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VOL. XXV.—NO. 259. FOR A GREAT LABOR PARTY Big Plan to Enlist American Workingmen Into Semi- Political Organization WOULD KILL "MACHINE" "avors the Establishment of Govern ment Primaries and the Initia tive and Referendum VIGILANCE COMMITTEES TO WATCH ALL OFFICIALS Urges the Eight-hour Day, Living Wa ges, Free Text Books, Public Owner ship of Public Utilities, Majority Verdicts in Civil Trials, Government Issuance of Money—Decries Child Labor. CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—A movement for enlisting the hosts of workingmen throughout the United States into a semi-political organization has been launched in this city, says the Post. A form said to embrace the economical and political ideas of labor leaders and covering the whole labor situation has been prepared and will be presented first for approval next week before the Chicago Federation of Labor. The platform demands the abolition of the so-called political machine, the establishment of government prima ries where votes may be cast "for nominees as citizens and not as mem bers of the machine," and the initiative and referendum. It favors the right of recalling representatives who are out of touch with voters. Relief from the trusts is suggested in the plan for "the passage of an amendment to the practice laws of every state and the federal government where the litigants may bring up, in any suit in which a corporation is the plaintiff or defend ant, the question of its right to its franchise, whether it has usurped pow er not given It under statute and whether it has forfeited its powers." For Vigilance Committees. This method, it is urged, would be productive of more good than the in stitution of suits by federal district attorney. Vigilance committees in ev ery state and large city are favored to see that the laws are impartially ad ministered. The eight-hour day, san itary conditions, living wages,% the re peal of the laws limiting liabilities in personal injury suits, the supplying of free text books to all children in the lower grades of public schools and the abolition of convict labor in competi tion with free men are demanded. Limitation on the injunction powers of Judges is asked and the popular elec tion of federal judges and senators is suggested. In all civil trials majority' verdicts are desired. The plan favors the government instead of banks issu ing all kinds of money, and it is sug gested that private individuals be driv en from banking business. In Favor of Public Ownership. Laws are demanded restricting the issue of capital stock bonds and se curities to any greater extent than the actual property owned by corporations. Public ownership of public utilities is desired and state insurance and pro visions for old age are approved. Child labor is decried and educational aids and trade unionism to keep up wages are approved. In closing, the platform reads: "In order to bring about a state of harmony instead of constant discord the worklngman must look for relief at the ballot box. Here, where the will of the people is supreme, the rem edy lies at hand and must be taken ad vantage of. Workingmen must under take to govern, as well as toil, and in that way they will get justice." LIEUT. PEARY IS SAFE; NOW IN LABRADOR Sends Dispatches to His Wife and to Herbert L. Bridgman from Chateau Bay. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary of the Peary Arc tic club, received a dispatch today from Lieut. R. E. Peary, the Arctic ex plorer, dated Chateau Bay, Labrador. Lieut. Peary says in the dispatch that be is on his way home on the relief ship Windward, and that all on board are well. Beyond what is contained in the dis patch _ received today Mr. Bridgman has no Information as to the move ments of the explorer, who sailed with his expedition to the north pole July •4, 1898. Mr. Bridgman left Lieut. . Peary at Cape Sabine on the 29th of :■" .August,-; 1901. ;,'■. .-■.;.. " ■ ;*..■ The relief ship Windward left New York in ; July last to find the Peary ex pedition; and has evidently, been sue . cessful. . . . I Capt. Dedrich was in command of " the Windward. A His wife, who lives ' at Washington, N. J., today received a dispatch from her husband giving the game information as that contained Jin the important message sent by Peary himself to Mr. Bridgman. m To Build International Road. J ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 15.—Charles W. Weston, of Omaha, has been commission-: ; -' ed *by ' Director of Works Isaac S. Taylor to design the eight miles of International railway which will be constructed upon " the world's fair site, at a cost of $750,000. .;'' Strikes Silver Ore. CARBONDALE. 111.. .Sept. 15.—August Browning, while : blasting out : rock for his house in Dozah creek, near Baldwin, Ran i dolph county, - struck silver : ore running through the rock. : .-, -•■•; i _V ; \"-' '.'■'■ ■"' .-/■"* -1,--;-!*-/ .■■;--•"■■•'' ■"".: "*::■'■-*;- -~::\\'^.:- ■ ■ ■■■■.. " 'i':'y?i*>*.~-'*--* 4'?."■■','.■' '■'.■■--'■''■ ■■ '.'^'■'.'^■k'rr'^'z. '■.-•'■'■■■' ".■•.'""■ •' ■■ ■ :.. - l'-'.".-v".---'" ■'■■■'■ \ ' ■■.■■'..'• .'" I DAY'S NEWS SUMMARIZED Forecast of the weather for St. Paul and vicinity: Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday; variable winds. DOMESTIC— Movement is started in Chicago for en listing the workingmen of the United States in a semi-political organization. Philadelphia judge refuses a charter to a Scientist church because he says it is a corporation organized for profit. Railway employes are soon to make a united demand for increased wages. Wisconsin Methodist conference asks Roosevelt if he asked the Vatican to create Archbishop Ireland a cardinal. Joseph Schmitz is under arrest at Cin cinnati for threatening to kill the presi dent. Lieut. John R. Morris blows out his brains on board the battleship Olympia. Twenty-five villages are swept away and 5,000 persons rendered homeless in Bengal. Dispatch from Lieut. Peary at Chateau Bay, Labrador, indicates he is safe. Seventeen men thought to have lost their lives by an explosion in a mine at Northfork, W. Va. President Roosevelt shakes hands with 7,000 of his neighbors. Sixteen lives are lost by forest fires in the state of Washington. St. Louis judge declares the hat pin a legal weapon of defense. Former Justice Gray dies of paraly sis. Five United States senators are on their way to Oyster Bay at the invitation of the president. FOREIGN— British steel men are said to have com bined to -control prices and regulate the output. London gets nervous over the New York money situation. WASHINGTON— Hobson fails to qualify for retirement and will be assigned for duty by the navy department. Outline of the Littlefleld anti-trust bill which is to be filed next session. SPORTING— American association: St. Paul 9, Columbus 6; Indianapolis 11, Kansas City 8. American league: Washington 11, 4, Baltimore 8, 4; Philadelphia 6. 9, Boston 4, 2; Chicago 7, 4, Detroit 2, 3. National league: Philadelphia 7, 6, Bos ton 4, 2; Pittsburg 6, St. Louis 1; Chicago 6, Cincinnati 3; Brooklyn 7, New York 2. Tommy Ryan knocks out Kid Carter, of Brooklyn, in the sixth round. BUSINESS— High rates for money, result in a gen eral slump in stocks. Both cereals and provisions sell at higher prices. LOCAL— Board of pardons sets George Merkling and John Baley free. Charles J. Hultgren challenges the right of S. R. Van Sant to the governorship and is sent to Rochester. Miss Sarah Welsh is dragged twenty feet along pavement by her skirt becom ing enfangled in safety gate of a car. A new ordinance is proposed to im pose a penalty for stringing overhead wires in the business district. Assembly committee requires a $50,000 bond from Imperial Manufacturing com pany and then refuses to recommend granting of the franchise. Chamber of Commerce elect officers and declares intention of investigating the fuel problem. George H. Maxwell explains how the Milk river valley will be made to bloom by irrigation. Paulist missionary points to attendance at early morning services as proof that St. Paul men are willing to go to church. Two additional companies strengthen the garrison at Fort Snelling. Fire board asks for a charter amend ment allowing the department more money. Anti-Vaccination society wants com pulsory law eliminated from the char ter. William B. Travers Is probably fatally stabbed by "Gumbo" Gibbs In a saloon brawl. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS. Port. Arrived. Sailed. New York Tauric. New York Moltke. New York Minnetonka. Glasgow Carthagenian.. Mongolian. Glasgow Concordia. Liverpool Celtic. Moville Pretorian. Gibraltar Trave. Bremen Friederich der Bremen. Grosse. Moville Astoria. Genoa Perugia. Plymouth Wilhelm der Patricia, Grosse. Southampton.Koenigen Luise. Glasgow Astoria. New York... .Hohenzollern. SENATORS GOING TO OYSTER BAY Have Been Invited There by the Pres ident, but They Don't Know for What. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Much spec ulation was caused tonight by the presence in the city of five of the most influential members of the United States senate, all here on their way to meet President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay tomorrow. The five are Senator Hanna, of Ohio; Senator Allison, of Iowa; Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Isl and; Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, and Senator Platt, of Connecticut. The senators declined to discuss the prob ability of any particular question com ing up at a conference with the presi dent tomorrow. In fact they said they knew of no specific reason for the sending of the invitation to meet the chief executive at this time. Senator Allison said: "I am going to see the president at his invitation, but he did not mention that others were to be there. Senator Hanna disclaimed all knowl edge of the president's purpose in call ing the senators together. "I do not know what subjects will be discussed at tomorrow's conference," he said. Asked whether he thought the question of the coal strike would be one of the subjects taken up, he said that he could see no reason why it should". ■ "Do you think there is, any likeli hood that the contentions of the strik ing coal miners and the operators will be submitted to arbitration?" he was asked. "I see no chance of It," he answered. "I am out of touch with the strike sit uation, and have been for some time. At the present time I see no indication that the National Civic Federation may be called upon to arbitrate*" TUESDAY MORNIN3, SEPTEMBER 16, 1902.—TEN PAGES. TO TRAP THE TRUSTS PLAN OF LITTLEFIELD BILL TO MAKE MAGNATES TURN STATE'S EVIDENCE REDRESS FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM COMBINES To Receive Three Times the Damages Suffered, to Have Their Lawyers' Fees Paid and Have the Trusts Meet Their Other Expenses, Including the Court Costs. Special to The Globe. BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 15.—The Ad vertiser will tomorrow publish an au thoritative forecast of the Littlefleld anti-trust bill, which has been In,-, dorsed by President Roosevelt and will be introduced in the house in the early weeks of the next session, to get around the constitutional provision that no :^~: :S-;'^-•':-::'- ®i|S man can be convicted on his own en forced testimony. It is provided that in all prosecutions, hearings and proceedings no person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, contracts, agreements and doc uments before the courts of the United States or the commissioners thereof or in obedience to the subpoena of said courts or commissioners on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or for feiture, but no person shall be prose cuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing conceifa ing which he may testify or produce evidence. Make Them Turn State's Evidence. In other words, if men like Morgan and Vanderbilt should be engaged in a railway deal which secretly em bodies some agreement of a trust char acter, any complainant who suffers in injury from this agreement can bring these kings of finance into court and make one of them testify against the other, make him turn state's evidence against his own will. The man who sues a trust and has the facts behind him that will prove that he has suffered damages from the operation of any company which works in restraint of interstate trade or commerce is: 1. To receive three times the actual amount of damage suffered. 2. To have all his lawyers' fees paid by the trust. 8. To have the trust pay all other expenses of the suit, including the court costs. All Must File Yearly. All corporations engaged In inter state commerce, not merely the big concerns like the trusts, but practi cally every business concern which fills orders outside of the state in which its home office is located, is to file every year with the secretary of the treasury a statement showing Its name, date of organization, where and when or ganized, giving statutes under which It is organized and all amendments there of; If consolidated, naming for con stituent companies with the same In formation as far as practicable; If re organized, the name of the original corporation or corporations, with full reference to laws under which all the reorganizations have taken place, full details as to earnings, value of prop erty, etc. WILL ASSIGN HOBSON TO NAVAL SERVICE Has Been on Sick Leave Some Time— Fails to Qualify for Retirement. WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 15.—Na val Constructor Richmond Pearson Hobson, who appeared before a retir ing board a few njonths ago and failed to qualify for retirement, will be as signed to duty shortly by the navy de partment. He has been on sick leave since June last. After being rejected by the retiring board, Mr. Hobson ap plied for thr4e months' sick leave, to allow his eyeS, which had been much overtaxed and impaired by the sun glare which attended his work of rais ing the sunken Spanish vessels, to re cuperate. At the end of that period it was un derstood that if the constructor's eyes failed to grow stronger or had become more impaired, he steould be ordered before another retiring board. Now that his leave was about expiring, the navy department has referred his case to Dr. Rixey, surgeon general of .the navy. Constructor Hobson called In person at the navy department a short THE FIRST DUTY OF EVERY GOOD CITIZEN TODAY. time ago and saw Dr. Rixey, who with out having made a special examination has pronounced the officer fit for duty. JOHN W. GATES MEETS WITH DEFEAT Judge Thayer Orders Discharge of the Receivers of the Guardian Trust Company. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 15.—Judge Amos M. Thayer of the circuit court today granted the petition of the stock holders representing^Arthur E. Still well to discharge the receivers of the Guardian Trust company, appointed over a year ago at the instigation of John W. Gates and his following. The supporters of Mr. Stillwell, who at the time the company was thrown into re ceivers' hands was president of the company, asserted in their petition to have the receivers discharged that the business could be conducted more eco nomically without them. The Gates contingent opposed the move on the theory that S^llwell desired to merge the Guardian Trust company into the Mexican Trust company. It is believed that Mr. Stillwell will be reinstated as president. Judge Thayer's order authorizes the receiver to pay immediate direct liabili ties to the amount of $199,433, and make payments of contingent liabilities to the amount of $31,880, taking from the persons holding the contingent claims agreements extending the time for the-payment of the residue. HOW CHICAGO WILL ENTERTAIN ROOSEVELT Final Arrangements for the Recep tion in the Windy City. CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Final arrange ments were made today for the recep tion and entertainment of President Roosevelt during his} visit to this city Oct. 3. In the mornjpff he will be en tertained at receptions at the Hamilton club, the Press Club of Chicago *nd at Northwestern university. At noon he will be escorted to the University of Chicag-o, where he will receive the de gree of doctor of la^rs, and in the aft ernoon he will be received at the Lake side club at a mass meeting at the Coliseum, and at a of tho League of ' Republican Clubs. The women's clubs of th 4 city will enter tain him later, and in the evening a banquet will be given-in his honor at the Auditorium. These plans are sub ject to the approval of Secretary Cor telyou, and the programme as mapped out will be forwarded to the secretary at once. ALL PROBABLY DEAD WEST VIRGINIA EXPLOSION CUTS OFF ESCAPE OF SEVENTEEN MINERS ARE BEHIND A WALL OF GAS AND SMOKE One Man Crawls to Safety Over Fallen Coal and Slate—Lamp Sets Fire to Gas and This in Turn Sets Off Six Kegs of Stored Blasting Powder. NORTHFORK, W. Va., Sept. 15.—A gas and powder explosion occurred in the Big Four mine of the Algona Coal and Coke company here today, as the result of which James Lester, an engi neer; John Recki, a Hungarian miner, and fifteen colored miners are known to be imprisoned in the mine. There is hardly one chance for the men to be recovered aliye, as they are beyond the point where the explosion occurred. The gas and smoke are so thick that all rescuing parties have been driven back. H. Frankenfield, a miner, suc ceeded in crawling over the fallen coal and slate after the explosion to the lights of the rescue party, and was tak en out altve, although badly bruised and nearly suffocated by the gas and smoke. The explosion is said to have been caused by an accumulation of gas catching on fire from the lamp of a miner who was going to work, and this in turn fired six kegs of blasting pow der that had been stored back in the mines. Air Is All Cut Off. The explosion knocked down all of the brattices for a quarter of a mile back towards the main entrance, thus cutting out all of the air from the men imprisoned behind the debris. There was a small gas explosion in this mine on Saturday last, and Mine Superintendent A. J. Stuart had per sonally cautioned the men who worked in the mine not to attempt to work again until the air had been tested by a safety lamp. A rescuing party,, headed by Mine Inspector Cooper, at tempted a rescue, but were driven back by the want of air. It Is now learned that the coal is burning, and there is no hope of extinguishing the flames until a new air passage can be built to the point of the explosion. Supt. Stuart has a large force of men at work now, and will make a second at tempt to reach the imprisoned men. Bodies of Mules Found. At 8 o'clock tonight the rescuing par ty returned from the Algoma mine and reported that they were unable to reach the men imprisoned there on account of the deadly black damp. The men have succeeded in building air brattices within fifty yards of the place where the explosion occurred. The bodies of the two mules that were used by the miners when they went to work today have been found. James A. Semple Dead. DENVER, Col., Sept. 15.—James A. Semple, one of the oldest railroad passen ger agents in the United States, died here today, aged seventy-seven. In the sixties he was assistant general passen ger agent of the Little Miami road in Ohio. In 1870 he became general freight and passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Junction railway at Indian apolis. • ;. Twenty-five Years for EmbeMrtement. "'■ % DENVER, Col., " Sept. 15.— Edgar " Neff i pleaded guilty today ■to the embezzlement ■ of ( $8,520 « from the Union \ Pacific Railway i company and ;. was c sentenced S«t t<?37^ serve . twenty-five years 'at hard labor in 4 the ■ penitentiary. ::3/ Neff i, was 5 cashier!" in the ' Denver -, freight ' house -of the Union Pa cific PRICE TWO CBOTSHniSreSfea. PUTS TO ROOSEVELT A POINTED QUESTION Wisconsin Methodist Conference Asks the President if He Recommended Ireland for Cardinal. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 15.—Pres ident Roosevelt was called upon by the Wisconsin Methodist conference today to refute the report that he has asked the Vatican at Rome to create Arch bishop Ireland a cardinal. By unani mous vote the conference decided to send the following letter on the sub ject to the president: "His Excellency, President Roosevelt, Qyster Bay, L. I.—Honored Sir—We see with pain a published dispatch contain ing a rumor that the Vatican has re ceived from President Roosevelt an in timation that he would be personally pleased to see that Archbishop Ireland is created a cardinal as a reward for the services he has rendered the church and the state. We strongly doubt the cor rectness of this rumor, for it does not seem possible that the president of the United States could thus violate the spirit of the constiution of he United States, which requires the complete separation of the church and state, and we hope to see it authoritatively denied. 'Signed by request of the Wisconsin annual conference of the Methodist church. —"D. A. Goodsell, "Bishop and President." In addition to this resolution, the conference formally took cognizance of the coal strike, calling upon congress to enact such laws as will authorize the seizing of coal mines and railroads in order to prevent such strikes in the future. REFUSES A CHARTER TO SCIENTIST CHURCH Philadelphia Judge Says He Has No Power Because It Is a Corpora tion for Profit. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 15.— The application for a charter made by the First Church of Christ, Scientist, was refused today by Judge Arnold in the common pleas court. In his opin ion Judge Arnold says: "The charter applied for in this case covers a double purpose—a church and a business. We have power to grant a charter for a church, but we have no authority to grant a charter for a corporation for profit, that is, a busi ness corporation;." Continuing the court quotes from the text book of Mary Baker G. Eddy, in structions to Christian Scientists to sell and circulate the publications of Mrs. Eddy, failure to do the same be ing sufficient cause for expulsion from membership in the church. "This shows," says the court, "that the so-called church is a corporation for profit, organized to enforce the sale of Mrs. Eddy's books by its mem bers, which is a matter of business and not of religion. As the cpurts have no power to charter such a corporation, the application for a charter is refus ed." THREATENS TO KILL THE PRESIDENT Man Under Arrest at Cincinnati Who is Said to Want to Slay Mr. Roosevelt. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 15.—The police are holding Joseph Schmitz, aged forty/ on a charge of loitering, until they can investigate a statement that he has threatened to take the life of President Roosevelt. Schmitz was ar rested on Saturday on the complaint of two elderly sisters living on Oliver street that he had entered their prem ises and insisted on staying there. The story is that he made the threat against the president to persons on Everett street and the police are now searching for those persons, as well as making efforts to learn the past history of the prisoner. Pending the investi gation the police are reticent as to their pragramme. TWENTY-Fl¥2 VILLAGES ARE SWEPT AWAY Five Thousand Persons Are Rendered Homeless In the Southern Part of Bengal. CALCUTTA, Sept. 15.—Twenty-five villages have been swept away and 5,000 persons have been rendered homeless by floods due to the overflow ing of rivers in the southern part of the presidency of Bengal. Relief camps for the sufferers have been started. UNITED DEMAND FOR INCREASED PAY Railway Employes Are Shortly to Make It, but E. E. Clark Says There Will Be No Strike. CEDAR RAPIDS. lowa, Sept. 15.— E. E. Clark, grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, today confirmed the statement that employes of all rail roads in the West will make a united demand for increased wages. He, how ever, declared the present talk of a widespread strike to be "unwarranted sensationalism." "No strike will occur," said Mr. Clark, "until all other means have been entirely exhausted, and then only upon a two-thirds vote of members of the organization involved." MABONIC TEMPLE SALE STOPPED BY INJUNCTION Judge Dunne Restrains the Collection of the Taxes for 1901. CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—Judge Dunne today issued an injunction restraining the collection of the taxes for M©l, amounting to over $26,000, on the Ma sonic Temple. The injunction will for the time put a stop to the sale of the big office building for taxes. The taxes in question, according to affidavit of the temple association officers, have been paid. Charges, however, have been made that a gang of tax-fixers forged the re ceipt held by the association with a view of defrauding the county of taxes. Several men have already been indict ed for the conspiracy. HEAVY VOTE IS EXPECTED Today's Registration Esti mated at Eighty Per Cent of Poll List CANVASS IS COMPLETE Situation Is Wholly in the Dark and Few Are Bold Enough to Pick Winners. DUE TO PERSONAL WORK OF SCORES OF CANDIDATEB Large Tickets Will Make Canvass Slow, and Complete Returns Are Not Expected Before Thursday—Bitter Fights Result in Introduction of Questionable Campaign Methods. The first primary election for the nomination of county, legislative and congressional candidates in Ramsey county will be commenced at 6 o'clock this morning. The work of sifting out, by popular vote, the candidates of the two lead ing parties, which have the primary ballot to themselves, promises to be arduous, and the complete corrected re turns of today's primary will probably not be in the possession of the public earlier than Thursday morning. There are 150 candidates to be voted for, and the canvass of the vote cannot under the law be taken up until after 9 o'clock tonight, when the polls will close. The partisan ticket will also add to the labor of the canvass, and the judges of few precincts in the city will have completed their work before breakfast time tomorrow. It Is generally believed that the vote will be heavy, that is, In comparison with the expected primary vote in most portions of the state. St. Paul is expected to cast 80 to 88 per cent of its total vote, while the generally accepted average for the state at large 1&-65 per cent. Candidates Are Industrious. The reasons are numerous. Perhaps the most potent factor in getting out the vote lies in the large number of candidates on both sides of the political fence. Every ward and almost every precinct in the city is represented on one or the other party tickets, and some very pretty and decidedly ag gressive fights for nominations have been waged in both parties. Even the weakest candidate on the ticket has a personal following, as was demonstrate ed at the spring primaries, and the fel lows properly classed with the "also rans" may turn up with more than re spectable totals when the vote is polled. The voters at large have not, except the immediate supporters of a few marked candidates, shown a great de gree of enthusiasm, and might be ex pected, were It not for the strenuous campaigns a majority of the candidates have made, to forget about the prima ry election. As it is, few voters have been allowed to escape without making up their minds about the comparative claims of the contending candidates In their own party, and today no man In possession of a franchise will be left in peace until he has registered and voted. Few Unpopular Offices. Few nominations have been allow ed to go without spirited contests, and still fewer to go by default. On the Democratic county ticket County At torney Thomas R. Kane, County Treas urer Peter Metzdorf and County Sur veyor John B. Irvine have no opposi tion for renomination. On the Repub lican ticket County Superintendent of Schools Montgomery and County Com missioner James Powers have neither opposition for nomination nor Demo cratic candidates in the field seeking to oppose them after the primaries. Those are the only places on the coun ty ticket allowed to go by default, and in both instances Democrats will be nominated after the primaries by the committee. The prettiest fights on both sides for places on the county ticket are the contests for nomination for clerk of the district court and sheriff. The results of the Democratic race for the clerk of courts' nomination is generally con ceded a hopeless puzzle. Wessel, Schurmeier, Hall, O'Reilly and Wag ener, all naturally strong men, have put up strong fights for the party preferment. It is generally believed that one of the quintette will be the recipient of a landslide, but even the puzzle editor has not dared give a line on the identity of that one. The Democratic fight for the nomination has been in refreshing contrast to that made in the Republican party. Employ Dirty Tactics. Edward G. Rogers, the incumbent, is too well known as a gentleman in poli tics to be charged in the public mind with the anonymous circulars that have been used in this fight, but he has been the target of some of them. Taken all in all it has been one of the dirtiest political messes the Republic an party has aired in many a long day. In public the candidates have advanc ed arguments, logical enough and clean enough, but under the cover of plain envelopes and unsigned cards, work that would bring a blush to the cheek of a thief has been resorted to. The Republican fight for the shriev allty nomination has been not so bad, but it is tainted with questionable methods. Little things like threaten-' ing laboring men with the loss of their positions if they did not modify their zeal in behalf of the labor candidates; a night crew whose duty it was to cov er up the opposition cards and posters and the circulation of the report that one of the candidates had been bought off are samples of the Republican statesmanship displayed in the two handed game. On the Democratic side the fight is four-cornered, and has been clean and dignified. Anton Miesen, Charles Houck, Patrick Murphy and Michael Quigley are the contestants, and they have made the fight as warm as poa- Continued on Fourth Page.