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TOPEKA KAKS.AS. NOVEMBER 22, 1906.
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SNAP GOES "LID"
ilay
ors of Saloon Towns
Are
liecoinlng Alarmed.
Atchison, Leavenworth
Wichita May Be Next.
and
ALL COLLECT It EVEN UK
2Iayor of Fort Scott Already in
Storm Cellar.
Findlay Ross Says That He Isn't
Frightened.
GoTernor Hoch Denies Any Re
sponsibility for Crusade.
Are the ouster suits filed by Attorney
General Coleman against .""
F Ktf.knr. a n A TlinCtion CltV nlGTCJ
the beginning of a series of similar
suits, to be filed against the mayors of
Leavenworth. Wichita. .J'l ! dence in the ouster suits Is being fur-
other towns which run the.r saioons nlsh(?ll by j K Codaingi tne aUorney
wide open and collect hevenue for the j for the gtate Temperance union. Cod
berefit of the city' dlnR is working around In various parts
The orobability of such action is j ft the state, and every once in a while
Wichita, Atchison ana
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lander o
his storm cellar, and the others are
just about ready to close down the lid
and wait until the clouds roll by.
Governor Hoch denies all responsi
bility for the action of General cole
man and Coleman affirms this state
ment of the governor. Governor Hoch,
as a matter of fact, was in Kansas C lty
when the suits were tiled, and did not
return to Topeka until Wednesday
afternoon. When he did return, lie
went to General Coleman's oitice, and
had an hour's talk with him. When he
came out of General Coienian s office,
he was asked whether he had anything
to say about the situation.
"1 haven't anything to say," he re
plied. When he was informed shortly after
his return that ths suits had been filed
i-aid: "That's the first I had heaid
of it." . , .
General C. C. Coleman oeciarea ui
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t would be the purpose of his depart-
tie nt to continue tne prosecution v,
mayors who fail to enforce the law.
He denied that the prosecutions com
menced were in the nature of a "tem
perance spasm. Mr. t'oieman m.u.
It i the purpose of this department.
In which I am at liberty to say that my
successor fullv concurs, to make it im
possible for the officers of these cities
to enter into partnership with lawless
ness without betn4n contempt of the
supreme court. The municipal profit 01
the partnership being thus cut out -wo
believe the local and police officers wil!
he zealous to enforce the law as it has
t,ef.n enforced in Wyandotte county by
Mr. Trickett and Judge Holt. I pre
ler n.H to say what, if any. other cases
will be begun in the future."
l-'inley lloss Not Scared.
A Wichita dispatch shows that Fin
ley Ross, mayor of Wicliita, has fixed
himself so that he believes he can't be
leached. In Wichita the Joints, dives
end gambling houses are fined inr
keeping open on Sunday." There is
no law to pi event their running.
When asked if he had heard anything
from Attorney General Coleman con
cerning proceedings to be instituted
against him. Mayor Ross said:
"I don't know a thing about it. I
have had no word from Mr. Coleman
concerning the matter. You see, the
conditions here are different from those
in Kansas City, Kan. There is no or
dinance in this city against saloons. In
Kansas City there was one. I don't
know whether that is true also of Junc
tion City and Ilttsburg. My opinion is
that a mayor is elected to see that the
city ordinances are enforced. The coun
ty authorities are the ones to whom
the state must look for the enforcement
of state laws. Under the statutes, a
city council may pass ordinances in
line with state laws, but it is not ob
ligatory upon it to do so."
Col. Godfrey Pleased.
A dispatch from Fort Riley says:
"Colonel K. A. Godfrey, comman
dant of Fort Riley, was notified of the
action brought by the attorney gen
eral. C. C. Coleman, against the mayor
cf Junction City and Junction City
ltself. Colonel Godfrey expressed sat
isfaction at the news and said that the
open Joints in Junction City were a
detriment to the discipline in the post.
He said that he would gladly see the
places closed."
ntjWilliims Is Hunting Cover.
Mayor Everhardy of Leavenworth
refused absolutely to talk about Gen.
Coleman's move, and so did the mem
bers of the Leavenworth City council.
Frank t nz Uliams. citv attorney
was in a different mood.
"I will, as city attorney of Leaven
worth." said Mr. FitzWiiliams. "advise
the mayor of Leavenworth to issue his
proclamation to close all Joints, dis
orderly houses and gambling houses if
they exist in Leavenworth. I will ad
vise that any information that may
come to him and the chief of police or
police Judge in the way of information
or evidence be turned over to the
ounty attorney for the purpose of
closing ail such places. If the attor
ney general of Kan. will inform the
mayor of the city of Leavenworth that
it is the desire of the state officers
that the town of Leavenworth shall be
a. closed place after the majority ren
dered by Leavenworth county for the
governor of the state, the town of
Leavenworth will be dry except for
blind joints, which the authorities,
city and county, will be unable to con
trol." tioodlander Playing Safe.
Mayor Goodlander of Fort Scott says
he had no knowledge whatever of any
ouster suit having been prepared
against him just before election.
"No one has ever mentioned any
euch matter to me," he said. "If pa
pers were prepared in such a proceed
ing I probably wouid not have been
consulted in the matter. In any event.
I had no knowledge whatever of suh
a move. I would like to have it dis-1
tinctly understood that my action in I
closing the saloons of Fort Scott was
not prompted at ail by a fear of ouster
proceedings. Longer ago than three
weeks I addressed an open letter to the
people of this county, telling them that
Inasmuch as the county campaign here
was being fought out on a distinctly
law enforcement issue, if they elected
law enforcement candidates I wouid.
sa the day foliowing election, order the
stirring up the city officers m i with Oeneral Coleman,
towns, and some of them are begin- Mr codding says that the State Tem
nlnr to take to cover. Mayor Good- ; pcrance union does not desire any cred-
police to close all places where illegal
business was being carried on. The
people ejected the. law enforcement
candidate for county attorney and I
made good my pledge.
"While I am mayor no saloon, gambling-
house or disorderly house may be
operated in Fort Scott. Had the peo
ple elected the antilaw enforcement
candidate for county attorney I would
undoubtedly have continued the license
policy heretofore followed. My action
was entirely independent of any possi
ble ouster proceedings. The proposi
tion I made to the people was a fair
one and one that could not have been
misunderstood. They sacrificed par
tisanship and voted for law enforce
ment and I will see that the laws are
enforced in Fort Scott in fulfillment of
my pledge."
Mayor Goodlander's term expires
next April.
Two Mayors Keep Quiet.
Mayor O'Donneil. of Junction City,
won't discuss the proceedings against
him, further than to say that he hai
been carrying out the wishes of the
majority of people 1n Junction City.
Mayor Kirkwood of Pittsburg said:
"I am not worrying, and in fact I do
not exactly understand what it means,
but I suppose It is the same thing that
has gone up against Leavenworth,
Wichita and the other towns in the
state. All I have got to do is to wait
and see what they will do. The papers
were filed by Attorney General Cole-
j man in me supreme court, and my an
swer win prooaoiy De in Dy December
20, the time set."
State Temperance Union Responsible.
v .-...v.. j. w l. xvci . V tain, LilllliCSi iivnr
it for what it is doing, but does not
oeny tnat it is getting In its work in
the present cases.
CRUMMER ACCEPTS.
He Becomes Private Secretary
Governor Hoch.
Schuyler C. Crummer, chairman of
the Republican state central commit
tee, has decided to accent the position
of private secretary to Governor E. W.
Hoch. and will begin his work in that
capacity on December 1.
Charles Sessions, the present incum
bent, will leave Topega Saturday. Mr.
Sessions has a week's vacation "com
ing" to him, and he will take the vaca-
tion on his way east, visiting his old
home in Ohio for several days.
S. V. Crummer, Private Secretary to
Governor Hoch.
Mr. Crummer is regarded as one of
the best men that could have been
selected for the position of private
secretary. He has a wide acquaint
ance throughout the state, and his
management of the recent campaign
has put him in close touch with the
political situation. He is 44 years of
age, and lives with his wife at the
Union Pacific hotel in Xorth Topeka,
though his home is Belleville, Kansas.
For some days Mr. Crummer has
been undecided about accepting the
office of private secretary, on account
of a plan which has been pending for
the establishment of a new bank at
junction City. George Clark and Mr.
Crummer were expecting to take the
controlling interest in this new project.
out the plan was allowed to fail
through. Mr. Crummer then decided
to accept the secretaryship.
Mr. Crummer was born at Elizabeth.
111., only a few miles from the old
home of Genera! I". S. Grant. He
lived at Elizabeth until 1881, when he
moved to Belleville, and went into the
banking business there. He was in
the bank until 1S97, when he bought a
hotel, and was proprietor for four
years. In 1901, he was appointed bank
examiner by Bank Commissioner Mor
ton Albaugh. and was in that position
until last June, when, he was given a
leave of absence to take up the work
of chairman of the Republican state
central committee.
Luring the preesnt winter, at least,
Mr. Crummer will continue to make his
home at the hotel in Xorth Topeka.
Xext spring he may start up house
keeping on this side of the river.
There is one rather peculiar thing
about the new combination. Mr.
Crummer is said to be a resubmission
ist, while Governor Hoch is a prohibi
tionist. COLDEST OF SEASON.
Mercury Dropped to Eighteen Degrees
Tills Morning.
The coldest weather of the season
was recorded in Topeka this morning.
At 7 o'clock the government thermome
ter stood as low as IS degrees. How
ever it warmed up towards noon and by
press time the mercury had reached 34
degrees, which was two higher than
yesterday.
F.ir tor.ipht. the forecast says there
will be rain cr sr.cw and it will con
tinue to do one or the rther tomorrow.
However, as yet any indications to this
effect havs faile'i to present themselves.
The wind today is from the south
east and blows with a velocity of six
miles an hour. The temperatures for
today are as fellows:
7 o'clock 18 11 o'clock.. 27
8 o'clock IS I 12 o'clock 31
9 o'clock 21 1 o'clock 33
10 o'clock 24 ( 2 o'clock 34
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HIRE' ALL HELP.
Dr. Clark Proposes Reform In
State Institutions.
Would Hare One Civil Service
Uoard Employ Attendants.
THE ILLINOIS PLAN.
Thinks It Could Re Profitably
Adopted in iiansas.
Doesn't Want Violent
Sent to W infield.
Idiots
I. W. Clark, the new superintendent
of the state school for feeble minded
youth at Winfieid, wants the state to
establish at Topeka a civil service
board, to examine all applicants for
positions in all state institutions, and
furnish employes to the various insti
tutions on reiiuest.
This theory is directly in conflict
with the idea of the superintendents of
most of the others state institutions,
who think that the new board of con
trol law giving each superintendent
absolute authority to employ all his
own assistants is just what it should
be. Lr. Clark, on the other hand,
v.-ants to take this power out of the
hands of the superintendents, and give
it to a state civil service board.
The plan proposed by Lr. Clark is
the one adopted by the state of Illi
nois, and some other states w hich are
trying to take state institutions out of
politics.
At the present time the civil service
movement in Kansas is not an un
qualified success. The penitentiary
board, the reformatory board and the
board of control each make their own
civil service ruies for the institutions
under their respective charge. The
result is that the board of control has
gone further in cutting out political
contributions than have either the
nenitentiary or the reformatory. It is
said that the state penitentiary em
ployes contributed $3,700 to the Re
publican campaign fund in the recent
election, while the employes at Osa
watomle asylum contributed only $70.
The reason for the difference is said to
be that the board of control has made
it impossible for employes to be dis
missed for not contributing to political
funds. ,
Dr. Cla-k says in his report to the
state board of control, which was
printed today:
"One cf the most perplexing problems
that confronts 'he superintendent in
the mana-re.-nent of his institution is the
retention of sufficient help, and the em
ployment of those who possess a nigh
RtatidJ-rd .of efficiency. Boards may con
trol, and legislatures may ai propnate,
but the s-ipcrinter.dnt must be provid
ed with a sxifflcient number of employes.
The present method of obtaining help
could be made more satisfactory. That
the service mav be improved, the civil
service law should be amended so that
an employment bureau would be es
tablished at Topeka. and that the board
wo'iid receive the applications and have
examinatiors. and establish an eligible j
list from which to certify to the super
intendent the nanr e of the most capable
applicant for the appointment. tne
superintendent should be the sole judge
of the employe as to fitness and merit
for promotion."
The superintendents of the state hos
pitals for the insane have been urging
that the violent idiots, those whose
coses are hopeless, should be trans
ferred to the Winfieid school. which
should be enlarged for this purpose. Dr.
Clark also takes issue with the other
superintendents on that proposition.
Dr Clark says that his institution
should be enlarged to take In all feeble-minded,
and idiots. regardless of
age and that the name should be
changed to "School and Home for Fee
ble Minded." He would have all the
harmless idiots new kept at county poor
farn s transferred to the Winfieid home.
But he says that it is a very bad plan
to include the insane, or violent idiots,
with the harmless idiots. Dr. Clark is
willing to take all the harmless idiots,
but he doesn't want the violent kind.
The report shows that the average num
ber of inmates of the Winfieid school' dur
ing the past two years was 364. The num
ber of colored pupils is IS. There are 73
inmates who can read and write, and IS
who can not leva inemsnvea, oo air ip-
pies and 10 are deaf and dumb. There are j
Rl counties of the state represented in the
institution. The report is nuisiraieii wnn
a large number of Interesting halftone
cuts, showing the boys and girls at tho
school in their various school rooms.
PAUCETtOO SIALL.
Would Xot Hold the Crowd at the
Kooscvclt Reception.
San Juan, Porto Rico, Nov. 22.- Presi
dent Roosevelt and his party left San
Juan this morning by special train for
Arecibo. 40 miles west of this city,
where they will enter automobiles drive
to Fence and embark for home on board
the Louisiana.
Governor and Mrs. Winthrop accom
panied the president to Arecibo and will
bid him farewell at Ponce. The car In
which the presidential party traveled
was constructed of native wood espec
ially for the Infanta Eulala when she
visited Porto Rico.
Governor and Mrs. Winthrop's recep
tion last night in honor of President
and Mrs. Roosevelt was the greatest so
cial function in the history of Forto
Rico. The executive mansion was not
large enough to accommodate the
guests who Included a large number of
members of the Spanish colony.
President Roosevelt, during the even
ing was happily surprised at meeting
E. G. Norton, a former surgeon of the
rough riders, who. with his brother,
fought by the side of Colonel Roosevelt,
at the battle of San Juan Hill.
The president's return home by way
of Ponce was necessary because it was
impossible for him to board the Louisi
ana outside San Juan harbor.
HE SAILS FOR HOME.
President Roosevelt Re-embarks on the
Louisiana at Ponce.
Washington, Nov. 2 2. The navy de
partment was advised today that the
battleship Louisiana with President
Roosevelt aboard and convoyed by the schooner lost her bowsprit and head
battieshipa Washington and Tennessee ; gear. The Main returned to quaran
sailed from Ponce, P. R., oarly today Mine and the schooner was towed up
for Hampton Roads.
MAN" AVIIO STOLE WHEAT EREE.
Thomas Smith of Ellsworth Is Par
doned by Governor Iloeh.
On Saturday, Thomas Smith, of
Ellsworth, will walk out of the Kan
sas penitentiary, a free man. He was
given a commutation of sentence to
day by Governor Hoch, at the request
cf Judsre R. R. Rees, who sentenced
him, the county attorney and all the
county officers, and nine of the jury
men who convicted him. The other
three jurymen could not be located.
Thos. Smith was sentenced to six
years in prison in May. 1903. for
burglary and larceny. He stole a load
of wheat valued at $17, and his sen
tence would have been a few months
in Jail had he not broken into a build
ing to get the wheat, thus adding the
crime of burglary t that of lareenv.
Judge Rees stated that he thought the
sentence ot six years too heavy, but as
it was tne minimum, it had to stick
Smith has been in the penitentiary t
little over three years.
NEW DEVLIN HEARING.
Corn Exchange Lank Contention to Be
Heard On December 6.
The hearing of the petition of the
Devlin trustees for a compromise with
the Corn Exchange National bank be
fore Referee X. H. Locmis has been set
for December 6th, a postponement from
the previous day set, December 3rd.
Under the terms of the compromise
the bank is to dismiss its suit against
the trustees which is pending in the
circuit court of Cook county, Illinois,
and in addition to pay all the costs.
The bank holds claims against the C. J.
Devlin estate amounting to $132,000. and
as collateral security for those claims
holds the following personal property
Bonds of the Devlin Coal company,
face value, $60,000; bonds of the Toluca,
Marquette & Northern Railroad com
pany, face value, $236,009; i'OO shares
capital stock of te Devlin Coal com
pany; 75 shares capital stock of the
Marceline Coal company; 25 shares cap
ital stock of the Marceline Mercantile
company; 1,250 shares capital stock of
the Marquette Third Vein Coal com
pany. The proposed compromise, is upon the
foliowing terms:
The said bank is to surrender to the
trustees all of the notes and obliga
tions of the said Chas. J. Devlin held
by it, except nine notes, of the Toluca,
Marquette & Northern Railroad com
pany, aggregating $12,500, guaranteed
by said Chas. J. Devlin, and agrees to
rely upon said Railroad company for
the payment thereof, provided said
bank be allowed to retain as their se
curity said certificates for 1.250 shares
cf stock in the Marquette Third Vein
Coal company and said certificates for
200 shares Devlin Coal company stock;
and also excepting five note signed by
W. H. Horine & Company aggregating
$27. 5' 10. and agrees to discharge the es
tate of Chas. J. ,pei!U , imm iiaomiy
thereon. And said " trustees agree to
convey to said bank all of the right,
title and interest in and to all the col
lateral securities now held by said bank
to secure the indebtedness of said estate
to said bank, except said certificates
for 1.250 shares capital stock of the
Marquette. Third Vein Coal company
and said certificates for 20 shares cap
ital stock of the Devlin Coal company.
Upon the confirmation oT the compro
mise the bank is to disYniss its suit
against said trustees now pending in
the circuit court of Cook county, Illi
nois, and to pay all costs.
VIC. MURDOCH HERE.
Will Oiton Senatorial Headquarters in
Topeka Soon.
Victor Murdock, of Wichita, who is in
Topeka today making arrangements to
open headquarters here for his United
States senatorial boom, said:
"It is my idea that the senatorial
candidates should keep out of the
speakership fight. The people of Kan
sas expect this session of the legisla
ture to do business, and not get into a
big row about the speakership and sen
atoiship. I hope that the legislature
will settle the senatorial fight just as
quickly and quietly as possible, and I
hope they will vote for the man that
thev think will give Kansas the most
fcusinessliks administration of the af-
fairs of the office.
"It was stated that I was putting
forward C. L. Davidson as 'my candi
date' for the speakership. I think Mr.
Davidson would make a very good
speaker, but he tells me he is not a
candidate, and that's all I know about
it."
S. H. Brandon of Butler, who was re
elected to the legislature after a hard
fight which he didn't expect, is here
today, looking into the political situa
tion. Concerning the speakership he
said:
"I hope the senatorial candidates will
keep hands off in that fight. I don't
believe that senatorial matters have i
entered into the situation much yet, j
and I hope they w ill continue to stay j
out. If one candidate should try to j
boom a man, it would precipitate a j
fight. It is bard enough to smooth over
a senatorial fight without having a bit
ter contest on speakership besides. I
am not a candidate for the speakership.
It is a Job I don't desire in the least."
Congressman Charles Curtis had a
meeting of a number of well known
' 1 J . . t . .1
Iieauq u.l I Lei s n euiic3vi:ij t ciu,:g, aim
will have another meeting of the same
sore tonight. The meeting was to talk
over plans for his campaign, and in
terest the home people in advancing
his candidacy. Mr. Curtis will leave
for Washington for the "short session"
about the last of this month.
Chanute. Kan., Xo. 2 2. The Demo
crats of the Thirteenth senatorial dis
trict, composed of the counties of Neo
sho and Wilson, met here Wednesday
and nominated S. S. Osborne of Cha
nute for state senator to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Senator
S. S. Benedict. The Republicans met
here yesterday and nominated F. M.
Robertson of Coyville.
Collision in w York Harbor.
Xew Tork, Xov. 22. The Xorth
German-Lloyd steamer Main was in
collision with the schooner May V.
Neville in the lower harbor today. Five
plates in the side of the Main above
the waterline were stove In and the
the harbor.
CARDS THAT DRAVi
Leslie M. Shaw and W. i. Bryan
on tho Programme
Of the. Day's Proceedings at the
Commercial Congress.
SELECTION OF A CITY
For Next Year's Convention Also
Comes Up.
Denver, Lincoln, Muskogee and
Tulsa in tne Race.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 22. At the
Transmississippi commercial congress
today the especial drawing cards were
Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treas
ury; Isham-Bancroft, consulting engin
eer of the sanitary canal commission
and William J. Bryan, who were on uie
programme to make speeches. Mr. Ban
croft was to speak at the morning ses
sion on the subjeat "Deep waterways
from the lakes to the gulf;" Secretary
Shaw at the afternoon session on
"American finance," and Mr. Bryan in
the evening on "The development of the
Transmississippi region along commer
cial lines." The day promised to be one
of the most Important of the entire
gathering.
Other speakers on the day's pro
gramme were;
Morning Representative Edgar C.
Ellis, Kansas City, subject "The Mis
souri river."
F. H. Newell, Washington, D. C,
chief engineer reclamation service on
"Public drainage and its relation to the
reclamation service."
Discussion to be participated in by
Edward Mead of the agricultural de
partment. Edward Herron, topograph
er in charge of the middle west, depart
ment of the interior and other repre
sentatives of the national government.
Address by Representative John N.
Stevens, Vernon, Texas, on "Irrigation
in Texas."
Addresses on "Department of Mines"
by Victor C. Alderson, president of the
Colorado School of Mines, and by Ike
T. Pryor, Fort Worth, Texas, president
of the Southwest Cattle Raisers' asso
ciation on "The Live Stock Interests."
The selection of a city for next year's
convention probably will be decided
late today. Among the cities making a
bid for the gathering are Denver. Lin
coln, Neb., and Muskogee and Tulsa.
I. T. Th election of officers will take
place tomorrow.
H. I). Loveland of San Francisco,
one of the vice presidents of the con-
grtss, is mentioned lor president.
At the opening or tne congress mis
rhornimr. Arthur F. Francis, the secre
tary, read a farr by George W. Dickie,
who was unable to be - present, on
"Naval Construction on the Pacific
Coast." Mr. Dickie advocated in
creased facilities in the shipyards on
the Pacific coast and enough work to
keep them in condition to render th
government efficient service in case oj
war.
Isham Randolph, chief engineer in
charge of the sanitary and ship canal
of Chicago, speaking on the "deep wa
terway from the lakes to the gulf,"
said:
"There Is a living menace to the full
efficiency of the waterway. The more
water sent through its channel drawn
from Lake Michigan the better will be '
the stage of water in the channel which
we have been considering. This menace
comes from an international waterways
commission called for by the same act
of June 13, 1802, which appropriated
$200,000 for the survey and estimate for
a waterway from Loekport to St. Louis.
This act was all right In providing for
international control of international
waters, but when it also Included wa
ters tributary thereto it was all wrong,
for that was an invitation to an alien
power to take a hand in the control of
our domestic affairs.
"This International waterways com
mission if report be true, recommends
a treaty which will limit the water to
be drawn by Chicago for sanitary pur
poses to 10,000 cubic feet per second.
We need no less than 14,000 cubic feet
per second. Will you protect us against
any treaty which limits the uses of any
waters wholly within or rightfully be
longing to the United States? We need
this water for health. We need it for
commerce."
POLITICAL IMAGINATION".
Paul Thielman of the Denver Post
Addresses the Congress.
Paul Thielman, editorial writer of
the Denver Post, made a rather sensa
tional speech on "Excessive Political
Imagination." Mr. Thielman said in
part :
"Query: What is the matter with
Colorado?
"Answer: Nothing but imagination,
"Traveling from Denver to Kansas
City the other day, I sat watching the
ocean of uncultivated land as far as the
eye could see and I marveled as thous
ands of travelers have marveled over
that stupendous absence of the plow
man and harvester. It is one of the
wonders of America that land with
out people, that silent land where the
coyote and the prairie dog seem to
ponder over the reason for the coming
and going of the railway trains.
"There is a lesson in that silent land.
It is a warning against the excess of
political imagination that busies the
public mind with imaginary evils and
neglects the substantial things. If the
effort and labor and the expenditure of
time and money in Colorado on politics
had been applied to settle that gigantic
waste of fertile soil called eastern Colo
rado, the state wouid have double its
present population and twice its pres
ent useful production.
"It is a vast but simple thing. The
land is there, but the people are else
where there are millions of persons
elsewhere willing to better their condi
tion and all you need to make a
gigantic waste blossom as the rose, is
organization to bring the people and
the soil together. It is a matter of
systematized husbandry with a money
reserve or sinking fund against the
possible period of drouth.
"Why not? Why have one hundred
and fifty thousand American farmers
gone from under the flag into the
bleak Canadian northwest while this
silent land in a mild and beautiful cli
mate lies in idleness extraordinary that
is a mute challenge to the boasts of
American enterprise. The reason is
that the people of Colorado have been
so busy with imaginary troubles that
they have not had tlm to deal with
substantial things. A disputed point of
constitutional law that will never affect
one person in 100,000 becomes of vast
er Importance than the settlement of
many millions of acres of idle "land.
"Politics is our great national amuse
ment. It offers the Joys of battle with
out bloodshed and we are supposed to
derive from it all the benefits without
the horrors of war. human beings need
fighting as they need salt with their
fodd. But we can have excessive poll
tics we can let out imagination go too
far and inflict upon ourselves conse
quences that arise originally in Imagi
nation but which vitiate confidence and
enterprise and create hypochondriac
commonwealths.
"The world has heard much of the
teirible troubles of Colorado. These
terrible troubles have resulted from ex
cessive political imagination. For years
we have bad one continual political
campaign. As Foon as one was over
we have had another.
"Some of our people imagine that
they are living in bondage, that liberty
is dead and that they are free in name
only, but the truth is that this bondage
Is a theory and the death of constitu
tional libirty Is imaginary and there is
no better evidence of it than the para
dox of gentlemen who denounce imagi
nary, tyranny without so much as
thought of the penalty of libel and
who say they are slaves to oppressors,
though they have unlimited license to
say and print what they please. No
where on earth is there such complete
and unrestrained license of free speech
and free press as in Colorado. Indeed
the freedom and the license are so
great and unlimited that It has produc
ed excesses of political imagination. An
editor or a politician invents a theory.
It is plausible. It produces a crusade.
All those persons who are naturally
disposed to revel in pessimism and
scandal seize uoon it and enjoy them
Eelves. After public dispute and up
roar and after one side is victorious
and another defeated at the polls it is
nothing. It was only a political theory
to excite Interest and rally voters to
elect certain candidates to office. The
sun shines, the rain falls, people work
and make merry .and marry and are
given in marriage and the world is the
same. But an entire commonwealth
has been the victim of its imagination.
And this thing can develop Into politi
cal hypochondria.
"Colorado has been a political hy
pochondriac state, dosing Itself to cure
evils it imagined and groaning over ills
produced by political imagination.
Finally Colorado has released this
truth and is well again. It never was
really sick. It suffered with excessive
imagination.
"A militia officer saJd:
" 'To hell with the constitution.' and
forthwith that irresponsible remark be
came a thing of colossal import though as
a matter of fact it was a mere irresponsi
ble remark of an angry man who had no
more to do with the constitution than a
cat.
"This Transmississippi congress repre
sents the real things. I would like to see
a congress like this barring out all poli
tics as this congress does in every west
ern state particularly, every year. I
would like to see its deliberations take up
the real things with real interest which
our political legislatures neglect.
"In Colorado we need a survey of the
state water resources more than anything
else. If the public money were used to
make a survey of this kind so that every
land buyer knew where he could get wa
ter and how much he could get and
what it would cost, it would be of greater
value- to Colorado than all the politics in
the history of the state. If we -orgamaett
a system of superintended eu'Ttvatloit of
eastern Colorado It would be of more ser
vice to civilization and higher morals
than al! the political crusades that our
political imaginations can imagine in gen
erations. Suppose we pieked out the best
of the agricultural immigration and set
tled it in eastern Colorado under a sys
tem nf superintendence and with a sink
ing fund derived from the profits of the
land and yield of the crops, thereby to
guard against possible drouths? That
will be greater than all the political ser
vices of all our politicians since Colorado
was admitted into the union.
"Muck raking is useful some times. But
muck raking that only rakes and never
plants produces the worst of all losses
loss of time. When it is over it has only
resulted In oppressing the public mind
with the weeds.
"I have been in Colorado four years.
In that time we have had a continued
and unceasing political campaign. But
only one piece of legislation that is useful
and good has resulted from it only one.
It has been four years wasted four years
in which the energy devoted to political
imagination has only caused the neglect
of measures to settle the unoccupied land
and given the state a bad name.
"Thousands of people might have gone
to Colorado and carved out homes and
fortunes who were kept away because
thev Imagined that It was a dangerous
place in which to invest their money and
their work. And they imagined it Just
as our political agitators created such
fears by their imaginative excesses.
"Kansas City lias grown and prospered
because it has the smallest political
imagination of any city in America. Colo
rado would have had twice as many peo
ple as it now has if It had not developed
such an excessive power to imagine evil.
I hope that all over America the people
will make a stand against the insidious
danger of imagination that our great re
public is a land of frightful wrongs.
"Denver and Colorado are booming now.
They might have boomed long ago ex
cept for imagined evils. We. of Colo
rado know the mischief Imagination does.
We are now fully recovered and we fee?
It is oar duty to warn the nation at largt
against what we have experienced."
WANTS CLEMENTS' SCALP.
A Delerate to the Commercial Con
gress Introduces a Resolution.
Kansas City. Nov. 22. George J. Kin
del of Denver, Colo., who on Tuesday
replied in a heated manner to E. H.
Harriman's statements to the commer
cial congress regarding railroad mat
ters again today took occasion to deny
the truth of Mr. Harriman's claim that
all freight rates go down rather than
up, and to criticize caustically his state
ment that the government should give
the railroads more power.
Then Mr. Kindel created a stir by in
troducing a resolution that because of
certain rulings, which Kindel declared
to be discriminative, "the Hon. Judson
C. Clements, of the interstate commerce
commission, be required to resign from
the commission on account of incompe
tency, and In the event of his refusal
that the president of the Lnited States
order an investigation and on satisfac
tory proof of charges he demand his
resignation."
The resolution was referred without
debate.
ALL CARS OFF TRACK.
Two Trainmen Killed, in Wreek on the
Great Northern.
Minot. N. D. Xov. 22. A. B. Com
fort of Grand Forks, engineer; and
Peter Morrisse;" of Minot, a fireman,
were killed in a wreck of the Great
Northern Oriental limited near Dohon.
early today. Two mail clerks and
three passengers were injured, but not
fatally. The accident was caused by
the spreading of the track. The train
was going about 40 miles an hour
and all cars went off the track, the
engine, mall and baggage cars being
demolished.
TERRIFIC SHOCK.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in
Collision With the Orinoco.
Both Out From Southampton
Via Cherbourg.
PASSENGEKS IN PANIC,
Eight lulled, 18 Injured and
Fire Knocked Orerboard.
The Larger Steamer Sustained
the Greatest Damage.
Cherbourg, Nov. 22. A collision
between the North German-Lloyd
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
and the British Royal mail steamer
Orinoco occurred at 9 o'clock last
night. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
and the Orinoco were both outward
bound from SouthamDton. via Cher
bourg for New York and the West In
dian ports respectively. The shock Is
described as having been terrific, caus
ing panics among the passengers on
board the' two vessels. esDeciallv
among the emigrants.
on the Orinoco three men and a
oman were killed, six women and a
man were injured and fiv persons
were knocked overboard and drowned.
Of the two steamers the Kaiser Wil
helm der Grosse is said to have sus
tained tbrfi rvir.csfr K,, I, , .1
uoiiiac, 'J LI L iiruuii
the fact that she has a hole in one
side of her. the nature of her Injuries
has not been ascertained. Four of the
crew of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
are reported to have been killed and
twelve injured, but the exact number
of killed and wounded on that vessel
have not been reported here.
The damage to the Orinoco was con
fined to her bows.
Both vessels remain in the roadsteii
here.
How It Happened.
When the collision occurred the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was steam
ing at the rate of 17 knots an hour
from Cherbourg after having touched
here on her voyage out. The Orinoco
was bound for this port when the ac
cident happened. The commander of
the Orinoco claims that he signalled
that he was going to starboard of the
Xorth German-Lloyd vessel but the
latter held her course across the
Orinoco's bows and only went to port
of the Orinoco when it was too late.
The engines of the Orinoco, it Is added,
were reversed as soon as it appeared
likely that an accident would occur
but she crashed into the starboard
bow of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grossa
making a. breach 12 feet wide.-
The, stem of the Orinoco above, the
water line was carried away as the ves
sels cleared sfter the collision. 'ftw
shock threw all the passenger on the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off their
feet and the grinding of the Orinoco's
bow into the steerage of the German
vessel instantly killed four persons,
disembowling a girl 11 years old.
The captain of the Orinoco ordered
boats to be cleared away but the panic
on board of her was general. Some nf
the crew jumped Into and launched two
of her boats and several frenzied wo
men attempted to get into them as they
were being lowered over the side. One
boat was swamped when it struck the
water.
As soon as the accident occurred a
number of small boats from Cherbourg,
put out to the scene of the collision
and succeeded in rescuing some of the
sailors and passengers uho were strug
gling in the waves but five of the crew
of the Orinoco are believed to have
been drowned. .
The damage to the Kaiser Wiihelm
der Grosse is estimated here at $200,0'0.
She Can't Go On.
London. Xov. 22. At the offices her
of the Xorth German Lloyd today k
was stated that the steamer Kais"r
Wilhelm Der Grosse was so damages
in the collision last right off Cherbourg
with the steamer Orinoco that she i
unabie to continue the voyage to New
York.
Passengers to Re Transferred.
Paris. Nov. 22. At the offices of the
North German Lloyd Steamship com
pany here it is stated that as the In
juries to the Kaiser Wilhelm Iter
Grosse by her collision with the
Orinoco will make it impossible for her
to proceed, the passengers will be
transferred to the American liner St.
Paul and the French line steamer La
Lorrain, leaving respectively, South
ampton and Cherbourg and Havre, No
vember 24.
According to reports received at the
offices of the company here four emi
grants on board the Kaiser Wilhelm
Der Grosse were killed and twelve were
wounded, two of them seriously.
Damage Not Serious.
London. Nov. 22. The report of the
collision between the Kaiser Wilhelm
Der Grosse and the Orinoco received
by the NorthGerman Lloyd Steamship
company here says the former's star
board bow is damaged, that several of
her plates were pierced between decks
and that four steerage passengers were
killed and five injured. The steamer
is not making water and the damage
done is regarded as not being very
serious. She probably will be repaired
at Southampton.
FQUfTWASHED AWAY.
Men Caught on Breakwater ' Crib
Work by Storm Were Drowned.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 2 2.
Four men who were caught by last
night's storm on the crib work of the
new breakwater at the entrance to
Holland harbor on Lake Michigan,
were washed away by the waves and
drowned.
The men could not gain the shore
because of the immense sea. The life
saving crew attempted to aid them but
the waves were so hieh that no boat
could live. Attempts were made to
shoot a line to them, but the hurricane
hurled the line back. When night
closed the men were still clinging
desperately- to the crib work. At day
break today they were gone.
Weather Indications.
Chicago. Nov. 22. Forecast for
Kansas: Rain or snow tonight and
Friday; warmer tonight; colder in
west portions Friday.
Sore Trsrat Ond Cold In Client relieved
over nlfeht by Omega oil. Trial bottle lua.