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irf 10 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1912. u Published Every Evonlngiln tho Tear at THE MUN8BY IBTJJIiDINGr Penna. ftve., between 13th apd Hth sts. FRANK A. MUNSEY. Prcrtrtor. F. A. WALKER. Afanugittff Editor BUDrcmitlON HATES, BY MAIL. 1 mo. I mot. t mm, 1 rr. Dtllr and Sunday (0.80 10.90 11.75 ').E0 Dally only .23 .75 l.co 1.00 Sunday only .25 .60 MAY PAI1.Y, retal uroM. May. 1912... l.S6(.(M ATfrage ro. May. 1911 (0,691 iomu net. Aiay. i l.jawiui OJBOULATION SUNDAY. Total gron. May. 1912. Average nrt. May, 1912. 13,901 ATfl(to gross. May. 1912. Total net.. May. 1911 Average ntt. May, 1912. 191, T M.1W 1U.409 40.151 I Atemnlv iwesr that the accamnanvlnr statement represents the circulation' or Tho Washington Times aa detailed, and that the net figures represent, all returns eliminated, the number of copies of The Timet hlch ara sold, delivered, furnished, or mailed to bona (Ida purchasers or subscribers. FRED A. WALKER, General Manager. District of Columbia, ss: Subscribed and sworn to before . mo thin first day of June, A. D. 1912. THOMAS C. "WILLIS. (Seal) Notary Public, Entered at the Portofflea at Wathlngtnn. D.C.. as second class matter. SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1912. HISTORIC PARALLELS. There have been many parallels drawn during the last few months to the Napoleonic campaigns. We have been reminded of the "return from Elba" and "Waterloo-June 18" andithe "Old Guard." But now that the fight is over whose forces, ex hausted by their own victory, bedraggled, discour aged, listless, are following a discredited leader and his deposed lieutenants on a sad retreat from Chi cago? BRYAN AND PRINCIPLES. In a statement given out at Lincoln, April 25, 1901, Bryan said in effect that he had no intention Of seeking a third nomination for the Presidency. "If I ever become a candidate again," he said on that occasion, "it will be because it seems necessary for the advancement of the principles to which I adhere." iVfr. Bryan is a man of his word; a man of his convictions. There is no reason to believeJie has changed either his mind or his convictions since his speech in 1901. The forces that are at work trying to control the Baltimore convention, those which selected Parker for the place of temporary chairman, are unalter ably opposed to the principles to which Bryan adheres. If they win at Baltimore, what will Bryan do? He will do that which seems necessary for the advancement of the principles to which he is com mitted. It was the same motive that animated Roosevelt at Chicago a fight for the maintenance and promo tion of principles. When such "men as Roosevelt and Bryan fight for principles and convictions there is no such thing as precedents or party lines or loyalty to the empty shell of an organization. The Cause is the thing at stake. but when it comes down to playing the big and clean gdmo of politics Colonel Roosevelt makes them all look like amateurs. BAD YEAR FOR BOSSES. TAFT "SCOOPS" BALTIMORE. President Taft is the first Republican President to receive a Democratic nomination. The following Democratic States voted for him upon the roll call at Chicago: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisi ana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, South Caro lina, Texas, and Virginia a total of 261 votes. He received altogether 562 votes. The other 300 came from such doubtful State as New York, Connecticut and Missouri; from reliably Republican States whose delegates were stolen, as the fourteen in Washington (which peculiarly appropriate, gave him the necessary 540 to win) ; from the Territories that have no vote in the election, and from the scat tering boss-ridden States like Guggenheim-Colorado, and Smelter Trust-Montana. The States that form. the bone and sinew of the Republican party remained silent on the roll call, a mute protest against stolen goods! What a glorious vindication of a Republican Ad ministration! Also, what a glorious "scoop" on the Baltimore convention, which is about to meet to nominate a man who represents the solid South! President Taft enters the Presidential fight, as the first nominee and the unanimous choice of the reliably Democratic States! THE GAME OF POLITICS. Things arc going badly for the bosses. Their old methods arc proving inadequate. Their biggest club, "party regularity," is splintered. Men are get ting too big for parties, or rather men and parties are assuming their Idgical relations the parties be ing made for men and not for parties. This year they went to Chicago to whip Roose velt with party regularity. They left the party in Roosevelt's control and they took away as their share, merely the empty regularity. Roosevelt and hun dreds of able followers have created a party of their own. Now, the action shifts to Baltimore, but the scen ery is pretty" much the same as it was in Chicago. So is the drama. The only difference is the actors. The bosses had determined to whip Bryan with party .regularity also Wilson. But encouraged by the suc cessful fight made at Chicago by Roosevelt, plus their own determination not to be roped and tied by party regularity Bryan and Wilson and others of the Dem ocratic party are going intd the Baltimore conven tion with but one purpose in view to overthrow bossism and obtain popular rule. Both of these leaders have reached the age where a name, an emblem, means less to them than a prin ciple. Both have shown a militant disposition with in the past four years to pay scant tribute to organi zation and machinery. They have both appealed di rectly to the people over the heads of organizations. It will be a calamity to the bi-partisan machines and the bosses if at Baltimore, as at Chicago, they are forced out in the open, and although retaining control of the organization are compelled to sail under their true colors the black flag of political piracy. It would be no less a calamity to them if they were whipped in their fight for control of the organi zation, driven out of it and forced to join publicly with the bosses in the Republican organization. In either event the fight would be along the lines it should be The People against The Interests. Yet if Bryan and Wilson hold their lines firmly one of these two results will mark the Baltimore con vention. Instead of capturing two parties as was the hope and expectation of Special Privilege six weeks ago, it is in the cards that they are going to lose both of them. Nineteen twelve will go down in history as the year which marked the elimination of bosses and the restoration of the rule of the people. DYING AMONG HIS FLOWERS. The Republican bosses at Chicago did not want to nominate President Taft. They had hoped to use his name, his Administration and his influence only to drive the nomination away from Roosevelt. Then they fully expected to ditch Taft, nominate a com promise candidate, promulgate a delphic platform and attempt a campaign of deceptim and evasion under the pretense that the party machinery had suddenly become really progressive. They were hung on the gallows of their own manufacture. Roosevelt's truthful branding ot the convention as a packed convention, con trolled by votes of stolen delegates, and his equally truthful assertion that any man who was nominated by such a convention would be the willing and knowing recipient of stolen goods, was the move that cut the ground from under the schemes of Barnes, Crane, Kealing, and the other bossc.. In vain they sought some progressive to accept the burden of giving the party organization respecta bility. In vain they sought for some progressive who would take second place on the ticket and there by drive a wedge in the proposed Progressive Party movement. After such a scathing expose of what a nomination at the hands of such a convention meant, no progressive dared to permit himself to be lured into lending his name and his convictions as a garment to hide the shame of the naked theft, or as a disguise behind which Special Privilege in the Re publican party might wage another sham battle with Special Privilege in the Democratic party, the while the people with common interests were divide4 Barnes, Crane, et al., are exert manipulators, "Let me die," said Mirabeau, "to the sound of sweet music in the midst of flowers." In such an en vironment one of the most unique and dearly beloved characters in the District is passing away at his home in the National Botanic Garden, where Superinten dent William Robertson Smith has spent more than sixty of his eighty-four years of life. He was a loyal son of the Land o' Cakes, and the two controlling passions of his life were the plants he tended with a loving and skillful care and the life and works of that laureate of the people, Robert Burns. In his cottage, hidden away there in a green island in the midst of a great city, he had gathered what is recognized to be the most complete collection of Burnsiana in the world, with the excep tion of that owned by his friend -and fellow country man, Andrew Carnegie. His home has been a sort of pilgrim shrine to Burns lovers from all over the United States. Superintendent Smith was the familiar friend of a long list of distinguished statesmen, who esteemed him for his learning, his simple charm of manner and for his mastery of his chosen vocation. In his death one of the landmarks of the Capital passes away and men in every walk and station will feel that they have lost a friend. THE WICKEDEST FLEA. 3? JLICE. EZXII'IR.&.S JLHTU J K,E33L IBIXTIR.A. -JBiiZh r3Tv0 m S it o' : v i M miSATED ?jmZ TK ?vo g& , JUNE fill. 101)! Twenty Pjjej. PRtOE ONB CENT. 10 leches ' -j1 X " " fV &P1 TAFT GETS MORE THAN NEEDED 540 M wnt lent K ts ""- - J ? 22J sttwrKiy-T Last night to furnish tho people of Washington with the news ot the nomi nation of Mr. Taft, three newspapers, one morning and two evening, Issued extras. Of the three extras Issued, there was but one newspaper, The Times, which gave the public what they thought they were buying; namely, THE WHOLE NEWS. The Times was the only one of the three papers that gave tho vote by States up to the point where Mr. Taft's nomination was assured. At the time that the two other news papers went to press with their extras Chairman Root, of the national conven tion, thought It very uncertain that Mr. Taft would be nominated on the first ballot. He was so uncertain. Indeed, that he was already prepared to en force the rule that where regular dele gates were not voting the alternates should be called upon to cast their votes. When the Post and Star went to press . a guess as to Its result, was evidenced Result of First Ballot Shows" Him "the Choice of the Convention Over Any Other Candldace. ooUBBtTM, Chieaco, JM. JJu Battel AfUr flv. weary day. thi BUaa Roller tlowsd down d rtopptd fcmlfht, whtt th. eaftr ,. htfU.udth.BiO TOUMadd for. majority tad a nomination. It had don. afalthf.Uand.aboT.allaeompl.toJob. It had .r.a takw th. wrinkles out at n.. ... . ... . " """ auconient, and prtTtntod J Uf u. profram Dy votlnf hi. rf.w Vorit dtl.ja. lion for Huf has en th. flm ballot When it had gone by and oh .ot a fair look tt th, roadway this tru th. tap,, .ion it had mads; thi. wu th. runlt of th. flnt and only ballot. Wh.r th. roU dUa, with th. total d.hu. rsfrtinsd fj0n raUog. r W Tift W fa urAtu 'ION "ALL Dim,n,'' mjw, n.t WURsa sr -. Wional nor, Oh l - 'IUimK.1 V' 3 SPm- j ' ,a COni,o -WJQ .. --C( ei"e0rt.7,,n'Wl sT). . "eVof. o-v-u With ! "TflS fa "II IAa -! rKstkbi;"n ""eo, ?aii; - ienv. Otitic jh L . n '7narer r ces. ntoc oosa Alabama' rizona with their extras there was no more certainty that Mr. Taft would be nomi nated on the first ballot than there now Is a certainty regarding his election or defeat next November That the Star's extra did not contain the actual news of the ballot, but only by their announcement of a second extra which would give the news. The extra of the Post, which led one to believe that it had been Issued after the ballot was completed, since It pre tended to picture the scene In the con vention hall when Mr. Taft's nomlna- 18 17 tlon had been announced, went to press before half the 640 votes necessary to nominate had been cast. The purchaser of any other extra than The Times was obliged, if he wished the actual news of the ballot, to buy another newspaper. The Times; in Its first and only extra, gave the purchaser the actual vote ot the delegates by States on the first bal lot up to the point where Mr. Taft'a nomination was made certain, and In addition to this gave all the details of the convention proceedings up to the time when the balloting began. It is quite certain that during the Democratic convention The Times and other newspapers will issue conven tion extras, and The Times takes this opportunity to assure those thousands who have during the past week bought Times extras that It will un der no conditions issue a. fake or In complete newspaper, but will with hold the issuing of extras until such time as it can present the news truth fully and completely. THERE WILL BE NO FAKE EX TRAS ISSUED BY THE TIMES. LETTERS TO THE TIMES MAIL BAG Readers of The Times are Invited to use this department as their own to write freely and frankly with tho assurance that no letter not objectionable in languago will be denied publication. Letters must not, hoTferer, exceed 250 words In length, and must be written only on one side of the paper. Letters must bear the names and addresses of tho writers, as evidence of good faith, but the names will not be made public without the consent of tho contributors. Address MAIL BAG EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Proud That Suggestion of Clark audi those who periodically take a fall out ui mo uuvri hiiicjii uiiriivo, utm vviiii iiil The most unique strike which has been declared in this country in many moons took place in the cemetery of a certain city in a neighboring State, where the grave diggers laid down their pick and spade and vowed to work no more unless they were afforded relief from the plague of insects classically known as chigoes, but spoken of in the vernacular as red bugs. Just what the sexton could do to re lieve the situation was not perfectly clear, but for a time there was a strong probability that cremation would have to be adopted, or else deceased friends and relatives would have to be thrust out to be de voured by the kites. It was a powerful lesson from the text "Despise not the day of small things," as pulex penetrans, with his microscopic proportions and mammoth ca pacity for irritation buried himself alive in the limbs of those whose duty it was to bury others. A plenti ful supply of kerosene had to be irrigated over all the circumjacent grave yard before the work of de cent sepulture could go forward. A skeptical press has sought to make light of the matter in certain quarters, but the picnic contingent rise as one man to protest that the ferocity of the chigoe cannot be exaggerated. The West Indian na tives are said to have died in appalling numbers un til they learned to fight this the wickedest of fleas, with tobacco juice. Even now the occasional ram bler in the woods is apt to think he has suddenly broken out with varioloid and knows no remedy ex cept to "suffer and be strong." The insect's favorite habitat is the golden heart of the daisy, for he combines an esthetic with a carnivorous taste. He is now "in season," as we' say of more tempting delicacies, and it is defying fate to recline under the greenwood tree. He has been a determining factor in inducing people more and more generally to confine their woodland outings to the cool, umbrageous pictures of the outdoor maga zines, r SuUer Has Been Indorsed. To the Editor of THE TIMES When I advocated through the Mall Hag the Indorsomnnt of chomp Clark for President, and William Sflzer for Vice preildont l tho D-'mocracv of tho District. I had confidence within rnvself that before the convention met in Baltimore that tho sugct&tlon would nieit wltn approval. 1 hao received that asiurswo, and. notuiallv feel j.ioud of the result. In advocating the nomination of Clark and Sulzer I hao kept my personally screened, owing to the fact that belnw Intimately connected w'th the political affairs of the District for n'Anv vrais. which, natuially brought me In contact with both leaders and tl rank and fib. I did not wish mv personal Influence to enter Into the contest. Therefora I adoptod the ' iion de pluni'j'" by which I om "eft Known to the labor world as, a writer on labor toplrn. Clark and frulxer sound o rood to me, not only from u Denin criitlc standpoint, but as such true fronds to lubor that I corr.ot refrain from thanking th Democracy of tho District for th.i Indorsement of the combination as suggested bv the . ujidcr. r.lcned O. T. BAI'MOM. rlgn ("Tim t ckle , Sajs Thnt RooscTeR Has Simply Been "Hoist on His Own Petard." While The Times Is having hysterics about the present political situation let it put one thing In Its pipe and smoke it. That is. the Invention of the steam roller methods, the national officeholder deleuates from the South, and other "machine" things of which Roosevelt complains is duo to Teddy himself and came fresh from his own workshop. He used these methods Just four years acd to pecure the nomination of Taft the work was done by Hitchcock In the South He finds Taft has only turned the trick he taught him against the teacher. Tho only difference, as W. J. B expresses It, 1b whose ox Is gored. Roosevelt Is very properly "hoist on his own petard." Who Invented the "referee system" in the South but Roosevelt? Who made every use of the machine but Roosevelt and never complained until It began to be used by others? Teddv asserts he Is going to clean out the Augean stables, but It is the first time In history that one of the oxen has undertaken that task. None of the reforms he mouths about now were at tempted when he was In power himself, B. M. C Does Xot Like Senator Williams' Op position to the.GoTernment Clerks. To the Editor of THE TIMES- It Is noticed that the Hon. John Sharp Williams of Mississippi has, for the benefit of "the boys at home." who art constantly crying, "To Hades with the Civil Service," joined the ranks of eye of a Don Quixote sees them only as barnacles centipedes, and devouring cancers, eating away the life ot the "old ship of state " "John." as he Is known In "Old Ya zoo," besides having the reputation of an all-round sport, ono who can pick the winner and look upon "four Jacks." with the solemnity of a preacher when the contribution box Is being passed around. Is also "a Joker." and from force of habit sometimes aspires to be In the sedate and dignified Senate what Sunset Cox was In the House Having no armv record, he Ib deprived of thu magic title of general or even colonel, so It Is necpssarv in somo way to let the boys of "Old Yazoo" know that he Is right on the job and some pumpkins In Washington. After that speech has been distributed and the campaign warms up, "Old Yazoo" will be enliv ened with "Four more years of Grover, four more vears In clover." But "nlxy," If Rosle's hat remains In the ring. J. F. S. It Is Xo Picnic For the Printer's As sistant at the Bureau. To the Editor of THE TIMES Will Mrs. I. Knowathlng please use the human Intelligence that the major ity of people possess and figure what $1.60 per day means to a working girl? Do you think you could buy JT5 coats, diamond rings, willow plumes, gamble, board, and other Incidentals out of this amount? The Government pays the assistant 25 cents per day: Jl 25 is paid by the printer. Could Congress expect a girl to pay for spoiled work out of this, when the printer's average Is from five to eight dollars? Each print er Is allowed to spoil two sheets to every hundred If he spoils more, why shouldn't he pay for It, and If caused by a creature "not worth her salt," why tolerate her when a change can be easily made' The girl must enter the bureau (notice the location and the car service), early enough not only to change clothing, but count the paper for the day's work and be ready on the stroke of 8 to lay on (not slop) the first sheet The perpetual motion con tinues until lunch time, understand, not ii stop unless printer does. The thirty minutes Is spent in preparing more paper, getting blankets, and lunch, and very often If lunch takes thirty min utes, the girl is greeted with a "I'm a martr" expression as many girls give their printer five or ten minutes every day "Quit at 3 o'clock " Oh. that my picnic ceased at this hour' You are in error, madam, you missed the hour for stopping by forty minutes A PRINTER'S ASSISTANT. Personal Mention A Long Excuse. Th" magazine writer rolled In late at night and found his better half sitting up. awaiting his coming. "What have u got to offer this time''" "he demanded. "I can give you a twelve-hundred word story." was the reply of the writer, whose answer was dictated by force of habit. Evening Sendees in tbe Gbuvcbes CHORAL EVENING SERVICE The last of this season. St. Thomas' Church, 8 p. m. EVENING PRAYER St. Mark's Church, 8 p. m. "THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL" The choir of the Epiphany Church,. 8 p. m. "A COUNTRY LAD" The Rer. J. J. Muir, the Temple Baptist Church, 7:45 p. m. "ARE FALSEHOODS TOLD AT FUNERALS IN WASHINGTON?" The Rev. E. Hez Swem, the Centennial Baptist Church, 8 p. m. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 7 p. m. SERMON The Rev. Charles Wood, at the tent of the Church of the Cove nant, Mt. Pleasant street and Park road, 8 p. m. SERMON The Rev. J. W. R. Sumwalt, at the Hamline M. E. Church, 8 p. m. "HOW TO BE RICH" The Rev. W. R. Wedderspoon, the Foundry Ju. E. Church, 8 p. m. "IS THE UNIVERSE, INCLUDING MAN, EVOLVED BY ATOMIC FORCE?" The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 8 p. m. (.apt William Richard Dear, Medical Corps, V S. A., and Mrs. Dear will leave Washington within a few days for the former's new post at Fort Slo cum. They will ba accompanied by Dr. Dear's mother, Mrs. Mary R. Dear. Captain Dear has Just returned from the 1'hllipplnes, and Joined Mrs Dear, who has been spending the last three months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Tlbbltls. j. .Miss Lea Fletcher, Miss Madge HIcK ey. Miss Roberta Hlckey, Miss Alice ronde, and KrneBt Clark, of Knoxvllle, Tenn , are the guests of Capt. John H. Hickcy and Mrs Hlckey at their resi dence on Fourteenth street. - - Mrs. Allan Rutherford announces th engagement 0f her daugnter, Miss Nellie Blanche Rutherford, to Johr Augustus uiockman, lieutenant, U to. A The wedding will take place Jul 17 at Ulcnallan, Galtnorsburg, Md., th country homo of the bride's family The bride-elect Is the daughter of th( late Gen. Allan Rutherford. Lleutenan' Brockman is at present detailed In th Signal Corps, but after July 2 w-lll b assigned to the Eleventh Infantry a tort D. A Russell, Wjo. Announcement is mnrio nf th mar. riage of Miss Ruth Carlynne Lemmon, daughter of Mr and Mrs W L. Lem mon, of 1338 W street, to Grover C Glascocke, of Marshall, Va The cere mony took place Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, tho Rev Littleton Ferguson, of Grace Methodist Church, officiating In the presence of a small party of relatives and friends. The bride was escorted and given In marriage by her father, and attended by Miss Lltlle Street as maid of honor Clarence Gore, of Baltimore, Md acted as best man for Mr Glascocke Mr and Mrs Glascocke left Wash ington after an Informal reception which followed the ceremony for their bridal trip After July 1 they jvlll be at home at 1S38 W street. A The marriage Is announced of Miss Anna Louise Elliott, daughter of Mr I and Mrs. Delwood K Elliott, to Fred I J Rose The ceremony, which was at I tended by a small gathering of rela tives ann inenas, iook piace weanes day afternoon at the home of the bride's parents, the Rev Mr Lowe pastor of Langdon M E. Church, of ficiating A R MacLellan, of Baltimore, the bride's grandfather, played the wed ding music Miss Ruby MacLellan. ol Baltimore, a cousin of the bride, and Miss Alice Rose, slBter of the bride groom, were the bridesmaids Little Miss Helen Winthrop Elliott was hei sister's flower girl A Rutland Elliott and Benjamin S Elliott, brotlurs of the bride, were the groomsmen After a bridal trip to Old Point Com fort, Va , Mr and Mrs. Rose will make their home at Langdon, D C Miss Marguerite Wilcox and Thomai R Godey, of Birmingham, Ala , whose engagement was recently announced will be married Wednesday morning June 26, at the Sacred Heart Shrine Only the two Immediate families wll attend Miss Helen Wilcox will be hei sister's only attendant and Walter R Wilcox will escort his daughter Immediately after the ceremony Mr Godey will take his bride for a brie wedding trip They will make theli home In Birmingham.