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TAKING CHANCES.
Fven soine Of bd Democrat le news
papers which are gupporttng Oorgrnor
Wilson because he is the repular
Democratic nominee for President
rcilize that the country would he tak?
ing chances in pivinp him control of
Uie natlonal povernment. "The New
Orleans Plcayune" pave expression tlie
other dav to Its approhension lest
Democratic snecess shonld check the
tlde of prosperity which has now be
pun to gather force. It said after fl
revlew of the situation:
Thus lt ia that there ia little in the
polltical situation that Promi^es an>
earlv return to prosperity. There is
IrlW reaaon to belleve that Oo**ernor
Wilson wlll be our next Preeident. and
hi.Trta-onaWe and well lnformed as
to tho practical business of the coun
U-y and* what is needed forltsjroa
terltv. but he ls only a part of tbe
polltical machlne. All depends on how
radical Congress may prove to bo
But the Amerlcan people wlll elett
Governor Wilson and put their trust
ln Provldence for the balance.
lf thev elect Mr. Wilson President
the voters wlll probably bave to fall
back on Provldence all aloup the line.
Louislana certainly will have lmmedi
ate cause tO repent its part in restor
lac tbe Democracy to full power at
Washlngton. The Democratic rnajority
ln the preseni Hmise oi Kepresenta
Ures pa-sed l bill puttlng sugar on the
f,-,.e Ust Tf Mr Wilson ls elected
President there will be a Democratic
Senate nnd tbe Dem.?or:itlc rnajority
in the lion-e wfll be lncreased. Would
the Prtnceton Orator Pnff. who is b\
wayi nll thlngl to all men. venture
,,, oppoae the wttl of the two houses
bv vetoing a free sugar bttl, ptwed ta
.,,,.,,ttuaee wlth ? legislattre record
whlch the people imd dellberately ap*
provedl Mr. Wilson may be a rational
protectionlst when he talk? In New
Orleans, just as he is when he talks
in PMsburgh, but as a Democratic*
T'resi.lent. elected on tlie Baltimore
platform, he would have to yield to hls
party ta Coogrees and let New Orleans
and Ptttsburgh co on "trustiug to
Provldence.'1
In tact so far as prosperity is eon
4friied. the whole country would have
to po it blind and hope for the best.
The capture of Conpress and the Presl
dencv by a party whlch has deelared
all protective dutles to be unconstitu
tlonal could not bttl upset industry,
whlch has lonp been adjusted to the
protective basls; depress trade aud
check public confidence. The new ad?
minlstratlon would be one of radical
experiments, and investore and busi
uesa men would all have to sif tipht
'until the scope of its destmotlve ac
tivlties had become clear. If that ls
' vrhat the voters want they oupht to
: glve thelr support to Governor Wilson.
' But ln that case they mipht as weli
dlspense wlth the feeble pretence that
'thev are doing the best they can and
(leavlng the rest to the charltable dls?
posltlon of Provldence,
THE FINISH AT VERA CRUZ.
The general expectatlon concernlng
the revolutlon of F*elix Diaz at Vera
Cruz has been speedily fulflllcd. It was
expected that it would be a "fipht to a
flnish," and lt has been. The flnish
came, lt is trne, more expeditiously
than some thought lt would, and was
decidedly dlfferent lu character. Those,
however, are mere details. lt ls not.
material Just what is achleved by a
I/atin-American revolutlon. Generally
nothlnp ls achleved whlch ls of more
than personal Interest The essential
thing is to have a revolution and to
eondnct it accordlng to the rules of the
pame, which are varled aud capricious,
but generally picturesque.
At Vera Cruz the rules lnvolved ?
ptinctlllous courtesy and considerate
Mgg compared with which the tradl
tional "Gentlemen of the French Guard,
fire flrst 1" is slmply "not in lt" "Kn
"ter. gentlemen of the federal army,
"und accept the freedom of our poor
"but hospltahle city." "Many thanks,
"ireiitleinen of tiie revolution; if you
?are sure we shall not diseommode
?yi.tiV* "Hy no means. gentlemen. If
"\..ii will make yourselves at home ln
? the public bulldinps and the residen
**tial (iiiarter. Wb shall be quite 00m
??r.-rtHble in the barracks." "And tlu 11.
?bv tlie way, our little battle. Shall
-vve have ir at, say. 0 o'clock ln the
"inoriiltig, before the heat of the day 7"
"We shall be deliphted; though, per
"bafft 7 o'clock would be better. sn as
?;!ot to hurry the withdrawal of the
"non-oombatnnti*." "Bueno! Seven let lt
b?.; A thousand thanks, Don Fellx!"
"Don't mention lt . Adlos! Hasta
mafiana, General Beltran!" And the
next morning, in order that. there
mlght be no perturbation of the tran
qull mlnds of all wbo were concerned,
tbe police or somobody went out and
captured the revolutionary leHder gttd
his staff and disarmed all his. fol
Uiwers.
Away back ln the last century tbere
was ln the expressive vernacular of
?fandom" such a phrase aa "busted
phenoraenon," applled to a ball player
of ptatantloaa paoulaa who failed to
fuifii axpactatlona. it appagra to be
appUcable to Gejneral Fellx Waa.
Oertalnly ho gave moat of us tho idea
that he was a true nephew of his uncle
BBd tlmt hg would give Prealdent Ma
daro the flght of hla llfa. la teet, ba
gppaara t" have been not altogtbec un
Uke that other most Com_dat*4e gen?
eral. (oxey. who was going to take
Waahlngton by storm and dietate na?
tional polldca t'? Prealdent nnd Oon*
greaa from the doma of the Capltol or
tlsiwhcre, hut wl o, ivlien bade to
"Ki*ep off the grggar atayad not upon
the order of his going, but weut.
HELPING MURPHY.
A good many persons have joined thc
rieu party on the theory thut it is bet?
ter than the old. Is lt? It is not if its
voters are so snturated with the old
boss-hreeding partisanshlp that they
ara to vote half votes for Tammany
and butcher genulne Progresslves. lt
is an amazing thing that men who say
that party labels do not count much
and that one should look beneath them
to substantials are countenancing nom
inations when they know that the only
effr-ct of them ls to aid Murphy.
Throughout the etate, with raspBCt to
the lt-gislative candidates that ho has
named and expects to control, Murphy's
Chlef help ls the Progresslve organiza
tlon. It is maklrg hls path aasy f"r
him. The only way to make 11 rough
and prevent an atrocious state govern
menl is for the rank nnd Ule of the
Progresslves, showlng that they believe
what thev preaeh, to take matters in
thoir own hands and vote for the bo*t
real Progresslve on any tlcket who has
a chance of being elected.?The New
York Globe.
The Tribune qtiotes thls becnirso nn
independent newspaper snys it, and
one, luoreorer, with a Btrong leanlng
toward Colonel Roosevelt Tt is not a
Reputlican orcan whlch is saying that
the chlef nlrl to Murphy ln secnrlng the
I.egislnturo is the Progresslve party.
with its legislative randldates, but a
newsparer which looks with favor upon
the ruijiaaalia cause.
'The Globe" ls right The whole
Progressive Btate tlcket ls an nld to
Murphy. hut espoolally so are Us can?
didates for the Assembly and the Son
nte. Thelr only excuse for existenee
is to round out the tlcket on which
they stand ani to please men of local
promlnence nnd enlist thelr support
Is tbere one who has a chance of elec?
tlon? If so, we bave not yet heard of
him. They will get only a part of the
rotea whlch will he given to the head
of the tlcket, whose strength is rhierty
rjeraonal. At the most they wlll only
tnke away enouirh votee from the Re*
publican eandidati-s to throw distrbts
otherwlse Republican iijto Murphy s
hanrls.
Their nomination is en ln.lnry to the
s'ate. It is a disn(lvHiifnc*o even to Mr.
Straus. as "The Globe" points out for
if he is. hy a mlr.iolo. elected he will
!..- w..rse oiT with a Murphy Legtdatnra
than with n Republican Leglalature.
A Progresslve Leglslature ip uttorly in
concelvablo.
A SALUTARY TRIAL.
The Becker case will go to the Jury
to-day, nfter a sixteen days' trial.
Fonr of these slxteen were spent in
obtalnine a Jury, a day or two having
heen wasted whlle the ilefence was
ezbaustlng its peremptory chnllengr-s
in order to eatabHaD a technlcal basis
for nn appeal. Thls loss of tlme was be?
yond the control of .Titstlce Goff. Dur?
ing the rest of the processes he has
seen to lt that no time was wasted.
nnd he rleserves the crtxllt for preveut
ing thia case from becomlng BQCh a
apectacla as, for example, the flrat
Thaw trial. With a weak Judge on the
bench it W4,uld have heen tumed into
the travesty upon orderly nnd effective
procedure that ni4>st of our sensational
eaaea have been. But Justlce Goff has
vigorously asserted the authority of
the court nnd its control over what
went on before lt. The coui'ts cannot
bring back their own prestige more
siirdy than by exhlbiting a capaclty
llke that of Justlce Goff to do their
work efflclently. The trouble with
them ls not that they have "usurped"
authority. They have nllowed thelr
own authority to he usurped by dllu
tory nnd posturing counsel.
It ls to be hoped that if this case
ever goes up to the Court of Appeals the
trial Judge's assertlon of hls authority
will be fully sustalned. This issue is
only secondary in importance to seelng
that Justice ls done to the murderers
of Rosenthal. A vitallzing of the
whole ndudnistrntion of criminnl lnw
ls possible lf Judges may learn that it
is within their power to control trials
before them ns Justlce Goff hns con
trolled this one. We have wlshed tliat
OVT Judges were something more than
mere umpires before whom the legal
parae was played. Wa havo felt that
the country would he the gnlner if
they were more like the vigornu*
masters of everythlng golng on before
them tliat the Kngiish Judges nre. In
this Becker trial that ldeal has not
heen quite realized. But omch has
been done toward removlng a great
reproach from our courts.
GROWING DREADNOUGHTS.
While we were reviewlng Lhe great?
est bgttlg fleet ttint the world has ever
seeu assemhled in lnland traters, and
one of the two or three most powerfOl
ever gathered anywhere, Great Britain
was launehing the Iron Duke, her lat
est word ln the tleveloprnent of the all
big-gun or Dreadnought type. The in
cldent suggests a cobiparlson of the
newly launched shlp with the original
Dreadnought, which is not yet obsolete,
and a review of the successive atapa of
development which have heen taken by
the British Admiralty ln the seven
years whlch separate the two. In the
(?ssential charactcristics of the Dread
nonght type there hns heeu no ehnnge?
namely, all blg guns of unifonn rall
bre, nbsence of intermedinte battory
and hlgh speed. In almost every other
?.-;.. t there has heen advancemeut
toward hlgher eiheieney.
The Dreadnought was of 17,fH?0 tons.
carrled ten 12-lnch guns and made 22
knots. The next. type. the Bellcrophon,
carrled 4-lnch instend of 12-p<>und
guns for anti-torpedo boat arms and
imreased the welght of armor within,
to gnard against under-water explosion,
nnd her tonnnge accordlngly rose to
IH.ikki. The St. Vincent, a year later.
Incrggggfl the length of the 12-inch guns
from 44r) to 50 callbres and the number
of 4-lnch guns from sixteeu to twenty,
wlth an lncrease of tonnage to lO,2.rA
! The Neptune followed, wlth heavier
[armor, with tnrretg in ecbeloa tastend
of abroast, with the fourth turret
i.raised so hlch as to fire over the
[others, wlth stxteen lnstead of twenty
small "'ms. and wlth r tonnage <>f
j 10,9001, The Orbm. of thls year. made
the radical cbangeof suhstituting ISJJ*
Inch for UMnch guns each weightng 78
lnstead of 88 tons and throwlng a pro
jectile of 1.280 lnstead of BBO pounds;
with Ihe turrets on the central line, tba
'' BSCOOd and fourth raised so as to llre
uver tlM flrst and flfth: changes which
neeessltafed an lncrease of tonnage to
22,880. NOW comes the Iron Dnke,
with maln battery and turrets like
thoOS Of the Orlon. b'lt with an In
ei-eaas of projectiles from L280 to 1*400
pounds each and with 64nch lnstead of
4-inch guns for ropelling the niosqulto
fleet the latter Chsngfl belng due to the
lncreased streneth of torpedo boati and
desirnvers and not indioating n return
to the intermedl.'ito battery.
By way of comparlson lt ls to be oh
scrved that onr Wyoininp and Arkan
sas are of 26,000 tons, or a little more
than the Iron Duke, and have twelve
r.'-inch lnstead of ten l.TMneh guns,
and iwcnty-one r?-inch lnstead of slx
ton 6-lnch guns. It ls a reasonahle
eontentlon, therefore. that one of ours
would 1"' the eqnal of _M newest Brlt?
lsh shlp in Bghting effidsney. n may
bfl gdded that tho present Brltish pro
gramme wlll gtre to that country in
Blarch, ir?i4, no fgwer than twelre bat
tleships carrying lSJMncb enns, whllfl
Germany wlll not have one wlth larger
than 12-lncfa guns. It remalns. to be
seen how many with 14-lncfa rlfles will
carry thfl Anierican fiag.
SQUARING HIMSELF.
Colonel Henry Walterson's a'tempts
to expiain awny his striotures on Gov?
ernor Wilson just after the famous
Haney-Wilson-Watterson estrangemont
show more zeal rhan discretlon. Colo?
nel Watterson has a generous tempera
ment and hls readlness to send ? "for
glve-me-and-forget-my-manners" fiag or
truce to Trenton is natural und-T the
drenmstancea. But when a raconcttla
tlon ia SOttfht why dwell tor> reminls
cently npon reereftriMe ]i<irtlni!an"?
Why try to square ln too d< flnlte terms
the mellnwer Jndpment of to-day wlth
the harsher judgment of elfbt months
ii go?
In 'The LotdsvlUe Oourier-.Iournal"
Colonel Watterson recentlj p-'iM ? gnl*
lant trlbute to Gorernor WUson'fl "abil
"Itiesand availability as a Presidentlal
"candldate/' Warmlng up to the t:i**k
of establlshing a wtodut virendi, he re
marked:
The defecta in Qovernor WIlBon'sper
sonalit.y whlch it ["The Courler-Jour
nal"] had detected, oi though! it de
i,. t,..!. wi : ? f s klml to dlscredll
bla relstlon to ths public qui I
the tinie or to !.4i the making ol .* suc
ful nc"mliil.stration ?.f the general
? i nment on I >? mocratl llnes, . . .
Hls eiectlon bjr sn overwhelmlng rna?
jority ls eertaln; and lt Ifl by no 1
hard to concslvs that thfl very qualitlea
whlch "Ths Courler-Journar eontt
in hla charactsr may prove the making
of his future ln offlce. to whlch the
?tro- n hand rather thnn the wnrm
ht-art will be m.-iinly requlred.
The smend made is handsome, if not
Ingenloua. it seems now thal whsl ths
Governor lacks ls merely a "wnrm
heart." and that such I shortage mlgbt
stand him in good steiul a\ Presldenl
Last February, ln replytng to the
charge tbal he had oontradlctetl blm*
seif to some extent in hls rarions ni>
pralsements of Governor Wllson's in
teiiecttiai snd moral equlpment, Oolonel
Wattervm said of himself:
Havlng nothing to conceal, seeklng
only tO tell the tnth, h<* USefl the ],m
gUSgfl of exactltudfl to descrlhe an In
telleetns] crook He was looklng t r ?
II itSSman. Iaght arrlved and he found
B j**dagogue. He ho*,ed for a Tllden.
Ths screen fell and dlsdosed a Bttl
Aram.
('olonel Watterson has done himself
a good turn and the worid of b-tters a
Bfliike ta dlseovertag that the lack <>f
a "warm heerl' was Bugene Aram's
only trouble.
COLUMBUS OF THE PACIFIC.
The ereetion of a memorial to Jamflfl
Cook at Whltby, whera his ghtpg were
bullt and not far from hls bilthplacfl
III Yorkshlre. England. was an lncldent
which mlght well have commanded the
syinpathetic Interest not only of the
whole Brltlsh Emplre, to wbOM terrl
torlal extent bfl coiitrihntcd far more
than nny other OOO man, but also of
thfl Unlted BtateS, because of hls redis
covery of one of the most valuable of,
Its otitlying possessions. Gaetano had
proiiably tonchfld at Hawall long before
Cook, but Spaln btd kept the BflCTfll N
closely hldden thal lt h;id become prae
tlcally forgotten even hy herself. and
it reinalncd for ('410k to dlfldOflfl Ul tlu
woild the existence of those intercstinp
Islands, though ln doing so he MCfMCfld
his own llfe.
There ls no exaggeratlon in corupar
ing the exjiloits of Cook ln the Paclflr*
with those of Colmnhus ln the Atlantic,
for lf they had not ln all respeets the
orlgiuallty of tlie daring voyages of the
great Genoese they were not devold of
that quality. and they were siipmnc'y
frult ftll of geographlcal knowledge ainl
of lastlng results to politleal einpire, to
commerce and to clvillzatlon. Magel
lan. Drnke and fithers had preceded him
by two hundred yeara, but during those
centurles the vnst ocean remalned, save
for a portion of its shores and coastal
waters, almost an unknown sea. lt
was left for him to dls*>ol the traditlon
of the Tcrra AuntralUt, to eircunmavl
gate for the first time Australla and
Ni'iv Zealand nnd to win them for tho
Britlsh crown, to demonstrato the Bflpa*
rate lnsular position of New Gulm-a
and to make known to the worid the
existence of the great Hawaiian group.
Apart from those major achievenionts
hls other oxplorations, in the South Pa?
cific, the South Atlantic, the waters of
Alaska and around the coasta of New
foundland, would also of themselves
entltle him to rank among the world's
greatest discoverers.
Nor was the man himself un worthy
of his achievonienta. ln every element
of personal greatness ho was the peer
of any who ever salled to chart tho un?
known seas. In resolution he wns not
surpassed hy Columbus, in iutrepldity
and in fertlllty of re**ouroe he rivalled
Drake and in devotlon to tbe attain
ment of rosults of practlcal utility ho
was the peer of Hudson, while in the
important rwpeot of safeguarding the
physicnl wellhelng of hls men on pro
lnnged ocean voyages it is dotibtful if
he ever had. down to his tlme, a rival.
It was flttlng that a fine hronze monu
ment of him should be emcted at Whlt
by. where his ships were huilt. as well
as another at his Mrthpla<-e and a
tiiird when ba met bla untimciy death.
Rnf hls chlef inomorial is the map of
the Paclflc Ocean.
Thc report that the Serv!ans who
are invading Western Turkey flnd
themaehrea vigorously opposed by 40,
OdO Albanian trlbosmen ls a temlnder
of the prcgnant fact that whlle those
puUsant and resourccful mountaineers
have for generations been In chronlc
revolt against Turkish misgovernment,
they are still more ho^tlle toward any
outside interforence and probably hate
the Bervtaaa a good deal more than
they do the Trlbe of Othman. Of
oo araa, it wlll be a little dlacourasdhg
to th'ose wh4> are rushing ln to liberate
them fr4.m Turkish oppreselon to flnd
that they don't want to bs llberaied,
but are ready to flght llke flends lncar
nate for the support of thelr tyrantsl
Sulzer is nfter the cnpltal "I" reeord.
"Wilson Wants a Senate." Pnmposed
of rye-cradling "farmer oratora" such
as he steam-rollered the New Jersey
Democrats Into choo.slng?
Mr. Mi nk, the Canadlan Mlnlster of
Publlr- Works, resi^jns offlce because
the rest of the Cabinet won't let hlm
fulfll all hls ante-alectlon pk-dges. The
tradltlonal New England ConsctO-00
wlll now retlre in favor of th? Ca?
nadlan brand.
The Balkan war ls young yet and no
corrcspondents have thus far been ner
mltted to go to the front; hut the crop
of pr.ipevlne "runardera" ls already
abundant
e
That whlch makes the Klngdom of Italy
one of the most remarkable polltlcal phe?
nomena of modern E*urope Ib the conver
Blofl of what Dlaraall termed "a gco
graphlcal expresslon" Into a united na?
tion?The New T< rk Sun
And the ehndes of "Dlz.zy" and
rirment von Bfetternlch grln at each
other ln the BlVSlan Flelde.
King Peter of Fervla ls prnbablv the
first soverelgn who ever went to war
in nn automoblle,
Now that the hrunt of the Bull
lfl ..<-* campaign devolves upon Gov?
ernor Johnson, it is announced that
Willlam Glllette, the a.compllshed ac
tor and playwrlter, wlll g0 UPOB the
stump to aid hlm. Mr. Glllette has
hitherfo been much Identlfled wlth "too
? .' hnson."
?
Mr. Dix wns defermlned thnt If the
te'8 dlrty linen ever had to be
0 pul lt Bhould at least be
of tbe best quallty.
Krom Baltimore, where there is more,
f.,r gorman-lizltip than in most
other Amerban cples, comes tbe report
Ihat "the long COUTOC dinner ls Ottt of
ind a dinner wlth two or three
"good di.-iu-s has taken its pi.uc" The
change is ittrlbuted to the'high coat
of living. If that be so, economical
I ressure has made l I tnmon CBUSS wlth
( ommon sense.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Desplta the fact that "not he who beara
? jr ls, but be whoae spirit
makea blm emperor," the aomenclatlata
Bhould Bnd something elgnlfkant in the
COlncldetX es whlch hlnge upon the myatlc
Initials "W. J " lioubtless New York'b
Mayor ls. at the present tlme, the man
most talked >.f WhOBC glren nanios have
these Initials, but he has SBVeral close
competltrira < 'onnected more or less
clocely wlth the Ma\or In the pre?, it
police altiatlon are, W, J. Klynn and W. J
Burna Ifl tiie fleld of polltlcB are IV. J.
Bryan and?to Btretch a polnt -W. J
. I'.i.-ey ') Ponnere 1'oubtleaB the aug
gestlOfl COUld be worked out at great
bngth. but these exumples will be amply
enl to lntereat those who profess
to believe that a man's destlny Ib ln the
start and Ib reflected on earth ln the date
of hls llrth and the flndlng of four-le&f
-
Huh (looklng up from newspaperi My
dear, have you s< ,-n any of those Invlslhle
suits yet '
Wif. invlslhle Bults! What are you
talking about?
Huh Why, here'a a New Vork ladles'
tail .r advertising: "Suits made to order
wlth or without mateiiul."?Boston Tran
Bcript.
HTH_? MU8T WE WORRY
(Note ? FT?d*rlo Harrl?on. th* Kn?ll?h
author. aay* haLplneaa con.?* from leaving the
table whlle atlll hnn*-ry PrmMent Taft then
annonnoea that tha <>.*t of Belnaj la soinB
Sowa. J
Oh. happlest of mortala. 1,
A creature of unbounded blisB;
For what, when cost of llving's hlgh,
('an cause more Joy than news llke thls?
I'm often hungry when I leave
The room wbereln my table ls;
Therefore, from news I now recelve
Much fUn ls fotoed on my phiz.
But, though I'm quite without a care,
I flnd myself a-worrylng
BeCBUSC "f word whlch cornes from where
Thr. president Bojourna. Thls thlng
Of eoat of living golng down
Means thnt weil now havo ample mcat?
But that our very hearts wlll frown
Because we get enough to ea.t.
So worry glvea us lots of fuss,
'Cause nothlng's left to worry ub!
A. W. U.
"And what ls your occupatlon?"
aak, .i tha accident lnsurahce agent.
'im u woodaman. During the hunt*
ing aee bow t aot as a guuic "
'I'm aorry, but my company won't
write a policy on your clasa "
"Why not? Surely I'm a good rlsk."
"Mv dear alr you're not a rlsk; you're
a oertalnty.?Detrolt Free Press.
A writcr In a Berlln paper, commentlng
on the MSth annlversairy of the publlca
*.lon of "Urlmm'B Palry Tales," says of
the author thut, desplte the fact tliat
chltdrSB all over the world had read and
w.-re fasclnated by the "welrd nnd won
derful stoties," the 88881 who wrote them
was rnorose and devold of love for chll
4lren. Mra. I... who, desplte ber elghty
live years, ls Btl 11 u crltlcal reader, re
ferrlng to the article, says that she
thlnks an lnjustlce has heen dono the
fairy tale wrlter. "When I was a little
glrl," she says, "I lived ln the clty of
Cassel, and around the corner from our
home, where I was born, wub a hotel
called the Hlrschen-Hof, where Grlmm
lived. He was a tail. thln, clderly man.
1 saw him nearly every day take blfl
walk. always, raln or shlne, carrylng a
large green urnbrella and wlth a troop of
chlldren around hlm and other chlldren,
followlng. Chlldren are not attracted by
men who dlslike them."
"Pa, why are a fool and hls money soon
parted?" , .
"80 that a wise guv can live without
working, my hov."-Detrolt Free Press.
AN APPEAL TO REASON
Why a Veteran Republican Will Vote
for Taft.
To the Fdltor of The Tribune.
Sir: For several months the nation
has been treated to a polltlcal campaign
of personalltles, a matter of secondary
Imp4>rtance. ln the closing weeks of the
campaign there begins to bo some atten?
tion to the prlnclple lnvolved, whlch ls
of the Brsl Import.in.c, and ln conslderlng
the prlnclple care should be taken not to
confound It wlth lmpulse.
It ls falr to assumc that every lntellt
pent and luMMBt man Intends to vote for
that whlch h.- belleves wlll he for the
best Interest of hls country. and. ennse
qucntly. for hlmself. Each voter should
calmly ask hlmself. What wlll be for rh.
best lntere?t? Reason wlll answer, That
whlch wlll prc-erve and continue the
present buslness prosperity, for on that
prosperity depends the welfare on all eon
cerned.
Not less than four tlmes in seventy
slx years, beglnnlng wlth 1817, there has
been enact.-d a non-protectlve, for-rt-ve
nue-only tariff, immedlately followed each
tlme by the prostration of buslness. We
nee.] take only space here for hrlef refer?
ence to the last experience wlth such a tnr
Iff, as lt ls within the memory of mlUions
of voters who wlll go to the polls next
month. The Democratic platform of 1?*K
was In the mali. llke that of 1012. The
Democratic candldat" ar.d orators t.alked
then much tha BBJM as ln the present
campaign. But once in power thev passcd
a me.isure which closed the doors of our
factories and opened the doors of dls
pensarlec for the dlstrlbutlon of free soup
and bread.
There ls a genera' bellef that there ls
too hlgh a duty on many articles. but not
one man In ten thousand can dcflnltely
or logleally tell what the duty should b?.
Our present tariff law wlsely provldes for
tbe appolntment of a blpart'.san commls
slon whlch shall lnvestlgate and report
on each schedule, the only method by
whlch a proper and s.ttlsfactory tariff ro
vlslon can be made,. Thls work has be
gun. and buslness aafety demands that
lt should continue. The only danger of
Its Interruptlon comes from the Third
T-rtn party. A vote for the Third Term
candldat> ls a vote to help the Demo?
cratic p.irty.
It ls .f Vttal interest to the nrm who
works for weekly wagee, to tha mer
chant and manufacturer that the Repub?
lican p.irty should cntlnue to admin
ister the buslness of this government
in the forty four yeara that I have voted
at Presidenttal slaetlons there has been
no tlme when Republican success seemed
so neceseary.
My bellef ln our ronstPutlon and love
of COUfltry are as strong now as they
w#re a half rentury ago, when, with more
than two mllllons of others, I volun
teered tc- andurc the hardahlpa and dan
Kers of A soldler's llfe thal the Coastltu*
Uofl and country mlght be preservad.
CHARLBB BURROWB.
Rutherford, N 3 . Oet 81, Wl
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ABLE AND WORTH WHILE
An Acquaintance of 24 Years' Stand
ing 80 Characterizes Mr. Hedges.
To the Ed'.tor of Tbe Tribune.
Sir: Twentjr-fOUT yeara ago thls month
1t was my pleasure, whlle iourneylnif from
New York 'ity to keep a public enarage
tnent ,n one of the lnlund cltl.-s of the
I state, to meet on board train an attrac
tlVC looklng. alert-mlnded young gentle
man, who waa travc'.iing with an ac?
quaintance ,.f aboit hls own age, bb I
nirer lt, to fllt nn eniragement to a.1
dress a puMic meetlng In behalf of the
Republican party.
I waa most agreeably surprlsed as I
. l to an anlmated dlscusalon be
tween the two young men of the lssues
lnvolved ln the national electlon of that
year It appeared thev were both stanch
aueportara Of the Republican natlonat
cat.didates One of the young men to
whom I refer ls the present Republican
candidate for (Jovernor of the State of
New York, Hon. Job K. Hedgee.
I *\as so Impressed wlth hls courteous,
dlgnlfled beartng, hla knowicdge of the
candidates hc was supportlng and the
prlnclples for whlch they stoo.l that I
then and there mentally expressed the
thought that ln tho natural order of
thlnj-s an honored and brllllant future
Kwalted hlm.
In thls I have not been diaappolnted. I
have watched hls career. He ha* been
honored by pt.bllc men ln state and ln n*
tlon, and In every Instarco haa mnde good
through his eplendid, lntelleetual attaln
ments and a name and reputatlon that
have ever remalned clean and unsullled
The wrlter knows pcrsonally of many
Oetnocrats and Imiepepdents In your clty
und state who know and admlre the
aplendM pers- nallty, unrjuestloned ablllty
and clean public reeord of Mr. Hedges,
who )\lll not permlt biind party fe.ilty to
east thelr votes against hlm.
Without prejudice l believe that there Is
not within the conflnes of tho Emplre
State to-day an abler, cleaner or more
worthy man ln any party, and I am mh-,.
that thls ls ln no soise an exaKKerated
eotlmatC ln the Jndgm.-nt of those who
know Mr. Hedges pcrsonally, aB well as
by reputatlon. I therefore look BOrOSBthS
borders of my own etate earnestly and
hopefully for hls electlon.
JOH.V D. SPKLUMAN.
Rutland, Vt.. Oct. 23, 1912.
OPPOSED TO COERCION
James F. Morton, Jr., Would Not
Compel Foreigners to Salute Flag.
Te the E.litor of The Tribune.
Mi?: gflCh letters as that of "K. A ."
In a rec.-nt issue betray an Intolerance
unworthy of cltlzenshlp In a free country.
Why ahould we dlsplay a tyrannous In
sisten4.-e on empty f4)rms? A democracv
ought to be broad-mlndcd enough and
large enough to go Its ways without ref?
erence to the diasatlsfactlon of those who
cannot appreciate its ldeals.
A public school has no rlght to demand
a servlle worship of a mere ceremony
where tho dlsposltlon Is wantlng. If thi
forelgner doea mit like our tiag it la our
plH4-e to convlnce hlm that he ls In error
by maklng that llag Btand bo palpably for
e.,ual llberty and the hlghe_t ldeale of
4 ivllizatlon that the most purbtlnd eye
cannot fall to see Its glory. To snarl at
hlin becauae hls honest convlctlons dlffer
from ours sjid to persecute hla innocent
and Immature chlld by denylng lt an
education ls contemptlble llttU-ness, and
the very reverse of enllghtened patriot?
lsm.
How little of a true Amerlcan "K. A."
Is appeara from hla demand that no
change be made In the Sunday lawa, as If
the people of thls country had not a rlght
to change any law whlch they have made.
So Intense a patrlot as your correspond
ent pretendB to be should at least have
mafltered the elementary democratic prln?
clples of relltrlous llberty and the separa
tion of Church and State.
JAMES F. MORTON, JR.
New Tork, Oct 17, ,191 J.
People and S<
NEW YORK SOCIETY. ]
Miss Mlldred Page Johnson. daughter
"by a former marrlage of Mrs. Charles E.
Bayne. waa marrteii yesterday afternoon
in Grace Church chantry to Augustus
ff, Kelley, Jr. The ceremony waa per
formed by the rector. the Rev. Charles
L. Slattery. ar.d a receptlon followed at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bayne. No. 54
West Ilth street. The brlde wore a gown
of whlte satin, trirnmed with rose point
lacfl and orange blossoms. Her vell of
rose point and appllque lace was fastened
wlth orange blossoms and fell the full
length of the court traln. She carrled B
bOOQUOt of lllies-of-the-valley and whlte
orchlds.
Mlss Helen Johnson was her sister's
mald of honor, and she was attired in
pink chiffon. wore a brown velvet hat.
trirnmed wlth pink roses, and carrled an
arm bonrpiet Bf yellow roses, tied with
brown tulle. Mrs. tfdward N. Townsend,
Jr., who was married on October 8. BTSfl
the matron of honor, and the hridesmalds
were Miss Ruth Adsms. Miss t'ornella
Cllfford Brown, Miss Yvonne Gourd and
Miss Chrlsttas Kelley. Tbey srers all
drssssd Sllfcfl in pale pink satin and lace,
aml wore brown velvet hats, trlmm?d
wlth a single brown ostrich feather. They
also carrled arm bourjuets of yellow ros^s,
tleri wlth brown tulle.
Sydney Kelley acted aa hls brother's
best man, and the ushers were Edward
Kane, DOOaM Moore. Robert Winmlll
and Alfred Maolay.
At the end of thr-lr honeymoon Mr. and
Mrs. Kelley wlll make their home ln thls
city.
Mlss Catherlne N. Cameron wlll he mar?
ried to-day at the home of her slst. -r,
Mrs Belmont Tlffany, No. 63 West 9th
atreet, to Jurlah H. Sears. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Zmaa Sears. of Boston. Owlng to
Mrs. Belmoiit's 111 health only relatlves
and a few lntimate frlends wlll he present
at the ceremony, whlch wlll oe performed
by the Rev. Dr. I^lghton Parka and the
Rev. E. A. Dodda.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wagstaft wlll open
thelr house. No. 515 Madlson avenue, on
November 12, for the winter. Thelr
daughter, Mlss Margaret B. Wagstaff,
wlll be lntroduced to soclety this season.
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs.
Winthrop Burr, Mrs. Edward T. M. Tal
Btaga and others have organlzed the
Colony Daaoas for girls not yet lntro
T.irve wlll be two of
them, the flrst on*? taking place on De
cember 30 at the Colony Club.
Mlss Martha Knox Orr, who ls to be
marrKl to carl I.. VTstor o.i November
21, in the Fifth Awnue Presbyterian
Church, has chosen for h***r attendants
; Mlss Isabel Attcrbury, Mlss Madellne
lo'Brlsn, Mlsa Dorothy Shepard, mi.-s
MUdred Harbeck, Miss Ruth Hasklns and
Miss Blsanor Hlnton, of this dty, and
MtSfl Mary ?hill!to, of Cincinnatl. Thomas
I* Vi**tiir wlll he hls brother's best man.
Announcement has been made of the
cent of Mlss M.ilzi- I.ivlngston
Delafleld. daughter of Mr. ar.d Mrs M;i
turln L. Delaflald, to Edward RMtay
Flncb, of No. 37 Klfth avenue. Mr. Flnrh |
la a graduate of Tale, Claaa 'M, and of the
..aw Behool, Claaa 'M Us Is i
member of the St. Nicholas Bodsty and
;.s of tho ItsvolUtlon. Mlss Dela?
fleld Is a sist.-r of Mrs. Fredr-rlck W.
LongfallOW and of Mrs. Jarvis P. Csrtsr.
No date has been set for the weddlng.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Palmer Knapp wlll
take i oeai ssiun of thelr apartment, at
No. 247 Fifth avenue, at the end of next
week
Frederlck Townsend Martln salled yes?
terday from England for New Vork. Ho
MrlU i-pend tho wlnter at the Plaza.
Mrs. J. J. Wysong has returr.ed to the
city from Newport.
The engagement ls announced of Mlss
Marjorle Rlchards. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. G-eorgr* Rlchards, of No. 40C Park
avenue. to OUvsr C, Reyn ilda ',*' '?'?? laa
firm of Reynolds, Rlchards & McCutcheon.
Mr. and Mrs. QoOTgS Jay Gould and
Mis. XV. A. Hamllton left the city yester
NEW DEAN FOR RUTGERS
Professor Louis Bevier Succeeds
Professor Van Dyck.
New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 23-Pro
CaSSor Francls Cuyler Van Dyck has re
slgned the offlce of dean, and Professor
Louls Bevier has been appolnted hls suc?
cessor by the board of trustees, it was an?
nounced to-day.
Dr. Van Dyck became instructor at
Rutgers ln ISfA, almost Immediately after
hls graduatlon. and ls now the co'.lege's
BSalor professor. He has been a pro?
fessor since 1S70. The trustees ln accept
lng hls resignation as dean passed r.-so
lutlor.s expresslng- thelr hlgh appreclatlon
of hls long. falthful and very efflcient
servlce as dean. The college ls to have
lt" contlnued servlce of Dr. Van Dyck
ln the department of physlcs.
Dr. Bcler, who succeeds to the offlce
of dean, has been professor of Greek for
rnany years. He began hls work at Rut
gcrs as Instructor ln FYench ln IM? flve
years after hls graduatlon.
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URGES CHINESE RECOGNITION.
Boston, Oct. 23.?A resolution favoiing
the leOOgnltlon of the republlc of Chlna
by the I'nlted States, has been adopted
by the conventlon of the New England
Presbyterian Symid.
HUNTINGTON WILSON TO SPEAK.',
Washlngton. Oct. 23--Huntington Wil?
son, Acfing Ser-retary of Btate. left here
to-nlght for Atlantic City, where bfl flrffl
speak to-morrow before the Anierican
Hardware Manufacturers' Association on
thfl HUBfltluai Sf 'hls ccuntry's cxport
trads and the relatlon of the opening ot
'the Panama Canal to that trade.
SCOTTISH RITE ELECTION.
At the one hundred and flfth annual ses
slon of tho Supreme Cotincll of the Seot
tish Rlte, for the I'nlted States, whlch
closed here to-day, the followlng offlcers
were elected:
M W. Bayllss. Washlngton, soverelgn
grand commander; Joslah H. Long. Bos?
ton, lieutenant grand commander; George
Clbson. Washlngton. m-lnlster of mate;
Holden O. Hlll, Provldence. treasurer
general; Marcus W. Morton, Provldence,
secretary general.
Waltt-r S. ytnour. Newark, keeper of ar
chlves; LsaaiST C,. Sherman, Provldence,
master of ceremonles; John A. Glidden,
Dover, X H . marshsl general; Willlam
F. Blxby, Haverhlll. Mass, Btandard
bearer; John H. Messenger, Syracuse,
N. V.. captaln of tho guard; Thomas Q.
Waller, M. D., Dowell, Mass., grand prlor.
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CHAPEL NOT AN A8TOR GIFT.
The rumor that a legatee of John Jacob
Astor was the glver of a new chapei. to
cost $150,000 or more. the last of seven such
butldlngs to BlUTOUnd thesanetuary of the
("athedral of St. John the Dlvlne, was de?
nled by Vlncent Astor yesterday. Mr.
Astor also said through hls representa
tlves at the offlce of the Aator Eatate,
No. 23 West 26th street, that he desired
to have lt understood that he had no auch
gtft to the Cathedral ln contemplatlon.
x_ial Incidents
day for Furlough Lodge, the Oould pltc#
In the Catskllls.
Mr. and Mrs. John O. McCullough win
return to town early next month fron*
North Bennlngton, Vt.
Mr. and Mrs. Hlram W. Slbley and Mlaa
Slbley have arrlved in town and are at
the Hotel Ootham for 8 few days.
Mrs. Benjamln B. Mayer will give t
dlnner-danco on January 10 at fiherry'a
for h.-r detutante daughter, Mts- Teason
Mayer.
AT NEWPORT.
[By Tcleg-raph to The Tribune]
Newport, Oct. 23.?Mr. and Mrs. Theo?
dore M. Davies will. as usual, spend the
w-inter in Kgypt. They will close The
Reefs on November 10.
Mr. and Mrs. EL Casimlr de Rham hava
gone to New- York for the wlnter.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart Iiarney wlll
close thelr season on October 31.
Miss Louiso Ward McAUister was a
luncheon entertalner to-day.
LSBpenard Stewart has cards out for &
dinner on Saturday evenlng.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Watts and Misa
Watts, of Philadelphia, will spend the
wlnter here.
Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas has returned
from New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Jullan McCarty Little
will close their stay here on Sunday.
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IN THE BEfcKSHIRES.
[By Tvlegraph to XhC Tribune.]
Lenox, Oct. 23.?Heavy rains to-day
preventcd golfing and automoblling. At
tha Lenox Boat Club Miss Heloia..- Meyer
gave a luncheon. To-nlght dinners were
given by Mr. and Mrs. George W. Folsom,
Mrs. Morrls K. Je_up and Mlsa Georglana
Sergeant.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Tailer, who have
been at the Godwin cottage, left here for
Roslyn, Long Island, to-day.
.Major and Mrs. Charles F. Brooker and
Alton Farrel have returned to Anaonia,
Conn.
Miss Margaret Wlnslow and Mra.
Francis Dana Wlnslow have gone to New
York. Mlas Wlnalow, who haa been ln a
Pittsfield hospital. lc much lmproved la
health.
Departurea for Boston to-day lncluded
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Saltonatall, Mr. and
Mrs. John D. Larkln, Jr., Mr. and Mra
R. A. Adams, General and Mrs. Joaepa
W. Merrlll and Miss Rcth Merrlll.
leaving for New York to-day were Mr.
ani Mrs. S. T. Calloway, Mr. and Mra
Harry P Robbtns, Mr. and Mra. Louia
Curtls and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Iselin.
Mr. ar.d Ifra. Walter F. Cobb have gone
to Oreenwlch, Conn., to vislt Mr. and Mra
m h. Truea I
Mrs. E. Hayes Trowbrldge, Mlsi EJlta
beth Lunn, of New Haven; Mrs. D. J.
Craln and Miss Craln, of New York, are
St the Curtls Hotel.
Mrs. John W. Mlnturn is entertalnlng
Miss Wtlllamson. of New York, at the
I'urtl.a Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs George F. Crane and thelr
gueets, Mrs Monroe Smith and Miss Ger
Imlth, have returned to New York.
Ip, who was a guest of
Mr and Mrs. Giraud Foeter. has gor.e to
riaverack. N. Y.
Miss Ellsabeth Denham and Mlsa Elsle
Cremson. who have been with Miss Isa
; B| tter, have returned to New York
on the way to Savanr.ah.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. _yon and JudSOB
R. r?tii,sberry, of New York. are at tho
P.,-i Llon Inn, Stockbrldge.
The R.-v ar.d Mrs Willlam M. Crane. of
Rlchmond, are recelvlng congratulatt ,ns
on tho btrth of a daughter, Caroltr.e. l.ur
riam. who arrlved thls week.
Mrs. George H. Morgan and Mrs. Cora
C. Boydea started this afternoon for Loa
Ar.geies, Cai., where they will remain six
weeks.
Colonel and Mrs. Warren H. New-omb
have closed their country place ln Pitts?
field and are at the Maplewood.
Mr. and Mrs. George IfaflB ar.d M:?*
Waters, who have been at the Ma| >?
wood. returned to town to-da. .
Miss B. Porter and Miss Borup, of New
York; Miss McWllliams. Miss Madden
ar i Miss D. W Porter, of Osslnlng. have
arrlved at the Maplewood, Plttsf.e'.d.
OEORGE BURNHAM ILL
Retired Locomotive Builder Ia
Ninety-six Yeara Old.
[By Telegraph to Tha Tiibur.e.]
Philadelphia, Oct. 23?Oeorge Burn?
ham, who for many years was the senlor
member of Burnham. Pavey, Wllllama A
Co, which firm was succeeded by tha
Baldwin locomotive Works, ls 111 at hla
hemo ln Weat Philadelphia.
Mr. Burnham is nlnety-slx years old
and retlred from buslness five years ago.
He has been conttned to bed sinee htd
return from Beach Haven, N. J, last
month. but his condition is not regarded
as serlous.
CHICANERY IN CALIFORNIA
Progressives Gullty of Fraud and
Corrupt Practices, Senator Says.
From Th- Argonaut, San Franr',--*
Realltlne; the nereaalty. lf he. woull avoi'l
belnj amlrehed peraonally by tha courae of
hls Progreg*lve partl?ana In Callfornla. Sen?
ator Works hia given out another ?t?--ment
with respect to recent polltlcal event* ln thi*
state It la worth attention, hera ar.d *!??
where, for It embodle* a alngularly clear
pceSSBtmeat of the *everal form* of turpl
tude lnvolved ln Roo?evelt polltlea ln thtr* I
eoBuaaatti
Senator Works flret characterliea ?he Pro
greeslve policy as fraudulent. He polnt* out
that under the law?a law, by th* *?v
written on the atatute booka by th* Pr<>'
giea?!ve party?ri,e only <vay by which Ko^**
vclt aa a Progre**lvo oould lawfully b'cin,* a
?-.iiulM.ite waa by petltlon. Having thu* it
llned the ?ltuatlon, Senator Worka aeta forth
what was done:
"In order to aecure the rlght to vote at th*
prltnarlea. not for Republican*. but for Pro
greaalvea. votera who v,-ere In fact Progr**
?ive? and not Republican* wera ad? i?ed bf
Progreaelve newepapera to. and pre?umably
dld, regiater oa Republleana and voted ln th*
gepoblteaa booth. The voter* who w*re for
Rooaevelt and hls new party movement, or
for Rouaevelt without the new party, end
who were reglatered aa Republican*. wer*
gullty of corrupt practicea. Thelr regUtra
tlon affidavit* were fnlae and thelr vote* eait
In -. Republican booth were fraudulent and
lllegal."
Seiietor Worka next polnte out that th*
Progreaalve* of Callfornla are gullty of cor?
rupt practicea. On thi* polnt he *ay*:
"It would do a Progreaalve no good to vote
ln a Republican booth unleaa ha could vote
for Progre?alve candidate* Therefore, I"
order to mak* thla atupendoue ?y*t*m ?'
fraud effectlvo, Progreaalve candldataa itn.**
ln aomo war bo plsced on tho Ropubllea"
ballot, so that Progreaalves maaqueraaini ea
Republican* mlght vote for them. Thi* n*oee
altated addltlonal corrupt and fraudula"*
practlceB even mora reprehenalbl* than th*
othera Tho law of Callfornla roqulre* that
a candidate for nomlnatlon ot the primerlae
muat make affidavit ehowlng the party ?(
whlch h* belonga; thot ha Intenda to ofllUote.
wlth thot party. and that ho wlll vote fer ?
majorlty of Its candldatea"