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S' IJEIMEHIYIUMKALER PElew [ IBgEV matMK BPEYTflEy KU i\$ [ A crowded union meeting Sunday Bight closed the annual convention ot Illinois Christian Endeavorers la Springfield. Acting Governor Thorne of Ken* tacky bas pardoned Johnson Hatfield, one of the survivors of the Hatfield* McCoy feud, who had served four years of a life sentence for murder. Nettie Dibelbiss, aged 10, wat drowned at Punxsutawney, Pa., while trying to cross a run which had been swollen into a river by a storm. Great damage was done by the storm in the vicinity. Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist can­ didate for President, was the princi­ pal speaker at the opening of the campaign at Evansville, Ind., Sunday. Postmaster-General Payne has left Washington for 4, brief vacation in Maine. He will lA back in Washing­ ton by July 28. \ American Ambassador Storer, who to Buffering from intermittent fever in Vienna, will start next week for Amor lea on a long leave of absence. Rev. Dr. Francis Kemper, pastor of the First Methodist church at Wabash, lad., has been transferred on account of throat trouble to the First Metho­ dist church of Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. William J. Harkness of Jacksonville •will go to Wabash. The secretary of agriculture has designated Colonel S. R. Burch, chief clerk, as representative on the g<?v- ernment board of the St. Louis expo­ sition, to succeed Assistant Secretary 1. H. Brigham, deceased. Major-General James F. Wade of tlie Philippine division will assume eommand of the Atlantic division at Governor's island, relieving Major- General Corbin, who will command the Philippine division. Count Albert Apponyi, leader of the national section of the liberal party In the lower house of the Hungarian parliament, has announced his inten­ tion of attending the international parliamentary congress to be held at 8t. Louis in September next. The University of Edinburgh, Scot­ land, has conferred the degree of doc­ tor of laws on Hannis Taylor, for­ merly American minister to Spain and later of counsel for the United States before the Alaska boundary commis­ sion. Miss Emma Patrick of Austin, Tex., who la in charge of the Texas mining exhibit at the world's fair, has been appointed first vice president of the Mining Exhibit Superintendents' asso­ ciation. Dr. Thomas Herran, formerly eharge d'affaires at Washington for the United States of Colombia, is re­ ported to be dangerously ill from tu­ berculosis at Liberty, N. Y., where he vent from a city hospital May 30. Consul Gottschalk at Callao has re­ ported to the state department by cable that cholera has broken tut at Salaverry, a Peruvian coast town. As the result of a cloudburst at the headwaters of Turtle creek, near Pittsburg, Pa., two boys lost their lives. The damage to property will be heavy. Justice Giegerich of New York con­ firmed the second sale of the prop­ erty of the National Salt company in New York state for $193,376. At the first sale, which was set aside, the amount offered was $387,500. The Canfield Eastlake sawmill and salt block at Manistee, Mich., were destroyed by fire, with their contents. They had been recently purchased by Richard G. Peters. Two hundred men are thrown out of employment. Announcement is made of the en­ gagement of Miss Cecilia Tobin and Charles W. Clark, son of Senator Clark of Montana. Mr. Cl^k's first wife died a few months ago at their home at Burlingame. Franklin N. Sackett, principal of the Tampico, 111., schools, disappeared June 8, and his family fears that, while temporarily deranged, life wandered away or committed suicide. Frank Holtman confessed in Walla sWalla, Wash., that he held Clarence "TMyers in Kansas City while Mrs. My­ ers cut his throat. Holtman said he and Mrs. Myers wanted to marry and planned the murder. Senator C. W. Fairbanks, Republi­ can candidate for vice-president, has returned to his home in Indianapolis from Michigan. After attending to some private business he will go to Oyster Bay. He will speak at Indian­ apolis July 14, welcoming the Philip­ pine commission. After a ten days' stay In St. Louis, Cardinal Satolli left in a special train for Indianapolis. From there the car­ dinal and his party will go to Dayton, O., and then come to Chicago, where -they will arrive July 11. From Chica to they will go to St. Paul, and then by lake steamer to BuffalZ. The car­ dinal will sail for Italy htaujgust; Portland Kampbel), prominent farmer, aged 30, committed suicide at Boonville, Ind. As a result of the linemen's strike the trades assembly at Peoria, IH., will ask union supporters to remove telephones from tneir houses and stores.. E. A. Alderman of Tulane uni verslty has accepted the presidency Of the University of Virginia. Brig. Qen. Peter C. Hanns is retired and Maj. Theodore A. Bingham will succeed him, to be retired immediate­ ly in favor of Col. Constant Williams, ^ Charles Rasor and George White. Aged respectively 10 and 9 years, were •drowned while playing on a rait in an old reservoir in Bradford, Pa. The second interstate convention of the United Mine Workers of the three southwestern districts, Nos. 14, 21 and „ has convened in Pittsburg, Kan. Milwaukee bas a population of be- *i--4ween 320,000 and 825,000, according to estimates based on the latest school census, which gives the total number of chiMren of school age HK>,963. 1 This in an increase pt 2,030 Children over the previous census. * - V" * . L _ ' V ' « • '» i . r i M i l * ' i rn r ' r f r i r i i i i i i i j ] i i i i " hii h f ' n r : % i ' f i " V i rVn ' i i ' r m 4s. M. LATEST CASH MARKET REPORTS WHEAT Chicago--Ne. a red, ttOMc. Liverpool--No. 1 California, Ca I New York--No. 2 red, $l.<8. St. Louis--No. 2 red, fl.OGOl.tt. Kaftsas City--No. 2 red/ 95c0t&. Minneapolis--No. 1 hard, 95%e. Duluth--No. l northern, Sitbo. Milwaukee--No. l northern. " CORN. Chicago-- No. 1 4S%c. Liverpool--American mtxeO, new, New York--No. 2, 56c. St. Louis--No. 2, 4S%c Kansas City-No. 2 mixed, lid. Milwaukee--No. 3, Peoria--No. 8, 46c. OAT8. Chicago--Standard, 41c. Now York-Mixed. 45®46Wc. St. Louis--No. 2, 41c. Kansas City-No. 2 white. 42c. Milwaukee--Standard, CATTLE. Chicago--$1.40@,6.G5. Kansas City--$1.50<r6.40. St. Louis--J2.2Sfa 6.25. Omaha--Jl.BO^.is. St. Joseph--J1.50<fT)6.S5. Pittsburg--J2@6.10. HOQS. Chicago-- J4.TOJfr; 45. Kansas City--J5 05#5.ai. St. Louis--$5.55^5.40. Omaha-- 84.fiOSf5.3R. St. Joseph--J5.05@5.3ft, Pittsburg--$2 50@5.flO. r, SHEEP AND LAMBS. Chft'fipo--J24J-6.25. Kansas City--$4®6.70. St. Louis-- ?2.2o<§7. Omaha--83 @6.75. St. Joseph--52.75@fi.10t Novelli, the famous ItalU&i actor, will appear in both tragedy and com­ edy in the United States, beginning in January, 1905. He will-spend half his stay in New York. His company will include Signorina Olga Calnnini as leading lady. Earl Dennefield, aged 11, and Owen Stone, aged 17, were drowned in a pond in Kansas City, Kan., while bath- ln*- The Utah state convention of the Republican party to nominate candi­ dates for all state offices will be held in Salt Lake City Aug. 25. A fire threatened the destruction of West View, a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa., but with the aid of the Alleghany fire department it was subdued before any great damage had been done. The cruiser Ariadne, with Vice-Ad­ miral Sir Archibald Douglas on board, sailed from St. Johns, N. P., for the Bay of Islands, French shore, where Admiral Douglas, with Commodore De Kerillis of the French squadron, will inquire into the difficulties between the French and Newfoundland fisher­ men, arising from misunderstandings over the French shore treaty. Returns from the Eleventh Texas district primaries show that Congress­ man R. L. Henry has defeated Judge Gerald. In the second district the In­ dications are that Congressman S. B. Cooper has been defeated by M. I* Brooke. The result in the Eighth dis­ trict is so close that the contest will have to be settled in the congres­ sional convention. Fern and Dumartheray, Swiss minis­ ter at Washington, has been appoint- ed to succeed Dr. De Claperede as min­ ister to Austria-Hungary. Cornelius Shields has been made general manager of the Lake Superi­ or corporation and has given orders for a resumption of operations by all the plants at Sault Ste. Marie. The Marquette league of New York city has been Incorporated to estab­ lish schools and other institutions for the improvement of the condition of the Indians. Edmund Bersch, who pleaded guilty at St. Louis to accepting a bribe in connection with the passage of the city lighting bill, receiving a share of the $47,500 distributed among nine­ teen members of the house of dele­ gates, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Officers are searching for Edward Bcwen, a negro farm hand, who dis­ appeared shortly after the mysterious disappearance of the 14-year-old daughter of Perry P. Joseph, a farm­ er near Hollyville, Del. The father swore out a warrant after discover­ ing a cabin in the woods which bore signs of a struggle In its interior. Gov. Odell and William Barnes, Jr., chairman of the New York Republi­ can executive committee, took lunch with the president at Oyster Bay and later had a three hours' conference on the state situation. "The presi­ dent," Gov. Odell said afterward, "let be known that he will not inter- fere in the selection of candidates in the state." The paraffin plant of the Atlantic Refining company at Philadelphia was destroyed by fire. The loss is esti­ mated at about $100,000. Lightning struck the house of Charles Jacobson in Flushing, N. Y., probably fatally injuring Mrs. Helen Wilhelmson and Walter Jacobson, aged 8. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia sailed from London on the White Star line steanaer Majestic. Several of the Igorrotes at the St. Louis world's fair appeared in bright red silk trunks, but the authorities probably will let them return to their native costume, as the new one serves no better for a covering and destroys the anthropological value of the ex­ hibit. Fire at Chautauqua, N. Y., threat­ ened the entire assembly grounds and caused a loss of $75,000, on which the insurance was $20,000. Among the buildings burned were Miller's hard­ ware store, Elliott's an* Park's gro­ ceries, Snyder's dry goods store andi the postoffice. Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, has sailed for Havre. He took with him the silk covering of his airship, which was damaged recently at St. Louis. He said he would return to take part in the aerial contest at St. Louis in October. The chamber qt the communes in Port au Prince, Hayti, voted unani­ mously to censwe Minister of Finanoe Bijou for mismanagement of public finances. Minister Bijou offered his resignation, but President Nord re­ fused to accept it. declaring that the minister still had his confidence. The convention of the western di­ vision of the International Associa­ tion of Machinists at Denver voted to asBfess each member $1 a month, which will amount to 925,000 month­ ly, to assist the striking Santa Fe machinists. "American Boy day" was celebrated at the St. Louis exposition with appro­ priate exercises, addresses being made by boys from different sections of the country, including a 10-year-old Chip­ pewa Indian, and by Kiyo Sue Snui of Japan. President Roosevelt sent message to the "boys of America," PARKER AND DAVIS. iW. New York Jurist and Ex-United States Senator from West Virginia Named by Democratic! National Convention. For President--Alton Brook* Park­ er of New York. For Vice President--Henry Q. Davis of West Virginia. Judge Alton Brooks Parker of New York was nominated for President of the United States by the Democratic national convention at St. Louis July 9. Only one ballot was takea On the completion of the ballot Judge Parker had received a total* of 658 votes. Before the vote was an­ nounced, though, Idaho changed her six votes to him from Hearst, giving him 664 votes, and West Virginia add­ ed three from Hearst, thus giving the New Yorker 667, or exactly the two- thirds necessary. Following is the result of the roll call by states: Parker--Alabama, 22; Arkansas, 18; Colorado, 4; Connecticut, 14; Florida, 6; Georgia, 26; Indiana, 30; Kansas, 7; Kentucky, 26; Louisiana, 18; Maine, 7; Minnesota, 9; Mississippi, 20; Mary­ land, 16; Michigan, 28; New Hamp- tory, 1; Hawaii, 6; New Mexico, 8; Oklahama, 2; Port* Rico, 4; total, 204. Cockrell--Kansas, 1; Minnesota, 1; Missouri, 86; Nebraska, 4; total, 42. Olney--Maine, 4; Massachusetts, 82; Nebraska, 1; Oklahoma, 1; total, 88. Towne--Minnesota, 2; total, 2. Wall--Nebraska, 1; Wisconsin, 26; total 27. Pattison--Nebraska, 4; total, 4. McClellan--Colorado, 1; Oregon, 1; Oklahoma, 1; total, 8. Gray--Delaware, 6; Minnesota, 1; Nebraska, 1; total, 8. ' Miles--Kansas, 2; Nebraska, 1; total, f Williams--North Dakota, 8. Colerv--Oregon, 1. Gorman--West Virginia, 2. After Idaho and West Virginia had nominated Parker the nomination was made unanimous on motion of Champ Clark, the permanent chairman, and then the convention adjourned until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the nomination for vice president was made. rention was In session July 9 Judge Alton Brooks Parker, tlie nominee for president, telegraphed the convention that he believed in the gold standard and that unless the convention knew his belief and still favored his candi­ dacy he must decline to be the stand­ ard bearer of the party. A conference of party leaders hur­ riedly assembled. In a stormy session Senator Tillman denounced Parker's action, and Senator Hill strove to find a solution. At 6:80 o'clock, with all uncertain­ ty, the convention was adjourned un­ til 9 o'clock. When the convention reassembled Senator Hill and other Parker adher­ ents offered as a solution a telegram to Parker stating that the monetary standard had been ignored in the platform because it was not consid­ ered an issue in the campaign. The resolution sending the message to Judge Parker passed the conven­ tion on roll call by a vote of 774 to 199. JUDGE ALTON BROOKS PARKER. i i 1 r ft fM Born In Courtland, New York, May 14, 1852. Educated in public schools, Courf- land Academy, Courtland Normal 8chool and Albany Law 8chool. \j- Nn»c b Married to Mary L. Schoonmaker in \Elected Judge of New York State 8u- Rochester, 1873. pretpe Court, 1885. /Admitted to New York bar, 1877. Delegate to Democratic national con­ vention, 1884. Chairman Democratic state, execu­ tive committee, 1885. shire, 8; New Jersey, 24; Montana, 6; New York, 78; North Carolina, 24; Ohio, 46; Oregon, 4; Pennsylvania, 68; Rhode Island, 2; South Carolina, 18; Tennessee, 24; Texas, 36; Utah, 6; Vermont, 8; Virginia, 24; West Vir- giiiia, 10; Alaska, 6; District of Colum­ bia, 6; Indian Territory, 5; Oklahoma, 2; Porto Rico, 2; total, 658. Hearst--California, 26; Colorado, 5; Florida, 4; Idaho, 6; Illinois, 54; Iowa, 26; Kansas, 10; Maine, 1; Minnesota, S^, Nevada, 6; Nebraska, 4; Oregon, 21, Rhode Island, 6; SouUi_ Dakota, 8; Washington, 10; West Virginia, 2; Wyoming, 6; Arizona. 6; Indian Terri- 8PIE8 OUT FOE'S POSITION. Automatic Aeroplane Used to Photo­ graph Scenes of War. A remarkable appliance, the inven­ tion of an Englishman, will shortly make its appearance at the seat of war, and may be expected to have a considerable effect on the progress of the campaign. It consists of an automatic aero­ plane, containing a powerlul photo­ graphic apparatus. It can be sent up to a considerable height and driv­ en four miles away from the base, at wfcich it is held captive, and brought back after taking a complete photo­ graphic map of two miles of the coun­ try over which it has hovered. Thus an army possessing this appa­ ratus can safely obtain a detailed plan of an enemy's position, showing in every particular the disposition of guns, trenches and forces. Moreover, the aeroplane will register the exact distances of all the objecta photo­ graphed. Favor International Language. An English consular report from After the reading of the platform at the night session the chair announced that nominations for the Presidency were in order, and Alabama at once yielded to New York. Martin W. Littleton of Brooklyn placed Judge Parker in nomination. Cheers arose when the roll call reached California and the chair rec­ ognized D. M. Delmas, who arose to nominate William Randolph Hearst. Then the Miles boom was formally launched. David Overmeyer of Kan­ sas made the nomination. While the Democratic national con- France makes mention of the fact that the auxiliary international lan­ guage "Esperanto" is gaining ground in that country. It is used in com­ mercial circles, and the minister of war has specially authorized officers to join the groups that are being formed in towns for free tuition. Appointed member of Court of Ap» peals of New York. 1889-93. Chief Judge of Court of Appeals of New York since January 1, 1898. Nominated for President of the United States by the Democratic na­ tional convention July 9, 1904. The tired delegates then took up the vice presidential nomination. Henry C. Davis, former United States senator from West Virginia, re­ ceived 536 votes; Williams of Illinois, 165; Turner of Washington, 100, and Harris of Kansas, 58. Before the roll call was completed all the other can­ didates withdrew and Davis was named by acclamation. At 1:31 a. m. the convention ad- journed sine die. The Democratic n& tional committee will meet in New York at the call of the retiring chair­ man, James K. Jones. It probably will be called when Judge Parker is notified of his nomination. * A Japanese Gardener. The late Sir Edwin Arnold had a great many stories in illustration of Japanese traits. "The Japanese gardeners," he once said, "have carried their art further than we have carried ours. A land­ scape gardener In Japan is esteemed highly. He is looked upon as we look on a poet or a painter. "And these Japanese gardeners are. truly, remarkable men. I was riding with one of them near Kioto on an August afternoon, and we came to a steep hillside. " 'Tell me,' I said, 'how would you plan a road to the top ot that difficult wur "The gardener smiled humorously. '"I think,' he said, 'that I would | first torn some cows loos* and se* how they ing Post. got up.' "--Saturday Even- Celestial's Odd Gambling. Some curious wagers have been made in Russia in connection with the war. but it is in China that its possibilities in that direction will be best appreciated. The Chinese are inveterate gamblers; they will bet on a cock fight, a dog fight or a quail fight. They will even get up a cricket fight--with trained crickets, of course --as an excuse for betting. They will bet on the height attained in kite­ flying, the length of time the kite re­ mains up or the strength of the kite strings when they saw one another. They will even bet on the number of pips in an orange or the number of grains In a handful of rice, with a supplementary wager depending on whether that number should be odd or even. Altogether they are a truly commercial race, full of the spirit of speculation, and they will gamble as wildly on the chances of war as If they were on the floor and the most respected members of the London stock exchange. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PLATFORM : m; fjbxM: Jnlf^-tKe Democratic national platform, adopted by the convention to-day, is as follows: We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the United States, in national convention assembled, declare our devo­ tion to the essential principles of the Democratic faith which bring* up to­ gether In party communion. Under them local self-government and national unity and prosperity were alike established. They underlaid our independence, the structure of our free republic, and every Democratic extension from Louisiana to California and Texas, to Oregon, which preserves faithfully in all the states the tie between taxation and representation. They inspirit the masses of our people, guarding jealously their rights and liber­ ties, and cherishing their fraternity, peace and orderly development. They remind us of our duties an&^ responsibili­ ties as citizens and impress upon us, particularly at this time, the necessity of reform and the rescue of the admin­ istration of government from the head­ strong, arbitrary and spasmodic methods which distract business by uncertainty, and pervade the public mind with dread, distrust and perturbation. First Step Toward Safety of Nation. The application of these fundamental principles to the living Issues of the day constitutes the first step toward the assured peace, safety and progress of our nation. Freedom of the press, of conscience and of speech; equality be­ fore the law of all citizens; the right of trial by jury; freedom of the person de­ fended by the write of habeas corpus; liberty of personal contract, untrammel- ed by sumptuary laws; the supremacy of the civil over military authority; a well- disciplined militia; the separation of church and state; economy in expendl- w. taxes, that labor may be I i«i!y "urdened; the prompt and sacred fulfillment of public and private obliga­ tions, fidelity to treaties; peace and friendship with ail nptknpi, entangling alliances with none; absolute acquies­ cence in the will of the majority, the vital principle of republics--these are doctrines which Democracy has estab­ lished as proverbs of the nation, and they should be constantly invoked preached, resorted to and enforced Large reductions can readily be made In the annual expenditures of the gov­ ernment without impairing the efficiency of any branch of the public service and we shall insist upon the strictest econ­ omy and frugality compatible with vig­ orous and efficient civil, military and naval administration as a right of the people, too clear to be denied or with- The enforcement of honesty In the public service, and to that end a thor-* ough legislative Investigation of those executive departments of the govern­ ment already known to teem with ir­ ruption as well as other departments suspected of harboring corruption, and the punishment of ascertained corrup- Uonitts without fear or favor or re­ gard to person. The Federal govern­ ment should not permit Itself to be robbed by entering into contracts with trusts or unlawful combinations in re­ straint of interstate trade, existing in Violation of law. We believe that one of the best methods of procuring econ­ omy and honesty in public service Is to have public officials, from the occu­ pant of the White House down to the lowest of them, return as riearly as may be to Jeffersonian simplicity of living. We favor the nomination and elec­ tion of a President trained in the ways of the constitution, who shall set his face sternly against executive usur­ pation of legislative and judicial func­ tions, whethei that usurpation be veiled under the guise of executive construction of existing laws, or whether it take refuge in the tyrant's plan of necessity or superior wisdom. The Democratic party has been, and will continue to be, the consistent op­ ponent of that class of tariff legisla­ tion by which certain interests have been permitted, through congressional favor, to draw a heavy tribute from the Amer­ ican people. This monstrous perversion of those equal opportunities, which our political institutions were established to secure, has caused what may once have been infant industries to become the greatest combinations of capital that the world has ever known. These publicly favored enterprises have, through trust methods, been converted into monopolies, thus bringing to an end domestic com­ petition, which was the only check upon the extravagant profltB made possible by the protective system. Declare for Wise Revision of Tariff. We favor a wise, conservative and businesslike revision and a gradual re­ duction of the tariff by the freinds of the masses and for the common weal, and not by the friends of its abuses. Its extortions and its discriminations, keep­ ing in view the ultimate end of "equal­ ity of burdens and equality of oppor­ tunities," and the constitutional pur­ pose of raising a revenue by taxation, to-wlt: the support of the federal govern­ ment In all its integrity and virility, but in simplicity, and keeping also In view, as men of common sense should, exist­ ing conditions, however wrongfully, mistakenly or unjustly brought about, and the danger to the cause of tariff reform itself of abrupt and revolution­ ary reversal of policy. We should bear in mind. In short, these two things: First, the general principle that the sole derivation of the power of taxation is the support of the federal government, economically, effec­ tively and constitutionally administered; and, second, the equal truth that in the assertion of any general principle and in reaching any ultimate end. however sa­ cred and logically unavoidable, due re­ gard, but only due regard, must and should be paid to actually existing con­ ditions. We favor the reduction of tariff tax­ ation upon trust produced articles to the point where foreign competition may enter the American market when­ ever trusts and combines, seeking mo­ nopoly, raise their prices to the Amer­ ican consumer above a reasonable and Just profit, by such reduction depri­ ving trusts and monopolies of the power to extort from the American people, under shelter of American law, prices higher than those charged for­ eigners for identical articles. Our party having long, earnestly advo­ cated the construction of an Inter- oceanlc canal for the purposes of na­ tional defense and commerce between the states and with foreign nations, we fa­ vor the early completion of the isth­ mian canal. But while making this declaration and accepting the results as an accomplished and Irreversible fact, we cannot too for­ cibly express our disapproval of the methods by which, in disregard of the usages and obligations of international law and treaty obligations, the canal route has been acquired, or too solemnly record our hope that this precedent of defiant diplomacy may never be used against us to our humiliation and in- Jury. We recognise that the gigantic trusts and combinations designed to enable cap­ ital to secure more than Its just share of the joint product of capital and la­ bor, and which have been fostered and promoted under Republican rule, are a menace to beneficial competition and an obstacle to permanent business prosper­ ity. We demand the vigorous and impar­ tial enforcement of the laws already made to prevent and control such trusts Educational. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the vener­ able author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," who received the de­ gree of LL. D. recently, listened phil­ osophically the other day to the com­ plaints of a woman whose son's educa­ tion at Harvard was costing a great deal of money. / /"Many sons' educations cost a great deal of money," said Mrs. Howe. "And yet it Is the most expensive education, usually, that is the least valuable. "I had this fact brought home to me a ahort time ago. I was visiting a cer­ tain family, and one morning at break- fastfth®~father said, as he handed his B^n, a sophomore, a $10 bill: /" 'Your atudieB are costing a great deal.' "'I know it, father,' the son an­ swered. 'And I don't study T*rjr hard, either.'®" Chemicals Make Water Boil. Some readers of the war news doubtless have noticed references to the fact that tinned meats for the Russian troops are prepared by a process which enables the contents of our for and combinations, and we favor such further legislation in restraint thereof as experience sh ws to be necessary. Corporations chartered by authority of the people must forever remain subject to^ regulation in the interest of the peo- . ̂ .Private monopoly is indefensible Intolerable. We recognize the right of capital In all legitimate lines of enter­ prise to combine for the increase ot business, for enlarging productive ca­ pacity and for decreasing the cost of production, but when such combination, in its purpose or effect, creates or tends to create a monopoly in its productions, to restrain trade or to stifle competition, to increase cost to the consumer or to control the market, it violates the spirit ,?ur *aws ' becomes inimical to publlo welfare and peace and should be so regu­ lated, controlled or prohibited by law a® amply protect tne public interests. We demand that the restraint of such Illegal combinations be entrusted to the Democratic party, which is not respon­ sible for their existence, and which has eVw Pro^ested against their continuance. rr.o»?«£av0r*wuPbuildIng of a merchant marine without new or additional bur­ dens upon the people and without boun- ^ the public treasury. i,J5ye« ^®n(^einn the Republican system of legislation under which trust monopolies are enabled to exact higher prices for their manufactured products from abroa<feOPle than they se)I them We demand an enlargement of the powers of the interstate commerce com- m Jw y?e en^ that the traveling public and shippers of the country may have prompt and adequate relief for the abuses they are subjected to in the mat­ ter of transportation. We favor the maintenance of the Mon­ roe doctrine in its full integrity. We favor a liberal trade treaty with Canad'i. We tavor the maintenance and liberal annual increase of the navy as our best defense. In our Isolated continental con­ dition, against a foreign foe, and a source of no possible danger to onr liberties as a people. We favor the enactment and adminis­ tration of laws giving labor and capital Impartially their Just rights. Capital and labor ought not to be enemies. Each is necessary to the other. Each has its lights, but the rights of labor are cer­ tainly no less "vested." no less "sacred," and no less "inalienable" than the rights of capital We pledge ourselves to insist upon the just and lawful protection of our citi­ zens at home and abroad, and to use all proper measures to secure for them, whether native-born or naturalized, and without distinction of race or creed, the equal protection of laws aad the enjoy­ ment of all rights and privileges opc-n to them under th»> covenants of our treaties of frlendbnip and commerce. Liberal Pensions for War Veterans. The Democracy Would secure to the surviving soldiers and sailors and their dependents generous pensions, not by an arbitrary executive order, but by legis­ lation which a grateful people stand ready to enact. Our soldiers and sail­ ors who defend with their lives the con­ stitution and the laws have a secred in­ terest in their Just administration. They must therefore share with us the humil­ iation with which we have witnessed the exaltation of court favorites with­ out distinguished service over the scarred heroes of many battles, or aggrandized by executive appropriations out of the treasuries of a prostrate people, in vio­ lation of the act of congress which fixes the compensation and allowances of the military officers. We denounce the ship subsidy bill re­ cently passed by the United States Sen­ ate as an Iniquitous appropriation of pub­ lic funds for private purposes and a wasteful, illogical and useless attempt to overcome by subsidy the obstructions raised by Republican legislation to the growth and development of American commerce on the sea. The Democratic party stands commit­ ted to the principles of civil service re­ form, and we demand their honest, Just and impartial enforcement. We de­ nounce the Republican party for its con­ tinuous and sinister encroachments upon the spirit and operation of civil service rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dis­ pensed with examinations for office in the Interests of favorites and employed all manner of devices to overreach and set aside the principles upon which the civil service was established. We demand the extermination of polyg­ amy within the Jurisdiction of the Unit­ ed States, and the complete separation of church and state in political afTairs. We congratulate our western citiaens upon the passage of the measure known as the Newlands irrigation act for the irrigation and reclamation of the arid lands of the west--a measure framed by a Democrat, passed In the senate by a non-partisan vote and passed in the house against the opposition of almost all the Republican leaders by a vote the majority of which was Democratic. We favor the preservation so far aa we can of an open door for the world's commerce In the Orient without neces­ sary entanglement In Oriental and Eu­ ropean affairs, and without arbitrary, unlimited, irresponsible rind absolute government anywhere under the Stars and Stripes, or within the Jurisdiction of the Union. We oppose as fervently »• did Oeorge Washington himself nn Indeftnltr, Irre­ sponsible, discretionary ititil vague abso­ lutism and a policy of ofilonlni exploita­ tion, no matter wnero or l»y whom In­ voked or exercised; w«> believe with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that • no government lias a right to make one set of laws for those "at home" and an­ other and a different set of laws, abso­ lute in their character, for those "in the colonies." All men under the Amer­ ican flag are entitled to the protection of the institutions whose emblem the flag is; if they are inherently unfit for those Institutions, then they are Inherently un­ fit to be members of the American body politic. Wherever there may exist a people Incapable of being governed under Amer­ ican laws. In consonance with the Amer­ ican constitution, the territory of that people ought not to be part of the Amer­ ican domain. Believing this, we believe that we ought to do ultimately for the Filipinos what we have already done for the Cubans. The example is tliere; it is a worthy one;Jt constitutes a bright page In the history of our country;* it tells the story of American courage, magnanimity, and justice. The Democracy proposes, to follow thst example, and it is our intent, as soon as It can be done wisely and safely for the Filipinos themselves, and after amiable arrangements with them concerning na­ val stations, coaling stations, and trade relations, upon suitable guarantees of protection to citizens and subjects of other powers settled in the Philippines, to set the Filipino people upon their feet, free and Independent, to work out their own destiny In accordance with their own race traits and tendencies and local conditions, as God may give it to them to see their interests and their destiny. The endeavor of the secretary of war, by pledging the government's indorse­ ment for "promoters" in the Philippine Islands to make the United States a partner In speculative exploitation of the archipelago, which was only temporarilyi held up by the opposition of Democratic/ serators in the last session, will, if sue-/, cessful, lead to a permanent entangled ment from which It will be difficult t escape. We favor statehood for Oklahoma ajfil the Indian Territory, statehood for Ari­ zona, statehood for New Mexico and a territorial government for Porto Rico. We faVor the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. each tin to be served hot Without a fire. This benefit is secured by hav­ ing the ordinary tins filled with food "jacketed" in patent tins. The patent tin contains water, together with a chemical mixture, by means of which the water can be raised to boiling point in ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. All that it is necessary to do when it is desired to heat the food ia to puncture the top of the patent tin, the chemical mixture being thereby forced into the water, which soon be- gins to boil. 4^^ Ii' itfciiiiwife itiiiiiiii n lin i) Would Not Be Kept Out; Marcus Braun, special immigration inspector, was passing down the pier in Hoboken after the Deutschland had docked the other day when he recog- / nized a woman who, under the name/ of Martha Heur, was deported twefcro years ago. On returning to Europe she went on the stage, and, according to report, made a name as an emo­ tional actress. Now she arrives In the first cabin, and nobody made any at­ tempt to prevent her landing. She was down on the passenger lists as Martha Marlow. - 7 mailto:J2@6.10 mailto:50@5.flO