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to see the Commissioner about the peyote cult, and he has turned them down. It was very foolish of him and it shows his lack of tact and wisdom in dealing with those things. They have tried to stop the whiskey traffic among the Indians and have failed, and I think the Indians will just simply go ahead with the peyote as they have with whiskey. It was Valentine who turned them down. In many respects he is the worst Commissioner we ever had. He has no judgment whatever in anything

The dead lock still goes on at Baltimore and there is no knowing what is going to happen, but it looks as though there might be a split as there was at the Chicago convention. Bryan will probably go away with his followers and may join Roosevelt and his malcontents and form a new fool organization. Their people are