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candidates for senator in Dallas coun-
ty. His friends in Selma and Dallas
are going to work up a large crowd
to hear him on Friday night, October
3, and the cause of good roads will
be given quite an impetus.
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hughes.

Now 1t is1the turn of the New York
politicians. 1eThe efing which has been
running the Repup lican Party in New
York State has about as little love for
Gov. Hughdsi as the Pope has for the
Sultan. The stories that are told of
the return of the New York delegation
from Chicago have a lurid tinge. The
gentlemen who follow the lead of ex-
Lieut. Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff made
the homeward journey and gladstone
anti-Hughes hoe-down. They sang
songs and they danced; they acclaimed
impromptu and otherwise against their
Chief Executive, and felt that they were
capering over his political grave. They
have walked up since sadder and wiser.
AS the time for nominating Governor
came on it became more and more I'M
mistakable that Gov Hughes was
necessity to them, that the people would
have no other, and that their hopes of
carrying the State centered entirely up
on his accepting a denomination to
which he was not inclined Only
sense of public duty would lmpel him
to accept it. The way the great mass
of people have been bombarding him
with letters and kilograms, begging him
to be a candidate, has convinced him
of the great desire of the common
people of the State for him to accept
another term, and he has so announced
himself This is not only personal
triumph for the Governor, for which
he cares little. but it is a still more
important victory for the people of the
State, who recognize when they are
well and honestly served. and show
their approval in such an emphatic
way that the politicians have to bend
to it. The politicians are accepting the
situation with very bad grace; some
of them are even yet talking of fight
This is nonsense and they know it. and
we can soon expect them to be singing
with their might in the Hughes key
1t is political folly of the grossest kind
to buck up against a man who has
such firm hold upon the people as Gov.
Hughes.
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never consent to it's becoming really
National air until it has fitted to it some
words that will be WORTH while The
words of "Dixie" are unutterable trash,
ana cffcnd the good sense of any man
or woman who attempts to sing them
to the music. There have been some
efforts made to lind fitting words, but
approached the subject, and the Con-
fede-ate veterans have strongly con-
de-nned any change. We do not wonder
that they have rejected the versions
offered them which are POLITICALLY pretty
poor stuff. Whether they would reject
a composition that had some real merit
is question.
The air of Dixie" is as impossible
for popular singing as 1.-The Star
Spangled Banner" The popular airs
of the world have a Swing " to them.
While we expect that "The Battle
Hymn of the Republic" will become
a national battle song, yet THE Star
SDangled Banner" will always remain
from its title, if nothing else. the lead
ing national anthem. Probably some
day poetic and musical geniuses will
combine to modify 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner" in the first place SO that it
will be within the compass of an ordi-
nary voice, and next, to give us fitting
words. The main objection to 'The Star
Spangled Banner at present is that
it runs over SO wide a compass as to
be impossible if not difficult for pop.
ular singing, being much beyond the
range of the average voice. If some
of the notes on both ends of the scale
its symmetry and make it possible for
ordinary singers, its popularity would
be unbounded.
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Virginia Hot Springs claim positive
medicinal value. and have for several
years been a resort for invslids. Mr..
Taft's selection of the locality for his
temporary headquarters will tend to
give the place social vogue. The
waters are found to be especially eff
cacious in govt. rheumatism, obesity,
nervous diseases. dyspepsia and dis
eases of the liver and kidneys. The
springs which furnish the bath house
water have a temperature of 106 de-
grees, and contain calcium, magnesium.
sodium, potassium and sulfur. There
are other springs for drinking. which
contain magnesia, sulfur and soda lithia.
There are fine hotels and cottages erect
ed on modern lines, and the place is
accessible by a branch of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railroad, $50 miles from
Washington
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HOT SPRINGS.

The Virginia Hot Springs, which have
been suddenly made of National promi-
hence by Nominee Taft's taking up his
Summer residence there, are situated in
the grea; Hot Springs Valley of Vir-
GINA, at an elevation of $500 feet above
the sea. Surrounding the Springs are
the Allegheny Mountains. rising 1880
feet high They are not far from the
famous White Suifur Springs, which in
ante-bellum days were the Saratoga OF
the South and a great political and So
cial center. The White Sulfur Springs
have lost their vogue the same as sara
toga has, owing to the decadence OF
the fashion of taking the waters
which was the correct thing to do in the
earlier half of the past century. The
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is expected the whole question as to
whether or not there was any agree
ment about two new ships a year will
be thrasted out. For the leaders of
Senate and House are opposed TO a big
Navy program. and the shortness of the
National purse will afford them an un-
usually effective argument. -
IL is not believed that the President
Will favor, at least viii not champion
any reorganization of the Navy Depart
ments Bureaus. Such legislation has
been suggested in bills introduced at the
Capitol. some of them growing out of
the criticisms of ReuterdahI, who re-
Gently visited the President a Oyster
Bay, and, departing. gave out an inter-
view. which the President probably au-
thoriZed him to do. However. officers
are expecting that there will be virtual
ly new regime in the Department for
the remainder of the Presidents term.
He has been constantly giving more
power to Commander Sims and Lieut.
Commander Key in minor ways that
Bureau Chiefs are not slow to recognize.
All men at the Navy Department stand
around when those favorites appear.
The day for pigeon-holing reports
from junior officers and frowning down
recommendations has probably passed
as far as this Administration Is con-
cerned. The Bureau of Construction
complains that the sea-going officers
differ so widely in their views and rec
concentrations about what a battleship
should be that it is impossible to reach
any conclusion satisfactory to eompe-
tent critics. The President, none the
less. is determined that these criticisms
shall be most thoughtfully considered
whether they pertain to the Bureau of
Construction. Ordnance. Equipment or
Engineering. He has only seven months
more to serve, but during that time he
proposes that the younger blood of the
Navy shall have full recognition at the
Department 1t is taken for granted at.
the Department already that the Presi-
dent is going to have his way.
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Col. Charles p. Lincoln, of Ell Reno,
Okla, is atcandfiate for the Republican
Congressional = nomination from that
district. apd well deserves the earnest
support of all the veterans. Col. Lin
coin has afine military record, having
enlisted in, the, 18th Mich. and risen to
the rank Of Captain. He was captured
with the rest H6f Coburn's Brigade at
Thompsons Station, and suffered sew
eral months of imprisonment. He has
been Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.
and held several offices, in which he
gave great satisfaction by his ability
and fidelity to his duties. He is a fine
speaker, as the comrades know, well
acquainted with the public business in
Washington. and would make an ad-
mirable representative. His principal
opponent is MIR. Dick T. Morgan, of
Woodford County. who has been the
Register of the Local Land Office for
the past five years, and claims to have
been a soldier. but it is said that he
was only a little over. 10 years old when
he war closed.
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The Sultan's concession of a Consti-
tuition to his subjects is as much of a
farce as the Duma is to the Russians.
\ Turk has absolutely no idea of popu-
lar Government. He is not built that
way. 1t is not in his blood For thou
sands of years he has been ruled by
military despotism tempered by reIig-
ious autocracy, and he neither knows
nor can think of any other form. Real
popular government must begin at the
bottom, not the top. 1t must start with
the village. the precinct or some other
small local division, and not with the
Capital.
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AN EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.

We have heretofore alluded to the
startling official act of displacing Capt.
n. M. Breaks from the position in
which he has rendered distinguished
service for many years, that of the
head of the Foreign Mails Bureau of
the Post Office Department This Bu-
reau has charge of the immense postal
service between this country and Eu-
rope, with the negotiation of treaties
with foreign countries and the car
rage of the mails by steamships. 1t is
sufficient to say of Comrade Brooks's
efficiency that in the nearly 20 years
that he has been the actual head of
this Bureau there has never been a
serious complaint as to the service,
while, on the other hand, he has re-
ceiyed the most marked encomiums
from his official superiors, the various
acknowledgements under whom he
has served. During this period of Ser
vice he has negotiated number of
treaties, represented the United States
Ia sol anu per-
formed other services of like nature,
all of which have been done in the most
creditable manner. Capt. Brooks has
a quite unusual military record, having
enlisted in May, 1861, in Co. B, Sd n
j.. and by faithful and gallant soldier
ship risen thru all the grades to that of
a Captain in the 18th n. ]. While in
command of his company during the
terrific fighting in the Wilderness he
received a gunshot wound. which COM
PEELED the amputation of his foot, and
his discharge from the army, but he
was soon returned to the service as
Captain in the Veteran Reserve Corps.
He has been an active Grand Army man
from the first, Commander of the De-
partment of the Potomac, G. A. r., and
in-Chief. Capt. Brooks is in the full
exercise of his intellectual powers, is
as alert and ready as at any time in
his life, and has. in addition, a rich
experience gathered by So years of con-
tinuous service in his Bureau. In spite
of all these, he was summarily displaced
to make room for a young man of
whom nothing further is known than
he was at one time the secretary of
the present Postmastcr-General This
act seems such an extraordinary varia-
ton from the Civil Service principles
SO constantly elaborated upon in the
press and in speeches, and also from
the proclaimed policy as to the treat
ment of deserving Union veterans, that
an explanation of the reasons for 1t
would seem to be in order
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The courts are strongly impressing
upon bank officials that the care OF
other peoples money is a serious re-
sponsibility. VIM. +. Walker, 62 years
old. was the Treasurer of the New Brit
ain Comm Savings Bank, of the Con-
necticut Baptist Association, and. GUS
todian of many funds which people
looking for an eminently safe and trust
worthy man confided to him. He stole
it all. tried to escape with 1t, and was
caught in California. Last week, he
was received in the Connecticut Peni-
tertiary, duly shaved and cropped, and
set to serving out a 20-ycar sentence.
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This Summer has been, as usual, pro-
life of silly stories, but the silllest of
all has been the chatter about a bar
gain to deliver Georgia's electoral vote
to Tom Watson IF Bryan did not need
it," or to give it first to Tom Watson, to
be given to Bryan If the latter should
need it for election. II is a wonder
that such absurd stuff should be sent
over the wires. Every man who is on
the Bryan electoral ticket or Georgia
will be bound by considerations of
honor that no man can avoid without
becoming an outcast to vote for VIM.
]. Bryan for President. and for no
other.
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1t would have been better if Nominee
Taft had not been SO ostentatious in
submitting his speech of acceptance to
the President for approval OF course.
we want the greatest harmony between
the nominee and the President, but the
nominee, to be entirely acceptable to
the American people, must have some
ideas of his own and the courage OF
his convictions. We know that Nomi-
nee Taft has both, but there was Just
a shade too much Difference and effaee-
ment of individuality in personally
carrying his speech of acceptance to
Oyster Bay to submit it to the Presi-
dent before it was delivered.
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DEATH OF BISHOP poTTER.

man who made full use of his
abilities and opportunities to do an
unusual amount of good in his life has
passed away in the death of Bishop
Potter. He was an admirable repre-
sentative of that later and better tend
ency in the Episcopal Church, both in
England and America, which is bring
ing it closer to the mass of the people
1t is the tendency which John Wesley
labored sos hard to infuse into the
Church IT'S years ago, and. failing to
impress his Episcopal superiors, started
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Now
for half century or more the Episco-
pal Church has been coming nearer and
nearer to John. Wesley's ideas, and is
to-day getting much closer the mass
of the people in both Great Britain and
America than any other denomination.
The old theologic pride and self-suffi-
cheney are'f disappearing before the
broader humanity and earnest effort to
get. at the hearts of men, sympathize
with theirifeelings and conditions, and
give them hreal health in living higher.
better lives. This accounts for the re-
markable growth which Episcopalianism
Is taking on and larger growth in many
places than any other denomination.
Bishop Potter was essentially leader
in this movement. A man of ripe schol-
arship and high learning. yet he had lit
tie taste for mere polemics and church
ritual. He was truly a fisher of men:
he reached out for them wherever he|
thought it was possible to bring them
closer.,to him and be helpful to him.
His influence upon the Episcopal Church
in America has been profound and will
be lasting. He has helped immensely
to increase its efficiency in actual good
works and its beneficence to humanity.
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The Colorado Bankers Association
has formally condensed Bryan's pro-
,posal to guarantee bank deposits as
class. legislation in its worst form. OF
course. it is, and the rankest form of
imperialism as we'll There would be
very little freedom left in this country
if the agents OF the Government at
Washington had control of every dollar
that the people might have in banks.
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The Ohio Wesleyan University, one OF
Interior, has, unsolicited, conferred
upon the Hon. Washington Gardner
Representative from Michigan, the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws. The honor
came to him as surprise, but no one
better deserves it. AS boy Comrade
Gardner enlisted in the 65th Ohio,
where he proved himself a gallant sol
der and was severely wounded He is
army still remaining in the House of
Representatives. and he does his class
honor by the distinction he has attained
in that body. He is now a member of
the important Committee on Appropria-
tons and one of the Republican leaders
of the House. In comforting the degree
President WEIGH said:
'In recognition of his high public
spirit, indicated by his service in the
Union army, by the manner in which
he filed Office in his own State, and by
the notable service which he has rem
dered in the Congress of the United
States, and in recognition of that ster-
ling character by which, united with his
public spirit, he has brought honor to
his alma mater, i hereby, by virtue of
the authority vested in me by the trus-
tees of Ohio Wesleyan University. con-
fer upon the Hon. Washington Gardner.
of Michigan, the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws. with all the rights. priv
ileges and dignities belonging to the
same"
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The Ohio Senatorship has received
new complications. It is felt that Rep
resentative Chas. e. Burton has made
mistake in announcing his candidacy
for Senator Foraker's seat There has
always been an arrangement by which
Cleveland and the northeastern portion
should have one Senator and Cincinnati
and the southeastern the other Sem
ator Foraker IS from Cincinnati. Charles
p. Taft and Arthur Vorys are now in
the field for Senator Foraker's seat,
while ex-Goy. Herrick announces that
ne VIII wait and take Senator Dicks.
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A STIR IN
THE DEPARTMENTS.
The President Shakes Up Those OF the
Navy and Justice.

\ home-like feeling has prevailed
among Washington residents and Off
Gals of late. 1t has helped them 10
forget the great hot waves that have
surged back and forth. If anyone be-
came too worn because of meteorologi-
cal conditions. he had only to make
tracks for the Navy Department or the
Department of Justice. There he could
witness the throbbing of Government
machinery that recalls old times when
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While people who have the divorce
habit mainly confine the practice to
their own ilk. there is no great ground
for complaint; that is. the Divorces
usually marry Divorces. and, like lep-
rosy, scrofula and the itch, the disease
Is confined in narrow circle. Particu-
larry commendable in this way is Grace
Smell, daughter of the Chicago million
aire of unsayory memory. Grace has
the divorce habit in virulent FORM
but is now about to marry her first
husband for the fourth time. She has
married other men as loose fibered as
herself. but divorced them to return
to her first choice. who must be UNI
usually siack-twisted himself.
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WASHINGTON. D. c.. JULY 80, 1908.
NOTICE,

When you send In your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another post
office give former address as well.
When change of address is desired bs
sure to give former address.
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There has been peace in Haiti for d
whole week or more now, but local in
terest was maintained by fire in Port
au Prince which destroyed 1900
houses. Possibly the loss may reach
$1,000, or dollar apiece.
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No matter what the Pennsylvania
Legislature may decide about the statue
of the late Senator Matt Quay. he will
not lack conspicuous memorial. His
widow and daughters have begun the
erection of a memorial mansion on a
commanding hight at SewiekIey, a
suburb of Pittsburg.
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Will hold its 14th Biennial Reunion
Sept. and 10, at Oskaloosa, Iowa. Com
rades who at any time served in either
nth, 18th. 18th or 10th Iowa are eligi-
Die TO membership in the Association.
Write to Recording Secretary c. w.
kepler, Mt. Vernon, Iowa
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Thomas E. Watson's allegations that
Bryan did not allow the South a whis-
per in making the platform, and that he
told Bishop Waters and the other negro
delegates that he condemned the Presi-
. dents Brownsville action, may not lose
Bryan any electoral votes, but they viii
shrink his popular vote in the South.
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Ex-Gov. ". L. Douglass, of Massa-
~chusetts, says that he will not accept
the Democratic Craftsmanship and is
out of politics forever. He doesn't care
who holds the offices of the country so
long as he makes its shoes.
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Boni Castellane has reached the stage
of begging an annual allowance from his
ex-wife This may square up all right
with European ideas of manhood, but
to American eyes it is on the same plane
with a mans living or what his wife
earns by taking in washing.
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The incident of a New York Judge
named Finelite scorching man named
Lightfine to the tune of 5000 for con-
tempt of court is another illustration
of how little there may be in a name.
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Senator JEFF Davis, of Arkansas, seems
to have crawled into a very deep hole
and pulled the hole in after him. For
weeks now he has favored us with a
silence as profound as it is grateful.
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: Thaw wants to get rid of his lawyer,
but as the latter has so far only run up
bill of $4,000 against the little muir
derer he resists being pried loose until
he has gotten something nearer his ex-
pectation. He is afraid lie will lose
caste professionally if he quits such
case with no more than $4,000.
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Bryan has been thrown on the de

Bryan has been thrown on the de-
fensive by Thos. E. Watson's charge
that while in Congress Bryan announced
ate for any position. Bryan has been
able to meet this charge by showing
that he really did vote three times for
Chas. y. Crisp, Confederate veteran,
for Speaker. He also tried to get a
Confederate veteran Job in the Post
Office Department. We never would
have suspected Bryan of unfriendliness
to COnfederates. Beside the natural
gratitude he must have for the men who
have stood SO unanimously by him IL
years, It is in his blood His father
was an old-time States Rights, Pro-
Slavery, Breckenridge Democrat, and a
leader among the Copperheads and
peace-at-any- price men of southern Il
linois. He favored the secession of
southern Illinois to join the Southern
Confederacy. and regarded the war as
''an unholy Abolition crusade" which
his Southern brethren were justified in
resisting to the last extremity. He
persisted i'm these views until his death.
In 1880 the Democratic Committee in
vited him to take the stump in support
of Hancock, but were Mortified to find
his first speech was labored defense
Of the right of secession. He was
promptly called off. While VIM. j.
Bryan can easily square himself with
the Confederates. we shall await with
interest" Iris reply to some questions
which the colored voters are certain to
put to him fbefore they cast their ballots
for him.
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F., Out West thy say that the route of
Tammany to Denver was traceable by
empty beer bottles and Bowery slang
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Henry Watterson raises a wal!
against the swelling army of Fedora
officeholders. Yet he is supporting {
platform which would quadruple tn.
lumber of those officeholders.