ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-FOURTH YEA R
16 PAGES
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MORNING. 31 ARCH 19, 1914
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VOL. XXIV . NO. 305
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FRENCH CABINET CRISIS
RESULT OF ROCHETTE
FINANCIAL SWINDLING
f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
PARIS. March 18 The first wave of
feeling over the shooting of SI. Cal
melte by Mine. Caillaux, and the sen
sational debate in the Chamber of
Deputies on the scandal arising out of
the postponement of the trial of Henry
Kochette, charged with extensive
swindling, is subsiding. Tonight Paris
is comparatively quiet.
Cold, wet weather, damped the en
'thusiasm of the Royalists, and others
who had been holding demonstrations
throughout the city. The sole topic of
conversation in clubs and cafes is the
proposed investigation of the Rochette
affair by the committee of the chamber
which will begin Friday.
SI. Juares, the Socialist leader, who
will preside over the committee, makes
no secret of his intentions to leave no
stone unturned to get at the full truth,
lie said tonight: "I shall be a judge of
bronze with a sword of steel."
According to information in the
hands of Juares, SI. Slonis, Slinister of
Slarine, whose resignation is momen
tarily expected, exercised the strongest
pressure for six months to prevent the
trial of Henri Rochette, afterward con
victed of a swindle amounting to mil
lions. Slonis was then made Premier.
It is proposed that Slonis resign "tem
porarily." There is a reason for SI. Slonis' tem
porary resignation, for it has been
pointed out that an embarrassing sit
uation would be presented by the con
frontation of SI. Slonis. a member of
the government, with SI. Fabre, a sub
ordinate official. He may resume his
office at the conclusion of the investi
gation. A similar expedient was adopted in
the somewhat similar case Leon Bour
geois who, when Slinister of Justice
I was called upon to give evidence in
I legal proceedings at the time of the
i Panama scandal.
It is understood that the Senate
j Committee is opposed to granting full
I judicial powers to the investigating
(committee as provided by the resolu
i tion of the chamber. It will, however,
'authorize taking of evidence under
i oat'i.
j 51. Caillaux again visited the St. La-
zare prison today and had a talk with
I his wife.
LONDON", Slarch 18. The Daily
Siail prints an account of a brief in
! terview which its representative had
with Caillaux, former minister of
finance, who is described as a broken
figure, bowed, haggard and heavy
tyc4, his whole bearing tense, his
face colorless. SI. Caillaux spoke m
a low tone, giving evidence that his ,
; mind was wiung with grief.
HOTEL FIP.E IN MILWAUKEE
associated press dispatch!
MILWAUKEE, Slarch 10 (Thurs
day). Fire started early this morn
ing in the Windsor hotel. There are
a, hundred guests in the place, and it
i:i unknown whether all escaped. Be
tween twenty and thirty guests were
rescued by policemen from the third
Ktory. The proprietor escaped slight
injuries. He said there were forty
in the hotel.
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SEVERE STORM
associated press dispatch'1
ST. PETERSBURG. March 18. A
storm which swept Russia claimed
three thousand victims in the towns
swept away.
Vote Early and Bring Your Neighbors
The friends of good government , are urged to vote
early today. Though the large First and Second Wards
have been divided and other arrangements have been
made to expedite voting, those who want to cast their
votes should vote early. You will also help the workers
who are for good government by voting early. Also for
the sake of Phoenix, will you kindly see that your neigh
bors go to the polls and vote for the candidates whose
names appear on this page ?
A FINAL STATEMENT i 0 VOTERS
Throughout the campaign of several weeks, crowned by tte election today, The
Republican has been fair to the people, fair to the candidates and fair to itself. It has
for several weeks tried to impress upon the voters the great importance of the re
sult, the beneficial or direful consequences of their action or inaction.
It has supported certain candidates for office because it believed that they were
better qualified than other candidates. It has been moved by no personal considera
tion. It highly esteems as men and neighbors some men whom it has not supported.
Its relations have been closer with some of them than with its own candidates.
But The Republican realized what every voter ought to realize, that this has not
been a fight for itself, a fight for any particular voter, but a fight for Phoenix.
Some very warm friends of this paper have felt that if certain candidates were
elected they would be personally benefitted under the new government. But we do
not believe that governments are instituted for conferring personal benefits. Gov
ernments are for the benefit of all alike.
The candidates of The Republican have been supported by it, not on account of
its personal friendliness for any one of them, not because it expected from them
any special advantage for itself or its friends, but because it believed that of all the
candidates presented, they were best calculated to give Phoenix such a government
as we said we wanted when we adopted our new charter.
Our preference for mayor has been ERNEST Y. LEWIS, because Ave knew him
to be an honest and capable man; because he is a trained lawyer, and a trained law
yer will be badly needed on the commission.
We have favored JOSEPH COPE for commissioner because Mr. Cope is a bus
iness man of strong common sense and undeviating integrity; because he has gained
the confidence of his neighbors and of the community in which he has lived for
twenty years.
AVe have supported DR. L. 1). DAM ERON- for at least two reasons. One of
them is because we know him, and all Phoenix knows him, to be a clean, capable,
courageous man, and the other is because he has made good as a member of the
school board. During his service on the board many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars have been spent and not a dollar wasted.
We have supported HARRY A. DIEIIL because he is a thorough-going and
successful business man; because he is fearless and has no alliance with any faction
or element which would prostitute the city government to its own uses.
Here is a matter of which we have spooken, and we would again call the atten
tion of readers to the fact that of all these candidates the relations of no two of them
had been intimate in politics, in business or in social life. It was by no concerted
suggestion that they were brought together on one ticket. It was by a spontaneous
recognition, by many, of the superior, merits of each, that the' were made candidates.
Not one of them stands for any faction or party, but each and all of them
stand together for Phoenix. No faction or party expects anything from the election
of these men. There is not a man in Phoenix who expects to get an office by their
election, but every man and woman in Phoenix may expect to get a good, square,
honest and efficient government if they should be elected.
GOVERNMENT CLAIMS
LEHIGH DOMINA TES
ANTHRACITE OUTPUT
COH UCTORS
WHEREANDHOWTO VOTE
In order that there may be no confusion among voters
today regarding the location of the various polling places,
The Republican this morning repeats this information.
Remember, there are two precincts in the First Ward
and two precincts in the Second Ward. The first pre
cinct of the First Ward embraces that district north of
Washington Street between Central Avenue and Fifth
Street, the middle of each street being the dividing line.
THE POLLING PLACE FOR THIS PRECINCT IS
LOCATED AT 221 NORTH FIRST STREET. The sec
ond precinct of the First Ward embraces that district
north of Washington Street and east of Fifth Street.
THE POLLING PLACE WILL BE IN THE BASE
MENT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING AT VAN
BUREN AND SEVENTH STREETS.
The first precinct of the Second Ward embraces that
district north of Washington Street between Central and
Seventh Avenues, the middle of the streets being the di
viding line. THE POLLING PLACE WILL BE IN
THE BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING. The second
precinct of the Second Ward will embrace that district
north of Washington Street and west of Seventh Ave
nue. THE POLLING PLACE WILL BE AT NO. 719
GRAND AVENUE.
There is one precinct in each of the Third and Fourth
Wards, each precinct embracing the entire ward. THE
POLLING PLACE IN THE THIRD WARD WILL BE
AT 17 SOUTH FIRST AVENUE. THE POLLING
PLACE IN THE FOURTH WARD WILL BE IN THE
CITY HALL BUILDING.
All the polling places will be open from 6 o'clock in
the morning until 6 o'clock in the evening.
Follow these rules:
. Give your name to the clerks outside the polling place.
Receive a slip bearing the number of the page of the poll
book upon which, you are registered, together with the
number of your registration. Present this slip to the poll
clerk in the polling place and receive your ballot. Use
the rubber stamp found in each booth in making an X
after the names of the candidates for whom you wish to
vote. Do not use a pencil. Give your ballot to the in
spector. You have voted.
ELECTION RETURNS AT
CHARITIES VAUDEVILLE
IN FULL VIEW
First Case of Kind for Vio
lation of Interstate Com
merce Law to Come Be
fore the Arizona Federal!
Court
j The Associated Charities' vau-
deville will begin at 8:30 sharp.
I Election returns will be read
from the stage between each act.
Cars will be run on all lines,
including the Indian School line,
I after the performance.
This is your greatest oppor-
tunity to boost and aid the city's
I greatest charity. Get in line.
Improvement In
School Methods
Is Great Need
CAMP
MSI ADDED TO
IT
VOTERS
THE GOOD GOVERNMENT LEAGUE in
vites all ladies who cannot reach the polls other
wise, to call up by phone and an automobile will
call for you. Designate the time you will be ready.
Phone 1174
GOOD GOVERNMENT LEAGUE
(Special to The Republican)
TUCSON, March 18. After a hear
ing of three days, Commissioner Ed
win F. Jones held the freight con
ductors, A. I?. C'rute and Charles (5.
Harrison to appear before the fed
eral grand jury for robbing box cars
of interstate commerce. Both are :
oiit on bail of $1500. i
('. W. Maxey and J. J. Smalley. I
who were originally arrested, were I
released t the request of United I
States Attorney Wiley Jones, who
said he had no case against these j
two.
E. B. Winkler was discharged by
the court because the evidence, a suit
case containing women's stockings.
was not proof that the stockings-
were stolen or that the suitcase be- I
longed to Winkler or that he had I
placed the stockings in the suitcase
William Hines, a miner, beating
his way on the Tucson division on
February 11, saw the railroad men.
through a crack in the roof, carry
plunder out of the robbed car, and
told Maricopa Slim, who was a life
long friend, and who testified here
toda.M
This is the first case of the United
States prosecutor under the new law.
Robbing interstate commerce is pun
ishable by a fine of $5,000 and ten
years in the penitentiary.
The commissioner decided that
shoes found in the rooms of Crute
and Harrison were sufficiently iden
tified by a Pomona merchant as spe
cial stock .made for him and stolen
from a case in the robbed car. Har
rison and Crute offered no defense as
to how these special shoes were
found in their rooms, therefore leav
ing sufficient evidence on which to
hold them to appear before the grand
jury.
Sam -Pattee, of the court, did not
participate in the hearing. M. T.
Bowler, head of detectives for the
Espee was present, as were also
many other ' railroad officials. The
Espee attorney, Francis M.' Hart
man, aided the prosecution. Tom
Richey and Charles Hardy defended
the five. ' Shoes, corsets, hosiery. Bi
bles, soap and other plunder were
found in the rooms of the two men
held.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
NEW ORLEANS. March 18. The
public schools were attacked as in- '
efficient and the school laws as in
adequate by speakers today in the
closing session of the tenth annual
National Child Labor Conference.
Improvements in school methods are
proposed as one solution of the child
labor problems.
Or. E. X. Klopper of New York,
secretary of the northern child labor
committee, said children were leaving
school as soon as the law permitted.
For that reason the schools are being
assailed as too academic.
"We are in danger of jumping
from the academic extreme to the
vocational extreme, and forget the
real purpose of education is de
velopment and discipline in intellec
tual and moral faculties," he
warned. Professor Frank T. Leavitt
won applause by his remarks. The
conference ended with a reception to
the delegates by the Equal Suffrage
Club.
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PRE-NUPTIAL BOND OF
LORD AND LADY CONROY
Senate Insists on $500,000
to Pay for Keeping Mex
icans Driven Across the
Border in Fortunes of
War
ASSOCIATKD PRESS DISPATCH j
NEW YOKK, March IS. The Le
high Valley Railroad company was
sued by Attorney General McReynolds
under the anti-trust law, as being
the dominant factor m a combination
that is alleged to be in control of the
anthracite output of the Pennsyl
vania fields it touches, and more
than a dozen other companies and
individuals are named as co-defendants
in the conspiracy to monopolize
trade.
McReynolds charged the Lehigh
Valley formed a coal sales company
to evade the laws.
By the sales company it has es
caped the supreme court decision
forbidding a railroad to transport the
belongings to a corporation whose
stock it owns, and whose affairs are!
mixed up with those of the railroad '.
company. According to McReynolds.
the usual decree of injunction and j
(iissolution is asked. It is under
stood that the suit will be followed .
by others against some of the rail-
roads in the Pennsylvania anthracite
fields. j
Among the defendants are named: '
The Lehigh Valley Coal company,
the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales com- !
pany, Cox and Brothers Company,
Inc., Edward T. Stotesburg, Daniel G.
Reid, Charles Steel, George F. Baker !
and George F. Baer. '
By virtue of its monopoly, the com
plaint declares, Lehigh has "prevent
ed the building of any new railroads
into the anthracite region served by
it, and has kept the independent pro
ducers under the disadvantage of
having to ship over a railroad also
engaged in the coal business."
Furthermore, the bill sets forth,"
through its alleged monopoly of the
sales of coal produced along its line,
the road "completely dominates the
market at all points thereon not
reached by any other railroad, and
has power to fix, and has fixed, and
does fix, without the check of com
petition, prices at which anthracite is
sold at such points."
The bill points out that Lehigh an
nually transports about 11.000,000
gross tons of anthracite. Of that
total the government maintains more
than 82 per cent (in 1893) was ship
ped for the account of the Lehigh
Coal company or affiliated compa
nies. Relations between the railroad
and the Lehigh Coal company are set
forth at length in the complaint,
which declares that the latter never
has been a "bona fide corporation,"
hut a "mere adjunct department or
instrumentality of the Lehigh rail
road "
In a statement tonight, Edgar H.
Boles, general solicitor of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad company, maintains
that the Lehigh Sales company, by
which the existence and acts alleged
by the government are said to have
been made possible, is not in any
way "affiliated with or controlled by
the railroad company," although he
conceded that it is possible that the
railroad company and sales company
may have stockholders in common.
Dealing with the railroad's owner
ship of the Lehigh Valley Coal com
pany and its subsidiaries, Mr. Boles
says the matter has been .investigat
ed by the government "for more than
a generation," and that if there had
been violations of the law the gov
ernment should have identified them
by this time and made them clear
to the courts.
ANOTHER ENOCH ARDEN
Like Mark Twain's Reports ef hit
Death are "Greatly Exaggerated"
f ASSOCIATKD PRK8S DISPATCH
LA CROSSE, Wis., March 18. L. H.
Phillippi. a former La Crosse publisher,
was reported dead in July at St. Louis.
A body was identified as bis and his
friends notified. Phillipi returned to
day after a two year's absence on the
Pacific Coast. At first friends he met
turned pale and shied away, "What's
the matter?" he asked "You are dead"
was the reply. The story then came
out. He had been out of touch for
months and had not heard the report
of his death.
MRS. WILSON RECOVERS
President's Wife Not so Bad From
Fall as Reported
associated PRESS DISPATCHl
WASHINGTON, March 18. Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson is recovering slowly
from the effects of a fall on the White
House floor two weeks ago. A denial
that the President's wife's condition Is
serious, was occasioned tonight by a
declination by Miss Eleanor Wilson of
an invitation to attend a dinner at the
British Embassy, because of her moth
er's illness. It is said Mrs. Wilson will
be about in a few days.
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WESTINGHOUSE'S WILL "
Provides for . Wifs By Giving Her
Two-thirds of Estate
associated press dispatch!
PITTSBURG, March 18. The will
of George Westinghouse, worth
about thirty-five million dollars, is a
brief document which gives the wi
dow of the airbrake inventor two
thirds of all the capital stock of the
Westinghouse company, of which he
was owner, one-third being ffiven to
his son.
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A. J. BALFOUR HURT, I"??
Struck on Nose by Stone From Hands
of Careless Boy
associatbd press dispatch
NICE, France, March 18. Arthur J.
Balfour, former British Premier, while
autoing from Cannes to Nice, was
struck by a stone thrown by a boy and
his nose and cheek were gashed. He
participated, however, in the interna
tional lawn tennis tournament today,
but was defeated.
WEATHER TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 18.
For Arizona: Fair.
Although Wedding Occured Year Ago
Agreement Only Filed Yesterday
associated press dispatch
PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 18. The
pre-nuptial agreement of Ralph Fran
cis Julian Stoner, Lord Camoys, of
Henley -on-the-Thames, England, and
Miss Mildred Constance Sherman of
Newport, who were married about a
year aga, was filed with the recorder
of deeds today. It transfers all the
estate, property of Lady Camoys, to
the control of two trustees, Frank W.
Mattison and Fletcher S. Mason of this
city. She gets an income until 35. If
she dies before that time Lord Camoys
will be paid an income from one hun
dred thousand dollars.
If children are left, Lord Camoys Is
to share with them equally the re
mainder of the estate, - upon their
reaching 21. If she dies before 35 and
leaves no will, all the property would
go to her sister, Mrs. Lawrence Gillespie.
associated press dispatch
WASHINGTON, March IS. After
a vigorous defense by Senator Lodge,
republican, of the government ex- !
penditures in caring for Mexican sol
diers and other refugee in Texas and
California, the senate today passed
the urgent deficiency bill, total over
ten million. Half a million was
added by the senate appropriations
committee for maintenance of re
fugee camps.
An amendment adopted provided
that the war department shall spend
this money only in caring for soldiers
and military refugees. This, how
ever, will not affect the status of
1,500 women, and children interned
with soldiers as they are regarded as
a part of the Mexican army.
The appropriation was opposed by
Senator Bristow of Kansas who In
sisted that since no government was
recognized in Mexico by the United
States, no foundation has been laid
for the claim of re-payment. Sena
tor Lodge asserted the reception of
the refugee soldiers was not only in
accordance with international usage,
but obligatory because of the treaty
signed at The Hague by many na
tions, including the United States
and Mexico, the question of repay
ment, he said must be left until
peace is re-established. Senator
Works agreed with this view.
Senator Smoot sought to limit the
appropriation to an ''amount neces
sary to pay the expenses of the
camps to April 1, urging that the
government should send the refugees
into Mexican territory controlled hy
the Huerta government. Senator
Lodge replied that this would be In
violation of neutrality and virtual
intervention in behalf of the Huerta
regime.
The bill now goes to conference be
tween the two houses.
Eleventh Hour Canard
Is Branded As Untrue
Replying to a ridiculous eleventh-hour statement
by the Gazette, Harry A. Diehl, Good Government
candidate for commissioner, and L. W. Coggins, of the
Good Government League, present the following:
The Gazette, under the headline, "Look Out!
Here is a Bull Moose Plot to Capture the City!' de
clares that I am a party to this scheme. This is ab
solutely untrue, as I have continually stood for a non
partisan city government. And that is where Harry
Diehl stands from start to finish. And I shall vigor
ously support Messrs. Cope and Dameron, who are
running with me on the Good Government ticket, and
I urge mv friends to do likewise.
HARRY A. DIEHL.
Gazette's Statement Incorrect
I notice by last evening's Gazette that L favor
only "Bull Moose" candidates in the present city elec
tion. This is not true. It is a fact that I am suj
porting the three Good Government League candi
dates for commissioners, Messrs. Cope, Dameron and
Diehl. They are all good men and ought to be sup
ported by every man and woman in favor of honest,
clean citr government. It is also true that I person
ally favor George U. Young for mavor.
L. W.COGGIXS.
Torreon Battle Belittled
EL PASO,. March 18. A most
thorough canvass today of those in
position to know the military de
velopments in the Torreon region re
sulted in a minimization of reports
of clashes between federals and
rebels at Escalon and Rosaria. The
official tone of Juarez is optimistic.
Prediction is made that the real Tor
reon battle lies in the future. The
report that the federals have gotten
in rear of the rebels at Jiminez is
(Continued on Page Five.)
The Republican's Ticket
For Mavor
ERNEST W. LEWIS
For Commissioners
(Endorsed by the Good Government League.)
JOSEPH COPE
DR. L. D. DAMERON
HARRY A. DIEHL