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Democratic Nominee Defines His
Idea of the Office.
BELIEVES IN ONE TERM.
Adverto’ng ig called by
some an an.
If it be an art it is the art
of telling a sto:y simply and
convincingly.
Nobody knows more
about the strong qualities
of an estao.ishment than
the proprietor who oversees
it. Ouier tilings being
equal, nobody should be
able to write more convinc
ingly of the articlea he of
fers for salt.
In a store wiierc toe employer Mila
foods side by side with hla clerks It ia
rare that tha employer will not be the
beat salesman.
The reason is simple. He
knows the goods from A to
Z. He probably has pur
chased them, He knows
his aims. His arguments
carry v/eight because they
are convincing.
The same arguments pre
sented in the same way,
with the same enthusiastic
spirit, the same knowledge
of detail, would attract
new customers if presented
through the advertising col
umns of this paper.
If yoa have cot triad it,
why not begin?
If yon havr tried it and an not aaOta
Sad, Int aa know about k.
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Must Be In Sympathy With the Peo
ple—Declarea Our Government Not a
One Man Affair—Favors Vice Presi
dent as Ex Officio Cabinet Member.
Willbiiu ,J. Bryau, Democratic nomi
nee for tlie presidency, has written
an article for Collier’s Weekly on "My
Conception of the Presidency.” It
reads as follows:
“The president's power for good or
for harm is often overestimated. Our
government is a government of checks
and balances. Power Is distributed
among different departments, and each
official works In co-operation with oth
ers. In the making of laws, for in
stance, the president joins with the
senate and the house. He may rec
omuiend. hut he is powerless to legis
late except as n majority of the sen
ate and the house concur with him.
The senate and the house are also in-
dependout of each other, each having
n veto over the other, and the presi
dent li.is a veto over both, except that
the senate and house can by a two-
thirds vote override the president's
veto The Influence of the president
over legislation la therefore limited,
lie shares re-piitislblllty with a large
numk-r <»| the people's Ieprescnlatives.
“Kven In the enforcement of law he
Is hedged about by restrictions. lie
acts through an attorney general, whose
appointment must be approved by the
senate, and offenders against the law
must be prosecuted In the courts, so
that here, again, the responsibility Is
divided In the making of Important
appointment, too, he must consult the
senate and is of necessity compelled
to exercise care and diacretlou The
most important requisite In a presi
dent, as in other otllciais, is that hLs
sympathy shall be with the whole pe<
pie rather than with any fraction of
the population. He Is constantly onll«"l
upon to act in the capacity of a Judge,
deciding between the Importunities
of those who seek favors and the
rights and interests of the public, ru
les* his sympathies are right the few
are sure to have an advantage over
the many, for the masses have no on
to present their claims. They act onl\
at elections and must trust to their
representatives to protect them from
all their foes
“The president must have a broad
knowledge of public questions and the
ability to discern between the true and
the false. He must be aide to analyze
conditions and to detect the sophi*
tries that are always employed b\
those, who §eek unfair advantages. H<
must possess the moral courage to
stand against the influences that are
brought to bear in favor of special In
terests. In fact, the quality of moral
courage Is as essential in a public of
ficial as either right sympathies or a
trained mind.
“A president must have counselors,
and to make wise use of counselors
he must be open to convictions. The
president Is committed by his platform
to certain policies, and the platform
Is binding. He is also committed to
certain principles of government, and
these he is in duty bound to apply In
all matters that come before him. But
there is a wide zone in which he must
act upon his own judgment, and here
he ought to have the aid of intelli
gent, conscientious and faithful ad
visers. The law provides these, to a
certain extent, in giving him a cal)-
inet, and the vice president ought to
be made a member of the cabinet ex
officio, in order, first, that the presi
dent may have the benefit of his wis
dom and knowledge of affairs and.
second, that the vice president may
be better prepared to take up the work
of the president in case of a vacancy
in the presidential office. There ought
to be cordial relations also between
the president and those who occupy
positions of influence in the co-ordi
nate branches of the government, for
our government is not a one man gov
erunient, but a government in which
the chosen representatives of the peo
pie labor together to give expression
to the will of the voters.
“But the presidency Is the highest
position in the world, and its occu
pant is an important factor in all na
tional matters. If he is a devout bo
liever in our theory of government,
recognizes the constitutional distribu
tiou of powers, trusts thoroughly In
the people and fully sympathizes with
them in their aspirations and hopes,
he has an opportunity to do a splendid
work. He occupies a vantage ground
from which he can exert a wholesome
influence in favor of each forward
■aovement.
“The resjamslbilities of the office are
so great that the occupant ought to be
relieved of every personal ambition,
save the ambition to prove worthy of
the confidence of his countrymen. For
this reason he ought to enter the posi
tion without thought or prospect of a
second term.
“Willie the burdens of such an of
fice are heavy and while the labors of
the ofll e are exacting and exhausting,
the field of service Is large, and, meas
uring creutness by service, a presi
dent, lo conse rating himself to the
pulili • v. eni, can meke himself secure
In lhe iifre« (Ions of hih fellow citizens
while In* Ii’ < ' d rc-ite MmschT t
permanent pin o in ids nation’s in-
tor v”
Th. •re are tw.i directly opposite r<
sons whv mi ne people cannot ohtnn
credit. One Is Vi-nise they arc no*
known and the other because they nr
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VICTORS IN OLYMPIC GAMES.
How Cfubmates of Flanagan and Shep
pard Regard Their Triumphs.
New York athletes generally and
Irish-American Athletic club members
particularly have had a general Jollifi
cation over the news concerning the
success of John Flanagan, the hammer
thrower, and Melvin Sheppard, the
runner, in the first finals decided in
the Olympic sports in London.
While the wearers of the “winged
fist” and many other close students of
athletics anticipated the victory of
Flanagan in his favorite game, the
general excellence of Sheppard’s work
in both heat and final of ttie 1,.'00
meter race was a much discussed
topic.
William L. Jones, a well known New
York devotee of amateur sport, when
he read the cable announcing the sue
cess of his protege, said:
It only bears out what I’ve always said
about Melvin's running, and his world's
championship in the 1,300 meters will b<
supplemented by a victory in the 800
meters, which is the event he went over
to win. While I have always considered
him the greatest middle distance runner
I've ever seen, barring I .on Myers. 1 did
not think him quite up to taking the
%neasure of the world's best rnilers, as
he has just done.
I look to see him put up a time per
formance in the 800 meters, it was cei
tainly a hardship for our team to have
such men as Sheppard and Halstead
drawn against each other in the trials.
I feel confident our point column suffered
because of the seeming unfairness of the
draw, as Halstead's work in the Phila
delphia tryouts, where he did 4 minutes
1 1-6 seconds for 1,600 meters, seemed to
assure him a victory against Sheppard
or any other runner.
When Melvin comes home I will en
deavor to have him assail the half mile
figures of Kilpatrick—1 minute 63 2-5 sec
onds—and the 1.O00 yard mark of Myers—
2 minutes 13 seconds—which have with
stood attack for thirteen and twenty
■even years respectively.
At the Irish-Auierican club's New
York city home there was open house,
and even the competitive enemies of
the “winged fist” were well received.
Patrick J. Conway, the organiza
tion’s president, to a bunch of athletes
interested in the success of the team.
Individually and eolleetively, said:
While our men are showing up In fine ;
■tylq, boys, it’s all for the good of th. i
stars and stripes and only what I ex
pected. Of course I rather looked for
John to duplicate his fine work at Tor-
rlngion last month, when he threw the
hammer 173 feet inches, a world’s rec
ord. In all likelihood when he gets on
his native heath he’ll get It out 186 fee. :
& distance I’ve seen him accomplish many
times in practice. You know our boys
intend to tour Ireland after the Olympic.
John Flanagan had a novel expo
rieuce a short time ago as he wa
leaving New York to compete at some
athletic games. Following the usual
custom of weight throwers, he carried
along with him his own weight, a six
teen pound iron ball, with a thirty-six
inch wire handle attached. On the
way Flanagan met some friends, and
they called in at a “cold tea house” to
enjoy a couple of tall ones.
Being painfully modest, John decided
to leave the hammer outside, so that
the folks inside would not get wise to
the fact that he was a great athlete. A
few minutes later along came a party
of Italians talking in their native
tongue.
Suddenly from out of their midst
came a fearful whoop, and the bunch
scattered like wildfire, seeking places
of safetj One rushed Into the cafe
where John ami Ids party were stand
ing and shrieked at the top of his
Inngs:
“Bigga da bomb!” “Black Hand!”
“Runna fast!”
With that he disappeared and was
up the street in a Jiffy.
Flanagan and his tr(ends stood in
breathless silence waiting for the roof
of the building to be blown off, but as
no explosion came one of the number
took courage and peeped out of the
door to see what had caused the Ital
ians to stampede. There, beside the
entrance, lay the cause of all the
furore—Flanagan’s sixteen pound ham
mer.
The Italians had mistaken the iron
ball for a bomb and the long wire han
dle for a fuse, so of course the laugh
was on John
Soda Water Gtas to Run an Auto.
John Carroll, an inventor of Phila
delphia. appeared recently in an auto
mobile propelled by an engine driven
by carbonic acid gas. Carroll dime
the car up a hill, stopping several
times on the incline and then starting
again. When he got to the top he
turned around and came down, then
went up once more. The engine was
crudely rigged up for the experiment,
but there was genera! surprise at the
simpleness of construction, and few
could credit the inventor’s statement
that the little engine, not half as big
as an ordinary soap box, could develop
a hundred horsepower. The machine
seemed to have much speed and to be
very easy to control. Carbonic acid
gas is the substance used to charge
soda water.
A SURGICAL
OPERATION
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New Tennis Racket.
A new tennis racket has been in- !
vented with a slot through the handle
parallel to the Hat side. It makes the
racket more resilient and enables the
player to give a faster serve. It Is
also excellent for ground strokes, as
Its flexibility adds strength. Then,
too, these slotted rackets allow heav
ier weight wood to lie used without
making the racket heavier, another
point in their favor. It looks as
though they would become popular.
Taft's Favorite Flower.
The Rev. J. Frederick of Newport.
Ky„ vice president of the Evangelical
Protestant Ministry alliance, wrote to
William H. Taft, the Republican nom
inee for president, asking him to
name his favorite flower. He recently
received a reply that the white carna
tion is to the former secretary of war
the most beautiful bloom.
If there is any one thing that a
vv' nmn - more than another it
Ls a surgical operation.
Vfo can state without fear of a
contradiction that there are hun
dreds, yes, thousands, of ojierations
performed upon women in our hos
pitals which are entirely unneces
sary and many have l>een avoided by
LYDIA E. PIN KHAIM’S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
For proof of this statement read
the following letters.
Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman,
Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: ,
“ For eight years I suffered from the
most severe form of female troubles and
was told that an operation was my only
hope of recovery. I wrote Mrs. Pinkham
for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound, and it has saved
my life and made me a well woman."
Mrs. Arthur R. House, of Church
Road, Moorestown. X. J., writes:
“I feel it is my duty to let people
know what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound has done for me. I
suffered from female troubles, and last
March my physician decided that an
operation was necessary. My husband
objected, and urged me to try Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound,
and to-dav I am well and strong."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
di^xdaeements. inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid rumors, irre$
periodic pains, and backache.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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