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Facts on B1yns Position as to Confederate Veteran
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away was because he feared TO ego
back to an old-soldier element along
the Platte with the record Of having
voted for an ex-Confederate," they
must ask him: What then was the
reasonq He threw his vote away;
that, at least, is sure. And folk don't
throw their votes away, in contest
over speakership, in any spirit Of
Righteousness or chance-blown ca
price. Why, then, did Mr.. Bryan SO
play the caucus prodigal? II "an
old-soldier element" and an lexicon
federate," in terrifying conjunction,
were not the argument, what wasg
Also, if Mr.. Bryan, in answering the
latter, can frame a reply that shall
SO much as even resemble the reason
able, I pledge myself to admit with
fullest apoogy that it is my memory,
not his, which has blundered and
failed miserably to keep its feet.
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
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There is string to every propo-
sition, and it behooves you to look
out for the string before accedirg to
the requests that are made Of you.
When stranger comes to you and
offers to do things for you to let you
in on the ground floor, or assures you
that he is working for your interest,
you may be sure there is a sting to
his proposition, and the string is that,
as a matter of fact, it is himself in
stead of you he is looking out for.
Don't bite at the chance that is
offered you to get something for moth
ing. The biggest kind of string is
always in such a proposition.
Remember this, that people are
selfish. Each man looks out for his
own interest, and even if he is pro-
tecting your interest, it is because his
own interest will be better conserved
by looking out for yours.
Don't decide on important matters
too quickly. Don't get tied up in big
contracts with strangers until you
have found every stand of the string.
Don't be too suspicious, but hunt
for the string. It pays to be very
conservative on all matters in which
others are interested.
Sometimes the string in the prop
osition is legitimate and the other fell
low may be more interested than you
are, but it certainly behooves you to
see what this string is and to under
stand exactly where the end Of the
string is tied.
Don't draw up in your shell and
look upon every man with a PROPOSE
ton as trying to take advantage of
you, but put down this as a truth
there is string to every proposition,
and you must find that string before
you close the deal.-Woodbury Geor-
gian.
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FOLLOWING HIS LEAD.

Mother "What! Fighting againg
such a black eye! if you'd only fol-
low the lead Of the minister's little
boy"
Tommy-"Aw, I did try ter follow
his lead, but he led again wild his
left an dat's where he biffed me. ~
Philadelphia Press,
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PAGE SIX.

Mr.. Dear Sir: AS to the surpris-
ing position taken by Mr.. Bryan, of
Nebraska, in the speakership fight Of
1891, and the equally surprising
reason he assigned for it, I possess
a very clear memory. My recollec-
tions Of the business are much less
confused, I fancy, than are Mr..
Bryan's own-judging from what the
papers today report Of him. Not that
any dimness on Mr.. Bryan's part in
this connection excites my wonder.
| was in Washington as the CORES
pendent Of newspaper; Mr. Bryan
was there as a politician. Newspaper
men are trained to remember, their
trade is to recollect; politicians are
trained to forget, and to hope that
others will forget, Wherefore it now
happens that while the affair in it's
details has slipped somewhat from
Mr.. Bryan, it remains firmly by me
in every feature, standing out as
sharply clear as any cameo. Nor
shall I mention at this crisis any
interest that might move Mr.. Bryan
to blur or warp the story, nor submit
the absence Of such interest in my
self. The one would be dragging
discussion into corners unbecoming a
candidate and a gentleman, while the
other for reasons no less cogent
might find conviction as bad taste.
Concerning Mr.. Bryan's wasted
vote, Of which I shall presently speak,
ones curious as to such waste are re-
ferred to the caucus rolls, and to the
newspapers of that day. In what
follows I give a brief relation Of the
matter:
Mr.. Bryan came to Washington in
November, 1891, and aligned himself
with the Democrats. Before Con-
gress convened, the Democrats held
a caucus to select a candidate for
speaker That fight for speakership
was supposed to be fight for Pres
idency, tariff policy, and much else
tremendous in Government. There
were Messrs. Mills Of Texas, Crisp Of
Georgia, Mcmillan Of Tennessee,
Hatch of Missouri, and Springer of
Illinois in the scramble. Mr. Mills
was the Cleveland candidate, Mr..
Crisp the German candidate. Mr..
Cleveland and Mr.. German were RI
walls for a White House nomination,
and the possession of the House was
thought by each to be important.
The battle began, Mr.. Bryan vot-
ing for Mr.. Springer. The war stag
gered on for hours; there came ballot
on the heels of ballot. Mr.. Hatch
withdrew, and went into the caucus
to vote for Mr.. Crisp. Mr. Springer
withdrew, and went into the caucus
to vote for Mr.. Crisp, Mr.. Crisp won
in the last of it by the merest frag-
ment of a majority-two votes, [
think.
Nv voted
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of Mr.. Bryan, who was able to be for
man while not appearing to sup
port him and earn high House po-
sition without seeming to work for it.
So victorious a chicane would have
illumined a Mazarin, adorned a Rich
ellen! At one fell Of duplex swoop,
Mr.. Bryan escapes that damaging
record" of "having voted for an
ex-Confederate'' and leaves naught
save his transcendent merit to &C
count for House eminence to which
he is triumphantly boosted.
We're one disposed to severity one
might urge that, in what Mr.. Bryan
is quoted by the papers as saying,
our slippery gentleman shows neither
ingenious nor frank. He states that
he 'Fvoted for Mr.. Crisp as speaker"
He did, when the formal vote was
taken in the House. Every Democrat
present on that House occasion voted
for Mr. Crisp, if you except the dis
gruntled Mr.. Mills, who maintained
sore and sulky silence.
Mr.. Bryan says he ''voted for Mr..
Crisp in caucus. - He did, but it
was in the caucus held in 1893. Mr..
Crisp was speaker twice. At the Sec
ond caucus called just before Con-
gress convened in 1893-it was the
extra session ordered by Mr.. Cleve-
land-there existed no opposition to
Mr.. Crisp. His was the only name;
his selection took place by acclama-
ton. Also, in that second caucus,
either because there was no roll call
to make "a record" or his fears Of
an old-soldier element" had measur-
ably subsidized, Mr.. Bryan did vote
for Mr.. Crisp.
But in the first caucus-the caucus
of 1S91-the caucus in which upon a
final roll call Mr.. Crisp defeated Mr..
Mills, Mr.. Bryan from beginning to
end gave his vote for Mr.. Springer.
Albeit, the latter amiable gentleman,
during the last of it, had withdrawn
his candidacy, and was himself upon
the floor, red carnation and all, vot-
ing hard for Mr.. Crisp.
Mr. Bryan is one who, finding him
self unable to buck the center, seeks
to 60 round the ends. But if the pa
pers, putting questions, bear the
above in mind and trim the. sail of
inquiry to match Herewith, he will
confession he must so contestant
in the Mills-Crisp caucus fight of 1891
he was at especial pains to fire moth
ing but blank cartridges. Many who
rode foremost in that war are dead
and under the grasses-Crisp, Sprin-
ger, Hatch, Cummings, O'Ferrell,
Wheeler, Kilgore, English, Culber-
son, Herbert, Holman, the roll is
long. But many remain-Bailey, Ca
BILE, Catchings, Tucker, Tarsney, Nc
Gam, DeArmand-any and all Of
whom should be able to correct Mr..
Bryan in case his memory takes to
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row in the useless air for Mr.. Sprin-
ger. In brief, he threw away his
voice in a struggle where thrones and
scepters were the prizes contended
for.
1t was two months later, [ should
say, when I one day asked Mr.. Bry-
an why he thus threw himself away.
He was not so old as he is now, and
hadn 't-as he has since-carried the
great art of forgetting to sublimest
heights.
did you ever stop to think" de-
manded Mr.. Bryan, and his look was
deep and foxy; "did you ever stop to
think that both Mills and Crisp were
ex-Confederates?"
"What difference should that
make?" [ urged.
1t might make a deal of differ
ence," said Mr.. Bryan, in the coun-
try [ come from. For myself, I
shouldn't care to go back and face an
old soldier element along the Platte
with the record Of having voted for
an ex-Confederate.
There was more. I remember 7
congratulated Mr.. Bryan upon pru-
dence that kept his prospects of poll
tics so carefully in mind, and COM
pared it with the purblind reckless
ness Of such as Messrs. Andrews and
Hoar and Williams Of Massachusetts,,
Cummings Of New York, Holman and
Shively of Indiana, Cable of Illinois,
to say naught of his own candidate,
Mr.. Springer, one and all of whom,
while as much surrounded by an
" old-soldier element" at home as was
he himself, had not hesitated to be for
either Mr.. Mills or Mr.. Crisp. There
our discussion ceased. No, I do not
scruple to give it word for word. It
was in NO sort confidential, and put
most of it in print at the time.
Upon being elevated to the speak
ership, Mr.. Crisp named Mr.. Bryan
on the Ways and Means-an import
ant assignment. This struck me as
strange, considering how Mr.. Bry-
an hand't voted for Mr.. Crisp,
and that dozens who had were eager
applicants for the place.
The mystery Of that Ways and
Means appointment was laid bare to
me by General O'Ferrell of Virginia,
one of Mr.. Crisp's lieutenants in the
caucus war It was privately under
stood, he said, that in event of a tie
between Mr. Crisp and Mr.. Mills, Mr..
Bryan would take a chance on that
"old-soldier element" and vote for
Mr.. Crisp. Unless he were abso-
lutely needed, however, he preferred
to keep his record pure and free of
every ex-Confederate faint
"And," as General O'Ferrell con-
vincingly put it in conclusion, "of
course the great thing after all was
to keep him from going to Mr.. Mills.
That, with the added understanding
tbot hic y,Oto To ho T,r,o,o .
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For That Reason Rates Must
Be Advanced.
NOTHING ELSE TO DO,
Are Greatly in Need
Of More Money.
And the Public Is Unrelenting
in Its Attitude.

New York. July 10.-That the rail-
ways OF the United States could not
lower the wages of their employees
without bringing on strike which
would paralyze the business of the
country for months and that an in
crease in freight rates by the railways
in the west as we'll as in the east can
not be avoided If the railroads are to
continue to meet the demands upon
them. is the view expressed by E. p.
Ripley. president of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe railway To this
Mr.. Ripley added that most of the
railroads of this country are mere imi-
tations OF railroads, a sentiment which
mas great interest. coming as 1t does
from the head of one of the foremost
railroads in the country.
Public sentiment toward the rail-
roads generally speaking" President
ripley said, has not undergone any
change for the better. Here and there
some are found who express the view
that public feeling has gone too far,
but nothing tangible in the way of i'm
proved public sentiment has develop
ed, nothing which might lead to the
repeal of some of the laws affecting
the railroads adversely. The railroads
in the west have been considering the
question of an increase in freight
rates. 1 am in thorough accord in
this matter with the position taken by
Mr.. w. c. Brown OF the New York
Central, that wages will have to come
down or rates be increased. But the
wages of railroad employees could not
be reduced without bringing on
strike which would paralyze the coun-
try for months. The only thing left
seems to. be to increase rates.
1.-THE fact is. that with few excep,
tons the railroads in this country are
merely limitations of railroads. They
are skimpily built and have to spend
all kinds of money for the protection
of life and property and to handle the
business entrusted to them as the pub
lie demands that it shall be handled.
For this new capital must be raised
and the only thing for those who use
the railroads to do is to pay for all
this or give up the use of the railroad.
The consumer must pay the cost. An
increase in net income to provide for
this new capital is essential
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TO MEET AT MACKINAC.
Cannon. Mckinley and Hemenway to
Have a Reunion.

Hot Springs, Va, July 10.-'I am not
looking for any means of evading the
law" declared Mr.. Sheldon when ques-
toned concerning the way the cam
paig fund publicity law of New York
would apply to the funds of the ma
tional committee He said there would
be ways of having contributions made
In various parts Of the country with
out putting them on the books of the
treasurer of New York, but he brushed
aside any such suggestions.
The decision of Mr.. Sherman to re =
tire from the congressional committee
was reached only after very careful
consideration of the entire political sit
uation. 1t was finally deemed wise for
him to relinquish his duties as. chair
man of the congressional committee
largely on account of the duties and re-
sponsibilities which will devolve upon
him as one of the national candidates.
1t has not been determined yet who his
successor as chairman of the commit
tee will be. 1t is likely that Mr.. Sher-
mans formal resignation and the an
nouncement of the name of his success
sor will be made simultaneously.
Senator Hemenway and Representa-
tive Mckinley are en- route to Chicago.
They left here to join Speaker Cannon
in Chicago and the three will go thence
to Mackinac Island in the upper great
lakes for brief rest. 1t has not been
determined yet Wnether Senator
Hemenway will undertake the direction
of the western campaign with head
quarters at Chicago. The matter is
under consideration. Senator Hemen-
way is not anxious to undertake the
work, but he may be persuaded to do
so. He has an important campaign in
his own state this year and feels that
he ought to devote more time to that
than he would be able to give to it if
he should take charge of the western
national headquarters. The matters
will be determined finally probably
within a few days.
Speaker Cannon left Washington
Wednesday night for Utica. N. Y,
where he conferred with Mr.. Sherman
and left last night for Danville, his
Illinois home, thence to join Messrs.
Hemenway and Mckinley.
William H. Taft today had his first
conference with George r. Sheldon,
newly elected treasurer of the Republi-
can national committee. Mr.. Sheldon
arriving this morning. He also talked
at length with Chairman Frank H.
Hitchcock of the Republican national
committee. William Nelson Cromwell
of New York and Postmaster General
Myer.
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new MOTOR CARS.
Street Railway at Cottonwood
Falls Abandons" Horse Power"
Fine Motor Power, Larger Cars
and Heavier Rails.
A QUICKER SERVICE.
The Old Line to Strong City One
of the State Landmarks.
Will Be Missed by Those Who
Wanted Errands Run.
l QUICKER SERVICE.

Cottonwood Falls, Kan. July 1O.-The
street car line between this town and
Strong City is to abandon horse power
for motor service. The 100 horsepower
motor has arrived and will be put in
service as soon as the track can be re-
inforced.
New track with heavy rails has been
laid half way between the towns and
as soon as the rails arrive the rest
will be rebuilt.
The old horse cars will be used. The
new appliances that have been purchas-
ed consist of the motor and trucks.
Two of the old cars will be placed on
the new trucks. 1t is claimed that this
will make a first-class motor car.
twice the size of the present cars. The
plan is to make three round trips be-
tween Strong City and Cottonwood
Falls every hour.
Many of the old time citizens will
miss the little one horse cars that have
since the early sos been going back and
forth daily every half hour or so. A
telephone call would cause them to
wait for a late passenger who wanted
to catch a train or had an errand for
the driver and conductor" who were
one and the same to do. Then again
ii the boys in either town were thirsty
and out of beer 1.-The price" of dozen
bottles slipped in the drivers palm
brought by return car the medicine
from the other side
The new plan will do away with these
little pleasantries. But the service Will
he Quicker
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ECZEMA AFFL|CTS
WHOLE FAMILY
Suffered for Two Years with Terrible
Itching and Burning = Children
In Fearful Condition Unable to
Sleep and Kept Scratching.
EIGHT SPEEDILY CURED
BY CUTICURA REMEDIES

1.-THE Cuticura Remedies cured eight
in our family (my husband, six children
and myself) Of q terrible eczema. We
had it so bad that the children couldn't
sleep at night for scratching themselves.
They were broken out thick and crusted
all over. Then It would itch and burn
and big sores came on their hips and
legs. They would cry with them and
! myself suffered terribly with the itch
ing and burning. We were this way for
two years. 1t would get worse in the
winter. / used all the home remedies
that could hear Of without any relief
and then l went to a physician and got
medicine three different times but it did
not do US any good. i did not know
what to do SO / went to a friend and
asked her what it was she used for her
children, and she told me it was the
Cuticura Remedies. / sent at once for
the Cuticura Remedies consisting Of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent
Pills. ! also got one more box Of Cuti-
cura Ointment and two cakes of Cuticura
Soap. They relieved US at once and in
q short time we were cured. ] am truly
glad Of finding a cure for eczema, and
shall recommend the Cuticura Remedies
highly to every one so afflicted. Mrs.
Ruey B. Boice, Rockcastle P. O., Jack
son Co., w. Va, Mar. 8, 1905"
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The Joplin team arrived, in Topeka
this morning and will play. four games
with the local team. =
Tomorrow. Saturday, Stetson IS and
Sc Oxfords for 1885. Semiannual
clearance at. The Palace.
"A Topeka and Southwestern mass
meeting has been called for this even
ing by the Topeka Commercial club.
Almost a Hero" is the play that
will be produced by the popular Kress
company at the Air Dome tonight.
The annual banquet of the Saturday
Night club will be held at the Nationa!
hotel roof garden tomorrow evening at
Z o'clock.
j. T. Botkin, assistant secretary of
state, returned to his duties yesterday
after having spent two weeks in visit
ing at Galena.
Every government weather station in
the state reported fair weather and no
rain yesterday and Topeka was not an
exception to the rule.
Big preparations are being made for
the entertainment Of the visiting n1er-
chants who will be in Topeka for three
days next week. commencing Wednes-
day.
Many of the larger stores of the city
have made arrangements to close Fri
day afternoons during the month OF
y
effect this afternoon.
when you feel that knocking sem
sation creeping over you." remarked a
genuine baseball fan, Just remember
the present series and that the home
team took eight straight games"
|. Fifty-two catfish, representing one
days fishing at Wakarusa. were
brought to Topeka last night by ben
Curtis. the youthful son of former clerk
of the district court, Shell Curtis.
There promises to be big crowd on
hand tonight at the Novelty theater
at the mass meeting which has been
called to discuss and take action on
the closing of the theaters on Sunday
Sheriff John Wilkerson will receive
four bloodhound pups within day or
SO and has offered a dollar apiece Tor
names for them as they are billed TO
him as pups and have not been named
Probate Judge r. F. Hayden. who
has been in Stormont hospital for sew
eral weeks suffering from stomach
trouble. will leave the institution Sun
day and a few days later will go to
Colorado.
If has been suggested that Sheriff
Wilkerson's man hunting bloodhounds
be placed on the trail of the alleged
mad dog which has caused so much
CONSERVATION in the southwestern por-
ton of the city.
Governor Hoch, who for the past two
weeks has been lecturing under the
auspices of the Redpath Lyceum
bureau of Chicago. will return home
Monday for a two weeks vacation be-
fore taking up his Chautauqua lecture
dates.
The members of the athletic associa-
ton of the Central Congregational
church will give musical concert on
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BIG BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.
Mrs. Mary \. KIopf Wants $4,000
Damages from DIR. Morris.

Winfield, Kan, July 10-Dr. G. S.
Morris, the most prominent physician In
Arkansas City, well known over south
ern Kansas and Oklahoma as the own
er of Col Loomis and other fast horses,
has been made defendant in district
court here in sensational breach OF
promise suit for $25. 900 damages by Mrs.
Mary A. K1opf. The petition recites
that the defendant entered into verbal
contract to marry the plaintiff as soon
as a certain action entitled THE State
of Kansas VS.. G. S. Morris and Mary
A. Klopff," then pending in the Justice
court of W. d. Kreamer in Arkansas
City, and that in consideration of this
promise to marry the case was dis
missed in June.
Plaintiff states that ever since this
promise she has been ready and will
ing and is now ready and willing and
eager to marry this defendant, but de-
PENDANT has neglected and failed and
refused to fulfill his contract. For this
failure she claims to be damaged in the
sum of $4,000.
The. state case against them was
for occupying together the doctors Of
fee until 3 o'clock in the morning. AT
that time a policeman raided the office
and arrested them.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Traffic Men on Missouri Pacific
to Resume Work.
Business Is Picking Up Along
This System.
END TO DEPRESSION.
This Opinion Is Shown by
Recent Circulars.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

So marked has been the improve
ment in the movement of freight traf-
fic during the past ten days, that the
Missouri Pacific has made the an
nouncement that all traffic men who
were laid off during the dull season
following the financial depression will
be put back to work. This announce
ment is construed by those on the in
side as meaning that the company
feels that the financial depression is at
an end, and that the time has now
arrived to begin a general canvass for
business. Other roads are expected to
follow in this line, and within short
time the roads will be in the whirl
and hum of the usual business, with
all departments running full force.
When the financial depression made
itself felt so markedly all over the
country, business fell off to an amaz-
ing extent on all roads, due to many
of the factories shuttin~ down and the
decreased consumption in various
lines. 1t was then that the roads.
after vainly trying to work up BUSH
ness, decided that they could dispense
with the services of their commercial
and travelling agents until there should
be more real business in the various
territories assigned to these high
priced men. The arrival of circulars
all over the Missouri Pacific system
stating that these men are being as
signed to territories is therefore con-
strued as meaning that the high Off
Gals in the traffic department con-
slider the time ripe to proceed after
more business, because they believe it
is there to get.