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SUHSCTtlPTION RATKS. -B| Ma'.'.. Tostas*
Pald, f.utKide of Great* r New Virk.
Dally an.i jun.aj, one oaootb . a'ou
Daiiy . slx lnonth?. J (p()
Dally and Buudaj ona year.
Dally only, nn- month.
Dally .
Dai.y oiu>, ? ? r .
fcunday only, ?ix montba,. ., M
Bunday on;y. one y.ar. -'
Forolan ?ub?crl|.tloni to all eoaatrlei ln the
Unlveraal Peatal t.'nlon. Ir.cludlng lubUse.
DA1LY AND Sl.NI-AY.
One month. $1 50 One year.117 30
BUXDAT OHDT:
6ix montha. j:.-7,One year.???"
DAII.Y ONI-Y.
One month.|t.at|0aa >*ar.?i< *?
CANADIAM RATCa
DAILY AND BUNDAY.
One month.I bu.one year.
DAlLY ONLY.
Ono month.* .BOtOaa y?r.
BUNDAY ONLY:
Ono month.* To.une year.
.$io. oe
..*6.00
..*4.6S
Entered at the PeetetBOi at N>w Tork aa
.-.1 C.abS Mall Matter.
Our readera wlll confer a favor by aavlsln*
ua when tl la t? proouro a eopjr or
Tho Trlbun* fi newi u?r. Addreaa.
Trlbufle. Clrcu.auon Departnient.
LITTLE JACK HORNER.
Never has tbe campaign of a candi?
date lor the Goveruorship collapsed
more cooapletelj than thal of Mr. Bul
aer. His aoppoiiwa have been for tho
must part shumed lmo silenee by the
icandidute's innbllity lo nieet the evi
dences of his Tninmanyisrn with any
thing better than a parade of agjotam.
"The Neaa York World" baa nol bbbb
tioiied his naiue on Its editorial page in
a coupie of weeks. "The New York
Times" did print one oditorial aiH
?%ve can recall no tnoro?ln Ma favor
j within a fortnlgbt Jt probably re>
Jpeuu now of having printed lhat one,
for it served to l.rlng out the exact
language in which Mr. Bulaer as chalr?
man of the AsseiJibly Ju.liciary Com?
mittee enproved Maynardlatn.
Waa taera gvgt b candidate wboea
gnpportera abowed so pbiinly a deslra
;to wash their hands of himV They an
dlsgusted with tba Bttenpt to make
him aqaani with thelr own profeeslona
of ojip?'.sitioii tO Mur;i)iy. ,-ind sb'k of
his chikUsb vaolty and liis t'ailure to
, perceive ariy^liiuc: more ln the nomina?
tion for the Uovernorship than food
for his agolsm. It is dlfflcnlt to -up
port for a high publlc office a little
Jack Borner aort of candidate, who
does nothlng luit "stlek in his thomb
"and pull out a pltim and aay, 'What
"a good boy am i '"
And what a good boy is Bulaer! Only
twanty-aomething?whatever it a
when he was made Bpeaker! "Yoting
fst Bpeaker" there gvac was! Abae
lutely the youngeat! Marvelloua boy!
The state has "never had the audaclty
to ropeal" any laws thal be caojaad 1 i
ba ennc-ted. Think of that! Never!
Not even one! And be vvas only to ihe
twepUga! And the nation. too. has
T.ever repealed any of h'i% laws. And
ba is vtiii yoang. fonngeal CongTeea
man who baa ever sat ln the national
halls of leglalatlorj for a aeore of years,
we don'l care arhat the eyclopedlaa of
Mograph] may aay 10 tbe eontrary.
Little Jgek Ifornera never grotr old.
Ba may ba odt of the twentlea now.
but his eampalgn apeechea don't ahow
lt. Wonderfnl record! Nelther nation
Dor stato baa ever had the audaclty to
fepeal a Bolzer law. No aronder every
one shouid "point to the rlae and eareer
of wiiiiam Bnhmr."
His anpportera may find it ? bore.
: Buf so would the eklera of Little Jack
Jlorner have found hiru an lntolerable
l little fool. Btrl fortunately there arere
no elders ln Mother <;o.?o lnnd; other
1 wise the adltorla] pafga there aronld
have been a frownlng hlank gbool the
jpulling out of the plum. What a plty
j Mother Oooae eharaeters shouid atray
jcnt of the magic preciiiets of eterual
lyouth:
SINOULAR AND PLURAL.
The gyrost-opical candidate for Pres
rldent complains that peoi?le don't un
iderstand the principle on which he
? rotates. He told voterp in Newark,
N. J.. on Tagadaj that the only thing
!hla rrltics hare to do "to know Gov
*'ernor Wilaona positinn r.n tlie tariff
"ia to read and comprehehd the F'nc:
??Jgh lanfuage." H" the Governor had
used the language more amirately he
vould have snid that only a knowl
,gdge of Bngltab w-ns reqtiired to know
?fV.s vlews on the tariff. Posltion ls
gflagnlar, but viewg are plural. 0?r
ernor YVilson's poaition on the taritf Is
not n poaition at all, varytng aceording
to iatitude and longitude. But he has
most fellcitously exi)ressed as many
dlfTerent rlawa as there are pop-il.le
points of view. He has boxed the
oompass and travelled around the cir
cle. and what he has said ln the Union
Square Chamber of Tnrlff Boirora ln
this City is as fnr apart from what he
has aald in Plttsburgh and Philadel
pMa as the NOffth Pole is from the
Si?ith Pole or longitude 00 degrees
areat from ' mgitude fH? degrees easf.
The people who have hnd trouhle ln
undervtandine his "posit:on" have sim
ply not been able to keep up with Gov?
ernor V'ilson's spci-d as a rotator. His
yersatllity baa embarrassed them, aud
they have baan aatanlahad to nnd him
ajeetaiing one day that the afotacttva
gystem ls an odioua and oppresslve
fraud, bannlng everybodj affactad by
lt, and the next day that lt ls all right
ln esw-ntials and needs only to be
cleflred of its excres'enees and barna
cles and re tored t > tta pristlne vlgor.
It is a little hard for paraoaa with a
fixevl i>oint of view. either frlendly to
protection or boattle to it. t? adjuat
thenaaelvea to Qovarnof WOooo'B gyra
tlons and to racognlgg with him the
advisablllty of maklng one's "position"
ajwaya nt tba pr'-possessions of oue'a
aadttora.
"The New York Stin," which is aup
porting Mr. Wilson, cannot overlook
tbe humorotis poasiblllties of his "p<ikI
tlon" on the tariff. It said the other
day:
If Dr. Wil?on haa any preciae. defl
nite, hard and faat bleaa about tariff
Jegialation he baa yet to communlc-ate
them . Almoat anythlng can be
proved by paaaagea frvm tho doctor'a
apeeches. There is satiafactlon for
evarybody and comfort for a!l, except
the wlcked monopoliats. whom he glares
at with terrible earnestness.
Afl it is Mr. WUaon'a InteDtion to ptit
the wi'ked naonopollatg in jail. lt
wr-uld be a waatg of time bothorin;:
about their votes. For all others the
doctor sii.ks t?. the choerful fornmla
"There is bope." To ench polnt of the
compaaa be flnsbes that reassurins
? ggaage All onght to be able to im
derstand it. luit the trouble ls thnt n?
bodj recelvlng lt can be nntJrely eer
tain that it was not really ineant for
some one on the opposlte side of the
Bpb,ere.
DONT GUESS; CHOOSE.
Ifyon an- a gambtor, determlne fovt
vote by tho betting odda. If you aro
a weathercock, ehbTt annind with the
Ooatlng straws. If your interest in
government is merely to vote for the
Winner, make the beat guess you can
among tbe predictions of the rival
clalmanta. If the duty of a citi/.on
really ineaiis sotnething t?> you, decjde
whlch candldatea and wblcb prlnd
plea you would likp to see prevail and
stand for them likc a man. no mat?
ter l.ow anybody else votes. if you
really want thlrd term presldencies
and tbe abolition of the bill of rlghtg
through the ovorruling of the Coiistl
tution ln partJctilar caaeg by popular
vote. Mr. Rooaevell is your logtca] can?
didate nnd i-^ entitled to your vote,
notwltbatandlng the hopelessness of
his eandldacy. if you belleve that pro
tection Is unctmstltutlonal. as the
Democratlc platform dJedaree, nnd tbnt
American ninnufueturers nnd Ameri?
can labor would be bctter off If it were
aboUahed, vote for Mr. Wflaon. If you
belleve that tbe present prosperity of
the country should not be endangered
by exporimentj*. that the historic rep
ttsentatire government of this country
should not be cbanged into n dire^t
democracy practJcnlly unrestrnined by
conatitutlona] checks, then rotg for Mr.
Taft. However you vote. vote. in obe
die-noe to conviction
If you tblnk that Mr. Taft doservos
a re-Vlection and that tbe beat later
ests of the country would be pronioted
by his re election. don't let anybody
bluff you IntO rotlng sotne other "ay.
Both tbe Democrata and the Progrea
glveg for their own purposes are try
Ittg to peraoade Bopubilcnns to de
gerl their ticket. The "sure-to-win"
tn- is old nnd onght not to decelve
anybody. Mr. Wilsoii's iind Mr. B008C
relt's friends. by their common nnx
iety to crento a panic nrnonc Hepubli
c-itis. conft-ss the strenuth of tbe He
pnbUcana. Bnl even if the chances
were against the Itepuhlicans. that
should make no dtfference with any
st'lf-respectiu^ citJzen. No battle would
ever bo WOH if tbe soldlers wbo feared
they mlght bo defeated ran i?ff 00 tbe
eve of tbe tisriit. Tbe more doubtful
tlie resnit tbe groater the duty of
erery innn who 1ms convictions to
. l tirmly for tlieni. The result will
then rerloct true publlc opinion. not n
coneenana of ptmblera* gneaaea.
A BUBY HERRING.
Mayor Oaynor tins got his red ber
ring out and is dlMgently using it on
the poliee trall. In tbe evenblg at a
cbnrcb and the next dny to minlatera
at the city Hall?that is keeptng the
red herrlng busy. His position now is
that. of course. there was grnft. It
would not have surprised him if lt
bad been n poliee inspector instend of
a mere lleutenant who had been traf
iicking ln protection. But there is ttO
more of it. Oh, denr. no! He has
made an investiuation. He has ndopt
ed H.vstems that are effective figatnst
it. What was a perfectly natural
thing Inst summer is now utterly in
conceivable, or soon will be. "I was
forttinate enough to stop that fthe
galoon graft]." he saya. -and this other
will all be stnppod."
Bnl what is the Mnynr's as?urance
that he has stopped the saloonkoppers
from ptylng the poliee wortli? Pre
cisely as much ng were his assurnnces
n few months ngo that he hnd stopped
grgft generally, and hie recent asser
tions that the sale of pmb'ction.
through which Becker was enriching
himself, wns lmpossible. He did not
know of Becker^ grnfting wlille it
was gotng on. Whnt reasnn is there
for bellevine tbnt he knows any more
of what is pMng on among th* poliee
to-day?
And what has the Mayor done to
revaal any more of the actual condi
tlon in the poliee force than the Becker
case brought to light? The poliee wlt
nesscs Wbo have toid damnglng truths
about the department before the alder
maulc investigating committee bave
been puntshed. Their punishinent has
served as a wnrnlug to rucnibers of
the force who are will ing to toll the
tmda that they must keep quiet if they
value their J"bs. The Mayor'a con
duct was an aid and comfort to Beck?
er. Now it is an aid and com?
fort to the other crooks who clearly
must be ln the department. No such
rottenneaa as the Roaenthal rmirder
brought to light could exlst wlthout ex
tending far heyond a ntcre lleutenant.
A GREAT TITY CONTEST.
The fifth trietn l election for ui<'in
berj of Borough oundls in London,
which takes place to-day. will be in
teresting not only becuiiKe it is the
largest municipal conteet in the world
but also because of the antagonlsm be
tweeu orderly reformers on the ono
slde and Keml-soclallst revolutlonist^
on the other and of the charagter of
tbe ehief issues ou whlch tbe camimign
b being fought. There are twenty
eight Borough Counclla, with a total
of 1.3C2 membere. llithcrto in each
of the triennia! perbalei save thal of
IflOB-W the Municipal Reformers have
c.mtrolled a large majorlty of the 28,
ul.lle bl that PJM the Progressives, of
socialiatic procllvitieK, had 16 to the
Heforruers' 13. In the Counclls whlch
are now golng out of exiatence the He
formers have 1,004 of the 1,302 inem
bers.
The Reformers have been apoeallag
for support on the record of their ad
ministration. TTiey polnt out that they
have reduced the average tax rate of
the metropolis from 7 ahilllngs 5.4
pence to 7 ahilllngs I pence. nnd at the
sHtne time have leaKeued the debt by
(1,620,673, or jipiiroxbnately 3 per cent.
These are small reductlons, but any re
t
duction at all in the debt and tnxes of
a great city is noteworthy and cn
viable. Nor has this been done nt the
expense of neglecting publlc worka It
b gbown that vlgoroga eanltary adnrin
istrntion has reduced tlie death rate ln
10.000 from 1M to 1QQ, that seventy
two mlles of electric streot railwavs
have been huiit. that onbeelthy areag
bave been deared and red^emed, that
the moke noieence and ocber evlbj
bave been effectiveiy combated, and
that a multiplicityof w-.rks luive been
porformod for tlie imniedi:ite good of
the people.
The prograinme of the Heforniers is
t.. contbroe the polldee which have
prodnced these grntifying reenlta. The
Progreeelvea, on the other hand, wblle
of conrae eppxovtng wbal bai tbne been
done. are deinanding the offlctal rocog
nitlon of trade unions and the estab
lishnieiit of union wagee, tmiirs and
condltiong of labor for all municipal
employes: the extension <>f free pnbltc
feeding <>i schooi children and rgrlooa
siinilar measuros. Tlie I.nb.r party bj
glgo puitlng a mnltitude of candldaten
into the rield. on issues imt iinlike
thoae of the I'rogres-nes but if p<><
glble in some rospects umre advnnoed.
though in soino particulars less aoctal
istic it will be a battle royal to-day,
with three years government of neiiily
eight million people as the slake.
FOR A NON-PARTISAN COURT.
The ajipeal Ittned by a large number
of prominent lawyers and boalneM
men. many of them DemocratB, nrging
the roters to support Jndgea Hlacock
and Cbaac f<>r tbe Conrl ?>( Appeais
justly emphasizes thp soriousnos* of
the siruntlon presented by th*? .ludicinl
.-iiiitest. As The Trlbune has lieret-i
fore pointed out. the Denocrata are
nttemptiug to trnnsforui this trllniiial
from a court reaeonably balanced wltb
respect to the pollticnl atliliafion of its
Jndgea into one all but unanimously
Demdcratlc. Thanfcg to the broad
tnindedness of the Hepubllcans. not
wlthstanding their domlnatlon of the
state for years. the court 00W gtanda
four Democrata to tbree Bepabllcana.
The Bepnbllcang bave not even norul
nated a new Hepubllcan elnce 19W
until now. but have retnined oldjudges
Of satlsfnctory servi.-e nnd accepted
Democratj for new Jndgea. Now,
when through their geaeroelty tbej
have only g minorlty repreaentatlon,
the Democratg attempt to eelae both
placee to be raeated bj Bepnbllcang
retlrlng on eecoant of age
The suggestion that the Republlcana
and Democratg should eacb seieot one
candidate for theae racancleg was
made early in the summer by the
st.me Bar AaaocJatton, 'h" Bar Aaao
dation of the Cltj ol K"< w Tork and
thirty-one other bar a-socintions. Tlie
Repabllcana, thougb tbbi roggeetlon
meant redncing their repreaentatlon ln
the court from three to two. respnnded
to it favorably, in loyaity to their o?
tabliabed poltej of keeplng this trl
bunal out of politlea, and put forward
Jmige Hlacock; but botb tl.- Progrea
sives jind the Democrata rejected lt,
nnd tbe Republlcana wt-re foffced to
complete their ticket by namlngjndge
Cbaae, who. Mke .ludge Hlscoc.;. bai
i gerved to the gattofactlon of the a
'state in the court 1-y dealgnntlftfl 01
'i tbe Governor. Botb of theae men an
! now on the bencb l the Stfpn
Oonii by the cbolce ol botb partleg ln
their dlatrlcta, so tbnt they are pe
cullarly trunlifled to eommand 000
partisiii supp'.rt at thi preaent time.
Wben -he Conrt of ppealg i
ganlzed lh( DJ ikers of the f ...-tli"
tion took w to ? are in Inltlal
repreaentatlon <-f two t.> the mtaorlty,
nnd it never llnCC has been less than
that. Until DOW DObbdj has attempl
ed to rcduce the minorlty to one. Hn
rnteis. wlthout regard to party. should
protect the court from being made nll
but unnnlmonsly of one party cr.m
plexlon, and should reboke the poll
tidnns who bave attempted tbe grab.
jndgea Hiscock and Cbaae, beeldee be?
ing the reprcM-htatlves of tbe non
Iiartisan :>rinciple, are far BUperiorMn
ezperlence and provoii Jndlclal ca
paclty to any of the candidates run
nlng against them
THE 16TH AMENDMENT.
Washington dbpatches roport that
thirty-two states have notiflod to Sec
retary Knox tndt ratlfleatJon <>f the
lncome tax amendiiient to the federal
(Vmstitution. Two other stales have
ratille.i but sent no ofhcial notice. Tbe
nuinlier of states whose assent is re
quirod to mnke the amendiiient effec
tive Is thirty^lx. w> that only two more
iipprovals are needed. It is. however,
gtretchtng the probabtlttlea to say, as
the Washington rei^ort does. that the
gjnendment may be ready to be pro
cltimed "by .lanuary 1." Veruiont h
tbe otilr state whose I.egid.ittire is DOW
ln geeetou or will he ltkely to be in ses
slon until after January 1. and v*ef
mont rejected the amendiiient on Janu?
ary 17. 1011, by the rote of both legfc*
lattve l.ranches.
It is sald tn Washington thal New
Hampshire and Utah have repotted r<
jecfions to the State Department. That
seems to be au error, for lu New Ilamp
Hhire one hranch of the I^gisltture has
twice voted to ratify and ihe other hus
twice refused to nitlfy, and in I'tnh
the two hOtJgBg have had a siinilar dif
feren-e on a single test. The OtttJ MaJ
islatures to reject outrlght were tboai
of Vermont, Bhode IsJaud, Connfvtlcut
and Massachusetts. But Massuchu
setts did not consider the rejeetlon
tinul, for ibs Legislature has slnce voted
twice on the amendinent, the two
houses disagreelng each time.
Counting Vennont, Bhode Island and
Connectlcut as re.jectors, tberi are
aJejrejB statea ln whlch no detinite oe
tion elther way has hecn taken. They
are DeUware, New Ilanipsliire, M.i--a
chusetts. New Jersey. rennsvlvanla.
ffeet Vlrglnla, Vlrglnla. Kl<?rida, NiW
Mexlco, Wyoming and btah. Delu
ware. New Mexlco uud Wyoming have
not voted at all. In New Hampahire.
Massachusetta. New Jersey. Weat Vlr
gluia. Vlrglnla, Florlda and Utah one
house haa favored and the othtr op
posed ratlflcatlon. In Penimylvania oue
house has vobwl yes aud the other has
not votexl. Inasmuch as the leelslnt
urea in all theae statea except Vlrglnla
will meet next winter, lt la probable
that the auiendment will secure the.
support of the necessary two by the I
end of Febraary nnd will become a
part of the Constltutlon before the
preaant national adminisrratlon ends.
One great difference between General
Huncock and Oovernor Wilson is that
the former had the courage to admit
that he believed the tariff to be "a local
issue."
o
A Denver profepsor says that the
world would be won>e off lf everybody
want to college. Undoubtedly. We
shouid have riobody left to grow up
into unaducatad geniuses.
o
A witness in the Harwster truat
bearing suys that (leorge W, Perklns
was the "moving splrlt" ln Its organ
izatlon. He Is more than a "moving
splrlt"; he is an "angel."
?
Conatltutional reforms do not seem
to have bnproved the flghtlng qualltlcs
of the Turk.
B
The acquteecence of "The Evening
l'ost" ln Oovernor Wilson's rational
protectlon thaorlaa is an amaatng ex
liibiii-.n of polltical docility. Are there
any real free tndara or tariff for reve
inic only aconomlata left?
o
The glove bUStness must be booming,
to judge by the muslcal comedy de
mand for undreaaed kids.
Feelng that they did not intervene to
kaep the paaca. nrhy ahould the great
powera meddlo to restore peace or to
dletate Ita tarma ln the Balkans? The
natlona Whlcb began and axe waging
the vvnr seem to be competent to flnish
tha Job which they have ao prosper
ously begun.
We have not noticed that "The New
York Tlmes" has yet aet right its
Pouphkeepsle correspondent, whom lt
mislnformed concerning Mr. Sulzcr's
relatlon to the Maynard BCandaL As
we do not know his name we are uti
nble to send him the OOTTOCt informa?
tion. But lf our contemporary wlll en- |
abls us to do so we shall be glad to
furnlah blm the record of how Mr. Sul?
zer, as chalrman of the Judiclary Com
tnlttee "f the Assembiy, reported in
IBD2 that Ifaynard'a theft of the
DutchcM? County ref.irn met with his
"unquallfled approvaL" and how, a few
daya ngo. he declared that Maynard
was one of the best men that ever
lived.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Boston has two forelgn born atudents
u, a/hom * writrr refers aa 'the old and
? a^: of it." Jaeob <"iolgolla Is a
Bohemlan, forty-srven years old, the
father of four children, who ls a rc-gular
attai iant ut one of the achoola "after
s houra." The other ls Jacob B.
ghoban, who araa bora 'n Ruasla ln 1W
Bnd arrlved !n Boston when he was ntne
?.< rs old. lt. two vears he passed through
tha Bevea frra<l-K ..f th.e PbOllpa Brooka
Behool an 1 was gradliatad from the high
BCbOOl iti lfll Me Is now at Harvaid,
maklag goo i prograaa at the *g- of af*
teen.
? -nrtrmed gosalp." *h;.I the
womai who always ipeaks hor mlnd.
I know lt," replh-1 the woman who
?
n whv do you apend ao mueb time
?
know il <t when i"he Is talk
? lan t t ilklng about t ia.' -
Phlladi Iphla i - 'it?er.
r.vi:H\. eiOHTKTJ
Amor.K the rnlnor 111m of life.
That of B dllatorj arlfa
run scar- j be overatated.
A man erho Walta for every m-al,
nd opera COntBB to feol
Complctely overweijrhted.
I hav< b arlfa iike tiiat rnyself
Tru?, she's a most engaging elf.
Not glv ? n to heritlng
But bet'-: far oeoasloaal strife,
Than lo b' bound for all my life
T?> be a mi.n-in-waltlng
And so. although I lova my Kate,
Bflaa la a moet unhnppy stnte.
ghe aevar w-in be hurrted.
BeokUng i? aot a Mt of use;
it only aervaa as an iwitwai
"Why wlll you make ma flirrled?"
At one tlm? I made op my inind
Through Reno's courts rellef to flnd,
No lOBgar I'd call Kate wlfel
But, lat< for once, 1 mlssed the traln.
Bhe still lh tnitie, although It's plaln
She'll alaraya ba niy late wlfe!
O. ? M.
"My theory," said the emlnent etudent,
"Is thm tha VetiUH ..f Ifllo was holdlng
her drapery with one of th..se loat arma "
rephed the man who knows
nothlng whatever about art: "and ?ik
nalllnp t(*r a tuxlcab with the other."
Waahlngton Htar.
In one of the theatrey ln the anniHe
ment sectlon of this city where every
Irn h of apaea baa been utillzed the aeata
aie nj arranged that the man who goes
out bettreea tha acta "to see what time
It 1k" Is llahle to spoll the good liuinor of
Ua Delgbbora and do tnjury to thelr feet.
One nlRht last week when the curtain
bad h> .-n up a few mlnutea a man of gl
gntitic bulld vvas ushered to a vacant
eeat a few rows from tho front. Four
peraona aro?-e and turned back thelr chalr
aeata to BUOW him to pass and then re
Mimed thelr plarca. Then the blg man,
azeualng blnaaatf for having cauaed the
dlRturtancc, sat down also?or rather he
tried tO do no and could not. Ile
fqulrmed about a few mlnutes and then
walked out BgalUt the otbera agaln rlslng
to let him i -ss. In the lobby ho spoke
about the dleadvantagaa of being "a blg
man," .11 poaad Of hla ticket and said he
would see the "utitMde show."
"How'a thitiga ln Boston'.'"
"i haai they have added a frleaa of
baaaball bats to the Publlc Library.''
r n burgh i'oat.
Under the tltle of "Bevues, Lapaus, et
HlnBularlteB Lltteralrea." M. Albert Clm
in nublishlng ln "l.a Hevue de iNirls" an
amusiiiK neries of howlera perpetruted,
not by achoolboyn, but by the great pan
landrunM Of French lltorature. It up
jearo that hardly one of the great Bjgfl
la the phalanx of uoddlng Homera ei
tapt-6. I-'irat comes Thltra hlmself with
"thtoiifrhout tho day torrenta of rain
poured down and twenty thuusand Aus
trlaaa blt the duet!" The welghty and
erudlto lawyer, M. Troplong, proclalma In
one of his sombre lumm that "in the
mldat of manv crumbllng Inatltutlona that
of property stands erect on Its feet, scat
ed upon Justice!" The pen of the famoua
crltlo, Kranclsqua Sarcey, had Ita frequent
lapsti "On his helmet wavea a mlaslng
plume:" and "In the tonea of Mlle. Ugal.li
one recognlses her mothe-r'a famlllar
hand!" for example. M. Touaaenel, Jour
n&Mst. naturalist and hlutorlan, has a aen
tenco no doubt of profound ethnographlcal
Intereat which mlght perhapa havo boen
phrastd otherwlae: "The Er.gllih and
Ruoslan nations, the tWB greatest powera
In the world. are precisely thoae In which
the man makea the greatest efforts to re
aemble the woman?tt*e Englishman by
shavlng hlmaelf dally, the Ruaslan by
puffing out hla chest!"
"Isn't that Slbley thero with the
CTutches? I dldn't know ho waa lame.'
"He lsn't: but he Uvea ln Harlem now.
and lt ls the only way he can get a seat
m the elevated tralns."?Pucli.
A picture postcard waa received in
New York yesterday from r"hina on
which tha aender had written: "With
this before you a Chlnese republic wlll
seem less a dream." The picture ahows
the ve^tlbules of two drawing room
cars, part of an express traln Orouped
behlnd the closed metal gates are slx
Chtneao soldiers In khakl uniform. and
ln front of them. with his hands resting
on the top of one of the gates, ia a blr,
powerful man, ln European dresa. Under
the picture are the words?In Engllsh?
"The great reformer Sun-Yat-rien ad
treaaing the people before his dcparture
for Peking."
Kfrst Critlc?I understand you BBW
Scrlbhler's new .omedy last nlghtT WHO
pl.ived the hero? Second fritic -I dla.
I sat through the whole thlng.-l hila
delpbla Record
THE SECOND TERM QUESTION
Reward for Faithful Service Has Al
ways Been Re-election.
To the Edltor of The Tribune.
Slr: During the present campaign we
have naturally heard conalderabla regard
Ing thn thlrd term que.stton. and if there
waa any dangar Of Us being of practical
bnportanoa wa oaght to hear a great deal
more, for every etudent of hlstoty knows
the dangar to republlcan inathutiona
vvhl.h Imks in a tOO contlnuous term Of
the chief Executtve. But the prlndpla
that no Preeldent ihaTJ aarva more than
two terms is so Ingralned la the amarlcan
mlnd and haa becoOM BUCb l BBttled part
of the unwrltten laar of the land that
there la probably BO practical danger of
Its ever beinB scbvcrted.
But there Is another prlnclple which
la aqually Imhedded In the Atnerkan mlnd
and has beeome aqually a part of the un?
wrltten law, of which we have heard little
or nothlng, and that ls the "second term
question."
From the very foundatlon of the Re
pubtlC lt haa baan the role that a Presl?
dent who haa served the people well shouid
reeelvB as a liuit recognltton and aaal of
appreclath.n a re-c-lertinn for a second
term of ofaea N waa so m the case of
Waahlngton, of Jefferaon, of Hadlaon, "f
Ifonroe and of Jackeon, Then came a tena
porarr break tn the cuatom, oarlng to the
deatha of Harrlaon and Taylor, but after
the war, and when tba Republlcan party
domlaant 'be old rula was agaln
! tba peopla have aboam their
Bppractatloa of tha aarvloBB of great
Prestdenta bv a re-election. Tlms Un
eetn wns re-elected ln l??l and General
Oranl received a almllar honor ln 1S72,
McKlnley was alected for a aacond term
ln ISfB, and Cokmal Rooaavalt was elect
ed to succeed hlmaelf ln ItOt,
The rule may thus be considered as an
estabii/hed one in oUr amarlcan ayatem
of fovernment, and the question naturally
arlses. Why BhOUld it BOt be follovve 1 In
the case of Preeldent Taft? Certalnly
there has been no admlntstratlon con
dveted with more careful consideration
for the rights and the Intereata of the
people and a more COneclentlOUB de^lre
property to folfll avery duty of the offlca
I beg to suggest that this unwrltt.n law
. ! frm shouid not be vlolated
ln the prenent eleel
I* BRAPFORP PRINCE.
nuahtng. N- y.. Oct :;. liis.
1864 AND 1912
Polltical Campalgns of the Two Years
Have Many Similar Elements.
. Bdltor of Tha Trll nae.
sir- The preaant campaign beara a re
aemblanea to that of ia*. Than. aa now,
tha Republlclana nomlnated tha Preal
for re-electioa Then, aa now, thelr can- ;
did.-ite was from tba Weat The r> ?
? r ln '.912 is Oovernor
of New Jer i fhe Democratld atandard
i |n lati tcama later Oovernor of
n aa I ??
There was a radlcal thlrd thlcket in tha
!:<;.i la im made up of aect Uag R publl
eana B/e have much the aame ktnd of
a Ucket ln the (lald to-day In both cam?
palgns the thlrd party ahowi a cai
who was the Hepubll'-an candidate elght
years before-then Premont, now Roose
v.it. in both men wa aotl ?? Par WTeat
arn characteiiatlca -pathflndar and raneb
man. in late tha thir.i party proi
Jlr UnCOlB a fallure from cautlo-i und
tlmldlty. Tha Prograaalvt partj affeota a
hke tona toward Mr Taft
ln \VA the Demoeratlc candldates for
Presldent and Vtoe-Preetdent wera what
tha Bpanlarda caii "tocayoa," having tho
aame Chrlatlan nam^. Thay were Oeorge
-.: .an and Oeorge Pendletoa Tho
third party candtdatea were alao "tocavos"
-John Premont and John Cochren.
ju*t aa then, tba RepubUeana anoountered
two ticket* each ot which waa dldymoua
(contalnlng twtna), so ln this campaign
they ar<- confronted by ? tick-1 whloh la,
a? lt were, dldymoua In a double way,
being Thomae Wl'eoo (to ro ba.k to his
Chrlatlan aame) und Thomaa IfarahalL
Theso are "twlns." and thelr name hdl
cates them M such, "twln" being tho
maanlng of Thomaa
Forty-elgbt yeara ago the Democrats
had at ftrst hlgher hoeea than the Re?
publleana An BVtdence Of the concern
that the Republleana fatt Waa the drop
plng of th-ir party name and tho adoption
of the name l.'nlon party ln an effort to
wln adherents Hlmllarly the Democrats
Btartcd out this year with the more con
Bdent mlen.
So much for certaln elements; lf some
of than ore Buparflelal thay are, for all
that, not devotd of Interest. Now for tha
result. The- thlrd party proved a tlasco.
Even the Democrats, with all thrlr hopes,
Bufferad dafaat Bfhat brought tht? about
was the auooaaa of the oountry in the
Unloa victori.-s, which radoundad t.. the
l redlt of the admlnhuratloti, Sherman and
Pai ragut. abovo all, saved the day. Where
shall we tlnd the analogue of thla? Per
haps ln the fact that "prospi rlty ls here."
As far as this conslsta ln the bumper
oropa it is ladeed ehlefty Independent of
polltical agemles; but, even ao, lt la to
be eeunited on as a great factor, as ln any
national campaign. Nor are the wonder
fui aarvaata aattraty advaattUoua aa r?
gards tho government; partly, at least,
they are due to the government's foster
lng care: partly, also, to lncreased agrl
cuiturai aoaaaaaoa and aettvUy eunding
on sound buslness condltlons and brt-ath
lng the atmosphere of good tlmes. It may
well be that the country's prosperoua ad
vance will atand the admlnlstratlon ln
good stead now as ln 1SM, and wlll be tho
tlde "which, taken at the tlood, leads on
to fortune," for all the earller ebb caused
by the antlerachlsm. NEAI. H. EWINU.
Roselle, N. J., Oct. 30, 1912.
m ?
MR. WILSONS "MESSAGB"
Well Rounded Sentencea That Oon
tain No Outline of Policy.
To the Edltor of The Tribune.
Slr: Woodrow \Vll?on, ln Sunday's
papera. cauaed to be prlnted what he calla
"Hla Meaaage to the Amerlcan People."
In lt he trlea to make lt appear that his
auibitlon to beeome^ Presldent la based
People and Social Incidents
NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Miss Agnes Le Roy Edgar was mar
rled yeaterday afternoon to Stewart r"d
mund Davis at the home of her parenta,
Mr. and Mrs. Newbold Kdgar, No. 28 East
39th atreet. The house waa attractively
deecrated for the occaalon wltb autumn
follage, palma and cut rlowers. The I ero
mony waa ; vrformed by Dean Wllliam M.
Grosvenor, .>f 'he Cathedral of St. John
the Divlne. The brlde, who waa glven
away by her father, waa ln a gown of
v.htte aatln. trirr.med with old famlly lace,
with whlch aho wore a polnt lace vell
whlch haa been in the famlly for yeara.
She carrled a bouquet of lllles-of-the-val
ley Mlaa Eleanor Le Roy Lawrence,
claughter of Mra. James G. K. Lawrence,
waa the mald of honor and only attendant
of the brlde. She was attired in yellow
satin, with whlch she wore a brown velvet
hat. adorned with a sitigle brown ostrlch
feather. She carrled yellow orchids. John
l). Peabody aeted as best man, and the
ushera were Ellot Crosa, Lewls Gouvern
mr Morrls and Benjamln Moore. Mr.
Davl8 and his brlde will sall for Europe
>n N'ovember 26 to spend the winter ln
Algtera.
Mra. George G. Haven returned to the
:lty yesterday from Lenox.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Palmer Knapp will
:ake poaaesslon of their apartment, No.
24" Fifth avenue, to-day for the winter.
Mr. and Mra. George C. Kobbe have re
lurned to the city from Lawrence, Long
[etand, and are at No. 113 East 54th
itreet for the winter.
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens has arrlved ln
town from Lenox. and la at the Hotel
jotharn for a few daya.
Mra. Edward La Montagne and her
ImiKhter, Mlss Dolly Madlson La Mon?
tagne, will be at No. 133 Eaat 40th atreet
for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. John Haya Hammond will
:lose their place ln Gloucester. Mms,
riext Week and go to Hot Sprlngs. Va., for
i short time before openlng their house
ln Washington for the winter.
Mr. and Mra. J. Ftancla Aloyalua nark
rIII return to th" city to-day from New
riort. They will be at No. 9*50 Park ave?
nue for the wlntrr.
Mr. and Mrs. Qoodhue Ltvtngaton have
returned to the dty from Southampton,
Long [aland
Mr. and Mra. Alfred Wasrstafr. Jr., will
<pend the seaaon at the St. Regls. They
tiave rented their house ln Eaat 54th
itreet for the winter.
upon hla deBlre to promote the welfare of
the people: that he aeeka to ?erve "the
and that he must know very
;learly the cauae he is aeeklng ta BOTVO,
Then he procecds to aay the cause he la
[ntereeted ln Uee rery p'aln to hla vlew;
that the government of the L'nlted 8tates
la now boond by the polleles whlch have
become eharactcrlatle of the Republican
party In recent yeats and ls "not free to
jerve the whole people Impaitlally, an 1 lt
Mlght to te set free." Then he proceeda
tvlth a lot of well rounded senter.cea
arhleb do not contaln one aentence ol
practlcal auggeetlone.
In fact, has Mr. '.Vllsor. ln hla whole
eampalgn offered a ainpie praettcaJ aag?
grstlon. i,nd la not this "message to the
people" a aample of all he haa aald?
For Inatence, what ia his noaltlon re
irarding the upt ulldlng of our r.avy? How
loea he etand regardlng the fortifieanon
>f the Panama Caaal? i ehallenge any
nne to deflnc l early Mr. WUson'a eenO
menta on elther questlon.
Am I not right In sayinsr that If Mr.
Wllaon ls elected he and his party
will do all they can to atop the lncrease
if the navy? And lf they BUCCOOd the
time will cnme when we will be called
upon to aurrender the |f< nroe Doetrlne
through or.r inablllty t.. malntaln It.
Then we will hang our heada In shame
when too late A READER.
New York. Oet. 29, 15-12.
FEALTY AND HOWL9.
To the Edltor of The Trtbu.no.
Blr: If thoae Indlana at Madlson Square
ru.d had tbe Bllghteet real humin feeling
for Thaodore Rooaevelt. they would not
have compelled him to atand there and
llsten to their caterwaullng for three
^uarteri of an hour. N'o man with auffl
?ient Intelllgence to vote wlaely would
BOmpel an InvalM to ur.dergo such an
nrdeal. No nian whose rcason was upper
moat would feel lt necessary to howl for
forty-ttVe mlnutea In order to prove h!s
fealty. I have aome friends that I think I
|uat aa much of aa the mob at Madlson
?quare thought of T. It. but I have never j
rtood and howled at them for even half
an hour. They have never expected lt
ot me.
And aa I have watched from my offlce
irlndoa the antlcs of the Roosevelt men
below. I have been glad that I did not
hiuvo to aasoclate polltlcally with his fol-l
lowara I have eeen them howl down
Taft apeakers who merely dealred an op
portunlty to preaent their aide of the
case. So far as my observation goea, thla
ppirlt of lntolerance haa been conflned
almoat entirtly to the followera of the
colonel. I have been round the edgea of
i number of political ralllcs. nnd the
Rooaevelt followers were the only onea
who aeemed to poegoaa no aense of pro
prlety. r. t* orton.
Brooklyn. Oet. 81. 1912.
THE TREATY WITH ITALY.
To the Edltor of The Trlbune.
*Ir: 1 think the I'nlted HUttes ta mak
Ing a great mlstake lf lt agroea to the
propoaed one-slded treaty with Italy.
Amerlcans are known the world over aa
"eaay marks," and lf the proposed treaty
with Italy hecoines a law the doora will
be wlde open to endleaa abuae and the
American taxpayers wtfl fOOt the bllla.
DR. FRANKLIN D. CLI.'M.
C'r.evlot-on-Hudson. N. Y., Oet. 30, 1913.
VIVISECTION OR EXECUTION?
To the Edltor of The Trlbune.
Slr: Do you belleve that the vlvlaectlon
advocated by Oovernor Wllaon when ho
propoaes to "cut out all apeclal prlvllegea
and prlvate favora" and "revlse the
?ebedulea gradualtyM win have any ad
vantagea over executlon by free trade?
C, BROCKTON BROWN.
Washington. Oet. 31. 1912.
-FREE SILVER AND FREE TRADE."
To the Edltor of The Trlbune.
Sir: Wllaon aeema to charge the free
illvcr hereay to the Pepubltcans!
Will you not put It where It belonga?
No doubt free allver and free trade to?
gether wltb etc, etc, etc, cauaed the
ilump and panlc and proatratlon of the
jO'i J. D. C.
Brooklyn. Oet. 31. 1S12.
a
IMMIGRATION INCREASES.
Bremen, Oet. Sl.?Eml?ratlon to Amertca
by way of thla port la so heavy thla year
that the North Ckrman Lloyd haa been
rompelled to put on an extra ateamer,
which will aall on November 2 for Nev
York.
Mr. and Mra. Robert Hall McCorralck,
Jr., left the city yesterday for Chlcago.
Mr. and Mra. Chariea Herhert Jonea.
who were marrled at the end of June,
have returned from Europe and have
taken an apartment at No. 780 Madlson
avenue. Mra. Jonea la a daughter of Mra.
Rdward Lyman Short.
Mra. George Cabot Lodge haa arrlved ln
the city from Boston, and la at the Hotel
Gotham. She will sall for Europe to
morrow to spend the winter abroad.
Mrs. Charles H. Baldwin haa cloaed her
Newport r?ason and has returned to the
city.
AT NEWPORT.
fBy Tei*graph to The Trlbune. 1
Newport. Oet. 31?Ex-Commcdore El
brldge T G?rry, who haa returned hera
to vote at the coming election, recelved
a warm welcome from hla fnenda to-day
To one he remarked. "I am alwaya happy
ln Newport and alwaya glad to get back
here." He la accompanled by Mlas Mabel
Gerry.
The autumn colony observed Halloween
with dlnner parttts. Thoae entertalnlng
lncluded Mra. Vanderbllt, Mra. Roderlck
Terry. Mra. Charles Potter KUng and
Mrs. lf. M. Van Beuren. Mr. and Mra
Van Beuren, with Phllip Allen Clark. re?
turned from New York earlter ln the day
Mrs french Vanderbllt la In New York.
Phllip Rhlnelander. who is sufferlng
from typhold fever at the Newport Hos
pttal. Is repcrted as lmproved.
Mr. and Mra. R. Llvlngaton Beeckmar.
plan to laave next Wedneaday for Hot
Springa. Ya.
Mr?. Alexander 8. Clark returned from
New York to-day.
Mr and Mra. Ellsha Dyer wll! cloae
their season on November 15
Robert Ives Gammell will cloae hla ee
tate on Thutsday.
Mrs. Chariea H. Baldwin has returned
to New York for the winter.
a
IN THE BERKSHIRE3.
[By Telearaph to The Trlbune ]
Lenox, Oet. 31.-Dr. and Mra. Henry P
Jaques and Mra J Frederlck Schenck
have returned to Valleyhead.
Mlss Caroline Webb la a gueat of Mn.
John E. Alexandre.
Jcseph H. Choate haa gone to New
York.
Mlss Marton and Eleanor Hagua, whe
have been ln Btewkbrldge for the summer,
returned to-day to Wew York.
Mr. and Mrs. Rlchard C. Dixey have
returned from Rldgeneld. Conn.
Mra. J. L. Stackpole and Mi*a Stock
pole. of New York, arrlved to-nlght at
the CurtBJ Hotel.
Mrs. Isabel Jex and Mra. Greeory Sut
ton will return to Xew York to-morrow.
HALLOWEEN IN BERKSHIRES
Roller Skating Party at Lenox
?Auction at Pittsfteld.
TBy T>!*<craph to The Trlbuaa ]
Lenox, Oct. 31.?A novel Halloween en
tertnlnment was a masquerade roller skat?
ing party at the Lenox Town Hall to
nlght. Mrs Frederlck g. DelafVid wsi
chalrman of the entertalnment committee,
which had decorated the hall w'.th prod
ucta of the harvest and ahocks of con. a
paia le of all the costumed skaters opened
the affalr. and old-fash'.oned dar.ces on
skates followed. A supper waa serv*d
at the Lenoi Club
Among the gueats were Mr. and Mrs
George E. Turnure, Mr. and Mrs. GIraud
Foster, Mr. and Mra. Judah Se;.
and Mrs. David T. Dana, Mr. and Mra
George W. Potsom, Mr ar.d Mrs Herbert
Taraons, Mr. and Mra. Cottlandt Fleld
Btahop, Mr. ar.d Mrs. Robert W. Pater
gon, Mr and Mr- Wlllfam B. 0
Dr and Mrs. Henry P. Jaquea, Mrs. lem
uel Frothlngham, Mrs. Churchlll Saterlee,
Mrs. Jos.-tih Whiatler, Mrs. C
Haight, the Mlsses Helolse Meyer. Ger
trude Paraona Isat.ei d. and Eleanor 3hot
ter, Ekhel F. and Constanee Folsom. M ;
riel and Marjorle Ktngaland. Mary De
Peyatar Cary, Nora laslgl, Mabel Choate.
Kate Cary. Carollne Webb and Ellzabeth
L. Turnure. and Thatcher II. Adams and
i Ilnton G. Oilmore
At the Country Cl ih of Ptttsfleld to-rlght
Halloween was celebrated by a roaat pig
supper, an auction. a bonflre and dar.o
ing. The auction was a aale of ttle per?
aonal effects of "Elsle Venner." When Dr.
Ollver W'endell Holme8 llved Wheta tha
clubhouae now !s he wrote "Elsle Ven?
ner," and the sale wa3 a burles^ua of a
country auc;lon. Wlnthrop M. CretM waa
the auctloneer Mra. Wllllam H Eaton,
Mra. Winthrop M. Crane. Mra George H
Southard. Jr.; Mrs. Wllllam H. Hall. Mra.
Cllfford 11. Bucklngham and Mlas Julile
Rudfield were the committee of arraaga
menta
ALL TO MRS. HARRtMAN
About $170,000 in Oommand
of Orlando's Widow.
Orlando Harrtman, brother of the late
Edward H. Harrtman, and who died ?
December 29. 1911. left an estate valued as
PMtlgJi accordlng to the atate transfer ta*
appralaar, whoae report waa flled ln tb?
Surrogates' Court yeaterday. The net
ralue Of the eatate of Mr. Harriman, aftar
deductlona for dobta and admlr.istratloB
and other expenaea. amounts to J6S.134. Ot
the deductlona of $135,770 there waa a
trust fund of $100,000 which Edward H.
Harrtman left to hla brother. Howerer,
Orlando Harriman had the power of *P*
pointment over this amount, whloh
brought the entlre amount dlsposed of by'
him to about $170,000. He left his entlre
estate to his wife.
Mr. Harriman owned equlties ln Brook?
lyn real eatate amountlng to $33,964; flfty
ehares of the Inter-County Realty Com
pany. 3fO sharea of the Brlghton Beach
Development Company and 200 sharea of
the Manhattan Beach Develoj ment Com?
pany. the three holdlnga being valued at
$150,000.
The appraiaal of the eatate ot LarkW
O. Mead. the artfc* brother of Wllllam R
Mead, the architect, and who died Octo
ber 26, 1910, at Florence, Italy, ahowe per
aonal property in New York valued a*
$20,800. His entlre eatate waa valued by
hla executora at $35,000. Hla home wa* m
Brattleboro. Vt.
Carleton C. PUlabury. of MlnneapolU,
who died Auguat 25, 1910. left an BBttP
vuluel at $377,727, of whlch atocka valued
at $a,000 were taxable ln New York Suta
Durlng the month ended yesterday there
were 373 appralsala tranamltted to tne
SLrrogatea' Court by the Traaefer WJ
Djpariment of the State Control.era
offlce. whlch ls the largeat recorded ?HK"
the Inheritance tax law went Into effect
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURB*.
New York can be aa proud of the Becker jurr
now aa lt would have been of the Oianta "?
they won that la.t ,ame.-Syracu?e Hereia.
Caart imaglne that New York bar '*? "?"JJ
will be patronlwd by many men who *"'
up and a.k their wlvee. "What will jroa bew?
mv 4m?'-Phlladelphta Inqulrer.
Dr Maxwall haa been twenty-flre T"*9*
the hea4 of the New York publlc achool* *
hapa he may llv* to be the only p?r?n <W ?"
a?t tu the 8)8tem.-Bo?ton Trani..rlpt.