BAHlE Of GIANTS IN JUNE NEXT Convention Will be Most Exciting in Last Quarter Quarter ter of a Century BUCKEYE STATE THE PIVOT Ancient Ton I fond 0 l 1 s l by 11 r nn t n s Urns Ono 1 11 lit t Silver vcr telf Utah Umli corr Correspondence D C Feb The raft which large lorge pro Secy Taft Tott left lett on hIS has Moro ArOund the tho world and trW by tar trip absence of ot his easan t dulled drilled d Is la again mount skyward T d Then Thero IB Js no denying d the tho Ig that the secretary o ot of war IB le in tact fact his hta following by leaps and andone hounds bounds It If one ono 18 IB to Judge from dram tho the In Inv tho the papers through throughout printed Prated l in and particularly from Crom fromKe out the country to the tho na lIa nat national Ke a n t visit those wl who o are re on either cither upon business or t lIonal onal Capitol pleasure And yet et this growing enli senti sentiment and able nent ment for tor or the very Invites attack and ed cd secretary of at war ed the ho of trio tho forces forc In op up opposition nomination It has position to his hie been beell intimated that within tho the next few tew weeks there will m be a quiet julet meeting of ot those in charge chargo of at tho the presidents boom of at Cannon Knox Knolt l HuShes und and to decide upon of ot action with reference to o n a 1 plan nun securing delegates in states slates wilts Tart Tail pronounced there then is Ia no and earnest work will bo lit reu ree recI I in tit me of at othera oth others era ers lUan tau lilt ol of war var TAlT TUT TO Taft Is making headway throughout the Laun T its In tn thu main elate coming iron ironi u u eau ana woo Mio strums lur tur tau thu policies at ot lu Ana Aua yet whit wun a II trent uena 01 ot Inc Ine in favor tavor or ot oe oey y Tail Tatt as the lite must tui ato to 10 I perpetuate the of ot the tho very vet yel occupant of ot the Houte liou very ery deep tutu unu very poll poli politics tics 13 Is being played oy uy In opposition lion tion to IC a II continuation ol ot tae jwO administration under some ana a gUise roe luo opposition lion tion extremely and anil able ible much mon and they como come from tram New Vert Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana WI and Illinois with a II electoral vote ote of ot lo of Ohm Ohio lit b states slates Including Ohio win WIll u a 1 total strength In tile the Republican can cin national convention con of ot SOU and It b Ii known knon that Pennsylvania will in eruct for tOI Knox Indiana will tor for Fairbanks Illinois d send a n delegation Ion tion for tor Cannon Wisconsin will ask Its III delegation to vote ote for lette Taft fatt will receive tho the great ma majority of at thu the delegates from Ohio us al seems items absolutely sure but Foraker Wilt will hive hie some Bono following there thero for tal trading purposes This leaves only Dilly New Yo York ic of ot tho big states anus wholly uninstructed uninstructed although there litre Is 18 a growing sentiment In favor ot of the governor of ot the Empire State and ind l It may not bo be possible to keep from ln an delegation as Is 15 Isnow now naw tho the effort of ot Secy TaUs Tafts follow fonow to In that state OHIO THE TUE PIVOT ThIs brings notice to Ohio upon which j are tho the eyes of almost every oyer I politician f In tho the country countr Ever since shat Iti Ia birth ns oe t a slate Ohio has tins been a aj j of Irritation In a I political l tense I Those Jh who bo go back to the days dayt of ot Sher recall tho the fierceness of the made mado by these two splendid Americans for tor delegates from the Duck Buck DuckeR eR eft State late out of at which contest grew grow that bit famous expression I will slick stick to I Blame an as long an us the buttons stick on nJ coat Then the tho fight that tho fath the Ibe present secretary of or war had and Rutherford 1 B R Hayes laid and aid Bristow the only solid delegation mr emit going from Ohio In a 11 halt half century alne tating gone gono for tor William McKinley Tho that Is now going on between For Fol Folker Foraker laier ker aker and an Taft Tatt Is an nn Inheritance It comes COllies down through the years year and For Foraker laker eker and end Taft Toft represent completely dlf i Parent forent factions of ot tho the old guard which I changed Ohio from a It Democratic to a Republican state FORMIDABLE One Ono of ot tho best known men In the public lire life of ot today lodl y and a IL stanch sup porter Potter Porter of ot Secy Taft raft said spankInG speaking of Bine the Ibe bitter blUer contest now being waged be tween the Taft and Foraker forces In j that thaI state that It would not surprise him him It If the tho senior benator from Ohio I would d mal make mallo unexpected Inroads In I S because of ot two con Id Ho Un is the tho Idol of ot the tho old sol aol I Her tiler element clement In the tho shale and tho the rev r c 1 champion of ot the tho negro growing rowing 9 O out l of the Investigation He Ile 1 admitted In ed d that the Taft Tart enthusiasm was rampant over the tho and that on tho the face of things lie 1100 could see sec nothing but Sa a Taft l victory and yet ot ho lie could ammo an arl arlI undertone n aS r OM M ot of f feeling which might I g ha have a ml an Important bearing upon he the h e selection e of at delegates One r filing l is hi certain the tho Ih t Republican I la arty M le S going 10 ng to have ave the tho ln most Bt Inter eating g and most exciting convention In Into hi cago eo lit km or ot this y year ar u It has n ha had hadIs l lI I la Is for to a quarter ot or n c century and ho the Held getting nr ready to combine against t tho the c ablo secretary of ot war with what result the Ides of ot June J uno can only determine TOAD ECLIPSED A tow fow weeks ago ao press dispatches from tram Dutte Butte Montana reported that alive a I live frog trog had been discovered In III the hollow of ot a limestone rock In III a amino mina near there For many years past reports hILO collie to Washington of ot tho the discovery of toads In III all nil sorts Boris of ot out of the tho way places Tho The Montana story Indicated that tho the toad In ques quell question tion Uon had been found something like three hundred feet teet under the tho surface and the tho indications were that Montana was wits disposed to brag brae over oer time tho tact fact that Its particular toad had been discovered a little deeper In the earths surface than any an such animal reptile fish or whatever It II might bo be called was ever found before But Congressman Jo Joseph Joseph seph Howell of ot Utah has Just received re received a 11 letter lotter from one of ot his con constituents upon whoso whose veracity he Is In willing to stoke stake his reputation In III which the writer shows that the tho Montana toad was lS a II comparatively recent ad nd addition addition to tho the surface of ot the tho earth Mr correspondent writes In part as oa follows On receipt of at time the thousand year enl old toad from Butte Dutte Montana found In limestone I must say something ot of atour our toad found In the solid sandstone sand sandstone sandstone stone at Silver Silver Reef Hoot Utah You will recall that that Is IB tho the largest and pos possibly possibly possibly sibly the tho only silver mining aiming camp In sandstone In tho time States It was about the year 1883 that Robert Hobert Campbell a II miner I had known from childhood and who Is Isa u a mOil man of ot his word told me that ho and his partner working In one of at the then mines of ot the tho reef reet down on tho six hundred foot toot level lovel were doing some somo shooting and blasting In a 0 drift As you know after shoot shootIng Ing Ins they return to the tho surface and pick out the broken rock still lUll left lett In ht Inthe the tho face of at tho drift In doing this they tho found n II crack running In deeper than Ihan some ome of the time rest and picking out the Iho rock they the found u small cavity con COli containing cong I n a live toad It was of I u a pink pinkIsh Ish Is h flesh color and somewhat transparent emit ent lIt After Atter carefully taking It out outon outon outon on their shovels to the surface the toad oad seemed to collapse from contact with tho tha air aim o h They The gave gLO It to Mr Rico Rice su superintendent superintendent of ot the tho mine who placed It ItIn ItIn Itin In alcohol and for tor a n number of at years afterwards it was Seth seen S II by b a II great many people I wanted Campbell to go be before toro fore a notary and make stake affidavit to 10 the tho facts tacta mid and send them to the Smith Smithsonian Institution which ho promised to do But the affidavit nt was never nover mode made It Is however possible that I Ican Ican Ican can still lUlI find somo some one w who ho was there them Mr Howell declares that the Sliver Silver Reef neof mine was located In tho the sandstone of at Utah after atter some lome of ot tho the most emi eminent em font nent geologists of ot tho the had do de declared dared that no silver could by any an pos jos ros chance chanto bo be found In sandstone THE GRANT MONUMENT At the foot of tho the Capitol plaza a fronting on Pennsylvania avenue Is lo in located catell what has long lomg been known as us tho the Botanical gardens It covers COers three e eor or four foul blocks of ot ground but hut Is sur surrounded surrounded surrounded rounded on all nil silos sides by time the evidences of ot busy bUllY business life A high Iron fence surrounds the pardon garden which gives I It the tho of ot some soma landed es estate es estate estate tate and within the tho enclosure lives William A Smith the superintendent of ot the garden friend of Andrew Car Carnegie Carnegie negie anti collector of ot writings s of ot Burns In fact tact Mr Ill Smith has lias tho the fin finest finest est collection of ot In tho the country It Is In times this sumo samo Botanic garden gardon that the magnificent monument to Gen Gon Grant Orant Is to bo erected and about which all 1111 kinds of ot a fuss tuss has hill ben bean raised because some somo three or four hla hl torte to tic trees must mast be removed the trie foundation for tor the tha monument can cnn bo be commenced Resolutions havo been Introduced d In Congress looking 1001 to tho the repeal of ot tho the law fixing tho the site of ot tho the Grant monument monument monument ment In the Botanic garden arden and n a lot lotof lotof of ot eloquence expended over the tho dos des destruction k of ot the trees Judo Walter Waltor WalterI I Smith of Iowa who represents tho the Council Colman Bluffs district In tn Congress has hall not taken the Rights of ot oratory very much to heart hut hurt on tho the con contrary contral contrary has hILS Insisted that tho time site select selected ed by b tho Grant monument commis commission slon sion of which Gen Oen C M Dodge Is ls n II member as well ns fiS Secy Root Hoot should stand and that If It necessary Sory tho the Bo Do Botanic tunic manic garden torden should bo lie abandoned or put somo some place where It might ho hI whet what Its name Implies a real garden gardon for tor the propagation of ot rare and un unusual unusual usual plants THE rUE GARDEN MAY GO GOAs GOAs As All far till buck back as nv I 1889 1839 a bill was M passed pass passed ed cd directing that the thu Iron fence willen surrounds the tho Botanic garden be pulled down Iown but Supt Smith has been bigger than the law find and ho has hils been able through his friendship with and representatives to keep hells the file fence Intact Now 10 however that Mr Smith has been boen protesting against the tho placing of at the Grant monument in to tho the southeast section of tho time garden It will necessitate tho the removal nf ot several trees planted by former armor statesmen the controversy over oer the tho Botanic Bohemia garden has hM been revived und mind It h may mil bu be III that although quite CIullo an old man Supt W V A Smith may muy have to vacate hl hex hili comfortable cottage with within in the tho garden for tor porno other locution location and tho the high Ran Iron pulled down dawn lo to Hake inako way wa for tor growth nail PIOUS It can bo be said mill that tho Grant Orant manu monument monument ment will bo ho put where whelo originally planned oven If it tho the treo tree and the Bock treo tree have havo to 10 go o CANNON ON ONCE FREE I l Undo Joe Joo Cannon was wan once a 11 frog trader Of at course It Is U pretty hard to but ho hum It the lime other oilier day dllY In III a 1 reminiscent talk lalk on Oil sumo of ot the high lights In his busy bUHY But that was ns In the limo days when I was wits a 1 I ho sold MIld I hied novel never enjoyed the thu th advantages of a 1 collegiate education but when ben I was waa acquiring an nn education later Inter In hum life lite by I absorb lug Ing and devouring everything I could II lay la my lilY hands on In III the way of ot honks books look I It II would woul bo he u a goblo thing timing to II throw our UI markets open Opell to the tha world When I J began to 10 get gel practical sense tutor along 1 I changed my may III mind about tree I am now a II pretty good goal protectionist I 1 urn Um a II believer In III Inthe the tho theory I that It IH Is a II duty Ilu wn we owe awn ourselves to tl In and control our u and ml Incidentally to dominate the tine marlotH of ot lima iho western and 1111 1 ns us much of pt the 1110 rut rest of n the tha world us na wo we can call tuko of Or Tho The first step to in commercial U Is Isor rill for or UH us to 10 got get an as much aa as wo we can and to hung hang on to IQ nit nil we not got Homo day tho when V e n our OUI population 1 I him Ii Increased I 1 tamest el t tram from to and nil all our resources ni II Ill e fully developed free tifa trade truda unity may Ino bu be the Iho ho thing thins to use hut but not eat now nom In our own wo WI own ewe our Phil and nurse our own ie rs reo until they ther are developed and nelll full felt grown Th Thib Ihl In la H a 1 practical In III which wu YU live and we must take tako earn cure of lit our lilli own before wo we try If to look after the rest rent rea of 1 thu world