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Show DAILY 4 FRANK J. CANNON, EDITOR. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET For PreiuJent ALTON B. PARKER For of New York. Vice-Preside- nt HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia. AN INSTRUCTIVE LETTER. e situation knowledge on the Colonel from in the letter which is presented E. F. Holmes of Salt Lake City. Colonel and Mrs. Holmes, both cultured and thoughtful people, traveled recently around the world and made some very interesting and shrewd observations upon the countries which they visited. Particularly they studied Russia and Japan; for no traveler in the Orient could fail to realize the imminency of war between these two nations, or fail to be attracted by the poetic art of Japan and the tremendous awakening power of Russia. It is complimentary to this journal that Colonel Holmes takes the view which has been expressed in this, paper from the beginning of the present conflict: That the ready and alert Japanese would make the first appearances of victory; and that once the mighty power of Russia should be uncoiled, the Japanese could be crushed. That the news which reaches us is not entirelv authentic; and that civilization would be greatly advanced and our national and international interests served by a dominance of Russia rather than Japan in the far east. The public may thank Colonel Holmes for one of the most succinct and able presentations which has been made of this question. We have taken the liberty of printing his letter in full, although it was addressed personally to the editor, believing that we will not offend the Colonel and that our readers will be interested and instructed by his views, which throw a brilliant light upon the Russo-Japanes- m The Salt Lake Herald manager is well acquainted with Charles Warren Fairbanks. Both of the two distinguished gentlemen hail from the same state. We have not read the comments of the Republican nominee on Mr. Iglehart, but we assume that they would be as interesting if not as humorous as the remarks made by Mr. Iglehart concerning Mr. Fairbanks as follows: vice-president- ial "It is announced with something of a flourish of trumpets that Senator Fairbanks is coming west and going east on a tour of the country, during which he will make Prespeeches for the Republican ticket. to senator is sound the the sumably, keynotes for the party as he goes along, and the national committee is evidently pleased over the prospect. A pleasant personal acquaintance with the gentleman from Indiana leads us to hail the announcement with quite as much pleasure as his own party managers. If there ever was a frosty spellbinder, the Indiana senator is it. The White river doesnt exactly freeze over when he is at home in Indianapolis during the summer, but there is an unconfirmed report in the Hoosier capital that a sheet of thin ice forms along the street in front of his house every time the sprinkler passes that way. So common is the belief in his success as a human refrigerator that Hoosiers jestingly call him Senator Icebanks, and wear mittens when they shake hands with him. With the cold wave that has already struck his party east of the Mississippi he will, of course, lie entirely at home, particularly when he reaches New York. Here in the arid West, however, where the people like to warm up to a man and see some signs of temperature about him, his appearance is waited with more or less trepidation by the A scholarly speech, such as Republicans. the senator always delivers', is a good thing, but a few heart-to-hea- rt talks with more or less fervor about them would fit the situation better. If another chunk of ice is mixed in with the Republican situation in Utah, for instance, the demand for Brother Cutlers blankets may be improved somewhat, but the party itself is likely to have a chill that will put it into a comatose condition for some time to come. Still, Senator Fairbanks may count on a cordial reception from the Democrats here who know him. The oftener he comes and the longer he stays, the better theyll be suited. There are seventeen postoflices Roosevelt. Ten of them are in the This is a good thing, for it will help the real issue Roosevelt before the Democracy. named South. to keep people. AUGUST THURSDAY, 18, 1904. iZJOQOQDm ah EXCfcSS Of. $ gUOQOflof QyiR EXPENDITURES self-evide- nt T)W?1NC Mz-fONLh- i5 TlQinf including 'SPANISH WAQ) AND nt EXCEEDING COSTOP SECOND CLimfflD'S 'JZQM BY S220.000.0oo PLANS FOQ ojdcanizinA j.oop.000 YowQmn 15 ytABS ANXT Of-AC- E WTO SHOOTING clubs w connection WITH WAQ VEPT THIS TOfOQM OASIS fOQ Q2EAT STANDINC Ami chief-of-staf- e. WHEN UNCLE 8AM I GO TO THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER, HERE ARE 80ME THINGS I WONT FORGET. n. THINKS JAPAN BROUGHT ON THE CONFLICT j Views of the State Journal are Endorsed by E. P. Holmes. ur "To IGLEHART ON FAIRBANKS. JOURNAL. "Speaking of age, says the Anaconda Standard "and there has recently been a good deal of speaking on this topic what constitutes age, any way? Some there be who measure age in years; this is manifestly wrong; its an old axiom that a man is as old as he feels. Nobody has ever successfully truth. Acceptcontradicted this ing it, then, as a standard for estimating age, is the Republican candidate for about twice as old as the man who has the second place on the Democratic ticket and who will today receive the official notification of his nomination. "Measured by his habits and his physique. Senator Fairbanks is many years the senior of Senator Davis; the one is cold, reserved and dyspeptic and the other is active, energetic and hearty. When it comes to talking about old men, the Republicans have something of an antiquity on their own ticket. The popular conception of Senator Fairbanks is that he is very much of an icicle; hes a frosty proposition; he's not the sort of man to warm things up. "And, again, speaking of old men, it is the old men who are doing things in the eastern war these days. Field Marshal Oyama, of the Japanese forces the commander-in-chie-f in the field, is sixty-tw- o years old and his f, Baron Kodama, is nearing sixty. Kuroki is more than sixty, Oku is well past fifty and Noduzu is sixty-threMarquis Yamagata, the man who is credited with planning the Japanese campaign, is nearly seventy. The average age of the Japanese generals, measured in years, is fifty-seve"Opposed to these men, the Russians have men whose years are fewer in number. General Kuropatkin, the oldest of those in the field, is only fifty-foyears of age. The old fellows seem to be getting the best of it right along; this is evidently an old mans year, accepting the term, of course, in its common significance as indicating the number of years a mau has lived and not as indicating his true 99 age. vice-preside- That is a notable contribution to public STATE SOME MORE OLD MEN. UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. UTAH my mind, says Democratic National Committeeman T. E. Ryan to Democracy, of New York city, all attempts to bring the Republican factions together in Wisconsin will be worse than hopeless. In the mandamus case, brought on the part of the Spooner Stalwart faction to compel the La Follette secretary of state to place the Stalwart ticket on the official ballot, a decision cannot be expected much before September 1st. While the Spooner faction has practically agreed to abide by the court decision and to stop fighting if the case goes against them, the La Follette people are determined to fight to the end. Nine of the electors, who are the same on both tickets, have openly declared themselves as La Follette men, and say they will refuse to run if they go on the bailot with the This has caused Spooner state ticket. another outbreak of feeling, and all of the office holders and Republican office seekers, whose jobs, actual and prospective, are in peril, are While vainly striving to effect harmony. the Republican national leaders pretend that the fight ismerely over the state ticket, and will not affect the presidential electors, this is not so. A feeling has been created which cannot tie checked or confined. One side or the other is going to be bitter on election day, and this will be revealed in the vote beyond all question. - Former Senator Charles A. Towxe, Al Japan can do, and note the differEditor Utah State Journal: though not of your political faith nor ence. We go among the Russians and believing in the doctrine you advocate generally, still I cannot but admire the And them like ourselves, Jolly good fearlessness with which you advocate people; they love art and good music, that In which you believe, and par- - wear clothes like ourselves, sit on tlcularly is this true of your views chairs at table like ourselves, eat proper effort we can win.. I y conn-trie-s, remembering, too. that nearijr suitable food,, using knife, fork . spoon, as we, do; they have a Chris- that would not oppose our enforce- -' Monroe tian religion; It may not be the exact ment of the Tours truly. form that you or I would prefer, but I E. F. HOLMES. hundreds of millions of people beSalt Lake. Aug. 15, 1904. and thousands of millions of money. lieve in it. It is ns reasonable to conA great wrong was doubtless done the demn the great Roman Catholic rebrave Japanese people, when the great ligion, the two systems are so slml- SERIOUS WASHOUTS. powers of Europe took from that lar. Very early in the war I nearly pre- Union Pacific and Southern Pacific country the fruits of her victory In concerning the present war between Japan and Russia, which seems to me to be entirely unwarranted and uncalled for, and will result in the loss of probably a quarter million of lives ed the late war with China, and Japan has steadily prepared ever since that time to regain that of which she was then deprived, and she was eager to begin the present conflict and falling In one excuse for opening' the war would have sought another, and was entirely prepared for the conflict. Russia, who is working out great problems In the interest of the human race, desires and must have an open sea port, such as the Dalny Port Arthur terminus of the great railway system. She is denied the desired outlet at the Baltic in the north, and the Black sea In the south; she tried Vladivostock In the Far East but the winter port proved Impracticable for several months of the year. She entered the Manchurian Tracks Damaged by Floods dicted what has happened; that the Japanese having been nearly ten Several serious washouts occurred years preparing for this conflict which on both the Southern Paclflc and they had forced whether or no, would Paclflc railroads within the put be able to utilise their entire army Union hours and consequently twenty-foand navy strength at the very outon these roads have been dall trains set, while Russia, quite unprepared, and with internal troubles of her own, elayed. were Yesterday two heavy washouts would be late in the field, and for the between this city and Hena first year of the war would meet seri- reported on the Southern Paclflc, as the result ous reverses, and the second year of severe rains. The damage would be entirely victorious. soon repaired, however, and trains I also predicted that the first real- were retarded for only a few hours. province under treaty and proceeded to develop that country as no other nation could or would do. Land values were doubled or trebled all along that line .when law and order were made to prevail and the advancement trip around, the world, that there would be required a garrison of 0 to defend and 250,000 to overcome it. Prohably neither side In the present conflict has this quota of men, but doubtless' about the same ratio ns Trans-Siberi- an ice-bou- ur ly great battle of this war would be fought late this season upon the plains about Mukden; that Port Arthur would fall after a long Beige. When there a year ago we drove one entire afternoon among and around their principal forts and fortifications, and I have recorded In my notes of a 100.-00- Another and more serious washout occurred on the Union Paclflc nr Castle Rock in Echo canyon, the result of a cloudburst. east at No. 4, which started 7:30 last evening, got only far as Uintah when word was received the train concerning the flood, and to return. It then was compelled Short started north over the Oregon here due la which Line at 8:40. No. 3, at 8:30 a. m- - arrived at 8:30 via Tbe damage, although of a nature, has been repaired and has been resumed. trs I Aa usual our show this In live years than the previous hunWe are, as you say, largely indebted of as it consists dreds of years. Through their Influ- to England for the great amount of the highest qualltr, standing. performers of the highest cents. ence it was possible to travel and do in to Russia 10 regard t Utahna Park. Admlslson business where formerly the Manchuand the war, and the cause of this Is, Bertoto. . rian robbers and marauding hordes of course, easily found; anything that Don't fall to see Millie the of ruled the country., besides furnishing will weaken England's enemy Is EngFlexible Venus. a sister In surpassed not Ingress and egress to that great Si- land's gain, and that country will sup- Ferry. She is Part berian couiytry.the extent of which our port plucky little Japan with words world in her work.-Uta- hna 10 cents. own great western country Is small and and money, but she will not fight for In comparison. insignificant TO ADVERTISERS. What her. Does she ever fight her anybody would we think; what would any na- slxe? To be sure she did with a tion think If our country was con- quarter million men and live hunfined to that part east of the Sierra dred millions of treasure, after Nevada, if to get our outlet to the two a half years. wipe and great Paclflc coast we had to work out that brave little Boer nanorth to Alaska? All creation couldn't tion with scarce 60,000 men and boy have kept us out of San Francisco. fighters.' Just now she Is telling us Let any one who' has seen a mod- that blood Is thicker than water; she ern Russian city, ns they are being needs us In her business and we are The attitude of the New York Sun toward Judge Parker reminds us of what Lo Farr said when he was threatened with a new r. Someone asked, "How will you like her, Lo?" And Lo replied: "I believe I will like her better than I think I built today, compare will. the best that China, step-mothe- on consider-abl- always Russia has been friendly to us' from the days of the great Cither- Ine and it Is the one country id d and Europe that is not jealous of us who recently visited several Western states, reports to Democracy that he found the situa- In Christian civilisation was greater above. tion everywhere encouraging, and believes In that with a united effort in all the doubtful states the party will win. "What we need now, says Mr. Towne, "is union of effort. We want not merely lip service, but heart service. I found the situation in Indiana splendid. Every one there is buoyant. I believe we have an excellent chance there. Democrats at many of the places where I have been believe that we will win easily. I do not believe it an easy fight, but I think that by such length, but I feel strongly the subject, having traveled and read much of those the same with willing to play the tall to her kite. Korea and even Excuse me for having written at s advertising copy must evlous evening to Insure e next day. All HOUSE WIRING Those Lite be I Men |