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Show IB The Republican part1 seams to be Hi split tvide open in Texas: and there Tvasn 't enough of if. there to make evon H a eooii chopping block before. Panama is also having a bitter clec- B tion fijrht. Thus does the bad orample H of the bier boy evily affect the little B chap who looks up to him in reverence. B The alleged poet, William Watson, B savs that "The novel of today is a B fad." Bur. such cannot be said of his B poetr.v. and it is this, probably, that B makes, him sour. B A Massachusetts paper savs that B anvway tbeir form of Presidential H primary iy better than the Mexican. H Rut. if persisted in, how long -would H it be till it became even worse? H The New York Commercial Attributes H oiir discussion of tlio sugar question to B "a private quarrel with the church B leaders.' Rubbish and nonsense. And B it is pure malice that loads the church B organ to reproduce it. W .lames if. Wallis, State Pure Food Bt Commissioner, and Sanitary Inspector B for Idaho, has issued a scare-pamphlet, H "Swat the Fly," which ought to wake B up the people, It is a forcible reminder B that ought to remind. jm Arrange m ruts are making to seat. I some ten thousand Iooker$-on at the H .Vational Kcpublican couvention in I Chicago. Rut a much more sensible ar- H rangement. would be to exclude the H clamor altogether, and let the delegates' H do all the work, including the shouting. ' I Heavy rains along the lower Missis I sippi river region must make the flood sufferers despair. Their rase i5 hTd indeed; and their reflections that if I proper measures had been taken years H ago to control the flooil waters all their B sufferings might hsve been prevented, B 'aii not but be severe, upon the Inck of W initiative which has put off the work B needed. . B Springfield (ilass.) Union: "No B truer words ever were spoken than H , those of Congressman George H. Utter B in the Rhode Island Republican con- B vention last week, when he said that B the Theodore Rooserelt of two years B atro is not the Theodore K-ooscvelt of B todav. JtegTet it as wc may, -we can- B not ignore the fnct that he is a Bj changed man. and not for the better."' Hj The Ogden Standard, noting our at- Bl titudo toward Colonel Roosevelt, saj3 that he is "the same Rooaevolt, in B words, thoughts and deeds" to' which B the Tribune has given allegiance and I "words ?f adulation." But lie isn't the same Roosevelt that he was before J he turned loon-. And as to the "adula-j "adula-j tion" we call on the Standard for proof. When and where was the Tribune Trib-une guiltv of adulation toward Theodore Theo-dore Roosovelt7 Revolt appears to be the order of the day in Portugal; it has extended to the prison and tho wardens are al- ! leeed o have conspired with the bun- dreds of political prisoners in the revolt. re-volt. Th uprising was put down in blood: but it i'b hard to say whether the revolt was genuine or merely a trnp Mt for the political prisoners so they could be shot down by the , military, which was so conveniontlj- at' hand. U seems that John Hays Hammond's Ham-mond's mission to .Europe is to convince con-vince the Czar that Russia ought not to refuse to take part in the Panama Canal Exposition at San Francisco. If anybodr can do this. Hammond is the man: but it won't do for him to poko the Czar in the ribs as he did King George; for at a motion of that kind the GW -would think he was about, to be .assassinated and the persuasion would be all off. Captain Rostron of the Cnrpathia is making explanations in England of rea. iobb why bo censored wireless telegrams, tele-grams, denying for four days the information in-formation which the world was feverishly fever-ishly waiting for. a? t0 the Titanic 'a loss and survivor?. He says that he didn't receive any message of inquiry from President Taft as to Major Butt. But all this could have been aaid bet-. bet-. .p ter on this side of the sea, whrn the interest in it all was the keenest. Of course, everybody will believe his statement state-ment that he had no part in the conspiracy con-spiracy to hold back the news in order to stimulate bids to get it, nor has ho been-to accused. |