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LAST. EDITION.
A THIRD PARTY
It Is Sure Thing in Kansas for
1911.
More Than 50 Leaders 3Ieet in
Topeka Today.
(J. S. SABTIN BE CHAIRMAN
Wyandotte Man Slated to Head
Sevr Committee.
Off With the Old and On With
the Xew, the Cry.
White in the Chair.
were probably 150 men and
There
women
in representative hall when
Wm. Allen White, national committee
man for the Progressive pary, went to
the speaker's chairand convened the first
state wide meeting of the Kansas Pro
gressive leaders. He was given a
rousing reception and after a few re
marks introduced Dr. Estey, who led
the convention in prayer.
- It was after Dr. Estey had left the
platform that White defined the future
path of the Kansas Progressives. He
said that the Progressives could no
longer go through the political battles
of the future with Mulvane, Clark,
Iean and the regular leaders.
We can be just as consistent by
staying with the Democratic party as
we can be by going with the Repub
lican party under its present program.
No one can stop or block the advance
n I .. s TTonofle Wo
don-?" tike5 steps he're now to break
away, someone will taKe tnose steps
later," was the spirit of White's open
ing remarks as the future program of
the new party in Kansas.
There were a dozen women in me
audience and White commented on the
fact that this was the first political
gathering of state wide importance in
which the women had an equal voice
with the men. He then outlined his
plans for the future work of the party
in the state and urged the holding
of a big Progressive banquet In To
peka following the Kansas Day ban
quet. "The Kansas Day club is in the
hands of the stand patters and we
cannot eat with them," declared
White.
Outlining the future of 'the new
party. White said:
"Now that we have made the jump,
there will be plenty of good Kansas
men and women with ns in the move
ment. The last talk I had with Sena
tor Bristow, he assured me he 1b with
us. Congressman Murdock is with
us and can be counted on. Stubbs is
already with us and Capper is with
us."
This statement brought noisy ap
plause from the Progressive leaders.
At the close of White's speech, a com
mittee was named to nominate a pro
visional state chairman who will have
charge of the business affairs of the
new party during White's two months'
absence in- California. This chairman
virtually becomes the chairman of the
new Progressive state committee and
will hcO office and serve until a for
mal state-wide organization is com
pleted. One member of the nominat
ing committee was named from each
of the eight congressional districts.
This committee was composed of:
First district, T. A. McNeal. Topeka;
Second district. J. N. Atchinson;
Third district. S. H. Piper, Independ
ence: Fourth district. C. A. Stannard,
F.mnoria: Fifth district, S. M. Smith,
Herington; Sixth district. J. K. Mitch
ell. Osborne: Seventh district, G. M.
Martin. Medicine Lodge; Eighth dls
rtict. C. C. Mack, Newton: at large.
Miss Helen Ecker, Lawrence; Mrs.
Eugene Pulliam. Atchison.
While this commitee was in session.
Governor Stubbs was called on for a
speech and declared his allegiance to
the Progressive movement. He was
given a noisy reception and for ten
minutes outlined his plans for the
Progressive work in Kansas.
Planning to divorce themselves from
the Republican party, more than 50
Progressive leaders came to Topeka to
day to attend a meeting in Represen
tative hall called by William Allen
White. national committeeman for
Kansas for the Progressive party.
There is a division among the Pro
gressives as to the manner in which
to proceed with an organization, but
among a majority of those who came
to Topeka today there appears to be
a well denned plan to enter the 1914
campaign with a cleancut Progressive
state ticket and to make the fight as
a Third party.
Many of the men who were most
prominent in the Progressive move
ment in Kansas during the recent cam
paign are here today and will help
to shape the affairs of the new party
if one is organized. Every congres
sional district has its representation.
Among the men in attendance are
those who oppose a plan to break away
from the Republican party. They ar
gue that the Republican party is pro
gressive, that its 1912 platform was the
most progressive platform that could
be written and that the men who made
the race for office on the Republican
ticket were pledged to the fulfillment
of those party promises. On the other
hand the more radical of the Progres
sive leaders claim that there is nc
longer room in the party for the two
factions and that the Progressives pre
fer to make the fight alone rather than
hand in hand with the element of the
Republican party which stands for the
more conservative policies.
William Allen White ciaims that
there is no question as to the course
of this afternoon's meeting, that a
new Third party will be formally or
ganized and that the Progressive mem
bers of the various committees stand
ready and anxious to join with the
new party.
Sartin for State Chairman.
It is probable that IT. S. Sartin, of
Wyandotte county, will become the new
chairman of the Progressive state cen
tral committee. Sartin Is viewed as a
logical man. He will head the only
leaping wound in the Progressive ranks
TUESDAY EVENING.
at this time, it is claimed, and will
cement the factions of the new party.
Sartin has never been friendly with
Stubbs. He has opposed the auburn
haired Kansas executive on numerous
occasions, but always stood a a Pro
gressive. Now it is believed that Sar
tin will bring together the antl-Stubbs
element and would help to draw new
strength to the Progressive cause. And
with the probable election of Sartin
this afternoon the Stubbs-Sartin
hatchet will be buried. Governor
Stubbs will support Sartin and urge bis
followers to stand by the Wyandotte
county man.
Organize a Xew Committee.
"With the organization" this afternoon
of a new party." said William Allen
White, "we will take over a number
of the Progressive chairmen on the Re
publican state central committee. Since
the election. I have received letters
from 46 chairman and about 40 secre
taries who will go with us in this
fight."
White's plan to sever relations with
the Republicans !s endorsed by Lieuten
ant Governor Richard J. Hopkins, of
Garden City, by Lieutenant-Governor-elect
Sheffield Ingalls, of Atchison, and
by other leaders in the Progressive
movement.
"This is anything but an office seek
I ing plan," said Ingalls, who arrived
this morning with a delegation of
Atchison county Progressives. "We
are making this fight for a principle
and personally I am in favor of a
clean-cut break away from the Repub
licans. I think every member of the
Atchison county delegation feels just
as I do about it."
Stubbs Attends Meeting.
Governor W. R. Stubbs, who has been
spending several days at his home in
Lawrence, returned to Topeka this
morning to attend the meeting of the
Kansas Progressives and to take a
hand in shaping the course of the new
party.
"Yes. I am going to attend the
meeting all right," said Governor
Stubbs in his office this morning.
"Really, I don't know much about the
plans," he said in answer to a ques
tion as to the probable course of the
afternoons proceedings.
The governor's office was open head
quarters for the early arrivals of the
Progressive standard bearers. They
gathered in the offices in little groups
and discussed their plans.
Opposition Stayed Away.
Such opposition as there was among
the Progressives to the organization
of a new party, spent little time in the
governor's office, however. They had
little to say concerning their plans,
but declared they would oppose the
organization in this afternoon's Vieet
ing. "t?hey may throw me out," said
Carl Moore, who came all the way
from Kinsley to attend the meeting of
the Progressive leaders. "But "really I
don't think the organization of a new
party is the wise thing. Yes," said
Moore in response to a question, "I
will certainly oppose the organization
of a new party in this afternoon's
meeting."
At noon every congressional district
was represented by Progressive 4ead-
ers who were willing and anxious to
take an active part in shaping the
course of their cause. Among those
who are here for the meeting are:
William Allen White, Emporia: IT. S.
Sartin, Kansas City; F. A. Griffin,
Medicine Lodge; J. L. Papes, Mulvane;
C. A. Kimball, Manhattan; McKinley
W. Kreigh, Hutchinson; Benjamin J.
Northup, Kansas City; Henry C.
Sticher, Osage City: J. Iman,
Burlington; John Madden, Par
sons; J. L. Brady, Lawrence;
Judge Nelson Case. Oswego; Wiley W.
Cook, Kansas City: W. H. Howard. Mul
vane: J. K. Mitchell, Osborne; Senator
Gilbert. Hiawatha: George Emmerson,
Osborne: J. B. Brown, J. M. Atchison, C.
S. Holbrook, William Blodgett, Kansas
City; Sheffield Ingalls. James M. Chio
ham, R. G. Anderson, H. C Hanson. Wil
liam Redford, O. G. Overman, Eugene
Pulliam and wife. T. M. Walker, Atch
iBOn; Joel Dobb. McLouth; C. M. Kenyon,
K. G. Eyerly, Nortonville; C. W. Spur
lock, Junction City; T. W. Willard, Lan
sing: Lestus Foster. Valley Falls; T. G.
Perry, Pittsburg; Carl Moore, Kinsley;
John Lander. Independence: W. Vv .
Schwinn, Wellington, and W. E. Broadie,
Kirsley.
LIKE DIME NOVEL
Log of Liner Records Violent
Deaths and Assaults.
Two Held for Attempted Xur
der Were Many Accidents.
San Francisco, Dec. 17: The log of
the liner Korea, which arrived yester
day from the Orient, reads like the
table of contents of a dime novel.
Out one day from San Francisco, a
Chinese passenger jumped overboard
and was drowned.
Another Chinese passenger was
claimed as the victim of a tong war
before the ship reached Honolulu. He
had sought to save his life by flight
from San Francisco's Chinatown, but a
gunman from the enemy's ranks sailed
with him on the Korea and found an
opportunity to fire the fatal bullet.
The slayer is held by the federal au
thorities at Honolulu.
Before the liner left that port an
other Chinese made an unsuccessful
attempt to commit suicide, and a day
later, still another Chinese jumped
overboard to his deaths
At Yokohama, on the homeward
voyage, a Japanese peddler plunged a
knife into the back of Andrew Benus
sl. a watchman on the ship. The ped
dler fled but was captured on another
ship in the harbor. Benussl recovered.
On December 9, E. C. Miller, a
cabin passenger. from Manila, was
giving his 2 year old son a bath when
he accidentally turned on the hot
water. The child was scalded so badly
that he died an hour later. Arrange
ments were made to bury the little
one at sea. and while the shroud was
being made a baby was born to a
Chinese woman in the steerage.
Nothing But Pine Weather in Sight.
"It seems as though there were no end
to this nice weather." remarked "Sunnv"
Flora, the local weather man, this after
noon. ' Fair weather is scheduled for the next
twenty-four hours with slightly lower
temperatures tonight. There is nothing
but pleusant weather in sight. The wind
is blowing at the rate of fifteen miles
an hour from the northwest:
The hourly readings:
7 o'clock 32 11 o'clock 35
8 o'clock 3112 o'clock 36
10 o'clock S4i 2 o'clock 41 '
TOPEKA.
APPROPRIATIONS
Estimated That $3,968,360 Re
quired for One Budget.
This Is $900,000 More Than
Last Legislature Gare.
FOR MEMORIAL HALL $200,000
That Sum Required to Finish
Building.
Budget Prepared for State and
Penal Institutions.
Appropriations Asked For.
For
Allowed
1914-15.
Memorial building
committee 200.000.00
State penitentiary... 421.640.0U
Reformatory, Hutch
inson 262,120.00
Soldiers' Home. Ft.
Dodge 245,580.00
Mother Bickerdyke
Home, Ellsworth.. 35.700.OO
Bovs Industrial
school, Topeka 156,350.00
Girls' Industrial
school, Beloit 169.000.00
Osawatomie asylum. 547,000.00
Parsons asylum 294,000.00
Blind school, Kan
sas City 70,300.00
fachool Feeble minded.
Win field 35V.500.00
School for Deaf and
Dumb, Olathe 136,570.00
Orphans' Home,
Atchison 110,700.00
Topeka asylum 633,000.00
Larned asylum 250,000. to
'luberculosis Sani
tarium, Newton 100,000.00
19U-1S.
2S2.SOO.00
432,!&0.1Ai
259,520.00
275,161.30
26,350.00
12S,300.00
135.WX-.O0
41S.60U.U0
219.450.UC
o9.O50.00
171.O0O.W)
12800..I0
88.527 00
417.5uO.OO
100.OUO.UO
60,000.00
Total
$3,968,30.00 $3,092,838.00
Those are the appropriations which
will be asked at the hands of the 1913
legislature by the state penal and
charitable institutions. While they are
in excess of the appropriations made
by the 1911 legislature, the increase is
not nearly so heavy as in the budgets
of the state educational institutions.
In addition to the amounts in the above
table, the executive council asks $14,226
in appropriations from the next legis
lature. It is estimated that it will require
$200,000 to -complete the Memorial hall
in Topeka for which the 1911 legisla
ture appropriated $252,500. The execu
tive council needs $10,000 for a new
heat tunnel and an additional $4,226 for
additional paving on the state house
grounds. This paving is really badly
needed.
The state penitentiary has reduced
its budget $11,300 and the state reform
atory is well within the amount asked
two years ago. State Auditor Da via
has reduced the building appropriation
asked by the state soldiers' home, re
moving $5,000 from the amount asked.
In the appropriations asked is an
item for $20,000 for additional land at
the boys' industrial school north of
Topeka. The girls' industrial Bchool at
Beloit also needs more land and asks
$16.00i) for this purpose. The girls"
school also includes an item for $30,000
for new buildings. The Osawatomie
asylum asks $10,000 for land and $101,000
for additional buildings. Parsons asy
lum asks $91-000 for new buildings. Two
years ago it received $35,950 for build
ings while the Osawatomie asylum re
ceived $17,600 for similar purposes.
Kansas City's school for the blind
wants $2,500 for buildings this year.
Two years ago they received but $700
for their building fund.
The Olathe school for the deaf and
dumb wants $10,000 for additional build
ings. A similar amount was appropri
ated in 1911. Two years ago the Win-
Held school for feeble minded received
$6,000 for buildings. Because of a fire
in that school, $1SO,000 is asked this
year. The orphans home at Atchison
received $4,500 for buildings in 1911.
This year they ask for $15,000. In 1911
the legislature appropriated $88,500 for
new buildings at the Topeka asylum.
This year's budget calls for $153,00C
for additional buildings. Two years
ago $100,000 was appropriated for the
new asylum at Larned and this yeai
$250,000 is asked to complete the con
struction of buildings. The new tuber
culosis sanitarium, recently located at
Newton, drew $50,000 as a starter in
1911. This year's budget calls for $100,
000. These items explain most of the
increases in the 1913 budgets over the
amounts appropriated in 1911.
In discussing the budgets. State Aud
itor Davis in his report to the legisla
ture says :
Davis' Recommendations.
"I have not made a thorough investiga
tion of the needs of these institutions as
I take i tthat the legislature will desire
to go into these matters directly with the
board, but wish to say that while "very
dollar needed to properly provide for the
comfort and welfare of the unfortunates
of the state should be granted, that
there is absolutely no need for any in
creases in appropriations for mainten
ance, salaries and wages over that allow
ed for the current biennium unless addi
tional room be provided to care for an
increased number of inmates. If any in
crease in maintenance funds be allowed,
the items classified as specials, except as
to additional land and new buildings,
should be stricken out as such expendi
tures to the extent actually necessary can
be properly met from maintenance funds.
"In this connection 1 desire to call at
tention to the statement following tins
budget containing the appropriations al
lowed each institution by the preceding
legislature for tue current two years for
maintenance, salaries and wages; aiso tne
amount of fees to the credit of each in
stitution on December 1, 1912, which fees
are available for the purposes specified
above. It will be noted that the balances
in the fee funds at this date are in some
cases large enough to cover salaries and
wages of the institution for one year, il
the Fame policy is pursued in the matter
of the reappropriation of fees to the in
stitutions, there is no. reason for tne in
stitutions not having at the beginning ol
the next biennium larger balances in the
fee fund than at this date as they have a
sufficient Dalance in the regular funds to
meet the usual and ordinary expenses for
the remainder of the year. It would seem
that with the construction of the new hos
pital at Larned. there would be little
need for additional room at this period to
be provided at the other institutions, and
1 would suggest that the legislature be
sparing in appropriations for such pur
poses and for additional land. Taa
amount appropriated to the charitable in
stitutions shown in this budget for the
ten year period beginning 1904 to 1913 in
clusive, for the purchase of land, net
buildings and other permanent improve-
menu totals Jl.42Ci.S77.ul.
KANSAS, DECEMBER, 17,
GIVE A WHITE WAY
City Offers Premium for State
Pa Tins' Debt Payment.
Will Build Lighting System
Around State House Grounds.
ASK FOR ONLY ORIGINAL SUM
Commissioners Want $29,000 of
Old $60,000 Debt of 1SSS.
Campaign Before Legislature
This Winter.
In the last frantic appeal to the
state of Kansas for the payment of
the $60,000 paving debt, the city of
Topeka has offered a premium, as an
inducement to the 1913 legislature this
winter. Following: the proposed offer,
announced through these columns some
time ago, the board of city commis
sioners today placed themselves on
record to this effect r
"First We will ask only $29,000 in
payment of this pavement debt. This
is the principal and the actual amount
paid out by the city for the pavement
of the streets around the state house
square.
"Second We will erect at a cost of
$10,000 a system of great white way
poies similar to the Kansas avenue im
provement, around the square, the
state to furnish the eleetric current."
This, in other other words, slices
more than $30,000 from the original
demands from the state and an addi
tional $10,000 on account of the cost
or tne great white wav.
For twenty-five years the city has
been attempting to collect this-paving
debt. It cost $29,000 to lay the state's
snare ox tne aspnalt pavement around
the territory bounded by West Eighth
avenue, Harrison street. West Tenth
avenue ana jacKson street.
Debt Doubled in 25 Years.
Figuring the interest on this debt, the
city commissioners state that the state
owes more than $60,000. At the last
legislature two years ago a strenuous
campaign was made to collect this debt
The legislators, admitting that the debt
was legal and having before them an
opinion from the attorney general to
tnat errect, refused to recognize it sub
stantially. They passed the responsibil
ity on to the law makers this year.
The city now comes, forward with the
proposition to cut down the debt to 129.
000, the actual amount paid out by the
laipayers or iopeaa. ror tne pavement.
As a premium the commissioners prom
lse to build a great white way around
the state house grounds eight blocks
at a cost of xio.ooo.
Since the trouble wf"U the $60.0W debt
tne city nas oeen waichlng .the expendi
tures tnat would atrect the state. Re
cently tne executive council signed a
petition asking for the repaying of
Jackson street bordering the capitol
grounds. But tne city commissioners
laid the petition on the table, preferring
to spend tneir taxpayers money in
other ways. Then came the executive
council with the assurance that they
would use all - their influence in the
next legislature to secure payment on
the new pavement. With this promise
the commissioners will look with favor
on the Jackson street petition.
KILL BLACK HANDER.
Is Shot When He Attempts to lit tort
Money From Baker.
New Tork, Dee.17. Amelio Prince,
said by the police to be a notorious
black hand leader, was shot and killed
early today in a bakery in upper New
Tork. According to the story told the
police by employees of the shop, he had
just demanded $100 of Joseph Gallucci,
tne owner, wnen he was shot by Gal
lucci s nephew, who escaped.
The police say that Prince has four
times been under suspicion of having
done murder. In each case the police
found witnesses by whom they expected
to send Prince to the electric chair, but
when the grand Jury was ready to hear
the evidence the witnesses were
strangely missing. The police believe
that several of them were murdered.
Prince s name had long been a by
word in the Italian colony. If children
were naughty, parents were accustomed
to warn them that Prince would be
called in.
SEVEN ARE KILLED.
And Seven Injured When Train Hits
a Street Car.
Ashtabula, Ohio. Dec. 17. Seven dead
and seven injured was the toll of the
wreck here last night when a Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern coal train
struck a street car. The dead are:
LAURA LEAPHART.
MRS. FRANK C. BARTLETT.
MRS. W. H. COOK.
MRS. GEORGE KIT SON.
MR. AND .. IRS. DAVID. STOWED,
all of Ashtabula.
MRS. JOHN C. ESPET. of Willough
by. All of the Injured are expected to re
cover. Motortnan McCutcheon is held
by the police.
THE NEW COMMANDER
Lincoln Post Elects George Hanlejr,
Democrat.
More signal perhaps, than any other
victory gained by the Democrats this
fall, and this has been a fall of Dem
ocratic victories, is the one just an
nounced in the Lincoln Post of the local
G. A, R For . the first time in the his- .
tory of the post a Democrat Is at the
head of this organization.
George Hanley, a retired candymaker,
will be installed as Commander of Lin
coln post at the first meeting in Jan
uary. Mr. Hanley has a splendid war
record and is one of the most popular
members of the post which has Just
honored him.
1912
TUESDAY EVENTVG.
HEARSTJS HEARD
ew York Publisher Testifies
Before the Clapp Committee
Investigating the Sources of
Campaign Contributions.
BRINGS PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES
Of the Archbold Letters Which
He Had Published.
He Tells of. Others ZS'ot
Made Public.
Yet
Washington, Dec 17. William R.
Hearst, who published the now famous
"Archbold letters" today gave to the
senate campaign fund committee photo
graphic copies of all letters in his pos
session indicating a connection between
John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil
company and legislative and campaign
activities. Mr. Hearst appeared as the
first witness at the re-opening of the
campaign contribution investigation
which had come to a halt before elec
tion. The New Tork publisher told tne
committee at the outset. that he had
some other letters he had not made
public. He first produced the photo
graphic copies o. the letters already
published and identified them for the
convenience of the committee.
Chairman Clapp asked Mr. Hearst if
he ever saw the original of the letters
published in his magazine. He said he
was not certain but he believed he
had only seen the photographic fac
simile copies.
"Of whom did you get them?" asked
Senator Clapp.
Mr. Hears studied a moment.
"I am anxious," he began, "to testify
very ruiiy to everytning umi j.
personally concerned in and everything
of interest to this inquiry. Do you
feel that this is essential to the in
quiry?" Senator Clapp replied that the au
thenticity of some of the letters had
been questioned. After members of
the committee had insisted upon the
information Mr. Hearst responded that
he had got the copies of John Eddy of
London, author of four of the articles
published in a magazine. He testified
he did not know of whom Eddy pro
cured the letters.
Letters and TelegTams.
Mr. Hearst the. produced the several
letters and telegrams. The first was
from Senator Penrose to John D. Arch
bold, dated December 4, 1903, at Phila
delphia and read in part as follows:
"I have - wired Senator Aldrich to
make an appointment with him to dis
cuss the matter referred to in your
letter."
It added that Senator Penrose, him
self, could meet Mr. Archbold in New
Tork at any time. A letter from John
D. Archbold to J. B. Foraker, then sen
ator from Ohio expressed the willing
ness of Mr. Archbold to make a loan
of $50,000. The loan was to bear in
terest at five per cent, and was to be
repaid in two installments of $25,000
each. Mr. Hearst said he knew noth
ing of the facts to which any of the
letters referred. He did not know for
what purpose or under what circum
stances the proposed lon was to be
made. Many of the new letters offered.
he said, had been read by him in pub
lic speeches, but were not included in
those published in his magazine.
Another letter was from ' John D.
Archbold to former Representative
Joseph C. Sibley, in which he referred
to an enclosed certificate of deposit of
$5,000 "sent you at the request of Mr.
Griscom, the purpose of which you no
doubt understand with him.
Mr. Hearst said he had other letters
that he believed did not come within
the scope of the senate investigation.
Senator Oliver said Mr, Hearst had
produced voluntarily a letter purport
ing to come from Senator Penrose
which did not come within the strict
terms of the resolution. "I ask that
Mr. Hearst produce the whole cor
respondence," declared ' Senator Oliver.
If I made a mistake in producing one
too many must we proceed along the
line of a mistake," asked Mr. Hearst.
"Tes sir," responded Senator Oliver
positively.
Gives ip Ail teeners.
Senator Paynter declared the letter
from Archbold to Senator foraker
mentioned a loan of $50,0o0, but did not
say to whom that loan was to be made.
We are entitled to ail tne lnrorma-
tlon Mr. Hearst has." he said, "and we
can then decide whether ' It is perti
nent." Chairman Clapp requested that Mr.
Hearst give the committee his other
letters. The publisher made no objec
tion but said he considered them un
important. The telegram irom senator
Penrose to Mr. Archbold sent on De
cember 4. 1903 read in full:
Tour letter of loth instant was re
ceived yesterday on my return from a
trip In British Columbia. I have wired
Senator Aldrich to mane an appoint
ment with him to discuss the matter
referred to. I can see you in New YorR
any day if you have any suggestion to
make. I think the matter is of con
siderable importance and I can show
Senator Aldrich where such an appoint
ment tould be desirable. If necessary
I can see you in New Tork or I can
talk to you ot the telephone from the
headquarters of the Republican state
committee. 1417 Locust street, rnna
delphia. where I shall le during the
present month " J
Mr .nearsx buekwh:u - ... w v. .
probably would be willing to appear
how the letters were taken
from the Standard Oil company flies.
Senator Pomerene asked about the
suggestions that the letters were for-j
geries. ...' s
1 KnOW nOLIIIIlg 1 ' ' , V. L Miai. B&JU I
Hearst. "The explanation made m re
sponse to the forgery charge was that I
some of the letters published in the
mac .line had to be reproduced in
typewriting in order to be discernible
heii printed.
The rorakpr Letter,
The letter from John D. Archbold
to Senator Foraker about the $50,000
loan was dated January 22, 1902, and
read :
"Referring to our further talk of
t day, over the telephone, we are will
ing to make the lo-n $50,000 $23,000
to be returned within one year and
the remaining $25,000 to be paid in
five annual payments thereafter. All
to bear interest at 5 per cent.
"Trusting you will succeed in con
summating the matter as you desire, I
am very truly yours,
"JOHN D. ARCHBOLD."
Mr. Hearst said he bad accepted an
explanation by S-nator "Foraker that
he had returned ' the $50,000. Mr.
r jarst said he believed he had seen
a letter telling about the return of the
money. Mr. Hearst said he had no
knowledge of having paid anyone for
getting or photographing the letters.
A question about campaign contri
butions brought from Mr. Hearst the
statement that he had- contributed
"about $10,000 or $12,000" in 1908 to
the Independence league committee
for the national campaign.
(Continued on Page Two.)
GLEASONJSlERE
Norton Banker Bears Witness
Regarding Sawyer.
The Proposed STew Bank Com
missioner Owns Banks.
Mr. John E. Gleason, cashier of the
First State bank of Norton, is in the
city. Mr. Gleason is one of the vice
presidents of the State Bankers asso
ciation and in speaking of the reported
fight being made upon Charles M.
Sawyer for bank commissioner, said:
"Some of my brother bankers are
unduly excited over the probable ap
pointment of my fellow townsman as
bank commissioner. The only objec
tion that I have heard urged against
his appointment is that he is national
banker. I happen to know that he is
interested in one national and two
state banks. One of the latter, at
least, is operating under the guarantee
law.
"I have known Mr. Sawyer since
boyhood and during several yeirs past
have been the cashier of a competing
bank. He has always been eminently
fair and manly as a competitor and I
know he has at heart the building up
on a substantial foundation of the
banking Institutions of the state."
CRASH OF TRAINS.
One Killed and Thirteen Injured
Rock Island Wreck.
in
Chickasha, Ok., Dec. 17. An uni
dentified man was killed and 13 per
sons were injured when two passenger
trains on the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific railway collided head-on at
rsinnekah. a station near here. Both
locomotives were damaged, and the
smoking cars on both trains were tele
scoped. j.ne soutnoound train. No. 2 3. was
ordered to take the siding at Ninne
kah to allow the northbound train to
pays. No. 23 di-, not reach the side-
tracK soon enougn and the north
bound. No. 24, train crashed into it.
The Injured are: .
J. A. Litter, mail clerk, Caldwell,
mn., internally injured.
T. J. Brown. Tuttle, Ok., skull frac
tured.
E. S. Hilbish, mail clerk, Hennessey,
Okla., left leg broken.
J. W. Cunningham, Bowie, Tex., in
ternally Injured.
Mrs S. F. Banner, Duncan, Ok., cut
about head.
Thomas Dwyer, Chickasha, Ok.,
nose broken.
Mrs S. F. B. Kimber, Comanche,
Ok., head cut, jaw broken.
Alfred C. Wallers, Roysdon, Ga.,
cut about head.
Lima Johnson, Waxahatchie, Tex.,
internally injured.
Charles Pearson. Chickasha, leg
broken.
W. T. Epler, Kansas City, bruises
about head and back wrenched.
James Huston, engineer No. 23, in
ternal injuries.
Joseph Lattimer. mail clerk on train
No. 24, foot and leg broken and bad
cuts about head and face.
PLAGE FOR LEAHY.
Versatile Newspaper Man to Be Depu
ty TTnited States Marshal.
It is rumored at the state house today
that David Leahy, private secretary to
Governor Stubbs, is to be named as dep
uty United States marshal at the ex
piration of his term in the governor's
office. Leahy, it is claimed. Is to be office
deputy under United States Marshal Jack
Harrison with headquarters In Wichita.
While Marshal Harrison declined to dis
cuss the appointment, he was not inclined
to deny that Leahy was being considered
and might land. "There has been no
appointment made and there Is nothing to
give out at this time," was Harrison's
statement when he was Informed that a
rumor concerning Leahy's appointment
was current in 1 opeka.
Leahy is one of the most widely known
newspaper men in Kansas. He entered
the game when the state was young and
has for years been known as one of the
most versatile newspaper writers In the
west. For several years he was Wash
ington correspondent for Wichita newspa
pers. Then he became private secretary
to Governor Stubbs. With the expiration
of Stubbs' term of office in January, Leahy
plans to return to Wichita. Now. it is
claimed, .he is being strongly considered
for the appointment of deputy United
States marshal.
BUTTER TO BE CHEAPER
That Is Promise Held Out by Mem
bers of Elgin Board.
Chicago. Dec. 17. Butter men who at
tended the annual meeting of the Elgin
board of trade at which the quotations
committee was legislated out of existence,
declared today that butter within me
next three months would be cheaper than
it was a year ago.
It is stated that there Is no comer in
butter but that the excess now in storage
in comparison with last year is due to
e fact that more storage companies.
many of them new ones, are making pub
lic report of butter in storage tnan they
did a year ago.
While there are fewer cows producing
this year, many having perished last win
ter, there is an abundance of feed for
them whic is increasing the production
and on this fact the prediction of a light
er burden on the housewife is based.
High prices a year ago, it is stated, wcic
due fundamentally to the short crop of
feed and the revere cold the crop being
one of the poorest in many years.
In Chicago today butter and egg prices
remained stationary.
TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS
va i
PICK UP RECRUITS
Suffragettes Marching From
Jfew Tork City to Albany
Are Joined by Others at Points
on the Soute.
CHEERED BY THE CHILDREN
As They Leare Irrington Bound
for Sleepy Hollow.
They
Plan to Spend Second
Jfight at Ossinlng.
Irvington. N. T., Dec 17. Their ranks
reinforced by local enthusiasts and suf
fragettes from Rockland county across
the Hudson, the little band of suffra
gettes from New Tork City re
sumed the march toward Albany short
ly after 9 o'clock today under a bright
sun.
School children cheered the women as
they left the village, bound through
Tarrytown for historic Sleepy Hollow
where the marchers were to be enter
tained at noon at the Sleepy Hollow
Country club. Thence the route led to
Ossinlng for the second night's bivouao
a nine-mile tramp in all. All the
marchers declared themselves refreshed
by a good night's sleep and none would
admit that she was footsore.
Although official secrecy as to the ex
act purpose of the written message
which the women are bearing to the
capital still is being maintained, it is
understood the communication will ask
the new governor to send a message
to the legislature urging the passage
of a bill calling for a vote on a con
stitutional amendment granting suf
frage to women in 1915.
Tarrytown, N. T.. Deo. J 7. Stag
gering under a big American flag lit
tle Miss Bettie Hall of Tarrytown
headed a brigade of sympathizers who
on foot and in automobiles escorted
the suffrage pilgrims into this village
today.
"It is the Tich, not the poor, who
are keeping the suffrage from women."
said Mrs. Jessie Stubbs in an address.
"It is the men of culture and educa
tion, the upper classes, who ara op
posed to women having a share In
.the government because it is alwaya
the favored few who are afraid to give
up their privileges."
IN FIGHTING MOOD.
Governor Wilson Returns to the New
Jersey Capital.
Trenton, Dec. 17. Woodrow Wilson
came back to the state bouse in a
fighting spirit today and issued a warn
ing to the voters of the state against
politicians who have opposed his pro
gressive policies and who, he said,
would again seek to control the state
government as soon as he stepped
from the governorship. He urged that
their plans be blocked at once.
"I am keenly aware of the fact."
says the president-elect's statement,
"that these men have so little respect
for the voters of New Jersey that they
think all they have to do is to wait to
come back into power. They will be
sorely disappointed. They cannot
again impose upon the voters of New
Jersey. If they should in some evil
moment recover control of the party
machinery they will only ruin the
party and put it permanently out of
power.
"Every step they take thereafter to
re-establish their power should be at
once exposed and stopped.
"The people of the state need not
fear that I will become indifferent so
long as their con'idence encourages
me to believe that they wish mv aid
and counsel. I shall in the future use
every proper and legitimate power I
have and every influence at my dis
posal to support and assist the new
forces which have regenerated our
life during the past two years. I shall '
not go slack on this business, for I
understand my duty to be to stand
back of the progressive forces in the
Democratic party everywhere and at
every juncture and feel that in these
matters I am under particular obliga
tions of conscience and gratitude to
the people of New Jersey."
TODAY III CONGRESS.
House Resumes Consideration of Bur
nett Immigration Bill.
Washington. Dec. 17. Senate convened
at noon. Senator Kenyon spoke on Inter
state liquor shipment bill.
Wm. R. Hearst testifying before cam
paign committee produced several new
letters bearing on political activities of
John D. Archbold and Standard Oil com
pany. President Taft submitted for approval
nine names for members of commission
to investigate Industrial relations. Court
of impeachment resumed trial of Jud-te
Archbald.
House convened at noon. Resumed con
sideration of Burnett literary teat in immi
gration bill.
Money tnsst investigating committee re
sumed its hearing with Frederick
Lewisohn on stand.
ELGIN BOARDS GIVES UP
Abandon Practice of Arbitrarily Fix
ing Price of Batter.
Elgin, 111., Dec. 17. In the most ex
citing annual meeting In its history,
the Elgin board of trade, abolished the
practice of 17 years' standing of arbi
trarily fixing the price of butter by
its quotation committee, and adopted
a plan to have the board itself deter
mine the price of the product in the
future based on actual sales.
The action came as a result of the
suit recently filed by the federal gov
ernment for the dissolution of the
board. In its bill the government
mentioned the quotation committee as
one of the means used by the alleged
"butter trust" in controlling the price
of the product.
Weather Forecast for Kinw.
Fair and colder tonight and Wednesday-
ttm sale by iwrtm at