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Show 4 Lincoln w&s a rail-splitter. Roosevelt is a party-spHtter. H Nevr York Progressives aro using H nutomobilcs in their campaigning. And H Perkins trust money pny3 the bill. The Grand Army rush toward IjOS H Angeles for the annual encampment has bejrun. Indications arc that the mcet-B mcet-B inc will be a bip success. Police Commissioner "Waldo of Great-er Great-er New York hnd his pocket, picked the H other day. And yet he asks to have B the pD3" of himself and his police force B increased! fl Governor .Tohnson has n keen eye for political rascnlily anions Republican "bosses" in New York. It's a pity that ho cannot, wake up to the enormity of his own. in California. Tho inquiry into vice conditions in Greater ZsTow York discloses t lie most re-voltinp: re-voltinp: conditions. But, these were ex-jiected. ex-jiected. Tn fact, they were inevitable from developments previously made. Why did not Chairmnn Sutherland point to the bunko tarifl" revision of 190? as one of the great achievements "f tbo Republican party? Js he already' nsharacd of his ignoble part in that dis-nstrou5 dis-nstrou5 work? Tho bopus Utah Jfcpublienn State convention followed the Baltimore pre-cedent, pre-cedent, making their princip.-il noniina-tions noniina-tions before the platform was reported. But it was just as well; all was cut and dried routine. H! The British Board of Trade has is-filed is-filed notice to ship captainB that any failuro to po to the relief of a vessel in distress at sea will subject them to imprisonment for t:o years. So tho Titanic disaster has forced this lethar-trie lethar-trie move. Cincinuati Tribune: "Playing cards havo been traced back to tho year S00 j A. D. About 20,000,000 packs of cards fl are manufactured annually, principally HJ in Cincinuati. Tho oldest playing card;; in the world are said to bo a Hindustani pack," The death of Gen. McArthur. who went into tha war for the prcscrvatiou of tbo Union as adjutant of the Twen-ry-fourth Wisconsin Infantry, will be Hl much deplored; for he was a true man, Hl able, brave, staunch. His death id a loss to the Nation. The Colonel is always ready with de-Hl de-Hl nials, and with letters to prove his statements. Rut unfortunately his method of providing false and impos-sible impos-sible letters as a " frajiic-up" ha been thoroughly exposed by Secretary Knox, aud the Roosevelt denials and the Boosovclb letters are alike discredited. A correspondent at Blarkfoot, Idaho, writes that wc had the figures of the Kansas Statu primary wrong, that the Hl true rocord is Hoosevelt, 7;l,n;50; Wil- eon, .53,422; Taft. -11.410. lie may be correct, but tho essentia point (hat, even so, the 75,330 u;ivc no possible ft right to disfranchise the -11.41;) remains J untouched. Governor Johnson '3 characterization Hr of President Taft as "the, most humil- iating character in American history," -ji is a fair example of unbridled license j of 6pcech gouc mad. Johnson ' attempt ,' to steal the Itopublican organization iu j ' California and disfranchise Taft voters. . V puts him out of the class of houest 111011 H- i' who aro entitled to respect. (i Rudolph Sprcckols makes himself t authority for the statement that in September of last year Col. . Roosevelt had information that Wall street 111- tcrcsts "would be agreeable to his e.iudidac3'.1' But what is the matter, with Sprcckcla anyway? Hasn't he j heard that Roosevelt is "the pco)lc's champion," and does he think that the interests of Wall street and those of fl the people aro the same 7 Hj Col. Roosevelt says that the Trogrcs. ive National platform is the best that any part3' lias put out j-inre the Civil AVar. And then Secretary Win, J. Ghent of the Socialists proceeds to claim and worse yet, to prove, by parallel column publication that fullv half of the Pro-grcssivc Pro-grcssivc platform i. stolen bodily from I he working programme of the Socialist H party! , But of course tbo goods stolen by the man whose shibboleth is "Thou shalt not steal," arc his, because ho got them, and wants to keep them. |