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Show I "I will stick, " says Boosovclt. A com plaster also sticks and also provokes pro-vokes profanity. i And now they arc talking about Roosevelt being 'a good trust President.'' Presi-dent.'' And with abundant reason, too. Will .Roosevelt be able to make more of liis third party than Hearst Tvas able to make of his Independence League) ' It mny be possible that Governor Wilson can endorse the Democratic platform plat-form in its entirety; but it's mighty ha id to believe it. San Krancisco Chronicle: '"'If there w?re any doubt about the character of Roosevelt's bucking, he has dispelled it by the announcement that he would not enforce the Sherman antitrust law. " Political Mnnager, Dixon, in his statement state-ment accompanying the call fo.r the Roosevelt convention, assails again "the crooked political bo'sses." This in the interest of the crookedest political boss of aJL The Democratic candidato says that he hasn't read the platform yet, but there's no fear but that he will accept the nomination under it. Few have read that long-winded composition entire, en-tire, except the proof-readers, and with them the rending wns forced. , A woman in the East sues for divorce " on the ground that her husband has not taken a bath in seveu years. It looks, though, as if, standing it so long, she might assemble her patience for another p period of toleration, for surety his of-' of-' fense is already as bad as it can be. So, wn hurry? All passed off well in the exorcises that yesterday attended the breaking of ground for the buihliug of the University Uni-versity Administration building. Presi-f Presi-f dent Kingsbury's remarks were appro-- priate and well spoken, and all the speakers are to be commended. It; was' y all good work. When the House of Representatives t' waH called to order on the morning af- tor the nomination of "Wilson, the chap-u chap-u lain praxed the. Lord to "help us submit sub-mit to the vicissitudes of life.1 Looks as, though it might have been particularly particu-larly meant as consolation to Speaker l liamp (.Mark. Another distressing and fatal acci-df acci-df lit from children handling firearms is reported. It eems that nothing avails bv way of warning against letting chil- dien havp, accet-a to pistols, and though it ,s a hard sayiug, it is a true one, thai until such warnings are heeded the fntalitic: cannot' but continue. I'ncle .lese Knight says that he is - no in politics for any office; which is a surprise; for it i? not so long sinco he made an open confession that he made a Inistake in J DOS when he declined to lp a candidate for Governor; and it is to be hoped that Uncle Jesse will stick to the latter announcement this year. When a ?jn:il boy threw a stone at tic Roosevelt automobile and hit Irs. Roosevelt, th Colonel stopped and mrd to find the boy and spauk. him; but nc had mingled with tho crowd of 'o(. and couldn't be identified; eo H ii.o Colonol didn't spauk. But the inci- H ! rut shows that the Colonel has lost H his nerve; why didn't he spank the. 'ft hole crowd, on the samo theory that H . he peremptorily discharged a battalion H of troops because lie couldn't find out H i who among that battalion had "shot up" Brownsville? H Panama applied to President Taft to " appoint election commissioners to soo H that a fair election was conducted in H that small and comparatively new re- H jniblir- He did so, and now, after H 1 these commissioners have supervised M the recent election there, the Panama Hj newspapers praise "the correct, and H impartial conduct of tho American i ommissioncrs, to whose supervision H " the republic of Panama owes its first Hj really free election' 'Making it sat i " isfnetory all around. H It is good to know that discipline H' was perfect on board the .battleship H New Hampshire when he was rammed H by the jt team or Commonwealth, and H . that her rescue equipment was ready in a half minute, but It was an unduly costly t piece of information. This is tho second of our battleships damaged recently by collisions with commercial craft; the Utah had her sides scraped off not long ago, and is yot in dry dock undergoing repairs. 3n her case, too, discipline was perfect, and the rescue res-cue equipment was also roady instantly. instant-ly. But these things may fairly be assumed as-sumed without this sort of proof. |