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VOL. 48. NO. 32
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1912
PRICE ONE CENT
LAFOLLETTE
WON'T GIVE IN
TO ROOSEVELT
Refuses To Accept Teddy's
Candidacy, Despite Efforts
Of His Friends
J3UT FOR PRINCIPLES
AND NOT INDIVIDUALS
Plan Of Leaders To Brinj Sena
; tor And Ex-President
; Together
: (Special from United Press.)
Washington, Feb. 6 The Progres
sive Republican situation cleared, to
day, revealing Senator LaFollette
standing practically alone bat refus
ing to .accept the candidacy of Col
onel Roosevelt as an expediency,
though the strongest efforts of many
of his closest friends and advisers
were spent in an attempt to induce
him to do so.
- "I have been the standard bearer
of principles not individuals, no pos
sible change in circumstances can
change the great issues for which 1
have fought and will continue to fight.
I can enlist in the ranks of no man
unless he adopt publicly, in binding
terms, the true principles of progres
sive government by the people."
This statement summed up the an
swer given by LaFollette to , the lead
ers who pleaded with him to 'come out
for Roosevelt. His refusal presents
-today's problems with which the pro
gressive leaders are contending.
Several progressives joined, today,
in an 'effort to bring about a meet
ing or an exchange of correspondence
between Roosevelt and LaFollette. In
' this manner they hoped to induce
Roosevelt, irrespective of whether he
is a candidate for the presidency, to
make a declaration of principles, rep
resenting his attitude toward public
aft airs and marking the general lines
'.along which his future actions may be
expected to be drawn. These leaders
hoped that they would be aHe to con
vince LaFollette that, in fundamen
tals, he and Roosevelt are on the
nam ground. They planned I also to
use the Roosevelt declaration as a
basis for a fight against the rapidly
rising. Taft organization strength. ,
Unless some such solution is found,
it was made known positively, today,
that Senator LaFollette will go be
fore the Chicago convention in oppo
sition to Rooosevelt. and, with what
ever small support of loyal friends
?ie may be able to hold, will fight to
the end for Jiis . platf orm.
LaFollette stood, today, with prac
tically only one big supporter Gov
nor Hiram W. Johnson,- of California,
-who is pledged to.his support and who
has told Colonel Roosevelt that he
will stand by his pledge until releas
ed by LaFollette personally, regard
less of what the Senator's fortunes
may be.
LaFollette's attitude in the present
situation was made known in a stae
inent. today, as follows:
"As a progessive leader of proved
ability. Senator LaFollette was draft
ed as the leader of the fight to be
made at Chicago, drafted at a time
when the leadership was thought to
mean certain defeat. Colonel Roose
velt, at that time, positively eliminat
ed himself from the 1912 fight and his
followers for the most part being also
.sincere admirers of Senator LaFollette
pledged themselves to the latter.
"LaFollette claims that before con
senting to make the fight, he had
. every assurance from Coionel Roose
velt that the latter would not, under
any conditions, be a candidate in 1912.
LaFollette started his fight at a time
when the prospects for preventing the
Tenomination of President Taft were
ridiculously small. -
"As the movement grew and the in.
dlcations of possible " progressive
strength developed, the Roosevelt
hoom was launched. The boom was
believed at first by many to be in
reality a backfire started by regular
Republicans to split the progressive
movement. The crisis was reached
when many of those who pledged
themselves to LaFollette's suoport but
-who. in reality, preferred Roosevelt,
announced the discovery tht La
Follette could not win and that the
nation was demanding Roosevelt.'
"The final bre'l' came, last Friday
Tilcht, when LaFollette, whose physi
cal condition was such that, properly
coached, he would never have been al
lowed to speak, was victimized by his
Bbttered nervous system and comm't
ted what even his most loval friends
admit was a grievous poHMcal blun
oer by attacking without discrimina
tion, the press of the nation."
Rev. Dr. Burtsell's Death
. Shock to Local Friends
The news of the death of Rev. Tr.
Burtsell. who was only a few weeks
&go made a monslraor by Pope Pius
X, was received with recrret by his
friends in this city. The deceased was
one of the prominent clergymen o
the Catholic faith of America, and
was a staunch defender of the late
Rev. Dr. McGlynn during the latter's
advocacy of the principles for which
the late Henry George stood. Dr.
Purtsell was a frequent visi-'o- to this
city, where he was entertained at the
home of the late William E. and Mrs.
OranU
BIRTIID V PARTY 'OIt
MRS. ARTHUR BAIXSLET
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L.
Barnsley were entertained at .their
home, 787 Maple street, last evening,
it being the birthday anniversary of
Mrs. Barnsley. An orchestra ren
dered music during the evening. Mrs.
Barnsley received a number of gifts.
Ianeing, whist and pinochle were
features of the evening. A luncheon
was served.
Among those present were Miss Bes
sie Jenkins, Mrs. Lourie, Miss May
iWhyland, Mrs. R. Thompson, Mrs. J.
Jenkins, Mrs. W. Thompson, Mrs.
f arah Marsden and Miss Lizzie
Marsden, aunt and cousin of Mr.
Barsley; Mrs. J. Mason, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Barnsley, Wm. Herbert, Mr.
and Mrs.- W. F. We' Is, Mr. and Mrs.
T L. Curtis, aunts and uncles of Mrs.
Barnsley; Messrs. C. L. and William
Jackson, brothers of Mrs. Barnsley;
Mrs. Healey, James and Helen Healey,
Jlr, and Mrs. Salamon, Mr. and Mrs.
ft. Clifford, Mr. and Mrs. F. Seltsam,
rid the Misses Nellie and Daisy Con
t of Somerville, N. J.
FIVE KILLED BY
GAS LEAKING
Many Others in Adjoining
House; Taken to Hospital
In Critical Condition
(Special from United Press.)
Philadelphia, Feb. 6 Gas, that back
ed up through leaky connections, kill
ed five persons in the home of John
Darzell, a baker, on Carlton street,
early today. Five others living in an
adjoining houses were found unconsci
ous and rushed to a hospital, where
three of them are said to be in a crit
ical condition.
The dead: Mrs. Sophia Darzell, 28,
Rosie Darzell, 8, Joseph Darzell, 5,
Stephen Darzell, John Woznick, a
boarder.
Those in serious condition in the
hospital are: Stephen I. Sackopha, 15,
Stozia Zackopha, 8, Anna Bruglosky
42.
The five persons found Mead in the
Carlton street house comprised all its
occupants. Joseph Darzell, the hus
band and father, was at work. The
entire- area covering a city block was
affected by the escaping gas, which
oozed through the ground from the
sewer connections. Twenty-five sleep
ing fatnilies in the danger zone were
routed out by the police who went
from door to door ' when it was dis.
covered that the leakage was so seri.
ous.
- Under the direction of officials of
the United Gas Improvement Co. and
the Bureau of Highways. 300 men
were at work, today, digging up the
four streets of the square, endeavor
ing to find the ' leak.
Col, Roosevelt
Still Declines
To Be Interviewed
(Special from United Press-
New York.Feb. 6. Although he still
positively declines, personally, to say
whether he will accept the Republi
can Presidential nomination, ""if
drafted, 'i. Colonel Roosevelt moved,
today, from his private office at the
Outlook to the big reception room .
Press of visitors was given as the
reason for the change, but it also en
ables the Colonel to dispose of his
visitors quickly as there was not the
inducement to confidences that the
private room invited.
Roosevelt seemed particularly in
terested in the report of the illness
of Senator LaFollette and in this con
nection said:
"Of course I am sorry to hear of
tbi; Senator's" Illness as any" other
American would be. I hope he will
speedily recover."
When told that a large number of
LaFollette boomers were now public
ly advocating his nomination, Roose
velt said:
"Is that so? Well, I have nothing
to say."
He positively refused to comment
on thP declarations of New Jersey,
Nebraska, Illinois and Ohio progres
sive leaders regarding the advisability
of his now making a public declara
tion of his position.
Among his visitors, today, were
Colonel Goethals, chief engineer of
the Panama Canal, and Mrs. Goethals,
Dr. White, 'of Philadelphia, William
Mitchell, of Atlanta, the latter gen
eral agent, of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, and Captain Eddie Bourke,
a New York policeman whom Roose
velt as commissioner put on the po
lice force and regarding whom he
said: "This is the type of American
citizen that I stand by."
KILLED BY TRAIN
NEAR BANTAM LAKE
(Special from United Press.)
Torrington, Feb. 6 An unknown
man was struck and instantly killed,
last nieht, by a New Haven passen
ger train, at Stevens Crossing be
iween bantam Lake and Litchfield.
The remains were mutilated beyond
recognition. From the clothing, the
authorities suspeot that he was an ice
cutter.
TWO ATTEMPTS AT
SUICIDE BY GAS
(Special from United Press.)
New Britain, Feb. 6 As the result
of two attempts at suicide, by gas asphyxiation,-
today, Charles Larson, 50.
a well known man about town, is at
the New Britain hospital in critical
condition. After the windows had
been Opened and the gas shut off,
after the first attempt, Larson tried
again and with serious effects.
He was separated from a wife and
stepdaughter who live in this city.
Despondency is alleged to have been
his reason for the attempts.
SKUNKS BECOME TAME
AND FED LIKE CHICKENS
ON DANIELSON FARM
(Soecial from United Pres0
Danielson, Feb. 6-rWith fur becom
ing more valuable year by year, Wil
bee Lavellee has started a skunk
farm and his success interests the
town. He started his skunk colony
by capturing a few of the animals.
Apparently they were satisfied with
their new mode of life and soon
skunks became quite numerous on the
Lavellee place.
They have become so tame that they
are fed like chickens.
MISSION SUNDAY IX
BRIDGEPORT CHURCHES.
This year the pulpita of twenty
two Bridgeport churches will be
thrown open on one Sunday for the
benefit of the Bridgeport Christian
Union' when the work which this mis
sion in Bank street is doing will be
described and exp'ained. The board
of directors of the mission ie com
posed oi leading and business and
professional men and L9 in charge of
Charles W. Simpson, a clergyman in
good standing in his denomination.
The work of reclaiming down and
out men will be explained by men
who are prominent in the work in
some of the best known missions in
the east.
FROM NEW YORK TO WED.
William H. Lee, a salesman, aged
41, and Miss Cecelia V. Murray, aged
20, a milliner, both of New York,
came here to wed late yesterday.
They secured a marriage license Just
before the Town Clerk's office closed.
The Women's Relief Corps will
meet at the G. A. K bail Thursday
afternoon at 2:30.
MANY KILLED
AND HURT IN
TROLLEY CRASH
Motorman Loses Control of
Car on Steep Grade and It
Pitches Over Embank
ment. (Special from United Press.)
McKeesport, Pa., Feb. 6 Five per
sons were killed and 25 injured when
a trolley car on the Buena Vista. Di
vision of the Pennsylvania Street Rail
way line jumped the tracks and went
over an embankment near the Yough
iogheney Country Club, six miles from
this city, today. The car got beyond
the control of the motorman on a
steep grade and, after pitching over
the embankmenut, crashed into a tree
and was smashed to pieces. The
dead:
Luke Donnelly, Charles Sm!h, Wil
liam McLean, Charles Donnelly, and
William Forsythe, all of Greenock,
Pa.
The injured: Charles Morningstar,
Greenock; Fred Rainsick, Greenock;
Jacob fUhlig. Brynn Mawr; Walter
Forsythe, Greenock; John Holzing,
Greenock; Charles Hunkle, motorman;
James Miller, conductor; ; WU'iam
Mohlman, Greenock, and mume-ous
others whose names are not known.
Most of the passengers in the car
were miners, en route to the Brown
No. 2 mine, at Boston, Pa. The rails
were frosty and there was no sand
in the sandbox. This is believed to
have been th reason Motorman Char
les Hunckle lost control of his can
The accident was a mile from the
nearest telephone and it was some
time before rescuers reached the
scene.
Meanwhile, the Injured suffered se
verely from the cod. All of the
dead and injured lived in the lit'le
town of Greenock and were Ameri
cans. Boys Fined For
Prank Thai Led
To Auto Mishap
(Special from United Press.)
South Norwalk, Feb. 6 The closing
of the gates on Washington street
bridge, last midnight, a boyish prank
for Herbert Price, Frank Sconeld,
William Trombley and. Joseph. Burns,
nearly had a fatal ending when an
automobile carrying Dr. L. M. Allen
and his niece, Miss E. C. Putney,
crashed Into the gates. The machine
was badly damaged, but its occupants
were uninjured. . The auto landed
against a bridge post, otherwise K
would have capsized and thrown out
Dr. Allen and Miss Putney.
In police court this morning Price,
Scofield and Trombley were lined $17
and costs each, on charges of drunk
enness and breach of the peace. Burns
escaped from the lockup during- the
night.
34,000 Troops Are
Ready For Mexico
(Special from United Press.)
Washington, Feb. 6 With 34.000
troops held in leash by the War De
partment today, awaiting only the
news of further trouble in Mexico to
advbance on the Texas border, the
Navy Department began actively to
prepare the South Atlantic Squadron,
now at Guantanamo, Cuba, for "man
euvers" in the Gulf of Mexico. It
was stated by navy officials that "It
is possible some of the warships now
in Cuban waters will be sent to New
Orleans for the Mardl Gras."
From New Orleans, the gray ships
could be rushed to thecoast of Mex
ico in a few hours.
Ex-Convict Banker
Morse Improving
(Special from United Press.)
Atlanta, Feb. 6 in the two weeks
since he was released from the At
lanta penitentiary, by President Taft,
Charles W. Morse, the former banker,
has recovered sufficiently to be able
to sit up, and' today began plans for
the European trip which his own phy
sician, three weeks ago, predicted
would be stopped by Morse's death be
fore he leff Atlanta,
The ex-convict hanker Is still far
from well, according to Dr. Fowler,
his personal physician, but restora
tion to his family and relief from the
strain he felt over his continued im
prisonment has given him a new lease
of life.
Friends of Morse today denied that
the gravity of his condition was mag1
nitied in order to gain him a commu
tation, and pointed out that Taft's
board of army surgeons, three weeks
ago, reported that the former ice king
was at death's door.
Busy Night Ahead for
Apportionment Board
Here are the various branches of
the city government, representatives
of which will be given an opportunity
to support their requisitions before a
meeting of the Board of Apportion
ment and Taxation at 8 o'clock this
evening:
Committee on Lamps, Memorial
Day and Harbor Improvements, Har
bormaster, committee on Claims, City
At'orney, Board of Appraisal, Probate
Court, City Court and Tax Col'ector.
This will be for the first hour, and
beginning at 9 o'clock the following
will be heard: Building Commission
ers, Registrars of Voters, City En
gineer, Board of Assessors, Town
Clerk, Board of Selectmen, Board of
Relief and Personal Tax Collectors.
NURSE POISONED
BY ICE CREAM SODA
(Special from United Press.)
New Haven, Feb. 6 Critically ill
from prussic acid poisoning. Miss E.
Ella Austin, a nurse, today, attri
buted her condition to a peach ice
cream soda eaten recently at a local
I confectionery."
HABEAS CORPUS
HEARING FOR
STRIKE LEADERS
Important Case Before Judge
Braley Of State Supreme
Court
BEING HEARDTHIS AFTERNOON
If Writ Is Refused, Lawrence
Will Be Considered In
Civil War
(Special from United Press.)
Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 6. Interest
In the strike of 25,000 textile mill
operatives. today, turned to the
habeas corpus hearing held in Bos
ton, this afternoon, when what is ex
pected to be an epoch-making case,
fraught with deep import to both
capital and labor, will be heard be
fore Justice Braley, of the State Su
preme Court. The proceeding has
been brought by Attorney George K.
Roewer, counsel for Strike - Leaders
Joseph J. Ettor and Alturo Giovan
nlti, charged with being accessories
to the death of Anna Lopizzo, shot
during last week's riot.
To emphasize the importance of
today's hearing, William E. Traut
mann, national organizer for the In
dustrial Workers of the World, a Col
lege graduate and a man of deep
thought, made to a representative of
the United Press the following state
ment explaining the Important situa
tion: ,
"It is inconceivable that the boljly
of Joseph J. Ettor will not be deliv
ered by writ of habeas corpus before
the supreme court in Boston, today.
The constitution of the United States,
for which our ancestors bled and died
that we might have the great human
privileges provided for in that docu
ment, specifically says:
" 'The privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus cannot be suspended
unless, when In cases of rebellion or
Invasion, the public safety may re
quire it.'
"If the court ehall refuse to issue
the writ, it will then be assumed thai
Lawrence is in a. state of rebellion,
that this is no longer a strike but
actual civil -wr.
"If it is civil war, then -the 1,500
uniformed and armed soldiers who
are patrolling the streets of this city,
today, are the soldiers of one class
while the strikers compose the enemy.
We will see in the courts of Boston,
today, an action that will determine
the real significance of this struggle.
As Haywood has stated, it is appar
ent to thinking, justice loving men.
the nation over, that the arrest of
Bttor was to remove from the field of
ooeration a fearless leader whom the
mill owners could not bunco.
"The striking textile workers of
Lawrence need Ettor's presence and
guidance, but if the court sees fit to
suspend the privilege of habeas cor
pus in this amazing case, Ettor, in
jail, will serve a tremendous purpose,
not only in the interests of the strik
ers at Lawrence, but .for all the
working classes of this country. The
cafe will be celebrated as a con
spicuous example of the sway of
privilege irrespective of any action
the court may take in the matter of
the habeas corpus.
HarmonyLodge
Sustained By
1, 0. B. B. Court
Friction Between Local
Lodges Is Brought Before
Grand Lodge
The friction between Harmony
lodge and Abraham lodge, of the In
dependent Order of B'nai B'rith was
brought before the grand lodge at its
sessions in New Haven Sunday and
yesterday, and according to state
ments of Harmony lodge, the new or
ganization, the claims of Abraham
lodge were not sustained.
Abraham lodge sought to have the
grand lodge bar from membership one
of the members of the new lodge on
the ground that his application for
membership had been denied within
six months, by Abraham lodge.
Officers of Abraham lodge said to
day that the matter would be carried
to the constitutional court of appeals
of the supreme lodge.
Epidemic Of
Sled Thefts In
The City Lately
Bridgeport is suffering from an
epidemic of thefts of very peculiar
kind of thefts. Somebody or per
haps an organized gang of youngsters
is going around stealing sleds in
different parts of the city.
At police headquarters a few weeks
ago when sliding was good, the first
complaints began to roll In. Then
came more. Then a batch of half a
dozen came In together. They have
been stringing alone since that time.
The last to complain is Robert Bann
ville, of 606 Broad .street whose boy's
sled was stolen last night.
FIREMAN WALTERS HURT.
William Walter of No. 2 Chemical
company sustained an unpleasant cut
on his cheek last night while crank
ing the chemical. He slipped on the
Icy pavement and cut himself in the
fall. His Injury was dreased at the
Emergency hospital.
KNIGHTS OF FYTHIAS.
An unusual exemplification of the
rank of page will be given by Mtthra
lodge. No. 8. Knights of Pythias up
on the regular meeting night of P.
T. Barnum lodge. No. 61, Thursday
Feb. 8th. The rank of page will be
conferred upon the combined candi
dates whose applications were receive
ed and accepted by the Knights of
Pythias' lodge in Bridgeport during
the month of January. A social time
and collation will followed after the
work is over.
PROGRESSIVE PINCHOT
SAYS LAFOLLETTE HAD
TO GIVE WAY TO TEDDY
Claims, With Senator's Health Broken and Ability As
Campaign Speaker Weakened, He and His Princi
ples Were Threatened With Defeat
(Special from United Press.)
New York, Feb. 6 Amos Pinehot,
one of the most active Republican
progressives, brother of Gifford Pin
ehot and one of the men who has been
the welding force uniting the extreme
progressives of the LaFollette type
and the less radical Roosevelt sup
porters, prepared for the United
Press, today, a statement in which
he declared that the withdrawal of
LaFollette as a presidential candidate
resulted from the fact that with the
Senator's health broken and his abil
ity as a campaigner weakened, not
only LaFollette, but the principles for
which he stood, were threatened with
defeat, especially in view of the nation-wide
clamor for the renomination
of Theodore Roosevelt. Finchot's
statement says: .
"When, last year, a small group of
progressives met at Washington to
discuss placing a presidential candi
date in. the field, we had two definite
ends in view to bind the progressives
together as an effective fighting force
and to prevent the nomination or re-
nomination of a reactionary candi
date for the presidency.
"If there was no progressive Repub
lican candidate in 1912, party loyalty
and hostility to the Democrats in a
great national election would tend to
weld the progressives and reaction
ary Republicans together s that the
former, as an effective fighting unit.
would disappear and the cause of gov
ernment Tor the benefit of the average
man would suffer a serious setback.
'As to the renomination of. a reac
tionary, we believed that in practi
cally every case where the interests
of the average man conflicted with
the interests of the standpat machine
and the great business interests which
It represents, ine xait aamimsiraiiuu
has regularly leaned upon the side
of big business and party politics.
"On account of his character and nis
Ben Greet. Noted
English Manager,
On Witness Stand
Appears in Court of Com
mon Pleas as Defendant in
Suit for Services Brought
by Louise M.Wade Barnes
Ben Greet, the English theatrical
manager whose company, known as
the Ben Greet Players, give open air
performances of the classics through
out the country, was a witness in the
court of Common. Pleas this morning.
He is being used by Louise M. Wade
Barnes of Springfield, Mass., who
claims she was not paid for services
she performed in arranging dates for
the players.
Greet, who is a man of distinguished
appearance, has a plentiful crop of
gray hair. He talks with a pro
nounced British accent. He admitted
he talked with Miss Barnes in regard
to having performances in Norwalk
and .Danbury under the auspices of
schools in those places. The manager
al eged that the plaintiff did not ob
tain the engagements, however. He
declared he closed negotiations him
self. Greet said he met Miss Barnes
In Danbury in 1909 and talked the
matter over with her. He said he
offered her $50 to settle all claims, and
she accepted the money.
Miss Barnes alleged that she had a
contract with Greet by the terms of
which she was to arrange for per
formances in Danbury and Norwalk,
and was to receive ten per cent, of
the receipts. She was also to get $1
an hour for her services in visiting
various schools and so'ieitlng support
for the Ben Greet Players. She
claims there is $274 still due.
Judge Carl Foster, who presided in
place of Judge Scott, reserved decis
ion. IRISH SINGERS ARE
NOT IRISH PLAYERS
Miss Louise Agnese Appear
ing at Poli's Thinks Her
Company Mistaken for
Others.
Miss Louise Agnese who with her
Irish colleen singers Is appearing at
Poli's this week, in an act called
"Echoes of Erin", is very fearful that
theatre-goers will confuse her com
pany with the Irish Players now tour
ing America who have been very
roughly received in some cities. Miss
Agnese called at the Farmer office
this morning and requested that a
statement from her be published. She
said:
"I am very much afraid that peop'e
will confuse us with the Irish Players.
We are not the Irish Players. They
are dramatic actors while we are sing
ers. They have gotten the Irish peo
ple in an uproar wherever they have
appeared because they have been pre
senting plays which reflect on Ireland
and the Irish people.
"Our work is entirely different from
theirs. We are singing Irish .songs.
We are direct from Dublin and have
been a great success wherever we have
appeared, but because of a mistake,
T understand some people think we
are the Irish Players who have been
getting into trouble in this country,
and I want to correct that idea."
NORWICH PUTS UP $75,000
FOR XEW BOTTLE INDUSTRY
Norwich, Feb. 6 The campaign for
J75.0OO to build a factory for the
Thermos Bottle Company, of New
York, bringing a new industry to
Norwich and thus furnishing employ
men tto several hundred men and
women, was brought to a successful
ilose today.
great record of useful public service.
Senator LaFollette was chosen to be
the candidate. He accepted reluct
antly, only under pressure from pro
gressive friends and at a great per
sonal sacrifice to himself, solely to
serve the cause for which he has
fought for years. Since our organiza
tion started, largely through the work
of LaFollette and the men who were
supporting him, the political leaders
have seen clearly that the only way
to save the Republican party in 1912
and to make it an instrument to serve
the average man is to nominate a
progressive candidate for the presi
dency. "Senator LaFollette, as a factor in
the presidential race, tas been chief
lv responsible in demonstrating this
fact.
"His withdrawal from the race sim
ply means that the progressives rea
lize that, owing to the growing de
mand for Roosevelt and owing to the
Senator's health. LaFollettte cannot,
himself, accomplish the purpose
which has. at all times, meant more
to him than his individual success.
With LaFollette out of the race, his
followers are free to get behind Roose
velt and continue the old fight with
another leader. LaFollette men feel
that Roosevelt is not as advanced in
his progresslveness as LaFollette. But,
however that may be, it is clear that
LaFollette and Roosevelt are agreed
on most fundamental points and,
above all. that they have the same
real conviction that the country be
longs to the people and that its gov
ernment must be an instrument for
the people's benefit.
" "It seems entirely plain to me that
Senator .LaFollette's withdrawal was
the only sure way of uniting all the
progressives, of insuring the nomina
tion of some progressive and of mak
ing it possible in 1912 for the average
Republican voter to cast a ballot in
his own interest and not In the in
terest of political and industrial bosses."
3,500 TROOPS TO
QUELL EXPECTED
BELFAST RIOTS
(Continued from Pa,ge, L)
Belfast, Feb. 6 The arrival of sev
eral detachments, today, brought the
strength of the troops here to quell
the expected outbreak at Thursday's
home rule meeting, up to 3,500. In
addition, hundreds of deputies have
augmented the police force.
A despatch from London says that
Winston Churchill, first lord of the
admiralty, who is to be the chief
speaker at the meeting, his wife and
his mother, left there, late today, for
Belfast. v
Murder Trial Of
Snead Brings Out
Romantic Wedding
(Special from United Press-
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 6 With the
unexpected story told to the jury by
Edward Cobb, that A. G. Boyce, Sr.,
told him and other persons, shortly
after his son had eloped with Mrs.
Lena Snead. that Al Boyce and the
wife of the Amarillo banker might be
expected back in Fort Worth, living
together, within a month, the state
was prepared, today, to play its
strongest card in an effor tto conviot
J. B. Snead, of the murder of the
aged ranch owner.
Mrs. A. G. Boyce, Sr., widow of the
victim, will be called to the stand
to tell her story. Woven and inter-
. V- I .if Pnvfm anil
woven ttl e luc ii.co vj. -
Snead. J. B. Snead's father and the
elder Boyce came to xeias awui
same time. Both were cattlemen and
made their fortunes together. There
was also Captain Snyder, father of
Miss Snyder, and the three owned ad
joining ranches and were intimate.
Boyce and Snead were suitors for the
hand of Miss Lena Snyder; Snead -was
the favored one "and the three families
rejoiced in the union. Children were
born and then came the events lead
ing to the tragedy.
BRAKOIAV INJURED
NOW IX HOSPITAL
(Special from United Press.)
Stamford. Feb. 6. -Brakeman Rob
ert Ferguson, of Stamford, is lying in
the hospital here, this afternoon, with
a broken arm and a fractured les.
The injuries were received when a
freight car left the rails at New Ca
naan, this morning, and crashed into
a cement storehouse.
MEN" AND RELIGION
MOVEMENT IN STAMFORD
(Special from United Press.)
Stamford, Feb. 6. The "Men and
Religion" movement is to have a cam
paian in Stamford, Feb. 23, 24 and
2 6." A team of five men from Har.
ford will do the principal speaki1 g
and a committee of 100 men of the
various churches is being formed to
take the movement in charge.
THE SIGN of the big T, 1301 Strat
ford avenue, near Union, stands for
Albert Tiska Artistic Haircutting,
shaving, etc.- Children's hair cut
ting a specialty, "As you like it."
A 30 a o tf. 2
WANTED. Bright and earnest boy
to answer telephone and to make
himswlf genera'ly useful in a
plumbing establishment. $4 per
week to start. Boy care of Far
mer. ap
OUR BUSINESS is to buy 'rags, .pa
pers, bottles, rubbers, scrap iron,
metals, tools, and furniture;-to sell
them and get the most money for
the same, that's your business. Sell
them to Jacob Bros., where you will
get the most money and prompt at
tention. Write or phone 55 Kos
suth St. Tel. 236. B 6 tf.
INJUNCTION BY
GOVERNMENT FOR
THE STEEL TRUST
Department of Justices
Charges Officials With De
liberately Destroying Im
' portant Documents in
Connection with Pending
Case.
(Special from United Press.)
Washington, Feb. 6 Charging that
Vice-President Frank Baackes an
other officers of the American Steel
& Wire Company, have deliberately
destroyed a trunkful of documents
tending to support the government's
case against the steel trust, of which,
the steel and wire company is a sub
sidiary, the department of justice, to
day, filed with the New Jersey circuit
court a petition for an injunction t
prevent further destruction of naaers
important to the government's cas.
The petition alleges that Baackes
helped to destroy correspondence
wnicn passed between himself and Ed
win Jackson, supervisor of the steel
pool. These, the government alleees.
show that J. A. Farrell, at that tim
president of the steel and wire com
pany, now at the head of the steel
corporation, had cognizance of th
"pooling and bidding arrangements of
the trust.
The text of the petition was sriven
out, today, at the department of jus
tice, by Judge J. M. Dickinson, spe
cial assistant to the attorney general
in charge of the steel trust prosecu
tion. The petition claims that a vast
volume of other incriminatory papers,
on which are to be based future crim
inal prosecution of steel trust officials
are now in the possession of the truet
and in Imminent danger of destruc
tion.
The destruction of the trunkful of
papers has already done . the govern-,
ment's case against the trust irre
parable injunry, according to the pe
tition. The papers destroyed had been
examined by the grand jury but were
returned June 29. 1911, to the corpora
tion, on the promise of Charles Mac-
Veigh. general solicitor of the trust.
that they would be available to taO
government at any time.
The destruction of tne papers wan
discovered on Jan. 31. by Henry Col-'
ton. special assistant attorney general
associated with Judge Dickinson in
the prosecution of the case.
On Jan. 26, Colton applied person-
i-'Ty to R. V. Llndbury.v counsel for
'm - trust. "Wi- examination of th-.
papers. Anothsr application was mac1
on the 29th. The next day. Rayni 1
C. Boiling, assistant general counsel
of the steel trust, wrote that the
trunk had probably been returned to
the steel and wire company. On the
31st. Boiling said the papers had been
destroyed.
Colton then wrote demanding that
no more papers would be destroyed,
but while Boiling has made no formal
reply, he told Colton. verbally, ac
cording to the petition. "that h
would do what he could" to prevent
it.
UNCLASSIFIED
MOVING PICTURE theatre for sale
for price of fixtures. Reasonable.
A.ddress Picture, care of Farmer.
a p
THE TWO BRANCHES of the Ger
man Harugari Order Bertha and
Koerner lodge will hold their an
nual masquerade at Germania hall
tomorrow evening. a.p
FOR SALE. Sales agency for ma
chine tools and supplies. Unusual
opportunity for person interested in
mechanical lines. Mechanical, Far
mer Office. - B 6 bpo
O. O. O. Owls' whist and pinochle
and dancing at Lincoln Buildinp,
Cannon St., Wednesday, Feb. 7tn.
Tickets 25c. B 5 so
BUCKEYE INCUBATORS. World's
best hatcher. Made in 4 sizes, and
sold as low as ?6.00 by Wm. Rich
ardson, Johnson Ave., Stratford.
Phone. B 5 so
WANTED. Cottage with land for
garden and poultry. Must be good
proposition. Address, this oftice.
B 3 s po
LARGE FRONT ROOM FOR RENT.
Completely furnished with heat.
Rent moderate. Inquire at &7t
State St., corner of Xorman St.
B 3 s o
FOR SALE. Bargain, new $40 Co
lumbia uraphophone with records.
Pnrty in h spital. No offer refused.
Morris, 92 South Ave. P 3 dpo
FUR SALE. At Teainy's Fur Shop
comprising of fur sets, separate
muffs and scarfs. Repairing alter
ing at manufacturers' prices. 867
Main street. A 19 a J o
JOSEPH SAVARY can be found at
W. H. McCoombs barber shop, over
Dousrlas Shoe Store, Main street.
A 29 tf. o
FOR SAIJ3. Two registered Holstein
bulls, from Lord Netherland De Kol
stock, 7 and 19 months old Dam
De Kol, record 22 Vi lbs. butter per
week. William Sullivan, Ridge
field, Conn. B 1 dpo
TO RENT. In Stratford on Bruce
St., 8 room cottage and barn, $25.
3-4 acres land for sale or rent. Al
so store on Main St., 16 x 50. Rent
$30. Tuttle Drug Store, Stratford.
B 2 u p o
IOC BETIOU we don't leave town
until we feed those gold fisn and
hear that Grosser Automatic Band
Orchestra Von. Lipsic Ditchiandt.
Entree. Libre. - 12 to 12. Royal
Rathskiller, State St. A 9 a po
WANTED. Cottage at Laurel Beach
for summer months. Address B.
M., Farmer Office. A 29 o
TRY A BOX of Casca Laxme tablets
for constipation. 25 cents.
H 1 o
BOMMOS & BILTZ. We will hav
fresh sausage meat every day from
now on. I 18 tf. o
VALEXUNE CARDS. Fine assort
ment, each in envelope. South
worth's. 10 Arcade. D 16 tf. o
GOOD SECOND HAND National Cash
Reglste" for Fale cheap. Address
P. O. Pox 1 6. City. S 2 tf o
"Classified" ads en Inside page of
this paper.
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