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lil t D i ILY PKES3 7 - A. U U U U ii U CHAMP CLARK'S LETTER J 3 , 3 i i i Special Washington Letter. ,. HE Jeffrles-Flttslmniqna chami plonsWp mill --to Ter, and Knby Robert went down before XL' ' ta Callfornlan. Touts wOl be served,' w Wonder, If Sena tor amui A. Hanna discovers In the , result a prophecy of his own Waterloo in 1904 at the hands of a much youn ger, man to wit. Coldhel Theodore Roosevelt? Perhaps the defeat Bab received at the hands of the tjpiler maker will cause the Buckeye boss to pot on his studying cap, and perhaps It will not Still, there Is no disguis ing the fact that youngish men are 1 now most in the public eye. The cool. calculating Kitchener succeeded the elderly "Bobs." The most potent fig ure In European politics is the Ger man kaiser. William of Ho'henzollern, who, although A veteran emperor, Is still a young man.- Next to him comes Nicholas of Russia, who got up The Hague peace conference and who has Just startled the world with a proposi tion looking to an international stran gling f the. trusts. On this side the water President Roosevelt, still in the . flower of his years, holds the center of the stage. In both the cablnet and the field the youngsters are to , the fore. Oldithings pass away, among them the ancient proverb, "Old'inen for counsel, young men for war," .Temporarily at least the "boys" are usurping the func tions of the elders. Is It for .the best! Qulen sabeT , 1 1, !No Politics In Teddy's Speeches. Little Paul Dombey was always ask dug Floy, "What are the waves :say dagf' Certainly -since the ocean first Twas formed bo stranger message has come from it than that which now Is sues from Oyster Bay. It Is given ou -that President Roosevelt in his swing -around the circle this fall has no polit ical designs whatsoever and that he is -. :mnch annoyed that the ungodly should 'have attributed to him such motives. all of Which Will be given the hoarse - boot by the Jnnior senator from Ohio, who is one of Tom Johnson's most pre-eminent constituents.; . But . Maxkla .cynical thoughts -and remarks will vet count. He will not- be permitted to pull down theiideal candidate. the al truistic statesman of. Sagamore H1U, ' the harbinger df the political millen nium, the philosopher who proposes (to - let the office seek him and catch Ihtal! No, indeed. Colonel Roosevelt is cot going to tour "tbe country In the inter- est of his own nomination.. Periah the thought!. Hefci going about the tend to view the "wonderful crop, which Mark's friends, allege that Mark caused " to grow.' Of -course Colonel Enosevelt has not gone so. far as to say thai she twill not accepts nomination not 'he. If the nomination chases and captures him, what can the do but serve bis - country and save it again by serving four years morel ; The bold, bad men " ,who started theTeport that the presi dent is going on; an electioneering trip ought to be severely disciplined rceally they ought, . Harmony In .Missouri. It will be. a great pleasure to Demo crats outside the suite who have been alarmed by the twaddle of the 'Globe Democrat :ifs such there be to know that harmony prevails among the Dem ' ocrats of Missouri, the first Democratic state In the 'Union, and that aH the signs of the times Indicate a sweeping ' Democratic victory, this fall. Nobody knows this better than the G.-D.- It .is .merely whistling. to keep its courage mp. Both at Springfield, where three candidates for supreme Judge were nominated, and at St. Joe, where the railroad commissioners, superintendent of public schools and. chairman of the state committee were nominated, there were contests more or Jess heated .about men and measares, which wese to be expected which were' inevitable, in fact but the platforms are good, what the people want, and while excel lent men were .defeated alien above re proach and In every way -capable were - nominated. Of ;the thirteen Democrat ic -congressmen eleven have been re nominated, generally without opposi tion, and will be re-elected. The -Chances are that Missouri will have fifteen Democrats In the next house out of a possible sixteen, that the state ticket will have a -satisfactory major ity and that the Jegislature will be , iDemoeratic in both branches. Nothing gucceed9 like success, and no party i . anywhere ever made a finer record j lnce states were first Invented than have the Democrats of Missouri in the conduct of her financial affairs, the one thing which most nearly coscerns the great body of taxpayers. . ftocseve:t Ctatbed fcy Organ Griaier. A close and systematic reading of Republican parcrs will disclose the litter warfare iss!Je the G. O. P. In Lis Fourth cf Ju'y Fr eeh at FItta burg President r.oosevtX unJer tbe InrptrlEg Influence cf a grer.t con course of shouting: people snl teui-r"rc:-:!y forgetful of Hon. tc;:.r:i n. ' and tbe rest of tie s - r.t :r!..l losers, exclaimed, 'Tot' CM Ii h t.re sa fate." -7 '.") 3 i t C'.i L!s C. t I " tbe i f t la a s i o- ' v r ! I.f.: ! ;' c ' !. t 1 ) ! i- 1 t Republican Harmony Emphasized by Clubs and Daggers A Few Personal References ..,... .-. scheme. , The president threatened to can an extra session of congress. Now comes the St Louis Globe-Democrat, organ grinder of, Missouri Re-y publicans, Missouri - patronage having been disposed of, and stabs the presi dent under the fifth rib. The G.-D., under the caption. "Going Beyond Rec iprocity," says : ;; x; ;, ' :f v 8enator Burton of Kansas made an ex tended speech this week at Topelta before a large assemblage in which he eet forth the arguments that Induced a large num ber of Republican senators to oppose the Cuban concessions bill as reported by the senate committee. The main point Is that the concessions proposed go beyond all former conceptions or definition of reciprocity and asaail the protective prin ciple Itself. So clearly was this fact es tablished in debate that Mr. Burton as serts, "There are not fifteen Republican senators out of the fifty-four who are tn favor of the present bill at heart." The longer the blli'waa discussed In the sen ate- the weaker it became, and the chief reason w the assault on protection coiled up In the measure. That bill breaks down all -former limitations of what la called reciprocity. Reciprocity ' as . advocated originally by Mr. Blaine, as Senator Bur ton points out, -was the admission . Into the America market, -without duty, of the articles .which we do not or cannot produce on condition : that the countries with which the arrangement Is made should grant an equivalent reduction for our products. Trom this attitude on a reciprocity, strictly guarded as to our own , productions, the Republican lrty has never -varied. The last Republican na tional platform refers only to a reciproc ity so directed as to open our markets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves .produce In return for tree for etg-B market." v-v-,;. The same limitation, most lucidly ex pressed, appears In President McKlnley's last speech, that made at Buffalo the day before he was struck down at the post of duty. "Reciprocity," said President Mo Kisley hi "his address of Sept 6 tast. "is the natural 'outgrowth of our wonderful Industrial development under the domes tic policy now firmly established." The ipollcy 'referred to Is, of course, protec tion, President McKlnley said in the wane speech: "By sensible trade arrange ments which will sot interrupt Home pro duction we shall extend the cutlets for our Increasing surplus. - We eOiould take M we-can use without harm Ho our own from our customers sucn ox taetrproaucta Industries and : labor." ' ' The reciprocity which Blame, McKlnley ana he Repub : II can national platform favored la ex plicitly intrenched In behalf of protec tion. It was not Intended to apply to any product 'Of our own. But what Is tourid In the Cuban concession bnTT tt Is a re moval of all duties on Cuban iimports a-o-gardless. of whether we produoe the same articles or not About twenty article were to' be admitted at a reduction, some of which we produce ourselves. To -call this 'wholesale reduction anythlna- resem bling' what the Republican party or lead era have hitherto favored aitir the-name ef recipraclty is ridiculous. - . Free traders saw the vttl fllatlnctson and eafferiy jumped forward to get tn their entering wedge. ' All elncere Jtepub llcans did not see it, trat enough were sufficiently cautious to meare the , party; from making a breach la rih!flrmlyte tabtished policy." ... The truth about the Ccfbnn - concession bill is thafti It proposed a w (called reci procity wholly unknown to ithe Rcpub-, llcan party.: to Mr. Blaine mrTMr. McKln ley. A Republican congress 'discovered the falsities In the case ana. greatly , to Its credit, djalted them outside at theito trenchmenx of the protective i policy. 1 A Dagger id n the Back. That editorial does nat ccontaln ;tiie name of Theodore Roosewelt, but ev ery word of it Is Intended tie a dagger not for hits' breast but for; his back.1 lie can write It on the tablets of his jnemcry tfcat tne Ulobe-iUemocrat is dead against him and wQ 'deprive him f the Missouri delegation lln ithe next Bepublican national convention ilf it can; but It can't. Roosevelt -may; lose the delegation, but not through the In faience of the G.-D., for It Ihas. none In selecting delegates. Hon, ' Eicbard 0. Kerens will attend to that Job, .If the president will take the pamsTto. read tbe foregoing (editorial from She G.-D, carefully, he will be very much sur prised to learn that he Is to be. fought on the grounds (that he Is not aound on the.tariff and that he Is a freettrader. The. war Is oa The Q.-D. baa evident ly enlisted under the Hanna Smnner, and Colonel Roosevelt must look ito the condition of his guns and ammunition. If be tioes not sleep with at least-one eye open, be will ibe stabbed to .death In the;bouse of hia (friends. -1 am aware that ithe G.-D. editorial Js a very long quatatlon to make An these" letters, but theepace to wellosed If iny treaders learn from it tbe lesson Which tit teaches that.the Republicans are hopelessly divided, in to bitter fac tions. Which will grow .more bitter s tbe daySigo by. Democrats have ev ery reason to be hopeful as to the re sults of tbe campaign -bow on. Te yoor tents. 0 Israel! - H There can be no question about the G.-D. bavicg It In for the president It virtually icharges him with being a free trader in tbe following remarks about tbe Cuban reciprocity bill: Therefore It Is Impossible so see how tbe new repuIUie can be ruined by the defeat of tbe proposed double reduction. It would be much nearer the truth to say that the failure of the bill would be a source of loss to certain chary sp la tors and a deep disappointment to free traders who are anxfoua to break down the protective principle at a new point and in a new way. Query: Does tbe G.-D. la tbat r ra prapb intend to charge Fr 'nt F.oe.H'velt and all elber advocatoi cf t'.e Cuban reciprocity bill with t '. 3 "t" : rp frecu'ators?" It :i: Tbe G.-D. returns to its cbar-e I ' l ! M U AA r a free trader ia tbe followlrj f -o trs ' refers c( ""nue to in : 1. 1 v. , l? r-. ! : 3 tne ) i I J- ::,-: i I- , s i r--o-), I .t t ,- j - ; cf t - Vr. , : 1 ; t t .? i I X y tree trr, a f U & f -' I V tire not the president and other Repub lican statesmen also free traders for advocating the same thing? But the most unklndest cut of all, to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, tbat the G.-D. has administered to tbe president is tbe following: , V General 1.' It Smith, who was Sent to aulet the Island of 8amar, tn which the natives were massacring our scldiers to a shocking extent and whe accomplished fcla mission with the highest degree of ef fectiveness, has been retired by the p reel dent tor alleged "loos and violent talk" la the presence of subordinate offloera. General Bmlth la near the retiring age and baa little to lose that respect, bait be Is- still a vigorous and capable man. He performed a great and extremely dif ficult service ht country a- gassar and enjoys tbe highest esteem at his fellow officers and af his fellow ettlsens, as time will ahow. , la the opinion of a great many persons General Smith's alleged of fense is of a far lighter nature than tbat at General Wood la devoting funds from tbe Cuban treasury to farther a political and economic object la the United Statea General Smith wUl discover oa returning to the United Btatea that be la at no dis count with bis fellow countrymen. - Does not the Globe-Democrat know that President Roosevelt indorses Gen eral Wood's action in using funds from the Cuban treasury as he did use them? ' Aye, more, does not the G.-D. know that in bis speeches in and about Boston the president held : General Wood and Secretary EUbu Root up to the admiring gaze of til the world as great and virtuous men, whose exam ple all creation would do well to Imi tate? The president lauds Wood and punishes Smith. The G. D. lauds Smith and intimates that Wood ought to be punished. The president is a Repub lican and so Is the G.-D., and yet "the Republican column is solid!" Anybody who says that the Republicans are snllt uu Is "a aueer person.", No doubt the truth appears "queer" to a Repub lican organ grinder, - It to clear as the noonday sun shin ing in bis meridian glory that if the Missouri delegation to the next e- publican national convention supports Colonel Roosevelt it will do so in spite of the Globe-Democrat Be might as well understand tbat now as later. Hoodooed I ' Judging from press comments, even from Republican papers, tbe senatorial days of Hon. J. Ralph Burton of Kan -sas will be few, not exceeding six .-years, which is not half as long as be was industriously endeavoring to oreaa Into the senate, for be was one of the most persistent seekers af ter a toga and curule chair ever seen on the American continent At the Philadel phia convention in 1900, ;at the bead of the Sunflower , delegation, he was one of the loudest -shooters for Roose velt Now be is at outs with the pres ident on tbe Cuban reciprocity scheme. They say that rats -desert a sinking ship, and it must toe true, for the Kan sas City Journal, which, though pub lished in Missouri, 3s Teally the organ of Kansas Republicans, knifes Burton in the following akHHUI fashion: Kansas politicians "Wtoo ' have the least bit of superstition readily i account for Senator Burton's turbulent time. There are two senatorfcel nines In tbe state the Lane and the Pomeroy. Burton la in tbe lane line. - The incumbents In .that line have always bad trouble, with one ex ception, ana it is iregaraea es a nooaoo. All told, ten men ibsve served as senators In the Lane line, while only four have served In the Remeroy-Jlne. In tbe Pom eroy line Pomeroy served from 1861 to 1873. Ingalla from J873 to 1891, Peffer front 1891 to 1897 and Harris from 1S97 to the present time. In - .the Lane Una , Lane served from VSBL to11866, when he commit ted suicide: E. G. Ross served from 186S to 1871. since which time be baa lived tn political oblivion because of hia vote on the Johnson Impeachment; Alexander Caldwell front 1871 to 1873, when be re signed under fire; Robert Crosier from 1873 to 1874. James 'Harvey from 1874 to 1877, P. B. Plumb rfrom 187T to 1891, wha he died In office; B. W. Perkins from January, 1891 to January, 1893: John Mat- tin from 1893 to J895: Luclen Baker from 1895 to 1901; J. B, -Burton from 1901 to the Dresent Thus mly four out of the tea senators In tbe Lane line ever served full terms or lonirer. The other six were in for a year or two. Since 1892 the Lane line has had four . -senators. : If precedents are followed la tbe Lane line. Burton .will be a one termer, but be bopea te k break the precedent. , A Strong Arkansan. . ' - Everybody wbo is acquainted with congressmen and who takes an inter est In the Democratic party will be U lighted to know .that Judge John S. Little of Arkansas ihas been renomi nated. Judge tattle is a capable, in defatigable, conscientious member a Democrat without guile. ( Like Mark Antony, be "Is a plain, blunt man. who loves bis friends :No purer man la both public and private life ever sat in (congress. While a , most excellent speaker and debater, Judge Little': forte la work work an. the house, work in ommittees, work iln the depart ments. His unfailing igood humor, bis perfect Integrity and ibis loyalty to duty feave made him ihost of friends both an' and out of .congress. The Fourth district of Arkansas honors Itself in honoring John . iLittle. A Valuable Georgian. , . - , Georgia has done herself proud by renominating tbat sterling (Democrat, that capable legislator, that faithful public servant. Judge John W. Mad dox. " He Is Instant In season and out of season-tlf it is ever out tf season- in proclaiming the faith onee .delivered to the fathers. John Maddox, as be Is popularly .known, is not a kyscrap 1b orator, but no man knows better what be watrfs to say, and few;say it better. In bis speeches he sticks to the facts of the case, and he fca-mmerg tie facts into his hearers with fare force. Georgia Is to be cocgratiited ca rich men. As It Is ToJsy. r;-.: a r y I'.-".-. ''-! -. c:. 9 rv.i:--r.t Poct.r, r'c'se give t row. rl'i r :..a i?o. I'i.i ejer'j- ti e i clfr cf i'?:i!r l-nlicilns. r i - : r -n '1 t I : i j r. -.-t- HIGHWAY LESSONS. ." - -v . 'specimen roads constructed to , show their value. . ' 111 :. "A?-t-'' A:ft taew Maearfasa, Saa aa4 Dirt ntaa waya Are BeJlt Te Steel Track -, Wasraa Isas Wbvlakt a Slaraa ..'Draw Klevea Taaa, 'I,., ifjyA: The Immense number of crude and frequently Impassable roads to : be found In, all parts of the United States and the serious extentto which they have handicapped the marketing, of farm, products In various aectioss of the country lend especial significance to the crusade In favor of good roads which Is being conducted by the office of road mquiry. a dlvlskm of the de partment of agriculture, bays a writer tn tbe Scientific American. As yet there have not been secured appropria tions of sufficient else to enable the government to undertake on Its own account the provision ,,of better high ways, but this will come in time, and meanwhile highly. Important results ore being accomplished solely by . the presentation of forceful object lessons." . Tbe investigations of the office of road Inquiry are mainly directed in seven general fields namely, to ascer tain as nearly as practicable tbe actual OBJBCT LESSOK BOAD (MiCAOAM). " From Good Roads Maaaslne. cost of bad roads and the benefit of good roads, to demonstrate the interest of cities and towns and tbe owners of property of all kinds wherever situated In tbe Improvement f country roads, to develop the methods whereby all of these Interests way co-operate wltb the farmers in the work of road im provement, to -discover what actual and systematic rad improvement is being carried -on -in any part of tbe United States -and bow the same or modified methods may be applied to other sections, to discover road mate rials la various sectlons of tbe country, ' to discuss aiewiplans for road construc tion and encourage experiment In this direction and -finally to actually con struct sample roads. :-f-:: u Probably .the most Interesting phase of the work has been found, however, In the construction of specimen roads of various 'kinds In different parts of the country. . Ordinarily three styles of road have been represented in this ex perimental road a modern macadam, a sand and a dirt road. Of these three the macadam highway is tbe most in teresting from the point of construc tion. After a uniform grade has bees secured by the use of wheeled scrap ers, drag scrapers and plows and pos sibly .road graders a well there are placed upon this foundation three sep arate layers of the best quality s of stone that1 is procurable in the vicinity, The foundation course. Which is about five inches in thickness and made up of two and ft half Inch stone, to thor oughly rolled before the second course. composed of one and a half, inch stone, Is -put . on. and this layer In turn . Is sprinkled and rolled before tbe surface layer, or ."binder," as It Is commonly called, consisting of three-quarter Inch fitone and dust. Is put In place. Tbe sand road is formed by placing six Inches of river sand on a bed of natural clay, neither the bed nor the surface of the road being rolled. The dirt Toad is made by grading in the Usual manner. As a rule neither of these latter classes of highways is con structed save to demonstrate the supe riority df the macadam road. Consid erable attention has been given to the Construction ' of steel track ' wagon roads, decidedly the most novel type of highway -yet Introduced hi any conn try. The -steel road might be compared te a -street ear track of modified design, and the plan for Its utilization was doubtless suggested by the well known tendency f teamsters to make use of urban and interurban trolley and cable lines on 'high ways where loco motion wsuldotherwlse be difficult The steel track wagon road consists of tws paraIU'1 lines of steel plates or rails each eight Inches In width and not supported on wooden crosstiea, but simply made solid In the road by flanges projecting into the concrete of the roadbed. The rails are accurately spaced as to -receive the wheels of all vehicles of standard gauge without regard to the width of tire, and each plate or rail Is fitted wltb a flange on the Inner side to prevent wheels from easily leaving the tracks. Unique roads of this type Lave been constructed In half a dozen dllerent states, and in some Instances the records made upon them haves teen little short of marvel ous. 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