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Show tRUtH. 2 working to this end. Mr. Newhouse, the new candidate for senator on the Democratic ticket, is spending money freely on the promise of Bob Sloan to make him senator. If Mr. Newhouse knew the men who are pulling his leg" for contributions to the Democratic cause, and where the money went, he would contribute less. Bob Sloan and George Blair have ever had a joint want for contributions. J J IF YOU HAVE NOT; YET REGISTERED, YOU HAD BETTER DO SO. IF YOU DON'T, YOU CANT VOTE. THE NEXT REGISTRATION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOV. 1, AND THE LAST DAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2. Utah is not the only place where the Democratic National committee is attempting to gain a victory by aiding and abetting a mongrel ticket, which is expected to draw votes from the Republicans. The game, it appears, is being worked in Chicago. The following is from the Chicago While the alleged independent canInter-Ocea- n: didacy of George L. Knox, a colored barber, for congress in this district is considered in the light of a joke in this county, the impression seems to have gone out over the state that Congressman Overstreets interests may be In jeopardy. While Mr. Overstreet, who is compelled by his duties as secretary of the congressional campaign committee to remain in New York until about October 25, and his local managers are not worried, they see in Knoxs candidacy a scheme of National Chairman Taggart. He is bending all his efforts, through his lieutenants in Marion county and a lavish expenditure of money, to harass the Republican county and legislative tickets,- and there are a few people who do not believe he was directly responsible for Knox becoming a candidate. Knox yesterday denied a report that Taggart had paid him $5,000 cash to announce his candidacy. Nearly in every reputable colored Republican Marion county has indorsed Over-streecandidacy, and as the situation now stands, Knox will not be able to wad a shotgun with the ballots cast for him on election day. ts J Jl IF YOU HAVE NOT YET REGISTERED, YOU HAD BETTER DO SO. IF YOU DONT, YOU CANT VOTE. THE NEXT REGISTRATION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOV. 1, AND THE LAST DAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2. PENAL SETTLEMENT OF SPAIN. . Government of Ceutra Corrupt as Wat That of Cuba. On the Spanish section of Moro- coast line stands the penal settle-- , ment of Ceuta, writes a traveler. It nas a large number of .soldiers, a huge convict prison and legions of small boys, who mobbed me when 1 was last there because they did not approve of my English hat and limited Spanish vocabulary. Now, the governors of Ceuta prison draw rations for every convict in their charge, so, from their point of view, it is no bad thing for a oonvict to escape. So long as he la on the books he Is entitled to rations, even though he has shaken from off his feet the dust of the great gray prison on the hillside. Consequently, g goes a good hit of this on and c rontless Spanish convicts ess cape to Tetiian and Tangier, in Moorish garb. They are safe from ' pursuit when the sentries are ccos dust-shakin- some-time- passed' 4 jolicy. He does not content himself facL anon-par- . in was, It solution? NATIONAL POLITICAL SITUATION. which however, with throwing doubt upon solution-o- ne tisan, patriotic, would have given almost the Democratic tariff position, but pro either party Review to present the subject in the The political article in the to have been able to claim ceeds of his anything reown present views. He Truth of ight of Reviews, a part of which for itself as a party triumph. Oneevi- believes in the maintenance of the produced in Monday's issue, was quite the best things about it was the people of this proectivo policy, and in the rearrange-men- t lengthy. Today we publish a further dence it gave that the of schedules as conditions re. that so party-boun- d not are country as follows: of it portion makes a stout-hearte- d arcannot from time to time act to- quire. He they to show that the gument Letter. Presidents The development gether sensibly in the accomplishment has been due to the The character of the work Uncle of a benificent plan. It was the pub- of agriculture Sam has been carrying on, and the re- lic opinion of the country, Democratic growth of our varied industries under system, ana that the sults that he has undertaken to secure as well as Republican, that supported the protective as well as the wage earner is 'armer for the expenditure of his money, are President Roosevelt in the honest, set forth with a masterly array of businesslike, and loyal proceedings to be regarded as a direct beneficiary statement and argument in President which have resulted in our entering of that system. His argument on the Roosevelts letter of acceptance, which upon the great Panama project. The policy of the United States in the was dated Oyster Bay, September 12. presidents position upon the suprem- Philippines will not cause any relent-n- g in the breast of a single member of The document is not a short one, for acy of the government, and its relation But it it contains about twelve thousand to Interstate commerce and the trust he band of words; but the reader who goes question is so well known, that it is will impress the ordinary citizen, althrough it carefully will find it terse not - necessary to do more than refer though, to be sure, the subject is one and condensed rather than diffuse. It here to the restatement in. his letter ;hat was settled four years ago and is is long because it deals with many of what has been attempted in that di- in no active sense before the people topics; and because it embodies a vast rection, and also in the endeavor to of the country this year. amount of concrete information. On secure justice and fair play for all Results in Vermont and Maine. this matter of public expenditure, Mr. citizens at home or abroad, regardless The Vermont and Maine elections Roosevelt, having first shown the er- of race, creed, or economic condition. which occurred, respectively, on Sep ror of the statement that there was a 0 tember and September 12, were conJust What Is Order No; 78? defict last year, proceeds, in a very tested national Issues and with upon Some of those who have attacked spirited and suggestive enumeration of the prominent speakers on. of useful public services, to show the Mr. Roosevelt on account of his pen- both help sides. had been practically-agreeIt difference between a true and false sion order have managed to spread in advance all the poltical economy. Mr. Roosevelts mature and the impression that it is an order statisticians of bothby o parties that the statesmanlike grasp , of the national which places all veterans of sixty-twDemocrats would to bring the have situation has never been shown to bet- years of age on the pension roll. This 0 ter advantage in any utterance of his is not the case. The pension order Republican plurality well below in in Vermont to order feel at o all than in this comprehensive argument does not put all veterans of sixty-twas to drift the of eastern encouraged on pay-lisIt does the government in defense of Republican methods and on is list. sentiment. They were unsuccessful, not, the Above it indeed, put all, refreshing anybody policies. in its directness, its freedom from It has no bearing upon any cases ex- however, and the Republican pluralmere platitude, and its avoidance of cepting those of manual workers de- ity exceeded 31,000, which was justly . vague and ambiguous phrasing. Mr. pendent upon their own efforts who regarded as a very favorable sign of a Roosevelt victory in NovemRoosevelt, of course, is presenting a come forward with affidavits and posi- general Governor-elect ber. 7 Bell received e party document for campaign use, and tive vidence to the effect that they Mr. votes, and Porter, the Demit dwelling upon the virtues and good are partially disabled. In those cases, ocratic the nominee, polled 16,521. Even achievements of the party and passpension office, under Order No. 78, more importance was attached to the ing over its faults and defects. Noth- will recognize the fact of advancing ing else was to have been expected. years as in itself a general evidence of election in Maine. The Democrats had Taking up the Panama matter, he ex- declining physical ability and declin made up their minds to cut the plutols the policy that has been adopted ing opportunity; and the experience of rality down to 15,000. The Republand that has passed into history, and the olfice in dealing with this law for, icans had hoped to maintain it at sb. declares that his opponents can only now, a long period of years has sim- high a figure as 25,000. It was the criticise what has been done by first ply shown that it is fitting and appro- claim of the conservative Democrats misstating the facts. He presents with priate to establish the presumption who nominated Judge Paker that the fine cumulative effect the record of that one-hal- f disability begins at the great Republican majorities in the sixty-twof achievement in foreign policy. age rather than at the eastern states four years and eight . . The issuance of exec- years ago had been rolled up by the g age of sixty-fivethe Plaintiff. sound-mone- y utive orders cannot Democrats voting for Mcchange the law The stage has been reached in the of. and Order No. 78 does Kinley in order to defeat Bryanism. campaign where the country would net,congress; in entitle fact, any man to a pen- It was the prevailing argument of like direct statements on the part of sion since the issuance of the order these gentlemen that the return to a the gentlemen who are asking it to re- who was not to it be sane and safe basis would bring all pudiate Mr. Roosevelt in order to put fore. In otherequally entitled these eastern Democrats back into words, if the semi-di- s the reins of authority into their hands. Mr. Roosevelt, at least, appears to take ability for which congress undertook the fold and assure to the Democrats, to provide does not actually exist, the as against Roosevelt, a full victory in the- - country entirely into his confidence. He teljs what he believes and applicant cannot properly be put on New York, New Jersey, and Connectiintends. The country .would now like the pension roll 3 even though he be a cut, a possible victory in Massachuto know what the gentlemen of the hundied years old. If there is any real setts and Rhode Island; and the moral question to be raised at all, it should effect of greatly reduced pluralities in opposition believe and intend. There be one that.woes not touch the execu- the September election of Maine. It must be some change, in other words, tive order, but rather the practical was admitted that to justify the dee to the plaintiff. Would in which, under Commissioner feat, at St. Louis, of Hearstism and they sell the ships and discharge the way Ware and the working force of the Biyanism from, the standpoint of pracenlisted men of the navy, and close the naval academy at Annapolis? pension bureau, such an order is exe- tical polites, the Maine plurality must Would they change the present law cuted in detail. If the opponents of be cut down to 15,000 or less. It is no which fixes the minimum of the army, President Roosevelts administration secret that In August the Democrats and reduce the force to the status that are prepared to say that Commissioner were hoping to bring it down as low-a- s Ware and the officials of the 10,000. preceded the year 1898? If so, they office are pension Party harmony had been, crowding the lists with new restored in Maine, and there was no would have to abandon the fortificawho have no right under apparent local cause to prevent the e tion and policy which pensioners the law to receive public money, let securing of a normal party vote. Th was the one great hobby of their forthem so. Mr. Roosevelt remarks, Republicans, on the their side, felt say mer mentor, Samuel J. Tilden. They in his letter of are trying to make scandal out of the acceptance, that the that they must hold the Maine plural order in is revocable at the ity up to 25,000, in order to make any question of the Canal Panama propacquisition of the The .pleasure executive, and he pro- impresison upon the country. erty and to put the president in the if our opponents come into returns, two days after the election, position of a violator of law and of in- ceeds, can power, they revoke this order and indicated a total vote of 78,460 for Mr. in ternational good faith that business. announce that they will treat the vet- - Cobb, the Republican candidate for Obviously, the president was carrying o sxty-LWand seventy as in governor, and a vote of 51,330 for Mr. out the instruction of law as embodied ?r?.n ,f., bodily sevigbr and not entitled to Davis, the Democratic candidate! in the statute authorizing him to The president holds that cure a Panama right of way, if possi- pensions. making a plurality of 27,130. While, In order to meet squarely an issue that of as ble. course, this proves nothing final raised they the Democrats must state to the way New York and Indiana win . The Panama Canal solution has been accepted by the country, and by concretely what they themselves in- vote in November, it indicates a PP all the nations of the world, including tend to do if they get the opportunity. ular approval in the east of Colombia itself, as a fact of history as Roosevelt's Polemics; velt and the administration that Is noi. little revocable as the Louisiana Pur- .In t5je presidents likely to be completely reversed oy. rather extended chase. What practical object has the discussion f the tariff that can be said or done question; he anything Constitution Club in mind in slurthe month of October. y controversial. He ring' the president of the United not find, in comparing the variousdoes New York Republicans. utStates and casting reflections upon terances, attitudes, and records of the The political conditions in the our state department and our govern any eTldence of oL New York are so complex -1 ment in the matter of this Panama slTtraw p?,rty; as regards a tariff neither side can afford to rest In w . anti-imperialist- s. d 25,-00- t. 48,-07- . o Cross-Examinin- cross-examin- coast-defens- -- Rsr eta, -- . |