Show T TIlE THE END OF OP TO TOM The Tho three cent street car fare after two months months' t trial rial in Cleveland has proved a a. failure allure and the tho c companies have raised tho the price to five fiyo cents Thus ends Tom Johnsons Johnson's effort to make political political poli poll t ical capital out of or tho the street car cal companies For years he has bas been telling the people of ot Cleveland t that hat thc they were being robbed by those thos corporations and urging them to take talce over ovel the service and manage manage manase man man- age ase it themselves Failing Falling In this he told them that they should have lower fares and after atter strikes and rioting that were a disgrace to the city finall finally succeeded In compelling a a reduction to three cents But his success was short Th The three-cent three fare soon soon proved proved pro even to the satisfaction of ot tho the people people that It meant bankruptcy and ruin and now it has been abandoned by general consent The Tho people of ot Cleveland after years of agitation and disturbance e. e unsettling values and keeping the city in fn a a. turmoil are arc exactly where they were at nt atthe tho the beginning Tom Johnsons Johnson's promises have turned out to be valueless an injury instead of or a n. benefit to tho the community This state of oC affairs must be exasperating to to Cleveland when it looks at Chicago o find and sees aces this city which had the sense to settle ettle the street car cal problem right receiving a n. day as its share of or the income of street car corporations though street car fares are no larger hero than they are in Cleveland Tom Johnson Johnon Is 18 a false fabe prophet Chicago o Chicago Journal The Tho chairman of ot the Democratic notification committee says tho outlook for tor Bryan is Js rosy This is tho the color of or spectacles ho will wear ear until the tho first Tuesday in November after that nato date atc they will bo ho ultramarine blue glasses Tho gubernatorial fight in South Carolina is beginning be beginning be- be ginning to attract attract- Governor An Ansel el who was elected two years n ago ngo o by a a. large largo majority over o eral of or tho thu strongest men mon In the state slate Is opposed for or the second term by State Senator Coleman I of Newberry Newbern Governor Ansel is to favor a tate state prohibition 10 law with tho the privilege I of ot nn any county voting In a county county dl dispensary pellar If tr it the thc sale ale of oC liquor Whether he ho has hns so stated to tho governor of or North Carolina does docs not yet ct appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap I pear of or record I A dispatch from rom Tonopah Nov Nev which that certain candidates for office on the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic and Republican tickets had Imd some sort of or an at understanding h by which thc they would receive mutual support at tho primaries Is denounced as ns an Infamous In Infamous Infamous In- In famous libel The emphatic language of or tho tIm denIal denla suggests that tho the business 1 of drawing on the enemy for strength th nt tt the tho primaries is held In detestation in Nevada Novada That indicates s n a healthy state tate of or affairs affair In tho sister f state Americas America's first Interest In Jn was as alJ of or Ice supplies and for tOl years after wo we purchased purchased pur pur- chased It U. that t territory was wae contemptuously referred to as no nothing but a combination of ot snowdrift iceberg iceberg ice ice- berg nn and glacier Yet now its vast coal deposits deposit are aro looked to expectantly as the worlds world's source o or Of heat Chicago's school census showed a n. population of ot and tho the directory estimate now shows show a a. population of DC 24 but neither of oC them Is In It with the Chicago civic pride estimate I Tho The list of oC subjects for tor or discussion before tho the Commercial would congress sug sug- goat tho the advisability of or an ample amplo force forea of ot police to maintain order I In the tho settlement of or tho the West Wot Virginia can tangle It would appear that Mr MI Taft has tho the opportunity of ot his 11 life to break all his former records records records rec rec- as a satisfactory peacemaker f fG 4 G Getting an entirely new point of ot view view from from third place place place-it It to us that perhaps r all nIl allt p. p t pennant its Is not the tile only onh thin thing thing- that mal makes makos os life worth living Somehow or other othol a 0 merchant p petitioning for or a 0 10 per cent Increase In freight ht rates looks look a good deal like a 1 man petitioning to have his salary salan re re- re Unfortunate as far n n. n ns an any por personal onal advantage anta o oma ma may bo 10 concerned Judge P Parker was Just about abou four foul our years too late In stopping that runaway horse Tho Democratic financial committee has no not evolved ol any plan yet ct for tOT raising n a campaign fund nor wor worse o luck Inch for tor getting along without one It looks ns as If it the tho hea henry heavy business tho Shah Shall of or Persia Is doing now wore going to Interfere with his Us regular two weeks at ot tho lie lakes this year car It seems too that Jho ho population of or the country would grow row foster fAster If It people didn't tr try to have bRyn such sucha a i good time on Sunday The Time Now New 55 Z Zealand Press's views or of f the tho possibility of trouble with Japan ought to got get ct Mr h on on Its Us sub subscription list lIsl pretty prett quick |