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JP w * VOLUME XXIX. N r EW ULM. BROWN COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31,1907. HO. 31 > COMPANY A ! S GREAT RECORD ~#i i* >a .ii ji rt jp Leads the Regiment in Work on the Ranges. Six of Its Officers and Men Qualify as Expert Riflemen. Twenty-eight are Marksmen and Two Make Records as Sharpshooters. The Second regiment wins the honors for work on the rifle ranges this year and to the boys from New Ulm belongs in a great measure the credit for bringing about this result. Out of the 16 who qualified as expert riflemen the New Ulmites furnished 8, and of the 116 who became marksmen over thirty hail from the home of the Second Regiment band and Company A. The following are the names and scores of the New Ulm boys who qualified as expert riflemen: Sergeant Major Juni 364 Private Fntsche 323 Lt. Groebner . . 313 Corporal Grussendorf 340 Sergeant Klause 354 Corporal Pfeiffer 327 Private Mowery 333 Lt. Hubbard 312 Capt. Pfaender qualified as a sharp- shooter with a score of 251 as did also Private Nuessle with a score of 235. The list of the Company A marksmen with their scores is as given below: Sergeant Fast 100 Sergeant Schmidt 99 Sergeant Matsch 99 Sergeant Reinke 115 Corporal Sackl 127 Corporal Vogelpohl 109 Corporal Kohn 117 Corporal Dengler 101 Musician Hubbard 104 Musician Zschunke Ill Cook Juni 114 CookPolta 118 Arthur Rosner 120 Wm. Engelbert 108 Henry Goede 113 John Groebner 109 Herbert Grussendorf Ill Albert Haegele 112 Fred Hubbard 10b Alfred Kretsch 101 Frank Lindmeyer 112 Victor Neumann 106 Frank Pfister ... . 99 Carl Preisinger 118 Frank Rusch . • 105 A. R. Schmid . . 119 Otto Trantmueller . . HO Fred Weyhe 105 The following are the names and scores of the band boys who qualified as marksmen* Wm. Lieb ...Ill J. J. Juenemann . ... 109 Peter Kit/berger 108 Otto Fntsche .... 103 Ton v Weiss 2 C. Backer 101 Sergeant Major Juni of the field staff, Corporals Henry Grussendorf and William Pfeiffer of Company A and John Fritsche of the band, all of whom qualified as expert riflemen, are still at Camp Lakeview competing in the team shoot which takes place an- nually at the close of the regimental encampments. John Schmelz and H. Bendixen are the new members of the Springfield school board. The Eagle Roller Mill company has leased the Ericson elevator in Lafay- Iftbte for another year. Sheriff Julius and John Hauenstein Jr. returned Monday from a week's outing in Wisconsin. Andrew J. Olin, the Franklin bank- er, spend Sunday with his family at the home of Postmaster Peterson. Mrs. D. A. Grussendorf of Fairfax visited with New Ulm relatives while her husband was in camp at Lake City. Mankato has again been selected as the place for holding the annual con- vention of the Southern Minnesota Teachers' Association. Emil Steinhauser and family came down from Lamberton Saturday to spend a day or two with Mr. Stein- hauser's brothers and sisters. John Artaard, an aged veteran of the Civil war, made a feeble but unsuc- ^ssf ul attempt to drown himself in the Minnesota river late Sunday after- noon. Giving his cane to Mrs. Theo. Ludwig who was fishing on the bank below the Eagle mill and telling her that he would have no further need for it, he slid off into the shallow water and floundered around for a moment or two in a fruitless effort to end his own existence. Mr. Ludwig, who was nearby at the time, hastened to the rescue and in a little while had the old man out of the water. He struggled to get back into it again and begged to be allowed to drown himself, but Ludwig thought otherwise and prompt- ly summoned the police. Arhard was then taken to his home and given a chance to reconsider his suicidal in- tentions. Domestic infelicity seems to be at the bottom of all his troubles. HAY- GATHERING AT OYSTER BAY. Berryman in Washington Star. GRAIN INSPECTION FOR NEW ULM SAD DROWNING OF KAUFMANN BOY Inspector's Office Will be Opened About the Middle of August. Chief Grain Inspector Eva of the railroad and warehouse commission was in the city Saturday and after a consultation with the millers decided to give them the grain inspection faci- lities for which they had petitioned. The millers, of c»urse, will have to guarantee the expense of the accomo- dation, which will be in the neighbor- hood of $125 per month, but inas- much as the mills receive over 600 cars of grain a month and the charge for inspection is 20 cents a car it is alto- gether likely that the inspector's office will be self supporting. Besides the millers, the elevator people can make use of the inspection if they want to, and they probably will to a very great extent. With the mills, however, inspection is a matter of the greatest importance and after August 15th no wheat will be received by either of them in carload lots without it has first been passed upon by the states inspector. SLEEPY EYE WINS OYER MANKATO Gun Club Contest Results in Vic- tory for Brown County Boys. Sleepy Eye, 203; Mankato, 200; pos- sible, 250. Such was the outcome of a friendly contest at Mankato Thurs- day between the gun club experts of Mankato and the crack shots of Sleepy Eye. The individual scores were as follows: Mankato—Lulsdorft 19, Benedict 14, Bierbauer 15, Towne 15, Stephan 12, Schulz 19, Sheldon 21, Nyquist 14, Kruse 17, Waddell 16, Lewis 20, Pat- terson 18. Total 200. Sleepy Eye—Reidl 16, Wellcome 20, W. F. Kelm 17, Hickel 19, Graff 14, James 18, McMasters 16, Cutting 17, Grimes 19, Hodges 17, Mo 15, A. R. Kelm 15. Total 203. Prior to the contest a twenty-five bird practice event was pulled off with the following results: Bierbauer 12, Heidel 17, Brehm 10, Kruse 18, James 18, Schulz 19, Schmitt 15, Lulsdorff 20, Overman 13, Sheldon 24, Stephan 15, Towne 13, Nyquist 13, Ruge 16, Spen- cer 11, Waddell 14, McLaurin 19, Bene- dict 14. There was also a fifteen bird sweep- stakes event in which Grimes made 11, Overman 8, Schultz 11, Graff 9, Hod- ges 10, Lulsdorff 9, McMaster 7, Hickel 9, Mo 10, Lewis 14, Patterson 9, Cutting 11, James 13, Reidl 11, A. R. Kelm 7, W. F. Kelm 6, Benedict 12, Kruse 10, Sheldon 14, Schmitt 9, Heidel 6, Wellcome 6, Brehm 7, More- hart 4. Ole Christensen of W abasso is the new liveryman at Evan, having pur- chased the business of John Hansen. F. A. Ruenitz, assistant cashier of the First National bank of Sleepy Eye, has resigned and will leave early in August for the Pacific coast. Andrew Goblirsch, who has managed the Wabasso mill for three years past, has resigned in order to accept a similar position at Leonard, North Dakota. l - v Little Lad of Seven Years Meets Death in the Waters of the Minnesota. Shortly after five o'clock Friday af- ternoon little Lloyd Kaufmann, the seven-year-old son of Engineer Kauf- mann of the city water and light plant, drowned in the Minnesota river near the Eagle mill. In company with his brother, who is a year or two older, the boy was play- ing on the platform of the Taylor boat house and accidentally fell off, the swift current of the stream carrying him into deep water. The older broth- er jumped in to rescue him and would have drowned also had not William Rauschke dived after him and brought him safely to shore. Mr. Rauschke made an effort alsa to save the youn- ger lad, but in this he was unsuccess- ful. The little body was recoverd shortly after in six feet of water. The funeral was held Sunday after- noon from the Kaufmann residence. BASE BALL NOTES. The Kasota-New Ulm game at the fairgrounds in this city was a ragged one. Score 9 to 8 in favor of New Ulm. Springfield's crack team was pre- sented with nine goose eggs by a bunch of Mankato "pick-ups." The game was played in Springfield and the local fans did all in their power to root the home favorites into a victory, but it was all of no use. The score was 2 to 0. The game between St. Peter and Madison Lake at St. Peter resulted in a score of 7 to 1 in favor of the former. A pick-up team from this city suf- fered defeat at the hands of a Winth- rop aggregation at the latter place Sunday afternoon, the score being 12 to 3. Next Sunday New Ulm will go up against the Fairfax boys. The game will be pulled oft at the fair grounds in this city. In a slugging match at Henderson the Arlington Greys shut out the Henderson team and piled up a total of ten runs for themselves. At Heron Lake the St. James Millers defeated Heron Lake by a score of 7 to 0. McCullom who pitched for St. James struck out ten men and allowed but five hits. The Blue Ribbons were badly wal- loped at Nicollet. They refuse to di- vulge the score. A game between the Y. M. C. A.' teams of Sleepy Eye and Redwood Falls Thursday afternoon resulted in a score of 3 to 2 in favor of Sleepy Eye. Fairfax lost a game with the Mor- ton Indians on Thursday. Score, 17 to 9. Misses Dora Slicker and Nancy Dalsgaard of Springfield were visitors here over Sunday. At the annual school election in Sleepy Eye Dr. A. F. Strickler and M. G. Hanson were selected as mem- bers of the board of education to suc- ceed Dr. Wellcome and F. H. Buelow WATTERSON'S DARK HORSE Famous Kentuckiau Says He is not , in the Candidate*making i Business. Did Not Trot Out Governor John- son or Any Other Man. r Admits, However, that the Minne- sotan Might Make a Great Race. \ Henry Watterson, in commenting on the "dark horse" which certain news- papers and politicians claim to have discovered in the political etable of the Courie-Jrournal, says editorially: The Courier-Journal has never said that it has a presidential candidate. It has not designated Gov. Johnson of Minnesota, nor authorized any one to speak for it. But, since so many of our esteemed contemporaries will it so, so be it; and where does the laugh come in? What the Courier-Journal did say was in respose to a public statement made by Mr. Bryan. The friends of Mr. Bryan gave it out that he did not hanker after another nomination. He himself declared that, if the party can find a candidate likely to get more votes than he, it should name that candidate. He went out of his way to affix the limitation that the man chosen must have voted the free silver fusion- ist ticket in 1896, an ungracious and gratuitous slap at hundreds of thous- ands of Democrats whose votes are necessary to elect in 1908. We made not the retort discourteous, as we might have done and had the right to do. On the contrary, we accepted Mr. Bryan's proscription, observing that we knew of such a man, and adding that he "does not live East of the Al- leghanies nor South of the Ohio or the Potomac." ^ It was not our purpose to pique the public curiosity, still less to raise a riddle, or offer a conundrum. No man can be elected without the hearty sup- port of Mr. Bryan and his peculiar following. The cut-throat business which was begun in 1896 was pursued with increased activity and enterprise in 1904. As the Courier-Journal wants to see another Democratic president we would have done with this. We are no more concerned in the result of the next presidential election than any other of the six or seven millions of persons who call them- selves Democrats. There is no reason why we might not return Mr. Bryan scorn for scorn, and bid him crack his whip and drive his herd to destruction, he alone getting rich whilst the others starve. But, as a matter of fact, we entertain no unfriendly feeling toward Mr. Bryan's personality, which is altogether agreeable to us, nor do we lie in any discomfort under the ban he has imposed upon us, as upon hundreds of thousands of Democrats without whose votes we can elect no- body, We would relegate to the rea all by-gone dissension and recognize the living situation as it is. It is our judgment that Mr. Bryan cannot poll the full party vote, nor get any considerable portion of the independent vote. He has identified himself with too many conceits of the lecture platform. It is safe to say that quite two-thirds of the Chautau- qua audiences which applauded him are Republicans and will vote the Republican ticket, regarding him as an agreeable lay-preacher whom they like to listen to, but not their prefer- ence as a presidential candidate. In ail of the debatable states there is a distinct anti-Bryan element ]ust as there is a distinct pro-Bryan ele- ment. Each can defeat the other. In the face of these conditions why should not Mr. Bryan be first to see the impracticability of his own candi- dacy and rest content to have the party name a candidate who can unite its vote and draw to his standard that ever-widening circle of independent voters who in the final equation de- termine the result? The head and front of our offending, if we have offended him, or his, hath this extent, no more. To go no further, there is Gov. Folk of Missouri, and there is Gov. John- son of Minnesota. Both are good, regulation Democrats without a blot on their party escutcheons. They are young and attractive men. Each has shown himself a vote getter. Each has signalized himself a safe and sane ad- ministrator of public affairs. No hon- est Democrat could refuse to vote for either. Many indepennents could find reasons for doing so. In the case of Gov. Johnson the Scandinavian vote in particular ana the vote of foreign extraction in gen- eral would be directly invoked. Upon the personality of Gov. Folk we need not enlarge. It is well known to the public. Gov. Johnson is less known. He happens, however, to be very well known to the Courier-Jour- nal and we can say of him that he is an able, upright and believing Dem- ocrat, who could not fail, if nomina- ted, to make a great race, and, if elec' ted, a good president. Are we not well within our rights as a Democrat and a newspaper in say- ing this? Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kunz Jr. are the happy parents of a daughter born on Monday. Mrs. Fred Eggert returned om Mon day to her home in Oklahoma after visiting for two months with her daughters, Mrs. Prahl of Cottonwood and Mrs. Anderson of Hanska. The flouring mill at NorthRedwood, which has been closed for a number of years, has been sold by W. H. Nel- son to parties who will reopen it and run it to its full capacity. A civil service examination for positions in the government service as stenographers and typewriters will be held in St. Paul on August 7th. There are forty-five vacancies to be filled and the salaries vary from to $1,000 per annum. Ottomeyer's We have received a new line of stylish veiling in the latest shades, price 25c and 50c. A line of stylish shirt waists white skirts and wash belts all sizes. Silk Gloves in long and seort any size from 50c up to $1.50 a pair. Parasals, in white, colored silk, plain colors or with borders, children parasols cheap. LAGES and EMBROIDERY A large line, we show one of the larg- est line of laces in this part of the coun- try. If you are interested in laces it would pay you to see our line, we shall be pleased to show this large assortment. Eggs taken in trade and in cash. GORDON No name was ever put in a hat that means more than the Gor- don name. Every year the sale of Gordon Hats increases. The new purchasers come from the S5 class, and when they come they come to stay. Wear a Gor- don Hat (soft or stiff) and you will recognize its right to be classed as the perfect hat. Gordon Hats $3. We sell them. \ GORDON H&TS $ zi X $ CR \J L^ L^ opnc v^Sm •*s3 ^sft* F *
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Page 1: New Ulm review (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) (New Ulm ... · JP w VOLUME XXIX. NrEW ULM.BROWN COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31,1907. HO. 31 > COMPAN!SY GREA A T RECORD ~#i i* >

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Leads the Regiment in Work on the Ranges .

Six of I ts Officers and Men Qualify a s Expert Riflemen.

Twenty-e ight a r e Marksmen and T w o Make Reco rds a s

S h a r p s h o o t e r s .

The Second regiment wins the honors for work on the rifle ranges this year and to the boys from New Ulm belongs in a great measure the credit for bringing about this result. Out of the 16 who qualified as expert riflemen the New Ulmites furnished 8, and of the 116 who became marksmen over thirty hail from the home of the Second Regiment band and Company A.

The following are the names and scores of the New Ulm boys who qualified as expert riflemen: Sergeant Major Juni 364 Private Fntsche 323 Lt. Groebner . . 313 Corporal Grussendorf 340 Sergeant Klause 354 Corporal Pfeiffer 327 Private Mowery 333 Lt. Hubbard 312

Capt. Pfaender qualified as a sharp­shooter with a score of 251 as did also Pr ivate Nuessle with a score of 235. The list of the Company A marksmen with their scores is as given below: Sergeant Fast 100 Sergeant Schmidt 99 Sergeant Matsch 99 Sergeant Reinke 115 Corporal Sackl 127 Corporal Vogelpohl 109 Corporal Kohn 117 Corporal Dengler 101 Musician Hubbard 104 Musician Zschunke I l l Cook Juni 114 C o o k P o l t a 118 Arthur Rosner 120 Wm. Engelbert 108 Henry Goede 113 John Groebner 109 Herbert Grussendorf I l l Albert Haegele 112 Fred Hubbard 10b Alfred Kretsch 101 Frank Lindmeyer 112 Victor Neumann 106 Frank Pfister . . . . 99 Carl Preisinger 118 Frank Rusch . • 105 A. R. Schmid . . 119 Otto Trantmueller . . HO Fred Weyhe 105

The following are the names and scores of the band boys who qualified as marksmen* Wm. Lieb . . . I l l J . J . Juenemann . . . . 109 Peter Kit/berger 108 Otto Fntsche . . . . 103 Ton v Weiss 1°2

C. Backer 101 Sergeant Major Juni of the field

staff, Corporals Henry Grussendorf and William Pfeiffer of Company A and John Fritsche of the band, all of whom qualified as expert riflemen, are still at Camp Lakeview competing in the team shoot which takes place an­nually at the close of the regimental encampments.

John Schmelz and H. Bendixen are the new members of the Springfield school board.

The Eagle Roller Mill company has leased the Ericson elevator in Lafay-Iftbte for another year.

Sheriff Julius and John Hauenstein J r . returned Monday from a week's outing in Wisconsin.

Andrew J . Olin, the Franklin bank­er, spend Sunday with his family at the home of Postmaster Peterson.

Mrs. D. A. Grussendorf of Fairfax visited with New Ulm relatives while her husband was in camp at Lake City.

Mankato has again been selected as the place for holding the annual con­vention of the Southern Minnesota Teachers ' Association.

Emil Steinhauser and family came down from Lamberton Saturday to spend a day or two with Mr. Stein-hauser ' s brothers and sisters.

John Artaard, an aged veteran of the Civil war, made a feeble but unsuc-^ s s f ul attempt to drown himself in the Minnesota river late Sunday after­noon. Giving his cane to Mrs. Theo. Ludwig who was fishing on the bank below the Eagle mill and telling her that he would have no further need for it, he slid off into the shallow water and floundered around for a moment or two in a fruitless effort to end his own existence. Mr. Ludwig, who was nearby at the time, hastened to the rescue and in a little while had the old man out of the water. He struggled to get back into it again and begged to be allowed to drown himself, but Ludwig thought otherwise and prompt­ly summoned the police. Arhard was then taken to his home and given a chance to reconsider his suicidal in­tentions. Domestic infelicity seems to be at the bottom of all his troubles.

HAY- GATHERING AT OYSTER BAY.

—Berryman in Washington Star.

GRAIN INSPECTION FOR NEW ULM SAD DROWNING OF KAUFMANN BOY

Inspector's Office Will be Opened About the Middle of August.

Chief Grain Inspector Eva of the railroad and warehouse commission was in the city Saturday and after a consultation with the millers decided to give them the grain inspection faci­lities for which they had petitioned.

The millers, of c»urse, will have to guarantee the expense of the accomo­dation, which will be in the neighbor­hood of $125 per month, but inas­much as the mills receive over 600 cars of grain a month and the charge for inspection is 20 cents a car it is alto­gether likely that the inspector's office will be self supporting.

Besides the millers, the elevator people can make use of the inspection if they want to, and they probably will to a very great extent. With the mills, however, inspection is a matter of the greatest importance and after August 15th no wheat will be received by either of them in carload lots without it has first been passed upon by the states inspector.

SLEEPY EYE WINS OYER MANKATO

Gun Club Contest Results in Vic­tory for Brown County Boys.

Sleepy Eye, 203; Mankato, 200; pos­sible, 250. Such was the outcome of a friendly contest at Mankato Thurs­day between the gun club experts of Mankato and the crack shots of Sleepy Eye. The individual scores were as follows:

Mankato—Lulsdorft 19, Benedict 14, Bierbauer 15, Towne 15, Stephan 12, Schulz 19, Sheldon 21, Nyquist 14, Kruse 17, Waddell 16, Lewis 20, Pat­terson 18. Total 200.

Sleepy Eye—Reidl 16, Wellcome 20, W. F. Kelm 17, Hickel 19, Graff 14, James 18, McMasters 16, Cutting 17, Grimes 19, Hodges 17, Mo 15, A. R. Kelm 15. Total 203.

Pr ior to the contest a twenty-five bird practice event was pulled off with the following results: Bierbauer 12, Heidel 17, Brehm 10, Kruse 18, James 18, Schulz 19, Schmitt 15, Lulsdorff 20, Overman 13, Sheldon 24, Stephan 15, Towne 13, Nyquist 13, Ruge 16, Spen­cer 11, Waddell 14, McLaurin 19, Bene­dict 14.

There was also a fifteen bird sweep­stakes event in which Grimes made 11, Overman 8, Schultz 11, Graff 9, Hod­ges 10, Lulsdorff 9, McMaster 7, Hickel 9, Mo 10, Lewis 14, Patterson 9, Cutting 11, James 13, Reidl 11, A. R. Kelm 7, W. F. Kelm 6, Benedict 12, Kruse 10, Sheldon 14, Schmitt 9, Heidel 6, Wellcome 6, Brehm 7, More-hart 4.

Ole Christensen of W abasso is the new liveryman at Evan, having pur­chased the business of John Hansen.

F . A. Ruenitz, assistant cashier of the First National bank of Sleepy Eye, has resigned and will leave early in August for the Pacific coast.

Andrew Goblirsch, who has managed the Wabasso mill for three years past, has resigned in order to accept a similar position at Leonard, North Dakota. l - v

Little Lad of Seven Years Meets Death in the Waters of

the Minnesota.

Shortly after five o'clock Friday af­ternoon little Lloyd Kaufmann, the seven-year-old son of Engineer Kauf­mann of the city water and light plant, drowned in the Minnesota river near the Eagle mill.

In company with his brother, who is a year or two older, the boy was play­ing on the platform of the Taylor boat house and accidentally fell off, the swift current of the stream carrying him into deep water. The older broth­er jumped in to rescue him and would have drowned also had not William Rauschke dived after him and brought him safely to shore. Mr. Rauschke made an effort alsa to save the youn­ger lad, but in this he was unsuccess­ful. The little body was recoverd shortly after in six feet of water.

The funeral was held Sunday after­noon from the Kaufmann residence.

BASE BALL NOTES.

The Kasota-New Ulm game at the fairgrounds in this city was a ragged one. Score 9 to 8 in favor of New Ulm.

Springfield's crack team was pre­sented with nine goose eggs by a bunch of Mankato "pick-ups." The game was played in Springfield and the local fans did all in their power to root the home favorites into a victory, but it was all of no use. The score was 2 to 0.

The game between St. Peter and Madison Lake at St. Peter resulted in a score of 7 to 1 in favor of the former.

A pick-up team from this city suf­fered defeat at the hands of a Winth-rop aggregation at the latter place Sunday afternoon, the score being 12 to 3.

Next Sunday New Ulm will go up against the Fairfax boys. The game will be pulled oft at the fair grounds in this city.

In a slugging match at Henderson the Arlington Greys shut out the Henderson team and piled up a total of ten runs for themselves.

At Heron Lake the St. James Millers defeated Heron Lake by a score of 7 to 0. McCullom who pitched for St. James struck out ten men and allowed but five hits.

The Blue Ribbons were badly wal­loped at Nicollet. They refuse to di­vulge the score.

A game between the Y. M. C. A.' teams of Sleepy Eye and Redwood Falls Thursday afternoon resulted in a score of 3 to 2 in favor of Sleepy Eye.

Fairfax lost a game with the Mor­ton Indians on Thursday. Score, 17 to 9.

Misses Dora Slicker and Nancy Dalsgaard of Springfield were visitors here over Sunday.

At the annual school election in Sleepy Eye Dr. A. F. Strickler and M. G. Hanson were selected as mem­bers of the board of education to suc­ceed Dr. Wellcome and F. H. Buelow

WATTERSON'S DARK HORSE

Famous Kentuckiau Says He is not , in the Candidate*making

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Did Not Trot Out Governor John­son or Any Other Man.

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Admits, H o w e v e r , that the Minne-so t an Might Make a

G r e a t Race . \

Henry Watterson, in commenting on the "dark horse" which certain news­papers and politicians claim to have discovered in the political etable of the Courie-Jrournal, says editorially:

The Courier-Journal has never said that it has a presidential candidate. It has not designated Gov. Johnson of Minnesota, nor authorized any one to speak for it. But, since so many of our esteemed contemporaries will it so, so be it; and where does the laugh come in?

What the Courier-Journal did say was in respose to a public statement made by Mr. Bryan. The friends of Mr. Bryan gave it out that he did not hanker after another nomination. He himself declared that, if the party can find a candidate likely to get more votes than he, it should name that candidate. He went out of his way to affix the limitation that the man chosen must have voted the free silver fusion-ist ticket in 1896, an ungracious and gratuitous slap at hundreds of thous­ands of Democrats whose votes are necessary to elect in 1908. We made not the retort discourteous, as we might have done and had the right to do. On the contrary, we accepted Mr. Bryan 's proscription, observing that we knew of such a man, and adding that he "does not live East of the Al-leghanies nor South of the Ohio or the Potomac." ^

It was not our purpose to pique the public curiosity, still less to raise a riddle, or offer a conundrum. No man can be elected without the hearty sup­port of Mr. Bryan and his peculiar following. The cut-throat business which was begun in 1896 was pursued with increased activity and enterprise in 1904. As the Courier-Journal wants to see another Democratic president we would have done with this.

We are no more concerned in the result of the next presidential election than any other of the six or seven millions of persons who call them­selves Democrats. There is no reason why we might not return Mr. Bryan scorn for scorn, and bid him crack his whip and drive his herd to destruction, he alone getting rich whilst the others starve. But, as a matter of fact, we entertain no unfriendly feeling toward Mr. Bryan 's personality, which is altogether agreeable to us, nor do we lie in any discomfort under the ban he has imposed upon us, as upon hundreds of thousands of Democrats without whose votes we can elect no­body, We would relegate to the rea all by-gone dissension and recognize the living situation as it is.

It is our judgment that Mr. Bryan cannot poll the full party vote, nor get any considerable portion of the independent vote. He has identified himself with too many conceits of the lecture platform. It is safe to say that quite two-thirds of the Chautau­qua audiences which applauded him are Republicans and will vote the Republican ticket, regarding him as an agreeable lay-preacher whom they like to listen to, but not their prefer­ence as a presidential candidate.

In ail of the debatable states there is a distinct anti-Bryan element ]ust as there is a distinct pro-Bryan ele­ment. Each can defeat the other. In the face of these conditions why should not Mr. Bryan be first to see the impracticability of his own candi­dacy and rest content to have the party name a candidate who can unite its vote and draw to his standard that ever-widening circle of independent voters who in the final equation de­termine the result?

The head and front of our offending, if we have offended him, or his, hath this extent, no more.

To go no further, there is Gov. Folk of Missouri, and there is Gov. John­son of Minnesota. Both are good, regulation Democrats without a blot on their party escutcheons. They are young and attractive men. Each has shown himself a vote getter. Each has signalized himself a safe and sane ad­ministrator of public affairs. No hon­est Democrat could refuse to vote for either. Many indepennents could find reasons for doing so.

In the case of Gov. Johnson the Scandinavian vote in particular ana the vote of foreign extraction in gen­eral would be directly invoked.

Upon the personality of Gov. Folk we need not enlarge. It is well known to the public. Gov. Johnson is less known. He happens, however, to be very well known to the Courier-Jour­nal and we can say of him that he is an able, upright and believing Dem­ocrat, who could not fail, if nomina­ted, to make a great race, and, if elec' ted, a good president.

Are we not well within our rights as a Democrat and a newspaper in say­ing this?

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kunz J r . are the happy parents of a daughter born on Monday.

Mrs. Fred Eggert returned om Mon day to her home in Oklahoma after visiting for two months with her daughters, Mrs. Prahl of Cottonwood and Mrs. Anderson of Hanska.

The flouring mill at NorthRedwood, which has been closed for a number of years, has been sold by W. H. Nel­son to parties who will reopen it and run it to its full capacity.

A civil service examination for positions in the government service as stenographers and typewriters will be held in St. Paul on August 7th. There are forty-five vacancies to be filled and the salaries vary from to $1,000 per annum.

Ottomeyer's W e have received a new line of stylish

veiling in the latest shades, price 25c and 50c.

A line of stylish shirt waists white skirts and wash belts all sizes.

Silk Gloves in long and seort any size from 50c up to $1.50 a pair.

Parasals, in white, colored silk, plain colors or with borders, children parasols cheap.

LAGES and EMBROIDERY A large line, we show one of the larg­

est line of laces in this part of the coun­try. If you are interested in laces it would pay you to see our line, we shall be pleased to show this large assortment.

Eggs taken in trade and in cash.

GORDON

No name was ever put in a hat that means more than the Gor­don name. Every year the sale of Gordon Hats increases. The new purchasers come from the S5 class, and when they come they come to stay. Wear a Gor­don Hat (soft or stiff) and you will recognize its right to be classed as the perfect hat. Gordon Hats $3. We sell them.

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