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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. frank j. cannon, editor. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET For President ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Vice-Preside- nt HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia. A POLITICAL GULF OF PECHILI. The love feast of the San Pete county Republicans is illustrated in this issue of the State Journal, through the courtesy of the Salt Lake Herald. Away off in the gulf of Pechili, navigators say that all the waters of the seven seas meet and from seven different directions; and that here the oceans take up their slack. All the tidal waves are settled here. All the water spouts; all the mad riotingsof the waves on all the face of the waters are brought here to be stilled. The result is that the most unquiet spot on the globe is this same gulf where the waters meet to argue out their differences. It might be well for the Republican party of Utah to make of San Pete county its gulf of Pechili a political clearing house for the exchange and settlement of internecine quarrels. Doubtless the Republicans of San Pete county would be glad to invite a few more Their old quarrels causes of antagonism. must be nearly worn out. What a saving of time, labor and temper it would be to other Republicans in the state if they could formulate their causes of controversy and ship them down to San Pete county, so that the people down there could take sides and fight the issue to a finish! This is good advice. But it will not be followed. The Republicaus of other counties will also make their warfare with each other with the result that Utah may go Democratic. - . ... . ROOSEVELT AND THE MEAT BRIGANDS. What possible impropriety is there is an appeal by the strikers of Chicago to the president of the United States? According to the report of the inter-stat- e commerce commission, the meat trust of the United States operates in willful defiance of the law not the state law, but the federal law which the president of this country is sworn by his oath of office to uphold. Why should he not intervene with the power of his high office to suppress this trust and to punish by the criminal law its criminal controllers; not necessarily because the striking workmen ask it, but because it is his plain duty and has been his plain duty from the beginning of his term of office? He had much less of an excuse in the an thracite coal strike and yet he pervaded the whole situation with his, personality. It is true that a criminal prosecution by him of the criminal meat trust would not immediately and directly settle the strike situa tion; but it would curb the brute power of the trust and in its eventualities make better conditions for the workingmen. President Roosevelt has absolutely no ground to stand upen in declining to act against the packing house combine. First, he is bound by the constitution to proceed against violators of the federal law. Second, be is bound by the precedent which he himself established to intervene in a strike to protect the rights of the workingmen and the good order of society. UTAH STATE JOURNAL, AUGUST WEDNESDAY, 3, 1904. J. Bryan and those who cling to him as the expounder of Democratic doctrine is equally well known. There is no dodging in this situation. The conservatives of the party have made a conservative platform and nominated a conservative candidate. They will be supported by the entire party. The radicals of the party, tu the extent that Mr. Bryan is authorized to speak for them, propose to support loyally the ticket and the principles enunciated by the party this year; believing in the candidates and believing in the doctrines. But, as they desire still greater reforms than those now proposed, they announce that they will strive four years hence to carry the party to these additional reforms. There is absolutely no equivocation, no shifting and no doging. The issue is as plain as human language can make the issue. Today Alton B. Parker leading united Democracy on a conservative platform confronts the Rooseveltism of the Republican party. The only dodging perceptible in the po, litical field is the effort of the Republicans to dodge on the question of Rooseveltism. Li i 1 EASTERN COMMENT ON PEABODY. This paper has been criticised by some shallow people for its attitude toward Governor Peabody and the anarchist general, Sherman M. Bell, of Colorado. It may be interesting to our commentators know to that the views expressed herein have been shared by most of the leading papers of the East. Not a day passes but some great journal of the country disclaims against the lawlessness and the dangers which have characterized Governor Peabody's method. Here is a paragraph from the Pittsburg Dispatch which shows the trend of thought: AS 8EVENTH BIG SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST HEINZE BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 3. Another Some little bird of politics must have flown into the executive mansion at Denver complaint was filed In the district court and whispered a warning to Governor Peabody. That official has removed his sword belt and aiguillettes as commander-in-chie- f and withdrawn his troops from the Cripple Creek district and left Colorado once more completely under the control of civil authority. The state has spent $1,500,000 at the behest of the mine owners. No just complaint can be urged againt their protection had it been necessary and had its methods been in accordance with the sane and inflexible policy of a government determined to have its supremacy respected and law and order observed. But there was a long carnival of lawlessness, principally committed by the military officials, always trusting to popular prejudice that might be manufactured by exaggeration of the acts of union strikers. For more than a year there has been opportunity to judge the affairs of Colorado, and it can be fairly said that Governor Peabodys administration has been one that it will require years to forget. With the restoration of civil procedure, speedy trials should be accorded all who were finally charged with some belated legal infraction. The people of the United States will not quarrel with the meting out of fair punishments for proved offenses. But will the governor be able to continue the Siberian process of banishment without Walter Wellman, the famous political is prognosticator, visiting in Colorado. He declares that the results of the impending political campaign in this country are anything but certain. Also in Colorado, with Mr. Wellman, is the noted William E. Mason, a staunch Republican, who also admits the danger to the Roosevelt ticket. Senator Mason even allows that Illinois may go for Parker. or Polly Pry of Denver, talks about the Hon. Charles J. Hughes for the governorship of that state. He would fill the place magnificently even to overflowing; but the peoREPUBLICAN DODGING. ple of the whole intermountain West are looking for Charles J. Hughes for United States And as to the shiftiness and dodging which senator. In the upper branch of congress the the Tribune thinks may characterize the Dem- exalted services of which he is capable could ocratic campaign this year, there may be still be helpful to more than to his own state. another view to take. With Hon. George Turner nominated for It is not particularly surprising that the Republicans of Utah should guess that the governor by the Democratic party, it looks as Democratic party would have one set of doc- if the state of Washington is lost to the Retrines for the Cast and one set of doctrines publican party. The best informed politicians for the West; for that was the chosen policy of that locality express no doubt of Turner's of shiftiness and dodging adopted by the Re- election. publicans in the campaigns of 1S and 1900 The Hon. Thomas Taggart, of IndianapoAnd yet it is an unjust judgment. What shiftiness or dodging is there in the lis, may not be much of a speaker but he attitude of Alton B. Parker? Every man in knows how to pick a good one. He selected the United States who cares to know is now Hon. Charles A. Towne, of New York, to adwell aware of the views of the Democratic dress his home people. candidate for the presidency. His letter of The Utah Pioneer still calls A. B. Hayes acceptance has not been written, but no one district attorney for this neck of the woods. is in any doubt of his attitude on the ques- Cut it out, Sip, and come down to modern tions of the day. The attitude of William times. THEY MEASURE UP. The trouble was that one day the monkey was evidently not well, for he failed to dodge effectively when coal was thrown at him. McClusky announces that he made an effort to rescue the animal from his perilous position when, three weeks ago, a Burlington train was passing. But, before the monkey could be taken into the house, a large lump of coal broke the animal's leg. ' McClusky says, however, that a dog was responsible for the loss of the monkey's eye and tall. A warrant for McClusky has been Issued, but the arrest has not yet been made. A little over two months ago Sporetti received a letter from a relative of his In Italy stating that his uncle had died, and that his vineyard, tile grapes of which were famous for the wine they produced, and that Sporetti would fail heir to the property. Indeed, the vineyard would have been of the old man had his If a grand-so- n not appeared. , It was thought the grandson was dead until he arrived in Italy from Germany in time to claim the valuable estate. yesterday against the Helnse people, asking for damages In the sum ot making the total damages In the suits now pending aaglnst F. Augustus Helnse, his associates and agents nearly $26,000,000. In the action started yesterday the Boston ft Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining company asserts that the Montana Ore Purchasing company, the Johnstown Mining company, F. Augustus Helnse, Arthur P. Helnse, John MacGlnnlss and J. H. Trerlse entered the veins and ore n bodies of that portion of the lode mining claim owned by the pallntiff, and extracted by means of underground workings ore to the value of 33.800.000 and converted it to their own use. The contention Is supported by an enumeration of the veins lying within the walls of the claim that have been entered by the defendanta This suit Is the seventh filed by the ALL TO BE RIFLE EXPERTS. Interests against the Amalgamated Helnse people in the past two weeks. (From the Army and Navy Journal.) Throughout Ellhu Roots long serTHE PRANKS OF JOCKO. vice as secretary of war the one subject which received his most serious (Omaha attention, aside from the operations of Disappointed In his golden dream the army in the field, the army reor act the general staff of Inheriting a vineyard in southern ganizatlon and the national militia proscheme Giovanni Italy, Sporetti, an organ was the to returned question of developing grinder, Omaha, where, ject, mass of American citlSens a in the his he left during protracted absence, his monkey in charge of Jim McClusky body of trained riflemen large enough of Sixth and Howard streets. The to make our defenses secure in time of street musician went to the police sta- war. In season and out of season he tion Thursday morning to get a war- Insisted that the country needed men rant for the arrest of the man who had who could shoot straight, who knew charge of the animal during the two the use of the rifle thoroughly and months absence of the monkey's own- with whom proficiency in small arms er. The animal, said Sporetti, had practice should be the first test of his right leg broken, his tall cut off fitness as soldiera Mr. Roots earnestness in this matter served as a and one eye put out "He spoils da monk. He gotta ma reminder that where we have made ruined," said the organ grinder wip- but little real progress in rifle shooting the tears from his eyes with the ing since the close of the Spanish war other countries are giving close atback of his sunburned hand. McClusky. for his part, claims that tention to the subject, Canada alone he had no Intention of mistreating the having but recently Instituted a broad animal. He declares that when the gauge scheme which it is believed will warm days of spring came round he produce 500,000 trained riflemen withtied the monkey to a stake in the rear in ten years. of his house, and that when the Union Owing partly to Mr. Roofs persistPacific and Burlington passed brake-me- n ent urging, supported by many other and firemen would throw coal at interested gentlemen in the army, the the monkey to see him hop. navy, the marine corps, the national The guardian of the animal declares guard and civil life, public Interest in the monkey displayed such agility In the subject took form In the reorgangetting out of the way of the missiles ization of the national board for the that he believed the animal was per- promotion of rifle practice in the Unitfectly safe. Moreover, as a result of ed States, and as a result of that the coal throwing. McClusky added movement plans have been formulated daily to his income. Rome days he which if carried into effect seem likewould be able to pick up as much as ly to transform millions of hardy three bushels of fuel that had been young Americans Into expert riflemen thrown at the monkey. and thus correct whnt is palpably the McCluskYs business Is to fish logs gravest defect in our military system. out of the river fuel and to pick In preparing these plans careful up coal along the railroad tracks when consideration was given to the methhe stands little danger of being caught ods employed by other countries to As he was once arrested for taking encourage rifle shooting among their fuel from around the coal chutes of the eltlsens and the paramount purpose Union Fadflc he has taken great pre- waa to devise a system which should cautions. He was therefore delighted make every American between the when he found that the monkey would ages of IS and 25 years ambitious to save him the trouble of picking up become a master marksman. In its coni along the railroad right of general scope the scheme provides for way. John-tow- World-Herald- .) a highly organized system to en- courage rifle practice in the state militia, in military and other schools and among private, organizations as sell as among Individuals who would be liable to military sen-icin time of e war. A LOOK BACKWARD. the American Gazeteer, Morse and pubJedldiah compiled by lished by Thomas ft Andrews of Boston, In July, 1810, has lately been shown In this office, says the Hartford Courant. The description In It of Louisiana Is suggestive of the mighty changes that have occurred in that part of the country since the book was A copy of published. A few extracts will be read with especial Interest now that the country is celebrating the Louisiana purchase. The work says: "This country is divided Into three portions, the eastern, or that part which lies east of the Mississippi, lower Louisiana, which Includes that portion gained from the sea. a great part of which is still covered with water a great part of the year.' Upper Louisiana contains the remainder of the country bounded south by lower Louisiana, east by the Mississippi, and north and west by the high lands which divide the water of the St. Lawrence, Hudson bay and the Pacific coast from those of the Mississippi. The population of this country consists of about 90,000 or 100,000 souls, chiefly Inhabiting eastern Louisiana. The country In general is unknown. The Inhabitants of this countryare chiefly French, Spanish and Americana There is but one established school, not more than 200 people in all Louisiana are supposed to be able to read and write welL The religion of this people la the Roman Catholic, their teachers are two canons and twenty-fiv- e curatea This vast wilderness is Inhabited by various strag- gling tribes of Indiana Independent lords of the soil. They are at peace with the United States, and. It Is said, have lately ceded to its government a tract of fifty miles square on the Arkansas. These friendly pagans Pr" of haps ought to claim the attention our missionary societies." kind You'll never drink any other once tryinf of soda water after STANDARD. Insist on having It NICKEL PLATE EXCURSION. acTo Boston, Mass, and return, Encampment, count O. A. R. National Ch at $17.75 for the round trip from n' tra any on cago. Tickets good and on August 12th, 13th and Hth, 8 at special trains from Chicago limit Sereturn Final 13th. 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