HANNA IS THE MAN. THE ONLY REPUBLICAN CANDI DATE FOR PRESIDENT. The MeKlnley-RooHevclt Ticket Rodeemed —The (treat Promoter of Trust Legis lation the Wholo Thing—The People - hot Blind. The Republican national convention has met and done its work. President McKinley, as was expected, has been re-nominated, while from among the numerous candidates for vice-president Governor Roosevelt of New York was selected, by acclamation. The platform is a sort of an excuse for the miscon duct of the Republican party and a 4eries of promises to do better. Senator Hanna was the guiding spirit in the whole affair, and his absolute control of the party was so evident as to be of fensive to even the federal office-hold ers composing the convention. •> The nomination of Roosevelt was In tended to keep alive the war spirit and to fire the hearts of the young men of the country who are supposed to love military heroes. The ex-press censor of the rough riders is expected to offset the unpopularity of McKinley and sub stantial statesmen were set aside in or der to give him a place on the ticket. Under the circumstances it made lit tle difference as to who was nominated for president or vice-president or as to what the platform contains. The peo ple in their hearts look on Hanna as the real candidate and on the record of the party under his direction as the real Republican platform. Hanna is the whole thing. There Is nothing to the Republican party ex cept his boss-ship and his wishes. The Democrats accept the issue. PAST AND PRESENT. H Cuban horrors at our doors and the murder of American citizens by the soldiers of Spain could not move the administration, and it was not until the destruction of the Maine aroused the whole people that McKinley and the Republican congress could be forced to take action in defense of our national honor. At that time the trusts and the Republican bosses were timid and did not appreciate the full advantage of a war In the way of army contracts during its prosecution and of carpet-bag government in the con quered territory. Now there is trouble in China. With out waiting for any authority McKin ley has ordered ships of war to take Joint action with those of the Euro pean nations and American troops are on their way to help in the scheme of grabbing slices of the Chinese empire In due proportion to the injuries re - ceived by each nation. The ostensible " motive In these acts Is to protect the lives and property of American citi zens in China, but the imperialist ad ministration would hardly take such prompt measures if it were not for the fact that China is considered the rich est of all fields for conquest and that all the powers of Europe as well as Japan are after the choicest bits. OUR PAUPER LABOR. About 5,000 women and girls in New York are employed in making arti ficial flowers. All grades are made, from exact imitations of the most ex quisite French productions to the very cheapest violets. The branching and other difficult parts of the work and some of the finer grades of flowers are done in the factories, but fully two thirds of the flower-makers are "out side workers." Most of these homo women are Italian women and chil dren. Wages range from $1.50 a day, j which the most expert brancher in a y) factory earns during the busy season, to the 40 cents a day which the "out side worker" considers very good. The flower-makers work by the piece. They receive from three cents to a dollar a gross. The cheapest flowers are the violets, daisies, and wreaths of small flowers for children's hats. The price for a dozen wreaths Is 5% cents. Each wreath consists of thirty nine flowers, 468 flowers in all. A little Italian girl who takes this work home, with the assistance of her mother, her sister aged 12, and her 9-year-old brother, can make a dozen of these wreaths, 646 cents worth, In two hours. For the cheapest violets 3 cents is paid for 144 flowers. A mother and her little daughter, workiL 0 together make two gross in an hour. These are facts and need no coisment. —Harper's Bazar. The comment needed is, that we had better change this sad state of affairs before we take such a civilization to distant islands and shoot it into the natives. THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. > ' Gen. Grosvenor, McKinley's spokes man in the house of representatives, is frothing at the mouth over the re publican platform. Over his own signature he accuses ex-Congressman Quigg of New York of having "driveled" all the life, mean ing and angularity out of that fateful Instrument. He states that a plank declaring that congress has full power to legislate over the annexed territor ies without constitutional limitation had been approved by the president and by the committee on resolutions, but that Quigg, to whom was given the duty of "boiling down" the platform, purposely omitted it. He is accused of giving the same treatment to the plank declaring in specific terms in favor of the ship subsidy bill. Quigg, of course, denies any underhand ac tion on his part, and says that what he did met with the approval of the sub-committee on resolutions and then In turn of the full committee. But these planks are gone, and Grosvenor Jla filled with wrath over the ema&'cu * slated platform. He declares that the speeches of Walcott and Lodge will , constitute the real platform on which 1 to go before the country. The platform praises what the ad ministration has done to lift public credit, because it has floated a 2 per cent thirty-year gold bond at par, but it fails to state that the bond is at paT because it carries the privilege of drawing its face vaJfcie in bank notes from the treasury as a premium. If, for comparison, a government bond carried the privilege of a free pass on every railroad in the country for its bearer, a 1 per cent bond could be put to a premium of 300 per cent. It is the privilege and not the security which hae put the 2 per cent bond at par. The platform "weasels" a plank on the trusts, but two republican con gresses have failed to pass anti-trust legislation, and the republican senate deliberately side-tracked an amend ment to the Sherman act. The platform prates about the wel fare of the annexed territory, but it is silent on the subject of "our plain duty," which the president set forth in his message about Porto Rico. The president is praised for securing to our undivided control the most im portant island of the Samoan group and the best harbor in the southern Pacific." This is deliberate falsifica tion of the record. The harbor of Pago Pago has belonged to the United States for more than twenty years in ex clusive possession, and the island of Tuituila is the least important of the three principal Samoan islands in population, in material resources, in size, In commerce, in location. The platform declares for the construction, control, ownership and protection of an Isthmian canal. Yet the Hay-Paunce foto treaty, which takes away from the United States the power to pro tect the Nicaragua canal, is still before the senate as an administration meas ure and the Nicaragua canal bill itself, which passed the house by an over whelming non-partisan vote was blocked in the senate by Mark Hanna at the instigation of the Pacific rail roads. The platform favors the policy of reciprocity, but the administration can not point to a single one of its reci procity treaties which has not been held up by republican opposition in the senate. The platform is for the protection of free labor against con tract convict labor, yet a bill to that end Is hung up in the senate by re publican opposition. At every point the republican declaration of purpose can be confronted with the republican record of failure. OUR FORMER PL ACE IN SHIPPING Says the Chicago Chronicle: Our republican statesmen do not venture to say a word about shipping bounties or subsidiies, but they bravely declare for "legislation which will enable us to recover our former place among the trade carrying fleets of the world." They are after our "former place" in this respect. What was our "former place?" What party was in power when we held it? What is our pres ent place? How did we get there? During the three fiscal years im mediately preceding the first republic an administration —the years ending June 30, 1861—American vessels car ried from 70 to 72 per cent of all our exports and from 60 to 67 per cent of all our imports and exports combined. In 1862 American vessels carried 50 per cent of the total and in three years following their share fell below 28 per cent. That we may lay to the civil war. But after that there was only a partial and temporary recovery, reaching a maximum of less than 36 per cent in 1870. Since 1870 there has been a pretty steady decline, running down to bare ly 11 per cent, from which figure there has been no recovery. In fact, in 1898 the share of the American vessels had shrunk to 9.3 per cent. Our repumican statesmen do not trouble themselves to call attention to the fact that all this decline has oc curred under republican administra tions and laws, except that there was a democratic administration of repub lican laws for a short time. They are too modest to tell us that. WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SURPLUS? Mr. Frank Vanderllp, one of the as sistants to the secretary of the treas ury, addressed the Michigan Bankers' association at their recent meeting in Detroit. He said to them that an evi dence of national prosperity is the fact that the surplus In the United States treasury is now $45,000,000. Every dollar of this enormous sur plus was taken from the pockets of taxpayers. This sum of $45,000,000 In excess of the needs of the government was taken from them unnecessarily. It is the product of overtaxation and oppression. The favorite argument of Republican orators is to brag about the immense sums of money raised from the people by taxation. They boast in eloquent terms of how much we are taxed. Even in effete and monarchical Eng land the dominant party places its claims for popular support on the suc cess of measures for tax reduction. Our Republicans adopt as their platform a egregious declaration of how much the people are taxed in excess of the needs of the government. Instead of bragging of the surplus they should brag about the amounts left in the pockets of taxpayers.—Chi cago Chronicle. Will lie ITcnidect. We may be sure that when Mr. Bry an is elected president that he will be a real president and that the govern ment will not have to maintain some one to change his mind for him in or der to meet political emergencies. THS Effii©TS Op PASH'ON. New York City (Special).—A. pretty Outdoor bodice, and at the same tim# one simple of construction, is always welcome. In this model, reproduced BODICE FOR A WALKING FROCK. from the" Philadelphia Record, tucks dispose of slight fulness at the waist both back and front, the opening in the latter being fastened by cords from tiny gilt or silver buttons. The vest we should suggest making in either white 'satin or cloth embroidered all over with an indescribable design in gold and silver thread, a narrow ap plique of the same edging the revers, cuffs, and that smart Medici collar, which is so invaluable in imparting an outdoor air to a bodice. Black panne or satin, slightly folded, fashions the corselet, which is ob viously made over a well-shaped and boned foundation. _ Ttvo Elaborate Blouses. Of the two blouses shown in the large engraving the first is of chiffon HANDSOME in the new ten-rose yellow coloring, over this charming foundation coming black net embroidered in Jet paillettes, and in its turn overlaid with a design of single flowers and leaves in ivory lace applique; while then at the waist there Is a doop swathed baud of rose pink silk, a twist of which—in a slight ly paler shade—is drawn up between the glittering meshes of the net in front, and finishes in flower-like rosettes beneath a yoke of shirred yel low chiffon, which gives place to a collar-band of folded chiffon decorated with jetted flowers arranged in medal lion form. The second blouse is of plisse chiffon in the delicate coloring of old ivory (the very latest fashionable shade this), where the soft effect of the closely clustering pleats is considerably in creased by the use of pressing instead of stitching to keep them in place. Medallion insertions of mellow-tinted old muslin embroidered in a floral de sign are edged with black Chantilly lace; while at the sides, as you may see, some other lace of ivory-tint is in troduced. Bauds and rosettes of black velvet baby ribbon hold the lace to gether in front over the fulness of the pleated chiffon, and there Is a waist band to match, while the revival of the quaint old fashion in sleeves is shown In quite its prettiest form by the effective arrangement of the com bined laces which give place just below the elbow to a big puff of the ivory chiffon, which, after being caught in closely at the wrist, is finished with a frill edged narrowly with black lace. The Seweßt Louth*, BeU. Soft fawn-colored or pearl-colored suede leather or ooze leather forms a stylish belt for the fastidious girl in a world which Is much given to wear ing pulley belts of satin or corded silk. The newer leather belt should march as nearly as possible the tone of the homespun suit. Beautiful light browns or grays predominate. Select a chate laine bag to match, for this is the pocketless age. Get a bag with an out side half pocket, In which year can tuck your little kerchief, so iw to get It easily without opening the chatelaine bag in which your money is laid away. You can get a red or black and some times a dark blue leather belt, also a cream one. They are much less wide than formdWy. The Latest tapers off very much in front, where it shows de cidedly more narrow than at the back. They run in sizes from eighteen to twenty-four inches. The narrow leath er belt is certainly quite smart. An East Indian 'Kerchief. A great many girls like to cover the top of the head when bathing with a silk handkerchief of some becoming -color, instead of wearing one of the mackintosh caps. The handkerchief can be chosen of a becoming tint or to match the bathing suit. If your suit is of black serge, satin or brillian tine, or of navy blue material, you can use one of the bandanas of glorious East Indian coloring, tropical greens nutl orange, blue, violet and dusky reds. Cut the bandana in half diagon ally and then it is just the right size. New Summer Stockings* There is no silk nor design of floriated pattern on the new summer stockings yclept foulard stockings. It Is simply the clever Idea of a merchant who soils silks and also hosiery. Fine lisle tliread stockings of colors to match the foulards most in demand, blues of various shades, browns, gray, a few "crushed raspberry," amethysts, sage green or tans are heaped up by the silk counter. Some, hut not nil, have open work meshes as decoration. They are obviously meant to be worn with low-cut shoes. Popular Lace Down. A new trimming exploited this sea son occurs in the lace bows, made very small and very neatly. They do not appear singly, but in a series, connect ed with narrow satin ribbons, upon which they appear to be mounted. They . can be used in various ways, and on a ; groat many materials. Their manifest , destiny, however, is on organdie and t lawn frocks or dainty summer gowns of some sheer woolen material. A Hat Trnnk. A hat trunk or hat box, as our Eng i llsh cousins say, will accommodate as ! many as half a dozen pieces of milli , nory. Each hat lias a stout cushion, which enters the crown and serves as , a mount. The hat pins run through the 1 cushion and fasten your big hat to the mount. Now it is firm and cannot ' wabble about and so get out of shape, j Mohair Outing Suit. Mohair, the most serviceable material ,[ made for summer wear, is used for the j above costume, reproduced from the [ Chicago Record. The tohe is sand col- [ or, trimmed with tailored bands of j t golden-brown silk. With it a violet [ silk skirt, finished with a high white i i satin stock, is worn. : \ PRESIDENTIAL YEAR The national campaign involves the i creation of an executive organization quite as elaborate and complicated as that required to carry on the most extensive of modern enterprises, the collection and expenditure of a sum of | money so large as to require seven fig ures for its expression, the selection and employment, directly and indi rectly, of thousands of workers, the gathering and dissemination of spe cial information on a scale not less ex tensive than that of a great telegraphic news association, and a hundred other things beside, none of which can safe ly be intrusted to anyone not an ex pert in his line. Until 189G campaign headquarters were invariably estab lished in the city of New York, and ac cording to an unwritten rule they were almost always located in a four-story houso on Fifth avenue. That year, however, both parties broke away from the old order of things and housed their chief headquarters in Chicago, though each committee perforce main tained a branch in the metropolis. In Chicago the forces of both committees were quartered in modern office build ings; in New York the Republicans took one whole floor in a handsome white marble structure on Union square, while the Democrats occupied rooms in a well-known hotel not a stone's throw away. The headquar ters of a national campaign committee must of necessity be almost as exten sive as a big railroad's executive offi ces, since room must be afforded for half a dozen different sets of employes, besides suites for the various commit tee officials. In a sense, the "press bureau" Is next in importance to the chairman's headquarters, since through it the reporters and correspondents are fur nished with such news as the commit tee wishes to give out. This bureau, however, is only a small part of the committee's machinery for the distri bution of correct political gospel. The bureau's relations are mainly with the country journals, but city papers are sometimes supplied with special in formation. The amount of plate mat ter sent out through the country week lies during the heat of battle is ap palling and costs an immense sum of money—ln the millions. It has commonly, though not always, been considered good committee prac tice to issue translations into almost every European language of nearly all the documents got out in English, and the troubles of the functionary who has to look after this Job are simply indescribable. To begin with, he is generally and of necessity ignorant of the languages into which the docu ments are to be translated, and there fore quite incompetent to Judge the ability of those whom he has to engage as translators or their work when it is finished. His only safety lies in en gaging two persons familiar with each of the "unknown tongues" into which the matter is to be done. One of these he intrusts with the translation; the other examines it carefully when fin ished to see that no error has been committed. Protecting the Birds The League of American Sportsmen rejoices greatly at the passage of the Lacey bird bill, and well it may, for with its 3,000 members it has done yeoman service in the cause. It has written and caused to be written thousands of letters to members of congress in favor of the bill. The president of the league estimates that more than 10,000 letters have been re ceived by members of congress in the last four months. In opposition were the millinery interests and the game trade interests. But as the president, Mr. Shields, says, there will be no more shipping of prairie chickens, la beled poultry; or of venison labeled veal; or of quails labeled eggs; or of bird skins labeled anything else than they are; no more contracting for tho slaughter of 20,000 birds in Maryland; no more slaughtering of Boa gulls, in violation of the laws, and shipping them, to use President Shield's lan guage, "to millinery bird hogs in New York, no matter how labeled." The -[revisions of tho bill authorize the tecretary of agriculture to buy game birds and eggs for propagation in de deted areas. It is believed, for ex imple, that prairie chickens imported from Nebraska, and liberated in the Shenandoah valley in Virginia, will prosper. It prohibits the importation 8f foreign wild animals or birds, ex cept under permit, there being a spe cial prohibition of the mongoose and Hying foxes, and of starlings and other Hrds, known to be injurious to agri culture and horticulture. If we had Concerning Dutch Annexation. Sir John Henry de Villlers, chief Justice of the Cape of Good Hope, who ■s now in London, says that all Dutch South Africa would bitterly regent the annexation of the republics. He adds: "This war was forced on President •Kruger. What Mr, Ctfamberlaln askeil him to give up was the equivalent of Dutch independence. The story that Presidents Kruger and Steyn aspired to drive the British into the sea is fable. All the Dutch leaders wanted was to preserve the Dutch nationality. When the British field marshal, a bril Campaign committees are generally extensive patrons of what might by a stretch be termed the arts and also of what its writers fondly believe to be poetry. Under the head of the arts may be Included the millions of candidates' portraits which are put out under com mittee auspices, also the cartoons,dia grams, maps, badges (pins and but tons), and the like. Opinions differ as to the value of such things in the get ting of votes, but committees always spend thousands, sometimes hun dreds of thousands in this direction. Most committees buy campaign songs pretty freely, and it la agreed on all hands that a taking composition set to stirring music is a mighty good investment whether the poetry is very good or not. The poetry sent to the committee —and it arrives at head quarters in wholesale quantities dally —is generally in the form of songs. It need hardly be stated that most of It is written by persons who have never learned to scan their lines and have little idea of rhyme. Leaving out the chairman and pos sibly the treasurer, the functionary la charge of the speakers' bureau sees more grief probably than any other committee official, and his department is one of the heavier committee ex penses. There are always hundreds of real and alleged orators In touch with the committee. The more effective speakers generally give their services to the party from a sense of loyalty, and because they know that political promotion lies that way; but nearly all draw expense money and the ma jority, pretty poor speakers as a rule, draw salaries; not large individually, but sometimes almost treasury break ing In the aggregate. All these departments employ type writers and stenographers, and clerks and messengers in numbers. Many of the clerks are employed because of po litical pull, but the stenographers and typewriters get their Jobs on their merits. Women typewriters are sel dom in evidence at committee head- quarters. Of course money In wads and rolls and bags is needed to keep the com mittee departments mentioned and others, of which there is no room to speak, in operation, and the real storm center of every national campaign committee is the treasurer's office. How he gets his cash nobody but him self ever knows in full, and there is no doubt at all that he and his col lectors—more often than not political stars of the first water —are driven to their wits' ends to gather the needful. Presidential candidates themselves have rarely made heavy contributions, for the reason, among others.that they have rarely been able to do so. It may be mentioned in passing that while presidential candidates seldom visit headquarters, vice-presidential candi dates often do. The friends of Mr. Jim Corbett think he has earned a seat in con gress. He has certainly accomplished more than some of the gentlemen who are occupying such seats. had such a law thirty years ago the i English sparrow might not be here. The hill prohibits any common carrier from transporting the dead birds or . animals, or parts of them, killed in violation of the law. The package containing them must be plainly and clearly marked, both as to the address and as to the nature of the contents. Another section regulates the traffic in foreign game, which is designed to prevent unscrupulous game dealers or hotel men "from maintaining a fence," as President Shields says, for the handling and selling of American game. All game, animals or birds, on arrival in any state or territory for sale or storage, shall be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of the locality, and shall not be exempt by reason of being introduced in original packages. President Shields thinks' the passage of this bill with the en forcement that he believes will go with it means a gain of hundreds of mil lions of dollars to the agricultural in terests of the country In the next twenty years. Coincident with work of this kind is that which our Audu bon society and which this paper are doing in endeavoring to arouse inter est in birds. It is all part of one great movement. It should bo pushed in the schools. The pulpit has given It at tention. Unquestionably we are com ing on a better time, a time when we shall use not abuse our opportunities with reference to helpless animals and when we shall treat them all, domestic and wild, with greater mercy. llant general and a brave and good man, shall have flung his flag above the seat of government at Pretoria, we shall witness the conclusion of a dark chapter in the history of human greed." Artificial Coffee Berries. Unroasted coffee berries are often made from oat and rye flour and corn meal. The natural aroma of these grains is destroyed by some process, and, after the proper amount of coffee aroma is added the berries are formed and caused to maintain their shape.
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