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The Detroit times., 1908-07-22
AMERICAN HELLO
ST|RS UP LIVELY
ROW IN PARIS
TELEPHONE GIRLS REPLIES ARE
PATTERNED AFTER THOSE IN
THE UNITED sTATES-SLANGY
ANSWERS ARE GIVEN.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

PARIS, July 20.-ln spite OF all the
bellicose predictions there are two
reasons why there will not be Fran
co-German war: First, Because
France doesn't want to fight; second.
because Germany doesn't want TO
fight.
Then why all this war-talk. you
ask? 1t Is pure money raising blum.
The Germans are pushing on their
railway which IL TO run from Con-
stantinople to Bagdad: they have al
ready reached Konia and the foot OF
the Taurus hills, and these works are
vast and costly. In order TO raise the
money Germany has had 10 appeal 10
foreign financiers. Naturally she has
turned TO France, and | am informed
that the German government has Of
fered 10 grant US serious concessions
in Morocco II we will give them finan-
cial aid In Asiastic Turkey.
And all the angry words about
Morocco had no other aim than that OF
forcing on this bargain. Germany
needs $l40.000.000; and why should
France not lend them?
The French government, more and
more disguised with its Moroccan cam
paign, is inclined to consider the prop
ostion. group OF French financiers
is said to be ready to furnish the mon
ey--aI least TO offer such a loan to
our easy-going public. and doubtless
IL would be subscribed. Honest men.
however. are still hoping that Mr..
Clemenceau will not consent TO sacri-
fee both Morocco and our money to
German ambition.
The Detroit times., 1908-07-22

There are only 10000 telephone sub
scribers in all Paris. am sure there
are more in Stockholm. And. as | am
one OF them, my sympathy is with the
Count d'Aubigny. Few ordinary ciuiS
Gems use the telephone here. SO the
Democratic employees Of our Democrat
ic government know they have moth
ing to fear from the few gentlemen
who pay $50 year for the telephone
service. AS our telephone service IL
The Detroit times., 1908-07-22
Subject to change without notice.
? s. BOTS BLANC
J Str. COLUMBIA

Daily. SITS n. m. and D m, extTa
steamer Sat. afternoon. $40. Sundays.
e:i5 a. m. p. IN. Fare, round trip 80
cents: children, 20 cents. Zickels Or
chestra, 16 pieces. Music on both trips
Buffet lunch Cafe at park. Wharf,
foot of Bates street. No liquor per-
mitted. Columbia Moonlight. Tuesday
and Friday, $3.50. Columbia Lake Ride,
sunday Evening, Si30.
The right to refuse any person per-
mission to boats or park Is reserved
The Detroit times., 1908-07-22

Our amiable government IL intro
ducing the American telephone sys-
tenn, and the real meaning OF the
American system" seems to be that
you cannot get anyone on the tele-
phone, that you may ring and ring and
after a while-the voice OF tele-
phone girl will reply In slangy disdain.
Anyway that Is what happens In Paris
with your system.
Yesterday afternoon the Count d'Au-
bigny, who lives in the sixteenth ar
rondissement, near the Trocadero.
called up a number on his telephone.
After being slanged for twenty min
utes by the telephone girl the count
asked to be put In communication
with the chief OF that telephone sta
ton. A male voice asked, What do
you want?"
The Count dAubingy stated the
grounds OF his complaint.
"Oh. you go to - replied the
voice.
Instead the count jumped into an
aut0mobtfe and drove 10 the telephone
Office. He asked for the superinten-
dent and was shown up to the hrst
door. The chief clerk asked him to
come in.
81 am telephone subscriber" said
the count. and while ago you In
suited me over the wire"
We'll" the clerk asked impudenty,
what Of it?"
The count expressed the natural
indignation Of a gentleman and threat
ened to pull the chief clerks ears. In
stantly he was set upon by five men;
his gray frock coat was torn from
his shoulders and he was thrown
downstairs and into the street. Scores
OF telephone girls looked from the
windows and jeered noisily as the
count picked himself up.
The Count d'Aubigny was more dis
pleased than ever with the American
system"
He hailed cab and drove at once
TO the police station OF the quarter,
where he demanded a warrant from
leo
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
Doctor Crockett and the Maine
Democracy,

The time was, and not so very long
ago, when the Democratic newspapers
of Maine We're accustomed to speak in
the most fulsome terms of DR..
had more cordial things to say of him
than the organ of mud and mirth
DIR. Crockett was the member of the
Democratic State Committee from
Knox county and the assistant
manager of the Democratic Campaign
in this State in 1904. Now in common,
with thousands of other thoughtful
voters of Maine, who viewed the
political situation at that time as he
did, he finds himself unable to act
longer with the Democratic party, and
frankly says so. Forthwith he be-
comes a target for the organ of mud
and mirth which asserts that 1.-The
Doctor has never believed in influence
ing elections by sharing the campaign
fund with the rank and file.'
Certainly this is a most ungrateful
fling at the former Democratic leader
who was so active in his efforts to
promote the Democratic cause in 1904
We do not think that even the organ
of mud and mirth will deny that DR..
Crockett bore quite conspicuous part
that year in securing the $35, 900, con-
tribution from Belmont and Ryan of
New York, and that this sum was
turned over to the Democratic State
Committee to be shared" with the
rank and file"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
A Militant Church.

The Riddarholms Kyrka, or Island
Church of the Knights, in which the
body of King Oscar rested for a time.
is unique in this respect, that it
probably contains more military
trophes-standards. kettledrums, etc
that decorate any other church in
Christendom. Many of these trophies
bear testimony to the prowess of
CHARLES XII, the hero of Voltaire, but
most of them are evidence of the vic
tories of the great Gustavus, the idol
of Rittmeister Dugald Dalgetty and of
the 10000 other Scotsmen who fought
and conquered under the banners of
the Lion of the North. Many of the
We're captured by Hepburn's Green
Brigade. Opposite the Riddarholms
Kyrka is the House of the Nobility-a
sort of swedish College of Arms
where the tourist may turn over a
volume like the Bibles chained to the
lecterns of our middel age churches,
recording the names and titles of all
the peerage of the realm And
among those names will be found such
patrcnynics as Hamilton, Douglas,
Leslie, Colquhoun and others belong
ing to descendants of the Scottish sol
diors of fortune who served Gustavus
in the thirty years war. 1t is curious
that NorWay-the cradle of the found
ers OF the feudal system in France and
England-never produced n native
nobility like that of Sweden. london
Chronicle
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
American Artists Social Position.

There was held last season in WASH
ington, at the CorcOran Gallery, an
exhibition of work by our native men
that came as a revelation to the peo-
pie there from all over the country, as
well as to the foreign visitor and resi-
dent. 1t was q show that would have
attracted serious attention in any
capital in Europe, of such variety both
of theme and of workmanship as to be
noteworthy. Yet, apart from the Of
fetal purchases with fund raised by
4 few public-spirited men as an in
ducement for the artists to contribute
there We're few if any works sold; and
yet Washington is a city containing
many rich people who could well af-
ford 20 patrOnize the fine arts. The
social position of the artist was shown
there in humiliating degree as we'll
On the occasion of the opening of the
display the chief executive made a,
visit of ceremony and was received by
the director of the institution and
conducted about hte galleries, but the
idea of his meeting the painters pres
ent-and there We're many of them
seemed never to have occurred to any
of the management, for the men who
produced the canvaSes that filled the
walls were as politely ignored as if
they had never existed Fancy such
an event in France. BY unanimous
consent, the most distinguished painter
there present would have been select
ed to accompany the President about
the galleries; there would have been a
little gathering of the contributors af-
vi
presented to the guest of honor, who
would have made some pleasant COM
montary on their work and have paid
them at least the compliment of recog-
niZing their efforts. And, of course,
the same thing would prevail in Lon
don. or Germany or Italy.-Forum.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
Hatch at the Helm.

State of Maine folks are getting
pretty well acquainted with Il man
named Hatch He is State auditor. No
bill is paid by the State treasurer till
it bears the 90 X" of Hatch and so
long as Hatch continues to be State
auditor the Democratic party need give
itself no uneaSiness about the business
methods Of any department of the
State nvernment. He is probably the
best expert accountant that Maine ever
developed and even the Democratic
press commended his appointment and
has praised his work. But when DEM
ocrats had chance to keep the office
"out of politics" by endorsing the can
didacy Of the man whose work they
had praised, they declined and named
candidate of their own. That IS
Democracy's preaching ysDemocra-
cy's practice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
The Twilight Zone"
(BOStOn Herald)

Mr.. Bryan's description of the "twi-
light zone" of the presidency is notably
pertinent in this campaign. There
is he says, "a wide zone in which the
president must act on his own judg-
ment, and here he ought to have the
aid of intelligent, conscientious and
faithful advisers" Beyond the clear,
strong light of definite law there is the
twilight of presidential opportunity
and power. The welfare and safety Of
the nation are placed in the hands Of
the president and his advisers. Will
the nation prefer the guidance of Will
liam II. Taft. trained and tried in the
public service. supported by the
advisers whom he will call to his
counsel, or that of William J. Bryan,
unframed and untried, advised by
Alfalfa Bill and other Oklahoma
statesmen, George Fred Williams,
Charles +. Murphy. Fingy Corners and
Charles A. Towne? The possibilities
of the twilight zone" are the issue in
this campaign.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
Cherry History.

II is still asserted in school books
that cherries We're introduced to this
country by the 'fruiterer' or sreengro-
Ger OF Henry VIII; also that they were
not common for hundred years after
that time This is an error. Mr.. Thom-
as Wright found the name in every one
of the AnglO-SaXon vocabularies which
he edited. So common We're they, and
so highly esteemed, that the time for
gathering them became a recognized
FESTIVAL CHERRY fair or feast" And
this grew INTO aproverbial expression
for f1eeting joys. Cover says the fairs
taught that life is but q cherye-
fayre." and Hope 'endureth but a
throwe right as it We're a cherye-feste. /"
There is more than one record of the
purchase of trees for the kings garden
at Westminster, centuries before Hem
ry VIII was born. But Pliny contra
dicted the fable, as if in prophetic
mood. After telling that I.lcillus first
brought cherries to Rome from Pom
tbs, in $50 A. U. CO, he adds that in the
course of hundred years they have
spread widely, even passing over to
Enthusiastically Magazine, /. as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
Campaign
Comment.
Democracy and Industry.
(Kansas City JO1rnalO

NNiHSSiS lily JOufldi.J
The assurance of John W. Kern, the
Democratic vice presidential candidate.
that mo honest corporation need fear
anything from the Democratic party"
is mixture of political hypocrisy.
patronizing effrontery and plain I'M
truth. 1t will deceive nobody in the
business world, for it is not only fiat
ly at variance with the text of the
Bryan platforms for the past twelve
years, but contrary to the experience
of the country ever since the war, to
go no farther back Honest corpor
ations and the entire industrial world
always have great deal to fear from
the Democratic party and when the
sober business judgment of the coun-
try has been outvoted by popular
prcjEdices, the whole country has al
ways suffered from the effects of such
mistakes.
Democracy in it's relation to the
business world is a standing menace.
There are thousands of individual
business men who are Democrats, but
they are permitted to remain business
men by the operation of Republican
industrial policies and the continu
ance of Democratic policies for two
consecutive presidential terms would
result in their ceasing to be either
business men or Democrats.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
Tax Reform.

The Democratic orators at their
Bangor convention had much to say
about tax reform in Maine, but they
neglected to mention the fact that a
commission appointed by Governor
Cobb is now nearing the end of
most searching enquiry into the ques-
ton of tax equalization. The report
of that commission will be presented to
tn next Legislature and the law-mak-
ers will have before them the most
accurate data that has ever been Of
fered as the basis of tax reform. Two
members of that commission are
Democrats, one of the other three is a
leading member of the Grange, a. man
who has been identified with all the
Grange movements for tax reform.
The other two are men thoroughly
conversant with the legislative and
business phases of Maine. The fact
that the Democrats chose one of the
two Democratic members of the COM
ihioo'ii " NC Dl tIltlT Eotdlc
convention at Bangor is quite convinc-
ing testimony to their belief 1ns his
ability and Democracy. .fNi1
The order for this commission was
passed by a Republican Legislature,
the appointments under the order were
made by Republican Governor with
such evident desire to make it a !
worthwhile commission that even the
hypercritical Democratic press has
had nothing but praise for it's mem
bership, and those who have attended |
the hearings of the commission have
discovered that it is going to the very |
bottom of the subject committed to its |
|
This was one of the things the Demo- |
Gratis found it convenient to forget in |
their convention oratory. They cry
for tax reform and do not inform the |
people that commission which repre-
sents both the majority and minority |
parties and the State Grange is hard |
at work on the prOblem-as nearly a
bipartisan commission as it is pos
sihle to secure
Democracy talks about what il
would do for tax reform-Republican-
ism points to what it has done to
bring the whole question fairly and
fully before the next Legislature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
seem to bear that Interpretation. The
elements ofgopposHiUn which lf1stfcliRFe9s

seem to bear that Interpretations. The
elements ofsoppositiUn which nsifclRFe9s
have tried to explain away are stronger
than ever and more irreconcilable.
The greatest hope held by his support
ers was the union of the party by great
Bryan victory at Denver. the party IN,
dorsed its natural leader, but that did
not add any strength from Independent
voters ~ bring back any Of the host OF
Democrats alienated by the silver issue.
Another hope which seems to have been
entertained by Bryan himself was that by
playing politics carefully the great victo-
~ might be won. So Bryan mas played
politics for the first time in his life, and
very good politics has he played. But Biy-
an the Politician in 1868 has not been able
To arouse any OF the enthusiasm which
Bryan the Crusader aroused in 1896, with
nothing but metaphors and voice.
The opposition to Bryan still rests on
the old basis. 4 chronic distruat. The
average sober citizen may esteem Bryan.
but he does not feel like giving over the
shown by the fact that Lloyds have al
ready written more than $1,000, W0 OF in
surance bets at odds OF to or better
against his election. And IN ms own
by his free silver issue have not been
won by his subsequent Endorsement of
government ownership, Neutrality-suspicious.
dunn legislation, on the vote-catchnS plat
form of Denver.
The old opposition to Bryan in his party
is 4 minority, but it is irreconcilable.
They are determined from motives larger
than nele party success that Bryan ulust
not be pc Sidcnt. There was Il great 'ieai
of conviction among the Solters Of 1896,
and While some have not formally left
the Democratic party, the body OF them
have usually found in the Republican
party the safer candidate. In addition to
these ola opponents there are new ele
mcnts of hostility. The Hearst party,
which represents tho free radical element
in the Bryan Democracy, and the only
newspaper support ever given Bryan in
the largest city of the country Will be in
oppoSition this year. And there are nu
merous state situations, due to petty and
Illinois, which further diminish the Bryan
Democracy.
Blvan enters the field without a great
port from the ali"nated clements OF tho
plrty Of Cleveland and Stevenson. lie is
without hope cf any detection from the
Republican solid front. lie sees no en-
1hlIsiasm among his own followers ana he
has no Burning issue on which he can
claim the presidency.
William "A. 1afts great life work, as
full of achievement and as lacking i'm ora
tory as BrNan'S record is plenteouS in
speeches and small in responsibility, has
been so quietly and wonderfully done that
tn" country does not know him as il |
should. He would not be ar undcfeatable |
as Roosevelt would be- though |
probably he will be impregnable in 1872. |
But this fact only emphasizes the weak |
ness of Bryan before the electors and |
makes the foreshadowing of this third |
defeat more significant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
A Shameless Demand for Dollars.


Can any one imagine James
Buchanan or Stephen A. Douglas OF
John C. Breckenridge or General Nc
Clellan or Horatio Seymour or General
Hancock, or any other Democratic
candidate for the Presidency save and
except William Jennings Bryan, de-
handing money from the farmers of
the United States in order to put him
in the White House?
Isn't it a pitiable Spectacle?
Not only does Mr.. Bryan, with the
concurrence of his Indiana associate
on the ticket, solicit contributions from
five dollars upward. but he has evil
IDENTIFY made a careful computation OF
the number of farmers who are able
to pay, pay, pay" Just listen to him !:
There are hundreds of thousands of
farmers who are abundantly able to
There are thousands who could give
800 apiece without feeling it, There
are tens of thousands who could give
$50 apiece without sacrificing any
thing, and still more who could give
s25, $40 or S.
Verify. all standards of dignity in
pubic life and politics have been
thrown to the winds when we have
come down to this. "Who will be the
first to respond?'' asks Mr. Bryan it
is like the voice of an auctioneer ask
ing for bids. Money talks" says the
cynic. Money is needed to elect me
and Kern" says Mr.. Bryan, the
denouncer of the money power in
politics. "and I want the farmers OF
the country to furnish it, So anxious
are Messrs. Bryan and Kern to have
money and to have it now that, pend
ing the organization of the national
committee, Eve will ask the Commoner
to call for subscriptions to this
farmers fund" There is really
comical touch in this. ASK the
Commoner" fOrsooth, Why, the
Commoner is Mr.. Bryan's newspaper.
He is the Commoner.
Mr. Bryan is certainly friend of the
people in one sense. lie wants to get
their money and he evidently believes
that they have lots Of it left, notwith-
standing their suffering at the hands Of
the great predatory corporations he
talks so much about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24
The Labor Vote.
schenectady Union.)


Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, the
only national labor organization in
America that has ever succeeded, is
out for Bryan and hopes thereby to
annex the A. II. Of l.. to the delapdat-
ed Democratic donkey.
If it were fact that Mr. Gompers
controlled politically 30 per cent. of
the votes of his organization and
would deliver them in a solid block
to the Peerless One, there would be
grave doubts of the success of Mr..
Taft.
The truth is that Mr. Gompers can
not deliver the labor vote no more
than the head of any other on-polit-
cal organization can rule the pOliti-
cal conduct and affiliations of it's
members.
What industry now moving on half
time would suddenly spring into full
activity on the election of Bryan?
What great rush of freight would
accompany the election of Bryan and
submerge the common carriers so
that they would need more men,
more ears, more engines, more tracks?
iltSe are tie questions Wnlcn every
working man will ponder we'll before
he goes to the polls. He will not take
tie long chance when he can win
without taking any chance on his fu-
ture by voting for Taft and Sher-
man.
Is Gompers working with single
eye to the future of the American
Federation of Labor as an organiza-
ton and as individuals when he es-
pouses the cause of the man Who
thrives on discord and depression?
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Maine Gossip
"Piuggin' Away"

Plusgin' away from day to day,
The WIND keeps pressin across the bay,
Pushin' the lazy sails along;
Sometimes breathin' tender song,
An sometimes snortin' in anger rash,
Wantin' 10 blow things clean to smash!
But always, though skies be blue or gray
Jes pluggin' away!
Pluggin' away from night to night
The moon comes shinn' SO still an white,
An the Stars come trailin' across the sky,
AS they've done through countless nights
gone by.
The colors of twilight shine an pass,
An the dcw-drop dies on the medder
grass.
The Whole big business. sad or gay,
Keeps pluggin' away!
Pluggin' away from year to year,
The flowers blossom an disappear;
The winter melts in the smile of spring,
An the saplin widens with one more
RAG
So where's the reason in me or you
of work that We've got to do,
When everything else in this vast display
Keeps pluSein away?
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-24

Mrs. William Keith, president of the
Berkeley (Cal) p. f. Club, occupied the
pulpit of q church for the first time few
Sundays ago, and for the first time in its
history the Bethany Congregational
chiirch had a sermon delivered bv q
woman The subject of Mrs. Keith's dis
course WAS the Ethics of Woman SUI
frage" For some time past the suffrag-
lists. led ny Mrs. Keith nave been tiS''is
to induce the churches of Berkeley to es-
pouse their cause with the result that
five ministers have devoted their evening
sermons to discussing the subject. When
it came the turn of the pastor of Bethany
he asked Mrs Keith why she didn't speal.
for the cause herself She very promptly
accepted his invitation ard in her speech
is said to have answered to the satlsfac-
tjou of her audience the two questions.
:.N hat has the pulpit to do with woman
sufsrageo" and Have the Rible and reli-
gion anything to do with ft2"