the suggestion of the Hon. ].
Ham Lewis, that the house take its
speaker from without its membership,
The majority would never consent to a
surrender of its rights to a stranger
and an alien to its roll
But the Republican party has only
one principle-the majority the day of
election Hence it is no reformer. 1t
would drift forever If It did not impair
its popularity. Under the present r1Ies
no unloaded pistols can be fired, no un-
steady boats rocked, such as amend
ments by impertinent Democrats who
seek TO put the g. o. p. on record. The
old rules allowed that. Under the gag
of the rules committee it cannot be
done. And that is why Hepburn was
powerless to make the legislation of the
house responsive to it's membership in
stead of mere ratification of the speak
er's decree.
For some years the house has taken
its orders from Joseph G. Cannon, John
DalzeH and Charles H. Grosvenor and
these got their orders from Theodore
Roosevelt That is the sole reason that
Oklahoma did not come into the union
years ago. Ship subsidy passed the
house under that lash, and the steal
would be the law Of the land this mo-
ment If the time had not been so short
that 1T died in conference.
When the triumvirate-Cannon Dali
zell and Grosvenor-were hard put by
the unpatriOtic logic of John Sharp
Williams, Hepburn was ordered to the
front to bear the brunt. He doesn't
jest at scars: he has been wounded Mr.
Billy Patterson did not get more of a
devil of a lick than old Pete received
in his bout with John Sharp In the de-
bate touching the sales abroad of our
trust-made wares cheaper than they
are sold to our own folks at home.
Then came Charles Lands, who de-
clared that he did not believe a word
of ii, but If it was so, II was exactly
right. Pushed to the wall, Dalzell adj
mitted 1t was true and gloried in it,
II the Democratic party should come
TO this town next winter asserting
states rights and demanding tariff re- |
form and stick to the text, make these
paramount and keep them paramount |
it might yet turn out that Hanan is |
accursed and Mordecai blessed.
Oh. ye of little faith
Copyright, 1907, by z. w. Newman |
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Prepare for a flood of presidential
speeches next week. Roosevelt has
been loading up ali summer, and the
explosions will come in rapid success
sion.
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Congressman Burton may skin Tom
Johnson, but there'H be evidences of a
scrap from one end of Euclid avenue
TO the other.
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Over a thousand manageable girls
arrived in the steerage of one of the
big liners the other day, and none of
them billed for Utah!
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LOOKING AHEAD.
lCleveland plain IN.

cleveland Plain Dealer)
Enjoy the summer while you may
Most every days a hummer:
They say that winters on its way.
But SOS another SUMMER
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THAT'S WHY.
Milwaukee sentinel.N

t-uIIWdukee SEEMINGLY
why does Brown always have two
cases OF beer sent to the house at the
same time?''
He likes to have one for an emergency
case"
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William Peters Hepburn
BY SAVoYARD.

min A" on a fearfuily hot afternoon and
the entire night of an August day in
a continuous Illumination against the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law. AS the sun rose in
the eastern horizon, he ceased. not that
he was in the slightest fatigued, but
that the subject was too far gone In
exhaustion to continue on the road
longer. That very day. as L now recall.
the vote was taken. and plutocracy
fetched forth the crown Of thorns and
cross Of gold and the crucihxion pro-
ceeded.
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Cocktail Charley" is my name.

Cocktail Charley" is my name,
Champagne dinners are my game;
I'm a jolly old duck,
But I'm playing out of luck.
So excuse me if now seem tame.
Sung by Vice President Fairbanks
when the news of his defeat for dele
gate to the Methodist quadrennial
conference was broken to him.
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c66QeQ.
By and by Father Gear was gathered
to his fathers, and again if was hoped
that Hepburn would get the place he
was born for; but the toga went to
young Mr.. Dolliver, who ran a tilt
| against Mr.. Joseph Benson Foraker
nearly as disastrous as Gears dissec-
ton of Aliens politics. In his earlier
| career Hepburn had made a free trade
speech on the lumber schedule of the
tariff in 1883, that abomination that
was q revision" up of a Tariff so
monstrous that even the Republican
party was ashamed of 1t, and now
Hepburn refused to follow the lead of
Tom Reed and vote for repeal Of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman sill
yer law. So did that other eminent
| "goldbug Joseph G. Cannon. But
Hepburn has got bravely over both his
free tradeism and his free silverism.
Cannon never had the free trade dis
temper; but he had an awful case of
free silver.
In this same Fifty-third congress the
Democratic majorities I'm both houses
turned Populist. deposed Cleveland, set
up Teller as leader in the senate and
Bland In the house, and from that day
to this the American people have not
produced single Democrat that an
peared In public drunk on victory. If
political majority were a beverage the
Democratic party could establish if
teen years record of total abstinence.
They lost the art of acquiring victory
with the ostracism of Cleveland, Car
Isle, Olney, Villas. Turner, Morrison,
Lindsay, Wilson and men of that ilk
and that caliber. The Republicans
have gained three successive presiden-
tlai elections. They have had MAORI
ties in both houses for seven success
sive congresses. They are confident of
carrying the country in 1908, and If the
Democratic party doesn't mend its
manners, and keep them mended, it
will quaff the bitter cup of defeat to
the dregs again some fifteen months
hence.
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Copyright. 1907, by f. w. Newman
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Rain: colder
THE METALS.

Silver. 67ssc per ounce.
Copper (casting)-145sc per pound
Lead-S475 per 100 pounds.
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The Iowa delegation in the Fifty
third congress was very strong, con-
tanning Gear, Henderson, Cousins, Hull,
Perkins, Lacey and DOlliver, as we'll
as Hepburn. One of the senators from
that state was James T. Wilson. man
who was eternaiIy expected to do great
things. He was one of the managers
of the Impeachment Of Andy johnson,
and his friends claimed that he was the
best lawyer of the bunch; but Ben But
Ter got all the applause given that des-
perate proceeding. Wilson later got TO
the senate, and served there for years.
but he never set the Potomac afire. He
belonged to that class, all too numer-
GUS. who promise everything in the
flower and yield little in the fruit He
died during the life Of the Fifty-third
congress, and everybody knew that
some Iowa member of the house would
get his toga. My recollection is that
several of them went through their
stunts in the house for home consump-
ton, and Hepburn was far and away
ahead of any of the others in snowy
qualities. He was the man who should
have been senator; but at some time
Of his career he had been of counsel
for a railroad in a lawsuit. and the
toga went to old Father Gear. whose
greatest exploit in the senate was an
Grafton picking apart the politics of
Senator Allen, the gentleman who held
the floor for fifteen hours. hap Nrun-
The National tribune., 1907-10-31

which he served to the end OF the war.
He leaves n widow and four children.
| BEYER.-At Germantown, Pa, Sept.
ia, Hillary Beyer, aged 30. Comrade
Boyer enlisted in the Spring of 1862 in
| Co. A, Goth Pa; was made a Sergeant;
participated in all the services of his
command; never was absent from duty
| in the three years; was promoted to
Lieutenant for faithful service and eff
| cheney; was awarded a Medal OF Honor
| for conspicuous and meritorious brav-
| cry. He was for many years an eminent
and leading citizen of Germantown, but
| lost health, and his later years were
lalleviated only by the affectionate in
spiration of his devoted, talented and
gifted wife, who survives him.
PHELPS.-At Lebanon. Ore, Sept.
IS, Elias S. Phelps, aged &c years and
four Gays. Comrade Phelps was ma
tive Of the State of New York; removed
to Wisconsin in 1S47; enlisted in 1864 in
Co. e, 36th Wis; discharged at Chestnut
Hill Hospital, Philadelphia. Pa. May,
] S65; was Chaplain of his Post. He
leaves widow and two sons.
HATCH.-At Tappan, n. D., Sept. 4,
1907, Charles ID. Hatch Comrade Hatch
was born Dec. %. 1887, in Ohio, and
reared in Wisconsin. In 1862 he was
on the frontier in Minnesota, and suf-
ISlcu III TIC iHuidn lliuSSdCTe Ol Aildt
year, being four times wounded and los
ing nine relatives, yet succeeded in
warning many settlers and thereby sav-
ing their lives. In 1863 he enlisted in
Co. C, 1st Wis. II. A, and was made a
Corporal, serving until Sept. 81, 1855
He leaves a widow and seven children.
Interment was at his old family home,
Huntley, MINI.
WASHABAUGH.-At Glendale, CAL
Sent 4 .IJcnh WA aSha h1ttpf
years. He served as Corporal in the
119th Ill.
ALEXANDER.-At Victoria. Tex,
Sept. %, LASER Alexander. He served
three years in Co. ID, 5Sth H., and was
with his command in it's every engage
ment. He leaves IA widow and five
children. Comrades of his company
are requested to send their addresses
to the widow. Amelia Alexander Vic
toria, Tex.
CLAY.-At Newport, Pa, Sept. Z,
John 3. Clay, aged II years. He served
in Co. d, 47th Pa, thru the entire war,
and was a member of Post 297, G. A r.,
of Newport.
BOTTOMS.-At Storm Lake, Iowa,
Sept. /. 1907, James Bottoms, aged ~
years. Comrade Bottoms served in Co.
h, 11th Wis, for about 10 years. He
had been almost helpless from paraly-
sis He leaves widow, one son and
two daughters.
BLISS.-At White Plains, N. Y, Sept.
21, John S. Bliss. Comrade Bliss en-
listed May, 1861, in the 1st N. j., being
made Sergeant in Co. G. In Novem-
ber, 1851, he was commissioned Second
Lieutenant in the 9th n. Y, was pro-
NOTED to Captain and after Antietam
was detailed to staff duty with Mai Il
Gen. John Newton. He was member
of Cromwell Post, White Plains. He
leaves widow, a son and a daughter
KNIFFIN.-At 723 Greenwich St,
New York City, Sept. 20. 1907, Walter
S. Kniffin. Comrade KnifIin enlisted in
May, 1861, in Co. B, 3Sth Pa; was seri-
ously wounded at the first Bull Run;
participated in all the battles in which
his regiment was engaged.