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WOMEiYS BIG WORK. WHAT OHIO CLUBS HAVE DONE FOR CIVIC BETTERMENT. As Blplejr Xearlr All the Church So cieties Hart Followed the Improve, jnent Society' Example Smoke Nataance Haa Had Much Attention. The Bret work undertaken by the civic Improvement committee of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs was to establish civic Improvement commit tees In every club nnd to place civic Improvement topics upon every pro gramme. Of the 310 federated clubs In Ohio more than 150 have now their committees and topics. Each club has teen lirged to teeoino a member of the American Civic association. It Is not federated clubs alone that are upnolntliiK these committees. In Itlpley. town of 2.50 Inhabitants, on the Ohio river, nearly all the church so cieties have followed the example of the club. The results an' clean streets, drinking fountains, trnsh receptacles, ecuoolbouses repainted and yards cleaned up nnd pictures In the schools. In Troy, another small town, there Is not 'a shanty left. All have been re placed by neat cottages. Cincinnati, through the civic improve ment department of her Woman's club, started the first playground In Ohio. Last year the club did good work against expectoration in the street cars, and this year its members are devoting their v.-fcole energy to the suppression of t!r smoke nuisance. Iin publishing the Toledo Clubwoman Toledo haa giv n an impetus to the work all over tho state. Admirable work In establishing school gardens has also been done In that city. Cleveland clubs have taken a most active Interest In home gnrdenlng, school gardens and playgrounds. Now they are especially 'devoting themselves to attacking pernicious advertising, and much' good has been accomplished In the way of abolition of the smoke nui sance. Smoke consumers are now in successful operation In 200 boilers of the American Steel and Wire company. The Woman's club of Columbus has accomplished much, first by "agitation" and then by co-operation with the board of trade. They have organized junior civic leagues, establlnhod playgrounds, cut down weeds and obtained new etreet signs. A cleaning up day was observed last April. More debris was collected than the city could take care of, so bonfires were In requisition. The smoke nulsanco is also receiving much attention, and smoke consumers have been placed upon some manufactories and have given great satisfaction. Zanesville nnd many other towns nave started Junior civic len-'jues. Day ton is famous fur school gardens and other civic wort. At the Zanesville convention full report of work was given Is the chairman, followed by discussion on "IIow to Arouse an In terest In Civic Improvement" Resolu tions were adopted concerning the im pending destruction of Niagara. Mrs. Agnes McGIffert round of Ashtabnla Is chairman of the c!te Improvement committee, Ohio Federation of Wom en's Clubs. An Active Civic Association. A civic improvement association was formed In Biuffton. O., a town of 2,000 Inhabitants, In the spring of 1904. The following officers were elected at that time and were re-elected In the spring of 1903: President, Rev. John Todd; trice president, W. W. Eaton; secretary, JL . Temple; treasurer, J. E. LugrDHU :Slnce fhe organization $330.50 has been i raised by the finance committee for improvement purposes, says Floral TJfe. A large amount of this money and much donated labor have been ex 5ndeJ oil the Tresbyterlan church property, a parcel of ground containing nearly an acre, which has been thrown open to the public as a park. This property Is sltunted in the center of the town at the crossing of two of the most prominent streets, thus giving one of the best located small parks In north western Ohio. The winding crushed atone walks.athe rustic seats, the elec tric lights, the numerous large and varl ons shaped flower beds rising out of a well kept lawn, the large spraying metal fountain, with Its cement bar all well shaded by the wide spread ing branches of the native elm and the golden leaved maple, make this park a thing of beauty nnd a Joy to all inter red In it. The association has also as Blsted in improving the waterworks ground and the campus of the Central Mennonlte college, which is situated on one of the hilltops of the town. Vacant Lot Crops Valuable. Philadelphia's public school gardens, which were conducted last season on the vacant lots of the city, flourished under the patient cultivation of more than 2,000 boys and girls, so that not only were numerous unsightly lota made attractive, but at least 850 poor families were aded In the straggle for existence, says the Maryland Edu cational Journal. It Is now estimated that the value of the vegetables raised on these 242 acies of school garden land will exceed $50,000. All this la aside from the educational value of the work Itself to the little gardeners. Need of Activity Among; Officials. It Is quite often that the inactivity of the officials of a town work against Its best interests, says D. M. Carr In Home Trade Advocate. Nearly every small town has ordinances relative to the cutting of weeds along the streets, and it is rarely that these roles are en forced. The streets of a town over grown with weeds never make a good Impression on the stranger. Good side walks, well kept streets in the resi dence and business portions of a place always speak well for the habits of It residents. MR. HAMMER'S SPEECH. Delivered In Acceptil for Solicitor ofth clal District. j r'n in The Dispatch. ; The following is the speech de liverer bv lion. W. C. Hammer . when he" accepted the nomination I for s )licitor: Mi. Chairman and Gentlemen of I the Couveutiou: I To receive this" nomination at 1 your hands in this great democratic district is an honor of which any in in must aud should feel sensible us well as proud. The houor is especially prized by me, for the reason that the office is one of the most important in the gift of the people. With all my sense of uuworthi neea I dare not set up my judgment against yours in naming me as your nominee for state's solicitor iu .he eight counties of this great Pied mont stction, right in the center of our State, on the. waters of the three great rivers, the Catawba, the Yadkin and the Pedee and Deep rivers, with the thriving population the marts of trade, the ever busy hum of industry. I therefore bow to your decision aud gratefully accept the (uuex pecteu?) honor conferred upon me, md should the people have the intelligence and good judgment, of which my opponent at least will have some doubt, to en dorse this nomination, I shall exert all the power I possess faithfully to till the position your choice has be ' stowed upon me and will, if elected, be willing to bear the burdens en tailed by the nomination aud election. It is two hot to t Ik. I think I shall ask leave to print. Continuing, however, Mr. Ham mer said: If you have not nomi nated for this importaut position a clean aud honest man you should . have done so, for there is no posi tion where there is greater need of such (jUalitits. c Mr. Hammer then dwelt on th,. importance of uprightness in th courts and paid a tribute to our judges, and spoke ot the confidence that our people have in their courts. Also the importance of maintain ing a high standard was touched on, a standard like that of the courts now, the pride aud glory of North Carolina. Mr. Hammer spoke a bit about Kepublicau politics, and said that I Marion Butler had taken absolute charge of the Republican party in ! this State. He was backing the I Adams organization. He sat iu his office at Washington and band ed out his word that was law unto 1 the powers that be in the party. He aspired to a national leadership and had his eye on the senate. ' And while it may not be realized by some, said Mr. Hammer, it was j nethertheless a fact that the wiley old fox, although thoroughly dis- i cedited in the State, was preparing again to catch our people asleep, ' and forgetful of his past record of wreck and ruin, and slip into power i while we rest on our oar3 in fancied B-'curity. ! We hear much said these days by j those who do not know as to what a : democrat is and what it means to be ! a democrat. In defining the term ' democracy, there comes involuntari ! ly to my lips the answer, that to be i a democrat means to be a patriot; a lover of liberty; a champion of hon- 1 est and economical government; a I believer in the equal rights and op ' portunity of all peoples, aud a man i who sticks to his party. A demo crat is one who believes not only in equal rights but also in special privileges to none. I He who believes that government is an instrument for private advan tage and personal gain, who wants liberty and a representative govern ment in the fullest sense of the word and the largest measuie for himself and his countrymen, but is at the same timi entirely willing that alien and weaker races should be subjugated and held as the fruits of conquest, is not a democrat. He who does not object to laws be ing enacted that promote and foster combinations of rich 'and powerful men who are able under snch a cov er to control the very necessities of life, and by these measures compel the payment of exaggerated prices by those who can ill afford to do so, and who gives his assistance to legislation that by act of congress gives to a few the controlling right to tax througn a tana trie pockets of the people solely to make a few men rich, you likewise find a man who has no mstict of democracy in him. Such men are not patriots; they are not concerned about the rights of others; they are not interested in the general welfare, save as they are selfishly benefitted by it; and they never understand nor care for the principles of a representative gov ernment which is based upon the consent of the governed and the idea of dome the ereatest good ana work ing the greatest benefit to all the people. The democracy party is proud of its liueage and irs history. It was founded by Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the declaration ot independence who foium luted and enacted the laws that secured and guaranteed leligious liberty, and who fouude i a great university, for he believed iu highre education and its dissemination an o lg the masses. It nourished as the party of the people iu the days aud under the administration of Andrew Jack sou, the hero of New Orleans, warrior aud statesman, ami came on victorious under his leadership aud its death grapple with the t'uited Statea bank that sought to add politics aud the management o:' lhe natiou s nuances t r..s legi timate bunking business ana canie tu ismuiethe uuthotity to tay who should and who should uot be presi dent of the L'uited States. The democratic party with Jackson us its leader smashed both Kiddle aud his bank. For sixty years of our national life the democratic party- controlled the destinies of the nation, aud added to its area as it did to its population by legitimate expansion until it ranked "with the greatest nations ou earth aud spread its do minion from sea to sea. ! It has uot been iu favor of con tracted tenitory uor pawcity of pop ulation, tor it gatheied into tile natioual domain tue great northwest; it acquired uuder JeftVisou the Louisiana purchase ami it lixed tue Mexican boundary uuder lolls at the Kio Uraude, E'ery foot of out soil thatis contiguous touchesthe two oceans, and was given to the nation, and to the Americau people by the democratic party. It uas always encouraged aud welcomed to our, shores the worthiest of foreigu' citizenship aud all lovers of liberty. : It believes in tariff laws that raise. ample money to pay the expenses of the governmeut, coustiuct internal improvements, fostering every indus try whose promotion meaus tue ue-1 velopmeut of the country's resources aud the advancement of labor. Itde- uies the right of a man or set of men to orgaui.e uud direct combinations that are conspiracies iu violation of the law, the purpose of which is to coutrol markets, fix prices prevent competition stille indepeudeut bu?i- uees eudeavor and at tue expeuse or financial ruin aud disaster, conduct their own business. The democratic party does not be lieve in foreigu conquest or aggran dizement. It does not believe in a system of colonial dependencies, fol lowing up acquisitions by arms aud governing people subdued by torch and sword, it oeneves in nome rule. In the just distribution of burdeus as well as the benefits thent-J of, state and local. It believes in the just aud equitadle levying and collection of taxes. That the rich aud powerful shall not escape aud that the weak aud poor shall not be unjustly burdened is a democratic principle. That political influences shall not count in the escape of cer tain properties from taxatiou, while others lacking such influence are forced to bear it, is also a tenet ot our laitn. .verv man anu every corporation should be equally taxed upon the value of what is actually owned and not upon the value of political lunueuce or contributions to political campaigns. Tnis is the very essence and creed of democracy, equal and exact justices; equal aud exact burdens in maintaining tne goverment. There is still one thing that de mocracy means or should mean. Party bickerings and Btrife must cease. There must oe parties m representative government. - Id a country like ours, vast as t is, the individual is neccessarially of little conseouence or importance. What ever good a man desires to ac complisb must be brought about within his party. There may be times when certain things in platform or about a candidate may not suit oue and he may have obiection to. If this were to be made the ground for bolting ticket or abandoning a pattv, dis organization must at once follow We must sometimes be willing to yield somewhat in our judgment and our opinion, for it is our duty to stand by our party if on the whole it honestly represents and stands for what we believe. The ambitions of leaders is not to stand in the way of nor impeach party discipline. The Democratic party is bigger than any leader in it It is bigger than all leaders in it. Let us stop controversies which divide us and ultimately destroy our power. "Let us keep together! let us be friends and not enemies. Let ns help to build each other up; not seek to tear down and destroy. By the latter course we will injure our selves and our party, while In pur suing the former we give a strength and fibre and meaning to party ad herence that commends Our pa tiiotism and vindicates our demo ciacy. tailowtr Phllanopbjr.' Atchison (K&o.) Globe. It's too bad when a doctor is busy. A good looking man spends a lot of valuable time admiring nimsen DIVISION OF THE PORK How the Republican Managers Carved the Meat. PUNISHED THE INDEPENDENTS Inly Twenty-three Member Stood Oat Annlnul the Home Machine. Tbey Rot M'hnt Was Coming to Them The Plan Exhibit the Co-lionl-ve Tower of Plunder, Ttie objection to tlu- "pork bill" Is not ugnliiMt the appropriation of money ! lo build postottlees anil other public j Uuilillnpt. but the manner lu which the i distribution of the amount for con- : pvsslonnl districts U usel to coerce j conKrt'ssuH'n on other legislation. There are oSO members of the house, j ami If the appropriations made for ' Inrtie cities are considered as benefi cial to all its members no lesa than 203 ; of them are cared for in this bill. "If we should credit oil of ChleoRo's ten ; represontatlvos with the $23,000 for a South t'hlcngo postofflec," says the ' Now York Tost, "there would be left only 113 of the unrowarded 'bad boys.' , We are taking no account in this anal-' ysis of the changes In the bill made by the senate. "During the session Just closed there were two conspicuous opportuni ties for misconduct on the part of Re publican members. Those were the votes ou the Philippine tariff nnd the statehood bill, let us see how re wnrda nnd punishments have been t meted out to the 'insurgents' on thos3 ; famous measures. For this purpose we may divide the members Into three ' classes. The first, including thirty Re-. publicans and thirteen Democrats, is made up of those lu whose districts appropriations of $100,000 dr more have been made by, the house; the see-! oud. those who g it" less than $100,000 or merely shared In appropriations j with their colleagues, nnd the third, those who got nothing at all, Indlvldu- i ally or with colleagues, for a city or j state 'at large.' j "There were only twenty consistent , insurgents who voted against the house ; leaders on both the contested measures. : Five of them got Into the $100,000 class Messrs. (Jlllett of California, French of Idaho, Minor of Wisconsin, Mondell ' of Wyoming nnd Smith of California. ! Five g:)t nothing at all, two shared up- j proprlatious with colleagues, and seven received amounts averaging $4T,200, ! the average for all members Included at all being more than $80,000. At the same time it Is interesting to see how saving grace was extended to those who had once erred, but professed re pentance. Thus In the $100,000 class are seven who voted against their par ty on the Philippine bill, but came Into line the nest week for the statehood bill. Two who were regular on the first, but not on the second, also appear In the privileged class. But these last, who voted straight the first time and perversely strayed over to the Democrats on the statehood bill when every vote was so sorely needed, generally got 'what was com ing to them.' There were twenty-two such misguided men. Only two, in spite of their support for the Philippine tariff, have their names among the good boys. Five share appropriations with fellow congressmen. Seven get an averaKC of $40,000 apiece, ranging from $13,000 to $70,000, while eight are righteously sent home without a penny. It is Indeed a serious matter to stand against the house machine.'' Yow csa toil bow subservient your member of congress was to the ma chine by the amount appropriate for the district. The appropriation of the public mon ey should be made on a business basis, according to the necessities of each lo cality, nnd Instead of building enor mous buildings In the large cities that are imposing, but often quite unadapt ed for official business, the smaller towns should be supplied with the nec essary postoiSce buildings. A Graft In sT System. If you don't have "a pull" nowadays you nm.st be content with hard work and small pay. The system of govern ment and business as conducted under Republican rule is all a matter of "pull" and graft. The railroads and the trusts buve a pull on the people, the Republican politicians have a pull on the corporations and the combines, the Republican camp followers have a pull on the politicians, and ordinary folk honest Republicans and Demo cratshave to pull out their wallets and pay the taxes and the extra profits to the trusts that this Republican system has perfected, fill you vote to con tinue this corrupt and grafting system, or will you indorse the Democratic plan of equal rights to ell and special privileges to none? Pnttlnsr Off he Evil Day. . The president failed to get his new Chinese treaty ratified. He also failed to get bis modified Chinese exclusion law. A Washington dispatch speaking of the president's Chinese bill says: "Rather than risk defeat the managers of the bill. Cannon, Dalzell and Gros venor, thought it was better to let the bill go over until the next session." 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