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SUNDAY. ACGCST 21. 1910.
This newspaper is oicned and pub
lished hv The Tribune Association, a
?J«o York ratio" : office and prin
cipal place of business, ' Tribune Build
ing. .Vc. 154 fmii street. Yew York;
Ogdcn Hills, president: Osden 11. Reid,
tccretary; James M. Barrett, treasurer.
The address oj the officers is the office
c} Out newspaper.
THE NEWS THIS J/OS-V/VG.
FOREIGN:— England's latest battle
ship, the Orion. was launched at Ports
- ath; her sun power ■•... be greater
than that of •■■•■ other vessel yet
launched, and she will carry torpedoes
of a cew type, ===== European powers
welcome the change of the Montenegrin
■srincipalitv to a monarchy; Servia dis
lU&es the move, but fears to make a pro
test. == Many Americans, including
the Ambassador and Mrs. Reid, at
tended the memorial service at St. Paul's
for Florence Nightingale, who was
buried with simple ceremonies in Hamp
shire. ===== Dr. H. H. Crippen. wanted
in London to answer for the murder of
his wife, and Miss Ltneve, who fled
with him to Canada, sailed from Quebec
for England in the custody of Inspector
Dew, of Scotia:-.': Yard. - French
niuseums will probabiy refuse to tend
«sh:bits to exposition* unless fireproof
b'jlldir.gs can be obtained. - :r^- Lieu
tenant Vivaldi, of the Kalian army, we*
killed when an seropisne he was operat
ing fell a distance of one thousand feet,
Rome. ===== A nre at Buenos Ayres
destroyed a. great department at a loss
of several million piastres. == Em
ceror William and members if the im
perial family arrived at Posen for the
house wanning of the new palace, built
There at a cost of $1338.000.
DOMESTIC The Congressional com
mittee investigating Indian land affairs
issued a statement at Sulphur. Okla.,
that there was no warrant the use of
the names of Vice-President 'Sherman
and Senator Charles Curtis in connection
with any improper relation with Indian
contracts. === Governor and Mrs.
Hughes left Albany for a two weeks' va
cation in the Adirondacks. . It was
reported in Xew Orleans that steamship
companies there had received cable mes
sages' from Bluefields, saying- that the
revolution had ended and the Madriz
and Estrada factions had agreed upon
terms of peace: this report was denied
by the agents of both sides in Washing
ton. =^=~- Ex- Assemblyman Hart said at
Utica that the vote of the Republican
State Committee which chose Mr. Sher
man for temporary chairman of the con
vention was "cooked up." ===== John
Hays Hammond, In a speech before the
Ouyuhog~a County League of Republican
'Clubs, praised th' Taft administration
and referred to the President as "the
country's most sagacious Executive."
-- It was announced at St. Albans,
vt.. that the engineers of the Central
Vermont Railway would receive an in
crease of wages averaging 30 per •••.
CITY. — Stocks were dull at small price
changes. ■-, Clifford B. Harmon flew
across the Sound in his aeroplane, leav
ing th- aviation grounds in Garden City
and landing in Greenwich. Conn. ==
The surgeons discontinued tests of the
blood of Mayor Gaynor, considering him
to be "practical out of danger.": —
Payment was made on all the checks of
•he Broad street curb market firm whose
oSice was besieged on Friday by brok
ers demanding settlements. = — The
government took the necessary step
gainst the American Sugar Refining
Company to protect itself against the
statute of limitations in the matter of
the alleged frauds regarding drawbacks.
- — The independent cloak manu
facturers offered to join in the plan to
•hut the factories as a result of the
strike. ■ - Fire among cotton bales
in the hold delayed the sailing of the
Cnnard liner Carmania. == The pres
sure of high speed driving or automo
biles, a. doctor said, etched lines of
trouble in a person's face. -
THE WEATHER.— Indications for to
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest. 77 degrees; lowest, 64.
THE POLITICAL REFEREE SYSTEM. \
Ex-Senator Marion Butler, of North
Carolina, who aided Representative |
John M. Morehead in his successful tight
to oust the old officeholders and office
seekers' ring m that state, said in Wash
ington the other day that one of the
rbief objects of that fight was to abolish
the referee system in North Carolina
politics. That system was the outgrowth
at peculiar conditions in certain South
ern states. In Mississippi, South Caro
lina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama and
Louisiana the Republican organization
tad dwindled to a skeleton. It was con
trolled chiefly by men who sought to
capitalize the federal patronage for their
own benefit and whose political activi
ties were aroused only when national
conventions were at hand and delegates
to those gatherings were to be elected-
Scandals arose in the distribution of
patronage, and inefficiency in oflice was
encouraged by the recognition of the
leaders In the nominal organizations in
those states- President Roosevelt tried
tr» improve conditions by disregarding
the importunities .of the party leaders
and depending for recommendations on
referees — men of good character not nec
essarily engaged In politics.
Where en active, responsible party or
ganization cannot be maintained the
i*feree system produces good results.
But In Southern states here the party
is properly organized and growing in
numbers It Is out of place. North Caro
!Uia is such a state. It cast 114.887
rotes for Taft electors In 1008 — 45 per
cent of the total vote— and three of the
ten Congress districts were carried by
Republican candidates. It is manifestly
unfair to class North Carolina with
ether Southern €tnres in which tbe'Re
publican vote Is only from 5 to 15 per
•rent of the total vote and where the
organizations «;-xist chiefly for the pur
pose of electing delegates to national
conventions. In an nddress made at
Greensboro in 1906*. Mr Taft urged the
reorganization, of the parly in North
Carolina on a non -office-peeking and
office-brokerage basis, and the time now
wems ripe for the conversion which he
had In view. The recent state eosjTen
tft&A cut the orcuniz&Uou Into '-die bauds
of new leaders, with broader rlew& and
au intenrion to make it subserve public
rather than private interests. If that
iiitention is realized the party will no
longer need the assistance and guidance
of receivers appointed to distribute fed
eral appointments. Doubtless the referee
system can be retained with advantage
in the Gulf States, in which Republi
canism is still dormant But it Is an
anachronism In the rest of the South,
\hieh is becoming liberalized in politics
and offers each year ■ better field for
the development of a self-sustaining and
responsible Republican organization.
WET HE SHOULD RETIRE.
• We are asked by a correspondent
whose letter we publish in another col
umn to state what Speaker Cannon has
done to- make it advisable for other Re
publican Representatives in Congress,
formerly his supporters, "to repudiate
him"— to the extent of announcing that.
if elected, they will not vote for his re
aoniination in the Republican caucus.
The Tribune, commenting last Friday on
Representative Lonirwortii's interview,
said that his attitude was logical and
that his protest against Mr. Cannon's ef
forts to force an irrelevant issue upon
the voters was fully Justified. We
gladly jrlve the reasons for that opinion.
We think that the revolt in the House
of Representatives against the system
of one-man rule in force there has the
approval of a lar.^e majority of the vot
ers of both parties. Neither party prin
ciple nor party regularity was involved
in the iisue raised, which was whether
the Speaker should continue to appoint
the Committee 02 Rules and serve as its
chairman or whether the House itself
should choose the committee, the
Speaker bein^- made ineligible for mem
bership. That was a mere detail of
parliamentary administration in the
House. The Tribune has for some years
past bettered that the powers of the
Speaker were excessive and were being
used to discourage freedom of thought
and action in the lower branch of Con
cress and to destroy its sense of respon
sibility to the voters'. The Speaker.
nominally the agent of the House, had
in reality been converted into its master,
and had become accustomed to thinking
and acting In its behalf. Once elected.
his authority was so unlimited as to
irive him absolute control o* legislation.
We considered that an unwholesome
situation, and long before insurgency, as
It is now known, was heard of in Wash
ington we urged an amendment of the
rules which, by making the committees
elective instead of appointive, would re
store a larger measure of responsible
.-elf -government.
Mr. Cannon and his supporters pre
ferred to retain the old system, because
it kept the control of the lower branch
of Congress In the hands of the Speaker
and a few of his lieutenants. When the
demand for a frfcer system became
strong enough to upset the autocratic
order, Mr. Cannon attacked the Repub
licans; who favored the chance as trai
tors to the party. He confused loyalty
to him and re the existing system with
loyalty to the principles of Republican
ism and to home sentiment, which had
become weary of the Cannon autocracy
and its fruits in the way of political
leadership.
When the campaign for a new House
opened and. Representatives began to
Bed: renomination, Mr. Cannon went on
the stump in Kansas and elsewhere and
assailed Republican supporters of the
new order a? traitor? and Democrats,
and asked for their defeat on the ground
that they ha 1 restricted his powers as
speaker. Logically his assault put upon
the candidates whose nomination he
favored and on Representatives who had
stood by him in the rules fight last
March the burden of seeming to com
mit themselves to the Speaker's vindica
tion in the next House and to a revival
of the old regime. Few of his former
supporters are so blind as not to realize
that such a revival is both impracticable
and undesirable. The House has shown
a remarkable advance in legislative effl
ciency since the rules were amended
and the country is thoroughly satisfied
with the change. and opposed to a re
lapse to old conditions. Many former
supporters of Mr. Cannon have been de
feated for renomination because of their
association with what is popularly
known »as "Cannonism." Others "who
have won renominations feel that they
would greatly weaken themselves if they
should be forced into the attitude of
asking their constituencies to re-elect
them for the purpose of restoring the
Speaker's autocracy. We think that Mr.
Cannon ought to see that such an issue
should be kept out of the Congressional
campaign. His availability as a candi
date for Speaker terminated when the
system of which he was the representa
tive was overthrown. The propriety of
his withdrawal as a candidate for the
speakersbip is obvious, since • his con
tinuance in the field unnecessarily en
courages factionalism and injures the
chances of Representatives whose
friendship -for him is now subjecting
them to actions embarrassment
MADXEBS:
The particularly vicious slaughter by
automobile on Pel ham Parkway the
other nigh! had been preceded by m
numerable similar incidents, though
probably none more flagrant and revolt
ing in cynical criminality, and has al
ready been followed by several more oc
currences of a tragic nature. Two men
killed and three badly injured was the
record of a su-'gle automobile smash-up
on Friday night in the outskirts of this
city, (be result of law-breaking speed,
•rUle yesterday several men were se
riously hurt and narrowly escaped death
in their efforts to break the speed rec
ord on a motor racetrack. Other acci
dents to automobiles, all induced by
reckless speeding, dot the day's news.
Also the list of aeroplane tragedies
lengthens daily, these -largely being the
result of attempts to -break records or
"do stunts" in midair.
There may be those who regard these
things as the regrettable but Inevitable
price of invention and progress. They
are not. They are the penalty of mad
ness. Of the hundreds of lives which
are yearly sacrificed In automobile
speeding not 1 per cent can be placed In
the former category. The perpetrators
or victim? of the tragedies have con
tributed nothing to science or to me
chanics or to progress in the use of self
propelled vehicles. They are not "im
proving the bleed" of automobiles, but
are simply abusing and discrediting a
most interesting and serviceable device.
We may not say that in the case of
aeronauts, at least not so generally, for
among these some of the most useful ex
perimenters and inventors have come to
grief. Rut in many if not most cases
accidents have occurred not in the scien
tific experimentation which is still the
supreme need of the new art of aviation,
but in mere popular exhibitions of a
more or less daredevil kind.
We repeat that Uiese things ore mani
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, !_9lO.
festations of ii species of madness which
seems to be increasingly prevalent
throughout the world, and perhaps a
little more In this country than else
where. There is a craze for speed, not
for the profitable results thereof, but
merely for Its own sake. The man who
is most Intent on getting to his destina
tion a fraction of a second quicker than
any one else has ever done it is the man
who will waste most time when he gets
there. There Is also a craze^ for In
stantly using every device which comes
out before it is perfected or even suf
ficiently tried to assure its safety, no
matter whether it be an automobile or
a patent medicine, an airship or a sur I
gical operation. It is an unhappy and
disastrous aberration of the hnman mind
which seems to be contagious and to be
confined by no limits of place, age or
condition.
TBE HESSIAN INCIDENT.
The impending visit to this country of
a descendant &i' that Landgrave of Hesse
who tared troops to George 111 for use
arainst America in the Revolution recalls
an c incident which has long been ancient
history and which may in this remote
perspective be viewed without a trace
of the not unnatural nor unjustifiable
passion which it fortnerly and for a long
time provoked.
It is of interest — purely academic and
historic — to recall that the first applica
tion for hired troops was made not to
Hesse but to Russia. As early as Au
gust, 1775, long before even Americans
considered themselves anything more
than protesting but still loyal subjects
or King George, a request was made of
Russia for the hiring of twenty thousand
iroops for service here, and it is not
impossible, if indeed improbable, that,
had it cot been for the influence of Fred
erick the Great upon Catherine's inor
dinately vain minister, Panin, the re
quest would have been granted. The
second application was made to Holland,
ai.d although at the court there was for
a moment some talk of granting it by
sending hither the Scottish Brigade, the
States General, because of the instinctive
love of liberty and the consequent in
cpient sympathy with America which
were there cherished, promptly and em
phatically vetoed it. The third quest
for troops was then made among the
petty princelings of Germany, where
faces of the demoralization of the
Thirty Years* War still lingered and
here mercenary soldiering was a com
mon trade: and this time. In Hesse, it
was successful.
If any reflective person were to doubt
that the world is growing better In mat
ters pertaining to the government of
states and to the keeping of peace and
♦■he waging of war, his doubts should
surely be promptly and finally dis
pelled by contrasting the ways and
means of less than a century and a
bnlf ago and those of the present time.
The negotiations which were then com
monplace among the foremost nations,
and the motives by which they were con
trolled and the acts which they purposed
and. indeed, actually committed, would
he impossible in our day ; or if they were
realized they would be recarded with
general reprobation. In that view the
Hessian incident of our Revolution may
be profitably remembered as; a point from
which to measure the commendable and
grateful progress of mankind.
DETROIT'S PROGRESS.
Detroit's gain in population since 1900
is the largest yet reported for any of the
cities of its rank. The increase was
180,062, bringing the total up from 255,
704 to 465,7G«). The percentage of gain
was 63. In the preceding decade the
percentage was only 88.7. The remark
able advance made by Detroit will carry
it ahead of several rivals slightly out
ranking it In 1900. It stood thirteenth
In the rating ten years ago. It will now
pass New Orleans, Cincinnati and San
Francisco and may overtake Buffalo.
The figures for Cincinnati have al
ready been made public. Its population in
1910 is 364.463. New Orleans had 287,
104 in 1900 and probably has about 350,
000 now. San Francisco had 342,902 in
1900 and probably has now about 425,
000. Buffalo, which had 352,387 in 1900,
will have to gain 113,000 to keep even
with- Detroit. It gained 98,000 between
1890 and 1900 and ought to have gained
about 125,000 in the last decade. But
apparently it is not pushing ahead as
fast as either of its lake neighbors and
rivals, Cleveland and Detroit. Milwau
kee, which was only 359 behind the lat
ter in 1900, has now been hopelessly dis
tanced- Its population increased in the
ten years to 373,857, leaving it 91,909
behind. Urban growth seem to* have
been unusually irregular since 1900,
and many changes in the ranking of the
large cities are indicated by the totals
bo far announced.
1 TEXAS CONVICT FARM
What to do with the convict iv order
that he may be employed yet uot inter
fere with the activities; of workmen on
the outside is still an unsettled problem.
The labor unions are offended when the
state enters 2nU> competition with them
through it> prisoners, overlooking the
ridiculousness of fche assumption that
BO small a proportion of tbe working
population of the country as may be
found in penal institutions could, under
the mosi favorable conditions, manu
facture a safficlent quantity of goods to
make much difference to them. Tn many
institutions, however, no effort is made
to keep the prisoners employed on any
form of labor much more competitive
than breaking stone, a Irade which up
to the present has not become highly
orj'-'inized.
The State of Minnesota has solved the
problem to the satisfaction of the farm
ers, at least, by keeping many of the
convicts engaged in the manufacture of
binding twine, with the result that that
particular commodity is unquestionably
lower in price in Minnesota. Just in
what manner peace has been made by
the state authorities with the labor
unions is not divulged, but the probabili
ties are that agriculture Is so over
whelmingly predominant in the state as,
to make the good will of the farmers
more to be desired than that of any
other class. Binding twine, too, is a
product that Is by the farmers believed
to be especially subject to the will of
the trusts, and this may have Its Influ
ence In making Che state's policy in the
matter possible.
In the South the tendency toward the
abolition of convict leases makes neces
sary the discovery of some other method
of employment for the inmates of the in
stitutions, both for economic reasons and
because the refinement of cruelty inci
dent to unemployed confliwwnent is a
relic of barbarism. A new bill slimed by
the Governor of Texas provides for the
abolition of the leasing <»f state eoavrlcta
to contractors and for their employ
ment OU farms owned by the state.
As a result tome thirty thousand acres
oi hiiid will be added to tne tweutj'-aU
thoosand now owned by the stats, and
as the contracts of the two thousand
convicts expire the men will be set to
work at agriculture. It is hardly prob
able that the farmers win file such a
protest as would probably result If the
men were employed In some labor the
workers In which were largely union
ized, and it would be difficult to Imagine
any occupation more likely to prove
beneficial to the men themselves. If
Texas finds a happy solution of the con
vict labor problem it will hare eet a
valuable example.
THE ENGLISH STAGE AND EMI
GRATION.
A writer in a London dramatic paper
discusses the causes of the dwindling
support of travelling theatrical compa
nies fn the English provinces. First among
them he places what he calls "suburban
gardenitis" ; in other words, the ever
growing movement toward the country
of the middle classes, which furnish the
bulk of theatrical audiences the world
over. These dwellers in the suburbs of
the English provincial towns cannot be
induced to budge from home In the even
ing, he avers, unless the attraction of
fered tbem be far above the average.
Id these towns themselves, he goes on,
tbe local music hall furnishes all the
entertainment the population appears to
require. Moreover, cities like Liverpool
and Manchester have their own theatres
of rank and standing and will welcome
only the greatest of metropolitan stars.
But far above all these causes of the
dwindling support of English travelling
companies this writer places emigration.
He casts a longing glance toward this
country, but suggests Canada as a profit
able field for English managers. "Our
audiences have moved thither," he ex
claims • "let us follow them before the
New York managers go out to find them."
It is a long way from London to Win
nipeg, and this writer is not altogether
correctly Informed regarding American
theatrical affairs or conditions In the
Canadian field. But his suggestion that
the effect of emigration Is felt by Eng
lish managers arrests attention. Opinion
of Continental European managers on
this subject would also be Interesting.
As an instrument of destruction the
automobile strenuously holds its own
with the aeroplane. The tragedies of
the last week suggest that it has en
tered into an ignoble competition with
the later invention.
Why all this pother about the Kaiser's
fifty-first palace? The Czar owns more
than a thousand of them.
Wisconsin is the latest state in which
the use of public drinking cups on rail
way trains has been prohibited. Their
abolition by the railroads, which takes
effect next month, is based on a rule
of the State Board of Health. After a
little time, no doubt, their patrons will
become accustomed to the new practice,
as has been the case in other states, and
will provide their own cups when travel
ling — a. highly sanitary practice, law or
no law.
Speaking of Senator Joseph W. Bailey
and his acclamation as candidate for the
Presidency in the recent Democratic
State Convention in Texas, 'The Hous
ton Post" says:
The people have beheld him a Colossus
In the Senate. His primacy In that august
fcrum Is not questioned by any competent
authority. He is the most Impressive fig
ure of virile statesmanship in our national
lee-islature. and the jealous srutiny of his
public acts by men who reV»N fails to re
veal the slightest weakness in his armor.
The "competent authorities" who for
twenty years have been studying Sen
ator Bailey at close range in Washing
ton wili now have to revise their verdicts
or hide their diminished heads.
Soon the "peril" about which they talk
at Intervals in England will take the
form of an invasion of an army in air
ships, so often Is the Channel being
crossed.
Canada has not taken a census this
year, but her Census Bureau reckons that
her population last March was 7.489,781.
On that basis it remains, as it has con
sistently been for the last century, con
tiderably less than that of the single
state of J*ew York. Still, it Is Increas
ing more rapidly than for long before,
the gTowth In the last nine years having
been more than 2.118,000, aguinst only
a little more than 538,000 in the ten
years preceding and 508,000 in the ten
years before those. The greatest in
crease, relatively, in the history of the
country was from 1851 to 1861. wh<»n
the population rose from 1,842,000 to
3,090.000. That was the time of the
rush for gold and the development of
British Columbia into an organized col
ony, as these last nine years have been
marked by the development of the
wheat fields of the Northwest into great
agricultural states.
THE TALK OF THE DAT.
"The Baltimore American" celebrated
>esterday the one hundred and thirty-sev
enth anniversar> of ftt; birth, and aa a
souvenir published a facsimile of the first
issue of the four-page "Maryland Journal
and Baltimore Advertiser," from whirl* it
sprang. An interesting feature of thi little
sheet, dated August 30. 1773. is an advor
tisement by George Washington offering
for sale and lease twenty thousand acres
of land in Virginia.
"Who -was Barabba*. dad?"
"An umpire."— l/ouisvtlle Courier-Journal.
A man with a decidedly foreign air, who
was accompanied by an elderly and a young
woman, evidently his wife and daughter,
was seen by an employe trying several
doors of a large apartment store yesterday
afternoon. The watchman approached the
group and explained that the store was
closed for the day. "Yes, I see," said the
man, "and so arc several others where we
wanted to do some shopping. What's the
matter— this a holiday?" He was told
thai nearly all stores close their doors on
Saturday afternoon in the hot season. This
answer seemed to surprise the man, who
said: "And they say the Americans are
grasping and business crazy.- This does not
look like it. and some of our storekeepers
in Burope might follow the example."
First Oklahoman — Howdy?
Hecond Oklahoman— tine. What's doln'.?
Kir'st Oklahoman — Nothin' spashul. Whah
you goln'?
Second Oklahoman -Jen" aroun' th' corner
to rob an Injun. Join me?
First Oklahoman— Shuahl— C 1 c ye 1 an d
Plain Dealer.
A Carlsbad letter calls attention to a
remarkable concert which took place at
the Spa on August 6. 1812. a programme of
which is still preserved in the city archives
at that place. The entertainment was
given for the benefit of the sufferers by the
tire which had laid waste Baden, and took
place at the Saechslscher Baal. The only
performers were Beethoven and Polledro.
who played their own compositions. There
were two pianoforte and two violin solos
and several numbers in which both took
part, says me writer. The account or the
entertainment also mentions the fact that
one or the Interested listeners was a "tall
•Jdorly man, ' waring * - «r«*t blue co*4»
who sat perfectly erect throughout the
performance, never looking anywhere but
at the stage. This was Goethe." The
amount realized for the fund was about
1200. The letter ends with: "Beethoven
at the piano for charity, and box receipts
$20ft— 98 years ago." •
"A word to the wise is sufficient."
quoted the Wise Guy. "J suppose that is
why a lawyer will .talk to the Jury for half
a day," added the Simple Mug.—Philadel
phia Record.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
A QUESTION ABOUT MR. CANNON.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you please state in an editorial
what the Hon. Joe G. Cannon has done
that renders !t advisable, aside from selfish
reasons, for his associate members- of
Congress to repudiate him?
As I understand the situation Mr. Can
non has executed rigidly and reasonably
impartially the rules adopted by a ma
jority of the members of the House of
Representatives, but an unreasoning preju
dice has grown up against him. chiefly
brought about by newspapers, culminating
in a demand made by Mr. Nicholas Long
worth that "he shall retire, and Th 6 New-
York Tribune apparently sympathizes with
this unjust sentiment and action.
'X T ncle Joe" Cannon is an old line Re
publican. He has always and under all
conditions and circumstances been a square
fighter, and no man will accuse him of
having turned his party friends down for
personal political gain. He was a Republi
can of the stanchest type when Mr.
Nicholas Longworth was wearing swad
dling clothes, and it grieves me to see a
sound Republican like Cannon turned down
to promote such interests as the Longworth
type represents, and I do not believe the
Indorsement by The New-York Tribune of
such action will tend to harmony In the
party. AN OLD LINE REPUBLICAN.
New York, Aug. 19, 1910.
APPROVES LONGWORTH'S STAND.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Every well-wisher of the Republi
can party, and every one who desires to see
it succeed and in the ascendant in the next
Congress, must be greatly pleased at the
position of Mr. Longworth. Mr. Cannon
has done great service to his party and to
his country during the many years. he has
served in Congress. He has been honored
by his fellow members to an extent almost
beyond that of any of his predecessors.
He must know, perhaps better than any
one else, how serious and widespread the op
position is to his candidacy, for the speak
ershlp of the next Congress. He now has
made his candidacy the principal issue in
every Congress district throughout the
length and breadth of this country.
Many a good man will go down to defeat
simply because he will hesitate . to frankly
state his convictions and position, as has
Mr. Longworth. In justice to these good
men who have been so loyal and true to
him In the past, he should not require this
sacrifice.
Let Mr. Cannon say, as he has, that he
desires to return to Congress if his con
stituents desire it, but that, in view of the
manifest opposition, the position of danger
In which It places many of his friends and
the fear of a possible Democratic Congress,
he fully realizing all this, and also in the
the knowledge that he has arrived at the
age when a fight is not to his liking, now
states fully and explicitly that under no
circumstances will he be a candidate for
Speaker of the next House. A statement
like this can be made, and the political at
mosphere woulu be cleared of the clouds
that now overcast it.. And It would give
every member of Congress who is now seek
ing renomination and election a good
chance of success. And more, it. would
place the grand old man back in the hearts
and affections of the whole people.
.- . CHARLES S. STOCKTON.
Newark, N. J., Aug. 19, 1910.
A PROPOSAL FOR GOVERNOR.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me to say that it behooves
the Republican party to cut loose speedily
from the group of men who control its state
committee, and to go forward on, the line
of the party's high traditions. It is use
less to waste time bandying words with
these people In the vain hope of effecting
a compromise, for they are incorrigibly at
tached to the machine system and are
fighting for their political lives.
Moreover, those who stand for. a direct
primary law and the elimination of boss
politics ought not to be doing homage to
the sworn enemies of this proposed re
form, but. fully assured that their position
is right and just, they should assert those
principles plainly, manfully and Indepen
dently and let the consequences take care
of themselves.
The men who assume to be in high au
thority in the Republican organization
stand to-day discredited by the rank and
fllo of tlie pall] . and would be repudiated
by such -voters were they to appeal to
their suffrages, «the pov.er exercised hy
these politicians being gained and perpetu
ated by chicanery and mutual back scratch
ing and not by the 1 service of worthy lead.
ership. Hence, their influence is not so
deep nor wide at; one might be led to be
lieve from thrir loud and -tanpertlneni ut
terances.
What would be- lost by ignoring them
would be made up" by votes gained " from
other sources outside the Republican fold,
provided a high class candidate of the
progressive type should be chosen for the
office of Governor, .one who could be de
pended upon to maintain the dignity, ad
ministrative ability and purity which it
knows under Governor Hughes. •
■ Of the names which have been proposed
as Republican candidates for Governor I
would suggest that of the Hon. Seth Low
as the most eligible. experienced,' able,
distinguished, he would, IT nominated, draw
largely from the independent vote, and if
elected would adorn the. high office .of Gov
ernor of the State of New York.
CHARLES A. [NGtUHASI.
Cambridge. N. V.. Aug. 19. JMO."
A PLEA AGAINST JUGGERNAUT.
To the. Editor of The Tribune.
- Sir: Nothing is more humiliating to our
American pride than the haughty self
sufficiency with which this arrogant new
comer the automobile dashes over "alt our
highways and through and about our cities
and villages, endangering' and often reck
lessly destroying human life! -What, if pos
sible, is yet more strange, is the quiet— we
may even say almost cowardly — acquies
cence of the people, young and old, great
and small, to this almost unmitigated
scourge! The legal limit of speed for ttm
auto— twenty miles an hour— ls more often
than otherwise exceeded, ami even more
than forty miles is no uncommon speed.
Strangely enough, many . even of our
"wise ones" insist that "nothing can be
done" to check or regulate this great
evil. But something can be done. Let our
legislators pass a law that the wheels of
every auto, before It goes Into service,
shall bo bo geared a.s to make ' dangerous
or unsafe speea Impossible. Let them pro
vide, also, competent and reliable commis
sioners, who shall see that that law is
faithfully enforced and complied with
and due penalties affixed to Its violation,
and the present frightful state of things
would soon become "non est." ■
If such a law should he declared uncon
stitutional, "we, the people." could soon
nx that by so amending the constitution
as to guarantee to every law-abiding citi
zen the privilege of walking the streets In
safety from marauders, whether pickpock
ets, fiends or automobiles. ?.-•'- -
C. A. S. TEMPLE.
Lebanon Springs, N. V.. Aug. IS. 1910.
AND NEW YORK'S HORSE CARS.
From The Rochester Post-Express:
Professor Heihtrecht says that Btrbct^ara
were In use in lite year GOO' B. C. That's
nothing. Borne of • the cars • used -on- the
Rochester and Souus Bay line ar« of.even
greater *xiUu,uiu« <
People and Social Incident*
NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Summer is on the wane from a soci* l
point of view, and the season at -
port. Bar Harbor, Southampton and o^n*
seaside resorts is now within a meas
urable distance of Its close, while at Sara
toga the racing will be over In a few days-
Acoording to many, it Is the swan song °l
racing at Saratoga, and it is perhaps Just
on this account that the crowd ot
known persons at the springs has been
larger this August than for many a yea-
Soon the racing set of Xew Tork society
will take U» flight from Saratoga, and
place will be taken by the political ele
ment, now already flocking thither for B
political convention
Bar Harbor will be en fete this week tn
connection with its annual horse show,
which opens on Tuesday and last* unm
T-riday. It Is always made the occasion of
much hospitality, and the most important
entertainments of the season are usually
set for horse show week, when t
rious country houses, villas and summer
homes are filled with guests and the bay is
crowded with yachts. Bar Harbor is the
paradise, indeed, of the horse, which reigns
there supreme; for It is the only summer
resort of any importance which persists tn
barring automcToiles of any shape or form.
With the horse show over many will
gin to leave for the mountains, and espe
cially for the Bcrkshires, among them the
Austrian Ambassador and the Baroness yon
Hengermiiller and Mrs. Morris K. Jesup.
who will spend September at Lenox.
Newport, too. will be v-ry gay. the prin
cipal feature of the week being the tab
leau* vlvans on Tuesday night in the the
atre of the Newport Casino for the benefit
of the Italian CMHna's Horna in Broome
street. New York. The living pictures have
l-,€en to a great extent arranged by Prince
Troubetskoy and by Henry Clews. Jr.. and
among those taking part therein will be
Mrs French Vanderbilt, who will imper
sonate Queen Marie Antoinette; Mrs. Rob
ert Goclet. who is to appear as the Queen
of Sheba, and her sister, Mrs. Craig Biddle.
who is to figure as Helen of Troy. Mrs.
Leonard Thomas is to pose as Emma. Laa>
Hamilton, from the painting by Romney.
Mrs Kenneth Castleman will be seen as
Charlotte Corday and Mrs. Payne Whitney
will be a gypsy queen. Mrs. Charles dc
Loosey Oelrlehs will impersonate Beatrice
d'Este and others who will pose are Mrs.
Reginald G. Vanderbilt, Mrs. J. Gordon
Douglas, Miss Mildred Sherman and Mt-ss
Host Grosvenor
Bishop William C. Doane will officiate at
the wedding on Saturday next of his grand
daughter. Miss Terrs Gardiner, to Roy
Pier at the summer home of the bride s
parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Terry Gardi
ner, at Northeast Harbor. Me.
Announcement v.as made yesterday ot
the -nsagemeni of Mta Frances Gordon
Alexander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will
iam Alexander, of No. 14 West 37th street,
tc Allen Gouverneur WHlman. an assistant
on the staff of District Attorney hitman
a graduate of the Harvard class of ■ and
a son of Francis I* Wellman.
Another engagement announced :--:-'
dav from Boston, was that of BOsfl Ka. -
erine Warren to John Eliot Thay.r, ,:.,
who is still at Harvard, ard is a son of
Mr and Mrs. John Eliot Thayer. His
father is the twin brother of Bayard Thay
er and one of his cousins. Miss Cornelia
Thaver is the wife of Count Moltke. tna
Danish Minister at Washington. Mi.-s
Warren is a daughter of Mrs. Samuel Den
nis Warren, of Boston, and is. through her,
a granddaughter of the late Thomat 1\
Bayard, American Ambassador to tbc Gmut
of St. James's.
Still another engagement made known
yesterday was" that of Charles Wagstaff
Bate-on, soli of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ed
ward Bateson, of West 4sth street, and a
graduate of Columbia, class of "«, to Man
Charlotte Brisooe. of Virginia.
Senator Chauncoy ML Depew aatd Mm
Depew, the French Ambassador and afnwfc
Jusserand. T,ady Dorothy Walpole, Sir Al
fred Crimps, K. «'.. who was Attorney Gen
eral of Edward VI f when Prince of Wales.
and M r - and Mrs. Percy R. Pyne. with their
family, an- dur to arrive hero this week
trom Europe. Mr. and Mrv Pyne on land
ing will go to their place at Bernardsviii*.
N. J.. for tn- remainder of the reason.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. C Taylor are
Still abroad a.nd are booked to sail for New-
York at. the end of September. Their villa
at Newport is being occupied during their
absence by Mr. and Mrs. Moses Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scrfbner. Mr. and
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens and Alfred Mitchell
limes, counsellor of tb« British Embassy In
America, have arrived from Europe.
.1. Pterpont Morgan is still at Bar Harbor
op board bis steam yacht Corsair. His son
in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mr Her
bert 1-. Satterleo, : will arrive there at DM
end of the week to inspect the property
which he has purchased tor them at Great
Head, about six mill distant from Bar
Harbor.
Mr. and Mr.-. Benjamin S. Gutanes - are
at Hio'.-k Island on board Ibeii bo
Pioneer.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gould have left here
for Bar Harbor to stay with Mr. and airs.
Dave Hennen Morris.
Duncan < ryder is spending the
m the Meadow Club, Southampton, lem
Island.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Oakley Rbinelander,
who are now -'it Ai\-i« -Kain-. are booked
to sail for New York on Saturday next.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. s .Creer have re
turned to .C town from a." m-> ; of se\oral
weeks to Europe.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt la touring in Mon
tana and visiting the Glacier Park with
Henry FYnrlield Osborn and his daughter.
M >.-; Osborn.
J. Don Ckraeronj who was Secretary of
"War under the Presidency of General
Grant and for twenty -a-- ; sited States
Senator from Pennsylvania, has arrived in
town and is staying for a few days at the
Holland II'U
Dr.. and Mrs. Thomas Preston Satter
thwaite have, been touring through Now
England in their automobile, an.i are now at
tbe new Profile House In the White Moun
tain p.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spencer "Wltherbee
and Miss Evelyn Vrttherbee have left here
for Newport to stay with Llspenard Stew
art for h few days before sailing for Eu
rope.
■—.'
The Spanish Minister to the United .-.«,(■•■
Sell Juan de Rlano and Madame de Kiano!
are spending the month or August i: the
Balsams, at DlxvUle Notch, N. B.
Lawrence 1. GiUesple, whose marriage to
Mibs Irene Sherman, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. \V. Watts Sherman, is set for
September 5. will give his bachelor dinner
at the Union Club on Wednesday. August 3J
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
[By TfeU.'jnraj>h to Th*. Tribunal
Newport. Aug. 20._ Duke Francis Joe*,*
of Bavaria had another busy day in the
summer colony here to-day. This morn
ins ho was present at the national tennis
tournament: this afternoon he visited the
Newport Golf Club, and tp£n! S ht he was
the guestof honor at a dinner and dance
given by Airs. Ogden Goelet. his hostess, M
her summer homo; Ochre Court
ilra. Goelefs affair was one of tHe moat
r brilliant that has taken place fc«r» *v,
I season. The dinner, at which th»r« ■» era
! fifty or more guests. was served 03 sj
, terrace by moon and candle light. whl!<»
; the villa and grounds were elaborately <!*•_
| orated with electric lights. A lar^B r.T Jra .
ber of guests cam© In for th© dancing ar-J
i cotillon, which was led by Lord Rocksa*.
; age. of England.
Other dinner parties were numerous this
evening and all of th© guests afterward
•went to Mrs. Goelet's dance. (Beasts! 'ji
the entertainers were Mr. and Mr* e<j.
1 ward J. Berwtnd, -who had as tfcelr ?\i»8»
; of honor the Secretary of the Navy; jj-^
i Joseph R. Dilworth. j Sirs. Harry S. Lsi;
and Mr?. Joseph HarTixnan.
Henry Walters returned to-day from jjw^
1 York on the steam yacht Narada,
Harry Oelrichs Is a guest at his str.ar,
I Mrs. Leonard M. Tiomas.
. Charle3 De Loosey Oelrich3 has r-turim
j from a New York visit.
Lloyd Warren, of New York, hi a z^stt
j of his sister. Mrs. William Starr Miller.
Mrs. Benjamin Thaw arrived on Saturday
i to make an Inspection of her estate here.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L- B*rsr»~-, of Si*
) York, are making a short stay here.'
Registered at the Casino to-da7 **^
j Richard B. Leaks, jr., and lira. Rj-hard
■ B. Leake, of Albany, guests of Mr. and
i Mrs. James Grlswold Vents: v*iander
I Keogh. visiting A Gordon Norrle; r<j>j.
: crt D. Wrenn and Kenneth P. Bsaa\ of
' New York, guests of J. Gordon Donbass;
; Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Peters, Ellis
! Postlethwaite. of New York, who Is visit.
ing F. C. Haverneyer; Clinton Gra7, 4
I guest of his sister, Mrs. Reynolds Hltt;
\ Miss Burrough, Lydig lioyt, Norman De R.
i Whitehouse, Mr. and Mrs. William Adaaa
: Delano, of New York, guests of Mrs. Ed
, ward T. Potter, John H. Perkins. J. a
Masson. Charles Haverneyer Jackson ana
R. M. Parker, of New York, who are Uiz%
i entertained by H. O. Havemeyer, jr.; Fred-
I crick Winthrop. of Hamilton, Ma.?s., *
! guest of R.L. Agassiz; P. Douglass. Philip
Wads-worth, of Boston, a guest of Anor
■ Hollingsworth; W. Graham Bowdola of
> Baltimore, who is visiting Dr. Henry Bar
ton Jacobs, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
1 Breese, of Southampton, Long Island.
The first 1911 rental was announced to
■ day. Mr. and Mrs. Jose: Harriman hava
again leased Edward J. DsuMuuTi cottage
; in Bellevue Court.
Colonel John Jacob Astor with a party of
guests sailed to-day on the steam yach:
, Noma for a cruise to Bar Harbor.
IN THE BERKSHIRES.
'3> KSNJBBBt •" ""-.- '-
Lenox, Aug. 20. — Miss Clementina
has arrived in New York or. ■ - .
und will reach Edgecomb on M-r.day.
Herry T. Stetson, of New V" :.aa :•s.
istered al the Red Lion Inat
Dr. and Mrs. G. Henderson and Ifet
Mi.-5»9 Henderson are mot - .--■■»
Berkshires.
George A. Hey!, Miss Heyl a", i Mr. ar.<s
Mrs. John J. Jackson are at tht
Hotel.
Horace W. Robbins. of New Talk; Mr.
and Mrs. Wolcott P. Bobbins, .:"
r, and Mr. and Mrs. Geox
John Cook, of New Tori • trrtvsfs]
rhe Cunis Ho
Mr. and Mrs. Zena3 Crane, Mr. and Ma
Samuel Colt. Miss Carmen. E. M SssrasßJ
Miss May Weatherbee. Charles Crane asd
Thomas Plunkett are making a motor ra
into Vermont.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shepard, of BoslflS,
are motoring in the Berkshire?
Miss Constance Folsom has gone to New
port.
Mr and Mrs. Bashford Dean, Mr. aid
Mrs. Thomas W. Waldbridge. Mr. and XX.
John Haydock, jr., of New York; Mr a=i
Mrs. L- Cm Sill J and Miss Ruth GerstleT.
of Philadelphia; F. A. Moore and William
B. Joinings, of Larchmont. are at the Ho
tel Aspinwall.
Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson Cronw?!',
with Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hopkins and Its.
W. G. Berlin, arrived at the Curtis Hotel
this morning on the way to Waterbnrv.
Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steers; - tortsyl
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Borswalne. of Mono!
Kisco, are at the Curtis Hotel.
Mr. and Ml . W. J. Wells and M. C
Hewitt, of New York, are at the Maple
wood, In Pittsfield.
Miss Harriet K. Welles returned •- •-•
Curtis Hotel to-day from Newport.
Mr. and Mr-. George Wicthrop Fclsoa
sa\r a picnic at Lake JJahfceenac to-day,
the occasion being Mr. Fo'soin's rthisj
and also the anniversary of the n:arria?»
of Mr. and Mrs. Clark G. Voorhees, Q*
scn-in-law and daughter of Mr. and 3t»
Folsom. To-nisht Mrs. " Chur Ail! SatterU*
and Mr. and Mr=. Folsom cay* a dlsa^r
at Sou ban!
?Ir. and Mrs. G:raud Foster eatertafarf
at -luncheon at Beliefontaine to-day.
Mr. and Mr?. John E. Parsons att.~d?-i
the entertainment at Interlaken last n!?^
given by the fresh air children at- S-
Helen's Home, which Mr. Parsons maintain'
as a memorial to a daughter.
Mrs. Charles icßun has return*! t>
Stockbridge from Islesboro, Me. Dr. Mc-
Borne: is deep sea fishing off Bosarf*
Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H DelafieM art
guests of ... George W. Fo!sc=?-
Paul Tuckennan has arrival to Sts<>
-
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. DelaSeld 6«*>
returned from NarKucket
The Assistant Secretary ot the Navy • '[
Mr?. Beckntan Winthrop arrived to-risS {
to visit Mrs. Robert Wtnthrep. Mr. n "
throp's mother.
CALLED BY MAINS UNT^KSITt
• *
Presidency Gffered to Dr. Robert J.
Aley. of Indianapolis.
Portland. Mel. Aug. CX-Thc rre^tdea^
of the University bt Maine was offeredtt
Dr. Robert J. Aley. of Indianapolis, Sj3»
Superintendent of Instruction, by vo«^
the trustees ai a special meet ins ia.t! 1 - 1 *
city to-ia>. The resignation o: PresMec-
George Emery Fellows, tendered last J^a?'
goes into effect on September 1.
IV. Uobert Judson Aley t> art authoV-iT
on geometry, algebra ami mathematics »
general. He was born in Coul City. Ic*j
iv \XSS, and was educated at Valpara.;
College and Indiana University. Fro%J?*
to ISOI ho was professor of mat^etsatics^
Indiana University. IU- was on the l3^~
of Leland Stanford Junior University &-^
lv.it to 1555 and has been editor-tn-cWe-^
an educational publication. He 's las
thor of a number of books.
GOVERNOR OFF ON VACATIO
With Mrs. Hughes. He Goes Wr
Adirondacks fcr Two Weeis.
Albany. Aug. -V. -Governor and M^
llngnss left hero to-d:iy for the Taj"
Club, at Nowcomb, Essex County. m - y
Adirondacks. where they will s-.-end * "^ ,
tion of two weeks. Major Cro " ''^siii
Governor's military secretary, ac ool3^^
them as far as North Creek, the end o^\
railroad line. Newcomb Is a l " r *t_llic
journey by automobile from North Cree*-
BISHOP OF LONDON AT MONTRS- AI *
Halifax. Aug.' -iO.-A. T. Winnlngtca^
gram. Bishop of London, who will ti&*
,!:•• Anglican Church Congress in ", t4 -f«»l
early in September, has arrived at l^* •
on the steamer Empress of Britain.
Another passenger en tho Emp l*!L»
Uritain was Monsignor Francis Bo
Archbishop of Westminster, who * \^tf
tend the Eucharistlc Consresa *t iW**^
unit raoath.