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Show DAILY STATE UTAH JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK CANNON. EDITOR. I. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET For Fraident ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Wednesday, September Ai.ixaxdbb Is In no danger from any power of Europe. All the nations of the are watching one another, afraid of each other, and Infinitely more In dread of us, the terrifying American Peril than we could possibly be of them. Not one of them would dream of adding a war with us to its other dangers, If we gave It a chance to escape. If we could stand against England without great armaments ninety years ago, when we had but eight million people, what have we to fear now with eighty millions and .eight hundred times the fesources and iiower for war?" Old World f BIGGEST AND BEST IS THE GREAT 44 OUT WEST. much hus been said during election years about the "disproportionate Influence of the West In political matters" by reason of the fact that each state hus two senators, regardless of Its population, that there la a Ko special significance In an article published In Ihe current number of the Hd s M orw nmgaxine In review of the growth and development of the country this side of the Mississippi. The review declares that the section of the United States west of the Mississippi Is to all Intents and purposes the equal in power to all the rest of the country and presents figures to supiiort the assertion. There ore twenty states and four territories west of the Mississippi; they contain slxty-liv- e per cent of the country's area, have thirty-tw- o per cent of the railway mileage and thirty-fou- r per cent of the country's wealth. In congress their representatives In the lower house cast thirty e per cent of the total vote, and In the senate per cent. Surely, with the showing that they make, this vote not "disproportionate." Rut there are additional figures that show even more emphatically the Importance of the West. In agriculture, this section of the country produces half the nation's total; In live stock. It produces more than half; In mineral production, the West's portion is more than The East, of course, excels In the amount of Its stored wealth and In the total of Ita manufactures, but the showing made In this latter line Is surprisingly good; the west produces twenty per cent of the manufactures of the forty-fiv- three-fourth- s. country. And each year finds the West more closely pressing the East In the extent of Its national influence; each year finds the center of population a little farther westward than It was the year before: each year finds the agricultural empire of the West increasing in extent and productiveness. IMihln twenty years, land values have Increased more than one hundred per cent In the West, while they have declined In the East. It is only a question of time when the majority of congressmen will come from these western states and It Is more than likely that we will be the furnishing presidents before long: we have beaten Ohio at Ihe wool business ami the production of presidents is her prlnc!al remaining Industry. reading the following, one tnay well ask. "Do the trusts pay for protection?" The New York American on August 28th published an astonishing story concerning the contributions of the trust to the campaign fund of the Republican party. That newspuper asserted, upon what it claimed wns unquestionable Republican authority, that Ihe Standard Oil company had donated $1,000,000 and J. rierimnt Morgan had given $200,000. It also announced that the members of the Union League dub of New York had contributed $100,000 to the fund. In regard to these trust contributions. alleged to have been made, the American quotes Its Informant as saying: Morgans enmity to Roosevelt ended with the apof hi. pointment firm as fiscal banking for agent the purchase of the $40,000,000 Panama canal. The $730,000 pledged by the Steel and Iron Trust s. nol difficult to exact after the Chicago convention. Kvs. Mgr. Jos. Pilgrim and Louis Elliotts Phenomenally Popular and Successful Melodrama R.,id.,, Monday, September 19th AN IDYLLIC PASTORAL CREATION AN ORPHANS PRAYER BY THE PETITE Nettie De Coursev A LAUGH, THEN 4 MASSIVE FOR HER SAKE FAULT LE S3 SUPPORTNG A TEAR- -A ACTS-ENT- IRE HEART THROB, THEN PRODUCTION CARRIED SALE OF SEATS BEGINS SATURDAY AT PHONE NO. 241-CURTAIN PRICES 75c. 50c. AND 25c BOX SEATS u 9 A X i-- 3 "P $l!oo A Flawless Play Founded on Truth Massive and Masterly Reproductions! Supremely Novel Scenic and Spectacular Effects! WORLD POWER. Considering your Intelligence and your knowledge of American history, your attitude seems a mystery. IVhat can be Its explanation? Whut can be the purpose of all these shrieks for a mighty army and navy, these frenzied denunciations of cowards, weaklings' and cravens, who sordidly mind their own business Instead of flying to arms, with no discernible provocation; these frantic wavlngs of the mailed fist In the faces of the nations? The spectacle Is extraordinary and bewildering. The 21 Cost, GRAND OPERA Houq? DIRECTION NORTHWESTERN THEATRIC. 77 R. ALEXANDER GRANT. LSOCITI0R, AND AN ABSOLUTELY For District Judge: HENRY H. ROLAPP. For District Attorney: ALBERT G. HORN. "You tell us that under your leadership we have Just become a world What were we pardon the personal allualon more than a genpower. eration before you were born, when, with only ten million people and Insignificant armaments, we flung the Monroe doctrine Into the teeth of the Holy Alliance? B. inrectloa Northwestern Theatrical Auocistiou JUDICIAL TICKET. Second District. laid. After - GRAND OPERA HOUSE DEMOCRATIC Joseph Pulitzer, In the New York World, reminds Mr. Roosevelt that we were a "world power" before his accldewy was born. In an open letter he says: The assurance with which you, Mr. President, born In 18G8, assume to have discovered the United States and its policies la even more astoundthemselves. You tell us that the Monroe doctrine will ing than the polk-iebe an object of derision unless we have a mighty navy. The Monroe doctrine was thirty-liv- e years old when you were born, and doing remarkably ever as since. You tell uh that without a still newer, still It h;.s well, bigger navy we must definitely make up our minds to accept a secondary position, not only in political but In commercial matters. When you cut your first tooth we had the greatest merchant marine in the world greater even than Knglund's and our navy was Insignificant. Our mercantile shipping on blue water hus steudily declined under the restrictive policies you favor, and it is smaller now than It was when the first keel of the new navy wus country president, promising no tinkering with the tariff office which may well power, absolutism and imperialism in ihe executive elected If do not president and make the country ask what might he by any promise of conservatism? For Treasurer: l: 44 19, 1904. Here Is something worth thinking about, from the New York Herald: been presumably under the "During the last three years Mr. Roosevelt has of the man he succeeded by restraint of his promise to carry out the iwiicy accident. In these circumstances he has given an exhibition of one nyin W. B. WILSON. Superintendent of Publie Instruction: NATHAN T. PORTER. For Justico of Supremo Court: CHARLES S. VARIAN. GRANT C. BAGLEY. For Auditor: J. W. GEIGER. WE ARE A SEPTEMBER MONDAY, JOURNAL, Vice-Praide- nt DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For Presidential Electors: FRED J. KIESEL SAMUEL NEWHOUSE EDWARD H. SNOW, For Representative in Congress: ORLANDO W. POWERS. For Governor: JAITE8 H. MOYLE. For Sot stary of State: LEVI N. HARMON. Attorney-Genera- 8TATE with the approval of lb 'except by iia friends.' HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia. For UTAH A Company of Unequaled Merit ! SEATS NOW ON SALE Prices, 73c. SOc and 25c. Box seats, $1.00. Phone 241-- Curtain at 8:30 sharp. X. WHAT FOR? Why, for the LOOK UUTHplI Armor Meat Market IVe are selling meat at reduced prices and onlyHANDLE THE BEST. Try us and be convinced. Fresh fish and oysters, fresh butter and eggs, always on band. 334 TWENTY-FIFT- H DO THE PEOPLE PHONE STREET. DEMAND A CHANGE? (Communicated.) During the campaign of 1898 It developed that the then Democratic incumbent! of the county courthouse had who were seeking been in office from two and four to six and eight years, and the cry went out, Let's Clean Out the Courthouse! Since then we have had practically the same thing over again until the faces seen there have become an eye-sor- e, and people from all ovr the county are saying that they are tired of staring them In the face. Indeed, It has become so that no one, who Is not one of them, who does not belong to the dynasty that la, dares to aspire to a position In the courthouse. What Is there about a county office that causes one who has been fortunate enough to be elected once to desire and deforever more? Do mand a they become too lazy for honest work? Is It a snap too tempting to let go? Isnt eight years sufficient for a Chambers, and a Hanson, and a Hollingsworth, who now dictates, or attempts to dictate, the naming of his successor? Isn't six years unintersufficient for an rupted office-holdiEllis and a Dlx? Four years for a be Stanford? How much will required for a Bailey or for a Powers and their successors who may be elected when they die? Is it not about time that some other deserving and capable people should have a chance? If not, why not elect these Incum bents for life and save these biennial elections and conventions, and permit unsuccessful aspirants to save their money, and also save to the county the useless expenditure of large sums of money spent for registrations and elections? If a dynasty is to be had, let's have It and have It ut once and be done once and for all. If not, let the courthouse be cleaned out again as a warning to all that four years of office-holdiby one lierson demands a change and a quisk one at that Chambers. Chambers. Chambers. Where have we heard that name before? Isn't It a sweet and choice mor-s- al to chew upon? How smoothly It rolls about one's mouth before one hears Its sweetness from the lips. Oh, yes. In the county treasurer's office and all around the county courthouse. No, perhaps In the city council chamber and all around the city hall. No! Then In the police station and all around the city JaiL No! Then around the deaf and dumb and blind school. No! The reform school. Xo! The street commissioner's office. Verily like a dream wherever In Weber county one may go but one sound Is heard, and wherever public office or favor is to be had the echo goes forth: "Chambers. too much Chambers: Chambers!" It is ridiculous to see the antics of the Hanson et al. ring, just now making overtures to the Kearns-Well- s crowd to cofne and Join them in a caucus and to divide the offices between Ihe two fictions. Really, how funny! Who Is to lie thrown out of the courthouse ring? The Kearns-Well- s factions are too wist to go Into a convention and then be compelled to vote for a ticket in which they had no in the making, and thus honorahlv say be compelled to support it. Xn. The Democratic ticket will be good this year for nil who stand forenough independence In politics. ng Beautiful Women. Flump cheeks, flushed with the soft glow of health and a pure make all women beautiful. complexion, Take a small dose of Herblne after each meal' It will prevent constipation and help digest what you have eaten. SOc. Mrs. Wtn. M. Stroud, Midlothian. Texas, writes. May 31. 1901: "We have used Herblne In our family for eight and found It the best medicineyear, we ever used fo constipation, bilious fever and malaria." For sale by Geo. F. Cave. 16-- Go to the Rose Book and Stationery Co. for complete etock of Tablets; Note and Composition Books, and all Text Books for the Weber Stake Academy. The program during the coming week at the Pastime Theater praises to surpass anything ever seen in the house. The great illusionist, has been secured and his act Is said to excel even anything done bj Hermann. The latter uses mirrors to successfully accomplish his trick while Travelle usee no accessories whatever. It Is well styled the most mysterious act on earth. Everything Is dost on a while background with the strongest calcium light it Is pniMf to throw upon the stage, and Travelle offers $500 to any one who will sobs its mystery. e, Mrs. S. E. Lyon cordially Invitee ladles to her grand millinery opening; September 20th, 21st and 22d. 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