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THE BROAD AX COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Who Contends that "Negro Soldiers Will Not Fight Unless They Are Officered by White Men. Elected President of the United States by an Unprecedented Majority. Vol. X COL. THEODOR Who Contends diers Will N They Are Of Men. Elected Preside States by an U Majority. The great or the memorable presidential contest of 1904, has passed into history and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt who contends that "Negro soldiers will not fight unless they are officered by white men" was elected President of the United States by an unprecedente majority. The Rough Riding President swept over the entire country like a great tidal wave licking up and devouring everything which bore the name of Democracy in front of his onward march; his victorious banner of Republican commercialism was firmly planted on the ramports of Democracy in every section of the North, East and West. He stormed its stronghold in the far South and captured the electoral votes of Missouri, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia giving him 343 votes in the electoral college, as against 133 for Judge Alton B. Parker. He marshaled the mighty hosts of the solid North on one side of the political fence, shattered the solid South which lays prostrate at his feet. His majorities in many of the states are simply appaling: Illinois gave him 287,000 majority, and Charles S. Deneen was elected Governor by a larger majority. This state also rolled up one hundred and fifty thousand for Eugene V. Debs for President, who will receive all told more than six hundred thousand for that exalted office. President Roosevelt's majorities were in proportion as large in all the other states carried by him as in Illinois. His victory is complete and his party will have one hundred and ten majority in the Lower House of Congress and twenty-four or twenty-six majority in the Senate, which will enable President Roosevelt and his Republican colleagues to enact any legislation for the benefit of the Negro which they may feel disposed to fasten on to the national statute books, without consulting the likes or the wishes of any Democratic member in either branch of Congress. So if the Negro falls to receive a "square deal" in the house of his friends he has no moral right to do any kicking. There is only one way to account for the crushing and humiliating defeat of the Democratic party which in years gone by was lead on to glorious victories by some of the most illustrious men in the Republic, and its achievements under their leadership forms the brightest pages of history of this nation, and that is the rank and file of the Democratic party who hold no emnity against the Negro, did not send their delegates to the St. Louis convention for the avowed purpose of trampling the true or the fundamental principles of Democracy under their feet, which in the broadest sense means "equals rights to all men and special privileges to none." not white men, black men, yellow men, nor red men, but to all men of whatever nationality and color, these are the fundamental principles of Democracy, which will never die as long as human beings continue to breathe the breath of life, these sacred principles of Democracy were spat upon in the St. Louis convention, and the delegates, yes, the whole world at large during its deliberations were forced to listen to the vaporings of John Sharp Williams, Ben Tillman, Champ Clark, Richmond P. Hobson, Vardaman, and others as brainless as themselves, ignorantly attempt to discuss issues and questions which should have been en- --- tirely foreign to the true aims and objects of the convention. The delegates to the St. Louis convention were not satisfied in covering themselves all over with infamy in this respect and in betraying the trust reposed in them by the great liberty-loving Democracy, but they capped the climax when they nominated Henry G. Davis for Vice President, who is waiting to tumble into his grave at any hour, simply because the ring leaders of the convention thought they could milk him for campaign money. To say the least, their actions were very disgusting to the great mass of Democrats everywhere, as well as to the great majority of the independent voters throughout the nation, who were not incliped at first to support Colonel Roosevelt on account of his rough and blustering manner, but at last they were compelled to do so in order to administer a stinging rebuke to that class of peculiar pin-headed statesmen imported from the South into the North to deliver speeches in behalf of the election of Judge Parker, whose heart is in the right place as far as all men are concerned, and those so-called orators from the South made themselves very offensive to the people residing in the North who did not wish to be burdened with their song of complaint against the Negro, when it came down to discussing the right of the President or any other white person dining with colored people if they felt disposed to do so, and every time those braying jackasses from the South opened their mouthes against the Negro and failed to discuss the issues of the campaign without dragging him into it they made four hundred thousand votes for the Republican Presidential candidate, and the people of the North, the majority of whom, Democrats and Republicans, alike, believe in fair play, spued out their unbounded contempt for the unregenerated and unreconstructed whisky-drinking ex-rebels of the south at the polls in the windup of the Presidential contest of 1904. With these tremendous majorities in the Republican column in every state north of the Mason and Dixon line, and four states in the South at the back of the Republican party, we fear it means the undoing of the Negro, as an important factor in American politics for many years to come. For without the aid of his vote to any great extent, the Republican party will be enabled to ride over the rights of the people and permanently rivet Alexander Hamilton's high protective tariff measures and his theory of "the inequality of the races on them, and the capitalistic classes will place their golden shod feet on the necks of the masses," and the only way to convince us that the Negro will not be eliminated from American politics, and that the President is willing to give him a "square deal" is for him to select a Negro as a member of his cabinet and appoint a worthy Afro-American as postmaster of Chicago, New York, Boston or Philadelphia. Our reflections on "The future of the Democratic party," will appear in the next issue of The Broad Ax. Col. Edward D. Green, much to the delight of his many friends made a home run last Tuesday, and was elected to the legislature in the first senatorial district. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 12, 1904. PETER M. HOFFMAN, Who Will Commence His Labors as Coroner of Cook County the First of December. The popularity and onward march of progress of the Ancient Arabic Order of Daughters of Sphinx throughout the United States and in foreign countries has been the admiration of the people everywhere. It is a secret and benevolent institution and it's name is placed in the front ranks of fraternal orders in the United States. Courts are established now in nearly every State and Territory in the United States of America and some are organized in foreign countries. It can be truthfully asserted that among the agencies that have greatly contributed to the amelioration of the human family the Ancient Arabic Order of the Daughters of Phinx hold a commanding position. It's mission from the beginning has been to draw the people closer together in the bond of fraternal union and friendship and promote each other's prosperity. of Hon. John G. Jones, 33, of Chicago, who had previous to the year of 1893 made application to the Egyptian Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine of Araba for those degrees and his application after having been highly endorsed and recommended by a number of prominent and high Masons it was unanimously granted and on June the 1st, 1893, in the City of Chicago, Ill., R. Pasha, 33, of Araba, who came to the City of Chicago, conferred upon Noble Hon. John G. Jones, 33, the degrees of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the degree of the Ancient Order of Daughters of Sphinx. He is not only the founder of those two orders in the United States, but he is the founder and the promoter of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine in the United States which is the highest degrees of Freemasonry in the world, and he is the Sovereign Grand Master of the Supreme Grand Council of Red Cross of Constantine of North America. The Supreme Grand Court of Daughters of Sphinx of North and South America is presided over by Mrs. S J. Gray, of Chicago, who is Most Worthy Supreme Grand Matron. Mrs. Isadore Nelson of Cambridge, Mass., is Supreme-Grand Vice Matron. Mrs. Lena Harris of Johnstown, Pa., is Worthy Supreme Grand Recorder. Mrs. S. C. Slaughter of Johnstown, Pa., is Worthy Supreme Grand Exchequerer, Ill. T. Webster Brown, 33, of Chicago, Illinois, is Chairman of the Board of Directors. There is an endowed department connected with the Order and is under the supervision of the Supreme Grand Court of Daughters of Sphinx of North and South America. Large sums of money are paid out each year to the relatives of deceased members of the Order. The business of the Order is in every department conducted in a regular systematic manner. It may be here stated that the business of Subordinate Courts, as well as the Supreme Grand Court, is conducted and directed by the female members of the Order. But very few Masons are permitted to be members of the Order of Daughters of Sphinx. The Supreme Grand Court is the Supreme Governing Body of the Order and meets once a year. HENRY SEARCHLIGHT. Our vote was recorded in favor of Judge Alton B. Parker, for President of the United States against Colonel Roosevelt, who thinks "that all the 'Niggers' should vote the Republican ticket simply because they are black in the face," and we are not ashamed of it either, and thousands of colored men did likewise throughout the country. Will hungry-looking wolf Barnett, Major John C. Buckner, Col Robert M. Mitchell, Judge S. Laing Williams and company please stand up and lead us in prayer? U.S. Senator Chauncey M. Depew And the Negroes. Monday night United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew closed the Republican campaign in New York City with a speech to the Negroes assembled in the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Senator Depew said that "In the Republican party rests the hope of the Negro." He paid a high tribute to Booker T. Washington of whom he said: "I have rarely met his equal anywhere, and I have met all the great men of the world." Although he failed to inform his hearers that Booker T. Washington favors the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South, in order to enable him to easily beg money from the billionaire trust magnates in the North. He continued: "No Negro in the North can vote against the Republican party unless he betrays his race." Mark the following sentence: "You colored men must vote with Republicans until the Democratic states stop disfranchising your race, or until you can point at a Republican Legislature that is trying to take away your voting franchise." This is a fair sample of false reasoning and sophistry the average white Republican orators deal in when they address Negroes who are largely swayed by sentiment and not by reason. Senator Depew who would not think of sticking his head inside of a Negro church except to deliver a political speech was too dishonest to admit that the Republican party in the past has been part criminals in disfranchising the Negro. That in every Legislature in the states wherein he has been disfranchised Lily White Republicans have assisted to place those enactments on the statute books of those states. That a Republican Congress under the leadership of Albert J. Hopkins of Illinois, rewarded Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina by giving them one congressman each, even after the people residing in those states had disfranchised the Negro; that whenever the Negro implores the Republican House of Congress to reclothe him in his citizenship rights: He is told to go to the United States Supreme Court which is controlled by Republicans, to seek redress and when he goes there the court sends him back to Congress, and the Republican Congress slams the door in his face and orders him to go and tell his troubles to the first policeman he meets or to President Roosevelt, and he is informed by the Republican President that he is powerless to aid him, and this is the way the leaders of the Republican party have played football with the Negro for the past 30 or 35 years. It is true, that no Republican Legislature has passed measures to "Jim Crow" the Negro: It is equally true that in no state where the Democrats have legislated against the Negro have the Republicans coming into power ever repealed such a legislation. For example the Republican State Legislatures of West Virginia and Indiana have never repealed the separate school laws of those States. The Republican Legislature of Oregon refused to repeal the black laws of that State. The Republican party under the leadership of Governor Bradley of Kentucky and the Republican Legislature refused to repeal the "Jim Crow car law" which was pronounced constitutional by members of the supreme court of Kentucky, elected by the Republican party. Let Senator Depew also remember that the disfranchising of the Negroes in Mississippi, first began under the administration of Ben Harrison, without one word of protest from him and the other leaders of the Republican party, that the Disfranchisement of the Negro has been brought about in four of the other Southern States under the administrations of William McKinley, who ought to have been No. 3 hung up by the neck until he was dead as the greatest traitor to his country and to the Negro, for dining with Ben Tillman in the White House January 1, 1901, and he, and President Roosevelt were and have so far been to cowardly to speak out in thunderous tones against this and the many other wrongs which have been heaped upon the Negro simply because he has been taught to believe that in all things the leaders of the Republican party are his special godfathers. Once more, "Jim Crow" cars roll into the capital of the nation which is under the control of the Republic and the Negro is "Jim Crowed" in the public schools, in theaters, in hotels and in every other way in that city and Senator Depew and the President have not exerted themselves to abolish those discriminations, and those who contend otherwise are simply bare-faced liars and knaves. Therefore, it will not do for Senator Depew and the other bloated billionaire leaders of the Republican party to assume a passive position, wash their hands in holy water and contend that they are without slu when it comes to dealing with the Negro and being unable to aid him, the Negro must continue to vote them into office so that they can continue to rob the poor or the many for the benefit of the rich or the few. In the light of these events, it must be clear to all, who are capable of reasoning from cause to effect; that the sins of omission on the part of the Republican party against the Negro, considering the unswerving support which he has rendered it for the past 35 years, are far greater than the sins of commission against him by the Democratic party. As far as we are concerned, we do not believe in neither heaven nor hell, but if there is a place called hell, we will die happy in the thought, that it will be filled to overflowing with such fellows as Senator Depew and his kind, who have for the past 35 years been able to ride into power on the back of the Negro, by simply appealing to his passion, his prejudice, his religious superstition and his ignorance! Mrs. J. S. Tandy had a successful social at her house, 5145 Grove avenue, last Thursday evening for the benefit of her church. Mrs. Eva Lewis, 3719 Forest ave., was united in marriage Wednesday evening to Rev. John Thomas Jenifer. The wedding occurred at Quinn Chapel in the presence of many friends of the contracting parties. Rt. Rev. C. T. Shaffer, D. D. and Rev. Roberts officiating. The newly wedded couple will be at home to their friends in Baltimore. Md., after Nov. 18th. Mayor Harrison's political managers bought up Rev. James Carey, Abraham Lincoln Murray and R. C. Ransom in his contest with Grame Stewart in 1903 and it is reported that his managers at the same time gave Rev. D. R. Wilkins $25 and a gallon jug of cheap Irish fighting whisky in order to get him and his Old Church Organ in line for his honor, and it remains to be seen whether the same trick can be turned in 1905. The election in Chicago Tuesday swallowed up all the Democratic Congressmen, defeated William Preston Harrison in the Eighth Congressional District, James J. Gray for the Board of Assessors, Coroner John E. Trager and every man on the county ticket. This is a warning to Mayor Harrison to lookout for the crowing of the cock in the mayorality contest in 1905. The great majority of the colored Republicans in this city were so blinded on election day with political prejudice, that they were unaware of the fact, that the candidate for county surveyor on Socialist ticket was a Colored man in the person of L. A. Mitchell, 663 Austin avenue, and it afforded us untold pleasure to vote for him. But that is much more than can be said on the part of the colored Republicans. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Freists, Indieids, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republics, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 2040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, ii., as Second-class Matter. Michael McInerney, Defeated for the State Senate in the Fourth Senatorial District. To the agreeable surprise of the respectable Democrats and Republicans residing in the Fourth Senatorial District, Ex-Alderman Michael McInerney, who has been an office holder and seeker for the past twenty or twenty-five years, was laid out cold and stiff by P. J. McShane, his Republican opponent who will be always found on the side of degency and the people when it comes to voting for their interest in the State Senate. Ex-Alderman McInerney has no one to blame but himself, for his crushing defeat. He would persist in having Ben Tillman to speak in the Stock Yards District to stir up race hatred and strife among the whites and the blacks, and he has been justly and severely rebuked by the better element of both races for doing so. The Friday morning after Tillman spoke in the Stock Yards District. the writer told Mr. McInerney in the presence of many gentlemen in the county headquarters on Washington street, that "he would have plenty of trouble on his hands before he was elected to the State Senate for the part he played in the Tillman meeting, and that we would use our best effort among the colored people in the 30th ward to bring about his defeat." And over a thousand copies of the last issue of The Broad Ax were distributed free at our own expense among the Afro-American voters in the district and the election returns in our home precinct the 28th and the other sections of the ward tell the tale. Democratic aspirants for political offices in the North where the colare vote cuts and figure whatever must learn that the days of Ben Tillman are numbered and that the people will not stand for him. The Defeat of the Democratic Ticket of Cook County. In many ways some of the candidates on the Democratic ticket of this county were superior to those on the Republican ticket, but every man on the Democratic ticket was swallowed up in defeat by majorities ranging from 60,000 to 75,000. This thrashing of the ticket by the voters can be accounted for in many ways. But in our opinion the two most potent reasons or causes for the terrible slaughter of the ticket are: First, the vast majority of the Democratic voters throughout the city and county were dissatisfied with the raw methods resorted to in the county convention when the ticket was nominated by the short sighted and narrowly constructed shouters and special retainers of Mayor Carter H. Harrison. In the second place, his managers and so-called shrewd politicians ignored or disregarded our advice in 1900, as to selecting a worthy AfroAmerican as one of the candidates for County Commissioner, and the result was at that election only six out of the ten candidates for commissioners in the city were elected. In 1902 we again appealed to Mayor Harrison and his managers to be guided by our advice in this respect, but they looked upon us as being devoid of any sense and fell down in the convention at the feet of the labor unions and selected at the request of its leaders for county commissioners a lot of men whose names were unpronounceable by the best English scholars, and as a result of their action, only four Democratic county commissioners were successful in being elected. At the close of the election of 1902, we warned Mayor Harrison and his bunch of statesmen consisting of Bath-house John Coughlin Hinky-Dink Kenna, John J. Brennen, M. C. Conlon and Company, that 'If they failed to nominate an Afro-American for county commis- sioner in 1904, it would be impossible for them to elect any Democratic commissioners in that year. They all gave us the laugh, and the county convention of 1904, which was absolutely under the control of Mayor Harrison, nominated an unknown light weight Italian instead of an Afro-American for county commissioner, and labor union men were also selected for commissioners, and there is not one Democratic commissioner left, to mark the spot, where the Italian and his running associates went down to defeat. The fate of the county ticket is a warning to Mayor Harrison that unless he learns to come up with the right kind of goods, John M. Harlan will be elected Mayor of Chicago in 1905. Oscar De Priest and the Chicago Tribune. Last Thursday morning The Chicago Tribune, which has in the past forty or fifty years received many hundred thousand dollars in the way of support from the colored people declared "that Oscar De Priest, who was elected county commissioner Tuesday, was a low grade Negro politician without any standing in the community and it called on all of its readers to help defeat him at any cost." The Record-Herald, The Daily News also in an indirect way reflected on his worth as an honorable citizen, and we understand that a committee of colored Republicans waited on the editor of The Chicago Chronicle and that they were forced to do a whole lot of talking before its editor promised them that he would permit Mr. De Priest to pass without rapping him. It is hard to account for the attitude of the leading Republican newspapers in regard to Oscar De Priest, but one thing is certain, if the Democratic newspapers would have referred to his candidacy like the Republican newspapers, the colored Republicans would have held an indignation meeting and passed resolutions denouncing their editors as enemies to the colored race, and they would also have been in favor of mobbing and lynching every colored Democrat who happened to drop into the meeting. The Colored Republican Meeting in Philadelphia. Colored citizens were out en masse at the big mass meeting held at Musical Fund Hall, Saturday night. John C. Dancy, Harry Cummings, Ernest Lyons, Judson Lyons, John S. Durha were the principal speakers. It was a great gathering, but hardly leeded in Philadelphia to arouse the Negro to the principles of Republicanism. It was a great expenditure of force, energy and time that the Republican Negro voters of Philadelphia could have well dispensed with. Again, strange to say, in the North the Negro raises the hue and cry about the Negro in the South being Jim Crowed and disfranchised, and yet permits himself to hold a Jim Crow mass meeting in the interest of the Republican party, not for the purpose of helping that party to win, but to be set down as favoring Roosevelt and the Republican ticket. It is to be regretted that the Negro in a city like Philadelphia, and State like Pennsylvania, that can always be counted upon for large Republican majorities, to allow himself to be Jim Crowed. In the Saturday night meeting, it was plainly evident that the white Republicans in Philadelphia are just as much in favor of the Lilly white Republican sentiment of the South as the Lilly white Republicans of the South are themselves who practice it. A Negro Republican vote counts as much in the majority in this State as a white Republican vote. Then why should there be any separate meeting for white and black men of the same faith? No, it is not right for the Negro, matters not how enthusiastic he may be for the success of the party to favor J'im Crowism in any way or manner. In this instance we believe it was done. The Courrant, Philadelphia, Pa. It is a pleasure to state that The Courrant, and The Mail and Express, Red Bank, N. J., are among the very few clean and influential newspapers published in the interest of the race whose editors possessed enough manhood not to permit a lot of cheap white Republican politicians to fill the columns of their respective newspapers each week with stereotype stuff which could be read in each and every so-called leading Negro newspaper from the beginning to the close of the campaign. CHATS BY THE WAY. Republicans are claiming all the credit for the rural free delivery system. The first step taken for the establishment of the system was by Democrats in the House of Representatives. The Republicans deserve chiefly discredit, for when the system was fairly started they used it as a means of filching from the people. The only instance yet furnished in which the Administration has yet shown itself reluctant to spend the people's money is out of the fund of $500,000 appropriated by Congress for the prosecution of the trusts. There is still $450,000 of the sum unexpended and available. One of President Roosevelt's attempted justifications of the pension order is its popularity, as he supposes. No doubt, indeed, it is popular among its beneficiaries who control a great many votes, but is it the part of a statesman to attempt to justify a questionable act by the measure of its popularity? His defiance of the opposition on that ground is a reflection upon the integrity of the whole American people. --- The New York Tribune says "there was no need for Mr. Roosevelt to write anything" on "the notorious denial of the rights of negroes and nullification of the Constitution in the Southern States," because "his position is well known." Yes, his position is well known, so notoriously well known and so utterly indefensible that even he was baffled for words to square himself. "What has the Administration done to the trusts?" asks the Memphis Commercial. "Address your communication to Mr. G. C. Cortelyou, care Republican National Committee," replies the Washington Post. --- Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, former United States Senator from West Virginia: "There is no question in my mind that West Virginia will cast her electoral vote for Judge Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis. The campaign is a hot one on both sides, but all the indications point to Democratic success at the polls next month. I believe our majority will be from 12,000 to 20,000." Ere the earth had covered the form of the martyred President whom he succeeded Mr. Roosevelt said that he would wish only to serve out the unexpired term. Now he not only wants election, but it is unmistakable that, if he wins in November, he will want re-election. The signs are luminous that the trusts have bought him this time, but, O trusts, will he stay bought? --- The New York Evening Sun pokes fun at your Uncle Henry Gassaway Davis for using large words. As though the Sun were the only earthly mental entity familiar with the use of polysyllables. It is common talk, a common joke, in Wall Street, how complete has been the surrender of the Administration to the corporations and the trusts. The late Secretary of Commerce and Labor, with its bureau of corporations to secure "publicity in the interest of the public," has been busy delivering the goods. --- Cortelyou used to be a "trust buster." Now he is a trust truster. "We intend in the future to carry on the Government in the same way that we have carried it on in the past," says President Roosevelt in his acceptance letter. It is the same kind of defiance that is uttered by the footpad, armed with a bludgeon or "big stick," as he stands over his prostrate victim whom he has robbed. --- Chairman Cortelyou, when Secretary of Commerce, had a bureau of publicity under him. It was there that, coming into contact with the great corporations, he seemed to be impressed with the value of secrecy. He is using it in this campaign in his fat frying processes. --- Congressman William R. Hearst, President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, has come back from the West and taken a firm grasp upon the helm of the organization. He has issued a stirring address to members urging them to "special activity and untiring energy from now until the closing of the poll." --- Where was Henry Cabot Lodge when the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor issued its recent report of the result of certain investigations? Among the replies to questions sent out seventy-seven merchants agreed that the trusts had raised prices, and the unsatisfactory condition of living was due wholly or in part to "the existing tariff." --- It has been more than a year and a half since the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor, with its bureau of corporations, was established to open the books of the trusts "in the interest of the public." Chairman Cortelyou was in charge more than a year, but the books have never been opened. The public has not seen a page-not a line of them. Robert H. 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New York, Nov. 10.—With the election returns still incomplete, the plurality of Presicen Roosevelt in the nation, according to all indications, will exceed 1,500,000—the greatest plurality ever given an American candidate. The nearest approach to this vote was in 1896, when McKinley received a plurality approximating 850,000, and in 1873, when Grant received 762,991 plurality. The interest centers in Missouri and Maryland. Late returns indicate that the former state is in the republican column so far as presidential electors are concerned, but that Joseph W. Folk, the democratic candidate, has been elected governor. In Maryland the presidential vote will probably be cast for President Roosevelt. In the other states, it is simply a question of pluralities. The "solid south" was broken by the probable defection of Missouri—this section of the country usually having 13 states in the democratic column. The figure snow but 12 states, with 133 votes for Judge Parker. President Roosevelt carried all the northern states—swept them in fact—and he has 343 electoral votes. Pennsylvania the Banner State The banner state is Pennsylvania. Twenty-four hours after the polls closed the returns from this indicated that Roosevelt's plurality would reach 485, 000. Next came Illinois, where the president polled approximately 225,000 more votes than did Judge Parker. Ohio gave Roosevelt 200,000, and New York 174,000. The New York city returns are still incomplete, but the amazement over the result has not subsided. Judge Parker carried Greater New York by nearly 41,000 votes. Both parties claim Maryland, the republicans by 1,500. The democratic state managers said the state would cast its electoral vote for Parker and Davis. There is a curious situation in Minnesota, where Roosevelt secured 125,000 plurality, but where a democrat governor and a republican lieutenant governor were elected. The election of a democratic governor is the second in the history of the state. Late returns indicate that the entire republican state ticket, with the exception of governor, was elected in Missouri. President Roosevelt, it is definitely known, has carried the state: The Electoral Vote. A tabulated statement of the indicated results is as follows: For Roosevelt A tabulated statement of the indicated results is as follows: For Roosevelt State. Estimated Plurality. Electoral Vote. Colorado 20,000 5 California 50,000 10 Connecticut 32,000 7 Delaware 5,000 3 Idaho 25,000 3 Illinois 200,000 27 Indiana 75,000 15 Iowa 140,000 13 Kansas 100,000 10 Maine 37,000 6 Maryland 1,000 8 Massachusetts 80,000 16 Michigan 142,000 14 Minnesota 100,000 11 Missouri 1,500 18 Montana 2,000 3 New Jersey 50,000 12 Nebraska 40,000 8 New Hampshire 20,000 4 Nevada (No figures.) 3 New York 108,791 39 North Dakota 25,000 4 Ohio 154,000 23 Oregon 40,000 4 Pennsylvania 390,000 34 Rhode Island 89,000 4 South Dakota 40,000 4 Utah 10,000 3 Vermont 20,000 4 West Virginia 5,000 7 Washington 30,000 5 Wisconsin 60,000 13 Wyoming 10,000 3 State. Estimated Electoral Plurality. Vote. Alabama 75,000 11 Arkansas 40,000 9 Florida 18,000 9 Georgia 45,000 12 Kentucky 21,000 13 Louisiana 35,000 9 Mississippi 50,000 10 North Carolina 50,000 12 South Carolina 25,000 9 Tennessee 25,000 12 Texas 100,000 18 Virginia 25,000 12 The Next Congress. Washington, Nov. 10.—Election returns indicate that the Fifty-ninth congress will stand as follows: Senate—Republicans, 56; democrats, 32; doubtful, 2; republican majority, 24. House—Republicans, 247; democrats, 187; doubtful, 2; republican majority, 110. Missouri. St. Louis, Nov. 10.—With incomplete returns at hand and the result of the state and national election coming in slowly from the outlying counties, Roosevelt has broken the "solid south" by carrying Missouri for the republican party for the first time in 30 years. Fifty-eight widely scattered counties, out of 114, give the national ticket a plurality over Judge Parker of 12,292. Joseph W. Folk (dem.) for governor, running in the neighborhood of 35,000 ahead of the state ticket, is given a plurality of 31,043 in the same counties, which include the city of St. Louis. Carried with the republican landslide are the candidates for congress in eight of the 16 districts, a republican gain of seven, and the semiofficial returns from the state legislative districts give a republican majority of 14 on joint ballot in the next general assembly. This will mean the defeat of United States Senator Cockrell for reelection, he having been promised by the democrats of the state reelection previous to the democratic national convention, if he would allow the use of his name in connection with the nomination for the presidency. His probable successor will be either Cyrus P. Walbridge, republican candidate for governor, or Thomas K. Niedringhaus. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 10.—Chairman Evans, of the democratic state committee, concedes the election of eight republican congressmen in Missouri. Illinois. Chicago, Nov. 10.—Revised unofficial returns, based in some cases on careful estimates, from all counties in Illinois, show that Roosevelt and Fairbanks carried the state by 267,853 plurality over Parker and Davis. Charles S. Deneen. M. CHARLES S. DENEEN. Governor-Elect of Illinois. for governor, and the rest of the republican state ticket, will have approximately the same plurality as the national ticket. Along with the great plurality for the republican national and state tickets 23 republicans were elected to congress out of 25 members to which the state is entitled. Only two democrats—H. T. Rainey, in the Twentieth, and M. D. Foster, in the Twenty-third district—are saved to the party out of the wreck. Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Nov. 10.—The result of the election in Wisconsin shows that Roosevelt ran ahead of every ticket and carried the state by a plurality estimated at about 130,000; that Gov. La Follette has been reelected by a plurality of about 50,000 and that the congressional complexion remains unchanged from two years ago. The legislature which is to elect a United States senator to succeed Joseph V. Quarles, is largely republican. Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind.. Nov. 10.—The latest returns from over the state have not changed materially the earlier estimates of the plurality for the republican national ticket. Republican State Chairman James P. Goodrich is persistent in P. B. FRANK HANLY. Governor-Elect of Indiana. his prediction that 75,000 plurality for Roosevelt is conservative. Returns from the legislative districts indicate that the republicans will have a majority of 100 in the legislature which will this year elect two United States senators to succeed Charles W. Fairbanks, vice president-elect, and Albert J. Beveridge. The republicans gain two congressmen, defeating Representatives Miers and Robinson in the Second and Twelfth districts. Iowa. Des Molines, Ia., Nov. 10.—Chairman Spence, of the republican state central committee, estimates Roosevelt's majority in the state at 130,000. The entire state ticket was also elected. Dawson, Second district congressman, pulled through by a narrow margin. All other congressmen were elected. Michigan. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 10.—President Roosevelt carried every county in Michigan and he has the wonderful plurality of 150,000, while Warner for governor received only 55,154 over Ferris, democrat. One of the notable features of the election is that the republicans seem to have secured every member of both houses of the legislature. Ohio. Columbus, O., Nov. 10.—Almost complete unofficial returns indicate that the republican plurality in Ohio is between 210,000 and 215,000, or over three times the plurality this state ever gave any national ticket. About a dozen counties have been carried by the republicans for the first time, which means radical changes in county and other local offices. Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 10.—When all the returns shall have been received, it is claimed now, that Roosevelt's majority will run close to 125,000, if not more. An estimate made from incomplete returns indicates 109,000 majority. The republicans elected the entire nine congressmen without a shadow of doubt, and the rest of the state ticket, including a state legislature, which is strongly republican on a joint ballot. John A. Johnson (dem.) and Ray W. Jones (rep.) were elected governor and lieutenant governor, respectively. There is no doubt as to Johnson's election. The election of a democratic governor is the second in the history of the state. New York. New York, Nov. 10.—Returns from all parts of New York do not materially affect the figures given out earlier in the day. The legislature will have 102 republican assemblymen out of 150 and 35 republican senators out of 60. New York city returns at a late hour show that Parker carried Greater New York, with one election district missing, by 35,999 yotes. Brooklyn was carried by President Roosevelt by 1,805 votes. Herrick (dem.), for governor, carried Greater New York, with one election district missing, by 80,625 votes, and Brooklyn by 5,404. The returns from counties outside the city show that Parker carried four of the 61 counties in the state, while Herrick carried six counties. The returns from the whole state show that Roosevelt has approximately 174,000 plurality, and that Higgins (rep.), for governor, has 80,000 plurality. Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Nov. 10.—Complete returns from 55 of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania and estimates of the total in the remaining 12 counties show that Roosevelt had 824,907 votes, Parker 339,495, a plurality for Roosevelt of 485,512. The official count will undoubtedly increase Roosevelt's plurality to 490,000 and possibly more. Massachusetts. Boston, Nov. 10.—The returns from the state were completed Wednesday and the figures show that the republican presidential electors received a plurality of 86,279 in a total vote of 422,825. The votes for president and the head of the state ticket were: Roosevelt, 254,552; Parker, 168,273; plurality for Roosevelt, 86,279. For governor—Douglas (dem.), 234,311; Bates (rep.), 198,601; Douglas' plurality, 35,710. Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 10.—Probably complete returns will be required to determine who is elected governor of Nebraska. Outside of governor, however, the republicans have made a clean sweep on national, state, congressional and legislative tickets. For governor both sides exhibit figures which they say will substantiate their claims for the election of their respective candidates. President Roosevelt carried the state by probably 75,000. Only two congressional districts, the Second and Third, were at any time in doubt, and to-day's figures place them in the republican column, thus giving a solid republican delegation from Nebraska. Marvland. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 10.—On the face of the unofficial returns of the votes cast on Tuesday, received here up to a late hour, Maryland is republican on the presidential ticket by a small majority. An official count may be required to decide the result.. Prominent republicans still claim that Maryland rolled up at least 1,500 majority for the presidential ticket, while Chairman Vandiver, of the democratic state central committee, and other leaders of that party aver that the electoral vote of the state will be cast for Parker and Davis. BRIEFLY TOLD. A Condensed Budget of Election Returns. ARKANSAS—Additional returns indicate the plurality for the Parker and Davis electors to be less than 30,000. CALIFORNIA—Roosevelt's plurality will be nearly 115,000. The full delegation of eight congressmen will be republican and an overwhelming republican majority in the legislature insures the election of a republican successor to Senator Bard. COLORADO—Roosevelt's plurality has been increased by later returns and may run above 15,000. Republicans and democrats claim the election of governor and congressmen-at-large. DELAWARE—Complete but unofficial returns give Roosevelt a plurality of 4,100. Preston Lea, the republican compromise candidate for governor, carried the state by a plurality of 2,800. FLORIDA—Returns, which are coming in slowly, indicate that the estimate of 20,000 plurality for the democratic ticket and a shade less for presidential electors is correct. GEORGIA—With 29 counties still to be heard from Parker's plurality is estimated at about 65,000, which is much larger than was expected. All 11 democratic congressmen were elected. IDAHO—Roosevelt has about 25,000 plurality, and Gooding, for governor, between 18,000 and 20,000. LOUISIANA—Louisiana's plurality for the national democratic ticket is about 35,000. MAINE—Practically complete returns give the republican presidential electors in Maine a plurality of 37,500. The plurality in 1900 was 28,000. MISSISSIPPI-The democratic ticket will have approximately 50,000 majority in the state with eight democratic congressmen returned. NEW HAMPSHIRE—Roosevelt has a plurality of 22,000. McLane (rep.) for governor, has a plurality of about 16,700. The republicans have elected 20 of the 24 state senators and 285 representatives out of the total of 393. OREGON—Roosevelt's plurality in Oregon will exceed 40,000 and may attain the remarkable figure of 45,000. The socialists polled over 7,000 votes. RHODE ISLAND—Complete state returns show that President Roosevelt received the largest vote ever cast in Rhode Island and his plurality is 16,000. TENNESSEE—State Republican Chairman McCall claims that Littleton (rep.) has carried the state for governor. This the democrats will not concede. Parker has a plurality of 25,000. TEXAS—Returns received indicate Parker's plurality will run over 150,000. Charles A. Culberson will be returned to the United States senate. UTAH—Unofficial returns from all but three counties in the state indicate that Roosevelt's plurality will be approximately 15,000. VIRGINIA—Actual and estimated returns give Parker about 27,000 majority in the state. The Ninth district is the only one carried by the republicans. WASHINGTON—Complete returns from one-fourth of all the precincts in the state of Washington and incomplete returns from most of the others show that the Roosevelt electors have carried this state by over 50,000 votes. WEST VIRGINIA—Roosevelt's plurality over Parker is between 20,000 and 25,000 and may exceed these figures. Dawson is elected governor by a plurality probably exceeding 4,000. All five of the republican congressional nominees are successful. The legislature will be republican in both branches. PARKER WRITES AN OPEN LETTER SAYS HE WILL NEVER AGAIN SEEK PUBLIC OFFICE. DISCUGSES THE CAMPAIGN Declares Democratic Party Has Great Mission to Perform, and Points Out Need of Harmony in Order to Win. Esopus, N. Y., Nov. 10.—Judge Parker has given to the press an open letter, addressed "To the Democracy of the Nation," in which he thanks those in charge of his campaign work, and declares that the people will soon realize that "The tariff-led trusts are absorbing the wealth of the nation." He said that when that time comes the people will turn to the democratic party for relief. In this letter Judge Parker says he shall never seek a nomination for public office. He discusses the difficulties encountered by the democrats in making their campaign this year, and makes suggestions regarding harmony in the party. In conclusion, the judge says that in the presence of defeat he does not hesitate to say that in his opinion the great moral question that confronts the democrats is "shall the trusts and corporations be prevented from contributing money to control or to aid in controlling elections?" Judge Parker said that his plans for the future were not definitely made, but that soon he would be in harness again. It is generally believed here that he will engage in the practice of law in New York, forming a partnership with some well established firm. The Letter. Judge Parker's letter, after expressing his thanks to his supporters and to the national committee, continues: "Deeply as I regretted leaving the bench., in the presence of overwhelming defeat, I do not lament it. I thought it was my duty. In the light of my present information, I am even now more confident that I did right. I shall never seek a nomination for public office, but I shall to the best of my ability serve the party that has honored me, and through the party serve my country. Party Has a Great Mission. "The party has in the near future a great mission. Before long the people will realize that the tariff-fed trusts and illegal combinations are absorbing the wealth of the nation. Then they will wish to throw off these leeches, but the republican party will not aid them to do it, for its leaders appreciate too well the uses to which the moneys of the trusts can be put in political campaigns. When that time comes, and come it will, the people will turn to the democratic party for relief, and the party should be ready—ready with an organization of patriotic citizens covering every election district, who are willing to work for the love of the cause—an organization supported by as many town, city, county and state officers as we are able to elect in the meantime. "We entered this canvass with every northern, western and eastern state, save one, in republican control. This gave to that party a large army of office holders, reaching into every hamlet, many of whom gladly followed the examples set for them by the members of the president's cabinet in devoting their time and services to the party. Harmony Is Necessary. "To accomplish much in this direction, however, we must forget the difficulties of the past. If anyone suspects his neighbor of treachery, let him not hint of his suspicion. If he knows he has deserted us, let him not tell it. Our forces have been weakened by divisions. We have quarreled at times over nonessentials. If we would help the people, if we would furnish an organization through which they may be relieved of a party that has grown so corrupt that it will gladly enter into partnership with trusts to secure moneys for election purposes, we must forget the differences of the past and begin this day to build up wherever it may be needed, a broad and effective organization. And we must by constant teaching, through the press and from the platform, apprise the people of the way the vicious tariff circle works. We must bring home to them at other than election times the fact that moneys contributed to the republican party by the trusts is not only dishonest money, but it is given that the trusts may, without hindrances, take a much larger sum from the people. The Greatest Question. "In the presence of a defeat that would take away all personal ambition, were it true that otherwise it possessed me, I do not hesitate to say that in my opinion the greatest moral question which now confronts us, is: "Shall the trusts and corporations be prevented from contributing money to control, or to aid in controlling, elections? "Such service as I can render in that or any other direction will be gladly rendered. And I beg the cooperation as a fellow worker of every democrat in the country. "ALTON B. PARKER." Japanese Prince Arrives. San Francisco, Nov. 10.—Prince Saduaru Fushimi, cousin of the emperor of Japan, who comes to this country to pay a special visit to the president of the United States arrived by the liner Manchuria at noon. He was landed at the Washington street dock two hours later and from there was driven to his hotel. He refused to be interviewed at that time, saying that his visit was purely one of courtesy. OIL SETTLES DESERT DUST A Railroad Through Barren Waste Bathes Roadbed in Crude Petroleum to Keep Sands Down. Crude oil from California's wells has deprived the Mojave desert from the Needles to Barstow of the discomforts which for years made passengers dread the ride across the dreary waste. Even into Pullmans in other years the fine sand of the desert which was raised in clouds by the passage of the train percolated, although double windows were closed. There was no escape from it. If a passenger retreated from the stifling air of the car to the rear platform he was blinded not only by the flying sand, but also by showers of hot cinders from the locomotive. Driven back into the car, he passenger prayed for the quick transit of the desert. But the blistering Mojave has lost its greatest terror. Only the heat remains, but this is uncomfortable only in the summer and may be avoided then by a night ride across the plain. One of the Pacific companies has bathed its roadway all the way across the desert with crude oil. The California oil has an asphaltum base and it has soaked in and-bound the sand together in a compact mass, so that not a particle of dust can be raised, no matter how swiftly a train is traveling. The storms of the desert sweep the sand on the right of way, but the smooth oiled surface affords it no resting place and it is swept off. MOURN BY SMASHING TEETH Sailor Tells of Queer Way in Which Sandwich Islanders Show Sorrow at Death. "My dog has just died," said a tourist, "and I feel bad enough to knock out my front teeth and paint the lower part of my face black, the way the Sandwich Islanders mourn their dead." "Come off," said his companion. "Come off." He did not believe that the mourning dress of the Sandwich Islanders was like that. "What I tell you is the truth," said the touris. "That is why so few Sandwich Islanders have all their teeth. The black holes in the front of these people's mouths don't mean they are deficient people dentally. They mean that a father, a mother, or a wife has been lost. The Fijian mourning is all done by the women. When a Fijian dies the women must burn themselves to show that the community feels the affliction. Usually they burn themselves on the arm. In Turkey, when a member of the family dies, the others put on violet—violet is the Turkish mournin' color. The mournin' color of the Egyptians is yellow. The Ethiopians is brown. The Chinese is white. Ours is black." ACCIDENTS FOLLOW POLICY Insurance Man Declares That Casualties Are Sure to Come-Thinks Old Job the Best. "I've been in the accident insurance business just four days," said the dyspeptic-looking man to a Chicago Inter Ocean man. "I've written six policies, and already two of the people have put in claims. It's a funny thing what effect an accident policy seems to have on some people. They will live for 35 or 40 years and never get a scratch. Just let them get one of my double action policies and they go at once and get hurt. A man seems to think an accident policy is a thing to keep him from getting hurt and that no matter what he does or where he goes he is safe. One man asked me the other day if there would be any danger to him in taking out the policy. I was afraid of the risk and told him he was certain to be killed. It's a strange way for people to look at the thing, but they do, and I'm about ready to go back to my old job of selling washing powder to unsuspecting housewives." CROUPIER NOT BAD AS SAID John L. Sullivan Tells Tale of Monte Carlo, Lauding Kind-Hearted Stake Payers. John L. Sullivan was talking about the croupiers of Monte Carlo, says the New York Tribune. "They are not so bad as they are painted," he said. "They have warm blood in their veins. They are sorry for you if you lose their money—your money, I mean. And if you ask advice of them, they give you good advice—good advice every time. I watched a young Englishman playing rouge et noir one evening. He lost steadily. I judge he lost close on to $2,000. Toward midnight he took out a gold louis. He smiled wretchedly at the croupier, twirling the louis in his fingers. 'This is my last gold piece,' he said. 'Where do you advise me to put it?' 'Put it,' said the croupier, 'back in your pocket.'" Curious Turkish Foods Three singular preparations of grape juice are known in Turkey, and our consul at Harput thinks they might all be made and liked in this country. Basduk consists of sheets resembling leather, made by evaporating grape juice to the consistency of molasses, then mixing flour with it and drying it on cotton cloth in the sunshine. Kessme is in cakes half an inch thick. It is made by using coarse wheat grits instead of flour to mix with the grape molasses and is dried on metal plates. Sujuk, a still more savory preparation, is made by stringing walnut meats on twine, and then immersing the strings thus formed in the mixture of flour and grape juice. When coated about a quarter of an inch thick the strings are hung up to dry. How Mr. Roosevelt Has Stopped Opposition to the Delaware Boodler. Thomas W. Lawson, who has always been regarded as a shining light of Republicanism and a liberal contributor to the boodle funds of his party, continues his story entitled "Frenzied Finance" in the October number of Everybody's Magazine. Much of this installment is devoted to a scathing arraignment of Roosevelt's friend and trusted adviser, J. Edward Addicks, of Delaware. The incidents leading to Addicks' entrance into the Boston gas field are fully narrated. The 'gas man's' alleged financial crookedness and his known political rascality are shown up in a light that must bring joy and peace to the soul of Theodore Roosevelt—in a horn. An entire chapter is given to a narration of the story of Addicks' "capture" of the Bay State Gas Company and the alleged corrupt methods by which he profited to the extent of $7,000,000. This man Addicks is one of the most notorious political corruptionists in the country. Roosevelt, while Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Governor of New York, went out of his way to condemn him and expressed contempt for any one who would have political relations with him. During the first two years of his incumbency of the Presidential office Roosevelt continued his opposition to Addicks and Addicksism, and used his influence to bring about his overthrow. He joined hands with the honest and decent Republicans of Delaware and helped them to "down" Addicks and save the honor of their State and party. But how is it now? Does Roosevelt still support the reputable wing of his party in Delaware? Not at all. He is hand in glove with the corrupt Addicks, has turned over to him and his heenchmen the Delaware patronage and is apparently proud of Addicks as a political lieutenant and confidential adviser. In the opinion of the best men in the Republican ranks in Delaware, Roosevelt, in the hope of getting the electoral votes here, has sold his soul to the devil. SHALL SEE THE DEVIL If Peacemakers Shall See God, What is to Become of Warmakers? In a speech made in Boston October 4th, introducing Secretary Hay to the International Peace Congress, Mayor Collins, of the Hub, said "that if he were to paraphrase a Bible text to suit the occasion it would be this: 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall see God; damned be the warmakers, for they shall see the devil.'" This utterance from Mayor Collins in the presence of the Secretary of State, while not directed at President Roosevelt, is at least an excoriation of the President when considered in connection with a speech he made before the Republican Club of New York, February 13th, 1899, when he said: "If we ever grow to regard peace as a permanent condition, and feel that we can afford to let the keen, fearless, virile qualities of heart and mind and body sink into disuse, we will prepare the way for inevitable and shameful disaster in the future. . . . The peace which breeds timidity and sloth is a curse and not a blessing." PRAISE FROM SIR HUBERT. Judge Parker's Public Character Floquently Extolled by the New York Tribune. Judge Alton B. Parker's refusal to stand for the Presidency on a platform which ignores the money question and leaves in binding force as Democratic doctrine the free silver coinage planks of 1896 and 1900 does signal credit to the firmness and courage of his public character. Judge Parker is widely respected in this State for the conspicuous ability he has shown in politics and on the bench, and for the purity and integrity of his private life. Every man who knows him esteems him. The Republicans of New York have nothing but good words to say about him in his private capacity and in his judicial activities.-New York Tribune, July 10, 1904. HEAT TELLS WORTH OF EGG It is a common sight in the plaza to behold a stall woman, who is selling two reals' worth of eggs, pick them up one by one, put one end and then the other to her lips and hand them over to the customer, who repeats the same identical operation. To the inexperienced onlooker it seems as if they were tasting the extremities of the egg. As a matter of fact they never touch the egg with the tongue. The idea of the performance is that when an egg is fresh one end is distinctly colder than the other. The end which has the air chamber is the warmer of the two. The human lips are exceedingly sensitive to heat and cold, and even the novice at this form of egg testing promptly becomes a capable judge. If both ends of the egg reveal the same temperature, that egg may be counted as bad, as it is a fairly good sign that the air chamber is broken and the contents spread equally within the shell. Betrothed on Mountain Trip. Herr Wagner and Fraulein Jerzabek, both enthusiastic Alpine climbers, assisted by a company of friends, celebrated their solemn betrothal on the snow-covered summit of the Grossglockner. 12,660 feet high. Mr. Albert Stone has moved to 5300 Armour avenue. Mrs. Lucy Harris, 5247 Dearborn street, is home after a pleasant vacation. Among the late new subscribers to The Broad Ax are Daniel Williams and Alexander. Payne, Washington, D. C., Peter McCann, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Mrs. Millie Jefferson, Avondale, Ill., and George J. Woods, 3011 Dearborn street, Chicago. George A. Trude thought he could be elected State's Attorney of Cook county without the aid of The Broad Ax, but it was impossible for him to do so, and he can continue to tinker with the law to earn bread and meat for his family. Last Thursday evening Mr. R. A. J. Shaw and Mr. Albert B. George debated the question, "That woman should have the right to propose marmarriage," before a large audience in Lyons Hall in Evanston. Mr. Auter presided. The affair was for the benefit of Mr. Charles Thomas, a cripple. Harry Hildreth, Jr., made a gallant race for clerk of the Circuit Court and he would have knocked out John A. Linn, the Negro-hating Republican, it had not been for the wonderful landslide which swept many unworthy men into office in all parts of the county. At a meeting in Douglas Hall last Friday evening, Justice T. D. Hurley stated that there was no Democratic newspaper in Chicago. At that point, the Hon. Robert Redfield, who presided over the meeting interrupted the speaker and informed him that he was mistaken, that The Broad Ax was Democratic and his remarks brought down the house. County Commissioner John Budinger, John S. Clark, candidate for Clerk of the Superior Court, and many of the other Democratic candidates, in order to duck doing business with newspapers, claimed that "they did not care whether they were elected or not," and the people took them at their word, and permitted them to forego the duties in connection with public offices. BAN ON TOBACCO CHEWING Iron-Clad Edict Issued Nearly 200 Years Ago Against the Habit License Required. In the code of laws passed by the towns of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield in the years 1738-39 may be found the following on tobacco chewing: "Forasmuch as it is observed that many abuses are crept in and committed by the frequent taking of tobacco, it is ordered by the authority of this court that no person under the age of 21 years nor any other that hath not already accustomed himself to the use thereof shall take any tobacco until hee hath bought a certificate under the hands of some one who are approved for knowledge and skill in physicks that it is useful for him and also that hee hath received a lycense from the courts for the same. And for the regulating of those who either by their former taking it have, to theire apprehensions, made it necessary to them or upon due advice are persuaded to the use thereof, it is ordered that no man within this colonye after the publication hereof shall take any tobacco pulquely in the streets, highways or any barnyards or upon training days, in any open places, under the penalty of sixpence for each offense against this order in any of the particulars thereof, to bee paid without gainsaying, uppon conviction by the testimony of one witness—that is, without just exception—before any one magistrate. And the constables in the several towns are required to make presentment to each particular court of such as they do understand and can convict to be transgressors of this order." QUEEN HAS $75,000 THIMBLE King of Siam Presents Wife with One Valued at Big Sum-Is a Bare Work of Art. The costliest thimble in the world is undoubtedly one possessed by the queen of Siam. It was presented to her by her husband, the king, who had it made at a cost of rather more than $75,000. This thimble is an exquisite work of art. It is made of pure gold in the fashion or shape of a half-opened lotus flower, the floral emblem of the royal house of Siam. It is thickly studded with diamonds and other precious stones, which are so arranged as to form the name of the queen, together with the date of her marriage. Not long since a Paris jeweler made a most elaborate thimble to the order of a millionaire. It was somewhat larger than the ordinary thimble and the agreed price was $2,000. The gold setting was scarcely visible, so completely was it covered with diamonds, rubies and pearls in artistic designs, the rubies showing the initials of the recipient. Five or six years ago a jeweler in the West end was paid a sum of nearly $15,000 for a thimble which the pampered wife of a South African croesus insisted on having made for her. This was one mass of precious gems—diamonds and rubies. Japan's Fire Bird. A manufacturer of fireworks in Nagasaki, Japan, makes a remarkable rocket from which, when it explodes in the air, there flies a large bird, resembling a homing bird in its movements. For more than 400 years the secret of this wonderful production is said to have been in the possession of the eldest child of the family to which the manufacturer belongs. FISH THAT SHOOTS ITS PREY "I told you," said the sailor, "about the fish that carries a fishin' rod and fishes. Did I ever tell you about the fish that carries a gun and shoots its prey?" "No." said the druggist. "Well, this fish lives in the warm West Indian waters," the sailor began. "It is about eight inches long, as slim as a cigar, and silver-colored. Its gun is its mouth—a kind of snout, with a round hole for the opening, the same as your mouth is when you pucker it up to whistle. This here fish lies in the shallows, near the shore, and it watches out for flies and other insects. When it sees one of these insects it swims up close, it sticks its snout quietly out of the water, and then—puff—it blows forth a little drop of water, a pellet as hard as a shot, that hits the insect fair and square, stuns it, brings it down. This fish has a blowpipe for a mouth, and its ammunition is the water it lives in. The little drops that it blows at its prey travel fast and true. They seldom miss their aim. I have been struck in the hand by pellets of water shot by the gunnin' fish. The pellets hurt me a little. They felt like little pin-pricks." NO MIDDLE CLASS THERE. Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma Declares That the Farmer Is "It" in His State. Gov. Ferguson, of Oklahoma, in speaking of his experiences at the world's fair, said that when he made his speech there were a great many Oklahoma farmers present. He says he could have called 200 or 300 farmers in the crowd by name. After the speaking a New York man said to him that he was surprised at the great number of the middle class from Oklahoma present at the fair. These words "middle class" knocked the governor out of the box, and he said to the New York man: "Why, we have no middle classes in Oklahoma. These people to whom you refer as middle classes are the farmers of the territory. They are the men who have the money in the banks, and out there they are 'it.' If you were in Oklahoma you would be compelled to give those fellows half the road. The idea never entered their heads that anybody is any better than they are." He said the New York man was more surprised when he told him that the smallest farms in Oklahoma were 80 acres, and that the great majority of farms were 160 acres, and that one farmer out there had a whole township in wheat. PUBLISHED POETRY AS ADS Herbert Spencer Once Located American Town Where Price Was Charged for Printing It. An English tourist was lamenting the late Herbert Spencer's aversion to poetry. "Mr. Spencer," he said, "called poetry 'sensual Caterwauling.' Some of it, to be sure, he excepted from this class. There were parts of Shakespeare that he liked, and he liked Longfellow. But the average poem was caterwauling to him, and the average poet was a caterwauler. One day I called on Mr. Spencer, and during my call I read to him a poem by W. B. Yeats. The beauty and the dim splendor of this poem impressed even the scientist. "That, I'll admit, is not caterwauling," he said. Then, with a dry smile, he took a newspaper clipping from his pocket. 'I have been saving this,' he said, 'to show you. It is from an American newspaper published in the town of Manunkachunk. I think I shall remove to Manunkachunk. The people set a right valuation on poetry there.' I read the clipping. It said: 'Original poetry is published on the same terms as advertisements.'" Icebergs as Indicators In the investigation of the currents round the coast of Newfoundland it has been observed that there is at at times a wide difference in the direction of the drift of icebergs, and that of the flat or pan ice, which, having no great depth, is governed in its motions by the surface currents and the winds, whereas the icebergs, the larger part of which is submerged to a great depth, following only the movement of the ocean water as a whole, and are uninfluenced by the winds. In consequence, a huge berg may often be seen majestically maintaining its slow advance in opposition to the wind and across the general motion of the fields of flat ice surrounding it. The sealers often take advantage of this fact by mooring their vessels to an iceberg in order to prevent a drift to leeward. Big Smokestacks on Liners. The size of the smokestacks of some of the steamships which leave New York is an interesting topic among folks long shore. A convincing proof of their size is seen in this comparison: The new East river tunnel, which the Pennsylvania railroad is about to build, is about the same diameter as the funnels of the Lucania and Campania, that is, 21 feet. It seems hard to realize that two trains of cars could run side by side through the stacks of either of these vessels if they were laid flat. Bazaine's Mistake. As a parallel in modern history, Bazaine, at Metz, faced about the same conditions as did Kuropatkin at Liaoyang, but failed to retreat beyond the city and was treated as the Japanese hoped to treat the Russians in the stronghold from which they wisely fled. CROWN PRINCE FELLS TREE Coming King of Germany Assists Woodmen and Plays in Baden Hotel Orchestra. Whatever the crown prince of Germany may be, he is certainly not "stuck up." Lately he and his flancee were visiting the grand duke of Baden. In Baden he stayed at the Hotel Stephanie, and while there he and Duchess Cecilie were in the habit of listening in the evening to the Hungarian orchestra belonging to the hotel. The crown prince, pleased with the performance on one occasion, sent to his rooms for his violin and, rising from his seat, played himself in the alcove with the musicians through several pieces, including the favorite melody of the young duchess. He then presented the leader of the orchestra with a handsome scarf pin. On another occasion, strolling through the woods, he happened to come on some foresters felling trees. He spoke with them while they were resting, presented them with cigarettes all around and, after begging permission, he took an ax and hewed away at a big tree until the perspiration rolled from him. Not making satisfactory progress, he removed his coat and waistcoat and at last brought down his tree, greatly to the duchess' satisfaction and amid the applause of the woodmen. NERVES BOTHER ANIMALS. Care Should Be Taken in Handling Those with Delicate Systems Disorders Found in Birds. "If you have a good, intelligent, delicate-minded, sensitive dog," said a veterinary surgeon. "be as careful how you shout at it or beat it as you would be in the case of a sensitive and delicate-minded child. I have known a great many cases where overpowering emotion—fear or shock—has ruined a dog for life. Only last week a widow brought here to me a fat dog 11 years old that takes a convulsion whenever it is severely reprimanded. She wanted to know what she could do to rid the dog of the convulsions. I told her she could do nothing but stop scolding it. A Troy man has a French poodle called Lady. He went abroad for the summer. Lady was left at home. Well, on his return when Lady saw him she had such a fit of nervous joy that an attack of epilepsy seized her. She died. Sometimes even in birds you find a delicate nervous organization. That bird up there in the cage—that common canary—was leaped at by a cat last year. The cat leaped right on the cage and the canary toppled over in as dead a faint as you ever saw. It didn't revive, by Jove, for five minutes." OLD WATCHES' QUEER SHAPE Odd Timepieces of Old Days Represented All Sorts of Animals and Things—Origin of Fob. There is uncertainty as to when the portable watch, as we understand it today, came into use. It was probably at the close of the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth owned a large number of watches. Mary Queen of Scots, was the possessor of a skull-shaped watch. In fact, the "death head" pattern was at that time much in vogue. Endless were the styles, for there were watches shaped like books, pears, butterflies and tulips. The Nuremburg egg was a special shape and was made in 1600. Those queer shapes of watches prevented their finding a place in the pocket. When was the fob first used in the dress of man? The German fob is "foppe," and it is believed that it came from Europe through the Puritan, "whose dislike for display may have induced them to conceal their timekeepers from the public gaze." This conjecture is strengthened by the fact that a short "fob" chain attached to a watch of Oliver Cromwell's in the British museum is, in point of date, the first appendage of the kind known. The watch is a small oval one in a silver case, and was made about 1625 by John Midnall, of Fleet street. Aesthetic Italian Laborers With the exception of the silent Sicilians, the Italian immigrants are generally fluent talkers and extremely intelligent. I have known a Neopolitan, who could neither read nor write, quote from Dante, Petrarch and Tasso, says a contributor to the World's Work. It surprises you to hear a group, made up of an asphaltmixer, a sailor turned waiter, and a barber and baker, who had stuck to their trades, discuss the sculpture on a new court building; or when upon another night the same men wrangle over the merits of Verdi and Mascagni, and end by humming and singing in chorus, "Parigi O Cara." Largest Meteorite "in Captivity." Bar Mustach "in Business Hours." A general admiration of Americans is gradually driving the beard from the faces of Englishmen, because of the prevailing idea that men in the United States are universally clean-shaven. There is some confirmation of this in the remarkable order of the Bank of England authorities forbidding the clerks "to wear mustaches during business hours." Joseph A. O'Donnell Henry D. Ct a O'Donnell & Coghlin Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph Sts. 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