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THE SUN, FRIDAY, OCTOfffTK P.
FRAME, BELOVED JOHN BASGOH
WILLIAMS ME t xlikelv to
ioiwet HIM.
r Mr Thought Thin Hr mini Hardly
I Oncol II. hut Hp NtVff 'slled In
sninitti Mliat He Oner said tintit
Ihp rnculi, and Othrr Anecdotes.
The latest generation nf Williams
graduates remember rr. John BmooiBi
who died vi rl y on Tuesday morning i"
Wllllamstown, a slender, euatere figure
to whom attached a luinlen o( tradition,
some probably Aotltlougi SOTOO irreverent,
but nil Indicating t 1 affeotloMta regard
in whi' h tuii"iji of many years held
him. The graduate of a dOWHI and more
classes lin k Who mat DM another down
town male no seotet of I heir sorrow at
hia dMth and told many things for whieh
thev remembered him.
John BMCon retired ax professor of
political economy In Wllllania nine year?
aito. Blnce then he hail lived quietly in
wllllantstown and the graduates who
came back for reunions asked the men
Bti'.l i ti college what lie was doing. Few of
them con id tell more than I ha he was of ten
Keen riding horseback out Into thehllla.
Thoae who knew him tietter said that he
was Writing a good deal, lecturing some.
ami always studying.
'Ia he getting old?" thegraduateaaaked,
No," Waa always the answer "He's
lUSl the siiiiiv" Ha was M yearn rM when
bodied. Up to very recently Dr. Baaoom
was an oooaalonal preacher m the college
Oh a pel. This was about the only way
that the rank and Hie of the .students knew
him. and they gathered from these ncca
aions concrete ideas of his vigorous per
sonality. Dr. Ba acom never flinched when he had
an opinion thai lie Wanted to lei go An
alutnntia of O doen yea ra standing re
called yesterday an Incident, famous in
Wllliamstown al the time, which showed
how in Ba cotn had to say what he
thought:
"You remember," said this tluranus,
'that In Has, Miti had times when ,ie didn't
think much of the faculty ami he didn't
made a secret of it line Snndav when I
was in college he was the preacher at
chapel an.l in the course of Ins Sermon
he said this
" The faculty of this college, let me tl)
yon. has no more to do with the progress
of the Student body than a fly on a wagon
tire lias to do With the advance of the
wagon.'
"Of course the students sat up when
they heard that, and the saying stin k
for years Dr, Baaoom was always a
friend ,,f the students, always willing to
help them. Vou COUM go to his house
and to c., into that house was a heiiedic
tion anyhow and he would take out
yoUt examination pajier ami to over it
with you question by question, showing
you yi in mistakes. And when he got
through you knew about where you stood
and he let jrou think you had hope of
graduating after all "
tin the Williams faculty for tnoai of
the years of In. Bascom's connection
with the college was another man whose
character was equally strong and whose
opinions were urn more pronounce I
"It was Impossible," sail a Williams
man yesterday, "that these two should
get along, for years tin y were al feud
One slimierv day in February John Has
com. walking down th" slope near the
gym tower, saw the other professor
coming toward liitn from the other direc
tion. They both intended to pass in
dignified silence, and the silence of either
of those men was the most dignified thing
in the world Hut they both slipped
They landed sprawling face to face
They looked at each other for three
minutes without moving. Then each
got up and quietly Walked bock in the
direction from which he hail come."
Hack in 1903, when there was much
talk about tainted money. Dr. Bascom
stood up in Chicago and told a teachers'
association tha' the lips of every in
structor in t'hicago I'niverstty were
sealed when the time came to speak of
Mr, Rockefeller, and that none of them
dared to ieak the truth.
lohn Hascim was an uncompromising
firohibitionist. Mis friends in Williams
own often had a chance to vote for him
aa a candidate of the temperance partv
He had the name among the students
of being the perennial candidate for
liovernor of Siassachusetta. He ran
for Lieutenant-Governor, for the state
Senate and for Congress, but he wus
never elected. Far from deterring him
t he ex peeled defeats made him determined
to keep on running as long as his name
would do service to his party. The only
public office he ever held, it was said yes
terday, was when he served aa auditor
of the township of Willinmatown.
John Baaoom never heeitated to make
use of homely illustrations In his teach
ing In one of his political economy
courses he likened the growth of tha Eng
lish Constitution to the Kitchhurg Hail
road. Every undergraduate knew the
Fitohhurgand was mystified by its strange
arrangement of tracks, until a senior
explained that 'he road wax originally
two competing lines and that whan the
FitChburg bought them it threw east
bound I rains over one and westbound
trams over ttie other, with the result
that one often Can't see one track from
the ot her al all.
"The English Constitution," lr. Baa
oom would say, "shows a similar utuili-
ratlon of mutually intolerable oondi
t ions."
hr Bnsoom by no means, even in his
college instruction, confined himself to
economics On Sunday afternoons lie
gave talks on the Bible, which the stu
lents were not obliged to attend. Bui
many did g" Sunday after Sunday, be
cause he made I. is lectures so entertain
ing h id , writings he dealt with phiioa.
ophy, religion, rhetoric and politics.
His si Idem declared that be could teach
anything in the curriculum.
hr H hi s , laa in Williams College
was graduated In IM'.i. At the alumni
lunol n which lakes place after the
oommeneetnenl exercises, he used to sit
With his . Ias Ust June, when Hliss
Pony wus l oust muster, the alumni called
lor John Baacom.
"I will ask hi Has, to stand up."
said Mr Perry, "and lei his fellow alumni
see thai he Is Ihe youngest oldest pro
lessor in all New England "
At another luncheon of the alumni
he'd in the full of i aim, when Hurry a'
Oarfleld wus li juried into the presidency
ol null ims, ll mull, n v Ma hie (he
toaatroaster, In introducing President
an lbs.- ,,r ihe i nlvei my Wisconsin
hud this to sny of In Itn scorn, who had
served a,, a presitl I Wise, main
"We hive given Ihe Pnivorsity of Wis.
con. iii I wo presidents," siilij vY liluhle
0r. Chadbourne o ihe moat versa 1 1 hi
and energetic college i(mi ue ever
had. aild Dr. John Has. ., in. one of the tniall
Inspiring teachers thai any American
colic;;e has ever had I inn sure I (ml we
shall take thlsopporlttnily of i cmemlieilna
tl.it Dr Baaoom ha usi celebrated Ins
eightieth birthday and. Dial nej her n
bodv nor if mind has thee been any re
en loll of -hat burning energy and that
".ec b n light whi. h made him a leader
.:i mc iitnuffhi a generation ago."
Dr V an Rise speaking a imnute later
I or thirteen years John Bnscnnt
Die moat potent, spiritual force at
i. " i i " of Wlaoonsln."
Till pinion Senator I. a Folletie who
a 1 'u'hnl in Wisconsin in hi Baa
linn upholds in his recollections
n . i inted in a tnsftealiie
II.' i OWN, Mr -.- , i let 4. i he
Dr John Bescom, for mcny
oi i cm ii ;. i eronomv d
Advertising in all branches
Cheltenham
Advertising Service
150 Fifth Ave. at 20th St
were omitted Tha students attended
and escorted the Issiv from Ihe house to
the grave in the college Cemetery
The Rev Dr Washington t'.laddeu of
Columbus. Ohio, an Intimate friend of Dr
Has, oni. officiated at the service, assisted
by Dr Franklin carter, ex-preeidenl of
Williams Dr (Hidden made a brief ad
dress and was followed by President
Edward Hirge of the University of Wto
oottsln, who spoke iii beiuiii of the uni
versity and Ihe State of Wisconsin Dr
Cartel made the closing prayer
WHS. DORK INSAXR,
noman mm said Mhr Was OeO, la-Urn's
Widow in the Hospital at MltMletewn.
MtDDLETowN, N . net ,". woman
patient in the Middlelown Spile Hospital
has been Identified as Mrs Louise Dor.
who aseerted lasi year that she was ihe
widow of (ten Thomas T Eckert, Cornier
president of the Western Union Tele
graph Company, whose estate has been
in litigation She came to this cit y severa I
months ago ami engaged Isurd at the
home nf Mrs Mary Knlbba of 7 Fulton
street Alter a time Mrs Knibbs though!
the woman acted queerly and on Heptera
bor 10 the woman tried in leave town
with household effects she had stolen
trom Mrs Knibbs
At ihe hearing she i old Recorder
Thompson that she was Mis Louise Dure
of .Vrtl West 1 7Sth streei New 1 ork
After an eiaiiuiiHI 1011 she was committed
to the Slate Hospital Later a man who
said he wus a son ot Mrs Dore appeared
uud said that he had tried to have her
committed to a State Hospital bin she had
always refused to go A man who saw
the woman when she was arrested came
a i ross an old newspaper to-duv ioii
taining a picture or the woman who said
sic was tien Eckert'i widow and Identi
fied it as that of the patient ut the state
Hospital
Mrs Dore is 11 vears old It is said
her light name is Mm, F. I. Davis She
oaused much double in ihe settlement
of it'll Bokert'S estate with her assertion
thai she had married the Qaneral in inns
when he was about tsi years old Alter 1
Ihe ens,, had been adjoiirnel several
units, for her benefit site wus .nopp,-,i
and it is -uoiiosed that her relatives sent
lier tO Itlis Oity tO get her OUt of New
Vork
GIRL NABBED FOR FORGERIES
CAPTVRRD WITH m ti t: com-'
I'AXlox AFTKH LOS'ti t liist:. .
M ti f .mm u s in: i i t, t if.s.
isr Oaynor ppoims ihe Rrpreaeata
lives of Tills 4 II).
The Mayor has app anted the following
delegates to attend the fourth annual
convention of the Atlantic Deeper Water
ways Association at Richmond, Vs..
Ootolier IT. 1, tu and 10:
Calvin Tomkins, L'ommlsaioaer of Ducks
and terries
John t Hansel, Btate gngioeer and sur
veyor, Alt, any.
If i Siniih. memlier Joint Hsrhor
Hoard of New i erk and New Jersey.
S C. Meade, secretary Merchants Asso
ciation of New lork.
J. 'I Hoile. secretary Manutact urers
Association. I'ls Montaaue street, Hrooklyu
N h Killmcr. aisi siaie siiei. Brooklyn.
Y P. laiuiit, piesident Produce tx-
. hange,
J, A. Gould n, '.'in rreaton avenue. The
Bron i
h ha E.Oal''ln, member Board of Water
X'U'l'ly. KI5 Hr idwsy.
bawls Nixon. Wards Hill, Staten Islaml.
The Mayor has received aooeptancea
from all iiut two of the delegates assuring:
him that they will attend the convention,
whi' h is expected to be the largt at in
tti" history of the association. The
Mayor und Ioek Commissioner Tomkins
are to attend the convention. While
away they are also to visit Washington
and consult with the officials there in
regard to a number of important ques
tions affecting the port of New York.
AO.V.vr SMITHS RAIDED.
(iamhlrr anil Five Others Taken In K.sal
Tenth Ntreet Hume.
.lohn (Sonny i Smith stepped with
wonted juuntinesa from the patrol wagon
in front of the Mercer street police station
yesterday afternoon and lieamed his
accustomed smile through his tip lilted
eyeglasses at (apt Henry. They had
just raided Sonny s new home for specu
lative investment at 13 Kant Tenth slreei
and taken Sonny and live others on war
rants charging them with eleven form
of gambling, but as this is an ancient
custom the unwithered Sonny told Cap)
Henry tliat he was John Smith, s-cu-lator,
of 101 Manhattan avenue; that
Julius (leiger. burlier in the Broadway
Central Hotel, would be around pretty
soon to bail him out. and that he would
appear in the Jefferson Market Police
Court in ihe morning to answer to a mis
demeanor charge.
Inspector luly. with Lieut Underbill
ii lid ten men, didn't have any trouble
breaking down Sonny's front door, and
on the second tloor they found about t mi
men playing craps. Names and addresses
of ninety-tour noted, ihey took Sinn ii
.lames Wilson of 59 West Thirty -sixth
street . Emmanuel Beck of .? Bathgate
avenue. Joseph (iroli of tjisl lOJd slice: .
Charles Hellowa of g Qroenwion sire,"
and John Hrown of tilli Lust Twenty
second street for all of whom they had
warra M -
O'RR Tin: VNDRINKABLB si t
tlee Mack anil I runcls . Mohlnr
I lie r i'il H It h Main Had 4 heck Trans
sellons In NOUtb anil Went t'ouplr
Taken In llrUgrpuri b) IMfihrrton.
'The PinkertODS arrested in Bridgeport
. yesterday a glrl20 years old. who. they
say, bus been travelling through Ihe
! Bouth and West leavings trail of forged
certified cheeks behind her Her real
name is Alice Black and she hails from
Colorado Hpiinga, Among her assumed
names is thai of Alice Pullman, and she
said she was the daughter of H C I'ull
man of Pittsburg and Ihe niece of ihe
lale OeOrge Pullman A yung man.
Francis A Mohlar.with w hotti she t ravelled
and who. the PtnkertOUS say, was really
' responsible for th" forgeries. was arrested
with ihe Black girl in Hi idgeporl At drat
he said he we K A Christy, a brother of
Howard ( handle, I 'hristy
Charles 8. Donnelly, who takea charge
"f all the forgery casys thai i" turned
over to the Pinkertons and who has been
working on this Pullman case" since it
was first reported from New Orleans last
I month, said yesterday that the couple
hud made a confession. 'The girl said
that she uud Mohlnr left her home in
, Cokirudo Springs lust June and beg.au
globe trolling, meeting the expenses by
caeliing forged certified checks, usually
at the hotel where they stopped. 'The
amounts varied from ivi to i&o
All the ( hecks were drawti on the Union
Savings Hank of Pittsburg and bore the
rubber stamp Imprinl 'Certified, T. t'.
's. B. P., H, c. McEldowney. acting
cashier." II C Mot.ldownev is the presi-
1 dent of this PIttaburg bank Among the
effects of Ihe pair were found Ih's lubber
stamp and a number of blank checks
of tic Union Savings Hank of Pittabui g.
; According I , the confeeaion which
, Mr Donnelly gave out Ihe girl says that
, alter leaving Colorado Springs, where
i she uud Mohlui tirttt got a small amount
J money by a forgery, they landed in
! Pueblo and at once fleeced a hotel manager
there out ol' 7n 'Then ut Dgden one
of their checks , n the Pittsburg batik
brought them ITS from Ihe Heuly Hotel
ami soon they got the same amount from
th- I tali Hotel in .sw.li Uake City, Other
items are the drum! Hotel ii' Sun DiegO,
170; the Hacrantento Hotel at Sacramento,
7o. 60 fr .in a merchant in lxs Angeles
, to whom the girl was introduced by a
Mrs Bliaabeth T'.tnns of that oitv and who
knew the gill us Alice Hlaok. $7.', from a
(hotel ui Coronado Beach. Cat.; 1110 from
: the aferchanta Exchange Bank in El Paso
I Tex . and dually lino from the Central
I National Bank in New Orleans.
Mohlar substantiated the girl's state
ment, it is said. He would not go into
particulars when arrested, but simplv
said. "Vou'Ve got " the right man." and
'added that he himself forged the checks
I and got the girl to pass them. He said
ill" was ready t,. go with the Pinkertons
; to New Orleans, where he is first wanted.
; ami would not light extradition When
(nested he first gave the nan:e of F A.
Christy and produced spurious letters
: t.. the effect that he was a brother of the
; artist loiter he admitted that his name
was Francis A Mohlar.
Cut vu alii
aiu.'iiiCou.
i :.d si 'president of the
ot Wiaconrbti w. in id 'his
ilio exercibu at, the college
t omes tlie Indent. Honorable anil ('spa-
tuns Huston trtlller).
'.''he tnolenl and Honorable Artillery of
Boaton, which hus reen down in PertntuH
listening to the murmur of the sea and the
gurgling ot othet great llqtll I things m
due Sere this morning by 'he II. , in id i-
Atlautlo kteamahlp Oceaiui, which slaved
in Berroudk two d'ivs , yer her iisiiui
nine io enable the u Hilary 11. en of the'
BritUh garrloon to entertain the Ancients
in mingly. and ship them in good shape
afterward, tfter they land Hie Ancient
and Honorable and Quite Comf n.d.le
will head foi Atlanta where they Will
attend a peace conference.
New Mehoiil and Home for (.reck Children,
uyndloate of Q reeks representing
several OreoU societies in this city yes
terday bought the old Hebrew Infant
Asylum in F.agle avenue. The Bronx.
I ir use us ii school and asylum for Qreek
cllilllren. The property is between ir.lst
and PI Id streels, and consists of a three
s,,rv building on a plot I7.rxl2.v It was
Vaca led by ihe asylum aboul ay ear ago.
sn ptirn (' llsldw In surd far Rent.
Stephen c Baldwin, the lawyer, who
h; a hci u couna d for Myor fiaynor in
the Bingham libel Mai and recently
retirrd s counsel for William J Cum
mine end Joseph H Keiehm nn. wtl surd
vi. f"d.'; tor H.otiO for n x months rrn
of ,v o root ..a in ;h buiidlni . i in Broad
way by ihe t nited St.itrs Kealty and Im
provement Company.
WALDO IS TICKLED.
Ms Herent rrets Hemonstrste Boeeeat
of New lletectlve iystem.
Commissioner Waldo is aa well satis
fled with the work of the Detective Bureau
in Ihe tuxicub and bomb OBW s that h is
sued the following statement yesterday
morning
i d" successful termination of investiga
tions of the recent enmes by the detective
bureau lias been most satiafactory to me.
Th detective bureau under the new lystem
of assignments is producing rsoelleut re
sults I his has heen ahoS-ii in the wnrk
of the detective bureaii In the taiieab rnh-
bery end murder case and also in the recent
arrest of three men having bombs in
then possession apprehended within the last
fifteen dm- These are the first arrests of
this ha racier In several years. The de
tail Intent has also captured within the lust
week Miielli, Ihe klllllappT of at least two
children, and these convince me ot the
efficiency of he M w order ol things in the
defective bureau,
The new system of assigning detectives
is in a good measure responsible lr tin In
creased efficiency or the detective bureau,
Instead of detectives from all over the city
reporting at th" Central iintce daily, there
in losing a good pai i nl the da) . Hi" detei -
live force i- divided intu ntwn districts.
D also mves ii," iii lei live th" advantage of
knowing tli" nl" and conditions ,n the
neighborhood in which lie operates Each
dtsti a t has a head detective win, reports to
'He commanding officer ot the detective
'"'l ean Tills system of Control over the
U"t. . 'i yes uas been most siiccessi III til US tar.
Co.,. i liaaioni i' Weld i and Inspector
Hn lies called on 0'. ra t Attorney Whit
in.ii "S'erday to ns; him to hurry the
' p. iWoio. the kidnapper: Mar-
i n i 'T.'v. ill" i ,ui accused of killing
Auoipii Hiarn, and the It u liana s.rrested
ftr l Vina bonis in then- possession,
so fin , she could The Die riot Attorney
aaid ii - s h would be pui on trial aa
soon ; s i Hsible Palloastolo in s , Iresdy
been indn ltd and Harvey's case will be
presented to ihu (ir. nd Jury lo-day
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A glance shows how thoroughly New York City Sur
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that money can buy.
A good showing on any of these individual lines can be bought at the rate of JSioo a month
and upwards.
There are manufacturers, retailers and others in this city who would like to advertise in
the surface cars were it not that they think it expensive.
They may not know that we sell space in a single line of cars or part of a line
because we want to be helpful in developing small advertisers through profitable publicity. We
like to be responsible for successes and ar for a good many.
You can select the line you want, we advise the kind of cards to use, supervising their
preparation, and taking continued care of them. This with the one aim of making the advertising
profitable to the advertiser.
You wish to advertise in the N'ew York City Surface Cars. There must be some part of
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We have the exclusive control and sale of the advertising space in the
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Fifth Avenue 'Busses
Study the Cards
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TEXAS AND W00DR0W WILSON
CS'LIKBLY TO ULT THAT STATE,
SAYS COL. ,IOHSTO.
i Vffll HOBOKKS TAX.
isao p.aeti PxaotrU Pram Three steerage
Passengers far IiiiIIiib,
"Whara is your V'' It costs you $,vi
to iiiini in Hobokerii suid a man in Her
man tu Willi am l-iHMf;, n aooiinil cabin
passenger by the Vortli Clertnuu Moyd
liner Burba roesu ha was leaving tiu
pier. I'si-iR said he did noi know ll w.ia
neceaaary, but the man said he and two
young women who inie ,,n in,, pier
vmh liiin would be unable to get into Ho.
boiieii unless enoh put up v.n. They
pul up th" money and the man : i i them
in .v.iu ii minute and i"1 would 1 n inp i hem
haok a receipt. Hp did not .and ihey l old
timr aiory to an Immigration Inspector
later
lli'iilsli From Irrlf-KH HHhoii.
The answer of Christopher Columbus
Wilson, tonner prHid'rit of thn I luted
Wireliis Telegraph Oampsny, to the suit
broufht by the receivers of the Wire leal
eomPt ny to compel Wilann to account
for It.OOO.OnO or more, which it is m Itemed
he rer.liaed throuth the r.tk of ock
which lielonced to the eomn-.ny, Mya thrt
he awra the eemp-iny notnina; and that
the company owes him 1214. 550. He de
nies all the material allegations.
lolling National (annum rrmsn Thinks
lmr Ntar Delegates Will He I nln.
lruelet 4s Beivieen Harmon and
lump Clark He'd Pick the Former.
l ol. Kienzi M Johnston, president and
editor in ohlSl of the Houston lnily Pott
and Ueim HTatic nutional commit teeman
from TeiaH, aays that ii is his opinion
that however active Woodrow Wilaoo's
supportere tuny tie in cultivating publlo
sentiment in TeXSS when convention time
eonies the l.one Htar Hliilo will eilhor lie
found In another column or in none. Col.
Johnston Intimated thsi he believed the
Texaa delegation would o to ihe next
Demooretio convention iinlnetruoted,
"The situation is very mtloh mixed in
Texas juat now," raid Col. .lohltaton
yesterday al the Imperial. "The pro
lilbttlon osmpslgn spill matters up pretty
badly and oaused realignments, i gm
speuklngi tit oourae, of ihe Damoo ratio
iarty,astherels praotloally noRspubllosn
parly in the Slate. It vax prohibition
Hint oaused Senator bailey to decline
lo run for reelection, for his ' pro" friends
pul him i" in one way ami hia "auti"
friends another, so that ha finally beosms
iliKgusti',1 and tUll
"Ii in tlie fact that the vote on prohi-
I. ill, iii waa close lh.it makes the trouble.
ir there bud been a dedal ve majority
tha question would have Imph settled, for
many years si least
"Politically it in bard to tell how Texas
will stand on tin Presidential nomination.
There is a pretty Strong organization for
Wilson, ami generally speaking the Bryan
I'lctncnl is lined up for him. My opinion
is Hint Wilson will not net 'Texas. If the
selection of delegate! were lo be made
iilit now he might get them. My opinion
in the matter ia bused on the theory that
Ihe people down there don'l know whui
Ihe man stands for. All they know is
that lie is a Southern man and his leaders
are urging that! but when his radical ideas
and hi position become t horoughly under
stood I believe they will turn him down.
"Texas was once ent luminal ic over Bryan,
and as late as I90S th" Mute went for him,
though by default. Hut the people of
Texaa, like those of many other Southern
Htates. are now conservative, snd the
conservative element in Texas will not
Via for Wilson. If Senator Bailey had
atayed in the race for Ihe Senile ' nnrt he
rould hsve heen elected hevond doubt
there is not the slightest doubt, that Wilaon
could not, nave got 'ne Mate Bailey
ia against Wilson, and against anybody
who la for the initiative, the rtifsrwSdum
snd the recall. His being out of the race
makes a close fight.
"We now have forty votes in the Na-,
tinnal convention, which brings Texas
ahead of Missouri and Indiana and along
side of Ohio, so that the vote of Texas
will have more weight that formerly.
"If things narrowed down in Texas
to a choice between Champ ( lrk and
Qov. Harmon I think Texas would be for
Harmon, ah hough Clark has many friends
down there. There is a disposition
among the leading men in Texas to have
our oelei-at ion iro to the eon ven i ion
I unlUStruoted. t'ongresaiuan I'nderwood
has a great many admirers in our State.
I "As an indication of some opinion here-
i about I may tell you that 1 met yeeter-
day a man who is supposed to be very
OHMS to Hearst and a great Hi vim man
too lie said that he was against Wilson.
I "'Why?' I asked, astonished.
! " He's tOO radical, was Ihe reply.
"What? This coming from you and
illfereiitiallv from Hearsi ?' I aaid.
" Well, he is,' was the rejoinder.
i "Do you know, I started out very much
: Inclined to Wilaon," continued Col. John-
i st on. "1 hen I began to read his speeches
and I discovered he stands for the in
itiative and the referendum lint worst
lot all. lie stands for the short ballot.
He is ihe president of an organization
, ngtlonsl In scope which is aiming for the
I abort ballot. They claim that when
i a man goes to the polls and is given one
of the long tickets we have nowadays
; he really votes for i nly one or two men
and not for a whole list of candidates
for various oftloes I hey would put the
name 01 one man on a ticket und prac
tically elect ii man us liovernor who
would apHjiiil all other officials. Their
alternative is to abolish the .State lagis
lat lire and create a board, to be known
as the board of governors.' which would
peiorin an i ne 1 unci ions ot Suite govern
ment This would be the commission
1 idea applied to a State. lov. Wilson
I ia in the position on 'he one hand of ad
IVOOSttng the initiative and the referen
dum and tie is wauling the people to
do tha absolute ruling und on the other
hand of taking government absolutely
pul of the hands .,f th,. people and abso
lutely destroying whin the Democratic
party lias always sto,xi for, which is lis-al
self-government
"Politicians of both partial seem to
think that the initiative, referendum and
recall idea is popular with the people
; I don't believe that it is or that il will
be when the people thoroughly under
stand It. As for President Tgft, my opin
ion, gathered from observation, ia that
he is growing stronger with his party."
!Nrw Clly llnmr for i;eorge Q, Msson.
I George (I Mason, nephew of the lute
Henry Smith, has leased the residence
at N5i Tifth avenue of R
i n i . -
, nnecaman ol .Newport The hnu..
i.
irour storien high snd is fully furnished. '
j It wss held at (10,000 a year. Mr Mason.
It is said, will pay about te.oon a month ;
for the use of the house He will make
it his winter residence, living in the sum
mer at his estate at Tuxedo The Beeck-
man house was occupied two years ago
I by Benjamin Tnaw of Pitteburg. I
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