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Show BRyflOEilCRATS LOYAL win Jeffersonians by a sham adhersnrt t Jeffersonian principles. Mettv Will Vols foe Roosevelt. Watson hat made many friends by bis I letter of acccptunte, and the Bryan Democrats generally end tree vrliat hs said about the honesty of Kooaevelt and the fait lh.it be it not masquerading to secure votes. At first they were inclined to vote for Wato.n as a rebuks to the Parker gold Dcmoerata, but of late many of the former free silver men, particularly iu the rural districts, have taken it into their beads that they might follow the precedent set for them in 1896 by the gold Democratic wing, and j instead of going to Watson, go straight out to Roosevelt and thus make the les-n-n aa impressive as possible. There was a great shout of joy among tlie lndinna Democracy when they road Watsons letter, and in more than one community they choereil at the clever manner in which he took off the hide from the hypocrisy of Alton B. Parker, when he said: With Mr. Parker It Is different. He Is not a JrffcrM.n la u Democrat, yet be seeks to secure the summit of Jeffersonians. IDs stitmle la thoroughly disingenuous, lacking In true manhood and lie was willing to aland upon tbe New York State platform which Mr. Bryan denounced as a dishonest platform. IBs position was so Indefinite, so foxy, so ente tirely neutral that Mr. Bryitti declared cheering thotnumla that Parker was "absonomination, lutely unfit for the Denns-ratland that nobody "but an artful dodger could stand upon the New York platform which so much resembled Its father, Dsvld u. mu. This clipping from Watsons letter is being carried in the pockets of thousands of loyal free silver Democrats, and nestling in the same pocket with it is n little leaflet containing extracts showing Mr. Bryan's opinion of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. The Indiana Democrats remember tbe sincerity with which Bryan said in his speech at Chicago last April, long before the convention at St. Louis; Taking the New York platform as t text, I can prove to every unbiased mind that Judge Parker Is not a fit umn to be nominated by the Democratic party, or any other party that atanda for honesty and fair dealing ia polities. We have evidence sufficient to convht Judge Parker of shoo-lut- e nufitnes for tbe nomination. While Mr. Bryau comes into the State at the particular request of the Parker managers, it will not take him long to find the sentiment of the people. They will listen to him as they did of old, and they will cheer his magic eloquence to the echo. Nonetheless they will not vote for Parker, because they know that and Bryan himself bus been tricked They know that Mr. Bryan estranged. he will support Parker only because deems it bis duty to maintain bis regularity in the party, and thus still further to shame the political traitors who left their party iu 1896, and who are now seeking to be returned to power through the votes of Bryan and the Bryan Democrats, whom they denounced so freely only a few years ago ea lunatics and incendiary. Mr. Bryans Pnrpeae. The people here perfectly well understand what Mr. Bryau means by going on the stump for Mr. Parker. Most of them look forward to still another regeneration of the Democratic party, following upon thd crushing defeat of Parker next month,-anthey expect that their splendid standard bearer will be the leader of this! final and successful reorganization of tbe Democracy. It was a personal triumph to William Jennings Bryan in the St. Louis convention when he secured the omission in the platform of any allusion to the gold standard, and his friends feel that he was personally tricked and shamed by Judge Parkers gold telegram. They fully agreed with Bryan himself when he said in the Commoner of July 13th, in speaking about Judge Parkers gold telegram: Then his friends attempted to secure a , I They Are Certain to Rebuke the Hiil-Sheeh- an Affront and Insult to Their Leader. Machine RESENTMENT IN INDIANA IS VERY STRONG 6ome Will Vote for Populist Watson, Others Will Support President Roosevelt and Many Will Stay Away From the Polls on November 8. ,y (Special Correspondeoee.) Indianapolis, Iml., CM. 13. Tb decision of the Democratic managers to Inaugurate a whirlwind campaign In this State, with William Bryan a the star orator, and their eUll later decision to push him to the front constantly and to double the number of hia speeches, haa revealed at last an extraordinary situation, which has thoroughly alarmed the leaders. Bryan has been brought to Imliana for the sole purpose of seeing If his personal influence could not be relied on to atop a wholesale rebellion on the part of tbe aid Una Democrats. It baa been an opeu aecrat for aonie time, but until now tbe Democratic managers bare constantly denied It, that the rank and file of the Indiana Democracy, the men who voted for Bryan because they lored him, tbe men who worked for silver because they believed In it. bare been thoroughly disd reorganisation gusted with the of the Democratic party. It la to bring these men back into tiie fold that Bryan baa been brought here, but it is not believed that the brilliant Nebraska leader will do more than make perfunctory speeches for Parker, because in every leaflets exfound be to country town are pressing what Bryan's real opinions are. and Just wbnt be thinks of Parker and Obe desperate politicians who secured his omlustion at St. Louis. Tbe old Une Democrats of Indiana are aatnraily a peculiarly loyal and straightforward class of men. They represent in their party tbe bone and sinew of tbe great manufacturing class, and more par Intlculariy tbe thoughtful, telligent portion of the farming community. They voted for silver in 18l)t5 ud in 1900 because they believed that tbe system of free coinage advocated by Bryan and the great mass of the Western Democratic leaders would put an and to their poverty and give them a chance to compete on even terms with the Wall street magnates, who, they were told, were stealing away from tbe people she wealth of the country. Jen-slo- one-side- rock-ribbe- V. ' .. Object to Feln railed Traitors. Conditions have changed aince then. Undeniable prosperity has come to all eiassee, and there is no longer a disposition te press tbe silver question .to the front These old line Democrats, however, do not relsh the idea of being called lunatics or traitors, and still less do they relish the development of prty politics which has absolutely turned ever tbe control of the Democracy to the very men who bolted tbe party in 1890. They have never believed it right that the tail should attempt to wag the dog, and they cannot forget here in Indiana that the men who are now seeking to ostracize the faithful Democratic masses, and who are doing everything in their power to create a Wall street control of the Democratic party, are tbe same ones who openly, only eight years ago, left the Demo- n cracy and voted direct for the Republi-cwcandidate for the Presidency. There are no more loyal Bryan Democrats in the country than those of Indiana. This is particularly true of the ceuRtry districts. The people loved and believed in their splendid leader, and it the it a significant thing that when valether States through the Mississippi ley voted for McKinley by an enormous majority, Indiana kept the plurality Mr. Bryan down to a narrow margin. made a campaign in this State that year which made friends wherever he went. It is these warm friends and admirers of William Jennings Bryan who. in the present campaign, have been disgusted and insulted by the men who are now In control of the Democratic machine. They cannot forget that in 1890, here In this city of Indianapolis, there was held a convention to organize an independent Democratic party. The gold Democrats of Indiana led the movement against Bryan. They were foremost in arging the nomination of Palmer and Buckner. They urged all gold Democrats to vote for these two old generals, and not to cast a ballot for William Jennings Bryan, who was denounced much more severely by the gold Democrats than ever he was by the Republicans. There was an appearance of loyPalmer and alty to the old party, because e Democrats Buckner were both And they conducted their campaign on a fcsmoc ratio basis. Yet every one knows vrbat happened. The gold Democrats. Instead of maintaining a show of regularity by voting for Palmer and Buck-- , ner, voted by thousands for McKinley. The Palmer and Buckner 'vote in Indiana was a mere shadow, and did not begin to indicate the real strength of tbe bolt. te-- - y old-tim- Brjrenltes Were Generous. Throughout all the campaign of 1896 Its gold Democrats, not only in Indiana bot in the country at large, abused Bryan nd Bryanism in the most savage terms. He received much better treatment from Republicans who made their fight n an honest basis, who flooded the councry with literature in behalf of tue gold vtandard, but who never assailed the personal character or tbe integrity of the oeloved Democratic standard bearer. In the convention at St. Louis the gold Democratic men were in control, There was not in the majority. a sentiment in the party that some kind f reorganization was absolutely necessary to success. The Bryan men were nearly in the majority, not only in the invention, hut throughout the country. Yet they were generous, and they were willing to kill the fatted calf for the But liiey expected him prodigal sou. to eat only hia urn share of the barbecue, and had no notion that after he ni L- - it returned from his meager diet on the husk of Egypt he would insist on cleaning out the whole bouse. Ninety per cent. of the delegates to the St. Louis convention had voted for William Jennings Bryau for the PresiYet they were willing to tee dency. the gold Democrats restored to good fellowship in the party, and they carried their generosity to suoh an extent that they were willing these former voters should actually hold places of trust in the party management. It was well understood that Judge Parker, like Dave Dili, and Belmont, and Gorman, end Sheehan, and practically ail of the leading eastern Democrats, were gold men. The majority of them, however, liked Parker; had maintained some kind of regularity and had voted for Bryan, although they did not believe in him or In tbe silver standard. Tbe delegatee at St. Louis, and most particularly those from ludiana, were unwilling that the platform should contain a slap in the face for William Jenninga Bryan. It wae for this very purpose that they omitted ail mention of the gold standard, and Alton B. Parker was nominated with the unanimous support of the ludiana delegation, simply and solely because be had voted for Bryan in I SIR! and 1900, and because it was felt tbat he could appeal to the country and to the loyal Bryan Democrats, not on the financial issue, but on the basis of a reorganized and rejuvenated Democracy. As Understood Move. Whert Parker yielded to the advice of Sheehan and his other associates in Albany and in New York, and sent his famous telegram to the convention, rebuking it for not passing a financial plank, and reiterating his own latter-dadevotion to the gold standard, it sent a e chill down the backs of tbe loyal Bryan Democrats of Indiana. Parker never would have been nominated if that telegram had been sent in the early hours of the convention. The Bryan Democrats naturally looked npon it as an intentional insult, not only to William Jennings Bryan, but to themselves. They knew that Parker had voted for free silver just as much as they did, and they did not see why he should feel called upon to assume the functions of a committee on resolutions, and amend the platform as he did through the unfair medium of a telegram which was sprung upon the convention just as it wax about to adjourn and when its action in nominating Parker could not have been recalled without inviting defeat at the very opening of the campaign. These good Bryan Democrats were fnrious over the Parker telegram. Everything which has happened since in the party management has only tended to make them more angry. Judge Parker has surrounded himself with no one exHe has absocept New York men. lutely ignored the rest of the country, and the rank and file have become convinced at last that he and the men about him are playing for the control of New York State, and care little or nothing about the result in the rest of the counInstead of the gold Democrats try. acting as grateful prodigals, humbly appreciative of the generosity of the Bryan Democrats, they have assumed to act as masters, and none of the old Bryan leaders has been able to get anywhere near the sage of Esopus. These eastern Democrats denounce Bryan as fiercely as r ever they did, .,1 the men who bore the brunt of battle in 1890 and in 1900, although they voted the same as did Alton B. Parker himself, are given no hand in the management of the campaign, are denounced as ignorant and insane, and are used by the gold Democratic party to further its own plans without regard at all for the best interests of the Democratic party as a whole. y old-tim- gold plank which was overwhelmingly de- feated In the eonventlon. After he had secured the nomination he Injected his views uron the subject at a time when he could not be taken from the ticket without great demoralization. The nomination, therefore, was secured by crooked and Indefensible methods. It was a plain and deliberate attempt te deceive tbe party. None of Mr. Bryans speeches in Indiana during his whirlwind tour of the State can by any possibility efface the effect which has already been produced by his own deliberate statements before and after the convention. These loyal silver Democrats have learned only too well that the men now in control of the party despise Bryan as much as ever they did, and that, if Parker should be elected, the loyal silver Democrats, who represent the great mass of the party, would have no more to say in the administration than they did during the closing years of Grover Clevelands term in the White House. Bryans tour in Indiana will only accentuate the love of the silver Democrats for their leader. It will only make them more determined to punish the New York coterie which surrounds Parker for its persistent attitude of hostility to Bryan and all his friends. The silver Democrats of Indiana are too smart to be Clevelands Affront. Grover Cleveland, who is cordially tricked by unscrupulous political and they will not vote for any canhated and despised by Indiana Democrats generally, has become the chief ad- didate who represents, as Parker does viser of the Parker crowd. He has for- to an extraordinary extent, the prevalent He still eastern sentiment of latter hostility to gotten and forgiven nothing. talks of Bryan and the Bryan Demo- William Jennings Bryan and everything crats as if they were political and so- he represents. Look out for a sensational slump in cial outcasts. Within a few days, in discussing the gold telegram, and the the Democratic vote of Indiana. Make ac.ion of the convention, Mr. Cleveland np your mind that the loyal Bryan Democrats have become tired of being made a said: The party's action speaks for Itself. It football for the unscrupulous eastern has returned to sanity, and future progress men who have seized upon the manageon the right lines Is now assured. Yes, it ment of the party to the exclusion of speaks for Itself. The welfare of the Demo- every western idea and of every western cratic party Is close to my heart, and It Is man. The Democratic vote for Rooseonce more upon the right road. It is no wonder, therefore, that thous- velt will be large, the Democratic vote ands and tens of thousands of Bryan for Wntsou. will be much larger, but the Democrats in Indiana have become dis- Bryan Democratic vote, which will stay gusted at being treated like yellow dogs at home on the 8th day of November, by the men they forgave and invited will astonish the natives. back into the party. Hundreds and PARKER'S SILENCE. thousands of them are preparing y to give the gold Democratic wing of the party a taste of the very medicine If Be Speaks, Unpleasant Questions Might Be Asked, it administered in 1896. Many thousands It is announced, presumably by authorof the Bryan Democrats are flocking to Watson, the Populist candidate for the ity, that the Democratic candidate for Presidency, and they are particularly President will make no speeches, but redelighted at his letter of acceptance, strict his oratorical explosiveness to the which hews close to the line, letting the compilation of forecasts as to what he chips fall where they will. Candidate will do if elected. He will save himWatson has voiced the views of a great self an incalculable amount of trouble by reserve. Were he to take this turtle-lik- e many of the old line Democrats throughthe stump he would be compelled to make out the State, when he says: specific the general charges he has writRoosevelt Is a strnightnnt Republican, ten against the Republicans. He would who declares boldly for Republican princondiciples, defiantly defending existing have to sli nv to be true his utterances tions. He Is not ninhvsh; he Is behind tbat his opponents have assumed unlawno blind. I can understand a Republican fired like that, and while I would love to mnk" ful authority: that the President, my battle ax ring on Lis he'met. until one with the lust of power, is usurping naof us went down, in political defeat and tional strength with the viyw of becomI could respect him all the deulh, y ing dictator; that imperialism is the tenwhile as a foenmn worthy of any steel. lie is nor .seefl-'the support of dency tint the tariff llryan In rymn fal-- e pretenses. He which lifted business out of the slough tt is f,ot playing confidence tutne fin the the working of fasyoud sj crushing not attempting negro question, 'lie njan-ager- 111 mo-ra- ts i s, that the army and oavy ar to big; that the nation hut been ruu extravagantly and tbat the expenditures for tbe army, navy, pension list, Panama canal, rural free delivery service, irrigation mi other grand purposes of nascheme tional development must be reduced; that "the beneficent despotism of th Republican party established and maintained by tbo people must give way to tbat Itemooracy of which be is the leader, and which propose to taud the country on its head as a beginning of the reform. The judge would have a hard row to hoe if he began to talk in public aud tell tbe Westerner lie must do aa th Easterner does, and to assure the laborer in shop aud field that reformatory legislation must at first be for the relief of the wealthy. He recognize his weakness in these matters knows that be could not specify as to his accusations, could not convince as to bis proposed reforms; could not successfully defend the revolutions which lii party propose to inaugurate In public affairs. He is wise to recognize thus early in the campaign that "silence ia golden. class; WAS DEMOCRACY INSANE 7 If So, Bryan Was a Lunatic, According to Mr. Cleveland, Democracy "has returned to aanlty, aid Grover Cleveland recently, in an interview. Thi statement, made with all the solemn ponderosity of which Mr. Cleveland is capable, would imply tbat the Democratic party has been insane and its leaders a aet of lunatics. In previous interviews Mr. Cleveland contented himself with merely saying that Democracy had after strayed from the right path "strange gods when it embraced Bryan-istbut since tbe defeat of the Bryan fa'tlon at St. Louis be bas been secretly rejoicing over tbe apparent downfall of bia most bitter political enemy, and on Oct 2, at Buzzards Bay, he virtually declared that Mr. Bryan was a madman. How do the friends of Mr. Bryan in Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska and other States relish having their leader called a lunatic? Insanity is lunacy, or madness, and if the Democratic party has H must 6rst have returned to sanity been insane, and, by the same reasoning, if the party was insane because Bryan was its leader, Mr. Bryan himself must have been tbe chief lunatic. Candidate Parker is generally admitted to be a nonentity in his party a tool of Hill, Sheehan and others and what he says counts for little, but it is different when Mr. Cleveland talks. He is the oracle of the Eastern Democracy, and if be says Bryan is insane it is certain be voices tbe sentiments of sane Democracy. IIow can the Bryanitea indorse snch a slander on their leader by supporting Parker? Mr. Cleveland declined to vote for Bryan on the ground that the Nebraskan was insane, but he will vote for Parker, because be leads the sane Democracy ticket An important point seems to have been forgotten by Mr. Cleveland. Parker voted twice for tbe Nebraska lunatic and was therefore one of the host of madmen who composed insane" Democracy. Does Mr. Cleveland improve his position by new supporting one of the madmen who Demvoted for the leader of "insane ocracy? Mr. Cleveland's thrnst at Bryan was uncalled for, and will, no doubt, be resented at the polls, for the friends of Mr. Bryan do not think he should be put in the atraitjacket class. n, 8UILDINS HOME It Example of the Working of Re cent National Irrigation Act HIGHEST DAM IN THE WORLD i Gigantic Reclamation Work ia Arizona How Irrigation Fund U Created and How It Will Be Used End leas Chain of Arid Mooey. lion. Alexander O. Brodie, Governor of Arizoua, in an article on Irrigation, appearing in the October number of tbe Cosmopolitan, referring to tbe operations of tbo National Irrigation Act iu tbe arid regions of the West, saya in part: The first application of the new Irrigation law lias fallen to the territory of Arizona. Three million of dollars have been aet aside by the Secretary of the luterior from tbe reclamation fund for the construction of a da in at the mouth of the Touto creek on Salt river. Work npou this dam is now under way. Cement works to manufacture the cement needed iu the Construction of the great dam are being built, also an electrical power plant. The river ia being diverted by the construction of a tunnel through the mountain in order thnt there shall be no interference from tbat source during construction. immense Reservoir. The Tonto reservoir, wiicn created by the construction of tie dam, will cover 14.000 acres. The height of the dam will be 245 feet and the depth of the water stored at the dain will be 190 feet; the dam will be 165 feet thick at the bottom and 16 feet thick at the top. In length it will be 200 feet at the base and C53 feet at the top. This will be the highest dam in the world. The storwill be age capacity of the reservoir greater than thnt of almost any three artificial reservoirs ever built, .sufficient to cover 1,300,000 acres of laud oue foot in depth. The reservoir will supply water sufficient to irrigate 250.000 acres of land. There are in Salt River Valley about 260.000 acres of land suitable ior irrigation. Under the present system of uncertain water supply, only 115,000 acres are under cultivation more land, however, than the supply of water warrants. It was estimated that the flow of water last year would bring a full yield of crops from about 75,000 acres. Crons Always Care. The benefits to accrue in Salt River Valley can thus readily be seen. When we consider that from four to seven cuttings of alfalfa are possible during the yeur in tbe Salt River Valley, what will be the yield made certain by water stored and ready for use under the conditions created by the Tonto dam? With the certainty of pasturage in the valley, cattlemen will engage more extensively in stock raising; hay, grain and vegetables will seek an open new market in the interior mining districts, and thousands of farms will become more profitable. It is estimated that a million and a half dollars worth of alfalfa liny and fat cattle are exported from Salt River Valley annually. With a full crop Ex- - President Clevelands Failure, of from 200,009 to 230.000 acres, the Cleveland is an unimagcapacity' of alfalfa inative man. and for this, and other good alone will be sufficient to pay for the reasons, his recent magazine article entitled Why a Young Man Should Vote reservoir in less time than is allotted by the Democratic Ticket, Lj short, point- laws to the farmers. I have felt that the creation of the less and unconvincing. reservoir is but the forerunner It takes a good deal of fervid fancy, Tonto and a knack for invention, to construct of further systems of water storage in an argument npon a theme like that. Mr. aid of irrigation in Arizona; that eventCleveland was evidently ill at ease with ually upon ail streams in the territory bis subject. Probably few young men where proper sites can be found, irrigathat will read the article, anyway, and no one tion works will be constructed; where the flood water supply is found will be influenced by it. The young men of America live In the sufficient to guarantee, more than one present, and hope for the future. They reservoir will be created upon a single do not care to be even holding post- stream in order that the control of ail mortems on dead issues, nor to spend surplus wnter may be had. The new era of progress in the arid their days holding back the wheels of acregion of the United States has set in tion and progress. The young men of the United States with an enthusiasm that means success; are alive. And they will vote the Repub- for as Emerson wrote, Nothing great was ,'er achieved without enthusiasm. lican ticket this fail. wealth-producin- The Work of Democracy. By their works shall ye know them. By what single work are the American people to know tbat the Democratic party can be safely intrusted with power? There is not a single distinctive policy of the party that, put to the test, ever worked without creating damage. The Democratic party has favored slavery, free silver and free trade, but never a single principle has it ever favored that meant greater happiness and prosperity for the American people. The Republican party freed the slaves, it has stood and still stauds for sound money and protection to American industries. It is tbe party of construction, not the party of destruction. 1 the amsasl estimate accras to tbla fund from th ale of public land duriag th axt twenty-fiv- e year is based at bstwsva $k).0xus0 snd $73,000,000. Father of National Irrlgatlea. Under the caption, Roosevelt la It." tbe GurhiiiJ Guard, published at Gar- WEST that g It may thus be seen by the slight reference to this one project, what the government is already doing in the arid States of the West. There are about $27,000,000 now in the reclamation fund, as a result of the sale of government lands in the arid States, where irrigation operations are to be established. It takes but little stretch of the imagination to perceive the incalculable benefits destined to come to Arid America during the next quarter of a century uuder the operations of this wholesome American project. will land, Big Horn Couuty, Wyoming, among other thing says: Although Mr, Muodeit, Senator Warren aud Senator Newiumla and other deserve credit for what they did In Congress, ull their efforts in behalf ef the National Irrigation Act would have failed had it nut been for the fact that lresideut Roosevelt championed legiala-tio- n of this kind fur the benefit of the arid region, lie recommended in hi first mem. age to Congress t he enactment of such a law, and it was bis Indorsement more thnn anything elsq which secured approval for it amoug th New atom ami Representatives from tbe Ease Wb.it chance ran any Dcmoerat think this men hu re would have liad if Mr. Cleveland, instead of' President Roosevelt, Imd been in th White House at the time it was pending in Congress? It was Mr. Cleveland who spoke of eom of the Ear Western State ns undealrsbl Communities, aud it la well known tbst with tiiis port of the country he had Be It was tbe intliienc of sympathy. Roosevelt, who lived in tbe West and knew ita needs, that secured a favorable heating fur tbe proposition end resulted at last in the passage of th bill under which nationel reclamation work is now progressing. Therefor President Roosevelt is the father of tb National Irrigation Law. 1 rrlixatlon Part In Civilisation. In some parts of the country have stated to the people that th question of irrigation ia comparatively new. This statement is wholly untrn. Irrigation is as old as the human race. Agriculture Is the most ancient art of which we have auy record. It wae th beginning of civilization. The first agriculture was accomplished through irrigation. It was commenced, according to scientists who have sought the record of primitive man, under conditions of great aridity, and the civilized cities ef the ancients were either on the edge of, or in, the desert. Tbe earliest civilization of America has indelibly stamped its impress on Arizona and New Mexiy are to be ftiund th co, where remains of the cities and great irrigation works which flourished thousands of years before Columbus discovered America. Almost all the ancient civilization which history records were based upoo pracirrigation, aud irrigation fa y ticed by more than half the people in th world. Under the workings of the National Irrigation Act it is estimated that what is now the arid West can be mad to anpport 80.000.000 of people. Fre-ide- polllifi-cin- to-dn- DEMOCRATS WITH THE TRUSTS. The Showing Mad When a Vote Wae Taken In the Hnne. , The present laws which place wholesome restrictions on tbe trusts were put on the statutes by the Republican party and not by tbe Democratic party. Loudly as the Democrats have always talked against the trusts, and seriously as. they have from time to time awakened apprehension in all business circles by their threats that they would destroy all largo corporations whether good or bad, yet never once have the Democrats accomplished or even aided in the accomplishment of, any salutary effort to control the trusts along lines of public safety. The rulings of the Supreme Court having shown thnt as the constitution now stnnds, Congress can only regulate trust engaged in interstate commerce, the following amendment was introduced in the House of Rcpresentatees and pressed to a vote on June 1, 1900: Section 1. All powers conferred by this article shall extend to the several State, the territories, the District of Columbia, and all territory under the sovereignty and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Section 2. Congress shall have power to define, regulate, eoutrol, prohibit, or dissolve trusts, monopolies or combination whether existing in the form of a combination or otherwise. The several States may continue to exercise such power In any manner not ill conflict with the laws of tb United States. Section 3. Congress shall have power t enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation. The clause saving all rights of State was inserted in the hope of inducing State-r- : ;lits Democrats to support th amendment. Nevertheless, tbe vote stood 148 Republicans for and 130 Democrats against, and the measure failed of th necessary majority. LOUDLY AS TOE DEMOCRATS TALKED. WHEN IT CAME TO A two-thir- VOTE THEY WERE FOR THB TRUSTS, NOT AGAINST THEM. x JwiiiK Low. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Swing low over New York and New Jersey and Rhode Island. We know you will swing low enough to brush the clover blossoms, but we want just to remind you that it is your business for the good of tb United States and for the good of th world that you swing low enough to inExplanation of Irrigation Fnnl. We frequently see mentioned in pa- sure a Republican success in the State pers not thoroughly informed on tiiis just named: Swing low, Sweet Chariotl" subject, that such and such a fund has And we know you will swing! been set aside for reclaiming the arid In Full Eruption. West Other publications, equally ignoOutposts Aronnd Mukden, Mont Pelee is again in full eruption, rant of the true status, bewail the fact They are getting close in New York. and so is Senator Tillman of South Caroof that the entire the United people There is no question about that, and ob lina. States are to be taxed for the benefit which ever side the outposts Rre, they And the world goes round and round of the sparsely populated West Both have got in, politically. Thats all right. And the sun sinks into the sea, And whether Mont Pelee, or Tillman, positions are untenable and are equally They are past the underbrush and they widely divergent of the facts pertain- are close together. The political grapple bursts, will be a fierce one, but it can go but ing to tbe situation as it exists. It matters little to me! one way. The vote on Manhattan Island Again let it be said for the informaof all interested, and all who care cannot overcome the vote of the farmuIf nr opponent come into power tion to become interested, thrt no definite or ers and thinkers. New York they can revoke this order Pension order No. 78 and annonnee that they specific amount of mone has been voted wiU go Republican. will t eat the veteran of sixty two to by Congress for the ret Vnation of the The Mclnnchnly Dny. seventy aa presumably in full bodily arid West. The act pr ides that all The melancholy days have come, the visror and not entitled to pensions. moneys received from th. sale of pubsaddest of the year. Will they aow authoritatively state lic lands in the thirteen St tes and three that they intend to do this? If so, we Territories described are vo be turned When D. B. Hills machinery is sadly Ml of gear, accept the isane. If not, then we have into the fund for irrigation purposes, less When Parker finds thgt Esopus is where the right to ask why they raise an 5 per cent. isane which, when raised, they do not hell have to stay Easy to Own a Home. venture te meet. Boose veltt letter of a The Act further provides that the land And when no longer they will let Ub eeptance. shall be sold to actual occupants, who Henry Gnssaway., Having monkeyed with Roosevelt-isr- a shall return to the government, in ten It looks as if the croalcers who ar until they found the buzz saw, the equal annual installments, the cost of bringing water to the land: that if the foretelling ruin to the Republican ticket Democrats are now tempting the iu New York State were badly scared by reviving the cry that Protec- reclamation of a body of 100,000 acres of without being able to tell what scared $1,000,000, of $10 per tion is robbery. Eight years ago the land should cost them. New York will go for Roosevelt workingmen of this country decided that acre, then the actual occupant would be and with no uncertainty will its verdict protection is a blessing, and they have expected to reimburse to Uncle Sam the be favgiven. Roosevelt is New York $10 per acre in ten equal annual installnot changed their minus. orite son. ments of $1 per acre each. A Democratic national victory is inAfter ten years the entire amount exIf there is a citizen of the United variably followed by distrust and conpended in the construction of reservoirs, States anywhere who has too much busifusion in business, and by policies tbat dams and irrigation systems generally ness aim too much employment, and cripple the great industries on which will return again to the treasury of the longs for the that prevailed No United States, and can thus be sent out from 1803 workingmen depend for support. to he Ca;i contribute to such party should be entrusted with again on its fructifying mission of phi- that end bv I860, voting the Democratic ticket power. lanthropy aud home building. Meantime this year. e. fool-kill- -I i-- |