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MUC RAKERS, TOO
WILL BE EXPOSED
fry
Miagaziiie Reformers'' to Be
Shown in True Light by
President.
UNFAIR DENUNCIATION
TREASON TO'REPUBLIC
Wanton Attacks on Public Men
and Lack of Good Results
Disgust Roosevelt.
fpecial to The Journal.
Chicago, April 7.A Washington
special to the Chicago Tribune says:
As a reformer. President Eoosevelt has
been so completely outclassed by theis
magazine reformers and professional
graft developers that he has been
forced to turn upon these gentlemen
and in a notable speech he will de
nounce their unbridled license and un
fair denunciation of public men as
something which falls little short of
downright treason to the republic.
The president is as honest a man as
ever entered public life. He has pur
sued his course under the influence of
the highest ideals, and the unbounded
iopularity he enjoys thruout the coun
is born of the universal belief that
he represents the best there is in Amer
ican citizenship.
But Theodore Roosevelt has never
thrown mud at men. He has never de
nounced his associates or those higher
up, at a time when there were so many
higher up, as thieves or blacklegs. He
has been ready to take most men at
their own estimate and seldom has been
willing to talk of graft, or of coward
ice, or of demogogy, or of improper
motives in public life.
Imposed on President.
On -the contrary, the president's
ideals have led him to believe that the
average American citizen is a good
man and can be trusted when in public
life, just as much as when he stands
behind the counter of his store, or even,
perchance, burns is midnight oil con
cocting a sensational article for- at not
too scrupulous magazine/
There has been an jjiroad of these
professional graft developer? in Wash
ington during the last few months.
They all made a~beeline for the White
House because they knew the presi
dent was honest and they believed
every one else in Washington was of
the contrary description. They swarmed
about the president's office, inundated
him with vague stories of dishonesty
they were about to uncover, appealed
to him to help, then disgusted him by
their extraordinary vanity and their
supernatural ignorance of the details of
public affairs.
Magazinists came and went, they
pulled down no pillars or temple, they
started not a single man toward the
penitentiary, they saved not a dollar of
the public funds, they failed to make
a single definite charge which could
be investigated by any reasonable per
son. It was a campaign of mud sling
ing. Gatling guns of filth were trained
upon members of the administration,
and particularly members of the house
and senate, but out of it all there
came not one tangible proof of actual
dishonesty.
Old Stories Warmed Over.
There was a revamping of old
stories, a vast amount of personal im
pressions, a caldron of froth, a few
readable stories which left a bad taste
in the mouthand then the bubble
bursty
It is. a curious thing that the one
man in Washington who more than
anyone else was disgusted by this
wholesale villification of public men,
without a word of syllable of actual
prooff, was President Roosevelt, the
patron saint of the graft-hunters them
selves, and the man whose honesty has
become a synonym of the best Amer
ican citizenship thruout the world.
Not one of the magazinistsvattacked
the president, none of his pet policies
was roughly handled, none of his per
sonal friends was unkindly assaulted,
but the president has taken it upon
himself to rebuke the villifiers and he
intends to do it, as he does every
thing, publicly, frankly, and com
pletely. Those who have seen Theodore
Roosevelt hit out from the shoulder
with a pair of light gloves, or whoJournal
have heard the crack of his single
stick down =an opponent's
guard,beatingthat.
know when he is in earnest
does his best
The "Muck Bake)'
He is sick and tired of the maga
einists and their filth campaign and
as president of the United States, as
-well as an individual, he deems it his
duty-to expose the unfairness and the
treasonableness of these wholesale in
sinuations against the integrity of the
American, government.
President Roosevelt's first public ap
pearance outside of Washington this
winter will be on Memorial Day be
fore the Army and Navy union at
Norfolk, Va. He will be in his ele
ment there because he will be speak
ing originally to the enlisted men of
the service, who make up that union,
and it is to them he will preach his
sermon.
The president has taken as his text
rBunyan's story of "The Man with
the Muck Rake,'/ and he has begun
to weave about that title a speech
which will be read thruout the country
and probably thruout the world in de
fens of the integrity the capacit
and the .general average honesty of
public men of the United States!
It is easy to figure out the line of
argument the president will take in
his speech, which, by the way, is now
only sketched out, And which is
--f, subject to indefinite elaboration or
K* condensation. _Jre has repeated its sub-
"M stance to many callers, however. Fair,
^-honest criticism of public men, as thethe
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HANDS OFF STRIKE
SAYS PRESIDENT
Pla for Investigating Commis
sion in Coal Trouble Not
Regarded Favorably.
Jeac Assured in Western Penn-
sylvaniaUnion Miner Mys
teriously Murdered.
By W W Jermane.
Washington, April 7.The house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce is preparing to give hear
ings to a bill introduced by Mr. Town
send of Michigan, authorizing the
president to appoint a commission for
the term of three months, to investi
gate the situation in the coal fields,
with especial reference to the under
lying causes of the present strike. It
understood that the president does
not favor this resolution and has ad
vised against its passage.
To a leading member of the house
committee, the president said that he
did not think it advisable to meddle
with the strike in any shape now, and
he is said to have intimated, further,
that it was "loaded" in many direc
tions. It is considered practically cer
tain that this advice of the presi
dent's will result in shelving the reso
lution for the present, if not perma
nently.
There has been some talk of chang
ing the resolution so as to provide a
law that will enable the president to
appoint a committee at any time in
the future when great strikes occur.
There is no such law now in exist
ence. In the coal strike of three years
ago, the president had to take the
initiative without law, practically forc
ing the combatants to terms by means
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PRIGEWHEADS O
MINE ENGINEERS
Vengeance Sought -for Courrieresbusiness
DisasterHorde Alive in
the Tomb.
Paris, April 7.The Gaulois today
says that the Striking miners in the
coal regions of the Pas de Calais are
reported to have placed a price on the
heads of the engineers of the Courrieres
mines, where the recent great disaster
occurred, and to have designated those
who are to assassinate them. The en
gineers have been warned and have
adopted extreme precautions.
Horse Lives in Tomb.
Lens, France, April 7.Eleven more
bodies were brought up from the\ Cour
rieres mine today. Another live horse
was found but no more living men were
rescued.
The striking coal miners are com
paratively calm, tho numerous small
depredations continue to be reported.
Strikers blew up with dynamite fifteen
feet of the rails of the bridge at Toquer
ril and the cavalry charged and dis
persed a crowd of manifestants at
Noeux-les-Mines. The number of strik
ers is diminishing in some sections and
disorderly bands who crossed the Bel
gian frontier were forced back by Bel
gian gendarmes.
POLICE NAMES O N
THIEVES' PAYROLL
Queen of St. Louis World's Fair
Bandits Says City's Guards
men Got ''Rake-off."
Special Service.
St. Louis, April 7.Jean Eogers, a
witness against policemen accused of
graft, told the police board that in her
house, 1904 Pine street, the proceeds of
thefts during the world's fair year
were received and averaged $1,000 a
day. Sometimes it was more and. some
times when business was dull it fell
as low as $800 a day.
All policemen in the'" neighborhood,
she said, were "in" on the graft and
got paid by the week like factory
hands. During five years as a pro
fessional thief, witness said, she never
made any effort to conceal her actions
from the police, as she knew she was
safe with them. They were "al in
on the same rake-off," as she ex
pressed it, including three men on trial.
LEITER BEATS SLEUTHS
IN AUTOMOBILE RACE
Journal Special Service.
Chicago, April 7.-r-Joseph Leitef was
pursued several blocks by two detec
tives yesterday, but escaped. He was
in an automobile and in a hurry to
reach his office. So when the detec
tives hailed him at Rush and Ohio
streets for exceeding the speed ordi
nance his chauffeur, Frank Campbell,
opened the lever and the automobile
shot by, leaving the detectives in the
lurch. Later, disguised as streetclean
ers and wearing light jackets, the detec
tives loitered about the garage, where
machine is kept and when the un
suspecting chauffeur appeared he was
arrested.
Minneapolis Man Announces His
Intention to Seek the
Governorship.
JOHN G. LUND,
3* Of Minneapolis, Who Seeks Nomination
for Governor.
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Minneapolis now has a candidate for
governor. John G. Lund has saL*
"'yes" to the delegation which waited
on him last Wednesday morning, and
will enter the race with his well-known
energy. He has assurances of support
from a number of outside counties, and
will appeal to republicans of Henne
pin county to give him their delega
tion.
Mr. Lund is a native of Fillmore
county, Minnesota, and is 37. year old.
He bas~had phenomena.!, *uccessin.'./the.
of bying #nd selling farm
lands, and by his hustling.' and adver
tising abilities has-ma.de hjmself known
from one end of the state to the other.
He has been a resident of Kennedy, in
Kittson county, and also of Canby,
Yellow Medicine county, but for the
last three years has made his home
in Minneapolis. He now represents the
forty-fourth legislative district in the
legislature.
Mr. Lund's announcement follows:
"To the Republicans of Minnesota
I announce to you my candidacy for the
nomination as governor of Minnesota.
The platform upon which I shall ask
your indulgence is* composed of butwith
few planks. First, a square 'deal for
everybody second, a safe business ad
ministration.
I am a native son of Minnesota,
have always been a staunch republican,
and, if nominated, shall give my best
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TWO REPUBLICANS INiTHE
OPEN FOR*GOVERNORSHIP
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LUND IN FIELD
AS A CANDIDATE
MA N HAIli S i
'im
SomnambuMst,^Ilefore i
Had DiscussJd thiTHorrors
bf Suicide
IN FORCE AND THE INl FLIiHT
efforts in the direction of placing a
good majority on the republican side
of the argument if otherwise, the re
publicans of Minnesota should think
best to keep me ^n my present. private
capacity, I shall eheeimiily' take off my
coat and labor vigorously without re
serve for the man the republicans of
Minnesota say should",be the standard
bearer of the partya?-'-.
Akron, Ohio, April 7.Jacob Stair,
aged 65 years, who has been noted as
a sleepwalker, arode early today while
asleep, walked downstairs and deliber
ately hanged himself to a floor ioist
with a piece of twine. He is said to
have discussed the horrors of suicide
his wife last night. He was a
prominent Mason and former alderman.
PLEADS FOR GBEENE-GAYNOR.
Savannah, Ga., April 7.W. W. Osborne for
the defense consumed the entire session of the
court in addressing the Jury in the Greene and
Gaynor trial today.
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WHAT MOVES MEAN
TO HENlplFIN OOUNTT
Two candidates for governor
make their bow to Minnesota repub
licans today. State Treasurer J.
H. Block has been in the public eye
I for several months, and his an
I nouncement is only of. interest as a
I statement of his personal views on
I state issues.
I John Or. Lund is anew Richmond
in the lists. He is one of the frest
I advertisers in the northwest and a
I successful business man, but was
not spoken of as ^.candidate for
governor till last Wednesday, when
he was waited on by a delegation
of republicans from the southern
counties, who urged him to run.
I His answer to them is given in
The Journal today.
Lund's entry puts a new face
on the situation. Minneapolis is a
Block stronghold, and the St. Peter
man has a thoro organization here.
Lund is a Minneapolis man, and
will ask for the Hennepin delega
tion. The two. men who announce
themselves today will clash in the
local field right from the start..
Lund, however^is a former resident
of the seventh district, the home of
another candidate for governor, J.-
F. Jacobson. His candidacy also
produces a complication in that,
quarter.
Which will it be?, Block, Lund,
Jacobson, Lord, Cole, Somerville,
Diment, Hanson, Stephens, RandalL
Staples? Are there any other nom
inations?
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It is understood that the president will "clean him up" in hi/^lemorial Day address. 45& If
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FORMAL ENTRY OF
JULIUS H. BLOCK
State Treasurer Declares His
.Candidacy and States His
Position. -J
JULIUS H. BLOCK,
State Treasurer, Who Seeks Nomination
for Governor,
Julius H. Block's formal announce
ment as a candidate for governor was
made public today. The big state treas
urer has. been in training for the con
test a good while, but deferred his for
mal entry untjl the state convention call
had been issued.
The announcemnet is a declaration of
principles, or personal platform, on
which he solicits the support of dele
gates in the coming convention.^ It is
a state, issue platform, and contains .aeV'-
Iral new ideas. .The statement in full
"lam a candidate fox the nominal
tion for the-office of governor on. the
republican ticket, and view of that
fact, it may be expected of me at this
time to define briefly- my position upon
certain questions of interest to the peo
ple of this state.
I believe in equal' taxation all
forms of property not exempt under the
constitution shoiild be fairly valued and
taxed, and every corporation and indi
vidual should bear a just proportion of
the public burden.
Reasonable Bates No Passes.
"There should be a just reduction of.
freight and passenger rates^ and the
free pass, except to railroad employees,
should be prohibited.
"Our great trust funds should, as far
Continued on 2d Page, 4th Column.
"YOU mTY BOY!'^iv^^^r A%| '*$tfg^}%
rfw^f/ywi^^ sftyivfe
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TO STRIP DOWIE OF
ALL HIS OFFICES
Three Hundred Rulers of Zion
City Swear to Uphold Over
seer Voliva.
Dethroned Leader, Hurrying
Home, Swears He Will Be
Avenged.
Journal Special Ferviee,
Chicago, April. 7.An outline of the
line of procedure to
b'e.
morrow
5s
followed to
'.exposure.' assemblagat in
Zion city was given last night at. the
meeting of the of fleers aligned against
the erstwhile prophet, John Alexander
Dowie. The meeting was held in the
University building in Zion city
It is -asserted'that by the time Dowie
reaches Zion. city the last vestige of his
authority will have disappeared except
insofar as he may restore it thru legal
proceedings.
Three hundreld officers of the chufch
have signe a statement upholding Gen
xs^ght
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massmeetmg which is to be held in thf
afternoon ail the people will be asked
to put their signatures to a document
renouncing their former leader.
Squandered Millions?
At the meeting there also was a gen
eral resume of the financial situation.
Of the total amount alleged to have
been misappropriated and squandered
by Dowie, th,e estimate is placed by
General Overseer Voliva at $2,500,000.
Voliva's summary of Dowie's alleged
misappropriations revealed the start
ling fact that out of $608,400 -sub
Continued on 2d Page, 4th Column.
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Prof. .Grluck Dispute^ Ohaxg He
Cannot Abstain from
tion for a Year.
Chicago, April 7.Professor Adolph
Gluck, 1171 Milwaukee avenue, is toto
tell the truth a year on a wager of $25,-
000. The agreement will be entered
into with Rudolph Jones, a neighbor,
and Professor Gluck's Milwaukee ave
nue property will be staked as the issue
of his adherence to the plain, skeleton
ized, colorless truth.
The slightest embellishment of
hishorror,issone
Conversation, the turning back of
thethere
hands of the clock when he comes home
late, any ingenious but unsubstantiated
account of how he came to forget the
cake of yeast his wife told him to
bring home will be counted against
Professor Gluck and his property will
be forfeited.
Professor Gluck is a philosopher.
admits the charge, which is further
attested by the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from the University of
Lemberg, Galatia. As he expressed it,
he is to demonstrate what he has long
held to be rationally truethat con
tinued mendacity will in time lead a
man to a point of "sad satiety,"
where he will find it more pleasing to
leave the trimmings of his conversa
tion and reduce it to the Scriptural
"Yea, yea and nay, nay."
BUSS GOVERNOR
SLAIN BOM
Tver M. Steptzoff Assassinated in
the Principal Business
Street.
Tver, Province of Tver, Russia, April
7.While the governor, Tver M. Stept
zoff, was passing thru the principal
street of the town at 3 o'clock this
afternoon he was killed by the ex
plosion of a bomb.
Governor Steptzoff was regarded as
a very reactionary official and was held
responsible for the beatings adminis
tered to the intelligencia by the Black
Hundreds" last fall.
Assassin Captured. ::*v
The body of the governor, who was
in his carriage, was terribly jnutilated.
His coachman was seriously injured.
The bomb exploded with terrific
force. All the windows in the neigh
borhood were broken.
The assassin, who is a very young
man, was arrested. s" -^^c*'',
TRUSTED EMPLOYEES*^? 11.*$&
NAMED IN SWIFT WILL
^'**tit*a^si
Salem, Mass., April 7.The will of
E. C. Swift, the millionaire packer, was
admitted to probate today in this city.
Beyond a bequest of $5,000 to a church
at Sagamore, Mass., there were no pub
lic gifts. Except for this donation and
small annuities for two long-time em
ployees of Mr. Swift, the estate, esti
mated atf about $19,OO0LOOQy is left in
trust for the* benefit of the family of
the testator/--
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NEW CRATERS OPEN
IN FLAMING MOUNT
Lava Sur-
Stream of Caustic
rounds and Invades Town
1 -of Boscotreoase.
TORRE DEL GRECO PACES
4
Naples, April 7.With ever-increas
ing oree and quantity, Mount Vesuvius
is still emitting destructive molten lav*,
fire and cinders. The inhabitants of. tha
villages,in the vicinity of the angry
mountain aropeningpanic* in a
Boscotrecase has been surrounded and
invaded by lava, and one stream is
closely threatening Ottajano.
craters are in the volcano.
the--donkey-to help them place their posses-
the "First Apostle." .Eac'h^member of, whole familiesTsurrounded by thelr-
the Zion cxty communitr tomorrow will household goods, are waitinjr in tha
be asked swear allegiance to the pres-j streets, hoping to find a cartThorse or
iou.,0
a
UVIUstream is a.xeet wide
jlidvances at times at the rate of twenty-dan
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NINTH DESTRUCTION
Frenzied People Beg for Miracle
to Stop DisasterPrayers
Everywhere.
sions beyond danger. Many heart*
rending scenes are witnessed. Artillery
carts have been sent to hel pthe fug**
tives. j,
Orders Special Prayers.
Cardinal Bishop Prisco, Archbishop
of Naples has ordered speeial prayers
to be offered for the safety of those who
are in danger and it is expected that he
will go to the scene of desolation.
Boscoe Reale, one of the villages in
danger of destruction, is~the birthplace
of the cardinal and the home of most
of his relatives.
Many homes have been abandoned
for the open air altho there has been a
thick fog and the atmosphere has been
dense with volcanic ashes and gases.
The churches are crowded day and
night with people praying for deliver
ance from an impending, peril, manifet-j
tations of which are heard and felt in
explosions and in the constant trenv
bitngs of the earth.
The main of lava proceeding5^itdan
from Vesuvius is 20 0 feet wide ifc
oire fegt. a minute, the intense heat.
destroying vegetation before the stream!
reaches. 4V _~:
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Se* SafetytoFUght.|ii
The peasants of Porteici at the west
foot of the volcano, cleared their
grounds of vineyards and trees in the
effort to lessen the danger from fire,
and resisted the progress i of the lava
their utmost.
Women of this village, weeping with
friffat ,carried a statue of St Ann
as near as they could to the flowing
lava, imploring a miracle to stay the
advance of the consuming stream.
The cemetery at Boscotrecase has
been invaded by lava. The scene at
night of mingled grandeur and'
a from the summit of Vesuvius
leaps a eolumn of fire fully a
thousand feet in height, the glare light
ing the sky and sea for many miles.
Occasionally great masses of molten
stone, some weighing as much as a ton
are ejected from the crater.
Threatened Eight Times.
The village of Torre del Creco, which
has been eight times destroyed and as
often rebuilt, is again threatened.
Signor Matteueci, director of the ob
servatory, is working indefatigably.
has had military engineers establish
telephonic communication between the
observatory and points within the
volcanic activity.
The director said today that altho
the eruption presented grave men
ace he does not believe that it will
reach the villages. Indeed, he said, the
volcanic activity is not altogether un
mixed with good, for if it had not come,
a violent and sudden eruption having a
far wider radius might have occurred*
PRINCE YON BUELOW1^
TO RETIRE IS RUMOR
Journal Special Service.
Berlin, April 7.Prince von Buelow
is about to take a leave of absence. It i
is more than doubtful whether he ever
will return as imperial chancellor. I
is said he will retire on an income of
$75,000. The question of his successor
is completely in the dark. No promi
nent person has been indicated, tho
Prince Fuerstenberg has been men
tioned. The kaiser may perhaps choose
Prince Hohenlohe.
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MYSTERIOUS WOMAN?!
l'\ SOBS OYER NOCQOET
Journal Special Service.
New York, April 7.The" funeral' of
Paul Nocquet, the sculptor aeronaut,
who lost his life after his ballooning ad
venture on Long Island was held yester
day from the studio of his friend, (Jufc
zon Borglnm. There was a distinguished
gathering of artists, sculptors, literary
folk, automobilists and amateur 'aero
nauts. 1
While the floral decorations were be
ing arranged a slender little* woman,
richly dressed in-black and wearing a
heavy veil, entered the studio. She
carried a great bunch of violets. Walk
ing up to the casket the woman beat
down by the dead. She began to sob
and was so overcome with emotion that
she was scarcely able to adjust the
flowers within, the casket. She retired
to a secluded corner of the studio and
wept softly. No one present would re
veal her identity.
it HTOOAMAM OABOrT FOKKE.
Vienna, April 7.A Hn&rartan cabinet In
beene formed under the purpmiortblp of Dr.
Alexander Wekerle. The principal portfolio*
are held by Count Albert Avpooyi, Gpont Julius
Andraaay and Francis Koemth,