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CLEVELAND REEVES BURIAL PLACE

The recent death OF former Preside Mt
Grover Cleveland again attracts atten-
ton to a project which has been dis
cussed from time TO time and which has
for its object the establishment of a
national presidential cemetery, says
the Milwaukee Sentinel. Americans
love and yenerate their illustrious dead,
and using the beautiful grounds of Ar
lington for a national cemetery is d
splendid tribute TO the heroes of the
army and navy. There is also in Wash
ington the Congressional cemetery.
which is the last resting place pro-
vided by the nation for the lawmak-
ers of America. Thus il seems singu-
lar that there has been no national
burying ground provided for the presi-
dents of the United States.
Recently there has been considerable
talk of what is to be done with presi-
dents of the United States after they
retire from office. Suggestions have
been made that they be given seats in
the senate for life, and that they be
pensioned for life. Aside from this dis
cussion of what is to be done for the
former presidents during their lifetime
there has been some talk of providing
d burying ground for the presidents.
Probably not one man out of thou
sand knows the burial places of all the
different presidents, with the exception
of Mount Vernon, for the tomb of
Washington is visited by tourists from
every country, and is familiar to ev-
cry American.
President John Adams remains were
inferred at Quincy. Mass, beneath the
portico of the Unitarian church. The
tomb is in the cellar and is built in
behind large blocks of rough granite.
The door is a marble slab, with mas
sive clasp, paddock and hinges. In the
church proper is the memorial tablet
of John Adams and his wife. On the
top of it is a life size bust of the
president, and the tablet is inscribed
with an elaborate eulogy of his SER
vices as a citizen and public servant.
John Quincy Adams. the sixth president
of the United States, and the son of
John Adams, is buried in the same
vault, and also his wife, Louise Cath
crime, rests at his side.
Thomas Jefferson is buried at Mon
ticello, Va, in the family cemetery. The
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fuences are anxious to beat Hughes
and have brought pressure on the party
leaders to beat him in the convention.
The question, therefore, for Hitch
cock and Roosevelt and the other mem
bers OF the steering committee, is which
alternative offers the best bargain
viii ii be more profitable to name
Hughes and trust to the moral element
for votes and money; or will it be good
politics TO talk morality, as usual, send
Hughes into Oblivion and assure the
enemies of Hughes that they need fear
no continuation of his policies?
No wonder the bulletins are confus-
ing and that the dilemma has driven all
the experts to declare they will let the
convention make its own choice
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nnce, public supervision cost the pub

stance, public supervision cost the pub
lie money.
Another unexpected development
came in the case of public service
corporation in one of the large cities.
The company had received a new fran
chise that required it to pay a part OF
its gross revenue to the city. This
company had been accustomed to give
about twenty thousand dollars to char
ity each year, but its philanthropic ac-
tivities were brought to an end a short
time ago by an opinion of the city at
torney that, as the company was a
quasi-partner of the city because the
city shared in its revenues, the COM
pany could not legally give away any,
thing without the consent of the city.
The officers of the company, of course,
accepted this as final and retained in
the treasury the amount formerly :; =
propriated for hospitals and other char
liable institutions.
The first case cited is not peculiar
Similar conditions have resulted from
public supervision in other parts of the
country. These cases do not mean that
the public control idea is wrong; rather
the contrary. because the corporation is
as much deserving of protection as the
public and measures for public control
should do justice to the company as
well as to its patrons.
The experience with nuhlic control &c
far as it has gone, tends to prove that
the idea does, in fact, meet the best
thought of the day. OF course it is in
the experimental stage as yet, and
many of the rulings have been most I'M
just to the companies. Public clamor
for drastic action and lack of proper
knowledge on the part of the supervis-
ing authorities are chiefly responsible
for this, but a more intelligent under
standing of the factors that of right
enter the problem will come in time and
the contention that the honest corpor-
alton has nothing to fear promises to
have early confirmation.
This is the view taken by the heads
of the most enlightened corporations to-
day. Even though they may argue
that public ownership is economically
bad. as many of them do, they are a
Unit in expressing the conviction that
and fair public supervision
is not a menace to the welfare of any
concern that conducts its business legit-
innatalv
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granite obelisk, built of three pieces OF
rough granite, is designed from draw
ings made by Jefferson. Mrs. Jeffer-
son is buried close by him
James Madison's body rests in lot
at Montpelier, Va. This lot has an
iron gate with the name Madison on
it. The monument, which is a plain
but graceful obelisk. was erected twen-
ty-two years after his death by private
subscriptions The inscription on it
makes no allusion to his public SER
vices. His wife, Dolly Payne, is buried
in the same lot.
The nearest approach to national
presidential burying ground is the plot
in Hollywood cemetery, in Richmond.
Va, which was bought by Governor
Wise, in behalf of the state, for the
purpose of making it the purifying place
for the Virginia presidents. President
James Monroe lay buried in New York
city in the Second avenue cemetery
until 1858, when the body was removed
to Richmond and deposited in this par
ticular plot in Hollywood cemetery. The
vault is made of brick and granite,
and is five feet under ground, being
covered by a block of Virginia marble
on which rests the sarcophaguS, gran
lite block shaped like a coffin. On this
sarcophagus was a metal plate or
which was inscribed: James Mon
roe, governor of Virginia, 1899 TO 1S0S-
IL. President of the United States
1917 to 1926 This plate was stolen
and never recovered.
President John Tyler is also buried
at Hollywood cemetery, near Monroe,
in the presidents section" There is
neither, monument nor stone to mark
his grave, although forty-six years ago
the Virginia legislature passed resolu-
tions for the erection of suitable mon
ument.
General Andrew Jackson is buried at
Hermitage, eleven miles from Nashville,
Tenn, on the Cumberland river. The
remains lie within the structure about
fifteen feet high, surmounted by a dome
and supported by eight Doris columns.
The interior has a vaulted ceiling in
white. At the base of the structure is
a pyramid of white marble resting on
a square base, beneath which is the
vault. There is nothing on the gener-
ais tomb indicating that ne had been
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COME UNEXPECTED RESULTS.

Public control of public service cor
porations as ii is working out in some
communities is developing unexpected
results. The basic idea of the move
ment toward public supervision of these
institutions is, OF course, to protect the
public from extortionate charges and
unfair determinations. The public, in
the main, cares little for the material
welfare of the corporation, and the
thought back of the legislation which
has been enacted in several states and
cities was not to assist the corporation;
in fact, quite the contrary
Several of the largest public service
corporations of the country welcomed
the new regime with open arms. rather
to the astonishment of those who had
been claporing for reform in the hand
ling of such institutions. 1t is now de-
veloping that the laws are not, as
might appear at first glance, prejudi-
cial to all public service corporations,
but, instead, have proved of direct ben
eft to them.
Wisconsin has a state commission to
pass on rates. One of the first cases
TO come before the commission was
that of a man who owned two small
electrical plants, an electric light sys-
tenn and a telephone system. He had
about fifteen thousand dollars invested
in each plant. He desired to raise one
rate and, of course, had TO submit the
matter to the state commission The
commission inquired fully into the
financial status of his properties and
found that he was earning less than
four per cent with one plant while the
other had paid him only $50 the year
previous, counting his own time as of
no value. The result was that the COM
mission authorized sweeping increases
OF rates clear down the line. on the
principle recognized by all such COM
missions that capital is entitled to a fair
return. 1t was evident that the owner
himself did not know just how his bus
mess stood until the commissions ex-
perts inquired into il, and it is alto
gether probable that, had there been
no commission. the man would have
been content with raising the one rate,
instead of all of them. In this in
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NATIVE POPULATION.

The present Venezuelan controversy
furnishes an excellent opportunity that
to say Holland" when you mean THE
Netherlands is about as appropriate
as to say Massachusetts" when you
mean UNITED States The Neither
lands government controls eleven dis
tinct provinces, to wit: North Hol-
land, South Holland, Zealand, North
Brabent Utrecht, Limburg, Gelderland,
Overyssel, Drenthe, Groningen and
F'riesland.
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Call for Democratic State Conven-
tion

Headquarters Democratic State Com
mittee, Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. II,
1908.
A Democratic state convention is
hereby called to meet at Logan City.
Utah, on Tuesday, Sept. %, 1908, at IL
o'clock a. m, for the purpose of NOM
mating three presidential electors, who
will vote in the electoral college for
William ]. Bryan and John w. Kern
for president and vice president, re-
spectively, of the United States; and
candidates for the following officers for
the state of Utah:
One Justice of the Supreme Court.
Congressman.
Governor
Secretary of State.
State Treasurer.
State Auditor.
Attorney General.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
And to select new state committee.
The convention will consist of sos del
egates, and they will be apportioned on
the basis of one delegate for every
fifty-four votes cast for .. w. Powers
for congress in 1906. This will give the
respective counties the following rep
resentation:
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GREATER THAN RULERS.

If such great souls as Tolstoi stopped
to grieve over the petty narrowness OF
some of those whom fortuitous circum-
ing in advance of your time would
have its penalties.
TolstOi is not permitted TO have a
birthday in Russia. at least as far as
a celebration of it is concerned. The
old man became eighty years old last
week, and the thousands of Russians
to whom he has pointed the way to en-
lightenment had planned to observe the
occasion fittingly in honor of their
greatest benefactor. But the power
that has misgoverned Russia for centu-
ries put a ban on public celebrations
of the day. 1t is interesting to note
that the order was obeyed only in part.
Little groups of peasants all over the
empire celebrated the day locally, thus
showing that Tolstois work has not
been in vain; that he has, in fact,
taught the Russian peasant to think for
himself now and then and to defy edicts
that before Tolstois day would have
been obeyed literally and to the let
ter.
Russian history has been a tale of
sadness for hundreds of years, and this
element predominates in it's literature,
even in the writings of the great count
himself He is a wonderful man, one
OF the really great ones of his genera
ton. A philanthropist in the true
meaning of the word. he has proved his
preachings by his deeds. He has striv-
en- TO elevate his lowly brethren by get
ting down among them. 1t is easy for
those in comfortable stations in life to
preach love of fellow men, to give freely
of abundant means TO help the unfor-
tunate. But il is something greatly
different to spurn all that wealth and
rank may give and step bravely down
among the benighted poor and live
their lives with them for their ulti-
mate redemption: to make their fight
your fight, to suffer ostracism, to sac
rifice the surroundings to which one
was born and reared. to risk imprison-
ment and death itself for the accom-
plishment of a high purpose.
All this Tolstoi has done. 1t has not
been an easy task or one quickly
ended. 1t has meant years of what
would have been the most heroic self
denial to one whose heart was not in
his work.
1t would be hard to say whether Toll
stois preaching or his example has
done most for Russia. His writings,
some of them blunt almost to the point
of vulgarity, have been most potent
factors in the uplift which is under
way in Russia, but his example has
been altogether magnificent.
Little tyrants may strive to suppress
the efforts of grateful countrymen to
honor their greatest benefactor. but the
old man whose end is approaching must
know. if he ever pauses to think of
himself, that the history of human adj
vancement will hold high the name of
Tolstoi through all time. long after his
country's oppressors are forgotten or
remembered only to be infamed.
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Pcnce's PentiaI Speech.

Protesting that he has long enough
been pilloried as a worthless visionary
mer Congressman LATE Pence this morn
ing pleaded with Circuit Judge Morrow for
permission to expose ]. Thornburn Ross,
T. T. Burkhart and j. e. Aitchison of
the defunct Title Guarantee & Trust COM
pany. who he alluded to as a gang and
al thieves.
Under oath here l want an oppor-
tunity. TO give the facts and a history
of the affairs of the Pence company he
declared. i want to show that Ross
Burkhart and Aitchison were In a plot
to put me in the same stack with old man
Marquam. But I knew what they were
doing. | hired detectives to watch them.
and ! knew every move they were maxi
ing. / was up In the tree watching them
while they were laying their traps in the
grass.
~ quit drinking whisky just to watch
them For thirty years ! had not missed
a drink, and if 1 had kept on drinking
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OF course, if the business associates"
of the corporations who have been in
vited to contribute to the Republican
campaign fund in violation of law do
not come through, the corporations may
expect TO see something hot handed to
their business associates in the event
of a Republican victory.
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STILL VACANT.
Chicago News.)

Chicago News-)
He was a dude of the would-be masher
type and. tripping down the aisle of the
parlor car. he dropped into seat beside
a pretty girl
obody-er-occupying this seat with
you, miss?" he queried.
With a disdainful look, she replied in
a tone redolent with sarcasm: NO, SIR
nobody yet"
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THE HUGHES CASE.
Showing Variety of Official Re-
ports From Oyster Bay.

Oyster Bay. Aug. 20.-(Before the con-
ference)-Being interviewed at the railway
station, Mr. Hitchcock said the Hughes
governorship question would be consid-
cred in the conference. and he expected
some announcement could be made later
eriny.
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Without pleading guilty to lack of
perspicacity, Mr.. Taft wishes TO be I'M
derstood as saying that the Democrats
are using unfair tactics by developing
undesired issues.
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quotes the president on the Hughes
matter, may be only a nature faker.
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If prominent citizens hung around
home little more we should hear much
less about the unwritten law.
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Parts With Last Four Dollars.

The end OF the court proceedings was
that Lafe parted with his last Sand his
laundry still into satisfy judgment that
was 400 or 500 times as big as Lafe's four
The only thing that Salt Lake remem-
bers very well about Lafe Pence is that
this town for the headquarters of the
American Mining congress, an institution
which the people of Salt Lake are now in
the process of bringing hither, because
Denver didn't make good.
When the American Mining congress
was held in Portland four years ago, LATE
Pence was gathered up by the Denver
delegation somewhere on the cocktail
route Was LATE willing to go into the
congress and make a speech or six Tor
Denver for the congress? Sure he was.
And he did. There was no question about
the bitterness of Fences arraignment of
Salt Lake. his denunciation of the Nor
mons. his scathing, scorching oratory
about Salt Lake, Utah and everybody in
it or connected with it.
LATE Fences main speech landed the
congress for Denver.
Meantime before LATE had reached
Portland and when he was on precari-
GUS journey to the banks of the Columbia,
he happened to stop in Salt Lake His
stop here was at the Kenyon hotel. and
the disappearance from the city and the
discovery of a shortage in the Kenyon
daily receipts commensurate with service
were simultaneous. A trifle of inconven-
fence at Boise did not long interrupt Mr..
Fences spinning northweStward.
But he hasn't been in Salt Lake since.
Charles Pence, a brother of Ldfe Pence,
was well known in this city some years
ago, where he practiced law
The Portland Journal has word or two
to say about Mr.. Pence and his court
troubles in this article:
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Be it said to the credit Of Mr.. Cas-
tro's disposition that he has not yet re-
marked that II beats the Dutch.
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UP TO HIM.
philadelphia Press.)

philadelphia Press)
The Fiance-But you admitted TO my
sister yesterday that you were in the
wrong.
The Fiancee-Suppose 1 did?
The Fiance-Well. then, why don't you
make up with me?
The Fiancee-I viii as soon as you apol-
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SURE.

"Par'
'.Well?'
"The angels lives up in tn sky. don't
they?"
YES / suppose So"
They're star boarders, amt they. pa?"
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The Apportionment.

The chairman OF the Democratic
county committee in each county is
hereby directed to call either primaries
or convention on Sept. II. 1908. for the
election of these delegates.
Delegates and visitors to this conven-
ton will be sold round trip tickets to
Logan at single fare on all railways
from all points in the state and from
Evanston, Wyo
Tickets will be sold Sept. 20, 81 and
%, good returning until Sept. 25.
Special train via o. S. L. will leave
Salt Lake at 1880 a. m. Sept %. arriv-
ing Logan about 10:45 a. m.
LYMAN r. MARTINEAU.
Chairman.
J.. e. CLARK. Secretary.
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New York. Aug. 2O.-(After the confer
ence)-Contrary to expectations, no an
nouncement was made tonight by Frank
H. Hitchcock chairman of the Republi-
can national committee. as to the senti-
ment developed at the Oyster Bay confer
ence for or against the denomination of
Governor Hughes.
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EXPERT KODAK FINISHING.

Harry Simpler. Commercial Photos-
rapher. Isl South Main.
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New York Aug. 21.-Without hesitancy
Mr.. Sherman said:
well the consensus of opinion among
those who gathered at Oyster Bay TO con-
fer with the president was favorable TO
the denomination of Governor Hughes. 1t
was developed by the reports received
that the candidacy of MIR. Hughes is
broader than New York state lines. The
trend in the state seemed 10 us to be de
cidedly toward giving Governor Hughes
another term"
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they would have got me sure. But /
caught the gang. and / meant to expose
them, but District Attorney Manning beat
me TO il. i have stood all sorts of insn-
uations in the newspapers and | have re-
manned silent, so that | might get my af
fairs in shape to clear me from debt.
am now about ready to begin work and
get out of debt, and l want to make
statement, pro bono publico, giving the
whole history of transactions of the Pence
COZ ny
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New York. Aug. 26.-In regard to the
recent conference at Oyster Bay, which
gathering was followed by statement
from James S. Sherman. the Republican
candidate for vice president, that the pre-
ponderance of opinion was favorable to
Mr. Hughes Mr.. Hitchcock said:
Mr. Sherman stated explicitly that no
determination of the governorship matter
was effected"
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LATE Pence has come to the conclusion
that thirty years of booze fighting is a
plenty for anybody, especially for LATE
Pence. After he came out of his tricen-
narious jag, LATE made up his mind to
rope a new horse out of the remuda, buy
bright. red little water wagon and an.
nounce to the world that he has the de-
mon rum buffalOed.
The cogitations which led LATE TO this
state of mind are the reflections that for
thirty years he has been getting horn
swoggled by everything from a prairie
dog up to a north pole expedition, and
him PopuliSt, too.
No more for Lafe He wears button
with this Warning-it's old, but it's good,
the same as Old whisky was when Lafe
was drinking: Get thee behind me, Sa-
tan"
LATE used to be a congressman from
Colorado. He was not only congressman
but he was, moreover, Populist con-
gresham. One time in the mouse LATE
got a lot of moonbeams in his tea and let
fly at somebody President Cleveland, per
haps. He made a speech that would have
raised HI with hair on IL If II had come
from anybody but LATE Pence. And this
wasn't because LATE couldn't talk. In
except a muledriver going over the Te-
hacepi pass with nothing but jerkline
on the leads.
Had Money Once.
One time, LATE says he had $4,000 or
Whereabouts. which is mighty good for a
Populist. But says LATE. while he was
reducing the supply of bottled in bond,
some other fellows came along. and went
to work erecting a structure called con-
spiracy. For this LATE was to be the fall
guy, but Lafe came too in time TO see
them laying the foundations; he took his
observations. he says, from the place af
fording the best viewpoint in tall tree:
and while he observed and they worked,
he got his revelation.
So LATE wound up in Portland recently.
facing a court proceeding in which he had
been practically shut out through laches
in Latin, or the kibosh in Assiniboine, and
he was up against ii in pure English. LATE
wanted to talk, but the court said that the
early closing movement was in effect and
that he'd have to get some sort of writ
of something. SO LATE didn't talk more
than a few minutes; but during the few
minutes he did talk. he told about lot
of cat-hops that had been worked ON him
and how he knew he was getting the roll
ers put under him all the while, but
couldn't put on the brakes until they
stopped making booze.