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IN FENDS TO RUN HIS OWN CAMPAIGN. ROOSEVELT’S ACTION DISCUSSED IN WASHINGTON. Democrats. In other words, “Whether Roderigo kill Cassio, or Cassio kill Roderigo, it will make for our good.” We not only will carry the State tick et to victory and the national elect ors, but there will be some very handsome pickings in the different congressional districts. Things look rosy in the sucker State*for the Dem ocracy. Charles A. Edwards. SACREDNESS OF HUMANE LIFE. Political Gossips Say the President’s Demand for Cortelyou Means He Will Conduct His Own Campaign. (Corrspondence of The Ledger.) If Men Would Preserve It, They Must Hearken to Duty. As a people, a civilized people, a Christian people, we are “confronted by a condition, not a theory.” A con dition so appalling that “awful” is Washington, D. C., July G.—The po- the only word which may adequately litical gossips of the national capital express it. it is not the purpose of are just now discussing the action of t' 11 * 8 ar . tl *j e to 111,011 wholesale ^ ,, , c denunciation. That can do no good, the president in demanding that Sec- not eyen arouse the innocen t, much retary George B Cortelyou of the , e8S awaken lo a senso of repentance commerce and labor department, ^ those _whoever they may be-who made the chairman of the Republican are m)t innocent The wri ter, in corn- national committee. In the eves o mon a i ar g e number of our peo- the politically wise this move means ple does mogt since rely deplore the nothing less than that the president man y f ac t s of every degree, which intends to run his own campaign in bear witness to tht . world that hu- his own way, for surely Mr. Cortel- man Hfe is held in nght esteem. you, while he is personally one of the That thjs sent i ment should so largely nicest kind of fellows, has had no ex- . n jn South Carolina is a fact SERIOUS SOCIAL REVOLUTION. medy every defect in the due admin istration of law, and no false idea of mercy should be permitted to stay the just penalty of an outrageously violated law. The good suffer more than the bad, in the reproach—ming led with contempt—which is cast up on our beloved commonwealth by the weakness, often by the ignorance, and sometimes—O, the pity that it must be said!—by the wanton disre gard of right and justice, displayed in the jury box. Fill the jury box with our noblest type of earnest, high-minded, truth- loving, justice-bearing citizenship and the danger arising from appeals to passion and prejudice is almost, if not altogether, removed; the adept “shyster” is eliminated from a no ble profession; and the skillful mani pulator of human nature’s baser pas sions is deprived of the opportunity to thwart the purposes of law and to trample upon the principles of jus tice. The public ideal of the sacredness of human life is steadily falling lower! We need to unite, we must unite, to raise that ideal to the height of God’s ideal or the penalty will be wide spread, far-reaching and overwhel ming. G. P. Watson. perience whatever in the manage ment of national campaigns. He has for which one can scarcely account. The records of our courts show been and now is nothing more than that p unishmen t for theft is much a derk at the head of a bureau and frequent than is punishment for all his political experience has been th crimc of homicide . What is the confined to just such work. \\ hile cause? A false idea of the sacred- Roosevelts work in national cam- of human life and of the quality paigns has been more extensive, yet f m Fa) iu that tho life of he has about as much idea of conduct ing a campaign as a hog has about navigating a ship. Together they will the murderer is more highly regard ed than the life of the murdered. Shall man be more merciful than make a sorry mess of the thing and God? Ig man wiser than G od? The it is an open secret here that among the leaders of the Republican party they are not breaking their tear walls over the thing and do not give a con tinental how badly Roosevelt is de feated. The truth of the matter, how ever, is that the president was per fectly satisfied that he had all the old fat-frying Republicans placed in a corner and knocked out to a finish so far as the campaign fund is con cerned, because Carnegie had agreed to put up a million dollars and he had further feathered his nest in the Pan ama canal deal to the extent of sev eral more millions for tho campaign fund, which gave him all he really needed, or at least thinks he may need ,and he therefore became very cocky. He now proposes to run things as he pleases and will refuse to take the dying suggestions of that prince position sustained by many men gives an affirmative to both questions. Homicide and murder have become so frequent that the enormity of the crime does not seem to make any im pression either upon the slayer or upon the people. Let us see if this enormity can be made to appear. It is a crime committed against the State. Her fair name is besmirched. Her glorious fame is obscured by the smoke of the all-too-nimble pistol. Her grand character is lowerd into the dust. It is a crime committed against man. He is robbed of time, of opportunity, of earthly happiness and, in many instances of future hap piness. His family, his friends, often his country, each and all are robbed. A life may be shining like a star of the first magnitude, a beacon light . . .... . for the guidance of many a storm of practical politicians, Matthew Stan- tossed sa ji ()r _ And yet that brilliant ley Quay, that tho selection of Cor- mnv ^timmished in an telyou for chairman of the Republican national committee was an egregious blunder. He intends to run things his own way by placing this new fledged ‘ It ^ politician at the head of things, think ing thereby to fool the people into believing that he cares nothing at all for the campaign contributions that •could be garnered by the old timers in the game of politics, that he is go ing to run things on a higher plane and not going to have a money cam paign. The truth is that he has all the beacon may be extinguished in an instant by a bullet sent hurtling on its mission of death by the hand of It is a crime committed against God. “In the image of God made he man.” A blow in the face is an in sult to the dignity of a man. How much more is a blow in God’s face an insult to his dignity! Every blow aimed at man, contrary to the Divine warrant, is also a blow aimed at God. When tho punishment which God has prescribed for murder, is with- money he needs from the Panama ca- h(i j d * that also becomes a blow aimed nal deal and from Carnegie and b> God Thug we f ind three powerful placing Cortelyou in command, appa rently, he will conduct his own cam- motives which should the right direction: impel us in Patriotism, ... , , , ,, s v. • to steer straight for the point of duty head in the and and belieung lie is _ l( , acb tbe Kacr ednes8 of human life. hidden. \\ atch his game. What agencies are available for this Tho leaders of tho Democratic par- | ^Th.hT "veTeac^S ! f also . o' •«“ .^Hsent in the state of Wisconsin. From the advent here of a delegation from the LaFollette faction of the Republicans of the Badger State, it is learned cer tainly that there can be no peace in that State unless a faction is recog nized as the Republican party of the State. This the president refused to do. If he had done so, he would im mediately embroil himself with Sen- Parents, the pedagogue, the press, ; the pulpit. The primal responsibility rests upon the parents. God has so : ordained it. The pedagogue—lead- ing, guiding a boy, is the second link of this chain of agencies. Our schools may, and should, not only strengthen and sustain the correct teaching of the home, but should endeavor to ; Kr and QuartWTM the cmaterae. W wr», leaders of the so-called stalwart, of ^\r,V tt V!ay iroiad. S ! the party in Wisconsin. Therefore, he is between the devil and the deep sea and the chance of the State of Wisconsin sending Democratic elect ors to the electoral college next win ter is increasing daily. Under the law and the constitution •out in that State, the electors have to decide upon which ticket their names shall be printed and as both the La Follette and the so-called stalwart factions of the Republicans each have nominated the same presidential electors, thinking thereby to head off the Democrats on the national ticket at least, the rub comes in. It now is j a case of “Under which king, Bezo- nian, speak or die!” Let the good work go on and we have them licked to a standstill, not alone on the ques tion of presidential electors, but on a number of congressmen as well. The weakness and strength of the men the Democrats are going after in that State have not yet developed, but will very soon. As an officer of the Democratic con gressional committee, I do not at this time purpose to give away our hand to the enemy. Suffice it to say that the Hon. Joseph Weeks Babcock, the chairman of the Republican con gressional committee, the hero of so many congressional victories for the Republican party, is marked for slaughter in that State and we are going to hang his official scalp at the Democratic wampum next November. And there are others. Watch the Dem ocratic smoke from now on. Wiscon sin is our mat. • • • The situation in the State of Illi nois gives great joy to the Democratic heart that beats in unison with that of the entire country, albeit it beats close to the capital of the nation. The warring factions in that State in the Republican party give promise of re sults that are devoutly to be wished by all true Democrats in the country. They are at It again out there and be fore this letter Is read by the good people who read it, they may have come to some conclusion. Whatever that conclusion may be It will leave enough sore spots to do incalculable damage to the Republican party in that State and give to us not only the State officers, but the national elect ors If Yates wins, he will be knifed unmercifully. If the other side the Yates machine will be instructed by the Iaoss to take a smash at the whole works and the result will be chaos for the Republicans and victory for the the play press must needs take no uncertain position. Many papers are outspoken and fearless. Every paper should lend the weight of its influence until all within range of that influence shall be moulded into a solid mass of opposition to all crime, chiefly ^ that now under discussion. The pul pit, even more than the press, should sustain no equivocal attitude. “Cry aloud and spare not,” is the Divine command. As a minister, I would not dare unduly to shield either my self or my brethren from criticism. 1 most seriously doubt whether any one of- us has preached often enough upon this and closely related topics. Let these four agencies combine their forces in united attack upon the evil doers and only a few years will In required to effect a greatly needed and greatly desired change. There are several mediums through which the truth thus taught may be, and should be, applied to make it ef fective. Of these, the chief is that of public opinion. Let public opinion be enlightened, unbiased and deter mined to uphold the right. Then, speedily will every criminal become ashamed to show his face, at least, among right-thinking people. Next is the medium of the courts. Let purity, impartiality and a tone of high moral elevation, ever be the characteristics of our courts and a long step will have been taken toward freeing our State from the prevalence of crime. The medium next mentioned, though last in the order of statement, is by no means least in the order of influence. This medium consists of the juries which serve in our courts. Here we find the greatest difficulty in dealing with all varieties of crime and the weakest point in all the machinery of law. There are two classes of citizens which should be exempted from jury duty, for reasons that are self-appar ent: Ministers of the gospel and law yers. There is one class which should be excluded from jury duty: That class commonly, but express ively known as “toughs.” But the failure to register exempts any one. This is a fatal defect in an otherwise good law, and our law-mak ers should devise some plan to over come this defect. It is unmanly thus to shirk a most important duty of cit izenship. The good people of the State lament every miscarriage of justice, but lamentation should be accompanied by heroic effort to re- Women Wage Earners Deprive Men of Privileges of Working for Them. [Public Ledger, Philadelphia.] The entrance of women* in large numbers to occupations which were once almost exclusively restricted to men is one of the distinguished char acteristics of the present industrial age. Its effect upon social conditions has become the subject of anxious in quiry. Competition for employment in gainful callings is no longer con fined to one sex, and heads of families find it increasingly difficult to main tain their charges unless their daugh ters become wage-earners. Thus the ranks of labor at all suitable for wo men are constantly recruited. Many women, married and unmar ried, are obliged by necessity to seek employment from which they were formerly excluded by custom. Others desire financial independence. What ever the motive for the departure of women from the old ways, it must be regarded as a movement which is having a tremendous influnce for weal or woe. Its relation to wage earning men must not be over looked. A writer in the New York Tribune remarks that while we have been trying to discover what the effect of the new industrial progress is on women, few except those immediately touched are much concerned over what changes might be working in the condition of the man “whose place, in many instances, the wage earning woman has usurped.” The casual observer cannot fail to note the large proportion of wage earning women coming from indus trial establishments at the close of tho working day and to contract this with former conditions. While we are felicitating ourselves upon the opening opportunities for women and their success in new fields, the lowering of the wage rate, the dis placement of fathers of families and young men, obliged by the new com petition to postpone or abandon ma trimony, deserve consideration. It appears from the last census that half the women in the United States over 15 years of age are unmarried. The percentage is likely to become higher with the increasing inability of men to marry. The sociological outcome deserves attention. After enumerating the results of woman's activity—better wages, j greater opportunities for her produc tive industry, a “release from the odious compulsion which drove wo men into marriage as the only means of livelihood,” and “the ampler ser vice she can render society,”—Dr. Ly man Abbott significantly says in World’s Work that motherhoou is the ; highest service of all: “Law governs life, medicine pro longs life, poetry portrays life; the mother creates life. The education of the future will recognize mother hood as the supremest of all desti- | nies, and the curriculum of all schools ; and colleges worthy of the name will be fashioned to conform to this stand ard and to prepare for this service.” $50,000. CASH GIVEN AWAY to Users of LION COFFEE In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums How Toledo, ^*ycrcicl c Woouson Spice Co. (Liojv Come, > me. J 10 H 4 , w. TOLEDO, OHIO. WOOL^o^KCCO. THCASt/m/f Like si Check Like This ? ||f A Uau* | UIAva | A f| tOn Afin AA Cash to Z./on Coffee users in our Great World’s Fair Contest— We nave HWarneil e£UjUUUiUU 2139 people get checks, 2139 more will get them in the Presidential Vote Contest • V I J!" ^ O What will be the total popular vote cast for President (votes for all can didates comb’ned) at the election November 8, 1904? In 1900 election, 13,959,653 people voted for President. For nearest correct esti mates received in Woolsou Spice Com pany’s office, Toledo, O., on or before November 5, 1904, we will give first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the next nearest, etc., etc., as follows: 1 First Prize *2,500.00 1 Second Prize 1,000.00 2 Prizes *500.00 each 1,000.00 Five Lion - Heads cut from Lion Coffee Packages and a 2 = cent stamp entitle you (in addition to the regular free premiums) to one vote. The 2-cent stamp cov ers our acknowledgment to you that your estimate is. recorded. You can send as many estL mates as desired. Grand First Prize of $5,000.00 will be awarded to the one who is nearest correct on both our World’s Fair and Presl= dential Vote Contests. We also offer SS,000.00 Special Cash Prizes to Grocers’ Clerks. (Particulars in each case of Lion Coffee.) How Would Your Name Look on One of These Checks? Everybody uses coffee. If you will use LIOX COFFEE long enough to get acquainted with it. you will be suited and convinced there is no other such value for the money. Then you will take no other—and that’s why we advertise. And we are using our advertising money so that both of us—you as well as we—will get a benefit. Hence for your Hon iletultt WE GIVE BOTH FREE PREMIUMS AND CASH PRIZES Complete Detailed Particulars in Every Package of LION COFFEE 5 Prfzes— 200.00 IO Prizes— 100.00 20 Prizes— 50 Prizes— 250 Prizes— 1800 Prizes— 2139 PRIZES. 50.00 20 OO 10.00 6.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 2.500.00 9,000.00 TOTAL, *20,000.00 WOOLSON SPICE C0. f (CONTEST DEP’T.) TOLEDO, OHIO. E» STYLE IN JOB PRINTING is as essential to the business man as style in clothing is to the so ciety man. You fail to impress when you send out poorly printed or unstylish stationery. You get up-to-date printing when you patronize THE LEDGER.”^ foleyskidneycure Prevents Bright’s Disease and Diabetes For Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. For Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. For Sale by Cherokee Drug Co. The Remington Typewriter Are You Administrator FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. 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