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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL IS, 1913.
j'i i;S Arizona Republican's Editorial Page l ' if
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St.W'DAY MOR.NINO, APRIL IS, 1915
Merc '-rows may. steer an oven flight;
Man stalks by faith and not by sijrht.
Owen Seaman. .
A Non-Partisan Election Law
The opponents of the California non-partisan
i lection law, which wan passed on Friday, declared
that though Its passage was certain, they could not
"go home and face their constituents without a pro
lest against it." Mure accurately, they should have
mid that lliey could not face a part of their con- '
Mttuents, the professional politicians, large and
t-niall, who profit largely, or eke out a pitiful exist
ence from, the pursuit of partisan politics.
The protesting legislators need not have feared
to face the great body of their cons'itnents, the men
and women who believe that government is created
for the people and not people for the government;
that offices are instruments for the proper adminis
tration of public affairs anil not to aflord salaries
to incumbents and their attaches.
The people at large are not supremely interested
in parties. A majority of us vote according lo tra
dition. Most of us belong to this or that party lie
cause our fathers belonged to it. The republican
whose father was a democrat or the democrat whose
father was a republican is a rather rare bird.
When we find him we have a profound respect for
him. Whether he be right or wrong, he has at least
climbed out of a family rut and he has a more sen
sible reason, whatever it may be, for being what he is
than the rest of- us have. Nor, is ha necessarily
lacking in filial duty. His father, if living,, now,
luiglit not luilrl to the party name or a generation
ngu; If so, he would be more likely to be hohling
to a tradition rather than to a principle.
The people, we believe, are not so" tenacious of
party traditions as to maintain them at the expense
of good government, and the best government is
that which is administered by the best men; 'we
should elect such men to office: whatever may be the
parties to which they belong.
The California non-partisan election law leaves
candidates for office without party designations.1
That is an inconvenient arrangement for the "yellow-dog"
voters, but there are not so many of them
now as there used to be. The careless, though more
or less independent voter, who used to resolve doubts
regarding the comparative merits of candidates con
cerning whom he knew little or nothing, by voting
for his party candidate, will be stimulated to in
;uiry concerning the candidates whom he may not
know. ,
William R. Nelson
The death of no other private citizen In thi
country, or, perhaps, of any country, ever called out
such widespread expressions of sorrow as that of
William R. Nelson, editor and owner of the Kansas
City Star, last week. From every corner of the coun
try came messages of mourning and of appreciation
of the great work of the dead editor, from persons
in every walk of life, members of all parties, mem
bers of every religious faith and of no religious faith
at all.
Mr. Nelson never held a public office. In mid
dle life his fortune was swept away through no fault
of his. Without any other equipment for journalism
than a matchless courage, a conscience and a fine
sense of right and wrong, a determination, always, .
to support tho one and fight the other, he launched
the Kansas City Star in 18S0. It was a small, four
page paper; there was little money behind it, and
It was not until after a severe struggle -of four
years that its future was assured.
In that four years Mr. Nelson placed the Star
on a foundation that could never be shaken. It had
gained the confidence of all the people, the mingled
respect and fear of the worst element and the love .
and, admiration of the best. ,
Independence of action waa a marked charac
teristic of Mr. Nelson as it Is of all strong men.
lie never hesitated to cut ties which bound him to
what he believed to be wrong. He had been a demo
crat, and he became the personal representative of
Fumuel J. .Tilden in the Hayes-Tilden campaign.
When the democratic party, four years later, re
fused to renominate Tilden, he became an Independ-,
ent. It was about that time that the Star was
founded, and it was conducted as an independent
journal with republican tendencies, but it was the
first great newspaper to rise against stand-patism,
and Mr. Nelson became one of the leaders of the
progressive party movement.
We have, spoken of the equipment of Mr. Nel
son for Journalism. There was one item which we
have omitted, an Intuitive Judgment of news values, :
a measure of what the people wanted ,to read for
profit arid" entertainment. Tills is an equipment
which only broad men bring into the ?iewspaper
business. Others may acquire it by training, bdt
many newspaper men never acquire it. It Is beyond
them. It comes of a capacity, natural or acquired,
to put one's self In the place of the multitude. This
capacity of Mr. Nelson grew as his paper grew.
Without this equipment the good impulses of
Mr. Nelson would have come to naught. His courage
could not have been given expression to thousands
through a generation. J3ut his genius has given it
expression to millions through generations to come.
We can do no better than to quote William Al
len White, who was molded in the school of Mr.
Nelson:
Of course, the life work of W, R. Nelson is not
closed with his death. Indeed, it is but well begun.
For a third of a century young men and women in
the Missouri valley have grown up on the Kansas
City Star. Its inspirations have become theirs; its
views of life not merely in politics, but in tr.e fun
damental philosophy of life of which politics is, but
one unimportant expression have been unconsciously
ingrafted into their lives, and these young people,
ranging from their teens to their early COs, are only
on the threshold of their real work. For at twist
three more decades, these men and women will
direct the social, economic 'Hid political activities of
this part of the world. And a vigorous part of the
world it is. This part of the world is sure to have a
much larger share in directing the current civiliza
tion than is indicated by its geography.
And the life of the man, who for a third of a
century has been the guiding force behind that great
newspaper, will have its full and undiminished ex
pression on this earth long after his mere name is
remembered . only by those who loved him. Thou
sands who never knew his name will "be moved by
the force of his purpose. Events still gestating in
the futuie will be rhaped by the life that has gone
out. . . . He bad a serene and dependable sense
of justice, and this sense moved him in all major
affairs of his life. When he took a position, it was
tenable, not only the day he took it, but ever after.
He saw far becaute he saw justly. Yesterday's
fights never rose to defeat today's, because yester
day's fight was righteous. That is genius.
But he had more than genius he bad a sweet
and beautiful soul, filled with a love for men, a pas
sion for the welfare of humanity. That was the
motive of his life. Such a life, when it is expressed
through a strong medium, is vastly immortal. It
cannot die, no matter what happens to the body or
the soul after death. And . the expression of -Mr.
Nelson's soul took the form, most "useful for his time.
Two Wars
The indications are now that the European war
will end and peace and friendship will be established
long before the Mexican trouble can adjust itself.
In fact, in all probability it can never adjust Itself.
Villa and Obregon and Carranza and Zapata will be
disturbing the air with ridiculous claims of "vic
tories." New scrappers will arise,' heading new fac
tions, and new fuel will be constantly adding to
the flames of Mexican discord. The Mexican war
is the nearest approacn to perpetual motion that
has ever been made!
However, we think that as soon as peace has
been established in Europe, quiet, if not peace, will
begin to return to Mexico. If we do not facilitate
the establishment of order there before the European
.tuat,ion , have, adjusted their now somewhat tangled
affairs, they will take the job off of our hands in
u somewhat summary manner. They will "grab it
off," so to speak, and will give us a lesson, a little
humiliating, but none the less valuable, in the art
of policing refractory peoples and putting down in
ternational mobs.
THE HAWKEYES
(Written for and Read at the Annual Picnic of the
Iowa Society of Arizona, at Riverside Park,
Phoenix, April 17, 1915)
Fair Iowa! A thousand tongues her wealth and
power attest.
Peer of her mates among the states that make the
Middle West!
Year after year, with scarce a lapse, a golden har
vest smiles
In all her fruitful, broad expanse of green and bil
lowy miles.
Two rivers, masterful and strong, enfold her in their
arms.
And jewel-lakes in greenery set enhance her myriad
charms;
And many shining, lesser streams flow her wide bor
ders through
Whose crystal benedictions bless the dear home
land we knew.
How friendly all the Hawkeyes are, I never can
forget,
Those "better people in the world" are not discov
ered , y et.
Pretense, and sham, and idle bluff, are not their
stock in trade;
They're mostly of the stuff whereof good citizens are
made.
The men are loyal, true and brave, in self-reliance
strong.
Not prone to vary from the right, or compromise
with wrong.
Possessed, of all the attributes which glorify the
sex, ,
The women bring no petty faults their happy lords
to vex. s
Each baby, too, Is wonderful, a tiny prince or
queen,
No better, brighter, sweeter tots are elsewhere ever
seen. ,
And fair homes built in pleasant spots, and shady
. Eden bowers.
Are hung with tapestry of vines, and beautified with
flowers. ,
Here Comfort and Contentment dwell, and Joy and
Wealth increase; ..-.".
Though half the world is plunged in war, the Hawk
eyes live In peace.
Thus may they evermore abide while long years
come and go, . i
With life as sweet as any dream that mortals ever '
know. -
Some claim the name of Iowa denotes "The Sleepy
Ones;" - - - .
They mean, perhaps, the Indians dead, and not her
living sons.
The later ones are quite alert, and very. much alive.
They seem to make supreme success the goal for
which they strive.
Our baby commonwealth shall be as grand and
proud a state
As Hawkeye land, with fame as broad and destiny
as great. ... , ; :
So, while we name our treasures here, and count
them o'er and o'er,
We love' not Iowa the less, but Arizona more.
ANDREW DOWNING.
LOGICAL
Little James
I
.
(Concerning the Present and Primitive
Methods of Christening Battleships)
"Fer th' Reeson", sez My Paw," "at
Arizony bein' a Ared State an' th'
Peeple aint had much Experyunce
Lonchin Battelships, an' seein' 'at we
got wun on our han's now to Loncli,
I'm goin' to let 'em know how it's done.
A Battelship can't be Lonched Rite ac
cordin' to law 'less they's a Bottel con-
tainin' some Kind of a Flooid, busted '
acrost th' Bough of th' Vessle. This is
always done by a Young Lady of th'
State after which th' Battelship is
named after, an' she must be th' Best
Lookin' wun in th' State accordin' to a
Standard of Buty fixed by th' Guvner.
All this in pervltled fer by Law.
"The' Crissenin' of a Battelship ust
to be done in a very Primitif manner.
Th' Young woman bein' Armed with a
Bottel was stashuned off at wun Side
an' a little in front of th" Battelship or
th' Croozer as th' Case mite be, an' jist
as th' Vessle started down what's
called th' Waze which has been
Greesed fer th' Decent, th' Master of
th' Serrymonies yells at th' Young Wo
man, 'Now, -Shoot!' Generly she Mist
th' Vessle an' Wounded some of th' In- I
nercent Bistatiilers an' Ooanhnly she j
Hit a War ship of some Frendly Na- t
shun which was present as a Gest of '
Onner. This-here Hapened so offen
'at Countries with which we wu;; Nom-
inly on Good Turns with, made Inkwi-
ries through what's called Diplomatic!
Channels whether this here almost t'n- !
broken Series of Assolts was a string j
of Co-incidences or was to be Vued by
them as Hosstyle Acks done Inten
; shunle liehint a Woman's Skirts.
"Our Guvcrnment made Doo Apol-
lidgfB an; iippinted a Comislr.m of Ser-
geants to make a Investygushun an'
Find out -an' Report why a Woman
cuddent never throw at anything with-
out Hittin' somebody in th' Adjacent i
Skool distriek. Th' Comishun reported !
an sed at it found at th' Clavicles in
a Woman's Shoulder Blades was made
too Long fo's 'at her Ame was Diverted
thereby, an' the Comishun Recom
mended 2 Coarsra' fer th' Guvernment
to l'ersoo. Wun was tir"have anuther
Vessle stashuned neer to th' Vessle to
be Lonched fer her to Throw at so's 'at
th' Chances of her Hittin' th' Doomed
Battelship 'II be Increesed. The' other
Coarse was fer th' Guvcrnment to Hire
Perftshnle Bass Ball Pitchers to Put
'Em Over.
"Neethcr Kecommendashun was
adopt but th' Guvernment took th' l're
coshun agin Axidence by havin' th'
Bottel fixt to a String so's 'at when th'
Femail Crissener let Loose of it il'd hit
th' Battleship in a Vitle Spot where it's
shore to bust th' Bottel without no
harm to th' Unlookers or any Risk of
disturbin' what's called th' Comity of
Nahuns.
'Th' Injunooty of Man Which was
nut to th' Test by th' Oncertinty of a
Woman's Ame has made th' Crissenin'
of Battelships ns simple an' Safe as th'
noo Methods of Hangin' of Electer-
cootin' by th' Meer sliovin of a Leever
or th' pushin' of a Button."
LITTLE JAMES.
BELIEVES "AVERAGE AMERICAN IS NOT
WORTH WHILE:" WILL DIVORCE HUSBAND
AND MAKE BID FOR GLORY ON THE STAGE
Mrs. Marguerite Upton Hopkins
of Washington, D. C has lost all
faith in men and declares that the
average American man is decidedly
not worth while. She thinks the only
real career for a woman is on the
stage, so she will become an actress
pretty soon. Mrs. Hopkins has an
other big idea, to wit: that she is the
best dressed woman in the national
capital. Her husband, Sherbourne
Hopkins, Jr., represents many Mexi
can and Central American interests
in Washington, and is at present
somewhere in Central America.
"But, wherever he is," Mrs. Hopkins
emphatically states, "he is poing to
have a divorce suit to defend."
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Have for Twenty-five
Years.
Our abstract work is cor
rect, hut the title itself
may lie defective.
"The Safe Way"
is to let us make, examine
and Guarantee the Title.
Phoenix Title and
Trust Co.
18- N. First Ave.
Nurse Goodness me, what 'ave you been doing
to your dolls?
Joan Charley's killed them. He said they were
made In Germany, and how. were we to know they
weren't spies? Punch. : .
t Where the People f
May Have Hearing I
STATEMENT BY MR. IRVINE
Relative to two communications by
Mr. J. A. R. Irvine printed by The
Republican previous to the late mun
icipal election, the following corre
spondence has taken place:
April 10, 1915.
Mr. J. A. R. Irvine, J'hoenix, Ariz.
Dear Sir: Mr. Conway, district
manager of Warren Hrothers com
pany has consulted me with reference
to the two articles caused by you to
be published in the Arizona Republi
can one In the Issue of Sunday
morning, April 4, 1915, and one in the
issue ut Tuesday morninp, April 6,
1915.
In the second of these two articles
you state: The fact is, the kind of
AMERICAN WOMAN
FLEES CARRANZA
If' )
Mrs. W. G. Wimberly.
Fleeing from Carranza forces, who
drove her from her home in the min
ing town of Pachuca and later trail
ed her to the coast when she escaped
their vigilance in Mexico City, Mrs.
G.' W. Wimberly, wife of an Ameri
can mining engineer who is now a
refugee in San Salvador, has just
reached San Francisco.' The Wim
berlys left Mexico when it became
apparent that Carranza was deter
mined to confiscate all their money
adB01,erty---
paving recommended by Air. Faris'n,
and which is known as 'asphalt ic
concrete' laid under the Topeka speci
fications, is positively the same so far
as durability is concerned, as the pav-
ing- now laid in I'hoenix and can be
laid from $1.25 to $1.55 per yard as
against $2.1 per yard for the bitu
lithicj' And in the first article you make
the statement that "The charge of
incompetence was alleged, but by
whom? He was prosecuted by two of
the highest priced lawyers in the
state and it is commonly reported
that a certain paving company as
sisted in paying for them."
Mr. Conway states positively that
the first of the above statements is
untrue: that asphaltic concrete laid
under the Topeka specifications is not
the same, as far as durability is con
cerned, as the paving now laid in
I'hoenix and that such paving cannot
be laid in Phoenix for $1.55 per yard
o less. He also states that if the
statement about a "paving company's
assisting in paying for the prosecu
tion of the charges against Mr. Par
ish was intended to refer to him or
his company, the same is absolutely
untrue.
I have advised Mr. Conway that
both of the above statements are ac
tionable in a civil suit the one in
Tuesday's issue because it injures the
business interests of the Warren
Brothers' company by a misrepre
sentation as to the (iHulity of its
pavement, and the one in Sunday's
issue because it injures the business
interests of the company by the mis
representation that the company took
part in ousting the former city mana
ger. Mr. Conway states that the
statements are particularly injurious
to the interests of the company be
cause of your standing as a property
owner, having extensive interests in
the city, and people naturally believe
that you have not made the above
statements without investigating their
Correctness, and hence, he feels I hat
the matter cannot be ignored by him
bu that he must insist on your state
ments being corrected.
I presume that the statements were
made by you in the heat of the dis
cussion over the removal of the former
manager and without any particular
investigation as to their correctness.
If so, it seems to me that the proper
course fur you ti pursue is to explain
and retract the same. If you feel
satisfied of their correctness, I pre
sume that there is no wr.y out but to
try the issue.
Kindly advise me of your attitude
in regard to the matter in order that
I may report the same to Mr. Con
way. Personally, I should prefer very
much if the . matter were amicably
adjusted.
Very truly yours,
J. L. CIJST.
To the foregoing Mr. Irvine makes
reply as follows:
""I have no desire to mislead any
one, so I give Mr. Conway's state
ments as repeated by his attorney as
the best refutation of the report that
either he or his company assisted in
paying the attorneys.
"As to the asphaltic concrete style
of paving laid under the Topeka spe
cifications, I was in error .as to the
prices quoted. They should have been
$1.70 to $1.80 per square yard. The
word 'positively' instead . of 'practi
cally,' relative to the merits of the
two styles of paving was a typo
graphical error and I was made to
say what 1 did not intend.
"Hoping this will satisfy the ob
jections of Mr. Conway, 1 am
"Very respectfully,
"J. A. R. IRVINE."
o
'"CLOTURE"
The great argument against cloture
in the senate is that there should be
some place in our system of govern
ment where questions can be discus
sed fully which is absolutely true but
even a good thing can be overdone,
and unquestionably it is sometimes
overdone in the senate. Mere gar
rulity is not discussion, and in the
senate there is no limit to speech ex
cept human endurance the endur
ance of the senator who is doing the
talking. "When a filibuster against
a particular measure Is carried to
seen a.'i extreme' as to defeat mess
tires absolutely necessary for the pub
lic welfare, it. betomes not only a
farce, but a nuisance, and should be
abated.
Public opinion, when fully aroused,
is an irresistable force. I once heard
a great senator say that no bill was
ever defeated in the senate which a
clear mujerity eif the American peo
ple really wanted. It might be de
Ir.yed, but e'oulel not be indefinitely
postponed, lie cited the ant-ndm?nts
providing foi the elee'tion- of lniled
States senators by popular vote and
the income tax as samples. There
fore, according to his dictum, when
senators conclude that a majority of
our people demand cloture in the
senate, then and not earlier the sen
ate will adopt cloture mild, easy
elot tire, something midway between
the severe cloture of the house and i
the utter lack of e'loture in the sen
ale. They perhaps will adopt a rule
at the end of five or ten or fifteen
oi even twenty days of debate on
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form of cloture is not like-ly to be
adopted in a hurry, for the chances
are that a majority of senators do
not believe that a majority of the
people elemand senatorial cloture.
The average citizen considers leg
islative results more than legislative
methods. So soon as he discovers, if
he ever does, that beneficent and
remedial legislation is blocked and
defeated in the senat by reason of
a -lack of cloture, he will force clot
ure, for in political and legislative
matters the average citizen is su
preme. Champ Clark, in the April
number of the North American Re
view. o
HOPED TO "LAND OLD
DEAR;" DIDN'T; NOW
SUES HIM FOR $500 COO
it n
Mrs. Ida M. McNabb.
Mrs. Ida M. McNabb, Milwaukee
oardinor house keeper and former
Upper Michigan charitable associa
tion field agent, is suing J. S. Kinney,
multi-millionaire iron mine owner of
Stambaugh, Mich., for $500,000 for
breach of promise. 4'he suit is being
heard in Washington, D. C, Kinney's
present home. In one of ilrj. Ale-
any . u wu, e in oruer tp move & j k housckeeper she
the prevjous question on the bill or refeiri to Kjnney (lmt she
on the lull and all amendments to' ,,, ' , . i j j',.
the final passage. Kven that mild
"hoped to land the old eieur."
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