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Show AN UNSHAKEN AMERICAN PARTYis ," ; Tt Is time for the American parly, leaders and members, to carefully con-' slder the new situation which has been created from within the church councils. coun-cils. Whatever may have been the original Intention, and whatever may have been the force of nrgument by which Reed Smoot persuaded the church leaders that a Republican victory here was necessary, and all sufficient, to protect them and himself from 'disaster In Washington, It has recently been made apparent that the church proposes to divide the. political plunder between both of the old polltlcni parties. No ono outside of the councils of the ecclesiastical autocrats Is able to give the exact language In which they have phrnscd their purpose; hii the purpose Is plain, and It Is accurately described as follows: "Wo will give the National ticket to the Republican party, because we believe be-lieve that President Roosevelt will be elected, and we desire to stand well with the administration at Washington. This will create a favorable feeling for us In the White House, and Apostle Smoot may thereby claim the friendly assistance assist-ance of the President. It will also maintain a sympathetic relation between be-tween him and the Republican Senate. While doing this, we will sacrifice some of our own adherents who are oa the Republican ticket. Including Congressman Congress-man Howell (who Will not dare to expose us), and will elect in their places Democrats, so that the Democratic Demo-cratic party loaders -here may no longer cry that they ha-ve been the victims of church influence. To the world at large we will excuse this division, this discriminating dis-criminating division of the offices, by saying that the Amorlcan party'ls responsible re-sponsible for the Idiosyncrasies this year. Just as wo tried to put the municipal muni-cipal results last year to the blame of the bolting Republican Gentiles." It may be that the church leaders can carry out this project. Mr. Howell may serve as the ram In the thicket to save Mr. Smoot as Isaac, who is really on the altar. The Democrats may feel that gratitude forbids them to criticise the means by which offices may be obtained ob-tained for them or' their party nominees. nomi-nees. But American party adherents will neither be deceived nor silenced. The .party will wage this year its open, straightforward, and vigorous light to 'establish in this State American political polit-ical conditions. Whatever may be the procured results at the polls, the efforts of the American party will not slacken, nor will its ranks grow thinner. There will be thousands of accessions after election, and the party will grow Into a predominance In this State. The "fairness" of the church In dividing di-viding the plunder Is only -further-proof that the church dominates In politics, and that the American party's mission Is necessarv until the church leaders can neither give all the olllces to one party nor distribute them to the two parties so that they can have neither a partnership with one political party nor hold the other In a state of cowardice. Possibly the enormous lottos of the Ruralans In "their aggressive campaign below Mukden will never be known. But reports of the Japanese show the finding find-ing of 13,333 Russian dead on the field. That means a list of wounded of more than fifty thousand, for It Is to be fairly presumed that four times as many are hit as are killed. These figures are, however, necessarily incomplete, for the Russiana must have burled some of their own dead, and some positions where there was great slaughter, as on Lone Tree hill, and on the Japanese right driven back, the Japanese did not get at, and could not know how many Avere dead. Perhaps eighty thousand Russian dead, wounded and missing, would not be putting the number too high. It is a dreadful blood-letting, and It certainly will tax the resources of the Russian Empire to make It good, to say nothing of transporting a second army to Manchuria. j The charity organlzallon effected at the Theater on Sunday afternoon is n most commendable move.. That It was also a needed move, th& earnestness and large-minded phllanthroplfy which distinguished dis-tinguished all that was said and done fully attest. The resolution adopted as the foundation of procedeurc was so broad and charitable that all humanity Is covered' by It, and the need of help will be the only question In supplying It The organlzallon will put the relief work on the proper basis, systematizing it, so that no known case of destitution will be overlooked, and no impositions, permitted. The relief work may now be expected to go forward with a certainty and business-like elilclency which will be an assurance to all contributors that their assistance will be worthily placed, and to all who netrd that they will not be overlooked. The Democrats, In their carping claims of extravagance by the Government, Govern-ment, belle the votes of their own members mem-bers of the House and the Senate. All the time, those members vote liberally. But whatever criticisms there may be, they are fully answered In President Roosevelt's letter of acceptance, when he says: "The prime reason why the expenses of the Government have increased in-creased of recent years Is to be found In 'the fact that the people, after mature ma-ture thought, have deemed It wise to have certain new forms of work for the public undertaken by the public. This, necessitates such p-xpenditures, for Instance, In-stance, as those for rural free delivery, ' v r or for the Inspection of meats under the .Department of -Agriculture, .or, fori; Irrigation." Irri-gation." ,. ' |